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 There is something about the Russian Ukranian war that I always wanted to say. It's the first war in my lifetime in which both sides are not Muslims. 

So it's the first time in my life, I get to sit on the sidelines and see that both sides are stupid for fighting it. Before, as in the case now with the Gaza Genocide, I felt deeply for one side and the other felt monstrously aggressive and unjust. 

Even in the US's war on Afghanistan, I could understand the reactionary impulse of the US, but I couldn't understand the goal of the war. That goal was to control Afghanistan forever? Fix it forever? What the hell did they think. 

Anyway, back to Russian-Ukrainian war. I can hear both sides, and I can understand why they fight the fight. I can say it's a war of comparable sides. I can say that all involved come from the same background, so it's their problem. I can say a hell lot of things and not have a care. It is war in which the only way it affects me is if it descends into a nuclear war and a nuclear winter. 

Having said that, I like that the US is not able to manage the war properly. 

Ah, there is a lot more to say, but I'll keep it to myself. 


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