“I actually trust Putin MORE than I trust…” Who are you? Are you a president? Do you have an army that authorizes you to trust Putin or anyone??? Who cares to whom you trust? We are here to recognize the world, not to give or take some advice. If you do not know so much about history that you judge a criminal communist agent like this, then what are you doing here? Do not try to reply because I won’t read anything from you.
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Thank you for your very apt retort, Fiangol! Putin is as you say a criminal communist agent. He was a KGB man - and in character always will be. He can be trusted only to be forever devious, tyrannical - and cruel.
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I’ve got a curious question, I am sure that Putin is guilty of crimes in what you posted, but for a political prisoner how does Navalny still have a twitter account and computer and cell phones with internet access and still be available to criticise Putin freely? I don’t remember that privilege being extended to Assange and the Jan 6 political prisoners.
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Apparently political prisoners in Russia are forced to watch TV as a form of torture. Who can resist making a joke about that? But Navalny’s actual torture by poison and unending persecution are serious and grim.
These two articles explain quite a lot …
But what they do not explain are the tweets mentioned in the Breitbart report. For that, as you say, he needs access to a computer with wi-fi and I cannot find any mention of that in any of the articles about his prison conditions.
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Putting my tin foil hat on for a moment, I have to admit I’ve had a nagging feeling that the timing of this “invasion” is suspicious. Just as the COVID-19 program is winding down in the face of rising discontent and scepticism about both the seriousness of the illness and the effectiveness and safety of the treatments, and the necessity of the mandates, right on cue we have a major distraction in the form of a war.
Of course my nagging thoughts are nothing more than mere suspicions, but we have seen Putin participating in the WEF meetings and also following exactly the same “health” policies in reaction to a clearly not very deadly illness. Is Putin actually acting as part of a pre-determined plan cooked up by the NWO behind the scenes? I can’t dismiss the possibility from my mind, after all the events since early 2020. We have also seen Europe ditching the pipeline with Israel in favour of the Nord 2 as I understand it, would Western nations really be making themselves dependent on a gas supply from a nation that they thought they might soon be at war with? Obviously this makes no sense.
As for the talk of cruelty, our own leaders have been complicit in a scheme that it really seems has killed some significant number of their own citizens (including children), with many more suffering long term harms from an unnecessary and apparently also ineffective mass medical injection program, so we’re not really in a good place to condemn Putin’s cruelties. We are also finding ourselves increasingly living under totalitarian governments in the West more generally as well, so who are we to judge?
I am also persuaded by Liz’s comments, if the regions are indeed mostly wanting to be part of Russia I really don’t feel very concerned about the situation so far. Of course if the situation deteriorates into a real and serious shooting war then things could get a lot more serious, but even then my nagging suspicions will continue.
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Good question - I’ve wondered about that, too - if Putin is an alumni of the WEF, then wouldn’t he be doing things according to their agenda, like Trudeau? So this could possibly be orchestrated by them.
Covid is fizzling out, and alot of the participants in the scam are trying to cover up their culpability in it now. Yet Trudeau AND Biden have issued, or re-issued, emergency orders.
Their excuses for every power grab they make are always so lame and phony - the covid “emergency”, the “insurrection”, Trumps “collusion” - were all so implausible as to be a joke. (They must have gotten pretty low marks in “Global Leaders” school!)
So why should we believe this mumbo jumbo about Ukraine?
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Good grief! So because we are “increasingly living under totalitarian governments” we mustn’t judge? Of course we must judge! And condemn! Wherever there is cruelty and injustice and oppression, we must judge them to be wrong, we must judge the perpetrators, we must “point the finger”, most of all when it’s happening in our own countries, and everywhere else where it’s happening. Always. Without hesitation.
What are we, a political monolith? If our rotten government does something terrible we are all guilty of it?
C’mon man! (To quote our US tyrant.) You did not mean what you wrote, did you?
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Having rebuked you with astonishment tinged with anger, I now change my tone to say: Your suspicion that war is yet another excuse for tyranny is reasonable.
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Of course, but I suppose what I was getting at is that we can hardly justify such cruelties as a reason for engaging in a conflict against a tyrant when we are ruled by tyrants ourselves.
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Yes, it’s disgusting to hear Biden pontificate about Ukraine’s “sacred borders” when he is letting the entire world in through our own borders.
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Yes, I’m afraid we all are in some small measure. Like so many other people, I spent most of my life ignoring politics and current affairs more generally until suddenly I started to realize that things were going seriously off the rails. It was my own inaction in a small part that allowed that to happen.
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Line up, my friend, with all the other hand-beaten breasts. Share your warm feelings of virtue. Perhaps you can’t help it. Two thousand years of moral pollution by Christianity weighs on the minds even of atheists.
Ah, but if everyone is guilty, nobody is.
The whole point of freedom under the law is that you, the free citizen, can go about your business without thinking constantly about government. The government of a free society is ideally a small thing that protects your freedom with law at home and armed might if necessary from foreign enemies. True, you must care that it does its job. Know when to be alarmed. And true, you need to use your vote. But if a junta seizes power it is not the fault of the law-abiding, duly voting citizen. When all is changed you must act.
Yes, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. But breast-beating is not vigilance. It is useless gesturing.
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I don’t feel virtuous about being complacent in the past and I don’t think I am “breast-beating” at all, just stating facts. More recently at least I have been doing something and I think I can feel virtuous in a small way about having influenced some number of people since then. For example, somebody replied that they now saw the whole COVID-19 “pandemic” in a new light after reading one of my posts on Event 201, that is something, not “useless gesturing”.
I didn’t say we are all equally guilty, I said we are all guilty in some small measure for the actions of our government. It’s not just whether we vote but whether we take the time to study arguments on politics before we vote, if more people did that then they might begin to understand that we had already drifted a very long way from the free society that you describe, where government is truly limited to law and defense, and why big govt. is so problematic in general. Obviously a politician who cynically lies to the trusting voters and proceeds once in office to behave in a way that is completely at odds with what he promised is far, far, more guilty than I am, still more a tyrant who seizes power in a coup.
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I know, I’m guilty of complaining about others who ignore politics and either don’t vote at all, or vote in ignorance of the facts, even tho I’m not perfect in that respect, either. And I’m not nearly as involved in the political fight as alot of people are, so I really can’t point any fingers.
But at the same time, people shouldn’t have to be breathing down their damn “representatives” necks 24/7 just to get them to do their job!
That’s what they are getting paid for - but being honest and actually not lying and cheating is apparently a nearly impossible feat to pull off in politics.
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