Everyone with a brain can see these sorts of double standards. Only people with a spine are A) willing to accept them as necessary/good/whatever to achieve the

Everyone with a brain can see these sorts of double standards. Only people with a spine are A) willing to accept them as necessary/good/whatever to achieve the desired outcome on an issue by issue basis B) able to have frank discussions about death and destruction and act like an adult while doing it in the absence of a biased selection of the facts. (B is a necessary prerequisite for evaluating whether A is the correct course of action in a given situation or ever and if so to what extent) And brains are much common than spines. The events of the last 2yr have brought these selective information issues into the public conscience. The "concern trolling" is just a way to make a buck off of this. I'm on Ukraine's side in this or a variety of reasons but it would be nice if we didn't have to do the whole double standard song and dance about this sort of thing. Russia is gonna kill a lot of people here. They killed a lot of people in Syria. I wasn't pissed off when they did that because <laundry list of reasons>.