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"The emperor only values his throne and will do anything to protect it, while all others are mere resources to be exploited," writes Aleksandar Đokić, a Serbian political scientist and former lecturer at RUDN University in Moscow. "In other words, the Russian empire is knowingly throwing its own people, people of its own nation, into a meatgrinder, a virtual abyss."

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[–] SugarApplePie@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno how many people would take issue with that, I think a fair number of people here would agree that America is an empire too for example

[–] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America's done some fucked up things in the last 20 years, don't get me wrong, but absolutely nothing comes even close to the horrors of the genocidal war of imperial expansion Putin's currently waging in Ukraine. There's absolutely no moral equivalency between the modern US and Putin's Russia.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, America has done some fucked up things in the last 100 or so years, but there's no way to justify one crime with another which is what some posters here on Lemmy often appear to suggest. I feel such attempts to portray moral equivalency is another insult to the victims of these horrors.