Daniel Balan

I've realised that the US is as big of a pig as Russia! Why on earth the US is now trying to steal the oil of the powerless Venezuela? This makes me wanna throw up. Doesn't the US have endless money? Can't they buy the damn oil fairy? I've never would have thought that I would start to buy into Russian narratives. This means that the filthy westerners have also done that in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist regime. I've never would have thought that I would buy into Russian narratives, but what the US is doing now in Venezuela makes me sick.

From this day forth, I will no longer care about politics! I've come to the conclusion that for an average Joe as myself, caring about politics is detrimental to my personal development, peace of mind and my mental health. The political epistemic ecosystem is rotten to the core and the zone has been flooded with so much shit by all political, parties, from the all sides of politics, that it is simply impossible to arrive at a clear picture about how things really stand. I shall focus more on my personal development, I have only so much free time in a day, I can't use all my free time contemplating politics. I will still engage in my civic right of voting, but I will no longer spend countless hours ruminating about politics. When I will go to vote I will vote for the highest integrity, highest honesty, highest construct aware, highest spiral dynamics and ego development stage among all political parties and among all individual candidates. I must focus on myself, 2025 politics is the equivalent of a septic tank. I will no longer engage in such low consciousness mental activities.

You talk about that as if it were done out of charity. Of course Europeans and Americans do business, there is perfectly fine to do business, but don't talk like you do anything for free, because you aren't doing anything for free.

If buying tons of oil from Russia, If building lots of new huge pipelines to buy gas from Russia isn't fostering trust, I don't think anything is. Europe behaved decent to Russia, it all came crashing down when Ukraine wanted to export the liberal democracy to its territory and Russia felt threatened that if liberal democracy succeeded in Ukriane, it will also spill into Russia. That's the only reason they are now committing genocide in Ukraine, to teach them a lesson that if you are a neighbour of Russia, you don't get to choose your government framework independently, you choose your government framework that Russia allows you to have. All this NATO expansion is just Russian gaslighting, the NATO expansion happened precisely because the countries that joined after the cold war knew that they would have the fate of today's Ukraine if they wouldn't have joined NATO while Russia was still weak.

I was talking about Iraq.

They controlled the markets for their own profit, the US doesn't give a damn about Europe! And what you did with your military in the aforementioned regions you did for your own benefit, you didn't wage stupid wars for Europe, you waged them for your own benefit.

I'd love to see such a video!

@Hello1 I am also like that! I never celebrate Christmas, or Easter or anything related to Christianity. I abhor Christianity. I don't care about what other people do or about their rituals. I like to celebrate my birthday as a way to thank the earth for allowing me to have lived another year. I also celebrate my girlfriend's birthday as a sign of respect and care for her, I bring her flowers and gifts and a big birthday cake. I also celebrate Halloween for 2 reasons, one is that this pisses all my Christian neighbours, I am the only atheist in my village, and I love to hear their lamentations and hate towards me for being different, and the second reason is because I like to say a thank you to the earth for allowing me to grow food in my garden, it is like a Thanksgiving for me the Halloween holiday, and because I love pumpkins. But Christmas or Easter I don't celebrate because these holidays are just motives to extract as much money from me as possible.

Europe's biggest mistake was thinking that once the cold war ended, they wouldn't need to have a strong military because Russia will be friendly to them.

Also, what dirty work did America do for Europe? Throughout the 90's, the 2000's and 2010's with what did America help with Europe militarily? Russia was weak, and all the other internal conflicts were settled in the second world war! Once the cold war was over only Europe was dragged into the US's stupid wars, Europe didn't wage war on anybody since the end of the cold war. The Iraq war was America's business, Europe helped to be helped back when Russia will invade. And now when the Russians are strong again, guess what America does, almost says out loud in their national security documents that Europe is the enemy, not Russia. And in case the Russians strike Europe I bet that America will let Europe bleed dry, wow thanks, you really did the dirty work for us. Guess the Europeans should have never helped you with anything since you only care about screwing your allies.

The only reason being, that if they didn't send their militaries to the middle east, the US wouldn't have helped in case Russia strikes Europe, all of Europe knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Also, France, Germany and others didn't participate at all. The UK sent the most troops.

Also, the Europeans have neglected their militaries because unlike China and Russia and the US, they are no longer interested in imperial conquest, the European Union is a stage green form of government, stage green no longer wants to imperialy conquer other states, the same way Russia, China and the US do! And regarding wars in Europe, regarding Poland and France being afraid of Germany, this is a joke, Germany is a stage green country by all measurements, stage green doesn't invade its neighbours, only stage red/blue and to some extents stage orange.

