• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    6 hours ago

    So if USA is fighting proxy with Ukraine how then is Russia not fighting a proxy with Iran?

    I literally explain this to you above. Try engaging with that stochastic parrot.

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      6 hours ago

      A proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term “proxy war,” a belligerent with external support is the proxy. Both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid from a third-party country. 12

      There’s a Russian source. You’re wrong. You don’t know what proxy war means but continued to fight about it anyway. A simple look in any dictionary in any language from any country in the world will shoe you you’re mistaken and yet have the audacity to talk in other comments about possessing intelligence and critical thinking skills and “approaching ideas with knowledge”

      You don’t even know how to comprehend what the fuck a grade school definition of proxy war is.

      “Amazing you don’t even know what a proxy is”

      Talking about a slave of the western education system lmfaooooooo

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      6 hours ago

      Bud by your own definition up above you said that since Russia doesn’t tell Iran what to do with the weapons it supplies them that that isn’t a proxy.

      USA doesn’t tell Ukraine what to do with weapons either. It gives them to them.

      Since both wars are being helped by an opposing party to the aggressor that makes it by the literal dictionary definition a proxy war.

      “It’s ok when comrades do it because we do it to help that country defend itself. When the dirty capitalist pigs do it they do it to enrich themselves” do I have that right?

      “Amazing you don’t even know what proxy means”

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        6 hours ago

        The US is not just dropping off care packages and waving goodbye. Ukraine is entirely dependent on American weapons, American intelligence, and American cash. Without the US Ukraine collapses within weeks. That is the definition of a client state. The US may not micromanage every trench assault but it absolutely sets the parameters of what Ukraine can and cannot do. No ATACMS into Russian territory until Washington says so. No F-16s until Washington approves. Zelensky does not get to unilaterally escalate because the plug gets pulled if he steps out of line.

        So yes. The US is fighting a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine as the proxy. This is openly admitted by no lesser person than the Secretary of State.

        What’s truly amazing here is how you just keep doubling down.