I'm sorry, I just can't agree that Russia is justified in causing nearly a million deaths and injuries (of both Ukrainians and Russians) because it was worried Ukraine wanted to join NATO after Russia annexed Crimea.
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Literally nothing on the geo-political scale is justifiable.
Seriously can you name even one truly good thing that any leader of any country has done for the people in the last five years? Who gives a shit about Ukraine? Why Ukraine and not literally every other country facing the exact same atrocities? Because that's what the puppet show wants us to look at.
You know what I just can't agree with? People who take a stance of unquestionable moral authority as if they've somehow figured out the solve of a highly nuanced geo-political issue. That isn't insight; it's propaganda.
I totally get that geo-politics is extremely complicated and there is so much that I could never understand and so much information that I'd never get access to...
... but from the information I do have, I believe I can make some moral judgements on events that happen - and I'm happy to update those judgements as new information comes in.
Bombing a children's hospital - seems very bad. I'm not sure if there is a ton of new information that I could receive that might make me change my mind to agree it was a good idea.
Whereas, say, authorizing FEMA to help rescue people from a natural disaster - seems very good.
So if all the geo-political actions are on a spectrum from very bad to very good, then Russia invading Ukraine seems very bad to me, especially since they could stop at any time and it's likely impoverishing Russia itself. If I found out Ukraine was killing Russian civilians and Russia had tried everything else to get them to stop, then that would change my mind about the situation.
I care about Ukraine because I have friends from there, I care about Palestine because I have friends from there and friends from Israel. I care about the political environment in Venezuela because so many on Hive have written about it. I care about the atrocities within China, but I honestly don't know that much about it all. I'm aware there are conflicts in Africa, but I honestly don't know much about them.
I think the use of economic sanctions against another country can be good if it dissuades violence or war, it's a better alternative between the two - but I also understand sanctions can, and have, be used immorally - which is terrible.
Leaders do good things for people all the time. I truly appreciate when leaders support transitioning renewable technologies. I think in the USA, capping insulin prices to $35 could be literally life-saving for US citizens. I don't personally know much about it or anyone affected by it, but from what I know it seems good. I'm sure I could list a bunch of other good things if pressed and could research a heap, but this response is way too long already.
Good point but circling back to sanctions:
You believe there should be a centralized agent that can control the rails of public infrastructure to get what they want? This is a very anti-crypto pro-imperialist stance, which I find odd.
It's the same logic behind a criminal getting off on a charge on a technicality. Innocent until proven guilty. It's more important for everyone to be treated fairly on an equal playing field than it is to bend and break the rules to punish.
Ah, I'm absolutely definitely no expert but I haven't been viewing SWIFT as a centralized agent. I mean, it is in that everything goes through it, but it's not in that its a cooperative of 10 countries... so I've kind of always viewed it as a non-profit-driven community project. I personally haven't had a problem with SWIFT cutting off Russia's access to the network because I imagined most, if not all, of the member countries would have imposed their individual sanctions anyway (so I assumed it was just very efficient) - but now that I'm typing that out that might have been the wrong way to look at it.
As an XRP fan, I'm absolutely onboard for an alternative to SWIFT, especially one that is more efficient and less expensive. If a grass-roots Russian civilian project was building crypto infrastructure to help civilians get resources I'd be all for it, but I can't really get excited about the Russian government developing a CBDC to get around sanctions so they can get more weapons to bomb Ukrainian civilians in their homes.
I'm really excited about crypto to make people's lives better, especially where they are underserved by corporations and governments, but I think it's also important to call out where it has the potential for harm as well, as I do think it does in this case.