YouTuber Ethan Klein calls for bombing of NRA conference
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People cared a whole lot. Disproportionately. The journalists around the world reported it, investigated it thoroughly (denying the official story), and we discussed it in multiple threads. But when thousands died in Mariupol only few were given names and faces by the only journalists remaining in the besieged city before their escape (the Russians were looking for them), and it's also old news and forgotten already. And the "discussion" here was so disrespectful to the victims, typically for this place.
Dude, no one defends (or denies) "My Lai" (Son My) even in America. The helicopter pilots who rescued villagers by threatening to kill infantrymen were given medals. What "hypocrite West"? Politkovskaya in A Small Corner of Hell wrote about "heroes and medals", medals are given to literal murderers, but (her example) a major who single handedly rescued dozens of elderly (ethnic Russian) people from the house of blind during the destruction of Grozny got no awards or recognition because he saved people and didn't kill them. She too was later murdered.
There was literally nothing wrong about the Highway of Death. A textbook great military victory. The Russians did a mini version in Kherson on the first day (over 100 retreating Ukrainian vehicles hit or abandoned on a single road) and there was also nothing wrong with this by itself.
It is a criminal offense in Russia to even write truth about WWII (up to 5 years for "falsifying history").
Yeah, Charlie Savage of the NYT said that "the US has an incredible line into ISIS-K".
Most journalists are propagandists. They deserve no respect, except if they were there to actually tell the truth, rather than spread talking points of the American empire..
Belatedly. At the time, there were songs in support of Calley, claiming that he was persecuted for doing his duty, and he and a fellow miscreant were pardoned by Nixon. And what they did is worse than anything the Russians are alleged to have done in Bucha, though I also do not see other Russian troops threatening them with force to stop such things.
I did not argue that there was, though it is regretful that a country with such a low birth rate should lose people.
Which truths?
The New York Times uncovered the true story.
You don't even know what the word empire means. Or you do but you just don't care.
Or maybe the Emperor Trump meme broke your mind.
The support of Calley were also from the anti-war people, who were saying he was being scapegoated. They weren't wrong.
No, it wasn't worse. It was similar. Also rape, also torture. No looting because nothing to loot.
There's a story of a group of Russian soldiers, one known by name, who began very polite and friendly (and scared and sympathetic), I thought they would be the good guys in it. Well, they weren't.
Basic truths such the Soviet-Nazi alliance of 1939-41.
Yes, after its 'journalists' had praised the USG into the skies for this attack. I will also note that no one was punished for this. It's like the Russians saying: "oops, I guess we did kill some innocent people, water under the bridge, amirite?"
If the American Empire is not an empire, the Roman Empire wasn't an empire, the Delian League was not an empire, the League of Corinth was not an Empire. Alliances are empires, particularly when there is one dominant partner.
They were absolutely wrong, as no one told him to go out and murder children and old men. An intentional, directed massacre on a scale that not even the current war propaganda has accused the Russians of - even Bucha was supposedly directed at military-aged men.
Show me where the Russians drove hundreds of civilians, including women, children and old men, into a ditch and offed them with machine gun fire.
And the Russians are not exactly known for their great regard for civilians.
Has anyone actually been convicted of that? Or is it another one of the hysterical Western claims about the Ruskies, like the imminent declaration of martial law and the murder of Shoigu?
Empires annex and control territories as their own. The American adventure with an empire started and ended with the Phillipines, granted independence after WWII (scheduled before WWII). Continued with Hawaii and PR if you want. Then you can be also retarded and say so about the continental USA (a textbook federation). But this is all.
Calley was told to kill. By his company commander (Captain Medina, who killed a woman personally after landing his command helicoper), probably relying orders from brigade commander (Henderson) through the battalion commander (Barker) who planned the attack on Pinkville together with field commander Medina. It wasn't also just his platoon, nor only just the Charlie Company, and it wasn't just one village. Maybe you should read about it sometime. Here's some from guess who: https://archive.ph/7l7sG
Besides that, for example https://armyhistory.org/my-lai/ (for a detail of Medina's personal acts: "Medina, however, always denied giving Calley any order to harm civilians. Later that day (he arrived in My Lai about 1100), Medina was himself involved in an unlawful killing when he fired his rifle and wounded a woman holding a small wicker basket. After he searched the basket and found syringes and other medical supplies, Medina shot the woman twice in the head.").
They just (in May) approved a new law, giving up to 15 years in prison for "false reporting" about the war.
The story in question: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/18/i-can-do-whatever-i-want-to-you (proper link).
A lot of "duality of man, sir" there.
Just "Bucha" is misleading as it was everywhere. And is, elsewhere.
It may be war propaganda, or it may be true. I don't know, just like I don't know where this site is getting its funding (perhaps from the EU/US like the Kiev Independent).
If true, unfortunately these soldiers will get as light a punishment as Calley.
But it doesn't matter for my argument. War is hell. That's why you try to prevent war, instead of stoking it like the Americans have done for the past 8 years.
"We send weapons to Ukraine so we fight Russia over there and we don't have to fight them over here."
-Adam Schiff
One Russian soldier was already sentenced to a life in prison (in Ukraine). Vadim Shishimarin, who randomly shot a passeby while trying to flee with his tank crew in a stolen car.
As it happens, he killed a former KGB who was a bodyguard of Brezhnev: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10830859/Grieving-Ukrainian-widow-61-stares-Russian-soldier-21-shot-grandfather-62-trial.html Denazification works in mysterious ways.
If the Ukrainians only heeded American warnings,instead of publicly dismissing them, they would have been prepared and avoided tej southern front catastrophe (entire unit caught with pants down and destroyed in bases or on roads retreating, bridges not mined, Mariupol cut off from the west and then north in 3 days, etc.).
Unfortunately they believed Russian treacherous lies for some reason. And so did you, but they really should have known better and listened to the accurate "stoking".