Putin isn’t Russia and ergo in this case Russia hasn’t invaded the Ukraine Putin has. Just as NATO hasn’t invaded Russian territory. NATO, the EU, and even America aren’t Authoritarian states. They don’t imprison or assassinate opposition voices. The “pup” being sold here is that Putin is the “victim”. Isn’t that what Trump is selling that he is the victim of the deep state and that he alone understands and could fix any problem that we face by treating despots, like Vlad and Kim more fairly. However, not Xi and never China that would be going too far economically
Russia, rightly or not, believes that it is facing an existential crisis. The giants of investigative journalism, who have been all but cancelled, silenced from mainstream media and deemed to be irrelevant agree with the basis of Russia’s claims and are wary of the way this proxy war is being prosecuted. The Ukrainian people have been “sold a pup”. They are being used and manipulated by the West, NATO, and primarily by the USA.
Sounds like a call to Vote Trump.
Our own government, in close alignment with the USA, NATO and the majority of the West, quickly made the determination that it was a relatively black-and-white affair. There is a “goody” and a “baddy” and that is as much as the people need to know. The media speak with one voice. There is more than a hint of Animal Farm in this. ‘Four legs good, too legs bad.’ Russia, we must believe, invaded Ukraine to grab territory, to grow an empire, and to return to a faded imperial past.
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