Yes, I know geography. I also have read 1984 to recognize your doublethink.

Which sanctions? Banning Russian cats? Removeing Russian sports teams? Refusing to sell games to Russians? How exactly should it affect Putin or his decisions?

Aka virtue signalling. Aka simple jesture that doesn't require actual resources to spend nor brings any real gain for those whom you have "soliddarity with".

And with such attitude you want Russian people to help you? So you can just get more of our resources and free labor? And you are surprised that they refuse submit to you by abandoning Putin?

Are they? I don't remember any reparations from Germany to Russia for all the atrocities Nazi army commited. Nor particular hatered towards German people from Russian people.

Yes. That's what you want - humiliate and extort Russian people, even as you fully aware we weren't the ones who started the war.

Again, care to explain what the solid reasoning is to invade Ukraine? Or are you just going to try and dodge all questions, hoping nobody would notice? This was brilliant by the way :)

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~ Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, 1986 recipient of the Nobel Peace prize

I said maybe we can talk, since Russia might replace Putin with some component military leader who keeps fighting. Instead of replacing him with someone sane. Putin seems to be like late WW2 Hitler, incompetent and removed from reality.

I did. In the post that you ignored, then proceeded to demand that I not ignore your posts in turn. Again, I can't tell if you're being ironic here or not.

Like clockwork, the Hitler and Holocaust allegories continue to lead the charge. I think I might be more receptive to arguments for Ukraine if even one of you had a nuanced opinion that sank any deeper than "Putler is literally Hitler guise! This is WW2 all over again!" Also, like rojimboo, I can't help but notice that you pointedly ignored the entirety of my post and all the reasons that rationalized the invasion in favor of your invoking Godwin's Law.

[EDIT]: On second thought...

This is the level of discourse I'm getting in this thread. I'm going to bow out. It was silly of me thinking I'd get informed geopolitical discussion on a video game forum in the first place. My best to everyone wading through this nonsense and trying to argue coherent points.

What's Australia and New Zealand done wrong dickhead! More causal accepted racism on GOG it seems.

I'm afraid that this particular part of your speech (with the rest I more or less agree) isn't true. For the last decade Russia was constantly attacked - economocally, culturally, technologically. Remember how for the last several years every major commotion on the Internet was blamed on "Russian hackers"? Or how you pushed CRT, LGBT and other types of identity politics on us claiming that Russians should "learn to tolerate"?

A superpower country invaded illegally a neighbour sovereign republic. That breaks the international laws and creates dangerous precedents. It can not be justified and it is not a valid pressure political and/or ethical movement. It can't be. It shouldn't be.

I am perfectly aware of the continuum of events and whole stuation across the near past. But sorry, right now I consider it irrelevant. It will be relevant again, if it is, when the agressor retreat their troops, this time with their credibility very damaged, probably.

Subjectvity and personal political visions of a random politician can't be any reason for any unilateral invasion. In the short term there are no greys here. Maybe in the future. We will see.

You realise right that Putler's main justitification for the invasion was the de-nazification of the fascist Ukraine regime, right? So the Hitler references were bound to happen, seeing as how much Putler likes to project and his symphatisers gobble it up.

There's also an excellent comparison between Nazi tactics and speeches vs current Russian and Putler ones circulating. They are eerily similar, it's uncanny. Truth is indeed the first casualty of war, get rid of the free press first. Oh wait. He did that already. Then plant the seed of doubt everywhere, whatabout everything with your Russian troll farms, obtain sets of useful gullible idiots from appropriately cultivated political followers (the far-right in this case) and suddenly it doesn't look *completely* bad to ruthlessly invade a country. Shame it didn't work out so well in 2022 anymore. Though some seem to sink, line and hook it nevertheless.

Let's play along and assume you did. Your reasoning would have seemed to be that the invasion was justified due to the threat the West was posing to Russia (edit: not Ukraine), constantly encroaching ever closer to Russia with NATO supplying them with arms or possibly even becoming part of it. THere's a big flaw in this line of thinking - how feasible is it that Ukraine or NATO would ever invade Russia or in any way attack it? Russia has at least as many nukes as all of the NATO countries combined. Nobody in their right mind would ever invade Russia - it's an impossibility. So to make a pre-emptive attack on Ukraine due to the threat it allegedly poses, without nukes, without NATO or even EU membership, without a comparable military even to Russia, is pretty ludicrous? Don't you agree? So your "solid reasoning" to invade Ukraine is pretty laughable to be honest, and sounds like apologist propaganda.

I'm not gonna lie, turning you into North Korea ain't the best thing for the world. However bankrupting the USSR was a big factor in its collapse, and we can only hope that works again. Russians hopefully won't be as easily enslaved as North Koreans are. In any event, we're making the best decisions we can at this time (including avoiding WW3, which if Putin is truly mad might be inevitable).

What kind of "good will" do you want Finland to show you?
Ok, so you believe gay rights is an attack on Russia. You are in other words an idiot and I'm happy you can't shop on GOG any longer.

Denouncing people like you, who think that grooming and brainwashing children should be among "gay rights", would be a good start.

Exactly. The world is already piling on sanctions that actually matter and it'll get harder for Russians to pay for stuff internationally anyhow. GOG just saw this as the perfect opportunity to get some Twitter brownie points and get in on the game of virtue signalling.

Abused it's own people for starters.

You are, so long as they permit it.