Unpopular opinion: Russia isn't the "good guy", but they are leveraging the US biolab exposure against Biden. And they should. These bioweapons labs need to be erased from existence.
However, it does not give them moral authority to take Ukraine by military force.
Sure it does. You are leaving out the genocide being conducted against the ethnic Russians in east Ukraine. When a nation goes to war against its own citizens (13,000-14,000 killed), it loses any moral legitimacy. Anyone has the right to bring them to heel. (Kitty Genovese problem: there's a murder being accomplished in plain sight on the sidewalk. Do we walk on by?) Remember that governments obtain their power only from the consent of the governed. Russia does not need to have clean hands if Ukraine has dirty hands.
Kitty Genovese problem: there's a murder being accomplished in plain sight on the sidewalk. Do we walk on by?
That's an oversimplification. In this case, the alleged murdered and victim had been trying to kill each other for years, the 'person walking by' has a historical beef with the alleged murderer, and has everything to gain, personally, by intervening, and has no right to be on the sidewalk in the first place.
Russia does not need to have clean hands if Ukraine has dirty hands
So therefore Russia has the "right" to invade the US for it's bioweapons production on Russia's borders, economic warfare and perceived historical conflict?
This is all perspective. One person's freedom fighters is anothers' rebel.
No. Russia (1) has the right to intervene and stop genocide...because the Ukraine has no right to commit genocide. By the way, "Russia" is not a person with a continuity of consciousness. Their ethnic relatives were/are the victims of the genocide. They were not "trying to kill each other for years." Russia (2) has the right to intervene and neutralize weapons of mass destruction while they are at it, since neither the Ukraine nor the U.S. was supposed to have any, by their own agreement to a treaty of prohibition. That was a good enough rationale for the U.S. to invade Iraq, halfway around the world. This is right across Russia's border.
Don't bother to stretch the case to absurd dimensions. It is not a matter of taste. The presence of genocide and bioweapons forfeit Ukraine's sovereignty. The killer of Kitty Genovese does not get to protest "Hey, I'm minding my own business. Get out of my space."
I am always happy to see corruption exposed. But, this is really bad for America if this is true.
Unpopular opinion: Russia isn't the "good guy", but they are leveraging the US biolab exposure against Biden. And they should. These bioweapons labs need to be erased from existence.
However, it does not give them moral authority to take Ukraine by military force.
Sure it does. You are leaving out the genocide being conducted against the ethnic Russians in east Ukraine. When a nation goes to war against its own citizens (13,000-14,000 killed), it loses any moral legitimacy. Anyone has the right to bring them to heel. (Kitty Genovese problem: there's a murder being accomplished in plain sight on the sidewalk. Do we walk on by?) Remember that governments obtain their power only from the consent of the governed. Russia does not need to have clean hands if Ukraine has dirty hands.
That's an oversimplification. In this case, the alleged murdered and victim had been trying to kill each other for years, the 'person walking by' has a historical beef with the alleged murderer, and has everything to gain, personally, by intervening, and has no right to be on the sidewalk in the first place.
So therefore Russia has the "right" to invade the US for it's bioweapons production on Russia's borders, economic warfare and perceived historical conflict?
This is all perspective. One person's freedom fighters is anothers' rebel.
No. Russia (1) has the right to intervene and stop genocide...because the Ukraine has no right to commit genocide. By the way, "Russia" is not a person with a continuity of consciousness. Their ethnic relatives were/are the victims of the genocide. They were not "trying to kill each other for years." Russia (2) has the right to intervene and neutralize weapons of mass destruction while they are at it, since neither the Ukraine nor the U.S. was supposed to have any, by their own agreement to a treaty of prohibition. That was a good enough rationale for the U.S. to invade Iraq, halfway around the world. This is right across Russia's border.
Don't bother to stretch the case to absurd dimensions. It is not a matter of taste. The presence of genocide and bioweapons forfeit Ukraine's sovereignty. The killer of Kitty Genovese does not get to protest "Hey, I'm minding my own business. Get out of my space."