Statement from Roman Abramovich

Re:Statement from Roman Abramovich by avmich on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:56PM (#30545124)

Or something else, which just happens to be - for some people - similar to witch hunt. If, for example, an action needed to be done for quite some time, and then suddenly is done, somebody can ask why it's done, since it wasn't done before. And the reason is - some other events triggered the action, not that the action suddenly became necessary while it wasn't before. It's just similar to witch hunt, but not the witch hunt by itself.

How would you distinguish witch hunt from a legitimate action?

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Re:Statement from Roman Abramovich by ignoramous on Friday March 04, 2022 @04:08AM (#30552363)

At this point, I believe a lot of "economic warfare" the West is engaging in is just optics, populist measures, just for the memes, and very hypocritical and shallow, especially given that in a post globalised World, almost every other major business is connected to other major businesses.

Diplomacy is the need of the hour. The US/NATO really botched this, or purposefully enraged Russia, for avoidable reasons. Ukraine is facing the brunt, just like Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen continue to. The warfare (both on-ground and the economic one) is so destructive that I fail to understand people who prefer it, at all, over any number of available compromises.

I have lived through war, sanctions, and rioting all under the pretense of freedom, nationalism, pride, religion, democracy, righteousness and what not, and I don't prefer it one bit.

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