Recent content by tmari

On My Own, you chose to theorize that diaspora Russians are disillusioned. Yet you can't come up with examples?

This is a skating forum so why shouldn't we question Russian skaters' responses? I'm not claiming that Russian opponents to the war don't exist at all. Obviously they do. But where are the signs that they represent a majority? Why are diaspora Russians so quiet that you have to ask this...

Can you provide examples of this disillusionment? After Putin launched the war, how many Russian skaters left Russia and expressed opposition to his actions? Many in the Russian skating community, e.g. Krylova, Zhulin, Kostomarov, Dmitriev, etc. have lived abroad, know English, have money and...

The Russian diaspora has sunk this argument like the Moskva. How many have expressed condemnation of the Russian army's murdering, raping, torturing, beheading, child kidnappings, genocidal rhetoric, and daily bombardment of apartment buildings? The Russian diaspora in the European Union and...

The ISU cannot claim to care about "fair play" if they rescind the ban while Russia continues to threaten the lives of rival athletes. https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/archives/600-isu-communication-2104/file "Fair play is defined as much more than playing within...

Is fear, or perhaps lack of access to information, the primary reason for Russians not opposing the war? Well, let's consider the millions of Russians living safely in the European Union, with access to a wide variety of news sources. A few members of the Russian diaspora have condemned the...

You've insinuated multiple times in this thread that others don't care about Muslims... and then you proceed to whine about Russia receiving "grief" for massacring Muslim civilians...:huh: Russia's history of targeting Muslim civilians, even its recent hospital bombing campaign in Syria, are...

Do they count to you? Just be honest.

This is a straw man argument. This topic is about skaters who've chosen to announce to the world that they support the war. Who's lumping all skaters into the same category?

Russia has for years portrayed itself as anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/08/russia-ukraine-colonialism-diplomacy-africa/

I'm not "the West". I was born in Poland. And I'm sick of Russian attempts to paint themselves as victims while sweeping under the rug their own extensive history of genocidal colonial crimes.

(Continuing my previous response) They matter to you? So why have you decided to whatabout in defense of Russia, which: - systematically bombs Muslim civilians in Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Syrian_hospital_bombing_campaign - murdered thousands of Muslim civilians in...

If they mattered to you, you wouldn't be using them as tools to deflect from what Russia is doing. Does a rape victim feel they matter if you watch someone else being raped and do nothing except "what about" all the people whose rapists weren't caught, hindering the response to the person...

You believe they're being forced? Based on what? And how come others have stayed silent? Why weren't they "forced"?

Perky Shae Lynn, you've failed to explain how I've "put a target on their back" or how this resembles the KGB. For the last time, no one is forcing Russia's skaters to publicly support the war. It's a choice.