I was actually living in the US when Obama got elected. I got caught up in the Obama hype at the time (I was pretty young).

While I admit my opinion on Obama started leaning negative in 2014, even when living in the US I didn’t really understand why there was no real prosecution of major financial groups following the the 2008 great recession.

Is there no better source than middleasteye? They are massive hypocrites.

We’ve been through this before in 2014 with that cunt Merkel and the good for nothing, “hope and peace and shit”, Obama.

EDIT: Some people here might not like what I am saying (which I find surprising considering that Merkel rewarded Putin with Nord Stream II after the invasion of Crimea and Donbas - this is a fact), but this is a very somewhat common view in Ukraine (my use of swearing notwithstanding).

Trump is the best thing that happened to genocidal authoritarian regimes in China, Iran and russia in a long time.

I have a feeling Trump is going to go down in history as a sort of modern, American Nicholas II.

They are pro-russian too (would be good to give pro-russia SA blacks a first hand taste of russian racism).

It’s the timing. The don’t want even more issues with the US oligarch regime.

https://m.youtube.com/@MakcGamingUa (In Ukrainian - mostly series of survival type games, but some decent variety first impressions)

https://m.youtube.com/@toriya (in Ukrainian - longer series often with other Ukrainian YouTubers, relative variety of genres).

Of course, I just don’t buy that the CA author cares beyond aesethics.

It just grifting.

Nah, not whataboutism.

A pro-russia tankie cannot be trusted in principle.

Sure, that’s a more balanced article, it doesn’t deny that the Israelis are starving people in Gaza:

It’s been widely established that there is severe starvation in Gaza, but the misreporting of a photo of a Palestinian child has caused criticism of the media’s reporting of the crisis.

The article you cited implies it’s all staged and refers back Israeli government sources (which should never be trusted).

There is no recognition that starvation is happening; specifically due to the Israelis.

The Algemeiner, a global news destination published online, serves as an independent media voice covering the Middle East, Israel and matters of Jewish interest around the world.

It was founded in 1972 by famed journalist Gershon Jacobson as Der Algemeiner Journal and was originally published in Yiddish. In 2012, Algemeiner.com was launched in English. The Algemeiner’s Publisher is Simon Jacobson, eldest son of our founder Gershon Jacobson.

A tankie roach came out of the sewer.

Mass summary execution of civilians, kill lists of cultural and political leaders, stealing hundreds of thousands of children, banning of language and culture (and keeping tens of thousands of civilians in torture camps) is all genocide.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me not believe that western “leftist” claims of concern about Gaza are genuine.

You are all a bunch fucking posers and scumbags.

Keep playing dumb.

With this attitude, western “leftists” are going to keep losing.

The follow who wrote this article is a hypocrite, he refuses to recognize what the russians are doing in Ukraine is genocide.

Not to mention he has the gall to talk about NATO and russian policy without even speaking russian or having lived in eastern europe.

Typical western “leftist”.

Current Affairs is trash.

Ah, I see what you mean.

Personally, I think they switched to scamming pretty early (medicine is one area where IMO “fake it till you make” doesn’t work), but never figured out a proper exit strategy for the scam.

Wasn’t Theronos more of a cut and dry scam?

Oceangate wasn’t a really scam, more like the CEO thought his shit didn’t smell and got himself killed over this.

While I don’t trust Trump in the least, only the ignorant would think it’s possible to negotiate with the russians without threats of violence.

Only people who don’t speak russian, don’t know history and are too lazy to evaluate sociological research of modern russia would come up with such gibberish.

Not at all, I think if they did the same to Merkel and Schroeder there would be massive benefits to the German public.

They should cancel their citizenship and send them to russia.

It would be a good fit.

Perfect example of performative “humanism”.

Making claims about starvation, yet too fucking lazy to make a simple web search (on a topic with extremely detailed statistics that are even often reported in mainstream business news).

See, for you the russians invading Ukraine, engaging in mass killings, rapes, castration of POWs, stealing children, sending people who speak Ukrainian to torture camps is not a big deal. You don’t consider it to be wrong.

I consider it to be wrong. When a society supports such actions (somewhere between a strong majority to an overwhelming majority as per the more conservative approach possible), ignoring that is de facto supporting their actions. Which is what you are doing.

So don’t even try to play the faux-humanism card. I am not buying it for a second.

What a childish take. Russia is major exporter of grain, blocking all food exports to russia is not “denying food to people”.

Same with medicine, you’re acting as if russia has no internal production of medicine. Blocking all exports of medicine to a group where the overwhelming majority wish you harm is very much justified.