…unless they also condemn the USA for invading Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Most European territories serve the USA’s geopolitical goals. Sanctions against Russia right now are part of that. There’s nothing moral about it. It’s simply a service to the USA for being in its sphere of influence. There is nothing, not a single shred of integrity in that.

If you find a territory which sanctions Russia for its crime, and also the USA for its crimes, you can recognise it as a real principled act.

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    Was the invasion of Afghanistan permitted by the UN security council? Because thats the only legitimate cause for war according to international law (or self-defense, but 9/11 was carried out from inside u.s., not from Afghanistan).

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      UN and the international community considered that the USA was legitimate to demand the extradition of Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan and that the invasion was aimed to restore the international peace, in adequacy with the article 51 of the chart of UN.