Thread by @mtracey

Why Democrats Demand Collective Punishment Against Russian Civilians

mtracey.substack.com/p/why-democrat…

US officials at least used to pretend that sanctions were not intended to harm civilians. Now the Biden Administration openly admits that harming Russian civilians is their intent, and liberals -- being great such "humanitarians" -- vociferously cheer

In 2017, @RepMikeQuigley declared: "When you meet with any Russians, you’re meeting with Russian intelligence. And therefore Putin.” Now, he's demanding to incinerate Russia in WWIII. Which is the logical culmination of the dehumanization doctrine he and Dems have "normalized"

At some point, "let's collapse the Russian economy to engineer regime change" became the sensible, middle ground position in the US. What happens to the world's largest nuclear arsenal in that state-destruction scenario? Eh, details!

https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1503464982796812296

Here is what the UN said in 2018 about sanctions designed to inflict collective punishment on civilians. Which is exactly what liberals now uniformly, and vehemently, support

So many of the people melodramatically declaring that they "Stand with Ukraine" in turn support economic warfare policies expressly designed to maximize civilian suffering. And they'll obnoxiously claim to have the moral high ground

Who exactly endowed "The West" with the "right" to collapse the world's 11th largest economy? Is it in the Bible or something?

https://twitter.com/wowwowza/status/1503490931542007808

By the way I recommend developing the capacity to harbor equal contempt for both Democrats and Republicans, because it enables you to better spot trends like these

But remember, the deliberate “targeting of civilians” for economic warfare, in hopes of making them suffer, is the hallmark of a “humanitarian” foreign policy

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