Note: Chinese version is put after the end of English version. Scroll down directly to the place where Chinese appears if you want to read Chinese version.
註: 中文版本放在英文版本結尾下方，如果你想閱讀中文版本，請直接往下滑到出現中文的地方。There have been some hostile and untrue arguments toward Ukraine and the West repeatedly appearing in news regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. While some of them are easily identifiable as fake arguments which are spread by Pro-Russia individuals, I see people even in the West don’t have strong arguments to oppose such arguments which are both untrue and negative on social media. The reasons are the following: Some of such arguments are something that the media don’t know answers to explain; some of them are unimportant so news media don’t specifically publish news to explain them; These arguments appear in the comment sections of many news, making you feel insecure and doubting whether it’s true or not but don’t know how to refute them, either. So I decided to write an article and provide my argument, and I only write for some arguments which are hard to refute for normal people. In addition, I hope this article and my other previous articles may help you to refute untrue and negative arguments for other political or global events that are flooded on social media in the future.
Hostile And Untrue Comments – Are they online armies from Russia and China, or people are indeed affected?
According to The British Foreign Office, Russia is using a troll factory to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine on social media and target politicians across several countries by recruiting supporters and asking supporters to spam their targets with comments in favor of Putin and his war[1]https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/britain-says-russian-troll-factory-is-spreading-disinformation-on-social-media-1.5883567 [2]https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aopl/202205010038.aspx . Once you know such individuals are spreading fake information, such hostile comments should become easily identifiable for you even if you don’t know the background of a specific event, as long as you have a brain. Nevertheless, when a comment is negative, it doesn’t mean that it indeed isn’t true. Even if you know these comments are wrong, other people may get affected by these hostile and untrue comments when no one provides a good explanation. People in the West seem to be less affected by such untrue comments, even if they don’t know the answers to many hostile questions(You just know that don’t believe them but don’t know how to counter such arguments, I guess); however, in Taiwan, I see such hostile and untrue comments are flooded in the comment section of news from much mainstream Taiwan news media; there are many hostile and untrue comments toward Ukraine and the U.S (anti-America theory) but very few normal comments which we see normal people would speak such as “God bless Ukraine”, and such hostile comments always come with hostile comments toward Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party and President Tsai Ing-Wen, which and who support Taiwan as a country be independent of China while Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party oppose this stance and often have some Pro-China arguments [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang [5]https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/臺灣親中共團體 .
The question comes: Do these hostile and untrue comments come from online armies recruited by China, or Taiwanese are indeed affected? According to Major News, China also has used its troll factory to spread many conspiracy theories or fake information by establishing Facebook pages and posting such arguments on Facebook groups with robot accounts[6]http://www.majornews.com.tw/d-21/藉俄烏戰洗腦全球-帶你挖掘中國「巨魔工廠」的三種手法-9221.html . Are such comments on much relevant Russia-Ukraine war news on social media sites online armies’ propaganda or many Taiwanese’s real thought? The question remains unsolved. Yet, considering these Pro-Russia comments have so many Likes and few to sometimes-zero rebuttals under the reply section, which is unlike the situation in the West, and that many Pro-Russia comments have been also integrated with hostile arguments toward Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party[7]https://www.facebook.com/myudn/videos/550686373375963/ , I think many comments come from Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party, and their arguments have been deeply affected by Russia and China while integrating their views of objections toward Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party.
So the current situation in Taiwan is possibly the product of three factors: China’s propaganda, Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party’s propaganda of the anti-U.S theory, and supporters of Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party(CNP) given that they have been brainwashed by the party they support. In fact, Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party’s propaganda is very similar to China’s propaganda; I speculate part of the party’s propaganda may come from China[8]https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/3855498 , and the rest of it comes from the historical event that the U.S decided to build a formal diplomatic relationship with China and announced the one-China policy in the 1970s [9]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_relations [10]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China .
Anyway, since there is doubt about where such comments come from, the Taiwan government should start research and publish the research result, just as the U.K did. So far Taiwan’s research organizations and news media only found that there are some Facebook pages spreading fake information and some accounts spreading such comments in Facebook groups and Line groups; Taiwan’s organizations haven’t published any information regarding whether or not there are some accounts intentionally spreading such hostile and fake information on Internet as the U.K did, and the many opinions from Taiwan’s experts have no evidence to prove their point that Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party is using social media spreading fake information. A relevant report is crucial for the Taiwanese. Why?
First, an international event that involves a humanitarian crisis and moral value shouldn’t be an exploited object by political struggles between parties. Second, when the Taiwanese know these are propaganda, they will think these may be untrue. I think it’s important to make people know the fact about many key world issues such as the Russia-Ukraine war. Third, many hostile arguments in Taiwan toward the Russia-Ukraine war matter have been conveyed in a very low-class manner[11]https://www.facebook.com/52news/posts/pfbid02dmpxhanWbdisxhzKqVw4spEVk6EYsosGqNavp3dsW9rnvvLUbzNtpXdgrKWBC21Ul. Such arguments are harmful to the quality of Taiwanese (I guess it’s because the quality of the people who are brainwashed is already low; nevertheless, such arguments may have a bad impact on people who read them if these people believe such arguments). Therefore, I urge the Taiwan government to start a relevant investigation.
Note: You may wonder, isn’t Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party(DPP) spreading fake information, as this party did hire online armies to do propaganda in the past[12]https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1450網軍? ? Well, I didn’t study the background of these propaganda events. It may be true that DPP did hire online armies to do propaganda; however, it doesn’t mean that only DPP will do that, and Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party(KMT) wouldn’t do the same thing^^. Considering the past events where legislators from KMT threw objects at legislators from DPP multiple times years after the event that a DPP member threw shoes at the podium in the legislative yuan, I guess it’s highly likely that KMT imitates DPP’s use of social media in a much worse way.
Note: Although I am Taiwanese, I voice my opinion only based on facts, including the above argument. I do not present any political party.
Misconceptions And The Explanations For Them
Ok. After discussing where these hostile comments come from, let’s move forward to the main topic: What are some of the misconceptions, and what are the reasonable explanations to rebut such arguments? In this article, I will only focus on discussing the misconceptions that the media doesn’t give explanations for (The reasons why the media don’t provide explanations are explained in the earlier paragraph).
