Thread by @MurdochCadell

‘Ukraine’ is why ‘Iraq’ mattered.

If we play fast and loose with the truth and the law, why wouldn’t our enemies?

We reap what we sow.

#Assange tried to point this out. He was jailed for it, instead of Blair and Bush.

The US doesn’t care anymore for the people of Ukraine than they did the people of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The situation is simply an opportunity for them to destabilise a major rival. When they have done so, they will abandon Ukraine like they did Afghanistan.

It’s not the ‘invasion’ which is bad, because we know that some invasions, like ‘Iraq’, are ‘good’ (according to the West).

It’s not the death of civilians that is bad, because we know from Yemen (and the rest) that simply the death of civilians of itself doesn’t make a war something we protest about.

While they would never admit it, secretly the staff of Biden, Johnson, and Morrison (and arms dealers) will be celebrating.

They now have a chance at political survival.

That’s all they care about.

We’ve seen this movie before. The leaders are re-elected, the nations lose.

If we didn’t want counties like Russia to invade Ukraine, we should not have invaded Iraq.

If we wanted to bring Putin to justice, we should have bought our own equivalents to justice, and explained why they were bad.

We thought we were being ‘clever’.

Now we hate ‘war’?!