As noted in a previous thread, Russian attacks on Ukrainian electrical systems and other infrastructure are following the NATO play book established in Serbia, Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.
Is the terrorist designation just a cynical pretext for confiscating Russian government assets that are frozen in western banks?
On the other hand, if NATO governments really believe that Russia is a terrorist state, should Blinken be negotiating with terrorists?
I read a article which stated that the basis of the phrase “The US will not negotiate with terrorists” was the fact that the US will not pay a ransom for a kidnapped US Citizen. The reasoning is that besides funding the terrorist organization it would promote more kidnappings. Another author said that the US negotiating with Russia for prisoner swaps should be considered a form of diplomacy.
Yes, keeping options open for negotiations is important. That is true for Ukrainian conscripts in muddy trenches as well as Americans in Russian prisons.
Do you disagree with his comments about NATO’s recent wars?
As far as Wallace’s views in other areas, my understanding he to the left of Bernie Sanders. I suspect I disagree with him on a lot of things.
My observation is that the war in Ukraine has made for some strange bedfellows. The ADL is now tacitly supporting the Azov Battalion, which only a few months earlier it criticized as “as a pathway to the creation of a National Socialist state in Ukraine.” Is the ADL now anti-Semitic?
Your silence confirms that you accept Wallace’s statement. Thank you for agreeing NATO members could be designated state-sponsors of terrorism based on the standards they apply to others.
Is it fine to negotiate with terrorists if you are a terrorist as well?
Or is does the term “state-sponsor of terrorism” have little meaning since the label is applicable to practically every state in Europe?
A Brown University report estimated that half a million people died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001 and 2021.
In 2000, UNICEF estimated that western sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children in the 1990s.
A SENIOR UN official said last night that about half a million children under five had died in Iraq since the imposition of UN sanctions 10 years ago.
Anupama Rao Singh, country director for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said: ``In absolute terms we estimate that perhaps about half a million children under five years of age have died, who ordinarily would not have died had the decline in mortality that was prevalent over the '70s and the ‘80s continued through the ‘90s,’’ she said. Sanctions `have killed 500,000 Iraqi children' | Independent.ie
The UN estimated that over 300,000 died in the Syrian Civil War between 2011 and 2021.
