- 18 Apr 2018 18:15
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Warmongering is bad. Secret services use their resources to achieve foreign policy objectives, unsuccessfully trying to kill a useless former spy is not a foreign policy objective. It achieves nothing and spreading the idea that Russian foreign policy operates like Aladeen from the Republic of Wadiya* is nothing more than blatant chauvinism. Galvanising public opinion to support further escalation against Russia is in fact a foreign policy objective, one that is actually unraveling openly before our eyes in Syria and more generally. You understand this well but you refuse to come to terms with it for some peculiar reason. The fact that you have opted for ad-homs should tell you how desperate your own logic is. Is this some automatic support for British nationalism or something?
*If this is your image of Putin and the Russian state then clearly this is a pointless exercise:
Your entire logic rests on such a caricature and one made in haste. Caricaturing should not be normalised in international relations. It is detrimental to keeping the peace.
Prosthetic Conscience wrote:@noemon, pointing out that Russia has both motive and form in killing Russians that oppose the Putin government is not "supporting warmongering", and you deeply disappoint me in your slavish support of Putin. You really seem to think his shit doesn't stink, despite his long record of killing people and interfering in other countries. Is this some automatic support of an Orthodox country or something?
Warmongering is bad. Secret services use their resources to achieve foreign policy objectives, unsuccessfully trying to kill a useless former spy is not a foreign policy objective. It achieves nothing and spreading the idea that Russian foreign policy operates like Aladeen from the Republic of Wadiya* is nothing more than blatant chauvinism. Galvanising public opinion to support further escalation against Russia is in fact a foreign policy objective, one that is actually unraveling openly before our eyes in Syria and more generally. You understand this well but you refuse to come to terms with it for some peculiar reason. The fact that you have opted for ad-homs should tell you how desperate your own logic is. Is this some automatic support for British nationalism or something?
*If this is your image of Putin and the Russian state then clearly this is a pointless exercise:
Your entire logic rests on such a caricature and one made in haste. Caricaturing should not be normalised in international relations. It is detrimental to keeping the peace.
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...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...