• bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Just because Trump also breaks international law, doesn’t make it better when Putin does it (and not the first time either). Yes, Russia Man Bad! 👍🏻 Orange Man Also Bad!

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      Nobody mentioned Trump. I am so fucking sick of liberals acting like the US wasn’t constantly attacking other countries before Trump.

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      Joe Biden supported and enabled the genocide in Gaza, and every president before him committed invasions and war crimes. The fact that you think it’s just a Trump thing and not a US empire thing reveals your geopolitical understanding to be puddle-deep. Hell, Putin was our guy. We put him there.

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        Russia has been doing imperialism and colonialism since forever. Otherwise there wouldn’t be such significant Russian populations that are still monolingually Russian in former Soviet states.

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          The entire existence of the US is imperialism and colonialism. Until the 1960s the US had a policy of eradicating indigenous languages and cultures. So did Canada and Australia by the way.

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            Do you think imperialism in Russia stopped with the fall of the Tsar? If the Soviet Union was so anti-imperialist, why weren’t surnames in member states derussified? Why weren’t placenames derussified? Why didn’t Russian settlers move back to the Russian homeland?

            Same goes for the US and so on. At least reparations/compensation and derussification/deanglicization are necessary.

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      Well lets see the why shall we.

      Russia: Engaged in a military operation because of ever encroaching US imperialism via NATO and installing a Nazi puppet government against the wishes of the Ukrainian people as is the norm and attempting to liberate them

      US/Orange man; oil and stopped those EvIl CoMmiEs

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        Oh shit, I forgot I’m posting to a Russian propaganda board 🙄 my bad, forget it happened. And please don’t report me to GRU.

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        Why is attacking the outer reaches of Ukraine then, when NATO and US imperialism are the problem? Also how is the government nazi with two Jews in it’s cabinet of ministers? You know, the central part of Nazism is the antisemitism. Pretty weak excuses for an invasion.

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          Because those outer reaches are the regions that asked them for help when Ukraine spent 8 years slaughtering them for being too ethnically Russian

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              Yeah, they were hoping to reach a diplomatic solution but the Ukranian nazi government wouldn’t stop breaking treaties. Your point?

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          Typical lib selective memory. Ukraine has been attempting drone swarms into Moscow targeting civilians for half a year at least, just recently struck at Putin’s houses to attempt a decapitation strike.

          Oreshnik is a good reminder that if they really wanna throw away conventions of war, they don’t have a single way to intercept what would come back to them. Even then, the targets were completely legitimate and civilian casualties minimal (despite Ukraine regularly setting up bases in civilian centers, which is a flagrant war crime)

          Regarding your edit: Obama was the president of the most racist country on earth ffs. There were plenty of Jewish SS members. Y’all have had it explained to you for ages and you turn around and say it again verbatim next time because you’re not interested in learning, you’re just cheering for your team and it makes me not at all surprised that y’all choose the guys in Nazi garb with Nazi insignias saying they’re going to do Nazi stuff first chance they get.

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            Are you saying the 3 year war is in retaliation for drone strikes within the past year?

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              It must be hard going through life being this intentionally obtuse