(03-02-2025, 10:50 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(03-02-2025, 02:40 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm starting to suspect English is your second language, because all I said was "should". I am not demanding you think a certain way. That would be unamerican of me. I am telling you that you should think a certain way, and yes you are free to ignore my opinion on that. 

But your first claim is more troubling than your second. You claim that Mr. Z did something to piss Putin off. What was it? Ukraine has been trying to join NATO ever since they got independence, so it's not that.

Aren't they the same thing? Because they sound like the same thing. Either way you're telling someone to do something. 

Good grief.

No "should" is a suggestion backed by some sort of reason statement.  "You should save your money".  "Must" is a command. "You must pay taxes."

"As a red blooded American, you should not care about Russia's historical desire to control countries like Poland and Lithuania."

There's no command there. Just an appeal. Although if there are a lot of people like you who aren't able to tell the difference between appeals and commands, it would explain a lot about what's happened to political discourse since 2010.

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