Quote (Malopox @ Sep 26 2023 02:15pm)
I doubt this was a mistake. They knew what they are doing, just thought they can get away with it.
You cannot simply meet G7 leader and a war time president behind closed doors without getting vetted and all your relatives getting vetted. They knew he was serving in SS, but were ok with it. It was only when the Jewish diaspora started crying that they had to “apologize”. And that will probably be the end of it.
Some people should have walked out when they realized what is going down after Rota introduced him. Nobody did. They are all complicit.
War is hell and POWs will get tortured and sometimes die. I wish this didn’t happen.
Well let's rationalize this. You believe they knew he was SS.
So what do they have to gain from bringing this dude. An opportunist round of applause and very minor boost of propaganda.
Versus what did they have to lose if people found out who he was.
A massive gaffe that embarrassed both nations and leaders. Giving propaganda potential to Russia that feed into their false de nazification rhetoric.
Also considering a simple google could have provided information so it's not as if the media would struggle to find out who he was.
Does that seem like a risk worth taking for so little gain?
I doubt it.
Doesn't it seem more likely that the dude fucked up?
Don't you think if they truly did a good job of vetting the guy it would clearly be poor judgement to bring him out?
Also it's not realistic to expect people to immediately make thay connection and walk out after literally seeing the dude for the first time. Especially if as you say, "they knew" he was SS, wouldn't they go to lengths to hide that fact?
So it would be even less obvious to people. Politicians are dumb ^^
I understand its convenient to say all those in attendance would be complicit but its a 100% a stretch.
Poor taste imo to suggest Russians have no choice but to torture people to death.
Also a mistake to link those murders that happened over the past 18 months to some political gaffe that happened this week, as if the gaffe was some kind of justification.
People always have a choice. Most often people will choose the path of least resistance.
Russians generally are choosing the path of least resistance in passively accepting Putins war; As opposed to resisting what has been a pointless loss of life for both sides.
This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Sep 26 2023 07:50am