geogvma.bsky.social
Geographer and wayward academic. In Kyiv for the moment. Medium.com/@geogvma || geogvma.substack.com/
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I dunno about Bessner but over on the other site one of his followers launched into a spirited defense of multipolar imperialism and then immediately demanded cutouts and exceptions for Gaza, which he believed should be protected.
They’re not arguing in good faith.
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Yeah it’s not one of those things where you even have to squint. He just says it straight up.
And many of his followers are agreeing with him.
It’s the Mussolini socialist>fascist imperialist speedrun in realtime.
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I like how my phone somehow autocorrected “writes” to “rotted.”
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Bessner is a coward and an imperialist and the perfect example of the kind of leftist who has negatively polarized himself into despising Ukraine for a host of made up reasons that allow him to justify abandoning it to genocide.
The same with Taiwan. He’d see them burn to satisfy his vanity.
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Why?
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and how Zelensky isn’t going to sell out his country. Talked about how Americans need to ask themselves whether Trump’s behavior vis-a-vis Russia and Ukraine feels right to them.
Not sure when it will air, but will hopefully have a link soon. /end
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That and the "following literal, actual Nazis on Twitter" thing.
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Air raid sirens went off LITERALLY the minute the call ended!
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Time will be at 2:15 now, not 2:35.
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Apparently he's already gone back to Poland anyways.
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The Ukrainians will keep him safe (out of duty, not desire) and the Russians will make sure things are quiet while he's here because vaporizing one of Trump's little toadies isn't in their interests.
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Yes, he accompanied Hegseth to Munich and took a jaunt here. He's wandering around in the government quarter of Kyiv, which is blocked off to ordinary traffic and in the video you can see press photographers taking pictures.
He's not here for fun (you can see in the video that he's scared shitless)
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I'm not sure how that article demonstrates that he isn't just a puppet whose job it is to advance his benefactors' agendas.
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Guys like this like to pretend they're world-historical figures making the big, momentous decisions that will go down in history. But in reality they're toadies and cowards who got elevated to their positions because of their internet followings and sit in hotels rooms and do what they're told.
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He also castigates the President of Lithuania for being weak on the subject of Trump's remarks about Greenland, noting that the first two countries to recognise Lithuanian independence in 1991, /against/ the wishes of the Americans, were Iceland and Denmark.
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"In the Act of Independence of 1991 we said very clearly: "the Lithuanian state recognises the inviolability of borders, as formulated in the Helsinki Agreement of 1975.” This may not be a base imperative for the Americans. But it is for Lithuania."