I guess part of the reason I found it hard to take the Ukrainian side seriously was because, from 2014, the conflict seemed to be lopsided in Ukraine's favor (at least, in a media sense).
The Ukrainians had a state, and a psuedo-army (Azov, Dnipro etc... were the most motivated soldiers but they were just militia at that point). The DPR/LPR were the "rag-tag" (although not really) guys who put together their army using blu tack and duct tape.
Obviously, in the present day, the Ukrainians are more clearly the underdogs, and, looking back, they were also the underdogs (Russia was directly supporting and even intervening to support the rebels whenever they felt they needed to). But hindsight is 20-20, and I'm a retard most of the time. I guess all I can do is apologize for being retarded.
I lean more towards Ukraine now, not because I'm some sort of Banderist neo-Nazi or whatever, but just rationally, Russia has to be the one to make the first step in ending this. If they don't do it willingly, they have to be made to do it. The stronger (or, perhaps the better word is bigger) side has to be the one to step back.
It is much easier for me to see the just cause (defensive war protecting their people) of the Palestinians or even, dare I say it, the Nusra/ISIS types in Syria/Iraq. They were and are the ones without an airforce, without tanks, without allies intervening on their behalf, without anything, except their own wits, ingenuity and massive balls.
While in the Ukrainian war, FPV drones take up like 80% of all combat footage, in Gaza, it was 80% GoPro footage taken up close, mere meters away from tanks, infantry in buildings etc... Palestinian fighters staring directly down tank barrels or into the eyes of the IDF.
The footage from Oct 7th (Israel's greatest ever military defeat) is crazy enough, but almost all of the footage from Gaza is just....It's the stuff of legend.
There was one video which I remember seeing which involved 3 Qassam fighters coming out of an attack tunnel in the middle of an IDF mechanized infantry tank-park (at least company-size). Planting an EFP behind a tank (while the infantry are milling around 5m in front of them - this is caught on camera), and then firing 2 RPG rounds at parked APCs before running back into their tunnel, detonating the EFP, and then blowing up the tunnel entrance when the IDF soldiers rush to it.
All that happens in the span of like 2 at most 3 minutes. Flawlessly executed.
Another realization I've come to.
The solution to the problem of Conservatives always either losing or cucking is to be radically progressive, unironically.
Neither Dem or Rep (both betray their bases all the time), but progressive,Teddy Roosevelt style.
They don't realize how silly and a self-own a meme like this is.
Progressives are "the times". "And the times they are a changing". Progressives are the chugachugachoochoo that moves society. You just have to accept it.
"Conservatives" want to go back or stop time honestly from my perspective mostly out of fear of the unknown. "Nothing lasts forever".
You don't survive by swimming against a current. If you do that, you just tire yourself out and then drown. You survive by riding the current downstream until you find land or the current subsides so you can escape.
Or, instead of a current, think of "riding the tiger"...
One of these days I'll extrapolate on this further...
The equivalent of Nick railing against porn, jacking off and "CP" (loli porn) while large sections of his own fanbase (including some of his biggest supporters/donors) are open lolicons who want the AOC lowered so they can bang young teenage girls.
Pathetic.
Do these guys even realize how stupid they look?
Fucking ey...
> WaPo cartoonist arrested for computer-generated AI "CSAM" porn (literally cartoon loli porn that one can find on Pixiv or Baraag or NHentai, or Hitomi or even this instance)
> Post calls or implies that the man is a criminal pedophile
> Poster posts/shares/favorites loli porn on this instance and professes to be a lolicon while totally NOT being a pedophile
Absolute bruh moment...Come on, dude.
Embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTt8IzilofM&ab_channel=Saltydogy
I've said it before, but man, I swear, sometimes I really get the feeling that young girls KNOW just by momentary eye-contact alone. It's like they have a special sense.
The amount of times I've made accidental eye-contact, and then they give me a sort of look that only "experienced" older teenagers or adult women could give....
I can't be the only one who thinks this, right.
Right?
Groypers are hypocrites who want pedophilia (or something approximating it by retarded American Puritan standards) legalized, but only for THEM.
BASED
TRAD
Catholic?
Then they turn around and call anyone else who isn't part of their cult "PEEEEDOS" for essentially saying the same things.
Morons.
I'm not posting this because I'm some AntiFa "we are the world" "no borders" type.
I'm posting it because it's just so glaringly obvious to me.
People like Keith are (and I'm being nice here, because he could be doing this deliberately) stupefyingly ignorant of their own hypocrisy vis-a-vis the "dehumanizing political opponents" thing.
The guy who supports Assad and calls Syrian migrants essentially Al Qaeda terrorists (Assadist talking point shared with "far-right" European nationalists) complains about Nick Fuentes (who is arguably even worse regarding the "dehumanizing opponents" thing, but that's probably because he's ambiguously "White" himself) being dehumanized and attacked.
He then proceeds to respond to the attack in Germany this evening by falsely blaming Syrian migrants again (seems to be the case regarding all instances of this kind in Europe, even though Syrian migrants are a minority among the "new arrivals" and have been so for years) while also criminaly inflating the casualties to the point of almost terrorism pornography.
People like Keith are the reason I'm losing my trust in "nationalism" as a solution.
Years ago, there was one guy who said that, because "our enemies" lie, then we should also lie. I was amazed. I thought the entire point was to tell the truth and dispell the lies. Guess I was wrong...
And I know he corrected himself and said it was a Saudi national who did it (Saudi is a "safe state" and also a German/Western ally), but you can look at the impressions on the posts and see the damage has already been done.
For some time, I supported Assad because I fell for the propaganda that he was "the protector of all minorities" and that "he was against terror".
My friends, who are part of the pro-Western liberal wing, also begrudgingly supported him because "there's no one better to keep the country stable".
Now, with everything that is happening and has happened, he, and his most die-hard supporters, have been exposed as insane criminals, worse than ISIS (that's saying something), bloodthirsty, depraved and psychotic. Incapable of recognizing fault and apologizing.
This is a well-known pro-Hezbollah (therefore pro-Assad) account:
> "HTS R EGGECUTING INNOCENT PEEPL!!!!!!"
> "OK, HE DID FEED PRISONERS TO HIS PET LION"
Insane. Criminal. Disgusting.
Only weeks before they made a post about how supporting Assad was a duty because you would be fighting against depraved terrorism...
PartisanGirl literally made a post explaining away why a toddler was in a secret-police prison for women. She completely ignored that many of those in that jail have been there for around 10 years, meaning, the mother of that child was most likely raped by the guards, and gave birth in the jail. What a fucking lunatic.
I said it before, but I really do feel sick with all these revelations.
Lolicons are like the retarded "civnats" of pedophilia.
The people they constantly and slavishly appeal to hate them and will never stop calling them pedos, and they're too afraid to be actually based because they so love the mind-prison they made for themselves.
"I'm not a pedophile, I'm a lolicon!!"
"What is the English translation of "lolicon"?"
"N....Wh....N....Not like that!!!!!"
I don't know man, whatever...