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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> That’s not up to the aggressor to determine. “Lighten up baby, you shouldn’t be afraid of me” is not how it works. Especially after NATO countries have engaged in so much belligerence in just the last 25 years (Yugoslavia, Libya, Afgha
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> What I said is far closer to the truth than the picture you’re trying to paint. Sure, and the earth is flat too. > Donbas and Strelkov and Motorola are not the same as “little green men” in Crimea. No, but they were both in Donbass,
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Expanding NATO multiple times. No matter how many times you say this it doesn't make it escalatory. Why do you (and other pro Russians) view an alliance that effectively was created to combat Russian aggression view its expansion
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Proxy war is not a hollow Russian talking point, it is a literal description of what happens. This article on Proxy War fits what is going on and it happened all throughout the cold war the same way, leaving many countries ravaged: ht
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Belarus also demanded their nukes back, they never made any “Budapest Memorandum”. >> The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Bu
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> “If we have nuclear WW3, just remember, it was all Russia’s fault. They had an unprovoked and unjustified invasion. That’s what matters. And there will be no deescalation until they are 100% defeated.” The west has been delaying weapon
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
https://news.gallup.com/poll/403133/ukrainians-support-fight... >> Gallup collected these data Sept. 2-11 across all regions of Ukraine, including the Donbas They literally surveyed the occupiers and there w
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Is it expensive to compromise a phone? 2-2.5+ million USD depending for a full chain with persistence (lower end of range is for iOS higher end is for Android). That is probably the lower end of the rough cost to buy that capability wh
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> what tech does this even use? Do they mean using Pegasus or similar malware that the govt has to first get onto the suspect's devices, or is this via Google/Apple or the device manufacturers that makes 'remotely and secr
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Lots of hoops to jump through for a well-configured & internet connected box. This is a pretty typical assumption for most local privilege escalation bugs.
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> And btw Russia does NOT have PMC bases in Belarus. What? the PMC themselves says they are in Belarus. > https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/satellite-images-appear... > Neither did Russia have boots on
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> It started moving years ago. Everyone on every side escalates, citing the other side. Only one side decided to give a country that was part of the NPP until it removed itself from it nuclear weapons in an attempt to try and escalate th
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> My point of view is very simple … implementing Minsk II could have prevented all of this. Ah yes more international agreements that Russia will just ignore, like they ignored Minsk 1. Just like they ignored the Budapest Memorandum But
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> And the nuclear clock moves ever closer to midnight… It started moving before this article, in fact Poland wanting nukes is a direct response to a nuclear escalation by Russia. That is Russia placing Russian nuclear weapons on Polands
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
Why isn't there a single mention of the reason Poland wants nukes in this multi-paragraph tirade?. Belarus now has a number of Russian controlled nuclear weapons on its territory bordering Poland. This is a direct escalation by Russia
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Also, Poland is getting nukes and soon we will be close to nuclear war — over something that could have been avoided 15 different ways. I guess I’ll just defer to your judgment in all things. What seems like double standards and insani
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> That’s exactly what every side in every war said, ever. It's true with Russia though, every time there was any sort of anything like negotiating they just try and raise the stakes. Like when they intentionally bomb Kyiv when inter
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> I hope you see that my analysis — while it may be unorthodox - is evenhanded. I condemn Russia for its funding and arming of terrorists in Donbas (Strelkov, Motorola, etc.). Why don't you mention in this sentence that both Strelko
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Yeah, they’ve shot down many more than that… plenty of photo evidence. They have a single photo of a single storm shadow. Because they haven't shot down anymore, I presume they will move it to 100 different sites to try and claim
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Anytime your explanation is “well I dont know why they’d blow their own pipeline, or cut off water to their own civizens forever, they’re just that dumb” you have to suspect that may not be the explanation. The plan was to try and stop
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> For Russia, it is the utter cutting off of FRESH DRINKING WATER to Crimea from Ukraine, something that Ukraine had cut off before and Russia worked hard to restore and did so as soon as they got control of the dam and reservoir. Russia
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> You mean used by these guys? [0][1] Where do they sit on your morality scale? [2][3][4] Where do you the Russian soldiers raping and torturing children in Ukraine sit on your scale?. [1] Where does the Russian government giving 1 Billi
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> * Russia chose blow up the Kakhovka dam, cutting off water to Crimea, the same Crimea that Ukraine cut water to and Russia restored. I know you're doing your best here but you will have to try harder with this they literally admit
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Don't you see that each side can say the exact same thing? As an intellectual, you have to be able to step outside yourself and look at the bigger picture. You can't be simply caught up in the mob's passions. There are n
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Zaporozhi was shelled by Russians on August 2022. By Russian constitution it is part of Russia. That doesn't make it so, just because Russia says that they annexed territory doesn't make it true. > We see there is no reaso
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
Incase anyone was wondering where Jeffery Sachs allegiances lie. > In 2022, he appeared twice on one of Russia government-funded top-rated shows, hosted by Vladimir Solovyov, to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its "
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
It's a Ukrainian power plant that Russia is currently occupying, and bombing it would be par for the course for the actions the Russians take to purposely destroy as much of Ukraine as possible. The power plant is very well shielded it
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> It's not just Putin. Every Russian president hated NATO expansion. Of course Russia and Russian presidents hate NATO, it stops them conducting imperialistic wars against the countries that they wish to subjugate. No one should car
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> Gonzalo Lira or Edward Snowden or Julian Assange or Michael Hastings would all be fine in Russia. A Russian propagandist, A leaker of American secrets, A publisher of leaked secrets and a dead guy. I can see how first three would be fi
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by _kbh_ 3y ago
> With just one move (Ukraine nationalist stooges), Europe is messed up for the next 20 years. If you think Europe is the one coming out worse for wear in this situation then you do not live in reality. Given you post history already tho

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