trajekolus 1w ago • 100%
Defeatism leads to losing
trajekolus 3w ago • 100%
He is not an Afrikaner - as the child of immigrants he went to English schools, and has nothing to do with Afrikaans.
Your prejudice makes you dishonest.
trajekolus 4w ago • 75%
While he grew up in SA, he has no loyalty to South Africa either. We don't want him nor be associated with him
trajekolus 4w ago • 92%
Reich did not suggest using a British alternative.
His words from the article:
"The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be"
trajekolus 4w ago • 100%
Do you really need to be an expert to see a problem with Musk's Russian sympathies?
trajekolus 1mo ago • 100%
Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the NYT
trajekolus 1mo ago • 100%
Looking at the European situation from outside is also baffling, with putinite parties on the rise by whipping up fears over migration. Similarities with the USA situation easy to find
trajekolus 2mo ago • 75%
Defeatism has a self fulfilling outcome if enough people have it
trajekolus 5mo ago • 8%
The point is that to protect the Nato countries in Europe, Nato should have, and could have done a lot more to defeat Russia's imperialist aims before it reaches the Nato countries doorstep
trajekolus 5mo ago • 18%
Please read the article
trajekolus 7mo ago • 100%
Would it be incorrect to think that Mark Twain already described how scammers feed off the US religious right in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). I am referring to "The King" and "the Duke".
trajekolus 8mo ago • 100%
I think you should add in promoting the imperial interests of a very hostile power, Russia, to your list.
trajekolus 8mo ago • 100%
There is still some contestation within the Republicans - unfortunately not as strong in the House as in the Senate. Some strong words feature in the article:
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) called Carlson Russia’s “useful idiot.” After Navalny’s death, he added: “History will not be kind to those in America who make apologies for Putin and praise Russian autocracy. Nor will history be kind to America’s leaders who stay silent because they fear backlash from online pundits.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) urged fellow Republican and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to “spend less time pushing Russian propaganda.”
A top political aide to Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) promoted Young’s denunciation of Navalny’s death by saying, “My U.S. Senator is not a venal Putin apologist, but I’m less sure about yours.”
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Navalny was killed by the “same Putin who Donald Trump praises and defends.” Haley soon noted that, while Trump weighed in repeatedly on NATO this week and posted dozens of times on Truth Social on Friday, he hasn’t yet mentioned Navalny . Former Trump vice president Mike Pence posted, more generally, “There is no room in the Republican Party for apologists for Putin.
trajekolus 8mo ago • 71%
Pretty hard for me to see a difference between a pacifist and a tankie
trajekolus 9mo ago • 100%
Good for them, but you have to wonder: why be in a traitorous party if you're not a traitor yourself.
trajekolus 9mo ago • 100%
It is Russia that started the war, and is "stoking" it. The countries that assist Ukraine with arms are doing so to prevent Russian imperialism from expanding into Europe and beyond. It is very necessary that they continue to do so.
trajekolus 10mo ago • 83%
From the article:
Predictions of a Russian economic collapse—made almost uniformly by Western economists and politicians at the start of the war in Ukraine—have proven thumpingly wrong
The cost to Russia of Putin’s imperialism is not collapse, it is the huge loss of lives, and the future economic pain and job losses that will be needed to bring inflation back under control
trajekolus 11mo ago • 100%
Putin