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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Allow me to point to the cognitive dissonance that should be occurring among the Gaza ceasefire types -

Examine your logic of "Government X is bad, therefore it's good when bad things happen to its civilians."

I'd suggest this way of thinking is flawed in both situations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Examine your logic of "Government X is bad, therefore it's good when bad things happen to its civilians."

Read up on the inherent violence of settler-colonialism; settlers cannot be equated with civilians

I'd suggest this way of thinking is flawed in both situations.

smuglord

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Way to downplay a literal genocide, jackass.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

If this thought was any more shallow it would evaporate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You'll have to explain this more clearly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, like obviously that statement is bad, but I don't get the connection with "Gaza ceasefire types".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I phrased it poorly but I'm saying a lot of people on Lemmy are commenting "good, fuck Russia" about this situation while simultaneously holding the thought that civilian deaths are bad in Gaza. I'm saying both are bad.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The wildest detail is ISIS' track record.

The largest attacks committed by ISIS recently (that aren't in Africa/Afghanistan, where ISIS is actively operating) have been: Pakistan, Iran, Russia.

Not exactly the US' friends. Meanwhile, Israel, which is literally committing a genocide against a Muslim population and desecrating the third holiest site in Islam, remains almost untouched. In fact, ISIS apologized when they accidentally attacked Israel in the Golan Heights.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Interesting, sounds like Israel doesn't want to get involved in another conflict with ISIS and ISIS is flat out afraid of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ISIS isn't afraid of checks notes Iran, Russia, or Pakistan, but Israel is the one that terrifies them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

ISIS has already gotten involved in conflicts with all of those countries. The branch of ISIS probably didn't want Israel getting involved in Syria, and the feeling was mutual.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Israel has been through a holocaust and some of those fuckers took notes, as we see in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Western values on display once again. Reminder, that Vicky the witch promised for asymmetrical warfare and “nasty surprises. These are the surprises.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This is a ridiculous accusation. The West had warned Russia and Russia chose to brush off the warning. ISIS has claimed responsibility. Face it, Putin is just trying to spread conspiracy theories to cover up his failure as a leader.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So why would ISIS attack Russia? What is their motive? It's easy to "claim responsibility." It's an entirely different story to use a great deal of resources to actually plan and carry out a terrorist attack of this scale. And for what reason? To provoke another world powe?? I call bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

They have been fighting each other as part of the ongoing Syrian civil war for about the past decade. I'd say that's motive enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Western values on display once again.

This is a ridiculous accusation... ISIS has claimed responsibility

Not the contradiction you think it is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

His failure as a leader that has... just lead to an overwhelming reelection?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What election? Do you mean the one where the opposition's leader was murdered?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Navalny never had more than like 2% support in Russia, Calling him the opposition leader shows that you're utterly clueless on the subject of Russian politics. The actual opposition in Russia is KPRF as opposed to a fucking west backed fascist which is what Navalny was.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The opposition

There were three opposition parties, actually. And I assume you're talking about the blood clot that nazi got in prison, right? Any actual evidence pointing to that being unnatural, or are we doing the standard blueanon "putin is behind this somehow" line of conspiratorial thinking?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Surely you're familiar with controlled opposition, people who run merely to provide the illusion of a real election while any real contenders are kept dead, silenced, locked up, off the ballot, or otherwise suppressed?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

While i wait for your evidence of murder, I'm curious: What do you think the common people of a country with a political system compromised by controlled opposition should do?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

You mean the American electoral farce, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In what way has Russia chosen to brush off the warning? Meanwhile, any proxy group can claim responsibility, the fact that you treat that as some sort of evidence says volumes. One of your regime's top ghouls went on TV and promised to conduct acts of terrorism in Russia. Now we're seeing acts of terrorism being conducted in Russia. These are the facts of the situation.

The fact that internet trolls are now trying to paint this as a conspiracy theory is just the repeat of the Nord Stream nonsense. Your regime is famous for doing precisely these sorts of attacks buddy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In what way has Russia chosen to brush off the warning?

This was well documented with statements released to Russian state media.

One of your regime’s top ghouls went on TV and promised to conduct acts of terrorism in Russia.

She explicitly said battlefield, not concert halls. Considering the US passed along intelligence to the Russians, what's the supposed angle here? What 5D chess is the US playing? Come on, at least come up with something coherent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What Putin actually said in your second link is that the west was using terrorism as blackmail. Nowhere did he dismiss it.

She explicitly said battlefield, not concert halls. Considering the US passed along intelligence to the Russians, what’s the supposed angle here? What 5D chess is the US playing? Come on, at least come up with something coherent.

She explicitly said asymmetric warfare which means terrorism. US did not pass any concrete intelligence to Russia either. The angle here is the same as it's always been, to try and cause civil unrest by any means necessary.

Also, here's Emily Harding, who is a former CIA operative within the US government-funded think tank CSIS saying: "if we find a way to make the Russian population at home understand the costs of this conflict to them in their hometowns".

https://www.csis.org/analysis/ukraine-balance-battlefield-update-war-ukraine

Here's Gen. Milley: “There should be no Russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they’re going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night,” Milley said, according to an official with knowledge of the event. “You gotta get back there, and create a campaign behind the lines.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/04/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-planning-russia-war/

The sentiment in Washington before the Moscow attack was that Russians needed to experience firsthand the impact of the war in Ukraine. This attitude intensified as US sanctions proved ineffective, Russian advancements in Ukraine quickened, and President Putin received a high level of support from the Russian population during recent elections.

Previous attempts to make Russians understand the war’s effects included drone strikes on major city centers, attacks on infrastructure, and efforts to destabilize Russia’s economy.

This is what your terrorist state does everywhere because your country is a plague upon humanity. This is what you're all about https://razedbywolves.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-detailed-chronological-list-of-us_5.html?m=1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Provide evidence that this attack was commited by the west.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

If Nuland promising to do acts of terrorism in Russia isn't enough for you to put two and two together then there's no helping you.

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