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What you refer to as "whataboutism" is essentially an attempt to have a more balanced view.

All countries are equal, but some are a bit more, right? I agree 100% that awful things done by one country do not justify in any way atrocious actions in another. That said, for some reason most people to decide to pick a side very quickly blaming all the world evil on one person and country.

Frankly speaking, the USA, EU, Ukraine share the same amount of blame for what is happening now. You are right, it was Putin not anyone else who made the decision to invade Ukraine, but things are more complicated here than the world is now preferring to see.



> You are right, it was Putin not anyone else who made the decision to invade Ukraine

But you blame the victim anyway.

> Frankly speaking, the USA, EU, Ukraine share the same amount of blame for what is happening now.


Actually not. It's Putin who is to blame.


Putin is a head of the snake. This wouldn't be possible if not for nationwide support. Protests in Russia are minuscule.


> Putin is a head of the snake. This wouldn't be possible if not for nationwide support. Protests in Russia are minuscule.

Protests in Russia are significant, for a regime that punished protest so harshly and responds to it otherwise so little.


It is not easy to protest anything in Russia




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