- Joined
- Sep 24, 2014
When that American kid got worked to death in North Korea for stealing a sign, people didn't get that bent out of shape. He got caught, was tried, proven guilty, and sentenced to a labor camp. Some of the war hawk politicians made a big stink about it, but people generally thought he should have known better that to do what he did under the circumstances.A passport for America is not a get out of jail free card and is not a shield from consequence.
CRP went to a country that was being sold to the West as a new first world democracy that was welcoming Western liberalism with open arms. They were on the fast track to NATO membership and Zelensky was basically the 2nd coming of Winston Churchill. Our values are their values and their values are our values, therefore we need to express fiscal and militaristic solidarity with them to our own detriment because it's so vital to the health of civilization that letting the Russian subhumans win is a fate worse than death. George Washington would do a cartwheel in his grave.
Oops. Nevermind. They're a bunch of glue sniffing neaderthals that beat A PASSPORT CARRYING MURICAN CIT'ZEN to death in a prison cell while awaiting trial. Mind you this is on the heels of their midget leader going on another world begging tour, trying to convince the West that, "they're just like us!"
Nobody is making the argument that Americans have a get out of jail free card. Under these hyper specific geopolitical circumstances, Ukraine fucked up big time. This isn't comparable to the vast majority of instances of Americans getting themselves killed overseas. You're hyper focusing on a very narrow context within those circumstances and building a strawman argument around it.