• bomibantai@lemmy.world
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    “…these are the things the West could do, but chooses not to.” Yeah, the West does whatever TF it’s done in Afghanistan, Iraq, West Asia, whatever France has done in Africa. “fuck you to all buyers of Russian oil” You mean like the US and EU? What do u think happens to the Russian oil once it’s refined to actual useful oil?

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      The US and EU might buy a little, but most of it is being bought by China, India, and Africa at a steep discount. As I’m sure you know. Everybody buying Russian oil deserves scorn, even if they are living in the EU or the US.

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        Lol first of all thats not true, please post any source and try to group by EU, China, India and Africa.

        And what about the other point? Does Russia also need western democracy? Is that before or after Greenland?

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          I don’t give a fuck how Russia is run as long as they stop trying to steal land.

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          Afghanistan and Iraq were terrible mistakes. And many (most?) NATO states had nothing to do with Iraq. Not that it matters right now. I’m talking about Russia’s imperialism right now.

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      Spoiler: Russia did the same thing in .ost of those regions, too.

      Hell, they just did a speed run of Afghanistan, before we did… hence the nickname “Graveyard of Empires”.

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      Throughout the deeply stupid and shameful invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and this is true, the US never detonated a cargo ship sized bomb killing ten thousand people in a busy port city just because they bought sanctioned oil.