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Should probably say something about Ukraine
4 years ago
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I've been mum on the whole Russia-Ukraine thing, largely lost in the fog of my own debilitating vacuum of self worth, but it's not to say I haven't been following it intently. In the past couple of weeks I've become far more aware of geopolitical issues and histories than I ever wanted to (No wonder everyone who likes to talk about this stuff seems so boring and lame...it's because it IS boring and lame). I guess at the end of the day, I feel like I don't think I have a lot of useful rhetoric to add.
Putin is an asshole. Many actual Russians are not.
Ukraine's resistance is almost inspiring. I wish we cared this much when brown people get bombed.
There's a lot of opinions out there about what we should be doing. About what NATO should or shouldn't be doing. Nobody seems to want to admit that there's no right answer. People don't like it when you tell them that the situation is just bad from start to finish. We should have never developed weapons which can instantaneously vaporize our planets habitability. It remains the most awful thing humanity has ever done, even amid some mind-bogglingly stiff competition. The result is what we see now, a fear of stepping in to intervene in a humanitarian injustice because of how a madman might retaliate, and how we'd be forced to retaliate in kind. That's the situation we find ourselves in now, and provided we luck our way out of this one, we'll find ourselves in it time and time again.
Humanity, in general, is bad. I truly believe this and that belief informs almost all of my behavior on a daily basis.
But some individuals are alright. And most of them, regardless of how crazy they are, would never ask for what the citizens of Ukraine are facing right now and what the citizens of Russia have waiting for them. In some ways, it'd almost be appropriate to feel worse for the Russian citizens, in particularly, the younger ones. Despite the horrors happening in Ukraine, they at least get the knowledge that virtually all of the civilized world is rooting for them (again...thank goodness they're white) and the knowledge that they're fighting a righteous fight. Now if you're a Russian young person, on the other hand, and haven't been taken in by state propaganda, what you get is the knowledge that your government is committing yet another human atrocity, the world at large now hates you and your entire country, and thanks to the sanctions being imposed, is closing the door on you and everyone else around you, locking you in with the madman and severing any chance you ever had at a way out. In one fell swoop of a dictator's impulsive psychosis, their entire futures are gone, and their primary crime was being born a little too late.
It puts a lot of things into perspective. As an American, I think our country will eventually meet the same fate. I think all of them eventually will, but at least as of now, it has to make you at least consider appreciating what you've got while you've got it. Especially considering how undeserved it is I mean, I guess our leaders were smart enough to only commit atrocities in countries nobody cares about, so I get to keep watching wrestling and using paypal.
Humanity is nothing but a series of random tragedy and arbitrary consequences. Well, not arbitrary. There seems to be a pattern, at least in terms of who gets hit with them, and who never does.
Remember when I said that Ukraine's resistance was almost inspiring? If you're wondering what keeps it from getting all the way there, yesterday I learned that Denmark, among other countries, has a law which seizes the valuables, such as jewelry, from refugees upon their arrival to the country, in a direct attempt to make settling there less desirable. Ukrainians are exempt from this law. Afghans are not.
Humanity, in general, is bad.
And now I'm gonna go be really sad about stuff in my own life that really doesn't matter.
Putin is an asshole. Many actual Russians are not.
Ukraine's resistance is almost inspiring. I wish we cared this much when brown people get bombed.
There's a lot of opinions out there about what we should be doing. About what NATO should or shouldn't be doing. Nobody seems to want to admit that there's no right answer. People don't like it when you tell them that the situation is just bad from start to finish. We should have never developed weapons which can instantaneously vaporize our planets habitability. It remains the most awful thing humanity has ever done, even amid some mind-bogglingly stiff competition. The result is what we see now, a fear of stepping in to intervene in a humanitarian injustice because of how a madman might retaliate, and how we'd be forced to retaliate in kind. That's the situation we find ourselves in now, and provided we luck our way out of this one, we'll find ourselves in it time and time again.
Humanity, in general, is bad. I truly believe this and that belief informs almost all of my behavior on a daily basis.
But some individuals are alright. And most of them, regardless of how crazy they are, would never ask for what the citizens of Ukraine are facing right now and what the citizens of Russia have waiting for them. In some ways, it'd almost be appropriate to feel worse for the Russian citizens, in particularly, the younger ones. Despite the horrors happening in Ukraine, they at least get the knowledge that virtually all of the civilized world is rooting for them (again...thank goodness they're white) and the knowledge that they're fighting a righteous fight. Now if you're a Russian young person, on the other hand, and haven't been taken in by state propaganda, what you get is the knowledge that your government is committing yet another human atrocity, the world at large now hates you and your entire country, and thanks to the sanctions being imposed, is closing the door on you and everyone else around you, locking you in with the madman and severing any chance you ever had at a way out. In one fell swoop of a dictator's impulsive psychosis, their entire futures are gone, and their primary crime was being born a little too late.
It puts a lot of things into perspective. As an American, I think our country will eventually meet the same fate. I think all of them eventually will, but at least as of now, it has to make you at least consider appreciating what you've got while you've got it. Especially considering how undeserved it is I mean, I guess our leaders were smart enough to only commit atrocities in countries nobody cares about, so I get to keep watching wrestling and using paypal.
Humanity is nothing but a series of random tragedy and arbitrary consequences. Well, not arbitrary. There seems to be a pattern, at least in terms of who gets hit with them, and who never does.
Remember when I said that Ukraine's resistance was almost inspiring? If you're wondering what keeps it from getting all the way there, yesterday I learned that Denmark, among other countries, has a law which seizes the valuables, such as jewelry, from refugees upon their arrival to the country, in a direct attempt to make settling there less desirable. Ukrainians are exempt from this law. Afghans are not.
Humanity, in general, is bad.
And now I'm gonna go be really sad about stuff in my own life that really doesn't matter.
It saddens me that the people who spent their best years in this golden age and could witness the events and history of that time will soon be gone from our world. In just a few decades, there'll be no living persons who saw Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, or Freddie Mercury with their eyes. There'll be no one to remember how it was like to buy a house. That's what's bothering me more than the upcoming WW3.
https://www.insightnews.com/opinion.....08d8e37a6.html