As I said in other comments, I agree with this but the issue is that whatboutism is still being used as a shield when the other side does something. My original

As I said in other comments, I agree with this but the issue is that whatboutism is still being used as a shield when the other side does something. My original comment was a bit sarcastic, I was just pointing out that this would be seen as whatboutism in any thread about say, Russian media control