• AES_Enjoyer
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    Whataboutism? This post is about the US and Ukraine, not about Russia

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      Then why do people feel the need to defend Russia?

      Pointing out the defence of something unrelated isn’t Whataboutism

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        You can’t see a post about the two-sidedness of US policy without invoking the Russians.

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          Then it’s fine to call them out when they show up

          You even have (or had if mods did anything) some loser saying the US overthrew Ukraine with a far-right coup even though everyone knows that’s not true

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            even though everyone knows that’s not true

            Source: it is known

            There are relatively few comments in the thread talking about Russia at all, and calling the Euromaidan a US coup is not Russia apologism, it’s literally discussion about US+Ukraine.