The EU is America’s servile little lapdog, its no surprise they would take notes from Trump on this. Especially when it comes to persecuting migrants to feed the cultural war, so that they don’t have to talk about how they’re about to do more austerity and health service cuts. The war machine demands more human sacrifices to keep running!

Don’t forget the apartheid! America’s greatest ally indeed :-)

Absolutely BASED. Thank you Italy!!!

Credit Card only it looks like. Mozilla VPN is just a wrapper around Mullvad (it uses their servers and technology) so I would recommend getting that. Mullvad accepts a lot of more bespoke payment methods (crypto, wire transfer, cash in an envelope). The main reason to get Mozilla VPN is to bundle it with Mozilla’s other services.

That’s extremely weird, I’ve never heard of Firefox not letting you browse until you update. When snap auto-updates Firefox there’s usually a notification bubble asking to close your browser to update but you can dismiss it and keep browsing in my experience.

The hate for snap on Linux forums always felt weird to me, I’ve literally never had issues with Firefox snap. I understand being frustrated with it on the principle that it feels Windows-y to force it on the system, but the Firefox snap is packaged by Mozilla and bundles the latest Mesa libraries instead of using the older libraries from the Debian repos that don’t have the latest performance fixes, so its also faster than installing through .deb. And Mozilla has Debian repos for Firefox you can add to your sources.list if you really insist. There’s also nothing preventing you from installing Flatpak and using that on Ubuntu.

Fuck 'em. If they’re really against committing genocide then follow in Aaron Bushnell’s footsteps. Otherwise, good riddance.

Unironically, yes. While the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a horrible idea, it came as a result of Western Europe handing Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany while they were still appeasing Hitler. There was legitimate fear of Hitler invading the SU and Western Europe giving him the green light in the name of “appeasement”, hence the non-aggression pact (which was later broken).

As for the Soviet invasion, Poland had no way of winning against the initial Nazi invasion and even though the United Kingdom declared war in response to the invasion, they sent NO aid to Poland and left them to the wolves. When the Soviet Union invaded from the East, they did so in the name of protecting Slavic and Jewish Poles who were under threat of Nazi extermination.

Stalin concluded that the West had colluded with Hitler to hand over a country in Central Europe to the Germans, causing concern that they might do the same to the Soviet Union in the future to allow its partition between the western nations. This belief led the Soviet Union to reorient its foreign policy towards a rapprochement with Germany, which eventually led to the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.[89]

The response of non-ethnic Poles to the situation caused considerable complications. Many Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews welcomed the invading troops.[100] Local Communists gathered people to welcome the Red Army troops in the traditional Slavic way by presenting bread and salt in the eastern suburb of Brest. A sort of triumphal arch on two poles, decked with spruce branches and flowers was fashioned for this occasion. A slogan in Russian on a long red banner, glorifying the USSR and welcoming the Red Army, crowned the arch.[101] The event was recorded by Lev Mekhlis, who reported to Stalin that the people of the West Ukraine welcomed the Soviet troops “like true liberators”.[102]

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War for more info.

While I agree that the Soviet Union took too long to enter the fight against a clearly genocidal, expansionist and fascist regime in Japan, going to war with them isn’t something to be taken lightly or done on the drop of a hat. ESPECIALLY when you’re already losing millions fighting another genocidal, expansionist and fascist regime in Europe! I’d drag my feet, too!

This is ahistorical, while the Soviet Union wasn’t at war with Japan until the late stages they provided critical support to the Chinese Communists and Nationalists who had been fighting the Japanese since 1937 and forced the creation of the Second Unified Front against Japan (the Nationalist-Communist coalition that eventually drove Japan out of China). The Nationalists were so against uniting with those dirty Commies against Japan that Chiang had to be physically kidnapped and kept on house arrest until he would agree to form the Second Front!

There’s a lot you can criticize the Soviet Union for, but their fight against fascism during the first half of the 20th century was not one of them.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi'an_Incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_United_Front