…unless they also condemn the USA for invading Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Most European territories serve the USA’s geopolitical goals. Sanctions against Russia right now are part of that. There’s nothing moral about it. It’s simply a service to the USA for being in its sphere of influence. There is nothing, not a single shred of integrity in that.

If you find a territory which sanctions Russia for its crime, and also the USA for its crimes, you can recognise it as a real principled act.

    • hanabatake
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      3 years ago

      The essay denies the existence of Ukraine as an independent nation. Noting the large number of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, Putin compares “the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state, aggressive towards Russia” to a use of weapons of mass destruction against Russians. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians?wprov=sfla1)

      I’d be Ukrainian, I would like to join a defensive alliance to protect me against Russia. I am sure you can understand why they wanted to join Nato. By the way, you can read the whole page and you may see why some ex-part of USSR are so scared by Russia that they joined NATO