Governments listen to people that succeed at acting in unison. Individuals can be dealt with swiftly but populations can overturn any government.

Coordinating populations is the hard part if you want revolution. Manipulating populations and their ability to coordinate is your bread and butter if you want to oppress.

Really? A Russian delegation is allowed to join?

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I mean the Soviets helped beat the Nazis and they were hardly the good guys. Helping Ukraine makes US the good guys in the Ukraine war. Each action should stand on its own.

Here’s one link: https://www.statista.com/chart/28489/ukrainian-military-humanitarian-and-financial-aid-donors/

I just googled “ukraine aid eu vs us”.

I mean I’ve seen some weird workarounds when stuff isn’t loading in when they’re supposed to…

But yeah this is probably not that.

Things that should be relatively non controversial:

• There’s no simple solution.

• Palestinian civilians is not equal to Hamas.

• Hamas is a terror organisation

• Israel army is currently exercising too much violence on Palestinians

• Israel clearly has the military advantage.

More vague points:

That puts most of the responsibility of how the situation develops in Israel hands. They can’t change the minds of the Palestinians. But they have the power to minimise total harm. They should be able to keep a lower rate of casualties on the Palestinian side without significantly increasing casualties on the Israeli side? No?

Yeah don’t kill the fire while it’s small. If it grows larger we can sell more extinguishers!

Maybe they realize there will be more war and profits to make if Putin gets what he wants.

Don’t bomb civilians. Don’t bomb Palestinians. Don’t bomb Israelis. Don’t kill children. Don’t kill. Don’t kidnap people.

Is that hard? I mean sure the world might be more complicated but regardless of that the above seems like a very consistent and simple starting point of an opinion? It seems easier to start with “don’t bomb people” as a starting point than “don’t bomb some people” as a starting point.

As a tangent I feel it’s a bit symptomatic of our social media landscape having trust issues when we can’t allow ourselves to delegate having an opinion about one of the most infected and complex conflicts that is way out of most people’s control.

Hamas terrorist attacks sucked. Bombing whole city blocks in retaliation sucks. Indeed.

Personally I’m astonished how many seems to find it easy picking a side. The more I learn the less I feel sure about anything except that the whole situation sucks.

Picking a side sucks. Not picking a side sucks. I’m glad I don’t have political influence for this one.