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Why does so many Americans argue in favor of keeping their ineffective, inefficient, and expensive healthcare system instead of having a single payer healthcare system akin to Canada or something akin to Singapore’s healthcare system?

Seems like Russia forced an agreement, then called it invalid when Ukraine stuck to the terms.

What do you mean? The "agreement quickly broke down, with violations by both sides."

That doesn't sound like Ukraine sticking to the terms.

Russia claimed that the Minsk agreements did not apply to their operations in Debaltseve and Ukraine used similar arguments when launching their own operations into grey zones as you can see here:

“Yuriy Biriukov, an adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, says that almost the entire “grey” zone in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, has been liberated from Russian-led forces without breaching the Minsk peace agreements and is under control of the Ukrainian army.”

Zelenskyy refused to federalize the country despite Ukraine having the obligation to give eastern territories autonomy through federalizing the country because of the Minsk Agreements. Ukraine also had the obligation to uphold linguistic rights to ethnic minorities but violated the Minsk Agreements with the 2019 language law which didn’t outright ban the Russian language but did discriminate against those who did not speak Ukrainian or an EU language.

Yeh, so Russia wasn’t happy. And instead of going “this isnt in the spirit of the agreement” decided to botch an invasion, and is now targeting civilian targets.

You can claim that Ukraine not upholding the Minsk Agreements doesn't justify the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, you'd be right but that doesn't mean that Zelenskyy's actions did not have a hand in starting it. Although personally, I see Russia's 2022 relatively nice peace terms to be proof that while the invasion is horrendous, the current narrative is nonsense as well.

Ukraine isn’t targeting civilians.

Belgorod disagrees, with one shelling in the center of Belgorod for example killing 21 including 3 children.

It seems like Allawites in Latakia are staging an uprising with remnants of the former Assad regime launching attacks across the country (but mostly in Lakatia).

This has to be some coordinated attack, it is too sudden. If you asked me yesterday if the Syrian civil war would heat up again, I would have said no but things might change due to recent events.

Pro-Assad forces also have just taken control of the Latakia naval academy.

Edit: Commander of the Russian Forces in Syria, General Yuryevich stated this:

“If HTS convoys approach Khmeimim, we will turn them into ashes. We are monitoring the situation closely.”

Also, Anti-HTS forces have taken control of artillery batteries on top of Mount Yunus, the highest strategic peak on the Syrian coast.

No way dude! But with what industry though?

In all seriousness, Russia was producing 20-30 T-90Ms per month (or 240-360 per year) in 2024 going off of monthly deliveries. The entirety of Europe cannot even match this. The only country I am aware of that can produce this many tanks per month is South Korea and China. This has likely increased since then but due to increased OPSEC, there have been no videos of batches of T-90Ms (or even T-72B3s) being delivered. But missile production has doubled since 2024 so I would not be surprised that tank production has also doubled to 40-60 per month (480-720 per year).

I have been keeping track of T-90M deliveries for a while now:

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It was always around 20-30 per month last year. This means Russia produces more tanks than the amount the entire German military has in a single year. And as I stated, this likely has doubled but it is impossible to verify as OPSEC means we have not seen any deliveries on video for half a year now. Europe can't even produce their own ballistic missiles which have been a game changer in Ukraine as shown by the effectiveness of ATACMS and Iskander-M.

Russia is producing more shells than the entirety of Europe combined who struggles to supply Ukraine with even a million shells (while Russia was producing 3 million per year in 2024).

The “separatists” were the Russian troops

Nope, it was even before GRU war criminal Igor Girkin became Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Vice News Dispatch which I suggest watching

From Wikipedia:

"The Daily Telegraph reported that some locals thought that most of the between five and twenty people killed were innocent civilians"

"The troops moving out of the city shot at unarmed civilians, according to The Guardian."

"Anna Neistat from Human Rights Watch stated "my preliminary findings suggest that Ukrainian units might indeed have used excessive force near the drama theater, which resulted in deaths and injuries of some unarmed people" and urged a full, thorough investigation."

The civilians even shown their passports which provided proof that they were not Russian.

If you want, I can PM you footage of said massacre where Ukraine shot into a crowd of unarmed civilians.

Also the majority of DPR and LPR forces were locals. People like to quote Girkin who stated that the War in the Donbas would not have happened without him but they forget the rest of the quote. Girkin was stating that the separatists would have been crushed without the intelligence and weapons he provided them naming Mariupol as an example where the anti-Maidan movement got crushed as the unarmed civilians had no support and got gunned down by the AFU. He never said that he was the one who caused the unrest, only that it would have gotten crushed without his weapons and intelligence. Outside of volunteers from Russia or Crimea, the actual Russian Armed Forces did not participate outside of providing weapons and intelligence in any significant number until 2015 when DPR and LPR forces were being pushed back leading to Russia sending BTGs into Ukraine.

He doesn’t even remember signing the USMCA and unknowingly insulted himself for signing it.

Clearly yet more tax cuts for the oligarchs is more important than the health of the American people.

I see, you are one of those non delusional types, sorry for those assumptions.

The problem isn’t the two party or one party system. Both provide stability. The problem is the lack of the separation of powers.

The position of General Secretary allowed Stalin to appoint his allies into key positions without any vote from the other factions of the government.

I will admit what occurred under Gorbachev is very similar to what is occurring under the US with Yeltsin essentially being Russia’s Trump who appealed to Russian nationalism and who claimed that he will make Russia great again by getting rid of what he viewed as welfare queens that was the other Soviet republics and getting rid of Soviet authority. But I would also like to point out that the CPSU would have been capable of fighting off this Russian “trumpist” if it wasn’t for the August Coup which deteriorated the CPSU’s authority giving the Soviet government no means to fight back against right-wing nationalism.

Another problem was that Gorbachev did allow some independents to run for government meaning democracy was not kept within the party where factions would have been able to unite against a right wing nationalist.