cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1338851

Archived version: https://archive.ph/yDjTx
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230811193345/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-fire-all-regional-military-recruitment-chiefs-zelenskiy-2023-08-11/

    • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Trump is funny. Obviously. Terrible but hilarious. We don't back Russia we just understand NATO to generally be far more destructive and deadly. That's just old Tom Bombadilaros thoughts.

      • Revanee@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        That's so dumb... To consider a defensive alliance more destructive and deadly that a corrupt state waging a war of expansion

        • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          A defence of what? The people who invented global warming? Nah, hard pass.

        • Flinch [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Hell yeah brother we defended the shit out of Libya freedom-and-democracy

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Defensive alliance that bombs every third world country that dares to go against the interests of the imperial core? Who are they "defending again?

          us-foreign-policy

          Also how much has NATO expanded since the end of the cold war with its mafia protection racket style tactics in Europe?

        • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          defensive alliance

          NATO is defensive? lol, lmao

          a corrupt state

          That's Ukraine, it used to be considered the most corrupt place in Europe by the Western media right until February 2022

          waging a war of expansion

          That's also Ukraine since they're trying to take territory from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics after they declared independence following the coup against Viktor Yanukovych in 2014

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          "That's so dumb, to consider a defensive alliance with the Serbian Black Hand more destructive and deadly than the Central Power's Imperialism waging a war of expansion" -Average Allied Nations Second International Member, 1914

        • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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          1 year ago

          A military alliance of several superpower nations VS one angry revanchist state. Who's more dangerous?

      • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Russia - starts wars and threatens nuclear holocaust - you sleep

        NATO - literally just exists - you wake

        Russia's #1 export is troll farms and that's why Russia is the most hated country in the world. Y'all just give people more reason to hate Russia.

        • egg1918 [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          NATO - literally just exists - you wake

          How many millions of civilians were murdered/killed/starved/driven from their homes/displaced by American and NATO led imperialist wars such as the bombing of Yugoslavia, the invasion of Afghanistan, the bombing of Libya, or Isr*el's genocidal occupation of Palestine, which is proudly supported by the US and NATO?

            • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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              1 year ago

              You honestly think less civilians were killed in all those things COMBINED than by Russia? Really? That's actually one of the most wild liberal claims I've ever seen, and thats saying something. You've lost attachment to reality.

              • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                1 year ago

                Prove me wrong. If you can't, well of course you're a troll farm and you're part of the reason Russia has a reputation as the shitstain of the world.

                • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  You made the extraordinary claim. Your job to provide proof.

                  Also I'm an American communist from New England. One of the posts on my profile is about weird shit in the American Pie movies. Another recent one you can actually see is about Skyrim. Clearly troll farm shit. (I'd point out the idea that the Kremlin would bother to astroturf lemmy is INSANE, but that ones been falling on deaf ears because you all are so self important).

            • egg1918 [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Show me the numbers, liberal. Post your source for that wild claim.

                • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  You're counting both sides but then blaming only Russia lol? Hard to take that seriously. Give us Ukrainian deaths, preferably only civilian deaths, and then we might have a conversation.

                  Russia's primary exports are murder, lies, and nuclear terrorism.

                  That would be the United States actually. Especially the last thing since Russia has never nuked anyone and America has.

                  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                    1 year ago

                    You know how US Republicans like to claim that they are the party that ended slavery?

                    If you have to dig way back in history to make your point relevant and ignore everything that's happening in the present day, your point is stupid and your mental stretching looks ridiculous.

                  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    My favorite part is saying that Russia exports "Nuclear terrorism" when saying that Russia is worse than... the only country that has dropped a nuclear bomb.

                  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                    1 year ago

                    Putin has threatened to use nukes as recently as this year.

                    Are you defending a dictator who threatens to start a nuclear holocaust?

            • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              You ignorant gnome. We hate Russsia more than you. Russia is the liberal democratic nation built by the US from the corpse of our comunist forebears. I'd ask if you ever read a history book but your Midwest tag proves the only ones you got were written by Haliburton so it isn't your fault you are the way you are. If I wver visit your region I must try to trap you I in a circle of salt and force you to actually read some theory.

              • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                1 year ago

                Also, just do a quick browse of midwest.social vs hexbear. Your instance acts and talks like 4chan or the_donald.

                If I wver visit your region I must try to trap you I in a circle of salt and force you to actually read some theory.

                Is it an actual book or is it wojak spam, because I love reading but your wojak spam is insufferable.

              • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                1 year ago

                Russia is not liberal or democratic. It is a corrupt capitalist oligarchy/dictatorship with limited human rights. It was built by the US from the corpse of the USSR.

                Y'all claim to hate Russia but also spend a suspicious amount of time defending it.

                  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                    1 year ago

                    Absolutely not. America is more liberal and democratic, even if marginally. America has not had a single dictator in power for 2 decades and it's actually fairly okay to be gay in America.

                    I would 1000% rather live in the US than live in Russia.

        • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          Literally just existing, chilling, sprinkling unexploded cluster bombs throughout the country side for Ukrainian children to step on for generations to come, vibing.

        • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          dog how can you be this clueless about NATO and still have such a strong opinion lmao

          https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1052756

          the idea of NATO "just existing" is a straight up rejection of history

    • kristina [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      biden-leftist we all love biden and our liberal queen hillary clinton, light itself planet-hillary

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      We also use Hillary Clinton and Biden memes, doesn't mean we support them lmao.

      Ever heard of this thing called "irony"? Might be worth checking out

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Because Russia is the same as America in pretty much every way. So it is fascist infighting. Trump is also the same as pretty much the same as every other president. Liberals just hate him for idiosyncratic reasons. So it is funny

      • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Russia is America's every bad quality dialed up to 12 on steroids. Russia actually manages to make America look good, that's just what a steaming pile of garbage Russia is. The bar is so low even America can get over it.

        • charlie
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          1 year ago

          NATO - starts wars and keeps the meat grinder rolling all in the furtherance of capitalist dogma - you sleep

          Russia - literally just exists - you wake

          NATO’s #1 export is war and that's why NATO is hated around the world. Y'all just give people more reason to hate NATO.

          • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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            1 year ago

            Russia starting a war with 350,000 casualties and threatening to nuke the West is not literally just existing. If Russia wanted to literally just exist, they never would have literally invaded another country while lying about "training exercises".

            You're pro-Russian terrorism, it's not a good look.

            • charlie
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              1 year ago

              NATO encircled a world power and for the last couple decades have worked to instigate a war that has led to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people on the gamble that Russia would fall and allow the west to loot the country, exactly as they plan to loot a war torn Ukraine. For capitalism.

              You’re pro-NATO terrorism, it’s not a good look.

              • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                1 year ago

                That's pure speculation.

                You literally have to create a fantasy about NATO doing something in the future to justify Russia actually doing evil things right now.

                Being pro imaginary terrorism is way better than being pro real terrorism.

                • charlie
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                  1 year ago

                  NATO started this war by intentionally instigating Russia into conflict, using Ukraine as a proxy. Multiple times NATO have stood in the way of peace talks. That’s terrorism.

                  Russia, defending ethnically Russian peoples against a state government hostile to their continued existence, and guarding against being encircled by NATO is not terrorism it’s kindergarten level geopolitics

                  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                    1 year ago

                    Calling Ukrainians "ethically Russian" is a real fascist type of perspective.

                    Murdering Ukrainians and caring it "defending them" is just plan psychopathic.

                • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  This is true. Maybe nato has a history of behavior we could investigate to see what their likely actions are going forward... Yeah, turns out it is a literal nazi army created to do war crimes to keep capitlaism strong.

                  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                    1 year ago

                    This is true. Maybe nato has a history of behavior we could investigate to see what their likely actions are going forward... Yeah, turns out it is a literal nazi army created to do war crimes to keep capitlaism strong.

                    Literally makes no sense because capitalism would still be just as strong without NATO.