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I'm not 'boxed in' with anything except an extremely acute understanding of the magnitude of the crimes WE commit in OUR imperial wars, started by fascist oligarchs who have decided that cultures they deem inferior shall be met with our military might. You, on the other hand, do not seem to have an understanding of this magnitude, at all. You can do nothing about Russia's war criminals, until you do something effective about YOUR OWN. Following OUR OWN war criminals into yet another facetious, illegal war on the basis of lies and propaganda, instead of DEMANDING justice for their victims, is just pure evil. WE have been murdering millions of people in OUR illegal wars, fought far beyond our own borders, at a rate far, far more detrimental to world peace than anything Russia has been doing. Russia, fighting a defensive war on its own 2000-km long border with Ukraine, is in NO WAY comparable to the heinous human catastrophe we have caused, by way of the machinations of an out of control military industrial complex hell-bent on what are fundamentally racist wars in .. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia ... Yemen. And many, many more theatres beyond the range of civilian observation. >We don't want to live under a Russian version of Jim Crow laws like 35 years ago. The world does not want to live like Americans do, either. We've seen the bankrupt families living under the bridges. We've seen the addiction and the war crimes and the crimes against humanity. We've seen your for-profit prison-industrial slavery system. We've seen the weapons you drop on innocent people while ensuring your own children have no future. We've seen the network - a thousand of them - of secret bases the American empire has built in order to give itself a place to torture and commit further heinous crimes against humanity. We saw what you did to Julian Assange and the many others who came before him, attempting to right the heinous injustices of your military industrial complex and its vile, evil intelligence services, usurping sovereign nations across the globe for the purposes of the misanthropic oligarch class that rules you, through your military junta. Your hatespew of Russia is noted as yet another form of cowardice. Spend a trillion dollars on diplomacy per year, instead of murdering innocent people every twenty minutes, as you have done for twenty years, and you might find that the rest of the world is willing to play with America, again. As it stands, the USA is losing the respect of a majority of the nations of the world, whose citizens do not cowardly shy away from observing the results of American war crimes, which are committed in your name whether you have the temerity to confront them, or not. You are merely propagandizing for war. I demand you start making peace, American. The world tires of your excuses for the death of millions of innocent people. The moral imperative you claim is a dire fallacy. |
I already told you that I am not an American. I am not even from the Anglosphere, so the self-loathing does not evoke any emotions from me.
Furthermore, I come from a country that already tried "making peace" with Russians during the Woodrow Wilson-inspired era of neutrality in Europe. We stayed neutral, trying to maintain good relations with everyone, even with Nazi Germany and the USSR. In the end, both invaded us, murdered national elite from politicians to doctors to lawyers to scholars to everyone else who could run the country and challenge the puppet government they installed, and sent sizable part of the population in entire families to die in remote prison camps. That was followed by a Russian military occupation, which lasted until 1991. The occupation was characterized by deep economic stagnation and systematic attempts to wipe out our nation by suppressing our language and culture and by mass resettlement of Russians into our country. By the time USSR collapsed, the average wage was less than 30 dollars per month and we were on the verge of becoming a minority in our own country.
Lack of strong alliances in Europe against totalitarian dictatorships is a key reason why this happened to so many countries in Europe. Western Europe successfully defeated Nazis and restored freedom in 1945. In Eastern Europe, defeating Russians took 50 years longer.
> Russia, fighting a defensive war on its own 2000-km long border with Ukraine
Nothing says defensive war like shooting 31 ballistic missiles, worth 400 million dollars, at a peaceful European city Kyiv, hundreds of kilometers from the frontline. Results of the attack that took place earlier today: all missiles shot down, but debris fell on a kindergarten and residential buildings. Shockwaves from air-defence missiles blew out windows in apartment buildings. A power substation and a residential building caught fire. Fortunately no deaths, but 10 people injured, including a child.
And this has gone on for more than two years, day after day, while apologists like you make excuses for this behaviour and lecture others about morals.
> The world does not want to live like Americans do, either.
Indeed. I want to live the way I choose, not the way Russians want to force me, with your approval.