US intelligence: Russia plans to attack Ukraine early next year

Do you intend to write as if you are the thought police? Really. 'Information hygiene?'

 

Ummm, you do realize that Putin is the one actually brutalizing, jailing, poisoning and killing dissidents and whomever he finds inconvenient? In addition to victims of his aggressions in Russia and abroad (not even limited to Ukraine)?

Ironically, this is the way of thinking cultivated by Russian propaganda, and in the past it spread through left and left-leaning intelligentsia under "liberation" and "fighting for peace" guises. It's weird to see this mush spreading through the right-wing channels now.

 

Sputnik News is a freaking enemy propaganda outlet, working for Kremlin openly out to harm "the West". Including and especially your country. It is not OK to check the local weather forecast from them, even if they source it from NOAA like everyone else.
- your Captain Obvious.

 

Maybe part of that is - your heritage is Ukrainian - not Russian. Would you give a couple of rats' asses if it were Ivan Franko and Taras Shevchenko, instead of Pushkin and Dostoevski? Just asking - there are no wrong answers, as far as I'm concerned.

 

Only thinking as an American. Shevchenko and Franko did not make it into my Great Books set. Dostoyevsky did.

Malcolm Gladwell, my favorite modern author, calls one of his enterprises Pushkin Press. Fascinating reasons behind thid that. Also George Washington University, not far from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop, has a wonderful statue of Pushkin. Handsome man. Culture matters.

 

I was asking Stanislav. That was clear from my quote. I'm sure they made it into his collection - or at least, his schooling. They're Ukrainian poets. I was introduced to their works in Ukrainian class when I was in my 40s.

 

Alright, neither is in my Great Books set, nor is there a statue of either in Washington DC.

 

Right now, unfortunately, all of those long-dead people have been forcibly enlisted to fight in this war. Dostoevsky and Pushkin are on the wrong side. No real fault of theirs, of course, but no less real.

Maybe when all this is over... you know what, nah. I think I am cured of the compulsion to care about Tolstoyevsky, Pushmontov, or whoever. Let people of Russian heritage revere them all they want.

Taras Shevchenko:

When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.

When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears
Into the deep blue sea
The blood of foes ... then will I leave
These hills and fertile fields —
I'll leave them all and fly away
To the abode of God,
And then I'll pray .... But till that day
I nothing know of God.

Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.

 

That's the one! Great poem, great answer.

 

Sure, they enjoy a lot of hype. But neither Sputnik nor you use any of their works to bolster your argument, now do you? (Dostoyevsky might have been useful for them; I believe he was somewhat of an Imperial chauvinist. And a genius, of course). No, you use their names to give cover for a cause that, right now, terrorizes and kills civilians. Good fraction of whom were raised on Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and speak Russian. You'd know that if you knew anything about Kharkiv and Mariupol.

 

Editorial commentary being based on BS lies is okay with you. Got it!

 

Are you really that intolerant?

"It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility."

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

 

We will have to disagree on the meaning of words. Again, no matter the righteousness of the decision Makers, attempting to police the thoughts of others is a nonstarter with me. I laugh out loud at anyone who imagines they can proscribe what I chose to read.

 

A sincere thank you. I pray you also enjoy the freedom to explore your own thoughts.

 

I like that you are willing to address overpolicing. True, it's only if it affect yourself, but it's a start.

Here's a hypothetical: one may decide to wipe his ass, in public, with an American flag. That would be his 1st Amendment right. But when someone on an obscure discussion board asks that person to stop doing that - it is not oppression, not unethical, is itself a protected expression, and something that has to be said. Watching/reading and then forwarding content from Sputnik+, RT, and the rest of the gang helps them hurt America and monetize their little serial killer blogs. Legal? Yes. Moral? ...

 

I'll guess that you're the only person here that takes seriously the nonsense spread by Sputnik News. They are just plain untrustworthy.