• Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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      Unless they come across a child wearing a hoodie and they happen to have dark skin. Then suddenly they feel frightened about their safety.

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      Camo is russian, weapns are russian, no Flag patches, but a very round and wagner like patch in the background. I say yes they are. Combined with the fact that this is clearly in Mali (tone of the earth and style of the structures).

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    Can you please dont repost russian propaganda??? This looks like russian PMCs in Mali, posting for a photo op. By using it as a meme Template u further “russia strong” narrative.

    If i should be wrong with my assumptions please let me know.

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      Those ammunition backpacks are a gimmick. That dude is going to be a heat casualty with a sun burnt head, should have packed water instead.

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        how nuanced, but yes sure every civilian they killed sure was ISIS just like everyone killed in gaza where terrorists right?

        Man i thought the talks abour .ml people where exaggerated…but na some or yall are truly dense mfs

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          Yep, mercenaries being recruited into a civil war against ISIS is totally the same as a genocide in a concentration camp.

          You want nuance? The actions of Russian Mercenaries in Mali are the results of soldiers being in a war, they are there by the choice of the highly popular military junta they’re not an invading force they’re there to help with destroying ISIS, and when you give a bunch of idiots guns and put them somewhere far from home they’re going to kill innocent people at some point, but I don’t trust a single bit of reporting from western media on this, the same media that was hiding the crimes of western armies in Iraq and Mali itself suddenly caring about innocent civilians, and unlike France the U.S. Russia wasn’t part of the Safari club and wasn’t the one funding the Afghanistan terrorists in the 80s.

          You talk about nuance, that not every person killed is an ISIS member, well maybe by your logic not all the mercenaries fighting ISIS happen to be war criminals?

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      I thought it was making fun of American meat heads who carry guns everywhere when they really don’t need to be caring guns to mundane places.

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      Our local grocery store now has signs on the door warning people that long guns are not allowed on the property. All because some asshole carried a shot gun in one of their branches in Texas.

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      As someone who doesn’t know shit about military technology, nothing about this suggests Russia to me. In fact it doesn’t suggest any country, except “hur dur Americans like shooting” because of context.

      So I don’t know, is it propaganda if you need to have specialised knowledge to recognise what’s being advertised?

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        I second this. I know fuck all about military stuff and I laughed purely at the image of such small dick energy and excessive force just for going to Walmart.

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        Just because you dont recognize State backed Private Military Forces who committing war crimes in Mali…dosent mean this Picture is less propaganda. Would u still find the meme funny if it where the same picture but u would realize what it is?

        edit: never mind i just realized what instance this was posted in…arguments are probably futile

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          I don’t know, it at least doesn’t seem like very effective propaganda if only a tiny group of people even recognise what it’s showing. Propaganda usually tries to reach as many people as possible with very simple and effective imagery. So I’m not sure.

          I get where you’re coming from, if you do have that specialised knowledge, it must be obvious to you. But without that, I don’t see how anyone would think “Russia strong” just from this picture. For all I know, they might be Ukrainians.