• SwedishFool@lemmy.world
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    You won’t find a single country on this planet that wouldn’t draft their citizens in a wartime situation while you’re running out of soldiers. Not a single one.

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      You won’t also find a single country on this planet that isn’t rooted on violence and that isn’t ruled by corrupted politicians

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        True, but it’s a spectrum, some countries are much more violent and corrupt than others. Arguably Russia ranks #1 in corruption, violence, and terrorism.

        Russia’s troll farms out here complaining about every other country, when they are globally causing the most problems.

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          Objection. I would argue that Saudi Arabia ranks #1 in corruption, violence and terrorism and since we are at it i would also want to point out that the west is a partner of SA and sell them plenty of weapons.

          Russia’s troll farms out here complaining about every other country, when they are globally causing the most problems.

          Is Russia the country that spends more money on psyops and propaganda?

          Arguing who’s less of a criminal or less of a dictator sounds like hitting the bottom of the barrel anyway and it’s exactly the game these warlords want people to play.

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            Saudi Arabia is far up there, but Russia is still objectively worse.

            The Russia simps like to “whataboutism” pretty much everyone else for doing smaller crimes than Russia. It’s cliche, it’s low IQ, Russia exports troll farms and nuclear terrorism, we get it.

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          But the Papal States were different. The country of Vatican City as it exists today was only established in 1929.

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            1 year ago

            Now, Facebook was evil. But, Facebook was different. The Meta Platforms, Inc., as it exists today, was only established in 2021.

            /s, just in case you didn’t pick up on my heavy use of it

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              Right. I just seemed to have missed the part where the facebook leadership was forced into excile and has it’s assets siezed by a 20 year long revolution/war that ultimatily defeated facebook, established a country and than granted the ceo a token “company”, entirly at the mercy of the revolutionaries.

              What a great analogy.

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                I don’t know shit about The Vatican, the pope, their history, or their dumbass religion (obviously, and on purpose!). Thanks for taking the time to respond to give me some insight. However, your comment reads to the layman like , “They changed their name and are way better now,” and it’ll read that way to almost anybody without your extensive knowledge of useless things.

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                  I was just making a joke about a small country without an army, because the previous comment’s “challange” and wasn’t trying to make any furher points. I don’t even know why it escalted like this.

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        that’s because the Vatican already drafts them to keep their heads in 1600, therefore they don’t know what modern warfare is

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      Running out of soldiers? I thought the Russians were a bunch of morons who can’t do anything and the Ukrainians were beating their asses in their sleep? Why would they need more soldiers?