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This attempted generalization is a whataboutism.

Very few governments initiate wars.

It‘s only in this specific and utterly exceptional situation that yes, the citizen's should be cancelled because their government started a war and sanctioning them is our only less-than-WW3 option.



Interestingly, accusations of whataboutism are themselves kind of mindless. You do X, but so do you, whataboutism


> This attempted generalization is a whataboutism.

No, if I asked why the Saudis aren't getting sanctioned despite causing the deaths of a hundred thousand Yemenis, that would be whataboutism.




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