The sad thing is that a good amount of these guys aren’t actually working for the state. A lot of them are actually immigrants who left Russia for more opportunities, but are still rampant nationalist attempting to damage the countries that gave them a new home.

humanspiral@lemmy.ca

Yogthos@lemmy.ml

Are another two just off the top of my head.

I highly doubt Trump knows who Tate is, but I suspect the incels on truth social have been cheerleading for his return. Which honestly is more worrying, a bunch of basement dwelling Hitler youths have more influence over the government than elected officials.

This is nothing, on hexbear there’s a person pretending to be like half a dozen different Palestinians with different fraudulent GoFundMe. They cook up a new persona like every other week using pictures they scrape from the media and then run it through an AI filter.

Well, the Area of the Russian Federation in Europe is 39% of the European landmass. This has nothing to do with the Asian part of Russia. The Russian Federation is about 1.7-1.8x the landmass of the European continent.

Still… I don’t really know how mostly empty tundra is really prevalent to the discussion.

And with a hundred million Russians living in the European part, that makes the largest ethnical group, considering the differences between the slavic ethnicities.

This is true, and I do wish there wasn’t an artificial constructed delineation between Russia and the rest of Europe. However, I don’t really know how western Europe is really meant to overcome this considering Russian cultural ideology is still being haunted by the specter of the Russian empire.

As someone who’s ethnically East asian, its always funny when I hear Russians consider themselves “The East”, when the only historical ties they have to the actual East is European styled imperialism.

Ethnical, Cultural and Historical divides are a poor and often arbitrary metric to justify modern Nations borders, both in joining or separating areas.

100% agree.

Also Russian in its legitimate borders makes up almost half of the European continent.

Not sure if land mass is exactly prevalent in this, as most of Russia is just colonized portions of Asia.

When we are past this whole mess we need to stop thinking of the EU as “Europe” and the other half of the European continent as “not Europe”.

It takes two to tango… A lot of the modern ideas separating Russia from Europe was done as a way to validate Russian imperialism. This idea is being continued by people like Putin for the same reasons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasianism

Also ethnically speaking Slavs are the largest ethnic group in Europe with about 300 Million people.

Yeah… But thinking of Slavs as a monoculture is really dated, and kinda goes against the way we classify ethnicities all together. East, West and Southern Slavs are separated by distinct cultural groups, religions, languages, and about 1500 years of history.

Same to you!

what do you suppose the Taliban would have done to those same people and more if the US had not pulled out when Trump told them we would?

I don’t really think slowing down a pull out a few weeks or even months would really upset the Taliban anymore than what we had already done, I mean we’ve been there for more than a decade.

The point would be that it would have given more time for people to make their way to the airbase, and for more than just a couple airplanes full of people evacuate.

The only reason the Taliban was able to capture Kabul so quickly is because they and the security forces knew that the US wasn’t providing any air cover.

Eh, I guess it’s a matter of opinion. To me knowingly finishing your opponents mistake is worse than making an honest one yourself.

I may be a little biased though, as I have had the opportunity to provide healthcare to a few of the Afghan interpreters that were lucky enough to evacuate and make it state side.

I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation, so they had all been pretty banged up, missing limbs, or had lower limbs injuries that affected their mobility. But their personal injuries were nothing compared to how much uncertainty they faced about not knowing about the well being of extended family and friends still in Afghanistan, a home they will likely never have the chance to ever visit again.

don’t see how this is laid on Biden since Trump agreed to the withdrawal and timeline

Trump made the original withdrawal date and Biden arbitrarily stuck to it when he came into office.

He was under no real obligation to stick to the timeline and it was a betrayal to every Afghan citizen that worked with us. I don’t really care what Republicans bitch and moan about.

Feel like that speech would have meant more when he still had the power to do anything about it. Instead of going to war against this oligarchy he chose to cash his political capital on a rushed pull out of Afghanistan, and to kill a bunch of Palestinians.

How dare you. There’s like only one thief in the army, everyone else is just trying to get their shit back.

You are so sensitive to immediately tell someone to F off which screams American.

Lol, have you been to East Asia? Getting told to fuck off isn’t exactly a hard thing to provoke in Asia, it’s not something that only happens in America.

You claim yourself as Chinese which means you know best about all Chinese culture right? Which is such a common Chinese xenophobic tactic.

Almost as common as white people explaining Asian culture to Asians on this social media platform. I’ve been lectured to about my own culture by European and Americans who have never left their own countries.

But at the same time you’re so disconnected from your own culture you feel the need to share you and your own parents ethnicity

My dude… Your ethnicity doesn’t change just because your parents migrated to another location. The fact that you can’t recognize stripping someone’s ethnicity away from someone because they weren’t born in there families homeland is just another form of forced assimilation, and is incredibly racist.

mandarin in university level ABC

Again, utilizing an acronym to other delineate someone from their ethnic heritage is disgusting. Especially considering that I doubt you’ve ever had to deal with navigating the social stratification of being an immigrant.

Accosting a Chinese person for not being Chinese enough is just about the most 4d chess move of racism a white dude can pull off. Congrats.

If you have a bunch of questionable 7.62 that’s been in storage maybe a little too long, what’s a better pairing than a rifle that’s half cosmoline?

It hardly ever jams, is easy to clean and maintain, and if you don’t clean it for long enough the pin will stick and then you can slam fire on full auto.

One of my first guns was a Yugo sks that had never been fired. It’s great for learning because you have to do a complete breakdown to clean all the grease from everywhere before you can actually shoot it.

Yep, turkish nationalist are just as genocidal as they’ve ever been. Honestly their beliefs around ethnic conflicts haven’t really changed since the early 20th century.

Lol, sure…

“Since the conflict began, more than 40,000 people have died, most of whom were Kurdish civilians.[”

“Turkey has depopulated and burned down thousands of Kurdish villages and massacred Kurdish civilians in an attempt to root out PKK militants.”

“The initial reason given by the PKK for this was the oppression of Kurds in Turkey.[81][82] At the time, the use of Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names were banned in Kurdish-inhabited areas.[83] In an attempt to deny their existence, the Turkish government categorized Kurds as “Mountain Turks” during the 1930s and 1940s.[83][84][85] The words “Kurds”, “Kurdistan”, or “Kurdish” were officially banned by the Turkish government.[86] Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life until 1991.[87] Many who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned”

Yeah, they’re literally just normal dudes doing their mandatory service that everyone hates. I think one of the benefits of mandatory service is that the police state isn’t exclusively made up of the most violent and conservative people in the country.

It’d basically be impossible to occupy even with a large draft/mobilization. Mexico is 3x the size and population of Ukraine and the terrain varies between mountain jungles and desert plains.

America wouldn’t have an issue handling their military, but a counter insurgency war would be unwinnable.

I mean, at least that one had some kind of military support and an iota of planning. Seems like Yoon just had a bit of a breakdown, doesn’t seem like people in his own party even knew anything was happening.

South Korea may be a bit more conservative than other western democracies, but the people definitely aren’t afraid to hit the streets and fucking riot if needed. None but a few fucking weirdo new right people really want anything to do with dictatorships anymore.

Lol, I’m just happy you even believe in the idea of Kurds in general. I’ve known some Turks who just claim “those are just mountain Turks who have lost their language!”.