When the dust settles, will the West’s media coverage get a passing grade, or will we find, at times, we allowed our sympathy for the Ukrainian cause to overlook matters we shouldn’t?

When the dust settles, will the West’s media coverage get a passing grade, or will we find, at times, we allowed our sympathy for the Ukrainian cause to overlook matters we shouldn’t?

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    2 months ago

    I find it funny how the article ends up being self referential regurgitating the tropes it laments against

    There are certainly credible and cogent arguments to the contrary, such as those stating that a weakened Russia simply won’t have the wherewithal to attack NATO anytime soon, whether it wins or loses, and that Putin’s forces are clearly no match for sophisticated, well-equipped Western armies.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      1 month ago

      sophisticated

      They always sooner or later let slip that they think about this conflict the same way a Brit did about the Zulu wars a century and a half ago. It’s always “civilisation vs the savages” to them.