"The invasion of one country is just that, an invasion. "

But the invasion of many countries is very different.

Hitler invaded Poland. But that wasn't a world war.
England and France declared war on Germany but did precisely nothing belligerent - the so-called 'Phoney War'. Still no world war.

Then Hitler invaded Belgium, Holland and France. That's closer to a world war. Then he invaded Africa and the Balkans and Greece. Closer still.

Then he invaded Russia and declared war on the US. And that got us a world war. Its pretty clear who started it.

Equally, Japan invaded Korea, Manchuria and the China. Not quite a world war but close. Then they attacked the US, invaded Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, PNG (I'm using the modern names here). World war. Again pretty clear who started it

England and France declared war on Germany
mhaze,
Had they not acted in that way things could have ended with the invasion of Poland.

mhaze said "The 20th century experience has pretty much put an end to that type pf utopianism".

Answer- I agree but some still point to the French Revolution as a social good. Dostoevsky saw the French Revolution as the start of the path to Nihilism and Proto-Marxism. Marxist's seem to use it as a boogie man against the capitalist aristos even today. I think that it started earlier with The Reformation, The Renaissance, and The Enlightenment. Nietzsche would say it goes all the way back to Constantine with the Roman adoption of the Priestly Code over the Knightly Code- where virtue became associated with weakness- the corruption of production necessary for life.

Even Plato's in the Republic seemingly wanted to remove the Guardian Rulers from the requirement to be mindful of the requirements of survival. Schoepenhauer made similar comments that philosophers can't see the true universe when subject to the prison of the human condition. But Schoepenhauer had spent a fair bit of time in India and had become somewhat mystical.

But many in The West still have a strong drive to be with nature rather than the utopian urge

#Where is the evidence of the Uyghurs genocide outside of obvious Western propaganda?"#

I see this as an exaggeration of an event on Chinese soil, to be solved in a Chinese Communist Authoritarian way.

Compare the Jewish question in Germany viz 1938-1945 resulting in 6 million Jews executed.
The West was less than helpful, and allowed these deaths to occurs

The Eyghurs have more twists and turns than a dying snake before sunset.
Firstly and foremostly, the Uyghurs are Islamist: Through the Chinese eyes, Islamic terrorists.

Here is the point at which the West actually giving a toss about the welfare of Islamic terrorist in China, turn itself into Western Propaganda.

For evidence, we now visit the situation which has confronted Israel with a growing desperation, combating Islamic terrorists on multiple fronts.
International pressure from Western Countries, with a lead from the United States, has prioritised the concerns for ruthless Islamists, over and above their most trusted Allie in the ME.

I’m really surprised you would accept that the Uyghur question, in lite of simple global evidence, on face value, which is an exaggeration suitable for Propaganda of (particularly), the Democrat Administration. It’s their invention!

mhaze

I don’t get off on demonstrating yourself as either gullible or plain uneducated.

I’ve just noted the links from above you proffer as evidence:

There are three links from BBC. Avowed Antisemites meaning pro Islamist , co incidentally along it’s our own sad version, the ABC.

Next the Atlantic; an avowed mouthpiece for Democrats.

And the laugh of them all, Aljazeera. Sponsored and controlled by Qatar, the terrorist hub and major spouses of Global Islamic Terrorism. Also the sponsors of pro Palestinian rioters in Universities all across the West.

All of them are pro Islamic anti Western, anti social sponsors of lies supporting either in principle or in kind ($), pro Islamic Terrorism . Shame on you!

The media likes to focus on drama and division.
It's what sells. It isn't easy to seek out professional
journalists, academics, and others that publish articles
that inform. Many of us prefer facts to fiction. Few of
us seek various media outlets to get diverse views.

We're all influenced by our own political ideologies,
whether we admit it or not.