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A comment on ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by ajross on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:17PM (#30543741)
It's more the wrong question because the "international community" as such broadly supported action in Afghanistan and (to a lesser extent) Iraq. Lots of individual groups had qualms, but none rose to the level of actual policymaking in democratic governments. Obviously in hindsight (informed by the results of the occupation and the exposure of the extremely spun intelligence that was used to justify the war) lots of people would claim to have "opposed" the Iraq war, but at the time it was mostly just shrugs and silence.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by vkou on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:55PM (#30544279)
We don't need to go as far back as Iraq.

The Saudis have been waging an offensive war for years in Yemen. Yet there hasn't been a single peep about cutting them off SWIFT, sanctioning their royal oligarchs, freezing their western assets, etc, etc.

It seems to send a message that yes, repressive petrostate dictatorships can get away with waging offensive wars... Well, at least some of them can.

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by all2 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:56PM (#30545133)
Oil, and by proxy money, protect them from anything people might want to do to them. People want their money, want their oil, so they turn a blind eye.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by 8note on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:29PM (#30545571)
It's not shielding Russia nearly as strongly. Being a friend of the US is more important than having oil. American friends and allies can do no wrong to the eyes of the western world
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by all2 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:48PM (#30545843)
It is in China's best interest that Russia is hostile to the US. I wonder what it would take for the US to form a military alliance with Russia?
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by jl6 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:56PM (#30546881)
> I wonder what it would take for the US to form a military alliance with Russia?

A head-and-shoulders decapitation of a regime change in Russia, Chinese irredentism over outer Manchuria, a Han-supremacist lebensraum movement targeting Asia east of the Urals…

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by cabalamat on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:16PM (#30550249)
Once Putin is gone, it may well happen that Russia and America become friendly.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by coliveira on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:17PM (#30547120)
Only a government change in the US would allow an alliance with Russia. Current US government is Russophobic to the core.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by kilburn on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:24PM (#30547193)
Regarding the Iraq war, Wikipedia has an interesting page about protests against it [1].

> On February 15 [2003, before the invasion started], millions of people protested, in approximately 800 cities around the world. Listed by the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest protest in human history, protests occurred among others in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Syria, India, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and even McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

I don't think "the largest protest in human history" qualifies as "mostly shrugs and silence" ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by 8note on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:27PM (#30545541)
Afghanistan yeah, but you can tell the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan by who participated in the invasion.

Lack of actual policy making to me is more that the US empire was at the peak of its power. Being punished by America at the time would be worse than trying to maintain a rules based.

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by coliveira on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:13PM (#30547076)
There was no international support for the invasion of Iraq. The US came up with a meager "coalition" of their usual partner states only to appear they were not going alone.
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