03-07-2022, 04:43 PM
(03-07-2022, 07:14 AM)Duchess Wrote:(03-06-2022, 08:27 PM)rothschild Wrote: Yes, they need to get out because the Russian military is destroying the Ukrainian infrastructure, much like Bush and Cheney did in Iraq -- and let's not forget that it was under their "leadership" that war reporters were embedded into military units, which is censorship.
It was entirely predictable that Putin would retaliate militarily if the West kept poking the hornet's nest, which it did -- also very predictable, given that neocons are involved, just as they were in Iraq. So it simply isn't true that Putin is entirely to blame for this, because the aggressive eastward expansion of NATO is blatantly hostile from a Russian perspective.
If we can't include the Russian perspective in passing judgement on this mess -- which has been long in the making -- we probably aren't fit to judge much of anything.
All that because I posted a picture of a packed train station? I ask because that's what you're quoting. I didn't mention the war criminals, Bush & Cheney, I didn't mention NATO, I didn't even mention the Russians, I posted a photograph with a small description and yet here are you & Sally not only justifying what is going down but telling all of us to have some perspective and scolding us for judging Putin.
Everything I mentioned is what the "news" outlets would be talking about if they had any journalistic integrity. They're all part of the equation, none of them occur in a vacuum, they are not isolated events, yet that is how they are reported on.
As for war criminals Cheney and Bush, why is it they haven't been prosecuted and convicted? Because we live in a world that's rife with double standards? Perhaps you should consider that double standards undermine the so-called rule of law, so if we'd like to live in a world where military aggression is no longer considered acceptable, eliminating them would be extremely helpful.