Posted on 04/01/2022 6:44:46 PM PDT by bitt
Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
-George Orwell, 1984
The smoothness with which the corporate media redirects its viewers’ base emotional response — emanating from the deepest reptilian caverns of the medulla oblongata, the “lizard brain” — is… uncanny, other-worldly, jaw-dropping.
No combination of adjectives could do justice to this most marvelous of propaganda coups over the human psyche.
Almost overnight, sometime in February 2022, the corporate left’s Public Enemy #1 morphed from the much-maligned “anti-vaxxer” murdering their grandmother by COVID breath into a Russian:
“The vaccinated also say, almost unanimously (88%), that Russia is guilty of war crimes in Ukraine, while only 32% of unvaxxed respondents agree, and 42% say they don’t believe it is happening at all.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybell.com ...
Meant to say that Hitler was at fault.
The point of this discussion is whether Putin is justified in invading the Ukraine without provocation and killing and destroying millions of innocent lives and destroying much of the country.
This astonishing contingent in FR including yourself that seems to support his invasion has yet to offer a coherent rationale for that support.
Well that might be the point of the private discussion you are having with strawmen in your head. In the real world on planet Earth the rest of us are making a different point and nobody is trying to justify that.
My initial comment was, What is this? Sounds like nonsense. Sounds like this article saying there’s nothing wrong with Putin’s unjust and unprovoked invasion of the Ukraine and the brutality millions of its people.
Your analogy is flawed and irrelevant.
Do you support Putin's invasion or not?
Of course not. Nor does the article which calls the invasion a human tragedy.
OK, well, that’s why I asked the question in my initial comment. It sure sounds to me like the article is using some kind of historical precedent to make it seem like Putin’s attack was OK.
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