Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Unfortunately the world is full of awful people and in politics you have to deal with at least some of them. Russia is villain of the year for understandable reasons so the villain of 2 years ago, MBS, gets a temporary pardon. It's not pretty but hard to avoid.

However it does deliver ammunition to people who say the West is hypocritical and always preaches how it's a culture built on universal human rights and values, yet when necessary is perfectly prepared to support awful regimes with no respect for these values at all.

I see Amnesty is now rowing back on its recent Ukraine report.

While Amnesty seems to stand by the report's contents, it uses what I would regard as weasel words to gloss over its report: Amnesty said it had found Ukrainian forces next to civilian residences in 19 towns and villages it visited, exposing them to risk of incoming Russian fire. "This does not mean that Amnesty International holds Ukrainian forces responsible for violations committed by Russian forces, nor that the Ukrainian military is not taking adequate precautions elsewhere in the country," it said.

I've been thinking about this recently because there are a lot of posts on Twitter complaining that Palestine is not getting enough publicity. Personally I think the Arab/Moslem world does not command attention from the west because of the terrorist attacks they made on the west and because of the way they make a show out of killing journalists etc. Also, Ukrainians dress like us, they have similar shopfronts, cars etc. Psychologically this makes a difference. Of course it is more complicated that this but these, I think, are factors. The biggest factor may be that the media are not reporting on a fraction of their troubles.

Please don't confuse robust criticism of Amnesty with hatred of Amnesty. Of course Amnesty is nowhere remotely on the list of evil actors, but those who give the evildoers cover should be called out very loudly

The North Korean army is in a far worse condition than its Russian counterpart.

Sigh. More of it. Putin is not going to leave Ukraine and compensate them for the damage he has done, so what are they on about? Bloody naive.

I think that this kind of thing is more due to hatred of the USA and NATO rather than affinity with Putin. Classic useful idiot stuff, though.

Russian MLRS gets blasted

Asking Ukraine for peace is like asking a rape victim to stop resisting.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/NEW8XTMCHID1/peace.jpg

None of these useful idiots take into consideration the fact that Russia recognised the independence & borders of Ukraine & that Ukraine handed back 600 cruise missiles, long range bomber squadrons, large amounts of military hardware & nuclear weapons to Russia with the Budapest Memorandum 1994.

Russia & Ukraine also signed a friendship treaty in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian–Ukrainian_Friendship_Treaty

I reckon most of those 600 cruise missiles have been fired back at Ukraine, along the bombers & weapons used against Ukraine. So the west made up the shortfall, fair enough I reckon.

The useful idiots just call for the west to stop giving Ukraine weapons to defend itself, then essentially calling for a ceasefire so that Russia can consolidate their imperialist gains carved out by rapists, looters, enslaving & removing people from their land & mass murder on a scale not seen since WW2 in Europe.

They call for peace with Russia, with no honour & more war to come at a later date for Ukraine.

Decolonisation, when it's Russia doing exactly that recreating the imperial Russian Empire.

Decarbonisation, so more reliance on Russian fossil fuel supplies for western nations.

Demilitarisation, obviously just for Ukraine, they certainly don't mean Russia.

Anyone advocating such proposals as above is a threat to modern western values & democracy. I don't care if they are hard left or far right. Law enforcement agencies in western nations should be investigating the bank accounts of these people. Many have been bought off by Putin's bungs.

I would be very surprised if NK get involved in Ukraine, very surprised.