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  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    Literally the very first comment in that thread I see is the instance admin speaking in support of russia for no other reason than it being opposed to the US.

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      17 days ago

      Just like I said, “critical support”. They’re clear that it’s a capitalist “dictatorship of the owning class” (like other liberal-democracies) and that they’re critical of their domestic policies. If NATO were no longer as powerful as it is now, then they’d move on to calling for the Russian Federation’s fall, but it’s clear which of the two is a more imminent threat to countries around the globe. It’s like voting for Democrats over Republicans in the US election – they’ve both proven themselves to be terrible but voting for the lesser evil might be pragmatically effective, and voting third party or boycotting is debatably an idealistic waste of effort.

      As someone else mentioned, this is a campist approach to geopolitics.

      the US

      I wouldn’t limit “the imperial core” to the US, but basically, yes.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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        17 days ago

        Scrolling through the thread, the keyword in “critical support” seems to be more “support” and less “critical”.

        Also, right now US is not the country that’s launching drones to blow up the civilian houses in the city I live in, which, somehow, seems to be presented as a “humanitarian” move in that thread. So you might want to rethink how much evil you can allow your “lesser evil” to be.