I asked you two direct questions, asked you to answer them, and you ignored them both times. Then you say that
I am not willing to conduct an honest discussion.
Please see the sibling comment below, and answer my two questions. I can assure you (and you can verify by my entire posting history) that I am interested ONLY in good-faith honest discussions.
> Only thing I wonder about is how is it possible that the rhetoric and vocabulary you are using is too damn similar to Russian trolls.
Actually, it is similar to Noam Chomsky and other antiwar intellectuals who have been decrying imperialism for decades.
Do Russian trolls condemn Russia's invasion? Because I do. I simply put it in context, that it's one of many invasions and occupations by empires like USA and China. They all resulted in a lot of misery. But the solution is to prevent them from happening, and to push all politicians towards diplomacy. We must fix the system instead of hysterically talking about one example, not even the largest one at the current moment, of a country attacking another country and killing civilians, while ignoring all others.
So now for the whataboutism. Just for context, in Ukraine, the UN figures say 4 thousand civilians died. In Yemen and Ethiopia, the figure is far higher, and for years no one in the White, Christian liberal west seems to know or can even name who is involved:
https://www.rescue.org/article/crisis-yemen-protracted-confl...
https://www.refugeesinternational.org/stop-tigray-famine
Do YOU care? Have you donated to the refugees even 1% of what you donated to weapons for Ukraine? Have you picked a side that's 100% wrong and will be sponsoring weapons for the other? Don't worry, USA has done that for you and has been sending weapons to Saudis for years:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bomb...
Prolonging the war in Ukraine is irresponsible also because it can lead to widespread famine. One third of the food in Yemen comes from Ukraine, for instance. MILLIONS of people around the world have to pay for these armies to "have their fun", obviously I blame Putin for it but not ONLY Putin, while you blame ONLY Putin and have no plan for stopping the war, instead supporting the position that "we must keep fighting as long as it takes, so Putin slinks back in total defeat". Meanwhile you're perpetuating a situation causing millions of these people in much larger conflict zones to starve. Not that you said much about them this entire time (I know, I know, whataboutism).
Regarding the war in Ukraine, I don't know about "Russian trolls" but if I started listing countries whose media and people feel similarly to me about USA and NATO's involvement, it might end up being over half the world. You just don't care about that part of the world. China, India, Pakistan are still doing business with Russia and resisting NATO pressure. The middle east, Saudis don't pick up the phone on Biden, and started selling oil for Chinese currency. Even Israel and Palestinians both refrained from criticizing Russia too much. Much of South America (who still harbor resentment to USA), including large countries like Brazil, refuse to take sides, and even some eastern European countries and Hungary's government are hesitant.
Of course, unlike you, I am not quick to identify the population with the country's government, for that we need polls (see below).
> I recommend you to meditate about it if you consider yourself an American.
Yes! USA has one of the best protections for freedom of speech anywhere in the world. It is quintessentially American to be able to speak your mind.
I may ask well ask you how come your rhetoric and vocabulary are so damn similar to US war hawks? Are you on John Bolton's and Hillary's payroll?
Does being an American mean totally closing your eyes to what the rest of the world thinks: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/us-threat-demo...
I mean even the word "American" is so chauvinistic, United States isn't all of north and south America, large countries like Canada Mexico and Brazil are also "American".
> You are a prime example that shows that whataboutism is exactly what it is thought to be.
Good, because it's supposed to call out total hypocrisy and double standards. Were you willing to agree that US athletes should be banned from sporting events, and crippling sanctions would be put on the USA to stop the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, the destruction of Libya, or this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasions_by_the_Unit...
or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Can we kick Saudi Arabia off the human rights council finally? Or China? They imprisoned huge numbers of Uyghurs, Falun Dafa and so on, in re-education camps. Some even allege that they mine them for organs. The same problem exists: we don't have enough video evidence from inside. And the UN will do nothing because it's an "internal matter", just as it is in Tibet, Hong Kong and soon in Taiwan. I say the international system needs to do a lot of work to prevent human rights violations. You say... Russian man bad.