athrowaw

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   by athrowaw 3y ago

   > Invading is claiming it as your country and handing out passports. That's more or less definition for annexing, not invading. > That or installing a non-democratic dictatorship and subdue the local population. That's a reg
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   by athrowaw 3y ago

   > First up, which countries is Europe invading? I don't know about right now, but not long ago UK forces were in Syria, that Syria government never asked for. Should we call it invading? If not, what's your definition of invadi
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   by athrowaw 4y ago

   Should we allow dictatorships because any country should have a sovereignty?
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   by athrowaw 4y ago

   > Answer: Because on the whole it's not important enough to them to warrant the investment of effort and time. Because America's behaviors aren't that far out of the international norm of today (sad to say). And to elabora
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   by athrowaw 4y ago

   Increase in whataboutism I think is caused by unequal treatment for the same evil actions. Imagine there is a crime done by a person of a race X who gets a warning and the same crime done by a person of a race Y who goes to jail. Now by am
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   by athrowaw 4y ago

   It doesn't seem whataboutism in the comment, as the author says "Russia is a bad actor", so it's not about someone did something before, so it should be accepted now. It's more about non equal treatment of the same