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Trader Pat
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napshnap wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:00 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:44 pm
napshnap wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:36 pm


Pat, I'll ask again - can you provide link where he gives these names to his own people/ an opposition in a context of this conflict?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... d667d6db91
Thank you. Sigh. As I said it's not a first time and that saddens me.
So he didn't say that? Or are the AP not a good enough source? If its the latter there are dozens of other sources to choose from.
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Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:07 pm
napshnap wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:00 pm
Thank you. Sigh. As I said it's not a first time and that saddens me.
So he didn't say that? Or are the AP not a good enough source? If its the latter there are dozens of other sources to choose from.
That wasn't an irony. AP is good enough.
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napshnap wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:14 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:07 pm
napshnap wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:00 pm


Thank you. Sigh. As I said it's not a first time and that saddens me.
So he didn't say that? Or are the AP not a good enough source? If its the latter there are dozens of other sources to choose from.
That wasn't an irony. AP is good enough.

Sometimes its hard to tell when people are not being ironic! :)
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Derek27
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What idiot suggested sending a peace-keeping force into Ukraine? There is no peace to keep!
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Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:52 pm
In this conflict there quite a few reports of women and children being shot which can't be put down to the 'fog or war'.

Vengeance isn't an excuse for the rape of women and children.
Eh, that's not how excuses work. If the fighting was going on among Russian civilians I bet you we'd hear the same types of reports. Same excuse too.
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but Russia seems to be pouring more military equipment into Ukraine

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Kai wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:38 pm
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but Russia seems to be pouring more military equipment into Ukraine

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2nd was often used as an ambulance, so, yeah probably go-go-go-ghosts alert.
3rd is an incredible offroad beast, seriously you can climb mountains on that thing!
4th (behind it) is an everyone's hated public transportation, if you are not dexterous enough you can get head injury and get into 2nd easily.
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Trader Pat
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Kai wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:35 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:52 pm
In this conflict there quite a few reports of women and children being shot which can't be put down to the 'fog or war'.

Vengeance isn't an excuse for the rape of women and children.
Eh, that's not how excuses work. If the fighting was going on among Russian civilians I bet you we'd hear the same types of reports. Same excuse too.
I think we're at crossed purposes here.

It doesn't matter who does it, it doesn't make it any more or less justifiable. And it doesn't matter what war we're talking about. 'War crimes' are happening all over the world as we speak. I'm using the example of Russian soldiers because this conflict is all that's in the news right now. From a historical aspect this kind of stuff has gone on in all kinds of wars. I mentioned what the Russians got up to during WW2 because they were the biggest perpetrators but the Japanese did it when they invaded China and The Americans did it in Germany at the end of the war too. I'm not saying this army or nationality are any worse than another one. Having said that if it was possible to rank these kind of atrocities then what happened at My Lai during the Vietnam war is probably the worse of the lot. An American company killed hundreds of civilians and raped many women and children before shooting them at close range. Even though some of them were court martialed they were found not guilty.

So if you don't want to dehumanise anyone that's your choice. But I'll happily dehumanise them enough for both of us.
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Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:54 pm
I'll happily dehumanise them
I know, people can't help it. But they won't stop there and a population of 150+ million will end up completely cancelled in the end.
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Kai wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 2:45 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:54 pm
I'll happily dehumanise them
I know, people can't help it. But they won't stop there and a population of 150+ million will end up completely cancelled in the end.
We seem to be having a different conversation with each other.
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At least Lukashenko is not dumb enough to involve Belarus into it all. But I suspect their romance might end up with one of them dead, like in the movie :D

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The old NT9ON sketch seems quite ironic now. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQcCvX2MKk
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Kai wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 2:48 pm
At least Lukashenko is not dumb enough to involve Belarus into it all. But I suspect their romance might end up with one of them dead, like in the movie :D

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I don't even know which one died, shows how little I know about films. I just hope it was Kate Winslet. :)
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Ukraine destroy Russian landing ship capable of carrying 20 tanks, 45 armoured vehicles and 400 troops!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/uk ... uxbndlbing
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:17 pm
Ukraine destroy Russian landing ship capable of carrying 20 tanks, 45 armoured vehicles and 400 troops!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/uk ... uxbndlbing
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