I read your post but it’s just not true. Ukraine is clearly NOT a Nazi state. Is Zelenskyy a Nazi? Is he rounding up all the Jews in death camps? Is he rounding up ethnic Russians in death camps? No he isn’t. Why are you defending Russia’s attempted imperial conquest of Ukraine?

You can point to some far-right soldiers in Azov, just like I can point to far-right Russians in the Rusich Group, or far-right Germans in the AfD. None of those countries are Nazi countries though, just because they have some far-right/Nazi people within each country. Do you think Germany’s current government is a Nazi government, just because some neo-Nazis exist in Germany? That logic does not make sense.

US caught on tape installing new government.

Poroshenko was elected by Ukrainians. Then Zelenskyy was elected in 2019.

nazi-lite peace promises from Zelensky

“Nazi-lite” to me would mean some discrimination against Jews, without killing them all in camps, I suppose. What discrimination against Jews did Zelenskyy promise?

15000 dead in Donbass

Wikipedia says that about 6,500 deaths were sustained by Russia’s side during the war in the Donbas between 2014 and 2022. That’s a military conflict though, NOT an ethnic genocide, as Russia claims. The reason the conflict happened is because Russian troops invaded the Donbas and tried to take over the area by force.

Like I said in my previous post: why can’t Russia just leave Ukraine alone? Ukrainians seem to just want to live in peace without Russia trying to kill them or subjugate them.

US congress even voted to stop direct funding of Azov Battalion

Azov has had far-right connections. Russia has their own fighting units with far-right connections, like the Rusich Group. In neither case does that mean the government of either country is a Nazi government.

enthusiastically ran Jewish extermination camps for Germany, but also genocided other ethnic villages in west of Ukraine

WW2 was a long time ago. Germany was a Nazi state at the time, but that doesn’t mean Germany is a Nazi state now.

TLDR: You haven’t provided evidence to show that Ukraine is a Nazi state which was committing “ethnic cleansing” or genocide of ethnic Russians. To me it seems those claims are nonsense. They seem to be complete fabrications, invented by the Kremlin to justify their imperialist invasion of Ukraine.

2014 coup with installed US puppet government

Ukraine’s parliament democratically voted to remove Yanukovych from power. A new presidential election was held, and Poroshenko democratically won.

ethnic cleansing operation against its ethnic Russian minority

Please present evidence for this allegation. Russia claims Ukraine was committing genocide against ethnic Russians, but I’ve never seen any evidence for this claim. The UN’s court said: “the Court is not in possession of evidence substantiating the allegation of the Russian Federation that genocide has been committed on Ukrainian territory”.

Russia pursued for 8 years a peaceful resolution through Minsk accords, which west used only as a delay tactic to arm Ukrainian nazi regime for war on Russia.

Russia for years has tried to subjugate Ukraine. Why can’t Russia just leave Ukraine alone? As for Ukraine being a “nazi regime”, how is that true? Do you have evidence to show that Ukraine is systematically murdering Jews, like the Nazis did? No you don’t. Zelenskyy himself is Jewish. If Ukraine were a Nazi state, they would have put Zelenskyy in a death camp, instead of electing him as president.

Ukraine is a US proxy war on Russia

The US didn’t make Ukraine invade Russia to start the conflict. Instead, Russia (unprovoked) invaded Crimea and the Donbas in 2014.

Tieing your prosperity and happiness to war on Russia

I don’t think Europe at all wants to have a fight with Russia. People just want Russia to stop attacking Ukraine.

The good relations that existed prior to 2022

Russia’s relations with Europe were torn up by Russia, when they invaded Crimea and the Donbas in 2014.

Thoughts on these comments from Labour MPs? Source.

One MP [said] if Burnham “acts like a team player he’d be valuable”. But they cautioned: “If he’s a grandstanding dickhead the melodrama will be a pain in the arse.”

Another MP:

the country would never forgive us for doing exactly what the Tories did in changing leaders

(fully CIA driven) Russophobia propaganda

There are genuine reasons to be wary of Russia. Russia is currently invading Europe, causing a horrific amount of death and destruction in Ukraine. Russia has also been sending assassins across Europe to kill dissidents - e.g. the assassins sent to England to poison Sergei Skripal, and the assassin sent to Germany to shoot Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.

Trump is predatory, but I would say Putin is even more predatory. At least Trump isn’t (yet) sending assassins to murder dissidents.

Good to see. Europe can reduce its reliance on Windows and start using European software like SUSE Linux, KDE, and Ubuntu. Also the article mentions AI: Europe has its own AI expertise, like Mistral AI, the French company.

True. Some people think that Russia controls Trump in some way, but maybe it’s just that Trump has always had a desire to make friends with autocrats, and the Russians recognised that, so they did what they could to boost his chances of becoming president.

Damn they really are high on ideology aren’t they. They pretend to be anti-imperialism but they are pro-imperialism, as long as the imperialism is not western.

It’s crazy that Trump is rejecting America’s loyal allies. Soldiers from these allies fought and died in Afghanistan and Iraq, under American leadership. Instead Trump is inviting dictators to his “Board of Peace” such as Putin and Lukashenko.

Lemmy.ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad will insist that any allegations of Chinese government wrongdoing are false slander, invented by evil western imperialists

America at the moment keeps providing reasons why Europe and Canada should seek to become more independent of the US

I don’t know a lot about him and his positions. He seems more sensible than MAGA, but I guess that’s not difficult.

I was looking at Democratic polling for 2028. Newsom and Kamala Harris are apparently leading the polls. Pete Buttigieg and AOC are a bit behind in 3rd and 4th place:

I would be interested to see primary debates between Newsom and AOC. But I guess that’s 2 years away.

Apparently Newsom and Kamala Harris are currently polling the best to become the Democratic nominee in 2028. If you think Newsom is evil then okay, but I think he would be less evil than MAGA. Some people might hope for someone like AOC to be the nominee, but she seems to be polling worse.

Trump 2.0 is probably JD Vance. But I don’t accept the logic that a Newsom presidency would necessarily lead to Trump 2.0, a.k.a. Vance

If the spelling was a little different then maybe he would have become a porn actor

Single market access in some areas could be a big deal, but the EU might insist on freedom of movement for single market access, and like the article says, Labour committed to no freedom of movement with the EU in their manifesto. I wouldn’t mind so much if they broke that manifesto commitment, but I assume Starmer will want to stick to that commitment.

Brexit was such grief, and it is clear that the pommies are not (well, have they ever) union-minded.

Brexit only won the referendum by 52% to 48%. So practically half of Brits voted to remain in the EU. And that result was after Russian interference and misleading claims by the Leave side. There are more “union-minded” Brits than you think.

2 bodybags with Farage and Brand

I guess you’re joking but still, I think everybody’s right to live should be respected, even if it’s people I disagree with.

I don’t think the UK is going to rejoin the EU soon, and yes it would probably take compromises - the EU might insist on the UK adopting the Euro and joining the Schengen Area. Who knows.

I guess more likely would be the UK negotiating some form of EU single market access in the next few years, like the EFTA countries have (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein). Starmer has even suggested this, as quoted in the article:

“We are better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment,” he told Laura Kuenssberg.