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‘This is barbarism’: shock at Russian strike on Odesa cathedral
(www.theguardian.com)
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This isn't barbarism.
War is barbarism, and we Americans have voted for more warmongering than our next ten competing countries combined. Please keep pretending we're the good guys while our country is going on eight years of aiding Saudi Arabia in starving Yemen.
So you think words of an Ukrainian priest about Russian atrocities published by a British media source are invalid because... Americans vote for warmongering? Really?
Or do you believe barbarism is a zero-sum game and only one place in the whole wide world can engage in it at the same time?
And finally, you say "This isn't barbarism. War is barbarism" - what exactly do you believe is happening in Ukraine right now?