1. “Ukraine President Zelensky should negotiate with Putin before the war. I certainly oppose the war Russia initiated and think it’s wrong for Russia to invade Ukraine, but if Zelensky cares about his country, he should negotiate before the war started to prevent losses of human life. “
Ans:
I once see a female have the above comment on the Internet. It appears that this is not propaganda – she really thinks Ukraine should negotiate instead of resorting to war. It’s true that we should seek a diplomatic way before resorting to a force method – that’s the core principle in the U.N, too. In Taiwan, one of the traditional Chinese cultural concepts “harmony is the most precious” is deeply rooted in many Taiwanese minds, so it’s undoubtful that the Taiwanese would have such a thought, and as I said, it isn’t wrong to seek peace instead of force, either. Such a thought out of goodwill has been exploited by Pro-Russia individuals including people in the West, Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party, and its supporters in a very hostile and rude way such as “Isn’t Ukraine in the current situation the actor President Zelensky’s fault?[13]https://today.line.me/tw/v2/comment/article/kE7VD31 ”, however. Many people who have goodwills may think this hostile argument seems reasonable, while wouldn’t agree with it because they feel something wrong but couldn’t figure out where is wrong. This is why propaganda may have a deep impact on people and their quality even if they don’t completely believe it. Anyway, the following is the answer to this argument.
Before criticizing Zelensky wait for a war to happen instead of negotiating, you should Google or check Youtube videos to see if there is any negotiation before the war starts – the answer is Yes, there is, and there isn’t only one negotiation; there are many negotiations held with many Western countries’ help since 2014 Russia’s invasion of one of Ukraine’s region[14]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26248275 [15]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War [16]https://macmillan.yale.edu/news/after-flurry-high-level-diplomacy-and-another-long-normandy-format-meeting-threat-war-ukraine . The most significant peacemaking measure is the sign of the Minsk agreement, in which Russia, Pro-Russia individuals in Ukraine, and Ukraine agree on a ceasefire, humanitarian aid actions, and local elections for Ukraine regions controlled by Pro-Russia individuals(Separatists) [17]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War [18]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements . The failure of the two Minsk agreements is mostly not Ukraine’s fault; if you want to understand more about what the Minsk agreement is and why such a peacemaking agreement failed, I recommend you read this article of Euromaidanpress. If this article is not enough for you, I recommend you read my counter-argument to the statement of Russia’s deputy foreign minister, which discusses a lot about the Minsk agreement.
In addition, even if there is no negotiation, is this Ukraine’s fault? Should Ukraine kneel down and give Russia whatever it wants? No. I understand and love the traditional Chinese concept “harmony is the most precious”, but such belief shouldn’t be used in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. First, seeking harmony and being kind should have a limit. The invasion of a country’s region when the country doesn’t do anything wrong is an action that you should not tolerate. For example, when a robber goes into your home, are you going to hand over your money without calling the police, if he isn’t putting a gun at your head? If you aren’t in a life-threatening situation, of course no, isn’t it? Second, the Taiwanese have believed this traditional concept to the level of blindness. Most Taiwanese don’t actually “negotiate” – you give everything the opponent wants in the first place to resolve conflicts. If you don’t communicate, how will conflict be resolved? By giving whatever the opponent wants and making yourself feel wronged? It’s certain that in a negotiation there will be a compromise, but unless you are the only one who should be blamed in the conflict, compromise has to be made by both parties, not a one-side sacrifice, and giving up everything to the opponent should be the last measure for you to seek an end to a conflict if nothing works. I think the above two points are also a lesson that many Taiwanese have to learn in life.
The same principle should be also applied to diplomatic measures: It’s good that a diplomatic measure is used in the context that the involved parties all have good intentions toward peace and are willing to recognize their fault and make improvements in a specific conflict; nevertheless, when a major party doesn’t want to recognize its fault but only blame the opponent and others, asking the opponent party to abide by an agreement on its own which shouldn’t exist in the first place is useless and only mistreating the opponent party, just as the Russia-Ukraine case. In my opinion, the Minsk agreement shouldn’t exist in the first place, since Russia shouldn’t invade Ukraine’s regions and make Ukraine sign an agreement that allows self-governance in Russia-controlled regions because it wants a ceasefire. Russia made no compromise in the Minsk agreement – the ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages are no compromises; it’s simply mandatory acts after an armed conflict. Just as Ukraine said, Minsk was signed under a gun barrel. However, many western countries such as France had tried to ensure the full implementation of the Minsk agreement when Russia had repeatedly violated this agreement in which Russia already made no compromise, even Ukraine also agreed on the full implementation, except for the self-governance part which Ukraine only agree to release parts of the power.
(By the way, if individuals from Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party(KMT) and its supporters indeed spread this propaganda or have such thoughts out of goodwill, don’t you these people have double standards as you criticize President Zelensky doesn’t negotiate while you support some members of your party resorting to force in the legislative yuan because you think a negotiation doesn’t work^^? Don’t get me wrong, I think a person can support Ukraine to negotiate with Russia while doesn’t support members of KMT who seek force in meetings of Taiwan’s legislative yuan; such a member also uses the same belief to treat members of KMT, so he/she doesn’t have double standards. I am referring to only individuals who both criticize President Zelensky for not negotiating and support members of KMT’s actions of seeking force in Taiwan’s legislative meetings instead of negotiating^^.)
2. “Why Russians don’t oppose Putin? It’s the Russians’ fault. It’s the average Russians who need to band together and kick Putin out, then everyone can have peace.[19]https://www.facebook.com/20446254070/posts/10159372770604071/?app=fbl ”
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This is the most popular comment in the West. I also discuss this question and answer it in my another article: No. We shouldn’t ban Russia Art. Let me briefly answer this misconception here.
Again, before criticizing Russians don’t oppose Putin, you should Google or check Youtube to see if there is any protest in Russia. The answer is Yes, they did but failed. There is news reporting anti-war protesters getting arrested by police in Russia[20]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aKi6elShz4 . There was even a grandmother who joined the protest and get arrested – this news is very popular as it’s about a grandmother; I am sure many of you probably watched this before, but now you are talking about “Why Russians don’t oppose Putin?”, and “It’s Russians’ fault because they don’t oppose Putin”? If you are people who once watched this news but still criticized Russians after then, I guess you have no sympathy but are only good at blaming others^^. If you want to know more about how difficult is it to remove Putin from power, you may read my articles “No. We shouldn’t ban Russia Art” and the Regime Change section of “Is Iraq legal?”.
3. Why are many Russians brainwashed?
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Though this question is not a misconception – it’s simply a question, I am going to explain it here.
