Double standards are twice the fun.

https://lemmy.world/post/44722229

Fuck Russia, fuck Israel, fuck the United States, fuck China.
Wth what did China do
Taiwan, among other things.
Oh shit did they invade?
Not to my knowledge, but they’d like to and don’t recognize Taiwan as separate from China.

Call me crazy, but that doesn’t feel as bad as

  • invading Ukraine
  • invading Iraq twice, bombing Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, bombing Yugoslavia, arming a genocide in Guatemala, invading Afghanistan, invading Vietnam, bombing Cambodia and Laos, funding a genocide in Indonesia, funding a genocide in East Timor, funding a genocide in Gaza
  • invading all your neighbors all the time

Third one is Israel, got lazy.

You got also lazy with Russia. That list should have been as long as the US
Feel free to extend it, I’ll edit the comment. Ideally in a pithy format like the US one.

invading Poland, invading Finland, occupying the Baltic states, crushing the Hungarian Revolution, invading Czechoslovakia, invading Afghanistan, arming the Derg regime in Ethiopia, funding proxy wars in Angola and Mozambique, intervening in Moldova, intervening in Tajikistan, bombing Chechnya, invading Georgia, invading Ukraine, funding separatists in the Donbas, bombing Syria, arming militias in Libya, funding mercenaries in the Central African Republic, funding mercenaries in Mali

is it ok?

Wait, are Poland and Czechoslovakia during WWII? I don’t feel comfortable putting those two on the list (I didn’t put “invade France” for the US either, which would be absolutely bizarre). I’m also going to filter out the separatist one, bc I didn’t include KLA either for America, for example.

Actually, writing this, I notice I would have to vet all of these one by one before I would feel comfortable adding them to my comment, and I don’t have time for that. I did promise to add them to the list, so as a compromise I propose I just add a link to your comment, with the explicit caveat that I’m not sure if I agree with all of it. Would that work for you?

You need to define the criteria. France was liberated by the allied forces. And French government was independent immediately after the war (France even withdrew from NATO). Poland was under Soviet dominion until 1989. 1947 were not free elections.

For me that counts for sure.