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The West: Makes fun of socialist and communist countries for having massive shortages of essential resources and uses it as an anti-communist talking point.

Also the West: Sanctions those countries and are actually the ones causing the shortages.

In India, no one wonders why when India was handed over there was no reparations for the billions of dollars of plunder. We may not be politically colonized but still are economically and psychologically.

NATO: bombs a country to within inches of its life, invades and destroys every square inch of the country, funds US-backed terror organizations, death squads, etc. to disrupt the peace in the country, pushes propaganda to make people believe war crimes are the only answer to the issues they present in the country

People from that country: defends themselves

NATO: “see, they’re authoritarian, anti-democracy, warlike, and evil! We told you all of this before, and now they’re proving it!”