02-20-2025, 01:56 PM
I'm not sure exactly where I'm supposed to hear what the Russian people want, OR, what the Ukrainian people want.
I know that in that regard, Presidents and diplomats make pronouncements, the media "picks a side" and rants ever onward from that perspective, the activist stage shows of virtual and virtuous...
But it's never unimportant to consider, let's say for arguments sake... say 3,000 or so three-generation families who constituted a regions' modest community... which happened to be located on a timely and tactically-convenient target area..., of course... to say their story has come now to an end is almost an understatement.
Many have a tendency to 'validate' the idea of oppressive force, violent or otherwise, to wrangle people into the 'correct' way of thinking (or living.) In that validation, they objectify the death, the loss of limb, the brutal exposure to the activities and unbridled violence of war as another, different "thing"... as if it weren't exactly why wars work in the first place.
When you call for, or glorify war... THIS is what you call for... mutilation, destruction, "revenge strikes," casualties, collateral damage, no addressable 'freedoms,' no civil justice,' civil peace only under threat, children lost to trauma... all because "we are at war"... Honestly, I'd rather have no part of it.
It's an insidious trade-off...
Many would be hard pressed to justify the entirety of what happens in war as a function of "social justice"... especially if they had to do it to the faces of the families of the victims... many of whom were not combatants, nor members of the "rah rah" communities used for show and effect. (The mind-Pablum of politics is no remedy.)
(Never forget, the media chooses what they report... as well as how.)
So where do we hear the "voices" of these people for whom we alternately hoot, holler, and grieve?
My concern is this weird, "I hate Putin" ergo "let's kill Russians" idea. I find it as equally incomprehensible as "Ukraine has something we want... let's kill a bunch of Ukrainians." Seems counterintuitive and terribly simple-minded.
I know that in that regard, Presidents and diplomats make pronouncements, the media "picks a side" and rants ever onward from that perspective, the activist stage shows of virtual and virtuous...
But it's never unimportant to consider, let's say for arguments sake... say 3,000 or so three-generation families who constituted a regions' modest community... which happened to be located on a timely and tactically-convenient target area..., of course... to say their story has come now to an end is almost an understatement.
Many have a tendency to 'validate' the idea of oppressive force, violent or otherwise, to wrangle people into the 'correct' way of thinking (or living.) In that validation, they objectify the death, the loss of limb, the brutal exposure to the activities and unbridled violence of war as another, different "thing"... as if it weren't exactly why wars work in the first place.
When you call for, or glorify war... THIS is what you call for... mutilation, destruction, "revenge strikes," casualties, collateral damage, no addressable 'freedoms,' no civil justice,' civil peace only under threat, children lost to trauma... all because "we are at war"... Honestly, I'd rather have no part of it.
It's an insidious trade-off...
Many would be hard pressed to justify the entirety of what happens in war as a function of "social justice"... especially if they had to do it to the faces of the families of the victims... many of whom were not combatants, nor members of the "rah rah" communities used for show and effect. (The mind-Pablum of politics is no remedy.)
(Never forget, the media chooses what they report... as well as how.)
So where do we hear the "voices" of these people for whom we alternately hoot, holler, and grieve?
My concern is this weird, "I hate Putin" ergo "let's kill Russians" idea. I find it as equally incomprehensible as "Ukraine has something we want... let's kill a bunch of Ukrainians." Seems counterintuitive and terribly simple-minded.
