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  • Huawei is experimenting with humanoid robots driven by AI so you wouldn’t have to be professional programist to order them to do something but it’s still the future, though i seen videos with such robots already manning warehouses.

    I was just commenting about physical feasibility of things, which idealists like the lady in question don’t seem to understand. Which is especially funny considering even that can be traced to capitalism, which don’t give a shit into real scientific advances but the quick buck lying on the path of easiest resistance. As is easily checkable by western media and writers spending decades fantasising about such advancements in robotics, but China actually doing more about it in few years once they finally overcame their overexploitation by the west.


  • The clear distinction here is that Russia could resettle literally everyone, whereas Jordan absolutely couldn’t.

    No, that’s no difference. You could add Egypt, Syria, etc. Point is, you want to solve the “problem” by exiling undesirable people from the country ruled by nazis. 3rd Reich, Israel, Ukraine, it’s the same situation. You want to explicitly appease nazis, i don’t know how much more straight i have to say this since you apparently does understand that not every resettlement is equal and the same, but you keep ignoring the base issue here in favour of liberal “nonviolence” and pacifism which ends up actually feeding the nazis.



  • My understanding is that Russia has been heavily shaped by the Western-orchestrated collapse of the USSR and the ongoing isolation of Russia to keep it on the periphery

    Correct, but it’s not 90’s now, they had spend quite significant effort to change this and dialmat dictate we acknowledge that they are now not only not isolated but one of two main forces driving antiimperialism and global south cooperation. They also, while still remained capitalist, reversed much of the neoliberal organisation from back then.

    starting a war was the best way to defend Russia or to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

    It’s not that i disagree with you, but they did tried everything else first but Ukraine western handlers were pushing for war hard to the point of treating formal international agreements they signed and ratified like empty scraps of paper. Again, they only intervened literal days before AFU planned offensive that would end with a massacre in Donbass.

    give humanitarian refugee status to ethnic Russians

    Majority of Ukrainian citizens who emigrated from Ukraine since 2014, did so to Russia. Russia did exactly what you said.

    and rescue them peacefully for resettlement in Crimea

    Again, Russia taken in literal millions of people running from economic and later military violence by UA government. Also it’s very similar argument as “why they couldn’t just resettle Palestinians to Jordan”. People of Donbass clearly decided their selfdetermination in 2014 (same as Crimea). Donbass also got a long history of not wanting to be in Ukraine, Lenin in one of his biggest L’s just told them to shut up and suck it up, Stalin did the same in 30’s (with more reason though), and same was in 1991 and 2014. They simply don’t want to be Ukrainian and have over a century of consistent history of it.

    and then defensively prepare for any aggression.

    This is also what USSR and later Russia do since 1945 (or really in various conditions since 1800). Needles to say, it didn’t worked.

    I don’t understand the connection people have with their land

    Fair enough, but it is one of the main components of nationalism, arguably one of most important ideological constructs of modern world, and was equally important for millenia before. Probably originated in neolithic sunk cost effort or something like that :)

    I’m probably trivializing the trauma of moving people around to keep them safe and improve their economic conditions

    I also have mixed feelings about that, i definitely do acnowledge what you mention here, but also i do support resettlement in certain situations (like most of WW2 and post WW2 by USSR), i guess it largely depend on situation. USSR did not had any genocidal intent doing that (as lack of Latvians living on the shores of Arctic sea clearly shows), and it was even the opposite - imagine the shitshow in the 90’s without post war resettlements of Germans, Poles etc.


  • Yes it would be very much worse. Genocide in Donbass was already ongoing and Russian intervention thwarted massive AFU assault against DPR and LPR. It would be massacre.

    Secondly, Russia somewhat recovered after even the nightmarish 90’s, which for US planners mean it was not enough, this time they would loot even nails and most likely aimed for balkanisation. Imagine Yugoslavia but much worse.

    Thirdly, the real target of entire endeavour was nor even Russia but China, taking over Russia would means economic, political and military trouble for China, encircling it and probably (or rather certainly looking at last 5 years) also destroying most of its Belt and Road initiative gains.

    Finally, Finland was licking boots of every protofash and fash since 1918. It was de facto already NATO member, it changed nothing.

    I cannot stress this enough, no matter how you do dislike Russia, its intervention in Ukraine stopped imperialists in their tracks to yet another round in world domination and started an event chain that could potentially lead to demise of imperialist core and quite possibly save us all and planet.