Hopefully this will remain a matter of academic and media studies interest only. But it is worth considering why much of cable news has become a nonstop cheerleading for the US to declare war on Russia, often via a 'no fly zone'.
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some of it is just hammer and nail stuff. you see something awful, you need to stop it. and that's not a bad impulse in itself. But you see where it goes.
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When someone says that NFZ is a dangerous idea, way too often the reply is "So, you think it's _fair_ that Russia is..." No, it's not fair, but such is the world that we live in.
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And look who cable networks employ to talk about wars. When do we hear informed voices who have different points of view? I think we get a very narrow slice, often ex-military, who continue to have relatively hawkish views.
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I also think watching this absolute horror show play out, and we’re seeing much more of what’s happening in Ukraine than we saw about Iraq, it feels very morally compromising to watch this and know that there are good reasons why there are limits to what we can do.
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Thirty years of living without any real peer competitors (or awareness of them, anyway) will do this.
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I’d argue that our “knock ‘em down” America’s jingoistic bravado culture plays into this as well. Americans are anxious to show off our “might” without considering how this may bring WMD/nuclear weapons directly to our door. We want to see ourselves the heroes in this story.
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Which I honestly, just amazes me to this day. Such blowhardism!
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