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#MainstreamMedia are slanting the narrative (unlikely, I know), normalizing collective punishment of Russians. We are making all Russians pay for the sins of the father. This what Israel does to Palestine. Aren't we better than that?

"Russian Restaurants in NYC Face Backlash and Vandalism Despite Supporting Ukraine - Eater NY" ny.eater.com/2022/3/8/22966…, "Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky from programme in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine - Classical Music" classical-music.com/news/cardiff-p…

"Space conference removes name of 1st astronaut Yuri Gagarin from event | Al Mayadeen English" english.almayadeen.net/news/art-cultu…
What kind of dystopian bullshit do you have to subscribe to to try to erase the name of the first human in space because you currently demonize his nation? My

real horror is that the public isn't appalled by this, in fact they are only rooting it on, demanding escalation. Those "modern warfare" Xbox and PS5 trained soldiers who think it all can be settled with a few Apaches be and some hellfire, never see how quickly it can bypass the

slightly deadlier ICBMs and leapfrog to the low grade nukes, and from there to the longest winter in the history of civilization. The media needs to think long and hard at wether or not their short term profits are worth the annihilation of humanity. I've had a dark vision ever

since 2014, the last time we kept looking the bear. It was quickly escalating back then, and was on a trajectory that would've had hostilities sparking off in 2017-18. But the unthinkable happened. The Bush Obama Kerry Clinton Biden machine lost the reins, and Trump won. They

freaked the fuck out, cuz they had their coup go off and they got their elections in Ukraine. The actor won. But Trump wasn't sure about funneling weapons there, especially since the outgoing vice and his kid had some shady dealings there, tell me what they were doing and you can

have the weapons they promised you. That came out, Gulliani was thwarted. The mainstream here tried to say he was being corrupt for playing fast and loose with the weapons for dirt, but that was a business move, politics plays different rules. They said he was trying to create

scandal where there wasn't. He was using the office to go after his possible political opponent. They said he worked with Russia to get elected, tried for 4+ years to try to get that to stick, it wouldn't. So this whole bear poking inertia they've been ramping up with NATO and

overseen by our permanent liaison to all things Ukrainion, Victoria Nuland, was forced to the back burner during the Trump years. Make no mistake, the old despotic regime conned their way back in power and not one year into their watch, now fortified with nefarious laboratory

partnerships, a live biowar being covertly played, and the continued fascination with pushing Russia past their comfort zone by toying with admitting Ukraine into NATO. Kamala tossing encouragement to them to reapply a few weeks ago, was possibly the straw that sealed his

decision to move when they did a couple weeks ago. She is no diplomat and doesn't know much about the history and delicate subject matter she's stepping into. She might very well incite WWIII if she's not careful. But my point being, how are we letting that same regime who have

been seemingly trying to get this to escalate to this point, use the media to lie again and use it to enact s full scale war against an opponent that would mean broad extinction level events ensuing? This is madness. And the societal normalising of stepping Russian people of

their place in history, of the dignity of running a restaurant as an expat, getting your door kicked in as punishment for what the country you lost love for years ago is currently doing, makes no sense. What is that proving? Petty shunning. I get that countries have to get their

citizens to accept some sort of rationale prior to engagement, but societal cancellation of the entire nation or ethnicity, historical accomplishments included, is the first step towards a destination that I don't think needs to be explained, it's MAD, after all. That's our

fragile peace agreement. MAD. Mutually assured destruction. It's such a fragile truce set in the blood of the Japanese who hath taken the business end of this weapon of ultimate destruction. It was the Japanese internment that we saw a nationality demonized here, and against many

who were 2nd or 3rd generation American born, didn't matter. Is that where this will get to? What's the fastest way to deescalate things. Biden ending his speech the other day by saying "for god's sake this man cannot remain in power" is not making me feel better about how far

this crazy administration is willing to take this. This has been on their radar for to long for them to just drop it. In the meantime, that premonition I keep having isn't going away with rhetoric like this coming from the old man puppet we're stuck with

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