Russia warns invasion will get worse

@vivify said
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-says-russia-is-just-getting-started-in-ukraine-2022-7

"Putin revealed in June that one of his aims for the Ukraine war was expanding Russian territory. Speaking with students, he compared himself to Russia's first emperor, Peter the Great, and said they were both destined to grow Russia."

Ukraine will not be the last invasion.

I imagine the next place he invades will be his last because once a real fight back
happens to him when they will not only want to stop him but go after his butt into
his own country as was done to Hitler, nukes will fly, or he will destroy his own
country by biting off more than he can chew.

@kellyjay said
I imagine the next place he invades will be his last because once a real fight back
happens to him when they will not only want to stop him but go after his butt into
his own country as was done to Hitler, nukes will fly, or he will destroy his own
country by biting off more than he can chew.

To so casually say "nukes will fly" shows you don't understand that you're describing a cataclysmic event.

@vivify said
Every dictator has "public support". Saddam Hussein received 100 percent of the vote in his last election, so did Kim Jong-Un. You can be jailed in Russia for opposing Putin or murdered.

You have a conspiracy theory that Putin is a dictator.
You have to prove the elections are rigged. Until then, you are just repeating a rumor. Nobody received 100% of the vote, even in rigged elections. That is too obvious. Why hold elections if you don't care if people think you are rigging them?

Use some common sense.

@vivify said
To so casually say "nukes will fly" shows you don't understand that you're describing a cataclysmic event.

It isn't a casual thought; it is horrifying because, in that type of conflict, millions will
die each time a weapon lands, and they can land anywhere. What is going on is
far more dangerous than rising gas prices excuses.

@metal-brain said
You have a conspiracy theory that Putin is a dictator.
You have to prove the elections are rigged. Until then, you are just repeating a rumor. Nobody received 100% of the vote, even in rigged elections. That is too obvious. Why hold elections if you don't care if people think you are rigging them?

Use some common sense.

I don't know in the US we had a guy who couldn't keep a car wash busy with all
the cars that showed to his rallies, beat a guy who was filling stadiums with
standing room only, people complained about that one, but why would anyone
question any election results without 100% proof, and no evidence, just keep saying
that, you cannot say an election was rigged without evidence.

@kellyjay said
I don't know in the US we had a guy who couldn't keep a car wash busy with all
the cars that showed to his rallies, beat a guy who was filling stadiums with
standing room only, people complained about that one, but why would anyone
question any election results without 100% proof, and no evidence, just keep saying
that, you cannot say an election was rigged without evidence.

The 100% claim is BS. That is impossible and everyone knows it. The whole point of fake elections is to fool people into thinking they are legitimate elections.

How can 100% fool anyone in a Shiite majority/ Sunni minority ruled country by Saddam?

@metal-brain said
You have a conspiracy theory that Putin is a dictator.
You have to prove the elections are rigged. Until then, you are just repeating a rumor. Nobody received 100% of the vote, even in rigged elections. That is too obvious. Why hold elections if you don't care if people think you are rigging them?

Use some common sense.

This kinda looks like something a dictator would do: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/8/moscow-city-councillor-jailed-for-7-years-for-anti-war-comment

@no1marauder said
This kinda looks like something a dictator would do: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/8/moscow-city-councillor-jailed-for-7-years-for-anti-war-comment

Nope. That is something a nation without freedom of speech would do.
This nation would do the same thing if not for the 1st amendment.

@metal-brain said
Nope. That is something a nation without freedom of speech would do.
This nation would do the same thing if not for the 1st amendment.

A nation without freedom of speech is a tyranny. A tyranny where one man controls all branches of governmental power is accurately described as a "dictatorship".

I've explained it to people here multiple times, but the fact that certain rights got enumerated in Constitutional amendments doesn't mean they didn't exist prior to that enumeration. Regardless of whether there had ever been a First Amendment, the People in the US had a right to free speech, as do the People everywhere.