@Click22 Because he's using scare tactics. It's why he's attacking residential buildings in the first place. He's trying to get the people good and scared so that if Russia does take over Ukraine once again, they'd be too scared to revolt. It's psychological warfare as well as his personal sadism. He doesn't just want them weak, he wants them weak, scared, paranoid and above all else compliant. It's why his troops gave them leaflets after and it's also why Ukraine responded with leaflets in kind. Putin says "Surrender", Ukraine pretty much says "Fuck you, you surrender."
Think of this as sick as it sounds, like you're trying to make a good soup. Guys like me, we just open a can and cook it. Guys like Putin, they prefer to slow cook it, add seasoning and then try to take it out just as steam is slowly coming from the pot. It's clever, but because Ukraine saw it coming, they threw that soup in his face while it was still hot. It's also why he keeps threatening nukes. He won't push that button, because on top of wanting to reconnect the old union, Ukraine still has resources he wants, which if taken, small as they are, could give him a leg up financially as well as strategically.
Unless those are independent news telegrams, I am not interested. Those same telegrams said that Putin was "Liberating" Ukraine from Nazism.
If you don't renounce this guy, that's you're decision, but you really should think hard on who you're backing up. I knew the guy was trouble the second he voiced displeasure at how the Cold War Era Russian Army was portrayed in Indiana Jones 4. Mainly because although at the time he did have a right to complain about it, he gave out a major weakness that he gave a shit what the West thinks. Any other president in his position would say "Fuck Spielberg and Lucas, they can do what they want and it won't bother me." I thought nothing of his complaint save for that weakness, but I honestly think the wheels started turning then and there if they haven't already.
I don't know where you get this idea that you have to back up your country's leader no matter what he does, but let me give you a little insight on what it's like back here. USA and Canada, despite having to conform to changing rules of their leaders, their citizens have every right to call their leaders assholes, just as much as they have every right to call us ungrateful bastards for not appreciating the "work" they do. Hell I even mentioned earlier that I didn't like how Trudeau handled Covid in Canada. Am I in jail? Did I get executed? Am I currently being tortured by some secret police? No. I'm still here, still alive and still calling my Prime Minister an asshole.
This blind following of one's leaders, is possibly the biggest spit on the word "Freedom" I have ever heard in my life.
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@Click22 Footage never lies. Especially when it's not the first time I've witnessed something so devastated, being plastered live as it's happening. You don't have to be all the way over there to see it. You just need a journalist brave enough and with a strong stomach to keep filming despite what's going on. As a kid, I watched the towers also fall live. Both those events, bring out three emotions from me. Shock, despair and rage. The people that filmed that footage, wasn't Ukraine making Propaganda, nor Russia using it as a stroke of victory, nor even the states to keep people scared that another fucking Cold War/WWIII is coming, it was Canadian, American and Local Journalists who happen to be there. It was a standard residential apartment building. Have you ever watched people die before? I don't just mean on the news or even anything military based. I mean just die in general, whether it was from a killer, a disease or even something as mundane as an accident. I have had the misfortune of watching my loved ones die or come across their corpses years ago. One in a car accident, the other through the most nasty complications of cancer you could even imagine. The first of which I didn't even know was someone I knew because I happened to pass by while the body was covered. The second of which I had the misfortune of failing to save when I had the chance. I witnessed their lives fade before my very fucking eyes and it's a horrible thing to want anyone to witness. To the point where, I equate every single death I see either in person or on the news to that feeling. So needless to say, watching someone's family get barbecued when their home gets blown to smithereens is a huge fucking sore spot. And you wonder why I insist Orange Fluff arm himself? For all I know, he could be living not too far from the invasion and if not, any family he has could be in potential danger if they're not dead already. This isn't a sensationalist story, this is real people, with real lives, dying for bullshit spewed by a man who shouldn't be mentally fit to be in that fucking office. You want peace so badly, either kill Putin or have him over-thrown. He's done enough damage. Not just to Ukraine, but to the world in extent for the "crimes" of helping them.