No.That's the point. It doesn't matter what country does what,
That is exactly my point, in another post I wrote: "Evil is evil" and somebody here is whitewashing some evil.
That is hypocrisy.
No.That's the point. It doesn't matter what country does what,
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world-repor ... e-pentagonRussia has endured as many as 80,000 casualties since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February, according to the latest assessment from the Pentagon of the steep costs Moscow has paid.
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told reporters on Monday that the number of Russian soldiers killed or wounded in the fighting is somewhere between 70,000 and 80,000. Kahl, effectively the No. 3 civilian at the Pentagon, added that the number “is pretty remarkable given that Russia has achieved none of Vladimir Putin’s objectives in Ukraine.”
Sorry, on what page did you started reading this thread?Who is white washing what history?
Again, the importance of counting the number of corpses.
Are you suggesting that there is an absolute moral equivalence between killing one person and killing a million persons? Even when that one person is in the process of engaging in mass murder, and that the million are largely innocent civilians?
or, maybe...Are you suggesting that there is an absolute moral equivalence between killing one person and killing a million persons? Even when that one person is in the process of engaging in mass murder, and that the million are largely innocent civilians?
Leaders change. Policies change. Situations change.
Even when that one person is in the process of
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/europe/r ... index.htmlRussian President Vladimir Putin could formally declare war on Ukraine as soon as May 9, a move that would enable the full mobilization of Russia's reserve forces as invasion efforts continue to falter, US and Western officials believe.
May 9, known as "Victory Day" inside of Russia, commemorates the country's defeat of the Nazis in 1945. Western officials have long believed that Putin would leverage the symbolic significance and propaganda value of that day to announce either a military achievement in Ukraine, a major escalation of hostilities -- or both.
Officials have begun to hone in on one scenario, which is that Putin formally declares war on Ukraine on May 9. To date, Putin has insisted on referring to the brutal monthslong conflict as a "special military operation," effectively banning words such as invasion and war.
https://www.newsweek.com/exiled-russian ... th-1698023An exiled former Russian lawmaker said that he is "certain" that Vladimir Putin will claim "an imaginary victory" in Ukraine early next month.
"Putin will try to claim a certain victory — an imaginary victory — on May 9. I am absolutely certain about this, but the reality is that he is losing the war," Ilya Ponomarev, who was exiled from Russia's parliament in 2016 and is now fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, told CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday night.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/europe/c ... index.html
(CNN) A series of large explosions went off in the area of a Russian military airbase in the annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea on Tuesday, with footage from the scene showing large plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
The Russian defense ministry said the blasts had been caused by detonated aviation ammunition, Russian state media RIA Novosti reported.
"Around 3:20 p.m., several aviation munitions detonated on the territory of the airfield 'Saki' near the settlement of Novofedorivka," the ministry said in the statement, according to RIA Novosti.
Ambulance crews and an air ambulance were sent to the site of the explosions, according to the health ministry of the region.
Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of the Crimean region -- which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 -- confirmed several explosions had occurred near the village of Novofedorivka. On his Telegram channel, Kryuchkov said: "So far, I can only confirm the fact of several explosions in the Novofedorivka area. I ask everyone to wait for official messages."
From The Rebel* by Albert Camus, who is regarded by many as a great pacifist of the twentieth century:ibm9000 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:41 pm Oh!, I forgot to mention, those 100 are part of the 1000, all rapist and murderers, exsoldiers-children from Africa... Cambodia?, well, somewhere.
Killing one human being is evil.
If, on the other hand, you think that [b]your[/b] opinion is the only thing...
that is a dangerous road. Specially when you are the judge, jury and executioner; hopefully you pass the sentence too.
Even when that one person is in the process of
*See pages 284-285.In a flash - but that is time enough to say, provisionally, that the most extreme form of freedom, the freedom to kill, is not compatible with the sense of rebellion. Rebellion is in no way the demand for total freedom. It specifically attacks the unlimited power that authorizes a superior to violate the forbidden frontier. Far from demanding general independence, the rebel wants it to be recognized that freedom has its limits everywhere that a human being is to be found - the limit being precisely that human being's power to rebel. The most profound reason for rebellious intransigence is to be found here. The more aware rebellion is of demanding a just limit, the more inflexible it becomes. The rebel undoubtedly demands a certain degree of freedom for himself; but in no case, if he is consistent, does he demand the right to destroy the existence and freedom of others. He humiliates no one. The freedom he claims, he claims for all; the freedom he refuses, he forbids everyone to enjoy. He is not only the slave against the master, but also man against the world of master and slave. Therefore, thanks to rebellion, there is something more in history than the relation between mastery and servitude. Unlimited power is not the only law. It is in the name of another value that the rebel affirms the impossibility of total freedom while he claims for himself the relative freedom necessary to recognize this impossibility. Every human freedom, at its very roots, is therefore relative. Absolute freedom, which is the freedom to kill, is the only one which does not claim, at the same time as itself, the things that limit and obliterate it. Thus it cuts itself off from its roots and - abstract and malevolent shade - wanders haphazardly until such time as it imagines that it has found substance as some ideology.
It is then possible to say that rebellion, when it develops into destruction, is illogical. Claiming the unity of the human condition, it is a force of life, not of death.