Complain to the BPAS. That counsellor is unfit for their role.

Ukraine is basically the end boss of the proxy wars.

Russia is not a proxy.

Destroy the propaganda capability and we fall back to confrontations that the West is capable of winning.

Most do. At least for a while.

If NATO does choose to retaliate, it should take out the troll farms first.

You left off the “in Europe” part.

NATO and the USA basically destroyed Afghanistan and left all of the women of in the hands of barbarians

NATO assisted with the initial invasion. The war aims and rules of engagement were poorly thought out, as one would expect of G W Bush. The two choices that made sense were to kill off Al-Qaida and leave, or stay a bit longer and kill every single member of the Taliban, in both Afghanistan and in Pakistan (where they were formed by the Pakistani ISI, and from whom they continue to receive shelter and material support). The US did neither, NATO members faded away after the initial engagement, and the US attempted to stabilize the situation without addressing the root problem. If anyone had asked me, the first option would have been my choice: kill as many jihadis as possible, take out AQ leadership if we can, then go home.

And it was Donald Trump who surrendered the Afghan people, including the women, into the hands of the Taliban, releasing all the Taliban prisoners and getting nothing in return.

But I don’t believe that you’re really all that torn up about the fate of Afghan women. It just feeds your anti-NATO narrative.

And again, NATO isn’t doing shit in Ukraine.

Why would they be? Ukraine is not a NATO country, so the mutual-defense treaty has not been triggered. I suspect you’d be complaining even more if, in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO waded in and we now found ourselves in a war the likes of which hasn’t been seen since WW2: possibly worse.

On the other hand, several NATO member countries are supplying and supporting Ukraine.

Alliance members get to decide who’s in their alliance. Nobody’s preventing you from expressing your opinion, but it’s pointless.

Do not forget who empowered the russian fascists or the talibans in the first place.

Reagan, and the Pakistani ISI, respectively.

Galloway’s more a wide-spectrum troll than a tankie. In his last campaign, he was putting out contradictory campaign materials in Muslim and non-Muslim neighbourhoods.

Peace through being a hard target.

It’s like the paradox of tolerating intolerance.

Turnout is down by at least 10 million from 2020.

A left that isn’t popular with the lower classes is doing something wrong

There are always lumpen elements that are too bought-in to serving the ruling class to be capable of class consciousness, and the US system has made sure that they have proliferated.

First and foremost, I blame the racist shits who voted for Trump.

It hasn’t been a cold war in Ukraine.

Taking a broader perspective, social media and those who manipulate it played a huge role in Trump’s win. And Lemmy’s part of that, like it or not.

Yeah, they’re gloating now. But who knows, maybe Trump will backstab Putin like he backstabs everyone else. Though it’s unlikely, since he seems to cower whenever he’s near his Daddy Vladdy.