• crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Defending and attacking are two different things. I meant the US cannot be defeated by an attacker.

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      1 year ago

      then Russia makes a better example of a invincible empire.

      Sweden, France, Germany have all tried at their peak strength to conquer Russia and failed.

      USA with its geographical isolation has been lucky in that regard.

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          1 year ago

          Yah a fully expendable population makes for unlimited cannon fodder :(

          Edit: Not saying Russians are expendable. Just saying that their previous dictatorships (and arguably the current!) considers them as such. I have nothing against Russians but I do against their governments.

          It’s mad to think this country has only had a democracy for a year or so in the 90s. Which began with the fall of the USSR and ended with Yeltsin’s coup.

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            1 year ago

            Russians aren’t more expendable than any other human being. They’re just being treated as such by their fascist regime. I know it’s easy to start thinking badly of all of them because of the idiotic war, but they’re human beings too. The ones outside of the kremlin at least.

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              Sorry, I didn’t mean Russians are expendable of course! (Hence the sad smiley). In fact I was lamenting the way the Soviet and Tsarist governments treated their population. Sorry if this wasn’t clear.

              And I’m sure 90% of Russian soldiers are not happy to fight this war either. I’m sure they’d prefer being home with wife & kids rather than dodging bullets.