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How tankies and MAGAts view the Ukraine war (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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I hate how “anti-war” has been hijacked by these people to mean, let imperialist countries invade whoever they want with no consequences. (in the case of tankies, any imperialist country that isn’t in NATO).

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm really curious how or why it works. Do they hate US so much that anyone against the US seems a hero to them, despite being off the same kind but pretending to be a communist/socialist?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I am curious about this as well. At least in some cases, it seems to be due to “alternate facts”, e.g., https://lemmy.ca/comment/13198294

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Are they saying that the U.S. was preparing Ukraine for war in 2014... Which Russia had started moving their forces in 2013 and started the invasion in February of 2014. It's like how people try to say "well Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump had still been president"... When Russia mobilized their troops and equipment and marched them there for the invasion while Trump was still President.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    A surprising portion of people in the northern hemisphere think that a person having lots of money is literally exactly the same thing as a person having lots of blessings from [deity]. They see that Russia is run by oligarchs, and that since those oligarchs command lots of currency, they are inherently chosen by [diety] to always be correct.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Who thinks that? Are we talking about the old Pharaoh's of Egypt?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd say these two probably think something along those lines...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Okay.. so this makes me wonder where the artwork came from before they put words over it. That donkey is jacked and has a very bright smile for a farm animal. Do you think the person who did the artwork had no idea what they were going to write over it, or just that they've got some closeted desires they haven't figured out how to discuss openly yet?

    Maybe it's a Divine Donkey lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    There is rarely, if ever, support for Putin. What is more typical is a recognition the USSR was a better entity than both what it replaced and what replaced it. So there is usually the connection that the US is the reason Russia is the way it is, which is usually lauded as 'USA bad'.

    So even though America was the global superpower after the fall of the USSR: Putin, (or at least someone like him), was wanted in power. 'Keep rootin for Putin' wasn't just a pundit book 20 years ago.

    All in all when the goal is eradicating communism at all costs, you wind up with war mongering right wingers in their stead: and that's the perspective every communist I have interacted with has come from.

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