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I think there is more to this story than the typical memes posted about it.
Lincoln and Roosevelt both censored the press when the country was at war. Anti-government criticism that is likely coming from Ukrainian news sources infiltrated by Putin's propagandists is a legitimate target for control when your enemy is trying to over-run your country with its army and is raining down missiles on civilian targets
Look, Ukraine isn't perfect. It suffers from baked in institutional corruption dating back to its time as a member state of the Soviet Union. But it's pretty clear to me that the Ukrainians want no part of being ruled by Russia's style of authoritarianism and prefer a modern, socially liberal, capitalist state. Since the Maiden Revolution, freedom and liberty loving Ukrainians have worked to establish a socially liberal democracy in Ukraine. How hard was that to do in 1776? How hard is that to maintain here in the US.
There are pro-Russian Ukrainians working to undermine the Zelenski government just like their are anti-establishment extremists in the US working to destabilize the US government. This is true in most liberal democracies. It's never black and white like those who are against supporting Ukraine want to make it. Freedom is hard to gain and hard to maintain.
To me, the effort to kick the Russian off Ukrainian soil is worth every penny being spent, is highly symbolic as well as materially appropriate and, in the end, will help to maintain a free world unhampered by emerging authoritarians like Putin and Xi. Zelenski and the people around him are no Putin and the people around him.
Lincoln and Roosevelt both censored the press when the country was at war. Anti-government criticism that is likely coming from Ukrainian news sources infiltrated by Putin's propagandists is a legitimate target for control when your enemy is trying to over-run your country with its army and is raining down missiles on civilian targets
Look, Ukraine isn't perfect. It suffers from baked in institutional corruption dating back to its time as a member state of the Soviet Union. But it's pretty clear to me that the Ukrainians want no part of being ruled by Russia's style of authoritarianism and prefer a modern, socially liberal, capitalist state. Since the Maiden Revolution, freedom and liberty loving Ukrainians have worked to establish a socially liberal democracy in Ukraine. How hard was that to do in 1776? How hard is that to maintain here in the US.
There are pro-Russian Ukrainians working to undermine the Zelenski government just like their are anti-establishment extremists in the US working to destabilize the US government. This is true in most liberal democracies. It's never black and white like those who are against supporting Ukraine want to make it. Freedom is hard to gain and hard to maintain.
To me, the effort to kick the Russian off Ukrainian soil is worth every penny being spent, is highly symbolic as well as materially appropriate and, in the end, will help to maintain a free world unhampered by emerging authoritarians like Putin and Xi. Zelenski and the people around him are no Putin and the people around him.
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