Have you ever considered that Ukraine doesn’t want peace talks to succeed? Agree with it or not, they want their land back. By attacking Russia in its capital heavily right before peace talks, they’re daring Putin to fume about it and end up violating the ceasefire, giving Ukraine the ability to say “We told you so” and ask for more money from the US and EU.

I don’t support Putin but that doesn’t mean I blindly dismiss that civilians get harmed in military conflicts. The thrust of your reasoning appears to be “Ukraine is good, Russia is bad, killing civilians is bad, Ukraine killed Russian civilians…DOES NOT COMPUTE…CONTRADICTION…DISMISS THE FACTS”

Like, dude. War is Hell. And it’s never as simple as good guys and bad guys. Sure, Putin is a clear bad guy. But most everything else going on is morally grey. As for the facts of the attack, this was confirmed by AP, the BBC, and CNN. Are you sure the British are Trump/Putin media? What about the AP, which has been barred from the White House over Trump’s “Gulf of America” debacle? There’s no excuses for not simply looking it up. You made this post 35 minutes ago.

EDIT: To be clear, I do oppose Trump, Putin, and the Daily Mail. They are all authoritarian right-wing in ideology if not outright neo-fascist/neo-nationalist/proto-fascist

so it isn’t a hereditary monarchy? or are you just going to attack me personally instead of making an actual argument regarding the topic at hand?

You really had me until you claimed workers are in charge of the DPRK. it looks like a hereditary monarchy to me.

I’m not saying the US is a perfect democracy. I’m stating that they’re relatively more democratic. I don’t think the US is a democracy. But I do think that it’s relatively less democratic than the ROK, which appears to be headed vaguely in the direction of democracy, unlike the US or the DPRK. But we’ll have to wait and find out as to whether they actually make it there. Good point about the concentration of economic power. Which obviously means political power as well. But their right-wing aspiring dictator seems more likely to be held accountable for his crimes than the US’s. And maybe that says something about their relative degrees of democracy.

Recognizing the ROK’s past dictatorship doesn’t mean pretending they aren’t more democratic than the US. It isn’t black-and-white.