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In reply to the discussion: Russia: Constitutional Court Upholds ‘Foreign Agents’ Law [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)There ws, and is, no breach any treaty by the United States, and Russia has no grounds whatever i international law for unilaterally altering any border, even with the thin fig-leaf of a supposed invitation from a group of protesters followed by a sham referendum. The claims you are making here touch reality at no identifiable point.
You are forced to concede that the violence was initiated by the riot police, and plead only that in your view the riot police acted no worse than riot police elsewhere acted in violently suppressing political dissent, as if that made the slightest difference to my categorical statement: when riot police attack protestors with lethal violence, the protestors have a perfect to fight back with lethal force of their own. I do not care whether this is in Kiev or Oakland or Timbuktu. Further, to disagree with this proposition is in fact to endorse police violence used to suppress dissent, and to claim that police who suppress dissent with lethal violence ought to be at liberty to do so without risk of harm in return. I do not care if it discomfits you to be confronted with what you are actually endorsing and arguing for here. It ought to make you uncomfortable.