Yesterday was the 64th anniversary of the CIA-backed coup against Iranian PM Mohammed Mossadegh.

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17. No, justifying Russian murders is "anti-war"

Exactly what people do who want to ensure mass murder goes unchallenged. They do so under the pretext that those deaths aren't bad if the US doesn't commit them.

The ONLY people who justify mass murder around here and the ones covering for authoritarian regimes outside of the US. The whataboutisms are intended to undermine the moral authority of anyone who dares to raise objections to genocide, gassing of children, mass murder, or foreign invasions. In the process, the ensure the authoritarian regimes they skill for are able to kill without consequences.

Human beings of conscience don't feel the need to justify mass murder. They don't seek to undermine efforts to stop it. They are capable of maintaining objections to all mass murders and all illegal interventions--whether against Mossedegh, Arbenz, or the Ukraine--not just ones committed by countries they despise, like the US, while excusing those by the authoritarian despots they revere, like Assad, Putin, and Kim Jong Il.