03-02-2022, 06:42 AM
(03-01-2022, 03:10 PM)Schmoe1 Wrote:(03-01-2022, 09:14 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(03-01-2022, 03:35 AM)Schmoe1 Wrote: Not defending Putin, but if he were the snapped maniac dictator they claim him to be, wouldn't he march those 13 captured Snake Island soldiers to Kiev, tell the Ukrainian president to surrender, or the 13 would be executed?
He might, but they walk kinda funny when they've been blown all to shit by the Russian Navy.
No, really, I'm not on Putin's side either. I'm on the side of the US, and cannot for the life of me figure out why BidenHarris is poking his nose into other folks' business. Let the Ukrainians and Russians sort this mess out, maybe give the Ukrainians weapons, but let their asses do the heavy lifting.
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Apparently those soldiers are alive and well, but were captured by Russia. Russia wiped out the communications on the island so everyone, myself included, assumed they were dead.
Could be that it's just more of the fog of war, with all the bullshit getting flung around to try to make (insert your own enemy here) look bad via over the top propaganda. It's a lot more damaging to the Russian rep to claim they killed the guys in cold blood instead of capturing them
Right now, we can't believe much of anything we are hearing. We have to look behind the speaker and suss out their motive for telling a lie, or their motive for telling the truth. It's all in a day's propaganda.
And it is exhausting.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’