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> It turns out that Wikileaks was stringently anti-imperialist, and anti-war. Ah so I suspect Wikileaks has started publishing Russian leaks once Russia showed itself to be an imperialist beast then right?. > Why wouldn't he wor
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Sure if you want to frame it that way. But it’s still not comparable to Ukraine. The sheer scale involved is completely different and really shows the ability of the US to project force. Whereas Russia is currently struggling to get 200km f
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> The US just lost a 20 year war in Afghanistan against cave dwellers with Soviet-era rifles, homemade explosives and random bits from the bottom of a toolbox. To be fair the US left Afghanistan and the remaining Afghani army crumbled to
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> The point being, the whole thing is a blatant fake, and people like you double down on their jingoistic rhetoric because they can’t imaging being fooled by such half-witted propaganda. Speaking of propaganda. Who's your source?, t
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3y ago
> Your sources are fake and ridiculous. This has been addressed by better writers than me, so I will go ahead and quote them here: Your sources are non existent why don’t you link to these people writing these opinions if they are so str
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3y ago
> Mearsheimer is not liked, but he predicted this tragedy. His Mearsheimer:Russia Sees ‘Existential Threat,’ Must Win > https://peaceworker.org/2022/04/mearsheimer-russia-sees-exis... When Russia saw an exist
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> No? Every source I see says “Ukraine says that Russia says that…”. Yes?. Your sources are clearly terrible if that’s the case. We have Russians on video saying they blew up the damn and Russian propagandist threatening to blow up the K
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> You do realize Ukraine has bragged multiple times about hitting the dam, right? And that Russia has much more to lose over the flooding than Ukraine does? Russia has already admitted to blowing the dam, it was likely blown from the ins
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> That's quite a chauvinistic attitude to take -- and ignores the complex history of linguistic diversity in Ukraine. > No linguistic expression should be banned anywhere, period, full stop. The point is moot anyway as Russian is
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> If Canada WANTED to become a vassal state of China what do you think the Americans would do? Not much, probably sanction them, cut off ties and generally cease trade. But I don’t think they’d invade, nor do I think if they did invade t
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> Ukraine tried to ban the Russian language. This is literally not true and even if it was it doesn’t matter it’s their country they can ban Russian if they want. > Ukraine is not sweet and innocent like the lame-stream press would ha
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3y ago
> But then the problem of defeating a nuclear-armed state remains. Why is this any different to the many times in the past a nuclear armed state has lost a war?.
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> Copium? The Guardian (a pro Ukraine cheerleader extraordinairre) said this during the offensive. > Your proclivity towards using troll slang suggests you might be spending a little too much time on twitter. You might consider cuttin
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> Look into the history of Ukraine over last 20 years. Especially how the Ukrainian speaking part of Ukraine has treated the Russian speaking Ukrainians. It's not what you've been told to believe. Even the Guardian was running
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> And in my opinion Ukraine needs a deal and it should have tried to keep Minsk 2. And I do not see this as colonial mindset, as Ukrainian I would think the same. Why does Ukraine need a deal? Ukraine already has at least one internation
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> It is also worth stating that the US set the precedent [in post-Cold War era - Edit] for complete disregard of international (and even US) law for own benefit. Some examples include: Wow that is amazing considering the history of the c
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> The article is bunk, full of double speak jargon, and statements that amount to nothing of value. No wonder it has no author credits. The article references most of its claims unlike you, who just spurts out a couple paragraphs random
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> There are rules for people under the president that are followed for them to disclose information. That doesn't mean the president is restrained under such rules. This is precisely not the contents of the article, I see you did no
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> As president, that doesn't mean that Trump can't disclose that. But he cannot disclose at least a large amount of what he has been accused of leaking. This article from the American Bar Association[0] is a good primer on what
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> Doesn't look like it [0]. Your article is behind a pay wall, so it can conveniently not be checked. But your quoted line suggests they got no help from the military not that they weren't there. > Does it? Deliberately shel
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> The president is the head of the bureaucracy. He's the source authority. Classification is for his benefit, so that people under him don't disclose secret information. However as the source authority, he can disclose at will.
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> You meant Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilians. No, Ukraine, unlike Russia does its best to only target military installations and military outposts. But surely if you think this is terrorist action then you must think Russians are
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3y ago
Then you're not trying very hard. https://twitter.com/JJansaSDS/status/1498596035664429056
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> That's russophobic fiction. It's reality, I know that Russia and its supporters need their safe space from reality but unfortunately reality says they blew up the dam. Theres multiple videos of Russians admitting to blowing u
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> If this is due to Ukraine war, let's be mindful Putin wanted to join earlier during Bush Jr reign. Let’s be mindful that Russia wanted to ascend to NATO differently to everyone else. This is against NATOs policy that everyone join
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> Human rights and sovereignty is only grandiosely trumpeted when it is in the favour of the US. I’m pretty sure there was endless articles about the human rights situation in most countries the us invaded and also massive protests so th
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> spend some time talking to folks from Donbass and understand the kind of oppression they faced, before you call oppression as pathetic. I don’t need to speak to FSB and GRU agents to know what the Russian intelligence community is tryi
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> It is a historical fact, that german foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assured "NATO will not expand to the east". East in Germany, Context is important, how could the German foreign minister ever promise anything abou
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> Well, my original point was the legal precedent. Invading another country without the need for self defense. (Or were there any indications, that Iraq was about to attack the US at all?) So at no point I said it is the same. This legal
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> Things like TOR can help, but that can be difficult to completely hide, and so on. I think stuff like TOR are actively harmful to a site like the CIA is trying to run. Accessing TOR would make you light up like a Christmas tree, it
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