Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "CNN"
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No major NATO member country has a clean slate, especially the US, UK or Germany.
That said, Russia's history and scale of war crimes in Chechnya and Syria is atrocious and worth timely reexamination.
Let's hope they don't do in Odessa, or anywhere else, what they did in Grozny or Aleppo.
Intentional targeting of hospitals, ambulance workers, firefighters and schools, and indiscriminate targeting of civilians, including with the confirmed use of banned¹ weapons, and the alleged use of chemical weapons.
Looting of homes and businesses, arbitrary detention and beatings, systematic rape of women, men and sometimes children.
Typical goon squad stuff all armies without civilian oversight, entirely or effectively, end up engaged in.
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¹ Geneva Conventions of 1949
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@scabcrawler632 - Your fantasies aren't a counterpoint.
There is no equivalent extremism on the left. Period.
" First, right-wing attacks and plots accounted for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994. In particular, they made up a large percentage of incidents in the 1990s and 2010s. Second, the total number of right-wing attacks and plots has grown substantially during the past six years. In 2019, for example, right-wing extremists perpetrated nearly two-thirds of the terrorist attacks and plots in the United States, and they committed over 90 percent of the attacks and plots between January 1 and May 8, 2020. Third, although religious extremists were responsible for the most fatalities because of the 9/11 attacks, right-wing perpetrators were responsible for more than half of all annual fatalities in 14 of the 21 years during which fatal attacks occurred."
Center for Strategic and International Studies: June 17th, 2020
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More can always be done, but it's also true that the diplomatic, financial, economic, commercial and military efforts targeted at Russia and their presence in Ukraine -- and largely led by the United States of America -- amount to the most severe [multilateral] sanctions on one country [a major global economy] in history, and the biggest single military assistance effort in Europe since Lend/Lease to fight the Axis Powers in WWII.
I believe that the UN and the State Department, infamously slow-moving and large entities, have moved uncharacteristically rapidly to confront Russia's bald aggression.
Under the last three Presidents combined, over $2 trillion in military aid to Ukraine has come from the US, which supplies over 90% of Ukraine's military aid.
Under the current President, due to Russia's buildup and invasion, over $3 trillion in military aid has already gone to Ukraine, with over $6 trillion more headed to fight this potentially genocidal force from Russia.
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I like Presidential candidates who belong to a political party who doesn't surrender...to a white nationalist coup d'etat.
— McConnell told top advisers, “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a b---- for us,” after it became clear that Democrats were going to impeach Trump in the House, adding, “if this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.”
— On a conference call with top Republicans, McCarthy said Trump’s conduct was “atrocious and totally wrong,” blamed him for inciting the crowd and “inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th Amendment … before concluding that was not a viable option.”
— McCarthy told Republican leaders he “planned to call Mr. Trump and tell him it was time for him to go. ‘What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it,’ he told the group. Mr. McCarthy said he would tell Mr. Trump of the impeachment resolution: ‘I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.’”
— McCarthy also told GOP leaders that he wished Big Tech companies would strip some Republican lawmakers of their social media accounts, ‘We can’t put up with that,’ Mr. McCarthy said, adding, ‘Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?’”
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