What narrative was I presented with?Cal88 said:
Does digging deeper to find out the truth about a major event constitute "bizarre behavior and baffling motive", or does it just reflect your difficulty in assimilating content and facts that go completely against the narrative you're presented on this conflict?
Because the Ukraine war is not like WW2 or the Civil War, it is a war of choice that has been fed by a false narrative, much like the Vietnam War or the Iraqi invasion.
Ukraine`s current government was set up through a coup backed by the US, we've created the conditions for this war and are feeding it through enormous financial and military support, NATO hawks like Boris Johnson have gone out of our way to scuttle attempts by parties including Ukrainian ones to prevent or stop this war.
This is the statement the Ukrainian officer makes in one of the short videos I`ve posted above, reported here:#Ukrainian soldiers not happy. Mikhail Choknadiy currently in the #Bakhmut area posted this on his Facebook page, complaining that he and poorly prepared colleagues have become a bargaining chip and canon fodder for the West against Russia. pic.twitter.com/r3jKzGjHh4
— tim anderson (@timand2037) April 19, 2023
"Being at war for more than a year and seeing everything from the inside, I want to tell you dear Ukrainians that not even 1% of the truth of what is happening here is being told to you. You are told and shown want they want you to see, and the reality is not at all like that, Over the last month, I have completely changed my mind and my vision of what is really happening, this war is a big geopolitical game of the powers that be, where Ukraine and Ukrainians are just a bargaining chip."
This has been the very same major point I have been trying to drive here. Do you think that Ukrainian office's statement constitutes bizarre behavior and a baffling motive?
Russia is our enemy who, together with China, wants to create a new world order where they are the predominant world influence with the consequential benefit of maximizing their economy and quality of life and power of their leaders. Countries in the EU are our allies, although uncomfortable at times, with most of the countries siding with us over Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine unilaterally. Just like I don't get to punch you in the face because I don't like the way you are behaving, they had no right under our world order to invade a separate sovereign country. They may not agree, but I am not Russian and I don't get paid by the Russians to support their interest over ours. By supporting Ukraine who is our ally, we can weaken Russia and counter both China's and Russia's attempt to replace us as the world leaders. And if Russia succeeds painlessly here, China will have that much more incentive to act accordingly with Taiwan and threaten our allies in Asia (where we have great influence) and make commerce that much more difficult for us in Asia, lowering our quality of life and our access to semiconductors that are now in everything.
So, what am I missing? You want to play some moral game as if there is any moral in deranged, egotistical leaders sending solders to die or kill and rape.
We have to choose sides. You choose Russia over U.S. I choose U.S. If this were happening to Belarus who chose to be our enemy, I wouldn't give a ***** Ukraine is our ally and weakening Russia supports our interest.
