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_kbh_
4y ago
> there is zero upside to spending my tax money for war in other countries. So you don't think helping protect the democracy of another country is a upside worthy of 'your' tax dollars?. Or destroying your enemy militarily
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4y ago
> I do believe that over the last year words "disinformation" and "propaganda" lost 90% of meaning and turned into generic insults. That’s because we are seeing a lot more disinformation and propaganda in the past yea
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4y ago
> Look, I recognise your username and I am well aware on your views on the matter. We've already clashed multiple times and there is really nothing to discuss when you insist on dismissing the idea that people who overwhelmingly vot
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4y ago
> Well not 3 times. If you count it like that, that means you dismiss and ignore the revolution, the civil war and all the people who were not happy about the fact that some mob had stolen their country. I find it strange that the people
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4y ago
They are mostly sending stuff that was stock piled to fight a war with Russia in eastern Europe too, fight a war with Russia in Eastern Europe. Its all upsides for the USA, they get to decimate one their biggest military foes, show off how
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4y ago
> The Twitter files have shown demanding access and content filtering by the government with Twitter and likely other social networks. They show no such thing if you actually read the content, of course the person hired by Elon (Matt Tai
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4y ago
> During the span of 2014-2022, the war in Ukraine (pre Russian invasion) The Russian invasion began in 2014. How do you think these 'separatists' got Russian anti air equipment and Russian MBT's?.
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4y ago
Just so you know mintpressnews is a website that publishes disinformation and leans heavily into conspiracy theories and regularly publishes pro Russian propaganda. I wouldn’t use it as a source of anything that the Russians would want to d
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4y ago
> Not for people of Donetsk. It was 100% right thing to for the people of Donetsk, who got invaded by Russian forces in 2014. > I am not that good of a legal expert to track each and every treaty, but I doubt that there was an agreeme
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4y ago
> How long? A decision that must be made in an hour can't have too long a chain of command. There are several historical instances where we or Russia almost launched by mistake. The chain is even longer then the higher ups decision
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4y ago
> Why would they have Suite A then? Because Suite A are a set of non public algorithms that are used to encrypt data. Them being non public makes it harder to workout how to decrypt the data. They are also likely protected against a numb
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4y ago
> We now publicly (thanks to Merkel's and Hollande's confessions) know that EU had been preparing to a full scale war under the guise of peace agreements Which was the right thing to do, we always knew Russia would invade again
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4y ago
> My expectation is that all NSA CNSA[1] encryption standards are backdoored at the implementation level (by the NSA who uses Suite A for its own communication and I suspect military communications outside of that in weapons systems that
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4y ago
> You don't seem to have an understanding of basic strategy. China will probably use this opportunity to take back Taiwan. And North Korea might as well invade South Korea while we're at it. Why take back Taiwan when they can t
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4y ago
> It will be interesting to see if apple pushes for another exclusivity deal with TSMC for 3nm. It’s pretty much guaranteed as it’s part of the deal Apple has with TSMC. They bankroll a significant part of costs for a new process node, i
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4y ago
> It is never another country's fault when you attack it, but you cannot claim it is unprovoked; Russia's claims regarding the buffer states have been clear since the end of the cold war, and their demands were well known to bo
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4y ago
> The war will also continue until the Russians win, since they have already formally annexed a few regions, and the Crimea is strategically and historically important. They have already formally annexed, and subsequently lost a tonne of
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4y ago
In what world is Minsk II a good deal for all parties?. It literally gave Ukraine nothing aside from "we stop killing your soldiers". It did exactly what Russia seeks to do, freeze conflicts so they can start them again.
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4y ago
> Budapest Memorandum was broken in 2022, Minsk II was in 2015. And Russia is not a side of Minsk agreements, at least not directly. the Budapest Memorandum was broken In 2014 when Russia first invaded. You still haven't given me a
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> It could also refuse their application or just tell them they won’t be accepted if they apply, like they did when Russia joined NATO partnership and wanted to become a member. Russia never applied, they wanted to be special and be aske
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> Minsk agreements were basically abandoned from the start and no one enforced them Why would Ukraine follow Minsk when Russia won't even follow the Budapest Memorandum?. Russia never follows agreements when it doesn't suit th
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4y ago
> In a few years, they will catch up with the Samsung/TSMC and hopefully, and we will start seeing price reductions. I think this is quite unlikely, even other giant semiconductor companies that aren't sanction have trouble ke
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> Somehow you end up arguing for more Ukrainians and Russians to die. Your lack of a response to any of my points makes me thing you have no answers. Why did you spew blatantly false information and not even bother to try and back it up?
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> killing ethnic Russians is breaching the same agreement later breached by invasion. This provision is not in the Budapest memorandum so that’s just plainly false. > Asking for NATO nukes I’ve not seen any evidence that Ukraine asked
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4y ago
> There are no good states involved in any of this. None of them care about the majority of people in any of the involved territories, who would benefit only from peace. I think the state that invaded is the bad one, after all, they are
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4y ago
> If you are referring to the Minsk agreement, the Kiev government was supposed to stop attacking the Donbas and allow them to be independent within Ukraine. The western Ukrainians continued to shell them and killed over 14,000 citizens.
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> Wars end through peace agreements. Deliberately preventing them is what war mongers do. How can you make a peace agreement with a country that doesn't follow its own agreements?. Russia already promised decades ago to never violat
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> Trolling too is an attack of some kind. Would it still be trolling if an American drone clipped a Russian plane by accident causing it to crash?
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> If the the Russian pilots were so effective in such a short time, they are truly magnificent. (Speaking as an ex-pilot myself) Im not sure thats the right conclusion, I think it's far more likely the pilot was super lucky and acci
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4y ago
> On thing the US military is betting on is that nobody can tell WHERE this video took place. It took place in international airspace around 50km from the Crimean border.
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