• WoodScientist
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    17 hours ago

    Eh. I can oppose both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israel war on Iran. It’s not about which team you’re on. It’s about backing the country being invaded and attacked.

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      16 hours ago

      Many people can, but apparently politicians and their media mouthpieces dogmatically defend their US masters.

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        9 hours ago

        They never cared about international law or right and wrong. It was always just a tool to bludgeon the other team with, and now that the tool is turning against them they’re dropping it like a broken toy.

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          6 hours ago

          Many people still believed their BS about ‘the rules based order’.
          I know it’s a lie but still was shocked to hear some EU ‘leaders’ blatantly say international law doesn’t apply to Iran.
          After condoning the genocide in Gaza they now defend the illegal war and mass murder of children in Iran.
          How can these loathsome turds look in the mirror.

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            41 minutes ago

            It was easier to pretend before because they would condemn the US publicly but if you paid attention to what they were doing they were also there committing war crimes together. It sucks but it’s the truth, Europe only cared about this rhetoric as a means to an end, it gives a facade of being the grown up, but now that the US got a less subtle leader it’s impossible for them to keep plausible deniability and be loyal at the same time.

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              I think a lot of Europeans genuinely believe in human rights and a rules-based world order. And it would serve their interests too (in a multipolar world, having rules that apply to all is favorable to all). But they’re also cowards and want the USA to be world police and uphold this order, and it has always been convenient to look the other way as long as it was brown people on the receiving end of the Empire’s violence.