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What about the war crimes the Ukrainian army is committing now during the war and prior to this invasion against Russian populated areas ? no mention of that in your report it seems

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Thank you for this analysis. In my conservative, Christian circles I am so often encountering the perspective you're responding to. I'm a native of Ukraine, from Dnipro; we have family who fled the country after the war; my former classmate, Denis Shlega, was one of the main commanders in Mariupol and was a POW in a Russian camp.

But people who know very little about Soviet and post-Soviet history respond to me with what sounds suspiciously like Russian propaganda: Ukraine is corrupt, the West is decadent, Putin's Russia is conservative, who knows what's really going on in Ukraine?, the media lied about Covid (they did, of course) so they are lying about Ukraine, too; and finally, it's not our war.

So thank you for responding to these so-called arguments.

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Thank you, sir! The way progressive disinformation/making everything about their issues interacts with conservative suspicion of "narratives" due to abortion, gender ideology, Covid, you name it...it needs more unpacking yet.

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