• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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    2 days ago

    Would you not feel threatened if you were Russia? Map of US military bases:

    Imagine if China or Russia did that, and then started bombing random countries.

    On mobile, apologies if it’s not the best image

      • Skua@kbin.earth
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        5 hours ago

        OP is getting mocked for posting a map claiming that there are US military bases in Beijing and Moscow, not because anyone thinks there aren’t a lot of US bases around the world

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      Bro have you even taken a look at that fucking map … there’s one dot in moscow of all places, the other one in beijing. That’s a map of embassies you fucking tankie moron.

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      2 days ago

      those sneaky american put a military base even in moscow and beijing without anyone noticing! but alas the operative costs led them to demolish all the bases in their own homeland!

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      Imagine if China or Russia did that, and then started bombing random countries.

      Lol yeah can you imagine?

      What if Russia had military bases in other countries like Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Madagascar, Mozambique or Sudan?

      Imagine if they had bombing campaigns in random countries like Syria, Georgia, Libya, Central African Republic or Mali.

      Also imagine what would happen if the US would bomb one of their own cities like Minneapolis or Tulsa Oklahoma so thoroughly that it would become known as one of the most destroyed cities in modern warfare

      Don’t get me wrong, the US is an imperialistic power hungry repressive country which imposes its will on plenty of smaller countries, but let’s not pretend that Russia is better in any way, shape or form, they’re just not as successful in exacting power outside of their sphere of influence.

      Edit: lol someone pointed out correctly that this map is just a map of US embassies, holy fuck tankies are idiots

      • gex@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Nah, the US has military bases in Moscow and Beijing, that’s how powerful they are

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          2 days ago

          LMAOOO

          I JUST REALIZED HOW FUCKING DUMB THIS IS!

          remember when the russians made a huge fuss about “US-Soldiers in Ukraine” because US Soldiers protect the US-embassies around the world?

          This is that! This is so fucking disingenious!

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      Cute. Now post map of every military base that switzerland doesn’t own in the world. Why isn’t switzerland feeling threatened and invading neighbouring countries, threatening genocide and nukes? I mean the bases are right there!

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        To be fair, Swiss never gave up on general conscription, got strong army and will forever remain somewhat weary of all of their neighbours, neighbours who have all blobbed out at least once before in history, except Liechtenstein :')

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          Wary of their neighbours. When Switzerland gets weary of their neighbours, those neighbours need to start worrying

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      Imagine if China or Russia did that

      Yeah, imagine if Russia started invading all its neighbors. What a wild hypothetical.

      Hey ivan, tell your buddies to stop smoking near ammo depots and oil refineries.