Now, you promised to respond to what I said after I responded to the framework. I await...
***Ok then. On the basis of your yes-or-no approach towards the profile, at least it’s a start. Now I will actually read whatever it is you wrote.
OtherFreeper: Never could I have ever imagined that in 2022 there would be a whole host of giddy cheerleaders hooping and hollering every time Russia or China do something that will hurt the West or America
S&F: Simply logic — Western Government lied to us about the origins of Covid.
***Kind of irrelevant for the most part. Covid came from China, not Russia. The previous FReeper threw in China and now that side remark has come to bite us because the thread was about Russia. But since you answered the profile, presumably in good faith, I will go along with this red herring. But keep in mind it’s CHINA CHINA CHINA not RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA.
The Covid pandemic has shown that Western governments are also totalitarian,
***It took Covid to show you this? I have known it for decades.
forcing vaccines and other restrictions on everyone.
***Just the beginning. Where we are headed is the System of the Beast predicted 2000 years ago in Revelation 13.
Western Governments have lied us into participating in wars we should not have been involved in (e.g. Iraq, Libya, etc. ),
***They always lie, especially about wars. But Iraq1 was a just war, we were fighting a guy who invaded his neighbor over oil, just like Putin is doing.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
and then leaving a bigger mess in these countries than before ( see Afghanistan as a most recent example).
***You’re talking about the difference between a fight over terrorism and a State Department implementation of bullshiite StateBuilding policy. The answer is the emBASEee strategee
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4043681/posts
Western governments are controlled by Big Tech, Big Corporations, Big Media and the like,
***This is your assertion. I agree with much of it, but keep in mind that it is simply an assertion. Since you led with Covid bullshiite, I was inclined not to even READ your assertion, but since you posted a profile I have read your assertion. The pivot point is that word “controlled”. I see it as more of a swarming chaos, not control.
whose values are antithetical to what we traditionally hold dear.
***Here I apologize for not reading your screed, assuming you told the truth on your profile.
Western Governments are controlled by WOKE and CANCEL CULTURE.
***I think there’s a scale involved. From IGNORING woke/cancelCulture to CONTROLLEDbyIT. On that scale I see it as INFESTED by it like a cabin infested with rats.
Russia and China on the other hand, DO NOT TOLERATE these Woke, LGBTQ nonsense.
***First of all, they do tolerate it they just don’t UPHOLD it. Second of all, they are authoritarian guvmints so they have more choices of what they’re gonna squash. In a way, we can look on this moral pestilence as a cost of our freedom. Third of all, you’re kind of far away from your Covid rant. This thread is about: “Mum on Ukraine’s Security Wish List, Putin Instead Sends a Warlord to Mariupol”.
Ergo, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
***Ergo? You are in a galaxy far, far away from proving your assertions.
Prove me wrong.
***What a shiiteload of bluster that statement is. Do you even understand what an inductive proof is?
RE: But Iraq1 was a just war, we were fighting a guy who invaded his neighbor over oil, just like Putin is doing.
I was NOT talking about Iraq1, that was in fact a good example of a just operation with an exit strategy... kick Saddam’s army out of Kuwait and go home.
We achieved the first objective but had to baby sit the region until.... Bush jr. told us we had to go to war in Iraq a SECOND TIME to get rid of Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction.
So, tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars later, where were the WMDs that was the reason for going to war?
We then participated in another operation to take out Khadaffy in Libya (this, after he openly gave up his WMDs ) turning Libya into a worse hell hole than before resulting in tens of thousands of refugees.
In these regard, what makes our policies and better than Russia’s?