South Korea relieved US China chip ban won't bite, as Beijing fumes South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix have reportedly reacted cautiously to the Biden administration's swingeing bans on certain chip tech reaching China. On Saturday the nation's Industry Ministry published an assessment of the bans and reasoned the impact on local companies should be limited. But the Ministry also …
An invasion is, well, an invasion. We might pretend that we can legally invade a county by putting up a suitable PR fig leaf (e.g. Iraq and the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" BS) but an invasion is still an invasion.
If you carry this 'illegal invasion' rhetoric too far you'll end up justifying the Russian "Special Military Operation". It might have flown under a lot of peoples' radars but before this "SMO" there was actually a rather nasty civil war going on in the east of Ukraine. The war was caused by a refusal of significant sections of the country to agree to what was effectively a coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014. The war had caused a significant number of deaths, a lot of displacement and general destruction the government of Ukraine had shown no signs of wanting to figure a way to stop this short of crushing the local populace (i.e. killing and destroying a lot more of the area). Given the proximity to the Russian border this alone would justify the so-called "SMO".
But I suppose its only OK if we're doing it.
"Given the proximity to the Russian border this alone would justify the so-called "SMO"."
I can't fathom the mental gymnastics you need to perform to come to this conclusion.
In the face of multiple mass graves in the Ukraine liberated areas; shelling and missile attacks on several cities, hospitals and other non-military targets; Russia's staging of fraudulent and illegal elections in the East Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea and now other parts of Ukraine as well?
That 2014 "coup" was against a Russian backed crook who wanted to turn Ukraine into Belarus of sorts, a satellite state for Russian empire, throwing political enemies into prison and so on. Yanukovych actually fled to Russia before a vote on the parliament took place to impeach him.
"But I suppose its only OK if we're doing it."
Who is this 'we'?
I am not allowed to be appalled and to condemn the Russian terroristic bombings, rapes and whatnot?
Whataboutism isn't a logical rhetorical argument anyway. It makes about as much sense as Putin claiming that sending cruise missiles into civilian apartment blocks is justified by the Ukrainians blowing up a bridge that carries bombs and war supplies into Crime.
No. No it's not.
Such apologetics are typical of Russia and China these days.
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