Russia gripped by human rights crackdown, says UN

a reply to: CriticalStinker

When I was in sixth form I had a holiday job in the legal dept of a big oil company.

There was huge litigation about an oil tanker that broke then sanctions against South Africa by selling their oil to SA. They then scuttled it and tried to claim on insurance for a full tanker.

It didn't work out well for them.

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: HeyYouNotYouYou

I don't know anything about Canada.

Are things really that bad over there?

Canada sounds like how my friend describes France.

They force you to be nice. 😊

Wow, they tried that during the Inquisition too and we saw how horribly that worked out. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" being just one of his literary treatises on that time. I think the Tell Tell Heart may have been another.

originally posted by: Justoneman

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: HeyYouNotYouYou

I don't know anything about Canada.

Are things really that bad over there?

Canada sounds like how my friend describes France.

They force you to be nice. 😊

Wow, they tried that during the Inquisition too and we saw how horribly that worked out. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" being just one of his literary treatises on that time. I think the Tell Tell Heart may have been another.

Some things are worth the effort.

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a reply to: Oldcarpy2

I saw this too, I also read Russia was ramping up arrests of people posting negative comments about the war with Ukraine or the government.

I thought RT said things were all wonderful in Russia, it sounds a lot more like a totalitarian regime then the west does in my humble opinion.

Luckily I can still go online and criticize my own government and not be sent on vacation to a Gulag.

a reply to: Kurokage

I imagine they will soon simply be making up the perceived slights and negative commentary against their own people if they are not doing so already.

So they can scoop people up off the streets and send them to the front.

Putin is desperate now and he knows fine well the only way his existence continues is to add fuel to the fire.

Keep the meat grinder rolling.

And continue his senseless war.

a reply to: andy06shake

Putin is desperate now

I think that's why he clamping down even haarder on any dissidents, he can try and fix 2 problems with one arrest. Cause fear amongst the population and have a pawn to send to fight.

Political opponents he gives Hotel window flying lessons to....

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Justoneman

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: HeyYouNotYouYou

I don't know anything about Canada.

Are things really that bad over there?

Canada sounds like how my friend describes France.

They force you to be nice. 😊

Wow, they tried that during the Inquisition too and we saw how horribly that worked out. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" being just one of his literary treatises on that time. I think the Tell Tell Heart may have been another.

Some things are worth the effort.

Not if you murder people like they did.

The whole world is a theatre.

Russia invented the iron fist in modern age, the likes of which the western world has not experienced and cannot imagine.

At the same time, Russia knows how to play up its advantages, but let’s be honest - honesty is lacking in the entire world, whether Eastern European or western.

a reply to: ghandalf

And yet they are getting held in place and invaded by a bunch of farmers with some surplus NATO equipment.

Iron fist my arse.

They are nothing more than a paper tiger on the battlefield.

And the only reason they have not been obliterated is because they possess some nukes.

originally posted by: andy06shake

And yet they are getting held in place and invaded by a bunch of farmers with some surplus NATO equipment.

Iron fist my arse.

They are nothing more than a paper tiger on the battlefield.

And the only reason they have not been obliterated is because they possess some nukes.

So was Rome - it fell to barbarians much later, but that doesn’t erase historic facts that Romans were brutal when they needed to be.

You can think of East Germany for a glimpse, and the USSR was much worse.

a reply to: ghandalf

Rome fell a few times and got back up again.

And it could be argued that it did not really fall completely.

Given the dark ages were not really that dark.

And quite a few of the nations the Roman empire influenced, and/or encompassed, continue to flourish and shine brightly even to this day.

In this instance, Russia would appear to be the Barbarians at the gates of Ukraine.

Best boil them in oil and send them home to think again.