Did the USA play a significantly negative role in events leading to Ukraine invasion?

There are children of all ages, grandmothers, and grandfathers killed here that a sign of an execution. Turns out 20 and 30-year-olds males and females, it is probably because there the Ukrainian civilian army

Still a war crime to kill a captured combatant if that is what the retreating Russian army did here?

At least 400,000 Yemeni children under 5 could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, four U.N. agencies said on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-malnutrition-int-idUSKBN2AC18V

Where the all idiots on that thread showing Yemen flags in their account and losing their **** over that war. They only appeared in that thread because it was Russia they don't care people are dying it's all a pathetic moral outrage.

Regards to this, i wait to see and just dropped images out of the blue, and haven't heard what Russia's response is.

I'm very curious to know which of the Bellingcat articles that you were shown "were good" journalism.

You won't tell us though.

What I think is happening here is that you found the first article on your usual propaganda feeds. Most likely some crank posted the article and some out of context quote from it. You were told that it was an example of "mainstream media" agreeing with you. You believed this. You never read the article or bothered to find out more about Bellingcat or any of the other stuff they do. You did this because you are extremely gullible.

Then you posted the article and the opinion you were fed like a good little bot. But now you've been shown articles from the site that disagree with your silly conspiracy views, you realise that Bellingcat doesn't support you. So your instinct is to use your natural conspiracy theorist reflex and declare that all mainstream media is fake. But you realise you can't do this, as that would mean that the article you posted was wrong. And as we all know, you can't possibly be wrong.

So you weasel around it. Despite probably never even having heard of Bellingcat until a few days ago, you invent this opinion that they are "capable of good journalism from time to time." Total bullshit of course, but it allows you to keep the article you posted, while dismissing all of the articles you don't want to believe.

I'm sure you think you're very clever with this little trick. But I assure you, it's fooled no one.

It's only served to make you look even more ridiculous and show how intellectually dishonest you are.

Out of curiosity, do you believe all of those victims were all Ukrainian military? Or are they crisis actors? Or...?

Do you now accept that maybe Russia is targeting, attacking and killing civilians?

But wierd to get all offended and pearl clutching about some pictures given what you were claiming about victims like that earlier in the thread.

Personally, I think you're using the faux outrage as an excuse to bail out of the thread without actually withdrawing your claims or admitting you were wrong.

No you see, posting the pictures is unforgivably offensive.

Arguing that those people aren't real or their murders were justified is fine though.

Bet you a beer next up we'll be accused of always excusing American war crimes or something.

You claimed, among other things that you thought it was not likely that Russian troops were targeting civilians.

Do you still stand behind this claim?

You claimed that it was more likely that civilian deaths were either faked, done by the Ukrainians or justified by Ukrainian Military using civilians as shield.

Do you still stand behind this claim? Do you believe that is the case here?

Personally, I think your bullshit, fence sitting, orwellian stance is far more offensive than posting pictures.

You and Cheerful and other Putin apologists are trying to make these people not exist.

Lol. Called it.

But no, I'm challenging your claims from eariler. You're not "done" with anything. You're running away because your previous stance has become a bit tasteless.

You are running away from answering the questions I asked you.

Like I said, your claims that these people were more likely to be faked, or killed by the Ukrainians, or that their deaths were justified were far far more offensive that posting pictures of them.

(I'm sure you're going to whinge about "not claiming that" but again, I asked you to clarify this directly. You declined to answer.)

These are pictures from the news, they are in the main Russia thread

You claim that Russians aren't targeting civilians, so how do you explain these scenes they are discovering north of Kyiv?

Here's your post in case you have forgotten (you've made several claiming you don't think Russians are targeting civilians)

Who's "Some of us" cheerful?

No one supports you and your insane ramblings.

@CalamariFritti any comment on Cheerfuls claims? Do you agree with them? You aren't taking issue with any of his posts.

Maybe there's a giant mirror there as well.

Again, trying to use the idea of Nazis in Ukraine to try and minimize and justify what Russia is doing.

Again, Cheerful is a holocaust denier. He has no issues with nazis.

You wrote: "Putin never said that"

Strange, here's a full quote from Putin about genocide.

"Ukraine in 2014, seized power and are holding it through sham electoral procedures, have given up on the peaceful settlement of the conflict. For eight years, for eight long years, we have done everything possible to resolve the situation by peaceful, political means. All was in vain.

“As I said in my previous address, one cannot look at what is happening there without compassion. It is simply not possible to stand all this any more. It is necessary to immediately stop this nightmare – the genocide against the millions of people living there, who rely only on Russia, only on us. These aspirations, feelings, pain of people are the main motivation for us to take the decision to recognise the people’s republics of Donbas."

What genocide?

Likewise, here's a direct quote from Putin about nuclear weapons.

"“The course of events and the incoming information show that Russia’s clash with these forces is inevitable. It is only a matter of time: they are getting ready, they are waiting for the right time. Now they also claim to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not allow this to happen.”

Did Putin not say the above?

Peskov, Putin's spokesman, pledged the Russia will "not attack anyone". There have been many similar statements from the Kremlin prior to the war. They didn't say these things?

You wrote: "Putin told the west what he need to avoid war and was not given it."

Putin made a list of demands including:

They include a demand that Nato remove any troops or weapons deployed to countries that entered the alliance after 1997, which would include much of eastern Europe, including Poland, the former Soviet countries of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Balkan countries.

Does Putin rule or have some sort of dominion of sovereign nations like Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the Balkan countries?

The world bent and scraped to Hitler's demands, didn't go so well, and these countries have grim experiences with the long repercussions that followed. Why should they bow and appease the demands of a totalitarian leader in Moscow?