It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrated explicit hostility towards Ukraine and aligned its rhetoric and policy with Russia.
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Yeah. It makes me feel physically ill when I think of it. I’m not even joking. It’s mostly not even anger, although there is that, it’s just a sick wrong feeling inside.
The other day, I had a call with my mother. We’re pretty close, and the discussion turned to politics - a topic I don’t bring up, because I know my interest in it far outstrips her’s. Mostly calm - she’s conservative, but also moderately anti-Trump - she didn’t vote for him in the past two elections.
Two things that stood out:
When my mother wondered aloud why we weren’t doing more to stand up to Russia, I paused, and felt a surge of… anger? Despair? Laughing madness? all through my body and especially in my head.
When I talked about Ukraine, I could hardly speak by the end.
Ukrainians are under the utmost pressure, and have been for years, and for us to backstab them like this is…
Atrocious.
Yeah. It’s fucking heartbreaking.
We’ve done these things before. We did it to the Kurds and the Afghans, we’re doing it to the Palestinians on an ongoing basis. But this feels different. We are the world’s enemy.
I know exactly how you mean. I had to walk around and breathe.