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It doesn’t matter if tyrants are democratically elected. And he was a tyrant, indiscriminately slaughtering protesters. Once you are violating human dignity an
by arrrg 5y ago
It doesn’t matter if tyrants are democratically elected. And he was a tyrant, indiscriminately slaughtering protesters.
Once you are violating human dignity and human rights in such an obvious way you are in no way a legitimate leader. Election victories can never be a justification for blatant human rights violations.
(This doesn’t even touch on whether the election was legitimate in the first place.)
Also, whataboutism isn’t very helpful in the current situation. It’s a pointless distraction and doesn’t make anything Putin does currently any less wrong. In general, whataboutism is just so incredibly unhelpful and pointless. It’s extremely dumb (or extremely clever in an evil way if you have an agenda).
(This is dangerously close to whataboutism, but just another point: you mention the EU removing him, however as far as I can tell there was no EU involved in his removal.)
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoSee: immanent critique. Western liberal dogma holds that democratic consent justifies global terrorism of virtually any kind. As Chomsky says, the US state apparatus is the world’s largest terrorist organization.
- arrrg 5y agoMore whataboutism. Ukraine is being invaded here. By Russia. Neither the EU nor NATO are involved. You make literally no sense at all. Also, the tyrant slaughtering his own people was disposed of by them. You can make all the legalistic arguments in the world, that won’t change that his own people disposed of him. So you talking about the USA literally makes no sense. So what if I were to agree that the US is the largest terror org in the world. Doesn’t change a thing and is pure irrelevance.