If Washington’s participation in Israel’s June 2025 war with Iran elevated U.S. military force to a perfectly viable instrument of the United States’ Iran policy, the success of current talks would signal the formal undoing of that logic. But should the failure of talks pave the way for another full-scale war, the United States and Israel will be fighting an Iran vastly different from June. For the Iran of today appears to have made its peace with the grim conclusion that while a decisive slog with Israel and the United States is sure to be agonizing, it is preferable to the recurring attrition of repeated wars and a chronic strategic vulnerability that only emboldens adversaries to target Iran and its regional allies.
Joint military exercises are WORSE than joining shit. Stop being such an idealist. Signing a piece of paper is meaningless. Actually arming, practicing, and integrating real military battalions and weapons systems is far far worse than being officially recognized. The problem has nothing to do with Ukraine being covered by article 5 and everything to do with the Ukrainian state integrating its military posture with the US via NATO and deploying US weapon systems.
Listen to yourself for just one second. Please. You are literally saying that the people who have killed more people than anyone else are now working with your neighbor and practicing war, specifically war against you, using the same legal framework they used to eventually invade several other countries. And they’re doing it on the border with your country that Russia was invaded over twice in invasions that cost them massive military and civilian losses. And you are saying that Russia is a cry baby? That I’m a murder apologist for saying that Russia has legitimate security concerns?
Like, really reread just the first part of what you wrote.
What do the Nazis have to do with this? We’re establishing that the threat to Russia is real.
There it is. Your entire argument rests on morality, idealism, vibes, and campism. You think Russia has no legitimate security interests because they are “bad” and you think that acknowledging the US is also “bad” absolves you of having to actually think about anything further. Russia is “bad” and therefore any action they take other than surrender is “bad”. The US is “bad” and you don’t “support” them but if they do something to Russia you’re not going to worry because Russia is “bad”.
There’s an old joke where a KGB agent and a CIA agent meet for a friendly drink on neutral territory. The American says to the Soviet:
To which the Soviet replies:
To which the American replies:
To which the Soviet replies:
You think that because I don’t argue from the position of “Russia bad” that I’m the one infected by propaganda, never stopping to analyze your own self-contradictory positions, your emotional reactions signalling your cognitive dissonance, and your lack of shame in founding your entire argument on your belief that they are garbage people and that you have no sympathy for them.
Looks like it was a good thing for Ukraine to practice with the NATO fascists after all. Russia proved it is the aggressor and you can’t accept it because you like the nasty warm piss filled Kool Aid Putin prepared for you. As the pedo rapist Trump would say, “That is very sad.”
Speaking of Trump, can you believe Russia sponsored that piece of shit? The whole world is worse off because Russia is a kleptocracy hell bent on making money off the suffering of humans.
I am glad you don’t claim morality as it is very clear you can’t pick between the lesser of evils in a given situation. That is modern life, it sucks. Get used to it.
Russia could give two shits about its people. The US might be the most murderous, but no one competes with Russia sacrificing its own people in war and in peacetime. Once again, garbage people in the government.
I don’t think you are infected with propaganda, I know you are. Not even questioning that for a second bringing up every bullshit Russian talking point like it is the gospel of Jesus Fucking Christ.
I love the Russian people, they deserve far better than they get, but you wouldn’t know it after talking to bozos like you. No country on Earth is worthy of humanity. Certainly not the US, China, or Russia. Three fascist nations that are all guilty as charged.
The problem with you is you are one not fucking bit objective. You have picked your stupid team. Now go lie in the flea ridden bed you have chosen.
Yeah. Not a shred of rational thought left in you. Pure righteousness. I’m glad we had this conversation so that other people could see it. You’re a lost cause.
Sure, go take your Russian propaganda and stick it all the way up your backside you fascist apologist.