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by crossroadsguy 1533 days ago
GP asks because when it’s geo-frickin-politics it’s really not - Uo is calling R bad, I must also call R bad, otherwise Uo will call I bad as well. Because Uo calling I bad - is less bad for I - than R pissed off with I. Because R and I have supported each other throughout and Uo simply can not be trusted and Uo has repeatedly proved that it cannot be trusted. In fact there’s a good chance Uo as well might call I bad after I has called R bad and had lost a long time ally and eventually has been left alone.

And here people make it look like a weekend outing with some pals - hey, you should have called Jack out because he unnecessarily yelled at me! Yeah!

And because there’s clear difference of outrage when brown, yellow, black lives are bombed into oblivion, burnt into tar, whisked away into nothingness from sovereign territories without any accountability and repercussions compared to when the war is right inside Europe. Yeah, that’s real. But you all can’t see that. Why? Because it has been given a catchy name “Global War on Terror”? By the way, this is not a thing of past. It is still going on. Full throttle.

Others see that. Have been seeing for decades. Have seen the f..ing cold war and its farce as well.

So why GP asks? That’s why GP asks that’s everybody is bad here and calling Russia out bad will mean calling others’ actions/deeds good while possibly shooting themselves in the foot.

> Do you believe invading militaries should not be opposed?

Yes, should be. “Every” invading army should be. Every! Colonial powers should pay. Aggressors should atone, reimburse. In an ideal utopia inhabited only by pure flower children and silver snowflakes all this would happen maybe.

Not your or someone’s selective outrage!

Bit does it happen? No.

In the real world that doesn’t happen, it hasn’t happened, and hence many countries and entities are “not stupid enough” to catch a flying arrow in someone else’s yard in their own hinds. However heinous or a bad bully that archer is. Because as I said that’s the better of two bad options for many.

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So do you support taking action against the Russian military's genocide or not?
> So do you support taking action against the Russian military's genocide or not?

of course. and OP answered with the same answer.

please stop strawmanning, the joke is on you for not accepting the evidence. try to open your eyes to the murderous hypocrisy and deep-rooted racism of Global North/Western imperialism.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/jakarta-method-vincent-bevins...

Putin says that he is invading Ukraine to fight Nazis. Everybody hates the Nazis, but Putin's war is still wrong.

Similarly, everybody hates imperialism, and Putin's war is still wrong. It doesn't change what actions we must take to stop Putin.