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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

As always...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

I live in germany, and the Israeli movings in Syria aren't "a top story" in several news. It's like: "we better not talk about this".

[–] ICastFist 26 points 1 week ago

Israel also bombed the Syrian Navy, sinking 15 docked vessels. In self defense, of course, because those ships would be used against them. /s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's different outlets as well, you see. PBS doesn't have a material about the most recent attack, but pretty much every recent material they have is negative for Israel, two straight out discussing genocide. Which the Russians also attempt to commit against Ukrainians denying them their right for self--determination, my dear Russian friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

genocide. Which the Russians also attempt to commit against Ukrainians denying them their right for self--determination, my dear Russian friend.

Thank god Zelensky is not trying to commit genocide on Ukrainians denying them their right for self-determination by forbidding people to leave the country and kidnapping them off the streets 1 by 1 in front of their mothers/wives and sending them to the meatgrinder, am I right, my dear Western friend holding the moral high ground?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Im not western, and live with a place with over a million Ukrainian refugees, with whom I work. The fuck you talking about?

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

Also the Russian invasion was anything but swift!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It was quite swift initially, and if the west didn't torpedo the deal then the whole thing could've been over in 2 months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I seem to remember the Russians got stuck in mud and ran out of fuel pretty swifty I guess

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

things that absolutely happened outside liberal fantasies

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

no, it wouldn't have been lol, also there is a reason ukraine allied itself with the west

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah the reason is primarily corruption. There's a reason so many Americans specifically related to the state dept either quit their jobs and took up in Ukrainian companies, or directly started investing in Ukraine in the lead up to 2014 and the eventually coup that lead to zelensky being in power. Ukraine isn't special. It holds no real significance for a US company or investment firm based on its laws or government. But cheap mineral rights and a complete lack of environmental regulation thanks to a captured government? That's just easy money that also denies a self made US enemy that easy money. And all for the price of the Ukrainian population.

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

Yeah, the reason being that the west made false promises to Ukraine that led to their destruction as has been the case with every prior western proxy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Russia promised to not invade, or rape or pillage... But yeah, west bad because isn't helping enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ukraine promised to implement Minsk and stop ethnic cleansing in Donbas for 8 years. Then western leaders came out and said that the purpose of Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine more time to arm.

Meanwhile, the fact that it was the west who sabotaged the peace deal two months in is a well documented fact

It's incredible that anybody could be so utterly dishonest to characterize this as helping Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the us maybe don't care about ukraine, but ukraine knows that and still sides with the west, why? because russia is the bigger threat to them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How's that going for them?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

probably good considering that they would be part of the russian empire if they didn't fight back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you just wake up from a 120 year coma?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

nope, putin wants to "reunite the empire"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Source for that quote?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The west literally overthrew a democratically elected government in Ukraine to put in a fascist regime. The regime is the biggest threat to people of Ukraine and they know it. This is why nobody is actually signing up to fight this war. The reality is that people are being gang pressed into fighting by the nazis https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/world/europe/ukraine-military-recruitment.html

In fact, according to Bloomberg, the share of forcibly mobilized soldiers in the Ukrainian army is 75% https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-20/ukraine-s-fight-against-russia-bolstered-by-millionaire-s-brigade

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I haven't been following the news. Weren't they fucking around in Lebanon? Why are they in Syria?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The Assad regime just got ousted, and Israel is taking advantage of the disorganisation in Syria to secure more Lebensraum.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It looks like Turkey and Israel came up with a plot to overrun Syria with insurgents and then start carving it up.

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

The instigator is different. Not trying to condone Israel, but the initial reason for invading is different.

Fuck both Russia and Israel.

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

It's also two different news agencies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Feel free to find a western news agency covering Israeli invasion of Syria the same way they cover Russia.

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