Here’s what’s on history’s tragic none of the above, choose sides menu:

1. You’re an Indian in Imphal in 1944. Do you fight for the murderous British empire that caused a preventable famine in Bengal and committed mass murder in Amritsar in 1919, or the murderous Japanese empire? Neither is not a choice. Not choosing is a choice.
2. You’re a free part black, part Cherokee living outside Atlanta in August 1864. Do you help the murderous genocidal Union army led by General Sherman that gave your people the Trail of Tears, or the confederate slavers?
3. You’re a Crimean Tatar in Kherson in 1943. You’ve survived the Holodomor and the Nazis. You know perfectly well what genocidal Stalin will do to your people after kicking the Germans out of Crimea and Zaporizhia. Choose sides. Neither is not an option and doing nothing is a collaborationist decision.
4. You’re a Filipino who saw American atrocities against your people as a child in 1902. Now it’s 1942 and the Japanese invade the Philippines. Choose sides. Not choosing a side is a choice.
5. You’re an Indonesian in Java in 1942 who hates your country’s racist Dutch colonial overlords. Do you go with Sukarno’s choice to side with the Japanese invaders, knowing full well that Japanese behavior in China foretells mass murder by them in Indonesia?
6. You’re a literate emancipated helot citizen of Athens walking in the hills above Thermopylae. You hate your Spartan former masters, but you are still Greek and know what Athenian democracy means. Do you tell the Persian army how to flank the 300 Spartans in their path?
7. You’re a Latvian in Riga in early June 1944 whose relatives were deported to Siberia in 1940. You saw what the Germans (and local Latvian Arajs Komando) did to your Jewish neighbors in December 1941 and know what Soviet “liberation” means. But you also know about the Nazis’ Generalplan Ost for the extermination of the Baltic peoples. Do you hope for or dread Allied success in Normandy and in Operation Bagration that month?

Watch Tim Snyder’s final lecture from his class “The Making of Modern Ukraine” and choose sides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLfFmYWjHtc . Not choosing is a choice.

All of the choices on this menu leave a bad taste. But you’re chained to this restaurant table and can’t order what’s not on the menu. You’re as lost in Russified Whataboutistan as CodePink: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/lost-in-russified-whataboutistan-left-half-5ea2c734fa14

Einstein also understood that America being the first to develop an atomic weapon was essential to the defense of civilization. That’s why, at the urging of his Hungarian Jewish colleagues Leo Szilard and Edward Teller, wrote his letter to Roosevelt in September 1939 that triggered the launch of the Manhattan Project. You can thank Hungarian Jew hatred for the exported physics talent that built the atomic bomb before the Germans.

Contradictory evidence: Jacques Baud’s Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol theater and Novachok denial is like Holocaust denial. He’s the Swiss equivalent of Nick Fuentes and David Irving. https://dailysceptic.org/archive/how-accurate-is-jacques-bauds-analysis-of-the-war-in-ukraine/

Geopolitics has a law of sunk costs. Whatever happened before the war, the Nobel Peace Prize winning Memorial is right about what negotiating now with a ceasefire would mean: a frozen conflict that gives Russia time for round two to be fought later by the current generation’s children. Not supporting Ukraine = supporting Russia’s self-declared genocidal neocolonial war against the Ukrainian state’s and the existence of Ukrainians as a people. Whataboutist bothsidesism makes you a genocide apologist. You’re on the same side as the fascist kleptocrat Trump, MTG, JD Vance, Nick Fuentes’ AFPAC-ers chanting Putin! Putin!, Gosar, LePen, Orban, Salvini, Berlusconi. KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov has told you who you are.