Be the change you wish to see, while being a kind person to your fellow human beings.
It's this loathing for or demonizing or vilifying of Putin as a leader, as a person, which shades occasionally into Russia-phobia, transferring this.
It is not just this particular conference, but my right to speak at any public university or similar event in the entire state has been taken away because I will not forfeit my constitutional rights by signing this pledge.
But Syria seems remote but it isn't.