@StumpTownStu
Anti-russian propaganda? You gotta be shitting me with your glaring ignorance. You think you know better than me, who actually lives here? Who actually lives in a society who still hasn't recovered, after spending 42 years under a communist regime? It's been 35 fucking years since our dictator was killed, by an actual firing squad, by the people who after gained power and who have been robbing my country blind, ever since. We got lucky that due to our proximity, to the EU, we were literally dragged into the EU and NATO, not because of our political class, which have made institutionalized corruption their only mission. Thanks to the EU we have a better quality of life here than in Russia, and also a higher life expectancy, because even though we have corruption, we also have economical opportunities, since our country is not lead by a dictator and his oligarch gang.
You don't like the US involvement? It was their policy to be the world's police, stop acting like someone made the USA do anything, or that their role didn't come with enormous economical benefits. If the US wants to leave that role, fine, we here in Europe will manage, the only problem is that progress will stop, and the money used for that will be used to make weapons. The US literally sent Ukraine mostly decommissioned weapons, not fucking F-35s, and it was a mere fraction of their military budget. The price of those weapons pales, in comparison to the price Ukraine will have to pay, to rebuild their country. Also, the US is backing a country who is fighting for their freedom and liberal democracy, which the US firmly stands for and has vowed to defend, it has been their fucking motto for decades.
Putin is not a villain? Oh man, he must be so proud of what he achieved, he literally turned the propaganda soviet wet dream into a reality, by using an US invention, social media, to brainwash republicans into spewing their talking points. The irony is just outstanding and disheartening. The FSB spent hundreds of millions of $, to bribe people in Ukraine, so that when the invasion started they would welcome the russian military with arms wide opened, not. Putin had no idea Ukraine would fight, this hard, he had no idea how unprepared his military was, because of the level of corruption they have.
Grain? Russia has been bombing the Ukrainian ports and silos, to cripple them economically so they can give up the fight. They have been using million $ missiles to bomb the electrical grid and heating stations, so that people freeze in the winter and break their spirit, and Putin is not a villain? Neah man, he is a fucking lowlife, after all the pain and misery he has inflicted there isn't a death worse enough for him, he just needs to disappear. My country has been helping Ukraine with the grain transport, by using the Danube to get the ships to our main port in Constanta, and from there through the Bosphorus.
This isn't about the grain FFS, Putin literally had Tucker fucking Carlson to the Kremlin and schooled him, on the "real history". The delusional psychopath thinks he is the second coming of Peter the Great, and he has said that the USSR dissolving was a mistake. That's why he wants Ukraine, well guess what, those people don't want that, they want to be free to choose their own destiny and not life under a dictator. And for that they are laying down their own lives, the least we could do is give them the weapons to defend themselves and fight back.
Meh, fuck this shit, I don't have the energy to say more, you can believe whatever you want, but factually ignorance is bliss, enjoy it, I for one can't afford to be ignorant. I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dostoyevsky:
"It's better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to live in a fool's paradise."