The rhetorical practice that you just resorted to is called...

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    The rhetorical practice that you just resorted to is called whataboutism.

    Whatboutism is a rhetorical practice of responding to a difficult fact, accusation or a question by making a counteraccusation, by asking a different but related question, or by raising a different issue altogether.

    The original issues that I raised - The relationship of Ukraine and the IMF
    You responded with statistics of the Russian economy (raised a different issue altogether).

    Whataboutisms. They never work, do they?

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