Framing. What you don’t see is that next to this message another person wrote the same words but replaced Russia with another country.
It was said that the invasion was to ensure the safety of Russians living in the Ukraine. That sounded familiar to me. I believe 83 years ago another invasion happened in order to ensure the safety of Germans living in Poland. Let’s hope that this nightmare will be much shorter than that one was.
I found these two blogposts by Barry Eisler illuminating.
What America Should Do
and
Where’s the Outrage
Framing affects the optics …