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I am deeply disturbed at all of the "rule of law for thee, not for me" that the Russian sanctions have brought to the surface. It was bad enough when the UK, which has very strict laws on fighting for foreign nations and paramilitaries, said they'd ignore their own citizens going over to fight. This is a different league all together.

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Ignoring a country’s sovereignty and attacking them is also “rules for thee and not for me.”

Ironically, that's the sort of thing the USSR used to say to the US. Problem with the USSR? Just point out something equally bad about the US. Through that logic, until the rest of the world was perfect, the USSR could get away with anything.

Well, why exactly would it be fair for only the United States to get away with genocide, war crimes, human rights violations?

Seems weird that only one side is allowed to be guilty.

Yeah but we don't take the approach of "well you ignored rules, therefore we can ignore rules as well" when it comes to our justice system. Criminals broke the rules, but they still get due process.

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