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Russia is Preparing the Next Generation to Die for Their Country
(www.themoscowtimes.com)
Don't forget that Ukrainians are also being brainwashed into being gay
Fun fact: The Moscow Times is majority-owned by a Chinese businessman.
thank you for posting this and baiting a few more tankies into outing themselves, I do so like adding them to my block list
Im a tankie :)
Do u want to be friends?
As is tradition.
They've been doing it for years. I've been both fascinated and disgusted by this song, recorded long before the fullscale invasion.
Theyll think they're dying for their country, in reality they'll be dying for Putin's fantasy.
Weird comment considering how much military propaganda exists in the USA. Did you watch the latest Top Gun film?
How does the existence of military propaganda in the US make the observation that there’s military propaganda in Russia a weird comment?
Because the idea that people in Russia will not be dying for their country but instead be dying for the fantasy of the president is either completely universal for all countries, and therefore not notable, or it's an attempt to demonstrate how this situation is notably different than in other contexts.
That’s a false dichotomy, but honestly even if you granted it I don’t think it affects the validity of the original statement. People dying for one thing when they think they’re dying for another is sad, even if it happens everywhere all the time. I also don’t really get the contention, that saying “a particular aspect of Russian nationalism is bad” is not notable, when this is literally a post about a particular aspect of Russian nationalism?
You don't see the problem with an article picking a universal experience, accentuating it by writing an article about it, omitting any mention of other examples of it in any other country, and doing it in the context of war mongering, war profiteering, proxy warfare, distribution of weapons to neo-Nazi groups that were supported as part of a multi-decade pro-Nazi leave-behind system (Operation Gladio), as part of th expansion of the world's only transnational nuclear military that is unaccountable to any citizens of any country that has launched multiple wars of aggression and occupation?
You don't see how an article like that contributes to a narrative of othering and dehumanization by it's silent ommission and lack of acknowledgement? You don't see how that narrative of othering and dehumanization leads to mass murder, ecocide, and escalation towards nuclear conflict?
You think everything is just a spherical frictionless ball in a world without air resistance that has no interactions with anything else and isn't informed by nor informs other major trends?
Fuck if anything we all should be preparing to die for American shareholders if their bloodlust continues to escalate this conflict.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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