{"id":1401396,"date":"2022-03-26T06:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401396"},"modified":"2022-03-26T06:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T10:15:53","slug":"opposition-to-starting-wwiii-doesnt-make-you-pro-putin-it-just-means-youre-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposition-to-starting-wwiii-doesnt-make-you-pro-putin-it-just-means-youre-sane\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition To Starting WWIII Doesn\u2019t Make You Pro-Putin, It Just Means You\u2019re Sane"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopposition-to-starting-wwiii-doesnt-make-you-pro-putin-it-just-means-youre-sane%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Anti-terrorist_operation_in_eastern_Ukraine_War_Ukraine_26501713354.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>While Florida Democrats have been running around the Sunshine State <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLSenateDems\/status\/1500865436614893571\">yelling \u201cgay!\u201d<\/a> the rest of the Democrat Party has been busy yelling \u201cRussia!\u201d in the general direction of anything they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/28\/the-right-loves-putin-and-other-lies-the-media-tell-about-trump-and-russia\/\">don\u2019t like<\/a>. The 2016 election of Donald Trump? Must have been Russia! Hunter Biden\u2019s damning laptop? Russia! <\/p>\n<p>Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine in an attack that\u2019s killed or displaced thousands of civilian innocents, Democrats are even more eager to accuse anyone they dislike of being a Russian plant. So that\u2019s what they\u2019ve resorted to instead of thoughtfully engaging arguments for why going to war with a nuclear power might not be the brightest idea.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an obvious statement that shouldn\u2019t need saying, but the willful distortion of common sense by manipulative media means not enough people are hearing it: Wanting to avoid World War III doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re a Putin-lover, it just means you\u2019re sane.<\/p>\n<p>Sane people with any knowledge of world affairs aren\u2019t saying that Putin is a great guy, that bombing civilians is totally fine, or that we should all go cheer the red army. <\/p>\n<p>What they <em>are<\/em> saying is that communist China currently presents a far greater threat to American dominance on the global scale than Russia does and that tying ourselves up in a prolonged conflict in Europe is a bad idea that gives China free reign.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re saying that war is a somber thing, not to be entered into lightly or upon the emotional urgings of video game clips and old photos that turn out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/28\/ukraine-proves-our-ruling-class-only-cares-about-misinformation-when-its-politically-convenient\/\">fake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re saying that negotiations are a good thing for Ukraine and that trying to drag out the war (and thus a Russian siege on Ukrainian cities) is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/23\/the-u-s-should-have-no-part-in-fomenting-a-war-of-attrition-in-ukraine\/\">likely<\/a> to cause more devastation while making Russia stronger and Ukraine weaker.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re saying that a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/07\/corrupt-media-pollsters-are-using-dishonest-tactics-to-drag-america-into-war\/\">no-fly zone<\/a> is going to mean shooting down Russian planes, having the Russians shoot back, and likely finding ourselves in a full-scale war.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re saying that perhaps we should pause and consider the potentially devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/04\/nato-involvement-in-ukraine-could-spark-nuclear-genocide-heres-how-it-could-happen\/\">consequences<\/a> if we do let ourselves get pulled into a NATO-Russia war.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine\">saying<\/a> that the United States is in a power competition with China and that we shouldn\u2019t rush to send Russia over to China\u2019s side to tip the balance; we should remember that the Soviet Union, unpleasant bedfellow as it was, was an arguably necessary ally to defeating Hitler\u2019s Nazi regime in World War II, and we would be unwise to send such a potential scale-tipping country into the arms of a more threatening enemy.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re saying that, commendable as the courage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is, Americans should think twice before mindlessly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/the-u-s-is-mindlessly-marching-toward-war-with-russia\/\">applauding<\/a> his efforts to drag us into a world war.<\/p>\n<p>These are all thoughtful concerns held by people who want to see American strength and American lives stewarded carefully and wisely. But instead of acknowledging those concerns or responding to their merits, the leftist media and their neoconservative allies prefer to accuse those who question the warmongering narrative of being Putin puppets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia and Far-Right Americans Find Common Ground With Ukraine War,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/23\/technology\/russia-american-far-right-ukraine.html\">headlined<\/a> a New York Times piece on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/27\/opinion\/ukraine-putin-steve-bannon.html\">op-ed<\/a> in the Times was even blunter: \u201cHow the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cThe View\u2019s\u201d Ana Navarro <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/14\/absence-of-ideological-diversity-on-the-view-is-breeding-dangerous-ideas-such-as-a-police-state\/\">suggested<\/a> the U.S. Department of Justice should investigate Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for challenging the media groupthink.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s maliciously dishonest for the corporate media to characterize the right\u2019s hesitation to tear guns-blazing into Ukraine as Putin worship \u2014 or to elevate and lend credence to the few fringe crackpots who actually are praising the Russian dictator, while pretending rational critics of war with Russia don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>A conglomerate of American institutions wants you to believe the only two camps of this fight are those working to drag the United States into another foreign war and those who love the Kremlin. As always, you should be asking yourself why.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Florida Democrats have been running around the Sunshine State yelling \u201cgay!\u201d the rest of the Democrat Party has been busy yelling \u201cRussia!\u201d in the general direction of anything they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}