Fuck Putin

Serious Black, Samstag, 26. Februar 2022, 16:28 (vor 1000 Tagen) @ Alex

Hätte nie erwartet mal Peter Beinart einer Meinung zu sein, aber nun ist es passiert:

In a rare and admirable act of self-reflection, the left-leaning journalist Matt Taibbi last week noted that he had underestimated the chances that Putin would launch a full-scale invasion because of “reverse chauvinism”. He was “so fixated on western misbehavior” that he discounted the possibility of Putin’s. It’s not surprising that American progressives, having lived through the debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, would grow skeptical when Washington’s military and foreign policy establishments gear up for conflict with a foreign adversary. But that skepticism must extend to America’s adversaries as well. As one socialist put it last week on Twitter, “believing America has a monopoly on being evil is just another kind of American exceptionalism”. And in the current conflict over Ukraine – where the US is a flawed but essential element in the fight against Vladimir Putin’s murderous lies – it’s a form of American exceptionalism progressives must avoid.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/26/russia-lies-america-half-truths