This could be a really long post, but I just can’t be arsed. So here’s my thinking. It’s not very elegantly done, but I’m sure you get the point:

1. I’m very sorry for the Ukrainian people.
2. Putin is indeed a megalomaniac loon.
3. I know very little about the issues on either side, apart from it being historically extremely complex.
4. There are plenty of other conflicts going on in the world that are not being rammed down our throats with hysterical language by every media source.
5. Most of the other conflicts involve brown or black people, but that’s OK because they’re brown or black.
6. We’ve just had the shock horror reactions to the virus. Before that it was Brexit/Trump and there were other things before that.
7. I freely admit to having written many angry posts about Brexit, largely because I was personally involved. That was wrong of me. I don’t know how Brexit’s going to work out in the long run. Nor does anyone else.
8. There are plenty of other issues going on in the world that are not being taken as seriously as the war in Ukraine or the virus. Poverty, overconsumption, overpopulation, energy prices, climate change, biodiversity loss, mental health, equality… If we’d put the same effort into fixing those as we have into “staying safe” and standing with Ukraine, we might actually be getting somewhere.
9. And some of the things people are doing to “support” Ukraine make me boggle. I mean, booking Airbnb places so the owner gets your money directly? Exactly how many of those do you think are owned by the average Ukrainian???
10. And I ask myself why doesn’t everyone see the Facebook I stand with Ukraine frame as the same thing as clapping for the NHS and kneeling to show support for Black people and all the rest of the virtue signalling BOLLOCKS it clearly is.
11. And then I go and get on with the rest of my day, exactly as if I had put the Facebook frame on my profile.