I’m not sure if you wilfully missed the point of my comment or if I wasn’t explicit enough. I wasn’t commenting on whether or not that was Putin’s motivation. My complaint was with the logic: “there can’t be a Nazi problem in Ukraine, because Zelenskyy is Jewish”. That’s it. That logic is faulty and disingenuous, because that implies there is not a nazi problem in Ukraine, when there absolutely is.
Not sure why your reply didn’t show up in my mailbox but I happened to spot it when scrolling through the thread again… So to answer your question, no it wasn’t about willfully missing your point, but rather that I wasn’t certain exactly where your argument was leading. I did catch the drift of the idea that both arguments could be true, I’ve just been jaded by reading enough shills on reddit who came back with “Putin wuz justified!” shit that I didn’t want to leave it to chance.
I’m not sure if you wilfully missed the point of my comment or if I wasn’t explicit enough. I wasn’t commenting on whether or not that was Putin’s motivation. My complaint was with the logic: “there can’t be a Nazi problem in Ukraine, because Zelenskyy is Jewish”. That’s it. That logic is faulty and disingenuous, because that implies there is not a nazi problem in Ukraine, when there absolutely is.
There is a nazi problem in pretty much every country, it may just have a different label. This does not justify declaring war.
I’ll just quote myself though honestly I shouldn’t respond:
Note also that did I did not comment on the justness of declaring war.
Not sure why your reply didn’t show up in my mailbox but I happened to spot it when scrolling through the thread again… So to answer your question, no it wasn’t about willfully missing your point, but rather that I wasn’t certain exactly where your argument was leading. I did catch the drift of the idea that both arguments could be true, I’ve just been jaded by reading enough shills on reddit who came back with “Putin wuz justified!” shit that I didn’t want to leave it to chance.