Most of us live in the privilege of western high trust societies that are WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic) and we assume this is normal and not weird. The idea that you can live in another country and carry around your high minded privilge as if it’s a universal moral code is a symbol of ignorance of the world and mankind in general. The west developed these traditions (and genes) over five thousand years. They are not universal.
Eastern europe and russia in particular are the edge of civilization, and they were centuries behind the rest of europe in their development, They do not share your utopian tolerance. They favor order and are intolerant of its absence – because they have too much experience without it. And they live in low trust societies fully corruption both private and public. In that environment you the ‘grace’ that CRP was show repeatedly, he abused repeatedly. He was no journalist. He was a propagandists agitating for an enemy while an expat alien resident in a country at war. He’s lucky they didn’t just haul him off and have him shot,
I’ve been with Azov and Praavy sektor just after they killed Russians at night. It’s a miracle Azov didn’t dispose of him. I’m aware that they considered it. So was CRP. But he had protection because he was a tacit american. And they gave him that protection over and over again but he kept abusing it.
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