According to Levada Center, only 51 percent of Russians aged 18 to 24 and 57 percent of those 25 to 39 years old expressed approval for Putin, while 60 percent of 40- to 54-year-olds and 73 percent of those 55 years and over expressed approval for the president’s decisions. Though 51 percent and 57 percent of young generations still are huge proportions of people, we can see the young generation of Russians is less likely to support Putin, compared to the old generation of Russia[21]https://www.russiamatters.org/blog/young-russians-express-growing-disapproval-putin [22]https://www.levada.ru/2021/02/04/prezidentskie-rejtingi-i-polozhenie-del-v-strane/ . Many young Russians have expressed that they and their parents have differences in opinions toward the war[23]https://www.dw.com/en/young-russians-to-their-parents-how-is-it-possible-to-think-differently-about-this-war/a-61056762 . Many people don’t know why there is such a divide in generations; many people including the media don’t know why many Russians are brainwashed, either. In one CNN news interview which interviewed a Russian actress whose father as a famous actor publicly supports Putin at Putin’s speech event (while the actress is against the war), the news host asked her the question: Why do your father and many of Russians believe in what Putin is saying? The actress couldn’t give a good answer; she only gave an answer regarding why she doesn’t believe Putin despite she is a Russian. Nevertheless, I do have an answer.
The answer is that most people don’t have the ability of critical thinking and independent thinking. People believe what they are taught. Unlike the old generations, the young generation has had access to the Internet since they were young. In the current times, social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube, all play a vital role in providing authentic news and information to the young generation of Russians; while for old generations, they don’t use social media that often. Access to authentic news and information since these Russians were very young makes the young generation get used to the truth and what is right based on moral values, while old Russians get used to the Russian government’s propaganda. In a way to explain, people believe what they are taught – young Russians believe what they are taught by mainstream western media; old Russians believe what they are taught by the Russian government; it’s simply because what many mainstream western media deliver is indeed truths, young generations get more sophisticated in terms of understanding truths. Access to the Internet is a driver behind the sophistication of the young generation, not the main factor; the main factor is a lack of critical thinking and independent thinking.
Let me provide an example, think about what’s your last argument with your parents regarding a certain issue. It doesn’t have to be an international event or political event in your country; it can be an issue that happened in your life – think about it. I am sure many of you have experiences of disagreeing with your parents on some issues, although you are an adult now, and you know you are right about those issues. The situation you faced is similar to what young Russians are facing right now, so it’s not all about the access to authentic information (Authentic information is certainly important, given many Russians are brainwashed by unauthentic information), your parents also have access to many truths on the Internet, but they just don’t agree with you. So do old Russians, young Russians can provide information to old Russians, but they just don’t believe these authentic information or don’t want to read them. If you don’t have such experiences, it’s probably that your parents are very open-minded, smart, or good at critical thinking; maybe it’s because your thought is old school, so you don’t have too many disagreements with your parents even if they have the wrong concepts (because you agree with them) ; or maybe it’s because you don’t need to oppose to your parents with issues they don’t agree with. For instance, many parents of old generations oppose homosexuality, but if you are not a homosexual, you won’t need to argue with your parents even if they are opposed to it.
Is this easy to change? Not likely, at least in the short period. In my opinion, the improvement of critical thinking relies on many factors: Individual willingness, individual intelligence level, and the practice of critical thinking in real life. For example, if a person’s intelligence level is low, it’s less likely that he can comprehend a certain issue and have the ability to think it critically – It will be much easier for giving such people truths and what’s right based on moral values since they are young, rather than telling them to think critically. In Russia’s case, it’s more difficult to change, given that old Russians have been taught such wrong ideology since they were young. So will this situation change in the future? Well, I don’t know. But my article here is to give you some critical thinking, so at least when you grow older, you may become a person who is open-minded and have the ability to use your brain to think about what is right or wrong, and to explain why instead of being stubborn when your kids have a disagreement in the future.
4. Anti-U.S theory
“The U.S committed many war crimes in many wars. Why does no one condemn the U.S while condemning Russia?”
“The U.S also started many invasions..Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria”
“Media always do media framing. The U.S is the one who gets interests in the Russia-Ukraine war. Ukraine is simply a pawn. Taiwan will be a pawn, too” [24]https://www.facebook.com/tvbsfb/posts/pfbid02Tpm6XT8HFgZjhSy4Y6pHjd9j2wmf1WDSx1zkPF1VXgjttDq1d5Z1mgaGijyLkjesl [25]https://tw.news.yahoo.com/台灣看天下-張亞中的親共反美之路-052200935.html [26]https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/3855498
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Although this is the most common and easiest-identified propaganda from Russia globally and many people know this is propaganda, few people know why this is wrong. News media only said these are propaganda, too. I believe there are some people who truly have the same question while doesn’t have anti-U.S thoughts and do support Ukraine repelling Russia, they just don’t know what does it go wrong and why.
So what’s wrong with the anti-U.S theory? Why are these comments wrong?
I answer the above comments in detail in the 25:10 section of my article: “My counter-argument to “Why is Ukraine the West’s fault?” from Professor John Mearsheimer”, and in the beginning section of my other article: “Is Iraq legal?”. I will just briefly explain it here.
(1) The U.S’s previous invasions
First, it’s true that U.S invasions had killed many civilians. However, they are individual behaviors and don’t represent the whole U.S army. In fact, many war crimes that come from Western countries in these wars have been submitted to the international court and the soldiers who committed war crimes have been held accountable for their behaviors in recent wars[27]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_Afghanistan . In the contrast, in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, war crimes should not be considered as individual behaviors due to the massive amounts of crimes.
Second, specifically for concerns that the U.S also initiated many invasions, a simple logic: Even if the U.S’s wars are not justified, it doesn’t mean other countries including Russia have the right to start a war and kill people; just because you saw someone killed a person, it doesn’t mean you can kill a person, too^^.
The above is a brief summary. For details and further questions, you may have, read my articles which I linked in the above paragraph.
(2) Is the U.S the one who gets interests in the Russia-Ukraine war? Is Ukraine simply a pawn? Is Taiwan will also be a pawn?
As I said, many people know the anti-U.S theory is nothing but a propaganda but don’t know why there are fake (By the way, in Chinese’s version of propagenda, it integrates the pawn theory of Taiwan into Ukraine’s version.) You need to look at why Russia say this. Russia said this because of NATO’s expansion may make the U.S be able to put missiles against Russia in Ukraine’s soil. Ukraine was encouraged by the U.S and NATO to join NATO, but in the end, Ukraine didn’t get a NATO membership, while Russia attacked Ukraine because of that, and the U.S doesn’t join the war by sending its army to help Ukraine fight, either (Pawn theory). Talking to this point, many of Western people may recall that there had been arguments regarding your country was cheating Ukraine, making Ukraine believe it can join NATO while in fact, it can’t. This question was also discussed in Professor John Mearsheimer’s lecture. Professor Mearsheimer has a different doubt but based on the same national-interest perspective (in a respectful and reasonable way, unlike those propagenda). He thinks Ukraine isn’t a vital interest to the U.S; rather, the U.S should focus on Asia, which is a vital interest to the U.S now [28]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&t=3198s ”. The following is my answer.
