| Ryuu96 said: You can criticise Israel and America without making these exaggerations u'know? It's like saying Hitler was a saint compared to Stalin. Putin and Netanyahu are both genocidal monsters, to say one looks like a saint compared to the other is just tone deaf and insensitive to the thousands of Ukrainians slaughtered, the innocent women raped and killed by his soldiers, the children killed, the lives destroyed thanks to Putin's commands. The only difference is Ukraine can actually fight back so Russia's genocide of Ukraine is a slower process than Israel bombing the shit out of a defenceless strip of land. They both have the same goals though, Russia wants the genocide of Ukraine and Netanyahu wants the genocide of Palestinians. |
Indeed.
I was wrong at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, thinking it should be solved diplomatically and with sanctions instead of taking up arms. However that would only have led to ethnic cleansing (which is just a 'nice' word for mass murder, rape and mass displacement of people) of Ukraine and the population put under oppression like the Palestinians. There is simply no talking sense into people like Putin and Netanyahu. Once they get into power surrounded by 'yes men' things have already gone way too far.
I was still too naive to think the UN can actually do anything when any of the permanent members (or close allies of those) step out of line. With US, Russia, China, France and the UK holding veto power, they're basically above international law.
Now we have Russia continuing to try to wear down Ukraine, destroying the country where ever they can, and backing Hamas probably just as a 'proxy war' against US' influence in the middle East.
The USA keeps protecting Israel to do as it pleases, and is currently saber rattling with Iran over the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, while congress keeps bickering over desperately needed military aid for Ukraine. Military aid that instead keeps the Israeli invasion of Gaza going.
China stands by on the sidelines, siding more with Russia and Iran but has its own investments in Israel as well as buying weapons from Israel. (and no doubt surveilance software and other oppression tactics to keep their own population under their thumb)
Europe remains divided as always, more concerned about refugees and immigration, not capable of providing Ukraine the support it needs to put an end to the Russian invasion.
It's a bloody mess. We've gone from nuclear stockpiling as 'deterrence' to publicly displaying how far each is willing to go in atrocities to get their way. The new deterrence isn't nuclear destruction, it's what's happening to Ukraine and Gaza right now. Israel has already warned Lebanon it can do the same to Beirut as it's doing to Gaza. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-777132
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