So they should be left in place indefinitely? The responsibility lies with people who appear to believe using children as human shields is legitimate.
Finally, it seems this nonsense is at an end. They can all go home having achieved absolutely nothing other than make miserable the people they’ve abused, assaulted and harassed.
It always amuses me that the crazies are so obsessed by the Magna Carta, cuz it’s all about those wealth land owners protecting themselves from our absolutely monarchy. 🙄
I imagine it’s pretty common that once you head down the conspiracy rabbit hole it becomes a package deal and it ultimately ends up back with the original grand daddy of all conspiracies.;
As opposed to the ‘Rothschilds’ who are never on the good side of good and of course isn’t a well known code for something else 🙄
Your claim to be merely be trying to ‘understand’ Putin wouldn’t be so pathetic if there was any possibility that that understanding could lead to the conclusion that the ‘why’ is Putin’s a tyrant and it’s the type of behaviour tyrants engage in. Your ...
Does your grand theory of ‘Big powerful countries have a right to crush small ones beneath their might’ apply to everyone or just Russia?
When you’ve made an effort to distinguish between a people and a dictator you might say something worth taking seriously. Or if you want to make an effort to explain how self determination = a tyrant doing what they want to their own people with impunity I...
Whilst it’s easy to overstate things from the safety of a keyboard, I do think given the implications for the Ukrainian people being there for the world to see, it’s going to be much harder for those in the West to argue that we just need to treat tyrants ...
So your politics and take on international relations is offensive neo realist? Really? Whatever Mearshiemer’s faults he’s a serious thinker with a coherent world view, but one I happen to disagree with. You’re a silly little Tankie that’s grabbed hold of ...
Watched loads of Mearsheimer, very familiar with the ‘neo realist’ position. He’s an interesting man, always worth hearing but his argument is deeply flawed. Would happily explain why, but I doubt anyone needs an IR lecture and I know there’s zero chance ...
I have zero interest in search for links, but as I said initially try Fox News, it’s effectively the same argument. There’s plenty of people pushing the idea that this is effectively all NATO’s fault, do you live under a rock with only a copy Manufacturing...
You Tankies are claiming the Ukraine state is effectively a Neo Nazi state with a Jewish President and the later is ‘irrelevant’. What does the fact that there’s Jewish critics of Israel have to do with the laughable proposition of Neo Nazis being headed ...
And spamming us with Chomsky videos…. Do you think that any one that disagrees with that position hasn’t read and listened to Chomsky or the type of argument his followers commonly put forward. If you’ve got a coherent argument put it forward, but acting ...
I’m perfectly happy to hear perspective different to my own, but I can also spot ones that are comically incoherent (Comrade Trotter has lurched from one perspective to another in space of about 48hrs) and I don’t need to be treated like Comrade Trotter is...
Does Ukraine have a problem with the far right, yes. Is there any country in Eastern Europe that doesn’t including Russia, no. Does this make the Ukrainian state illegitimate or run by neo Nazis, no. Have you bothered whilst being an apologist for a tyrant...
A violent Neo-Nazi coup that ended up with a Jewish President…interesting. You must be fun down the pub.
I’m no expert but my guess would be shut down or not, a missle hitting a nuclear reactor would be catastrophic. Would love to be proved wrong.
“Putin is a genius and his ambitions reasonable, except now a day later he’s done something crazy and so egregious even I can’t defend him and is probably going to be removed from power. Here’s a tedious suck eggs history lesson for you all to explain why ...
Strawman alert, I nor do I imagine do most believe Putin is a ‘madman’, he’s not he’s a tyrant. Of course there’s a divergence between the Western and Russian narratives… If you want to tie yourself in nots to act an an apologist for a tyrant whilst ...
You keep repeating the words peaceful co-existence and Marshall with engaging with the question I’m asking. How is ‘peaceful co-existence’ possible if Putin’s real problem is Eastern European countries being free, democratic and self determining. What ...
“How any progressive can justify or agree with Putin is beyond me.” The people agreeing with him aren’t progressives. This kind of left have always existed, Orwell wrote about them extensively. There’s no Soviet Union to defend any longer so they’re left ...
Yeah, all those years ago when I standing in central London as a steward watching 1m people march passed me all that went through my head was how much I loved GWB. You Tankies really are shameless…and clueless.
Pure whataboutery and moral relativism. Your kind of left are like cockroaches, no matter what happens a few of you survive pumping the same bs. If Orwell was reincarnated the only difference he’d note is you’ve thankfully shrunk in number. Btw, are you ...
If Putin’s issue isn’t really NATO but the presence or potential presence of functioning liberal democratic nations on Russia’s borders, I still don’t see how what your proposing solves that fundamental problem. What does Putin get from this deal? Ukraine ...
I’m quite sure why I’m expecting anything reasonable out of someone with Stalin avatar, but hey… As I’ve already said to you, let’s accept those promises were made. Does that bind all NATO members for all time?What about the aspirations of nations who have...
And what benefit was that? Seriously, it’s not like it’s a mystery, people in those countries have explicitly stated why they wanted to join and what they felt may happen if they didn’t. Ukraine’s democracy is deeply flawed, but it’s clearly superior to ...
“regional strength & security via relinquishing imperial aspirations” Please explain how that works? The regional strength and security is dependent on dominating the region, so what does that mean for various countries independence self determination? We ...
That’s exactly it, but I’m hoping where he’s massively miscalculated is that he’s gone too far for Western leaders to keep pretending the wet bus ticket approach is reasonable or works. There’s always been scores of non military options that could have had...
If only there were history lessons as to where that kind of approach gets us.
I could be wrong, but I believe he really expects the West to back down. They’ve not meaningfully stood up to him in past, he’s assumed they will blink this time as well.
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