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2. Staff writer (11 December 2008). "The West is in danger of losing its moral authority". European Voice. http://www.politico.eu/article/the-west-is-in-danger-of-losing-its-moral-authority/. "'Whataboutism' was a favourite tactic of Soviet propagandists during the old Cold War. Any criticism of the Soviet Union's internal aggression or external repression was met with a 'what about?' some crime of the West, from slavery to the Monroe doctrine." 
3. "Power, money and principle – Defending political freedom in Russia and Britain", The Economist, 4 December 2008, http://www.economist.com/node/12718828, retrieved 5 July 2017, "'Whataboutism' was a favourite tactic of Soviet propagandists during the old Cold War. Any criticism of the Soviet Union's internal repression or external aggression was met by asking 'what about' some crime of the West, from slavery to the Monroe doctrine. In the era when political prisoners rotted in Siberia and you could be shot for trying to leave the socialist paradise, whataboutism was little more than a debating tactic. Most people inside the Soviet Union, particularly towards the end, knew that their system was based on lies and murder." 
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15. Bershidsky, Leonid (13 September 2016), "Hack of Anti-Doping Agency Poses New Ethical Questions", Bloomberg News, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-13/hack-of-anti-doping-agency-poses-new-ethical-questions, retrieved 3 July 2017, "Russian officials protested that other nations were no better, but these objections – which were in line with a Russian tradition of whataboutism – were swept aside." 
16. Osnos, Evan; Remnick, David; Yaffa, Joshua (6 March 2017), "Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War", The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-and-the-new-cold-war, retrieved 3 July 2017 
17. Mackey, Robert (19 August 2014), "Russia, Iran and Egypt Heckle U.S. About Tactics in Ferguson", The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/world/europe/russia-iran-and-egypt-heckle-us-about-tactics-in-ferguson.html, retrieved 4 July 2017, "officials in Moscow have long relied on discussions of racial inequality in the United States to counter criticism of their own human rights abuses. 'The now sacred Russian tactic of "whataboutism" started with civil rights,' Ms. Ioffe wrote. 'Whenever the U.S. pointed to Soviet human rights violations, the Soviets had an easy riposte. "Well, you," they said, "lynch Negros."'" 
18. Ioffe, Julia (14 August 2014), "Ferguson Will Make It Harder for America to Set a Good Example Abroad", The New Republic, https://newrepublic.com/article/119078/ferguson-civil-rights-cold-war-russia-protests, retrieved 4 July 2017, "The now sacred Russian tactic of 'whataboutism' started with civil rights: Whenever the U.S. pointed to Soviet human rights violations, the Soviets had an easy riposte. 'Well, you,' they said, 'lynch Negros.'" 
19. Dougherty, Jill (24 July 2016), "Olympic doping ban unleashes fury in Moscow", CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/opinions/russia-olympic-fury/index.html, retrieved 4 July 2017, "There's another attitude ... that many Russians seem to share, what used to be called in the Soviet Union 'whataboutism', in other words, 'who are you to call the kettle black?'" 
20. Lucas, Edward (7 February 2017), "Trump has become Putin's ally in Russia's war on the West", CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/opinions/trumps-moral-relativism-lucas-opinion/index.htm, retrieved 3 July 2017, "'Whataboutism' was a favorite Kremlin propaganda technique during the Cold War. It aimed to portray the West as so morally flawed that its criticism of the Soviet empire was hypocritical." 
21. Moynihan, Michael (9 March 2014), "How to Justify Russian Aggression", The Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-to-justify-russian-aggression, retrieved 5 July 2017, "whataboutism, the debate tactic demanding that questions about morally indefensible acts committed by your side be deflected with pettifogging discussion of unrelated sins committed by your opponent's side." 
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24. Taylor, Adam (12 September 2015), "The masterful Russian tweet that exposed Britain's foreign policy panic", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/15/the-masterful-russian-tweet-that-exposed-britains-foreign-policy-panic/, retrieved 5 July 2017, "'whataboutism', a disingenuous message designed to deflect criticism of its own actions rather than present real criticism." 
