The Pentagon can’t run out of money. At least not in the current world. They can just print more which is what they’ve been doing since the end of the gold standard (actually before that even). The reserve currency status of the US dollar is fundamentally tied to their ability to project their military power globally and as long as that is feasible they will continue to print money. If the Pentagon runs out of money the US is toast and the world order will be in total turmoil. It might be coming into view on the distant horizon but we’re nowhere near that yet as the situation in Iran clearly demonstrates. They will do that to everyone before they give up their privilege.

There is no point in having this conversation with you. Are you also on their payroll or are you just wilfully ignorant? This place is textbook controlled opposition.

I’m about as far from nationalist as you can get unlike Putin and Trump. You guys have one insult and you use it for everything lol

So you don’t know what their relation is to the post we are discussing?

We all know the other parties are only allowed exist as long as they don’t threaten daddy Putin. Don’t be so gullible

Of course… I totally forgot about all the other parties that have been in power since the fall of the USSR. My bad

Do you know what dark MAGA is?

Your reading comprehension needs work. I never said that. I said I can see why you might find that problematic. It has nothing to do with my opinion.

Don’t see it. What part of this aligns with me thinking RT is exceptionally bad? The only opinion I put forward is that mass media is equally bad from all sources. IMO it is literally the only reason mass media exists in the first place.

Good thing I never made that argument. I don’t agree with the ban at all.

That’s coherent and very possibly true but from where I am sitting Communism is just as far off as the end of the global order of statehoods.

Why do we need a state?

If communists don’t love authority then why promote a political system centred around it. There are literally thousands of different flavours but you chose this one.

You literally said they aren’t doing disinformation and then said the other side are. This is just whataboutsim. All sides are engaged in disinformation. What anyone else does has no bearing on what RT do. It’s exactly what I described.

This dualism you are promoting where there is a good side and a bad side, an honest actor and a dishonest actor etc is text book Hollywood propaganda. You’re so trapped in the western overton window you can’t even see it.

I don’t know why. There are many thoughts I have. The mainly revolve around controlled opposition, muddying the waters and disenfranchising the left.

I think we should ban everyone or no one. Seeing as banning everyone will never happen we should ban no one. You’re just making up strawmen to attack me with. It’s a bit ridiculous and says a lot about you and nothing about me.

Exactly why I said there can be no healthy mass media environment. It’s bullshit from everyone from all angles all the way down.

Putin is a fascist . It has nothing to do with Ukraine. I thought this 20 years ago too because he is a textbook fascist i.e. there is no separation of private/corporate enterprise and the state, he’s an authoritarian nationalist who installed a single‑party state, he brutally suppresses dissent and is overtly militaristic. He might pine for Soviet times but in reality he is just in it for himself. Another pathetic ego maniac of which we have many all over the world these days.

That’s fair but if a specific source is a regular source of disinformation then you can understand blanket bans on said source. I do agree with your take on liberal free speech. Same as the free market. It’s only free when it’s benefitting the political in-tribe.