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Sadly, the world has had ample warning since 1973 about what replying on a cartel for oil means and ignoring the challenge to move to green tech. Some countries have done better than others but none have really stepped up to what is needed by fully supporting the IPCC. Now Russia is making hay while the sun shines and thumbing its nose at the West.

Just utter garbage. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-crimes-russia-controlled-areas The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/bucha-ukraine-bodies-russian-military-crimes/629485/ Pentagon Accuses Russia Of 'War Crimes,' Vows To Assist With Evidence Collection https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-borrell-mariupol-war-crime/31763025.html French and US presidents urge harsher sanctions against Moscow after reports of atrocities in Bucha https://www.ft.com/content/7e1670e8-c035-4cef-af59-3691414546a1

It's a long bow to stretch to make the case that Ukrainians did this to their own just to discredit Russia and its "collaborators".

It's really sad that these are the flower power hippie generation who were going to be the enlightened generation and make sure this kind of corrosive thinking got buried forever. Unfortunately, those who claimed history always repeats itself are right.

When the truth doesn't matter anymore the more outrageous the lie the more extreme the options available become. That is the story of modern politics.

Or perhaps another reason Putin started the war apart from an outright land grab or a chance to cement his place in Russian history before he dies of cancer.

They are perfectly entitled to produce evidence to back up their bullsh*t but none have been able to do so. Meantime, there is more than enough INCONTROVERTIBLE evidence that war crimes have been committed on a grand scale.

That may not be true and in fact may actually save the planet by hastening the transition to green energy. The Green federal economics minister, Robert Habeck, answered with a decisive “yes it can”, a day after the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was meant to deliver from Russia as much as 70% of Germany’s gas requirements. There are considerable doubts as to whether the $11bn project will ever now go ahead. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/can-germany-function-without-vladimir-putins-gas

But for the threat of mad Putin actually using nuclear weapons, NATO would have intervened a month ago. Now they have the dead and tortured civilians on their conscience for not having done so. The single reason they demurred was the threat of a nuclear WW111.

I'd definitely pull the bung in the fish tank.

You left a very obvious tell that you are a Russian sponsored astroturfer here.

As gruesome videos and photos of bodies emerge from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Kremlin-backed media are denouncing them as an elaborate hoax — a narrative that journalists in Ukraine have shown to be false. Denouncing news as fake or spreading false reports to sow confusion and undermine its adversaries are tactics that Moscow has used for years and refined with the advent of social media in places like Syria. In detailed broadcasts to millions of viewers, correspondents and hosts of Russian state TV channels said Tuesday that some photo and video evidence of the killings were fake while others showed that Ukrainians were responsible for the bloodshed. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-media-facebook-21d36ea4370bab98b1cc93baa0815dd8

The US has promised to increase deliveries of anti tank missiles which are portable so the distance means little. "Ukraine Is Getting a Massive Shipment of Weapons to Fight Russia In the first shipments, the Pentagon focused predominately on anti-tank and anti-air weapons, such as the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile and the FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft weapon. But now, the military aid package includes more niche capabilities, such as unmanned aerial systems, suicide drones, and night vision devices. More specifically, the Pentagon is sending Laser-guided rocket systems, Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems, Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems, Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems, Armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, Small-to-large caliber nonstandard ammunition, Night vision devices, thermal imagery systems, and optics, Tactical secure communications systems, Non-standard machine guns, Commercial satellite imagery services, Medical supplies, field equipment, and spare parts." https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/ukraine-is-getting-a-massive-shipment-of-weapons-to-fight-russia/

Moscow’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, said that while Bucha was under Russian control, “not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.” Reiterating what the Kremlin has contended for days, he said that video footage of bodies in the streets was “a crude forgery” staged by the Ukrainians. “You only saw what they showed you,” he said. “The only ones who would fall for this are Western dilettantes.” https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-biden-business-1b84b61ca7b7bf3c31bb856845269efd

Been that way since 2016.

For the Syrians, their motivation might be the money and the possibility of remaining in Europe by somehow claiming refugee status if they can escape to Western Europe. That's what I have read. As to whether they will fight and die in numbers, I agree they won't do well.

Where will he get them? Russia doesn't have a lot more trained soldiers. They are employing mercenaries and drafting Chechens and Syrians because they have combat experience. Conscripting them within Russia won't play well and he'll have the same issue with ill disciplined soldiers looting, raping and killing civilians.

Another Bucha resident, Volodymyr Pilhutskyi, said his neighbour, Pavlo Vlasenko, was taken away by Russian soldiers because the military-style pants he was wearing and the uniforms that Mr Vlasenko said belonged to his security-guard son appeared suspicious. When Mr Vlasenko's body was later found, it had burn marks from a flamethrower, his neighbour said. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-05/bucha-mass-gravesite-what-we-know-evidence-war-crimes/100966110

Poor people need to have kids far more so than rich people because they have no assets to carry them into old age. They rely on their kids to support them in old age in countries without a social welfare system. This is precisely why poor people around the world have the most kids.

"Their hands were tied behind their back and they were shot in the back of the head or in the eyes right on the streets," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address. "Civilian cars with people were driven over. Women and girls were raped. We haven't yet collected all the testimonies. We haven't yet located all the burials, searched all the basements where Russians were torturing people." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-05/bucha-ukraine-russia-civilians-war-crimes/100966098

did you watch it? Doocy couldn't name any kindergartens teaching sex ed.

which Kindergarten's are teaching any kind of sex ed?

It means he can forget leaving the country if ever there's an insurrection or he's indicted there.

I only need to add a GPU card after buying a QHD monitor. You can say I'm wrong all you like, I'm just relaying my experiences. What current office workers (who don't game) are using is irrelevant. Most computer shops are now selling QHD and better monitors cheaply.

Yes, very much so. One of them died in jail and it's a deterrent to others in general. Furthermore, it restricts travel for those indicted as they would be detained outside their fiefdoms. As much as I agree about climate issues, it's off topic and irrelevant. This isa debate about whether Putin should be indicted for war crimes. Look over there doesn't cut it.