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  • I must at least add another comment because i didn't know that you were an admin. In fact i didn't even realized that i was talking to @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml, thinking that the last two answers were from @Perplexed@lemmy.ml.I think it was worth adding a comment, if only to say that.


    I've no reason to be an ass-licker since i've already been unbanned(, and have nothing to gain from improving relations since i won't use this account), so it's without ulterior motives that i say i respect you for the volunteer/unpaid work you're doing for lemmygrad, and also for these books you flatter yourself to have read, it's easy to respect others for what ‘they know’/’i ignore’.

    Don’t you think that some users above, and even more the responsible for the ban, were wrong to act as they did ? I don’t think you do, nor that you ever apologized for a ban you emitted, at least that's how i view mods on lemmy and reddit.Cfgaussian was saying that i’m not accused of ableism but of using ableist language, isn’t that stupid(, the s-word is allowed right) ? I was discussing the r-word, so i obviously had to use the r-word, otherwise how could i make it understood that i was talking about it ? Or there’s perhaps another reason justifying my ban that i miss or was kept from me.There’s either a good reason for banning me or a due apology, and i bet that you won’t be able to find a reason.


    I don't think it played in the decision, but this account was permabanned for allegedly being a zionist since i was/'am still' looking for a solution that would be accepted by all sides : https://telegra.ph/Examples-of-solutions-to-the-conflict-Palestine-Israel-02-27I unfortunately had more than one occasion to think again about Palestine-Israel these last weeks, since Israel is bent on keeping to themselves the whole holy lands, destroy al-Asqa, … The problem with 'not being loved'/'might makes right'/'not caring about others' is initially for the weak, then for the strong when it becomes weaker that its neighbours, and in the meantime it also can’t create a beautiful idea(l)/future/world.

    I’m only zionist in the sense that i can understand why they want a jewish nation with their own ideals/culture/rules, knowing that they won’t be persecuted for their religion/’rejection of christianism and islam’ again( as long as they can defend their new borders). Whether their country ends up being in the u.s., in a desert, under the sea, or on Mars, i don’t care as long as they’re accepted by their neighbours, and aren’t commiting all these despicable acts(, the list is too long, torture of prisoners, starvation, rapes, ‘bad faith’/lying arguments/propaganda/behaviour, preventing ambulances from intervening, and all kind of (daily )oppressions, all for the intention of keeping the whole holy lands to themselves).

    If i’m told that the jews should never have a country under any circumstance, since no minority is ever entitled to having a land, i’d answer that it’d be nice if that minority could, provided that it is large enough and persecuted, and as long as there’s no other place on earth where that minority has its place. The Earth is large enough.I love Türkiye for many reasons(, and the Muslim Brotherhood for even more reasons), and i can’t help but hope that the kurdish culture will continue to survive, we’re not diverse enough i.m.o. We’re americanized in France/Europe/’the west’/’different places of the world’, and destroyed our regional identities in France, because our differences may cause separatism(, i’m convinced that this is a problem of institutions, that such diversity doesn’t necessarily imply a weaker unity, even for a confederation of city-states, e.g. with a common army and only a handful of common laws etc.)There's no point in explaining why unity/harmony is obviously more desirable than hate/wars/sanctions/.., nor why it’s diversity that makes our wealth(, which is as tautological as saying that a world without colors would be grey)


