@on the cusp @on the cusp

but that sounds like a smoke screen. Erdogan had his arms twisted.

“Turkey got what it wanted,” Erdogan said in a statement after the deal was announced.

https://www.rt.com/news/558027-turkey-finland-sweden-nato-deal/

Thanks. Very odd Turkey approved this.

@snoopydawg CNN

White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.
Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.

How exciting it must be for you to see our money going for war and the chance of nuclear annihilation and the threat of loss of all life on earth while America falls further into a 3rd world country with more homelessness and people falling into poverty.

As for Putin = Hitler I don’t see Putin building concentration camps and murdering millions because of their ancestry or way of life like Hitler did or doing medical experiments on Ukrainians or using them as slave labor. America however has been experimenting on Ukrainians with stuff cooked up in their bio labs there. Oops…did you not know that? I never thought I’d see the day when Americans turned a blind eye to Nazis and everything they stand for and yet here we are. My grandpa is turning in his grave after fighting the scourge of Nazis that America propped up then without his knowledge.

There was once a time that shitlibs were for peace and to end NATO expansion and the military industrial complex, but that was before democrats broke people’s minds with Russia Russia Russia. I find nothing to cheer about this. Russia’s military operation could have easily been avoided and tens of thousands of Ukrainians could still be alive, but America no longer has an anti war movement because too many people have bought the daily propaganda.

@CB

to never join NATO. Just like Ukraine signed one with Russia not to put their security above Russia if it would threaten Russia. Seems more countries are ignoring the treaties they signed with Russia and becoming more America-nized and doing whatever the hell they want. US tears up any treaty that goes against its agenda.

about Sweden and Finland vis-à-vis Hitler and the Nazis. Do you have any idea how nonsensical this diary is? Have you studied even a modicum about the events of WWII?

Revealed: How 'neutral' Sweden made secret loans to Nazi Germany during WWII

Sweden made secret loans to Nazi Germany during World War 2, it has been revealed.

New documents show how the Swedish finance minister in wartime, Ernst Wigforss, approved bank credits to Berlin in 1941. The details were recently uncovered in a filing cabinet at the finance ministry.

The loans served to increase Swedish exports to Nazi Germany, allowing it to prosecute its war on all fronts.
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In June of 1941, the year that Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis asked Sweden for military concessions regarding logistical support.

The concessions were granted, but not after a political debate that has been termed the 'midsummer crisis'.
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'The result of the approval of the bank credits meant that Sweden avoided demands from Germany for direct Swedish state aid and that Swedish boat yards could continue to build vessels for Nazi Germany's navy,' said one Swedish news website.

Finland helped Nazis murder Jews during WWII: report

Finnish military volunteers helped the Nazis carry out the mass killing of Jews during World War II, according to a new report.

Authorities in the Scandinavian nation revealed the findings Friday in a 248-page government-commissioned independent report, which showed that 1,408 Finnish volunteers — many between the ages of 17 and 20 — served with the SS Panzer Division Wiking from 1941 to 1943.

“It is very likely that they participated in the killing of Jews, other civilians and prisoners of war as part of the German SS troops,” said Jussi Nuorteva, director-general of Finland’s National Archives.

Finland proved an “example of unique and exemplary civic courage” by owning up to its dark past, Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Sunday. Finland undertook the study at Zuroff’s request in 2018.

After losing several territories to a Soviet invasion in 1939, Finland entered a deal with Nazi Germany for material support against Moscow. But the agreement also required the Nordic country provide some 400 volunteers for the SS Wiking division — a pact it reluctantly honored, the report concluded.
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@gjohnsit

I think that this aged well.

I can’t believe how many people are willing to risk nuclear annihilation or watch as millions die from hunger just so they can stick it to Putin who had been warning us for decades that we were getting close to crossing Russia’s red lines. He offered sensible alternatives to stop what is now happening, but Biden, NATO and those who want to get their hands on Russia’s resources thought that he was just kidding.

America is demanding that Russia de-colonize the countries they have owned for centuries whilst ignoring its own history of colonialism and stealing the land from Native Americans and having over 800 military bases across the fcking world. Americans for some reason ignores what its military has done to countless countries since the end of WW2 and how many millions of people it has killed, but then they still think that they are free. And that voting matters.

Let’s put Biden and Putin in a room and they can measure their dicks and the world can have peace at last.

The CIA is on the ground in Ukraine

This is awesome. The CIA has a long record for fighting the Just Cause and winning in the end.

[edit] I was looking at my reddit account and I found this I had forgotten I had wrote it.

Why I oppose having a military confrontation with Russia

I'd like to make my feelings perfectly clear on this whole Russia v. Ukraine thing.
I've seen online how people say that we must show our "strength" by standing up to Russia. That this is Munich all over again (because obviously every enemy is Hitler).

When I've tried to push back on this I've been called a Putin apologist, a Russian bot, and a Tankie.
So I'm going to simplify my argument in a way that everyone can understand.

I don't want to die.

I think that it's a bad idea to risk Global Nuclear Armageddon to defend the borders of a nation that a majority of Americans couldn't find on a map.
Oh sure. "It won't come to that," you say. Because no wars in history have ever escalated in ways that the war hawks didn't anticipate. Oh wait. Actually the opposite is true.

Now to be fair, I understand the reasoning behind the arguments of the people who think it's important to "show strength".
My response to them, with all due respect, is that I don't think that we should risk destroying all life on this Earth in order to compensate for your undersized penis.
Look, I get that penis size is important, but not every guy is as insecure about their penis as you are.

To summarize, people that feel that it's important to "project strength" should find another method.
Maybe the U.S. doesn't have to be the world's policeman. Maybe we don't have to stick our noses into everyone's business, and tell everyone how they should behave. Especially when we have so many problems here at home. Has anyone considered that?

I think that this aged well.