> Stealing from the thieves doesn't make you right unless you're giving back the money to the victims. It's unlikely that that the Ukranian alliance nets more

> Stealing from the thieves doesn't make you right unless you're giving back the money to the victims. It's unlikely that that the Ukranian alliance nets more in confiscation than they will give to Ukraine in military and humanitarian aid. > When sanctions are applied inconsistently, it makes you wonder what's different this time. A few things: - The Cyprus situation has been fairly stable for almost 50 years. The ability to use sanctions has expanded since 1974. Tensions have been gradually easing in Cyprus. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is happening now. - Most nations would be hurt more by sanctions on than the US. That doesn't make the Iraq invasion right, it just means that France didn't have the capcity to stop them. That doesn't mean they should ignore this invasion if they can do something about it. Since the collapse of the USSR, very few nations are dependent on Russia. - Repeated aggression from Russia. When Russia invaded Crimea, most nations began to prepare for them to take more. Now they are ready. Iraq was kind of the opposite; nations had just spent a couple of years supporting invasion of Afghanistan, and the US had sympathy/goodwill from 9-11 still. They burned it to inavde Iraq. If other nations were less dependent on the US, then the invasion of Iraq might have been their equivalent of Crimea. That's how we go from shitshow to sanctions.