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The PRC isn’t open and democratic, either, so I don’t see your issue.

If Wikipedia is too “liberal”, most of Lemmy is, too, and especially any community on lemmy.world. Why are you even posting in a “liberal” community if you’re so completely opposed to them?

YDI. You did post propaganda.

Nope, complete silence.

Well, this ain’t it.

Why would the Moldovan government want to appeal to Russia?

If they’re no threat, why does Moldova let them occupy a part of their country?

Taiwan is entirely dependent on the USA for its own survival. If they alienate their main ally, they’re going to immediately get conquered by China.

Moldova’s position is somewhat less desperate, but they, too, depend on their western allies for protection from an aggressive outside enemy who literally has troops stationed within Moldova’s borders.

In both cases, the guilt lies squarely on the shoulders of the USA and the EU countries.

The gall to put that as the actual ban reason …

Many dogs I see bark at people, while many other dogs are quite happy meeting other dogs. Probably depends on the breed and whether the owner is a dipshit.

One issue is that Japan was treated with kid’s gloves after WW2 unlike Germany, the Germans were made keenly aware of how much they fucked up and the allies spent some effort to “denazify” the country - even if it was incomplete, it was still a lot more than what was done in Japan.

Now that I think about it, it probably also helped a ton that the EU wasn’t just two countries, but pretty much from the very beginning a round table of more-or-less equals. Really takes the edge off animosities between any two countries in a way that’s probably impossible when all you have is bilateral relations, even when there’s a guarantor like the USA that would prevent any active hostilities.

I suppose I took it for granted how well my own country was able to deal with that kind of situation.

Most of these have actually quite different political systems. e.g. Putin’s Russia is a dictatorship, while Ukraine is a somewhat imperfect democracy that has been on the road to become more similar to EU countries. Trump might despise Canada, but is that true for Biden and other prominent Democrats, too? Was that true for pre-MAGA Republicans? Either way, Trump’s USA is a rightwing dictatorship while Canada is a democracy.

Also, even if a set of relatively similar countries isn’t actually friends, it would still be very beneficial for most them, certainly more beneficial than going to war with each other.

Japan and South Korea have similar political systems and similar human development indexes, which implies relatively similar sets of values. And they’re fairly alone with those in their corner of the world. They both have to deal with being adjacent to Russia, China and North Korea, which aren’t exactly the best neighbors. And they face similar social issues, e.g. extremely low birth rates.

In short, it would be very beneficial for them to be friends.

… they weren’t? Is it really just down to WW2 history and chauvinistic sentiments, which are the only concrete issues the article mentions? Looking in from the outside, that’s pretty absurd.

Do you call every German under the nazi regime who didn’t speak out out of fear a nazi?

Good for you, but I don’t think it’s alright to just demand it from others, especially not in this way (like telling people they’re nazis if they don’t want to go to prison).

I’m personally not a fan of the legal situation, but you can’t mod or admin from prison and evading a country’s law is pretty hard in the long run if you live in that country.

The question then is, should the biggest europe-centric comm be hosted and modded in such a way that criticism about one of Europe’s most powerful nations isn’t allowed?

You can discuss whether this legal situation is wrong or not and whether the German government should support certain countries, though, if you don’t include stuff like “you’re a nazi/zionist/etc.” (usually unhelpful, anyway) or “this country should be destroyed” (I don’t think it’s super necessary for discussing Germany, unless you also want to destroy Germany).

That said, I agree that it’s probably better to move English-language discussions of that topic to a different instance; German law enforcement is pretty gung-ho on that topic and frequently breaches the law itself.