https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/19/ukrainian-workers-flee-modern-slavery-conditions-on-uk-farms — Isaac

You can sit down now. — Putin to Naryshkin (intelligence chief)

No. That's exactly the point of gods. They give closure to the infinite regress. — Haglund

another stage of this operation is beginning — Sergei Lavrov (Apr 19, 2022)

It's not their lives. Zelensky (and his government) decide how to proceed. Western governments decide in what way to assist. Ukrainian children die. They didn't get a say in the matter. If you think that's moral, that's your lookout, but I don't see how. I don't see anyone asking the Ukrainian children if they'd rather lose both parents and remain governed by Zelensky, or retain their family and be governed by a Putin puppet. — Isaac

Poland’s population in 1939:
——————————————————————————————
• Ethnic Poles:     22,700,000
• Jews:              3,400,000
• Other minorities:  9,000,000
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=                   35,100,000

Poland’s World War 2 population losses:
———————————————————————————————————————
• Jewish:           3,100,000
• Ethnic Poles:     2,000,000
• Other minorities:   500,000
———————————————————————————————————————
=                   5,600,000

Included in these losses:
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• At German hands:                5,150,000
• At Soviet hands:                  350,000
• At Ukrainian Nationalist hands:   100,000
———————————————————————————————————————————
=                                 5,600,000

I never said Ukrainians shouldn't be asked, did I? But when it comes to something that affects Russia, or any other country, then I think it is proper to ask the people of that country as well.

I don't see why Ukraine should matter more than Russia who has a much larger population. — Apollodorus

Everyone there wants to come home. — Oksana

But according to NATO propaganda, it’s OK for the EU to rebuild and expand the Roman Empire, but not for Russia to resist EU expansion …. — Apollodorus

Kremlinologist — Punshhh

You do know there's a global socialist movement don't you? — Isaac

you should whip up a new thread, e.g. "The victims of capitalism", something like that

the [lower-yield] US warheads were not a direct threat to Russian security but were concerning nevertheless — Russia says alarmed by US deployment of low-yield nuclear missiles (Feb 6, 2020)

Putin held a ceremony at the Kremlin to welcome 23 new foreign ambassadors to Moscow — Russia says alarmed by US deployment of low-yield nuclear missiles (Feb 6, 2020)

especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view — Baden

On a related note, I think that some of the commenters (and I don't entirely absolve myself) tend to hold official Russian rhetoric to a standard of truthfulness, rationality and consistency to which it does not hold itself. — SophistiCat

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — For a month now, Russian forces have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian medical facilities [...] with at least 34 assaults — War Crimes Watch: Russia's onslaught on Ukrainian hospitals (Mar 26, 2022)

I will welcome Russian tanks in my street if it avoids a nuclear war. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worth a strategic nuclear escalation. Freedom be damned. I prefer to live and find the relative freedom possible even in the most autocratic regimes.

Empires come and go. I'm not willing to die for one. I'm not willing to risk the lives of others for one. — Benkei

variables:
1. Putin doesn't use nukes, no escalation
2. Putin uses nukes, no escalation
3. Putin uses nukes, escalation — Benkei

The big question is, are Russians Europeans? — FreeEmotion

These^[Ukrainians] are not the refugees we are used to...^[Syrians] these people are Europeans. These people are intelligent, they are educated people...^[Ukrainians] This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists...^[Syrians] In other words, there is not a single European country now which is afraid of the current wave of refugees.^[Ukrainians] — Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov

Was he just about to say "We're going to impose a New World Order", but slightly changed the phrasing? — Apollodorus

In any case, maybe it isn't Russia who's behind the NWO agenda, after all .... — Apollodorus

their NWO agenda — Apollodorus

Who do you think the establishment is? It's just guys like me. Their desks are bigger, but their jobs aren't. They don't conspire, they buy boats. — Quentin (Cube (1997))

This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It, it's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? — Worth (Cube (1997))

“I lost my key ... what should I do ...” It is common to lose a key in everyday life.
I was frustrated and panicked.
First of all, it is important to take a deep breath.
[...]

Ukraine's defenders are fighting for Helsinki. Putin has sent his troops in to impose a modern version of Yalta - which would kill off Ukraine's independence and leave it under Russian domination. — paraphrasing Timothy Garton Ash

The other week, Zelensky gave a pep talk and he winked. He winked.
This is what we've come down to. Presidents in war-torn countries winking to their people in support. — baker

Over a thousand children died from completely preventable consequences of poverty just in the time since you posted that picture. — Isaac

The West is censoring Russian media, banned outright RT on every medium, even their website on the "world wide web" ... yet the West isn't even under martial law? Why is the west so afraid of Russian state media? We let the BBC, and CBC and PBS to exist globally, why not little ol' RT? If the West supports Ukraine why the censorship of RT? — boethius