[MalPearce]

Russia - more specifically Muscovy - is way more corrupt than Ukraine. It’s also way more authoritarian than Ukraine.

Shiogu’s daughter was told to divorce her husband because he’s against the war. You can get arrested for holding up a blank placard. But you can get a free pass out of prison as a convicted child rapist provided you agree to being a child rapist on a tour of duty in Ukraine.

I genuinely don’t get where people’s heads are at.

Some of the Putinists are so irrational in their desire to rehabilitate Russia’s most deranged government since the Stalinist purges, and so caught up in BidenGloboHomoFakeNews Derangement Syndrome that one wonders if Kim Jong Un came out as anti LGBTQIA++ they’d hold him up as a good Christian and just rebrand his totalitarianism as authentic, upstanding conservative values with his 120% approval rating proof of his goodness and the complete lack of critical reporting inside Pyongyang a sign of the free press just having nothing negative to write about.

Being against the American spending in Ukraine I can get. That’s rational.

Being utterly convinced that the zero evidence vranyo (deliberate lies) from Russia and the DPR is definitely true but no amount of crowdsourced evidence from thousands of sources on the ground, by dozens of international journalist teams, investigative reporters, NGOs etc can be trusted, is moronic.

[bert]

The Russian oligarchs who survive on corruption will destroy Putin because Putin has destroyed the corruption income.

[Rocco DiPippo]

I believe nothing coming from "news" sources on any side of this war. I look at "news" published before the latest dustup between these two constantly battling, horribly corrupt crapholes to arrive at some semblance of what's actually going on between them now. >I also look at body counts published by each side about their people. It's the best that one can do in this time of horribly politicized "news," Deep Fake AI and jingoistic bullshit.

Nothing printed or spoken about the actual trajectory of this war can be taken at face value.

Not a penny more of US taxpayers' money for Ukraine and its scumbag, hyper-corrupt, grifting leadership and, by proxy, the Western politicians and bureaucrats making bank off the pain and suffering of Russians and Ukrainians.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

“Being utterly convinced that the zero evidence vranyo (deliberate lies) from Russia and the DPR is definitely true but no amount of crowdsourced evidence from thousands of sources on the ground, by dozens of international journalist teams, investigative reporters, NGOs etc can be trusted, is moronic.”

Thanks. Total agreement.