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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 day ago

My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 day ago
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    Russia isn’t imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies

    Yeah, tell that to Crimea, the Donbas

    Are you kidding me? The people in Crimea and the Donbas wanted to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine, which had been killing them since 2014.

    • Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
    • Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript
    • Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
    • BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
    • Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
    • Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
    • The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
    • The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
    • WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
    • Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
    • The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
    • openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
    • Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
    • Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
    • Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
    • Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
    • NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

    China is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.

    The Atlantic, 2021: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

    What is China doing to undermine local sovereignty or labor movements in Africa?

    The current real estate crisis

    What “current” real estate crisis? The Chinese state intentionally popped the real estate bubble over a year ago, making the capitalists eat their losses.

    • Reuters: China Evergrande ordered to liquidate in landmark moment for crisis-hit sector
    • Bloomberg: China Reiterates Stance That Homes Are Not for Speculation
    • CNBC: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary

      “We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.

    Compare that to Obama, who bailed out the private banks at the expense of people with home mortgages, banks that knowingly wrote those bad mortgages. Michael Hudson, 2023: Why the Bank Crisis isn’t Over

    The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. As President Obama told the bankers who worried that he might follow through on his campaign promises to write down mortgage debts to realistic market valuations in order to enable exploited junk-mortgage clients to remain in their homes, “I’m the only one between you [the bankers visiting the White House] and the mob with the pitchforks,” that is, his characterization of voters who believed his “hope and change” patter talk.

    “ghost cities” are a pretty obvious example.

    Reuters, 2015: The myth of China’s ghost cities

    Wherever you’re getting your information from, it’s dogshit.

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      I see you have your cut and paste propaganda all ready to go there.

      The people in Crimea and the Donbas wanted to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine,

      Sounds an awful lot like claiming Iraqis wanted the US to overthrow Sadam and would welcome it with open arms. It worked out about the same too, except for the Russian military embarrassing themselves. Even taken at face value, all you are doing is justifying the imperialism, not showing it doesn’t exist.

      China is the biggest debt holder nation in the world. Zambia just had to default on loans for infrastructure that largely served Chinese needs, and Kenya and Ethiopia are not far behind. Meanwhile, the DRC is falling into debt paying for infrastructure to ship Copper and Cobalt to Chinese. China has not been as abusive as the west was, but they aren’t that much better either. It’s still the same tactics.

      New Labor Forum: Chinese Investments in Africa: Twenty-First Century Colonialism?

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        “Cut and paste propaganda” lol you mean sources? You’re just upset that they came prepared because you’ve got jack shit

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        I see you have your cut and paste propaganda all ready to go there.

        Oh yeah, famous Chinese propaganda outlet: The Atlantic.

        Fuck off; you’re just using the word “propaganda” to mean "anything I disagree with. There is nothing that anyone could say to you to disagree that you wouldn’t immediately say “that’s propaganda and therefore wrong!” to.

        It worked out about the same too

        Are you stupid? Iraq immediately erupted into long term insurgency, a thing that categorically did not happen in Crimea or Donbas.

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          There is still a significant pro Ukrainian resistance operating in both Crimea and Donbas. Russian has had to resort to brutal tactics to suppress them, but has still not been entirely successful. Many of the resisters retreated to fight with the rest of Ukraine, and they are certainly giving Russia a fight. In any case, it’s still imperialism.

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            Yeah? Where did you hear this?

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            Evidence for that? Ukraine government - the same who sold the Ghost of Kiev, Russia collecting Ukrainian children like Pokemon, the Martyrs of Snake Island, the secessionists shelling themselves, Russia shelling itself, russian troops shelling themselves, russian timetravel technology deployed in Bucha and much more.

            Is getting your intelligence insulted your kink or something?

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        If you don’t like cut and paste responses, stop having cut and paste thoughts.

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