Russia is currently being attacked willy nilly and there’s talk to do the same with China.

US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.

I wouldn’t put Netanyahu in the former camp.

Sorry, but I’m not a fan of jokes at the expense of the colorblind and self-doubters,
where you have people keep guessing and second guessing what’s in the pile of dots.

Especially when this is on Lemmy.

If you are colorblind and even if you’re not.
You’re being lied to here.
There’s nothing in this meme.

Topic Starter should come out and confirm.

Hmmm… I do mind that they look the part so you can at least recognize them.
Avatar the last airbender movie was the worst offender of this,
because at least one cast member looked like another character from the show.

So the 1st one I have no issue with.

2nd needs a tan and spraying his hair to gray/white,
5th needed more red hair like this:
https://images8.alphacoders.com/127/1272798.jpg

The 3rd and 4th ones look ridiculous though.

I don’t know from which movies they are but
If #3 has an iconic beard, then #3 needs a beard and some better clothes if that’s iconic as well.
#4 is a no.

Seconded, why?

Das verstehe ich nicht.

Obligitatory link to said Communist music:
https://odysee.com/@trader.one:d/soviet-anthem_subtitles:5

It’s even worse in South Korea and Taiwan?

No no no no no…
USA won’t be the chant he’ll receive.
Instead it will be…

ICE ICE ICE

An Exxon gas station!? Really?
Was this picture made in 2005?

You’re more likely to find a charging station with SGCC written on it if you’re lucky,
because it’ll more likely be 国家电网 as latin letters will have lost all status.

“Increasingly likely” is undercutting it.

I hope it doesn’t…

I’d rather see it burn to the ground deliberately.

Flaccid?
If I did that with my thumb, it would be completely broken.

Welcome to Lemmy where there’s a lot of communists who are not agreeing with the narrative of liberal, socdems or greens media of US/EU/UK.

Russia is winning because China is communist and therefore winning.
I don’t know what the average Lemmy tankie thinks of why the Soviet Union lost,
but my reasoning is simply, lack of solid fossil fuels and too early in the game
to rise through solar & wind power or even natural gas.
China had bitumen coal and a better version of a people’s democracy since Deng imho.

US has lots and lots of coal compared to any country in the world,
so even with its half-baked liberal democracy
it still was able to thrive above the rest until recently.

Why do US media companies find it obligatory to call the Special Military Operation a “full invasion”?

A) There’s never been a plan to invade the Western half of the country.
B) they never do so with Israël’s invasion of Palestine, NATO’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, which ARE a full invasion.

Do they get paid by the CIA for this?

Grand Theft Auto?
Genuflect To America?
Gotham Teachers Association? Guess The Abbreviation?

I don’t get it.
And the cars don’t match the young men’s outfits.

I think you’re just confused on what is the left, but many in the US are.

You can’t suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won’t both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing).

No, I am concerned about Ukraine that is fighting an unwinnable war for the US(/UK/EU) that set them up with unrealistic goals and demands, while their enemy had modest demands that are now being eroded as Ukraine has decided that these modest demands should be met with a fight to the death fueled by the outdated view of the world that you can’t go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.

And Ukraine is now fighting until there’s nothing left, because while if it was a regional conflict,
this nation would have crumbled and surrendered, it is now sacrificing every life it has
as a constant stream of financial support from the EU, UK and US allows Zelensky to theoretically
go for a zero sum war until there’s no Ukrainian citizen left.

You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers.

Russia is a regional superpower.
The current power behind Russia, China is the global superpower.
Russia meanwhile is not a victim because it’s winning and they came to the rescue of the Russian Ukrainians who had been suppressed since the coup of 2014.
The victims are the Russian Ukrainians and Ukrainian conscripts as both groups have been duped
into voting for a conman that is unfit to be president and lets his decisions be made by foreign powers
who have no stake in Ukraine and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder as the foreign themselves also have the outdated
view of the world that you can’t go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.

This entire war is currently the biggest example of the failure of liberal democracy.
The Soviet Union did not do anything remotely like this when it started losing power,
dissolved peacefully with geopolitical issues far more difficult to solve than the issues
the US is currently experiencing and yet the US is dropping the ball because it’s a liberal democracy
and a bad one at that.

Ukraine has a card-carrying puppet president elected for the polar opposite for what he was elected for,
all the EU nations have shown themselves to be puppet leaders of the US,
and thrown their economies, which is about 25+ countries, into financial ruin to support this war,
which should have remained a regional conflict of a border and alliance dispute,
and it’s even hurting the US financially as well,
because it is currently China, not the US,
where can’t go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of.