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Ukraine to compete at 2024 Olympics on one condition: athletes from Russia and Belarus must perform under neutral flags (www.rt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure where in the world you live, but for myself, I’m in a western country. It would be far more easy for my country to hold the architects of the Afghanistan invasion to account than Putin. The fact that my government doesn’t indicates that all the talk of punishing Russia has nothing to do with punishing aggression, it’s just about punishing a rival

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually far easier to hold putin to account than western leaders - the western hegemony is hardly going to turn on itself, but it can easily send arms to Ukraine.

That this arming of ukraine is for completely self interested reasons doesn't mean it also has the side effect of helping a country fight tyranny. A good thing done for bad reasons can still be a good thing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Also, if the western countries will get paid for the help afterwards, that'd be an almost free win