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> They just attribute it to the Ukrainian military Not always, often they just say its an unfortunate consequence of the war. I also think the use of "brainwa
by concordDance 4y ago
> They just attribute it to the Ukrainian military
Not always, often they just say its an unfortunate consequence of the war.
I also think the use of "brainwashing" here is inappropriate. The issue here is divergent sources and selective sampling mostly, not some systematic rewriting of how they process evidence.
Give anyone access to just the information your average Russian is fed and they'll reach a similar conclusion.
- 93po 4y agoI wish everyone was as rational as you. I see people constantly celebrating the death of Russian soldiers and it grosses me out. They're dumb 19 year olds who believe dumb, wrong shit for the same reason most Americans believe dumb, wrong shit. American interventions overseas since 2001 have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, including women and children, yet many Americans don't seem to ever think of our troops as problematic. The headline on CNN right now is "Putin is scaring the world to distract from his problems". If anyone reads that and doesn't immediately recognize it as propaganda (or at best, not real journalism) then they're doing as poorly as the Russians who are pro-war.
- oneshtein 4y agoThe more killers are killed, the earlier they are killed, the fewer innocent victims there are. Why we should not celebrate saved lives?
- 93po 4y agoAre you also onboard with celebrating the death of people in the American military?
- oneshtein 4y agoWhich American country you have in your mind and why? Americas have both democratic countries and dictatorships. It is hard to make a two-continent-wide generalization. Pick up a country, a war, and a side first, then I will tell you.
- 93po 4y agoI feel like you're being pointlessly pedantic and clearly not discussing in good faith. And not even in a correct way - it's a defined and accepted usage of "American" as an adjective to specify things as being part of the US, and especially when "American" is used to describe a concept that clearly has a national origin (a military). No one says "the American military" to refer to the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. I'm going to disengage here but i hope you have a good day
- concordDance 4y agoVery few Russian soldiers will intentionally kill innocent people. The same is true of US Army soldiers.
- oneshtein 4y agoVery few Russians disobey order to kill innocent people, see for example: https://youtu.be/gcVws482J30?t=151 https://youtu.be/gcVws482J30?t=151 . They are doing that intentionally.
- braymundo 4y agoI for sure celebrate every single death of a russian invader and will not apologise for it.