1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Two facts.

 

Russia engages in terrorism and recruits useful idiots to defend its terrorism.

 

 

 

Agreed. Recruitment is all too easy, and often volunteers are unpaid.

Just now, Roadsternut said:

 

Agreed. Recruitment is all too easy, and often volunteers are unpaid.

Yes, two levels of useful idiots.

 

The top tier being those who shill for free.

12 hours ago, connda said:

The quintessential act of global terror was accomplished by the country that dropped two nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians and doesn't regret it to this day.

Well it's quite debatable whether or not that needed to happen, and whether or not it was too extreme an answer for the situation at hand. It's actually a very interesting philosophical discussion.

 

But the fact of the matter is even after they had run out of money, and even after they had very obviously lost the war, they continued fighting tooth and nail to the bitter end and utterly refused to surrender. 

 

Could it have been handled in a less violent and more reasonable manner? Perhaps. How long would the war have continued is anyone's guess. 

12 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

 

He's likely a troll, spends all day looking for Anti-Russia stories to counter them.

I've been called a lot of names over this fairly long lifetime, but I've never been called a troll. I think I kind of like that, it sort of reminds me of being someone who would inhabit Middle-earth, that's fun stuff. I am in Hobbit land! 

13 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

 

Follows account. Check. Limited command of English. Check. Commie Sympathiser. Check. Troll. Check.

These days MAGA and Trump supporters have gone so far to the extreme right, that anybody with a reasonable point of view, anybody who argues in favor of moderation, anybody who argues in favor of immigration rights, is now considered a communist. Great job fellas. 

 

All Democrats are communist

All Democrats are baby killers

All Democrats support trans rights. 

All democrats are woke

 

Do you know where we get our power from? We drink the blood of infants in basements of pizza parlors. 

 

 

On 12/7/2025 at 4:10 PM, spidermike007 said:

Okay I was wrong, Russia treats dissidents, and political opposition members with a great deal of respect, kindness and cooperation. And Putin is actually a really sweet guy who is spending billions and billions of their oil money on aiding the poorest people in the world. 

 

Russia treats them with at least as much respect as the EU treats its own citizens who dare to say the skeletons of men and women are different. (Witness the recent prison sentence in Switzerland for this "serious" offense)

 

You can focus only on a specific aspect of cultural behavior, but by and large Russia is more tolerant of thoughtful disagreement by its citizens than Western Europe.  The Russian people put up with decades of communism. They won't be mind controlled into subservience the way EU citizens are. And this is the key difference. Russians are under no illusions about the propaganda their government puts out. Europeans predominantly still think statements by the EU are genuine and made in good faith. And they've been terrorized into fear of thoughtful dissent. Russia isn't the terrorist. That honor belongs to Brussels.

17 hours ago, uncletiger said:

Russia treats them with at least as much respect as the EU treats its own citizens who dare to say the skeletons of men and women are different. (Witness the recent prison sentence in Switzerland for this "serious" offense)

First of all - Switzerland isn't in the EU. Brussels has zero to do with this.

 

To clarify what you wrote:

 

He wrote on FB:

" LGBTQI is a mental illness...

His job is handyman btw.

 

No one denies the differences in skeletons, but he has no right to label someone as ill and question their right to exist - that is truly sick!

 

Detailed:

The man was sentenced to 50 daily fines of 50 francs each (suspended) and a fine of 500 francs for "discrimination and incitement to hatred".

The verdict stated that he had "denied this group its right to exist as a human being."

 

He didn't want to pay 500 bucks and choosed himself to go to jail.

 

On 12/7/2025 at 12:37 PM, spidermike007 said:

Many of us more or less knew this to be true, but the recent facts have been unearthed in such a way that it can no longer be doubted that Putin sponsors terrorism, and he is right up there with Saudi Arabia and MBS, and Iran in terms of making mischief around the world, with complete and total intolerance for any level of dissent, opposition, nor negative publicity. 

 

The UK investigation states that the attack was an operation of the Russian state, carried out by members of the GRU, and that the attempt to kill Skripal "must have been authorised at the highest level ", specifically the President of Russia.

 

The investigation establishes a clear logical chain: Putin approved the GRU operation to eliminate the double agent in the UK; the operatives used a military nerve agent, left a contaminated bottle in a public space, and thereby created a foreseeable risk that an innocent person would be killed; that is precisely how Dawn Sturgess died.

From the perspective of international law, this effectively equates a covert operation with a state act of using chemical weapons on the territory of another state.

The political significance of the move far outweighs the financial restrictions themselves. London is publicly and formally stating what has long been assumed in security circles: the GRU is not a disobedient part of the state but an instrument of the Russian president's personal decisions.

 

https://tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-british-report-on-novichok-and-the-kremlins-state-responsibility

 

 

As a Russian, I strongly disagree with you.
The word 'terrorist' is quite new. This word means "saboteur." But there are differences. When we say "saboteur," we're primarily interested in the client country, and we don't care what nationality, skin color, or beliefs the saboteur himself might have. Therefore, when we see a saboteur, we want to capture him and subject him to a series of actions so that he'll reveal everything about the client.
And what is a terrorist? It's when we see a saboteur, but for some reason we're not interested in the client country. Whenever the news talks about a "terrorist," for some reason no one is interested in capturing him alive and forcing him to talk. The terrorist is always killed on the spot, and in his pocket they always find a new, freshly printed passport from some state against which aggression begins the next day.
So, the main beneficiary of using the term "terrorist" instead of "saboteur" is obviously the client country. We know very well who's been promoting the terms "terrorism" and "counterterrorism" around the world for 24 years and 3 months, right?
So if you want the truth in politics, find a Vlad supporter or someone with the RT website open on their phone and ask them to teach you a little.

