Sunday 6 March 2022

NATO And Russia Same Side Of An Immoral Coin

Before the ridiculous American President with the Orange hue and tiny hands was another ridiculous President who had an equally iffy grip on the English language but while the 45th President was happy to see his own people die, the 43rd one was much more keener on other nations people dying horribly.
As a quick recap, Bush wanted to invade Afghanistan and Iraq but everyone else said woah you nutter and refused to sanction it at the UN so he teamed up with Tony Blair and NATO and long story short, 1m dead Iraqi's and a two decade war in Afghanistan which only just ended in defeat for the might of the 30 nation NATO.
Bush had a handy turn of phrase where he would say you are either with us (as we murder millions for highly dubious reasons) or against us which worked on the more gullible in his own country but over here Tony Blair was much more subtle, he just lied about it but they got their regime change and used NATO to do it.
Spin on 20 years and past the NATO led Libyan and Syrian military invasions and we see Vladimir Putin's Russia throwing his military hardware at Ukraine to overthrow its current ruler and install a more Russian friendly ruler in the neighbouring country.
There is absolutely nothing to admire in any of this so while Russia is rightly castigated for its actions in invading a sovereign nation, it is incredulous that NATO is being held up as some sort of good guy when it is still cleaning off the dust from its latest regime change adventure.
What Russia is doing in Ukraine is abhorrent but then what NATO did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria was also. Where we see scared Ukrainian children today we saw plenty of scared Iraqi, Afghanistan, Libyan and Syrian children so it isn't one or the other, either Russia or NATO, because that's like deciding whether you want a punch in the head or a kick in the groin, both choices are awful and so are the choices being presented in this conflict and we should reject both because despite how they are being presented, NATO and Putin are the same sides of a regime changing, very immoral coin. 

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