Well when the Good Guys do it, it is democratic martial law and they are a Freedom Dictator. So it's okay.
However Russia or the DPRK are Bad Guys and therefore they are evil despots determined to ~~get those darned kids.~~ stop Freedom.
"The president believed he could sit with Vladimir Putin and negotiate."
Zelensky tried that exactly once before his overlords stopped him from doing so. He had multiple chances to do this and had every opportunity to stop the war from ever occuring.
Nobody can say that he wasn't given ample opportunity and more than reasonable responses prior to his just sentencing.
He got more nuanced feedback in a post in Memes than he probably will ever see again in lemm.ee
The end result is basically the same as you said, but for their future strategy it probably makes more sense to have Trump win. It gives them a super easy "Look, everything is bad because Trump was in office, therefore you must vote for us" campaign next time. Lets them run literally any candidate under the sun and probably have even odds at winning. Which means they can safely shift further to the right than they usually do.
Arguably it still doesn't matter, because any candidate that isn't pre-annointed would stand no chance of winning anyway, but it definitely makes for a super easy campaign message. Their response to any challenge can just be "Trump spooky. WOOOOOOO".
I think you made a wrong turn on lemmy.
But yes, won't somebody think of poor Amazon. They are really just hanging on by the skin of their teeth, aren't they.
"Who could have known that Ukraine was so corrupt!? If only they were as brave and hardworking as us western Europeans, Russia would have surrendered already"
Supposedly one of the most cutting edge militaries in the world and they just deploy armor with no infantry support whatsoever.
Regardless, guy had a bravery I could only aspire to, going toe-to-toe with a tank and winning.
"the CIA assassins can't figure out why their attempts keep failing".
TIL that Castro was actually Superman in disguise. Suddenly everything makes sense.
where leaders told me this month that a major decline in U.S. military assistance to Kyiv would embolden Beijing and weaken deterrence in Asia.
I don't think that is a common fear shared by the people, WSJ should have reported that Taiwanese leadership are worried. There is not a single mention of what the people of Taiwan want. I have many friends from uni there now, and that is not an express concern of any of them. More than anything they want to be left alone with things the way they are, not dragged into an armed conflict for American interests.
Japan, there was an initial outpouring of support, we never like to be behind on the latest Cause. There were a few marches and the like, but those seemed to be largely foreigners and the foreigner hanger-ons, I know very few people personally who participated.
A lot of that sentiment has kind of burned out from what I have seen. A lot of people I have talked to are, understandably, sad about the loss of life but see immediate peace talks as the best way to bring that about.
People were very against NATO's attempts to built an office here (which thankfully got stopped), and were worried we would be used as a Ukraine vs China if the situation in Taiwan escalated. It's the most vocal I have seen people protest for a while, we tend to be very politically apathetic.
Sanctions on Russia have also hurt us immeasurably, we are obviously located very close to them and rely on Russian trade in several sectors. Sanctions plus a general move away from nuclear power has resulted in a 50-60% increase in electricity bills this summer across the country. We always have people, mostly the elderly, die every year from heatstroke and there is an expectation that this summer is going to end up even worse than usual. Not to mention the yen has absolutely tanked, which reduces our buying power even more.
Basically since people here have been affected, at least economically, a lot of the popular support has waned.
About his eating habits? Not particularly, no.
Every day, the bigger news communities mirror /r/worldnews more and more. I am already starting to see all the same talking points, the same complaining about tankies, and the same three jokes about China that they already have.
Dang, the Russian disinformation has corrupted the World Bank now too! They must be using their mind-scramble lasers.