Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Oliver Stone on how the US misunderstands Putin" video.

Perhaps, but presumably you're also personally open to re-evaluating what happened in Vietnam and is still happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen etc? In the latter examples, just because those people aren't white European, there isn't an advanced social media culture, most of their populations don't have easy access to smartphones and, let's be honest, most in the West don't really give a sh*t about them, what exactly does someone like Stone have to re-evaluate here pray?
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Stone gives a good account of himself in this interview in my opinion, and I say that as someone who is no particular fan. He is seeking the truth, or at least doing a far better job of it than most of his peers and the lackey western media more generally. Putin's actions are indeed monstrous, but that in no way mitigates those of his Western peers which have often been far worse in terms of misery inflicted, longevity and sheer scale. Does the fact that we self-servingly choose to consistently ignore them or stick them in the convenient box of 'the greater good' make us better or worse than him?
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@skandre7776 That's what's known in the trade as textbook 'whataboutery'. No-one is saying that Putin is a saint. I certainly didn't. But being a relatively small scale, low rent, murderous despot compared to the decades of havoc and mayhem unleashed upon the world by the US-led West pales into insignificance by comparison.
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