this.   > they aren't anti-war, they're just on the other side. sadly true. i lost interest with the left long before the ukraine war for a lot of reasons but i used to think of the oldschool leftists as being principled people. i remember seeing chomsky argue with william f. buckley about the war in vietnam and while a lot of his points were good, all that's happened since makes me think he never believed it deep down. it was fundamentally just because they were communists being attacked in that case, im pretty sure.
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