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A Boring Dystopia
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The sad thing is that Putin doesn’t care about war crimes. He will sacrifice as many soldiers or civilians as necessary to get his way.
The sad thing is that, years after this war is over, we'll probably learn our money and weapons were misused, just as we did with Iraq and Afghanistan.
People will remind you of that, and it won't matter. You'll still support whatever war we're involved in, and all because the news network you watch insists that you should.
Unfortunately, that’s true of virtually everyone throughout the world. We’re all immersed in propaganda of one kind or another.
That's true, but this same process has repeated itself often enough over the last 40 years that we can point to a few consistent historical patterns, I think.
The last few decades are the most memorable (and frustrating, since I think we really should know better by now), but I think one could argue that we’ve had pretty much the same attitude towards war throughout recorded history.
That's fair.
The only real opposition the US has ever seen to war was in the 60's, when the media was portraying our wars as they actually are and kids were being forced to decide between fighting those wars or serving jail time.
Almost makes you wish the draft would make a comeback. At least that way the average American wouldn't be able to hide from the effects of our foreign policy.