When the US nukes two cities, it’s “the only way to stop the war”, but when the USSR obtains nukes it’s “crazed mad men that will bring armagedden”
The lib I work with has tried to have a serious discussion with me about Putin and whether or not he would be petty enough (should he lose the Ukraine war as the lib was expecting) to just start a nuclear war with us because he has nothing to lose. When Saudi Arabia started cosying up to China I asked him if he thinks we’d be petty enough to start a nuclear war with China, and he laughed and was like ‘no comment’. I promise 100% nothing got through to him, this guy believes everything the state department says (but he’s got good politics with regard to Palestine at least, but even then I have some minor doubts).
When the US nukes two cities, it’s “the only way to stop the war”, but when the USSR obtains nukes it’s “crazed mad men that will bring armagedden”
not to mention the usual orientalism that the eastern doesn’t have intelligence to invented anything so they need to copy the western tech.
everybody racist until ussr take the lead with the hydrogen bomb.
It’s the identical take to the modern China racism.
“There is no way that ‘subhuman easterners’ could ever attain the same level of technology as the West without stealing it.”
exactly, and guess what, china is speedrunning technological leadership. lmao, curious what they will say this time
The lib I work with has tried to have a serious discussion with me about Putin and whether or not he would be petty enough (should he lose the Ukraine war as the lib was expecting) to just start a nuclear war with us because he has nothing to lose. When Saudi Arabia started cosying up to China I asked him if he thinks we’d be petty enough to start a nuclear war with China, and he laughed and was like ‘no comment’. I promise 100% nothing got through to him, this guy believes everything the state department says (but he’s got good politics with regard to Palestine at least, but even then I have some minor doubts).
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