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by jl6 1573 days ago
It is dark comedy indeed to see Russia’s apologists defend their actions with whataboutism about the US war in Iraq. Guess what, we think that one was illegitimate too. Good work throwing the Ukraine invasion on the pile of unjust wars. Bush and Putin can sing a Nuremberg duet together.
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Imagine Russia ousted Treudeuo for crimes against peaceful protestors (freezing bank accounts without trial etc) as occurred this month in Canada. He then sends weapons and trainers to Canada to build up resistance and military installations in Canada, perhaps even offering a treaty for Canada to join Russia as military defense allies. This is basically what the USA/Europe did in Ukraine in 2014 (McCain and company was there and USA spent 5B on NGOs overthrow democratically elected leaders of Ukraine and helped install pro US gov).

Chomsky's take is not bad: https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1495330478722850817

>"Guess what, we think that one was illegitimate too"

And this is why the offender is currently suffering under the heavy weight of sanctions having exterminated boatloads of people.

Oops. Sorry. Move along. Next.