What I’ve always done here on FR is just skip over threads I don’t care for, such as the Catholic threads. If there are those that love them, great. But these Ruzzia propaganda threads are just annoying, primarily due to the purposeful misspelling of Russia.
I am neutral in this war, as it is a European thing and the US taxpayers should not have to pay for it and there are many brave Ukrainian and Russian soldiers needlessly dying. But this propaganda is starting to make me want to cheer for the Russians just to get this propaganda to end.
“starting to make me want to cheer for the Russians just to get this propaganda to end.”
Perhaps, consider posts are information sharing regarding the progress, or lack of progress of the Russian invasion.
Either way, if posts/or comments displease, then continue to just skim or ignore.
I firmly believe everyone is entitled to freedom of thought and expression. However, I also am entitled freedom of thought and expression.
I am not here to be responsible to dictate any viewpoint.
The responsibility for each individual is to weigh information and develop their own point of view.
“the purposeful misspelling of Russia.”
The word Ruzzian (plural Ruzzians) is typically the term used in the title by the Ukrainian author.
ETYMOLOGY
Neologism following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some, typically Ukrainians, blend the Russian + Z, using the Russian Z SYMBOL to substitute against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
At the very worse, it is a etymology parody for Russian.
“I am neutral in this war, as it is a European thing and the US taxpayers should not have to pay for it and there are many brave Ukrainian and Russian soldiers needlessly dying. But this propaganda is starting to make me want to cheer for the Russians just to get this propaganda to end.”
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History though has proven that “neutrality” is always helping one side a bit more than the other side...
Edmund Burke (presumably) once said : “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Today we can say: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is for good men to remain neutral”.
Neutrality means doing nothing. That only helps Russia.
Sweden believed in that philosophy of neutrality for 200 years. According to polls Sweden was the most anti-NATO country in whole Europe...
...until Putin came along and decided to wreak havoc with a massive invasion of a sovereign country called Ukraine.
What did the Swedish people think about that unthinkable invasion? Well... two thirds of the swedes are now pro-NATO (+66%!) and Sweden has now just been accepted as a new NATO member!
This is a REVOLUTION in Sweden!
Putin, with his completely insane act of imperialistic piratery of Ukraine’s resources, has transformed the common swedish citizens psych down to the core!
The swedes gave up 200 years of neutrality because of Putin’s folly. They understood, that neutrality in this Ukraina war has indirectly become a russian weapon.
Russia has been spewing Anti-American and anti Western propaganda for ages, long before the Ukraine war.
That’s why I’m not against any efforts here on FR acting like “fire-walls” to somewhat counter-balance the propaganda Russia is drowning us with.
A number of Russians here on FR are good at “fanning the flames” concerning the sain competition between Republican candidates for example. To divide us.
Russia did also participate in manipulating liberal media in exacerbating the race-war that went on during the “Summer of Love” period in America - which destroyed 110 inner cities.
Kremlin-people are chess-players. Their art has always been to deceive, disinform, divide, while pretending to be the victims! It’s an effective weapon against non-autocratic countries. And now they are attacking our allies with military might.
We shall not fall for it.
There is... one more thing:
America has signed the Budapest memorandum agreement in 1994, assuring Ukraine protection against any Russian violation of Its border and sovereignty. In return Ukraine gave up all their nuclear ballistic weapons they had. They kept their word to America and did what they promised, thus America must now ALSO keep its word towards Ukraine by helping it to defend itself. Its morality.
The deal has been signed.
the intentional misspelling is actually a bonus - you can just ignore since you know what quality of thought and attempted objectivity to expect. of course, we actually at this point recognize the usual suspects daily threads anyway.
off-topic, but I have seen news items over the last few years suggesting that there are significant funds and efforts involved at penetrating and diverting discussion/topics on various online forums. I have wondered if compensation is ever tied to ‘engagement’ e.g. for example replies in a thread posted.