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[–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Just because Trump also breaks international law, doesn't make it better when Putin does it (and not the first time either). Yes, Russia Man Bad! πŸ‘πŸ» Orange Man Also Bad!

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 week ago

Nobody mentioned Trump. I am so fucking sick of liberals acting like the US wasn't constantly attacking other countries before Trump.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Joe Biden supported and enabled the genocide in Gaza, and every president before him committed invasions and war crimes. The fact that you think it's just a Trump thing and not a US empire thing reveals your geopolitical understanding to be puddle-deep. Hell, Putin was our guy. We put him there.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

Liberals still deny that Biden is responsible for the genocide in Gaza

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is the president right now though

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is not an excuse to forgo object permanence and pretend Trump is an anomaly in any way except for how blatant he is. He's not a deviation from US policy, he's a distillation of it.

Liberals were happy to close their eyes and support genocide when it was covered by the thinnest veil of decorum

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just saying they might've mentioned Trump only since he is the president right now

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's fair, but I also can't know if they think Trump is an aberration and I consider it important to broaden the scope of the discussion

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

The United States didn't start invading and meddling in other countries until trump?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You think the fact that Russia is put under sanctions, barred from participating in international sports and other activities, has their gas lines to the rest of Europe bombed by the US, and is generally treated like they're Nazi Germany is sensible? In a world where the countries making those decisions turn away when Israel and the US do much worse?

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So do you feel like Russia shouldn't be treated like that or the US and Israel also should be treated like that? I think the latter tbh

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Well the US and Israel are much worse than Russia, so they should be treated worse than that, as should Western European countries that support their atrocities

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Trump has been president since 1846?

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[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno, Russian man seems pretty sensible all things considered.
If the warzaw pact was still a thing and it had slowly been inducting south- and central American nations, despite agreements not to do so, and it was now about to induct Mexico (which had had its government couped and replaced with a pro-russian government some years before), then I think it would be pretty sensible of the US to draw a red line at mexican Warzaw pact membership and invade in order to avoid it.
Also in this analogy Texas is part of Mexico and the Mexican government has been bombing Texas for eight years, in breach of two treaties with the US.

[–] riimoh@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So mexico = ukraine? Then texas = ?

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

It's not a perfect metaphor, but Texas would be the the two Ukrainian states with a majority ethnic russian population that sought independence after eurromaidan