demagogue on 24/3/2024 at 07:47
Quote Posted by lowenz
(and no, I don't admire Nixon policies but he was right, but being an american he didn't understand how russians don't have the freedom notion of americans, they're not interested in that kind of "constitutional" freedom and surely hyper-liberism of the Eltsin era ruined every possibility to inject that notion)
I've been noticing those Nixon Foundation videos lately. The guy had his corrupt side, but by later Republican standards he was pretty reasonable even for domestic policy (he favored universal health care IIRC), but he was particularly thoughtful about international affairs, especially (famously) in dealing with the Soviets & China, although I think he clearly crossed some red lines, some of which might amount to crimes against humanity, like the bombing in Cambodia, and others just grossly inhumane like ignoring the crisis in Bangladesh.
His stories about meeting with different world leaders or his role in things happening in the world are amazing to listen to.
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On what's happening in Russia, I'm annoyed in both directions... Annoyed with people saying Russia had the terrorist attack coming or even deserved it. I could believe there was gross negligence that contributed to it and it'd be nice if that led to some accountability. But civilians, even if they support a dick, never deserve violence, and collective punishment is always wrong full stop. But I'm also annoyed how Putin is already exploiting it to bad ends, especially implausibly roping Ukraine into it unfairly.
Qooper on 24/3/2024 at 09:42
No reasonable person can be happy about the ISIS terrorists butchering russian civilians in cold blood. All loss of civilian life is tragic. The terrorist attack was almost as brutal as Hamas' attack on Israel.
Roman did a video on the topic:
[video=youtube;whWUsHN1pxM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whWUsHN1pxM[/video]
Qooper on 25/3/2024 at 08:42
ISIS has claimed that they were the ones behind the terrorist attack. putin says no, it was Ukraine. It took the russian security force more than an hour to respond to the terrorist attack, even though the main base belonging to the main directorate of their federal national guard troop service was almost next to the theater, only 5min away. Take it from here, Jake Broe:
[video=youtube;oAD9VSXWSj0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAD9VSXWSj0[/video]
nemyax on 25/3/2024 at 09:30
Quote Posted by lowenz
Death penalty returning to Russia.
Unlikely. There really is no point formalising it; it's applied freely as it is. You've probably seen the condition that the four captured sheep-fuckers were brought to court in. They'll be dead within a couple of months, death penalty or no death penalty.
lowenz on 25/3/2024 at 12:03
Quote Posted by nemyax
Unlikely. There really is no point formalising it; it's applied freely as it is. You've probably seen the condition that the four captured sheep-fuckers were brought to court in. They'll be dead within a couple of months, death penalty or no death penalty.
Not for those 4, but conveniently applied to others.
nemyax on 25/3/2024 at 12:17
They didn't need the death penalty to kill Navalny or Prigozhin, or any of the Lukoil top managers.
heywood on 25/3/2024 at 14:27
Quote Posted by Qooper
ISIS has claimed that they were the ones behind the terrorist attack. putin says no, it was Ukraine. It took the russian security force more than an hour to respond to the terrorist attack, even though the main base belonging to the main directorate of their federal national guard troop service was almost next to the theater, only 5min away. Take it from here, Jake Broe:
[video=youtube;oAD9VSXWSj0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAD9VSXWSj0[/video]
Trying to blame Ukraine for this is farcical, but the commentators who suggest this was an FSB false flag operation disgust me.
lowenz on 25/3/2024 at 14:41
Quote Posted by nemyax
They didn't need the death penalty to kill Navalny or Prigozhin, or any of the Lukoil top managers.
No, but if you want to avoid grey areas and be "respectable" (to China and other global players) you need a law.
Like the U.S. :p
Azaran on 25/3/2024 at 14:59
If only this atrocity could be the wake up call for Russia to crush Wahhabism once and for all; but it was too much to hope for from a criminal regime
