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It's irrelevant who I blame for the war.
I'll explain.
The are several interpretations of what I said. Yours among them. But I am now confirming, for the second time, that I did not mean what you think I meant.
Two other valid interpretations, which I did intend, include: (1) that the US and it's executives and diplomats are warmongers; and (2) that Ukrainian demands are for the Ukrainians alone to determine.
The war is now an historical fact. Who started it is a significant issue but is neither here nor there for the point that I'm making. I'll elaborate on that point so as to put a stop to the evident confusion.
Peace will not be reached for so long as the US seeks profits in (a) selling weapons and (b) the reconstruction of Ukraine. The longer the war and the more destruction it causes, the more profit in it for the US.
The US is interested in Ukraine only insofar as it reaps these profits. I say nothing of ordinary Americans, who are likely genuinely and rightly appalled at the war and hope for the US to end it. Unfortunately, if they hope for this, they do not know their government nor it's financial interests. That is tragic, because if they did know, they might better help to end this war and many others.
The true ends of those decision makers (in the US and in Europe, too) are clear in statements like those in the linked article. If peace was the aim, the US would not be making demands that it knows Russia will never agree to. Are Russia's demands acceptable? It's again beside the point.
The question is, what is the quickest way to end the war? The answer to that question will reveal the steps that must be taken. I struggle to see how inflammatory warmongering statements from a known warmonger state could ever be part of that answer or those steps.
it's irrelevant who you blame because your argument is a strawman and tu quoque logical fallacy.
Russia, and Russia alone is to blame for the war in Ukraine, as they are the ones who invaded and refuse to leave. The war will end only when they leave, regardless of how much you try to deflect blame onto anyone else.
edit: and the fact that you call the US a "warmonger" simply for helping Ukraine defend itself reminds me of this:
“DARVO is an acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers. The abuser will: Deny the abuse ever took place, then Attack the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable; then they will lie and claim that they, the abuser, are the real victim in the situation, thus Reversing the Victim and Offender.”
have a nice day.
At least we agree that I didn't say what I didn't say.
I'm calling the US a warmonger because it's been a warmonger for it's brief but entire history. Even if it turns out that this is the one war in which US motivations are good (i.e. not to make profit or further it's interests), it would still be a warmonger for every other war that it caused and prosecuted.
No amount of 'just war' will cancel out what the US did to Iraq or Libya or Vietnam or Laos or any number of other military atrocities.
i never agreed to that
now you're just changing your argument again by moving the goalposts to yet another tu quoque fallacy.
so, you even admit that your earlier assertions aren't necessarily factual, you're just arguing in bad faith because you have a grudge about what the US did in the past, which has no bearing here-- and is therefore irrelevant. like I said: a straw man and a tu quoque logical fallacy. in other words: bullshit. You just don't like the US, and you'll malign them for helping Ukraine defend itself, regardless of the merits, which you, yourself admit.
Your argument is no based in facts, it's based in your agenda of anger and bitterness.
Why are you insisting that I meant what I have said I did not mean? I understand that your interpretation of what I said is one valid interpretation. But I am confirming again that it is not the intended meaning of my words.
I called the US a warmonger. You replied:
I confirmed:
You responded:
But I haven't changed what I said. There was a misunderstanding and I clarified what I meant. I'll do so again. My point—the same as it was in my first comment—is that the US is a warmonger. It is a warmonger because it is constantly starting and prosecuting wars. The goalposts are exactly where I left them.
I wrote:
To which you replied:
This is a misunderstanding. The words 'even if' are conditional. They mean, in case I am wrong about US motivations in this war, the US is still a warmonger for all the other wars it has caused and prosecuted. So I can be wrong about this war and still right about the generalisation. This is the same point, to reiterate, that I have made from the beginning.
The US and it's allies killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. In my lifetime. Why should I not be bitter and angry at such a crime? At the lack of justice? The people responsible are still free and there have been no apologies. What I have is an accurate description of the US: warmonger.
Yes, I will continue to say this. Until the day the US apologises and finds a way to make reparations. And not just for Iraq but for all the other places it has destroyed in it's lust for profit. Because until that day, I will refuse to believe that the US has changed it's ways. And if it has not changed it's ways, then it remains what it has always been: a warmonger.
Cherry picking
Straw man
Moving the Goalposts
Tu quoque
Whataboutism
False equivalence
you don't have an argument, you just have a bunch of logical fallacies, disinformation, and childish indignation.
I honestly have no idea what you're on about, except that you forgot the one about making mountains out of molehills.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
This is the most appropriate thing you've said all day.
Do liberals feel some kind of indescribable euphoria from taking what they believe to be the moral high ground? They're always on their high horse, must be a side-effect of the brain rot.
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It's such an important topic but a conversation can't go anywhere if the two speakers are talking about different things and can't agree on what the topic is.
Classic liberal - "history doesn't matter, the only things that matter are within the contextual boundaries I draw that support my assertions. No, you're the fallacy!"
Pure brain rot
if you have to lie about what I said to make a point, then you don't have much of a point to make.
and if your entire premise is just a straw man fallacy, your premise isn't much of a premise at all.
finally, if all you have left is childish insults, well... that speaks for itself.
Straw man
Ad hominem
Accusing everyone you disagree with of having darvo? Projection?