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What's wild is that America doesn't even have the worst healthcare...

No, the argument is that NATO is an aggressive alliance that has been invading and pillaging countries for decades that continues to expand and encircle Russia. This isn't my argument, this is the argument from countless scholars, historians, and politicians.

That is not what you have presented, neither in your comments nor the sources you have linked.

I have nothing more to say to you.

You haven't said anything of significance here, just useless regurgitated rhetoric. You may as well be spitting out ejaculations from the likes of Rupert Murdoch.

I asked you to present reasons why the invasion of Ukraine by Russia was justified. All you have said is "people in the West said Russia would do it" as if that justifies literal genocide.

I do not endorse NATO, nor any military organisation. You endorse Russian military. Yet, you have shown no reasonable grounds to endorse their hostile invasion of a foreign country.

So, your argument is that people arguing in the 1990s that expansion of NATO was a bad idea (because said expansion would encourage Russia into hostile actions) is justification for Russia to enact said hostile actions in 2014 and 2021?

It sounds like you're basically saying that, if someone threatens you with violence unless you adhere to their demands, not adhering to those demands is justification for that violence. So you should give up your lunch money under the threat of a bully, and the bully is right either way - in taking your lunch money, or beating you up for not giving it up willingly.

My argument is that all violent thugs are cunts. Plain and simple. There is no valid justification for violence, unless it is to prevent a direct threat of violence against yourself.

That is to say, if someone comes at you with a weapon and clearly indicates they're going to kill you, it is reasonable to kill them first. "Expansion of NATO" does not, in any way, meet this bar.

To take the analogy further, NATO is merely a group of countries banding together and saying they won't let bullies get away with being violent cunts. If the bully wants to attack one of them, they will all respond together and overwhelm the bully. The bully is now just cowering and crying fowl merely because they're now the smaller, more vulnerable one. When the group is actually making no threats whatsoever, other than to rightfully defend themselves and prevent harm against themselves.

I'm not sure I understand my previous comment either, other than to say I was probably quite drunk when I made it.

Edit: OK wait I'm gonna try and make sense of it.

My first paragraph was a direct reply, saying how the top level comment was bullshit just circlejerking for upvotes against this one person that downvoted.

My 2nd paragraph was about how there is a narrative being promoted by some users that dominate this place, merely because there is such a sparse amount of content.

My 3rd paragraph was a criticism of the app I use, which has been pissing me off lately because when I hit backspace twice it removes the space between the word I'm editing and the previous word and generally confuses me, as well as autocorrect.

Also I was indeed drunk. So I feel like beating the backspace and autocorrect issue is some kind of a triumph hah.

Thankfully. The BeVesre of "dumb fucks" being shortly lived, until now, can only be a good thing.

Imagine offering yourself up for a circkejerk of up votes.

You can't make a legit comment without careful construction on this platform. After which, your meaning is easily misconstrued.

That is to say, you aren't down voted to oblivion, if your backspaces aren't eaten up by unfavourable autocorrelation.

So why did Russia invade Ukraine?

No, it was the goal of Russia to conduct a "military exercise" all within Russia's borders.. And then they invaded a foreign nation. You are defending liars.

The American ambassador in Kabul, Adolph “Spike” Dubs, was kidnapped and killed on Valentine’s Day 1979. He had been the American charge d’affaires in Moscow. The killing bore the hallmarks of a political murder. “His death certainly seemed to involve the responsibility of the Afghan government, and probably the Soviets,”

If you bothered to read your own article, it says Russia started it.

More than anything, this is all just war mongerers going war mongering. Just like how Winston Churchill personally funded the defence of Nazi war criminals, all because no one wanted to go and invade the USSR with him immediately after WW2. They're all cunts, simply chasing profits and propping up an industry of death.

The US didn't encourage Russia to invade Ukraine, that was already their goal. Just like the US' invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan weren't motivated by others but their own desires.

"You're making us invade them!!"

Are you also claiming the US made Russia invade Afghanistan 20 years before the US was there?

"Fully open source", to me, would imply open source hardware. However basically any device you get these days has a security chip which is a complete black box to the user. Intel have the Intel Management Engine, AMD have their own version and even mobile phones have them too.

You basically have to run Linux on a potato to get fully open source.

The issue with batteries for air travel is more about weight. That will require different technology, eg lithium air batteries. This technology is in development but it'll be a fair few years until they get commercially manufactured.