This answer is also written in my another article of “My counter-argument to Professor Mearsheimer” : As many of you know, NATO is always open to any country in Europe which has the intention to join NATO; that’s NATO’s principle. In my opinion, since NATO’s Article 5 guarantee gives to every NATO member – whoever joins NATO, it should have Article 5 guarantee – whether or not a country can join NATO should be and is currently dependent on NATO’s openness principle; that’s irrelevant to American’s foreign policy, and therefore America’s interests shouldn’t be taken into consideration. Therefore, the U.S is not the one who intends to gain interest in the Russia-Ukraine conflict; it simply reviews Ukraine’s application to NATO based on whether Ukraine meets NATO’s criteria or not, just as many other NATO members did. This should be irrelevant to the U.S’s interest.
In addition, regarding the Pawn theory, here is the counter-argument to this theory.
First, it’s certainly regretful that Ukraine can’t join NATO, but Ukraine, as an independent country, has its own responsibility to defend itself. It’s certainly good if other countries join the war and help, but Ukraine has its responsibility to defend itself on its own when no one helps.
Second, specifically discussing whether Ukraine is a “pawn”, I want to ask you two questions.
One, does any NATO member including the U.S gain any interest by giving hope in NATO’s membership to Ukraine or rejecting Ukraine’s application to NATO? No. Two, an individual can also be a pawn if this individual belongs to an army and is abandoned during a war. Does Ukraine belongs to the U.S or is Ukraine a NATO member? Also “No”, then why do you say Ukraine is abandoned by the U.S or NATO during this war? Ukraine is never part of the U.S or a NATO member, isn’t it? Some of you may say an individual can also be abandoned without being a member of a group. This point is already discussed; as I said, the U.S and NATO member gain no interest before or during the war. Read it with your brain.
Third, let’s talk about why the U.S doesn’t send troops. The reason why the U.S and many countries including your country don’t send their troops to Ukraine is that you are afraid that Russia will attack your country and isn’t because Ukraine becomes useless for you, isn’t it?
To conclude, since no one gained interests before the war and during the war, and Ukraine doesn’t belong to the U.S or NATO, why would Ukraine become a pawn because country leaders are afraid that Russia may attack their(your) countries? The thing that a country doesn’t join another country’s war because of fear makes the country that is in the war a pawn is valid only when the country which is left alone was exploited and thrown away. As I said, did any NATO member exploit Ukraine before the war? No. Ukraine has the responsibility to defend itself on its own ( Just to be clear, Ukraine never complains of being a pawn; it’s Russia and China lying about Ukraine being a pawn^^).
Specifically answering Putin’s argument that “America’s goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia”, I wonder why the sanctions on Russia becomes an interest to the U.S. Russia is a big country with many people; if there is no sanction, it will be every country’s interest since everyone can earn Russia’s money again, and Europe can get Russia’s oil again. Such a simple logic has been reversed by Putin; this is totally calling black is white. I think Putin must hold responsible if average Russians’ intelligence level drops.
Regarding whether or not Taiwan will be a pawn in the China-Taiwan conflict, former news editor Mr.Hung provides a good explanation by stating an anti-U.S politician wrongly defines Taiwan’s role as a watchdog to protect the United States. I want to further provide my view:
First, as I said in Ukraine’s version of Pawn theory, Taiwan, just like any country in the world, has responsibility to defend itself without any country’s help. We Taiwanese shouldn’t expect other people’s help instead of working on our own, other people also have their own domestic matters; that will be just similar to an immature son/daughter always expecting parent’s money to pay wedding fees instead of making money on your own to pay your own wedding or just not have a wedding, because your parents never force you must hold a wedding rather than just getting the registration of marriage done^^.
Second, in the current time, many Taiwanese have appreciated that the U.S helps Taiwan in military training, but even these Taiwanese have doubt that the pawn theory could turn into reality because of the historical event that the U.S decided to cut its official relationship with Taiwan and build a relationship with China in 1979. Nevertheless, the thing that the U.S has helped Taiwan in Taiwan’s self-defense ability is the truth. If you only look at the past and ignore the goodness you receive in the present, you are a person who doesn’t “actually” appreciate it but only use your mouth talking “I appreciate someone”, and you will miss a lot of good moments when you are ought to “living in the present”. We as Taiwanese should APPRECIATE the U.S’s help, NOT AGAINST the U.S by saying Taiwan is a pawn. Simply judging from this point, it is obvious that we should view the U.S as an unofficial ally that wants to help. It’s true that such appreciation doesn’t help in answering whether the U.S will help Taiwan in the future, but as I said in the first point, we have the responsibility to defend ourselves on our own without any country’s help.
By the way, it seems that we always appreciate the U.S in many events. Will such appreciation make me like a dog to the U.S? No. If a person helps me, I appreciate her/him – why not? That’s the basic principle of treating people; why would thanking a person makes me look like a dog? If you think of yourself in this way, you are belittling yourself; if you think of other Taiwanese in this way, you are belittling them; if China thinks of we Taiwanese in this way, they are like you who think of other Taiwanese in this way, they are belittling us. Not thanking a person won’t make you look proud and confident; it will only make you disrespectful in “polite” people’s eyes. If there is anyone feeling you look good when you do that, they are simply like you – they are belittling people who express their gratitude. Let’s be a proud nation that respects ourselves by respecting others, shall we?
