MikeDamone
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What if it wasn’t a global conspiracy and instead we just didn’t like far right dictators?
Communists are on your side.
HTH
What if it wasn’t a global conspiracy and instead we just didn’t like far right dictators?
While there are globalist ties and biolabs in U Crane, I'm not ready to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and consider Putin some hero
1. Putin's not a hero. America makes its own heroes.
2. There are corrupt globalists, money launderers and biolabs in Ukraine.
Both can be true.
Look at the extreme lockstep that certain nations and corporations quickly fell into to destroy Russia and push for regime change. Why Ukraine but not someplace like Yemen where there's a genocide underway? Our government and society couldn't care less about the current state of countries like Yemen or Libya.
While there are globalist ties and biolabs in U Crane, I'm not ready to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and consider Putin some hero
1. Putin's not a hero. America makes its own heroes.
2. There are corrupt globalists, money launderers and biolabs in Ukraine.
Both can be true.
Look at the extreme lockstep that certain nations and corporations quickly fell into to destroy Russia and push for regime change. Why Ukraine but not someplace like Yemen where there's a genocide underway? Our government and society couldn't care less about the current state of countries like Yemen or Libya.
Breaking from a long hiatus here, and I'm sure this won't be popular, but a possible theory for the difference: Ukraine strikes the average person here differently than more on-goings of shit in shitty places like the ME or Africa. I'm not saying "racism!" ... exactly anyway. My theory (generalizing from a high altitude of course):
First level of "I give a shit" is anything in our hemisphere. Obviously.
Second level of "I give a shit" is anything in Western Europe.
Third level of "I give a shit" is Eastern Europe ... maybe. Less obvious and YMMV based on where your people are from, where you've traveled, etc.
First level of "I don't or barely give a shit" are places that are always in some state of chaos or otherwise involves a culture or constant state of affairs that we can't get fit into our western heads. Brutality and misery are the norm. Cultural mores that are Martian to us. Like, say, if there were some region where two sects of some religion were going at it to the death as if it were 1,000 years ago, and thereby making the region as hospitable as the surface of Venus. Can't fit it in my head. Intellectually, I know I shouldn't make a distinction; but I think I do - involuntarily - make a distinction nonetheless.
Summary version: Ukraine feels more recognizable to me (though I've never been - only to Poland in that part of the world) so I can relate more. Things happening in constantly miserable parts of the world feel much more alien, so it processes differently. Not a nice thing to admit, but I also know I'm not alone. I don't think I think what I think because of the media.
Add to that, at least for me, that as a child of the 70s and 80s, I was raised to fear the Russians. African war lords, not so much. But then again, even had I been paying attention, I doubt I'd have been A outraged over Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Nor would I likely be today. Not comparatively anyway.
That's my take.
While there are globalist ties and biolabs in U Crane, I'm not ready to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and consider Putin some hero
1. Putin's not a hero. America makes its own heroes.
2. There are corrupt globalists, money launderers and biolabs in Ukraine.
Both can be true.
Look at the extreme lockstep that certain nations and corporations quickly fell into to destroy Russia and push for regime change. Why Ukraine but not someplace like Yemen where there's a genocide underway? Our government and society couldn't care less about the current state of countries like Yemen or Libya.
Breaking from a long hiatus here, and I'm sure this won't be popular, but a possible theory for the difference: Ukraine strikes the average person here differently than more on-goings of shit in shitty places like the ME or Africa. I'm not saying "racism!" ... exactly anyway. My theory (generalizing from a high altitude of course):
First level of "I give a shit" is anything in our hemisphere. Obviously.
Second level of "I give a shit" is anything in Western Europe.
Third level of "I give a shit" is Eastern Europe ... maybe. Less obvious and YMMV based on where your people are from, where you've traveled, etc.
First level of "I don't or barely give a shit" are places that are always in some state of chaos or otherwise involves a culture or constant state of affairs that we can't get fit into our western heads. Brutality and misery are the norm. Cultural mores that are Martian to us. Like, say, if there were some region where two sects of some religion were going at it to the death as if it were 1,000 years ago, and thereby making the region as hospitable as the surface of Venus. Can't fit it in my head. Intellectually, I know I shouldn't make a distinction; but I think I do - involuntarily - make a distinction nonetheless.
Summary version: Ukraine feels more recognizable to me (though I've never been - only to Poland in that part of the world) so I can relate more. Things happening in constantly miserable parts of the world feel much more alien, so it processes differently. Not a nice thing to admit, but I also know I'm not alone. I don't think I think what I think because of the media.
Add to that, at least for me, that as a child of the 70s and 80s, I was raised to fear the Russians. African war lords, not so much. But then again, even had I been paying attention, I doubt I'd have been A outraged over Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Nor would I likely be today. Not comparatively anyway.
That's my take.
While there are globalist ties and biolabs in U Crane, I'm not ready to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and consider Putin some hero
1. Putin's not a hero. America makes its own heroes.
2. There are corrupt globalists, money launderers and biolabs in Ukraine.
Both can be true.
Look at the extreme lockstep that certain nations and corporations quickly fell into to destroy Russia and push for regime change. Why Ukraine but not someplace like Yemen where there's a genocide underway? Our government and society couldn't care less about the current state of countries like Yemen or Libya.
Breaking from a long hiatus here, and I'm sure this won't be popular, but a possible theory for the difference: Ukraine strikes the average person here differently than more on-goings of shit in shitty places like the ME or Africa. I'm not saying "racism!" ... exactly anyway. My theory (generalizing from a high altitude of course):
First level of "I give a shit" is anything in our hemisphere. Obviously.
