What Lefties Get Wrong About NATO

[Preety_India]

15 minutes ago, Ananta said:

Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome that some hostages get for their captor. 

Dictators use intimidation, murder, imprisonment, violence and other human rights abuses to control the population under a dictatorship, much like the hostage-captor scenario.

I was actually referring to a benevolent dictator, like in olden days we had kings. I was referring to noble kings. Although they would be called dictators too by today's standards since they might not get elected by the people in a democratic way. 

We can call it a different name like monarch. 

 

[Ananta]

14 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

I was actually referring to a benevolent dictator, like in olden days we had kings. I was referring to noble kings. Although they would be called dictators too by today's standards since they might not get elected by the people in a democratic way. 

We can call it a different name like monarch. 

 

Hm, you said in your next sentence you thought the ppl of Russia were in love with Putin until now and now you don't know how they feel. So, seems to me you were talking about Putin?

[How to be wise]

22 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

You have no idea the complexity involved here.

Or maybe you are too emotionally involved with Russia to see the simple truth.

[Preety_India]

13 hours ago, Ananta said:

Hm, you said in your next sentence you thought the ppl of Russia were in love with Putin until now and now you don't know how they feel. So, seems to me you were talking about Putin?

My assumption is that Putin is someone that Russians must admire since he has been in power for so long. Though I can't be completely sure since Russia is so secretive. 

[Ananta]

14 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

My assumption is that Putin is someone that Russians must admire since he has been in power for so long. Though I can't be completely sure since Russia is so secretive. 

I wouldn't know if Russians admire him and I wouldn't assume so, mostly because it's a dictatorship. So, who knows how they really feel, since they don't have a right to free speech.

I bet they won't love him after all these sanctions take effect. The ppl there are going to suffer for his choices.

Edited March 8, 2022 by Ananta

[Scholar]

 

[DocWatts]

8 hours ago, Scholar said:

 

Beat me to it.

Yes Russia has legitimate security concerns that are worth taking the time to and effort to understand, but many (though not all) of these security concerns are a self fulfilling prophecy through it's own aggressive actions towards its neighbors.

In this way, the self fulfilling nature of its security concerns aren't so different from a country like the United States, whose short sighted foreign policy decisions creates enemies throughout the world.

Edited March 8, 2022 by DocWatts