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In reply to the discussion: Boris Nemtsov's Murder May Have Been Provocation: Russian Officials [View all]politicman
(710 posts)Yes be aware of your surroundings, but that does not mean distracting yourself from your task.
We can look at Putin and Russia as a way to recognise and fix our own misdeeds.
Sure Putin is a bad man who does bad stuff, but instead of focusing our attention on stopping him right now, we need to focus all our attention on cleaning up our own act by looking at him and his actions as something that we no longer want to do.
Once we use our energy to clean up our own backyard and we regain our moral standing, then we can use our new found collective moral standing to focus on Russia with all our energy and this way we at least will have the moral standing to bring everyone else on board.
Right now we are viewed as no better than Putin when we feel like our interests are at stake, so naturally opinion is divided on who is on the right side in this Ukraine conflict