The ground game seemed ugly then, and still seems ugly now, so I'll admit I don't know what specific details have changed there.
There's apparently now protests across Europe about it. I guess that's some change since March? And who knows how the non-majority white countries perceive the whole thing, but I kinda doubt it's great.
Domestically, we've actually got some anti-war protestors speaking up; albeit a small, isolated, inept handful. They are only booed for doing so, and are gaslit into being labeled as Russian propaganda. (Sound familiar?)
We've got a very small number of progressive U.S. lawmakers who have shifted from expressing concerns about things like consequences and accountability, to either cold-shouldering or shouting down anyone who brings it up now.
oh, and the reporting on the war...the rhetoric only seems to be getting narrower in view, more sensationalistic, and, like Trad said...more propagandized?
For instance, white phosphorus...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... hosphorus/The Washington Post has not been able to independently verify reports of white phosphorous being used in Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bu ... 022-05-15/White, brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol in what a British military expert said looked like either an attack with phosphorus or incendiary weapons...
Reuters was not able to immediately identify the type of munitions being used on the Azovstal complex or when the video was taken...
It was not immediately clear which forces had fired the munitions, or from where.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-wh ... a-ukraine/London — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a NATO summit on Thursday that Russia had used white phosphorus against civilians in his country.
"This morning, by the way, phosphorus bombs were used. Russian phosphorus bombs. Adults were killed again and children were killed again," Zelenskyy said.
Their use has not been independently confirmed...
There have been documented civilian casualties from the use of white phosphorus in war zones around the world, including Syria, Afghanistan, Gaza and elsewhere, according to Human Rights Watch.
The organization has called on world leaders to close loopholes in the international agreement governing incendiary weapons, or fully ban them, but claims that "a small number of countries have blocked progress."
so the media shifted from "cannot independently confirm" -type articles with a more objective journalistic tone back in March, to now running scare-tactic stories sourced from "Elvis..."
(coincidentally, I think the "small number of counteries" who blocked the progress on banning incendiary weapons were Russia, and the United States.)
but, if I may ask, you sure it's ME who is tangling every discussion to fit a preconceived/force-fed notion?
