[BroJoeK]

rxh4n1: "This is a disgusting smear and a lie.
I have never been pro-Russia.
I just dislike both sides.
I have always advocated for the USA to stay out and for peace negotiations.
You people are really getting low."

In my post #199 I made the effort to deal with bimboeruption's arguments in some detail, and some of that can apply to you as well.

In brief:

1. rxh4n1 "This is a disgusting smear and a lie."
   I appreciate that you don't like being called a "pro-Russian propaganda repeater".
   On the other hand, some of us have been called a lot worse with far less justification.

2. rxh4n1: "I have never been pro-Russia."
   In a grossly unequal & unfair fight, to claim "neutrality" is to favor the greater power.
   For an analogy -- to claim "neutrality" between a raper and his victim is, effectively, to support rapists.

3. rxh4n1: "I just dislike both sides."
   Whether you like Ukrainians as people, or not, is not the issue, any more than whether you like a murder victim or not.
   Once it's established there was an actual murder (not an accident or suicide), then the issue is whether justice should be delivered to the murderer, period.
   There are no arguments which even remotely justify Putin's invasions, annexations & murders in Ukraine.

4. rxh4n1: "I have always advocated for the USA to stay out and for peace negotiations."
   Seriously?
   Just like we should stay out of an on-going rape in progress and then demand "negotiations" between the rapist and his victim?
   How does that even work in your mind?

5. rxh4n1: "You people are really getting low."
   I understand that by now, "you people" have lost all sight of the original issue I addressed in Flying Eagle's post #77 when he called us:
   "Our Zeeper FRiends who have infiltrated this forum..."

   By listing the dates of entry on both sides I simply showed that on-average, posters on both sides have been here many years.
   So how, exactly, can that constitute "infiltration"?

   Yes, I could have used a different title for our anti-Uker FRiends, such as, "FReepers who oppose US aid to Ukraine", and we'd see fewer objections, I'm sure.

   On the other hand, what's the fun in that? 😉

[rxh4n1]

Same old, tired false analogies. This is just another of those dirty European ethnic border wars that they’ve been having for centuries. I’m not getting down in the weeds about why and who started it, it’s not our business. Our ancestors left that all behind when they came to America and except for offering mediation we should stay out. We’ve been fighting other people’s battles since 1898 and its time we looked out for ourselves again.