And I don’t mean things you previously had no strong opinion about.
What is a belief you used to hold that you no longer do, and what/who made you change your mind about it?
And I don’t mean things you previously had no strong opinion about.
What is a belief you used to hold that you no longer do, and what/who made you change your mind about it?
First of all - you’re not the person my question was directed at.
Secondly - you’re just firehosing me with information that I couldn’t fact-check in any reasonable amount of time nor figure out all the things you’re omiting. You also state as fact things that you or nobody else could possibly know to the degree of cerainty you present it as such as “this current war started in 2014 with the CIA-backed fascist coup”
However, even if I grant you that everything you stated above is factually correct it still leaves unanswered what the main point of my question was; how do you justify this? Take the Russian invasion of Ukraine for example. If west is evil and east is good then how does a murderous campaing like this fit into the equation? How is it moral to invade a sovereign nation, attack their civilian population, target critical infrastucture in the middle of winter, send your own people there to die in meatwave attacks after two days of training and bomb cities into rubble. Cities where their alledged supporters are living in? Not even China is endorsing this and the whole “evil” west has united in support of the underdog being bullied by the second most powerful nation in the world. I can’t possibly imagine how someone can look at this carnage and think Russia is good.
I’m not really justifying the invasion. Its aims of suppressing the far-right in western Ukraine seems to have kinda backfired from this after all, with the Ukraine gov using this as an excuse to suppress the left.
Point is, what else could’ve they done? They’ve already tried to join NATO multiple times from even before the USSR’s dissolution and have been denied (since it exists to suppress socialism, and particularly Russia, just look up what their first secretary Ismay has said about NATO’s purpose, globally, not give them a say) and they already had the Minsk agreements which the US sidelined through the coup. Not doing something about it would lead to the continued killing of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and NATO getting even closer to Russia since the post-2014 US puppet gov doesn’t abide by the Minsk agreements.
This post is open to everyone you know? OP can still respond to you if they feel like it. Wouldn’t blame them for not doing so though cuz it can get pretty tiring to continuously debunk western propaganda with how prevalent it is in english-speaking spaces.
Sure, but he said “…(what I thought at the time) the most obviously incorrect takes.” so I was curious on hearing what made him specifically change his mind as he used to have exactly the opposite views. My question wasn’t so much about how tankies justify this but how he does it considering he’s someone who used to be on “my side”