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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> I'm not sure whether you are joking, or do you really think that the actual voting booths were held under a literal gunpoint. Spoiler: they were not. Igor Girkin, the person who was there and ran all of this disagrees with your op
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Only american guns could sway them away from that plan. If the Russians were so sure of the vote in Crimea they would not have had to use guns to make sure it went the direction they wanted.
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> And then Vancouver saying Au Revoir and joining the US. More specifically, Victoria and Vancouver Island with its naval bases joining the US outright, and Vancouver city becoming a "Republic of Vancouver" besieged by Canadian
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> It's not that these Republicans are "anti-Ukraine," or "pro-Russia" or even "not anti-Russia." It's that they don't want to send hundreds of billions of unaudited dollars to weapons manufact
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> I doubt that anybody would think Budapest memorandum would cause Russia defending Ukraine from itself, with a straight face. The persistent myth of the “little green men” has been busted wide open by Igor Girkin who admitted there was
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> So, the answer is keep the war going? The answer is to give Ukraine everything it needs to win this war and kick the invaders out.
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> I'm anti war and the idea that these are being flown into civilian areas is troubling. The idea of the Russian armed forces using the Geneva convention as a todo list in Ukraine is a bigger worry to me than this. > We NEED an A
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> The 2016 Minsk agreement included Donbas vote on their own self-sovereignty. Zelensky won't allow the vote, and is restricting religious practices there. Minsk II failed to implement because the “separatists” (ie Russian soldiers
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Can we agree Congress of USA should debate and pass a war resolution? The US isn’t at war so I don’t see why they would do that.
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So do you or don't you think that Russia should be obligated to abide by its international agreements such as the Budapest Memorandum that it signed in 1994?. If you don't think they should be obligated to follow there agreements
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> What did it mean when Zelensky said in February 2022 that items such as disarmament in 1994 agreement are in doubt? The 1994 agreement was meant to remove Soviet nukes from Ukraine and to ensure buffer space. Since then NATO has pushed
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Then raised rates around March 2022, just after Zelensky speech about acquiring nuclear weapons, This never happened, Zelensky did not make a speech about acquiring nuclear weapons he made a speech about how they willing gave up nuclea
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> We could encourage Zelensky to abide by 2016 Minsk agreement to allow Donbas to vote on it's own future direction. Democracy good, right? Let them vote, as was agreed. Why don't we encourage Russia to abide by the 1994 agree
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Can you please explain how this counts as evidence for, or as proof and is not just people telling you what you're supposed to believe? Well I just read the source material as well, and even the headline is wrong in the article yo
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/after-months-of-denial-... Your source has fallen for Russian propaganda the very premise that the article is based on is false. https://www.politifact.com/fact
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> I had been floating around this theory that the original Wagner "mutiny" was actually a maskirovka ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception ) and was being coordinated together by Putin a
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Zelensky nuclear ambitions speech translated: https://kyivindependent.com/zelenskys-full-speech-at-munich- ... I must be missing something because I cannot see a single part in there that says Ukraine wants to acquire n
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> President Zelensky was just publicly complaining about Ukrainians partying it up as if there were no war. I cant find a source for this can you provide one?. > They can manage an election. just because some people far behind the fro
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Can't have those pesky ethnic Russian Ukrainians voting wrong now, can we I think it’s more to do with the difficulty of conducting elections during an active war zone. I’m also not sure how those ethnically Russian Ukrainians fee
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> The same Ukraine that’s disbanded all opposition political parties They didn't though, they only disbanded the political parties that had ties to Russia, the country thats currently trying to invade and annex them. > suspended
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Wow so jailing for the “wrong” opinion in the “rightful” country is ok, but jailing for the “right” opinion in the “evil” country is not? So broken argument Jailing a person who spreads the propaganda of the country that has invaded yo
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> It's not exactly safe in Ukraine either. American blogger Gonzalo Lira is under arrest for essentially an identical crime, dubbed "infoterrorism". Gonzalo Lira supports a lot of the same positions as Russian propaganda w
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> As to this particular war - the US agreed at the end of the cold war not to expand NATO east and yet it did, breaking the agreement. This is a persistent myth, there was never an agreement to not expand NATO with the USSR, and the one
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> The naval drone question is especially fascinating. > IMHO, they have to be transported closer to impact site by some other vessel. The specifications I have seen is that they have somewhere between a 400km - 800km (I know it's
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> They made some platitudes about really feeling for the people of Iraq, and then started sending massive amounts of supplies, including long ranged weapons, tanks, depleted uranium munitions, countless rounds of cluster bombs (!). Not s
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
Whilst I agree with some of your post I think the following is incorrect. > and some of that is cutting-edge gear (such as the Storm Shadow missile). Storm shadow is 20 years old from first deployment and 29 years since development start
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Admittedly I only spent about ten minutes looking, but I was unable to find any documentation of any Ukrainian losses at all on their website. Here's the URL for the Russian losses. https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/20
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Based on their website, twitter feed, and CIA adjacency I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Oryx is firmly partial to Ukraine. Oryx is willing to add any losses to any list as long as they aren't already there. I hav
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> NATO is hard to understand. It is a complicated organization without a clear course and it is especially not a pure defense alliance (Afghanistan, Kosovo, Ukraine). Is NATO actually in Ukraine attacking Russia, or is NATO helping Ukrai
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> No, in fact they have been far more aggressive in getting rid of that stuff than before. How is Twitter unbanning someone, who was banned for posting child pornography, being more aggressive in getting rid of it?. https://ww

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