Exactly. Voting is fine, not verboten, but vote for communist parties, fuck the liberals.
Mr Zelensky, who is attending the summit in Washington, is likely to be offered a promise of a “well-lit bridge” to Nato membership, a term preferred by the US.
At this year’s meeting, allies are expected to offer further air defence systems to meet Ukraine’s growing needs, including US Patriots, after Washington agreed to prioritise deliveries of its flagship system to Kyiv.
The Telegraph recently revealed that the US is blocking British and European efforts to put in writing an “irreversible” path towards Nato membership for Ukraine. Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Mr Zelensky has sacked military chiefs as part of an effort to curb the problem, especially in the area of defence procurement.
So give me a ballpark %, how much of the billions sent by the west went down the corruption drain?
Despite the lack of Nato promises, almost 20 countries have signed bilateral security agreements with Ukraine.
I swear everyone is a sucker in this story, except American hegemony and the US military-industrial complex, and maybe Ukrainian oligarchs who got the share of the pie.
The article:
Ukraine will be told it is currently too corrupt to join Nato, in a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky. The alliance will request “additional steps” from Kyiv before membership talks progress, a senior official in the US State Department said. The position will be set out in writing in the Nato communique to be signed at the alliance’s annual summit on July 9.
“We have to step back and applaud everything that Ukraine has done in the name of reforms over the last two-plus years,” the official told The Telegraph. “As they continue to make those reforms, we want to commend them, we want to talk about additional steps that need to be taken, particularly in the area of anti-corruption. It is a priority for many of us around the table,” the source added. x Russia blamed for jamming GPS signals to British military jets I Ukraine: The Latest, podcast Mr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, is pushing for swift Nato membership after the war ends to protect from future invasion. It would compel the US and Europe to come to the defence of Kyiv in the event of any Russian attack.
But corruption has been a sticking point in recent talks between Nato member states over whether to offer Ukraine a concrete timetable for joining the Western military alliance. The Telegraph recently revealed that the US is blocking British and European efforts to put in writing an “irreversible” path towards Nato membership for Ukraine. Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Mr Zelensky has sacked military chiefs as part of an effort to curb the problem, especially in the area of defence procurement.
Joe Biden raised “significant corruption” in an interview with Time magazine this year, during which he ruled out supporting the “Nato-isation of Ukraine”. Nato diplomats and officials have given Ukraine a list of reforms it will be expected to carry out before its membership ambitions can be realised, a US defence official said. “That’s something Nato has been doing quietly under the radar that helps them get closer to membership,” the source added.
Mr Zelensky, who is attending the summit in Washington, is likely to be offered a promise of a “well-lit bridge” to Nato membership, a term preferred by the US. Nato allies still disagree over whether they should upgrade the statement they made last year at their summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, to make their offer to Kyiv “irreversible”. At this year’s meeting, allies are expected to offer further air defence systems to meet Ukraine’s growing needs, including US Patriots, after Washington agreed to prioritise deliveries of its flagship system to Kyiv.
Despite the lack of Nato promises, almost 20 countries have signed bilateral security agreements with Ukraine. They will come together to celebrate those new pacts in a joint statement at the Nato summit The summit is likely to be the first major international event for Sir Keir Starmer if he is elected as prime minister. Writing in The Telegraph on Wednesday, Lord Cameron urged Labour to commit to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence.
ackshually, you vote for the administration!
It's genius isn't it? Some bright mind at the CIA in the 70s/80s had the great idea to use non-governmental (hah!) organizations for soft power, psyops, propaganda, and veiled funding of overseas CIA assets.
I hate it, but I admire the genius behind it because it clearly worked well enough that not many people see through it.
I think most people truly believe that NGOs are well meaning civilians who just love freedom and democracy and western values, and only evil authoritarian dictators hate them.
Yes! But the weird thing is not even compared to socdems, but among soulless neoliberals these are just shit candidates... Biden, Starmer, Sunak... wtf
It's so weird that the very same topic is also the biggest issue according to the European far right. A different continent an ocean away.
It's almost like the rampant imperialism of the global north causes inhumane conditions in the global south and people are desparate to escape.
Or maybe it's something else. Who knows?
