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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter by thrown_22 on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:29AM (#32896498)
Europeans slept quite soundly for 40 years when it was Muslims being killed for oil.

Give it one good cold winter and Ukrainians will also become sub-humans.

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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter by dvfjsdhgfv on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:07AM (#32897210)
> Europeans slept quite soundly for 40 years when it was Muslims being killed for oil.

This is simply not true. When Bush decided to invade Iraq, there were biggest anti-war protests in European (and possibly world) history, gathering millions (not thousands) of people in practically all major European cities. It was wrong then, it is wrong now. We didn't "sleep quite soundly."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter by misja111 on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:53AM (#32897667)
Exactly. And as a response to the well intended criticism, especially to the one from France, there was a USA boycott against French products. There was even a proposal to rename French Fries to Freedom Fries... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

But this must have slipped Muslim extremists' attention because France got their share of terrorist attacks afterwards anyway.

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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter by thrown_22 on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:27AM (#32899669)
Why did you think I was talking about Middle Eastern Muslims and not African Muslims?

Just look at French involvement in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_involving_Fran...

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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter by LudwigNagasena on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:30AM (#32908403)
What did those protests achieve?
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Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter by ptr on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:05AM (#32896737)
That's what Putin thinks at least.
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