> This seems to be quite a common view: "I'm not upset by the invasion of Ukraine because the US has done a bunch of bad things." There's a history to this "Wh

> This seems to be quite a common view: "I'm not upset by the invasion of Ukraine because the US has done a bunch of bad things." There's a history to this "What about this other thing" distraction / derailing technique, and it was fairly common from Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Soviet_Union_and_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Soviet_Union_and_... https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/the-soviet-era-strategy-that-explains-what-russia-is-doing-with-snowden/278314/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/th...