I understand the dangers and that it is wrong to blame all Russians now for Putin's aggression. And yet there is no need to relativize everything. Russia is clearly an aggressor in this. The existence of the Baltic states shows that this could have been solved in a better way – by Ukraine aligned with the west and being able to better protect itself.
This is just incoherent rambling trying to say that Russia is good and everyone is brainwashed...
It feels like old long communist speeches where nothing of substance was ever said.
If I were to summarize it (completely disagree with contents):
... western media galvanized everyone against russia with fake news and ukraine propaganda...
... western leaders try to depict putin as unhinged but wrong somehow ...
... western world values bad - "rootlessness, spiritual emptiness, and angst" ...
... western world is heading towards totalitarianism because of how they portray the war ...
... some whataboutism about iraq and afghanistan war ... (like those would justify russia's invasion)
... war in Ukraine is not about putin's derangeness but 'realpolitik' ... (as if...)
... war was inevitable because russia's interests ...
... russia's security interests were ignored - Ukrainian neutrality, and demilitarisation, probably NATO withdrawal from former warsaw pact countries too ... (if they had it would have been much easier now to take over, also contradicts itself since it already said war was innevitable)
... should stop fighting back because people die ... (and probably because they're losing)
This organization, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, appears like a special mock organization to advance Russian talking points. Russia (including Soviet Union) has long history of creating such organizations to make it appear that there is support to its goals among Western nations.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 22.3 ms ] threadI understand the dangers and that it is wrong to blame all Russians now for Putin's aggression. And yet there is no need to relativize everything. Russia is clearly an aggressor in this. The existence of the Baltic states shows that this could have been solved in a better way – by Ukraine aligned with the west and being able to better protect itself.
It feels like old long communist speeches where nothing of substance was ever said.
If I were to summarize it (completely disagree with contents):
... western media galvanized everyone against russia with fake news and ukraine propaganda...
... western leaders try to depict putin as unhinged but wrong somehow ...
... western world values bad - "rootlessness, spiritual emptiness, and angst" ...
... western world is heading towards totalitarianism because of how they portray the war ...
... some whataboutism about iraq and afghanistan war ... (like those would justify russia's invasion)
... war in Ukraine is not about putin's derangeness but 'realpolitik' ... (as if...)
... war was inevitable because russia's interests ...
... russia's security interests were ignored - Ukrainian neutrality, and demilitarisation, probably NATO withdrawal from former warsaw pact countries too ... (if they had it would have been much easier now to take over, also contradicts itself since it already said war was innevitable)
... should stop fighting back because people die ... (and probably because they're losing)
This organization, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, appears like a special mock organization to advance Russian talking points. Russia (including Soviet Union) has long history of creating such organizations to make it appear that there is support to its goals among Western nations.