And still getting his ass kicked by civilian volunteers with drones.
Why don't the Russian people get rid of this asshole?
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And still getting his ass kicked by civilian volunteers with drones.
Why don't the Russian people get rid of this asshole?
Gosh.... Why didn't the Germans kill Hitler? Why didn't Japanese kill their "emperor" during world war 2? Why didn't soviets kill Stalin or lenin ? What's up with the dictators in China, why didn't the Chinese kill them ? Why don't the north Koreans kill their "leader"? Why didn't Iraqi people kill Saddam Husain? Why didn't Syria kill their Bashar al Assad? Why didn't the Cubans kill Fidel Castro? Why didn't the French kill Napoleon Bonaparte?
Maybe 🤔😏 people just LOVE living under dictatorial regimes?
Who knows?... We'll probably never know...
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The French managed it. The Haitians. Even the Libyans. I know it's easier said than done, but quitters never win, do they?
Commented their way to revolution. Got it.
Looks like it's all going according to Putin's plan.
I'm the last guy to put on a tinfoil hat, but the whole situation seems like it was engineered by Russia to take pressure off their war with the Ukraine.
They said that the Hamas attack took at least one year to plan, maybe 18 months. Putin thought he would win the war on Ukraine quickly.
So I have my doubts that this was perfectly orchestrated to take attention away at the right time.
Russia and Iran's strategy is more likely loosely aligned.
Can we please give the armed forces of Ukraine finally airplanes? The offensive is going nowhere if they are not supplied with an edge in combat gear.
Ukraine needs all the air defense they can get. Russia has been signaling they will try again to freeze the civilian population this winter.
If we'd shift funds from Israel (who are committing genocide) to Ukraine (who are defending themselves) it helps Palestine and hurts Russia too.
Is a win/win.
Imagine if Ukraine had the iron dome America bought Israel.
So you want Israel to be bombed even more and everyone there killed? Because that's the plan of Palestine and Lebanon (which is genocide btw). And would happen if they didn't have the iron dome.
Those bombings only happen because of retaliation to turning their country into a concentration camp.
Terrorism can not be justified, but I doubt many (including you) would act differently if you were in the situation Palestine is in.
Palestine did plenty much on their own to turn Gaza and West Bank into places not good to live in. Decisions I would definitely not share since I am not an Islamic non-democratic women-and-LGBTQ-hating anti-Semite.
They are not concentration camps. Perhaps you should look at how concentration camps worked if you try to compare the two.
There is a lot of misinformation in your comment.
The United States didn't fund Israel's iron dome system.
There isn't a genocide (race / tribe killing) in Gaza. That's a population transfer or eviction of lands.
Ukraine and the United States are working together to implement a air defense system. A likely defense treaty and a 100 year lease on military bases in exchange for infrastructure rebuilding is on the table.
There isn’t a genocide (race / tribe killing) in Gaza
Genocide isn't just killing...
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
And even if that was just indiscriminate killing based on race/ethnicity, the UN is already saying what Israel is doing amounts to that
Your opinion is your opinion.
But what is/isn't a genocide is clearly defined in the Geneva convention. And even if you're definition was correct, the UN disagrees with you about Israel meeting that definition.
The UN's humans rights body is heavily biased against Israel. And in general not a neutral party as you seem to think.
Of the 193 countries which make up the UN, the majority (133) are non-democratic states. 48 are countries belonging to the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation).
Of the 280 human rights condemnations the UN has found world wide between 2006 and 2023, 103 where in Israel. They found none in, for example, China, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. They also didn't cry genocide during the genocide in Rwanda.
I 100 % believe Israel commits war crimes against Palestine. But I do not believe that Israel alone is responsible for almost 40 % of all human rights violations world wide since 2006.
Makes sense, UN can only produce a finite amount of concern, not enough to express it on 2 major conflicts.
UN doing absolutely diddly in two major theaters of conflict rather than just the one.
You don't understand what the UN is. It's a common misconception.
The purpose of the UN is to have a diplomatic environment where all can be heard in front of all others. It's to encourage diplomatic solutions to problems and to defuse conflicts.
The UN doesn't have any way to do anything, it's merely a fancy forum. Its members could meet at the UN and decide to do something (although it can be legally complicated) but that's not on the UN.
The purpose of the UN is to have a diplomatic environment where all can be heard in front of all others.
A dialogue that fails to yield productive policy is mere busy work.
It’s to encourage diplomatic solutions to problems and to defuse conflicts.
Right now we're having a debate over whether a ceasefire would be antisemitic. That's not a conversation that behooves diplomatic solutions or defuses conflicts. It just serves to distract public attention while folks in Gaza are exterminated.
We all hope that you'll graduate into the diplomatic corps of whatever place you're in and single-handedly solve the world's problems. Best luck to you.
There's certain openings. Since the war started, even Biden's designated state department armies dealer can no longer stomach the job.