I can also do annoying metaphors:

When choosing between “genocide” and “genocide,” pick the blue one, and then pretend that everyone who picked neither is a worse person than you.

How can I go to the sex shop and the bathhouse and buy shrooms if I don’t have cash?

Take these gives infected cow tits

I’m not doubting your comparative analysis of these wars, but instead I would like to place another claim on the table: wars are no longer the primary vehicle of violence in our global society, just the most naked and public-facing violence.

Some examples of these other acts (and these are indeed heavily interrelated):

• IMF loans and enforced austerity/liberalization
• NED-related influence operations
• coups
• sanctions
• embargoes
• military presence itself (via bases)
• funding of militant proxy groups

(Note that the primary vehicle of harm here is slowly economically depriving and strangling average people up to the last dollar, worldwide). Then you add this suffering to when the violence becomes protracted and sharpened via war.

Russia simply can’t do this. Idk if it wants to; it probably does considering Ukraine (also Russia isn’t like a person lol and I don’t think it’s all just Putin bc putting shit on one guy is naive imo; you can always replace the one guy). But Russia does not have the military and economic influence the US does.

This is just my understanding of the world like philosophically as I’ve spent 20-something beautiful years on this blue-green marble and another 375 on the red one (and also I’m like… incredibly lazy as a person!) so no sources 😔 but I am amenable to receiving new evidence!

Might be a dumb q but how can it have a market share when it’s free