A Letter from Scotland to Americans
These images are so hard to look at. But they are so important to see.
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Moldovan Television, the Chisinau-based network is basically on the *front lines* of a bloody war and quite possibly battling for its own survival.
I doubt many of you know much about Moldova, nor have even heard of it. I’d like to tell you more about Moldova, because it’s important and timely.
I’ve always been a news junkie, addicted to reading newspapers, absorbed by current events. But nothing quite prepared me for the stark contrast in the way international crises are reported than the previous few weeks of media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The differences are jaw-dropping.
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“We will restore every house, every street, every city. We tell Russia: learn the words ‘reparations’ and ‘contributions.’ You will repay us everything. Everything you did against our state, against every Ukrainian. In full. And we will not forget those who died.”
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy (President of Ukraine)

We’re less than 24-hours into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and already the level of mass ignorance on this subject has reached epidemic proportions.
So typical, especially of many Americans who apparently have never cracked open a history book, or come within thousands of miles of Eastern Europe, or ever heard of the longstanding acrimony between these two nations/peoples, or ever talked to a real Russian or a Ukrainian, here’s an important lesson:
*Getting your talking points from Facebook memes and useful idiot commentators on FOX amounts to a willful disregard of facts.*
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