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In reply to the discussion: What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again [View all]BainsBane
(53,072 posts)taking over their country and returning it once again to colonial status. They are but pawns in the games between Russia and the West, and you treat them with less respect and concern than pawns on chessboard. Those are human beings whose lives have been lost, whose dreams of independence have been shattered.
And what about principles? What about respect for human life? What about a supposed anti-war position? It's one thing to understand why Russia acted as it did. It's another to work to justify the taking of lives. You have repeatedly spread false propaganda and before insisted the events in the Ukraine were not Russia's doing. Now you change on a dime and admit that it is a Russian action but still justify murder and war.
Seriously, you are gay and you stump for that homophobic despot is this way? Unfucking real. Do you know the Russian propaganda in the Ukraine justifies Russian imperial aggression on the grounds that Ukrainians are gay and like women? The entire military action is at its essence homophobic. The result is even the far right in the Ukraine is pro-gay rights in response to that overwhelming homophobia. Why would you stump for a military action that seeks to wipe people like you off the face of the planet? Something doesn't add up there.
Putin won't stop the MIC. It will only lead to more of it. You can't possibly be that naive.
I see a lot of shifting excuses all for the same goal. What I see none of is any concern for principle, human rights, or human life.