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Has Putin not invaded Georgia and Ukraine, ordered the killing of journalists, jailed and assassinated political opponents, and deployed his military in support

Has Putin not invaded Georgia and Ukraine, ordered the killing of journalists, jailed and assassinated political opponents, and deployed his military in support of Assad's genocidal regime? How do you "sabre rattle" against someone who's already charged into battle and killed?

nisa 10y ago
> Has Putin not invaded Georgia Georgia started that conflict for the record. I don't know the details but Russia retiliated pretty aggressive but they responded. > and Ukraine, Annexion of Crima (important seaport, russian majority) and supporting the seperatists in a region that was pro russia even before the the conflict to have a frozen conflict to avoid Ukraine joining NATO... is a bit more complicated than "invading". > ordered the killing of journalists, There is no proof (afaik) that Putin did that. There other poeple in Russia with connections to Putin that likely did that through e.g. the ruler of chechnya. There are internal battles in Russian politics (invisible outside of the kremlin) > jailed and assassinated political opponents, You mean the other oligarchs? That's not as black and white as western media likes to explain it. I'm not sure if any assassination attempts that can be traced to Putin are reliable documented. > and deployed his military in support of Assad's genocidal regime? Quite a simplification of the Syrian conflict, also Russia has it's only warm seaport in Syria. Russias involvement was widely seen as a reaction. > How do you "sabre rattle" against someone who's already charged into battle and killed? It's actually complicated and the west, especially the US is not really the good guy in a lot of stories. Putin is also not good. It's strategic game playing while ignoring deaths. On both sides. There is no simple black/white good and bad logic here. It's ugly from all sides.

nisa 10y ago

> Has Putin not invaded Georgia Georgia started that conflict for the record. I don't know the details but Russia retiliated pretty aggressive but they responded. > and Ukraine, Annexion of Crima (important seaport, russian majority) and supporting the seperatists in a region that was pro russia even before the the conflict to have a frozen conflict to avoid Ukraine joining NATO... is a bit more complicated than "invading". > ordered the killing of journalists, There is no proof (afaik) that Putin did that. There other poeple in Russia with connections to Putin that likely did that through e.g. the ruler of chechnya. There are internal battles in Russian politics (invisible outside of the kremlin) > jailed and assassinated political opponents, You mean the other oligarchs? That's not as black and white as western media likes to explain it. I'm not sure if any assassination attempts that can be traced to Putin are reliable documented. > and deployed his military in support of Assad's genocidal regime? Quite a simplification of the Syrian conflict, also Russia has it's only warm seaport in Syria. Russias involvement was widely seen as a reaction. > How do you "sabre rattle" against someone who's already charged into battle and killed? It's actually complicated and the west, especially the US is not really the good guy in a lot of stories. Putin is also not good. It's strategic game playing while ignoring deaths. On both sides. There is no simple black/white good and bad logic here. It's ugly from all sides.