One objective fact in regard to this atrocity is that Moscow is denying that it ever happened. Claiming "dead" figures seen in the footage are merely Ukrainian actors playing their part in a "fake".
On the long since proven principle that nothing has happened until the Kremlin denies it, that reaction above is proof enough.
And our chief resident apologist for the Kremlin immediately rushing in with the usual apologia and whataboutism helps in that assessment.
I don't think I commented on Russia until it threatened Ukraine. If I did it might have been in a thread about Dostoevsky because I read Crime and Punishment for the first time a few years ago or because I was studying Czech and comparing it to the Russian language. Or maybe it was a comment on the Russian Orthodox Church. But I bet you are wrong and you don't know what I posted about!You comment on Russia and Russians all the time, you just show no balance. None of that has anything to do with me.
I don't think I commented on Russia until it threatened Ukraine. If I did it might have been in a thread about Dostoevsky because I read Crime and Punishment for the first time a few years ago or because I was studying Czech and comparing it to the Russian language. Or maybe it was a comment on the Russian Orthodox Church. But I bet you are wrong and you don't know what I posted about!
Ukrainians served as guards in Nazi concentration camps. Like most Eastern Europeans, Ukrainians were very anti-semitic during the World War II era. In that sense I can understand using a pejorative term like "Nazi" towards them. But in almost every other respect the term "Nazi" does not fit.
Russia is currently trying to expand its territory and influence in an attempt to regain the status and wealth it has as the Soviet Union. It is far more like Nazi Germany under Hitler in its foreign policy, attempting to dominate the world and gain back what it lost in World War I and then some, than is Ukraine.
Let me guess: you are a Russian who believes in Russian expansionism. You yearn for the days of the Soviet Union which you either remember fondly or idealize from what others have said about it. It makes you feel like a Big Man to be part of a Big Russia next to the Midget Baltic States. To which I say it is a pity that your ego, like Putin's, so badly needs boosting that you have to trample on your neighbors.
Crimea obviously doesn't count to you. You do not mention it. Russia expanded right over and through it with its military. NATO didn't do that in Eastern Europe.
Calling sovereign countries like the three Baltic states you mentioned, "midget" is an insult in English, by the way. It shows your bias.
Russia invaded a sovereign country, Ukraine, using that as a pretext. It reminds me of Germany forcing the sovereign country of Czechoslovakia to give up the Sudetenland because (supposedly) the German-speakers living in that part of Czechoslovakia would be happier attached to Germany. Dictators like Putin and Hitler are very good at finding excuses for their invasions.
I thought it was the zombies that did that, but never mind.
In any case, it is Trump and his fascists who have put the US Constitution in jeopardy. I have zero fear of communists since Russia is no longer communist. Putin is a Trump-supporter; that is why I fear Russian aggression now.
Whataboutism is a logical debating fallacy designed by default to show the debating weakness of he or she (they) who applies (apply) it.
Self-disqualification at its best, the only ones unable to realize that being those too dishonest or too stupid to avoid it.
Possibly both.
I said "I don't think I commented on Russia until it threatened Ukraine." All of my postings above were about Russia attacking Ukraine: from the annexation of Crimea in 2014 through this war.No, a simple search here shows the opposite to be true
Meanwhile let the liars on here continue their futile attempts of denial, it serves well to show what fabric they're made of.
"accurate assessment" from somebody who just now stated that we have no way of knowing.
Hilarious.
I said "I don't think I commented on Russia until it threatened Ukraine." All of my postings above were about Russiamattacking Ukraine: from the annexation of Crimea in 2014 through this war.
The Russians are not honorable soldiers. They are serial killers.
The liars on here are so obvious that anyone caring to, can identify them with ease.
My problem is sadly not that it happens in war, but that people think that it is only one side that does this shit. It aint.
Case in point. There was a town that was liberated by Ukrainian forces. The town was taken unopposed on the first day. So, all that damage was done by who?
Are there Russian soldiers that rape and murder civilians? Yep, no doubt. Are there Ukrainian troops that do the same? Of course, they can just blame it on the Russians. War is dirty and ugly.. deal with it.
That is because I had not yet joined Debate Politics when Abu Ghraib occurred. I do not speak out only here. You will not find a reference here or anywhere on-line to a lot of things I spoke out about and marched about. That is because, blessedly, I did them in the 1960's and 1970's and if they made the "papers" of those days (which some did) (papers published by radical groups) no one has those newspapers anymore, not even me.BTW there are no references to Abu Ghraib in a history search of your usename except for the one you just made
One objective fact in regard to this atrocity is that Moscow is denying that it ever happened. Claiming "dead" figures seen in the footage are merely Ukrainian actors playing their part in a "fake".
On the long since proven principle that nothing has happened until the Kremlin denies it, that reaction above is proof enough.
And our chief resident apologist for the Kremlin immediately rushing in with the usual apologia and whataboutism helps in that assessment.
The liars on here are so obvious that anyone caring to, can identify them with ease.
somebody felt summoned?
That is because I had not yet joined Debate Politics when Abu Ghraib occurred. I do not speak out only here. You will not find a reference here or anywhere on-line to a lot of things I spoke out about and marched about. That is because, blessedly, I did them in the 1960's and 1970's and if they made the "papers" of those days (which some did) (papers published by radical groups) no one has those newspapers anymore, not even me.
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