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As a citizen, you "are" not your country or your power bloc. You can be against your own's and others' bad interventions. The alternative would be to sort of ac
by ahartmetz 5y ago
As a citizen, you "are" not your country or your power bloc. You can be against your own's and others' bad interventions. The alternative would be to sort of accept both? No thanks.
If it looks hypocritical from the outside, so be it. At least, when somebody says "but what about WMDs in Iraq", you can tell them that you were against that war as well and you protested - if you did.
- des1nderlase 5y agoReally? So can we support Russians when they say the same? Everyone still justifies the anti -russian-people narrative, as they are part of the economy that funds their government... It looks hypocritical and is part of the reason why it's easier to the other side to justify internally their actions (anti-western). We all should know better...
- ahartmetz 5y agoIf you practically can, sure. But you can't practically distinguish between all the 140 million people in Russia regarding sanctions. If you are dealing with one particular person, by all means, do make appropriate distinctions.
- rightbyte 5y agoYe I should have written "Moscow" instead of "Russia", really. I was 15 in 2003 so I didn't really have an opinion at the time. Maybe I would have bought the bad cases belli if I were an adult, who knows. I belive there were genuine post-cold war optimism "fixing" all these dictatorships at the time.