The current Ukraine crisis...

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Metaphysically speaking, intentions (thoughts, feelings -- energetic vibrations) are what contribute to polarity and karma ... not actions per se.

I somewhat disagree, I've always held that intent directs polarity, and while karma follows, it's the resulting actions/consequences that create the karma.

Easy example is if I intended to help you, but my lack of wisdom creates harmful action that contradicts my own intent, then a karmic 'circumstance' will be created. This could be in the form of negative emotional reaction in the case where I recognize the folly, or an event will manifest which will attempt to inform me of my 'mistake'. The latter case is where we get into the sticky territory of 'history repeating itself' through multiple incarnations, and this is where I feel most stuck people are. How many of those who were 'useful idiots' of previous genocidal regimes are repeating the pattern, subscribing to another set of false truths in order to participate in the infringement of others? Just like the tyrants reincarnate to fulfill their perfection, so too the victims/unknowing victimizers to hopefully recognize their reoccurring role that needs to be broken.

To be honest, those who are lost frustrate me the most. A negatively polarized tyrant is the perfected 'animal' they are (like the scorpion and the frog water crossing story), and I expect them to harm, it is their nature and chosen path (don't like it, but it is). The ones who harm from a place of 'love' over wisdom disturb me the most, probably because I feel like I need to save them with wisdom but also realizing it is for the most part not possible, or my role.