tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post4142630542997224726..comments2024-03-09T18:57:10.942+13:00Comments on Liberty Scott: Crimea matters, for all sorts of reasonsLibertyscotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-41899892244229148092014-03-26T22:46:04.448+13:002014-03-26T22:46:04.448+13:00The Iraq reference deserves a response for several...The Iraq reference deserves a response for several reasons. The use of the Lancet survey rather than Iraqi body count gets 600,000 vs 136,000, but let's not quibble over numbers. What is clear is that most of both figures are due to the Islamist insurgency that followed the invasion and occupation - not the invasion and occupation itself. So attributing those to the invasion is NOT morally Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-38791781403930795972014-03-26T22:29:35.762+13:002014-03-26T22:29:35.762+13:00and the US did refuse an association agreement wit...and the US did refuse an association agreement with Ukraine before, precisely to not antagonise Russia. Same with Georgia. Both governments of those countries at the time sought it, because they both feared Russian irredentism. They were right. <br /><br />Who is engaging in "economic warfare" against the Russian people, other than the refusal of the kleptocracy to establish rule of Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-26240709447578552302014-03-26T22:14:52.092+13:002014-03-26T22:14:52.092+13:00OECD: I'm not Russophobic, unless you subscri...OECD: I'm not Russophobic, unless you subscribe to the nationalistic propaganda from Moscow that critics of the Putin regime are "out to get Russians". It's the grand old Russian myth of encirclement, that the rest of the world wants to eat away at the borders and take over. It's a delusional belief that anyone besides the psychopath Hitler, actually cares - especially Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-62050364512464969812014-03-26T10:05:52.001+13:002014-03-26T10:05:52.001+13:00That last tweet is illuminating in many ways of yo...That last tweet is illuminating in many ways of your attitude. <br />lets modify it somewhat shall we?<br /><br />If 600,000 lives were lost in order to remove either Stalin or Mao, millions of citizens wouldn't of been persecuted & killed as a result of there later actions.<br /><br />Do do have a problem with that statement?<br /><br />B. WhiteheadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-62123983081992354712014-03-25T23:16:52.010+13:002014-03-25T23:16:52.010+13:00Seriously think that is worthy of answering?
Yes....<i>Seriously think that is worthy of answering?</i><br /><br />Yes.<br /><br />I want to know why you're Russophobic? Your silence is telling.<br /><br />The question was posed so I can get an understanding why people like you think the way you do on this topic. It’s not an uncommon view held by Westerns. i.e. Stalin just as bad as Hitler or worse.<br /><br />Your posts on this topic go OECD rank 22 kiwihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221031703154055521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-62107094919819715772014-03-21T21:39:26.502+13:002014-03-21T21:39:26.502+13:00OECD: They are vile, their vodka swigging, their o...OECD: They are vile, their vodka swigging, their over-hyped composers, authors and you know they don't really wash? It's just awful.<br /><br />Seriously think that is worthy of answering? Think that despising a government = despising a people? Do you hate the Germans, or was it just the Nazis or maybe even the GDR? <br /><br />I wish Russians well, I don't wish well the bullying Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-51690790159315876192014-03-21T19:12:05.782+13:002014-03-21T19:12:05.782+13:00For my own intellectual curiosity, I'd like to...For my own intellectual curiosity, I'd like to ask you, Liberty Scott and Psycho Milt, why you hate Russians?<br /><br />What's your "skin in the game"? Is it really as simple as being related to East European refugees and never being able to "forgive those Russians for what they've done"?OECD rank 22 kiwihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221031703154055521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-67329983075784818582014-03-19T22:29:27.522+13:002014-03-19T22:29:27.522+13:00Psycho Milt - ty
Angry Tory - Germany AND the UK, ...Psycho Milt - ty<br />Angry Tory - Germany AND the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The Dutch also have a properly functioning economy.<br /><br />Germany's energy dependence is a mixed picture. It has a large renewables sector that is costing it a huge deadweight loss in productivity, but it has stupidly chosen to abandon nuclear. Its energy policy failings should not be a Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-82939150369215634602014-03-19T18:04:52.355+13:002014-03-19T18:04:52.355+13:00Germany is not a military power
No - but in the s...<i> Germany is not a military power</i><br /><br />No - but in the same way 10% of Kiwi Nett taxpayers pay all the tax for everyone else's welfare, basically German taxpayers pay all the tax for everyone else in the Euro's welfare. Cyprus, Spain, Greece, Italy, those countries only function thanks to German taxpayers.<br /><br />Germany has the only really functioning Euro economy and Angry Torynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-69627018937235320152014-03-19T06:21:37.449+13:002014-03-19T06:21:37.449+13:00That was a belter, good on you. Would be nice if ...That was a belter, good on you. Would be nice if a few of the West's politicians could lay it out like that.Psycho Milthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00779500926576047736noreply@blogger.com