Yes I made it up. ItâÂÂs a riff on the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Days. ThatâÂÂs how I see this group of Russia supporters. I might mock other posters, but I donâÂÂt call them the foul epithets I get called.
I’ve never seen anyone use those kind of terms other than the Young Putineers. And I seldom report abuse, unless it’s an outright lie about me. Come to think of it….
It’s interesting how the Young Putineers twist the truth, and make such knee jerk reactions. I’m called any number of vile things here, condemned as holding all sorts of views that I don’t express nor support on this forum, and then I’m accused of wanting “censorship?” When did I post that?
I want “to build some kind of authoritarian totalitarian army of opposition?” Not like the Putineers who wrote “I’d be dealt with?” I think there’s a bit of projection going on.
You mean like people who call other posters “retard, idiot, twit, warmongering Bushite neocon, Biden stooge, Soros lover, fag, motherf*cker, twatbag, asshole, communist, globalist stooge, loser?” Or is that okay if it’s a Young Putineer doing the calling out?
I’m not a G man, but my grandfather was in the Secret Service. Left that job in 1919. Never met the man though. He died about twenty years before I was born.
The term “rooting” came from another poster who asked why Scott Ritter was rooting for Putin. So I asked why so many posters here are rooting for Putin. Which many are, though some deny it.
I will say it’s been quite a week. I’ve been labeled both pretentious and “unserious.” Among other things.
Biden just happens to make common cause. My only concern here is that an aggressive power like Russia under Putin doesn’t benefit by waging war in an 18th Century style. Risk is a board game and shouldn’t be played with real countries.
To say that of all the Young Putineers you have been the biggest disappointment is an understatement. To justify Russian hegemony because they have “dominated” the region is nothing but rank propaganda. What is now Ukraine actually predates Russia. The rulers of Russia expanded the Grand Duchy of Moscow by conquest into the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and finally the Soviet Union. Ask the Poles or the Baltic States how they feel about it.
The dismal state of the Russian military manifested in their lack of supplies and equipment alone demonstrates that Russia is every bit as corrupt as Ukraine if not more so. Yet only one of those two countries is a multiple aggressor in wars of conquest.