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You can make it sound smart if you want but to me it just looks like you're looking for an excuse to not feel bad about the shit russia is doing today.
I wouldn't anyway. See why:
"Feeling bad" is when there's an inconsistency in your worldview needing to be resolved.
Say, you consider yourself a good person and tie being a good person to a certain ideology or movement or culture, and then that ideology or movement or culture gets an army and kills lots of people.
Well, I knew something like this war would happen since I was 12 or 13 (I was thinking of some kind of civil war, though ; if not for the Russian military being too ruined and rotten to produce coup leaders etc, this would probably be the reality).
I also knew that a person needs a moral compass and what people like you get from mass media is not a moral compass.
I've found moral positions, algorithms to associate only with people who won't make me "feel bad" by doing something to others. No false positives so far.
Even from those my friends who'd casually spew baboonish pseudopatriotic bullshit not a single person made me ashamed in February 2022.