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The Russian invasion of Ukraine taught me a big lesson: once tensions are whipped up enough, the average human loses their mind. Going on Reddit, it was almost
by churchill 2y ago
The Russian invasion of Ukraine taught me a big lesson: once tensions are whipped up enough, the average human loses their mind. Going on Reddit, it was almost unreal for me, watching everyday Westerners wish death & destruction on everyday Russians - for the actions of the Russian Government. Yes, Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine.
But hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Russians have protested and opposed their leadership. That doesn't matter once nationalism is in the picture.
Which reminds me of the Americans who casually say the US should bomb the Three Gorges Dam & kill hundreds of millions of Chinese in the event of a war. Nationalism turns the average respectable human into something else.
- 082349872349872 2y agoIn The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig writes about how twice during his lifetime (1914-1918, 1939-1942) the global milieu with which he'd grown up fell apart. Somewhere there's a line about how people who in normal times would have been discussing opera or the latest scientific discoveries found their conversation dominated by discussion of getting visas, to where, and how quickly.
- MrHamburger 2y agoThis works on both sides, because at this moment Russians can (and some are as we see in Europe) sabotaging western assets either voluntarily or involuntarily by leveraging threats on their lives or their relatives in Russia by Russian government