Spyke
atlas
sh.itjust.works

i saw that thread earlier and genuinely thought the comments were just shitposting until i realized they all think they're actually informing people.

especially that garbage graphic posted my benito dessalini himself

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NOT_RICK
lemmy.world

How very juche of them. Can anyone remind me who started the Korean War?

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cm0002reply
lemmy.world

Lol do you want the historical facts or the .ml Tankie version?

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PuddleOfKittens
sh.itjust.works

More than anything the trade embargo with DPRK needs to be lifted, same with Cuba

Forgetting the DPRK for a sec, the Cuba comment is right, right? AFAICT the main reason the US embargoes Cuba is because Florida is a swing state and lifting the embargo would piss off the Cuban-American voters who hate Castro with a burning passion.

In other words, shitty politics.

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cm0002reply
lemmy.world

Florida is a swing state and lifting the embargo would piss off the Cuban-American voters who hate Castro with a burning passion.

Quick, somebody tell Drump that Castro is a HUGE fan of his! LMAO

But yea, they are right about Cuba, but mixing in agreeable facts with the misinfo/propaganda is intentional

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Microw
lemm.ee

These people in their minds still fully living in the 20th century. Korea war this, Vietnam war that.

Nato has definitely committed heinous crimes. No one should deny that. But Nato in 2025 is not an American propaganda tool anymore. It's pretty much run by Europeans now.

Maybe they should take a look at, you know, current wars and conflicts around the world. But then they would have to acknowledge Russia's and China's imperialistic doings in the Global South.

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Jiggle_Physics
sh.itjust.works

Yes, yes, get NATO out of the way so China can form a military "defense" pact with other countries to protect it's interests in the power vacuum

Oh, wait, these are the same people who believe one country invading, and annexing territory from, another isn't imperialism, it is self defense because the west, even when the leader has been publicly discussing reclaiming their empire for decades now. These are the people who ignore how some countries have been claiming ownership of seas, and harassing the independent countries within them, because that is also just self defense, because the west. It can't possibly be them exercising expansionist desires, while claiming it is defense, you know, like how some other countries, of a certain defense pact, do. They certainly won't go full steam ahead once NATO is no longer in these areas, constraining them.

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TankieTanuki 🦝☭reply
sh.itjust.works

[Putin] has been publicly discussing reclaiming [the Soviet] empire for decades now.

I wasn't aware of this. Can you provide me with some examples?

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TankieTanuki 🦝☭reply
sh.itjust.works

Thanks for the reply.

The author's thesis is based on the speech that Putin gave upon assuming office in 1999-08-16, specifically the "zones of interest" phrase. Here it is with a couple paragraphs of context:

::: spoiler Context

The task of our foreign policy is to raise Russia's prestige.

Without that, we will be unable to either protect our citizens or help our exporters.

So we will continue to take the most active part possible in peacekeeping operations and in the major international and regional organizations.

Russia has been a great power for centuries, and remains so.

It has always had and still has legitimate zones of interest abroad in both the former Soviet lands and elsewhere.

We should not drop our guard in this respect, neither should we allow our opinion to be ignored.

Russia has no need to be ashamed of its interests.

It should not descend to that.

source :::

IMO, hearing a head-of-state swear to pursue their nation's national interests is pretty banal stuff. Russia was part of an active interstate alliance in 1999.

Has he said anything more "mask off" in the past 26 years?

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