It’s worse in Russia - criticize Putin or the War, and you get thrown out a window
The USA is not paying for Russia’s pensions.
And likewise look at America. How many political prisoners does our government have? We don’t even know an exact number. Some have also died in prison.
I”t’s worse in Russia - criticize Putin or the War, and you get thrown out a window “
It is not worse in Russia. Here are two antiwar candidates running for President.
Now, they are facing the same ballot access issues as people running for President in the USA, but they are not sick in prison and denied medical care until they die.
Managed to get the black lesbian basketball player out of the evil Russia but not this guy out of the wonderful democracy of Ukraine, who’s every State employee, we’re paying the salary of.
Now, there you go again!
The pot calling the kettle black!
Don't forget the hundreds that went to a political event on January 6th and are now locked up in solitary confinement in a dungeon deep the the bowels of DC.
How about giving us a list of the events from our own. Maybe you're okay when our government does such!
Why is that worse? Dead is dead.
Here is why this is much worse:
From what I've seen Putin's goons go after powerful opponents who are also in the Russian political game. They are most frequently described as "oligarchs". That's still not good, but it's like the difference between a UFC fighter getting drunk and smashing a UFC rival in the face, and smashing a waitress in the face.
Has Putin killed any American journalists?
And what makes it all far worse to me:
We (America) are paying for it? On the one hand you have a repressive regime that America opposes at every step. On the other you have a repressive regime that America supports, including paying the salaries of the guards who killed Gonzalo.
As an American the latter is far more offensive to me. (As a Canadian maybe you don't feel that way?)
Gonzalo was an American journaliat. Clearly, given that Zelenskyy is our puppet, the Biden regime could have had him put on the next plane home with a phone call. Look at all the effort they put into getting the black woman basketball star home.
So, another reason that this is way more offensive than the KGB killing a Russian rival of Putin is that this is essentially the Biden regime killing a journalist who was highly critical of him.
That's incredibly "worse" to me. I don't know much about Canada, it seems pretty totalitarian, so maybe it's normal to you that your government is colluding to have its critics killed.
It hasn't been common or acceptable in the USA ... but now seens to be being made acceptable.
That sucks. So does Americans excusing it or making false moral equivelence claims to downplay the seriousness of it. Even coming from a Canadian it's puzzling and irritating.
There you go fluffing Nazi Trudeau and Nazi Canuckistan, again.
Evidence?
BTW Putins’ popularity is 70-80%. People are doing very well in Russia.