Second level of "I give a shit" is anything in Western Europe.
Third level of "I give a shit" is Eastern Europe ... maybe. Less obvious and YMMV based on where your people are from, where you've traveled, etc.
First level of "I don't or barely give a shit" are places that are always in some state of chaos or otherwise involves a culture or constant state of affairs that we can't get fit into our western heads. Brutality and misery are the norm. Cultural mores that are Martian to us. Like, say, if there were some region where two sects of some religion were going at it to the death as if it were 1,000 years ago, and thereby making the region as hospitable as the surface of Venus. Can't fit it in my head. Intellectually, I know I shouldn't make a distinction; but I think I do - involuntarily - make a distinction nonetheless.
Summary version: Ukraine feels more recognizable to me (though I've never been - only to Poland in that part of the world) so I can relate more. Things happening in constantly miserable parts of the world feel much more alien, so it processes differently. Not a nice thing to admit, but I also know I'm not alone. I don't think I think what I think because of the media.
Add to that, at least for me, that as a child of the 70s and 80s, I was raised to fear the Russians. African war lords, not so much. But then again, even had I been paying attention, I doubt I'd have been outraged over Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Nor would I likely be today. Not comparatively anyway.
That's my take.
While there are globalist ties and biolabs in U Crane, I'm not ready to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and consider Putin some hero
1. Putin's not a hero. America makes its own heroes.
2. There are corrupt globalists, money launderers and biolabs in Ukraine.
Both can be true.
Look at the extreme lockstep that certain nations and corporations quickly fell into to destroy Russia and push for regime change. Why Ukraine but not someplace like Yemen where there's a genocide underway? Our government and society couldn't care less about the current state of countries like Yemen or Libya.
Breaking from a long hiatus here, and I'm sure this won't be popular, but a possible theory for the difference: Ukraine strikes the average person here differently than more on-goings of shit in shitty places like the ME or Africa. I'm not saying "racism!" ... exactly anyway. My theory (generalizing from a high altitude of course):
First level of "I give a shit" is anything in our hemisphere. Obviously.
Second level of "I give a shit" is anything in Western Europe.
Third level of "I give a shit" is Eastern Europe ... maybe. Less obvious and YMMV based on where your people are from, where you've traveled, etc.
First level of "I don't or barely give a shit" are places that are always in some state of chaos or otherwise involves a culture or constant state of affairs that we can't get fit into our western heads. Brutality and misery are the norm. Cultural mores that are Martian to us. Like, say, if there were some region where two sects of some religion were going at it to the death as if it were 1,000 years ago, and thereby making the region as hospitable as the surface of Venus. Can't fit it in my head. Intellectually, I know I shouldn't make a distinction; but I think I do - involuntarily - make a distinction nonetheless.
Summary version: Ukraine feels more recognizable to me (though I've never been - only to Poland in that part of the world) so I can relate more. Things happening in constantly miserable parts of the world feel much more alien, so it processes differently. Not a nice thing to admit, but I also know I'm not alone. I don't think I think what I think because of the media.
Add to that, at least for me, that as a child of the 70s and 80s, I was raised to fear the Russians. African war lords, not so much. But then again, even had I been paying attention, I doubt I'd have been outraged over Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Nor would I likely be today. Not comparatively anyway.
That's my take.
While there are globalist ties and biolabs in U Crane, I'm not ready to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and consider Putin some hero
1. Putin's not a hero. America makes its own heroes.
2. There are corrupt globalists, money launderers and biolabs in Ukraine.
Both can be true.
Look at the extreme lockstep that certain nations and corporations quickly fell into to destroy Russia and push for regime change. Why Ukraine but not someplace like Yemen where there's a genocide underway? Our government and society couldn't care less about the current state of countries like Yemen or Libya.
Breaking from a long hiatus here, and I'm sure this won't be popular, but a possible theory for the difference: Ukraine strikes the average person here differently than more on-goings of shit in shitty places like the ME or Africa. I'm not saying "racism!" ... exactly anyway. My theory (generalizing from a high altitude of course):
First level of "I give a shit" is anything in our hemisphere. Obviously.
Second level of "I give a shit" is anything in Western Europe.
Third level of "I give a shit" is Eastern Europe ... maybe. Less obvious and YMMV based on where your people are from, where you've traveled, etc.
First level of "I don't or barely give a shit" are places that are always in some state of chaos or otherwise involves a culture or constant state of affairs that we can't get fit into our western heads. Brutality and misery are the norm. Cultural mores that are Martian to us. Like, say, if there were some region where two sects of some religion were going at it to the death as if it were 1,000 years ago, and thereby making the region as hospitable as the surface of Venus. Can't fit it in my head. Intellectually, I know I shouldn't make a distinction; but I think I do - involuntarily - make a distinction nonetheless.
Summary version: Ukraine feels more recognizable to me (though I've never been - only to Poland in that part of the world) so I can relate more. Things happening in constantly miserable parts of the world feel much more alien, so it processes differently. Not a nice thing to admit, but I also know I'm not alone. I don't think I think what I think because of the media.
Add to that, at least for me, that as a child of the 70s and 80s, I was raised to fear the Russians. African war lords, not so much. But then again, even had I been paying attention, I doubt I'd have been outraged over Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Nor would I likely be today. Not comparatively anyway.
That's my take.