I hope Iran gets its nukes and gives the world a great service by using them.

despite how much I despise Israel, this would be suicidal and would drag the whole world into war

WW3 speedrun any%

thank you :)

Has life in Brazil improved since he left?

It has, but not by much. Unemployment is lower, minimum wage has been raising above inflation. Worth to mention that several campaing promises went unfullfilled, unsurprisingly. Next year’s election has a fair chance of being won by the far right again, with a little help from Trump and his big tech cronies. Hard times ahead…

You can go to communism Island if you want

Despite all the propaganda, there is no place right now on the face of our planet that is under communism.

bit [sic] I’d rather have capitalism, thank you

Well, aren’t you fortunate, you already have all the capitalism you want, anywhere you go. Choke on it.

there are plenty of Muslims in the surrounding states that believe Jewish people are evil

plenty of non-Muslims too

I’m not american, but if I could change one US president from the past, it would be Reagan. A good part of the fuckery we see today (i.e. rampant neo-liberal late-stage capitalism) was enabled by him

Usually by the citizens.

I wish we could…

A state that sees it’s citizens as a threat is broken by design

there are very few places in the world where this doesn’t apply

and needs to be changed fixed

by whom?

I quite enjoy this blog: The Luddite, an anticapitalist blog by a guy/gal who does IT. Owner doesn’t post frequently but it’s always a good read whenever a new text is up

Nobody who survives those societies into middle age cares enough to help one another or even organize for their own betterment.

Many are just too exhausted to do anything while slaving away, just trying to get by. Any effort to organize is sabotaged by those in positions of power. The system actively works against us…

I had no idea. Thanks for sharing

The use of an euphemism doesn’t really change what happened. The previous regime fell and a new one was installed in its place.

“what we have seen from China is the single biggest increase in military capability and build up in conventional sense, by any country since the end of the Second World War”

WTF? The USA alone outspends most of the world combined in this area but somehow China is the threat? This guy should at least remove the american balls he’s gargling before spouting something like that

applicants are first and foremost deciding if it works

not that I agree with OP but this is the same fallacy of “voting with your wallet”, this kind of boycott simply doesn’t work long term, applicants eventually find themselves out of options and increasingly desperate as time goes by

Well duh. You can apply for asylum without a passport. Now try to bridge the ~8k miles from Russia to Ecuador without one, while trying to avoid being deported to the USA, and see how far you’ll get. Best case, you’d be stuck for years in some embassy like happened to Julian Assange.

But there are many diplomatic avenues to get from one sympathetic country to another for a legitimate asylum claim.

So you say, without providing any proof such avenues exist.

I’m not sure what your point is.

You worded your post like this:

Putin captured him to use as a pawn against the US

This text implies that Snowden was actively captured. Of course he’s not there because he choose to, or so I believe. But the fact is that he got stranded there, his own country put him in that situation.

I’m sure it has been explained to him that it would be dangerous for him to leave Russia’s “protection”

And this is actually true. If Snowden lands on any country that extradites to the USA, there’s where he would be in a heartbeat, to rot forever in some jail, forgotten.

They all know that they could be the next Ukraine

Ukraine as a country didn’t even exist at the time the URSS was formed. Its current territory was literally split between Russia and Poland.

All of those actions listed from 1938 to 1945 were offensive in nature

I concede that I was wrong about Poland and Finland. But you’re wrong in the timeline between 1941 and 1945. After Hitlet tried to invade the USSR, they paid a heavy price in human lives and became the nazi’s worst enemies because of that.

Great whataboutism with the US though!

Vietnam was a proxy war. Yes, they were very involved in the war. But the one that got rebuked was the USA, they even got boots on the ground and lost anyway.

And I reiterate my point: Russia != USSR. Your “continential imperialism” is bullshit.

Look at this serious and credible threat! Wow, I guess Xi Jiping is quaking in his boots right now