Your comment reads like “whatever, shut tf up” and nothing else. What you expect from that?

And other people think this is a bad way to think.

I wonder if one approach is better than the other. I suppose it depends on one's goals, and perhaps on some other things.

That’s what is at the heart of it.

> People will bring up Russia out of nowhere just to point out that it’s not any worse than the US.

Like most people who yell “whataboutism” as if it is an argument you don’t make the effort to parse the salient commonality between these two countries: they both invade places.

Being worse or better in some greater picture has got nothing to do with it.