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4y ago
> Having said that, I do believe that war crimes inevitably happen in all wars, even in ones waged by 'enlightened and civilized West' [2]. The difference is for Russia the war crimes are a every day thing and expected of Russi
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4y ago
Is not dying to something you cannot even see, that drops grenades on you or fires rockets at you a hit to morale?.
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4y ago
> No, you were trying to disprove "a lot of people ... intentionally spread misinformation with the sole goal to demonize Russia as much as possible" and were caught spreading misinformation. They rape, torture and commit genoc
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4y ago
> Yes they have. You put "held" in quotation marks, why? I think that Russia is going to make this into a 3rd "separatist"/breakway republic. I don't see Russia even conducting as referendum in Kherson anyti
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4y ago
Its true that it doesn't mention child rape but it mentions rape and torture of plenty of others. The point I was making is that its not like Russia likes to abide by either the Geneva convention or sway away from committing war crimes
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4y ago
> I haven’t seen the film and don’t intent to watch it. It is it Russian Propaganda? I thought Oliver Stone is an American. No, we are not obligated to show Russian propaganda in network television. He may be an American but it sure soun
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4y ago
> Holodomor became a thing when the 1930s Rupert Murdoch started doing propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany after signing a deal (for $500,000 dollars). Back then propaganda was not a dirty word, and it was business. If you're speak
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4y ago
Is network television in the US obligated to show Russian propaganda?.
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4y ago
> I fear that this conversation will take a drastic turn. But my view is that Russia invaded because Ukraine wouldn't backdown from joining NATO. After Russia invaded, Ukraine said it won't join NATO if Russia stopped the war.
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4y ago
> Yeah, right. The woman spreading these accounts got finally fired. You're speaking like the Russian army is some sort of pillar of society that would never do a thing. We know that they regularly rape, torture and commit war crime
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4y ago
> The vast majority of the “money” we are sending is military equipment that the U.S. produces. You think Ukraine is reselling it to somebody else while they are in the middle of a war? This story that is now continuously pushed by pro R
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4y ago
> Let me educate you a little bit, the US lied to the world, they promised they'd never expend NATO in Europe, they want Ukraine to join NATO and become the N'th american military base, Russia went ahead and made sure it wouldn
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4y ago
I don't think anyone predicted the current outcome, but I think the largest misjudgement was from the FSB/GRU/Russian intelligence theres signs to point to them legitimately thinking this would only take 3 days and that it wo
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4y ago
> But why don't they just cut the connection at the plant. Agreed about demonizing themselves, they do. This assumes Russia is a rational actor, they could want to do it and try and have leverage to blame the Ukrainians they could w
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4y ago
> "Genocide" became a meaningless word because it's used willy-nilly similarly to "terrorism". Even if we are to trust number of civilian deaths reported by Western and Ukrainian sources it's really far from
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4y ago
> And a lot of people either blindly trust this narrative, or intentionally spread misinformation with the sole goal to demonize Russia as much as possible. No one needs to demonise a country that commits genocide and has its military ra
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4y ago
> Hasn't Zaporizhzhia been under Russian control for a while now? Why would they be shelling themselves? That doesn't even make sense. Because the Russians are trying to disconnect the plant from the Ukrainian grid or cause a d
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> These are western propaganda estimates from biased sources. These are visually verified numbers, not even the numbers being claimed by Ukraine, if you want to improve them you can always point out duplicates and they will removed if th
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4y ago
> Honestly I have no idea how's the fighting going there...it seems like we've reached peak interest a few months ago unfortunately. Russia can just keep Ukraine in this weak state, maybe fire a few rockets now and then. This i
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4y ago
I don't think they will find drop in replacements for all the parts, or even replacements in general that meet the same quality standards for some of the parts. This issue will likely require a drastic redesign of a large number of par
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> The Russian rouble is outperforming the usd this year. That does not look like a collapsing economy. In fact, it has gained 40% on the euro. It only looks like this because it’s being propped up by massive cash spending of Russian fore
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> It's not like the CIA likes to document its dark-ops in Latin Am. on wikipedia as proof for you. This is still not proof of anything happening, just because someone wants something to be true doesn't make it so.
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if Russia loses the war and the army collapses there could be some very consequences from Putin, and that it seperate from the consequence of the slow moving collapse of the Russian economy that has already started.
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Russia. I don't see how anyone can see the massive losses Russia has had as well as the lasting impacts of sanctions as anything but suicidal. Russia cannot even build a modern car with ABS and airbags, let alone a plane or a tank whil
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4y ago
> A) Finland and Sweden havent yet joined and may not After Russias constant rhetoric that Ukraine is only the first country on their “let’s genocide post soviet states” list their is 0 doubt that Finland and Sweden will finish the appli
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> The Russian economy is doing fine, business with India and China is thriving. "Massive losses to their army" I believe is far from accurate. I'll be greatly surprised if at the end of this, Ukraine isn't economicall
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I don’t know why you keep hanging on about the education system. Your article didn’t address any of the points I made all it tries to do is justify the genocide of Ukrainians. > Hope your heroes from Azov were "evacuated" safel
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The National Republican Army (NRA) in Russia has claimed responsibility for the attack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Army_(Ru...
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> Well thanks for enlightening me. From now on I will only trust NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Guardian and BBC - they are the only truthful and accurate sources in the world today. Well they are all more truthful then the Russian media who
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The author of that article is at best very unreliable and at worst just straight up Russian propaganda here is a retort to pretty much everything he has said. https://dailysceptic.org/archive/how-accurate-is-jacques-bau
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