Friend, I welcome other viewpoints, we can all ask questions and have a discussion without calling each other idiotic and getting heated. That being said, I respect your opinion.
I have family in Ukraine, so I understand this is a big deal, and there are a lot of factors at play, and everyone has different ideas of right and wrong on stuff like this.
I personally dislike having my question labeled as "whataboutism" though. I'm not attempting to handwave the clearly wrong actions of Putin and the Russian government, I am simply asking for some perspective. We are a very vindictive society, and I just don't believe in setting rules for others that I don't plan to abide by myself. You can call that whatever you want to, but America does not have clean hands. I love my country, but it would be a lie to pretend that our government has not meddled in ways big and small throughout my whole lifetime. We drone strike innocent people all the time, in increasing amounts, maybe we can just call that lucky that the rest of the world doesn't care enough or can't afford to impose restrictions on us for our behavior the same way we try to police everyone else.
The core question here, is what good does it actually do the world to tell people in Russia "Okay, no more video games". Is this actually pushing towards positive change, or just a virtue signal that will do little more than piss off an already pissed of country full of people who have no say in who runs their country?
