he's right you know

Same here. Getting my second vaccination Friday. And Joe made it possible.

same

his foot was broken when he tripped. if they had said that when it happened, qanon would be calling him unfit. damned if he does, damned if he doesnt!

I agree

this man speaks the truth

And no f**king rage tweets!

Meanwhile, Trump was deepthroating Putin for his entire presidency, and slipped on a ramp.

Bruh take it easy with the russophobia. Russia never invaded or bombed the US. We should desire peaceful, amicable relations with them.

world peace is good

yes

No, they just invaded other people.

Please go count how many invasions Russia did versus how many Murica has done. spoiler alert: murica has done at least an order of magnitude more.

What date are you using as a starting point?

It holds true regardless of the time period if the end point is today.

"How many countries does the United States have troops in right now?" Good question, of those countries, how many asked them to be there? Or invited them in? Or granted them permission to be there? Let's look from 1990.

Invasion of Panama 1989... Oh look we were assisted by Panama to "invade" their own country.

Gulf war '90
Assisted by Kuwait, UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, Egypt, Syria, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Oman.
Opponent? Iraq

Iraqi No-Fly Zone enforcement ops. '91-03
Assisted by: UK(2), France(2), Australia, Belgium, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia (2), Turkey, Italy.
Opponent? Iraq.

First US intervention in the Somali Civil War 92-95
Assisted By: UK (3), Spain, Saudi Arabia (3), Malaysia, Pakistan, Italy (2), India, Greece, Germany, France (3), Canada(2), Botswana, Belgium (2), Australia (2), New Zealand.

Opponent? Somali National Alliance.

Bosnian War 92-95
Assisted By: BOSNIA and Herzzegovina (not really an invasion if they help us, is it?), Croatia,
Belgium (3), Canada (3), France (4), Germany (2), Italy(2), Luxembourg, Netherlands(2), Norway, Portugal, Spain(2), Turkey(2), UK(4)

Opponent? Republika Stpska, Serbian Krajina, Western Bosnia

THe pattern continues with Kosovo War, 98-99, retaliatory War on Terror (Afghanistan, which, was assisted by Afghanistan... So how can we invade if the country that we're "invading" is helping us?

Iraq War '03-11 (assisted by the Iraqi government.

2nd US intervention in the Somali Civil War. (Assisted by Somalia)

International intervention in Libya. Assisted by Rebels in that country '11.

Operation Observant Compass: (ongoing) Location: Uganda. Assisted by? Uganda.

American Intervention in Iraq '14-present. Assisted by? Iraq.

American led intervention in Syria. Assisted by? Syria....

So, you mind telling me where, since the 90s, USA has gone to invade to claim territory?

Actually, the last time US claimed any territory was in the mid 20th century.

Maybe you're the delusional one... Just sayin'

None of those countries asked the US to intervene. The other parties to the intervention in nearly every case were following the US into battle (possible exception of syria where the french did a lot of covert destabilization)

So, they weren't invasions, they were interventions.

I can punch you in the face and call it a handshake, but I'd be lying. That's what they're doing. Lying. Trying to use euphemisms to obscure the obvious.

So, did the US take or conquer any land and claim it as their territory in that time?

Also a stupid deflection deliberately missing the point.

The strategy of empire is not explicitly claiming territory anymore. They just install a comprador government and send in a US or other NATO country company to exploit the resources. If any country challenges this, they get invaded again, and a new govt is installed.

You are overflowing with hegemonic common sense and the ideology of US empire. Pls consider using your brain at some point in your life.

"Also a stupid deflection deliberately missing the point.

The strategy of empire is not explicitly claiming territory anymore. They just install a comprador government and send in a US or other NATO country company to exploit the resources. If any country challenges this, they get invaded again, and a new govt is installed.

You are overflowing with hegemonic common sense and the ideology of US empire. Pls consider using your brain at some point in your life."