I was told Biden is Palestinian! 
dude looked like he could die any week now
I think the perfect liberal candidate is a relatively good-looking dude in his 40s or 50s who seems like he knows his way around corporate leadership.
I'm not even kidding.
Liberal worldview:
- They want presentability and decorum.
- They don't want anything to fundamentally change.
- They love things like Apple and the neoliberal corporate aesthetic.
Liberal voters want a handsome corpo.
That's why they love Obama, Trudeau, et al.
It is absolutely ridiculous how out of touch they are with their own voter base.
Is there really not some dnc high up tearing g him a new asshole for how bad he fucked that up?
This is the weirdest shit of the current generation of ruling class, both in the US and the EU. Compared to Bismarck, de Gaulle or Teddy Roosevelt, these are just a bunch of senile cretins who are barely capable of finding the toilet (US), or just sniveling little satraps (EU).
Surely these are moments from a declining Empire, right?
The three I mentioned were horrible wankers and war criminals, but if I pretend to be a shitlib they at least seemed/looked "competent statesmen" I guess? While the current crop is a removed bunch
But I'm not a lib, materially speaking it's still the same historical system at different moments in time.
Remember when Obama appointed Eric Holder to "supposedly" prosecute Wall Street for their role for causing the global economic crash that accelerated the slide towards overt fascism in the west? And the dude was just a Wall Street plant?
In July 2015, Holder rejoined Covington & Burling, the law firm at which he worked before becoming attorney general. The law firm's clients have included many of the large banks Holder declined to prosecute for their alleged role in the financial crisis.
It's relatively small shit compared to actual war crimes but there are thousands of examples like this only form the last 10 years... but liberals forget about them by the next week. I just remembered it randomly.
But he hurt Hillary's chances against Drumpf! Hillary lost because of Assange and Russia! So Assange enabled fascism in the USA!
Exposing war crimes is good, but you really shouldn't expose state secrets! That might hurt government agents overseas! Like when US spied on Angela Merkel... Why would Assange hurt German-US relations?! Maybe because he's Putin's puppet?
hey, maybe they'll get 2.9% answer rate for conscription letters instead of 2.8%
Meaning? The US attacking the largest country in the EU, and then it was swept under the rug by the EU and the European media.
I'd say that's quite... noteworthy.
wow, bizarre article, thanks for sharing
Even if I adopt the lib worldview (Russia = evil, USA=good) — if I build a beach house, but my friends tell me it's a bad idea to build a beach house, then my friends put military grade explosives in the beach house and blow it up, and they'll say "see, I told you it was a bad idea" — how is this normal and good?
crazy
Noteworthy in the documents is what is not found in them. The word "Crimea" hardly appears, nor does the downing of passenger flight MH-17 by a Russian missile, killing 298 people, the military attacks by Russia in Syria, or the nerve agent attack on a Russian defector in Britain, only briefly mentioned. And even then, only in the context of whether Russia's behavior was a "game changer" that could strengthen resistance in the USA. However, entire paragraphs are also redacted in the documents.
puh-leeeeez, how often do they talk about Iraq and Abu Ghraib when they make business deals with USA?! Do they always write a side report on the Khashoggi murder when they buy oil from the Saudis? How can this be written by a serious journalist?
It's telling how many times "Washington" appears in the article
It seems to get tight one last time when, in November 2021, two German officials travel to Washington and hear growing concerns at the State Department. "Concerns about military escalation are increasing, possible Western responses are being explored," notes the German embassy in Washington. From the American perspective, Russia is using energy as a weapon.
The envoys of the Germanic satrapy went to visit the hegemon in Washington to ask permission. They didn't have the Empire's permission, therefore the project was sabotaged.
Even in articles like this one you can read the truth, you just have to read it critically
It still amazes me that the general public/mainstream media just forgot about Nord Stream like nothing happened or it never even existed.
This is like undeniable proof of the invented reality of the western public consciousness.
No real investigation by journalists (apart from Hersh), western state agencies said they'll drop the case, walk away, nothing happened.
I bet that at least half of liberals never even heard the official cover story and they still think it was Putler.
Mindblowing.
our peace and order loving police teargassing evil BLM/Palestine rioters for the greater good
their totalitarian police crushing unrest
Hopefully they have also realized that spending 1 out of 7 paragraphs in the obit on the "Uyghur question" is not necessary.