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For questioning his opinions, John Scrivener has accused me of an ad hominem attack, implying I composed the heading ‘Scrivener’s Ukraine’. This is surely an ad hominem attack. I raised Wagner because it is almost certain that a Russian troll farm is the origin of his opinions, whether he knows it or not. People died in the streets to rid Ukraine of Putin’s puppet regime, and of course the US was supportive (at least until Putin’s ‘useful idiot’ was elected in 2016).

Putin started the war, you can’t blame the US. He sees it as acceptable to slaughter tens of thousands of innocent people and destroy their country to rectify what he views as the ‘greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century’, the dissolution of USSR.

As for ‘Biden’s corrupt dealings’, would that refer to the five-year-long investigation by US Republicans to get dirt on the current president? Pathetic waste, a gun charge and a tax charge. Absolutely nothing involving Ukraine or Joe Biden.

If somebody objects to being labelled ‘antivax’, then maybe they shouldn’t oppose essential public health programs. If not for the vaccines we would still be in lockdowns and wearing masks.

Alan Watterson, Hastings Point

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