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Written by Dmitry Borodaenko on 2024-12-19 at 16:58

Too much to ask of #WaPo, but can we please never hear from #JakeSullivan again?

[#]MaxBoot piles onto this nonsense by comparing the #Kirillov hit with #Suleimani assassination, an attack on a nation the US wasn't at war with at the time.

No, a much better analogy is the #Israel's decapitation strikes against #Hamas and #Hezbollah. Like those, this is an attack on the command structure of a rogue terrorist group. Unlike those, it caused zero civilian deaths. #SBU deserves nothing but praise.

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Written by Dmitry Borodaenko on 2024-12-19 at 17:10

[#]Kamala counted on #Poles and #Ukrainians in #Pennsylvania. #JakeSullivan is by far the biggest reason they didn't turn out for #Democrats this year. Sullivan is why Ukraine, the nation that has the least reasons to like #Putin's lapdog, has higher approval of #Trump than any nation in #Europe. Sullivan is why Ukraine didn't get Patriots and F-16s and ATACMS until it was too late to make a difference.

And don't even get me started on the things #Biden admin failed to do to support #Belarusians.

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Written by Michel Lind :fedora: :debian: on 2024-12-20 at 18:34

@dmitry double standard, of course. When the US does something against international law (the Suleimani hit, many of the drone attacks) it doesn't hold itself to account

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Written by Dmitry Borodaenko on 2024-12-20 at 18:58

@michelin That's the point Max Boot is trying to make, and I think it's a very harmful framing. Claiming double standard makes the Kirillov hit look like a violation of international law, but it wasn't! It's an attack on a legitimate target (Russia is at war with Ukraine, Iran isn't at war with the US) that didn't cause undue (none at all, in fact) collateral damage on civilian lives and infrastructure. And look at how successful that framing was at tricking you unto accepting that equivalence!

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Written by Michel Lind :fedora: :debian: on 2024-12-20 at 19:20

@dmitry wait... no, I'm saying the Suleimani killing and the killing of the Russian general are not equivalent... but uh, yeah, double standard implies both are not justified and the US only condems one. Sorry, that's indeed the wrong framing

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