oh, that's rich.  This is the second time when backed into a corner, you suddenly come out with criticism of Russia.  Sorry mate, not buying it. 

You know what I think? I think any country under attack has a right to defend itself. It therefore has a right to source its defenses from wherever the hell it can get them. 
All the more so, when the aggressor is on a demonstrable path of ethnic cleansing and imperial expansion as in this case. 

Yet 99% of your posts about Ukraine are pro-Kremlin and how resistance is futile and they should just surrender and accept their fate. When you get called out on the inconsistency, you come up with same lame moral equivalence that "neither are justified." Sorry man. Not credible.

oh, that's rich.  This is the second time when backed into a corner, you suddenly come out with criticism of Russia.  Sorry mate, not buying it. 

You know what I think? I think any country under attack has a right to defend itself. It therefore has a right to source its defenses from wherever the hell it can get them. 
All the more so, when the aggressor is on a demonstrable path of ethnic cleansing and imperial expansion as in this case. 

Yet 99% of your posts about Ukraine are pro-Kremlin and how resistance is futile and they should just surrender and accept their fate. When you get called out on the inconsistency, you come up with same lame moral equivalence that "neither are justified." Sorry man. Not credible.

Red herring, because neither are justified despite your ad hom straw man claiming otherwise.

No, it's not. Just more smoke and mirrors on your part. 
Attacking unarmed civilians is a war crime. 
In Gaza as it is in Ukraine. 

Straw man.

I've got a 5-year old son. Don't need anymore kindergarten bells and whistles right now thanks. 

This is precisely what you do repeatedly. You post everything you get your hands on about ethnic cleansing in Gaza, 
then when the Russias do the very same thing as the Israelis you find it entirely justified.
Not sure if you are aware of it , but it makes you look entirely hollow.

You actually don't give a shit, do you? It's all just something to instrumentalize.

🚨 Tone Police 🚨

you are calling anti-missile defences and intelligence that stop a shit ton of innocent people getting killed "treats"?

Where were you born?

It's outrageous! And these are still Biden's treats that were in transit.

ewww...   that is really grotesque given the circumstances.

almost on a par with turning Gaza into a hotel development 

no, hang on, I think it is almost worse than that.

Grovel and you get your treats again.

Funny, you never mention the Ukrainians' interests. Or the Georgians, or the Chechens,

Or the Poles' or the Latvians' or the Finns' or the Estonians' or the Moldovans' or the Czechs' or the Slovaks' or the Slovenians' or any number of nations that only recently escaped from under the boot of the Russian empire and don't want to go back under. Your worldview has no place for them, other than as pawns in games between major powers.

Obama, like Trump, was negotiating over the future of Ukraine without involving the Ukrainians. He appeased—rather than confronted—an expansive authoritarian state intent on growing by conquest. That looks like a mistake from 2025, but what do we—the world—do now?

It's clear from both rhetoric and actions that Putin intends to reconstitute the Russian empire, to seek dominance over eastern Europe and the Baltics. Europe (other than Orban's Hungary) recognizes that threat. The answer you keep cutting and pasting to this threat is to either look the other way, pretending it isn't real, or to sympathize with the source of that threat.

You may get what you want. The irony here is that this politics of raw power you favor is now a threat to your own country. What will you do if this modern Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact emerging between Putin and Trump actually holds this time, and the mighty powers stick to their agreed spheres of influence, carving up the world between them?

You may prefer one form of authoritarian to another, but you won't get a choice of which boot you have to lick.

The irony here is that this politics of raw power you favor is now a threat to your own country.

Funny, you never mention the Ukrainians' interests. Or the Georgians, or the Chechens,

Or the Poles' or the Latvians' or the Finns' or the Estonians' or the Moldovans' or the Czechs' or the Slovaks' or the Slovenians' or any number of nations that only recently escaped from under the boot of the Russian empire and don't want to go back under. Your worldview has no place for them, other than as pawns in games between major powers.

Obama, like Trump, was negotiating over the future of Ukraine without involving the Ukrainians. He appeased—rather than confronted—an expansive authoritarian state intent on growing by conquest. That looks like a mistake from 2025, but what do we—the world—do now?

It's clear from both rhetoric and actions that Putin intends to reconstitute the Russian empire, to seek dominance over eastern Europe and the Baltics. Europe (other than Orban's Hungary) recognizes that threat. The answer you keep cutting and pasting to this threat is to either look the other way, pretending it isn't real, or to sympathize with the source of that threat.

You may get what you want. The irony here is that this politics of raw power you favor is now a threat to your own country. What will you do if this modern Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact emerging between Putin and Trump actually holds this time, and the mighty powers stick to their agreed spheres of influence, carving up the world between them?

You may prefer one form of authoritarian to another, but you won't get a choice of which boot you have to lick.