• KiG V2
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    2 years ago

    I just don’t understand how they can still think that Russia is the bad guy and USA is the good guy.

    I guess it’s just some vague idea that the East is full of bloodthirsty backwards savages who don’t have any sense. I guess after all they did somehow make farmers with AKs in the Middle East into somehow a threat to a world-spanning Empire. I want to squish my eyeballs.

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      2 years ago

      From my experience, a lot of those “farmers” in the middle east tend to be quite educated.

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        On one hand I was thinking of Mujahideen which I don’t associate with developed communities. But on the other hand I really don’t know what it’s really like 90% of the time and I’m probably still casually affected by the racist/Orientalist imperial mindset of the order I supposedly stand against. The brainwashing goes deep 🤷‍♂️

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      I mean, isn’t Russia the “bad guy” because they invaded a sovereign nation. Doesn’t that also make the US a bad guy because sovereignty means nothing to them.

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          For being such big fans of lesser-evilism, they sure can’t understand critical support

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          I’d argue that Russia is the “good guy” here for wanting to protect their people from Ukranazis.

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        U.S./NATO intentionally blur the lines of what constitutes sovereignty by having semi-colonized countries act effectively as vassal states while still upholding their independence on a merely superficial level.