Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 5:03 AM UTC

r721 wrote: post #20

Darmody wrote: post #7

I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.

>knowing I think the risk was huge (personally I thought 50-70% at the time), but not 99% or something. Also (in my opinion) people don't take into account that alternative was irrelevance in exile, just look at what happened with Kasparov's popularity inside Russia, and he was a prominent opposition activist in 2011-2012.

Post by _kbh_ » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 9:14 AM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #160

_kbh_ wrote: post #159

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> Because the Gaza footage is quite a mess. You will have hard times matching it with Ukraine footage. Sometimes, whole neighbourhoods of civilian high rises were levelled. Russia has literally deleted entire Ukrainian cities off the map, so this is a very strange paragraph to right. The only difference is in Ukraine the civilians were told to evacuate there homes when the Russians are near by, in Gaza they are told…

That is the difference. People in Gaza also have nowhere to go if they wanted.

Post by jnsaff2 » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #164

_kbh_ wrote: post #163

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> That is the difference. People in Gaza also have nowhere to go if they wanted. Exactly, the difference isn't that in the Ukraine war that the Russians are being careful or precise, it's that the Ukrainian citizens can actually evacuate from the areas they are in.

They won't be if Russia decided to start with a massive air strikes campaign before even starting ground offensive. But that's not happened - not against the apartment blocks, anyway.

Post by jnsaff2 » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 4:43 PM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #166

jnsaff2 wrote: post #165

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Really? So you don't remember the bombing of Kyiv where corners of high rise apartment blocks were blown of by rockets and artillery. Or Kharkiv where whole blocks of apartment buildings were demolished by indiscriminate shelling?

As a fact, no, I don't. The amount of carnage seen on Palestine photos and videos is not matched. Of you read words written by press, you may get an impression that it is comparable. But you will struggle to find evidence backing it up. Because there is not.

Post by _kbh_ » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:17 PM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #166

jnsaff2 wrote: post #165

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Really? So you don't remember the bombing of Kyiv where corners of high rise apartment blocks were blown of by rockets and artillery. Or Kharkiv where whole blocks of apartment buildings were demolished by indiscriminate shelling?

As a fact, no, I don't. The amount of carnage seen on Palestine photos and videos is not matched. Of you read words written by press, you may get an impression that it is comparable. But you will struggle to find evidence backing it up. Because there is not.