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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  3482 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Twenty feet from war with Russia

I'm a little bit skeptical of robinson's argument. It sounds a lot like the multicultural based argument that is sometimes made vis-a-vis human rights that morality isn't absolute and that each culture has a different moral stance. What Putin is doing is in many aspects wrong objectively speaking. That doesn't mean I know what we should do about it, but he is certainly doing more than asserting independence. He is running a kleptocracy, and consolidating power for himself at the expense of sovereignty, and he is adding nothing to the world community of nations.