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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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Good point, but they legitimately think NATO did some psychic 5D chess to force a war.
NATO: "We let countries decide for themselves whether they want to join a defence alliance or not."
Russia: "We will not let countries decide for themselves whether they want to leave our circle of influence or not."
Yeah, next level tactics by NATO.
Edit: counties
Nooooo you don't understand!11! If Russia lets them make their choice then NATO and the EU gives them unfair things like free access to the world economy! NATO and the EU aren't playing fair. And obviously their long standing offer to Russia to knock out it off and join the world economy is just a trap!