Former British Colony in Downward Spiral of Ethnic Violence, State Security Impunity

[Gilrandir]

Have you not learned anything from the BLM protests???

I believe it is YOU (like in Americans) should learn something, not me.

Violence begets more violence, and the circle goes 'round-and-round'.

We had a candidate for prsidency who said that the best way to stop the war is "just to cease shooting". He has been a president for over a year now and the war in Ukraine isn't over. Evidently some recipes don't work.

How about talking to the protesters ?

That depends on the mood of the crowd. You may start doing it but some stronger arguments than words may turn out necessary.

(again, the use of the word 'rioters' shows which side of the fence you are)?

Taking sides is what Americans seem to be preoccupied with. I prefer to see the facts.

I saw the violence of cops that led to death. No doubt they should be punished. But it might have nothing to do with the race of the victim. American cops are like that to all people. And not only American. In Ukraine we recently had a case when a woman was raped by two policemen when she came to a police precinct to testify. But Ukrainians didn't think it was somehow motivated by the ideological convictions of the cops - just two brutes abusing power.

Besides, the record of the victim in Minnesota is far from clean. He was in jail several times (and there was a case when he pointed a gun at the stomach of a pregnant woman) so he doesn't qualify to be buried in a golden casket and worshipped in any other way. A typical hardened criminal.

Yes, it should be evident that a great way to draw a crowd around your house is to come out and menace the passersby with shouts and waved guns. Don't want none, don't start none.

What if they have a mind to start one? Another cheek approach?

Gil, I know Ukraine has been brutalized by years of civil war, but this isn't the civilized way, to think random strangers are eternally prepared to ransack your residential neighborhood.

I thought that those years of war have taught the world that it isn't civil.