• rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtf
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    12 hours ago

    Fondly remembering when Russia came out in support of Hamas and that Israeli dude went nuts in a live TV interview shouting that when they were done with Hamas in Gaza they would come for Russia too.

    I’ve been eagerly awaiting since then for the day when we see Merkavas and Abrams tanks roaming the Ukrainian battlefield side by side as brothers hunting Russian orcs.

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        5 hours ago

        Which would be more true than most of Putin’s claims.

        Nazi is stretching the word, but not really very much. Palestinians are Semites though, so anti-Semitic isn’t a stretch at all, it’s just blatantly correct

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          “Semite” is as archaic (and accurate) as “mongoloid” or “Aryan”. It’s no matter that it uses language as a proxy for blood. Reformed race science is still race science.

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          6 hours ago

          Israel is fucked in very similar ways but they’re not antisemitic in the modern use of the word at least (i.e. hating jews). And nazi tends to include that too.

          If he just said they’re a genocidal regime I’d be with him on that, they did somehow manage to make russias invasion of ukraine look less bad in comparision.

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        12 hours ago

        That’s one Israeli national acting unlawfully and being tried in a US court. I don’t think that’s representative of the Israeli government.

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          9 hours ago

          Israel will do what it always does and follow the advice of Aaron burr:

          “Geniuses, lower your voices You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices”

          They know Russia is supporting Iran and Hamas, but they also know Russia is a useful foil for US to make sure we never take them for granted.

          It’s just chess, Russia isn’t a permanent enemy, and they’re always dumb enough to be manipulated usefully.