With that statement, you demonstrate a level of callousness that I had not expected.
In your multiple postings in this thread, you have repeatedly enjoined us to try to understand what Putin wants / what is motivating him. You have repeatedly exhorted us to attempt to empathize with him and "see things from his position."
But at no point did you express any sympathy with the Ukrainian people, or empathize with the tremendous suffering they are experiencing as a consequence of Putin's "Special Military Operation."
You haven't really acknowledged the enormous human suffering - deaths of innocent men, women, and children - which Putin has caused.
There is a huge conflagration currently taking place right smack dab in the middle of Eastern Europe, and the fact that that represents a gross violation of the post-WWII norms and standards of behavior among civilized states doesn't seem to register with you.
Your apparent callous disregard for the blatant immorality of Putin's aggression gives me pause.
I chuckled when you said how Russia is exposed as a "second-rate power with a third-class strategy" and how Russian military assets are being "degraded"
I'm sorry, but I fail to be amused by the vast loss of life and destruction currently being wrought by the Russian invaders. I am now beginning to wonder about your motives.
Regards,
oh my!..... hahahahaha
Was it difficult to type that and clutch your pearls at the same time.
Thanks for answering the questions I posed to you.
I had a feeling about you when I read some of your posts.
I'm sorry if you're Ukrainian and are getting a lesson in "realpolitik". My grandfather explained it to me and my cousins when he talked about fighting in a civil war and the Catholic purge that followed..... and why he forced all 8 of my uncles to join the armed forces when they turned 18.....no option or excuses . They could go to college, trade school or anything after but they had to join after they graduated high school.
"All the finest arguments and precise rhetoric lose to a bullet in the face and a boot on your neck".
There is a huge conflagration currently taking place right smack dab in the middle of Eastern Europe, and the fact that that represents a gross violation of the post-WWII norms and standards of behavior among civilized states doesn't seem to register with you.
Welcome to the real world pal.
You should really get out more and read a newspaper or access something other than MSNBC or CNN.....or a faculty lounge.
The "post-WWII norms and standards of behavior"..... you mean like when Russia "pacified" Chechnya and murdered about 100,000 civilians.... or in 1987 when India "pacified" northern Sri Lanka with "only" about 10,000 killed.... or Ethiopia killing about 500,000 "rebels..... or teeny tiny Mozambique killing 3 or 400,000....or the "civilized" European behavior of the Serbs killing about 100,000 Bosnian....... or the Rwandan Hutus butchering 250-300,000 Tutsis....or even the Sudanese Arabs killing about 2,000,000 Sudanese blacks (yeah... MILLION)....
I don't know what planet you live on but on this one , time is divided in two parts... 1. War.... and 2. Preparation for War.
If you don't understand that, then I'm sure there are libraries in your area that could assist you in your intellectual endeavors about the "nature of man".
Spoiler alert!.... there are violent evil men willing to take everything you own or have created through your hard work and skills... and also willing to kill you and your entire family if you resist...... countries are the same way.
warmest regards and respectfully