• Fawkes@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    You realize saying “I’m right and you’re wrong, and if you don’t know why I’m not going to tell you,” comes across as extremely childish, right?

    Are you making the argument that Russia isn’t engaging in ethnic cleansing? Or that they don’t have the same alliances as Germany did? What precisely are you separating between the 2 actions taken by powerful aggressors?

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      “Powerful aggressors” is the issue. If you think Germany in 1939 is the same thing as Russia in 2023 then I have a bridge to sell you. You realize Germany defeated continental Europe and then invaded half of Russia, right? Putin’s military couldn’t hold Kharkiv. Idealogical analogies are great until they run into material reality.

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        Why? Where does the analogy fall apart, specifically? Is there no comparison because they are literally just different countries and the year is different?

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          Does putin have concentration camps set up where Ukrainians are used as slave labor and then liquidated and then sent up a chimney?

          Or was he responding to a buildup of NATO forces along the border and Ukraine killing ethnic Russians within Ukraine?

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            The allies in WW2 didn’t fight because Hitler was putting people in concentration camps.

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              The allies in WWII were extremely war weary from WWI and waited until they were forced to fight. The “allies” now want to use Ukraine to the last man to try and degrade Russia as much as they can, because war makes them money.

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                I’m not arguing with you, I’m making fun of your willful inability to understand an analogy

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                    Well, Netanyahu has never invaded the Sudetenland, so I’m going to pretend to not understand your analogy at all since it’s not exactly the same?

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            The ICJ shot down Russia’s allegations of genocide years ago.

            Typically a genocide ends up making itself known.

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              Wow blatant disregard for the murder of ethnic Russians from a .world account? Shocker.

              Not a big fan of history?