Centered From Reality

We Have to Talk About the OTHER Refugee Crises & Z for Vendetta?


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In this episode, Alex discusses how while it is heartwarming to see Europe rally and welcome in Ukrainian refugees, there are other conflicts in which refugees are not seeing the same welcome. He talks about the refugee crisis back in the fall on the Belarusian-Polish border where Middle Eastern migrants were mistreated. Then he goes over other conflicts such as Yemen, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Myanmar. Alex agrees that Ukraine is a serious issue right now, but the world cannot turn its back on some of these crises that have occurred for a decade or more. Later, Alex goes over the letter Z that has been showing up over the last few weeks on Russian tanks during the Ukraine invasion. Over the week, it has become a propaganda symbol for supporting the invasion. Even the Russian gymnast, Ivan Kuliak, was criticized after wearing the ‘Z’ symbol next to a Ukrainian athlete on a podium last week. Alex discusses how the ‘Z’ symbol may have started as a symbol to recognize Russian tanks during the confusion of the invasion, but now has been used by the Kremlin as a propaganda tool for war. He finds it ironic that the Russian government is using a Latin alphabet symbol while complaining about how Ukraine is being taken by the west.
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