• Amanda@aggregatet.org
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    3 months ago

    A lot of Americans supported the equally illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, I still don’t think they deserve even how shitty their non-occupation civil government is.

    Given how war works I’m almost certain there will be war crimes against the civil population here. Not as bad as what the Russians are doing in their occupied territories I sure as fuck hope and expect, but worse than anyone deserves. I can see Ukrainians getting to be a bit vindictive etc about this, they’ve earned it, but as armchair commentators online at a safe distance we should fucking show some empathy for people in a shitty situation they have very little control over.

    I can’t control my government and I live in a democracy. I don’t blame Russians for most of what their state does either.

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      3 months ago

      That’s a stretch to call the USA a democracy with all tactics to keep right-wingers in power.

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      3 months ago

      That’s some serious revisionist history to claim the invasion of Afghanistan was illegal. How do you define what’s an “illegal” invasion anyway?