Cultural genocide is a thing, and Ukraine is engaging in it, though I was talking about physical extermination.
I consider Xinjiang a cultural genocide, but Russians in Ukraine is just whining and being over-sensitive. Ukraine is fully within its rights to make Ukrainian the official language, yet it didn't go that far. It isn't like Xinjiang where the CCP makes it illegal to own a Koran or to even speak the Uyghur language in private. Ukraine doesn't regulate non-public/government use of Russian.
Russia forcibly relocating Ukrainians in occupied territories and resettling them around Russia is a well-known type of cultural genocide, though, and one the USSR has used many times in the past.
The US did absolutely nothing as there was a genocide in Rwanda
At the end of the day, even though the Democrats very much wanted to, they did not do so for 2 reasons: (1) the lack of US logistics and infrastructure necessary to even consider any kind large scale of military deployment there, and (2) the clusterfuck of Somalia was fresh in Democrat minds.
Not caring about a genocide in central africa enough to spend enormous money and risking US lives to stop it isn't the same as supporting it.
It isn't exactly the cream of the crop that moved to this Win. But even they are better than the radical left, as they are far more tolerant of slight dissenters like you and me than the radical left would be of someone who disagreed with them on that much.
True, it's unfortunate that there aren't more reasonable people who you can actually have a discussion with. Too many people have a more zealot type mindset and can't be reasoned with. I have had a few people openly try to "drive me out" but I just blocked them so I don't get them in my inbox. I can still see their comments, though, if I look manually, and they're still at it, unaware I can't see their comments usually.
Some of them definitely have issues, yeah. However, I think I can say with confidence that I have never downvoted you. Because even when I disagree, you generally post interesting and substantive stuff.
I don't think I've downvoted you. I generally upvote your comments when I see them because you're usually putting effort into your comments even though they come from a very different perspective.
And yeah, I do laugh at people who embarrass themselves by calling Kiev "KEEEEEEV", because it's ridiculous.
I agree, it was a virtue signal to be look "look how culturally sensitive I am! I am using the local dialect!" Here's a whole article about why the libs changed it because the dirty Russians use "Kiev". It's always been Kiev in English and that's all that matters. We don't call Germany Deutschland. We don't call VW "fow vey". We don't call Japan "Nihon". We don't call "french fries" Pommes Frites (actually some snooty restaurants here do).
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I don't think Ukraine was able to pull off a car bombing in Moscow, and there's no evidence it was Ukraine. [FSB says it was based on "trust me, bro, there was totally a chick but she ran away"] If they did it, I would have expected them to keep going and kill a lot more people, and more important ones than her.
But things like infrastructure and satellites have dual use, so they can be considered valid military targets.
But the military has plenty of generators and doesn't rely on the civilian power grid, so it isn't really serving any significant military purpose. Bridges in key military areas? Sure. But going after the civilian power grid really isn't going to affect Ukrainian military forces.
And as you perhaps remember, I supported making peace in the early weeks in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality, recognition of the People's Republics and Crimea, because I thought that long wars are rarely worth it.
Problem was Russia wouldn't agree to that back then because they felt like they were winning, and now Ukraine won't agree to it because they feel like they're winning.
With due respect to your country, and I think you often mistake criticism of its foreign policy as an attack on the country or its people, but when in the recent past has the US not been the aggressor? And I say that while being OK with Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea.
I think Russia acts that way, not the US. People criticize the US all the time and we don't bomb or threaten them for it. Russia makes threats constantly over the smallest slights or perceived lack of respect.
Korea & Vietnam were purely defensive wars, to protect South Korea & Vietnam respectively.
Gulf War 1 was to liberate Kuwait, Iraq being the aggressor.
Kosovo was a NATO operation to protect Kosovo from a Serbian attack. While I disagree with NATO and think Serbia was justified, NATO was intervening to defend Kosovo not attacking unprovoked.
Afghanistan was in response to 9/11, which was an attack on the US launched by Al Qaeda, which was hosted by the Taliban.
Gulf War 2, continuation of 1 over WMD. More of a grey area.
Libya & Syria = yeah just bullying an unpopular (with the EU) dictator to take advantage of a moment of weakness.
I consider Xinjiang a cultural genocide, but Russians in Ukraine is just whining and being over-sensitive. Ukraine is fully within its rights to make Ukrainian the official language, yet it didn't go that far. It isn't like Xinjiang where the CCP makes it illegal to own a Koran or to even speak the Uyghur language in private. Ukraine doesn't regulate non-public/government use of Russian.
Russia forcibly relocating Ukrainians in occupied territories and resettling them around Russia is a well-known type of cultural genocide, though, and one the USSR has used many times in the past.
At the end of the day, even though the Democrats very much wanted to, they did not do so for 2 reasons: (1) the lack of US logistics and infrastructure necessary to even consider any kind large scale of military deployment there, and (2) the clusterfuck of Somalia was fresh in Democrat minds.
Not caring about a genocide in central africa enough to spend enormous money and risking US lives to stop it isn't the same as supporting it.
True, it's unfortunate that there aren't more reasonable people who you can actually have a discussion with. Too many people have a more zealot type mindset and can't be reasoned with. I have had a few people openly try to "drive me out" but I just blocked them so I don't get them in my inbox. I can still see their comments, though, if I look manually, and they're still at it, unaware I can't see their comments usually.
I don't think I've downvoted you. I generally upvote your comments when I see them because you're usually putting effort into your comments even though they come from a very different perspective.
I agree, it was a virtue signal to be look "look how culturally sensitive I am! I am using the local dialect!" Here's a whole article about why the libs changed it because the dirty Russians use "Kiev". It's always been Kiev in English and that's all that matters. We don't call Germany Deutschland. We don't call VW "fow vey". We don't call Japan "Nihon". We don't call "french fries" Pommes Frites (actually some snooty restaurants here do).
I don't think Ukraine was able to pull off a car bombing in Moscow, and there's no evidence it was Ukraine. [FSB says it was based on "trust me, bro, there was totally a chick but she ran away"] If they did it, I would have expected them to keep going and kill a lot more people, and more important ones than her.
But the military has plenty of generators and doesn't rely on the civilian power grid, so it isn't really serving any significant military purpose. Bridges in key military areas? Sure. But going after the civilian power grid really isn't going to affect Ukrainian military forces.
Problem was Russia wouldn't agree to that back then because they felt like they were winning, and now Ukraine won't agree to it because they feel like they're winning.
I think Russia acts that way, not the US. People criticize the US all the time and we don't bomb or threaten them for it. Russia makes threats constantly over the smallest slights or perceived lack of respect.
Korea & Vietnam were purely defensive wars, to protect South Korea & Vietnam respectively.
Gulf War 1 was to liberate Kuwait, Iraq being the aggressor.
Kosovo was a NATO operation to protect Kosovo from a Serbian attack. While I disagree with NATO and think Serbia was justified, NATO was intervening to defend Kosovo not attacking unprovoked.
Afghanistan was in response to 9/11, which was an attack on the US launched by Al Qaeda, which was hosted by the Taliban.
Gulf War 2, continuation of 1 over WMD. More of a grey area.
Libya & Syria = yeah just bullying an unpopular (with the EU) dictator to take advantage of a moment of weakness.