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There is no point in calling for violence on social media against anyone, the Russian people including.

It may feel liberating for some to post such calls, but the actual killing is happening right now on the real ground, not virtual.

This is what needs to stop!

Channeling the anger and helplessness against the aggressor into the hate is not making people stronger and is not going to stop the aggression.

If anything, expressing your own thoughts and feelings about the current events and how they affect your daily lives could be not only a way to cope with this crisis, but also a way to document this uneasy and fearful time for the future self and others.

Posts, tweets etc. describing our individual and collective human experience of this is what may eventualy help find a way out of this nightmare, not the hate.

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I genuinely wonder if such kumbaya rhetoric stays the same once the person actually experiences the bombing of his own house and see people around him heart or dead. Or just forced to leave his own home abandoning everything behind.

Watching closely Russian politics for the last 20 years, the one thing they do perfectly is use this kindness and tolerance of the West against them. Once in house the authorities repress everything that is democratic, decent, free and different, they demand the outside world to stick to their values to the letter, ousting every little deviation from it as the West hypocrisy. And then using it to further convince his own people that the West is rotten.

You can't win the fight if the other side always plays dirty. I believe this is more than just Ukraine-Russia conflict, this is the Cold war that actually never ended.

No kumbaya singing here. Quite the opposite.

People in Russian govt., army, and media who are responsible for planning, authorizing, executing, and justifying this barbaric aggression against Ukraine should be tried as war criminals.

Just as the people of the Russian Federation should bear responsibility for condoning and rationalizing these actions.

The rift between people of the Russian Federation (Belarus too) and Ukraine is already ripped in millions of hearts which will likely remain unbridgeable for the forseeable future.

However, for any justice to take place, the accounts should be collected of what happened and how people's lives were affected.

That's why a hateful post by itself may be enough for someone to channel the anger and grief, but its effect would be a lot more meaningful, if the personal experiences are recounted instead.

Also, many people's daily lives, I'm sure, are touched by these events. Many may feel anxiety and horror even though they may not be directly related to Ukraine or Russia. Hate by itself will not express this. Yet documented, it is another statement to count towards those who perpertrated these crimes.

The world has been through this before, yet here we go again!

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