I hate how “anti-war” has been hijacked by these people to mean, let imperialist countries invade whoever they want with no consequences. (in the case of tankies, any imperialist country that isn’t in NATO).
I hate how “anti-war” has been hijacked by these people to mean, let imperialist countries invade whoever they want with no consequences. (in the case of tankies, any imperialist country that isn’t in NATO).
Random blogger tweets unsourced claims. More at eleven. Also completely unrelated.
Still not seeing how any of this suggests there’s anything remotely close to a justification of Putins invasion of Ukraine.
I fail to see how any of this relates to someone being called a Nazi apologist. You’ve created a straw man that I support Putin’s invasion (even though I stated that I am opposed). Adults with higher level critical thinking understand that one can be opposed to Putin and Russian imperialism, while also being opposed to NATO and western imperialism. Even with my limited IQ of 142, I can avoid the binary fallacy that if Dugin inspired Russian imperialists are the bad guys, then, by default, Ukraine and their western imperialist NATO supporters must be the good guys.
You started with the claim that Putin was somehow “provoked” into committing mass rape and murder on an innocent civilian population. That’s an imperialist/fascist talking point, literally used by the Nazis back when Hitler invaded Poland.
At no point have I claimed you support the invasion (that’s a strawman you just made up), only that you made excuses for it. Hence why you were called a Nazi apologist.
Ah, that explains it. You must have at least 160 IQ in order to understand that making excuses for Putins invasion is morally indefensible.
Also, pretending both-sidesism is somehow enlightened is hilarious. In this conflict, it’s pretty fucking clear who is on the moral highground, ulterior motives be damned. Putin sent in a military that rapes and murders innocent civilians, NATO has provided weapons to the Ukrainian military to prevent that. Even if you believe NATO has a secret master plan to topple Putin or whatever, defending an innocent civilian population is a good thing regardless of any geopolitical reasoning involved.
I cited the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, to demonstrate that it’s not just the pejorative “tankies” to make the assertion:
Some of us are more concerned with human lives than preserving imaginary lines drawn a map.
The writer of that article is an apologist as well. He cites tons of imperialist arguments for why Ukraine as a sovereign nation apparently doesn’t matter and how everyone should bend to Russia because they are a “great power” (an imperialist concept). He has also written other articles that seek to blame the West for what happened, despite having terrible and easily countered arguments for it. His article on “western meddling in Ukraine” is especially terrible. In it, he claims EU meddling was brazen, because (and I’m not joking here) one high-ranking EU official expressed her support for the protesters and handed out cookies.
The US meddling was supposedly more brazen, with a leaked phone call discussing who the US would like to see take power. But as others have already noted:
It’s also blatantly ignoring that nothing unconstitutional happened (other than the firing on protesters killing over a hundred civilians), that Yanukovych was voted out of office by a large majority of the democratically elected parliament and that the first thing they did was hold new elections.
It’s also blatantly ignoring Russian meddling, providing 2 billion to Yanukovych and effectively ordering him to crush the protests (possibly the final trigger that led to his removal).
You can’t accept the arguments in that article without also accepting that Ukraine is a vassal state to Russia, which it just isn’t. Russia could have done plenty to make themselves more popular with their neighbours, but never did. They did nothing but demand, demand, demand. Nobody is required to listen to those unreasonable demands, and claiming that not doing so is “provocative” is total horseshit.
If only that was true for Putin.