Everyone I know that supports Ukraine does so because they feel for the victims of the missiles launched by Russia at schools and homes.

What does that support look like?

I, and many others in this thread, are very out of the loop.

Again, I have a hard time believing this is true. This is a war. People die by the hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions, in wars. Providing uncritical support (as most liberals and "Slava Ukraine" types do) for any side in a war is still encouraging more deaths on all sides of the conflict. It is not a Marvel movie or gritty political sci-fi thriller that so many people seem to think it is.

The longer the war goes on, the more people will die or be displaced, and the more money from working class people will get funneled into the military industrial complex. Nobody outside of the MIC is benefitting from the death and despair of this war.

Most discussions about the conflict outside of leftist spaces is just liberals and conservatives fantasizing about Russia getting weaker (i.e., its people dying) and America/NATO/"freedom" getting stronger. The rare person will acknowledge that Ukrainian men must die for the latter to be true, but the reality of those deaths is often minimized or even celebrated. As well, anyone who dissents is typically accused of being pro-Russia, a bot, or a paid shill.

See this freak

This is a top comment on the top post of /r/UkrainianConflict fantasizing about making a Marvel movie montage of a war crime, and other users lapping it up

Or click on any new thread and see all the highly rated comments like this, lusting for further destruction

It took like two minutes to find these examples, and there's countless more on lemmy, reddit, and the like. It's almost undoubtably worse on Twitter or Facebook too