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I put my gold in the safe of my best friend, he has a good safe. Then I rapped and killed his wife and children, and destroyed his house. But he doesn’t want to

• mdp2021 21d ago
  You are doing the complexity of history, and the due diligence of objective assessment and focus, a great disservice with those gross similes. Let us stick to a fitting analysis for the point of the limited trust entities can give each other, and let us stick to actual events for what the crimes committed are concerned (for the respect due).
  • dbdr 21d ago
    Putin is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Rapes and killings are widely documented as part of the war he started. I don't think the parent comment was overstating the crimes in question in its simile.
    • tim333 21d ago
      The biggest thing wrong is Russia's gold isn't in the EU. It's actually the other way round - Russia has kind of stolen Spain's gold, at least has it and won't return it.
      • ProfessorLayton 21d ago
        >Russia has kind of stolen Spain's gold… For historical reasons, this is kind of amusing.
    • mdp2021 21d ago
      > I don't think the parent comment was overstating the crimes Said comment was understating the crimes, but also misrepresenting them in context. Those crimes are exceptional in ferality, not exceptional as abstracted within the difficulties of trust building. (Which is also gained diplomatically, and diplomacy has clearly failed - bilaterally).
• momocowcow 21d ago
  ok, but russia and the west were never best friends, just some russians have major crushes on western europe and would still trust the europeans to hold their gold more than their own russian compatriots :))