• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think it’s reasonable to equivocate a former president making a verbal threat, which still sucks, with an actual state apparatus signing it into law

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      Both are violent threats. US just used to be more legalistic about this sort of thing. I mean Russia also sentenced the judges in absentia in Russian courts. I don’t think you could say they’re better.

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        10 hours ago

        Better in what way, morally? Morality isn’t real and the level of geopolitics is where it’s the least real. From a practical, threat assessment standpoint, one of these things is much more urgent and pressing than the other.

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          10 hours ago

          I mean yeah one of them is right now bombing another European country so Russia is obviously more alarming but the American threat is pretty bad too

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            10 hours ago

            One of them is currently supplying and abetting a genocide, kidnapping heads of state, shooting people in the street during gestapo raids, disappearing activists to concentration camps, bombing countries on multiple continents, trying to topple the government of Iran and preparing for multiple invasions.

            The other is at war with the puppet government of exactly one country, which was committing ethnic cleansing and who we put there as part of our own strategy of aggression.

            I know who I consider the bigger threat to peace.

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              9 hours ago

              I mean we were talking abou someone threatening to attack a European county (and one of them is doing that right now…)

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                9 hours ago

                A) Greenland

                B) We started the conflict in Ukraine

                C) I cannot stress enough how much bombing the Hague is official US policy

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                  There’s no bombing going on in Greenland as far as I know. Lots of bombing going on in Ukraine. If bombing European countries isn’t an official Russian policy then they’ve somehow misshot a lot of missiles.