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It's very naive to believe in 'European press'. To get the idea check Ukrainian war coverage. What you'll see first is how single sided it is. This cannot be a coincidence. It can be only a result of total control. I respected 'The Guardians' before, but after eyes opening it appears to be the most brainwashing and manipulative there. Very professionally done, must admit. The problem isn't just that war, it's likely everything and I have no easy way to check for example what really happened in Afghan war. Did US really won like Biden said?
This is such a wild take from my POV, a person in the EU.
Have you considered the possibility that the nearest imperialist power beginning to violently invade Europe again is likely to trigger a common reaction?
This is one of those rare cases in modern history where there is a clear right vs. wrong. What exactly do you expect the news to talk about that is less “single sided?”
I don't think that's true. You can find a lot of that online, with or without commentary. There are even European comentators siding with adjecent views. Though it doesn't leak into European public media too much (although some of its more absurdist concepts sadly do).
It's just that "the other side of the story" is something that vast majority of Europeans are repulsed by because of its intrinsic idiocy, blatant disingenuity and evilness. Some of the European countries that got out from under russian influence remember it from the times of poverty and oppression. That's where the part of the opinion bias on that subject between Europe and the rest of the world comes from. Firsthand expeirience with russia. Supporting Ukraine is both helping Ukraine with their current russian expeirience and possibly a hope of saving all future Europeans from having russian expeirience ever again.
while all of you Putin supporters are such a peace loving people, right?
That's just not true, e.g. Russia also blocked the German propaganda channel dw.com (Deutsche Welle).
There is no right or wrong in politics.
It is wrong to kill or perform any violence or harm against children in any war context.
I'm not saying death and murder is okay. I'm saying coutries do what they have to do by means the have (or they think they have).
You haven't thought this through.
It is the nature of life itself to "kill and perform violence", children and otherwise. "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must".
Death is, as of now, life's only mechanism for iteration in its process of endless prototyping.
Every marvel that humankind has produced has its roots in extreme violence. From the creation of Ancient Greece to the creation of the United States, children had to die horrible deaths so that these things could come to be.
Anyone can make arbitrary claims about what's right and what's wrong. The only way to prove such a claim is through victory, and all victory is violence against the loser.
It’s not a coincidence. Russia invaded a European country and for the first time since WW2 we are in what is essentially war time. You may not know this, but Russia has long been a bully. Every year we have a democratic meeting called Folkemødet here in Denmark. It’s where the political top and our media meets the public for several days. When I went there Russian bombers violated our Airspace during a practice run of nuclear bombing the event. Now they are in an active war with a European country and they are threatening the rest of us with total war basically every other day.
Of course it’s one sided. Russia has chosen to become an enemy of Europe and we will be lucky if we can avoid a direct conflict with them. We are already seeing attacks on our infrastructure both digital and physical around in the EU. We’ve seen assassinations carried out inside our countries, and things aren’t looking to improve any time soon.
What “sides” is it you think there are? If Russia didn’t want to be an enemy of Europe they could withdraw their forces and stop being at war with our neighbours.
