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Zelenskyy says Russia has damaged ‘every power plant’ as he seeks Latin American help (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 5 points 13 hours ago (16 children)

Why would Latin America help? Did the west helped Latin America?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    ? Latin America is as much part of 'The West' as Ukraine is. What are you talking about?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    I am referring to the political block not the geographical one

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah, me too. How much close do you have to be socially, culturally, historically, commercially, religiously, economically to the west before being called 'The West' like Ukraine?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Politically Ukraine is very close to the west and it's track record on the UN is almost always aligned by the west. At the end of the day I really don't see that much incentive for Latin America to help to a big extend. To be also clear I believe Russia is the aggressor and that it need to be forced out of Ukraine

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Maybe the countries in Latin America can strike a bargain or a deal with Ukraine or some European country. It's not supposed to be charity, no one is doing anything here solely out of the goodness of their hearts.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Setting aside the question of westernness, Ukraine has more experience than any other country in defending themselves with drones. They have developed tactics and approaches that are valuable to many countries.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (3 children)

    The enemies of the Latin american countries are literally the countries who ukraine depend on to defend themselves against the Russian aggression

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Yes. Ukraine still knows how to defend a country with drones, which is still useful knowledge, and they’re reaching out. If Ukraine has downstream problems with the anglosphere and Europe later because of their cooperation with Latin America, that’s unfortunate, but it doesn’t affect Latin America.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    We only doing reciprocal aide now? What is this take.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    In what world are you living? No country helps another without some interests in mind; some are legitimate interests, some are not.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago*

    Oh my goodness the nostalgia! I haven't seen someone unironically do the "there's no such thing as altruism" bit since I left reddit. Go on, now argue that those resources could be better used by their own citizens!

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