r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine ‘We Were Mistaken’: Putin Admits Russia Was Unprepared for Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Refineries

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83674
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u/Constant-Plant-9378 20h ago

MAGA was originally a Russian export product.

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u/terid3 20h ago

Yup. Remember the "lock her up" rallies in 2016? Proven Russian Psy-op. Pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/Good_Restaurant15 20h ago

I remember when the NRA was found to have been working for the russians, having a russian agent in it, and doling out russian money like it was going out of style...

Funny how that just - fizzled away.

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u/terid3 19h ago

Same here. And yeah, it all just got swept under the rug while Trump and Maga hollered about the "Russia Hoax" painting themselves as victims.

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u/Tall-Introduction414 19h ago

Classic DARVO. MAGA is an entire political ideology based on mental illness, narcisism and supporting evil.

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u/MattinglyBaseball 18h ago

Remember when the online “Progressives” continued to push ‘both sides’ despite this? It’s the ongoing psyops to divide the left.

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u/terid3 13h ago

I have no doubt. As a younger gen X, I worry about the how much political-historical knowledge the younger generations have of the last two decades. In the 80's, for instance, a lot happened to change the course of my life, but as a child of the 80's I have only in the past few years begun to have a sense of those events. Likewise it feels like the political foundation for today's current events were laid in the 90's and 00's. So I wonder how much awareness many younger people in their 20's and 30's have now? I say this in the context of having been raised in the deep South and having to shake a lot of programming and fill in A Lot of knowledge gaps.

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u/fugaziozbourne 18h ago

See also: Canada

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u/terid3 13h ago

Yes, I was very relieved when Trump pissed Canadians off and derailed Maple Maga. The danger is still there though. If we get of here alive both the U.S. and Canada need a come to Jesus moment regarding their colonial/imperialist roots.

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u/MATlad 13h ago

'Jade Helm' in 2015.

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u/MyUsername2459 18h ago

I've got a wonderful meme saved on my hard drive, I'd share it here if I could.

It's a picture of Vladimir Putin captioned:

Buy American!

Donald Trump is the best purchase I ever made.

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u/lifeinthebeastwing 19h ago

Communism was originally a German export product

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u/HoightyToighty 19h ago

Well, Lenin was shuttled into a Moscow-bound train by German authorities at a dicey time in 1917, but I wonder why you mention it here?

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 19h ago

Apparently Communism is an idea that has been around for literally thousands of years - including early Christians who 'held all things in common".

Seems to have started firming up in the way we understand it today after the French Revolution.

By the 1830s and 1840s, the egalitarian concepts of communism and the related ideas of socialism had become widely popular in French revolutionary circles thanks to the writings of social critics and philosophers such as Pierre Leroux and Théodore Dézamy, whose critiques of bourgeoisie liberalism and individualism led to a widespread intellectual rejection of laissez-faire capitalism on economic, philosophical and moral grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communism

Then Marx seems to be the guy who really brought it all together into a concise socio-political platform.

In the 1840s, German philosopher and sociologist Karl Marx, who was living in England after fleeing the authorities in Prussia, where he was considered a political threat, began publishing books in which he outlined his theories for a variety of communism now known as Marxism.