Okay, RantWoman is just going to opine about citizens of Russia and The WAR in Ukraine. RantWoman's opinions continue to evolve and some here are probably controversial.
RantWoman does not have an opinion one way or another about why specific categories of Russians do or don't feel they themselves can speak out. RantWoman simply considers it the decent thing to do to pray for all affected by this war:
--All the brown people from different parts of the Russian federation forced into the Russian military meat grinder with neither training nor anything approaching acceptable weaponry,
--the families of the KIA some of whom will neither ever see their loved ones again nor necessarily know where they have fallen
--Russian families torn apart by differences of opinion,
--Russians who ARE able to speak out in ways ranging from holding blank pieces of paper like signs on the sidewalk to what RantWoman thinks MAY BE partisan antiwar sabotage in different parts of Russia. Translation: RantWoman is cautious about drawing inferences but does regularly look at a Twitter feed called the Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian fires
--All the people struggling due to, sadly well deserved, Western sanctions
Admittedly, RantWoman lies about being able smoothly to pray for some categories of Russians:
--those with resources who send their draft age sons abroad to evade conscription
--all the Russian oligarchs, even the ones trying to counter Putin
--ditto for Russian nationalist war bloggers and propagandists.
And on a different note: Vlad Vexler on culture war and propaganda.
With that, today's vids, not all of which RantWoman has thoroughly digested:
Meditations near but tangential to the anniversary of the 2013 Maidan events in Ukraine, the ones where one time the sign language interpreter on Ukrainian state television just stopped interpreting and started signing about what BS viewers were being fed.
The Telegraph: Zelensky fires top general, why does the EU keep buying Russian gas, and supply levels of some kinds of arms
Wives and mothers protesting despite police pressure
various comments on US aid to Ukraine
Western democracies suffer different toxicity
Simonyan attacks very popular singer Alla Pugacheva, LGBT issues related to many in underwear in Odessa,
Three pathologies
"Nobody is good as soon as they enter the public square"
"Lack of boundaries" (the bit about the washing machine)
"lack of alternative views, concepts of history"
Condemnation of Hamas violence and use of the term "genocide" and the Genocide convention but calls Israel's politics Barbarism, anti Putin dissidents
sponsorship by Moscow mayor's office
Vlad says dispicable toxicity is really effective.
Profound discomfort when phrase "Russian asset" is used vs eg Trump as domestic political phenomena.
But trolls are ....
Some fatigue among Pro-Ukraine internet voices
Israel Hamas Gaza crisis: avoid issue like wildfire OR only comment insofar as it relates to Russian Ukraine war.
Vlad Vexler opines about every video in his main YouTube feed. Assad in Syria, identity politics, time blindness and autism, Israel, Ukraine, "the West," Christopher Hitchens, not engaging in culture wars, atheism, Extinction Rebellion, plurality of activism, the sacredness of nature, why damaging paintings is counterproductive,
Kremlin is not ready to do a peace about the part they have bitten off.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment