@VitalikButerin: why I speak on some political topics and not others

Vitalik Buterin explains his framework for when he speaks on hot political topics: he rejects both total silence and speaking on everything, and instead speaks mainly on conflicts that relate to him personally, such as Russia, Ukraine and Canada, plus the United States given its global influence. He also says he tries to judge whether a distant situation resembles an internal conflict or a global issue like public health. He then gives his own views on Iran, calling the regime's crackdown on protests and internet restrictions unambiguously awful, and on Israel and Gaza, saying the scale of the response to the October 7 attack exceeds reasonable bounds of self-defense and that the ICC was right to charge both sides.