    Not that my opinion changed(, and while i did learn many things), it’s nice that reading books was the condition to revert my permaban.It’s worth underlining that if Lemmygrad was from the far-right, then i’d be banned due to an excessive disgust of the mods for the minorities(, seems like a big part of their criticism of the woke ideology) ; while, since it’s from the far-left, i’m banned due an excessive support of the mods for the minorities(, excessive in the sense that it sees opponents{ableists here} everywhere)I made sousmerde_rtrdataire because soumerd_r*tardataire had the (french )word r*tard(, which is filtered by hexbear and prevented me from posting there), ironicPamphlets loves using that word, and when it retweeted this from Visegrad(, without adding any comment ^^), it made me chuckleSince the freedom to be able to insult others is not the kind of freedom i care about, i’ve got nothing against banning the r-word, or even against banning all insults and vulgar words(, it’d make you a common point with the religious people, so that’s a plus i guess), at least an overall taboo would seem more logical than picking one word while continuing to use commonly all the rest. I never claimed once the right to say the r-word though, i was just asking questions(, which were out-of-topic from the original post,) to understand what seems a bit idiotic/dumb/ret*rded.And if i 'angered you'/’am flirting with a permaban' by ending my last sentence like this, then don’t take it personally, i’m just underlining what seems incoherent by putting these words side by side with others still commonly used, since it seems arbitrary, i didn’t get it and asked about that, and i still don’t completely get the hysteria/overreaction/ban. More generally, one only progresses through contradiction.

    With the help of LLMs, i understood that the r-word kinda replaced all the previous ones in 1961 by the organization Arc of the United States, it was already considered more empathetic than the previous terms(, « they’re just delayed/’have some more r*tard than others »), and it took 20 years to be more official(, in the DSM-III in 1980). The r-word was then progressively replaced in the 90s by ‘’mental disability’’, again taking 20 years to be more officially accepted(, the Rosa’s law, after the relatively recent 2009 campaign Spread the Word to End the Word, which some americans on Lemmy may have participated in, a period that may have influenced 4Chan extensive use of this word).Then i suppose that my question « why this word out of all the others ? » would be answered by history, and not logic ? Perhaps that if this particular insult is intolerable, while 'the others'/dumb/idiotic/moronic/stupid/.. are still commonly used, it’s because it illustrates a conflict between two schools of thoughts : using the old r-word means belonging to an ‘’essentialist’’ side that put the blame on the biology of the mentally disabled, while i’ve learned since that the word ‘’disable’’ apparently shift the blame on society(, e.g. a person in a wheelchair is only disabled by h·er·is legs in front of a building if this building only has stairs). In english apparently, there’s a distinction between the word ''impaired'' accusing the body, and ''disabled'' accusing society, at least in theory because i’m not sure that everyone makes this distinction.

    Even if these attempts at historical&philosophical explanations weren’t lacking so much, i’d still not understand what made my ban justified though. And i.d.k. if you were the one to ban me initially, but i didn’t saw that answer(, which said before the account deletion ''of course not, you’re awful and shouldn't be allowed on leftist spaces), since i was replying to this comment, if i'd been quicker then i could have cleared the misunderstanding, if there was one. Since the intensive reaction felt excessive i challenged what appeared to be mistakes instead of keeping my thoughts to myself.More generally, Lemmy imported the same moderation as Reddit, you just get instabanned by a power mod, no question asked, no strike, no possibility of correcting the problematic comment, just g.t.f.o.I was already opposed to that awful system a long time ago, and Lemmy(grad) didn’t improve or worsen my opinion that almost nothing is to be kept from it. There’s not a single community on Reddit or Lemmy where moderators warn the user before a ban, offering the possibility to correct the problem, and it’s probably because it’d take too much time. State censorship on our internet is coming at a scary speed and i feel that all is lost, so truly Lemmygrad’s censorship matters not in my eyes(, i.e., whether it changes or not won’t influence what’s coming).

    Thanks for having read that long comment, and for the free time you 'are giving'/gave to Lemmygrad, perhaps will we see each other again on Lemmy these next years !

  • Do doctors still call them ret*rd ? And if they now call them mentally challenged, then am i allowed to use mentally challenged as a slur against someone else ?

  • Now you're juste ragebaiting me(, if not from the start) 🙄

    Why does every discussion i have online ends up in a clash, even on Lemmygrad ?

