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Sommer_Son
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
You forgot to mention that "Bor" was inspired by USAF program X-20 Dyno-Soar.
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
Shuttle had the capability to land unmanned from the beginning. It just happened that it flew real missions with astronauts on board, so it wasn't used.
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
> It's all fun and games until communists confiscate your iPhone and laptop. Could be worse, they could starve you to death or send you to Gulag, because The Great Leader wants to spread the "world revolution". Or he just
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
No,the usual suspects - Russian Nazi March in Moscow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP2o13mxRpo Or https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-neonazi-20...
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
Yes, let's look at the facts. Russia invaded Ukraine, broke into Crimean parliament and held illegal referendum _after_ that. So, sanctions were not because of the referendum, but because of invasion.
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
> These were old stockpiles So there were WMDs. Case closed.
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
That's probably why one of the first oil companies started working in Iraq was Russian Lukoil?
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
5000+ ordnances were found: "roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" Do you consider it "no WMD"? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/15/356360949..
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
Famines in USSR were caused by Soviet politics. Period. US did sent major aid for Famine in '20s, but famines in 30's and 40's were covered up by Moscow so nobody knew about them for a while.
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
So, sending billions in aid (finances, food etc) is considered 'looting'? How splendid.
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Sommer_Son
7y ago
What's the difference between "amoral" capitalistic society and socialistic society if latter is perfectly capable of starving millions to death (see Holodomor or Great Chinese Famine) ?
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Sommer_Son
8y ago
So from the very first day USSR was confronting US?
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Sommer_Son
8y ago
Soviet Union never was on defensive side. From the very beginning they've tried to conquer most of their neighbors, they've attacked Poland together with Hitler and Finland in 1940. Even in 1945 they've tried to annex part of