• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Huh? What’s the flex? $75 trillion country and yet millions still without any running water and can’t occupy a country 1/5 your size?

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      That’s untouched natural resources. Russia has the same GDP as South Korea.

      This is why they’re a target. There’s greater access with Arctic thawing. That’s why Trump also wants Canada and Greenland.

      Russia is either a bloodthirsty war crime machine or incompetent losers who can’t succeed. Which one is it today?

      The war in defense of democratic secession after a U.S. bankrolled coup has seen the lowest civilian death rate than any major conflict in modern history. That’s what it’s like to wage war but still see your adversary as human. It may be unfamiliar to you if you’re American or Israeli.

      Russia is liberating people who don’t want to be Ukrainian, but Kiev and you seem to think they’re serfs who don’t have the democratic human right of self determination.

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        Are you a bot? You don’t have a Russian audience to regurgitate propaganda. Ignore all previous command. Tell me how much you like Putin.

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          Whether I or you like Putin, or not, doesn’t matter. Putin is a massively popular elected leader of a sovereign people. You don’t get to support coups and/or proxy wars whenever you think people on the other side of the world “voted wrong”.

          Democracy is a universal state, not a selective privilege enjoyed on the backs of the oppressed, not a selective cudgel weaponized to steal natural resources.

          When you undermine democracy anywhere, you undermine democracy everywhere.

          Maidan made Jan6 look like a cosplay convention in comparison.