I know you would rather put your own words into Putin's mouth but that is what he stated and that is what has taken place. I don't like what he has done anymore than you do but the difference is, I listen to what leaders of any given country say and decide when they are lying, rather than listen...
Putin stated going in that he did not want to control Ukraine, he stated that he sent the troops in to secure the easternmost regions including the Donbas. Were you of the impression that Putin set out to conquer Ukraine?, by conservative estimates, he would have had to have sent in more than...
Not in the pocket of politicians, but rather, the mainstream corporate media shares in the same corporate elitist interests as members of congress. Corporate media is part and parcel of the military industrial complex, by way of mind manipulation it garners support of the masses for war efforts...
The hatred for Russia stems from fear. The cold war, which was basically a one sided war in the minds of westerners, fueled this fear and hatred through propaganda which continues to this day. Personally I don't have a stake in this Nato exploited border dispute between Russia and Ukraine, but I...
Some posters here don't listen to what Putin says, they're too busy putting their own words into Putin's mouth. Nato got the war it wanted with Russia, and it has nothing to do with winning anything, it's all about selling arms and turning profits. It's a win win for everyone except for...
No one buys into your revisionist history along with the propaganda that everything Russia is evil, which in turn allows you to pretend we are the good guys. You can live out your good vs evil mythology in your mind all you like but I'm not buying it. I love the U.S. but their propaganda machine...
Why would I believe a word of what you post? You and wiki's whitewashing of events in Ukraine and elsewhere don't fool anyone, well except you, of course.
I posed the question in the OP because the U.S. has taken upon itself to be the world's religious police, by bombing inferior nations into submission for being evil, playing God as it were.
...or is it mere propaganda such as the "threat" that Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, and Grenada, etc. etc. etc. posed upon us?
'us' being western industrialised nations.