I’ve read all of his comments and I don’t believe I recall him stating any of that! Perhaps I missed it, so would you be so kind to point out those comments.

Yep, we all have our opinions! When did he call for the Minsk accords to be followed…..not saying he didn’t, just would like to know when and your source. 👍
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56720589

Since Ukraine achieved independence in 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed, it has gradually veered towards the West - both the EU and Nato.

Russia's leader has sought to reverse that, seeing the fall of the Soviet Union as the "disintegration of historical Russia". He has claimed Russians and Ukrainians are one people, denying Ukraine its long history: "Ukraine never had stable traditions of genuine statehood," he asserted.

It was his pressure on Ukraine's pro-Russian leader, Viktor Yanukovych, not to sign a deal with the European Union in 2013 that led to protests that ultimately ousted the Ukrainian president in February 2014.
Russia then seized Ukraine's southern region of Crimea and triggered a separatist rebellion in the east and a war that claimed 14,000 lives.


As he prepared to invade in February, he tore up an unfulfilled 2015 Minsk peace deal and accused Nato of threatening "our historic future as a nation", claiming without foundation that Nato countries wanted to bring war to Crimea.

Anyone can pretend to be anyone from anywhere with the use of the internet…….even a man that lives in New Mexico! I wonder if Rumi has decided it was time to retire the name “Rumitoid?”

I don’t do sandwiches! I’m one hell of a good cook…….many years of experience…….making you a sandwich would be a waste of my time and your loss of an exquisite meal! 😉

Silly little man and your silly little game and your juvenile insults! Grow up! 😂

And there it is! Shift the conversation to America like you so often do! AMERICA BAD! 😂😂😂. It’s not going to work on me….this isn’t about Americans starving because of being locked in their homes! It is about China and the vicious dictator, the dictator that you admire and support! There is no screw up by the officials, other than not enforcing the rules enough! The people are starving because they have been forced to stay in their homes with no food! Children have been taken from their parents! You can’t squirm your way out of this one……this is all on Xi!

Yep, they are being fired for not effectively following the orders of Xi and the CCP and enforcing his orders! These atrocious rules come from the top…….don’t try to shift the blame on the delivery trucks or officials that were given these murderous orders! 👿

This is a perfect example of propaganda…………shift the blame away from the vicious dictator and his CCP!


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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/shanghai-lockdown-risks-becoming-biggest-crisis-of-xi-s-tenure


On Friday, the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper defended Xi’s stringent virus policies, saying they should be implemented “without hesitation or wavering.” The party also removed a number of local officials for failing to effectively put in place Covid controls, while imploring cadres to fight the virus and heed Xi’s guidance with a “more resolute attitude, more thorough measures and swifter actions.”

“We must dare to draw our swords and fight against all kinds of behaviors that interfere with and undermine the overall situation of the fight against the epidemic,” the party’s top branch in Shanghai wrote to members in an open letter. It urged them to “take the initiative to speak out against all kinds of noises, especially rumors, to clarify right and wrong, and to unite a strong force to overcome the difficulties together.”

So you and Tippy are both from “the state of denial!”

It was tasty, long, and very informative! The more I research, the more I realize the similarities between Russia and China and their use of propaganda.

This is the last part of the article…………The picture that it paints is very different than the one that you have painted. IMO!

Some see Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a gambit aimed at boosting his popularity, a bid to rekindle the nationalist exhilaration that followed the annexation of Crimea. That explanation seems unlikely. If domestic support were the goal, Putin would have settled for recognizing—and perhaps annexing—the two self-declared Donbas republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, which might have been a reasonably popular move. But polls conducted before the invasion suggested no enthusiasm for a broader war. And had Putin believed that a full-scale invasion would boost his ratings, he would hardly have pretended for so long that Russian “peacekeepers” were intervening surgically only to stop a genocide in the Donbas. More likely, Putin’s sense of having effectively repressed domestic opposition is what liberated him to indulge in more grandiose international projects.

