Originally posted by Eversor:
Putin invaded Ukraine in order to weaken NATO and the United States, and to galvanize public support through acts of military strength. No ideals. It's a power play.
I'm not sure why I can't condemn that without being hypocritical.
I'm not sure why I can't condemn that without being hypocritical.
It's not really you, it's the ideal pushed by the U.S. media, state dept and so forth. For instance, the "Assange is effectively a Russian agent" story never would have risen if not for people in U.S. media pushing the narrative and blurring the lines. Which they almost always do, they're usually gung ho to accept whatever U.S. intelligence says.
I mean, the whole thing we have going on with Trump and the alt right is worse, it's just curious that the Democrats have become much more conservative in many regards. Which is extremely worrying, because there may be little hope to counter the nationalist streak in America if the response from "the left" is "America is great, let's fight a war with Russia".