I have a friend, a VietNam vet Ranger captain who commanded an armored company who is rooting for the Ukranians because Putin BAD , I have tried to tell him the leaders are corrupt and the nazis run the military..he just says "we shall see". I have told him "when you see I was right all along, I don't expect an apology but I do expect acknowledgement.. His world view is set in stone and truth doesn't make a dent..
Theres a lot of Gen Xers around my age that grew up in the 70s, lived through the Carter malaise and cast their first votes for Reagan who are 100% Trump, but still think of Russia as the evil empire of the Soviet days. A guy that has worked for me off and on for the last 37 years is one of them. He voted Trump, sees the evil in just about every other way but Russia is a blindspot.
I can't 100% blame him. For many decades, the Soviet Union was our deadly enemy, and this was drummed into the heads of several American generations. To the extent that even after the communist Soviet regime is long gone, many of them can't stop thinking "Russia = Bad!"
I have a friend, a VietNam vet Ranger captain who commanded an armored company who is rooting for the Ukranians because Putin BAD , I have tried to tell him the leaders are corrupt and the nazis run the military..he just says "we shall see". I have told him "when you see I was right all along, I don't expect an apology but I do expect acknowledgement.. His world view is set in stone and truth doesn't make a dent..
Theres a lot of Gen Xers around my age that grew up in the 70s, lived through the Carter malaise and cast their first votes for Reagan who are 100% Trump, but still think of Russia as the evil empire of the Soviet days. A guy that has worked for me off and on for the last 37 years is one of them. He voted Trump, sees the evil in just about every other way but Russia is a blindspot.
I can't 100% blame him. For many decades, the Soviet Union was our deadly enemy, and this was drummed into the heads of several American generations. To the extent that even after the communist Soviet regime is long gone, many of them can't stop thinking "Russia = Bad!"
To mengderen Putin is not the boogie man show your VietNam vet Ranger captain who commanded an armored company this it’s Ukraine president thirty seconds long https://twitter.com/Thekeksociety/status/1679287817606774786