There’s a particular kind of horror that comes from watching a powerful man describe — in clinical detail — how he wants to hurt innocent people
  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27 days ago

    And if he carries out war crimes with impunity, the West will have lost whatever moral authority remains in its grasp.

    Don’t drag other countries into this, there is no “West” including the USA anymore. You’re on your own.

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      27 days ago

      This is part of what the article is saying, in a way at the end.

      The ‘west’ needs to hold the pariah to account and demand change or formally disassociate with the pariah completely in order to have any scrap of moral ground in this. With each day that passes - hell with each fresh atrocity, further erodes that ground into complicity.

        • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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          26 days ago

          And I’m at least mildly hopeful that ‘little’ gestures such as france denying airspace to weapons shipments will slowly grow into something more.