@timpsu7 Timo, sinulla riittää näitä “entä jos” -skenaarioita: entä jos NATO hajoaa, entä jos sitä, entä jos tätä… 🤌🏻 Jossain vaiheessa voisi palata todellisuuteen. Tämä ei näytä enää kovin vakavalta - eikä varsinkaan anna kovin vakavaa kuvaa seuraajakunnastasi.
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese So by the same logic, should I quote Janusz Waluś and ask whether his racist extremist ideology represents all Poles? Of course not. That would be absurd - just as using Dugin to represent all Russians is. ☝🏼
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese That’s a common myth. Dugin supports Putin, but there’s no solid evidence he’s “close to Putin” or that he represents the Russian government. Supporting the Kremlin and representing it are two very different things.
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese Come on, you know that’s misleading 🤌🏻 They weren’t PoWs - they were French nationals imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Quite a significant difference.
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese You say Russia’s case is obvious. Then why does Europe lift sanctions on people it sanctioned for supporting or financing this bloody war? If the grounds were clear enough to sanction them, what exactly changed?
@McFaul Michael, you once seemed far more measured. Now you seem unwilling to name the person responsible, preferring instead to blame an entire nation. Not so long ago, you were a regular guest on Russian TV, giving those very platforms credibility and legitimacy. 🤌🏻
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese Is this perhaps a close friend of yours - the one whose wedding you were best man at? Otherwise, why quote an extremist like Dugin as if his words represented an entire nation? Or is it simply a case of like attracting like?
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese First, I’m a girl, not a dude ) If you never said that, I take it back. But Crimea was annexed in March 2014, and Zelensky still appeared on Russian TV later that year. That’s exactly why I reject black-and-white collective judgments. People and history are rarely that simple.
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese 2/2 That’s propaganda built on sweeping generalisations and the dehumanisation of an entire people. And the irony is that its logic begins to resemble the very Putin-style propaganda you presumably despise - only with the target reversed.
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese 1/2 You’re right about many of the historical facts. The problem starts when history becomes collective guilt: “Russians chose Putin, they all support him, therefore Russians should be destroyed and Russia erased.” That’s no longer a serious discussion of history.
@JParadyz@tviking2@JohnCleese And why stop with Russia? Why not bring up Austria, Germany’s past, America’s wars, or the colonial empires of Britain and France? If we’re going to judge people today by wars, invasions and imperialism from decades or centuries ago, shouldn’t the same standard apply to everyone?