irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-25 months agoComment threads, on the default lemmy-ui.imagemessage-square91linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoTheir reasoning is that its anti-us imperialism, despite russia being pretty imperialistic itself.
minus-squaremathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThat’s such an oversimplifcation that it can just be dismissed as wrong. Here is someone who actually asked and didn’t just assume https://hexbear.net/post/4477584
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoAh, the classic “only western countries can be imperialist”
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt’s not a classic because no one says that. Japan did it for sixty years, until it was made a vassal of the US, which it still is today[1][2].
Their reasoning is that its anti-us imperialism, despite russia being pretty imperialistic itself.
That’s such an oversimplifcation that it can just be dismissed as wrong. Here is someone who actually asked and didn’t just assume
https://hexbear.net/post/4477584
Ah, the classic “only western countries can be imperialist”
It’s not a classic because no one says that. Japan did it for sixty years, until it was made a vassal of the US, which it still is today[1][2].