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All my personal opinion:

I can appreciate that there is a lot of passion about this topic, and I'm genuinely glad that we all are fortunate enough to live in societies where we can even have discussions like this openly. Some are not so fortunate- as we're typing these opinions out, Putin and his regime are tightening down on the already limited freedom of speech in Russia. I believe it's up to 15 years in prison now for telling the truth, the factual & tangible reality, about what Russian forces are doing in Ukraine (for example the maternity hospital they bombed today) - so as individuals we should not take it for granted.

As doublevr said, a conscious choice was made to no longer be a part of the Russian economy. This is the same choice made by hundreds of companies around the world.

By choosing not to operate within Russia, it denies Russia funds flowing into the country, some portion of which would either directly or indirectly end up in the hands of Putin's government, which in turn would be paying for the war crimes that are now being committed in Ukraine. No one is arguing that the girls and those affected by this decision were going to walk up to Putin and hand him their tip money, but that's exactly where at least some of that money would ultimately go, because that is how national economies work. Period.

I don't think anyone here is expecting this decision to single-handedly end Putin's invasion and war in Ukraine. But continuing to operate "as normal" has zero positive impacts on the millions currently suffering in Ukraine. None.

However- stopping all moneys from entering Russia could have a positive impact by starving the regime of the funds it needs to continue this war (as well depriving it of the ability to pay for future wars), and potentially creating enough unrest among the Russian people that they start to push back on their government. Which, for those of us old enough to remember, was one of the main contributors to the independence of many former Eastern Bloc countries as well as main contributors to the dissolution of the original USSR, which is exactly what Putin and his regime are trying to revivify.

/end rant

ibins Russians also lose their sons, husbands and brothers.

Because they are war criminals and terrorists. Purposely attacking women and children is pure evil. Russian troops have a choice. They can lay down their weapons and surrender. There are reports that some have done this, including purposely damaging their tanks.

Those who refuse to commit war crimes and murder, and surrender, they have my respect. It would be better if they killed their commanding officers though.

Any Russian forces in Ukraine that continue to fight, are pure evil. It's as simple as that. They have a choice, be evil or be a decent human being and surrender.

    My spirit goes out to all. However, (and this may be an unpopular take, but still valid) to me this is just the same blame-game story or divide-and-conquer strategy manifesting in yet a different way. Everybody keeps looking for a quick surface-level fix that causes more division and discrimination instead of being serious and getting to the root. Is it the average, everyday peaceful citizens wreaking havoc, or is it those creating the unjust laws that allow for untold chaos and at the same time limiting freedom, happiness, unity, and love ... (which in turn creates a more degenerate society)? It's the people in power with an unquenchable thirst for control, who can do what they want, feel above the law, and get away with atrocities no other law-abiding citizen can. Fix that problem, not the millions who are not the problem.

    I have news that billions are suffering every day, and it just happens to be this group of people's turn, projected for the world to see. But have we sufficiently solved the last problem, or the last before that? If we can't solve those, and the ill after-effects are left compounding, corrupting, and antagonizing an already disunited world, what makes us think that we are going to do it right this time or the next time when elusive variables change again, and it's the next group of people's turn? Are we going to continue to give in to the manipulating media and deceptive leaders or are we going to stand up for ourselves collectively in our own way and in a way only we as individuals are able to express? Actually we are doing just that, except in a subtle way which we may not be aware of, that same controlling energy sometimes works through us in telling others how they should react or respond.

    We can speak and do for ourselves if we are conscious enough. We don't have to let anyone run us out of our country, inject us with something against our will, or make us feel guilty or pressured for some reality that we are not in alignment with. Just as there are checks and balances in the government (legislative, judicial, executive), there are checks and balances in our unique astrological and energetic lives (12 zodiac personalities/energy vibrations). We can't expect everybody to act in the same way because we are all wired differently. Do we call the 2 million people who didn't protest but evacuated instead, cowards? No. Do we call those who refused the jab, selfish? No. People can believe what they want, but it's just that, their own hi-jacked imaginations which may be a world different from someone else's reality.

    Instead of focusing on broad measures that cause pain for those who are innocent, the focus should be on those who are allegedly guilty and their accomplices. It's just unbelievable the never-ending damage-collateral we as human beings are living with for someone else's misguided decisions, for reasons outside of our control, and worse, for imagined reasons. Studies are being released that masks, lockdowns, and vaccinations/boosters were not as effective as imagined. And guess what, because of the forceful decisions of those in power (who were not what we thought when we voted them in), we are a lot more divided, a lot more in debt, a lot more stressed, and a lot less free.

