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I think this is because the “bad guy” in media shifted from the Ruskies, who were competent and dangerous and white-adjacent to Muslim terrorists.
People are more ok with torturing brown and powerless people who won’t ever torture you back.
If I’m being cynical, the entire “torture is bad actually” strain in western social liberal thought just stemmed from a fear of reciprocity, that the soviet spies could also torture people like me. Once the threat of reciprocity was gone and we were free to dominate the globe, all moral conundrums melted away
Nah he was present in the Kharkiv offensive start. This is just “Kim Jong un is dead” nonsense from the west wishcasting