This trope unfolds in an even more absurd way in the Russian-speaking media space, where participants are trained in genocidal thinking. Every bombing of a Ukra

This trope unfolds in an even more absurd way in the Russian-speaking media space, where participants are trained in genocidal thinking. Every bombing of a Ukrainian city is met with a cheering applause and reveling in how those Ukrainians got what “they deserve”, but then (or simultaneously?) the narrative switches into “Ukrainians bomb themselves”.