Meanwhile, for the adults in the thread who aren't known sex pests who had to be enjoined by the judiciary to stop them from stalking women...
There is now an astonishing amount of disinformation pertaining to Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
Russian disinformation and Russian propaganda, by now infamous for any American with even a cursory knowledge of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, has of course proliferated on social media.
But, crucially, so has Ukrainian disinformation and Ukrainian propaganda.
Amidst Putin’s reckless revanchism, Ukraine’s defiant president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has seized the opportunity to play a naturally sympathetic Western audience like a fiddle.
How else to characterize the Ukrainian government’s opportunistic analogizing of Russia’s damaging of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial with the actual World War II–era genocide committed at Babi Yar — a genocide committed by German Nazis, that is, with no shortage of complicity from all-too-eager local Ukrainians?
How else to describe the mysterious blue-checked Twitter account “@Ukraine,” which blasts out mawkish videos highlighting the ubiquity of Western support for the besieged country?
Indeed, the Ukrainian cause replaced John Lennon’s “Imagine” as the apotheosis of liberal internationalist fantasizing.
To make such sober, hard-headed observations is not to engage in “whataboutism” or “both sides-ism,” let alone pro-Putin apologia. It is simply to note that the situation at hand is more complicated, and more nuanced, than the specious “retrograde Russian imperialism versus enlightened Western liberal democracy” dichotomy falsely proffered by a gullible Western press.
It’s time to revisit some basics.
https://spectator.org/clarity-on-russia-ukraine-and-the-american-national-interest/