Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
given dershowitz is a professor at harvard and a known plagiarist (as per beyond chutzpah) i'm not at all persuaded by academics' professional affiliations
This is unfounded.i think you will find unevidenced claims are de rigueur for this thread amongst certain people.
I agree.The kidnapped children certainly didn't get a choice.
It's barely been mentioned recently and doesn't seem to come up in the news often.I agree.
Has anyone said otherwise?
During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland. Wikipedia
It's been almost two years since Sasha Radchuck, then 11, pleaded with Russian soldiers not to separate him from his mother at what was called a "filtration camp" in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, where they had both been forcibly resettled after being forced from their home in besieged Mariupol.
He still talks of his mother in the present tense, but hasn't seen or spoken to her since April 2022.
"My mom is very beautiful," he said through a translator. "To every son, his mom is the best and most beautiful. For me, my mom is the best."
Now 13 and since reunited with his grandmother, Sasha is urging world leaders to press Russia to stop its practice of what the International Criminal Court deemed to be "unlawful deportation" -- a legal term for stealing children amid war.
The government in Kyiv estimates that at least 19,500 Ukrainian children have been deported and forcibly displaced from their homes to Russia and Russian-occupied territories since the full scale invasion began in February 2022, and of those only 388 have returned home.
The exact figure is unclear, and where they are is mostly unknown. The BBC has compiled evidence from many children who said they were separated from parents, were not allowed to go home or call their relatives.
In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the alleged unlawful deportation of children.
This thread isn’t about you or me so will try and keep it brief but wanted to acknowledge.Well you have posted outright conspiracy theories I'm afraid
As for Far right, well it is their talking points you echo and in recent years many former left leaning people have been pulled completely into the far right orbit though conspiratorial nonsense. So I think you are in danger of ending up in the same place.
I may owe you a bit of an apology though. I don't get the same sense of glee and joy from you that I do from other posters, so if I have said or even just implied that in the past I apologise.
As utterly wrong as I think you perspective is on this you do at least you show concern for the massive human tragedy that is taking place.
Turns out Greene's amendment to conscript lawmakers who vote for the aid bill into the Ukrainian military was one of more than 120 amendments offered by Republicans, including dozens from Greene - among other things, she called for redirecting the funds to the border wall and expelling illegal immigrants, withholding funding until Ukraine bans abortion, withholding funding until Ukraine turns over information on Hunter Biden, and pulling the US out of NATO
HEAD of the US army (Milley) said to negotiate for peace in November 2022, as that was as good a position of "strength" Ukraine would enjoy - he knew it was downhill from thereSo you hand Russia victory, condemn hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to a life under a brutal neo-fascist regime and then what?
And you honestly believe Russia would have just said "thanks for the extra land we've just stolen from you and we absolutely promise to never think about taking any more. Oh no, sir. We definitely stick to our word."HEAD of the US army (Milley) said to negotiate for peace in November 2022, as that was as good a position of "strength" Ukraine would enjoy - he knew it was downhill from there
HEAD of the Ukrainian army (Zaluzhnyi) gave an interview for which he was effectively fired for saying that Ukraine had no chance of pushing Russia back and every chance of being pushed back themselves.
General David Julian Richards, who was HEAD of the British armed forces from 2010 to 2013, says Ukraine are done and should "trade peace for land"
These are the top military brass saying this. Unlike you and me wishing for this and that they have to think about real strategy and real consequence. They're not "handing Russia victory", they recognise that Russia has won the land they've occupied - it was clear a long long time ago.
just to come back to this, i cut my political teeth during the cold war arguing against the sort of shit im accused of here in smoky rooms, union meetings, public meetings, against tankies and some on the labour left and far left in an organisation with the banner "neither washington nor moscow", which is what had attracted me to them.I’m not going to pick individual paragraphs out of context from a thousand pages of posts, no. I’ve no interest in a scholastic nitpicking of he-said-she-said. However, the considerable corpus of text to analyse in this thread is more than sufficient to be able to describe the characteristic process that I and others are referring to. The telltale signs are where a poster employs a discourse that implicitly understands the world as being divided into two great empires. All actions are seen through this prism — nobody can act without it being for the purpose of one of those empires and antagonistic to the other. It is thus simply assumed that to be against the most antagonistic empire is to be on a positive side. Where this discourse is uncritically mobilised in combination with refusing ever to criticise one of the empires at all, under any circumstances, and regardless of harm, this becomes a case of taking sides in the assumed dichotomous war between empires. When this is also combined with finger-wagging about how the chosen empire should be left to get on with it, that’s what I would call revelling in it.
sorry we've been over this so many times, have you not read it before on the thread?And you honestly believe Russia would have just said "thanks for the extra land we've just stolen from you and we absolutely promise to never think about taking any more. Oh no, sir. We definitely stick to our word."
Turns out Greene's amendment to conscript lawmakers who vote for the aid bill into the Ukrainian military was one of more than 120 amendments offered by Republicans, including dozens from Greene - among other things, she called for redirecting the funds to the border wall and expelling illegal immigrants, withholding funding until Ukraine bans abortion, withholding funding until Ukraine turns over information on Hunter Biden, and pulling the US out of NATO
sorry we've been over this so many times, have you not read it before on the thread?
a peace deal is not done on trust, it is guaranteed by brute force
a deal becomes guaranteed by foreign powers (US and European) who would be obliged to defend Ukraine's neutrality in case of a breach of the treaty - unlike now where they are only able to supply weapons
the things I support have nothing to do with the conversation...my point in posting here is above all to provide a reality check, first during the Ukraine Was Winning frenzy (it wasnt) and now to the War Must Never Stop crew.so you support Ukraine joining Nato?
and that not going to anger Putin
yeah well losses have been inflicted, job done. Can we stop now then?A negotiated settlement is what will happen in the end. but you don’t do that by allowing your enemy to march in and take what they want. Horrific as it is gross losses have to be inflicted. and it is of course not our country to negotiate away. As it’s been said before and be repeating it is for the Ukrainians to decide what losses they can bear. or to fight on. Given them the arms they need IMO. not your blood they’re spilling. saying they should’ve negotiated in 2022 is frankly disgusting.
yeah well losses have been inflicted, job done. Can we stop now then?
And if you're disgusted take it up with the head of that well known pacifist organisation the US military
the things I support have nothing to do with the conversation...my point in posting here is above all to provide a reality check, first during the Ukraine Was Winning frenzy (it wasnt) and now to the War Must Never Stop crew.
what they were offered then will look like a dream compared to what they end up with.saying they should’ve negotiated in 2022 is frankly disgusting.
id choose not to go out at all.Jesus given the choice to go out on your feet or your knees
you'd take the later ?
what they were offered then will look like a dream compared to what they end up with.
id choose not to go out at all.
This has probably been discussed before, but the differences between attitudes to the Ukraine War and the Gaza Strip War are interesting. I suppose the differences arise in part due to different analyses of the role of the USA in the world.
there you go. putting words in peoples mouths.hmm did the Russia start the offensive offering the population puppys or shells and tanks?
i've seen a few time it thrown at people well would you sign up to fight
Well the people of Ukraine choose to take up arms against an oppressive invading force
and should be supported because if it
To say they are stupid for keeping up the fight and should of just acquiescent to Russian subjugation is the height of arrogance from someone who never likely to face the same choice
there you go. putting words in peoples mouths.
heres a thing, why don't we all stick to discussing our own thoughts instead of fantasy ones we attribute to others. its bogging the thread down.depends how you look at it from some of the views expressed on here the Palestine's should accept defeat and march into the desert