Le Baron
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That's a bit of a foolish question to ask someone if you think they aren't self-aware.How do you score for self awareness?
That's a bit of a foolish question to ask someone if you think they aren't self-aware.How do you score for self awareness?
I know! Just checking it wasn't intervention time.That's a bit of a foolish question to ask someone if you think they aren't self-aware.
Play the ball sir, not the man.I know! Just checking it wasn't intervention time.
What were we saying about self-awareness...? Must try harder.Blimey, this thread has really done a rewind; the same familiar set of false equivalence and repetitive, obsessive compulsive, verbose self-importance.
Don't play the victim, man.Play the ball sir, not the man.
Physician, heal thyself.Don't play the victim, man.
I don't have to, I'm not planning to arm anyone and I don't see it in black and white. You give weapons, there are consequences.
Why not? You decided you didn't like the new leader of Iran and Cuba and Indonesia and Chile and Brazil and Guatamala... and Venezuela...
when I said groomed (could be the wrong word) I meant the west has entertained him for decades and even treated him as an equal at times when he was presiding over deaths of journalists, suppression of LGBTQ people. They weren't interested. France knew he was buying property in Biarritz with dirty money, but they didn't care until this war when they starting publishing it as though it was 'news'.@Le Baron
I don't disagree with the thrust of your commentary. Yet, Putin is clearly a psychopath and a megalomaniac (yes, I know, I've said this before), and I refuse to believe these particular traits were 'groomed into an ex KGB thug by the West'.
As for Saddam Hussain, he didn't have access to 5,977 nuclear warheads, and thus the very real existential threat of M.A.D.. Remember, Putin has already threatened to use the nuclear option if NATO/US were to intercede militarily in helping to defend Ukraine.
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@Le BaronI don't disagree with the thrust of your commentary. Yet, Putin is clearly a psychopath and a megalomaniac (yes, I know, I've said this before), and I refuse to believe these particular traits were 'groomed into an ex KGB thug by the West'.
As for Saddam Hussain, he didn't have access to 5,977 nuclear warheads, and thus the very real existential threat of M.A.D.. Remember, Putin has already threatened to use the nuclear option if NATO/US were to intercede militarily in helping to defend Ukraine.
though Ukraine seems to lose in the middle no matter what.
Play the ball sir, not the man.
I agree. We should also stop using insults, like calling someone Henry Kissinger.
Not really comparable are they? You're an intelligent person....I don't really need to enumerate the many differences, do I?what reason is there to believe Ukraine will be rebuilt into a stable country where corruption and extremism aren't defining features? We've seen how the US has left places such as Afghanistan after the USSR was defeated.
Quite, I thought he was a man of peace?I agree. We should also stop using insults, like calling someone Henry Kissinger.
Not really comparable are they? You're an intelligent person....I don't really need to enumerate the many differences, do I?
Quite, I thought he was a man of peace?
A lot of what you wrote has been covered several times earlier in the thread, hence some of the responses you've been receiving. I don't think anyone is denying US/UK duplicity and hypocricy with regard to various conflicts over the years. But irrespective of that fact, Ukraine is a whole different ball game and the stakes are much higher.
Re: your last sentence - I don't believe Putin is crazy, but he is a psychopath. As such, literally no one can truly know his tipping point. Logic, reason, common sense, decency, humanity? Forget it. These don't factor in conditioning his ambitions. And if he believes he can survive a nuclear war . . ?
I don't believe Putin is crazy, but he is a psychopath. As such, literally no one can truly know his tipping point. Logic, reason, common sense, decency, humanity?
Whichever country you hold a passport of?Which country? The UK or the one I'm in now? Who can know the answer, they both sell arms all over the world.