Comment by wazoox
21 days ago
> The argument is roughly that “the west” and “western morality” are critical institutions to be protected, and refusing to protect them is immoral.
"The West" as a collective lost all of the moral high ground it was supposed to have during the past few decades and particularly last year.
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-t...
The moral high ground was lost when the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq on a pretext.
That's one that I use as an example too, but maybe only out of ignorance ? (Wasn't the Vietnam War pretty bad too ?)
Though I guess that things were quite different during the Cold War...
Agreed.