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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Honestly, I don't love policies like this either. Same thing with broad anti-Russian policies.
Should an anti-Putin Russian family be denied a trip to Canada to visit family members on the grounds they are obligated to stay home and pick up arms against Putin instead?
I think these policies do more to serve anti-western propaganda than anything else, and sway fence-sitters to supporting terrible regimes. Sure it's on those people to not support monsters, but do we need to give people like Netanyahu and Putin more ammo?
Should we have banned all Iraqis from travel during Sadam Hussein's regime?
I didn't feel right about this when it was pulled with Cubans.
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Oh, agreed. But it's just another sign that the world has had enough of watching innocents murdered, in the same way as some countries have responded to Ukraine. A reasonable person would see things like this as a moment to pause and reflect why they would choose to do this. I expect that's not the reaction of the usual war supporters in this thread.