Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine a legitimate target over drone support
www.euronews.com
Eleven countries have requested Kyiv’s help in countering Shahed-type drones amid the Iran war and Tehran's ongoing attacks against the Gulf states, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week.

The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy said that by providing drone support to Israel, Ukraine has “effectively become involved in the war.”

Zelenskyy earlier stated that Kyiv has already deployed interceptor drones and a team of specialists to help protect US military bases in Jordan.

  • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 hour ago

    Authoritarianism is using power, whether military, economic, influence, etc. to dictate the status quo.

    This can be done beneficially, as is often done in China.

    The problem I take is, it is impossible for any reasonable person to look at the brutality and violence perpetuated by that same government and not just go “oh ew”, and so when the response is “yeah but america worse” instead of something like “yeah, that is bad” (like a normal person and not a propagandized robot who has been brainwashed not to articulate wrongthink opinions when it might be inconvenient for the regime), it makes me go “oh, you’re a propagandized robot who has been brainwashed not to articulate wrongthink opinions when it might be inconvenient for the regime”

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      15 minutes ago

      Authoritarianism is using power, whether military, economic, influence, etc. to dictate the status quo.

      So anarchists defending the existence of their commune would be authoritarian

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Propaganda doesn’t work that way, and brainwashing does not exist. I recommend reading Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” when you’ve got a spare hour.

      Either way, I support states controlled by the working classes, which sounds to be authoritarian by your view. In that sense, all Marxists are authoritarian, so I again assert that “tankie” is just a pejorative for communist. The problem I see is that too many people fall for Red Scare propagandizing, and are allergic to contextualization, preferring to analyze everything metaphysically, ie in the abstract, rather than dialectically, ie within its real, existing context. That’s why dialectical materialism is so useful.

      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
        11·
        50 minutes ago

        god fucking damn it I don’t want to learn right now

        Edit: that was /s i just dont have time and i keep responding to a million comments