Imperialism refers to a specific stage of capitalism

Then you’ve redefined the term Imperialism.

Russia steals the surplus value for within it’s borders, the US steals surplus value from beyond it’s borders. Like I said, Russia does everything the US does just not as extensively.

but it’s a good starting point to ask ‘is this war for profit or some other reason?’.

Always an important question to ask but if Cowbee does mean that, then they should use the modifier to signify that they are talking about economic imperialism and not about Imperialism Imperialism.

Imperialism is characterized by one political entity conquering or annexing thru coercion other political entities to bring new land, population, wealth, and natural resources under their control. No need to muck up or stretch out the definition.

That’s a laugh. Putin and his political machine have expressed a desire to return to the days of the Russian Empire and has engaged in acts of conquest to that effect.

Russia is a mirror image of the US. While Anglo-Saxons were pushing west across North America, conquering indigenous peoples, Russians were pushing east out of Europe into Asia conquering indigenous peoples. They’re both dysfunctional countries with dysfunctional world views.

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That’s like an onion, just layers of naive. Russia has had imperial ambitions on Ukraine for a while and thinking that they care at all about the “liberation” of Donetsk and Luhansk is crazy talk.

The inconsistent part is giving a free pass to Russia when they do everything the US does just not as extensively.

Pre-WW2, the answer was WASPs convinced of their own greatness. After WW2 it was because the US did a good thing and let it get to their heads. To this day, I’ll see Americans online see the US get criticized and pull out the old “if it wasn’t for us, you’d all be talking German” line. Like dude, you’re taking credit for something you didn’t do, probably wouldn’t do, and it doesn’t justify the shitty things that ARE happening.

And the rules based global order was a good idea that some Americans had but too many other Americans decided that the US got to have constant exceptions to the rules which makes the whole thing ultimately not work.

The double standard is real but also fuck both the US and Russia for invading.

Anal is fun to watch but the one time I tried it, feeling my dick bumping into a turd thru the condom was a huge turn off.

One time two of my roommates (who weren’t a couple) were having sex with a third person (who wasn’t a roommate) while me, another roommate, and a guest all watched.

“There will be a political and economic price if Canada followed member of Parliament Heather McPherson’s call for all ICE out of Canada”

There’s no cost for standing up to bullies. On the contrary, the cost comes from backing down.

That’s what I was thinking. Native Groups in many parts of North America didn’t practice agriculture at all or used rudimentary agriculture.

It’s possible that otherwise good combinations don’t line up in terms of season and require crop rotation as opposed to polyculture.

Well Russia will say that as a pretext regardless of whether it’s true or not.

“Everyone I don’t agree with is a shitlib”

I know bud. “Hexbear.net” is a dead giveaway that you lack critical thinking skills.

They are not fully responsible.

My exact words were “Helped cause this”. At no point did I hold them solely responsible.

I can’t blame them for believing that personal co2 foot print nonsense.

You say that like Boomers don’t own and hold management positions in companies that pollute. Also, corporations being the main polluters doesn’t absolve individuals of guilt when they make bad decisions.

The most recent year that numbers are widely available for was 2024 when Germany had 184,000 active-duty military personnel. Poland had 216,000 active military personnel; among NATO countries only Turkey and the US had more. Poland had the 13th highest military budget on Earth and was ranked 14th for military expenditures as a percentage of GDP: 4.1% (the highest in NATO).

Their reserves ARE limited in number, but they’ve been spending their funding on large quantities of equipment and weaponry.

I seriously doubt even Trump thinks Greenland is a national security issue. He wants it because some other billionaires want it. Some for resource extraction and some who want to build a planned city to push forward their techo-feudal agenda.