Posted on 03/04/2022 7:19:08 PM PST by Ennis85
Over the weekend, a 40-mile-long military convoy began advancing on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as part of a long-threatened invasion by Russia. Ukrainian diplomats and President Volodymyr Zelensky made impassioned pleas for help to the United Nations and the European Parliament, while refugees streamed over the border to neighboring Poland. Meanwhile, spectators online wondered who would play Zelensky in a Hollywood biopic.
The unseemly takes multiplied as the invasion continued. “Putin is Emperor Palpatine,” a self-described “thought-leader” mused on Twitter; Ukraine and its American supporters are “the Rebel alliance.” On Instagram, there were memes of former president Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing. The observation “BREAKING: every woman in your life now has at least a small crush on Volodymyr Zelenskyy and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it” garnered more than 20,000 retweets.
Apparently, people find it impossible to take things seriously even when the times demand it.
The offenders aren’t just clout-grasping influencers and social media obsessives. Public officials have rashly entered the chat: Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) wants Russians kicked off the International Space Station. A former JAG and two-time Democratic congressional candidate advocates dropping bombs on Putin in a preemptive strike. Armchair warriors in the media have joined the fray, hypothesizing no-fly zones and weaponry outfits as if the Russian invasion of Ukraine were a live-streamed game of Risk.
Meanwhile, the majority of Ukrainians I know are busy trying to organize money and aid, and mourning a loss of life, family and homeland that is already occurring and certain to get worse.
There is a growing tendency to view international conflicts either purely in terms of realpolitik — strategies and interests, bloodless and devoid of moral valence — or as an extension of fandom.
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Karen Goes to War
Karen Goes to War
^^^^^^^^
This!
Yes. Good one.
Karen can speak for herself. I don’t ‘like’ this war and it was easily avoidable.
I feel for the Ukrainians, but I have questions.
But the biggest question is: why are Americans hanging on every doing within this incident?
It has taken over national networks so that we can’t watch any other news!
At least talk about how this might affect us right now to at least have something besides the invasion.
This is a lot like the Yugoslav stuff. Not sure why we have to be so focused on it.
https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2022/03/scott-mckay-roundtable-with-mel-k-and-mike-jaco-get-ready-its-go-time-video-3768547.html This is an interesting listening!
“Apparently, people find it impossible to take things seriously even when the times demand it.”
LOL...the WaPo and Democrats are the most unserious publishers and politicians imaginable.
Maybe because this one has the real potential to blow up the entire planet?
Unless Putin is somehow stopped, his aggression is not going to stop in Ukraine.
(What other ‘news’ do you want to know about?)
Bkmk
What other? How about all the stuff we’ve been dealing with the last 2 years? The continued tyranny of our own, though it may be winding down (COVID). Never mind the tyrants pushing their BLM/LGBT etc crap on us and trying to make us all feel everlasting bad about our country past and present, complete with re-doing everything In Riotous fashion with no control by those authorities.
You’re right this could be big. But it isn’t yet and Idont want our people going I. For another war somewhere to get killed for no particular reason. Harping on it constantly makes it seem fine to start doing that.
Yes, perhaps…but are you willing to send A,Erica s to their deaths for this?
That is the trend I’m seeing by this wall-to-wall coverage.
I can understand people being upset with Russia because they are attacking and they are a bigger nation.
I think there may be more to the story.
Everyone needs to do a little research before screaming for blood.
I wish the Wapo would report on how quickly Zelensky has obtained a huge amount of wealth.
The opposition in Ukraine says he’s banked more than a billion dollars in the two years he’s been in office
Ukranian opposition leaders say he ammassed the money from Ukranie oligarcs....
Zelensky has accumulated $1.2 billion in the Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika in Costa Rica during the two and a half years of his presidency. This money was transferred to the president by Ukrainian oligarchs, such as Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor Pinchuk, Igor Kolomoisky. As Kiva noted, replenishment is done regularly, in tranches of $12 million to $35 million. And they go through banks like First Union Bank, Deutsche Bank, Banque Nationale de Paris. According to the deputy, the movement of such funds would be impossible without the control of the authorities of Germany and France.
He reportedly has a Miami villa worth 34 million dollars. Someone needs to follow this up......
It may not be big for you yet. But I think it’s just a matter of time.
Watch what happens to your costs - and the availability - of everything you need to live.
(We might call it ‘trickle up destruction’.)
There were plenty of ways to avoid this and to avoid our people going to ‘get killed’.
Unfortunately, those things that you think ‘haven’t happened yet’ actually happened well over a year ago. This is just chickens coming home to roost.
I’m aware of how it can affect our consumerism. To some extent.
But it’s another demonstration that we love to focus on one problem while ignoring others. There is lots of bad conflict around the world. Last month, people were all upset about China having the Olympics because ….Moslem Uyghers. The discriminations and abuse goes on, but now it’s not the big story.
Same all through recent history. Seem to focus on some conflict, which libs universally dub “crucial” that we get involved. Then whine when Americans are lost. Bosnia-Serbs. Etc.
Exactly.
I’m not huge on Russia.
But more importantly, this kind of rapt attention to the actual warring invasion makes us ripe for the picking, to head into that war and get killed. There becomes that cry of “DO SOMETHING!” And nothing but bodies is something enough.
Right now, much of the world is worried about people being murdered and a country destroyed by a fascist pig who runs a superpower - and one who has threatened to use nuclear weapons to get his way.
I suggest you get your priorities in order.
14 and 15 only add to my conundrums over this. I don’t think it’s as cut and dry as everyone wants it to be.
I have good priorities. I’m up to my ears In Priorities.
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