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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Mehdi Hasan: And he's a war criminal who should be on trial?

Jill Stein: Well, by implication.

Mehdi Hasan: You're struggling here to say something very simple. This is why people have their doubts about you with Russia. Why is Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal but not Vladimir Putin?

Jill Stein: Well, as John F. Kennedy said, "We must not negotiate out of fear and we must not fear to negotiate." So if you want to be an effective world leader, you don't start by name calling and hurling out that.

Mehdi Hasan: So how will President Stein negotiate with Israel then, if you've called Netanyahu a war criminal?

Jill Stein: Well, because he very clearly is a war criminal.

Mehdi Hasan: Oh, so Putin clearly isn't a war criminal?

Jill Stein: Well, we don't have a decision, put it this way, by the International Criminal Court.

Mehdi Hasan: Yes, we do. Yes, actually, actually, you're wrong. There's an arrest warrant for Putin and there isn't an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, so why is Putin not a war criminal, but Netanyahu is?

Anyone remotely supporting Stein is either as ignorant as she is (claimed there were 600 members of Congress LOL), or drinking Russian vodka.

This is also just the Chef's Kiss in terms of having of all people Mehdi Hasan take down Stein.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Im very familiar with her position on Russia and Putin. As she has immediately done in this interview, that you will absolutely never acknowledge, she has already condemned Putin and Russia's invasion many times. She is more critical of Israels genocide because of our involvement in supporting it. And she has criticisms for our role in aggressive military positioning around Russia before that invasion. She has a consistent platform of reducing military aggression.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bullshit. Our involvement or not is utterly irrelevant to identifying a war criminal. She tried to cop out by claiming we don't have a verdict with the criminal court; neither do we with Israel but that didn't stop her, did it... ? Smells like Russian vodka to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

that you will absolutely never acknowledge

Despite your lies, she immediately identified him as a war criminal

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Evidently many here, including Hasan, disagree. In fact, her own response proves otherwise when she claims it's because the criminal court didn't issue a verdict. Once again, a double-standard in her clear declaration of Bibi being a war criminal despite lacking the same verdict.

You've got no logic to support your argument.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hasan is a bully interrupting her immediate identifying Putin as a war criminal.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Boohoo. And she's a self-defeating clown openly exploiting the Spoiler Effect to derail Democrats and help Republicans. Fuck her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

None of your accusations mean anything when you plainly do not care what she does or says. You'll never aknowledge her own words.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You're right. Because she already proved herself to be a deceitful piece of shit, full of hypocrisy. Would be like taking Trump at his word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You aint got shit for evidence against her

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One of these pictures is of a government official fulfilling the diplomatic duties of the office, the other is a private citizen joining a MAGA extremist at a gala for a Russian propaganda network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah im sure youre calling for diplomatic relations with russia all over this site. Unless it involves Stein of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's literally the job of the president to maintain diplomatic relations with other world leaders, even the ones we disagree with. It is not an endorsement of Putin to say that. Stein isn't the president, or Vice President, or Secretary of State, or anything. She holds no office, much less one that necessitates meeting foreign dignitaries. She did this on her own, the question is why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really, really dont think youve ever supported diplomacy with russia. The notion just suits your current argument, that also hinges on Steins goal of becoming president not affording her any interest in those same diplomatic relations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You don't know the first thing about me. Your presumption betrays your insincerity.