Russia - threadbanned users in OP

With all the indiscriminate killing of children, women and whole families, my initial belief - like yourself and many others - was that Putin is a lunatic, mad, etc... but the reality is more than that.

It's now my opinion that he's not mad or crazy in the sense that he's lost his marbles. The crazy that applies to him is "power crazy", just like Hitler. Both men of small stature, revelling in the control and power that leading a country affords you. Always having to go that one step further in self-confirmation of that power. Eventually wanting to control the world.

Now here's the thing...

They say that the eyes are a window into a persons soul. Hitler had wild, crazy eyes. And so does Putin.

The eyes can betray a person. And Putin's eyes are the epitome of all that is evil.

All this talk about war crimes tribunals, The Hague, life imprisonment, whatever. It's too good for him. We're not savages but he is. So when he's eventually held to account I believe an appropriate punishment should be to strip him naked and place him in a large secure hall. Let him go without food and water for 24 hours or so and sweat, then allow into the hall a few dozen of the mothers, fathers and family of some of the thousands of children and young Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who've senselessly lost their lives by the orders of this monster. Savage I know but justice comes in many forms.

For the naysayers, doubters, Nato and USA bashers, Russian sympathisers, Putinbots and trolls who've frequented this thread.... I hope you're proud of yourselves defending a cold blooded butcher that is prepared to kill children and whole families, displace a million, and threaten the entire world with nuclear weapons.... all over his paranoia about non-existent threats, and land grabbing. Over a dozen of my family died in WW2 laying down their lives to stop Hitler's atrocities. Shame on you for defending his reincarnation.

The clue is in the eyes...

Feel free to quote this post as much as you want - so the trolls are constantly reminded of the evil butcher they are defending.

There's anger, hate, malice and dread emanating from these eyes...

We have the luxury of having one or two folks here on the thread who would say that your position on this is biased. Let's see if they drop in....

I think the question is more like:

Considering Russia has invaded one sovereign state without any real justification; what is to stop them from doing it to other states?

And they also have plenty of less overt options on the table such as sabotage of global infrastructure like undersea cabling, satellites, oil and gas pipelines, etc. I mean if technology companies don't want to operate in Russia and Russia blocks most of the Internet anyway then sure why would they let the world have their information economy?

Spain now joining the many other countries providing weapons to Ukraine.

What is this post even on about?

Looks like yet another armchair warrior, standing on their pedestal, trying to tell us that any discussion on the ethnic cleansing being perpetrated by Russia is just whataboutery; and we're all hypocrites because doing so evidently precludes anyone from ever having had any concern for any other similar global conflict or wtte

Going into week 2 now. Looking likely Odessa and the southern coast are going to be surrounded and no access to the sea

Wolf Blitzer and the rest of the CNN crew invaded a country or something.

I’m so tired of this “I’m no political expert so I cannot say if this is wrong” nonsense coming from privileged Russians

All week? CNN is good to dip into and they have correspondents on the frontline so to speak but like the BBC and others it is of much greater use to all of us when they find people who have a lot more insight into military matters, geopolitical strategies or the state of Putin's head.

Looks like the invasion is speeding up NATO "expansionism", Finland and Sweden warming more to the idea of joining NATO. Apparently they've already received a threatening letter about this from Moscow.