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Calling Putin’s threats ‘negotiations’ is like calling rape a romantic overture
You don’t civilise a sadist by flattering his demands; you degrade yourself and desecrate diplomacy
Putin has literally nothing to trade except a cessation of his own crimes
#JusticeMatters
Calling Putin’s threats ‘negotiations’ is like calling rape a romantic overture
You don’t civilise a sadist by flattering his demands; you degrade yourself and desecrate diplomacy
Putin has literally nothing to trade except a cessation of his own crimes
#JusticeMatters
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To him, power is self-justifying
Trump won’t upset Putin because he doesn’t see any reason to; he neither recognises nor respects the moral truths that would demand resistance
someone must win, someone must lose
This annihilates the nonzerosum logic at the heart of peaceful democratic order, where cooperation, compromise and mutual benefit are essential
Trump is demonstrably unconstrained by truth, reason, justice or any normative principle so democracy is under no obligation to remain normatively passive in its response
It has a moral obligation not to
It is the 'reactive syntax' of democracy when semantics no longer reach the saboteur
It is democracy taking itself seriously, acknowledging that its values must sometimes be protected by power, not persuasion
To refuse this is not principled restraint; it is democratic suicide