Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’

• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Perfidy?

  Never heard of him. But why defend putin? Because it ended up on your front page? That seems like a really bad reason.

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  • robotElder2@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Perfidy, in the context of international relations, is to lure a delegation from an opposed faction under false pretenses of negotiations in order to kill them. Perfidious actors do not generally receive future delegations. Noone on hexbear particularly likes Putin but we’re not so stupid as to attribute every act or the Russian Federation to his own personal malice, nor to think that his replacement if he were killed would differ significantly in policy. If the US went through with your hairbrained plot the Russian advance would continue apace and the US would be regarded everywhere as an even less trustworthy partner than before. ‘Do not murder the negotiators’ is a pretty important rule in the ‘rules based international order’ you liberals are so proud of.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but we haven’t exactly been living in a world with ‘rules based international order’.

      Also why do you keep calling me a liberal? I haven’t exactly voiced any liberal statements?

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      • robotElder2@hexbear.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I agree that the ‘rules based order’ is a farce and i apologize for presuming that you wouldn’t. How would you characterize your own politics?

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