25. Christensen, Christian (26 January 2015), "We need 'whataboutism' now more than ever", Al Jazeera America, http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/whataboutism-charlie-hebdo-king-abdullah.html, retrieved 5 July 2017 
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27. Judge, Michael (22 March 2017), "Q&A: Garry Kasparov on the press and propaganda in Trump's America", Columbia Journalism Review, https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/kasparov-trump-russia-propaganda.php, retrieved 4 July 2017, "Moral relativism, 'whataboutism', has always been a favorite weapon of illiberal regimes. For a US president to employ it against his own country is tragic. Trump repeating Putin's words—and nearly Stalin's—by calling the press the enemy of the people, has repercussions around the world." 
28. Weiss, Michael (21 July 2016), "Donald Trump Is Sucking Up and Selling Out to Putin", The Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-sucking-up-and-selling-out-to-putin, retrieved 5 July 2017 
29. Rubin, Jennifer (7 March 2017), "Trump is doubling down on Obama's errors", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/03/07/trump-is-doubling-down-on-obamas-errors/, retrieved 5 July 2017 
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32. "Why the what-about-ism?", The Economist, Democracy in America: American politics, 20 March 2017, https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/03/why-what-about-ism, retrieved 4 July 2017, "One of the most trusted Soviet techniques during the Cold War came to be known in the West as 'what-about-ism'. Faced with an accusation, for example that the Soviet Union worked political dissidents to death in prison camps, the propagandist would respond: well, what about those black men being forced to work on chain gangs in the South? This was effective, because by the time anyone had explained that the two are not, in fact, morally equivalent, the technique had done its work, changing the subject away from the gulag." 
33. Umland, Andreas (8 March 2017), "The Ukrainian Government's Memory Institute Against the West", IndraStra Global 3 (3), ISSN 2381-3652, http://www.indrastra.com/2017/03/FEATURED-Ukrainian-Gov-s-Memory-Institute-Against-the-West-003-03-2017-0022.htm, retrieved 23 July 2017, "Instead, apologetic Ukrainian polemists regularly react to criticism by domestic and foreign observers with, what was known during Soviet times, as 'whataboutism': What about Polish whitewashing of the past? What about Israel's selective memory? What about crimes by other national liberation movements?" 
34. Headley, James (September 2015), "Challenging the EU's claim to moral authority: Russian talk of'double standards'", Asia Europe Journal 13 (3): 297–307, doi:10.1007/s10308-015-0417-y, "Soviet-style 'whataboutism' which signifies a revival of Cold War-style propaganda"  https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10308-015-0417-y
35. Saradzhyan, Simon (2014), "Crimea is just one episode in Russia's long game in post-Soviet Eurasia", 21st Century 1: 15, https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/crimea-is-just-one-episode-in-russia-s-long-game-in-post-soviet-eurasia, retrieved 4 July 2017, "Russian diplomats have been lately criticized for restoring the Soviet habit of 'whataboutism'" 
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37. Glavin, Terry (30 November 2016), "Sorry liberals, you're dead wrong about Fidel Castro", Ottawa Citizen, https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/glavin-sorry-liberals-youre-dead-wrong-about-fidel-castro, retrieved 3 July 2017, "What about how beastly the United States has been to the indigenous Hawaiians? What about all the Filipinos killed by Americans? What about the conquest of the northern half of Mexico? What about the ghastly friendships the United States has cultivated over the years in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua? What about the poor Palestinians? What about all the seedy allies the United States is taking on in its so-called War on Terror?" 
38. Khazan, Olga (2 August 2013). "The Soviet-Era Strategy That Explains What Russia Is Doing With Snowden". The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/the-soviet-era-strategy-that-explains-what-russia-is-doing-with-snowden/278314/. "Whataboutistm: a rhetorical defense that alleges hypocrisy from the accuser. ... it allows the Kremlin a moment of whataboutism, a favorite, Soviet-era appeal to hypocrisy: Russia is not that bad, you see, because other countries have also committed various misdeeds, and what about those?" 