Right as opposed to Russia who as actually invaded other countries to actively take them. I could see how the US certainly seems like a conquering Empire when Russia is going around and invading other countries for the acquisition of resources, when also no part of the country wants Russia there.

But, you're right I should probably use my brain more. [That was sarcasm, had to say it; since, you're the one lacking the brain.]

Russia has annexed part of the Crimean peninsula after the US engineered a fascist-read neonazi-coup in Ukraine. Was that right? I dunno that between the Russians and the Ukranians, but I'd tend to disapprove of it. US has 800 global military bases and 10 wars going and has invaded dozens of countries since the fall of the USSR. I'm sorry you are incapable of thinking with your brain.

US is worse than the Nazis (who set the benchmark for evil) and has a much higher body count.

How many of those bases are in allied countries? How many of those bases were given permission to be built in the country that we're assisting?

Ukraine didn't want Russia to take control of part of their country. Russia invaded.

If US is worse than the nazis, when have we rounded up people based on religion, placed them in labor/death camps, gassed them, burned them in the last 100 years, totalling in over six million deaths?

Seems like you are the one who can't use his brain. You're just an alarmist spreading propaganda. I'll wait for your next false equivocation. .

So russia has one and murica has dozens. I was right

Given the context of the conversation, the time period is relevant. Quit deflecting.

Ok 1917 to 2021. I'm not deflecting tho, it's just the truth. The US is an intervention and murder machine that has surpassed the Nazis in sheer evil.

Okay. Why would you go back as far as 1917? This is about Putin, not Russia, the country. Seems like you're grasping at straws.

We surpass Nazis in sheer evil? What are you, a troll bot? Since when have we attempted genocide by killing six million people? Since when have we put entire populations of people in gas chambers and burned their bodies? Since when have we swept through towns, lined people up to be shot by one bullet to save on ammunition? Since when did we start doing ethically immoral experiments on people? (That were immoral *at the time.* We've done things in the past that are now considered immoral, but at the time, they were not so.)

Get a reality check dude. You need one.

Ok well if you go from 1990 to present, the results are even more skewed against the US. You really don't know a lot of history, huh.

I only see one official invasion since 1990. That was the invasion of the panama canal. I mean if you count any military action where we send troops some place as an invasion, you don't know what an invasion is. It seems actually, you have a lot to learn when it comes to war and politics.

How many countries does the United States have troops in right now? How many countries does Russia have troops in right now? How many foreign military bases does each country have? What is the defense spending of each country as a proportion of its GDP? How many governments has each country knocked over?

The US is far worse on all of these counts in addition to having invaded far more countries. Even if you want to use the old fashioned actual military occupation version the United States is at a bare minimum occupying and having invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Even by your own incredibly limited and stupid definition, the United States has invaded more countries. As a preemption of something I'm sure you will say Russia has not invaded Syria the government of Syria invited Russian troops into Syria. The governments of Afghanistan and Iraq did not invite US troops nor did the government of Syria. The US pursues overwhelmingly unilateral military quests for treasure and oil at a shocking and appalling rate. I pray that someday you may learn to analyze geopolitics by using your brain.

Lmao ur delusional.

"So russia has one and murica has dozens. I was right"

Lol bruh you are a special kind of stupid. Russia took Ukraine by force. No governmental authority asked for Russia to have a presence in Ukraine. That's an invasion. When you ask a country to send troops to help you, that's not an invasion you twit xD.

You're suffering the association fallacy. Which goes like this "Apples are green. Apples are Fruit. Broccoli is green, broccoli must be a fruit!" Or, in your example.

"Foreign Troops arrive in another country and wage war. This is an invasion! (I mean you're not even specific in this analogy. You intentionally leave out the part whether or not they are there to conquer and acquire territory. Well, to finish the analogy... "Foreign troops arrive in another country and wage war - at the request of that very same country! Must be an invasion!"

That's like saying police invaded your home when you called them for help. Just lol.

And what about the dozens of countries the US has invaded?
The US doesn't want to conqueor any of those countries, just to knock down their governments and steal natural resources on terms they dictate. None of the countries the US has troops in asked for them.

