"Cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Muscat.
Ok, no. Sanctions have legal framework. Sanctions are targeted largely at the government, not the people. The EU abiding by its own rules and taking legal action against an offending, aggressive country is very different from a single country receiving what is essentially a terrorist attck and indiscriminately killing everyone on the opposing side.
Conflating those two things is intentionally going out of your way to villify a reaction to a full scale, unprovoked invasion. It’s dishonest at the very least.
Ok, no. Sanctions have legal framework. Sanctions are targeted largely at the government, not the people. The EU abiding by its own rules and taking legal action against an offending, aggressive country is very different from a single country receiving what is essentially a terrorist attck and indiscriminately killing everyone on the opposing side.
Conflating those two things is intentionally going out of your way to villify a reaction to a full scale, unprovoked invasion. It’s dishonest at the very least.