Except it's more than that; it's literally punishing people for being Russian, regardless of what they think about what Putin has done, regardless of where they are living, and disinviting them from events/cutting them off from their international associations for things they have no control over.
Yeah, it sucks to be them right now, sure. So what? Are they living hand to mouth, desperately hoping they'll make enough money at this film festival so thry can afford to eat this month? Because if they're not, I don't care. A few people getting temporarily inconvenienced because other people needed a punching bag isn't a big deal.
Glenn's own example bears this out, pointing to anti-French sentiment in the US back in 2003. How long did that last? A couple months, maybe a year?
Do I need to explain how that sort of mentality, in the current times, seems rather worrying and could lead to it being used against more than just Russia or Russian citizens?
Because of things like the trucker protests getting cut off from their bank accounts, people being censored for outing info about the Wu Flu that goes against Fauci's narrative, etc.
All the stuff you're complaining about is different (top-down authoritharian attempts to stifle dissent vs grassroots attempt to resolve a sense of helplessness), and predates the anti-russian stuff to boot, so I'm not clear on how it's supposed to relate at all.
We can condemn what Putin is doing without punishing innocent people or increasing censorship/info control.
No, we can't. This sort of behavior has been a constant throughout history, the desire to feel like you're empowered and in control of your life is deeply embedded into the human psyche.
Sure they are Timmy. The "it's just US warmongering, we gotta stop the warmongering" drumbeat was annoying enough before the invasion, it's gotten orders of magnitude more insufferable now that Russia has actually invaded and the West has repeatedly and at length insisted they will not intervene.
Russian Generals are not stupid, they played the Counter-Insurgency game in Afghanistan and won and built a capable state that actually outlived the Soviet State unlike the one we built which collapsed before we even left.
Russia either didn't win at COIN in Afghanistan, since the insurgency survived and toppled the government after the Russian's left, unless you define the goal of COIN to be merely suppressing the insurgents rather than eradicating them, in which case the US also won.
State building has nothing to do with military capabilities.
They also won every proxy war they fought against the US in South East Asia and Africa.
Er, not really. Militarily, the US consistently dominated, the issue was a lack of political will to continue, not a practical inability to keep fighting, a contest Russia won because they were an authoritarian state that didn't need to care about things like "do people actually want this", and since they were mostly providing weapons, equipment, and training rather than boots on the ground like the US, they faced even less pressure. But a victory due to political exhaustion is not at all the same thing as actual military success.
When they were thecones fighting our proxies in Afghanistan, it didn't exactly work out for them, now did it?
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And if the Arab States had had competent leaders, probably would have won the proxy wars there as well.
So when you win a proxy war, it's because Russia is great. When you lose one, it's because your proxies suck. Nice consistent standard you've got there.
If you're counting the 10+year long fiasco of syria a success for Russia, that explains a lot of your "Russia always won" rethoric, but also your poor judgement. No sane human being would look at Syria and go "yeah, this goes in the W column, big win for us here".
US Military lost all credibility with Iraq and Afghanistan. Their word is worthless and MSM should stop putting retired and current US Generals who lost their wars on air to talk about the Ukrainian War.
The US military accomplished everything it was asked to in the middle east. The US's failures at it's political projects doew not magically transform it's battlefield success into failure as a result.