The IMF, the world bank and other financial institutions, and capitalism itself ain't no empire tool that wants to economically exploit developing countries like Eastern Europe. What do you expect, free money for your "sovereign" politicians to steal, politicians that have been modelled after the soviet school system? The soviet school system politicians now in Europe call themselves "sovereignist" and guess which politicians they hate the most? The liberal young politicians that have been modelled the liberal democracy school. This means your "empire" narative is bullshit and frankly just Russian propaganda. I'm done talking with you on that subject, the west is not at war with anybody at the moment, yet Russia is waging its imperialist war in Ukraine and China is about to invade Taiwan because Taiwan is proving that liberal democracy is more effective and provides better results than a backward retarded dictatorship. This much is clear. And America is almost de facto out of the west because of Donal Trump, Donald Trump's America is not the west, it is closer ideologically to Russia than Europe, if that mf invades Venezuela is because he is a greedy devil that in an imperialist fashion, wants someone else's oil. That is imperial behaviour, the IMF and World Bank and western capital is what made developing countries break free from the Soviet imperialism, freezing in time for 50 years half of Europe is the biggest deed of Imperialism. 2. If I were the leader of Eastern Europe I'd make sure that above all, the rule of law should be in pristine condition, something that is totally absent in both China and Russia and as of late the US. So Rule of Law, independent judiciary system, politics to have 0 involvement in justice, strong courts that severely punish corruption and so on. This is what makes a country sovereign, not the utter corruption that happens in both Russia and China. In China you are only punished by the law if you don't have connections to the communist party, what sovereignity is that? That is a joke, not sovereignity. I will make sure I cut all Russian gas until Russia becomes a liberal democracy. Putin's gas is cheap? That gas is the most expensive gas on the planet, people pay with their freedoms for it, pay with their lives even, because if you are not friends with the corrupt elites that have permission from Putin to do whatever they want, those elites can litteraly kill you if you annoy them and pay no legal price whatsoever. If the Luigi guy killed a ceo that had beef with Putin and Luigi had connections to Putin's loyalists he would be hailed as a "patriot", no legal punishment would be applied to him in a county governed in a system like the Russian one. The biggest mistake Europeans made is being energy dependent on Russia, had Europe cut ties with Russia all together since they started invading their neighbours in the 90's, now Ukraine wouldn't have been ethnically genocided by the Russians. Europe feed this war machine, all the way back from the 90's. The fact that you don't see that speaks volumes about your pro-imperialist agenda. You talk non stop about the so called "economic imperialism of the west" but in reality you are just gaslighting us by making us looking away from the real imperialism that is done by both Russia and China combined. If Russia and China aren't imperialists, why tf are they trying their hardest to colonize the minds of Westerners via TikTok with endless Russian propaganda? I've never seen the west trying to do the same in Russia or China! Hell, the west doesn't even try to colonize with propaganda even their own citizens, in the last 5 years I've been only exposed to narratives such as these you spread yourself, only 1 in 1000 people talk like I do nowadays, everyone's mind has been sieged by the cognitive war that the Russians and the Chinese do in order to conquer the minds of the western population, and the result of this conquest will show up in elections because the Russians and the Chinese have a Trojan horse party or candidate in every western country, those Trojan horses then must destroy western liberal democracies. If that is not imperial behaviour, I don't think anything is.

My theory is this: All of these Russian narratives are full of bullshit, falsehood and downright evil. They need to paint the west as some imperialist greedy thief to then justify their own Russian collonial imperialism so that they can colonize eastern Europe once again with their corruption, backwardness, theft and dictatorship. Russia is the biggest imperialist, they just want to turn eastern Europe into an ideological buffer so that Russia itself is shielded by phisical buffer territories from liberalism. The western "imperialism" is just business. They give the developing countries something, the developing countries give something back. I don't see anything wrong in that, the book fails to mention that the domestic politiclal class from each eastern European country, that was forged in the soviet system btw, is what did the theft and that made some countries have worst outcomes.

Bruv, here on Europe we are under the siege of Russian propaganda for the last 5 years. Everytime I open my social media I see how the "West" economically colonized easter Europe. How the IMF has enslaved developing countries, forcing these countries to privatize national assets so that the western corporations can do the "exploitation". I've had enough of these false bullshit russian narratives, I've known on my skin both the russian system and the western system and the Russian system can go fuck itself together with all of you guys that act as Putin's useful idiots.

@LoneWonderer John Perkins is a KGB undercover agent? Because that book mirrors 100% the bullshit the Russians say from dusk till down about the West. I'm not saying that thr West doesn't do evil shit, but I'm not going to read something that is almost point by point identical to Putin's narrative.

Yes, that is my possition too! Rather than mindlessly contemplating current world events or mindlessly debating on this forum with communists or with guys spreading pro Russian or anti western narratives, I should rather spend that time reading the political books from your book list. I shall use the limited time I have on this planet learning and reading, not arguing with people or contemplating about authoritarians and anti-west or pro-brics narratives.

