WHAT PUTIN IS DOING IS JUST AS DEPRAVED AS WHAT THE USA DID IN VIETNAM

Philadelphia PA

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WHAT PUTIN IS DOING IS JUST AS DEPRAVED AS WHAT THE USA DID IN VIETNAM Veterans: I give you permission to hate me, but I do not give you permission to deny the truth. Three million we murdered... for what? Our greater glory? In both cases the victims were fighting for their homeland. In free elections the Vietnamese voted for a leftist government. And the USA, for decades, supported dictatorships in Latin America, especially under a pig named Ronald Reagan. We have lots of problems subordinating our egos to the level of reality because, to us, patriotism has more value, credibility, currency than mere truth. The human mind is still tethered to loyalties, like from the cave man days (daze?). We think that we think, but we root only for our particular cause. With many Americans, the support for the Vietnam War was tethered solely towards rooting for one's team, "Right or Wrong" as the saying went. This "rooting" had no sustaining value garnered from any derivative of ethics. The obsession with supporting one's (sports) team is a stellar example of how a group of men playing ball "speaks for all of us". (Theoretically, that is an impossibility.) And these same "patriots" continue to say how happy they are to be "free". (What really IS "freedom"?) And then, we have the nerve to say that we think about things in a profound way. No one seems to care. That is why I tie the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Vietnam War. In both instances, the majority within the attacking country was (is) supportive of the invasion. In the USA the "silent majority" was staunchly behind Richard Nixon until the bitter end. (The fact that we killed three million matters not, as "they" were evil and deserved to be murdered.) In the Russian Federation both the Russian Orthodox Church and almost everyone over 50 is fully supportive of Putin. However, thankfully, most of planet Earth is delivering rational sanctions, making it much harder for Russia to win further approval and ongoing implementation of this war. But... again... there are few people in the USA who do NOT think that the Vietnam Veteran should be thanked for his service... for making us safe from Vietnam... for preserving "freedom". Certainly, the Vietnam Vet is not singularly evil or even intentionally misguided. But (and this is a BIG BUT): I find NO REASON to "THANK" the Vietnam Veteran for his service. NONE. Why? Because that "service" helped to make us even closer to marrying evil and also to uniting with a well-defined hatred of ethics. Much of the reason I post these threads is to see how uncaring most people are toward listening to plain fact. MOST here do not wish to acknowledge the sense I happen to make, and care more about the well-being of their pets rather than force themselves to see this uncomfortable comparison which I make. Most SAY that they care about "human rights" but the fact is that they care only when it is in their interest to care. I am simply illuminating this poignant reality. - David Lyga