"Bad guy" is in quotation marks because this is a general statement about all US conflicts and our support for them.

What makes the OP's attitude toward Putin seem sympathetic? I understood his tone as anger at US government policies in the region and evaluating the impacts. Our media provides one narrative and we have to fill in the gaps because we only know what the US media tells us.

As you know, writing and sharing our thoughts helps us to think critically, yet anyone discussing the US' role in Ukraine is name called and labled as Putin blah-blah or spreading "whataboutism." The real problem is the absolutism and silencing of every narrative other than the US.

Ya, Putin's evil, but as an American citizen I supposedly have a say in the US. Screaming and crying Putin's a piece of shit states the obvious, but it doesn't help to make sense of this horrific event. Ideally, we'd demand our governments mediate a resolution immediately because the longer the war, the higher the death toll. It's so frustrating we support throwing more weapons on the mess instead of ending it and believe disinformation rather than the historical facts.

The world is so mesed up.