Rising to the Occasion
I don’t know if he will be able to withstand Putin’s war criminality, but let the record show that Zelensky has been remarkably courageous in the face of it:
And a quick video from Zelensky showing they are all together in Kyiv pic.twitter.com/CifAJpMmsf— Tanja Maier (@tanjamaier17) February 25, 2022
On the other end of the moral courage spectrum, Greenwald continues to embarrass himself in ways even I would have never thought possible in desperately trying to find ways to justify the categorically indefensible:
Still LOLing that Glenn thought “But Ukraine elected a colorful figure!” is a compelling justification/explanation for Putin’s invasion that is unfairly being denied a platform in American media. @GlemGreenwald has the eternally toughest job on this site— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) February 25, 2022
Strange that just war theorists have never properly considered “does a country have a ‘colorful leader'”? as a metric to evaluate invasions of countries that pose no security threat. Just shows you what happens when cancel culture and critical race theory run amok.