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I agree. Someone earlier also mentioned Russians being banned from upwork. I think it's very concerning that the average Russian citizenry is facing consequences like these.Very disturbing trend that Russian citizens in the west be target of retaliation soon.
Call me naive, call me old-fashioned, but there should be a difference between a military strike and attacks on civilians. This is cancel culture run amok, and it does not bode well for the future.
Not to derail into politics or take this out of context of a post which I don't know enough about to assess, but seems sensibly written, but what do you call
'if you post misinformation online you should be banned from all social media platforms'
'spreading a misleading narrative online that undermines public trust in government institutions=terrorism'
'we must protect vaxinated people from unvaxinated people'
'winter of severe illness and death for unvaxinated'
if not bullying (or a lot worse)?
Honestly, this was the first I've heard these quotes. I went and googled them just to see what you were talking about.
I think you have a good point.
Also, while his Russian bias might be showing, it's pretty damn obvious your U.S. bias
Yes I have a US bias. Not only because I'm American, but because I'm a first generation American. I see what my family lives like in other countries. And I'm incredibly thankful and considerate myself blessed and fortunate to be an American.
But as a minority American, I don't think my US bias is quite as strong as you think it is. I'm very much aware of how imperialistic the United States can be.
And I think that's my main problem with Xeon is saying. There is so much intelligent criticism that can be leveled at the United States.
Instead he is saying stuff like this...
Maybe Ukraine is the 52th state?
Literally while Russia is attempting to annex Ukraine, he is accusing the United States of wanting to do so.
This is irrational thinking at best. At worst, it's pro Russian propaganda. But it doesn't stop there.
Invading another country is wrong, but at least they didn't come up with a thousand excuses about fighting for "freedom and democracy".
Their lack of hypocrisy makes them less repulsive and disgusting. In the case of another country, it's always along the lines of "hey buddy, we care for you, we want to protect you, and we're going to invade your country and take your resources for your own good".
Here again, he accuses the United States of wanting to do exactly what Russia is actually doing.
Delete the word democracy from this response, and this is exactly the Russian justification for this war.
But he'll want us to believe that the United States is the only one that does stuff like this.
Well read this comment...
It was a long war for a Ukraine, 8 years, last time they were attacking their own people(who wanted separation) and
civilian targets - schools and kindergartens - with tanks, their president a former actor and comedian - you get the picture?
Now Russia got involved to stop this madness and got blamed for everything, they even want to use it to get into EU urgently.
Of course war is bad and sometimes it's justified because - "Don't give weapons to idiots, they will kill each other"
I am glad to hear from someone in Russia here. Thank you for contributing.
Also @Raja thank you for providing an Indian commentary. I meant to mention that sooner.
Can the US perhaps be more like Canada or New Zealand?
Part of me wishes this was the case. I'm very sympathetic to this. That said, based on my previous comment, I just don't see how this is going to be possible.
When a war breaks out somewhere, nobody says hey New Zealand can you help us put the stop to this?
War is our business. I read recently that the United States has only had 21 calendar years where we weren't involved in a conflict. We have been involved in one war or another for over 200 years of our existence.
Yes most of the countries I mentioned meddle on other continents. That I can think of, France, UK, China, Iran, US, Russia meddle the affairs of African nations. Saudi Arabia does too, but maybe you consider them a neighbor. Several of these nations meddle in the affairs of Latin American countries also.All these countries you mentioned only have fights with their neighbours. It's not uncommon. Do they go all the way to the other side of the world to meddle in other countries' affairs?
If you said the United States was the worst offender, I would agree with you. But you keep making it sound like the United States is the only one. And that is just false.
Either you're completely ignorant about what happens in the world, or you are being intellectually dishonest just to try and sound right.
Like I said before, there are plenty of factual reasons to be anti-American. Just please stop making up nonsense.
Something Europe/USA/West are not considering is that it actually benefits Putin/Russia geopolitically for Ukraine to become a basket case and break apart ala Syria with multiple warring factions. It would then turn the tables on NATO and has the possibility of drawing in NATO itself once the Russians pull out officially with Russia turning factions in Ukraine as a proxy against NATO itself. This thing can go many ways.
Putin does not want to occupy Ukraine as whole, he will keep the land bridge to Crimea in the east most likely with the recognized breakaway provinces but that's all I really see benefiting the Russians. In all reality the Russians have already achieved their strategic goals, Ukraine is not going to be joining NATO anytime soon nor are any big permanent western bases/militaries bases/missiles going in, and with it an active war zone for the foreseeable future most likely ruled by warlords Ukraine as a unified country is over. Yet another reason why there should be calls for an immediate cease fire.
Nobody really knows what the true Russian goals are for this action, Putin is a pretty cynical individual who I have no doubt is willing to sacrifice Ukraine for his own goals with regards to Russian security, once again Ukraine may be playing into Putin's game.
I find a lot of your comments interesting.
That said, I don't know what good will come up simply "calling for a ceasefire". From where I sit, there has been a lot of calling on Russia to cease firing immediately.
I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear like Russia wants to cease firing. And thus the world is leveraging the full weight of its soft powers (economic force, as opposed to hard power being military force) with the explicit aim of getting Russia to withdraw.
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