I 100% support Ukraine in its fight with Russia.
Spare me your talk of Maidan, or NATO, or the US State Department, or whatever bee you have in your bonnet. The minute those tanks rolled in, this stopped being abstract and started being real.
Real lives being shattered. Real communities being ripped to shreds. Real death. Real destruction.
This isn’t some Red Tribe/Blue Tribe nonsense, but a people being subjugated because somebody else doesn’t like their government. They don’t deserve invasion. They don’t deserve occupation. They don’t deserve to have their government replaced by force.
I don’t want to hear about how sleazy Ukraine’s government is, or how their backers don’t line up with your ideological standards. This is for Ukrainians to decide, not Russians.
I don’t want to hear about how this invasion is for their own good. This is their country, and it is their moral duty to defend it.
It’s too easy to get caught up in partisan drama, condemning something because somebody on the other side supports it. We associate our side with “good” and theirs with “bad.” Now I get it — thought policing and cancel culture are indefensible, and I agree. The side who champions cancel culture is also the side putting Ukrainian flags in their profile pic, so the partisan anger kicks in. Many of these folks were zealots over COVID policies, so I get the anger.
But step back from all that abstraction and look at the cold, hard facts. A sovereign country is being invaded, and the people of this country DO NOT WANT IT. Yet the invader insists on pushing ahead against their wishes.
However you feel about Ukraine’s current government (or the US’s hand in it) this invasion cannot be defended in any moral sense.
Hurting the innocent is never right. Take it or leave it, because that’s my position.
You do not want to be the one championing Putin when the Russian troops commit the inevitable atrocity. So think carefully about where you stand.
