Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 27 2022 01:00am)
If we're a few years in the future and Russian troops are bleeding out holding the war-torn, blasted ruins of former population centers reduced to rubble as guerillas fight a bitter last stand to kill one Russian for every hundred dead Ukrainians, if Zelensky has been executed after a show trial and the west is funneling stingers to the surviving Taliban-esque resistance, if all their infrastructure is destroyed and refugees have flooded Poland and Hungary and are filtering into the western EU, will that be a great victory for western democracy?
You know what the idealists standing up for freedom at Tiannamen Square, the barricades of the June Rebellion, the slave armies of Spartacus, the populists flooding Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring and the monks of the Tibetan Uprising all have in common? Maybe if Mel Gibson had shouted 'freedom' a little louder, God would have gone back in time and listened.
Will it be a victory for Russia? They are the invaders. Finland and Sweden was threatened. You know Poland and the Baltics are next. If Ukraine joined NATO they would be secure. This invasion is a ringing endorsement of NATO. Anyone who doesn't join can see their fate now.
Putin did a lot of work on GDP to throw it away like this. His people will be in breadines.
Weird so many advocates for the Soviet Union on PaRD. Tuck the cuck endorsed Putin and the invasion too, said Putin never called him racist.
But Russia is swallowing a porcupine. Do you think they can win this? The war is only popular with Putin himself and the american right.
This post was edited by Skinned on Feb 27 2022 12:24am