39. Akyol, Mustafa (7 March 2017), "How Germany accidentally gave Erdogan a boost ahead of key vote", Al-Monitor, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/turkey-germany-should-allow-turkish-rallies.html, retrieved 3 July 2017, "'Whataboutism'. This was a term originally coined to describe Soviet propaganda during the Cold War about the 'real democracy' in the USSR and the hypocrisy in the West. All criticisms about the Soviet condition would be dismissed by pointing to flaws and double standards in the West, real or perceived, and asking 'What about this?' 'What about that?' The real issue at stake, that the USSR was a brutal dictatorship, was never addressed." 
40. Taylor, Adam (12 April 2017), "How the Russian Embassy in London uses Twitter to undermine the West", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/12/how-the-russian-embassy-in-london-uses-twitter-to-undermine-the-west/, retrieved 3 July 2017 
41. Weiss, Michael (4 November 2016), "Russian Dressing: When Donald Trump Was More Anti-NATO Than Vladimir Putin", The Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/when-donald-trump-was-more-anti-nato-than-vladimir-putin, retrieved 3 July 2017, "In stark contrast with his predecessors for high office, he also regularly traffics in 'whataboutism', a Soviet-honed method of changing the conversation." 
42. Garver, Rob (18 December 2015), "Donald Trump's New Role: Apologist for Vladimir Putin", The Fiscal Times, http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/12/18/Donald-Trump-s-New-Role-Apologist-Vladimir-Putin, retrieved 3 July 2017, "In the depths of the Cold War, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a global battle of ideas about how governments should treat their people and what political forms were best at delivering peace and prosperity, a particular style of argument became popular and was given the ironic name, 'whataboutism'. ... During the Cold War, whataboutism was generally the province of Soviet spokesmen and their defenders in the West." 
43. Nikitin, Vadim, "The long read: From Russia with love – how Putin is winning over hearts and minds", The National, https://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/the-review/the-long-read-from-russia-with-love--how-putin-is-winning-over-hearts-and-minds, retrieved 3 July 2017, "During the Cold War, such 'whataboutism' was used by the Kremlin to counter any criticism of Soviet policy with retorts about American slavery or British imperialism. The strategy remains an effective rhetorical weapon to this day." 
44. Foxall, Andrew (16 November 2014), "Crimea, Chechnya and Putin's Double Standards", The Moscow Times, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/crimea-chechnya-and-putins-double-standards-41395, retrieved 3 July 2017, "Those wishing to understand Putin's linguistic gymnastics should look up 'whataboutism'. The term emerged at the height of the Cold War and described a favorite tactic of Soviet propagandists – the tendency to deflect any criticism of the Soviet Union by saying 'what about' a different situation or problem in the West. As Putin's language suggests, the practice is alive and well in today's Russia. Whataboutism is a way of shutting down discussion, discouraging critical thinking, and opposing open debate. It is a key feature of Russian politics these days." 
45. Adomanis, Mark (5 April 2015), "U.S. Should Think Twice Before Criticizing Russia", The Moscow Times, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/us-should-think-twice-before-criticizing-russia-45464, retrieved 3 July 2017, "Whataboutism's efficacy decreased for a certain period of time, in no small part because many of the richest targets (like the Jim Crow racial segregation laws) were reformed out of existence, but it has made something of a rebound over the past few years." 
46. Ioffe, Julia (1 June 2012), "Russia's Syrian Excuse", The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/russias-syrian-excuse, retrieved 3 July 2017, "This posture is a defense tactic, the Kremlin's way of adapting to a new post-Cold War geopolitical reality. 'Whataboutism' was a popular tactic even back in Soviet days, for example, but objectivity wasn't." 
47. Seddon, Max (25 November 2014), "Russia Is Trolling The U.S. Over Ferguson Yet Again", BuzzFeed News, https://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/russia-is-trolling-the-us-over-ferguson-yet-again, retrieved 3 July 2017, "Since the Cold War, Moscow has engaged in a political points-scoring exercise known as 'whataboutism' used to shut down criticism of Russia's own rights record by pointing out abuses elsewhere. All criticism of Russia is invalid, the idea goes, because problems exist in other countries too." 