  • Yeah, ok, we're different from the right because we're differing on some goals AND on some means.Furthermore, the far-right is just mistaken, everyone makes mistakes, obviously, it's not a genetic problem.

    But i find it funny when he says that they're innately ret*rded, 🤷

    W/e, i won't take more of your time

  • Do they really care though if i use the word stupid instead of ret*arded ?Is r*tard some kind of official name to designate them unlike stupid, like jew, dwarf, or n*gger, hence why it shouldn't be used in the context of an insult ?

    Well, w/e, ok then, it's not as if i had any problem with the "mentally challenged" minority.

  • it would be carrying water for the ideology of that slur

    That the far-right is mentally ret*rded

  • As i said in another comment, he most likely doesn't really believe that people are born to be far-right, it's more of an insult saying that they were born with some innate cerebral deficiency, and that otherwise they couldn't possibly develop such p.o.v.If i'm not mistaken he's often shitposting, it's an insult, that's all, not that deep, nor someone calling covertly for eugenics.

    Anyway, if you don't suddenly hate him now, then ok, i probably overreacted and should have ignored that post.

  • If people don't denigrate him, but criticize him in a friendly manner then i have no problem. It's just the all too common "character assassination" i have a problem with(, especially for such little things, and even more among leftists).If it's just an occasion to discuss about the influence of genetics on behavior then i have zero problem with this, i just hope that people here won't suddenly hate yugopnik just for that, which is probably unlikely to happen, so i shouldn't have concerned myself with it.

    I suppose that i just didn't want to resist posting that quote from C.Johnstone.

    That quote was what i was alluding to(, while remembering one time when many people on Lemmy falsely accused Nutomic himself of being transphobic, with people exciting themselves over nothing and calling for his resignation, so stupid, the same thing happened for Linus Torvalds because he wrote a harsh email to someone working for him, let's just focus our anger on more productive things than bringing down people on our side) :

    To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one's own inclination. This is a second type.

    1. You believe it's useless ? Perhaps because you don't see them immediately do a U-turn, "converting" to our side indecisive people would be useful as well. Criticizing the opposite side(, or denigrating people from our side for small sentences,) obviously seem less productive than debating them(, if one has the time for that).
    2. Don't take it so seriously man, he most likely doesn't really believe that people are born to be far-right, it's more of an insult saying that they were born with some innate cerebral deficiency, and that otherwise they couldn't possibly develop such p.o.v.And while i still believe that nurture is more influential than nature, i've also discovered that true twins were sometimes separated at birth, raised in two different families, and ended up despite that with remarkable similarities, forcing me to conclude that there may have been more to genetics that i initially presupposed. I know that political affiliation isn't determined by genes, and yugopnik as well.

    In any case, don't hate yugopnik for that while ignoring all the things he's done previously. He's on our side, remember ? Perhaps that not losing should be more of a priority that some "leftist purity".

    Well, that's only my opinion, feel free to disagree 🤷

  • People here should debate rightists instead of criticizing fellow leftists.

    And more generally, as Viki1999 liked to point out, i'd personally go even further and ask for left unity in these difficult times :

  • Inventing Reality @lemmy.ml

    Now that Australia, the E.U., the U.K., and even Malaysia, are prohibiting social medias for teens under 16y.o., this 2005 comic seem as actual as ever

  • "Ineligible for recommendation". Turns out that freedom of speech was when TikTok was Chinese.

    To be entirely honest, i don't know what our "values" are anymore.


    That's the normal thought now, and not "At least compared to our declared current enemies, you're allowed to criticize our government without consequences" :

    In a speech of 355 b.c., Demosthenes rightly remarks that the most important difference between the political systems of Athens and Sparta is that at Athens it is permitted to praise that of Sparta and denigrate one’s own, whereas at Sparta no one may praise any system other than the Spartan. (Dem.20,§106)

    That's the basis of freedom, and once we lose that, what are we left with ?A bourgeois "democracy" where medias are owned by the capitalists and citizens-owned medias are increasingly threatened of disinformation ? When you're choosing the least bad and are surrendering your power to elected people that often decide in private, and almost never once through referendums.A rule of law with many lawfare cases proving a lack of independence from the government ? Where money can buy good lawyers, and blue-collar crimes are treated way harsher for the same sum of money stolen than white-collar crimes ? And the latter is even legalized under fiscal "optimization", and laws promoted by their lobbying.

