and that single corporation could have by themselves ended Germany's capacity for blitzkrieg and so ended the war if only they were a little less greedy.
we democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders.
we democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders.
dead or missing
-->@oromagiwe democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders.Not when their leaders rule by brut force. It’s easy to claim the people should revolt but the world doesn’t operate like the Borg, any individual Russian who stands up to Putin ends up dead or missing. It’s easy to sit in the high horse when this is not the reality you face.
For several days after tanks rolled into Prague, there were no outward signs in Moscow of unrest. To the contrary, recalls dissident leader Andrei Sakharov, workers in factories were made to gather at meetings to show their "support" of the invasion. In an interview at his home in Moscow, Sakharov said the invasion was "clearly a shameful act," but the way most Soviets rallied around it was a sadly "typical picture of the way people embraced any action of the Soviet government."The first sign the Soviet authorities had that not all citizens here would endorse or ignore what had happened in Prague came on Aug. 25, when Bogaraz, physicist Pavel Litvinov, art critic Viktor Fainberg and five others headed toward the historic "executioner's place" on Red Square. Leading the way was a young poet, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, pushing her 3-month-old son in a baby carriage. At noon precisely, she reached into the pram and pulled out a Czechoslovak flag and banners reading, "For Your Freedom and Ours" and "Hands Off Czechoslovakia."According to Gorbanevskaya, who now lives in Paris, plainclothed KGB agents immediately closed in on the demonstration. "As they ran up to us they shouted, 'These are all dirty Jews!' and 'Beat the anti-Soviets!' " she said. "We sat quietly and offered no resistance. They tore the banners from our hands and beat Viktor Fainberg in the face until the blood flowed, breaking some of his teeth. Pavel Litvinov was beaten on the face."Just after the KGB packed the demonstrators into cars and rode off to a police station, a line of black cars sped out of the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. Among the passengers was the deposed Czechoslovak leader and reformer Alexander Dubcek, who had been flown to Moscow in handcuffs on the night of the invasion.
exactlywar is good for business
means prioritize property rights over human rights
-->@oromagimeans prioritize property rights over human rightsso, why do BOTH the "right" and the "left" allow "civil asset forfeiture" ?and why does the "left" cut the water and electricity to the homes of people who haven't even been convicted of a crime ?which "party" supports privacy ?
You are mistakenly trying to force modern party political divisions into a clean left/right division.No such thing is possible.By definition, both sides of the abortion debate are left-wing arguments.By definition, the right to bear arms is a left-wing argument.square pegs. round holes.
-->@oromagiwe democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders.at what point were the american people expected to display the severed heads of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard M. Nixon from the tallest spire ?
There's nothing easy about it....but Ukrainians are standing tall right now. What chance did the minutemen have against the redcoats? What chance did that student have against the line of tanks in Tiananmen Square? The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto?
it’s different when you are fighting back against an enemy force invading your home.
Nobody understands my position better than the Russian people themselves. Yes they lost 9 million lives to oust the last Czar but that was a far cheaper price to pay than allowing Stalin to remain in power- that cost them 30-50 million.
Stalingrad remains the ultimate proof that a barely armed mass of of civilians can defeat even the largest, most modern army in the world given sufficient numbers and the will to change world history.
Russians know how to do this- better than most. They've done it quite violently, they've done it quite peacefully. I am confident that the Russian people can and would and should take back their country right now.
I don't believe the average German ever wanted to liquidate the Jewish people or take over Europe either but we democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders. There was never a point in history when the German people weren't morally obligated to revolt against the NAZIs and hang the bastards themselves. Now is the time for the Russian people to take their country back from the oligarchs and display Putin's severed head from the tallest spire of St. Basil's Cathedral.
we democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders.
It's important to remember the real people of Russia. They do not hate Ukrainians.
I don't believe the average German ever wanted to liquidate the Jewish people or take over Europe either but we democrats believe that the people are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their leaders.
There was never a point in history when the German people weren't morally obligated to revolt against the NAZIs and hang the bastards themselves.
