Let’s hope the Russian masses overthrow this bastard soon.
I don’t believe for once second war is what the Russian people want.
They are being kept from the truth and those that find out and speak out are at risk of prison or worse.
I don't mind hearing it. It's just a longstanding Putin supporter making the same claims that every other Putin supporter is making.
Yurt, that is pathetic. You're asking me to extend you credit that you don't extend to anyone else. The fact that someone as partisan as yourself is even pretending to be concerned about that incident betrays how awful it was.
That man is a kook. Look at his wikipedia page, he talks about "Muslim invaders" turning Europe into an Islamic state and that Mexicans crossing the southern border should be shot.
Small wonder he found a home in the Trump White House and as a talking head on RT and Fox.
Does it feel weird being in agreement with a kook like that PH?
There is no argument for the Russian invasion. It's not about a point of view. Putin want's s what he want's and he intends to get what he want's.
The whole NATO thing is just an excuse for the invasion.
Well, A) they are better off without them tbh and B) Putin didn't take them away. "The West" did. If sanctions worked the way people thought they did the North Korean regime would have been overthrown decades ago.
Great army guy, absolute nutcase though. Argues for illegal immigrants to be executed and martial law around the border with Mexico.
Where did I say I agree with it?
Name one thing from that list the North Koreans had before sanctions took them away.
However, his points were torn apart during later bulletins. Our Col. Has a history of this. Only time will tell.
Oh I hear you, though I'm of the position that America has gone down the U bend over the last couple of decades into an internally fractured state run by spin doctors and billionaires buggering their own people and Russia is an autocratic craphole living in the early 20th century buggering their own people. If America shuts down Russian media, or Russia shuts down American, I'd neither be surprised nor particularly care TBH. But I think Europe is and should be better than that.
Certainly there is no argument that will be heard in the west. Our governments are working hard to ensure that. But we aren't disturbed by that, whereas we expect our Russian colleagues will be disturbed by western media being repressed in Russia?
There is a level of hubris there.
All EU ports likely to be closed to Russian shipping fairly soon.
Russian commodities shipped under other flag carriers, that's tbd.
I have no idea what the above is even meant to mean. I'll leave you to it, I've made my point and made it clearly.
I know it's been called out already that the security threat is a red herring, but i'll repeat it. Ukraine is not a Nato buffer, it's a democracy buffer. The threat to Putin is the advance of the free world. Ukraine's fate was sealed when it overthrew the puppet Government in 2014.
Yep, certain chauvinistic, anti-traveller, single, Trump-supporting, spineless individuals lap that nonsense up.
That man's either an idiot or a liar. Each of those points can be compared to reality and found not to agree with it. Those points are also the same points made by Putin and his lackeys, coincidentally. He's probably been watching too much RT or Tucker Carlson, RT's favourite useful idiot.
LOL. You think lack of easy access to "major porn outlets" is going to be a decisive factor in political outcomes? I can see why that list of sanctions might seem soul destroying to the cosmopolitan classes but none of it lacks substitutes. Even to the extent it is beneficial at all.
** Coming to the Bord Gais Na Mona Energy Theatre this spring
I don’t think people in North Korea know any different.
Russians do.
Of course you don't. Do me a favour and just shout at a cloud next time.
The lack of a BigMac and a can of Coke (coupled with no football) is what will get the Russians really annoyed!
The free exchange of ideas has never been absolute in the West. It's never absolute in any society, because any society is held together in part by common values and the antithesis of those values are taboos, which are out of bounds and people who espouse these taboos face certain penalties. It may only be in Western society that we just have a broader spectrum of what can be discussed than other places. And it has increasingly been the problem in Western society that people hide behind the banner of free speech to industriously sow confusion and hatred. There comes a point where you have to say, 'stop'. Nobody sits around and goes, "Y'know, it's good that the Allies won WW2, but wouldn't it have been great if they let Nazi Germany broadcast in their home countries, just to get a balanced perspective?"
No. What he says doesn't match all the actual evidence. Like I said earlier, this guy's probably brainwashed by RT or some Tucker Carlson type.
Yes the domestic Russian equivalent is called the 'Government'
The only thing I'll promise you is that I'll be picking up on any time you try to pawn off an armed gang as protestors.
Kooks like that are all that can be found at the moment. Next we'll be hearing from Steve Bannon's podcast and a translated clip from North Korean News Lady.
The only person who caused the invasion of Ukraine is Vladimir Putin.
Since poor Vlad's reputation is taking a bit of a beating....I thought I would share this quirky story. It's the "Hitler loved dogs" kind of thing where a person who you think of as wholly evil...does something nice.
TL;DR - Putin loved his primary school teacher. She emigrated to Israel. Years later after becoming PM, he goes on an official visit to Israel. Seeing 'her boy' was coming, she contacts him through the embassy and he ends up buying her a flat in Tel-Aviv.
Ironically yes, ordinary Russians don't give a crap about sanctions.
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