r/worldnews • u/DevineDoja • Jun 04 '24

Ukraine sent special forces to Syria to attack Russians there, revealing a new front to the war: report Russia/Ukraine

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-special-forces-syria-attack-russians-new-war-front-report-2024-6
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u/cz03se Jun 04 '24

Who the heck on the left is simping Russia?? This sounds like gaslighting to me

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u/thasmush Jun 04 '24

Uneducated people

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u/DonniesAdvocate Jun 04 '24

No. On the whole these people tend to be overly well educated, just look at someone like Chomsky, arguably one of the greatest academics alive today but a total Russia simp too. These people are usually called tankies after backing the Soviet invasion of, I think Hungary in 1956 and tend to be university educated leftists on the whole. Former British prime ministerial candidate Jeremy Corbyn would be another example.

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u/duaneap Jun 04 '24

And funny enough they are often people who would really suffer under Russian control. My aunt is one of these. Highly educated, insists America is to blame for literally everything bad ever in the world, thinks Russia is more or less in the right, and would be utterly fucked if she actually lived there or we were invaded and occupied by Russia.