    Without painting other countries as even worse, what values are we left with ?I literally have hundreds of such examples : https://x.com/i/status/2012799140061659566That is even more shocking than censorship : https://x.com/i/status/2014796564624253394And many dozens of journalists because they were supporting Russia https://x.com/i/status/2014655503616405681And our "leaders" don't seem to realize that critizing ourselves is the basis of our system(, and that unlike countries victims of our attacks we don't even have such excuses) : https://x.com/i/status/2012724357072892409The e.u., u.k., and Australia, are multiplying laws restricting what they're deeming illegal speech. They already proved their intent with covid, and are even acknowledging that it'd be a dictatorship if they directly regulated social media posts(, but since it'll be indirectly through proxy organizations such as EUvsDisinfo instead of WarOnFakes, then it's all right 🙄).

  • There was him and Noam Chomsky, i don't see anyone replacing them.« The free market mythology argues that the most ruthless, selfish, opportunistic, greedy, calculating plunderers, applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interests and wealth accumulation, will produce the best results for all of us »

  • Comics @lemmy.ml

    I made a short thread on the Open Borders comic-book(, cf. selftext). Here's one of the most surprising discovery

  • Additions from other posts&comments :

    If i understood correctly, mexicans would need to work 3-4 times more in order to buy the same thing :

    So much "justice".


    Has anyone here ever looked at what a normal oil contract looks like ? That is just plain robbery and it's considered normal. Once an oil company reimbursed its expenses(, cost oil), it won't ever gift the equipment/.. to the state but keep it to themselves, nor will they stop there because they need to make a profit, but even once they've had a 20% ROI it's still not enough, it's never enough, so they won't say that the remaining profit afterwards will be 100% for the state and its population but, e.g., 60-40 for the state, or at best 80-20, and they'll also lie on the real price of the cost oil, and prevent countries to do 100% of the initial investments/risks in order to gain 100% of the profits, and it's not just about oil.


    You probably already know that Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran was overthrown by the west two years after nationalizing Iran's oil in 1958, but did you know that the same thing happened a decade earlier for Rómulo Gallegos, 9 months after implementing a 50-50 share of Venezuela's oil in 1948 ?He wasn't replaced by a western-backed bloodthirsty king, but by one of our many western-backed bloodthirsty dictator, Pérez Jiménez, who received the Legion of Merit in 1954 for its anti-communist activities.Guatemala also had a similar experience when it nationalized territories from the United Fruit Company(, 1954), or when S.Allende nationalized copper in 1971, or Syria in 1949, Congo in 1960, ... Because their ressources are ours.They should increase the prices of the raw materials as OPEC did in 1973, unite together, and nationalize their ressources. They'll be sanctioned/overthrown/attacked/invaded/..


    In regard to the apparent faster growth of the US, Gabriel Zucman says that the US's national income per adult has not grown faster than Europe since 2010, even if its GDP per capita has :

    The GDP is the total (market )value of all goods&services produced in a country, while the national income(GNI) is the total (market )value of all goods&services produced by a country.The GDP of India will then include goods&services produced by, e.g., Coca-Cola in India, but won't do so in the GNI(, apart from wages/taxes/..).Conversely, the GDP of India won't include what indian companies produce when operating in foreign countries, but the profits repatriated to India will be added to the GNI.The United States apparently has a large negative net international investment position(, roughly –$27 trillion), while Europe still records a positive balance

    From Our world in data again :

    (ouch)

