You're evidently okay with the atrocities being committed. You excuse the inflicting of suffering and devastation on non Americans for a selfish benefitting of the soldiers committing and abetting them directly, and moreover to the benefit of scumbag elites who are incentivized to continue perpetrating acts of aggression, crimes, and atrocities, placing profits over people as always.

Smedley Butler's conclusions apply to every American soldier.

Almost as if there are other jobs out there besides military. Or do those not count?

Also, the fact you think Bush sounds like a lefty further highlights your own sheer ignorance.

If you look at China and go "this is perfect in every way and we should copy it," then you aren't actually learning anything at all

MLs do not hold this view. China isn't perfect, and copying their model completely wouldn't work at all. The Soviet Union, China, and the DPRK all use different models of socialism.

And then those people go on to commit and abet pillaging and atrocities worldwide. You are defending killing people. There always is a choice, and the fact is that things can be changed for the better. A better world is possible.

I have met MLs (not on lemmy) who tout the DPRK as a utopia and shut down all of my criticism as western brainwashing.

Again, MLs don't hold the view that the Soviet Union, China, the DPRK, Cuba, Vietnam, or any socialist country is perfect. Here's an example of criticisms brought against Stalin (thanks Dessalines for compiling an excellent resource list). We absolutely do critique past and present failures and contradictions and try to do better.

I recalled seeing recently someone said Churchill was serious about Nazis. This excellently shows that wasn't the case.

How about trying to actually answer the question posed instead of further projection?

At no point has eldavi broken it into a "false dichotomy". eldavi is 100% correct that in liberal countries the judicial systems operate at the behest of the elites. That corruption can be addressed. As for fighting that corruption, you have another in this thread laying out the facts about who actually is fighting corruption and how.

What would you characterize as authoritarian/authoritarianism?

What's your favorite flavor of boot? You seem to like those a lot.

Does the religious fervor that arose in the U.S. military when the Iran conflict began mean nothing to you?

Let's not forget Smedley Butler's conclusions on war the U.S. has waged as well. And then, the numerous war crimes that have gone unpunished. U.S. soldiers volunteered fully willingly and have committed them.

And then, evidently the bombing of boats in the Caribbean and the bombing of civilians in Iran means nothing to you either, those were carried out under orders that they did not question.

Really then?

Why don't we check in with the dead Afghani and Iraqi civilians killed before and during US occupation?

Why don't we check in with Serbia, still dealing with depleted uranium from US weapons?

Why don't we check in with Vietnam, still dealing with Agent Orange and other fallout in the aftermath of their liberation after all this time?

How about over in Korea, where the US dropped more bombs there than during WW2?

Why don't we see how things have fared in The Philippines after the US placed them under new management after seizing them from Spain in a war of aggression?

There are plenty more examples in the gaps between and further back in time. The only ghoul here is you.

Every single one of them participate in or abet the acts of aggression, crimes, and atrocities carried out across the many conflicts the U.S. is participating and has participated in. As has been pointed out, they help facilitate the killing of civilians, many of which are impoverished.

The fact they're joining for the benefits does not excuse them in any way.

The very last part of your last sentence is a confession.

That doesn't change the fact you support all the above.

Wild conclusion that I'm ignorant of the rightward shift just because I said Bush doesn't sound like a lefty. Doesn't help your case that he never was one in the first place.

At last we see the ghoul's true colors.

And the only way we saw this can be achieved for countries that border Russia is join the EU or NATO. Poland is now free, Czechia is now free, Romania is now free, Slovakia is now free, the Baltic states are now free, Hungary is now free (but we need to wait for next election to know if this will remain true).

They're free alright, freely exploited by Western-backed capitalists and now are vassals.

You continue to demonstrate how you've fallen for imperialist propaganda. As has been explained above, the Donbas and its people have been under attack by the Ukrainian government and the AFU for more than a decade now. You are ignoring hard evidence of what really has happened since 2014. The notion that the fighting in the Donbas is only the result of Russian support is a delusion, and you seem also oblivious (likely willfully so) to the fact the Ukrainian government is openly fascist.

The solution for Ukraine that serves its populace the most is peace, sovereignty, and the right to determine their own future, which NATO and EU membership will not give them.

Oh, just like how said economy is producing four times the amount of ammunition that NATO is, according to the Secretary General himself?

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