(By the way, see the comments below this post, to see how many Taiwanese are affected by the anti-U.S theory? I guess many people aren’t online army nor supporters of Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party. You are affected^^. )
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在有關俄烏戰爭的新聞中，不斷出現一些針對烏克蘭和西方的敵對和不實論據。 雖然其中一些很容易被人識別為親俄人士散佈的虛假論點，但我看到即使是西方人也沒有強而有力的論據來反對這種在社交媒體上既不實又負面的論點。原因如以下: 其中一些論點是媒體不知道答案來解釋的；其中一些則並不重要，因此新聞媒體不會專門發布新聞來解釋。這些論點出現在很多新聞的評論區，讓你感到不安，懷疑是真是假，但又不知道如何反駁。所以我決定寫一篇文章並提供我的論點，我只寫一些一般人難以反駁的論點。 此外，我希望這篇文章和我之前的其他文章可以幫助你反駁未來你在社交媒體上看到有關於其他政治或全球事件的不真實且負面的論點。
有敵意的且不真實的評論 – 它們來自俄羅斯和中國的在線軍隊，還是人們確實受到了影響？
據英國外交部稱，俄羅斯正在利用一個巨魔工廠在社交媒體上散佈有關烏克蘭戰爭的虛假信息，並以多個國家的政客作為目標，藉由通過招募支持者並要求支持者向這些目標發送支持普京及其戰爭的評論。 [29]https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/britain-says-russian-troll-factory-is-spreading-disinformation-on-social-media-1.5883567 [30]https://www.cna .com.tw/news/aopl/202205010038.aspx 。一旦你知道這些人在傳播虛假信息，只要你有腦袋，即使你不知道特定事件的背景，這些惡意評論也應該很容易被你識別。然而，當評論是否定的時，並不意味著它確實不是真的。即使你知道這些評論是錯誤的，當沒有人提供良好的解釋時，其他人也可能會受到這些敵對和不真實的評論的影響。西方人似乎較少受到這種不實言論的影響，即使他們不知道許多敵對問題的答案（我猜你只知道不要相信他們，但不知道如何反駁這些論點）；然而，在台灣，我看到台灣許多主流新聞媒體的新聞的評論區中充斥著這樣的敵對和不實言論；對烏克蘭和美國的敵對和不實言論很多（反美論），但我們看到正常人會說的“上帝保佑烏克蘭”這樣的正常言論很少，而這種敵對言論總是連帶伴隨著惡意針對民進黨和總統蔡英文的言論 – 民進黨和總統蔡英文為支持台灣作為一個國家獨立於中國的政黨和總統，而台灣的中國國民黨則反對這一立場，並且經常有一些親中國的論點 [31]https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party [32]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang [33]https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/台灣親中共 。
問題來了: 這些有敵意且不實的言論是來自中國招募的網軍，還是台灣人確實受到了影響？據Major News報導，中國利用其巨魔工廠，通過建立Facebook頁面並在擁有機器人賬戶的Facebook群組上發布此類論點來傳播許多陰謀論或虛假信息[34]http://www.majornews.com.tw/d -21/借俄烏戰腦-全球工廠使用中國“巨魔”的洗方式-9221.html 。有關於社交媒體網站上針對很多相關的俄烏戰爭新聞的評論是在線軍隊的宣傳還是許多台灣人的真實想法？這個問題仍然沒有解答。然而，考慮到這些親俄言論在回复欄目下的點讚多，反駁的次數很少，有時甚至為零 – 這與西方的情況不同，而且許多親俄言論還夾雜著對民進黨的敵對言論[35]https://www.facebook.com/myudn/videos/550686373375963/ ，我想很多評論來自國民黨，他們的論點深受俄羅斯和中國的影響，同時又整合了他們那些反對民進黨的觀點。
所以台灣現在的情況可能是三個因素的產物: 中國的宣傳，台灣國民黨的反美理論宣傳，以及被他們所支持的政黨洗腦的國民黨的支持者。事實上，台灣中國國民黨的宣傳和中國的宣傳很相似；我推測國民黨的宣傳部分可能來自中國[36]https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breaknews/3855498 ，其餘部分來自1970年代美國決定與中國建立正式外交關係並宣布一個中國政策的歷史事件 [37]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_relations [38]https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One_China 。
不管怎樣，既然存在著這樣的評論是從哪裡來的的疑問，台灣政府應該像英國一樣，開始研究調查並公佈調查結果。迄今為止，台灣的研究機構和新聞媒體僅發現在Facebook群組和Line群組中存在一些散佈虛假信息的Facebook頁面和一些散佈此類信息的賬戶；台灣研究機構沒有向英國一樣公佈是否有一些賬號在互聯網上故意散佈這種敵對和虛假的留言，台灣專家的許多觀點也沒有證據證明他們的觀點，即台灣的中國國民黨是使用社交媒體傳播虛假信息。一份相關報告對台灣人來說至關重要。為什麼呢？
首先，涉及人道主義危機和道德價值的國際事件不應成為政黨之間政治鬥爭的剝削對象。第二，當台灣人知道這些是宣傳時，他們會認為這些可能是不真實的。我認為讓人們了解許多關鍵的世界問題是很重要的，例如俄烏戰爭。第三，台灣對俄烏戰爭問題的許多敵對論點都以非常低級的方式傳達[39]https://www.facebook.com/52news/posts/pfbid02dmpxhanWbdisxhzKqVw4spEVk6EYsosGqNavp3dsW9rnvvLUbzNtpXdgrKWBC21Ul。這樣的論點對台灣人的素質是有害的（我猜是因為被洗腦的人素質已經很低了，但是如果這些人相信這樣的論點，這樣的論點可能會對閱讀它們的人產生不好的影響）。因此，我敦促台灣政府展開相關調查。
