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It makes more sense if you view america as a police officer. An officer would pull sometimes his weapon to prevent bad things from happening but the officer would never take the suspect as his personal slave like russia.

Much like a police officer would never rape women? The U.S. would like to be named world-police, however, that is mostly wishful thinking.

Nobody said a police officer free of corruption.

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I'm literally answering a comment claiming the US has never done anything of the like. It's not whataboutism to bring up a counterexample in this case and calling it such is nothing less than jingoist propaganda.

Any military force will have such incidents. What separates them is the extent they try to prevent and punish such things. The US is certainly not perfect, but there have been attempts to curb such behaviour.

Meanwhile, a UN envoy collects extensive evidence that the torture and murder of Ukrainian (civilian and military) prisoners held by Russia is not only widespread, but shows clear signs of being coordinated in method and promoted from above in command.

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It makes more sense if you view america as a police officer. An officer would pull sometimes his weapon to prevent bad things from happening but the officer would never take the suspect as his personal slave like russia.

>It makes more sense if you view america as a police officer. That's an absolutely insane comparison. Police are funded from your taxes to protect you. Countries haven't paid taxes tot he US to come invade/drone strike them. In your country, do police officers from other countries routinely break into your house to tear it up, steal your shit and beat you up for doing nothing? Sounds more like criminals than police.

Well, it happens:

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/incident/chinese-serbian...

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They try hard to whitewash their affiliations to russia for potential customers while still not condemning the war. Jetbrains at least had the courage to do so even though state-owned institutions in germany are checking to cut their ties even with them. I would strictly advise against using their (OnlyOffice) products if you're in a country (eu, america) that participates in the sanctions against russia.

Condemning the war while being inside Russia poses grave risks to personal safety. Surely they are a software outfit, not noble heroic knights.

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Even worse: it's used as propoganda itself, they export this idea of all russians being united against the west bla-bla-bla. While in reality most people just don't want to think about it, and the state does everything to keep the "normality level" acceptable. This may sound unrealistic to the americans who seems to have their political opinion all the time, but russians just don't care, there're even jokes about "no…

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I don't read it as exactly whitewashing Russians. Embracing passivity is also a choice.

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Watch out there are russian immigrants founding companies all over the place! Some of them have name Sergei. USA is even trying to attract those russian kids on purpose! What a conspiracy.

The google founders are american citizens.

> Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union

> The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from Anatole Katok. During this time, the Brin family received support and assistance from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They arrived in the United States on October 25, 1979.

He is an immigrant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin

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The google founders are american citizens.

> Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union > The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from Anatole Katok. During this time, the Brin family received support and assistance from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They arrived in the United States on October 25, 1979. He is an immigrant. https://en.wikipedia.or…

Yes, he is an immigrant but he is no longer a russian citizen. That is the whole point.
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