I have come to believe that any journalist who defends the murderous Putin regime and attempts to normalize its behavior and actions is betraying his/her profession and colleagues. Journalists' lives should not be at risk for reporting on their governments' behavior. Period.
Oh, and people who attempt to claim variously that (a) Russia did not attack our democracy by interfering with the 2016 election, or (b) even if it did, it was just normal international stuff and thus no big deal: You are tools. And you don't care about democracy.
I do find it bizarre, though, that these same defenders of Putin's regime from alleged anti-imperialist motives fall silent when confronted with the very real facts about the Russian sponsorship of far-right white-nationalist politics throughout Europe.
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