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Humans seem to have some kind of radius around their emotional center. Personally I'm not ashamed to admit my emotional responses get weaker in response to even

by stef25 5y ago

Humans seem to have some kind of radius around their emotional center. Personally I'm not ashamed to admit my emotional responses get weaker in response to events that spread outward from my kids, immediate family, my own town, my own country etc ... you get the idea. A bomb going off in Syria doesn't shake me as much as a bomb going off in my home town and that's not a hypothetical example. I'm sure people in Nigeria don't lose much sleep over a bomb going off in Brussels airport. Does that make them racist? What's happening in Ukraine is a completely unprovoked attack by a nuclear power led by a madman who seems to have lost all grip on reality. The potential for escalation in to something nobody ever imagined possible is very real. Lastly, there's also such a thing as "intent". Cynical responses will surely follow but I'm convinced that while the US made many colossal mistakes in the Middle East they never came close to having malicious drive that Russia is showing now.

marcosdumay 5y ago
> What's happening in Ukraine is a completely unprovoked attack by a nuclear power led by a madman who seems to have lost all grip on reality. The potential for escalation in to something nobody ever imagined possible is very real. Way to lose the point. Nothing on that paragraph is different from the Bush Jr. excursions into the Middle East and threats all over the world? Not to say the entire situation is alike. It's not. But on those features it's similar.
- stef25 5y ago
  Everyone knew from the start there were no WMDs so it was pretty different, yes. Sadam, Assad, taliban, ISIS - also total madmen but basically just running around with a bunch of AKs
- xdennis 5y ago
  > Nothing on that paragraph is different from the Bush Jr. excursions into the Middle East Irak was a dictatorship which committed genocide on its own people. Even if the reasons weren't true (and they weren't but people believed the propaganda at the time) there was at least the hope that things would improve for the people. (For the Kurds, they have.) Ukraine is a democracy. The propaganda isn't even good enough to fool anyone. The situations are very different.
juanani 5y ago

by stef25 5y ago

marcosdumay 5y ago

> What's happening in Ukraine is a completely unprovoked attack by a nuclear power led by a madman who seems to have lost all grip on reality. The potential for escalation in to something nobody ever imagined possible is very real. Way to lose the point. Nothing on that paragraph is different from the Bush Jr. excursions into the Middle East and threats all over the world? Not to say the entire situation is alike. It's not. But on those features it's similar.

stef25 5y ago
Everyone knew from the start there were no WMDs so it was pretty different, yes. Sadam, Assad, taliban, ISIS - also total madmen but basically just running around with a bunch of AKs
xdennis 5y ago
> Nothing on that paragraph is different from the Bush Jr. excursions into the Middle East Irak was a dictatorship which committed genocide on its own people. Even if the reasons weren't true (and they weren't but people believed the propaganda at the time) there was at least the hope that things would improve for the people. (For the Kurds, they have.) Ukraine is a democracy. The propaganda isn't even good enough to fool anyone. The situations are very different.

juanani 5y ago