Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Part 5

gentlestag15 said:Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine will not hold any negotiations with Russia as long as Putin is the President of the Russian Federation.

silvermarlin56 said:I gotta say, it honestly sucks and feels a little weird that they didn't push all the way to liberate Kherson.
It just would've felt right, you know? Plus, it would have given everyone a massive morale boost, no doubt about it.

Sandra Harris2 said:You're joking, but I actually work for someone who makes these exact same accusations against the decadent West.🕺

I’m not kidding around. That was straight from Putin just a moment ago.

Susan Collins3 said:I don't even know how to look those two kids in the eye—they're the children of an American soldier who just watched a Russian precision missile strike his own doorstep, killing his wife and his mother in one go. It's just... man. The Russians basically started this whole horrific cycle of death, from the atrocities in Bucha to the mutilated soldiers, the bombing of prisoners, and now these tragedies hitting everywhere from the Dnieper River to Zaporizhzhia, or what happened recently in Vinnytsia Kremenchuk. Like, how am I supposed to stay sane or care about the Geneva Conventions when people are shamelessly slaughtering everyone, breaking every single rule of international law, destroying everything in sight, and then—get this—having the nerve to talk about the "will of the people" wanting to join Russia? They're citing some poll where 655 votes supposedly represent 12% of something—so maybe 5,000 people?—but Kherson has a million people, so if half could vote, that's 500,000. So, I guess the "will of the people" is actually 98% of 1% of potential voters. Whatever. And the Kremlin is celebrating this total farce today while this father, this son, this husband is just left grieving his entire family because of some lunatic who thinks he's God, deciding who lives and dies for the whole nation.

rowdypilot53 said:At this rate, we're looking at a long-term, full-scale conflict between Russia and Ukraine... whatever comes next.

silvermarlin56 said:I gotta say, it honestly sucks and feels a little weird that they didn't push all the way to liberate Kherson.
It just would've felt right, you know? Plus, it would have given everyone a massive morale boost, no doubt about it.

gentlestag15 said:Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine will not hold any negotiations with Russia as long as Putin is the President of the Russian Federation.

Hannah Williams8 said:From what I can tell, there aren't any maps out there clearly showing where those regions' borders actually sit—you know, the ones annexed by the Russian Federation.

Justin Rogers5 said:To me, they looked like they were about to burst into tears from being moved. Kadyrov was even looking up at the sky, thanking Allah or whoever.
That woman wearing a helmet instead of hair had teary eyes too, but I don't buy it—she wasn't crying because she felt bad. You need a soul for that, and these humans shaped incarnations of Satan? They don't have one.
But when Putin denies something, it’s cause for concern. He denied the invasion, too, and then seven days later...

loneskipper3 said:He’s bringing up South Korea again—claiming they're under occupation. 😁 I wonder why he doesn't bother asking the South Koreans themselves which version of Korea they actually want? You know, the one fashioned by the USSR and China, or the one built by the Americans.

John Ramos45 said:Ukraine has officially submitted its application to join NATO.

brightheron64 said:How do you even begin to explain the concept of war to a rational human being?

I feel like the closest comparison might be Dr. Louise Banks from the movie Arrival... if I may paraphrase: The Sanskrit word for "war" (Gavisti): "the desire for more cows."

And that seems to be the pattern throughout all of history; as long as there are powerful fools out there who value "more cows" more than actual human lives, searching for any shred of reason or logic in this wartime madness is simply a futile exercise...

Terry Green3 said:I’m not kidding around. That was straight from Putin just a moment ago.

wearyheron5 said:Just when you think you've heard every possible nonsense under the sun, here comes someone spinning a psychotic web involving war, hygiene, Satanism, and gender reassignment surgery.

That's a diagnosis right there. Harsh.

brightheron64 said:How do you even begin to explain the concept of war to a rational human being?

I feel like the closest comparison might be Dr. Louise Banks from the movie Arrival... if I may paraphrase: The Sanskrit word for "war" (Gavisti): "the desire for more cows."

And that seems to be the pattern throughout all of history; as long as there are powerful fools out there who value "more cows" more than actual human lives, searching for any shred of reason or logic in this wartime madness is simply a futile exercise...

I think the best comparison here is Dr. Louise Banks from the movie Arrival... just paraphrasing: The Sanskrit word for "war" (Gavisti): "the desire for more cows."

And that’s basically the whole story. As long as there are powerful idiots out there who value "more cows" over human lives, looking for any shred of logic or sense in the madness of war is just a waste of time.