Quote (fishbro @ 22 Sep 2022 03:52)
As an American who always seeks education, I know PUTIN IS THE OPPOSITION so let's not make any mistake that I am some sort of russia advocater for war.
The war with ukraine is really none of our business, they're not a NATO ally and thus we owe them nothing.
A lot of my fellow americans are downplaying Putin as if he's some sort of moron. He's the supreme leader of russia, a nation we've
had a cold war with for half a century. He's an ex-kgb spy, the james bond of russia, the meme of badassery prior to the ukraine invasion,
and he was respected by many as "He's dat mfker", a boss, a badass, the chief, the top dog, etc.
I personally am not gonna say he's a bitch/retard/idiot/fool/blablabla and think he's
some evil dictatorial warlord. He's a nation's supreme leader, in a heavily political time and during war-time.
We are bound to be eating up propaganda like we always do. We know it exists, we know it's out there, and
we can see in history propaganda is spewed out on both sides.
Both sides will want to make the other side seem weak, feeble and non-threatening.
As kreese says in cobra kai, there is no good nor evil, just winners and losers.
For me? I remain in the middle and will laugh at both sides in 50 years when we find out the leaders of both sides fought for profit, killed their own people,
commited tons of warcrimes on their own people and blamed the other side for it like what happens in every case of declassified files. History repeats itself.
Be weary of old men in a game where young men die.
textbook false equivalence. guess WWII was also a "both sides are bad" thing by that "logic"? after all, the allies used propaganda and committed war crimes too, so you "remain in the middle and laugh at both sides", huh? people who genuinely believe that's a smart take are so cringe...