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  • Military intervention in Libya. Belligerent NATO states: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. Most of those are EU countries.

    NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Aviation: French, Italian, UK, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Spanish, German

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  • I'm not arguing that Europe doesn't have the potential for being a force of good, I'm arguing that as of now, it's simply not. The EU was formed not with peace and stability in mind, but with neoliberalism and anticommunism, otherwise it would have never adhered to NATO and participated in all its military campaigns, both informally (Afghanistan) and formally (Libya and Yugoslavia). If we want to praise a country/region for its peace in the past century, we should praise post-Vietnam-war China.

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  • I'm gonna paste a comment that I wrote some time ago responding to the whole "Soviets sided with the Nazis" lie that is often propagated on Lemmy. Feel free to respond to it, I'd love to engage with you in its contents:

    The only country who offered to start a collective offensive against the Nazis and to uphold the defense agreement with Czechoslovakia as an alternative to the Munich Betrayal was the USSR. From that Wikipedia article: "The Soviet Union announced its willingness to come to Czechoslovakia's assistance, provided the Red Army would be able to cross Polish and Romanian territory; both countries refused." Poland could have literally been saved from Nazi invasion if France and itself had agreed to start a war together against Nazi Germany, but they didn't want to. By the logic of "invading Poland" being akin to Nazi collaboration, Poland was as imperialist as the Nazis.

    As a Spaniard leftist it's so infuriating when the Soviet Union, the ONLY country in 1936 which actively fought fascism in Europe by sending weapons, tanks and aviation to my homeland in the other side of the continent in the Spanish civil war against fascism, is accused of appeasing the fascists. The Soviets weren't dumb, they knew the danger and threat of Nazism and worked for the entire decade of the 1930s under the Litvinov Doctrine of Collective Security to enter mutual defense agreements with England, France and Poland, which all refused because they were convinced that the Nazis would honor their own stated purpose of invading the communists in the East. The Soviets went as far as to offer ONE MILLION troops to France (Archive link against paywall) together with tanks, artillery and aviation in 1939 in exchange for a mutual defense agreement, which the French didn't agree to because of the stated reason. Just from THIS evidence, the Soviets were by far the most antifascist country in Europe throughout the 1930s, you literally won't find any other country doing any remotely similar efforts to fight Nazism. If you do, please provide evidence.

    The invasion of "Poland" is also severely misconstrued. The Soviets didn't invade what we think of nowadays when we say Poland. They invaded overwhelmingly Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian lands that Poland had previously invaded in 1919. Poland in 1938, a year before the invasion:

    "Polish" territories invaded by the USSR in 1939:

    The Soviets invaded famously Polish cities such as Lviv (sixth most populous city in modern Ukraine), Pinsk (important city in western Belarus) and Vilnius (capital of freaking modern Lithuania). They only invaded a small chunk of what you'd consider Poland nowadays, and the rest of lands were actually liberated from Polish occupation and returned to the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian socialist republics. Hopefully you understand the importance of giving Ukrainians back their lands and sovereignty?

    Additionally, the Soviets didn't invade Poland together with the Nazis, they invaded a bit more than two weeks after the Nazi invasion, at a time when the Polish government had already exiled itself and there was no Polish administration. The meaning of this, is that all lands not occupied by Soviet troops, would have been occupied by Nazis. There was no alternative. Polish troops did not resist Soviet occupation but they did resist Nazi invasion. The Soviet occupation effectively protected millions of Slavic peoples like Poles, Ukrainians and Belarusians from the stated aim of Nazis of genociding the Slavic peoples all the way to the Urals.

    All in all, my conclusion is: the Soviets were fully aware of the dangers of Nazism and fought against it earlier than anyone (Spanish civil war), spent the entire 30s pushing for an anti-Nazi mutual defence agreement which was refused by France, England and Poland, tried to honour the existing mutual defense agreement with Czechoslovakia which France rejected and Poland didn't allow (Romania neither but they were fascists so that's a given), and offered to send a million troops to France's border with Germany to destroy Nazism but weren't allowed to do so. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a tool of postponing the war in a period in which the USSR, a very young country with only 10 years of industrialization behind it since the first 5-year plan in 1929, was growing at a 10% GDP per year rate and needed every moment it could get. I can and do criticise decisions such as the invasion of Finland, but ultimately even the western leaders at the time seem to generally agree with my interpretation:

    “In those days the Soviet Government had grave reason to fear that they would be left one-on-one to face the Nazi fury. Stalin took measures which no free democracy could regard otherwise than with distaste. Yet I never doubted myself that his cardinal aim had been to hold the German armies off from Russia for as long as might be” (Paraphrased from Churchill’s December 1944 remarks in the House of Commons.)

    “It would be unwise to assume Stalin approves of Hitler’s aggression. Probably the Soviet Government has merely sought a delaying tactic, not wanting to be the next victim. They will have a rude awakening, but they think, at least for now, they can keep the wolf from the door” Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the United States, 1933–1945), from Harold L. Ickes’s diary entries, early September 1939. Ickes’s diaries are published as The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes.

