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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better in what way, morally? Morality isn't real and the level of geopolitics is where it's the least real. From a practical, threat assessment standpoint, one of these things is much more urgent and pressing than the other.

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

I mean yeah one of them is right now bombing another European country so Russia is obviously more alarming but the American threat is pretty bad too

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

One of them is currently supplying and abetting a genocide, kidnapping heads of state, shooting people in the street during gestapo raids, disappearing activists to concentration camps, bombing countries on multiple continents, trying to topple the government of Iran and preparing for multiple invasions.

The other is at war with the puppet government of exactly one country, which was committing ethnic cleansing and who we put there as part of our own strategy of aggression.

I know who I consider the bigger threat to peace.

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

For some people the world outside of Europe isn't real, it's insane

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

I mean we were talking abou someone threatening to attack a European county (and one of them is doing that right now...)

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A) Greenland

B) We started the conflict in Ukraine

C) I cannot stress enough how much bombing the Hague is official US policy

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's no bombing going on in Greenland as far as I know. Lots of bombing going on in Ukraine. If bombing European countries isn't an official Russian policy then they've somehow misshot a lot of missiles.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Oh no, not the sacred European countries! Doesn't Russia know that it's only acceptable to bomb brown people?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

"Russia is more alarming because they're bombing white people, not just subhumans in the global South!"