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Feral Finster's avatar

Trump was in office from 2016-2020 and did not pardon Snowden or Assange, much less Manning.

Also, I find the "gay Ukrainian soldiers fighting for their rights" article to be hilarious. As a society, Ukraine is arguably less gay-friendly than Saudi Arabia (gay sex legal as a matter of law but any open displays of homosexuality a good way to get maimed or killed vs. gay sex officially a death penalty offense, but men regularly having sex with men, boys, and whatnot on the QT).

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John Merryman's avatar

Very in depth sit-rep.

I would add though, that Ukraine will cease to exist the moment the West/US quits pouring money into it. Which, reading the national and financial news, might be sooner than 2027.

At which point, Europe will have a bunch of heavily armed crazies to deal with, along with all the other problems that are being created.

Simplicius has another site, Dark Futura, about the various underlaying psychological issues driving the world and the directions it appears to be headed. It is safe to say these two forums, this one on present events and that one, will converge in the not too distant future, as the West reaches the end of its rope at a dead run.

Personally I think some of our issues are foundational. Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. Basically The Big Guy Rules. The rest is history.

So those of us who didn't have our heads buried in the sand/up our assholes the last few decades will have another horizon to analyze. The Russians had their reality check, with the fall of the Soviet Union and now it's our turn.

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