Quote (ferdia @ Mar 21 2023 04:51pm)
Quote (kusotarre1 @ Mar 21 2023 01:14pm)
Russia is more democratic than France, not even close.
really ?
Yes. As soon as you start looking at democracy as a system of delivering results people want, rather than as a narrow process of voting but completely disregarding whether or not people get what they want, it becomes clear that bourgeois liberal democracies are some of the least democratic countries on the planet.
Quote (ferdia @ Mar 21 2023 04:51pm)
Mr Putin also used the press conference to accuse the West of deploying weapons with a "nuclear component" and said Russia would be "forced to react" if the UK sent shells made with depleted uranium to Ukraine. .
The UK's Ministry of Defence said depleted uranium was a "standard component" which had "nothing to do with nuclear weapons".
Depleted uranium is poisonous. Look at what happens to babies when an army is allowed to fire off depleted uranium rounds everywhere, leading to widespread ingestion of it through the food and water supply:
https://www.google.com/search?q=iraq+birth+defects (click over to the images tab)
If the US tries to spread depleted uranium throughout Ukraine, Russia should absolutely view that as a type of nuclear escalation that is intended to poison future generations.
Quote (fender @ Mar 21 2023 05:03pm)
what kind of idiot would read that and think "wow, that's a reasonable framing of the situation, surely anyone interested in peace will need to make a compromise here"
The vast majority of the world's population, who fully understand how the West is at fault for this war. But please, the proper term for these people isn't "idiots", it's "the jungle".
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Mar 21 2023 06:31pm