What I have learned:
- Russia has already won the Ukraine war
- Which NATO started
- A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender
- Also Ukraine was the world’s main provider of CSAM
- Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright
It’s literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I’m genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)
Surely “Anthony Blinken is full of shit sometimes” is something we can find some common ground on. I’ve never heard of this other person and her saying something dumb will not impact my assessment of whether Ukraine (or, for that matter, Palestine) should be allowed to defend themselves.
I think mostly we are talking in circles at this point. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter what you or I say about it; what plays out on the ground will play out on the ground whatever anyone’s typed assessment of the conflict on the internet says.
I can agree with a certain amount of the framing that Western governments as a whole sadly don’t really give much of a shit about Ukrainian casualties and the overall outcome for the country. But I’ve spoken with and read from a large enough handful of Ukrainians that I am confident that your assessment of their feelings about the conflict is very wrong.