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Mainwhile, Russia is actively engaged in the destruction of Ukraine wheat export terminals, and India remains silent.
India: I'm going to stop exporting rice because we need to ensure our own food security.
The West: How dare you! You better give us your rice because don't you know we're more important?!
India, Indonesia and the rest of non alignment countries do not need to enter this war set up by the West.
I agree with you that India doesn't need to take sides, but I'm pretty sure Russian/West cooperation had been increasingly positive since the cold war ended, right until Putin decided he wanted to be an imperialist again. The West didn't make him invade a sovereign, non-threatening country.
Russia imperalist is akin to someone bombing Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan?
LOL
Pssst, you're allowed to criticize more than 1 country
Is that why NATO and the EU cannot be baddies?
yes, your point being?
Russia is excused because USA is also doing bad stuff? Because that is a weak fucking argument.
Well... Yes.
They're both bad
From what I read India and Russia are really old friends, that's why India isn't saying anything and they do lot of business.
Historical and political reasons too. USA keeps arming Pakistan with modern weapons, and they have a single target to use them on. It would be stupid of India to put all it's weight behind US if that's a one-sided affair. In an ideal world everyone would side with what is moral, unfortunately we don't live in that world.
So true.
More than old friends. India is heavily reliant on russian arms. Replacing them would be a slow, expensive process. Considering it is surrounded on two sides by aggressors with regular conflicts, jeopardizing relations with Russia is not an option.
This reads like an ironic shitpost. No one can seriously believe that one person saying mean things can rationalize an invasion that's killing thousands and hurtsling food security for millions.
Tbf "Asians are subhuman" is what the nazis used to justify killing millions of Russians, Ukrainians, and other USSR ethnicities. Millions of ukrainian red army soldiers are rolling in their graves.
I can't find one source for this that doesn't come back to elrisala.
Even if this story is true, one asshole doesn't justify the genocide that Russia is committing in Ukraine.
Even if this story is true, it happened long after Russia started their "special military operation" and can't be used to justify it.
I can point you towards many racist political figures throughout history who weren't fascist. Racist is not the same as fascist. Sure, fascism usually requires creating an in group and an out group, but it's also a lot more than that and needs to be larger than one person. Even if this person is a fascist, it still doesn't even mean anything. He doesn't have the political power to do anything fascist with.
Yeah. All those damned Jewish Nazis in charge over there.
If you were any dumber, you'd be a doorstop.
You can't actually be this detached from reality...
🤡
Try harder.
Where do you people come from
I'm ready for that to happen. It's getting old already.
While true, at which point does defederating make sense? Been wondering this myself. Reality is full of bad actors so we should be capable of countering these threats without purely relying on censorship. OTOH that takes time and energy best spend elsewhere.