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War is not politics. Politics is argument in parliament.

• hirako2000 5y ago
  war is one potential consequence of political struggles. Debates, PR, propaganda, votes, are political positioning and actions that may promote and justify war, or condemn, sanction, and pressure for the end of it. commenting, debate, PR, propaganda, votes in reaction to war is again political pursuits to shape the outcome of war. I'm pointing at the Science article, which is tainted by aspects of the second category. I'm not commenting on the war itself. politics isn't just arguments in parliament, parliament debates are public, procedural executions of democratically formed institutions. politics take place far beyond, swallow in the media, educational institutions, the private sectors, and now even our retired grand mom who is prompted to take a side, perhaps by sending donations via platforms she's recently discovered how to use.