  • Less success on reddit obviously, i suppose that i painted him as more of an extremist than he is https://www.reddit.com/r/fantanoforever/s/GLDuidzb6F (https://redlib.nohost.network/r/fantanoforever/comments/1qid5vw/comment/o0rdw8f/)

    Even worse on lemmy.world : https://lemmy.world/post/41914630

    Some more selections :- His most violent song, directed at his landlord when he increased the rent for the 9th year in a row https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/letter-to-my-landlord ;- « Who gave you the right to be a landlord, to live a life of ease while others toil ? » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/landlord-2 ;- « The average annual income of the richest 1% is about $700.000. The average annual income of the poorest 1% is a couple Food Stamps and a pile of sand. Smack-dab in the middle, $350.000, but that’s actually the top 4% » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/welcome-to-the-working-class ;- When i'm elected president : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/when-im-elected-president ;- The battle of Blair Mountain https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/battle-of-blair-mountain ;- Gather round https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/gather-round ;-The commons https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/the-commons ;- « Here’s to love and solidarity » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/behind-the-barricades-2 ;- I'm a better anarchist than you : « https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/im-a-better-anarchist-than-you-2 » ;- Pirates! https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/black-flag-flying-3 ;- On Joe Hill : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/joe-hill-2 ;- On John Brown : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/john-brown-2 ;- On many more people : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/say-their-names ;- (Not what would Jesus do, but )Who would Jesus bomb ? https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/who-would-jesus-bomb ;- « If I wrote a love letter to each corpse as it is carried, I’d never still my pen » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/song-for-basra ;- After the revolution : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/after-the-revolution ;- We could make the planet earth great again : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/make-the-planet-earth-great-again ;- Among others.

  • Thanks lemmygrad, that's also what i think.

    As far as i'm personally concerned, and i'm ok with people here disagreeing, i'm now less interested in a worldwide socialist revolution and would content myself with a multipolar world in eternal peace, if we(sterners) ever settle for this possibility.

  • Thanks, i didn't necessarily expected some people here to have known him before, even if out of his thousand songs in 30 years, some of them had hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.There were live performances, i suggested on substack to make a copy of his account on, e.g., Peertube, but obviously it won't be the same, that's a huge hit.

  • Thanks, i should have edited the post sooner. Each person has its own favorite themes so i didn't know what kind of best-of to make.What's freedom of speech if we're only allowed to say things authorities agree with ?

    And if you/someone is interested in militant songs, there are other artists here : https://open.substack.com/pub/protestmusic

  • music @hexbear.net

    Fucking fascists at YouTube deleted the channel of the best anti-imperialist singer i know, who produced dozens of albums since the 90s !

    substack.com /@davidrovics/note/c-202528704
  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml

    Fucking fascists at YouTube deleted the channel of the best anti-imperialist singer i know, who produced dozens of albums since the 90s !

    substack.com /@davidrovics/note/c-202528704
  • Catholicism @lemmy.ml

    Today's verse felt worth sharing. Truly intemporal.

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml

    Of course they do. The ceasefire stated that Israel ought to withdraw from Gaza.

  • World News @lemmy.ml

    Bulgarian president Rumen Radev resigns

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/bulgarias-president-radev-resigns-2026-01-19
  • World News @lemmy.ml

    One more argument in favor of legalizing citizen-initiated recall elections

  • They are more likely to install a friendly government in Kiev

    How though ?You're excluding a russian occupation of Ukraine, so have you something else in mind to make it happen ?

    I know that i didn't went far enough when searching for something that would please both sides in my first comment(, and even less in the subsequent ones), but if it's not through strength then it'll be through mutual concessions, i think.

    And as said/implied earlier, using strength won't make ukrainians like Russia, while mutual concessions may inverse their western shift.

