• SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 hours ago

    He is either betting on the lack of knowledge that people have on the Ukraine war or has really poor memory because didn’t he arm the Ukrainians when he was in office the first time? If he wanted to end the conflict for good he should’ve done it back then. But this is Trump we are talking about, he’s just an opportunist really.

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      16 hours ago

      Alternate phrasing that just popped into my head, works better with the leash part: The imperialist blaming the running dog for fucking it up, while pretending the leash doesn’t exist.

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      11 hours ago

      In the same vein, some Fascists refused to go to war against the RSI, while others joined the Royal Army, considering this the honorable (and Fascist) thing to do. In perhaps the greatest irony imaginable, eager draftees in May 1944 shouted “Hail Mussolini! Duce! Duce!” when in fact the army they were joining was at war with Mussolini.⁷⁵

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      On 25 July 1934, [pro‐Reich Austrians] launched a Putsch and assassinated Austrofascist Chancellor Dollfuss. While the [pro‐Reich] coup collapsed, the [pro‐Reich fascists] succeeded in sowing uncertainty and chaos.

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