Americans still not caring about Ukraine in the least, nor even about their fattening wallets under Biden, is a sobering discovery. We Europeans must never allow our media corporations and small local media be monopolized by right wing nutjob billionaires. And we must never allow our education system to become so heavily privatized and public education to become politically meddled in to the point of dysfunction. Media literacy and liberal education is the most important medicine to this incredible level of ignorance.
To my embarrassment, Finland is deep down on this road to americanization. Our education system is constantly under attack by right wing politics fueled funding and manpower cuts while private education is rearing its head. Healthcare is way further on this road to doom. But worst of all is the mass media. Primary newspapers are all owned by one single corporation with close ties to the so-called “confederation of finnish industries”, an employers’ agenda organization, and the national coalition, the premiere conservative party in the country with exremely long ties to both corrupting the supposedly-neutral offices of state, as well as flirting with corporatist fascism or at times directly encouraging transition to dictatorship.
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And yet there will be a group of Americans who choose to believe Putin’s denials over a true patriot.
As long as Putin governs half of the US, it will be very difficult to turn things around in the war in Ukraine.
And anyone who thinks that Putin stopping at Ukraine is acceptable, fuck you anyway.
He’s just warmongering for the base.
[I’m hopeful Biden can help get peace negotiations moving.](https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/03/ukraine-live-us-vows-to-hold-russia-accountable-for-crimes-committed-by-its-forces)
Americans still not caring about Ukraine in the least, nor even about their fattening wallets under Biden, is a sobering discovery. We Europeans must never allow our media corporations and small local media be monopolized by right wing nutjob billionaires. And we must never allow our education system to become so heavily privatized and public education to become politically meddled in to the point of dysfunction. Media literacy and liberal education is the most important medicine to this incredible level of ignorance.
To my embarrassment, Finland is deep down on this road to americanization. Our education system is constantly under attack by right wing politics fueled funding and manpower cuts while private education is rearing its head. Healthcare is way further on this road to doom. But worst of all is the mass media. Primary newspapers are all owned by one single corporation with close ties to the so-called “confederation of finnish industries”, an employers’ agenda organization, and the national coalition, the premiere conservative party in the country with exremely long ties to both corrupting the supposedly-neutral offices of state, as well as flirting with corporatist fascism or at times directly encouraging transition to dictatorship.