Yeah I've thought it was the US, or at least US sponsored/advised. The article says apparently the US knew about the attack in advance and told them not to do it, but doesn't give any sources for that that I could see.

The article states that Germany stopping support for Ukraine would be out of the question. I can't see them doing anything even if it turns out it was directly order by the Ukrainian government.

I think you can appreciate it for the dark comedy and chadly Zhukov. Definitely worth a watch, even if you want to to a liberal prop drinking game/bingo while watching it

I would seriously consider only having a home phone if I can ever afford to buy a place. Maybe a lightphone or similar to carry that only direct family have the number for in case of emergency.

Ha! Your valid and well thought out response is ruined now because you said maybe the US has also done some bad things! Whataboutism, Russian bot, CCP shill.

It's an interesting scenario. Would it lead to a withdrawal of forces back to the homeland to prosecute the war for either side? Or would it lead to petty warlordism both in and outside of the US?

Obviously I don't want the people of the US to suffer in a horrific civil war like has happened to so many countries the US has meddled in, and a destabilized US is probably more visibly dangerous than one that suffers a slow relative decline into multipolarity.

If you like role-playing games but not so much the combat maybe check out Age of Decadence and Colony Ship by Iron Tower. The combat in those games is intentionally brutal to incentivise thinking ways around it if you can, and I'm pretty sure you can make it through the whole game avoiding combat entirely.

Age of Decadence especially is complete and has many branching paths depending on your build, and Colony Ship is still early access but planning on releasing fully later this year.

The settings are pretty awesome for both, with AoD set in a post apocalyptic land with tech analogous to the late Roman Empire, and Colony Ship being set sometime during a centuries long generation ship voyage.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that was Australian when I watched that a while ago. Good doco

Star Trek is great, even when the socialist aspect isn't openly mentioned I feel it can push a lot of people further left just from watching it enough. Awesome that they are open to characters stating it, although as good as it is it would only be because the producers think it's financially viable, not for any subversive reasons. Still, if their greed makes them willing to get more people to look into what socialism actually means than that makes the show even better.

Hey comrades, ML from Australia here, although big appreciation for MLM too. I saw the link to Lemmygrad back when GenZedong was quarantined, checked it out, and then forgot about it. I found this again checking out what was blocked on other instances, so thanks libs I guess? Looking forward to my local feed being actually good, and I will hopefully end up posting more than on Reddit.