"that guy called me a bitch after I shot him, now we're even"
I suppose Russia's invasion is definitely imperialism, but I don't see anyone saying both sides are at fault.
Some of the nuttier members of the ML communities are definitely saying it.
On the crosspost I'm seeing a single Feddit user saying it.
Which is in line with Feddit.org which supports Israel.
supporting Israel is a sign that the platform has been taken over by Hasbara bots.
Then you don‘t consume enough right wing media
Which might have tipped you off that this comic is not about Russia.
It is also about Russia.
Russian is trying to annex Ukraine not colonize it.
They are attempting to do the same thing, to erase the national identity of the people living there and conquer the place.
Even the settlement thing matches, the Soviets used to move Russians into all the republics to erase national boundaries and make them all uniformly Russian.
Good thing Hitler just wanted to annex the Sudetenland and not colonize it, he would have been a pretty bad guy otherwise
No Hitler did settler colonialism. In Europe. He threw the natives in ovens and stole their house.
That's why Hitler is regarded as the ultimate evil. He did settler colonialism against white people.
Yep, that's why Hitler is regarded as the ultimate evil, the settler colonialism.
The Anschluss and the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia were both justified under the guise of protecting and uniting ethnic Germans in the regions, Hitler even said he'd totally, for realsies stop after that. But I wouldn't expect .ml'ers to care about anything that happened before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact broke down.
Feel free to check with different sources if you want, but yes they ARE trying to colonize Ukraine.
https://cepa.org/article/behind-the-lines-russias-struggle-to-colonize-ukraine/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-war-in-ukraine-is-a-colonial-war
Moscow Plans to Colonize Occupied Ukraine With 5 Million People
What's the difference in the end?
Potato potato.
Russia claims that their invasion is justified because ukraine supposedly massacred Russians… Ukranians who are russian according to russia…
If you were to take the middle rode somehow for some reason you would decry both sides as in the wrong
Me: "Ah, another Ukraine meme..."
lemmy.ml
Me: "Ah. My mistake." Tips hat
Just like when your teacher or parent says it takes two to make a fight
that's antisemitic. you should be ashamed, you want to kill all jews /s
I don't know of any cases of imperialism recently, though I see what appear to be conflicts incorrectly framed as such.
For example, many say this about the Israeli/Arab conflict. However, this conflict is thousands of years old. The Israelis solidly lost a war to keep their land in the BC era, then after WWII, leaders decided to undo the loss, again by force. Predictably, the Arabs, having lived there for thousands of years now (since they were Babylonians!) were not happy. It is not simple.
The Israeli return may have been orchestrated by the imperial powers, but I would argue this is not imperialism or even a bad thing. Consider the colonial invasion of the Americas. That was clearly imperialism because my ancestors had never lived there, and had no claim to the land. We just wanted it. At best, we thought we could make better use of it than the natives. That was not the case with Israel, whose ancestors largely were the natives.
Of course, persecuting Palestinians is wrong. Imagine if thousands of years from now, the American Indians, supported by the international community, forced Americans to adopt their customs and religion or leave. That would not be right either, even though maybe they should have their land back!
We need to share in these cases, and are unfortunately bad at sharing.
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The Israelis solidly lost a war to keep their land in the BC era, then after WWII, leaders decided to undo the loss, again by force.
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That was clearly imperialism because my ancestors had never lived there, and had no claim to the land. We just wanted it. At best, we thought we could make better use of it than the natives. That was not the case with Israel, whose ancestors largely were the natives.
Absolutely fucking unhinged.
You can't get kicked out of a land 2000 years ago and claim you're still the natives. Israel has 0 claim to the land aside from their religious mythos, and the "christians" are supporting this for similar reasons since their mythos suggests that the second coming is after Israel holds the land.
AT BEST this is imperialism using religion as the excuse (you know, fairly standard imperialism). But claiming it's not imperialism is still carrying water for a genocidal ethnostate trying to handwave away the fact they're stealing land and slaughtering natives while still trying to play the victim.
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