'Butcher of Mariupol' should face war crimes trial for ordering bombing that killed 300 in theatre which had 'children' painted outside, attack survivors say

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[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Russia is definitely not the good guy and I wonder why so many believe so. Russia wanted to have control over Ukraine, so that events like Holodomor wouldn't be mentioned and national heros wouldn't be celebrated. Somehow people got fed up with it and USA pretended to be their ally and then abandoned them.

It's not like it's the first time USA treats an ally in such a way. After the Greek Civil War, Greek politicians insisted that we should blindly trust the American policy. Then 1955[*] came and after the massive attrocities that happened (and were part of the Gladio operations), USA said that Greece should ignore them because that would cause trouble within NATO.

[*]https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/09/07/september6-7-1955-turkeys-kristallnacht/

https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/09/06/on-this-day-in-1955-the-constantinople-riots-begin/

[–]NeoRail 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It's not like it's the first time USA treats an ally in such a way.

Other than South Korea, I actually cannot think of a single US "ally" that the US did not abandon or screw over in the past century. Even in the case of South Korea, if another poster here is to be believed, the Americans transformed the country into a prostitution state. If I recall correctly, in the immediate aftermath of the Korean war, up to 30% of the South Korean GDP was revenue from the prostitution industry servicing American troops.

[–]douglas_waltersWhite Supremacist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They were just spreading freedom and democracy bro

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/05/356_277394.html

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I knew about the Three S policy in Japan, but did not realise there was a similar development in Korea. Interesting. It seems that in the minds of the great democratic crusaders, cynicism and democracy necessarily go together.