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ivan-fyodorovich-k · 2 years ago

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I agree with your whole thing on the Ukraine situation by the way. Didn't reblog lest it breach containment. But yeah, this is why I've been quiet on the whole thing myself. I have no idea what's going on and it's not my own country. Frankly, I don't think the US should be involved in any capacity. But I have no idea how anyone could see Putin as anything other than the ruthless, bloodthirsty tyrant he's proven himself to be.

I kind of feel like it makes sense to help Ukraine at least some but I am a believer in liberalism and the liberal world order, for its astonishing flaws, which is making me an increasingly unusual person

I mean, aside from all the other ways I am an unusual person

So I get backing them against Russia, but I also get at least some of the counterarguments I've seen even though I disagree

#I don't really have the puritanical hatred of all government expenditure by virtue of it being government expenditure like others have #nor do I find the government axiomatically illegitimate #also as the pandemic demonstrated most of our life is made possible by international trade #and while you may think we should make as much at home as we can #and international trade can go fuck itself #I think that even given the incredible material resource wealth of the United States #that kind of world order would just have different and also violent problems #we would quickly find that people in places that have few to no resources do not stay in those places #and if you just have closed borders then you will have invasions #it's not that the current thing is perfect I just think the alternatives would be a lot worse

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