Izabella Kaminska at The Blind Spot, February 27:
Too much to say, not enough bandwidth.
So here’s Russell Brand who pretty much sums it up I think....***video***The comments are worth a gander too.Obviously I’m hugely sympathetic for the Ukrainian people who are just pawns in the whole mess. But I’m equally concerned about what the media messaging is doing to people’s minds at home right now. And how people are losing sight of the bigger picture, the historical complexities, not to mention the West’s own part in the escalation of the war.
Banning Russia from Swift might yet backfire on us more than on Russia. That some people think saying this out loud is traitorous speaks of the in-group bias going on, the loss of objectivity and collapse of critical thinking.
People seem to be operating in purely reactionary ways — often without due consideration for the consequences of their words or actions. Nor are they respecting their own knowledge gaps.
Armchair epidemiologists have been replaced by armchair Ukrainian and military tactician experts. Every single person online seems to know someone who is Ukrainian.
I was confronted yesterday by a somewhat hysterical guy arguing that we must impose a gas-shortage related lockdown on people to help defend Ukraine. “We have to make sacrifices to show Putin what’s what” was the semtiment....
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Say what? That's loony.
But maybe no crazier than the American neocons who say we must declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
The problem with those types of declarations is you have to enforce them.
Which means that you have to shoot down planes that violate your no-fly zone.
Which means, as Ms. Kaminska says in the first part of her headline: "WW3 Watch..."
