Is There a Moral Equivalency?

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I was just reading yesterday nom chomsky denouncing puton in the invasion, but then adding, of course, as he's wont to do, this is really no different than what the united states did when they invaded a rack. The thing that bothers me colrenly is about the rules based world order. I'd like toknow, what was the rule that was the basis for attacking ira ero? Maybe also for afghanistan and the rustians? Do bring that up. That would be perfectly appropriate. Those are two disastrous wars caused by the united states in massive, massive, massive over reaction to what happened at nine 11. And they were naked acts of aggression. Bi

In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of War, we discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and what we might expect from Putin’s Russia in the coming weeks, months, and years, along with Dr. Mueller’s outline for how to end the current conflict and compromise with Putin. That seems unlikely at this point, but the prospects of the tragedy of millions of war refugees pouring out of Ukraine into neighboring nations, along with the number killed already and likely to be killed as the fighting escalates, why not give negotiation and compromise a chance? Read John Mueller’s op-ed that accompanies this episode.