Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Aug 19 2023 01:29pm)
So then we agree? What was all the kicking and screaming about? :rofl:
This parsing Russia's actions as justified because other wars have occurred is pathetic; Your not the first and won't likely be the last to try and justify Putin's actions this way.
If you apply the United Nations criteria to what Russia is doing in Ukraine, it is fair and balanced to accept their actions are intended genocide.
Is that not the case?
"A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
Killing members of the group - Yes
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group - Yes
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part - Yes
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group - Not provenForcibly transferring children of the group to another group" - Yes"
Is that not the case?
You're completely missing the point. It's not about justifying their actions it's about exposing your hypocrisy. The same people that have funded and pushed for this war in the west are the same ones that invaded Iraq, the same ones responsible for at least 3 other wars in the last 20 years. Hundreds of thousands dead, but no this time it's completely different! Thing is, none of these wars are genocides and you keep evading my questions on Iraq because it completely exposes your simple minded double standards here.
Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Aug 19 2023 01:56pm)
^ofthevoid Is that not the case? After saying I was dodging your roundabout questions, your awfully quiet.
No one is dodging you lmao, was away, I don't sit here refreshing every 30 seconds for your comebacks.
Quote (El1te @ Aug 19 2023 02:31pm)
I think the real reason the US invaded Iraq was to get rid of Saddam who was a murderous dictator. There's a moral case for that but it's flimsy because you can say alot of people are murderous dictators though it's not much of a legitimate casus belli. So the WMD bullshit covered their tracks
It was ultimately about oil and Saddam has always been a thorn not behaving how we want him to. We don't actually care about murderous regimes, we only care about ones that are geopolitically against us. I mean look at Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. We not only didn't care, but actually sold them billions of weapons to and supported it.
This post was edited by ofthevoid on Aug 19 2023 02:53pm