[elashri]

Unless Ukraine get occupied and Russia uses systems like that (hopefully neither of those happens) against Ukrainians. There will be a small chance that most of the people will even care about that (even if they hear about that). Part of that is that the mainstream media will not stop talking about how evil this is vs the -almost- complete silence about that now.

Hell even your comment and mine have great chances of being flagged to death soon.

[JumpCrisscross]

Ukraine is my pet war. Nobody cares about either it or Gaza outside a narrow slice of the already-tiny minority that pay attention to foreign affairs. In fact, one of the worst ways to get positive attention for a foreign-policy item is to complain about how it isn’t getting attention—that’s stuff you use to rile up the base.

[consumer451]

> Ukraine is my pet war. Nobody cares about either it...

I grew up in Seattle, but I currently live a few hundred km from the russian invasion of Ukraine.

Today, a boy who has my first name, his mother, and grandmother were killed by a russian attack on their apartment. [0] This is pure terrorism, by definition. This is an everyday occurrence for the last three years.

While I do get emotional about what is happening in Ukraine, my main concern is about my immediate family in Seattle.

I am convinced that The West's de-escalation policy in Ukraine has led to what will become the greatest hit to nuclear non-proliferation, ever.

Russia could have been easily defeated in first part of the war, instead, we "de-escalated." This proved to any one of our theoretical allies that any country threatened by their neighbors should get nukes to defend themselves asap.

This made my Seattle family less safe, and was a mistake. This naive wavering has made all citizens of the USA less safe. </rant>

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/faredalmahlool.bsky.social/post/3la...