• @Dasus
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    1212 hours ago

    Well ofc. Putin is the de facto leader of the US in big policy now.

  • MonsterMonster
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    1112 hours ago

    “First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity - voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.”

    “UNGA members backed the European resolution by 93 votes but, extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states, with 65 abstentions.”

    • @[email protected]
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      1912 hours ago

      extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states,

      Wow, really a who’s who of shitheels.

    • Optional
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      412 hours ago

      republiQan coward worthless fucks.

    • @gAlienLifeform
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      212 hours ago

      That’s breathtakingly shitty of my country to do, but the security council stuff is just as bad and maybe more important since (if my memory serves) the security council has a lot more actual power to do things that the general assembly does

      Then [the US and Russia] backed a US-drafted resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an end to the conflict but containing no criticism of Russia.

      The Security Council resolution was passed but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained in the vote after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed.

  • Destide
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    1117 hours ago

    Wonder what the Americans who call everything communism feel about siding with communist dictatorships?

    • @uienia
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      You seem to have been asleep for a couple of decades. Russia isn’t a communist dictatorship. It is a right wing fascist dictatorship.

      • MonsterMonster
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        The point is that Americans are perceived as calling anything that they don’t understand or doesn’t conform as either Communist or Socialist even if they aren’t.

        • Destide
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          This is what I meant also I never mentioned Russia but let’s just go off on a tangent with insults anyway. China is a bedfellow in this

      • @rottingleaf
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        -412 hours ago

        It is a right wing fascist dictatorship.

        Descended from a communist bureaucratic corporation (USSR was technically that). This for me is the scariest argument against corporations as a form of organization - they breed inside themselves the kind of parasites that can’t survive in smaller hosts.

        Also I have doubts against mixing right-wing and fascist, in some sense fascism for the right-left category is what null is for boolean types. There are right ideologies, there are left ideologies, fascism is about lack of any consistency in ideology.

    • @[email protected]
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      3417 hours ago

      That’s kind of a weird question. Russia isn’t communist and arguably never got further than state capitalism under the Soviet Union. Russia is certainly a dictatorship/oligarchy now, but so is the US (with extra steps that are currently being dismantled anyways).

    • @teamevil
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      1115 hours ago

      Pretty fucking disgusted that we’ve decided to embrace the horrendous fucking garbage lunatic in office and really fucking disgusted he’s on putlers balls. I’m sorry Europe were a disgrace

  • @rottingleaf
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    -212 hours ago

    In principle it always was closer to Russia than the rest of “western” nations.