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  • Pravda .ru is not the same as the pravda.com.ua

    Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian: Українська правда, lit. ‘Ukrainian truth’) is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000… In May 2021, the publication’s new owner became Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital.

    Dragon Capital is a Ukrainian group of companies in the field of investment and financial services, offering a comprehensive range of products in equities and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity, and asset management to institutional, corporate, and private clients. It was founded in 2000 in Kyiv… It is also the owner of news media holdings in Ukraine — Ukrainska Pravda and The New Voice of Ukraine.


  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJust baffling
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    4 hours ago

    No it’s not. He sets the scope as “all capitalist nations that have not been imperialised”, which is logical. How can an imperialised country be imperialist towards another?

    You are trying to include them in your argument.


  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJust baffling
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not validating their claim, I’m debunking the shifting goalpost argument. They since the beginning of the argument points out that the trend happens in all developed capitalist nations minus the ones that suffers from imperialism.


  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJust baffling
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    6 hours ago

    It’s a trend observable in all capitalist nations. If you develop enough, the rate of profit falls, and so you need to expand outward to profit. This is the basis of imperialism, the carving out of the global south for profit. Across the west, this is a fact, even if it manifests in different ways.

    Those on the imperialized end cannot themselves really become imperialist, and the total capital to be imperialized is limited