Hmm. Approximately 6% of the population of Canada is anti-vax, meaning that they won't take the vaccine no matter how much they are pressured or educated on it. The news is overwhelmingly pro-vax, meaning that it strongly advocates all the time that you should be fully vaccinated. The news...
A simple internet search gives this definition:
a particular system of faith and worship
Is this inadequate?
Somethings religions may have that are not by themselves definitionally sufficient:
a philsophy (example: secular humanism)
a set of beliefs (example: scientific theory)
a tradition...
You could hope that he withdraws from Ukraine, but you go farther. You could hope he receives justice, but you go farther. You could hope for his death (which is already somewhat evil), but you go farther. You hope he kills himself. Then you have the audacity to claim that your evil thought...
I don't think there's anything to read into Trump's statement other than exactly what he said, "Putin is a genius". It doesn't project as strong or weak, it's just an observation about Putin. What's there to figure out?
It is what it is.
I get that people are afraid that if they do...
Yikes :eek:, hoping that Putin will suicide... that's an evil thought!
Which you have from the comfort of believing that you are safely uninvolved.
Your hope that WW3 isn't here and that you will avoid it is very Ent-like though.
What about it?
There is. It's not difficult to find with a simple online search. For example:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html
Maybe?!?
If they think they can...
Strength comes from the courage to stand up to aggressors.
For example, Trump stood up to Russia; he put hard sanctions on Russia. He gave javelins to Ukraine. He stood up to North Korea. He rebuilt the U.S. military which was greatly depleted. He faced bullies with courage and his...
The way the NATO talks about the situation is a little bit like the Ents from Lord of the Rings. They see a tragedy unfolding so they gather together and just sort of talk about it.
AKA appeasement.
I can't help but see the irony that a critical goal of the invasion is to monopolize the oil and natural gas energy reserves of Ukraine and yet, as a consequence of the invasion, no one will buy energy from Russia.
Also ironic that if the goal is to make Russia secure from invasion, yet Russia...
To be clear, Putin would have to kill millions of Ukrainian civilians in order to conquer Ukraine. So when we talk about things getting much worse, it's important to understand that Putin's only option to conquer Ukraine is to systematically annihilate their people.
Nuclear Weapons are a big deal. Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons at the Budapest Memorandum in an agreement with Russia and other nuclear powers. Now Belarus (another country bordering Russia) has approved a referendum to renounce its own non-nuclear status in order to discourage potential...
Putin has the audacity to claim that he is invading Ukraine to demilitarize and denazify, when it is clearly Russia that has built up military forces for the purpose of an invasion. Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, is an outspoken Jew decended from Holocaust survivors.