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You'll be surprised how many educated Europeans think, what with Gitmo and the war in Iraq and so on, that the US and Russia are morally equivalent. I expect t
by willvarfar 13y ago
You'll be surprised how many educated Europeans think, what with Gitmo and the war in Iraq and so on, that the US and Russia are morally equivalent.
I expect the same is true in much of the rest of the world too. But as a European, I can say the sentiment is widespread here.
- stevo111 13y agoJournalist Michael Hastings dead after telling his friends that he has a big story on CIA director and he needs to lay low for a while as FBI is "onto him". How about that western word? None of those "putin journo killings" has never been proven to have any links to Putin. All these anti-Russian accusations are moral equivalents of people claiming that US government killed Michael Hastings. So please - STFU.
- tptacek 13y agoThankfully, the notion that Hastings was somehow killed by having his car remote-controlled by the CIA has largely become the province of Infowars.com. When the Russian government has someone killed, they don't die in a mysterious accident. They're gunned down, when they're lucky. When they're not, they die an agonizing death after being subtly and fatally poisoned by radioactive isotopes.
- spindritf 13y agoThose must be Europeans from countries that were not occupied by the Soviets.
- rtpg 13y agoYou'd be surprised how many educated Europeans don't qualify themselves as "Europeans" ;) There's a big difference between countries in Europe and their views on the world. I'm pretty convinced countries more envelopped in realpolitik will have people less convinced of your equivalence.