Comment by nobody9999
5 years ago
One of these things is not like the others.
Invading a country != denying visas to citizens of a country that's doing the invading.
Stay where you are and you may be murdered by an invading force != stay where you are and deal with the results of sanctions.
Both are definitely bad, but they are in no way equivalent.
As I have said in the comment below - for the ordinary Russian people which have nothing to do with the invasion the consequences are equally bad from the both sides.
such a claim is tantamount to saying ordinary Russian people are sociopaths who only value things in terms of how it affects them
I do not think that is the case
they're people, just like everyone else, and your ordinary person can obviously tell which of the two aforementioned scenarios is way, way, way worse than the other