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Ah, ok. If we're going to be throwing in personal takes on geopolitics, then here's mine. Less of the "democracies vs dictatorships". It's more like "western i
by isr 2y ago
Ah, ok. If we're going to be throwing in personal takes on geopolitics, then here's mine.
Less of the "democracies vs dictatorships". It's more like "western imperialism (essentially US & vassals) vs the rest of the world (who wants out of imperialism, endless sanctions, endless wars, the odd genocide or two)"
- Kavelach 2y agoVery true, let's look at some of the strategic partners of the US: Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, Israel, a state currently committing genocide.
- breerbgoat 2y agoI don't think that's true. I see Europe and US and much of the rest of the world giving weapons and financial support to Ukraine. I don't see any other country giving weapons and financial support to Russia besides China, North Korea, Iran, and India who is buying more of Russian oil.
- bluGill 2y agoThere is more than Weapons though. Brazil is supporting the Chinese peace plan - the plan that China built without talking to Ukraine and looks like give Russia everything they want. A lot of Africa nations are drawing closer to Russia - they don't have much to give now, but may in the future. (just them not developing is a win for Russia)
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- breerbgoat 2y ago"vassals" is a common phrase/tactic used by netizens in China to try to drive a wedge between US and rest of its allies. Nevermind that they never mention their allies like Russia or Brazil/Italy who seeks economic alignment as vassals.
- Intralexical 2y agoI think some number of them are probably just legitimately psychopaths living in the West. Though maybe they latch onto the term after hearing it as a PRC talking point. If you genuinely can't imagine mutually beneficial positive relationships based on consent, then it's only natural that seeing the US work together with so many other countries would be scary and look like "US & vassals". "A billion people" and "thousands year old civilization" are also Chinese talking points I've noticed. Hence why I included it in my comment, to both call out the really degrading "vassals" narrative and also point out these dictatorships aren't as special as they like to pretend.
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- dang 2y agoYou broke the site guidelines extremely badly and repeatedly in this thread. We have to ban accounts that do that, regardless of how other commenters may be behaving. I'm not going to ban you right now because it doesn't look like we've warned you before, but please make sure to stay on the right side of the guidelines in the future—especially because this isn't the first time you've broken them. (For example, comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734213 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38963324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38963324 are also unacceptable.)
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- pragmomm 2y agoI would encourage you, if you claimed so in this thread that you are a US and UK citizen, to quickly move out of US and renounce your US citizenship. So the torture and rage that you're displaying here and the paradox of your identity doesn't drive you insane. Also you should renounce your UK citizenship, as UK and US are very close allies. Maybe try moving to Russia? I heard they're having another military mobilization, and is paying pretty well.
- isr 2y ago[flagged]
- pragmomm 2y agoJust people who can't seem to understand that the world isn't black or white, but shades of gray.
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- Intralexical 2y agoThe persecution complex is odd too. Calling themselves a "dissenter", and invoking "exile", because their hypocrisy got called out and their factual claims are easily disproved.
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