Vortex2 wrote: ↑03 Jun 2022, 09:30
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All because everyone has insisted that Ukraine is a homogenous democracy whereas in reality it's two separate 'states' glued together by an undemocratic regime.
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No, you are the mug, Vortex. You have swallowed Putin's line hook, line and sinker.
This war has shown the remarkable unity of the Ukrainians. They have come together and valiantly fought against a brutal oppressor whose stated aim is to wipe Ukraine and the culture that Putin says it doesn't have off the map. The President comes from the Russian speaking population and the Ukrainian speaking population have joined with him in his resistance. The president has vowed to not speak Russian again and I suspect that many Russian speakers will do the same such is their hatred for Putin and Russia over this cowardly, treacherous attack.
The way that the Russians have mercilessly bombarded Russian speaking people and their homes shows that Putin has no real care for Russians abroad, his public excuse for the massacre, the war crime, he is presiding over. He just wants the Holy Russian Empire back again to show what a wonderful Tsar he has been lording it over the Russian people these past twenty years. He wants that legacy so that when he dies he goes down in Russian history as a hero not the kleptomaniac thug that he and we know he really is.
The Russian speaking people of Ukraine have voted with their feet in millions as they have taken refuge in the west of Ukraine or in western countries. Where are all the refugees in Russia that they could parade on TV as a justification for their brutal, merciless, cowardly attack, their "liberation" of the Russian speaking people. Perhaps he should have asked them first if they wanted liberating. Being the megalomaniac dictator that he is he knew he knew what the people of Ukraine wanted. He certainly knew that he knew what the people of Ukraine needed. Turns out they got it wrong so Putin is showing them what it means to have the temerity to disagree with a psychopathic megalomaniac.
It has caused vast physical and social damage in the Ukraine.
Much of that social and physical damage would likely have occurred anyway as Putin Russified a reluctant people. The Ukrainian people would have lost most of the good things of life as Putin's kleptomaniac oligarchs and a few Ukrainian quislings stole everything from the cowed Ukrainian people as they continue to do to the cowed serfs who are the Russian people in Russia. There are plenty of free Russians enjoying the fruits of life but they have chosen to live outside Russia in order to do that.
Thousands of lives have been lost.
Thousands of lives would have been lost in a new Holodomor as Putin's kleptomaniacs stripped the Ukraine of its valuables and food. They couldn't wait for the war to be over so they have started stealing Ukrainian grain already.
The global economic structure has been torpedoed.
Do you really think that Putin would not have used his resource weapons to strangle the west and the rest of the world. And do you think he would have stopped at Ukraine? He would have nibbled away at the old soviet empire until his megalomania was sated. The trouble with megalomaniacs is that their mania can never be sated. Have you not read the history of the 1930s and 40s, Vortex? Can you not see the parallels with Hitler?
Energy and food markets have suffered major disruption.
As I said above do you not think that Putin would not have used these weapons in a new war to grab back the old soviet Russian Empire. You would have been the equivalent of Chamberlain coming back from licking Hitler's a***e in Munich waving his precious, useless bits of paper as he got off the plane. "Peace in our time" would have lasted just as long, well maybe a year or two longer as Putin's army got their logistics sorted out.
You and people like you are the Chamberlains of our time, Vortex, no doubt well meaning but equally as delusional. And we are not the mugs.
