"Does it require that Germans sacrifice their current economy because of sanctions and a US proxy war that could have been easily avoided and could even now be immediately ended instead of being stoked ever more dangerously to the brink of nuclear war?"
"All it would have taken, and all it would take now, is a simple No. No to Ukraine ever joining NATO, no to nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and no to Ukraine’s refusal to implement the Minsk 2 agreement, and as Scholz quite reasonably proposed, a declaration of neutrality “as part of a wider European security deal between the West and Russia.” I fail to see how any rational person can fail to see the common sense and utter simplicity of this, as an alternative to war."
And
"What we are seeing now in Ukraine is insanity. No one is going to accept any guilt. That may come later, if there is a later. "
Michael David Morrissey
Published in Pressenza NY 10 May 2022
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The only part of your post that is correct is that small portion where you typed "could have been easily avoided". To have avoided this Russia (Putin) could have simply not invaded a neighbor for no reason at all.
Alienbeing
Level 8
May 17, 2022
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You mean like America need not have nuked Hiroshima & Nagasaki, invsded Korea, Vietnam, Irsq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Serbia & a raft of other countries, sprayed agent orange, land mines, depleted uranium and words of mass deception around the world. Illegally kidnapped & murdered people around the world without legal trial, not paid agreed to reparations for crimes committed, illegally interfered in the democratic rule of disliked elected foreign governments around the world? ** You mean that sort of "avoidance"?
Go & take your meds alien.
@FrayedBear We needed to nuke those cities, perhaps you need to study history more.
The remainder of your rant is the usual moronic spewing of your jaded mind.
Is your nursing home giving you your meds on time?
@Alienbeing like Hamburg & various other cities just needed to be fitebonbed to create firestorms?
Did anyone tell you that emulation is the sincerest form of flattery? - "giving you your meds".
@FrayedBear First since you love to correct spelling and typos, I must ask you what a "fitebonbed" is.
Second, I will never attempt to emulate you.
Third, once again study history. During WW2 firebombing was a usual tactic, used by many countries. Today it would be a problem.
Last, is your nursing home taking good care of you?
As back in the 1930s we are going through a period of the public of all countries submitting to populist leaders in a fit of tragically dangerous nostalgia for the days of strong man leaders, to whom nationalism was more important that patriotism because it catered to the insane idea of superior races (races here used in the original meaning of the word nationalities, not the fucking idiotic American and German fascist use of the word as a euphemism for ethnicity.)
When these period grip the public consciousness rules of reason and logic go out of the window and the world reverts to the doctrine of the school yard.
Might makes right
Them and us
Control of speech, behaviour, information and above all THOUGHT so if anyone dares stand up to you
REMEMBER
The guy with the biggest gang always wins
This is why Vlad (raspy) Putin HAD no choice but to try and give uppity Ukraine a bloody nose before it got in to a bigger gang than his own.
Ukraine of course COULD have backed down and promised not to join the NATO gang and not got punched, but would have been called a chicken, would have lost face and basically would have felt they had to kick the shins of someone who "Took the piss" out of them.
To carry the analogy to it's natural conclusion sooner or later there will be a big punch up, lots of people will get bloody and bruised but the two big gang leaders will be found hiding behind the bike shed sharing a crafty cigarette and deciding they are quite good mates after all.
Until the next time.
LenHazell53
Level 9
May 17, 2022
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But there again it could be an outbreak of a variant of this "And you thought covid19 an inconvenience - choreomania?"
So, just to make sure I understand your point of view: The perceived “threat” of Ukraine joining NATO necessitated the invasion of a sovereign nation by its neighbor Russia? Is this the type of behavior that all nations should engage in any time they “feel” a threat? Is preemptive invasion ever even warranted? Was it warranted in Cuba or Iraq by the United States?
I must admit that I don’t understand this love affair by Trump and others with Putin, the brutal ex-KGB assassin who has jailed, poisoned or shot his political adversaries and those who were investigating him.
p-nullifidian
Level 8
May 16, 2022
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The article by M.D. Morrisey gives rational & reasoned explanation of his views. This is contrast to the diatribe from the comedian Zelensky supposedly using his prick to play the piano. Zelensky's mentors Biden, Johnson & other fascist supporters are equally stupid and give no rational explanation for their stupidity *.
stupidity *
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
- Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
- The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
- A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
- Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
- A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Corollary: a stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.
And when will your US Presidents since 1939 be held to account for their crimes against humanity?
@FrayedBear Never
@FrayedBear Why won’t you simply admit that Vladimir Putin is a criminal? What is so difficult about this admission?
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