“You rightfully lament someone using a leftist site. So why do you and other Z fans?”
First off, I have NEVER started a thread, linked or not.
Secondly, I have said on several occasions here on FR that propaganda is rife on both sides.
And I find it odd that so many alleged “American patriots” readily support a country that has been hostile to the United States and its interests for 100 years, except when it needs the United States (as it did in WWII after 1941’s Barbarossa).
I also find it amusing that the pro-Russia and pro-Putin FReepers who routinely vilified Western media (and not necessarily without good reason) will cite those same media when the story or article is favorable to their cause.
Do you think TASS is objective? Pravda? RT? Any .ru source?
You are pro-Russia vis-a-vis the war in Ukraine. I get that. Thus, you support the unwarranted invasion by a larger and stronger country of its smaller and weaker neighbor; you support a bully. I don’t.
Russia is a bully, and always has been. Hell, Russia is a classic bully: Insecure and paranoid. And bullies will continue to bully until they are stopped; and it usually doesn’t take a hell of a lot to stop them. Why? Because bullies are basically cowards, who prey on those smaller and weaker than they; and they don’t expect resistance, or the prospect of someone actually fighting back.
It’s as simple as that. If China invaded Russia based on similar flinty excuses as those propounded by Putin, I’d be supporting Russia. Why? Because China is a bigger bully than Russia, and China is a greater threat to the United States than Russia is.
I guess the two major bones of contention is I don’t trust our media or government whatsoever and I’m sympathetic to the Russian people in the Donbass who are the majority and desire to be part of Russia and I don’t consider Russia to be the Soviet union anymore or an existential threat to America baring nukes
I also believe the Ukrainian militias in particular have been brutal in that area since 2014 more so than the opposition at least that is what I believe given on all that I have researched over the years I do not believe Putin ever intended to occupy all of Ukraine
Nor do I believe he is an absolute dictator he can be removed and they do actually vote in Russia which considering how we have been lately is relative but I also believe in his most velvet dreams he would probably like to own imperial Russia but that’s not going to happen
I’ve also learned these former east European Soviet bloc entities love nothing more than killing each other anyway if you look at their history especially the first half of the last century and I don’t think we had any business there
Let them sort it out which means given Russia’s size they will probably prevail at some point