John, let's say that you are right about Ukraine. It then comes down to the lesser of two evils. To permit Putin to gobble up Ukraine by adopting a policy of appeasement would only fuel his appetite for more, as happened in WWII with Germany invading Czechoslovakia. The West has decided that Putin must be stopped now. His atrocities inflicted on innocent Ukrainians is a war crime.
John, let's say that you are right about Ukraine. It then comes down to the lesser of two evils. To permit Putin to gobble up Ukraine by adopting a policy of appeasement would only fuel his appetite for more, as happened in WWII with Germany invading Czechoslovakia. The West has decided that Putin must be stopped now. His atrocities inflicted on innocent Ukrainians is a war crime.
Richard Sutherland, I respectfully disagree with your assessment. We could go through the history of how Kyiv was the mother of Moscow, how in 1921 Novorossiya ("New Russia") was tacked onto little Ukraine by the new Soviet regime, how Zelensky capitulated to neo-Nazis and un-froze the civil war in the Donbass, how the US and NATO were threatening Russia with the possibility of a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis, how errant Ukrainian anti-missiles come down in random places and the explosions get blamed on Putin, etc.
John, respectfully, your analysis is off the mark. What matters presently is stopping a megalomaniac from expanding his reign of terror. It's a case of real politik. The Western nations do not want an authoritarian regime taking over countries on their borders. It's a case of self preservation combined with the impulse to stop someone who is commiting war crimes by killing innocent civilians intentionally.
Richard, you and I clearly are not on the same page in our assessments of Russia's behavior and their motivation for unfreezing the Ukrainian civil war.
Do you believe that the reports of Putin's targeting innocent Ukranian civilians to be false? If not how do you justify the murder of innocent people? Putin has now been identified as a War Criminal and an arrest warrant has been issued.
I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Putin has been targeting innocent civilians. Zelensky let the cat out of the bag when a UKRAINIAN anti-missile hit Poland and Zelensky lied about it, blaming Russia.
Regarding Putin's indictment for war crimes, the "other side of the story" is the claim that Russia has moved displaced children whose parents are dead or missing out of the war zone. If this is all there is to it, then the ICC appears to have been mobilized as a propaganda weapon against Russia.
John, let's say that you are right about Ukraine. It then comes down to the lesser of two evils. To permit Putin to gobble up Ukraine by adopting a policy of appeasement would only fuel his appetite for more, as happened in WWII with Germany invading Czechoslovakia. The West has decided that Putin must be stopped now. His atrocities inflicted on innocent Ukrainians is a war crime.
Richard Sutherland, I respectfully disagree with your assessment. We could go through the history of how Kyiv was the mother of Moscow, how in 1921 Novorossiya ("New Russia") was tacked onto little Ukraine by the new Soviet regime, how Zelensky capitulated to neo-Nazis and un-froze the civil war in the Donbass, how the US and NATO were threatening Russia with the possibility of a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis, how errant Ukrainian anti-missiles come down in random places and the explosions get blamed on Putin, etc.
John, respectfully, your analysis is off the mark. What matters presently is stopping a megalomaniac from expanding his reign of terror. It's a case of real politik. The Western nations do not want an authoritarian regime taking over countries on their borders. It's a case of self preservation combined with the impulse to stop someone who is commiting war crimes by killing innocent civilians intentionally.
Richard, you and I clearly are not on the same page in our assessments of Russia's behavior and their motivation for unfreezing the Ukrainian civil war.
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Do you believe that the reports of Putin's targeting innocent Ukranian civilians to be false? If not how do you justify the murder of innocent people? Putin has now been identified as a War Criminal and an arrest warrant has been issued.
I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Putin has been targeting innocent civilians. Zelensky let the cat out of the bag when a UKRAINIAN anti-missile hit Poland and Zelensky lied about it, blaming Russia.
Regarding Putin's indictment for war crimes, the "other side of the story" is the claim that Russia has moved displaced children whose parents are dead or missing out of the war zone. If this is all there is to it, then the ICC appears to have been mobilized as a propaganda weapon against Russia.