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BainsBane

(53,072 posts)
15. Demonstrating that message through the dead bodies of Ukrainians
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 10:35 PM
Apr 2015

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.

Time for a new and more stringent round of sanctions. nt stevenleser Apr 2015 #1
And provoke another hardy {{{giggle}}} from Vladimir, indeed. Purveyor Apr 2015 #4
Keep telling yourself that. Russian state media spends tons of time trying to stevenleser Apr 2015 #17
Is this Putin's story? Well we can count on him to tell the truth huh. Thinkingabout Apr 2015 #2
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley. Robert Burns Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2015 #3
More Nobus in Moscow while the proletariat fall further into despair./NT DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #5
Hate to burst your bubble BainsBane Apr 2015 #6
My 'bubble' is just fine thank you but I do 'feel your pain'... eom Purveyor Apr 2015 #7
Do you think he is the leader the Russian people deserve? DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #8
The Russian populace seems to think so so why should I second guess their decisions. As a gay male Purveyor Apr 2015 #11
Demonstrating that message through the dead bodies of Ukrainians BainsBane Apr 2015 #15
And with that you endorse Russia's unprovoked war of aggression. I.e. A war crime stevenleser Apr 2015 #18
I dispute your assestsion that Russia's agression is unprovoked but you know that already. eom Purveyor Apr 2015 #19
International law provides specific conditions for a war to not be unprovoked. This one doesnt fit. stevenleser Apr 2015 #20
We shall never agree I suspect on anything so I'll leave it at that. See ya around. eom Purveyor Apr 2015 #21
He is a great and glorious leader BainsBane Apr 2015 #12
What pain is that? BainsBane Apr 2015 #9
The pain of someone who believes the Russians, after all they have been through, deserve better. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #10
Indeed they do BainsBane Apr 2015 #13
Thanks for explaining that to the OP, BB. I think you did burst his little giggly putin bubble. Cha Apr 2015 #14
Iran, Russia, and China's strategy is to take what they can and build infrastructure with it MisterP Apr 2015 #16
Too bad. The Saudis tanked oil prices for nothing betterdemsonly Apr 2015 #22
MEANWHILE, in the reality-based community: Blue_Tires Apr 2015 #23
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