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> Don’t forget: our insane support for genocide and an out-of-control genocidal regime that’s clearly trying to trigger WW3.

Look, I think the people involved should be waiting trial in the Hague as much as the next man, but let's be real. They could kill another 5.2 million people, and nobody would start WW3 over it.

Some people's lives are simply worth more than others to world powers, and in this case, the Thanksgiving Turkey getting a stay of execution would get more people to tune in to the telly.

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They have begun sending drones and military jets over a hundred kilometers into NATO nation borders. Sorry, 350 km. They're testing waters.

Surely, you realize that the US is as of today, still sending weapons to Ukraine.

The genocidal regime[1] that it is actively supporting is a little further south.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

I neither support Israel's genocide or appreciate the whataboutism. The US has many crosses to bear for our geopolitical endeavors in the last 80 years. That does not change Russia's current geopolitical endeavors.

I won't even entertain your insinuation that loaning weapons for an allied nations to defend itself with is remotely equivalent to invading a sovereign, western nation to attempt to annex land.

What?

That's not the point I was making.

My point was that the US currently supports Ukraine resisting an invasion (which international observers believe qualifies as a genocide by Russia), and while Trump has spent a lot of time shilling for Russia, the US is on the net, not supporting Russia.

Why should anyone trigger ww3 even if there are mass murders somewhere?

Do you want to fight in ww3? You can go enlist in Ukraine to fight evil regime right now.

Also interesting that even Arab states don't want to do anything to help people of Gaza, to accept refuges. Why there is no blame on Egipt for keeping borders closed?

International law, basic common sense, and basic human decency recognizes that the welfare of people within the territory invaded by Israel is Israel's, not Egypt's responsibility.

Driving civilian populations out at gunpoint into neighboring countries is called a genocide.

(If I remember my history, there used to be a German word for that sort of thing, I think it started with an L...)

>>not Egypt's responsibility

So that's ok, Egipt should not open border to help Arab neighbors

>> Driving civilian populations out at gunpoint into neighboring countries is called a genocide

Forced resettlement is not a genocide. Does russia also doing genocide in Ukraine (again, as many times in history)?

> Does russia also doing genocide in Ukraine

Since the goal is annexation and erasure of Ukranian identity and culture, the international community believes it to be one.

Some, but not all Soviet policies were genocidal.

> So that's ok, Egipt should not open border...

What Egypt is failing to do has no bearing on whether Israel is engaging in genocide in the territory it is invading. Israel is a sovereign state, it is responsible for its own actions.

Forced resettlement => Ethnic cleansing

Funny, why did we accept millions of Ukrainians refugees while most of the Ukrainian territory was not at war?

Because Ukrainians do not hold Muslim terrorist views?

What if someone said “because Ukrainians don’t hold genocidal Judaism views”?

You should seek therapy?

>Driving civilian populations out at gunpoint into neighboring countries is called a genocide.

Technically, it is called ethnic cleansing. All genocide is ethnic cleansing; not all ethnic cleansing reaches the level of genocide.

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