@Ishanga Thanks a lot for this very helpful insight! I needed it.

I think this time for me it will be forever, fear not I will still use what I know thus far on discussions on this forum if I deen that my input is productive. However I will stop contemplating on my head about politics! I spend almost all my free time in my head trying to analyze and find truth inside the realm of both global and local politics. I have 0 tolerance for human bullshit and contemplating politics became very exhausting for me because of how much shit the zone has been flooded with, thus making me confused and misinformed and therefore my contemplation efforts are redundant if I am always operating on misinformed assumptions. Also politics feel so dirty, so corrupt, I don't plan to ever enter politics because I am very soft, politics requires a very pig like character which i don't possess, and if I won't ever enter politics I feel that voting for the highest integrity and highest spiral dynamics stage candidate or party is enough input for me going forward in regards to politics. I have only so much time left to make something out of my life and I will not spend another second using my cognitive power trying to further understand something that is so dirty.

Unparalleled quote! Thanks for it. I really needed to see this quote.

@SchizophoniaI can't believe you take the soviet numbers as accurate, they lied from top to bottom about their economy, you can't trust anything number related from the USSR, the truth is that in the 90's people lived worse than in the 70's but without transition to a market economy the 90's would have been double or triple worse if they kept doubling down on communism. And the reason Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have a very low GDP per capita is because of corruption, no rule of law, no independent courts, no nothing, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are some of the most corrupt countries in the world, You westerners have no idea what corruption even is until you step foot in the ex-Soviet space, literally you guys in the west are living in a corrupt free paradise, Ex-Soviet countries have unimaginable levels of corruption.

The projection is off the charts here and laughable. This is exactly why China wants to invade Taiwan and why both China and North Korea hate South Korea and Japan. I can't believe how laughable these "Anti-Western, BRICS " naratives are, they are basically projecting their own devilry and wicked intentions on to the west.

@zazen When China will invade Taiwan, what will you say, Eastern Imperialism? Or the word imperialist is solely attributed to the corrupt decadent west? If Trump invades Venezuela is because he is a devil and a monster, not because of "WESTERN IMPERIALISM", the world is not a Soviet conspiracy theory.

@SchizophoniaBro, Russia and eastern Europe had no choice but to transition to a market economy, even if they wanted to remain communist they couldn't, the whole structure of the planned economy was falling down on itself, without the painful transition to the market economy, USSR and its Eastern Europe satellites would have had the same fate as The Weimar Republic in the late 1920's and early 1930's. The whole economy was in such dire straits that it could no longer bear its own weight. Some countries like Poland and Czechia had much more well thought transition phases, others like Russia, Ukraine, Romania had much more brutal outcomes. Why? Because Poland applied shock therapy, rapid well thought privatization, the population was educated on state television about free market, stock market and capitalism, whereas in Russia, Romania and Ukraine either the new private owners stole everything from the system or the state refused to privatize all together, for example in Romania it wasn't until 1996 until the state began privatization, here there was still this backward mentality of "Not selling the country to imperialist capitalists", this ended up destroying even the quasi profitable factories, the lack of proper serious privatization and the fact that the state continued to waste money on unprivatized, unmodernized factories, made the situation even worse, sky high inflation and a total destruction of even the factories that could have been saved with proper privatization by serious investors and modernisation. The fact that you don't see that communism was the very reason why people struggled massively in the 1990's is staggering. In the 1990's Russia and eastern Europe had to suffer precisely because of the effects of the disastrous communist management not because of the transition to a free market. The transition to a market was the medicine. Blaming the transition to the market economy It is like you are blaming your doctor for giving you treatment for a deadly disease.

@Schizophonia Ok, I'm openminded, but I still believe USSR was a textbook example of empire. They collonized the people of eastern Europe ideologically, they collonized the people who had capital and property and redistributed the land and the resources of the bourgeoisie to the lazy and unproductive. They collonized eastern Europe with north Korea style secret police, ineffective central planning and a total backward dictatorship. Furthermore, the industrialization was planned catastrophically, thus freezing eastern Europe for 50 years, after the collapse of the ussr, eastern Europe was after collonialism, the industry was bankrupt, people were starving, queueing for bread and clothes etc. Only after a colonialist empire there are such economic outcomes, easter Europe was in the same state as was a conquered city state after the retreat of the Roman empire back in ancient times, while Western Europe advanced industrially, economically, politically during the second half of the 20th century, after 1990, eastern Europe had to go back to square one to rebuild and create efficient industry, agriculture, manufacturing etc and the process is still a lot behind compared to western Europe. All of that because communism created only inefficient and without any economical fundation industrialization. When the communism collapsed, the local population had no capital whatsoever to start rebuilding, thanks to the communist "non imperialism" political framework. If freezing in place half a continent for almost 50 years is not the highest form of collonialism, I think I will give up.