The amount of disgusting rhetorical tricks I have seen by the pro-Russian side would make Joseph Goebbels blush.
While decrying supposed hypocrisy be certain the supposed side you purport to back isn’t itself hypocritical.
And funny thing is.... There’s no daily Russia thread, just a daily Davydov thread.
Curious.
Frankly, I don’t care about the war.
It’s not our business, we have no strategic interests there, it isn’t ours, and trying to entangle us in it was expressly warned against by very forward thinking men near 200 years ago.
“No entangling alliances”.
Perhaps we should have stuck to it.
The majority of us see both Russia and Ukraine as corrupt hellholes and are against billions of our tax dollars going unaudited to a known money-laundering operation. This does not remotely equate to any shred of support for Russia or Putin.
Most of us are also tired of the onslaught of Ukraine propaganda that a handful of people pollute this site with, day in and day out. Here’s what Jim Robinson has to say about it:
”We are conservatives. Be respectful to your debate adversary (fellow FReeper). For example, do not accuse them of being a "Putinista", "comrade", "murderer", "baby-killer", etc, just because he may have a difference of opinion whether or not the US government should be involved in a controversial foreign war where we were not attacked.”