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Companies did bad things until they decided it was no longer to their advantage, and stopped?
And if this is the case, what does it have to do with the article, or the blame owed to the actual, literal bad actor (Putin's Russia)?
Hold the companies accountable... okay sure. I'll write some letters to my elected officials and federal prosecutors about holding Apple and Google accountable. Just one thing... which laws were they breaking? Or do you propose consumer boycotts of both Google and Apple? If your plan is for everybody to give up their smartphones, your plan is DOA.
Hold the states accountable... What does it mean to hold a sovereign state accountable? Are you going to bend the US Government itself over your knee and spank it? I don't think so. What exactly do you mean by holding the state itself accountable?
russia, of course, is more guilty than all these other countries, because not only are they guilty of the same "non-reaction", but they are guilty of the initial action, too!
While I agree with you, most of the blame lies on us Europeans here. We knew what a continuation of this war and the constant erosion of basic rules of war would cause (most importantly, a ton of refugees), and yet we did nothing despite us being in a position to help from a military perspective in contrast to most Global South countries. We just let Assad and Russia bomb their own people with chemical weapons and barrel bombs.
We stuck our heads into the desert sand and hoped the storm would pass, and then we had the audacity of letting tens of thousands of people drown in the Mediterranean or on the Turkey-Greece route.
so, again, each of those countries (russia alone more than any other) is equally guilty, be they China, USA, Iran, Canada, North Korea, etc: none had any responsibility to intervene more or less than the others, and EU receives no special blame for russia's genocide of Ukraine
or, more to the point, they are all equally innocent, except for the aggressor, russia, who started the genocide of Ukraine in the first place
tl;dr russia is to blame
> until last years.
Very strange phrasing, that's not idiomatic English. How many years? That should say something like "until last year" or "until X years ago" or "until the last X years".
What is the value of X?
I might presume that you mean the last year, e.g. 2022, but there are some problems with that. You've claims that western states were assisting Russia, and cited the supposed actions of two American companies. But the American state itself is not those companies, and has been arming and training Ukraine to fight Russia since at least 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaja_Kallas#Stark_Logistics_an...