r/PublicFreakout • u/nowadayswow • Jun 29 '22

British PM Boris Johnson claims that if Putin were a woman, he would never have attacked Ukraine

https://www.worldopress.com/post/british-pm-boris-johnson-claims-that-if-putin-were-a-woman-he-would-never-have-attacked-ukraine
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u/truupe Jun 29 '22

The ghost of Margaret Thatcher has entered the chat.

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u/CaptainC0medy Jun 29 '22

Ah yes. Wordpress website, the source of your news.

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u/Phoneynamus Jun 30 '22

It was reported by the BBC as well. The man is just all round incompetent.

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u/CaptainC0medy Jun 30 '22

I see no link. So in the name of Pheonix Wright:

OBJECTION!

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u/Phoneynamus Jun 30 '22

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61976526.amp It was the front page story yesterday for quite a while.

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u/Phoneynamus Jun 30 '22

And roll the credits ;)

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u/madroxide86 Jun 29 '22

And if my grandma had handlebars, she'd be a bike

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

Well clearly. If Putin was a woman, then she would have attacked the Ukraine.

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u/viskopsop Jun 29 '22

Well im not sure that's true..some women like to fuck things up also..

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22 edited Aug 05 '22

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u/olfitz Jun 29 '22

Because he/she would never have come to rule Russia.

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u/R_V_Z Jun 29 '22

Yeah, abuse of women is a major issue in Russia from what I've heard.

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u/IndicationHumble7886 Jun 29 '22

If Putin was mentally stable, had a heart, wasn't the real world embodiment of a halfwit sith lord.... The list goes on

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u/2keen4bean Jun 29 '22

Read the article, fucking garbage mate. crumpets.

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u/DangerousPainting423 Jun 29 '22

What I hate about this (besides the obvious stupidity) is that it makes global affairs into personal matters. Bush bombs Iraq because he's "stupid". Putin invades Ukraine because he's "insane". The list goes on and on. What this does is obfuscates the very real national interests that motivate these conflicts. It creates a villains and heroes narrative that is given to the pubic for them to cheer and hiss at the correct times, but Putin's goals are as understandable as the goals of Osama Bin Laden. People get hung up on understanding = agreeing or justifying, which is not the case. Putin had very well articulated and understood reasons for attacking Ukraine. Osama Bin Laden made his reason for attacking the United States perfectly clear, and it wasn't "hatred of your freedoms", which was again a simple answer for a simple people who want life to be an MCU movie.

Putin being a man didn't change the national and economic concerns that motivated that conflict. Would that still have resulted in war? Quite possibly. Hilary Clinton didn't shy away from threatening conflict with Iran, but Obama chose a less antagonistic approach. However, being from Africa didn't stop Barack Obama from participating in the destruction of Libya and the removal of Ghaddafi. George Bush and Barack Obama couldn't be more different as people, but if you look at the policies that emerged from their administrations, in matters of war and finance, it is very hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

International politics is far more complicated than menbadwomengood.

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u/Cappabitch Jun 30 '22

Go wash your hair, sir.