That's definitely a hard sphere to navigate. We as citizens have always been brought up to see Russia as an adversary. In my time I watched the Berlin wall go down and watching another standard bearer getting shoes tossed at him while a freakin dictator told us "we will bury you".
But I've also witnessed untold casualties of the endless wars that we wage, with people my age (soon to be 52) dying too young or so messed up that they are not able to cope with life when they come back home.
I witnessed the whole day on 9/11 because I got sent home early from a courthouse I was in, and I too felt the outrage that was later curbed by subsequent facts and details. Nobody ever talks about the Saudi based force that snuck in under our radar so we just blew up Iran and Iraq instead. Also hoping that I don't sound anti Jewish, because I'm not, but the terrorist state of Israel can go fuck itself too and we've been supporting their genocides in the name of religion since I was born.
I never served, but I know plenty like my father who did and was a silver star recipient twice purple hearted without any fanfare and I saw how bitter it made him, which spills over to me at times.
I knew other guys my age that were in Desert Storm and the invasion of the middle east and they are not the same either.
I don't think we should be the world's police but I think we should police the world, if that makes any sense. Fighting useless foreign wars and attacking invisible enemies should go the way of the dodo, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep our eyes peeled.
The shit with Ukraine has already gone way too far and there's a host of other nations who would be able to curb it if they wanted to. They don't, and they look to us to be their scapegoat while asshole politicians here change their course as likely as they change their underwear, supporting clandestine missions for their black-op buddies who roll in our tax money.
It's unsolvable, just like Afghanistan. One day everyone cheered that we were finally getting out, but now that we've left, there's nothing but criticism about the way we did it. Fuck them. Anyone who wanted to go had months or even years to plan their exit and now they are paying the price for their own nationalism and it somehow becomes our burden? Give me a break.
What's happening in Ukraine is not our fault and it's not our job to keep helping these idiots that let corrupt politicians infiltrate their ranks. We have enough problems right here on our own soil with assholes toting around assault rifles to go to walmart thinking they are fighting more invisible enemies.
It doesn't matter. We were brought up in a culture of war, it's ingrained in our society and it won't change anytime soon. It runs through capitalism and sports always besting the other person. It's how we are.
Putin is a pussy and is trying to gain control over a society that he can't handle. I won't say the same for Xi because the culture runs deep over there, but really, who's going to attack us on our own soil and not have the earth wind and fire brought down upon them?
I'll tell you who.....it's your neighbors who are just a little misguided enough to believe all the nonsense that a dude on facebook tells them.
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