• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      The US has used Ukraine as a proxy against thr RF since at least Euromaidan. Their policy with Ukraine was and is to apply maximum pressure to Russia to isolate them from the rest of Europe. The US funding and arming the war to the last Ukrainian is therefore a continuation of decades-long policy and not a “decision to help”.

      This also applies to Israel. Israel is a lapdog of US empire that lashes out at targets in the middle eaat in ways that serve US ruling class interests. The US’ support of Israel did not begin on October 7, it has been ongoing for decades. The US just provided even more money than usual and has withstood siding with genocide because it has a complacent, propagandized, and complicit population.

      Hamas is certainly on the right side, which is to say, the liberation of Palestine from its racist settler colonists.

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      Hamas didn’t just appear one day. It was an attempt by Palestinians to take control of their own destinies.

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      (to clarify: Hamas is not the right side, the “right side” is to protect the innocent civillians in the region)

      I’d legitimately like to know what you are specifically referring to. Because FAR TOO MANY people only know about Hamas what the Israeli government/interest groups wanted them to see. Especially because without Hamas, most Palestinian people would not have water nor electricity for example. So they are in fact protecting the innocent civilians, unlike what you wrote. You were wrong there.

      I’d be curious to hear why the people trying to push back their colonizers are not on the right side to you. Who is then? Is it Israel, the one literally bombing, kidnapping, raping and using Palestinian people as human shields?

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      Sure it wasn’t out of altruism. If Ukraine loses, more things will happen (remember, this didn’t start with Ukraine, we had Chechen, we had Georgians, we had Ukrainian Crimea and now Ukraine)

      1. Ultimately we’ll have war in Europe which will force US to be involved (as mentioned Ukraine is not first and not last)
      2. More likely invasion of Taiwan (if US couldn’t help Ukraine, how will they help Taiwan?)
      3. We will get a nuclear proliferation, a bunch of other countries (Japan, South Korea, Poland, Germany and others) will be interested to obtain nukes, as that will be the only guarantee to not get invaded
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    16 days ago

    Who do you think this is applying to? I’ve seen a ton of people against both. The US government supports Israel because they’re a friendly power in the region. But that doesn’t make it right, or that most people would agree with the decision.

    Also, there’s a difference of scales. Russia tried to push to Kiev to install a government, Israel looks like it’s more of a land grab. Again, neither are just, but they’re not the same.