Is anybody else demoralized by the scale and intensity of the Russia-Ukraine hysteria? I weathered the Covid-Vax storm alright. But I don't think I was prepared for another equally powerful media driven moral panic so close on its heels.
I don't think Russia should have invaded Ukraine because of the Budapest Memorandum Security Assurances. But I've been trying to study with a nuanced eye what's happened over the last 20 years that led to Russia's decision to invade and understand it. But it's utterly impossible to have a neutral discussion about the geopolitics of the situation because of frothing at the mouth hostility at any hint of something that might be interpreted as defending Russia or criticizing Ukraine even if it's not even intended that way. Any mention of Ukraine's until very recently infamous and widely known and accepted corruption is met with hostility even if it's just facts. They have to be viewed as perfect angels. Even the possibility that Russia may have had legitimate security concerns that Putin grievously overreacted to is met with extreme hostility. No Putin has to be viewed as a literally insane reincarnation of Hitler who invaded Ukraine for literally no reason. The idea that Saudi Arabia should also be sanctioned the same as Russia for its invasion of Yemen that's created a humanitarian catastrophe there, even as the US sells them weapons, is met with at best a dismissive maybe/shrugging of shoulders because somehow Putin's invasion is uniquely evil and not comparable to the US invasion of Iraq or SA invasion of Yemen.
The power of the backlash against any discussion that isn't a letter for letter toeing of the line of the main narrative is so strong that I'm really getting demoralized and feeling beaten down by it. I was going to mention to some friends of mine I sometimes speak with about politics how crazy it is that people want to cancel Tchaikovsky and Yuri Gagarin and censor Black Widow. But I'm half expecting them to defend it. And these are people I've always respected and consider intelligent. I don't know if it's as bad as things got with Covid, but it sure seems like it. And one right after the other is a lot to take in.
tl;dr I'm having trouble coping with constant push from every angle to accept every detail of the narrative for a constant stream of manipulative fabricated crises. Any other anons feel the same?
Levi Murphy
just blame everything on jews to cope
Thomas Miller
Just don’t pay attention to the news. Focus on things you have control over
Henry Mitchell
Yeah it's just a continuation of insanity. We have a very mentally ill population in the West. They latch onto whatever the current thing is and use it as an outlet for their mental illness. I have never witnessed anything like it.
Nathaniel Evans
>>Russia invasion is uniquely evil and not comparable to Afghanistan or Yemen.
It's the exact same reason we went to the desert. Almost to the letter.
Sebastian Ward
>Tell friends and family I think that both sides aren't exactly in the right but that the current narrative is fucking insane and that if I could shoot either Zelensky or Putin I'd choose Zelensky >They react like I have just said I stamped on a kid's head, get angry and refuse to debate it with me, one ghosts me and still hasn't replied I miss the days when people would be generally apathetic, good humored and nuanced about shit. You can't just discuss things anymore people are fucking rabidly opinionated about everything and consider it a part of their personality
There is never not going to be a moment when the globohomo apparatus is not aggressively pushing some grand life or death cause and re-arranging society around it. This is simply life in the west now.
Dylan Diaz
Sorta..not really man, was honestly more worried about the jabpass & shit than the latest theater, has been pretty easy to tone out this Ukraine hooha
Juan Roberts
If you want to speak truth, you have to be ready to face adversity.
Asher Green
It's all part of the new world order plan
Ryder Bell
go speak with your psychologist about your trauma, pussy
80% of the western population has been moved into a Cyborg Hive Mind. Their ability for critical thinking, detachment, objectivity and rationality has been erased. What used to be their minds and thoughts have been scooped out and replaced by whatever virtual reality The System wants them to experience. They have been moved from the Trump to Covid to Trucker to Ukraine virtual realities so far by the Cyborg Hive Mind Controllers. The 20% of the population which resists against this Hive Mind needs to become aware of what they are struggling against, to understand the reality of what is actually happening.
In a way it's comforting. I used to worry that maybe there was something wrong with me, like maybe there was just something everyone else could see that I couldn't. Now there's no longer any doubt in my mind. If anything I underestimated just how crazy the world was.
Mason Gonzalez
You're probably right about doing this user. I've gone through a couple phases before where I've cut myself off from consuming so much news coverage but always get really into it again like some kind of addiction. Maybe I should give it another try. Coming to Any Forums regularly doesn't help.
Landon Bennett
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Blake Flores
I was playing pool with my uncle yesterday - (CNN boomer). He tried to tell me that russia used chemical weapons on their own people and that "putin is a monster". I just said " I don't believe that". He got kinda mad but when we looked it up, sure enough, there was nothing to it. I explained a little about reading between the lines when looking at news articles and then we dropped the subject. Hopefully it get him thinking a little bit but I doubt it. That's how you talk to normie family members, be gentle and stick to your acemdemicly honest position.
Connor Wilson
It'd just to distract people from Hunter Biden, Sleepy Joe and COVID.
>Any other anons feel the same? Yes. >how to cope? No idea, I try to keep in mind that there are still like-minded people, as is evidenced by your post. Don't let those fuckers get you down OP.
>I weathered the Covid-Vax storm alright. But I don't think I was prepared for another equally powerful media driven moral panic so close on its heels. Kids today
