• purahna@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terror-911-deaths-afghanistan-iraq/

    the west isn’t doing anything even close? I think Russia isn’t doing anything even close tbh, there’s a very big difference between invading one country that’s bordering you and invading a dozen half way across the world, and there’s a big difference between a hundred thousand dead and 4.5 million dead

    actually while I’m here:

    • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has lead to a largely symmetrical death toll; the US wars in the middle east have been far more than 99% middle easterner deaths
    • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was preceded by decades of brinkmanship; the US invasion of the middle east was entirely unmotivated by brinkmanship as the militaries weren’t comparable and the countries didn’t share a border
    • Russia has set forth terms of ceasefire; the US never did and lied at every instance they pretended to
    • Russian sanctions against Ukraine are relatively minor because Ukraine has its economic needs met by the West; US sanctions in the middle east will lead to millions of additional deaths due to lack of building materials, medical supplies, food, and more

    I’m not a Russia stan, Putin can hang from a barbed wire noose, but I’m not going to tolerate Russia’s Ukraine invasion being used for purposes of whataboutism to defend the greater evil

    I’m catching a lot of flak for this for reasons that aren’t super clear to me, does anyone who disagrees with me mind telling me why they think I’m wrong? I love learning opportunities.

    • demonsword@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m catching a lot of flak for this for reasons that aren’t super clear to me, does anyone who disagrees with me mind telling me why they think I’m wrong?

      there are stupid people that simply downvote unpopular opinions instead of arguing anything