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Wellness Wednesday for January 21, 2026

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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For other countries defending themselves or acting in defense of others it seems like a just war though.

It's a whole bucket of pickles once you get into just conduct of the war (Stalin was justified in fighting Hitler, probably not in mass rape), and in the leadup to the war (Stalin equipped Hitler and partnered in the invasion of Poland; the West supported Fascism over communism; etc.)

This isn't a simple question.

For sure. There is a spectrum from just war to unjust war. Killing enemy soldiers invading your country being very close to the "just" side, and killing enemy civilians in a country you are invading being pretty far on the "unjust" end of the spectrum.

The nature of WW2 meant no one ended the war smelling of roses.