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To be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be its ally is fatal (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then why do people feel the need to defend Russia?

Pointing out the defence of something unrelated isn’t Whataboutism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can't see a post about the two-sidedness of US policy without invoking the Russians.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Then it’s fine to call them out when they show up

You even have (or had if mods did anything) some loser saying the US overthrew Ukraine with a far-right coup even though everyone knows that’s not true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

even though everyone knows that’s not true

Source: it is known

There are relatively few comments in the thread talking about Russia at all, and calling the Euromaidan a US coup is not Russia apologism, it's literally discussion about US+Ukraine.