Wars

[Estro Felino]

The scale of destruction & death in Ukraine
is orders of magnitude greater than in Libya.
Using the latter to distract from the former
is....perhaps....Putin apologetics?

It's unreasonable for one to claim being against
war, yet pushing the claim that the invasion of
Ukraine is quite similar to the lesser attack on
Libya. It just smacks of apologetics by false
whataboutism. Putin is committing large &
significant war crimes by massive destruction
& death. This should not be ignored in favor
of anti-USA propaganda, ie, Libya is not Ukraine.

Russians would have never elected someone like B.O. as president. That is a plus for them.

I still think that POTUS was the worst in 3 centuries of history.

 

[Revoltingest]

You don't get it, do you?

If by that, you mean that I disagree, then yes.

For the third time: Putin's attack on Ukraine was not instigated by the military industrial complex. There is more than one possible reason for war.

OK.
I'll take this detente.

 

[Revoltingest]

Russians would have never elected soneone like B.O. as president. That is a plus for them.

I begin to suspect that you really dislike Obama.
You prefer Putin.
Ugh.

I still think that POTUS was the worst in 3 centuries of history.

Now I'm sure of it.

 

[exchemist]

If you think that’s all there is to the situation then why did Putin wait so many years to attempt absorbing Ukraine? I think you would benefit from studying historical context further.

He's got older and become more obsessed with what he considers the great "catastrophe" of the collapse of the Soviet empire. He's a classic: Russian society has historically always been schizophrenic, torn between between the "slavophile" and the "westerniser" schools of thought. If you know Russian history you will be aware of this.

Putin seemed, when he first became president, to be in the latter camp. He came to power on a ticket of rooting out corruption and modernising the economy. But as time has gone by he has yearned more and more for the system under which he grew up and personally prospered - the world of KGB terror, spying and oppression. It's the only way he can find to reconcile being only a middleweight economic power and yet having a recent history (and concomitant nuclear arsenal) of a superpower equal in clout to the USA. In a free market democracy, Russia simply couldn't and wouldn't afford the military expenditure to sustain superpower status. So the free market democracy had to go.

And what we see now is the next step in trying to turn back the clock.