[quote]It's beginning to sound like racism.[/quote] No, it's beginning to sound like there are consequences to being a murderous bully in today's world. And that's a good thing.
@SW-User The russian people are now seen as murderous bullies... and will be seen that way for a long, long, time to come.
putin has destroyed russia by destroying any trust and goodwill the global community may once have had towards that formerly great nation.
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@newjaninev2 Ah I see. So a man who died in the 60's is to blame for what Vladimir Putin does?
I suppose I shouldn't read Dostoyevsky's novels anymore either. He may have been dead for more than a century but he was Russian so it's still his fault dammit.
@SW-User Whatever label is applied to something that stinks, people will still avoid it. The russian people need to accept that if they lie down with dogs, they’ll get up with fleas.
Or are some of their best friends Ukrainian? Or are they just following order?
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@newjaninev2 dress it up whatever way you like. You are advocating for mistreating innocent people because of what country they're from. Even people that are long dead.
Your thinking wouldn't have been out of place in Nazi Germany.
@SW-User Gosh, that sounds almost as bad as mistreating innocent people because of what family they're from. Yeah, if society puts a felon who's a parent in jail, that felon's family suffers. Yet society has accepted these consequences for millennia.
Did you know that, over the past 3 or 4 millennia, whenever a nation decided to attack another nation, innocents on both sides tended to suffer?
Did you realize that in wartime there's nothing at all new about the suffering of innocents on both sides?
Did you realize that when leaders make the calculated decision to initiate a war of choice, they're fully aware that civilian suffering is part of the equation? (Or else said leader is a blithering idiot.)
Did you realize Putin could stop the sanctions at any moment by withdrawing from his war of choice?
Wow, all these consequence of choosing to go to war seem never to have occurred to you! Isn't that [b]SPECIAL???[/b]
Your thinking wouldn't have been out of place in a mental institution, [b]LOL!!![/b]
@ElwoodBlues Usually, I agree with you, but you may recall how [b]furious[/b] people became after 9/11 if it was even suggested that we might be getting payback after things our government did in the quest to monopolize access to Middle East oil reserves…nothing justified the deaths of all those people, based on what our government may’ve done.
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@ElwoodBlues Blah blah, say whatever you like, adolf.
Yeah, I'm crazy for treating everyone fairly and equally.
You are advocating for the deliberate persecution of innocent people. That is insane. The only difference between you and Putin is that you dont have the power to cause any real harm.
It would be like me blaming you for your bloodthirsty government waging constant war in the middle east. That would be stupid. It isnt your fault.
If people like you had any real power, society would be fucked.
Anyway, I'm not responding anymore. There's no point in wasting time on a bigoted little fool like you.
@bijouxbroussard I hear you. But no one is [i]killing[/i] Russian civilians. Russian civilians are being [i]inconvenienced[/i] by sanctions. And I'm saying the inconveniencing of Russian civilians is a reasonable response to the killing of Ukrainian civilians.
@SW-User [quote]It would be like me blaming you for your bloodthirsty government waging constant war in the middle east. [/quote] Feel free to institute sanctions against the US. I'll accept that. No more Irish whisky? I can deal.
@ElwoodBlues Okay, sanctions in Russia itself is one thing. But firing individual Russian citizens who work in other countries, because of their president’s actions ?
