I think a lot of people are metabolizing the situation more like a natural disaster than a political crisis. The attitudes and "support" reminds me far more of when hurricanes or tsunamis hit somewhere. It's a normal impulse to feel for the plight of the Ukrainian civilians, but it's not normal for Americans to care about foreign policy or why things in other countries take place.
It's all Americans have been primed for. We haven't been asked to feel sympathetic for victims of warfare since when? There was Georgia, but no one cared. The American imagination has a hard time understanding what people in other countries are like and what the situations may truly be, so we've ended up with a very hollow sympathy for the Ukrainian people based on a 24/7 propaganda campaign to a confused audience.
That's why possibly why your neighbor didn't have flags for other stuff. They were too politically charged, whereas this is more unambiguous so long as you ignore the preceding events.
Yeah, definitely. Russia is presented as simply being evil and run by a maniac greedy for power. Putin isn't even a human anymore to liberals, he's an unavoidable force with no understandable motivations, like a tornado or covid. Makes it easier to choose a side if one is human in the face of an unknowable adversary.
I think a lot of people are metabolizing the situation more like a natural disaster than a political crisis. The attitudes and "support" reminds me far more of when hurricanes or tsunamis hit somewhere. It's a normal impulse to feel for the plight of the Ukrainian civilians, but it's not normal for Americans to care about foreign policy or why things in other countries take place.
It's all Americans have been primed for. We haven't been asked to feel sympathetic for victims of warfare since when? There was Georgia, but no one cared. The American imagination has a hard time understanding what people in other countries are like and what the situations may truly be, so we've ended up with a very hollow sympathy for the Ukrainian people based on a 24/7 propaganda campaign to a confused audience.
That's why possibly why your neighbor didn't have flags for other stuff. They were too politically charged, whereas this is more unambiguous so long as you ignore the preceding events.
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Yeah, definitely. Russia is presented as simply being evil and run by a maniac greedy for power. Putin isn't even a human anymore to liberals, he's an unavoidable force with no understandable motivations, like a tornado or covid. Makes it easier to choose a side if one is human in the face of an unknowable adversary.
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