• SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Ask any shitlib what Russia would gain from invading NATO countries, or what China would gain from invading Taiwan. I bet they’ll struggle to explain it any other way than something to the effect of “Putin/Xi is evil”

    I seriously want to hear what arguments they have which don’t boil down to “brainwashed country follows evil dictator into senseless war”

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      9 months ago

      That is their only argument. Putin wants “world domination” because he’s evil. Of course, if you point out he has never ever mentioned this to anyone, either in private or in public, and has frequently tried diplomacy with the west, the libs just insist he’s “lying” or “trying to trick people”

      It’s amazing how libs manage to be magical mind readers of a person they’ve never met on the other side of the world.

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      9 months ago

      From what i see the one argument often repeated is straight up taken from polandball memes, that is landgrab for no other reason. Land is good. Some of them even call it “clay”.

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        9 months ago

        The irony is so glaring, it drives me insane when I hear people argue like this and others just agree with not a flicker of doubt or self-reflection

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      9 months ago

      Russia didn’t have much to gain from the full invasion of Ukraine either, but it still happened. Let’s not act like Russia would have a rational reason to attack. In that sense the argument does boil down to “country is forced into a senseless war by an evil dictator”.