• KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        Posts a youtube video instead of directly addressing the previous parenti quote

        Expects you to directly adress a video, when you point out that said youtuber should be viewed sceptically

        Sorry not gonna bother watching stuff from a “anti-imperialist” YouTuber that calls China capitalist and imperialist.

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            I’m really surprised I know about this and you don’t. I would appreciate you looking into it before dismissing it.

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                I read a book a long time ago about it. Maybe I still have it, I’ll look after I recover enough. But the account @davel@lemmy.ml posted seems to align largely with what I recall. In short, if it’s a Western narrative, take it with several kilos of salt.

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                    No it was someone I’d never heard of. I’m going to look to see if I still have the book or gave it away when I recover enough to be out of bed. I’m not even getting regular meals and baths rn.

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                  It’s an anti-Western narrative. NATO wanted the genocide to happen to kill Bosnian Muslims. They blocked weapons to both sides because they knew it would functionally give the Serbs the opportunity to genocide the Bosnians. And they knew of the genocide while they were happening. In the end they rewarded the Serbs for committing the genocide. It’s all pretty clearly laid out in the video.

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                    22 hours ago

                    This is ass-backwards.

                    As usual, the US and its allies wanted to destabilize Yugoslavia for the purposes of regime change or Balkanization, and as usual it found a group to foment, supply, train, and fund: a minority separatist movement among Muslims within Yugoslavia and across the border in Albania.

                    The imperialists weren’t on anyone’s side but their own, and the only outcome they cared about was replacing the government with ones that were subservient and/or weak.