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Never trust news from a country about its opposition in a war. That's why you can't trust Russians reporting on Ukraine, Ukrainians on Russia, Israelis on Arabs, Arabs on Israel, or America on America.

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discuss.tchncs.de

Because they aren't stupid enough to think you can reason with a megalomaniac like Putin. Hope that helps.

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

but they seem to be stupid enough to align itself with trump and an empire in decline.

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lemmy.world

False dichotomy, imperialism is imperialism, find differences elsewhere

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lemmy.ml

Imperialism is when a country does something in its interests, which tends to be most things?

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lemmy.world

You forgot the expansionism bit

You know, US over all its neighbours, Russia over Ukraine, Israel over Palestine/Lebanon/Syria, China over Taiwan...

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lemmy.ml

No, let’s contextualize this rather than doing an all sides bad gotcha that ends up feeding those with hegemony.

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lemmy.world

Gosh the mental gymnastics and the length you'll go to try to justify that territory grab is not an invasion; alright comrade, all heil valiant Vladimir fighting Nazism; it's not a flex to be the least worse

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lemmy.ml

If you use out of scientific context psychological terms as a substitute for meaningful political analysis, it’s because you’ve got nothing else. I highly recommend this essay on “psychopolitics”

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discuss.tchncs.de

Weird how you armchair-psychoanalyze me to prove your point that my armchair-psychoanalysis of Putin being a megalomaniac is incorrect, but okay. Would you take my point if instead of "megalomaniac" I used the term "irredentist fuckwad" or simply just "tosser"?

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m532reply
lemmy.ml

"You got nothing else" is just a factual observation. Your new comment is further evidence of this.

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discuss.tchncs.de

Expanding energy into arguing with idiots is wasted energy. My initial mistake was posting in .ml (didn't check). I will filter out your community in order to prevent any future mishaps. Apologies.

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lemmy.ca

Ukraine needs elections. Russia needs to stop bombing civilians like they're a bunch of shitty Americans...

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lemmy.ml

You got the first part right then devolved to regurgitating western liberal propganda. as expected for a nazi.ca user

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Not even the leftest of the left activists in this country bother to try to articulate Russia's violence. I'd genuinely be interested in hearing your personal take.

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lemmy.ml

LMBO Russia will keep it when the Nazi empire puppet government ceases to exist

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Hanrahanreply
slrpnk.net

greed, but that can't happen until Putin goes, so the nazis in Russia can be gotten rid of.

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Nazi's in Russia? LMBO you mean the anti-nazis trying to drive out the Ukrainian nazis currently being propped up by the empire to wage their proxy war?

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