Of course the situation might’ve been different. You wouldn’t have dumb needless animosity on sectarian lines as they do today. Understand that by saying dumb shit like “The fighting would’ve happened anyway!” serves two purposes: a) to minimize the depravity of the British, the British Raj and colonialism in general and b) assumes that clashes on the basis of sectarianism is an inevitable pathway. Btw, partitioning is a tried-and-tested, colonial “divide and conquer” tactic.

Point is, a lot more lives could’ve been spared had it not been for colonialism that plagued the area, this is indisputable.

This is rather a colonial narrative. Do you think the fighting would’ve lasted as long if the British never colonized that area?

US state department told me so

I wish you and your German contemporaries could apply the same ass sentiment to the immigrants demonized in your country that have narrowly escaped the same ongoing wars/genocides backed by your state.

I do recognize international solidarity, it’s just that there’s more emphasis on solidarity with the workers of the Global South and it doesn’t include comfy libs, a majority of which are from the Global North. If that wasn’t hinted at in my original comment, then it is explicitly suggested here.

one unforgivably tried to appeal to the imperial core, (if somehow you’ve succumbed to the memory-holing, there’s analysis done here if you’re not allergic to reading), and the other? Well… Let’s take a look at what they’ve done by looking at the best of all time comments I’ve saved on this subject have to say:

• NATO Expansionism, the Maidan Coup and fashslop
• Media’s attitude on Ukraine over time
• More fashslop (that serve the interests of the Imperial Core)
• Even more fashslop

So yes, the meme posted is incredibly based.

(BTW many thanks to the users in these posts, your analyses + your due diligence to always provide a source for your claims are excellent. Hell, literally all it takes is a single undoctored image.)

It doesn’t really matter what you and I think. The wider public, as well as this community, recognizes that as a meme.

Here, have a look at many such examples of the same format:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fake-news-article-screenshots

They really perceive this as a game, and the libs are their cheerleaders. Here’s a hoping to a very nice [REDACTED] [CLASSIFIED] [REMOVED] to these shitty excuses of a [ERASED].

Fucking wild that Lemmy made it on mainstream news… of course it had to be some stormfrontian to get it to that stage…

There is no stringent definition of what a meme is or can be, despite what Merriam Webbster wants you to think. That there’s a meme, plain and simple.

lmfao fuckin losers 🤣

why lol…

What is it, if not a meme?

And prior.

istg either libs purposefully misunderstand this, or fully believe in the “mixed economy” mythology.

But hey, as long as the “civilized world” is fully stocked on coffee, avocados, cocoa, etc…

It’s the manufacturing of consent at work in real-time. To these loonies, history always resets at some “boomerang” event (9/11, oct 7th, etc…), which is used and abused as justifications to maintain status quo (western interventionism).

I think I’ve said this elsewhere but as long as they’re not on the receiving end of forever wars/genocides, it’ll never dawn on them how privileged they are to say whatever asinine bs without remorse or consequence (they get straight up rewarded for it).

Honestly I don’t get why you engage with them, I would’ve lost my sanity the moment some Western chauvinist tried to sell people on Western-installed puppets with appeal to ahistorism. Props to you though for persevering.

Incredible minds at work over at .world. Chalking up U.S. (and other western) interests working as intended (but not presented as meekly as they hoped it would) as “corruption”, but otherwise anything that happens outside “the garden” is fair play.

These “people” couldn’t care less about the lives of those from the Global South, never mind West Asia.

has demonstrated leadership as a moderate who protects ethnic minorities

https://thecradle.co/articles/government-forces-commit-nearly-two-dozen-massacres-hundreds-of-field-executions-on-syrias-coast

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250425-syria-president-al-sharaa-open-to-normalising-ties-with-israel-under-the-right-conditions/

https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2025/05/syria-arrests-pflp-gc-secretary-general/

[Among other things], Women Told to Cover Up, Forbidden From Being Outside Without Male Guardian in Syria

Next, you’ll denounce these sources, which directly shatter that false eurolib, chauvinistic, ahistoric narrative, as “Assad-ist”. If you’re eager to to engage in Alternate History, do it in a D&D game or something.

Cool jingoist campfire story. Maybe just as cool as the other campfire story where the premise is that Russia bought the US as soon as Trump took the helm but somehow Russia sold it back when Team Blue was in charge.

Get a grip, lib.

it seems very difficult to encapsulate in a single term, so maybe simply “liberal chauvinism”? It is a typical shitlib mentality after all.

I haven’t read them yet, so I can’t say I agree or not, but now their opinion is not completely invalid.

The state of liberal “intellectualism”.