You say "Knock down their governments" I say "Topple fascist leadership. Permit governments to be led by democratic rule, answer the call when NATO asks for aid." Oh, I forgot the resources bit. See, that's a funny little thing called trade. You export a good and import goods.

Then you fundementally don't understand what fascism is.

It's clear you're the one who lacks an understanding of the word :) <3

The country is that the United States invades and touches off coups in are those whose resources it wants to have controlled by United States companies or companies controlled by countries who are part of its hegemony. As a recent example consider the military coup in Bolivia. The democratically elected government was overthrown because it had signed a mining deal where half of all proceeds would remain in Bolivia as opposed to their previous agreement with a German company where they would receive only 3% of the proceeds. Fascist coups are implemented by the United States in order to facilitate the installation of corporatism which is just fascism at the most basic level. A second example is Venezuela where the United States has been trying to engineer a coup since 2002 in order to get access to the massive oil reserves of the country. The governments of both of these countries are socialist. They are using the proceeds of their natural resources to fund economic development and anti-poverty programs. Returning to bolivia, the massive and unprecedented growth of the standard of living in Bolivia evo Morales came to an abrupt halt under the coup government of Janine anez. For government engaged in massacres of the native people of Bolivia. This slashed social programs and engaged in a massive campaign of repression and violence. This was the government installed by the United States amidst false claims of voter fraud.

I am correct in my assertion that you do not understand fascism. Key in both of the examples is the opposition to socialist government and the use of the prophets of nationalized mining or oil companies to benefit the population of the country as opposed to benefiting an oil company in the United States or a mining firm in Germany.

In both instances the democratically elected governments of the countries were so much less important to the United States than corporate control of the natural resources of the countries that they knocked over bolivia callously and they would do the same thing in Venezuela if they could.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
(incase you don't look it up...)
often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

Also, see Conspiracy Theory:
a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators.

Interesting take though.

That definition of fascism is incomplete and fails to include the element of corporatism and the explicitly right wing character of fascism-though it is implied by the refference to Mussolini's Italy. Those are two of the most essential characteristics of fascism.

Mush like machiavellianism and the tendencies of Nazi propaganda under Hitler, the tendency to accuse one's political opponents of one's own deeds is deeply ingrained.

The events in Bolivia are recorded in the public record and your ignorance and doubt are no substitute for the documentary evidence. If you cannot recognize the US as fascist and the Bolivian coup as such, then you don't understand fascism at all.

I reccomend Chris Hedges Book American Fascism
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Fascists/Chris-Hedges/9780743284462

It describes the US iteration of fascism-christian fascism-which is quite similar to the form popular among the Ukrainan diaspora in Bolivia. The flight of Nazi collaborators from germany to bolivia after world war II provided the foundation for the Bolivian fascist right. It was cultivated by the US and instrumentalized for a military coup along with bribes of military and police officials. The democratically elected govt was toppled at the behest of Mining interests over its reserves of lithium, an essential component of modern batteries. The colonial exploitation of Bolivian mineral rights dates back to the Spanish empire.

You're really go***mn stupid. Read some history and don't bother me again until you have.

https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/news-events/podcasts/why-russia-threat-world-peace

The US is the greatest threat to world peace.

Oh look the drooling idiocy of a thinktank. Pathetic.

hey look, for whatever reason you were unable to finish hs. its ok. we can help you.

Your smug elitism is the reason you are totally unable to talk to the right or anyone who doesn't already fully agree with you.

I'm a college senior in the third hardest major at my state Uni, you condescending anus. I have a full boat merit scholarship.

I'm sorry you are so dumb as to uncritically believe the blue maga flavored bullshit the MSM constantly produces.

My grandmother was the first woman to head a hospital in Georgia in a time where female doctors were an extreme rarity. She was an epic person and healed thousands of people.

Your ex wife is not my grandmother. She had only one husband

You are an idiot. Don't besmirch my grandmother