The logic is simply... astounding : politicalmemes

[-] ProcurementCat@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

"Look at what you make me do!"

[-] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

While I think that is part of the reason Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin seems far more interested in going back to the glory days.

"During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole."

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

From the man himself.

[-] snorkbubs@fedia.io 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Appreciate the source, but nobody should trust a single word from Mordor. They invaded in an attempt to obtain a number of monetary and geographical perks, not out of brotherly love, as they often try to spin.

[-] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I agree?

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Putin isn’t the same man he was even a few years ago, but one thing hasn’t changed over the decades — he views Glasnot and the fall of the Soviet Union as the worst thing to ever happen to Russia and a mistake caused by the weakness of those in power.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Russia was far more worried about BP and Shell than it was NATO when it invaded Ukraine.

[-] vlad76 7 points 1 year ago

And it would have worked it it wasn't for decades of systemic correlation making the armed forces ineffective.

I guess something good came out of that.

[-] LemmynySnicket@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So it's correlation, but is it causation?

[-] DasRubberDuck@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Wait a second.... That's not smart at all!

[+] xiao@sh.itjust.works -39 points 1 year ago

When you are a good friend of the best "democracies" in the world you can attack your neighbors without having continuous criticism from the media (=> people's criticism).

The dead become good dead ? 😃

Any example to consolidate this assumption?

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Where specifically does this occur, in your opinion?

[-] xiao@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 year ago

Do you really need my opinion when it is factually sourced ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

😅

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what you think this is a source for, but it is definitely not "invading your neighbors and no one cares"

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Wumao.

[-] xiao@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

Very funny 😁

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Hey what happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989?

[-] xiao@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

A massacre of course !

Between October 1965 and March 1966, members and supporters of Indonesia’s Communist Party (PKI), the third largest in the world at the time, were hunted down and murdered. Historian Robert Cribb estimates 200,000 to 800,000 people were killed.

https://theconversation.com/how-indonesias-1965-1966-anti-communist-purge-remade-a-nation-and-the-world-48243

Sorry, I am not a communist. 😅

[-] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ok, there's a lot of claims being made here, and not just by you. I did a little research because I was bored, and just want to share.

The U.S. absolutely invaded Panama, The Dominican Republic, and President Taft sent troops to Nicaragua, which I guess is an invasion.

As far as media coverage goes, I found articles citing negative media coverage of U.S. intervention in Haiti and Panama, I will post the journals at the end of the paragraph.

I could not find any other media coverage save for local coverage by Hawaii, which I won't count. That does not mean it doesn't exist! Half of these things happened over 100 years ago now.

I think you will find plenty of negative media coverage on Iraq and Afghanistan, which I think is a better comparison.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3229359?read-now=1&oauth_data=eyJlbWFpbCI6ImN3NzI3NzRAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiaW5zdGl0dXRpb25JZHMiOltdLCJwcm92aWRlciI6Imdvb2dsZSJ9&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25612127

[-] xiao@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the smartest comment here ✌

You know for many cultures 100yo is not so old.

I would probably disagree with you on the last point, except for Julian Assange's work.

Anyway posting my comment was interesting, I can feel the effect of propaganda (not on you I think). I thought that in the age of the internet people would develop their critical thinking more. But people are as conditioned as in the last world wars. A manichean vision of the world.

Geopolitics is about complexity in my opinion.

[-] Hank@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Like are you saying Russia plays the role Japan played in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China?

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because they’re bad and we’re good.

Unironically.

[-] Apollo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Free tibet from imprialist oppression!

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