Sanctioning Rwanda is an important step toward ending Kagame's brutal invasion of Congo. Europe's inaction on this subject risks damaging its already limited credibility on the world stage.
The Soviets were incredibly imperialistic. From their joint invasion of Poland with the Germans, to squashing the Hungarian protesters during the cold war, to their war against Afghanistan… I don’t know how you can support the idea that they were anti-imperialists 😭
@OrphanInnocent Indeed it set back imperialists many many years. But for those many people you don’t consider part of the “species”, they remain vindicated.
I published my article “Nothing New But the Sword” as a warning: Christians on the Right have gotten seriously lazy; we have all-too-often just assumed Right-Wing politics and Christianity go together hand and glove (philosophically). We have assumed this because, in our day, Christianity has generally been RW-coded and antitheism/opposition to religion has generally been LW-coded—this is a historical contingency that doesn't at all necessarily indicate the two actually coherently go together, especially in a way that will convince a third-party observer. We have forgotten how to actually argue for this in a rigorous way, from the pages of the Gospels and in dialogue with the full (and developing) richness of the Christian tradition. Simply referring to Thomas Aquinas or the Old Testament or the tsars of yore being “based” WILL NOT CUT IT. You actually have to ARGUE FOR the coherence of Christianity and RW politics as a felicitous pairing in a systematic, compelling way, instead of just assuming it or handwaving with reference to defunct sociological arrangements and institutions from the past. If you don't do this, you will simply get BTFO by a new religious/Christian Left, who, unfortunately, often have better command of the sources of the Christian faith than you (or most RW Christian academics, frankly) do.
Sanctioning Rwanda is an important step toward ending Kagame's brutal invasion of Congo. Europe's inaction on this subject risks damaging its already limited credibility on the world stage.