    Just recently we've had hate crimes on Asians because of the China blame-game on Covid, and here we are again, now blaming Russians and letting cancel-culture have its way. No canceled non-Black businesses/services or world empathy for Black Lives Matter, no apologies for scores of people in jail for "drugs" that's now legal, no news-wide corrections that the focus should have been on the elderly and those with co-morbidities rather than the whole frikin' population. All that's happening is a perpetuation of racist and destructive actions, and all we're doing is passing the scathing torch to the next generation. We're still in the mess, still living with messes from the last decade, and more messes are queued up for the right time to manifest. In a world such as this, we're all just as dead as any worse case scenario we may think we face. But that's just one view, there are many good things about the world too; a lot of things could be said, and it's still here along with us to our amazement. I think our focus should be on the good, keeping what's working going, and specifically eliminating what is not working without penalizing those who happen to be caught in the middle. That's the ideal, but reality tends to be different. Easier said than done right?

    BlueSky3290

    So Russia, in addition to already killing countless women and little kids, bombs a maternity and children's hospital,

    Which never would have happened if Ukraine had surrendered the first day of war.

    and you want Ukraine to surrender to them.

    I never said I wanted it. I just stated the obvious that this would be the best for the rest of the world, and actually short term even for Ukraine themself the more they fight back the longer the bloodshed is going on, and even if they accomplish to fight back Russia completely they would end in a completely destroyed country.

    In long term it would mean that Ukraine would convert from one of the most corrupt so called democracies part of a more or less open dictatorship. So yeah it is fully understandable that Ukrainians do not want that, and want to fight back, even if this means that this destroys their country for at least one generation, just from the hope that the next generation will have a better life then being part of Russia.
    And yes I support the Ukrainians fighting back, but this does not mean I can not see that them doing so is not just an extreme risk for them but also the entire world.

    Russia is literally a terrorist state.

    Terrorism is just a fiction ironically created by western propaganda to justify surveillance measurements and of course wars. It justified many wars the US started, Assad is using it to justify the war against his own people, and yes even Putin is justifying his attack on Ukraine by claiming that they are a country in the hand of terrorists.
    Sounds similar? Well this is just the same how USA is justifying basically any war they start. Every country, or at least their governments, think the way they live is the right thing, and all the others that want to live a different way are terrorists.

    There are murderers, rapists and many other heavy criminals in this world. But there are no terrorists, they only have been created because in western democracies people would actually go on the streets against many of their governments actions if it would be just against "criminals" and not so called terrorists.

      BlueSky3290

      How easy to say this from your save home. It is so easy for a single individual soldier to go against his authorities.
      Most of them actually do not even know what they are doing. It is not the troops on the front that are the war criminals, they are just victims on both sides, the war criminals are actually the people behind them watching from a save distance.

      And btw talking about war criminals, both Bushs and several of their officials are war criminals as well, why are the still running around freely and do not share a room with Karadcic and Milosevic?

        ibins So Russia, in addition to already killing countless women and little kids, bombs a maternity and children's hospital,

        Which never would have happened if Ukraine had surrendered the first day of war.

        None of this would have happened if Russia did not invade a peaceful country. It's completely Russia's Fault.

        ibins How easy to say this from your save home. It is so easy for a single individual soldier to go against his authorities.

        I think that Russians surrendering is the easier way than murdering unarmed women and children, in the latter, how can u live with yourself? Like for you, the easier choice is to murder women and children than to do what's right and surrender to Ukraine? I would not be able to murder those innocent people, so no, it's not hard for me to say.

        ibins Terrorism is just a fiction ironically created by western propaganda

        Sorry, but that's bullshit. Terrorists are people who do politically motivated acts of violence in order to spread fear and terror amongst a populace, hence the name.

        Just because the US uses the term pretty "creatively" doesn't mean that it doesn't have an actual meaning.

        ibins I never said I wanted it. I just stated the obvious that this would be the best for the rest of the world

        No, obviously not. You don't understand Putin's motivation and his psychology. He won't stop until he's stopped, it's as simple as that. The invasion in Ukraine happened because nobody stopped him before. If nobody stops him in Ukraine he will continue his crusade in other countries, maybe a Baltic country or Finland next time? Or maybe Serbia or any other country? His ultimate goal is a new Russian empire with him as a new kind of Zar at the top.

        You can't appease a bully. A bully takes whatever he wants until somebody hits him in the face and shows him that there are limits to his power and that there is somebody stronger than him. That's why a day one surrender of Ukraine would have been extremely bad for Europe and the whole world. It would have meant that he lost basically no military equipment and the whole country got behind him in this glorious victory. It would have finally broken all resistance and opposition in the Russian society. It would also have meant that the sanctions might have already stopped or were not even installed in the first place and didn't hit the Russian economy like they do now. So what would have been the outcome? The outcome would have been that we had an extremely strengthened Putin who had again the whole Russian people behind him, knowing that his imperial crusade might even work and that other countries might simply follow suit once he threatens the West with nuclear weapons. I don't think anybody in Europe actually wants that...

