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Context inspiring this question: Inspired by an excellent answer to a similar question I saw on Quora, which highlighted a kind of mental block or immaturity in relation to this issue that I had cultivated since I first started consuming news as a child. This might make a better MyTake, but I want to see people's answers.

The current war in Ukraine has seen an inspiring reaction from the world against the invasion of an independent country. It has also exposed significant double standards and hypocrisy when compared to our reaction to past illegal invasions, particularly those carried out by the US and NATO; towards refugees, but especially towards indiscriminate bombing that results in civilian casualties.

Basically; It seems as if any bad thing done by an autocracy is more wrong on account of their being an autocracy—regardless of the circumstances. In contrast, any bad thing done by a democracy is less wrong—or, as some op-eds would argue, good—on account of their being a democracy.

When articles like these are frequently published, they seem to promote the idea that those who bomb these countries have the license to do so. This is why some westerners can then demand, without remorse, that their governments bomb and sanction their enemies, or even commit genocide against them while simultaneously decrying their enemies’ human rights violations and retaliatory actions. Their enemies and detractors are in turn, quick to point to the atrocities committed by the West while simultaneously forgiving and rationalizing those same violations on their side.

Given the above; I am curious whether more people (here at least) genuinely see a heinous act as a heinous act, regardless of the perpetrator; or whether my suspicions are true, and that people are willing to accept, or at least tolerate their country committing human rights violations because their government/media has framed such actions as "justified" or "necessary".