Recent content by babayaga

It's like russians are being treated as people who cannot be held responsible for anything bad. Who cannot be put through any kind of discomfort. God forbid they have to make an uncomfortable choice and held accountable for it. I start to think that this special treatment by the world is what...

They are alive so they do have a choice. Who don't have a choice are hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians. Including many many young athletes. They do not have a choice to do anything any more. I cannot believe after a year of exterminating us poor russians are still portrayed as victims...

I am watching here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SicyNwGoSs :) ETA: sorry you have the same link, just noticed :)

Because these are extraordinary circumstances and many people in Ukraine go through insane suffering, and even more Ukrainians lost their income. Not a single Ukrainian can now make money in russia and not be considered a traitor. Petrenko is no exception. He has free will, he made his choice...

But at least it would make it harder. Their collective reputation is ruined too.

I thought it is kind of a boring choice 😁 Or it would be an attempt to create sexy Shoma 🙂

I think it's more than proximity. Putin was actually threatening NATO directly. In December they sent out a list of demands, in which they in particular demanded that NATO forces, or maybe only US forces, I don't remember, get out of eastern NATO countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Baltic...

You put my name on another poster's quote.

This is a very popular argument though, I read it a lot on social media. From African posters, saying Russia never did anything bad to us, why should we not support it? Which I found strange - why if you feel like you have been oppressed, why would you side with an oppressor in another conflict...

Russia has been trying to wipe out Ukraine for centuries. Latest genocide attempt less than a hundred years ago, and nobody ever cared or even knew it was happening. It is true that the support we get is not from the entire world, but it is so much more than I could ever hope for. Part of the...

It could have been cumulative effect too. Russia indeed started multiple conflicts, helped use chemical weapons in Syria, assassinated people in Europe using chemicals and nuclear poison, and was suspected in state-sponsored doping. This extra violent and bloody war could have been the last straw.

Not necessarily if Tutberidze's team is thoroughly investigated :angryfire

I like Belgium!

Remember when Medvedeva declared a couple of weeks before she left Tutberidze for Orser that she is going to stay with Tutberidze until the end of her career? Well that part turned out to be true after all! :rofl: :rofl:

That was me trying to portray the majority viewpoint on this forum :) I also cannot wait to see what will happen inside Tutberidze group after this return. Scherbakova support group doesn't seem too happy with how things are unfolding. It seems Eteri is not going to the first Russian Cup event...