I know it's /r/worldnews but Jesus fucking christ.
1963: The Soviet Union wants to occupy the whole of Europe! Be afraid!
So that was a lie
2023: The Russian Federation wants to occupy the whole of Europe! Be afraid!
For fucks sake why is this still a thing
None of the social conditions that can only be maintained by constantly shifting blame onto ethnic scapegoats have changed.
Libs are stoked they have a group they can be outright racist and genocidal towards
I'm legitimately afraid of what happens at the end of this war, because it seems like it'll just be an ethnic cleansing or outright genocide of Russians.
Libs have become so frothing in their hatred that they can't turn it off anymore. Every Russian is a threat to them, so even if the war somehow ends in Ukranian victory they'll want every Russian expelled or ostracized, or worse if Russia wins. And of course libs want Russia to Balkanize, which they'd love to use as a way to culturally genocide them: only Russians from the Balkanized states allowed and all that.
But of course libs in the west aren't able to tell the difference between Russian and any other language from eastern Europe, so there's gonna be so many hate crimes even against Ukranians.
"You know Japan can simply surrender to the US, right? The longer they stay at war with us, the longer we will imprison and punish them for Hirohito's reckless behaviour until they learn to respect the national sovereignty of another country."
Collective punishment is terrorism and serves no legitimate purpose, but will always cause stronger rallying around the government being "punished".
simulated liberalism
you've got that simulation working pretty well, good job
The point of creating a crisis is to negotiate a settlement. It's why people go on strike, it's why people go to war. The Russian Federation won't stand down until they're at the bargaining table.
The whole west has tried pressuring Russsia to end the war and it hasn't worked. There will be no outright victory.
So now, it's time to do what people have done whenever they've wanted to end wars: step up to the bargaining table. Use all that pressure we've built up on Russia as bargaining chips and negotiate a favorable settlement.
It’s ok, the war will end in Russia’s favor. If they keep the oblasts they’ve annexed so far, that will be most of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
Although it might not be so great for those elsewhere in Ukraine. Ideally Russia would demand protection for ethnic Russians as part of the peace agreement. Including repealing all the anti-Russian laws they’ve passed since the 2014 coup.
98% of the people in that comment section would’ve loudly supported internment camps for Japanese Americans
They'll Support genocide of any group as long as it's socially acceptable in their societies.
I saw that earlier. Perhaps permanently psychic damage. This is worse than mainstream conservative discourse post-9/11.
They wanted to "glass the desert" and kill every brown person in the world after 9/11
The fifth column was real and extremely cool and calling someone "the fifth column" should be a compliment!
if not
