Russia....What It's Like

[Father Heathen]

The topic here is: whether Russia is perceived as an enemy, or not.

My answer is: no. In my country Russia has never been perceived as an enemy.
Not even now, because it deals with a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia that has nothing to do with us.

I think war crimes, oppression, human rights, humanitarian crises, etc. are everyone's business. Are Italians sociopaths?

 

[Father Heathen]

If those children were really innocent,
they wouldn't have bled on his boots.


Sorry...I just had to post that.

I wonder how much LGBT blood is also on his boots, and why that doesn't matter to @Estro Felino , despite being a trans woman herself. That's some wacky cognitive dissonance.

 

[Revoltingest]

I wonder how much LGBT blood is also on his boots, and why that doesn't matter to @Estro Felino , despite being a trans woman herself. That's some ****ed up cognitive dissonance.

I'd replace the "ed" with asterisks in order to comply with the RF rule about profanity.

 

[Estro Felino]

I wonder how much LGBT blood is also on his boots, and why that doesn't matter to @Estro Felino , despite being a trans woman herself. That's some wacky cognitive dissonance.

I think war crimes, oppression, human rights, humanitarian crises, etc. are everyone's business. Are Italians sociopaths?

The Cold War involves USA and Russia. My country stays out of it.
Meaning we don't want to be the enemies of anybody.
That said, I have never said I condone war crimes, war, human rights violations.
I did say I want an International Criminal Trial to ascertain the crimes there.

 

[Father Heathen]

The Cold War involves USA and Russia. My country stays out of it.
Meaning we don't want to be the enemies of anybody.

Completely irrelevant and off topic. Don't spam the thread.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Cold War involves USA and Russia. My country stays out of it.

Italy is in NATO.
So they're part of the Cold War.

 

[Estro Felino]

Italy is in NATO.
So they're part of the Cold War.

May I suggest as NATO member to make Russia join the NATO, so this war and future wars end?

 

[Revoltingest]

May I suggest as NATO member to make Russia join the NATO, so this war and future wars end?

Do you think that would stop Putin?
NATO is there to defend against Russia,
so how would it deal with Russian
aggression against a NATO member?

 

[Revoltingest]

Great strategy by Ukraine!

Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline

The Ukrainian military's surrender hotline, dubbed 'I Want to Live,' is enticing some Russian soldiers to quit the battlefield as the war drags on.

news.yahoo.com

Excerpted...
Bound for the battlefield, sounding harried and anxious, the Russian soldier placed a hasty phone call — to a Ukrainian military hotline.

"They say you can help me surrender voluntarily, is that right?" asked the serviceman, explaining that he was soon to be deployed near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.

"When Ukrainian soldiers come, do I just kneel down, or what? Do you promise not to film me while this is happening?"

In fluent Russian, the hotline operator calmly assured him he’d be given detailed instructions on how to safely lay down his weapon and turn himself in.

"When you get to the front lines, just call us right away," she said.

At a crucial juncture in an extraordinarily bloody war, Ukraine’s military is focused on one task: removing Russian soldiers from the battlefield. But faced with a foe whose ranks are known to be riddled with unwilling fighters, Ukrainian military strategists realized there might be more than one means to that end.

With that, the “I Want to Live” outreach was born, aimed at providing invading forces with step-by-step information on how to abandon the ranks. Initially run by Ukrainian police, the program has had a ramped-up, military-operated version in place since mid-September.

 

[Estro Felino]

Do you think that would stop Putin?
NATO is there to defend against Russia,
so how would it deal with Russian
aggression against a NATO member?

Someone may suspect that it's the USA that doesn't want Russia in the NATO, because USA needs enemies to fight with.
With all allies, and no enemy the purpose of the NATO would cease to exist.

 

[Stevicus]

Someone may suspect that it's the USA that doesn't want Russia in the NATO, because USA needs enemies to fight with.
With all allies, and no enemy the purpose of the NATO would cease to exist.

I never could understand the US government's attitude towards Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union. It seemed it would have been a golden opportunity to restart relations on the right foot. There still were and would have been enemies, but if the major powers had all been unified and formed a united front, would we really have that much trouble from countries like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, or North Korea right now? Would there be so much dissension and turmoil in the world, if the top leaders in the world would just deign to cooperate with each other and not act like a bunch of stubborn, egotistical fools?

 

[Revoltingest]

Someone may suspect that it's the USA that doesn't want Russia in the NATO, because USA needs enemies to fight with.
With all allies, and no enemy the purpose of the NATO would cease to exist.

Someone may suspect that Putin's minions
spread such rumors in order to justify
violent resurrection of the Soviet Union.

 

[Revoltingest]

A dangerous place, even to the elites.
'MURDER INC': 39 high profile Russians mysteriously die...

 

[Estro Felino]

Someone may suspect that Putin's minions
spread such rumors in order to justify
violent resurrection of the Soviet Union.

But seeing the horrendous neo-liberistic drift in the US, don't you think we Europeans have much more in common with socialist Russia, than with the US?

 

[Revoltingest]

But seeing the horrendous neo-liberistic drift in the US, don't you think we Europeans have much more in common with socialist Russia, than with the US?

Much of Europe is friendly to vicious authoritarian dictators.
I certainly don't expect them to favor USA over Putin.

What is "neo-liberistic" in English?

 

[Stevicus]

What is "neo-liberistic" in English?

Neo-liberalism, I would guess.

 

[Revoltingest]

Neo-liberalism, I would guess.

I wonder what that term means to an Italian?
I don't even know what it means here.

 

[Estro Felino]

I wonder what that term means to an Italian?
I don't even know what it means here.

Liberism is a term created by Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, who was an Anti-Fascist, by the way.


For instance, liberism is what enables Capitalists to unleash all their animalistic instincts...that is greed, greed, greed.
Lust for money.
Because liberism is the liberty, the freedom they have to enrich themselves at cost of the neighbor's poverty.

Neo-liberism is used as post-modern term for Croce's idea of liberism. And it is used by economists as a pejorative, derogative term for the horrendous, squalid and devastating effect of laissez-faire Capitalism. A Capitalism where the State is reduced to a private entity that undergoes the tyranny of greedy bankers and financial groups.

Is it satisfying?

 

[Stevicus]

I wonder what that term means to an Italian?
I don't even know what it means here.

It means liberalism covered in a rich, zesty marinara sauce, with Italian sausage and meatballs.

 

[Revoltingest]

It means liberalism covered in a rich, zesty marinara sauce, with Italian sausage and meatballs.

I hope with olives & capers.