This is an excellent piece of propaganda. It is both factual and contains plausible deniability that it is talking about anything in particular. If someone points out that it is implying something, then the author can easily respond with either "I never said that!" or a "Why are you getting so upset about facts?"
Looks like someone's not familiar with Russia's acitivities in Europe over the centuries (or is just conveniently ignoring history). The Holodomor and the Katyn massacre to name just two.
And China committed the greatest massacres of a nation's own citizens in recorded history, and is the largest police state ever seen. "They're all bad guys, Bront."
Yeah this might be missing more than a few details. There is something to be said about the attitude toward Iran for example: "Iran must not have nuclear weapons!" The same people saying: "They're not stopping, let's glass'em!" But is that the point this post is trying to make?
Presumably, that the maga-fueled scapegoating of these countries is based upon outright lies and misinformation. Iran in its current state is a product of american-fueled election meddling. War crimes are to an enormous historical extent the product of american foreign policy, particularly post-ww2. And accusations of slavery and worker extortion rightly belong to, again, american history and domestic/foreign policy. These details get lost in the incessant rightwing screams of villainy.
If were adking the poles things how about how how their treaty with france and englang vs germany was completly ignored and tgey where keft hubg out to dry. And at the end of the war allied forces still stopped short of liberation. Allowed russia to take the area, and the subsiquent kangaroo courts that followed against the underground as spies and sabatures.
The ethically quandary of "finding a better one" is a long exercise, as you can find flaws in every method. I believe it's important to understand the flaws to encourage debate in striving towards better, even if one does not know a better solution.
You can disagree but at a fundamental level this is how it works. A group is useful until its not, it gets labeled something else and suddenly its ok to bomb them. Give it another 5-10 years they get a new label and we are back to giving them aid, rinse and repeat
InspectorA5
... so far..
diepgat
Fuck russia, it's blight upon humanity. russians are cowardly troglodytes.
freshthrowaway1138
This is an excellent piece of propaganda. It is both factual and contains plausible deniability that it is talking about anything in particular. If someone points out that it is implying something, then the author can easily respond with either "I never said that!" or a "Why are you getting so upset about facts?"
Top tier and it should be taught in classrooms.
Pulger
Looks like someone's not familiar with Russia's acitivities in Europe over the centuries (or is just conveniently ignoring history). The Holodomor and the Katyn massacre to name just two.
ElbowDeepInUserSub
And China committed the greatest massacres of a nation's own citizens in recorded history, and is the largest police state ever seen. "They're all bad guys, Bront."
lifeisadadjoke
I would say this is unbelievably reductive, but it's also got a LOT of errors.
MattScifiBandit
To be fair, Russia also massacred millions. Just within their own neighborhood and in their own borders.
UncleRat
Man, motivational posters really suck lately.
ThatSonOfaBitch
Yeah this might be missing more than a few details. There is something to be said about the attitude toward Iran for example: "Iran must not have nuclear weapons!" The same people saying: "They're not stopping, let's glass'em!" But is that the point this post is trying to make?
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
Your point, please?
cheeriossuckbecause7
Presumably, that the maga-fueled scapegoating of these countries is based upon outright lies and misinformation. Iran in its current state is a product of american-fueled election meddling. War crimes are to an enormous historical extent the product of american foreign policy, particularly post-ww2. And accusations of slavery and worker extortion rightly belong to, again, american history and domestic/foreign policy. These details get lost in the incessant rightwing screams of villainy.
MiserCrass
Sorry, did we forget the Holodomor?
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
It was never on the factsheet Moscow supplied @OP.
2ti6x
yeah, just ask the poles how friendly and respectful the russians liberated them from the germans.
RaziGrey
If were adking the poles things how about how how their treaty with france and englang vs germany was completly ignored and tgey where keft hubg out to dry. And at the end of the war allied forces still stopped short of liberation. Allowed russia to take the area, and the subsiquent kangaroo courts that followed against the underground as spies and sabatures.
Questionablysensible
Britain and France declared war on Germany because of that treaty with Poland so im not sure what point you're making
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Crime is governed by the laws at the time. Most genocides were legal.
kurastwolf
This is why the idea of basing ethics on "legality" is a terrible foundation.
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Not fond of it either but do you have a better one?
kurastwolf
The ethically quandary of "finding a better one" is a long exercise, as you can find flaws in every method. I believe it's important to understand the flaws to encourage debate in striving towards better, even if one does not know a better solution.
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No perfect answer for anything human related. Balance.
Kilo11
It all comes down to "can we all agree that killing bad guys is good? OK cool, now we just need to convince you of who the bad guys are"
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I disagree, it kinda marks our own failure as society.
Kilo11
You can disagree but at a fundamental level this is how it works. A group is useful until its not, it gets labeled something else and suddenly its ok to bomb them. Give it another 5-10 years they get a new label and we are back to giving them aid, rinse and repeat
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I know.
Kilo11
You know too much, suvs inbound