• astreus@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    US: Let's send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We'll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face

    • Valmond@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      With the litte difference that russia is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country and Iran is a brutal dictatorship too.

      But I guess it's the same anyway, right?

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        invaded a sovereign country

        Thank god my wholesome democracy would never do that over and over again for my entire life, otherwise I might have to think about who they tell me the bad guys are.

        Also Ukraine is not a sovereign country. We stole their sovereignty ten years ago when we replaced their government with nazis.

      • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        USA doesn't give a fuck about other countries sovereignty when it goes murdering across the globe

      • Alsephina@lemmy.ml
        hexagon
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        8 months ago

        All liberal "democracies" are brutal capitalist dictatorships.

        At least Iran and Russia's interests are aligned with most of the world against imperial core countries.

      • TeddyKila [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        Did you know that the United States Army trained midwifery to locals in Iraq?

        Google "Fallujah Babies" for more details!

      • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        The US is constantly and historically the ones propping up dictators all over the world. AND we have done it while people of those nations have either legitimately voted for the opposite, and/or were fighting for their freedom from colonial powers/dictators. We actively fund and create false narratives inside nations that we don't like to start color revolutions. We force other nations into backing brutal sanctions if they don't want us to go after them and to be allowed to trade with us. Our military is literally installed all over the globe, but we claim nations like China are somehow being "aggressive" for even patrolling their own areas. We create and groom evil and gaslight the world that we are somehow just allowed to police the globe. Fuck yourself.

      • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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        8 months ago
        Russia joined a civil war in progress on the morally correct side

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        which the CIA said was going to happen if NATO kept expanding, back in 2008

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      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Between Russia, Iran, and Ukraine, only two still have elections, and yet the one without is the one that isn't a dictatorship?

      • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        The USA is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country. What's the difference exactly? The USA has invaded someone more recently than Russia has, and they do it a lot more often. They're also more dictatorial and more brutal. The fact that the USA is mad at Iran for supporting their enemy is completely understandable. They're not being hypocrites, it's just mafia tactics and they're not ashamed of it. What's not understandable is you or anyone saying USA sending weapons to Ukraine and Iran sending weapons to Russia are somehow not equivalent.

        To be clear, I am not at all justifying or forgiving the use of sanctions, it's a barbaric form of warfare that explicitly targets non-combatants, the USA should be ashamed and their leadership jailed.