JohnRawls wrote:Since when do I support Republicans?
I think you misunderstand something, I told this already to you. I do not hate socialism. I am centrist who doesn't care where the ideas come from as long as I consider them useful or good. Stealing good ideas should be considered a badge of honor.
The only negative connotation that I have with socialism or communism is that it is synonymous to imperialism for me. Simply put, the Baltic states were one of the first states to break the chains of Imperialism post world war 1. A lot had to wait a lot longer and even after WW2 or during cold war so basically 99,99% forget that we were colonised by the Russian empire(and others before) for a long time and since we were one of the few first to escape you somehow disregard us.
And it was a hard fight since we were close to the core and always one of the most developed regions in the Russian empire. So they didn't ever want us to "leave".
A small place that needs to break away. Hmm. It sounds familiar to me.
Marjorie is a Republican. I never thought the Republican party free of problems. It has in the last 70 years or more been a party of racist assholes mostly. No surprise for me there. But, many keep thinking it had some kind of utility for the world.
I have no use for parties full of people who only work together to take rights away from other people. For me that is the definition of evil.
Imperialism is innate to capitalism. You can never separate those two. It is like trying to take Hydrogen out of water. H2O breaks down. They have to be together to be water. That is capitalism and imperialism. Constant growth means invasions and military to make profit. It is as Smedley Butler said....the marines follow the dollar.
He was a highly decorated Marine and a B. Major General.
Russia was and is competing with the USA for power. It used to be about Communism. It no longer is. It is about being able to influence other adjacent regions and nations for influence.
The EU is going to wind up paying for it. And Estonia has to spend as well. It is a small nation. And it will need to be able to keep as much of its gains as possible. War is never something where the ones engaged in it will be in good shape afterward.
It always costs much more in human lives, wealth, and time than what it is worth.
Until human civilizations stop using the formula of allowing elites to determine all policies? Most of the world's people will not be allowed peace, freedom, or prosperity. That is the truth of that.
Only by having people who work be in charge of their labor and wealth and by making democracy work for the majority and having systems that discourage psychotic power-hungry people can you realistically get a better result.
Capitalism though does have an enemy they can't defeat. It is called Mother Nature. If you do not respect the laws of Mother Nature and think you can take, take and take, and expand and expand without limits....you become parasitical. and all organisms that collapse the ecosystem do wind up getting a response from Mother Nature. And she is the Great Equalizer.
So, these puny people thinking they are the last word in wars and in power....will realize that you are not divorced from the Earth and the elements. And unless you scrap a bad idea and concept that is unrealistic. There is no future for the parasites.