• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Look mate

    • “Russia bad and Israel bad” would be the Principled, Humanitarian stance.
    • “Russia bad” whilst not only these people do not deem Israel bad, but they’re actually sending weapons used to murder civilians in Gaza, is just Propaganda. It’s not a principled stance, it’s like Greenwash but for Humanitarianism: using the words of Humanitarianism on the things were it happens to align with your goals whilst doing the very opposite when it doesn’t.

    This kind of performative “Humanitarianism” and “International Rule Of Law” actions (hardly a monopoly of the Brits but, damn, they’re some of the biggest practitioners of the whole thing) heavy on the is what reinforces outside the West the impression that the words of Western leaders are bullshit and cannot be trusted.

    This kind of “for some but not for others” haughty proclamations actually weaken the principle of International Rule Of Law.