48. MacDonald, Euan (9 June 2017), "Euan MacDonald: Ukraine's Friend & Foe Of The Week", Kyiv Post, https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/euan-macdonald-ukraines-friend-foe-week-3.html, retrieved 4 July 2017, "Putin dodged, just as a trained KGB officer would do. He even engaged in the favorite Kremlin 'whataboutism'" 
49. Kovalev, Alexey (22 March 2017), "'You're Fake News!': Russia Borrows the Worst from the West", The Moscow Times, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/its-fake-news-russia-borrows-the-worst-from-the-west-57497, retrieved 4 July 2017, "In Russia, screaming 'fake news' as a response to any criticism has an older relative in 'whataboutism' — a rhetorical fallacy favored by both Soviet and modern Russian propaganda, where Moscow's actions are justified by references to real or perceived crimes and slights by the Kremlin's foes abroad." 
50. Szostek, Joanna (June 2017), "The Power and Limits of Russia's Strategic Narrative in Ukraine: The Role of Linkage", Perspectives on Politics 15 (2): 379–395, doi:10.1017/S153759271700007X, http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/167897/1/167897.pdf, "Disinformation and 'whataboutism' undoubtedly feature strongly in Russian state-sponsored media content" 
51. Pomerantsev, Peter; Weiss, Michael (2014), The menace of unreality: How the Kremlin weaponizes information, culture and money, New York: Institute of Modern Russia, p. 5, http://cdn.mashreghnews.ir/old/files/fa/news/1393/12/26/950303_869.pdf, retrieved 4 July 2017, "Russia combines Soviet-era 'whataboutism' and Chekist 'active measures' with a wised-up, post-modern smirk that says that everything is a sham." 
52. Huseynov, Vasif (2016), "Soft power geopolitics: how does the diminishing utility of military power affect the Russia-West confrontation over the 'Common Neighbourhood'", Eastern Journal of European Studies 7 (2): 71–90, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=510997, retrieved 4 July 2017 
53. Skaskiw, Roman (27 March 2016), "Nine Lessons of Russian Propaganda", Small Wars Journal, http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/nine-lessons-of-russian-propaganda, retrieved 5 July 2017, "Russian propaganda destroys meaning. They pursue several tactics including the false moral equivalences of "whataboutism", polluting the information space" 
54. David, Maxine (2 March 2015), "What Boris Nemtsov's Assassination Says About Putin's Climate of Fear", The New Republic, https://newrepublic.com/article/121189/boris-nemtsovs-assasination-part-russias-culture-fear, retrieved 5 July 2017, "A familiar phenomenon for Russian watchers is in full swing: 'whataboutism', where any criticism of the Russian elite is met with a 'well, what about...' response, framing the critic as a hypocrite representing exactly that which they criticize—sending any dialogue back to the level of squabbling." 
55. MacFarquhar, Neil (20 July 2016), "A Doping Scandal Appears Unlikely to Tarnish Russia's President", The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/world/europe/putin-doping-rio-olympics.html, retrieved 5 July 2017, "This form of 'whataboutism' has been rife under Mr. Putin – he often responds to criticism of Russia by suggesting that the United States is worse." 
56. Mandel, Seth (1 May 2014), "Europe - The Vladimir Putin Fan Club: From left to right, they're fronting for a tyrant.", Commentary, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-vladimir-putin-fan-club/, retrieved 5 July 2017, "This is another throwback to the Cold War, and one Putin himself is fond of, called 'Whataboutism'. The essence of Whataboutism is to turn any complaint about Russia into an accusation that whatever it might be doing, the West is doing and has done worse. Despite the constant protestations that the Cold War is over, these attempts to turn criticism of the Kremlin back on the critics are often nothing more than a Putin-era version of anti-anti-Communism." 
57. Clifton, Denise (20 July 2017), "Childish Rants or Putin-Style Propaganda?", Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/trump-rants-propaganda/, retrieved 22 July 2017, "a traditional Russian propaganda strategy called 'whataboutism' ... In Trump's version of whataboutism, he repeatedly takes a word leveled in criticism against him and turns it back on his opponents—sidestepping the accusation and undercutting the meaning of the word at the same time." 
58. "Pussy Riot: In Defence of 'Whataboutism'". The Foreign Policy. August 9, 2012. https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/08/09/in-defence-of-whataboutism/. 
