From Bronwyn.."The real crime here is banning men from leaving Ukraine and in effect conscripting them to fight."

Those who continue to just regurgitate Russian propaganda have to do so with one eye firmly closed. OMG Ukraine is using 'conscripts'. Yet approximately 30% of the Russian army is conscripts many of whom didn't want to fight their 'brothers'. This explains why morale in the Russian forces appears to be so low and why the number of desertions and surrendering surprisingly high for an army which, if not quite winning, hasn't suffered any significant defeats.

But the Bronwyn's of the world will decry Ukrainian conscripts while ignoring Russian ones.

BTW, is there any evidence that the Ukrainian 'conscripts' are unhappy about fighting for their homeland?

Speaking of turning a blind-eye...Bronwyn talks here and in other threads about the "the rightwing extremists infesting their country[Ukraine]". Again what gets ignored is that roughly 50% of all identified neo-Nazis world-wide reside in Russia under the protective gaze of Putin and his cohorts. http://borgenproject.org/neo-nazis-russia/ .

Putin has sent armed mercenaries into Ukraine specifically to 'get' Zelinsky. The main group is called the Wagner Group. Apparently the group was destroyed by Ukrainian forces and their leadership is none to happy with Putin for sending them into an ambush. What is the Wagner Group? It is a network of mercenaries used by Putin henchmen to enforce their will in places like Syria and Africa while keeping his hands clean. Oh, and they are Nazis. They use the swastika, have Nazi tattoos as group identifiers and call themselves after Hitler's favourite composer.

So Putin wants to de-nazify Ukraine by sending in Nazis to capture/kill the Jewish leader of Ukraine. If it wasn't for the fact that people like Bronwyn fall for this rubbish, it'd be funny.

Thanks Bettina Arndt for your article. I will read it in more detail later but looks good so far. I came across some material wiki article about your father recently- interesting. Sad to hear he died on the way to his friends funeral- but he died doing something he enjoyed. If I can die the same... Kudos.

Well thank you fester:

You highlighted the problem for the majority in the West with little to no say in political outcomes in their home Country.

As I’ve said before here, we in Australia will be subjected to another Tsunami of immigrants who will sit their useless arses in our public housing across the Country, bleating to the likes of the ABC etc, of their downtrodden lives while their mouths shine with newly minted teeth financed from the Social Welfare budgets as our own pensioners cope with market forces for scarce housing resources and acceptable health care.

It’s not acceptable to dump fagots and their supporters onto our welfare system while we the locals do without.
Charity begins at home is a correct call for obvious reasons.

As I’ve said before, I don’t give a tinkers damn about Ukraine and the Russians business model of their own liking. It’s none of my business.
But what is my business, is bleating sniveling Politicians handing out welfare services stolen from the deserving and handed to the undeserving in my own Country as a priority over and above persecuted fagots that refuse to toe the line in their own Country.

*…Russia is notorious for its persecution of LGBTQ+ people. Russia infamously adopted a “gay propaganda” law in 2013, banning any mention of LGBTQ+ issues in venues accessible to minors. In recent years, Chechnya, a semi-autonomous region of Russia, has systematically persecuted LGBTQ+ people, especially gay men, jailing and torturing them, and outing them to intolerant family members, which puts them at risk of further violence. Some have been killed, and others have fled abroad...*

After reading this though, I’m beginning to warm to the issue of persecution achieving desirable aims of morality.
I’ve long ago noted Islamists take a similar view which I support.

Dan

Alan Sanders a highly credentialled geneticist and his team have discovered in peer reviewed research that there are at least 2 gay genes and probably 3 more. And proves what I've always said that being gay is not something some folks choose, but something like being born left handed, a natural abberation in the human species.

Simply put, to target folk for being born different, is no different to the Nazis targeting Jewry for being born different! Believing the world is flat with a profound belief never ever made it flat any more than believing gay folk choose to be gay is true!

But folk with brainwashed from birth, belief choose to be incredibly ignorant and the only element of choice in this debate!

Killing someone on the grounds they are born different is still murder and those guilty of the crime of willful murder are hellbound! No two ways about it!
Alan B.

I wonder who paid, & how much for that "research" result Alan

Obviously the Byzantine Christians are still capable of telling the truth as it is and should be, shame about the brother Romans.

Dan