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keep the public so distracted by 'the war' (against Putin, against Covid, etc), they don't notice the restrictions and surveillance being placed upon them.

The first lockdown made sense, the others much less so, but as per usual you vault to the other extreme and imagine anyone getting vaccinated to be at some supreme risk (no doubt including the elderly), and don't seem to have time for the idea that the vaccine saved a single life.

In any case, I'll think you can find you're perfectly free to live exactly how you wish now as unfounded ideas of permanent restrictions pass. I don't 100% agree with the governments approach by any means and am the first to speak out genuine attacks of freedoms that may be used against people regardless of their politics. Protesting etc.

As I say, you're free to insult the West (which you clearly hate by the way), and yet if you lived in Russia and had equivalent 'opinions' about their invasion of their neighbor you'd be in the back of a police van. That is if you were able to access to information concerning the war online in the first place without breaking Russian law.

You've convinced yourself that war crimes have only been carried out by the invaded, the 'ukranian scum', and that we should be ashamed of helping them. An excuser of widescale destruction and murder of civilians. Yet another logged on lock-in who can't properly function in your own society and uses that as your online starting point for opinion and debate. The Ukranians don't have to be saints for the invasion of their country to be condemned for what it is.

Edited by BlueJay (26 Apr 2022 3.51pm)

The likes of Johnson, Biden, Macron, Merkel, Adhern, Morrison, Trudeau, Varadker etc lock down their entire population and economies for a virus with 99.7% recovery rate and coerce everyone to get their s***ty vaccines using this as a an excuse to introduce a digital ID (whilst setting their paramilitary police on those that resisted)

This is a pattern repeated across the western world and you still think Putin is who we should be worried about?

Sure, but also a hell of a lot of Irish Catholics have settled all over the world.

There has been Russians in what is now called Ukraine for centuries, they were there when it was just a part of the Ottoman empire, and then part of Russia and so on. Ukraine is a relatively new country but its ethnic make up has remained relatively static for far longer.

True, I wasn't giving any particular value judgement on it, nor a particular timeframe.

Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Apr 2022 9.11am)

Please provide a link to such independent journalism

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We are all excellent politicians with it.

Clearly, the right thing to do here would have been to hand the Russian government the keys to Ukraine and - by extension - Moldova. Nobody would have minded and it would all have worked out jolly well, as it has in Donbas in recent years.

I recommend this book

Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine

As that was not done, what would be your approach from here on?

Edited by Mapletree (26 Apr 2022 12.03pm)