Superhero media has been trendy for a while now, and now there's a real life leader and real life fight for liberty against a supervillain.

It's quite uncanny, but among all this senseless massacre I find there is something immensely beautiful and human in people all over the world united towards the same ideal, even if we're safe in our houses and they're dying under the bombs. "The next war will be livestreamed" has been a common meme intended in the negative sense, but to me there might be something positive about it being shown raw, in real time what kind of absolute hell war is, from your next door Tiktoker.

I also expect worldwide catharsis when this fucking war ends, hopefully a small moment of hope and respite for humanity as a whole. We've been needing that.

It also carries a danger. My grandmother lived through WWII in a very conscious way, and to her death many decades later she would not so much as look at anybody from Germany, that ran extremely deep. And she was the most gentle person you can imagine, but not on that front. By exposing the whole world to what is happening here in real time you pretty much guarantee that Russia as a country will be isolated for years to come, which in and of itself carries risks.

Very true, though the public opinion seems to be overwhelmingly against the Russian government, while being sympathetic to the Russian civilians, recognising they're being lied to, brainwashed, and don't care for this war either.