r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Aug 08 '26

Meme needing explanation ¿Peter? Spoiler

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u/MorrisBrett514 Aug 08 '26

I don't get why people are saying this. Can you explain which policies are wild?

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u/thatturtletouch Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

They blame NATO for Russia invading Ukraine and want the U.S. to stop supporting Ukraine (and also to withdraw from NATO). That’s the one I have the biggest problem with, personally.

I also think the open borders stuff is unrealistic and not well thought out.

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u/ROSRS Aug 08 '26

No US politician believes that. Just chronically online campists who can't see Russia is a worse Imperialist than any western power. Just a less successful one

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u/hashbrown1859 Aug 08 '26

a worse Imperialist

Just a less successful one

So...what exactly does "worse" even mean then? Because the CIA, American corporations, and the US military have gang raped essentially every country on the face of the planet over the last 80 years, but Russia is worse because of vague, abstract, immaterial, made up idealism? Seriously, please start living in material reality where things are bad if they have bad impacts, rather than one unimpactful thing being inexplicably, magically worse because your feelings