I swear it’s starting to actually affect my brain, because the entire left and right now talk about Ukraine in a way that has absolutely zero relationship to observable reality here (but has a perfect 1-1 relationship with Russian talking points). It’s like being gaslit just by opening Twitter
The leftists I actually talk to here are resolutely anti-Russia because of basic facts on the ground but there are a *lot* who take the "America's enemies are my friend" tack without actually parsing the very simple fact that Russia fired the first shot, and no amount of NATO existing justifies that
My other fave is whenever it’s “Ukraine was oppressing Russian speakers in Donbas” and there are always a million Russophones from Donbas in the replies being like “we weren’t oppressed” and then just get told to shut up
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