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The Dehumanizing Double Standards in Media Coverage of War

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
That is the point. A Middle Eastern perspective is as valuable as the American one.
Because it deals with human lives lost.
Iraqis' lives are not less valuable than Americans' lives.
The world will never forget Colin Powell with that fake bottle in his hands.
I take no stand on whose opinion is more valuable.
Everyone is entitled to personal preferences & focus.
But if Putin's many hinted threats materialize, then
deaths look to be numerous.
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Ukraine has tactical places and the coup was supported by west to put an illegitimate government and now you acting like it's all about democracy and sovereign state. God's curse be the oppressors, their supporters, and those who silently watch by.
 

Martin

Spam, wonderful spam (bloody vikings!)
Ukraine has tactical places and the coup was supported by west to put an illegitimate government and now you acting like it's all about democracy and sovereign state. God's curse be the oppressors, their supporters, and those who silently watch by.

Let's see some evidence that the coup in Ukraine was supported by the west.
 

Wandering Monk

Well-Known Member
I'm worried that if Putin and China are partners in this, and if the USA gets involved, that would be a very tragic mistake for the American people.

May Allah guide them all into peace ameen

The Bank of China today has stopped financing Russian oil trades.
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
and why did Ukraine cut off water from Crimea?

Really you guys taunted him to war and act innocent.
 

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
I can’t say if Putin’s goal is to rebuild the former USSR, but from what I’ve researched his immediate goal is to protect Russia’s border from interventionist tactics and threats.
In 2014 the US was involved in a coup which removed an elected government in the Ukraine, replaced it with anti-Russian officials.

“What the US media will not report is that this entire crisis – and the threat of a serious war – has all been brought about by US interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine, specifically the US-backed coup that overthrew an elected government in 2014. Every bit of unrest in Ukraine proceeded from that single foolish and immoral act by the Obama Administration.”

Ukraine Crisis: A Nightmare Caused by US Interventionism
Why do Americans always presume that the entire world willingly dances to their tune, and that foreign people are just puppets on the strings of their American overlords? Do they literally not believe that people from outside America could have interests, concerns and goals of their own?
 

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
The NATO was supposed to defend Libyans.


Libya was one of the wealthiest countries in the Mediterranean.
A political and economic treaty had just been signed between Italy and Libya. Libya would have become even wealthier, after that.
But few years later, the NATO supported the fundamentalists who overthrew Gaddafi.

So, please do acknowledge that the NATO brought nothing but destruction and turmoil in Libya.
And it lost its economic status.
Would you have preferred Gaddhaffi to bomb the rebels to death?
 

InChrist

Free4ever
Why do Americans always presume that the entire world willingly dances to their tune, and that foreign people are just puppets on the strings of their American overlords? Do they literally not believe that people from outside America could have interests, concerns and goals of their own?
Why do they? Those are good questions.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
So you would have preferred them all to be bombed to death.

The topic here is double standards.

It is wrong thar Putin invaded Ukraine (I agree)...


...but is it right that the ISIL invades Libya to overthrow Gaddafi?
 

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
The topic here is double standards.
You are correct, there is no double standard when people are equally worshipful towards Gaddafi and Putin.
Some people are simply drawn to authoritarian performances of machistic strength, and therefore tend to fawn to no end over every tyrant they encounter.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
You are correct, there is no double standard when people are equally worshipful towards Gaddafi and Putin.
Some people are simply drawn to authoritarian performances of machistic strength, and therefore tend to fawn to no end over every tyrant they encounter.

The point is: innocent Libyans died, and nobody cared about them.
 
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