• moonking@lemy.lol
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    3 days ago

    America invading the Middle East and Israel committing genocide has been the staple my entire life.

    World’s going to shit due to climate inaction.

    The only change here is Russia and Ukraine, and that’s been ongoing for years now.

    I don’t feel overwhelmed, this all feels normal to me.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      The only change here is Russia and Ukraine, and that’s been ongoing for years now.

      I dunno, the Russian invasion of Georgia was in 2008 (Russia has actually been involved with warfare on Georgia going back to 1993). They haven’t always aimed at the exact same areas and while they didn’t invade Belarus, they seem to have a good relationship with the country in a vassal state type of way. It certainly seems that Russia has been trying to regain lost territory for most of the same time period as the wars in the middle east.

      A lot of people also don’t seem to remember the whole reason that the USA originally sided with and funded bin Laden and his Mujahideen was to kick Russia out of Afghanistan. It’s part of what eventually bred bin Laden’s distrust and hatred of the US for essentially being used as a tool and then thrown away.