zenitsu
Do you struggle with reading comprehension?
Yes, the distance to Moscow matters.
My point was the difference in distance between Ukraine and Latvia (~150-200km). No it doesn't matter and you won't find any respected analyst who would argue otherwise.
Oh really? Were you not born yet when the US invaded Afghanistan & Iraq?
What territory was annexed? Were those just for imperialist conquest? Do you really think the reasoning behind all those conflicts are equal to Russia's poor excuses for bullying neighbors? Do you have any more non-analogous examples that don't force you to go back 20+ years? Because Russia has many more recent and current examples of actual imperial conquest.
That wasn't responsive to anything I said. You think the difference in range between Latvia to Moscow and Ukraine to Moscow is actually a factor? That range? In the 21st Century? Against the whole of NATO? Keep stretching.
only bad when Russia does it?
You're the only one here carrying water for invaders mate. I don't see the US invading and annexing territories.
Baltics have been in this alliance since 2004. What danger did that prove to pose to Russia?
Ukraine and all other post-Soviet countries rushed into NATO after being invaded, pillaged, and raped repeatedly by Russians for decades or centuries. You think this is comparable to Mexico/US? Russian aggression is a top reason for NATO's growth, e.g. now thanks to the genius "special military operation", Sweden and Finland joined and the border Russia shares with NATO doubled.
Get a clue vatnik
administration wanted to do more about inflation but was held back by Republicans in Congress.
Ah yes, because voters clearly cared when it was pointed out that republicans blocked the border bill just to avoid giving Biden that win, on the orders of Trump.
She could've also pointed a finger at the rich
Yes, voters were also clearly concerned about "eating the rich" when they voted for billionaires who are backed by the richest man on earth. Truly a guaranteed winning strategy. Genius, that's really a grounded take from someone who actually see's how "things actually are" rather than "ought to be".
Ok, well some of us actually do have ideas on how to win
Your "ideas" are shit, nobody cares. You're clearly incapable of identifying what's wrong in the first place so what chance do you have of coming up with any workable solutions that aren't just schizo tankie delusions lmao.
So, like, maybe we should toss out your ideas at least for a while and give mine a try
Who's "we"? Quit larping like a schizo, you're not the opposition rebellion leader lmao. Nobody's implemeting any of your tankie dogshit.
Most conversations are about the how and why of a subject. Most of the work towards figuring out proper solutions is accurately identifying what's wrong in the first place, which you won't be able to do by larping as a revolutionary in your basement when you can't even figure out what to do when it comes to Ukraine. Nobody is waiting for your delusional dogshit "solutions". Newsflash, "just eat the rich" as advice for Kamala when brainlet voters preferred a claque of billionaires is some of the most retarded shit I've heard. Get a clue.
You can point out an issue without pretending to have a solution. Do you read the retarded shit you type?
Of course, the US government has a stronger propaganda platform in the US than Russia has in the US.
There's nothing "of course" about this statement. All evidence points to Russia having a better handle on the US population's opinion than the US.
So, as I've asked several times now, what is your solution to this situation?
I'm not here to generate solutions, no idea why you keep asking for one. The US has a unique issue with propaganda because of the first amendment, there's no easy solution other than people smartening up and social media companies taking more responsibility for their content via fact checkers etc.
An example of her... not doing that? I already did, when she was asked in an interview what she would do differently
An example of how she could've distinguished herself successfully...
Again, what's you're plan to account for people being dumbasses? If people are dumbasses, and you want politicians to keep running campaigns as if they weren't, then the inevitable result of what you want is that you lose.
I'm not trying to present a plan. I'm trying to explain the sources of disinformation and how people were manipulated by them. The media environment needs to be fixed, but people have already been successfully manipulated into distrusting traditional media and trusting Russian bot farm accounts on Twitter instead. How to fix this environment now? God knows
I really feel like you're underestimating the challenge of communicating ideas to a broad population.
I feel like I'm highlighting that, if anything.
but that doesn’t resolve the question of how you get the message out on a large scale and convince people of it
Should be easy, given that the US has a much stronger propaganda platform than Russia no? /s
It's almost as if despite this being shown across all media, a massive amount of voters were still manipulated by foreign & right-wing propaganda into ignoring/dismissing it.