59. Sullivan, Jake (7 February 2017). "The Slippery Slope of Trump's Dangerous 'Whataboutism'". Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/07/the-slippery-slope-of-trumps-dangerous-whataboutism-russia-putin-american-exceptionalism/. "Now something new is happening. The American president is taking Putin's 'what about you' tactic and turning it into 'what about us?' He is taking the very appealing and very American impulse toward self-criticism and perverting it. It's simplistic, even childish – but more importantly, it's dangerous." 
60. Bertrand, Natasha (4 April 2017), "'Poisoned' Russian dissident: Trump echoed 'one of the Kremlin's oldest propaganda tools'", Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-dissident-kara-murza-trump-putin-2017-3, retrieved 4 July 2017, "Indeed, Putin's near-default response to criticism of how he runs Russia is whataboutism – a technique used by Soviet propagandists to deflect criticism from the West." 
61. Elder, Miriam (26 April 2012). "Want a response from Putin's office? Russia's dry-cleaning is just the ticket". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/26/russia-abuses-bureaucracy-putin-drycleaning. 
62. Buckley, Neil (11 June 2012), "The return of whataboutism", Financial Times, http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2012/06/the-return-of-whataboutism/, retrieved 3 July 2017, "Soviet-watchers called it 'whataboutism'. This was the Communist-era tactic of deflecting foreign criticism of, say, human rights abuses, by pointing, often disingenuously, at something allegedly similar in the critic's own country: 'Ah, but what about…?'" 
63. Keating, Joshua (21 March 2014). "The Long History of Russian Whataboutism". http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/03/21/russia_and_western_double_standards_the_long_history_of_russian_complaints.html. 
64. Drezner, Daniel (20 August 2014). "Ferguson, whataboutism and American soft power". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/20/ferguson-whataboutism-and-american-soft-power/. 
65. Daniel McLaughlin (3 October 2017). "Russia and Serbia deride EU reaction to Catalan vote". The Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/russia-and-serbia-deride-eu-reaction-to-catalan-vote-1.3242731. 
66. Dougherty, Jill (2014), Everyone Lies: The Ukraine Conflict and Russia's Media Transformation, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, https://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/d88-dougherty.pdf, retrieved 4 July 2017, "'what-about-ism', a time-worn propaganda technique used by the Soviet government in which criticism is deflected by cries of 'but what about?'" 
67. Dougherty, Jill (27 March 2014), "Putin's Iron-Fisted Message", The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-dougherty/putins-ironfisted-message_b_5044092.html, retrieved 3 July 2017 
68. van Zuylen-Wood, Simon (4 May 2017), "At RT, News Breaks You – U.S. intelligence officials have accused the Kremlin-funded network of helping swing the election to Trump. Could such a little-watched cable channel be that powerful?", Bloomberg News, https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-rt-media/, retrieved 4 July 2017, "The Financial Times described the network's nonstop anti-U.S. coverage as 'whataboutism'—as in sure, Russia has problems, but what about the States? ... In 2016, RT America at last began proving its usefulness to the Russian government. The outlet remained as second-rate as ever, but during an election campaign governed by populist rage, anti-Establishment whataboutism had fresh appeal." 
69. Marten, Kimberly (20 June 2016), "What Russia's Olympic ban means for Vladimir Putin", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/06/20/what-russias-olympic-ban-means-for-vladimir-putin/, retrieved 3 July 2017 
70. David, Maxine (2016), "Chapter 11 US–Russia relations in Obama's second term", in Bentley, Michelle; Holland, Jack, The Obama Doctrine: A Legacy of Continuity in US Foreign Policy?, Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy, Routledge, p. 164, ISBN 978-1138831223, "Indeed, any Western critique of Russian foreign policy is inevitably met with a 'whataboutist' set of comments that point out the West's failings, not least because of the activities of the Kremlin trolls" 
71. Zimmer, Ben (9 June 2017), "The Roots of the 'What About?' Ploy", The Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-roots-of-the-what-about-ploy-1497019827, retrieved 3 July 2017, "In his interview with NBC's Megyn Kelly on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin employed the tried-and-true tactic of 'whataboutism'." 