    Anyway, i don't know the perfect solution to each conflict, but what should distinguish us from the past is to avoid situations such as "the winner takes all", in the case of Israel there should be a two-states solution eventually leading to a single state with a brotherly unity between israeli jews and arabic muslims, in the case of Venezuela they should have a control of their oil, and if they choose to accept foreign companies then it shouldn't be the current decades-long robbery but stops e.g. at a 20% ROI, we should allow socialist/islamic/.. states and other differences, and in every case we should treat others as we would like to be treated, which is obviously a laughable notion in international politics where strength(&'narrative management') rules supreme, a conclusion which leads to the necessity of establishing solutions such as an international army and tribunal, for example.Or we could just continue to fight between each other so that we're on the good side of an unfair situation that only one side agrees to.I don't know if it's true, but Russia often said that Ukraine can choose any side it wants as long as it doesn't endanger Russia, closing a path to n.a.t.o. but leaving them to choose the e.u.. Seems reasonable if they stay demilitarized, but it'd mean joining the e.u. over keeping their south-eastern territories, which shouldn't be considered worth it i.m.o.

    avoidance


    Just feel like editing because i expressed myself poorly( again) :- If you're right and Russia doesn't need to make any concessions in order to achieve its stated objectives, then it'll be to Ukraine's detriment ;- If i'm right to suppose that neither of them can do as they want and ought to both made concessions, then perhaps that the result could be seen as a win-win situation instead of a lose-lose one(, e.g. a frozen conflict costing them a lot each year) ;- if we're both over-optimistic and Ukraine can impose its will on a defeated Russia, then we(sterners) won't hesitate and suddenly develop good sentiments, we'll be brutal and love it.

    I've reread myself and keep having the feeling that i made one/multiple stupid mistake.s, despite not seeing it. Perhaps because Russia has a plan, obvious enough for attentive observers, or because i claimed a moral high ground despite lazy efforts at finding it, or because it's too late after so many horrors, for the naivety of the attempts, and/or some other mistakes.From the beginning my thinking has been that both Ukraine and Russia would gain from reuniting together, joining the e.u. shouldn't be worth such consequences(, and such consequences come from what joining an anti-russian west would entail for the russian federation, as well as for pro-Russia parts of Ukraine).It's not about becoming subservient to Russia(, as if Ukraine wouldn't become subservient to the e.u.), but about working together for a common goal, and even if it doesn't appear to be an ideological battle, there's a new center of the world to be created in the East.Building new things(, that even the u.s.a. would disapprove of !,) could be more exciting that joining the west, it's not over thanks to the People's Republic of China, one last hope to protect/'bet on' ?


    If there's the accusation that i'm working against my side(, and for the nationalists against France), because i should desire that the e.u. gains Ukraine/territory, i answer that it should aim to gain/join Russia if it wants to stop being the smallest "continent", switching from being the West to become the North, with russian conditions in exchange for allowing european westerners migration to eastern Russia, that'd include a total change of mind in regard to the p.r.c., to our neocolonialist practices, sanctions, and overall policing of the world, there are hundreds of conditions, in exchange for the united states of EuroRussia.The u.s. may give up its hegemonic drive if the security of all would be ensured, there has to be conditions that would make them/us accept a durable world peace.There's no path to either of these things is what i'm saying.

  • When either the Kiev regime or the Ukrainian armed forces collapse the Russians can occupy as much of Ukraine as they want.

    How will that happen, an invasion of the whole territory seem possible to you ?It seems to me that Ukraine cannot progress further, and Russia either can't or refuses to in regard to the costs(, not that it's bidding its time).I think it'll end up with a negotiation as said previously(, i.e. Ukraine in the e.u., but demilitarized and not in the n.a.t.o., with the risks it entails), i'm curious to know if you'd attempt a more precise prediction for this year.

    That would signal to the population of those regions, who are now officially Russian citizens, that Russia is not serious about protecting them, that Russia lied about viewing them as an integral part of the Russian nation, and instead sees them as a bargaining chip that can be given away as a "concession".

