The official Tankie guide to Israel-Iran war in 10 rules.
1. Being attacked by a nuclear power no longer means you should surrender immediately.
2. There is no need to trade land for peace, pledge neutrality and disarm after electing a government that the attacker approves of.
3. A massing of the attacking country's forces in its own territory, or in an international waters, is absolutely a threat. News which reports such is to be believed immediately, even if it is CNN
4. This is "not fake news made up by state controlled media to sell more Russian weapons to Iran". See point 3.
5. Defending yourself is not an escalation. Attacking the nuclear power's own territory is justified and does not cross a critical red line that probably triggers a nuclear threshold ad infinitum.
6. Someone please point Prez to an analyst from "Soros funded CIA propaganda outlet" who said there was no chance Israel would attack Iran and who is now explaining why it was inevitable.
7. Anyone who said that Israel would attack Iran is not a MSM warmongering shill but a serious analyst to be beleived. Related to point 6
8. Giving anti aircraft weapons is now not an escalation. See point 2.
Russia's only seem to work on civilians aircraft anyway
9. We now have to oppose a nuclear armed country run by far right headbangers who use bizarre interpretations of history to claim they own someone else's land. Previously we appeased that.
10. Whatabout (insert your favourite false equivalence)
Essential tool to manage the pain caused by the two sides of our morally inconsistent brains meeting each other for the first time.
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OTD in 1956 several armored Soviet humanitarian divisions, with equipment bought from a shop, went on a "special military operation" to Hungary to liberate the locals from themselves.
They did this cos a "fascist, hitlerite uprising financed by the west" broke out.
Imagine using such a bullshit excuse in the 21st century.
Those old tanks are now in Ukraine
Prez read somewhere USSR marked their tanks with letters and had orders to engage any Soviet equipment they found without a marking BUT also clear instructions to *not* engage any NATO vehicle at all.
Not there is a lesson on calling our bluff there. Heavens no.
OTD in 1968 Soviet Russia invaded to save Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring. Some of these tanks are in Ukraine today.
We said we were protecting them from Nazis. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today...
The Warsaw Pact is the only mutual defense alliance in history to repeatedly invade itself as members were not permitted to interfere in their own internal affairs.
Da. Prez is aware most of these tanks are in Ukraine rn.
We pretend we have no idea why all our former colonies all want to join NATO. Total mystery.
OTD in 2014, @rt_com ‘apologized’ for airing a fabricated story about a child being crucified in Ukraine to provide justification for our invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands.
What Chomsky would call ‘manufactured consent’ - not that his cult give a shit when we do it
We lied on RT to millions but when @JuliaDavisNews exposed it we ‘apologized’ to a few thousand on this tiny Press account & tweeted it direct so even fewer would see it.
Your Prez has had RT "journalists" claim it was never broadcast, which explains why they apologised for broadcasting it.
She & others keep quiet these days, for some reason. In unrelated news, media employees have been jailed for many years at The Hague for inciting genocide 😎
Sit down my loyal serfs & your Prez will tell you a tale. A tale replanting sunflowers, rehanging posters, an innocent looking family, a man banned from Twitter, & my embassy in DC.
So strap yourself in, open up the lead lined tea box, make yourself a strong brew and get ready🧵
So. Those loyal enough to listen to their Prez’s podcast will have heard Ben Wittes (imperialist lickspittle) explain his habit of projecting Ukrainian flags and art onto my embassy in DC. If not, sushi has been sent.
Ben also plants sunflowers, posts Ukrainian art and hangs portraits of my hostages where the delicate employees of @RusEmbUSA can see them, causing untold distress, fundamentally destabilising relations and showing Russophobia.
OTD in 1940 USSR gave Romania ultimatum to cede large parts of the country to Soviet Union or be invaded.
Imagine us threatening to invade countries in this day and age…
Within a year about 30,000 people where liberated from fascism (with whom we were allied) by being forcibly deported to slave labor camps. This had absolutely nothing to do with a secret clause in our treaty with the Nazis.
Imagine mass deportations taking place today…
But the USA invaded Iraq and the Ford motor company made USSR sign that treaty it means this is ok although it never happened, never happened a long time ago and I’d never happening again.
Prez’s really do trolls say this. All my trolls are morons.
The “Basic” tankie. Russia has never invaded anyone ever. Russia become the world’s biggest country by peacefully defending itself in other people’s countries.
The “Russia was provoked tankie”. NATO caused this war. It did this by being seen as a better option to Russia’s neighbors than Russia is and then by actually being a better option to Russia’s neighbors than Russia is.