> If you live in a "first world" country you should know the price of your lifestyle is always blood.
This is not only false but also implies the "X is bad so you can also do other bad things" mentality that I don't buy.
> yet the invasion happened anyway
With extremely limited support from Europe. Basically, from EU countries only the UK agreed and Blair was heavily criticized for that. From [0]: "...when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. " Then Bush answered "You forgot Poland" which became a short-lived meme.
So yes, I think Blair and Bush jr should join Putin and Netanyahu as war criminals. But at the same time there is a great cibilizational divide between Europe and Russia, sadly for everyone involved.
This is not only false but also implies the "X is bad so you can also do other bad things" mentality that I don't buy.
> yet the invasion happened anyway
With extremely limited support from Europe. Basically, from EU countries only the UK agreed and Blair was heavily criticized for that. From [0]: "...when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. " Then Bush answered "You forgot Poland" which became a short-lived meme.
So yes, I think Blair and Bush jr should join Putin and Netanyahu as war criminals. But at the same time there is a great cibilizational divide between Europe and Russia, sadly for everyone involved.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq...