I'm not familiar with Putin's speech. Do you seriously think that an insurgency is a good thing? The US military industrial complex is notorious for profiting off proxy conflicts. And we have never truly supported the revolutions that we push. Soros referenced the Hungarian revolution against the Russian occupation of 1954. In that revolution, we promised support over propaganda airwaves, then sat back and did nothing as countless Hungarians disappeared into the House of Terror with no material support. This time, Zelensky is arming untrained civilians, which will only inevitably result in an escalation.

The propaganda that's coming out is really what made me start to question the Ukrainian leadership though. Ukrainian deserters being presented as Russian spies, a Ukrainian anti air missile striking a building in Kiev being presented as a Russian missile, the "Russian" tank running over a car- when it was a Ukrainian tank accident, the surrender at Snake island being presented as a martyrdom, the list is growing by the hour it seems. What I have not seen yet is an American style invasion plan where infrastructure is thoroughly bombed with the intent to pour billions of dollars into rebuilding "democracy"- that ends up really just being a way to pad people's pockets.

I don't like Putin, and I don't like most of the Western leadership pushing for conflict escalation. I don't believe the leaders of either side actually represent their people. I'm trying to objectively analyze this from the perspective of what ends up happening to the regular people of Ukraine. Am I just an unwitting recipient of Russian propaganda? If so- instead of flippantly dismissing my perspective- care to elucidate what I have wrong?