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    7 months ago

    The sad thing is that Putin doesn’t care about war crimes. He will sacrifice as many soldiers or civilians as necessary to get his way.

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      7 months ago

      The sad thing is that, years after this war is over, we’ll probably learn our money and weapons were misused, just as we did with Iraq and Afghanistan.

      People will remind you of that, and it won’t matter. You’ll still support whatever war we’re involved in, and all because the news network you watch insists that you should.

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        7 months ago

        Unfortunately, that’s true of virtually everyone throughout the world. We’re all immersed in propaganda of one kind or another.

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          7 months ago

          That’s true, but this same process has repeated itself often enough over the last 40 years that we can point to a few consistent historical patterns, I think.