• eran_morad@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You really think that for the entire duration of the russian empire and its successor states (to this very day) all those vassals actually had a say in their government? There’s no helping you.

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        2 months ago

        others react in kind.

        Jesus Christ, dude. The russian empire predates the American state. They’ve been subjugating client states for a long, long time. They’ve been undermining the free will of countless Eurasian peoples for centuries. And they’re more active in that arena now than they were back in the old days.

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          No need to be belligerent with commonly known facts. Still the 100+ year global hegemonic run of the US far exceeds the Eurasian hegemony of the Russian empire in terms of lives lost, economic impact, and ecological loss.

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              The Holomodor is truly an horrific genocide of the Ukrainian people caused by the Soviets.

              The US has perpetrated or backed the following genocides:

              • The Native American genocide
              • African and African American genocide in the US
              • The Palestinian genocide
              • The Bangladeshi genocide
              • The Guatemalan genocide
              • The Yemeni genocide

              Not even getting into the mass death caused by American sanctions.

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                Are we going back to the 1600-1800s? If so I think the list of Eurasian/Russian (in whatever form) fuckery and murder is quite long as well.

                Probably best not to take high ground on that

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                    So let’s not stand on the idea of one country “far exceeding” another, when that claim is anything but clear cut.