New Seats in European Parliament?

Desk trauma · Jan 11, 2023

Love365 said:
1. Switzerland is neutral.

Russia could try that.

Love365 said:
2. You can’t use the United Kingdom as an example.
Unless you’re going to let Russia join the Commonwealth.

There's a step missing there.

Hans Blaster · Jan 11, 2023

Love365 said:
1. Switzerland is neutral.

2. You can’t use the United Kingdom as an example.
Unless you’re going to let Russia join the Commonwealth.

If Russia would rather have Chuckles 3 as their king instead of Pooty the Failure, it's between them and the Brits. I ain't brittish and don't have a say about their silly little monarchy.

Love365 · Jan 19, 2023

Remember a TV show called I Love Lucy
A married couple, one was American and one was Cuban.

What if they did a remake?
Where one is American and one is Russian.

Hans Blaster · Jan 19, 2023

Love365 said:
Remember a TV show called I Love Lucy
A married couple, one was American and one was Cuban.

What if they did a remake?
Where one is American and one is Russian.

They did one a few years ago where both were Russians pretending to be Americans. Is that good enough?

Love365 · Jan 19, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
They did one a few years ago where both were Russians pretending to be Americans. Is that good enough?

American movies and TV shows have two types of Russian characters.
The spy and the criminal.
You think that might be racist?

Maybe have Russian characters with more humanity.

Hans Blaster · Jan 19, 2023

Love365 said:
American movies and TV shows have two types of Russian characters.
The spy and the criminal.
You think that might be racist?

Maybe have Russian characters with more humanity.

Russians are not a race. So, no, it wouldn't be "racist".

What about the characters I referenced just above?

Desk trauma · Jan 19, 2023

Love365 said:
American movies and TV shows have two types of Russian characters.
The spy and the criminal.
You think that might be racist?

No.

Love365 · Jan 19, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
Russians are not a race. So, no, it wouldn't be "racist".

What about the characters I referenced just above?

The White Russian Paradox

Russians are white,
so it’s impossible to say anything racist about them.

At the same time Russians aren’t white enough,
to join the European Union.
Or speak in European Parliament.

Hans Blaster · Jan 19, 2023

Love365 said:
The White Russian Paradox

Russians are white,
so it’s impossible to say anything racist about them.

At the same time Russians aren’t white enough,
to join the European Union.
Or speak in European Parliament.

No. It's not because they're "white" but AS I SAID BEFORE not a race.

A gratuitous, bigoted insult of a Russian for being Russian, is just that. It does not go after them for being "white" and non-Russian white people can do it. (I'll stick for gratuitous, well-earned insults of the Russian dictator Vladimir Vladimirovich. Those are neither.)

Love365 · Jan 20, 2023

Would you support teaching the Russian alphabet?

So that more people learn to speak Russian,
for better communication with Russia.

Desk trauma · Jan 20, 2023

Love365 said:
Would you support teaching the Russian alphabet?

So that more people lean to speak Russian,
for better communication with Russia.

No.

Hans Blaster · Jan 20, 2023

Love365 said:
Would you support teaching the Russian alphabet?

So that more people lean to speak Russian,
for better communication with Russia.

HET

Love365 · Jan 21, 2023

Could we lift sanctions on Russia,
If they give permission for United Nations peacekeeping ?

Desk trauma · Jan 21, 2023

Love365 said:
Could we lift sanctions on Russia,
If they give permission for United Nations peacekeeping ?

Sure, but it's going to be a challenge to find enough peace keepers with how large Russia is. Though they could make it a bit easier by carving off large chunks of their territory to create the buffer states they allegedly want.

Aryeh Jay · Jan 22, 2023

I wonder, since the war is over illegally acquired territory, is Ukraine going to give land back to Poland? The part of Poland that Hitler gave the Soviet Union?

Hans Blaster · Jan 22, 2023

Aryeh Jay said:
I wonder, since the war is over illegally acquired territory, is Ukraine going to give land back to Poland? The part of Poland that Hitler gave the Soviet Union?

It's western Ukraine and Belarus that were part of inter-war Poland (Lviv, Brest) not the parts east of the Dnipr where the fighting has been.

Aryeh Jay · Jan 22, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
It's western Ukraine and Belarus that were part of inter-war Poland (Lviv, Brest) not the parts east of the Dnipr where the fighting has been.

Yes, Ukraine wants Russia to give up the territory that was illegally taken. Is Ukraine going to do the same for Poland in the west?

Hans Blaster · Jan 22, 2023

Aryeh Jay said:
Yes, Ukraine wants Russia to give up the territory that was illegally taken. Is Ukraine going to do the same for Poland in the west?

And what about the territory that was taken from Germany and given to Poland at the end of WW II? And so on?

If you have a problem with Soviet expansion westward into what was Poland in 1939, take it up with the Soviets.

Aryeh Jay · Jan 23, 2023

Hans Blaster said:
And what about the territory that was taken from Germany and given to Poland at the end of WW II? And so on?

If you have a problem with Soviet expansion westward into what was Poland in 1939, take it up with the Soviets.

I tried, Gorbachev' died before he could get back to me and Putin is blocking my calls.

Love365 · Jan 28, 2023

Peace talks?

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