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If there’s one thing the Ukraine War should have taught everyone, it’s that you can never expect ideological consistency from Russia’s government or Russian propaganda. Russia’s foreign policy is purely transactional.
Unlike every other countries foreign policy.
Some push an actual ideology, but yeah, nationalistic self-interest is pretty common around the world.
Literally what other standard could a nation possibly use to engage in foreign relations? The difference between nations with the same ideology is their relative position in the global and regional power structures. The difference between nations with different ideologies is their understanding of what constitutes their national self-interest.
Wow, so cynical. You're sounding a bit like the other end of the political spectrum there.
Ideally, actual concern for things like universal human rights would be considered. You could argue nobody really does that, but I'd argue it shows up a bit. The Soviet Union supported the crap out of any number of nations that were never going to pay them back (not least their own republics), and America actually tried building democracy in Afghanistan and basically lost the war because of it. It would have been pretty easy for them to just arm another brutal junta, or take the Chinese approach to central Asia and gradually eliminate or replace the local population entirely.
You sound delusional. The US lost the war because they tried to build democracy in Afghanistan? Listen to yourself. Honestly? There's no possibility of having a conversation about national self interest and how human rights factor in if you believe shit like the USA was genuinely motivated to build a real democracy in Afghanistan.
Get started deprogramming yourself. Listen to Blowback. Read their sources.
I don't really like podcasts; I find it hard to catch everything they're saying, or alternatively to listen through the parts where they're not saying much. You're better off citing Das Kapital like the other "anti-imperialists". It's barely readable but at least I can pull a quote without playing scribe.
Blowback is a highly produced audio miniseries. It's a fundamentally different experience than an improvised free wheeling podcast. Listen to it before you make excuses for your miseducation.
It's not even transactional, it's embarrassing. Like the people leading the place
Same objectives, speedrunning warcrimes and every form of genocide.
Isreal killed more civilians in a month than Russia did in the whole war.
Yeah because Ukraine has a real army. And air defenses, those are also important. Russia isn't not evil, they're failing at being evil.
I feel this really downplays the American-backed atrocities happening in Palestine.
Of course it does; that's the reason westerners call everything their enemies do "genocide". To downplay their own atrocities.
I'm... not a Westerner.
Then the fact that you're indistinguishable from the most credulous westerner is even worse.
My bad, I forgot that, to Westerners, the word genocide just means "warcrimes when someone I don't like does them", so that they can always say they're better than their enemies: "sure we do eat crimes, but they do genocide!"
Russia hasn't done anything in Ukraine that the West didn't do in Iraq, but nobody calls that genocide.
I don't think children have been stolen yet, but maybe you have sources about it?
You're right, in Iraq 800,000 children were merely orphaned, rarely were they abducted to America.
Even when they don't do a thing it's because they wanted to. Brainwashed.
Yes, attacking an enemy nation with an army is very different from attacking a concentration camp.
What are the forms of genocide?
Two weeks now and the numbers of reported Palestinians death in these news articles is 21000.. along with injuries and lack of water, shelter, food, and many diseases.
If what he is saying is that Russia wants the land known as Ukraine and Israel wants the land known as Gaza; I agree, Russia and Israel have similar goals.
And the USA is the innocent littler flower who never did nuffin in either place.
About as expected, sadly Russia and China likes doing both sides on Palestine. Infinitely better than what Brandon and the west are doing but still, L.
Like, Hamas leadership (and PLO in the 90s) has visited Russia on multiple occasions, so clearly the relations are alright. I do think part of Lavrov's rhetoric mentioned in this article is just diplomatic nonsense.
I so miss the USSR
I wouldn't count out the pressure of dual citizens and interest groups too, it's not like the US is the only place that has an Israel lobby, Russian is spoken by around 1/5 people in Israel, although some of that 20% would also account for Russian speakers originally from other parts of the USSR, that is still a very substantial connection.
Looks like Palestinian liberation forces are armed with Chinese weapons. Remember that Chinese foreign policy is realpolitik, and doesn't necessarily represent their ideological line.
About what, genocide? You might be onto something there, Sergey.
Well, no. Because only one of them is a genocide.