RE: Russia demands European Exclusion from Peace Talks !15 Feb 2026 16:12
Hi cheesy, it’s not my job, nor my interest or desire, to defend historic us / uk military actions in iraq or afghanistan (… although you are playing fast and loose with casualty figures; first you try to imply that russians killed two million *combatants* in Afghanistan, which is wildly false, secondly you try to claim that us and uk killed “millions” in iraq and afghan, which is again wildly inaccurate.)
reason for discussing putin’s genocidal warmongering on this chatboard is because of the arguable relevance to EUA, firstly because it may connect to serious investors’ perceptions of the jurisdictional risk associated with russian assets, and secondly because there are connections with levels and types of sanctions between russia and other countries.
the rights and wrongs about umpteen different nations’ empires, colonial exploits and military campaigns over the decades and centuries might be all very interesting for some undergraduate or A level history classes, but frankly ain’t got much to do with EUA, or whether or now big investors will think putin’s russia is investable.
you and others also seem to be attempting some kind of schoolboy moral relativism as an excuse for putin’s savagery and deliberate mass murder…. the implication seems to be that it’s ok what putin is doing, because other world leaders have also done bad things in other times and places.
firstly, no, they are not “all as bad as each other” — some conflicts have been much worse and more savage than others, some more justifiable than others — and secondly two wrongs don’t make a right …. e.g. us murders of civilians in vietnam don’t make it ok that russians murder civilians in bucha, Mariupol, etc.