Not hard to take any moral high ground against statements like that. You've basically raced to the bottom as quick as Putin with that sort of view, rolling back your morality into a brutal radicalised mindset. Good to know it was only mildly tongue in cheek though, and not every Russian person would have to be killed. Even as a joke, stuff like that coming from someone that from reading your other posts seems to have little tie or real knowledge of the region just pisses me off. It never takes long for the more reactionary of minds to go straight to calls about crushing and purging entire nations after governments have created conflicts like this. understandable perhaps from those currently directly effected by unjust aggressive/imperialistic conflicts, be it Russian, American, Chinese inflicted or whoever...however to see it coming from someone probably sitting in a comfortable existence in a prosperous country, it's deeply depressing and just screams to me of the sort of minds easily manipulated into following an unjust path in the first place. Forgive me if i've been too presumptuous of your circumstance, but it's the overall mindset of those that go down these routes that galls me and contributes nothing good or constructive.
you don't have to tell me about the bleak situation in Russia, i'm invested in both countries through friends and family and have made a choice to leave years ago due to the slide into fascism that Putin has presided over . Too much so to be responding to off-hand trash like that comment, but i'll allow myself the once.
This is a very emotive post, and there is nothing wrong with that, given the circumstances. My question to you is to look back at the post that you quoted, and tell me which parts you actually disagree with so strongly.
I would like nothing more than a peaceful Russia that was properly integrated into Europe. We have enough problems in the world with China and the US, my policy has always been that Europe needs to be united in order to be on an equal footing with those two on a global level.
Unfortunately as I said before, it feels like we have passed the point of no return now, and that peaceful co-existence is no longer possible. Russia is an enemy of Europe and an enemy of democracy. At the start of this war I thought it would be a spark for the Russian people to rise up against autocracy. Other than a few protests at the start (including brave folk like harms), that hasn’t happened. It seems more like a general apathy and willfull ignorance - I expect most Russians know they are being lied to, they just don’t care enough to do anything about it. As time goes on and you see the atrocities and war crimes being committed, it becomes harder to shrug it off as just “Putins war”.
As stated, the only reason Putin has been allowed to go unchecked is because he cries “nukes” whenever he doesn’t get his way. That is an untenable political situation. If the Ukraine invasion succeeds, the next thing we hear will be “remove the sanctions or nukes” and maybe “NATO borders to pre-1997 state or nukes” etc. the only question right now is whether to intervene now, or to wait until razing and genocide of Ukraine is complete.