It most likely will be taken care of internally by a military coup and those people would like some assurances from Uncle Sam, at least. So even if we aren't directly involved, we could be none the less. We didn't blow them up before when the Soviet Union collapsed, so I imagine many think we won't blow them up again while they get rid of Vlad.
there are plenty of facts that show putin is the leader of a government made up of criminals and ethically questionable business people, army officers who have no problem targeting areas they know are civilian population centers, which contain schools, hospitals, and churches. there are a lot of Ukrainian corpses, as well as russian corpses, that prove putin not only is willing to wage war on immoral, illegal pretexts, but to indiscriminately murder civilians in the pursuit of that war. How can the world pursue peace and prosperity with someone like that trying to sit at the council table as an equal? someone who tells blatant lies and dares you to contradict him, because he inherited a nuclear arsenal, and claims to not be afraid to use it.
What Biden said was sentiment. Sincere applies; true does not.
Biden was right to call an asshole, an asshole to his face, it was not a statement of official policy, those are on paper with this administration. Sentiments are allowed and this is a molehill made into a mountain by the weak kneed, Vlad knows the score and ain't shocked, he's not clutching his pearls, but maybe his nuts.
Allowed yes, sincere yes, to be treated as fact, no.
It is not explicit policy and was not stated as such, actual régime change as policy is something a lot different. The plain fact is, this is Putin's war almost exclusively and he's a lying sonofabitch who can no more be trusted to keep his agreements than Hitler. Even if the war ends, most of the sanctions will remain until Vlad is gone, they might lighten up and could even involve direct food aid by summer if people are starving and I expect they will be. If the farmers in Russia can't get financing to plant this spring, it will get a lot worse in Russia than globally, they will be too poor to buy much food.
Winston Churchill never said, we will greet them on the beaches and politely tell them to go home, he gave'm shit!
I don’t know how that applies.
Sometimes rhetoric should reflect reality, if only informally, bullshit makes people cynical and there is far too much of that. Speak plainly to tyrants, show no fear and make yourself clear. If you don't, they will get the wrong idea, like Saddam did the first time around in the Gulf.
Those are pretty good instructions for suicide by autocrat.
Here is an answer, Putin treats it as an explicit fact, whether Joe stated it or not and whether it is publicly announced policy or not, it makes no difference to Vlad, who will always assume it is clandestine policy anyway.
no, but is sure as fuck ought to
How? It does not change the argument. I do not always succeed in separating fact from sentiment, but I’m gonna keep trying.
Biden spoke from an emotional level, and made a statement he can't back up on his own...so you can't call it a fact.
No. Sentiment is not fact. It can be honest, heartfelt, sincere and based in fact. But it cannot be true, correct or right.
it CAN be true, correct, and right...it may be totally coincidental, but sometimes the two do coincide....you say that coincidence is impossible, and i say it cannot be impossible...sometimes the right thing, perhaps coincidentally, can be the true, correct thing...
Sentiment is a wholly contained subset within the set labeled opinion. Fact and opinion do not overlap. A is opinion and B is sentiment in the following.
