France, which once was a great country with great thinkers, scientists, and writers, is being turned into a failed state by the Macron regime, Azerbaijani President...
  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    51·
    9 days ago

    Says Russia lol. Buh-bye backwards transphobic shithole, see ya never again.

    Fun fact: Russians are often very francophilic, you couldn’t do anything more impressive to an average muscovite wannabe intelligentsia than to speak rudimentary French or say you’ve been to Paris. They fancy themselves kindred spirits and fellow Europeans.

    Very much like their weird obsession with London and showing cheap plugin effects of it blowing up on the propaganda outlets, many people on VK back in early 2010s would put their city as London, even though they were actually from outskirts of Chelyabinsk, they repress that which they want the most.

    Average Russians would also genuinely freak out when I told them I’ve seen black people in the UK, as if I had a bear encounter or something, they are extremely racist in the most juvenile pathetic way.

    Russians live in shit and are remarkably poor because their country is run by an oil mafia and the state’s best use for the populace is boosting western arms production and my Lockheed Martin stock, and Russians largely do not want others to have it not shit, they will culturally browbeat the smart ones in line and support the war to stop Ukrainians escaping the crab bucket, and the remaining few are either scared and hopeless, trying to leave, or just too uneducated to really comprehend any of this and just want to get by, which is just sad.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    21·
    9 days ago

    failed state

    Not really specific to this story, but people massively overuse the term “failed state”. A failed state isn’t a state with some issue or a poor executive, authoritarian government, or the like. It’s the kind of situation you might see around, say, a civil war where the government no longer really operates and nobody’s in control any more. You likely have local warlords with limited local control of bits of territory. Something like Haiti might be a present-day example.

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

    A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders. Common characteristics of a failed state include a government incapable of tax collection, law enforcement, security assurance, territorial control, political or civil office staffing, and infrastructure maintenance. When this happens, widespread corruption and criminality, the intervention of state and non-state actors, the appearance of refugees and the involuntary movement of populations, sharp economic decline, and military intervention from both within and outside the state are much more likely to occur.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    So, we have been informing and will continue to inform the Armenian sponsors — conditionally speaking, the Soros people in Washington —

    “Soros people”? Azerbaijan?

    kagis

    Hmmm.

    https://eurasianet.org/there-is-a-specter-haunting-azerbaijan-the-specter-of-george-soros

    There is a Specter Haunting Azerbaijan, the Specter of George Soros

    Bradley Jardine Sep 11, 2017

    In response to a recent string of corruption allegations and international criticism, Azerbaijan’s authorities have identified a scapegoat: billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

    Last week, investigative reporting by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed a secret $2.9 billion slush fund linked to Azerbaijan’s ruling family. The fund was reportedly used from 2012 to 2014 as a means of bribing European politicians for political leverage.

    The investigation has sparked severe backlash from Azerbaijan’s authorities, and they are blaming a traditional enemy – an ill-defined “Armenian lobby” – along with a relatively new bugaboo, Soros.

    In a remarkable statement from the press service of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Soros is alleged to have worked in collusion with Armenian activists to smear Baku’s government:

    We know that it is George Soros and his henchmen – who have an international reputation of cheaters, tricksters, frauds and liars in relation to Azerbaijan and its leadership – that are behind the campaign. The Armenian lobby, which acts in concert with him, carries out a dirty campaign against the President of Azerbaijan and his family.