Putin’s task of political survival just got a lot harder.
Politics in Russia will now take place in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. Wars often rally citizens behind their leader at first. But they also destabilize domestic affairs, shifting opinion and power in unpredictable ways. Polls conducted by Kremlin-connected firms early in the war suggested that many Russians accepted the official narrative that NATO threats or Ukrainian atrocities forced Putin’s hand, although obviously polls taken in a harsh dictatorship by pollsters with government ties—in wartime, no less—should be treated with skepticism. Russian public opinion may well change as information filters through. Russians will learn that their troops have killed thousands of Ukrainians—not just in the east, in order to stop a purported genocide, but all over the country—and they will hear of Russian casualties. After years of living under mild sanctions, they now face wrenching economic disruptions. They will see their leader, who came to power promising stability—and for a long time seemed to provide it—transformed into an architect of instability. Those convinced that the threat from NATO had to be addressed will see the alliance reinvigorated and deploying more weapons along Russia’s western border. The new global isolation—with Russia’s sports teams and performers boycotted—will prove demoralizing. Even those ultranationalists who favored Putin’s war will probably be disappointed by the inevitably messy, bloody, and inconclusive aftermath.

Lacking resources and other tools, Putin will be tempted to ratchet up intimidation even more. But in economically developed, complex societies, where the public has access to communications technology and discontent is widespread, increased repression can backfire, sparking greater resistance. Putin is even more vulnerable because of the highly personal responsibility he took for the invasion, justifying it with a historical essay on the relationship between Russians and Ukrainians published in the summer of 2021 and with an impassioned speech delivered three days before the invasion began. A few hours before that speech was broadcast on state TV, he held a videotaped meeting with his Security Council, possibly to spread accountability to all its members, who obediently expressed support for his decision to recognize the two breakaway republics. But the heavy-handed choreography, with Putin sitting alone at a long table and questioning each member, in fact sent a message of dictatorial direction.

At the same time, as he moves to ever more repression, Putin will become more beholden to the siloviki. To retain control over the various agencies and factions of the Russian security state, he will have to continue balancing and pitting them against one another. He will need to move powerful individuals around, skillfully identifying any hints of disloyalty. Purges of the elite, which had already been on the rise, will become even more pronounced.

By attacking the postwar international order and changing his strategy of control at home, Putin has gambled with his own future. Initiating a war that does not go according to plan is a classic mistake that has undermined many authoritarian regimes in the past. The brazenness of Putin’s lie—sending forces to attack Kyiv while claiming that they were rescuing genocide victims in the Donbas—could also blow up in his face. The contradiction between his declared goal of uniting Slavic peoples and his method—bombing residential neighborhoods—may be too much for even a skilled propaganda machine to reconcile. Many Russians may instinctively seek to avoid cognitive dissonance by rallying behind their leader. But when that dissonance is too great, the result can be a paradigm shift. With a bureaucracy of repression as well equipped and practiced as that in Russia, Putin may feel reasonably secure, but his task of political survival just got a lot harder.

We’ve had several conversations about this! He knows exactly what I believe and I have given him the evidence as to why!

But then I’m old enough and wise enough to realize I don’t have all the answers, especially when it comes to judging what another person goes through in their life, especially for those who have faced the atrocities of WAR…..who come home with missing body parts! No one that has never been in their shoes has the right to judge them!

I’ve made myself more than clear that I think you are part of the propaganda machine of China. As I’ve said, nothing personal, but there is lots of evidence for anyone who does the research. I will continue to voice my opinion of your day in day out criticism of America/Israel/ and Western Democracies. I can assure you it is more than a hobby, CD! You are very good at this, I must admit. But that’s why the CCP uses academia, both Professors and students to infiltrate social media. You are fooling most members, but not all. More are noticing your continual anti-American comments and your continual approval and defense of the vicious dictator Xi and the CCP……..and are questioning why you start your morning posting on this forum and end your day posting on this forum! It’s almost like it’s a job! 😎

I will continue to defend my country from your constant criticism……..sometimes we just have to make our stand! 🇺🇸

It’s not very often that someone has the courage to include babies that are conceived from rape in a conversation about the right to live. Every baby conceived is made in God’s image. Every baby is equally loved by God……every baby should be loved and given the chance to live! Babies conceived by rape are just as human as babies conceived in love. They have just as much right to live as any other baby! I knew a couple who chose to keep a baby that was the result of 3 men raping the woman. They were a testament to love and faith. The baby born was a beautiful baby girl and was their third child.

Thanks for standing up for these babies. There are couples who can’t have children who will adopt these babies if the mother is not physically or mentally able to keep their baby. It’s understandable that some women could not keep the baby and they would never be judged for that decision.

But, “RR” as a Canadian, our tax dollars are not your concern……..unless you are not a Canadian! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can’t believe that you, of ALL people, don’t “recall” how many times you have been caught being less than “right!”

PeeWee hasn’t ever forgotten where he claimed to live from one day to the next, has he “Tippy”……… LOL!

Vitamin D, “Tippy”………..try a little vitamin D! It might help you recall all those times when you didn’t recall!