Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "BBC News"
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@William1w1 William, we agree in general and some particulars, but I think you are in error over some of your claims. We agree that wars are terrible events that cause the suffering of innocents. We agree that the U.S. has made calamitous mistakes that has caused the suffering of innocents (and I think we might further agree that we have failed to reckon and atone for many of them). Maybe you would agree that some of these mistakes were the result of ill intentions, while others were well intentioned (but often arrogant).
But would you agree that people have the right to defend themselves and their homeland from aggression, as the Ukrainians have been doing for 8 years? Would you agree that there is a difference between a policy of terror against civilians, such as we are seeing the Putin Regime commit, and other criminal behaviors we often see in wars?
The Putzi trolls have been bringing up the My Lai massacre, but the story is more complicated when one knows how the aftermath unfolded. There was a court martial! It resulted in only one conviction (Lt. Calley), and unfortunately acquitted his higher ups (who tried to cover up the crime). But the fact is that there was a trial (or more factually, trials) as we attempted to come to terms with our national guilt. The trolls also fail to mention that three soldiers were later recognized for trying to protect the Vietnamese civilians.
One more thing wrt to My Lai. It was investigated by independent journalists, most notably Seymour Hersh who broke the story. My points here is that there are many in our country, in our government, and in our military that try to do the right thing. We have a free press that holds us accountable when it does its job. We are far from perfect, but we at least try. We struggle to live up to our ideals, but at least we have them.
I don’t think the same could be said about Nazi Germany, Japan’s military dictatorship, other murderous tyrants, and now Russia. They use murder and destruction as part of a policy of terror. I think a criminal like Putin murders not just to maintain his power, but to express it.
As you say, Ukraine is now. Russia must be stopped. The Russian propagandists (the Putzis) that try to cover up the crimes must be stopped. Thank you for reading this.
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@someguyfromarcticfreezer6854 Because Putin has banned the Russian people from using Facebook and other social media, almost all Russians still posting on any social media are trolls from the GRU troll farms, getting paid (in worthless rubles) in this Russian disinformation campaign. The greatest threat to Putin at the moment is losing control of his own country. What these trolls of Russian disinformation need to realize is that their identities will be revealed and they will be held to account by the free world. The same goes for those operating outside the Soviet Union, I mean Russia.
Right now, the Russian people are being cut off from the internet by their own government. Soon, they will be cut off from the internet completely by the West, tired of the disinformation, wary of cyber attacks, and eager to impose more economic damage on the Oligarchs. It’s up to the Russian people to resist Putin’s kleptocracy.
The Ruble is worth less than toilet paper. The Russian Trolls are effectively working for free. They, like everyone else in Russia, will face shortages of consumer goods and food. The ruble will be worth even less on the black markets, while the oligarchs and their underlings hoard hard currency—dollars, euros, and gold. How ironic that dollars and euros will soon become the Russian people’s medium of exchange. They’ll be paying a dollar for a potato due to food shortages and they will have Putin to thank for it.
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