註：你可能會問，不是民進黨在散佈虛假信息嗎，因為民進黨過去確實僱用了網絡軍隊來做宣傳[40]https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1450網軍? ？嗯，我沒有研究這些宣傳事件的背景。民進黨聘請了網路軍隊進行宣傳的事可能是真的；不過，這並不代表只有民進黨會這麼做，以及台灣的國民黨不會這麼做^^。考慮到民進黨議員在立法院的講台上丟鞋事件多年後，國民黨立委多次向民進黨立委丟東西的事件，我想國民黨極有可能以更糟糕的方式模仿民進黨在社交媒體上的使用行為。
註：雖然我是台灣人，但我只是根據事實表達意見，包括上述論點。我不代表任何政黨。
關於俄烏戰爭的誤解及其解釋
討論完這些敵對評論的來源之後，讓我們進入主題: 有哪些誤解，以及反駁這些論點的合理解釋是什麼？ 在本文中，我將只著重在討論媒體不解釋的誤解（媒體不解釋的原因在前一段中解釋過）。
1.“烏克蘭總統澤連斯基應該要在戰前與普京談判。我當然反對俄羅斯發動的戰爭，認為俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭是錯誤的，但如果澤連斯基關心他的國家，他應該在戰爭開始前進行談判，以防止人命損失。 ”
答：
我曾經在網路上看到一位女性有上述評論。看起來這並不是政治宣傳 – 她真的認為烏克蘭應該談判而不是訴諸戰爭。的確，在訴諸武力之前，我們應該先尋求外交手段，這也是聯合國的核心原則。在台灣，中華傳統文化觀念之一的 “以和為貴” 在很多台灣人的心中根深蒂固，所以台灣人有這樣的想法是毫無疑問的。而且正如我所說，尋求和平而非用武力解決並沒有錯。然而，這種善意的想法被包括西方人在內的親俄人士、台灣國民黨及其支持者以非常敵對和粗魯無禮的方式加以利用，例如 “烏克蘭落到現在這種狀況不是演員總統澤連斯基的錯嗎？ [41]https://today.line.me/tw/v2/comment/article/kE7VD31 ”。很多出於善意的人可能會認為這種敵對的論點似乎有道理，但不會同意，因為他們覺得有些不對勁，但又不知道哪裡不對勁。這就是為什麼即使人們不完全相信，政治宣傳也可能會對人們及人們的素質產生深遠的影響。不管怎麼樣，以下是這個論點的答案。
在批評澤連斯基坐等戰爭發生而不是談判之前，你應該先Google或尋找Youtube相關影片，看看戰爭開始前是否有任何談判 – 答案是有，而且不止一次談判；自 2014 年俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭其中一個地區以來，烏克蘭在許多西方國家的幫助下舉行了多次談判[42]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26248275 [43]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War [44]https://macmillan.yale.edu/news/after-flurry-high-level-diplomacy-and-another-long-normandy-format -會議威脅戰爭烏克蘭 。其中最重要的和平措施是簽署明斯克協議，其中俄羅斯、烏克蘭的親俄人士和烏克蘭就親俄人士 (分裂分子) 控制的烏克蘭地區的停火、人道主義援助行動和地方選舉達成一致[45]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War[46]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements。兩項明斯克協議的失敗大多不是烏克蘭的錯；如果你想更多地了解明斯克協議是什麼以及為什麼這樣的締造和平協議失敗了，我建議你閱讀來自Euromaidanpress的這篇文章。如果這篇文章對你來說還不夠，我建議你閱讀我對俄羅斯副外長聲明的反駁論點，其中討論了很多關於明斯克協議的內容。
此外，即使沒有談判，這也是烏克蘭的錯嗎？烏克蘭應該下跪，給俄羅斯任何它想要的東西嗎？不，我理解也喜愛“以和為貴”這個中華傳統觀念，但這種信念不應該運用在俄烏衝突中。第一，保持和諧和對人友善應該要有一個限度。在一個國家沒有做錯任何事情的情況下入侵一個國家的某個地區是你不應該容忍的行為。舉例來說，當一個強盜進入你家時，如果他沒有用槍指著你的頭，你難道會在不報警的情況下給他錢？如果你沒有處於危及生命的境地，當然不會，不是嗎？第二，台灣人已經相信這種傳統觀念相信到了盲目的程度。大多數台灣人實際上並沒有“談判” – 你在“一開始” 就給出了對手想要的一切來解決衝突。如果你不溝通，那怎麼解決衝突呢？透過給予對方想要的任何東西，讓自己感到委屈？談判肯定會有妥協，但除非你是唯一“應該”在衝突中受到指責的人，否則妥協必須由雙方做出，而不是單方面的犧牲。把一切都送給對方應該要是你在這一切都沒用後尋求結束衝突的最後手段。我想以上兩點也是很多台灣人在人生中必須學習的一課。
同樣的原則也可以應用在外交手段裡: 在有關各方都有良好的和平意圖並願意承認自己的錯誤並在特定衝突中有所改善的情況下使用外交手段固然是很好的；然而，當一方不想承認自己的錯誤而只責備對方和他人時，要求另一方遵守原本不應該存在的協議是沒有用的，只會虐待另一方，就像俄羅斯 – 烏克蘭的情況一樣。在我看來，明斯克協議本來就不應該存在，因為俄羅斯不應該入侵烏克蘭的地區，因而導致烏克蘭因為想要停火，而簽署允許在俄羅斯控制的地區進行自治的協議。俄羅斯在明斯克協議中沒有任何妥協 – 停火、人道主義援助和釋放人質不是妥協；這只是武裝衝突後基本要做的事。正如烏克蘭所說，明斯克是在槍管下簽署的。然而，在俄羅斯多次違反其中俄羅斯已經沒有任何妥協的明斯克協議的情況下，法國等許多西方國家卻試圖確保全面執行明斯克協議，甚至烏克蘭也同意全面執行 – 但自治部分除外，其中烏克蘭只同意釋放部分權力。
（順便說一句，如果台灣國民黨及其支持者確實散佈這種宣傳或出於善意有這種想法，你們這些人是不是有雙重標準，因為你們批評澤連斯基總統不談判而你們呢？反倒因為你認為談判不行，支持一些黨員在立法院訴諸武力^^？別誤會，我認為一個人可以支持烏克蘭與俄羅斯談判，但不支持國民黨在立法院會議上謀求武力，這樣的人也用同樣的信念對待國民黨成員，所以他/她沒有雙重標準。我單純針對那些同時批評澤倫斯基不談判，又支持國民黨成員在台灣立法院會議上尋求武力而不談判的行動^^。）
2.“為什麼俄羅斯人不反對普京？這是俄羅斯人的錯。是俄羅斯人需要團結起來把普京踢出去，然後每個人都可以擁有和平。[47]https://www.facebook.com/20446254070 /posts/10159372770604071/?app=fbl ”
答：
這是西方最受歡迎的評論。我也在我的另一篇文章”不，我們不應該禁止俄羅斯藝術“ 中討論了這個問題並給出了答案:。讓我在這裡簡要回答這個誤解。
