Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ – POLITICO
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Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet Friday.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    Perfidy?

    Never heard of him. But why defend putin? Because it ended up on your front page? That seems like a really bad reason.

    • robotElder2 [he/him, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
      83·
      2 days ago

      Perfidy, in the context of international relations, is to lure a delegation from an opposed faction under false pretenses of negotiations in order to kill them. Perfidious actors do not generally receive future delegations. Noone on hexbear particularly likes Putin but we’re not so stupid as to attribute every act or the Russian Federation to his own personal malice, nor to think that his replacement if he were killed would differ significantly in policy. If the US went through with your hairbrained plot the Russian advance would continue apace and the US would be regarded everywhere as an even less trustworthy partner than before. ‘Do not murder the negotiators’ is a pretty important rule in the ‘rules based international order’ you liberals are so proud of.

      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
        33·
        2 days ago

        I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but we haven’t exactly been living in a world with ‘rules based international order’.

        Also why do you keep calling me a liberal? I haven’t exactly voiced any liberal statements?

            • robotElder2 [he/him, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
              52·
              2 days ago

              Well, I admit that inviting the president of the Russian Federation to the US under false pretenses to assassinate him would increase the chance of every state on Earth being destroyed all at once. It would certainly be an act of war. Even if there were no nuclear exchange in the immediate aftermath it would then be established that every diplomat to US territory was also a hostage at best or being sent directly to their death at worst. It would further kick out the bottom rungs of the escalation ladder for future conflicts.