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by bpodgursky 1425 days ago
Ok? Russia didn't sanction Ukraine; they invaded and have killed tens of thousands of people (so far). There's no equivalence here.
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Sanctions cost lives too. And sure, there is no equivalence between them and the literal ethnic genocide Russia has been perpetrating for the past five months, but you can’t really claim US isn’t actively hostile towards Cuba: it literally destroyed the country and is forcibly keeping it like that purely to keep votes of Cuban diaspora.

But that’s besides the point, which is: like it or not, in politics might makes right, and Russia very obviously lacks the might.