跟上一點一樣，在批評俄羅斯人不反對普京之前，你應該要Google或搜尋 Youtube，看看俄羅斯是否有任何抗議活動。答案是肯定的，他們做了，但失敗了。有新聞報導反戰抗議者在俄羅斯被警方逮捕[48]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aKi6elShz4 。甚至還有一位祖母參加了抗議並被捕 – 這個新聞很受歡迎，因為是關於一位祖母也去抗議；我相信你們中的許多人可能以前看過這個，但現在你在談論“為什麼俄羅斯人不反對普京？”、“這是俄羅斯人的錯，因為他們不反對普京”？如果你是曾經看過這些新聞，但之後還在批評俄羅斯人的人，我猜你沒有同情心，只會指責別人^^。如果你想進一步了解讓普京下台有多難，你可以閱讀我的文章“不。我們不應該禁止俄羅斯藝術” 和 “伊拉克合法嗎？”的政變部分。
3. 為什麼很多俄羅斯人被洗腦？
Ans:
雖然這個問題不是一個誤解 – 它只是一個問題，我還是在這裡解釋。
根據列瓦達中心的數據，只有 51% 的18至24歲的俄羅斯人 和 57% 的25至39歲的俄羅斯人表示支持普京，但有 60% 的 40 至 54 歲的俄羅斯人和 73%的 55 歲及以上的人表示支持表示贊同總統的決定。儘管 51% 和 57% 的人仍然佔很大比例，但我們可以看到，與俄羅斯的老一代相比，年輕一代的俄羅斯人不太可能支持普丁 [49]https://www.russiamatters.org/blog/young- russians-express-growth-disapproval-putin [50]https://www.levada.ru/2021/02/04/prezidentskie-rejtingi-i-polozhenie-del-v-strane/ 。許多俄羅斯年輕人表示，他們和他們的父母對戰爭的看法存在分歧[51]https://www.dw.com/en/young-russians-to-their-parents-how-is-it-possible-以不同的方式思考這場戰爭/a-61056762 。很多人不知道為什麼會有這樣的世代差異；包括新聞媒體在內的很多人也不知道為什麼很多俄羅斯人被洗腦。在 CNN 的一次新聞採訪中，一位俄羅斯女演員的父親 (同時也是演員) 以作為著名演員的身份在普京的演講活動中公開支持普京 (而這位女演員反對戰爭)，新聞主播問她一個問題: 為什麼你父親和許多俄羅斯人相信普京在說什麼？女演員無法給出一個好的答案；她只回答了為什麼儘管她是俄羅斯人但她不相信普京。
然而，我確實有一個答案。
答案是大多數人不具備批判性思考和獨立思考的能力。人們相信他們所被教導的。與老一代不同，年輕一代從小就可以上網。在當今時代，Facebook、Instagram、Youtube 等社交媒體都在為俄羅斯年輕一代提供真實的新聞和信息方面發揮至關重要的作用；而對於老一代人來說，他們並不經常使用社交媒體。從這些俄羅斯人很小的時候就可以接觸到真實的新聞和信息，這使年輕一代習慣了真理和基於道德價值觀的正確，而老俄羅斯人則習慣了俄羅斯政府的宣傳。在某種程度上，人們相信他們所教的東西——年輕的俄羅斯人相信西方主流媒體所教的東西；老俄羅斯人相信俄羅斯政府教給他們的東西；只是因為許多西方主流媒體所傳遞的確實是事實，因此年輕一代變得在理解這些事實方面更加熟練。上網是年輕一代熟練的驅動因素，而不是主要因素；主要因素是缺乏批判性思維和獨立思考。
讓我舉個例子，想想你和父母就某個問題最後一次爭吵是什麼。它不必是你所在國家/地區的國際事件或政治事件；這可能是你生活中發生的問題 – 想想吧。我相信你們中的許多人都有在某些問題上與父母意見相左的經歷，儘管你現在已經成年了，而且你知道在這些問題上你是對的。你面臨的情況與俄羅斯年輕人現在面臨的情況相似，因此不僅僅是獲取真實信息而已（真實信息當然還是很重要，因為許多俄羅斯人被不真實信息洗腦），你的父母也可以在網路上獲得許多真相，但他們就是不同意你的看法。老俄羅斯人也一樣，年輕的俄羅斯人可以向老俄羅斯人提供信息，但他們就是不相信這些真實的信息，或者不想閱讀它們。如果你沒有這樣的經歷，那很可能是你的父母非常開明，聰明，或者善於批判性思維；可能是因為你的想法很老套，所以即使父母觀念錯誤，你和他們也沒有太多的分歧（因為你認同他們）；或者也許是因為你不需要在你父母不同意的問題上反對他們。比如很多老一輩的父母都反對同性戀，但如果你不是同性戀，即使你父母反對，你也不需要和他們爭論。
這容易改變嗎？至少在短期內不太可能。在我看來，批判性思維的提高取決於很多因素: 個人的意願、個人的智力水平以及在現實生活中實踐批判性思維的練習。例如，如果一個人的智力水平較低，那麼他就不太可能有能力理解某個問題，並同時具有批判性思考的能力 – 對於這樣的人，從年輕時就根據道德價值來給他們真理和正確的東西是較容易的，而不是告訴他們批判性地思考。就俄羅斯而言，改變更難，因為老俄羅斯人從小就被灌輸了如此錯誤的意識形態。那麼這種情況未來會改變嗎？嗯，我不知道。但是我這裡的文章是要給你一些批判性的思考，所以至少等你有一天變老了，你可能會成為一個思想開放的人，有能力用你的大腦去思考什麼是對是錯，並解釋為什麼，而不是在將來與你的孩子有分歧時固執己見。
4. 反美論
“美國在許多戰爭中犯下許多戰爭罪行。為什麼沒有人譴責美國而譴責俄羅斯？”
“美國也進行了多次入侵……包含伊拉克、阿富汗、敘利亞”
“媒體總是在帶風向。 美國是在俄烏戰爭中得到利益的國家。 烏克蘭只是一顆棋子。 台灣也會成為棋子” [52]https://www.facebook.com/tvbsfb/posts/pfbid02Tpm6XT8HFgZjhSy4Y6pHjd9j2wmf1WDSx1zkPF1VXgjttDq1d5Z1mgaGijyLkjesl [53]https://tw.news.yahoo.com/台灣看天下-張亞中的 親共反美之路-052200935.html [54]https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breaknews/3855498
答：
儘管這是來自俄羅斯的全球最常見和最容易被辨別的政治宣傳，且很多人都知道這是政治宣傳，但很少有人知道為什麼這是錯誤的。新聞媒體只說這些也是宣傳。我相信有些人確實有同樣的疑問，但這些人沒有反美思想且支持烏克蘭擊退俄羅斯，他們只是不知道哪裡出了問題和為什麼這是錯的。
那麼反美理論有什麼問題呢？ 為什麼這些評論是錯誤的？
我在我的文章的 25:10 部分詳細回答了上述評論: “我對 John Mearshimer 教授對“為什麼烏克蘭是西方的錯？”的反駁論點，以及我另一篇文章的開頭部分: “伊拉克合法嗎？”。 我會只在這裡簡單地解釋一下。
(1) 美國過往的入侵
