With Allies Scarce, Russia Paints Itself as the Enemy of ‘Western Colonialism’ (www.themoscowtimes.com)

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For seasoned watchers of Russia’s foreign and security policy, these narratives [of Russia as the enemy of the West] cover familiar ground, researcher Samuel Ramani says. But they also encapsulated Russia’s campaign to blame the West for instigating the Ukraine war as well as its efforts to align with China against the threat of U.S. unilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region and pander to popular narratives about Western misconduct in the Middle East and North Africa.

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[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Anyone who’s been on Lemmy in the past weeks could have told you that ;)

[-] psukys@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

New to lemmy, is it plagued with tankies?

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Sort of, but it really depends if your instance is one of the ones that still fetches posts from Tankie central servers. If it does, then yes. If it doesn’t, still yes, but way less.

[-] Tomassci@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Enemy of western colonialism AND defender of traditionalism

Russia targets both tankies (by that I mean apologists of authoritatian states that may or may not be socialist) and traditionalists in such an effective way. Luckilyost of us have common sense to not fall for this.

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