jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoRussia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up1329arrow-down118
arrow-up1311arrow-down1external-linkRussia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’thehill.comjeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square134fedilink
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65arrow-down2·5 months agoRussian government spokespeople say lots of things. Very few of them are true, or accurate.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·5 months agoOh it’s a bit dumber than that. Russia tried to occupy Afghanistan in the 1980s and got fuckin romped worse than the US did and that was with peak Russian power and no near endless supply of Russia surplus for insurgents to use.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down21·edit-25 months agoMaybe they’re saying Zelensky will make another 9/11 like Osama did after we supported him in Afghanistan? e: ya’ll ever hear the old addage “don’t downvote the messenger”? go and downvote putin or something.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·5 months agoThey seem say whatever would be best for them regardless of truth, so you can’t even rule out what they say like if they consistently lied.
Russian government spokespeople say lots of things.
Very few of them are true, or accurate.
Oh it’s a bit dumber than that. Russia tried to occupy Afghanistan in the 1980s and got fuckin romped worse than the US did and that was with peak Russian power and no near endless supply of Russia surplus for insurgents to use.
Maybe they’re saying Zelensky will make another 9/11 like Osama did after we supported him in Afghanistan?
e: ya’ll ever hear the old addage “don’t downvote the messenger”? go and downvote putin or something.
They seem say whatever would be best for them regardless of truth, so you can’t even rule out what they say like if they consistently lied.