Quote Originally Posted by WillBrink View Post
This a VERY old playbook: you can't get people all worked up to support a cause if you don't paint X as bad and Y as good, period. Most people simply can't do nuance, nor balance out/understand regional and or historical context, geo political realities, and so forth, especially when it comes to war.

So we get the leader of Ukraine as freedom fighter, Ukraine the budding freedom and Liberty democracy, and Putin as monster, The End.

Quoted for truth.