Yeah, the US empire sadly won’t be pulling out its bases from the EU anytime soon. I wish it did, though

Centuries*

It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine

Why would Putin pull out of Ukraine? Russia is currently advancing and has a much better position in this war of attrition, and the more it keeps gaining, the better the “peace terms” will be in the end. Putin’s not fearing for his next term since elections in Russia are manipulated, the Russian economy is alive and well, and in military terms he’s in no hurry

Please, don’t talk like that of Iranian culture. Iran was well on its way towards progressivism, secularism and ending absolute monarchy during the early 1950s, under the presidency of Mosaddegh. This implied developing the country and Iran profiting from its own oil, instead of giving all the profits to British Petroleum, so the US and UK did a military economic embargo of Iran, and staged a coup that reinstated the Shah. Iran could be a perfectly progressive and developed country today if it weren’t for the west destroying every country that attempts to take control of its own future.

Huh? You do know that the US has bases in Europe since WW2 right?

The news community over at Hexbear made abundant analysis of this

How come your analysis of escalation only includes enemy states of the USA? Escalation has happened already twice because of Israel, and the US literally threatened to invade Greenland and Canada, and is considering joining a war against Iran.

But that’s just because you’re racist. Israel is the genocidal state, not Iran or Palestine

You’re just regurgitating the wikipedia list of logical fallacies without knowing what they mean, peak redditor behaviour.

We have been talking about the present and future threats to the EU

And how exactly do you think those other wars were presented in the past? Do you think Nazi politicians weren’t telling their population that Lebensraum was exclusively for the defense of German culture and rights against the barbaric Russians? Do you not think that the imperialist powers in WW1 fighting each other framed these wars as defensive to their own populations? Essentially: “trust me bro, this next war will be the defensive war bro, I promise bro”

Geopolitical concerns have fundamentally changed

Didn’t I just tell you about the ongoing genocide in Gaza that European states support? How can you claim that things have changed when Europe keeps engaging in genocide?

the EU isn’t perfect, but it is the best the world has to offer

“Maybe Europe has a history of barbaric colonialism and imperialism leaving tens (if not hundreds) of millions of deaths in its colonies in Africa, Asia and South America. Maybe European states have fought endless wars among each other in the name of self defence. Maybe Europe continues to engage in the support of genocidal apartheid states such as Israel, and recently itself participated in the bombing of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya. Maybe Europe is getting overrun by far-right politicians as we see in Poland, Italy and soon Germany and France. But Europe is the best and most free the world has to offer! Yes, I’m European, but I swear that opinion is completely reasoned, unlike the opinions of people from other countries outside Europe who hold the exact same beliefs towards their own countries! No, I’m not a nationalist/chauvinist”

I’m addressing the military expenditure of the EU, how is showing historical evidence of military expenditure of the EU whataboutism? It’s literally the topic we’re talking about. You just don’t want to think about this topic because you’re obviously right in your point of view, so you’re using a thought-terminating line to shut down your brain

You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland

Yes, Poland is a reactionary hellhole too. Being compared to Poland in gay policy is fucking dire.

is moving in the right direction

I hope you’re right

You should also keep in mind that the EU is a supra-national federalist construct

It still supports the ongoing genocide in Gaza and supported the invasion of Iraq, the bombing of Yugoslavia, the destruction of Libya, Afghanistan, colonialism in Africa… Seriously, tell me three military interventions done by European countries in the past century that were arguably moral.

Pacifism, unfortunately, is dead in this new age of multilaterlism and worldwide resurging authoritarianism.

Great, let’s spend the budget in weapons right before the far right authoritarians reach all governments in Europe! Can’t see that going wrong! After all, Europe has never done anything bad militarily!

Everything you’ve said is true, but keep in mind that Ukraine isn’t exactly an LGBT paradise. Hate crime against gay people isn’t recognised by law, and for the past years most pride parades ended up with people hospitalised as a consequence of far right attackers.

They don’t need violence from the left to become fascists, they can do it by themselves.

They win no matter who wins any given election

Yes, because both parties in power in the US fundamentally stand for the same geopolitically. Geopolitics are mostly bipartisan in the US.

The only thing new is it’s the US doing it from across the world

Bahahahahahahhaa

Go ask a Vietnamese or a North Korean what they think of that statement, lmao

It’s an insane and racist statement (the one about Ukraine). That doesn’t make it genocide, though. I’m not denying that many Russian nationalists wish the disappearance of Ukraine. Then again, lemmitors wish the disappearance of russia, US and European conservatives the disappearance of the entire Arab world… Racism sucks ass, but conservatives everywhere are racist pieces of shit

Russian statements of Ukraine not existing as a separate country, people, or identity

A statement isn’t a genocide, and there isn’t an Uyghur genocide. Wikipedia had to change the article title from “Uyghur genocide” to “persecution of Uyghur in China” because there’s simply no evidence to support the “genocide” thesis.

To see footage of what a genocide looks like, open up YouTube or tiktok and look at today’s bombings of Gaza. You simply won’t find video footage of violence against Uyghur because there’s not such a thing. Everyone in China has access to a smartphone and if there was remotely any violence taking place, you’d have it plastered all over western media. The “Uyghur genocide” was manufactured by a Christian radical and co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Association called Adrian Zenz, and he did so in collaboration with the US state propaganda “media” Radio Free Asia. I dare you to find any post-2022 evidence from a primary source of any systematic violations of human rights against Uyghur people.

By calling everything a genocide, we diminish the actual significance of occurring genocides, such as the Gaza and Rohingya ones that you mentioned. I beg you to please get informed on the subject of Uyghur. I dont deny that there likely happened some human right violations such as forced education of thousands of Uyghur, but that happened during a very brief span of time already half a decade ago, and it stopped, and it doesn’t really fit under the definition of genocide at all. Black people in the USA face TODAY much higher numbers of mass imprisonment (up to 1/4 of black males in the US above the age of 30 have been through the prison system) and I don’t see anyone calling that genocide.

It doesn’t matter to me if you want to wipe out all the Palestinians, Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, Uighur, or Rohingya

This reads like “I won’t accept racism towards black people or towards white people, because they’re totally the same”. You’re taking completely incomparable historical events and putting them all together under the broad category of “genocide” to further your narrative. There IS an ongoing genocide of Palestinians, there ISN’T an ongoing genocide of Russians, Ukrainians or Uyghur. Denying false claims of genocide doesn’t amount to advocating genocide. I’m against the genocide of Russians, Ukrainians and Uyghurs, but those things aren’t happening so why even talk about that?