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PerfectDlite
10y ago
I think he's referencing hype news pieces produced by RT and alike about their 'accomplishes' in Syria where they've 'bested US and NATO' forces. Should take that with spoons of salt though.
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10y ago
Afaik, those are tabloids which were notorious to invent stories?
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10y ago
> I think so too - for now, but it probably didn't seem that way in 1958 when they had nukes pointed at them. Nukes were pointed at them because they've invaded South Korea first.
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10y ago
So there _is_ a resistance movement in Crimea.
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10y ago
> Ukraine often didn't have money to pay Russia But Russia cut _all_ gas supply, stopping gas flow to Germany and other customers.
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10y ago
Absence? So why Russia started to exile, suppress and kill Crimean Tatars then?
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10y ago
> The US helped plot to overthrow the Ukranian government in 2014. Which is not supported by any claims, except wild Russian propaganda. > NATO pushing for Ukraine to become a member Same. > Crimea has been a part of Russia for cen
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10y ago
> I doubt the underlying premise, that Russia would even be so stupid as to try such a thing. They've invaded Crimea and downed MH-17. If that's not stupid, I dunno what else is.
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> The mujahideen was created when the US convinced Egypt to release their criminals (murders, rapists, some political prisoners) and let them gain freedom by fighting a war in Afghanistan. So, Soviets invading the Afghanistan wasn't
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10y ago
> That would make it extra super secure and Russian. And extra slow, considering Elbrus performance.
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> This is a first step towards trying to build some type of technological independence from the west. And this is not step forward, but to the side, since they're becoming technically dependent on Chinese now.
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10y ago
> I see no other reason for the law. Petty attempt to force big companies to pay for Russian hosting.
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10y ago
> ripped off the nuclear missile doors That's probably a result of missile(s) explosion, similar to explosion which resulted in her loss. Occam's razor, you know.
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10y ago
IMO he missed Windows there, like 'forerunner of all Windows messengers'.
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10y ago
> Russia will be virtually impenetrable to missiles using satellite navigation Wow, that's one wishful thinking, especially considering lame attempt to disrupt them when missiles basically already approached their target.
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10y ago
> Ukraine literally means 'border'... So, Russians are not aware of Slavic languages, where 'Kraina' (as in Ukraina) means country?
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10y ago
> As for the press ban link, it's a bit misleading here, because what was actually banned in Russian Empire was Latin alphabet Today I've learned that Ukrainian language uses Latin alphabet... More wonders from Russian state-sp
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> That was mostly done with positive things though Yeaaah... Like fill up space 'vacated' by people sent to Siberia or killed in Holodomor. Totally positive things.
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10y ago
Strugatsky are hardly a sci-fi. Soviet (and post-Soviet) fiction writers are surprisingly bad at sci-fi. For a decent sci-fi I'd recommend to check Stanislaw Lem, especially 'The Invincible' and 'The Futurological Congre
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> They want to what??? You really need to look at a map before saying things like that. That's the popular 'opinion' induced by Russian propaganda and they're notorious for ignoring the reality.
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And Iraq actually had weapons of mass desctruction.
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> That surprises me as they certainly have the expertise to build such a system This might be questionable. Soyuz (as the name implies) was built in USSR, not Russia. After USSR dissolved some experts were outside Russia. And since sever
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10y ago
> A twice elected democratic government of Ukraine was overthrown in a violent coup, orchestrated from abroad, that used neonazis to do the dirty work. Perfect example of russian propaganda. > leaving what was left of Ukraine and rejo
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10y ago
> Socialist countries has all kinds of trajectories All of them pointing to the ground, though.
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10y ago
So, US invaded and annexed someone in past 50 years? How's the weather in your version of reality?
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10y ago
> Those two countries are similar in so many ways. Like invading and annexing their neighbours?
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10y ago
Looks like there are few errors in your description of Russia.
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> A post-industrial state is one which was dominantly industrial, and has moved on to some other primary basis for its economy, usually because it is engaged in international trade and its comparative advantage is no longer in manufactur
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> Russia is already post-industrial state > Russia lost most of its industry in competition with China and hi-tech manufacturing to the West. Congratulaions, you've managed to contradict yourself in one paragraph.
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> was replaced by the socialist market economy, the current economic system You're implying that current Chinese economic system is a 'socialist market economy'?
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