• ragepaw@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Flattening standard imperial realpolitik and open fascism into “they’re the exact same” is just lazy.

    Trying to broker ceasefires and manage alliances within a horrific status quo is imperialist diplomacy. Telling Netanyahu to “finish the problem” and treating leveled cities like beachfront real estate is explicit fascism.

    They might look identical to you from behind a keyboard, but to the people actually caught in the crossfire, the difference between diplomatic restraint and total escalation matters.

    Reducing complex foreign policy to an edgy “both sides are equally evil” take doesn’t make you principled. Treating bad diplomacy and open bloodlust as the exact same thing isn’t an argument, it’s just deliberate ignorance.

    • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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      4 hours ago

      the difference between diplomatic restraint and total escalation matters.

      Go compare how many Palestinians were killed under Biden and under Trump.

      Better yet, go tell the people in Gaza you’ve decided what matters.

      Fuck off, genocide apologist.