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Russian anti-mobilisation protests appear to be growing. This video shows wives and mothers in Yakutsk rallying against Putins draft
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Tweet of the Early Morning: (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2022
OP
Your post is cryptic. "we are there too" You mean we should abandon Ukraine? Let Putin crush them?
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2022
#2
Cryptic? Obviously, what the poster said is that, like these Russian women, the people.......
jaxexpat
Sep 2022
#3
Thanks. With you and Ukraine and with ordinary Russian people suffering under Putin's boot. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2022
#5
ananda
(28,858 posts)1. At some point you have to say: Enoug is enough!
we are there too.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)2. Your post is cryptic. "we are there too" You mean we should abandon Ukraine? Let Putin crush them?
No.
Appease Putin in Ukraine and Russia will take more countries.
jaxexpat
(6,818 posts)3. Cryptic? Obviously, what the poster said is that, like these Russian women, the people.......
of this country, and perhaps especially the women of the US, have also had enough of would-be dictators screwing up their country with the half-witted leadership promoted by conservatism and the corporate media. That would be the go-to interpretation.
This is, after all, the Democratic Underground and NOT some neo-con rag where contrarianism is a badge of membership and honor. This is a place wherein straw-manning and obfuscating are seen as tools of the misguided and, perhaps, signs of a fractured psyche. It's a nice place to settle down and get along with your neighbors.
ananda
(28,858 posts)4. That's it! Basta!
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)6. I'm sorry, ananda. My post was too reactive. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)5. Thanks. With you and Ukraine and with ordinary Russian people suffering under Putin's boot. . . . nt