Thoughts about Ukraine?

I've come to the belief that the media gets half the story, and the half they report on is riddled with errors.

Right now it seems to me that Russia is begging for a full blown world war. They've got officials on the news outright threatening to nuke anyone who gets in their way. He said he'll declare war on anyone who sets a no fly zone. He said sanctions on his country are a declaration of war. They were supposed to have a ceasefire yesterday to let civilians out and Russia immediately violated it. Russia is damn near carpet bombing apartment blocks and cities. How long will the world be cool with that? My guess is not much longer.

Maybe I'm out of touch, but maybe putin DOES want a war. Rus is in kind of a shambles and economically down right now from what some of you have stated in this thread.

Tighten up your foil boys and girls:
WWIII - Rus acts out, world steps in and quashes, with damage to Rus motherland. World pays reparations and rebuilds/modernizes/updates infrastructure of Rus, to the ultimate betterment of Rus citizenship. (see: Japan)
Long tough road with much suffering, but a Rus win in the end.
Too far fetched? I, myself, find it hard to swallow that putin would knowingly face disgrace and defeat of self for the betterment of his people and motherland. Way too much ego.

Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

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Originally Posted by bellavite1

Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

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What? Are you some kind of Putin apologist?


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Originally Posted by leightoncash

If I step back from the individual news stories, affix my foil hat atop my head and look at the coverage in general, it would seem like first we were being manipulated with emotional stories intended to make us want to support hot war with Russia. Now it looks like we they are trying to convince us that Russia is weak, so a hot war with Russia would be easy and it wouldn't cost us much, and that Biden really is a tough guy and his sanctions gesture is having great affect!
If I take my foil hat off, sometimes a spade is a spade, and maybe the little kids and women crying in Ukraine really are having their lives shattered by an evil that we could help fight. And maybe corrupt Russia has been siphoning national wealth off to a select few people for so long that their military is in disarray, low on morale, and undersupported.

Who knows. I'm trying to remain agnostic about all this. I know the truth is out there, but I don't know how one gets at it anymore short of seeing it with your own eyes.

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Yup.
I am starting to feel manipulated... again.

Front row seat to the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IgoMxN-pEA

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

Front row seat to the war.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/new/

Lots of conflict coverage in this sub

When every corporate press outlet, the cast of SNL, and even George Soros are telling me we need to "do something" to help Ukraine, doing absolutely nothing suddenly seems like the right answer.

The first casualty of war is truth.

It's unfortunate. Putin needs to be stopped, the sooner the better. Hopefully there are cooler heads in Russia that will prevail against launching nukes.

Either way, the EU is the first line of defense and they need to step up.