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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Like when the CIA supported the Maidan coup or any other color revolution, the GRU taking advantage of very real grievances of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass to advance its own geopolitical interests at the expense of those same people doesn’t mean those grievances didn’t exist or that those people were happy being part of a Ukrainian state that made them second-class citizens.

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      17 days ago

      Yes exactly the same. I remember the Abrams and us soldiers rolling through the streets in support of the coup of the totally not russian puppet.

      But hey, if you think the CIA can literally psyop 70+% of a country into supporting EU membership, then you might be more of an American exceptionalist than the liberals you hate.

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        17 days ago

        If you think the US doesn’t fund and arm right-wing factions and media in adversarial (and sometimes “friendly”) countries, IDK what to tell you.

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          17 days ago

          Obviously they fund groups to further their interests. You still can’t compare it to active Russian soldiers on the ground pretending to be separatists.