    "One must suppose that the Soviet Government, seeing no immediate prospect of real support from outside, decided to make its own arrangements for self‑defence, however unpalatable such an agreement might appear. We in this House cannot be astonished that a government acting solely on grounds of power politics should take that course” Neville Chamberlain House of Commons Statement, August 24, 1939 (one day after pact's signing)

    I'd love to hear your thoughts on this

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  • See? This is why they defed you. You're carrying water for Zionists by saying that legitimate defense against an occupying nation is terrorism.

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  • I cannot read in Ukrainian, but if the article contains independent verification of the tens of thousands figure, I'd love to see that section translated. What you quoted are anecdotal events, not evidence of tens of thousands, which is what I'm questioning. I'm not doubting some war crimes are being carried out, of course thats the case, I'm just saying they're not nearly widespread enough to constitute genocide, as evidenced by the lack of support by essentially any country to such claims.

    You can leave the conversation if you want, but the figure of "tens of thousands" literally comes from the Ukrainian government. Per the Wikipedia article of the Abductions:

    Ukrainian authorities have verified the identities of over 19,000 abducted children, compiling and actively updating the data as part of an online platform: "Children of War"

    You are free to believe this figure if you want, but you'll also be called on it when you use it to justify baseless claims of genocide which minimize what's happening in Palestine. I'm not carrying water for Russia, I have given evidence of me heavily criticizing Putin in my main account, and believe me or not I actually hosted a Ukrainian refugee in my home when the war began. But it is not a genocide, that's very harmful to Palestinians.

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  • Plenty of modlog evidence in the db0 post to discuss defedding:

    Calling Hamas "terrorists" is Zionist propaganda.

  • Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds

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  • Excellent analysis, thanks too for sharing your numbers, quite interesting seeing how much you can save with proper usage of the vehicle!!

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  • The source for the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted is, unsurprisingly, the Ukrainian government. The Russian government makes claims about Ethnic Russians being cleansed in Donbas and I don't take those accusations as true either, until confirmed by independent journalistic reports. You'd do well to do a more critical analysis of wartime propaganda by countries involved in wars. I've had this conversation before with several people, revisited the sources available, and there is no independent journalistic work proving tens of thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted.

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  • Russia is, in fact, not enacting genocide on Ukrainians. It's carrying out an invasion which we can condemn, but calling every conflict a genocide is actually a form of genocide denial, because it minimizes the horrors of actual genocides.

    If you want to see criticism of Russia in Hexbear (my main instance), yesterday there was a post asking for peoples' opinions on Putin. Here's mine so you can see how much we "love the Russian government". You may be surprised to see that most comments and upvotes are highly critical of the contemporary Russian government.

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  • The post title referenfes the "Nazi bar" problem. Not every feddit user is a raging Zionist, but not banning obviously Zionist users makes it a space not worth belonging to or interacting with. Zionism is a dangerous ideology and it should be kept away from as many people as possible.

  • Russians spend ~40% of income on food, highest level in 16 years

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  • For reference, I was living in Germany during the beginning of the war, and my heating bill went from 150€/month to 450€/month, I had to move out of the apartment I rented because I couldn't afford to heat it. Now I live in Spain, electricity prices have remained rather stable for the past 10 years thankfully besides some shocks during cold months, and gas is more expensive but not that big a change because we get gas from northern Africa too, not just from the US.

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  • Nah, you're just eurocentric and believe the myth of the European garden vs the world jungle, whose roots are white supremacy. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, I'm not calling you an Interpol agent.

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  • Post world war 2 , right up until now was the longest period of peace on the continent

    Damn, you should totally tell the million Algerians murdered by France leading up to 1962 that Europe was peaceful, maybe nothing would have happened. You should also tell Iraqis about how we totally didn't join the invasion of their country on this very century, Yugoslav people how Europe didn't bomb them, and Libyans that Europe didn't bomb them either

  • Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds

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  • Affordable! Assuming that's 23 days a month, that would amount to some $70

  • Me, a Hexbear tankie, seeing the piefed and feddit users malding after db0 defederated due to Zionism

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  • Oh I vaguely remember that, thanks for the link. Yeah, that individual should not be the mod of db0

  • Me, a Hexbear tankie, seeing the piefed and feddit users malding after db0 defederated due to Zionism

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  • Welcome :D

  • Me, a Hexbear tankie, seeing the piefed and feddit users malding after db0 defederated due to Zionism

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  • Seen my fair share of anticommunist libs in db0, but I couldn't point to any examples of overt neonaziism. Can you elaborate?

  • Coherent ideology

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  • You could have saved yourself a few keystrokes by just typing "no u" instead

  • Me, a Hexbear tankie, seeing the piefed and feddit users malding after db0 defederated due to Zionism

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  • Yeah, you're right, but piefed users are also malding in the original post.