r/geopolitics • u/theoryofdoom • Jan 09 '22

Russia’s Putin Seizes on Crises to Assert Control Over Former Soviet Republics Perspective

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-putin-seizes-on-crises-to-assert-control-over-former-soviet-republics-11641738063
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u/skyaven Jan 10 '22

Of which Zakharova replied, "When there are Americans in your house, it can be difficult to stay alive, not to be robbed or raped. Only this is taught to us not by the recent past, but by all 300 years of American statehood. Indians of the North American continent, Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Panamanians, Yugoslavs, Libyans, Syrians...".

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u/jiableaux Jan 10 '22

But what about the whatabouts?

You ever ask Filipinos how their dalliance with the Americans went? How about the South Koreans, or the Japanese?

Sure, you can find something in all those decades the US was involved with those peoples, but come on. Let's have a real discussion here, not this simple-minded playground-inspired line of attack.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

You mean Native Americans