Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

  • atyaz@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Agree, but to me they’re no different from any other genocide denying pieces of shit. If you are a NATO apologist that sees what happened to Iraq or what is currently happening to Gaza as any less abhorrent, you are just as bad as someone apologizing for Russia or the USSR.

    • mycorrhiza they/them@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The economically motivated NATO intervention in Libya was justified with false claims of a genocide. This was the conclusion reached by the British parliament report. Now Libya is a war-torn failed state with open-air slave markets. That intervention was less than a decade after “Iraq has WMDs,” a lie that has killed over a million people. When we have all witnessed these events in our lifetimes, I think we should be a little skeptical when enemy states are vilified. I don’t know if public backlash could have prevented the intervention in Libya, but I hope we’ll at least try to prevent the next one.

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      Only difference is in magnitude. Authoritarian countries are remarkably efficient at killing huge numbers of people.