    I don't agree, these populations rejected a certain kind of Ukraine, so may like to be given another choice in regard to another kind of Ukraine, and as stated it would weight in the negotiations without costing much, among other advantages.But w/e, i get your point, no need to discuss it further i think.

  • i am not angry

    Oh ! Great then, thanks for saying that :) !I must have misunderstood

    No, i see no indication of that. (...) I think the current regime in Kiev is never going to accept those demands.

    I partially agree with you, Ukraine wasn't aiming for a negotiated settlement in 2022 with its unreasonable demands that can only be asked of a defeated country, and they didn't care about multiplying the proposals or intensifying the negotiations.It's just much less excessive nowadays, e.g. the 4th and 13th point aren't uninteresting, but it's still far from there, so Russia won't accept.

    Why would the result be any different than in 2022 ?

    Because they were opposed to an anti-russian shift, so could eventually want to reconcile with a pro-russian Ukraine, whether by nostalgia or more pragmatically to influence it from the inside.

    I'm trying to see what would make Ukraine desire to give up its western shift, hence why i necessarily have to be looking for russian concessions.It'd be easier(, but even more futile,) to just say that "there's nothing to be done, let's just wait until Russia invade the rest of Ukraine", but i wanted to see if i/we could find what a negotiated resolution accepted by both sides would entail.Promising such referendums could weight in the balance towards obtaining a ukrainian agreement, such promise could also be useful to maintain their desire of being pro-russian, since they'd want to become attractive again to their old territories. Russia, being the largest country on Earth, may agree to such potential loss if it's worth it to them.

    Apart from the referendums, a second thing that could weight in their decision to shift their allegiance would be money, but the e.u. promised them the same economic boom as Poland, a promise hard to compete against.If they ever manage to outclass such economic promise though(, which remains doubtful), then i think that Ukraine's shift may be assured.

    Realistically, they'll lose their territories and be demilitarized, not allowed in the n.a.t.o. But they may be in the e.u., and may conspire to wage another war while breaking their demilitarization promise(, just like they never intended to respect the Minsk agreements in the first place), i suppose that we'll see.Russia may invade the rest of Ukraine, i.d.k. why they haven't yet, retreating from Kiev at the end of March and mostly defending their line afterwards instead of attacking.

    It's just my opinion, and w/e, it's not that easy to find a win-win situation :/

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    The EU is about to sanction Iran even more than it already is. They have yet to sanction Israel, of course.

    www.politico.eu /article/iran-protest-crackdown-deaths-eu-kaja-kallas-prepares-tougher-sanctions
  • Venezuela @lemmy.ml

    The US admits they're just liars, by admitting that the Cartel de los Soles does not exist

  • Venezuela @lemmy.ml

    2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the torture to death of Delcy Rodriguez's father(, other informations in the selftext)

    www.craigmurray.org.uk /archives/2026/01/venezuela-and-truth
  • christianity @hexbear.net

    Pope Leo XIV surprisingly call to respect Venezuela's sovereignty

  • Venezuela @lemmy.ml

    Other songs on Venezuela in the selftext

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    Even if he killed him it wouldn't be the end. Venezuela's revolution doesn't depend on one man.

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml

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  • Palestine @lemmygrad.ml

    New document released by Hamas — Our Narrative… Al-Aqsa Flood : Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation (42 pages)

    palinfo.com /wp-content/uploads/2025/12/OurNarrative.pdf
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml

    New document released by Hamas — Our Narrative… Al-Aqsa Flood : Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation (42 pages)

    palinfo.com /wp-content/uploads/2025/12/OurNarrative.pdf
  • Death to NATO @lemmygrad.ml

    A 2008 discussion, from an archive released two days ago

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml

    TIL that anti-communism was among the main arguments used by the US to accept birth control(, and impose it around the world)

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Could someone help me debunk Ha-Joon Chang in Kicking Away the Ladder (2002) ?