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.