LOLS, you're an idiot, to start with.
I'm not. I have a bachelors, masters, three publications, have lived in three countries, have travelled to fourteen. I'm not an idiot. This is not an argument, it's an ad hominem attack and a poor start.
I suggest you discuss your serious social issue with your mother
Leave my dead mother out of this. She was an amazing woman and she probably would have loved you despite the fact that you're being a complete asshole.
The Soviets invaded a sovereign nation using the same false pretenses they used to invade Crimea.
The Soviets are gone. If you mean the Russian government, that's entirely different. Are they autocratic? yes. Are they just as evil as George W Bush when he invaded Iraq for no reason? Absolutely. However, The US was unprovoked against Iraq. Russia is watching NATO push membership to bordering nations. The security threat is a real one. It doesn't justify war, but it's a bigger threat than Iraq was to the US.
The Soviets have shipped Ukrainian hostages inside the Soviet borders as hostages.
Source? From what I've gathered. Russians (not Soviets, I don't know why you still exit in the cold war) have made checkpoints to help get civilians out of areas. Patrick Lancaster has several videos/dispatches showing this. On top of this, Russians are allowing Uranian civilians to leave conflict areas. Ukraine is preventing men from leaving, and forcing conscription.
The Soviets have bombed hospitals, schools, murdered tied and blindfolded civilians
All the evidence from that recent rocket attack shows that it came from Ukrainian forces: https://eprimefeed.com/latest-news/the-serial-number-of-the-rocket-that-fell-on-kramatorsk-showed-that-it-belonged-to-ukraine/55337/
Patrick Lancaster's videos show lots of Ukrainian soldiers using civilian areas as shield:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjTWVaRx6jMN5ZYgbqe2_w
Look, you and I don't know what's really going on. There is a massive fog of war. American news agencies are pushing insane propaganda. Did you read my article? Did you read the section about how ever initial news report turned out to be false. How do you know what's really going on?
Just look at these headlines. There are videos of Uranian troops shooting Russian POWs in the legs, after being captured. That's literally a war crime. Now low at how the headlines are dressing that up with titles like "Videos purportedly show" .. or articles suggesting that Russian troops are shooting themselves in their own legs!
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Ukrainains+shooting+russian+troops+legs
Meanwhile you have shit outlets like The Sun, which just lost a massive defamation case to Project Veritas, trying to claim Russian has lost 40,000 troops, an absolutely insane and obviously false claim (America lost 50k soldiers in the ENTIRE multiyear Vietnam war)
You are not an idiot, but you are very impassioned. You believe without thinking; ideological. The media is lying to all of us, and it's impossible to really determine what's going on. Your response is really shitty. You can have a rational discussion were we look at sources and make arguments. But you drone on about "Soviets" instead and call me some kind of propaganda (trust me, I run zero ads and I'm not getting thousands of people to my person blog).
I think you're emotional an ill-informed, but honestly that's pretty typical for most of the human population these days.
Your mother failed to teach you respectful conversation. I'm not one of your drinking buddie that you can casually harangue with obscenity-laced messages.
I call them as I see them. As Soviets they act, so as Soviets they're labeled. Putin is a mentally unstable re-incarnation of Stalin.
A rational leader does not invade another country because of whom they befriend. Putin is an insane troll suffering from Short Man Syndrome. He's now threatening Sweden and Finland because of their possible NATO membership. Is that the act of a rational person? They're looking to NATO because the Soviet troll is out of control.
Pointing out the odd less-than-credible news source is a wonderful hobby, but even they do get things right.
Regarding the information I am privy to, it's greater than what you read on the web. We're directly involved in relief and material supply.
Your mother failed to teach you respectful conversation
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye" -Matthew 7:5
I call them as I see them
War is propaganda. There is a fog of war. You cannot know the facts now, nor can I. Both of us will be wrong when people examine everything 125 years from now.
As Soviets they act, so as Soviets they're labeled
Dude, there are literally no Soviets. That empire died.
Putin is a mentally unstable re-incarnation of Stalin.
Putin is a puppet. Every leader requires the support people under them to maintain power. The fewer number of people needed, the more autocratic. The more people needed, the more democratic. (Source: The Dictators Handbook; really an excellent book about selectorate theory).
A rational leader does not invade another country because of whom they befriend.
Yep, George W Bush was a terrible leader and should be in prison for war crimes. He isn't.
Pointing out the odd less-than-credible news source is a wonderful hobby, but even they do get things right.
Criticising sources is a way to side-step the argument. You can always say "That's not true. You're using a bad source. Really, the New York Post?!" .. and so you can dismiss the Hunter Biden Laptop ... oh wait, that's entirely true. Harvesting organs? Seriously, Alex Jones ... oh shit, that's now true too! If you refuse to acknowledge evidence just due to a source you don't like, without looking at that source's actual record, you're literally cherry picking.
Regarding the information I am privy to, it's greater than what you read on the web. We're directly involved in relief and material supply.
You have literally given zero sources. Zero evidence. Zero anything. I've provided you links. My blog posts has a full list of sources. I've added sources in this thread, which aren't good enough for you, yet you provide zero alternatives. You just insult me, call me uneducated despite the fact my entire eduction and resume are on my fucking website, insult my mother who you don't know, and you have failed in ever possible way to make any coherent argument what-so-ever. You just keep spouting axioms as fact without any actual evidence to back anything up.
You are quite figuratively a sheep; a useful idiot who beckons the drums of war between two nuclear powers.
LOLS, you're an idiot, to start with.
I suggest you discuss your serious social issue with your mother and come back after she's done something to improve your foul mouth
You're barking mad and you have no idea why. Your ideas are being challenged and you don't like it. Tough.
The Soviets invaded a sovereign nation using the same false pretenses they used to invade Crimea.
The Soviets have shipped Ukrainian hostages inside the Soviet borders as hostages. Tens of thousands of them. For no good reason. The civilians could easily have been sent through the lines to their own forces.
The people dying are dying because there is a SOVIET ARMY preventing them from getting aid from their countrymen.
The Soviets have bombed hospitals, schools, murdered tied and blindfolded civilians .
The only propaganda I see here is your insistence that the Ukraine can surrender to the Soviets.
Thank you, Prime Minister Chamberlain.
Suggesting that surrender to a foreign invader is a solution shows your support for your Soviet masters.
The Soviet economy is crashing and that's your real concern.