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In the 60s? The US is still occupying Guantánamo Bay. It's ongoing. It's not about actions of the USA making the actions of Russia okay (or the other way aroun

• happytoexplain 5y ago
  So far, every time I have seen the discussion of hypocrisy, it has been in direct reply to a person trying to discuss the [lack of] justification for invading Ukraine. In those cases, "it" (the conversation) is not about hypocrisy. Further, a nation isn't one person. Even a government isn't one person. Hypocrisy is hard to prove, and easy to throw into a conversation. If I were in a life-or-death national crisis, under attack in my home, I would be demoralized and furious with those taking the opportunity to make accusations against those trying to support me of hypocrisy on such a broad political scale ("that country is being hypocritical"), based on conflicts past. As a topic in a void, it's a legitimate accusation. But it seems so disrespectful to human life and human rights, given the context of the present.
• ajuc 5y ago
  > it's about the hypocracy of one condemning the other What do you mean by "one"? I'm not American. And even if I was - why can't I condemn one crime if I wasn't condemning another? Your logic: "Are you against murder? You can't because you said nothing when that other particular person died. So now shut up and don't complain that your neighbor is being murdered. Otherwise you're a hypocrite."