Yeah, but I don’t really see a lot of those on here, if any.
I see a lot of rabid Zelensky fans, their fervor bordering on obsession, screeching insults at people who aren’t in that fan club. They all tend to use the same tired insults, too. It’s kind of weird.
I think a lot of us really admire the Ukrainian PEOPLE, and see them as heroic. Even if their leader is a POS. Much like many great Americans have fought for their country even if the President was a corrupt criminal like FDR or LBJ.
I don’t know Zelensky as a person. I’m sure that the government of Ukraine is as corrupt as any of its neighbors. I would not be surprised if actors there have been involved in some very nefarious dealings such as money laundering.
None of that changes the fact that Russia is utterly wrong and naked aggression such as invading your neighbor means that good and decent people will take joy in your injury, downfall, and relegation to status as a pariah state.
The fact that I was brought up during an era in which Russian nukes were pointing at my city whilst their leader was saying ‘We will bury you’ just makes it easier to take sides and harder to have any empathy for anyone who would consider Russia justified. I have vivid memories of bomb ‘shelter’ drills, and fall of the U.S.S.R. or no, the same bastards that wanted to wipe me off the map might have a President instead of a Chairman, but the more of ‘em that die, the better.