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GIF of character Marty McFly in the movie Back to the Future saying "Hey, I’ve Seen This One!

france is shocked that israel is torturing europeans for once, instead of arabs as it is “supposed” to.

it is important to note, that despite the soviet-style aesthetics, pridnestrovie/transnistria is not a socialist state, having officially denounced and abandoned socialism back in 1991. the vast majority of the economy is owned by oligarch victor gușan and his sheriff corporation, who treats the place as his personal fiefdom, . most main government positions in the territory are are essentially appointed by gușan, with the people holding them basically functioning as enforcers of his will.

nevertheless, tiraspol still plays a historically progressive role in the current geopolitical situation, with the local russian military presence being a deterrent against further western imperialist expansion in the region, and the government’s policy of holding on to some semblance of internationalism, or at least inter-ethnic understanding, serving as an alternative to the increasingly intolerant and discriminatory policies of the pro-românian régime in chișinău.

i’m not armenian myself, though i have some in my family, so i can’t really offer any good explanation either.

it is quite frankly ridiculous how armenian eurolibs debase themselves to appeal to westerners, especially given how said westerners’ ancestors were still sharing mud huts with their livestock while armenia already had civilization.

my personal guess is, that such behaviour stems from a certain tendency towards national pessimism and self-hatered found in many colonized and imperialized populations (and yes, i do consider the 90s’ collapse to have been a form of neo-colonialism), as well as being the result of long-standing propaganda efforts by western media and certain sections of the diaspora. over all, it seems quite similar to what happened in ukraine.

side note: a while ago i’ve had an iranian monarchist seriously claim to me, that iranians, unlike arabs, are “white”, lmao. i didn’t even know what to say.

i remember how, back in 2018, pashinyan was promising everyone reunification with artsakh. reminding the average armenian euroboo of this will get you called a russian agent nowadays, lmao((((