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This is just...sweet jesus, man. It's not even your opinions- it's your deplorable cognitive skills.
Let's take this step-by-step, since apparently you need every damn inch laid out for you
"I don't believe that at this point Russia has violated IL. I do believe the US has a long history of it." That's great. That's...silly, but let's accept it and just look at how well you do or don't think. If you believe that I just quoted you as writing than
why would you think that anybody excusing what the US has done in the last 13 years while condemning Russia would be the inconsistent ones? They would have nothing to do with each other! The only way that "anybody excusing what the US has done in the last 13 years while condemning Russia would be the inconsistent ones" would be if both the US and Russia violated international law (which they both have done). So that point you made
wasn't even internally consistent using your own argument. That's why I told you to reread it. That's why I told you the transitive property is, by definition, transitive. But you didn't reread it and you didn't get it.
Now for the second "oh my god did he really just say that" moment from your post:
"It does appear that you may have just conceded yourself that Russia hasn't violated IL, citing that people may just be condemning Russia for doing what's good for them, but maybe isn't good for the West/US."
Huh? Wha? Why? How?
How could you possibly come to that conclusion? I'm saying that people might condemn Russia it's not good for American interests,
REGARDLESS of whether or not they violated international law or whether they care about international law. And you somehow took that to mean that I believe Russia did not? lol
WHY? Why would you even come to that conclusion? I'm honestly laughing as I'm typing this, because it makes no sense. Just laughing out of incredulity. It's like you simply can't understand that someone might not think like you do.
"Errr, that guy doesn't care whether or not Russia violated international law, he just doesn't like them expanding power at the expense of the West? Durrrr, by golly, that must mean he doesn't think Russia violated international law!"
The repeated and flagrant violations against critical thinking and cognitive ability that you're guilty of make it all but impossible to have an actual conversation about events with you. You consistently hold nations to different standards, you consistently shift the goalposts as far as what you're arguing, and- and this is the worst- you consistently assume that when someone says X, they mean Y. And Y always, in your mind, helps to prove your point...except it only hammers home that you shifted the goalposts and hold different nations to different standards. It's like it's recursive. You can't talk about issues because you lack the ability to hold an extended conversation about anything in lucid manner. It's absurd at this point. I'm going to start to make a list, it's crazy.