Faulty analogy. To match the WTF factor of accusing a Jew of being a neo-nazi, you’d have to find something completely absurd, like accusing Black civil rights activists of being racist themselves.
Oh … wait … THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THOSE FOXFUCKERS DO.
Same deal with our fearless leader W, who went to liberate the Iraqi people from a cruel tyrant. People there understood that you have to break eggs to make an omelet.
That argument drives me mad. The imposition of the business model on education and government both has done untold harm. It makes citizens, who are supposed to be involved parts of a cooperative effort, into demanding, entitled consumers. And it makes “public servants” into CEO celebrity masters. Makes me see red.
And don’t even get me started on the education part – students seeing teachers as deliverers/installers of a skill they’ve bought.
Who can find Checnya in the map? Besides the Chechens are Muslims so nobody cared what happened to them, actually bombing Muslims was in fashion back then. But here in Ukraine Putin has already lost the PR war, so trying those same tactics are going to be disastrous for Russia, and the Oligarchs oughta be getting nervous they already had to hide their yachts and football teams, next they will come for their London and French Riviera properties.
Yeah, and it’s even bad for the business types who do get elected. The shock of discovering how different governing is from managing is often a brutal one for them. They discover that their power is a lot more limited and circumscribed than they expected (TFG is the march-of-crimes poster child for this), there are a lot more constituencies and competing demands to consider, and that they have to spend a lot more time talking to people they don’t actually want to talk to than they ever did in their nice comfy executive suites.
I don’t think anyone would have called Obama’s administration racist, except for gaslighters.
Chechnya was also not a sovereign country and not really big enough to become one. Internationally, there’s a pretty strong precedent for not siding with an ethnic group’s desire for civil war and independence, unless they’ve too severely abused. So, Chechnya was like Northern Ireland.
Ukraine is an independent country. So, invading it is like Hitler invading Poland.
You mean you can’t govern through NDAs, oaths of fealty, and harassment lawsuits?!?
Excuse me! But those gaslighters were legion! Pretty much all the republican party, it’s voters and the right-wing media.
Putin endeavors to make the table longer in frustration that he cannot achieve the same with “his own endowment…”
THIS!
This is the West’s opportunity to get rid of Putin for good. Biden and the Europeans need to keep Russia in an economic vise until Putin puts a bullet in his own head. No sympathy for the Russian people until Putin is gone. As an added benefit, Western democracies will no longer have to put up with Russia’s bankrolling of treasonous white nationalists around the globe. The Ukrainian people are doing the world a great service. We must not forget when they need our help to rebuild.
It is quite something that Russia is claiming to be removing nazis, while they are the leading promoters of nazis around the world.
Hopefully only days. I read a couple of days ago that the EU had already started thinking about a unique process. This is big.
Ursula Van Der Leyen said it out loud 2 days ago.
The repercussions will be far and wide. On a smaller scale: Anti-vax truckers will finally be seen by all to be the dangerous idiots they are, Tuck A Buck will be hosed into oblivion and the Russian backed congress critters should take a big hit. And that’s just a few snowflakes on the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah. Chechnya is not Ukraine. And like I said Monday, “Kyiv is not Grozhny”.
Kyiv and Kharkiv are not Grozhny.
Plus most of the women and children have already gone west.
Mostly thousands of dudes with Kalishnikovs and C4 there now.
You have to actually get those large numbers to a place where they can join the fight. And you have to keep them supplied, too.
BBC reports today that the huge convoy that’s been getting so much attention is mostly logistics vehicles (which matches up with the pictures I’ve seen), and also that it’s being delayed by breakdowns.
What I want to know is, how long will the Russian soldiers be willing to fight and put their lives on the line for a paycheck in rubles that won’t buy anything?
Zelensly should not engage in talks with the Russian culture minister’s delegation. It is a PR stunt for Putin, not a serious discussion of how to get Russia out (now that Putin has successfully rooted out the Nazis from Ukraine). The talks give a double message to the world that Putin can exploit. It suggests that there can be a negotiation where Russia gains something in exchange for leaving. That is dangerous and can not be allowed by Zelensky or the Europeans if Putin is to be stopped. Zelensky needs to let the world know that the only acceptable outcome is for Putin to leave and he can do that anytime he wants, without the need for talks.