Or put another way, a nation exercising its own rightful sovereignty to fight off an invader is portrayed as little more than Beach Blanket Bingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Blanket_Bingo in the eyes of your article's writer and you agree? Shameful.
Not too many people this morning, but it includes a couple that took about ⅓ of the facility's wash capacity.
Also, there are a couple of machines that have been "out of order" for multiple weeks. This is the "good" laundromat that gets cleaning and maintenance.
@lxo And the other issue with this narrative is that Eastern European countries voluntarily sought admission to the EU and in some cases NATO. At the time, I thought NATO should have been abolished after the USSR broke up, but I admit that I was wrong.
Why did those countries, after spending over 45 years forcibly integrated with the social / political / economic / military aims of #Russia suddenly flee into the EU's and NATO's embraces? Could they have a clearer view of what awaited them if they did not join than world socialist organizations do?
I urge you to read beyond those groups' opinion pieces. Talk to people from Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Moldava, Ukraine ... it is shocking how anti-Russian they are, and how much their views on this war disagree with groups like Common Dreams and wsws.
@lxo Euromaidan wasn't a US operation. It was a response to leaders who ignored their country's Orange Revolution a few years earlier. These were popular movements based on turning West ... away from centuries of cultural and physical genocide by their Russian neighbors.
And this is an example of where extremo-left propaganda and extremo-right propaganda align. Both absolve Russia and Putin of any responsibility. When they expand the active war to Moldova, how will they juggle the facts to blame USA? We all know they will.
Seriously, didn't anyone on the city council attend a US high school? In #California, we had to read the Constitution as part of a required "US Government" class.
@fu Before you do that, you should observe how a particular #Lemmy instance slants. In particular, how its admins & mods slant. The last thing you'd want is to finally persuade people to move from Reddit (or similar sites) to a Lemmy instance and then having moderators destroy your community.
I can't stand those type of sites, so I never join, but I have seen several people grumbling about losing accounts or being blocked from instances.
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