I doubt it. He either has some serious hang ups, or due to him being ultra religious and close to death, perhaps he thinks he will get into heaven if he does what he imagines God wants and starts a crusade against LGBT people.
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I doubt it. He either has some serious hang ups, or due to him being ultra religious and close to death, perhaps he thinks he will get into heaven if he does what he imagines God wants and starts a crusade against LGBT people.
Soldato
You're right of course.
The idiocy of the whole war was to remove Nazis from Ukraine, when the biggest one is Russia's president.
Soldato
Again Putin may or may not use nukes, but he has demonstrated that he will keep doing this until he is forced to stop.
The option to have a "peaceful" settlement with him is vaporware. It's a fantasy that we simply will never get with him. You don't seem to have learned anything from Putin's past actions.
Our options are to let him keep doing this, or force him to stop.
Soldato
Well, the difference then is that Hitler didn't have nuclear weapons and we had the largest Navy in the world. I'm hardly suggesting appeasement, economic sanctions and selling small arms is far different from what we're doing. If we didn't have nuclear weapons the UK would be a legitimate military target for Russia since we are providing training and arms during an active conflict.
Soldato
People like homosexuals are an easy target and always have been, just as Jewish people have been as well. Why find a new target when the ones that have worked so well for so long are still there and in parts of the West the political right also like to use those same old targets for their enemies.
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And it definitely will happen if we don’t stand up to him. I’d rather stand up for good people than cower in fear.
Do the Russians actually still believe him when he says victory is just round the corner?
This. It never works with these crazy people sadly. As we’ve said before in this thread, the Russians only understand force. Applying a western pacifist mindset doesn’t work.
There’s still nothing stopping Russia leaving Ukraine.
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Soldato
That all sounds amazing, unless you were Czech or Polish, didn't work out so well for them.
But as you say we do have nuclear weapons, that is how MAD works. Poland doesn't have nuclear weapons, yet Russia hasn't touched Poland and it won't because a)NATO and b) Poland would roll into Ukraine and start kicking Russia's arse back accross its borders.
If you think sanctions and small arms is going to stop Russia well you are more naive than I ever thought. Ukraine bravery can only carry them so far. In the end arming Ukraine with what it needs to get Russia out of Ukraine will lead to the least amount of deaths over time. Now isn't the time back off, now is the time to double down and let Ukraine do what needs to be done.
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True.
False. Woodrow Wilson predicted that if the US did not join the League of Nations, there would be war in Europe. He was right: the US did not enter the LoN, and war followed. Ferdinand Foch went one better: he said the Treaty of Versaiiles was merely an armistice for 15-20 years of peace, after which there would be a new war 'on a vastly larger scale than the last.'
Ferdinand Foch said:
The certainty of WWII became clearer as Britain and others drew their lines in the sand and said they would enter the war if those lines were crossed, despite knowing that this would escalate the conflict to a new level. Those lines were crossed, and the war escalated accordingly.
We live in a very different world to those of WWI and WWII. The nature of geopolitics today is specific to our era.
I don't think you have any evidence to back up any of those assumptions. He a fascist dirtbag but I haven't heard any rumbling about him being partially concerned with LGBT people, as long as it serves to ridicule the west then it works in his favor, if it wasn't for that then he'd just ramble on about Capitalism or something
I don't think you have any evidence to back up yours either?
Only Putin knows what he really thinks. We can each have our opinion on what that might be.
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True, nither of us are phycologists and we can only imagine what a warped mind of a psychopath is thinking
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Caporegime
Can you show us on the doll where you were touched?
Caporegime
Rubbish. Both were widely expected. The exact timing, and the nature of World War I weren't predicted, but a war between European powers was absolutely seen as expected, in some cases, anticipated. Why wouldn't it have been? Wars were the norm throughout history.
It was thought in the aftermath of WWI that it was "the war to end all wars" and no-one would go back to the meatgrinder, but by the outbreak of war, that was gone. People knew war in Europe was coming.
Caporegime
It's almost as if France didn't build a giant defensive line!
We can look at evidence other people present
The Gay World War? Inside Putin’s warped reality
Whу are Russians so agitated about gay marriages during a bloody war?
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Soldato
Once the west demonstrates that we would rather capitulate than risk nuclear war, our nuclear weapons are no longer a deterent.
Caving to Putin will only serve to encourage him.
We can look at evidence other people present
The Gay World War? Inside Putin’s warped reality
Whу are Russians so agitated about gay marriages during a bloody war?
In summary
Putin is the leader of a traditional religious country, his views are reflected in a lot of other countries with similar religious views. Gay marriage has only been legal in the UK for 10 years largely due to religion. He's basically just reflecting the views of a lot his voters, and most other people who follow traditional Abrahamic religions.
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