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Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such
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So because Russia had other conflicts where they didn't commit genocide, it's impossible for them to commit genocide in the future? Or if they do start doing genocide them it's actually someone else's fault?
Weird amount of genocide denialism and victim blaming from a self processed passifist
Woah that is the most insane argument I've read so far. With that logic we should attack everyone because they could commit genocide. And if you disagree you're a genocide denier lol.
Argument for what? I'm pointing out that you're doing genocide denial and suddenly I'm saying someone should get attacked? Being against genocide denial doesn't mean I think anyone should get attacked you goof.
Notice how I said absolutely nothing about whether I think the war is great or what anyone should be doing, and yet you projected all these views onto me, just because I said genocide denial is wrong. Rethink your life, friend.
No, no, you're definitely in the wrong here. Let's go through the play-by-play:
Famko said: "Let Ukraine put their weapons down so that Russia would annex and genocide them? Let’s not forget that Russia is a nazi state, hellbent on promoting Russian ethnic supremacy."
AlteredEgo said: "But there is no evidence for your premise. Russia was an antagonist interfering in other countries before the Ukraine regime change, but they didn’t engage in conquest and genocide. Nor do I know of state sanctioned discrimination between the different ethnicity living in Russia."
You said: "So because Russia had other conflicts where they didn’t commit genocide, it’s impossible for them to commit genocide in the future? Or if they do start doing genocide them it’s actually someone else’s fault?"
So here we see someone positing that Russia will genocide Ukraine if Ukraine surrenders and someone saying that there's no evidence of this in the history of the RF for the last 30 years and there's no evidence of it happening now. You said that just because Russia didn't commit genocide previously doesn't mean it's impossible for them to commit genocide in the future.
So now we have AlteredEgo coming back to say, paraphrased "[wait, are you saying that if it's possible that Russia might commit genocide against Ukraine in the future that this is sufficient for why we should fight a war of total domination against them?"]
Because that's the context of the thread you jumped into