GefreiterKania
2 Jul 2022 #6151
if the Wagners had not defeated the NATO forces in Popasna
What NATO forces? Even if you believe Kadyrov's fairy tales about the presence of "NATO instructors" there, the city was defended by Ukrainian forces only.
If Russian people are brave enough to rise against Putin they will have loads of support.
Definitely, and I hope it will happen. It would be much better for the free world to have democratic Russia on our side than to see it allied to or, even worse, vassalized by China.
...or banning ordinary people from competing in sports.
Russia is at the moment conducting an invasion of an independent country. You can hardly expect international sports federations to let Russian teams/sportsmen compete under their country's flag, as if nothing happened. Sports rivalry stems from ancient Olympic ideal of peace and even in antiquity all hostilities had to cease during the Games. Hence, if a country decides to conduct an aggressive invasion, it is banned from international sport competitions.
@jon357
You are smart enough to see that I don't oppose the content of the criticisim but merely its form. As for the verb "spout", you will have to forgive me - English is a foreign language to me and perhaps some subtleties of verb usage escape me.