Watching from Australia - on the other side of the world and relatively protected in the southern hemisphere - this is still pretty scary stuff. Our PM announced a few days ago that we would be sending 4 bushmasters to Ukraine - in response to Velensky's impassioned request to our parliament (which got a rather better hearing than our few brave politicians called for enquiries into vax injuries). This is in addition to a total of $116 million in military aid (and a mere $65 million in humanitarian aid) over the past month.
This is not in any way our war - Russia has never been any sort of direct threat to Australia. Yet we seem to have inherited the general western hysteria about Russia, and completely buying all the war propaganda put out by Ukraine, including the most recent egregious propaganda effort about the supposed Russian massacre in Bucha. (Never mind that nobody mentioned this until well after the Russian withdrawal from that area & incursion of Ukraine battalions, confirmed by the mayor, at least 2 days before any reports of bodies in the street.)
I'd say I find it hard to believe how people are just blindly & unquestioningly accepting all this - except after watching how the past 2 years have unfolded, and seeing the complete takeover of mainstream and social media by whatever official narrative is being rolled out, I can see exactly what is going on.
They are setting the stage for all-out war, probably nuclear if they get their way.
Watching from Australia - on the other side of the world and relatively protected in the southern hemisphere - this is still pretty scary stuff. Our PM announced a few days ago that we would be sending 4 bushmasters to Ukraine - in response to Velensky's impassioned request to our parliament (which got a rather better hearing than our few brave politicians called for enquiries into vax injuries). This is in addition to a total of $116 million in military aid (and a mere $65 million in humanitarian aid) over the past month.
This is not in any way our war - Russia has never been any sort of direct threat to Australia. Yet we seem to have inherited the general western hysteria about Russia, and completely buying all the war propaganda put out by Ukraine, including the most recent egregious propaganda effort about the supposed Russian massacre in Bucha. (Never mind that nobody mentioned this until well after the Russian withdrawal from that area & incursion of Ukraine battalions, confirmed by the mayor, at least 2 days before any reports of bodies in the street.)
I'd say I find it hard to believe how people are just blindly & unquestioningly accepting all this - except after watching how the past 2 years have unfolded, and seeing the complete takeover of mainstream and social media by whatever official narrative is being rolled out, I can see exactly what is going on.
They are setting the stage for all-out war, probably nuclear if they get their way.