So you want people who believe in defending the national security of the United States, to be killed.
Including your fellow Freepers.
Take your long diarrhea article of apologies for the ridiculous Russia dictatorship, and shove it.
“So you want people who believe in defending the national security of the United States, to be killed.”
That’s childish, but proves your slavery to the Cold War trope that Russians are still “The Evil Empire.”
You should note that, when President G. W. Bush enumerated membership in “The Axis Of Evil,” Russia wasn’t included. You might consider pausing long enough to deeply consider why.
The reality is that warmongering forces in this country — including the entire “Russia, Russia, Russia!” squad on the left — have never permitted Russians to cease being Soviets. They pine for the Cold War when people looked to them for policy guidance, recalling the warm thrill that went down their leg as they peer wistfully into the depths of their gin and tonic. But in continuing to view Russians through that time-worn Soviet lens, their perspective is inherently clouded by the burned-in image of a bygone spectre that neither any longer embodies the truth of the Russian stance nor permits a clear view of it.
The supreme irony, here, is that — whereas the left-press long ago fretted aloud that Ronald Reagan was “gonna get us into a shooting war with the Soviets” — these center-right NeoCon relics of the Cold War, allegedly “real conservatives,” and their ProgLeft “Russia! Russia! Russia!” counterparts have, right up to the present hour, been pushing Foreign Policy postures that actually do flex the needle in exactly that direction. The manner in which these confrontational, saber-rattling policy stances imperil all humanity is so antithetical to any inclination toward an harmonious geopolitics that one must wonder whether they don’t find some personal sense of glee in thus urging the hands of the Doomsday Clock toward Midnight.
The stubborn, decades-long refusal to entertain the commonsense claim that Russians, having left the Soviet era in the dust, are happy, now, to have done so, and no longer think and act in comity with those discarded paradigms is patently ludicrous. To go further, and drive policy positions that keep Russia geopolitically chained to that discarded past, to the point of thermonuclear brinksmanship on the world stage with humanity itself in the balance, is utterly unconscionable insanity, and — absolutely — “Yes,” I would wish Karmic limited nuclear death upon them in trade for the lives of the rest of humanity.
Absolutely.
Right now.
TODAY if at all possible.