Think it’s safe to assume at this point that they’re not there yet, unfortunately.

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alt+f4 yourself vatnik donkey

Are you sure you’re not misattributing their success to capitalism and ignoring the centuries of colonial wealth that flowed to the EU nations?

Are you sure you’re not ignoring all of the countries that are dominating out there that didn’t participate in colonial shenanigans and were even victims of them? Are Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, etc… ex-colonialist powers currently benefiting from the past profits of exploiting others? Tankies like to pretend the West only prospers exclusively from colonialism yet conveniently forget that the communist shitholes they simp for participated in just as much or even worse colonialism than the West (see: Soviet Union). The truth is liberal capitalist democracies are just better. Yes, we should implement many socialist policies, and many of these countries do. But to pretend that communism is a better path is just braindead ignorant childish thinking.

Russian NPC’s aka general population: “Must’ve been the wind”

If your country failed/is failing, it’s hard to hang it on capitalism when, again, all top countries are liberal capitalists. It’s more likely due to corruption/mismanagement than capitalism. And no matter how much it’s failing, it’s not failing at a soviet famine or great leap forward level is it?

Communism is bad for the people who want money. Capitalism is bad for everyone except the person who wants to hoard money.

this is just a cringe and childishly reductive statement that means nothing.

What % of countries failed via communist policies vs countries that failed via libertarian policies? The top countries are liberal capitalist democracies. Anyone still simping for communism in 2023 is 9/10 times a brainlet child loser who lives in the west, never having suffered in a communist shithole, and decided to hang all their failures in life on being a victim of their country’s cApiTaListiC liBerAlisM. EDIT: tankie coping clowns (lemmy is full of them) downvote yet have nothing of substance to say zzzzzz

So it would’ve been better to escape to the west and have all his work and ambitions for his country thrown into the toilet because he handed the “I’m just a puppet in the west” gift to Putin. That’s more of a Yanukovych thing.

I’ll clarify, I’m not saying it’s impossible that F16 are already shooting shit down there these past days. The storm shadow was also officially announced practically at the same time it already was pulverising vatniks. I’m just saying there’s no solid proof yet that this is the case. Yes, the Danish advisor is still currently speculating even if he turns out to be correct.

So no official statements or evidence yet (there’d likely be civilian footage even), just youtuber speculation.

Is the source for this www.pulledoutofyourass.com or?

Russia lost as soon as they failed to complete their stated “objectives” as fast as they arrogantly thought they would as they mixed up cosplaying as a superpower with actually being one. They’re no longer able to meaningfully “win” in Ukraine and with each passing day their position only weakens, while Ukraine gets stronger. The only question now is how badly Russia’s going to lose.

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Those were your picks for the average capitalist democracy but I’m the one cherry picking? Lmao

The point is just “100 is an exaggeration”? That’s all? Thanks for the contribution cOmRaDe

Ah yes, India, Haiti, and Myanmar. Definitely what people instantly think of when prompted for the average modern capitalist democracy rather than the us, uk, denmark, sweden, norway, germany, netherlands…cherry pick a bit harder and you might start making sense