Clearly you’re an advocate and apologist for the evil Democrat Joe Biden s filthy sub rosa relationship with Ukraine, and for the war/notwar that comes with it."
Curiously, that's the first time I've seen the term "sub rosa" posted on Free Republic.
We learn something new every day here.
Sadly, corruption under our current regime is off the scale, in my opinion, and may be contributing to whatever endemic corruption Ukrainians suffer.
But while Ukrainians are working to publicly expose and root out their corruption, our own DC swamp is doing everything possible to conceal and protect its own corruptions.
Hopefully all such US issues will be corrected in the next elections and Ukraine will remain above such matters.
In the meantime, I would not punish all Ukrainians or all Americans because of the unfortunate corruption of a few individuals or even institutions.
Alleged "corruption" can never be a casus belli for Vlad the Invader's "special military operations" in Ukraine.
OKSooner: "I really like the way you find equivalency between the current invasion of our own country and Joe’s and your’s war/notwar in Ukraine.
More having it both ways on your part.
That’s really smooth, you’re good at it."
Now you're just concocting nonsense and putting words in my mouth.
In fact, I've said nothing of the sort.
The current invasion of our southern border is a matter of Democrat policy, it is not a failure for them, but a highly successful policy and has nothing to do with Vlad the Invader's "special military operation" in Ukraine.
OKSooner: "Since I’m a Russian troll, you’re a paid professional mouthpiece who is advocating for the interests of Ukraine and it’s fraudulent President, or the interests of our own evil Democrat fraudulent President, indeed both."
Sure, you may confess to being a Russian troll if you wish to, but I am not anybody's "mouthpiece".
What I've posted on Free Republic for nearly 20 years now are strictly my own opinions, backed up by as many facts and reasoned arguments as I can muster.
The truth is there was plenty of suspected fraud in our own 2020 elections, but Ukraine's 2019 presidential elections were certified as free and fair, and its elected president is wildly popular in Ukraine, by all accounts I've seen.
OKSooner: "The cognitive dissonance has no affect on you, which causes me to question your intentions and to mistrust you."
This part of your argument would at least make sense if there is, indeed, any "cognitive dissonance" resulting from supporting Ukraine's war of independence from "mother Russia's" evil embrace.
But there isn't because, for one, nothing you've presented here as "facts" are truthful representations of events.
Rather, they are all just Russian propaganda BS unfiltered from the Kremlin's sewer pipe.
The true facts are simple and straightforward -- beginning in 2014, Vlad the Invader launched multiple unprovoked, unjustified and highly illegal military operations against its sovereign neighbor, Ukraine, one invasion among others including Georgia and Moldova.
These combined with multiple threats against other neighbors make Vlad the Invader a true modern-day incarnation of 1930s Nazi Germany with its invasions of the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia before launching WWII against Poland in 1939.
So the only "cognitive dissonance" here requires ignoring the obvious lessons of history, that ruthless aggressors must be stopped while they are relatively small and weak or it will soon enough take a desperate world war with tens of millions dead to finally defeat them.
Why anyone would deliberately ignore such obvious lessons from history, "cognitive dissonance" or not, is beyond my comprehension.