        And all this fear about a nuclear war is pretty bollocks. Putin is a cold-hearted dictator but he loves luxury and he loves living. He's not a communist or a mad ideologist, he just wants to be the next Zar and reign with ultimate power. He knows pretty well that nuclear weapons wouldn't do anything good for him, it would just end the world but for what benefit to him personally? People should just stop being so panicked about nuclear war, it's extremely unlikely. I'd guarantee you that Russia would withdraw from Ukraine a few days after the NATO installed a no-fly zone in Ukraine and the US deployed heavy equipment and a lot of troops in Eastern Europe. Russia is actually pretty weak compared to NATO in a conventional war.

        Putin is simply betting that the West is too chicken to really engage with him, so he is simply as bold as possible and it works. It worked in Chechniya, it worked in Georgia, it worked in Syria, it worked on the Crymea and in the Donbass and it also might work in the whole Ukraine if nobody stops him. There is a clear path of escalation there and you really need to see the whole story behind Putin and how he always pushes escalation and war because he has nothing to offer to the Russian population. Putin came to power with a war and he will always try to wage wars in order to keep his own people contained. But he's not a suicide.

          LordCrash

          Sorry, but that's bullshit. Terrorists are people who do politically motivated acts of violence in order to spread fear and terror amongst a populace, hence the name.

          The motivation does not matter, the acts of violence are the true crime, and we had laws that forbid all the acts of violence so called terrorists do for ages, there is no need for special laws against terrorist and "regular murderers" and other criminals. What they do is the crime, not why they are doing it.

          And it is not just the US that use the term creatively, it is only the US that uses the term primarily to justify wars, because nowhere in the world the military is such a huge economical factor than in the US. They basically need wars for their economy to function.

          There are 2 things in this world basically any democratic government in this world uses to silence protests against unpopular measurements, child abuse and terrorism.

            ibins
            I never said that special laws were required for terrorism. That's up to each society to decide. I simply corrected your statement that the definition of terrorism itself was an invention of the US.

            ibins There are 2 things in this world basically any democratic government in this world uses to silence protests against unpopular measurements, child abuse and terrorism.

            What? lol

            i see all the interviews with the kids there...our kids don't seem that well-spoken under any circumstances and are top students in top schools. somethings wrong

            if by chance UKR is taken over...bring all of them to the US...WE need an influx of a smart generation...btw beautiful also

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            You guys should do a scene with Nikki Benz and donate all the earnings with the scene to humanitarian aid for Ukrainians. Nikki has Canadian citizenship and lives in Toronta but she is of Ukrainian heritage and was born in the now besieged and destroyed Mariupol...

              Totally agree with the decision not to allow Russian subscribers or Russian models. Russia needs to be made a pariah state which no one trades with until they retreat from Ukraine, pay to rebuild what they’ve destroyed and they return to being a decent peaceful nation. I know not all Russians agree with what’s happening so it’s tough on them but maybe it’s time they took a stand against their government. Losing a porn site is hardly the same as a Ukrainian losing their home, their country or their life.

              I know other countries like the U.K./US aren’t perfect either with their involvement in bombings in the Middle East. Their motives are not pure but they are not actually trying to invade and colonise those countries.

                petermc So models must pay the price for having the government they have because... because they are Russian?
                This blaming the Russians does nothing but create unjustified hatred towards that country. Fuck Putin and his government, not the Russians.
                Do you think they can take to the streets to protest like in any other country? Do you think they have never tried to demonstrate against their government? Do you think they are not afraid of their own government? And why do you think that could be? They should take to the streets to protest? Of course they should. I wish it were that easy.
                And of course it is not comparable to what is happening in Ukraine, that is horrifying, terrible. But let's not pretend that nothing is happening in Russia or that they deserve it.

                "USA is not so bad because although they kill they do it for other reasons..."
                Please, let's be serious...

                I am the first to support Ukraine is this atrocious and unjustified war. But I can't help but read some comments and say nothing.

                  petermc
                  I know this topic is very serious... and there is nothing fun about it...
                  Nevertheless i have to grin a little, because now there is a kind of tech contest going on...
                  The Russian studios start to use VPNs and stuff.... and so its kind of thrilling to watch how this all will work out...

                  Darkpri This blaming the Russians does nothing but create unjustified hatred towards that country. Fuck Putin and his government, not the Russians.

                  If we like it or not... Putin is the elected leader of the Russians....
                  And the only people who can change that.... are Russians...

                  You always write what you do not want...
                  But you never say what you would do?!

                    argyle43 Stories like this truly blow my mind. The bravery of the Ukrainian people. They must win this struggle.

                    I can't remind the unity like that any time in Ukraine. The country was greatly divided all the time.

                    I'd really wish to be there. Even dying there is much more better than dying because you get old. It's like fighting absolute evil what russia and putin are