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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The author is unhinged lol.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

This is typical western media. It is all like this.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine unironically believing in George W. Bush's Axis of Evil 20 years later.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

There's an Axis of Evil, all right- AmeriKKKa (the empire of genocide and eternal war), the rest of the (all avidly genocidal) 5 Eyes, the EU/NATO white supremacist stooges, and Pissrael.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ukraine was always going to get destroyed under Biden. By the time he was elected there was no possible off ramp, and the ultra nationalists just would not stop shelling the separatist republics.

Trying to sanction the entire Russian economy in 2022 , thereby undoing the Sino-Soviet split . putting Russia, China and Iran into an alliance based on shared grievances , and creating a new center of power and finance in the world for the first time since 1991? That was entirely an own goal on the part of the west.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Biden presidency has inadvertently freed the world from the hegemony.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

He should run on that haha

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

has emboldened the axis of evil in its quest to destroy the free world

Quite the opposite, it is the free world led by Russia and China that is destroying the Anglo-European axis of evil, to great delight from the global majority.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Remember: always projection

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Javier Milei, Argentina’s superb president, has quit China’s orbit, dealing a blow to Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative. Russia is in terminal decline, and has suffered a stupendous economic and human hit from its despicable invasion of Ukraine.

Ye gods, each sentence is worse than the previous. It's a constant cascade of stupid.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

that was hands down the most hilarious bit of the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

And I went from being genuinely concerned that it may drag down BRICS to glad it didn't join. The author is in an alternate universe.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

While having a point, what an incredibly condescending tone the article has.

After reading, this is a terrible article written by a terrible, contemptuous human being.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh god, my eyes. That article is more pretentious than any human being can ever imagine.
EDIT: in other side of the equation, is fun to see this guys crying like that 😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This dude is 1 constipation away from turning into a mass shooter holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

it's really amazing just how utterly unhinged these people are

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who the fuck writes like this?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

axis of evil

capitalist coping

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It reads like satire generated by a chatbot trained on c/ShitReactionariesSay

Can't believe this clown is real

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Indeed! As the reality of their crumbling hegemonic project starts to set in, these people are becoming increasingly unhinged in their desperate attempts to maintain their narrative. The coming months promise to be filled with increasingly shrill rhetoric and unprecedented levels of cognitive dissonance. Get ready for a wild ride as the illusion of their dominance is shattered!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the author must be a boris johnson supporter…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

given that it's the telegraph, almost certainly