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Talk of "cleansing"…
Putin says pro-Western Russians are 'scum and traitors' who need to be removed from society
Putin says pro-Western Russians are 'scum and traitors' who need to be removed from societywww.yahoo.com
The first step in extermination is dehumanization, hence Putin's comparison of dissidents to "midge(s)".
Looking more and more like Hitler every day. Let's hope he is holed up in a bunker somewhere pulling what little hair he has left out, with a chambered round at the ready.
That is a really interesting point.Why are these tanks operating individually, without infantry support?
My goodness. What ever hit that tank played for keeps.
Absolutely creamed it.
Why are these tanks operating individually, without infantry support?
It does seem that way. Tanks aren't the best option for street fighting - not without infantry support anyway.Perhaps this speaks again to the poor state of training we've read plenty about already?
mine - side acting - there is trace at the right side of the tank (left side of the picture)My goodness. What ever hit that tank played for keeps.
Absolutely creamed it.
So what are the options for peace?Russia and Ukraine are in the same position of everything going horribly wrong.
And it could go even more horribly wronger.
So it behoves both sides to get peace now while there is still something to deal for.
I would prefer the Khaddafy exit for Uncle Vlad. I understand he doesn't want to wind up like Mussolini either.This entire ploy and invasion are pages ripped out of Hitler's playbook -- complaining about imagined repression of an ethnic minority, claiming that they need protection, and using that to justify horrific crimes. Appealing to "patriotism" vs "traitors", the whole Mafioso "nice country you got there, it'd be a shame if something happened to it" approach -- we need only read history from the late 1930s to see many striking parallels.
I hope he eats his nine grams before and not after he starts persecuting internal dissidents even more viciously. As used to be a legal defense against murder charges here in Tejas, "He needed killin'." That is so very true in this case. The world will be a better place when he dies.
I'm liking swinging from a lamppost more and more.So what are the options for peace?
So far, Russia wants to keep Crimea and the Donbass. He also wants a demilitarized Ukraine. He wants NATO out of Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria as well as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia...most likely Poland, too.
Another point of consideration, is that NOTHING that Putin agrees to, is honored.
So literally any appeasement given to Russia at this point, allows Russia to regroup, consolidate his forces (aling with purging low performers) and then most likely move into Moldova (because there is a small ethnic Russian population that needs saving) as well as most likely finish it's reclamation of Georgia, which Russia took 20% of in 2008 and has yet to honor most of it's cease-fire agreements.
Putin, like Hitler and Stalin, cannot be bargained with. They were all megalomaniacs bent on their own desires.
None were honorable, none were to be trusted and none of the lot gave a single damn about the value of human life.
The only choice Putin should be given, is what caliber of bullet he wants between his eyes...