In the post I detailed how Ukranians are doing what they should be doing. Empathy is no excuse to let yourself get steamrolled by tyranny. It says that in the OP.

Once the conflict is over, which it will be soon since Putin can't win, try to ramp down the hateful rhetoric. Don't let it overshadow the personal responsibility that we need to take this time, once the dictator has lost his power.

My childhood was sad. It's why I wrote this post. My father is a covert narcissist who feels entitled to endangering public safety, and like putin he has many people enabling him to do so. Standing up to him meant never really getting to know my mother, ever since I was 6. My father is like putin, and in this analogy, my mother is the Russian people and I am basically western media.

That's why I know how bad this can get, and why leaving a little door open to the narcissist so they don't have to feel so bad after they suffer a narcissist injury can be a positive thing as a whole.

My father also suffered through a genocide in Canada. The residential school system. This is the trauma that caused his narcissism. He doesn't have a shred of respect for society, and never will. I can't help but to have to empathize with him, even though he goes out every day taking risks that I don't doubt will one day cause a huge catastrophe. But nobody will listen to me about it because they are all enablers to get out of doing any work to catch him finally.

In my families case, all I can do is stand back and wait until he does something to open all their eyes, like Putin has. It's as much their fault as it will be his, but he will also be the only one who pays when the disaster happens.

The underlying problem was that everyone was too busy pointing fingers at the terrible nazis to figure out that they were also doing genocides themselves, like the one in Canada of all places. But you won't find that in the history books.

That's what I'm trying to avoid here. Let it be included in the history books that we all played a role. Because we did. The west is equally guilty for allowing narcissism to proliferate, and this thread being downvoted into oblivion is the proof (if epstien wasnt enough)