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It would be much better if foreign countries didn't involve themselves in the internal affairs of sovereign nations.


I don't think that's reasonable. I don't think it's ok that North Korea systematically tortures huge numbers of people to death, or that huge numbers of Tutsis were slaughtered in Rwanda, or that for many decades South Africa systematically subjugated the majority of their population.

Internal affairs can very quickly become international issues. Civil wars have a habit of spilling over borders, and refugee crises such as due to the situation in Syria affect nations on other continents. There are always knock-on effects.

We should never have tolerated Russia's mercilessly brutal subjugation of Chechnya. We deplored their activities in Syria, but eh, Syria is far away. What they're doing in Ukraine is basically the same, but now it's in Europe so that's different. That's pure hypocrisy. There is a direct line to be drawn from what Russia did in Chechnya, joining the dots through Georgia, Syria and the Donbas directly to the attack on Kyiv. None of that should ever have been tolerable, but we did tolerate it.

We should be kicking up a huge fuss over the treatment of the Uighurs, the minimal sanctions we're imposing now is the diplomatic equivalent of ineffectual hand wringing. It's tacit acceptance that this sort of behaviour is acceptable. After all, we are accepting it.


>We should never have tolerated Russia's mercilessly brutal subjugation of Chechnya

It has been going on since before the US existed! Before the Soviet Union, too!

>None of that should ever have been tolerable, but we did tolerate it.

Well, the important thing to remember is that while everything has two sides to it, the US is at fault in either case and that cannot be debated.


So pretty much never going to happen unless said other sovereign nations make it painful for them.




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