第一，美國過往的入侵確實殺死了許多平民。但是，它們是個人行為，並不代表整個美軍。事實上，在這些戰爭中來自西方國家的許多戰爭罪行已經提交給國際法庭，犯下戰爭罪行的士兵已被追究他們在戰爭中的行為[55]https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_crimes_in_Afghanistan 。相比之下，在俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭的戰爭中，大量平民和被強奸的婦女死亡，因為犯罪數量巨大，這些俄羅斯軍人犯下的戰爭罪不應該被當作個人行為看待。
第二，特別針對美國也發起了許多入侵的關心，一個簡單的邏輯: 即使美國的戰爭沒有正當理由，也不意味著包括俄羅斯在內的其他國家有權發動戰爭並殺人; 你看到有人殺了人，不代表你也可以殺人^^。
以上是簡要概述，有關你可能有的詳細信息和其他問題，閱讀我在上一段中鏈接的文章。
(2) 美國是在俄烏戰爭中得到利益的國家嗎？難道烏克蘭只是一顆棋子？難道台灣也會成為棋子？
正如我所說，很多人都知道反美理論不過是一種政治宣傳，但不知道為什麼這些是假的（順便說一下，在中國的宣傳中，它把台灣的棄子理論融入烏克蘭事件做了烏克蘭的版本。）你需要看看俄羅斯為什麼這麼說。俄羅斯表示，這是因為北約的擴張可能使美國能夠在烏克蘭的土地上投放針對俄羅斯的導彈。美國和北約鼓勵烏克蘭加入北約，但最終烏克蘭沒有成為北約成員，而俄羅斯因此襲擊了烏克蘭，美國卻沒有出兵參戰幫助烏克蘭（棄子理論）。說到這一點，很多西方人可能還記得，曾經有人爭論說自己的國家在欺騙烏克蘭，讓烏克蘭相信它可以加入北約，而實際上它不能。 John Mearsheimer教授的講座中也討論了這個問題。 Mearsheimer 教授有同樣在基於國家利益觀點下不同的懷疑（以尊重和合理的方式，與那些政治宣傳不同），他認為烏克蘭不是美國的策略利益；相反，美國應該把重點放在亞洲，這是美國現在的策略利益[56]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&t=3198s”。 以下是我的答案。
我這個答案也寫在了我反駁米爾斯海默教授觀點的另一篇文章中: 如同你們很多人都知道的，北約對歐洲任何有意加入北約的國家都是開放的；這是北約的原則。在我看來，既然北約的第5條保障條款提供給了每一個北約成員 – 誰加入北約，就應該有第5條保障 – 一個國家能否加入北約應該而且目前取決於北約的開放原則；這與美國的外交政策無關，因此不應該考慮在內。因此，美國不是有意在俄烏衝突中獲得利益的人；它只是根據烏克蘭是否符合北約的標準來審查烏克蘭對北約的申請，就像許多其他北約成員國所做的那樣。這應該要與美國的利益無關。
此外，關於棄子理論，這裡是對此理論的反駁。
第一，烏克蘭不能加入北約固然令人遺憾，但烏克蘭作為一個獨立國家，有自己的責任自衛。如果其他國家加入戰爭並提供幫助當然很好，但是當沒有人提供幫助時，烏克蘭有自己的責任做自衛。
第二，專門討論烏克蘭是不是“棋子”，我想問你兩個問題。
一、包括美國在內的任何北約成員國是否通過給予烏克蘭加入北約的希望或拒絕烏克蘭加入北約獲得利益？不。第二，如果個人屬於軍隊並在戰爭中被遺棄，則該個人也可以成為棋子。烏克蘭屬於美國還是烏克蘭是北約成員？也是“不”，那你為什麼說烏克蘭在這場戰爭中被美國或北約拋棄了？烏克蘭從來不是美國的一部分，也不是北約成員，不是嗎？你們中的一些人可能會說，一個人也可以在不是一個團體的成員的情況下被拋棄。這一點已經討論過了；正如我所說，美國和北約成員國在戰爭之前或期間都沒有興趣。用你的腦袋閱讀這篇文章。
第三，讓我們來談美國為什麼不派兵。美國和包括你所屬國家在內的許多國家不向烏克蘭派兵的原因是因為你害怕俄羅斯攻擊你的國家，而不是因為烏克蘭對你來說變得無用，不是嗎？
總而言之，既然在戰前和戰時沒有人獲得利益，而且烏克蘭不屬於美國或北約，為什麼在因為國家領導人們害怕俄羅斯可能攻擊他們的國家的情況下，烏克蘭會成為棋子呢？一個國家因為害怕而沒有加入另一個國家的戰爭的事情，使得戰爭中的國家成為一個棋子，只有當被孤立的國家被剝削和拋棄時，它才是有效的。正如我所說，戰前是否有任何北約成員國利用烏克蘭？沒有。烏克蘭有責任自己進行防禦（特別說清楚，烏克蘭從不抱怨自己是棋子；是俄羅斯和中國在說烏克蘭是棋子^^）。
具體回答普丁 “美國的目的是為了以對抗為藉口對俄羅斯實施更多製裁” 的論點，我納悶為什麼對俄羅斯的製裁會成為美國的利益？俄羅斯是一個人口眾多的大國；如果不制裁，這將會是每個國家的利益，因為每個人都可以再次賺俄羅斯的錢，歐洲也可以再度獲得俄羅斯的石油。如此簡單的邏輯被普京顛倒了；這完全是在顛倒是非。如果俄羅斯人的平均智力水平下降，我認為普京必須承擔責任。
關於台灣是否會成為中台衝突的棋子，前新聞主編洪先生給出了很好的解釋，他指出一個反美政治人物錯誤地將台灣視為保護美國的看門狗。我想進一步提供我的觀點:
第一，正如我在烏克蘭版棄子理論中所說，台灣與世界上任何國家一樣，有責任在沒有任何國家幫助的情況下保衛自己。我們台灣人不應該自己不做，卻指望別人的幫助，別人也有自己的家事；這就像一個未成熟的兒子/女兒總是期望拿父母的錢來付婚禮費用，而不是自己賺錢來支付自己的婚禮費用或直接不舉行婚禮 – 因為你的父母並沒有強迫你一定要舉行婚禮而不是直接辦完結婚登記^^。
第二，目前很多台灣人對美國幫助台灣進行軍事訓練表示感謝，但即使是這些台灣人也因為1979年美國決定與台灣斷絕官方關係，改與中國建交的歷史事件而懷疑棄子理論有可能成為現實。不過，美國在台灣自衛能力上幫助台灣的事情是事實。如果你只看過去，而忽略現在得到的美好，你是一個不“真正”感謝你得到的，而只用嘴巴說“我感謝某人”的人，你會在你應該 “活在當下” 的時刻錯過很多美好的事物。作為台灣人，我們應該“感謝”美國的幫助，而不是說台灣是棋子來”反對“美國。單從這一點判斷，顯然我們應該將美國視為一個願意提供幫助的非官方盟友。誠然，這種欣賞無助於回答美國未來是否會幫助台灣，但正如我在第一點所說，我們有責任在沒有任何國家幫助的情況下自衛。
順便說一句，我們似乎總是在許多事件中感謝美國。這樣的感謝會讓我對美國而言像條狗嗎？不。如果有人幫助我，我會感激她/他 – 為什麼不呢？這是做人處事的基本原則；為什麼感謝一個人會讓我看起來像一條狗？如果你這樣想自己，你就是在貶低自己；如果你這樣想其他台灣人，你就是在貶低他們；如果中國這樣看待我們台灣人，他們其實就像這樣看待其他台灣人的你，他們就是在貶低我們。不感謝一個人不會讓你顯得驕傲和自信；它只會讓你在“禮貌”的人眼中變得無禮。如果有人覺得你這樣做時看起來不錯，那他們就和你一樣 – 他們是在貶低表達感激之情的人。讓我們成為一個透過尊重他人來尊重自己，自豪的國家，好嗎？
（順帶一提，看看這個帖子下面的評論，看看有多少台灣人受到反美理論的影響？我猜很多人不是網絡軍隊，也不是台灣國民黨的支持者。你被影響了^^。）
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