dogbert@lemmy.zip to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 days agoAverage westoid logic. May your troops burn in hell 🔥lemmy.zipimagemessage-square263linkfedilinkarrow-up1662arrow-down1147
arrow-up1515arrow-down1imageAverage westoid logic. May your troops burn in hell 🔥lemmy.zipdogbert@lemmy.zip to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square263linkfedilink
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down8·9 days agoIt just targets “Westoids” meanwhile that’s what Russia is doing right now, that’s why I wanted clarification
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·9 days ago that’s what Russia is doing right now Russia has been part of the West since Yeltsin shelled the Moscow Parliament into submission. The Cold War ended 30 years ago. Capitalism won. What we’re experiencing today is post-Soviet imperial powers in a turf war.
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·9 days agoWhen people talk of Western world Russia is pretty often not counted in that
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·9 days agoWhen George Bush Jr was meeting with Vladimir Putin to coordinate the War on Terror across Central Asia, “people” did.
minus-squareNalivai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoThat was 15 years ago. A lot changed since then. A lot.
minus-squareFundMECFS@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·9 days agoIt’s really all nation states. But yeah it doesn’t take away from criticising the west who loves to paint themselves as guaranteer of human rights or whatever.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoCould have easily criticised the wealthy and those in power instead.
It just targets “Westoids” meanwhile that’s what Russia is doing right now, that’s why I wanted clarification
Russia has been part of the West since Yeltsin shelled the Moscow Parliament into submission.
The Cold War ended 30 years ago. Capitalism won. What we’re experiencing today is post-Soviet imperial powers in a turf war.
When people talk of Western world Russia is pretty often not counted in that
When George Bush Jr was meeting with Vladimir Putin to coordinate the War on Terror across Central Asia, “people” did.
That was 15 years ago. A lot changed since then. A lot.
It’s really all nation states. But yeah it doesn’t take away from criticising the west who loves to paint themselves as guaranteer of human rights or whatever.
Could have easily criticised the wealthy and those in power instead.