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tweet in which jon points out the obvious and libs get mad

excerpt from a Libbrainworms:

Jon gives his best impression of a 14 year old tankie in this video.

The following is true simultaneously:

  1. It is appropriate to critique US foreign policy, it's actually necessary in a free society.
  2. Some bad actions are worse than others. Iraq wasn't annexed into the 51st state, as opposed to Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
  3. Not all foreign policy decisions are zero sum, it's possible for both parties to derive a benefit from an agreement (US and Philippines for example).

what a great deal

amerikkka i receive Military bases and access to your natural resources

you philippines-cool received: a US backed dictatorship

  1. The world does not revolve around the US, people in the Kremlin have agency.
  2. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and PRC threats of a Taiwan invasion are not about US foreign policy, they are a response to internal Russian and PRC pressures.
  3. Not every policy decision is based on trade and natural resources, those some of the variables in a long list of strategic considerations.
  • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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    15 days ago

    ve started to ask liberals: will life be meaningfully worse under Russian occupation for the people living in the region they've seized, or will it be about the same? If there's no difference, why should we support sending thousands of conscripts to their deaths?

    The problem with that is far too many liberals sincerely believe this idea they invented themselves that this is going to result in some Ukrainian genocide by the Russians, either fully murdering everyone or a cultural genocide by replacing them and their culture with Russia's

    The reality is of course that no, life will not meaningfully change, but few libs actually engage with material reality

    • Edamamebean [she/her]
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      15 days ago

      It's even worse than that. They don't think genocide is going to happen, they think it's happening. I've heard liberals saying that pro Palestine activists are hypocrites for not protesting against Russia because the war in Ukraine is apparently "quantifiably worse in terms of death displacement and suffering". Nevermind the United Nations themselves reporting that child deaths in Gaza in the past 8 months exceed deaths in all other global conflict combined in the past 4 years. They have an entirely made up set of facts in their heads.