Opinion | Why non-Western countries tend to see Russia's war very differently
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The West appears blind to its own hypocrisy and narrow interests in calling for a rules-based order.
      • nachtigall@feddit.de
        145·
        3 years ago

        Soldiers of Russia enter Ukraine and kill Ukrainian soliders. How would you call it if not war?

        • VictimOfReligion
          104·
          3 years ago

          Excuse them, we usually hear “war” when it should be called “piracy”, “massacre”, “imperialist conquest”, “genocide”… Either way, this conflict is showing me that I would rather be attacked by Russia instead of any Western country and even my own country (we had a Civil War already), frankly.

        • agarorn@feddit.de
          108·
          3 years ago

          Did he really unironically play the “special military operation” card. Wtf

          • nachtigall@feddit.de
            66·
            3 years ago

            I think I simply don’t share your view that it takes violence/terror against civilians for a conflict to be labeled a war (at least that’s what your previous comment seems to imply, you may correct me at any time).

            I doubt you are incapable, so I will just call it intellectual dishonesty.

            Thanks, very nice from you, comrade :D

      • Sightline@lemmy.ml
        109·
        3 years ago

        “It’s just an exercise”

        “It’s just a special military operation”

                  • Sightline@lemmy.ml
                    35·
                    3 years ago

                    25 Rules of Disinformation

                    Sidetrack Opponents with Name-Calling and Ridicule ~ This is also known as the primary ‘attack the messenger’ ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as ‘kooks’, ‘right-wing’, ‘liberal’, ‘left-wing’, ‘terrorists’, ‘conspiracy buffs’, ‘radicals’, ‘militia’, ‘racists’, ‘religious fanatics’, ‘sexual deviates’, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.