Is Russia running out of windows or what?
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
I’m just blown away by the gullible fools who see this dying totalitarian dystopia with statistics around birth and family life that are way worse than anything in the West as a beacon of resistance to decadence or something.
Of course I guess this isn’t new with Russia. Back in the Cold War it was naive elements of the left and now it’s naive elements of the right. They seem to excel at marketing themselves to the deeply disaffected. But there’s nothing there but a Potemkin village.
The Gulag Archipelago should be required reading.
Russian government did not give a damn about NATO expansion, it is a mafia with no ideology. They would have invaded anyway, under some other false pretense.
Keep in mind that Chomsky denied genocide made Khmer Rouge in 1970 and genocide in Srebrenica, _just_ _because_ _perpetrators_ _seemed _to_be_ against US imperialism.
I’ve heard his plane fell from a window.