[jfman]

Tl;dr I’m right. Lots of historically irrelevant narrative from conflicts almost a century old. Anyone who disagrees with the official western narrative is, automatically, parroting Russian narrative.

Support for Ukraine is western states is waning because without adequate commitment and support - which the US have consistently not given - it’s simply a fools errand. And the best justification is it keeps Russia away from Poland. While strategically a noble aim, sacrificing a generation of Ukrainian men seems like the kind of thing you should at least have their consent for.

Ukraine have banned opposition political parties, trade unions, and broadcast media that doesn’t endorse the state narrative. Journalists have found themselves followed, and even conscripted, to intimidate and silence them. And that’s just the it’s in the Guardian. This is absolutely not the norm. Nor a “Russian narrative”. While I appreciate it’s a useful trope to censor legitimate criticism, I’m not having it.

Much like the insult of “the Farage of the Far Left”.