Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Fine talk from a Mod who should be setting standards. I've seen people banned on here for less.

A) I'm not a mod of this forum. B) I said that post was hysterical, not you. That's the difference and I adhere to that, see below where you don't.

More people support military intervention IN UKRAINE (I never said Russia) than oppose it.

So? The Brexit vote passed and Trump got voted in. More people voted for those that didn't. Doesn't mean either were sensible.

Billions of people WILL die in wars, from now and all future wars. That's a fact. Unless we prevent it. What part of that is hysterics?

In the history of the human race you'd be very hard pressed to find a billion people, never mind billions to have been killed in wars. The two worst wars in history, WW1 and WW2 killed around 100 million between them. And since I don't have a crystal ball and neither do you you can't claim billions of people will die in wars in the future. We can say that if a nuclear exchange between the West and Russia actually kicked off, billions would indeed die.

Why do many of your long-winded replies tend to focus on deriding and trying to belittle people, when you are the one in the minority. Do you also cut and paste your rhetoric to send to all the Generals, senior war strategists, government figures and many others who believe intervention to be the best option?... I Think not. You'll just spew it out on here in the ignorance of your self belief that you're smarter than others on Boards.

Given the West and NATO have not directly intervened in this war, when they did in Syria and other places and the US have been quick to jump in with both feet in the last thirty years, what does that tell you of the opinions of the generals et al who are actually in charge?

I thought this was the Russia thread.

Would you prefer it if people derailed it with Syrian content?

I didn't derail it, though I knew you'd jump to that. I did point out what I see as the blindspots bordering on the current events closer to home hypocrisy of the gung ho arguments around this conflict. It's hard to work out a true figure for casualities on all sides in this war, but if we go for the highest number which is around 30,000. OK, so we're willing to risk WW3 for 30,000, but with half a million dead we weren't? Or the 80,000 killed in Chechnya which putin caused. Something somewhere is wrong with that logic and that needs to be said and considered and it doesn't take away from the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine right now .

And what exactly makes you think I had no clue?...

Call it a hunch*.

The fact that you are the hysterical one speaks volumes.

Some Mod. You're a disgrace.

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*TBH my own knowledge of Ukraine was minimal, based on someone I knew from there back in 2010 and a couple of youtube Bald and Bankrupt vids. Russia from general interests in WW2, the space race and their military aircraft, a school project I did as a kid and an interest in the Byzantines and their influence on Kievan Rus(Kyivan Rus now I suppose) and later in Russia herself after the eastern empire fell when they painted themselves as the Third Rome(which actually seems to have had an impact on their thinking). And their dalliance with modernism and constructivism. I have known a few Russians living here, but TBH with few exceptions they weren't that interesting on the history front and much of it was clearly biased. I did see Winter on Fire and Stone's putin backed riposte when they came out, but TBH didn't really care that much after the lights went up. I'd be lying if I claimed otherwise.

Personally I've long suspected that one reason for the drive for Brexit from their rich and powerful was to keep the beady eye, or future beady eyes off their banking system which makes the Swiss look moral. That Zelensky, who well knows the score, praised the British government, rolled out the red carpet for Johnson, the current head of the snake party which stinks with dirty Russian money, whose capital has the nickname of Londongrad and whose government took their sweet time and are taking their sweet time giving safe haven to Ukrainian refugees showed how desperately he needs the weapons Johnson is giving him. Then again when your back is against the wall and a prick offers you help and even though you know he's a prick, you'll take that help. Expediency and good politics.