RE: Russia and Ukraine
May 23, 2022 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2022 at 2:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 23, 2022 at 2:14 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(May 23, 2022 at 2:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: A TQ is an explicit admission that someone's point is factually accurate. Russia (or, at least four or five people in russia....) may think that military belligerence and territorial expansion is in it's best interests. That's on them, right or wrong....not the US or anyone else.
as if ignoring that easily predicable and recognizable reality makes one blameless for the consequence, so long as one can cocoon oneself in a shell of suitable self-righteousness selected specifically to be materially advantageous to oneself at other people’s expense.
Another swing, another miss.
Right...or wrong. Im suggesting that Russia owns their own decisions. That Putin owns his own decisions. Hey..though, by all means, tell me how Russia and Putin are but passive observers backed into situations that they have no agency in.... utterly at the whim of [checks notes]....the US? If that's so, I guess we should just back them into a situation where invading other countries is the absolute worst thing they could do for their own interests - as that will surely make them stop doing whatever it is they think they're doing, and get them doing what we want...because it's not as if they could make any other choice. /s
A TQ..is an explicit admission... that someone's point is factually accurate.
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