Quote (kusotarre1 @ Sep 2 2022 02:24am)
Amazing how fast any pretense of supporting Ukraine because it's a democracy is abandoned the second the demos' right to be informed and voice their opinions becomes troublesome for the pursuit of 'greater' aims. The greater aims in this case being a meat puppet for NATO.
just looking for a clarification, you agree that the podcast was questionable, right ? or did i misconstrue your view ?
Also re: the Nuclear power plant, if I was russian i would be all arms open to specialists making sure the place (and me) does not blow up.
Quote (babun1024 @ Sep 2 2022 09:32am)
Djokovic knew the rules. No one forced him to cheat his ways or to take vaccine. Agree on the rest.
I specially condemn any type of unsportsman like behaviour in sports or exclusion of nations. Those people work hard all their life and make sacrifices to get to the top. By excluding them, you achieve hatred and animosity towards yourself/your nation instead of turning them against Putin.
agree with all that. im not a fan of excluding nations and im not a fan of not shaking someones hand. if they or their countries government are bad, you dont have to thow away your own integrity in response. if you represent your country and someone does not shake your hand it means they disrespect you, your government,
and every person in your country.
Also
Irish Media: "Russia is using its dominance of the European oil and gas market, where it accounts for 40% of EU gas consumption, to attempt to reduce support for Ukraine. To ramp up that pressure ahead of the winter, Russia has closed off the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany from August 31st to September 3rd – ostensibly for maintenance, but probably as an attempt to seek concessions from Brussels over sanctions relief. Meanwhile the UK's chancellor of the exchequer Nadhim Zahawi was due to meet the US treasury secretary Janet Yellen on August 31st with a plea for the US to step up energy exports to help with the crisis."
I feel this would be at political level only. I see this issue being too complex for normal people to even understand (and for sure the media struggle to vocalize it). of course my own view is if you piss in someones back garden dont be surprised if he finds a way to steal your toys. I dont see things improving, for years.
This post was edited by ferdia on Sep 2 2022 03:51am