You have been posting for less than a month, so …LaxFan2000 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 9:55 amAre you seriously this much of a one-trick pony? Where is this poster "siding with Putin"?? Do you understand just how serious of claim that is you are making? JFC. It's no wonder posters seem to ignore your hyperbole because you are entirely more interested in the emotion of what you post than whether or not there is any fact or substance to it. Beyond strange...DocBarrister wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:50 amYour use of the terms “DPR” and “LPR” is repugnant. Those are the illegal terms of the Russian invaders.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:40 pm Lavrov is signalling to the EUroburghers that Russia will settle for the DPR, LPR, & the southern bridge to Crimea territory they now hold.
The more long range weapons the west provides, the more missiles Russia will lob into the rest of Ukraine.
WRM is using my lingo :
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wokeness-i ... 1657569787
Wokeness Is Putin’s Weapon
Russia and China capitalize on the West’s moral and political confusion.
by Walter Russell Mead, July 11, 2022
Five months into the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s army continues to flounder. Kyiv’s defenders are making up for their smaller numbers and artillery shortages with better commanders, smarter tactics, higher morale and, increasingly, better weapons as Western high-tech arms reach the battlefield.
Mr. Putin has had the most success, paradoxically, in the domains of economics and politics, where the West thought its power was strongest. Fears that a Russian gas embargo could cripple European economies and leave comfortable German burghers freezing in the dark next winter have replaced hopes that Western sanctions would bring Moscow to its knees. Thoroughly intimidated by the consequences of an economic war with Russia, Germany is beginning to weasel out of its pledges to increase defense spending.
Similarly, the early Western optimism that values would unite the world against Russian aggression has fizzled. Led by China and joined by India and Brazil, countries around the world are choosing trade with Russia over solidarity with the Group of Seven.
Unfortunately, the West’s increasingly “woke” values agenda is not as credible or as popular as liberals hope. President Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week reminds the world of the limits on Western commitments to human rights. Many values dear to the hearts of Western cultural leaders (LGBTQ rights, abortion on demand, freedom of speech understood as allowing unchecked Internet pornography) puzzle and offend billions of people around the world who haven’t kept up with the latest hot trends on American campuses. Attempts by Western financial institutions and regulators to block financing for fossil-fuel extraction and refining in developing countries enrage both elites there and the public at large.
Moreover, the liberal West’s new, post-Judeo-Christian values agenda divides the West. Culture wars at home don’t promote unity overseas. If Mr. Biden, with the support of the European Parliament, makes abortion on demand a key element of the values agenda of the world order, he is more likely to weaken American support for Ukraine than to unite the world against Mr. Putin.
The moral and political confusion of the contemporary West is the secret weapon that the leaders of Russia and China believe will bring the American world order to its knees. Messrs. Putin and Xi might be wrong; one certainly hopes that they are. But their bet on Western decadence has been paying off handsomely for more than a decade. Western survival and global flourishing require more thought and deeper change than the Biden administration and its European allies can currently imagine.
I cannot believe you are still siding with Putin and Russia after witnessing their war crimes and atrocities.
As for the article … why would the authors introduce anti-abortion rights far-right garbage into a discussion on Ukraine.
DocBarrister
… did you know that in the early months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, old salt wouldn’t even acknowledge Ukraine as a separate and independent nation?
Did you know that old salt repeatedly described Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as an internal Russian matter?
If not, that is understandable.
Now, you have the choice of continuing to sound like an imbecile or choose to make more informed posts on this forum.
What will it be?
DocBarrister