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> A "myth" recorded in Ukraine's laws by passing bills like 5670-d that effectively made the Russian language illegal in most aspects of public life. Doing so in a multi-ethnic nation in any other part of the world would h
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> Easy access to guns and lack of mental health care has been a thing in the US for over a century, but curiously mass shootings only started happening a few decades ago, so maybe something else is the cause? Interestingly mass shootings
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> I don't think it is comparable, the invasion of Iraq was way worse. You think the invasion of Iraq was worse than the rape and torture of civilians, including women and children? And the summary execution of all civilians aged 16
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> NSA can’t even stop their own tools from leaking, never mind take on this. The NSA has kept plenty of vulnerabilities under wraps, the tool leaks were a pretty rare occurrence of the KGB/GRU trying to burn NSA ops without directly
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> Of-course, why did you think Donetsk and Luhansk regions held secession referendums in 2014 ? Because there were Russian soldiers holding a gun to their back forcing it. Igor Girkin who was a FSB officer and one of the former leaders o
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> Yeah, with a truckload of support and sponsorship from Victoria Nuland - the shining [Coup Lady] of the US state department - who also picked the post coup leaders. You got any evidence of this that doesn’t stink of Russian propaganda?
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> Because it was verbally promised by different high ranking officials, that the NATO would NOT move further east. This was about easy Germany and never about anything else except in the fever dreams of people like Putin. And on that not
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> The difference is the shared history and language. I don't think a language matters with a war with NATO. > Also, they are really not happy about it. Yet there is no war, shows you that NATO really works as a deterrence to Russ
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> Exactly. The Ukraine situation would be tantamount to Canada or Mexico entering into a military alliance with Iran -- not acceptable and a direct cause of war. How is it any different to Finland joining NATO? (which they just did).
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> tell me who were the good guys in WW2? The ones that killed hundreds of millions more than the Nazis? The Allies. The Nazis, the ones committing genocide, they are the bad guys. > The notion that Allies were good guys is just pure w
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> This is why it's funny to see people view the war in Ukraine as a "good guy vs bad guy". The geopolitics are incredibly complicated and there is a lot behind the scene the average person doesn't see. This war is as
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> This is the point that Robert Kennedy Jr has been making, very eloquently. Regardless of how heinous Putin may be, how nasty the Russian invasion has been, it was not unprovoked. I keep forgetting in Russias absolute drug hazed existen
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Let’s not forget that the Russian state media also accidentally posted an article on the victory of the war, which details pretty much everything you’ve said. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240.amp
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I think the issue is that Russia cannot have another go at invading Ukraine if this one fails if they are in NATO. So Russia stamps its feet to try and meet its imperial goals by dissuading the west from allowing Ukraine into NATO then it c
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> You should look up the history of Crimea. History doesn’t give them a right to take what they feel like that. Just because Putin is salty that Stalin made Crimea part of the Ukrainian SSR doesn’t allow him to reverse it.
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> Wagner may be run by a nazi, but then it's a closeted nazi who doesn't advertise his views You know the reason we know of this is because we have a photo of his tattoos right?. A person tatted up with Nazis symbols isn’t exac
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> As I said, and as also your reply shows, you are closer to 1984 than Russia.. Nice work refuting all those points go scurry back into the shadows like the rest of the Russian propagandists when they get challenged.
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> A distraction from the thus-far unsuccessful counteroffensive, perhaps A distraction from something that hasn’t even started yet? Seems unlikely. > if Russia did it, what did they gain? They stopped Ukraine from passing nearby in th
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> Think for yourselves look at facts Are there pictures of an explosion? Seems like there should be with all the satellites and drones in the area. Yes there is there’s even a video of it. > Ukraine offensive had started and had been
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> Russia is fighting for its existence against vastly superior enemy. If Ukraine is a vastly superior enemy to Russia then my god what have they been doing with all of that money for the military?. And Russia is not fighting for its exis
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> Your timeline is incorrect. As someone who has spent a good amount of time in Ukraine, it is clear you are not correctly informed. Was this as a FSB or GRU officer?. > In March of 2014 Ethnic Russians started capturing govt location
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> Not really, Russian ultra-nationalists are suppressed under Putin, some of their leaders are in jail and their organizations are designated as extremist. There were so called Russian Marches, but no more. My brother in christ, the head
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> Launch a strategic nuke, no. Nobody expects that. But we're talking about tactical ones. The smaller ones that can be dropped from a plane or installed in a short range missile. Even with a tactical nuke we are talking about the e
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Or you know since Ukraine doesn’t control the literal weather it would be hard to control the water level in a river. Russia controlled whether or not they opened the spill gates they didn’t and it is obviously an intentional build up to do
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The Russians intentionally increased the water level of the dam to cause the most damage and then intentionally blew it up. At least two Russian soldiers have said they would blow the damn / they blew the dam and have admitted as much
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> Precisely. Ukraine taking back Crimea is pure fantasy. Russia would launch nukes rather than give it up. The idea that Russia will launch a single nuke is fantasy, they haven’t even tested one in over 80 years.
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> There are extensive documentaries predating the war on the Ukrainian Fascists that use Nazi iconography - Right Sektor, Azov, etc. Same with Russia Nazi fascists everywhere, just look up the Wagner PMCs great SS lightning bolt lapel ta
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> It has been since 2014 and is widely documented as such The war in the Donbas was portrayed as a civil war by Russia but was actually started by and fought largely by Russian soldiers and FSB/GRU members. The former head of the DP
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> I don't consider well north of $100billion and climbing to be a pittance. You may not but the west does, the US is spending less then 10% of its yearly military budget and is mostly giving Ukraine stuff that was going go be replac
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Whats your point, theres similar marches in Russia too, does that make all of them Nazis?.
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