Jupiter, the emperor of Europe…

I like DST. I like having sunlight later into the evening during the summer.

AfD got 21% in the election though, higher than just 6%. I think it’s like someone else in this thread said - the right don’t want to buy Teslas because electric cars are seen as “woke”, while the left don’t want to buy Teslas because they don’t like Musk.

94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car

Meta is bad although I would argue that X and Tesla are worse.

Every single representative of Russia including Putin gives long ass speeches about why this is happening

The same government that has lied about so many things that I have lost count

Also the US is hardcore plotting and funding terrorism against Russia

Evidence? Do you think the US plotted and funded the Crocus City Hall attack for instance?

Would you have preferred to see the West provide nothing to Ukraine and instead just watch Ukraine get taken over by Russia? Perhaps that would have resulted in fewer deaths, but who knows. Russian forces probably would have still killed a lot of Ukrainians, and they would have subjugated Ukrainians, and probably they would have still committed rape and other acts.

Ukraine’s not a member of NATO

Indeed. That’s why I said maybe Ukraine should have been allowed to join NATO years ago. That might have prevented this invasion.

i never disputed who the primary aggressor was in this war

So you think Russia invaded, but then the West used this as an opportunity to harm Russia. Maybe the West wasn’t interested in harming Russia for the sake of harming Russia. Maybe the West just wanted Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine.

What’s dim is refusing to recognise that this war was started by Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, then increased their invasion in 2022. Ukraine asked the West for military help so the West provided military help.

Maybe Ukraine should have been allowed to join NATO years ago when they asked, and then they might not have been invaded.

NATO has already been on Russia’s borders - the Baltics and Poland were already NATO members that bordered Russia.

I think the invasion of Ukraine was indeed a conquest for land. John McCain over 10 years ago predicted that Putin wanted to grab a “land bridge” between mainland Russia and Crimea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLAzeHnNgR8&t=58s

proxy war

So you think Russia waged this war just to stick it to the West? To me it looks like a war of conquest - Russia invaded so they could take land.