Putin is a Right Wing Fascist Thug

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310. Some are just very risk averse.

Anything has a risk of WWIII attached to it. Some people are genuinely terrified of that kind of uncertainty and risk. They're full of bravado until something, anything, is on the line, then run for mommy or hide under the bed. Or they actually suffer some wrong, and scream as though there must be no risk to anything that they do. Ridiculous, really, always being on super-ultraviolet terror alert.

Others aren't pro-Putin. They just assume that anything the US or West is involved in must be Ultimate Evil. At some pointed they learned that not everything the West does is all rainbows and unicorns. Just as some true believers become atheists when they leave their church, so some assumed that if not everything is good, everything must be bad. By comparison Putin isn't all evil, so he's relatively good. Esp. when he counteracts the Great Satan. To bring up GLBT issues when discussing Putin and the Crimea is to distract from the overbearing evil that Putin is fighting in the Crimea--we have met the enemy and he is U.S. Heck, even if he sacrificed little babies and ate them with horseradish he'd still have redeeming features. And if the Real Truth website says it's all a lie about their vozhd' or fuehrer, eh--good enough for them.

Others are just trying to get rid of trivial distractions. They know what the good work is and all this stuff about Cymeans and Nukramians over there someplace is just in the way of what Really Matters, helping the particular oppressed folk they're in solidarity with at the moment right here in the US of A. They're focusing on their issues like a 1 um laser beam and really don't like having anybody else's interests get in the way of having us all focus on their interests. Human rights abroad is a weapon for political warfare over domestic issues. Everything fits into a domestic narrative because, well, they're just so danged important.

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