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I hate how “anti-war” has been hijacked by these people to mean, let imperialist countries invade whoever they want with no consequences. (in the case of tankies, any imperialist country that isn’t in NATO).

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Remember that the original Canadian intent of the UN Peacekeepers was that they would forcibly create and enforce peace.

It was the USSR and the USA that objected to the concept.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I'm really curious how or why it works. Do they hate US so much that anyone against the US seems a hero to them, despite being off the same kind but pretending to be a communist/socialist?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

MAGAts are either too stupid to realize or too fragile to acknowledge that they're getting ass-fucked by putin. It's just pathetic.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

/me sees title. “Oh, these comments are gonna be fun…”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Red-painted fascists just can't help themselves. War is Completely Justified Resistance And Blowback until someone actually fights back, at which point it's Pointlessly Extending The Conflict

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

For the fucking tankies and MAGAts, if the French and King Louis XVI would have turned their backs on the US colonials from 1775 to 1783, the Red Coats would have crushed your rebellion and you would have been another Dominion like Canada. Hang on, someone press reset.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (30 children)

perfectly agree with the meme, that said I've tried to make the same argument to people IRL and their response usually is "well Ukraine provoked them by trying to join NATO" and being the absolute dumbass that I am, I can never come up with a decent answer on the spot.
does anyone have a cool one liner to use or am I stuck with having to explain the various geopolitical issues

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"So a nation is not allowed to make its own decision about defense or else Russia just gets to have it?"

"Nations beg to join NATO which is very reluctant and has a long drawn out entry process"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It basically comes down to this: being a sovereign nation means being allowed to choose your own alliances.

Calling it a "provocation" is denying Ukraine sovereignty over their own country.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The husband who beats his wife analogy might work. "She deserved it, she thought about going to the police" Another thing, even if it was predictable doesn't make it wrong to help Ukraine no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

The husband who beats his wife analogy might work.

These are the same people who support Trump and putin soooo

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

And the annexation of crimea was not provoking and pressuring them to search for defense from NATO?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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