…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.
Plenty of European countries were dead set again the Iraq War. Not so much for Afghanistan, but the Taliban had harbored terrorists that attacked US soil. At a certain point, the US had a fairly legitimate cause to go into Afghanistan.
It’s the height of absurdity to claim that US had any legitimacy to invade Afghanistan. US itself is a terrorist state that has carried out all kinds of attacks against countless countries all over the world.
Was the invasion of Afghanistan permitted by the UN security council? Because thats the only legitimate cause for war according to international law (or self-defense, but 9/11 was carried out from inside u.s., not from Afghanistan).
It was also carried out by Saudi funded and trained extremists. Weirdly US did not go after Saudis.
UN and the international community considered that the USA was legitimate to demand the extradition of Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan and that the invasion was aimed to restore the international peace, in adequacy with the article 51 of the chart of UN.
“International community” is the same as “western countries”, which represents 25% of the world population at most. And which specific UN resolution permitted a military invasion and 20 years of military occupation?
https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap
In the international community, I included China, India, Russia and Pakistan among others. The UN do not allow in one resolution a twenty-year long war and it is a good thing IMO.
Dead set against?! Most of them participated in it.