Biden just called Putin a war criminal. He actually said that. Considering some things our Presidents have done, such as firebombing Dresden and nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which knowingly killed a ton of civilians, it seems kind of a strange thing for Biden to say. What does he think Putin's doing that's worse than this:




or this?



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President Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" on Wednesday just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to the U.S. Congress for more assistance in the fight against Russian forces invading his country.

The president had initially said "no" when asked by Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich if he considers Putin a war criminal, but circled back about 30 seconds later and said, "Did you ask me whether I would call… Oh, I, I think he is a war criminal."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/president-biden-calls-putin-war-criminal-invading-ukraine

 

Nope. "Just in time" production and shipping caused prices to spike during covid, and our rising gas prices were caused by the left wing people and governments of the United States that are actively trying to shut down domestic oil and gas production *even now* when they know there are shortages. Remember all the goods sitting in port of Long Beach (CA)? One of the biggest and busiest ports in the world, and they couldn't get the goods off the boats. Not because of covid, but because their government wanted to be "green" and restricted the types and age of trucks that were legally allowed to unload ships to the point where when more trucks were suddenly needed... there were none available. IOW, the problem wasn't "covid" it was the left political wing and the idiots that keep voting for them.

If we had actual reserves of goods produced in foreign countries, supply chain disruptions wouldn't hurt us. If we had extra oil production and refinery capacity Putin's actions wouldn't be affecting us domestically. It's not that difficult if you think about it.

 

Wait a minute. You said I made an excuse for his unprovoked attack? When did I do that? I didn't. I don't support what Putin is doing in Ukraine and you know it.

That's entirely different than saying he's a war criminal, though. You're just trying to shift the focus on to me rather than admitting your boy Biden said something stupid.

BTW. considering the number of innocent civilian lives lost in Dresden and Hiroshima, *do you* consider the US (and British) rulers to be war criminals? If not, why not? The scope of the innocent lives they've killed is WAY beyond what Putin's soldiers are doing.

 

A very good article on the current state of energy in the US. If you read the article, the first few paragraphs are the usual fox stuff, but after that is a bunch of input from various small businesses, farmers, restaurant owners, etc., and how energy cost changes are affecting them, and will soon affect us as the costs get passed through. The other thing about the article is that these people overall aren't blaming Putin or Covid, but put the blame on our government's policies for our current troubles.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/small-businesses-gas-prices-biden-energy-policies

 

I most certainly did NOT say our actions in WWII made us war criminals, as I don't believe we are. What I said was that if our actions in WWII are not considered war crimes, than what Putin is doing now isn't either.

On Putin's reason for invasion, here's a map of NATO countries:


The yellow is the "old" NATO, and the orange is the "new" NATO. If you'll remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, we almost went to war with Russia when they tried to put missiles in Cuba, right next door to the US. We were understandably concerned.

As I understand it, Ukraine has been pushing hard for NATO admittance, and if that was granted the NATO alliance would be right on Russia's border, with every right to load up military hardware right on Russia's doorstep. I can see how that would make Putin concerned. On his attack of Ukraine? I don't think it's justified, but OTOH if his thought process was that if he waited to do something until AFTER Ukraine got accepted provisionally in to NATO and tried to fight, he'd end up fighting all of NATO, including the US. That would be a sure loser for him, perhaps prompting his attack now before that situation came to pass.

I do wonder if we could have avoided this war by having NATO promise not to add any of its military forces in to Ukraine if they were admitted, but that's water under the bridge now. I don't know enough about the war's details to know how many civilian targets Putin is targeting. I do know Russia isn't rich and doesn't have tons of excess military hardware, though, so I don't know why he'd go out of his way to seriously anger his opponent while leaving their military intact. What would the point be? To make the Ukrainians fight back more?

Back to WWII, the 6 million lives are only the Jewish lives lost, and grossly understates the German extermination that included Poles, Roma, etc. I *never* claimed our behavior was similar to that of the axis powers. Their actions were evil, and ours were justified. That being said, being on the "right" side of a conflict doesn't excuse any behavior you do.

Since you and I don't seem to have an understanding here, how about this example? The Muslim terrorists were clearly in the wrong on their attacks on the US. Do you think our actions with our prisoners in Abu Grhaib prisons were therefore OK because they were the bad guys and we were the good guys?

 

Your point earlier was that Putin had killed civilians, so he was a war criminal, right? We knowing killed a lot more civilians, so... wouldn't that make our leaders war criminals as well? If not then why is Putin? When we invaded Iraq there were civilian casualties as well, when Obama launched missiles (over a thousand, all told) into various middle eastern places, countries we weren't at war with at the time, some civilians died as well. No one is calling him a war criminal for this.

You missed the point about Abu Grhaib. The whole world said we were in the wrong, and we convicted a few soldiers for their actions, but, did the world call President Bush a *war criminal*? No.

The whole point is that the President of the United States called the President of another country a *war criminal*. That's very serious. I don't see the justification for it, and haven't heard you explain what that justification was either.

Is it your belief that he's a war criminal for starting a war at all? Is anyone who starts a war a war criminal?

 

Here's a picture of President Biden from today showing his keen interest in trying to do his best to handle the Ukraine situation. While President Zelensky is trying to stop Putin from attacking his country, Biden is... riding his bike at the beach.



https://miamistandard.news/2022/03/...e-by-the-beach-despite-multiple-crises-video/

 

There are also videos being put out by the Russians showing the Ukranians putting tanks between apartment buildings in residential areas, and while I wouldn't trust one country's propaganda over another's, it does suggest the issue may not be as clear cut as it appears.

It's also hard to trust OUR media after they lied about the Trump collusion/Steele dossier for so long, and then lied again about Hunter Biden's computer. When your media has already been shown to be more interested in pushing their narrative than in publishing the objective truth, why believe what they say? In over a month of fighting there are only three episodes I can recall where the Russians are said to have attacked civilian centers, that doesn't sound like it's happening on a daily basis or as a part of some plan to me.

https://www.republicworld.com/world...e-using-apartments-to-attack-articleshow.html