• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    My point in calling out Putin as a bully is that if he actually has working nukes, he will use then whether or not we abide by his threats or not.

    You seem to be arguing against a position you imagine I hold rather than what I’ve explained.

    Every comment so far has been me trying to re-assert that position and you more or less ignoring it to put your straw man icing on the rest of your comment, like this here.

    It’s like debating if a house is on fire where one half of the debate thinks the other half is only talking about house fires because they think aliens are real, so they spend half their time disproving aliens.

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      10 hours ago

      You assert that Putin will use Nukes if the west helps Ukraine too much. I assert that Putin would use Nukes regardless if he had them.

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        10 hours ago

        Okay yeah that’s where we differ, and I don’t think we’ll be able to convince each other of our respective positions.

        The weird part is when you deviate to try to prove to me (and other readers) that Putin is a bully.

        Putin is very obviously a bully and worse, so it doesn’t make sense to tell me that.