Is there? I don't think there is. I think there are neo-nazis in many countries.If there's a neo-nazi problem in Ukraine — Isaac
Do you know how genocidal the war in Checnya was? The Second Chechen War was Putin's war. First among many.Joking aside, I fear that Putin, cornered and desperate, will turn to the tried and true solution - perhaps the only one that he has left: terror, the likes of which we haven't seen since Stalin. — SophistiCat
Could Ukraine be his Afghanistan? :grimace:
— frank
No, those are orthodox and blonde! :eyes: — javi2541997
Is there? I don't think there is. I think there are neo-nazis in many countries. — ssu
think in Ukraine there is a "Your neighbor wants to de-nazify you" problem.
I think that problem is far more severe than anything else — ssu
But of course we can talk about Ukraine and for example Climate Change. Or Ukraine and Covid. Or wokeness in Ukraine. — ssu
It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed — Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
Osarumen, a father-of-three, said he, his family members and other refugees were told to disembark a bus about to cross the border on Saturday and told, “No Blacks”.
Twenty-four Jamaican students who yesterday arrived in Lviv from Kharkiv by train are now being forced to walk 20km to Poland. The country’s foreign affairs minister, Kamina Smith, said they were blocked from boarding the bus that was carrying the students to Poland.
Read properly. Neo-nazi problem.So there are Neo-Nazis in many countries but not in Ukraine? — Isaac
So there's a war going on in Ukraine.Right. And? What has the severity of the problem got to do with anything? — Isaac
What! Governments exaggerating a threat so that powerful industries can benefit. Sounds like some kind of crazy conspiracy theory to me.
Best just trust what the official experts have to say on the matter...
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/russia-ukraine-news-latest-today-nato-us-reject-putin-claims-withdrawl/
...so that's settled then. The experts say Russia is preparing for war and I'm sure the billions that thepharmaceuticalarms industry will make is just a coincidence.
Of course, you might find some experts disagreeing, but with none of you being military strategists, you wouldn't want to be 'doing your own research', would you?
Besides, have you not read the news? Those nasty truckers are funded by the Russians, best be on the safe side, lest they fund any morepeaceful protestsdomestic terrorists. — Isaac
Shell has defended its decision to purchase Russian crude oil despite the invasion and bombardment of Ukraine.
The oil giant said in a statement that the decision to purchase the fuel at a discounted price was "difficult".
It confirmed that it had bought a cargo of Russian crude oil on Friday but it had "no alternative". — BBC
Read properly. Neo-nazi problem. — ssu
So there's a war going on in Ukraine.
Isaac: And? What has the severity of the problem got to do with anything? — ssu
Just remembering the first comment you made on this thread, just 18 days ago: — ssu
The oil giant said in a statement that the decision to purchase the fuel at a discounted price was "difficult". — BBC
Peace negotiations happen either when a) one side has had enough and is facing at least the possibility of unconditional surrender / total defeat or when b) both sides have had enough of it.How do we stop wars? Is it by measuring how severe they are and hand-wringing about how bad it all is? Or is it by successful peace negotiations? — Isaac
Yep. So is it not a problem that there's Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, or is there no problem because there's no Neo-Nazis? It's not clear which is your claim. — Isaac
How do we stop wars? — Isaac
I'm sure Putin's got to be thinking about how the USSR's demise was related to its protracted war in Afghanistan.
Could Ukraine be his Afghanistan? — frank
Russian resources will be depleted, and Putin will be defeated. — Number2018
Over 7,000 T-72s are in storage, but the Russians believe they can be upgraded to the T-72B3 variant package with little difficulty. This means that the modern T-72B3 variant will be a workhorse in the coming years.
Peace negotiations happen either when a) one side has had enough and is facing at least the possibility of unconditional surrender / total defeat or when b) both sides have had enough of it. — ssu
Forget it. It's like talking to children. Can you seriously not get your heads round the idea of diplomatically taking account of the stated grievances of one party without agreeing with them?
Can you seriously not tell the difference between working out what we could do (or could have done) to fix this and deciding who's to blame? — Isaac
And which of the conflicts would reject my hypothesis?1993 Cambodia, 1996 Guatemala, 1998 Northern Ireland, 1999 Columbia...
Peace talks work. They work better when adolescent-level idealists aren't bleating about the fact that one of the parties lied. — Isaac
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