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by taway1237 on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:40AM
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I... think I agree. Thanks for your calm and reasonable response.
I'm not ashamed to say that I care about the war in Russia more than others for mostly selfish reasons [1]:
* It's much easier for me to connect and empathise with people from another European country then with people from a distant culture (irrational reason)
* It impacts me and my country much more directly (rational reason)
* Countries need allies. Unfortunately it's necessary to side with at least one superpower. And it's politically wise to overlook friendly superpower crimes while loudly criticising enemy's. To clarify: in my opinion US is the "least evil" option, and the Russian state is the most harmful - but I'm obviously biased (i.e. if I was born in China I might think differently).
>It just goes to show that Europeans/westerners don't care about Iraqis, and they care about Ukrainians
100%. Funny you mention that, I wanted to bring it up as an example for my previous paragraph and then noticed the second part of your message. I understand the frustration of all the victims of recent wars and aggressions who suffered the same and the world largely stood back (at best, loudly condemned the attack and the news cycle moved on). No point in gaslighting them that their suffering was less important or less significant then Ukrainians.
[1] Of course I won't say this publicly. It's easy to misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent my message as a support for Russian invasion or worse. No point in harming my future career by saying one word too much.
I'm not ashamed to say that I care about the war in Russia more than others for mostly selfish reasons [1]:
* It's much easier for me to connect and empathise with people from another European country then with people from a distant culture (irrational reason) * It impacts me and my country much more directly (rational reason) * Countries need allies. Unfortunately it's necessary to side with at least one superpower. And it's politically wise to overlook friendly superpower crimes while loudly criticising enemy's. To clarify: in my opinion US is the "least evil" option, and the Russian state is the most harmful - but I'm obviously biased (i.e. if I was born in China I might think differently).
>It just goes to show that Europeans/westerners don't care about Iraqis, and they care about Ukrainians
100%. Funny you mention that, I wanted to bring it up as an example for my previous paragraph and then noticed the second part of your message. I understand the frustration of all the victims of recent wars and aggressions who suffered the same and the world largely stood back (at best, loudly condemned the attack and the news cycle moved on). No point in gaslighting them that their suffering was less important or less significant then Ukrainians.
[1] Of course I won't say this publicly. It's easy to misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent my message as a support for Russian invasion or worse. No point in harming my future career by saying one word too much.