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Mar 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It's not a "whataboutism" to say it's absurd to charge Putin with war crimes without charging Bush, it's a completely devastating argument against the claim being made. If the law doesn't apply to everyone, then it's not the law, it's just corruption. It's a tool of the powerful.
"Whataboutism" is just empire simp for "stop highlighting the fact that we spend all our time violating the rules we claim to enforce, because they're not really 'rules' but rather systems of global control".
As I said exactly one year ago:
consortiumnews.com/2022/03/17/cai… Image
It's hilarious that this is happening not only on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, but also mere days after this happened:
And while we're on the subject of "international law": ImageImage
Apply this quote to "international law" and how it's applied and you'll immediately understand what's happening: Image

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Stop Calling The Iraq War A 'Mistake'

When you make a mistake, you make changes to ensure that mistake is not repeated. Nobody responsible for that invasion suffered any consequences of any kind, and zero policy changes were made.
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Stop calling the Iraq War a "mistake". When you make a mistake, you make changes to ensure you don't repeat that mistake. Nobody responsible for that invasion suffered any consequences of any kind, and the unipolarist ideology which led to it has become more entrenched than ever.
If the invasion of Iraq was a "mistake", western government officials would be residing in prison cells at The Hague, countless pundits and journalists would now be working behind cash registers in retail shops, and US foreign policy would have undergone a dramatic overhaul.
Instead the exact opposite has happened. The western officials who launched the Iraq War are esteemed members of elite society, the pundits and journalists who manufactured consent for it are at the top of their field, and US unipolar hegemony is the accepted status quo norm.
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