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  • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I want to piggyback off of this, because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to make a post about this. One basic principle in both Game Theory and Military Studies is that 1-1 trades favour whoever holds the advantage, and failing that, whoever operates more effectively at lower resource levels. Radlib slogans such as 'it's possible to criticise both American and Russian imperialism' implicitly favour American Imperialism. Whilst you can say that 'condemning both American and Russian Imperialism' is not tantamount to say mutual destruction of two mechanised rifle corps, it is the principle that is important. In a media environment dominated by American exceptionalism, any sort of criticism of US Imperialism is likely to get washed away or buried, whilst criticism of Russia is likely to stick and stay in the public consciousness - in effect, 'criticising both American and Russian Imperialism' serves the same purpose as towing the State Department line regardless. (The same applies to China)

      • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I didn't mean to imply that China was bad. I would like to articulate my position as to opposing Russia is not a productive stance to take, though at the end of the day as I have no material stake in the conflict my opinion really doesn't matter. People are free to be anti-Russia, it's a subject that I think is quite nuanced (Russia is a useful meat-shield against Imperialism), in comparison to something like China where I feel recent events have more or less proved that it's a net good in general.