I would’ve agreed with you on that prior to Putins February invasion. The damage he has purposefully wrought on the civilian population is unacceptable behavior in a civilized world. Nothing excuses it. Ukraine wanting to exercise it’s sovereignty and choose to align with Europe is only a threat to Russia if you include the threat to …
I would’ve agreed with you on that prior to Putins February invasion. The damage he has purposefully wrought on the civilian population is unacceptable behavior in a civilized world. Nothing excuses it. Ukraine wanting to exercise it’s sovereignty and choose to align with Europe is only a threat to Russia if you include the threat to Putins ambitions of territorial conquest and power. The die is cast and we must support Ukraine if only to teach aggressors like Putin and Xi that the costs are too high.
How do you know Putin has "ambitions of territorial conquest and power"? Perhaps because the media told you so. You are basing opinions on false information -- which makes your conclusion false, too.
Are you saying that former KGB Colonel Putin did not say that the biggest tragedy of the 20th century was the fall of the Soviet union and the loss of the vassal states? He talks constantly of the glory of the Russian empire. He wants Ukraine for its immense agricultural output and the power of adding its 15% world market share for wheat and 20% of sunflower oil to Russias 10%. That gives him the power and profits of energy and food manipulation. Putin knows the NATO democracies are not going to attack nuclear armed Russia and seize its territory. They can barely get together to defend themselves! They were hooked on his oil and gas. It’s naiive and laughable to think otherwise.
The bigger tragedy is the wedge that’s been driven between Russia and the West. Driven by China, who covets Russia’s vast natural resources and fears the powerful combination of Russia and Europe if it were to gravitate to the West. Democrats in America use Russia as a convenient foil and bogeyman while ignoring the existential threat posed by China and its totalitarian regime now ruled by its new Emperor, Xi.
I have to smile a bit at your certainty of this while you condemn the same people who pushed the covid narrative for their mendacity. I know from experience there is little point in engaging you in any discussion. Your mind is firmly made up and no evidence to the contrary will sway you. But I can't help myself.
I do not say Putin Good. But I do say
Zelensky Bad. If you know any history, you know the terror he and his Azov battalion wrought on the ethnic Russians in the Donbass and Luhansk. Do you think the US is blameless in the invasions we've launched killing millions or the invasions we've supported - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Panama, Honduras, etc.? No, all those wrongs don't make a right, but I think there is a biblical quote which I'll cite "First take the beam from your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." I am neither religious nor wont to quote the bible, but this seemed appropriate. Also the Czechs were very supportive of the "poor" Ukranians. Now that they've been invaded by the "poor" Ukranian refugees and they have to appease Russia to get some heat this winter, they don't show so much support. This proxy war is not about any altruistic fervor on the part of the US. It's about regime change. That isn't going to happen without nuclear annihilation. Yes, everyone caught in the middle of the war is to be pitied and the deaths mourned, but, as I said, it is not a simple black and white discussion, argument, action, what have you. Presenting it as such is disingenuous, not to mention dangerous. Enough people who actually control such things may become convinced they can get away with a "limited nuclear war."
I would’ve agreed with you on that prior to Putins February invasion. The damage he has purposefully wrought on the civilian population is unacceptable behavior in a civilized world. Nothing excuses it. Ukraine wanting to exercise it’s sovereignty and choose to align with Europe is only a threat to Russia if you include the threat to Putins ambitions of territorial conquest and power. The die is cast and we must support Ukraine if only to teach aggressors like Putin and Xi that the costs are too high.
How do you know Putin has "ambitions of territorial conquest and power"? Perhaps because the media told you so. You are basing opinions on false information -- which makes your conclusion false, too.
So to directly answer your question “How do I know?” I know because Vladimir Putin told me. Along with the rest of the world.
Are you saying that former KGB Colonel Putin did not say that the biggest tragedy of the 20th century was the fall of the Soviet union and the loss of the vassal states? He talks constantly of the glory of the Russian empire. He wants Ukraine for its immense agricultural output and the power of adding its 15% world market share for wheat and 20% of sunflower oil to Russias 10%. That gives him the power and profits of energy and food manipulation. Putin knows the NATO democracies are not going to attack nuclear armed Russia and seize its territory. They can barely get together to defend themselves! They were hooked on his oil and gas. It’s naiive and laughable to think otherwise.
The bigger tragedy is the wedge that’s been driven between Russia and the West. Driven by China, who covets Russia’s vast natural resources and fears the powerful combination of Russia and Europe if it were to gravitate to the West. Democrats in America use Russia as a convenient foil and bogeyman while ignoring the existential threat posed by China and its totalitarian regime now ruled by its new Emperor, Xi.
I have to smile a bit at your certainty of this while you condemn the same people who pushed the covid narrative for their mendacity. I know from experience there is little point in engaging you in any discussion. Your mind is firmly made up and no evidence to the contrary will sway you. But I can't help myself.
I do not say Putin Good. But I do say
Zelensky Bad. If you know any history, you know the terror he and his Azov battalion wrought on the ethnic Russians in the Donbass and Luhansk. Do you think the US is blameless in the invasions we've launched killing millions or the invasions we've supported - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Panama, Honduras, etc.? No, all those wrongs don't make a right, but I think there is a biblical quote which I'll cite "First take the beam from your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." I am neither religious nor wont to quote the bible, but this seemed appropriate. Also the Czechs were very supportive of the "poor" Ukranians. Now that they've been invaded by the "poor" Ukranian refugees and they have to appease Russia to get some heat this winter, they don't show so much support. This proxy war is not about any altruistic fervor on the part of the US. It's about regime change. That isn't going to happen without nuclear annihilation. Yes, everyone caught in the middle of the war is to be pitied and the deaths mourned, but, as I said, it is not a simple black and white discussion, argument, action, what have you. Presenting it as such is disingenuous, not to mention dangerous. Enough people who actually control such things may become convinced they can get away with a "limited nuclear war."