NP: On the Ukraine thread

Thomas Eckhardt huebschraeuber at protonmail.com
Sun Feb 13 17:26:13 UTC 2022


> TE: The "international war crime of invading a sovereign country" reminds me
> of John Kerry:
>
> "You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by
> invading another country on completely trumped up pretext."
>
> It should also remind you of a simple true thing.

Which thing?
>
> MK:
>
> I agree with almost nothing Trump did, most especially selling arms as
> he did.

I know what you think about Trump. Good to know that you are against
providing arms to the Ukrainian army including neo-Nazi battalions. But
isn't that what the present administration does?

> Whatever the Rise Above Movement is, I am against it.

I know. So am I.

> I am with the new administration and bipartisan Congress on this,

On what?

> while
> you will NEVER, it seems, see the present: " Though Congress passed
> legislation this year forbidding military aid to
> Azov on the grounds of its white supremacist ideology..." only in a
> Democratic administration would this happen (although some Repubs do
> vote against White Supremacy)

What is the present? Has Congress forbidden to give military aid to the
Azov battalion again? I would be positively surprised.

> You just confessed to not even caring about the facts, reality:

How so?

> TE: "In
> any case, the facts will be fixed around the
> policy.

Oh. You didn't recognize this as a quote? Look it up, check it out, I
suggest. And pay attention to the paragraph in my comment preceding the
quote.




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