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> Yes, it was cheap, but the price is blood. Oh sweet child. If you live in a "first world" country you should know the price of your lifestyle is always blood
by ossobuco 2y ago
> Yes, it was cheap, but the price is blood.
Oh sweet child. If you live in a "first world" country you should know the price of your lifestyle is always blood. All the convenience you get is based on the exploitation of poorer countries to extract their resources (energy, minerals, workforce, etc) at a very low cost for us.
How could you think that getting gas from Russia is the only unethical option? Just inform yourself.
> millions of people went on the streets
Yes, and yet the invasion happened anyway, millions died in the middle east and the war went on until it was clear to the ruling elites that there wasn't any other benefit to extract from it. They couldn't care less about the protests, which by the way our democratic governments didn't hesitate to repress with violence whenever they became too loud. The Palestine debacle is another great example of this. If the kind of repression US university students were subjected to happened in China, the whole West would be screaming dictatorship. Heck, we still talk about how the HK protests were "brutally" repressed yet we did much worse with our own protests.
It's exactly like it happened for Vietnam. The USA finally pulled out when they realized it was going to be a very long blood bath for them, not because of the protests.
- benterix 2y ago> If you live in a "first world" country you should know the price of your lifestyle is always blood. This is not only false but also implies the "X is bad so you can also do other bad things" mentality that I don't buy. > yet the invasion happened anyway With extremely limited support from Europe. Basically, from EU countries only the UK agreed and Blair was heavily criticized for that. From [0]: "...when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. " Then Bush answered "You forgot Poland" which became a short-lived meme. So yes, I think Blair and Bush jr should join Putin and Netanyahu as war criminals. But at the same time there is a great cibilizational divide between Europe and Russia, sadly for everyone involved. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq_War) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq...