The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust
this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports
that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the
situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a
large plethora of military resources? PS: I realize there are many casualties on
both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to
how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia
winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so
I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of
allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it’s convenience a free and democratic
country.
"Democratic" fills the same niche these days that "Christian" filled in the days of the European colonial empires. Anyone who wasn't nominally Christian was automatically evil and had no rights. Anyone who was deemed nominally Christian was to be supported against non-Christiams, even if they were doing decidedly un-Christ-like things like stealing, raping, and murdering.
It's just a thin veneer of in-group/out-group distinctions applied to politically expedient bad things to make them look justifiable.
"Democratic" fills the same niche these days that "Christian" filled in the days of the European colonial empires. Anyone who wasn't nominally Christian was automatically evil and had no rights. Anyone who was deemed nominally Christian was to be supported against non-Christiams, even if they were doing decidedly un-Christ-like things like stealing, raping, and murdering.
It's just a thin veneer of in-group/out-group distinctions applied to politically expedient bad things to make them look justifiable.
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Now: