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• ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Genuinely why bother at this point

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “hey why bother going against a nationalist land grab? i am the real antiimperialist” gee i wonder

    most of the rest can be made in europe, even if it would require some scaling up of production

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    • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      nationalist land grab

      Is that what you actually think this is? Russia, famously lacking land.

      If your “defence of democracy” requires replacing a democratically elected government with a nazi puppet regime, supporting that regime as it commits 8 years of terrorism against its minorities, and forcing it to kidnap old men to the front lines…maybe you’re not actually doing anti imperialism? Just a thought. Like when the swastikas came out and the genocide in Palestine kicked off, you should have known this.

      But all that aside, why bother from a practical standpoint? The war is over. Also you will not be scaling up domestic weapon production to any meaningful degree, because we, the US, blew up your pipeline and ate your energy sector, and now Volkswagen can’t even keep operating.

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      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The point is not gain of land for Russia but removing land from another state, as a punitive measure for trying to get away from russian influence. This is also not the first time it is happening. Because of how nationalist Putin’s supporters base has become over time, he chose to use small invasions like 2008 invasion of Georgia as a tool to increase his domestic popularity. This parallels 1999 false flag bombings and response in form of second Chechen war and 2014 invasion of Donbas. In all these cases, as well as for two first weeks of 2022 war, approval rating of Putin’s government soared which was exactly the point the entire time. Because of how much of that comes from nationalists, he can’t back off because he’d come across as weak and lose support, he can’t advance much faster because he’s physically unable to, and his best bet is this kind of slow grind like we see now. Any western military aid will make it harder, so of course russian influence operations are directed against it, and you know that too

        Also you will not be scaling up domestic weapon production to any meaningful degree

        Speak for yourself. Orbital ATK buys european explosives, we have scaled up weapons manufacture in France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Czechia and few others, there are new Rheinmetall plants in Ukraine too.

        Ukrainians don’t lack resolve. In 2022, something like 85% (iirc) said that fight should go on if nuclear weapons were used by Russia. Even now 80%-ish don’t think that any territorial concessions should take place in any peace agreement. They have some of their own defense industry, lots of things (other than mostly air defense, and parts of aircraft manufacture) we can do in Europe, even if it requires some scale up, then there’s South Korean deliveries and few other things that still can happen.

        Like when the swastikas came out and the genocide in Palestine kicked off, you should have realized we’re the baddies, and baddies lie.

        who the fuck “we” is supposed to mean there? in middle east i wish everyone involved regime change, situation is fucked with any of current people in power staying in power. Put Netanyahu, Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei and their cabinets and top people from Hezbollah in Hague then we can talk. but it’s severely off topic so maybe don’t

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    • 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      shut the fuck up you stupid liberal. fuck off

      Death to America

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    • brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The US is helping Israel annex Gaza and West Bank as we speak, spare us the “opposing nationalist land grabs” nonsense.

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    • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oh look a sexist nazi

      what a surprise

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    • TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      can see you have came here with your instance-issued portable public opinion influence brigade. will you bitch and moan again when you get defederated from another instance?

      brigading

      Look, I originally came in here to look at dunks on my-hero and then I saw it back in my feed with like, quadruple the number of comments it had when I originally saw it.

      We’re not brigading just because we’re all in agreement that someone calling for regime change in some of the only countries and organizations who are resisting a modern Holocaust is a bad person undeserving of respect. I just wanted to read some Elon Musk hate and you decided to talk about how the Arabs should have their leaders chosen by the enlightened white Westerners.

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    • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I leave for an hour and you come back with some edits to cosplay as inglorious basterds? Weird thing to do in the middle of -and I cannot stress this enough- supporting actual, seig heiling nazis in a war. Image

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I, for two, would like to see the same

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