I am trying to remain as neutral as possible about this war and this is getting me way too confused. I do not know if people realize how dumb or contradictory so many of their or the mainstream arguments are, and please nobody take this as directed towards a specific user or person over here. Just my thoughts, no negative intents.
They are blaming Russia for censoring the Western news and media, but Europe was first with the censorship by removing Russian TV channels, news websites et cetera. I literally see the news that Russia Today is banned all over Europe and few hours later they call out Russia for censoring American or Western newsletters and channels. The argument about Putin being a pedophile exists on both sides. The propaganda clearly exists in both Western and Russian state media, each having their own purposes to fulfill. I have seen them mentioning how under 100 Ukrainian soldiers have died at the time while the Ukrainian forces have killed over 4,000 Russian soldiers which is just so unrealistic.
I find it mind boggling how Russian propaganda is blamed but we are cheering the Western one. There was this picture of two kids in front of a tank posted by some popular, pro-Ukrainian figure. The caption was specifically mentioning this was a photo from Ukraine, 2022. Comments were filled up with messages such as: 'This is an old photo.' 'Does not matter. The message is the same'. Video game or older clips of previous wars are shown as real Ukrainian fights. Crazy. If Russia does this however, it is blamed. Funny how this works.
Things do get worse. The massive websites of the Internet allow talking about how Putin should be beheaded but you can not even contemplate questioning America's intentions without being banned or censored for it. How should I trust America or Europe when I am not allowed to even research what each side is saying?
Russia warns Ukraine may be staging a specific false flag event and they are told to fuck off. Ukraine says Russia may be staging a specific false flag event and everyone blames Russia for it. We are supporting the assassination of Putin but we are blaming him for trying to assassinate the Ukrainian President. It is like Russians can always only do bad but Americans or Europeans can not and they are the saviors. Do people even realize how contradictory and confusing this is to someone with a neutral set of mind?
We are in the middle of a very strong war of information and interests. I sometimes feel like I am living in the middle of a Zombie apocalypse. Everyone seems to blindly support whatever they see is trendy and considered 'the right way of thinking' without even thinking for real anymore. They are feeding us exactly the way we have to think and we are gladly eating their food. But there is no more food for thought anymore. Some stock exchanges allow only closing Russian stock positions and selling but then if we are only allowed to sell, who are we selling to?
Russia is getting sanctions over sanctions, their economy is drowned. This ultimately affects all of us, not just Russians. It affects just the average humans, not the upper class, and we tend to forget this. They have jets, they have money, they have influence. They can get over it, but the average human lives paycheck to paycheck. Now I see a xenophobia similar to the way humans perceived Asian people back in 2020. There is a huge hate of Russians worldwide right now, and it gets worse. The hatred is cheered and fed by almost the entire world. But once again, the ones to suffer will be the average Russians who have nothing to do with what is currently going on in Ukraine.
There were so many wars before, and in most of them the United States always seemed to be implicated. Yet nobody wore the affected country's flags, nobody wanted to offer refugees a home, a bed or food to eat. How all of a sudden everyone wants to help out Ukraine is a big food for thought for me. I have been told they were different, but how exactly? How do we define a war that is good and one that is bad if we never cared about civilians losing lives before but now suddenly we do?
I will add the virus situation in the middle of all of this. Two weeks ago we were fearing a virus nobody seems to care about anymore. Protests are now allowed, gatherings of soldiers are just fine, it is like there is no virus to fear anymore. I have even heard multiple times that the pandemic has been over since the middle of March. Wait, what?! What is going on really? How is it over when only two weeks ago everyone seemed to still fear a Covid infection? When did we get over a pandemic?!
This all already has such a strong impact over all of us and our lives, but we are too preoccupied with what the media is feeding our brains. I definitely do not support and or want a war but this will ultimately turn into a giant global crisis, maybe one we have never seen in history before.
Are we so brainwashed we support local censorship but condemn Russians for doing the same? Are we so brainwashed we call Putin's acts inhumane but we support hatred against average Russians who have nothing to do with this? I have no idea. One thing is sure, we are being lied one way or another. Orwell was right. We are currently living in his world without a doubt. If someone has a contradictory argument, please come up and write it down. I am really too confused by what is going on to understand what is good and bad anymore.
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