1 hour ago, zmisha said:

As a Russian, I strongly disagree with you.
The word 'terrorist' is quite new. This word means "saboteur." But there are differences. When we say "saboteur," we're primarily interested in the client country, and we don't care what nationality, skin color, or beliefs the saboteur himself might have. Therefore, when we see a saboteur, we want to capture him and subject him to a series of actions so that he'll reveal everything about the client.
And what is a terrorist? It's when we see a saboteur, but for some reason we're not interested in the client country. Whenever the news talks about a "terrorist," for some reason no one is interested in capturing him alive and forcing him to talk. The terrorist is always killed on the spot, and in his pocket they always find a new, freshly printed passport from some state against which aggression begins the next day.
So, the main beneficiary of using the term "terrorist" instead of "saboteur" is obviously the client country. We know very well who's been promoting the terms "terrorism" and "counterterrorism" around the world for 24 years and 3 months, right?
So if you want the truth in politics, find a Vlad supporter or someone with the RT website open on their phone and ask them to teach you a little.

That was a very thoughtful reply and I applaud you for that. 

14 hours ago, Schoggibueb said:

First of all - Switzerland isn't in the EU. Brussels has zero to do with this.

 

To clarify what you wrote:

 

He wrote on FB:

" LGBTQI is a mental illness...

His job is handyman btw.

 

No one denies the differences in skeletons, but he has no right to label someone as ill and question their right to exist - that is truly sick!

 

Detailed:

The man was sentenced to 50 daily fines of 50 francs each (suspended) and a fine of 500 francs for "discrimination and incitement to hatred".

The verdict stated that he had "denied this group its right to exist as a human being."

 

He didn't want to pay 500 bucks and choosed himself to go to jail.

 

 

The EU (you can split hairs and try and say the EU proper wouldn't do the same thing as Switzerland, but I won't believe you) has absolutely no right to penalize someone for expressing his opinion that LGBTQ is a mental illness.

 

You don't have to agree with him. You can think it is sick. That's up to you and is your right. But it is ABSOLUTELY his right to think it and say it out loud. What he says doesn't affect you in any way unless you allow it. If you believe you have the right to control what he thinks, *YOU* are the problem.. To think that you can punish someone for expressing a thought is really North Korea level thinking. Just because it may be offensive to you doesn't change anything.

 

That is the fundamental problem with the EU. They don't allow freedom of thought. As a result, they have no moral basis to label Russia "terrorist" when they arguably treat human beings even worse.

What is all this anti Poutin rubbish doing on a website discussing issues mainly for Thailand ?

 

However, is China any better ? or the Oil producing majors ? and many other countries on which the west strongly depends to du trade and that much before Donald came to power ? 

 

Excessive anti Russia propaganda ends up in having the opposite effect. 

5 hours ago, Sigmund said:

What is all this anti Poutin rubbish doing on a website discussing issues mainly for Thailand ?

Maybe because the title of this thread is "World news"?

 

Thanks for your attention.

On 12/10/2025 at 2:41 AM, Schoggibueb said:

Maybe because the title of this thread is "World news"?

 

Thanks for your attention.

News ? for sure I agree. But absurd anti Russian propaganda ? Not my cup of tea. Thanks for your attention. 

On 12/10/2025 at 2:51 AM, Sigmund said:

What is all this anti Poutin rubbish doing on a website discussing issues mainly for Thailand ?

 

However, is China any better ? or the Oil producing majors ? and many other countries on which the west strongly depends to du trade and that much before Donald came to power ? 

 

Excessive anti Russia propaganda ends up in having the opposite effect. 

Russia deserves all the bad-mouthing that we can possibly throw their way, and there is no such thing as too much anti Russian propaganda. 

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

Russia deserves all the bad-mouthing that we can possibly throw their way, and there is no such thing as too much anti Russian propaganda. 

I respect your opinion. But do you think it will change anything ? Not at all,. It just will only stigmatize the Russian civilians who have nothing to do with what's happening, And if one looks a bit deeper with a larger scope and asks the common man in Ukraine what they think of their corrupt leaders in Kiev,  embezzling away millions...not sure if one side is any better then the other. Have a nice week-end. 

16 hours ago, Sigmund said:

I respect your opinion. But do you think it will change anything ? Not at all,. It just will only stigmatize the Russian civilians who have nothing to do with what's happening, And if one looks a bit deeper with a larger scope and asks the common man in Ukraine what they think of their corrupt leaders in Kiev,  embezzling away millions...not sure if one side is any better then the other. Have a nice week-end. 

There's no doubt that politics in the Ukraine are corrupt, but name one or two countries that are not. 

 

And there's a big difference between corrupt and evil, and Putin is positively evil. 

On 12/9/2025 at 10:49 AM, Schoggibueb said:

He wrote on FB:

" LGBTQI is a mental illness...

His job is handyman btw.

That was his main mistake.
Guys, if your government forces you or one of your relatives to undergo forced gender reassignment surgery or otherwise gets to you, don't waste a minute! Run to Vlad and ask for asylum. And then, when you get it, you'll finally have the exclusive right that only Vlad's empire residents have: to write what you truly think on Facebook.

20 minutes ago, zmisha said:

That was his main mistake.
Guys, if your government forces you or one of your relatives to undergo forced gender reassignment surgery or otherwise gets to you, don't waste a minute! Run to Vlad and ask for asylum. And then, when you get it, you'll finally have the exclusive right that only Vlad's empire residents have: to write what you truly think on Facebook.

What are you ranting about? Who's been forced, and by which government, to undergo gender reassignment surgery? 🤣