That article shows hundreds died in mass killings as part of the conflict. Do you really think hundreds of people are a genocide? If that's a genocide, then the US has committed 10x the number of genocides and shouldn't be leading the effort to "protect" anyone.

[–] wito@lemmy.techtailors.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A fine example of whataboutism. We are talking about Russia not the USA.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you think this is an example of whataboutism, you're braindead.

What was said was that Russia had committed genocide and this was the justification for the US-led transnational nuclear military of NATO to expand. The logic, of course, is that Europe needs the USA to protect it from genocidal countries like Russia. But the USA is more genocidal than Russia, so it becomes a problematic justification to say that the USA commits genocide more often, more violently, and more effectively but that's preferable to Russia committing genocide less often, less violently, and less effectively.

Whataboutism is when the USA commits genocide and then everyone ignores it and says "What about Chechnya?"