72. Kurtzleben, Danielle (17 March 2017). "Trump Embraces One Of Russia's Favorite Propaganda Tactics — Whataboutism". NPR. https://www.npr.org/2017/03/17/520435073/trump-embraces-one-of-russias-favorite-propaganda-tactics-whataboutism. "This particular brand of changing the subject is called 'whataboutism' – a simple rhetorical tactic heavily used by the Soviet Union and, later, Russia." 
73. Weiss, Michael (4 November 2016), "When Donald Trump Was More Anti-NATO Than Vladimir Putin", The Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/when-donald-trump-was-more-anti-nato-than-vladimir-putin, retrieved 5 July 2017, "In stark contrast with his predecessors for high office, he also regularly traffics in 'whataboutism', a Soviet-honed method of changing the conversation. Whenever human rights abuses or the trampling of freedoms abroad is raised, he shifts to the real or perceived shortcomings of the United States." 
74. Feldmann, Linda; Kiefer, Francine (18 May 2017), "How Mueller appointment may calm a roiled Washington", The Christian Science Monitor, https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0518/How-Mueller-appointment-may-calm-a-roiled-Washington, retrieved 5 July 2017, "Trump also engaged in 'what-aboutism': 'With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special counsel appointed!' he tweeted twice in three hours." 
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76. Todd, Chuck (21 February 2017), "MTP DAILY for February 21, 2017, MSNBC", Meet the Press, "Folks, comments like these are reminding some people of an old Soviet tactic known as whataboutism. ... Whataboutism is the trick of turning any argument against the opponent when faced with accusations of corruption, they claim the entire world is corrupt." 
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125. Ferris-Rotman, Amie (7 April 2017), "Dispatch – 59 Ways to Kill a Russian Reset: All it takes is a few dozen Tomahawk missiles and a lecture on human rights.", Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/07/59-ways-to-kill-a-russian-reset/, retrieved 5 July 2017, "In a country where 'whataboutism' is part of the national psyche, Russia was quick to point to Washington's alleged failures after the strike in Syria." 
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127. Sollenberger, Roger (5 July 2017), "This Is Your Brain On Fake News: How Biology Determines Belief", Paste, https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/07/this-is-your-brain-on-fake-news-how-biology-determ.html, retrieved 5 July 2017 
128. McFaul, Michael (17 May 2017), "Trump has given Putin the best gift he could ask for", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/05/17/trump-has-given-putin-the-best-gift-he-could-ask-for/, retrieved 5 July 2017, "As for 'whataboutism', Trump himself champions these kinds of cynical arguments about our country – not Russia." 
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131. Yagoda, Ben (19 July 2018). "One Cheer for Whataboutism". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/opinion/one-cheer-for-whataboutism.html. "Tu quoque is a subset of the so-called ad hominem argument: a strike against the character, not the position, of one’s opponent. Ad hominem gets a bad press, but it isn’t without merit, when used in good faith. It’s useful in an argument to show that the stance being taken against you is inconsistent or hypocritical. It doesn’t win the day, but it chips away at your opponent’s moral standing and raises doubt about the entirety of his or her position." 
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136. Ghodsee, Kristen R.; Sehon, Scott (22 March 2018). "Anti-anti-communism". https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance. "But the problem for the anti-communists is that their general premise can be used as the basis for an equally good argument against capitalism, an argument that the so-called losers of economic transition in eastern Europe would be quick to affirm. The US, a country based on a free-market capitalist ideology, has done many horrible things: the enslavement of millions of Africans, the genocidal eradication of the Native Americans, the brutal military actions taken to support pro-Western dictatorships, just to name a few. The British Empire likewise had a great deal of blood on its hands: we might merely mention the internment camps during the second Boer War and the Bengal famine. This is not mere ‘whataboutism’, because the same intermediate premise necessary to make their anti-communist argument now works against capitalism: Historical point: the US and the UK were based on a capitalist ideology, and did many horrible things. General premise: if any country based on a particular ideology did many horrible things, then that ideology should be rejected. Political conclusion: capitalism should be rejected."