• mrdown@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    soviets supporting a liberation movement was “imperialism,” as though the goal was to plunder Afghanistan

    That is the same rhetoric the imperialist west use. With your definition US intervention in the Korean war was not an imperials movements. If Afghan decided peacefully and with no foreign intervention do you really believe the USSR would have not intervened ? and by intervening I don’t necessary mean military

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      The US Empire is actively plundering the ROK, and uses it as a millitary base. Intervention is not imperialism, but a method that can be used for it.