Here's some counter-whataboutism: what about the Korean and Vietnam wars (the Soviet Union even sent their own pilots with the jets), and countless other smaller conflicts in Africa? The Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc were pumping weapons into those conflicts or have been invading themselves to support "their side". Same with Russia in Syria btw.
At least the free west is upfront and open about the weapon deliveries down to the last helmet:
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/schwerpunkte/krieg-in...
And they like to respond with “whataboutism!” - which is ironically, a Soviet propaganda term.
Americans are particularly myopic and view the world though a post-history lens.
Not sure what the (!) for the cluster bombs is about, both Ukraine and Russia never signed the cluster bomb ban, and both Ukraine and Russia have been using cluster bombs in both this conflict but also since 2014.
This isn't anything new, the only change is that they are now being provided by America, and the American ones appear to fail less.
> Not only were these weapons effective enough to manage to kill tens of thousands of Americans, but some were even being used to carry out irregular attacks in major American cities.
I'm not sure that the provided weapons are being used to carry out any 'irregular' attacks on Russian cities?.
But even if they were, did the Russians really think they could enter this war and bomb cities into dust and never get bombed themselves?.
> That people lack the empathy to see how dangerous the path we're treading is only because the media has spent years creating this absurd dichotomy in the world where the American cause of the week is just and right, whereas the enemy - pure evil. And so in this context people seem to rarely ask themselves whether what we're doing is right or wrong, because how can doing harm to pure evil ever be wrong?
I think its perfectly morally acceptable to arm a country trying to defend itself against an imperialist invader.
I don't think the path that is being tread is in any way shape or form dangerous, why would Russia losing this war be any different to the other wars that both Russia and the Soviet Union lost?.
What do you think's going to happen? That we're going to say "Guys, that's not cool. Ok I guess we'll just withdraw from Iraq, after all our reasons for invading were complete rubbish anyhow. Darn, you win this one - Russia!"? Come on. It would have just led to an endless escalation, well not 'endless' because there is one final escalation from which there is no coming back. That people lack the empathy to see how dangerous the path we're treading is only because the media has spent years creating this absurd dichotomy in the world where America - good, the ever-shifting enemy of the day - bad. So naturally doing anything to your enemy is okay, because they're bad, and we're good.