Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

No, you can say that. He could have had the flu last year, which is a lethal disease, but he survived and now he has ebola, which is a more lethal disease concerning the chance that it may kill him. Lethal in this case refers to the potential of the disease killing you, a more lethal disease is more likely to kill you. Lethal does not necessarily mean that there is a 100% certainty that it kills you.

Lethal is used both as of a potential disease and of the real one, so polysemanticism holds.

By upgrading the weapons your neighbor also states that he is still thinking about using them against you, so much so that he wants them to be able to kill you even more effectively (i.e. kill more people). It revives the hostility like watering a flower revives the flower.

If he hasn't done it for 50 years, and it is the same neighbor with the same mindset and attitudes, you are as safe as you have been during all these years.

So you can claim that he was widely popular, but he wasn't really democratically elected unless you think it's democratic that one party hires a bunch of armed thugs who decide who gets to vote and how. A bit like what some say happened after the Maidan revolt.

After the Maidan revolt Ukraine has had two universally recognized (except Russia, of course) democratic elections.

And similar accusations arose in Kiev when the government had to vote after an armed mob had stormed the parliament and beaten up some pro-russian MPs and policemen.

For the one so much in love with nuances of semantics and otherwise: the government didn't and doesn't VOTE on any crucial decisions (at least not in Ukraine). As an executive branch it EXECUTES whatever laws are voted in by the PARLIAMENT.