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by aguaviva 2y ago
What's interesting about the Trump election is that it in effect gives Biden a license to give Ukraine one last, (modest) push like this. Putin will huff and puff, but it's not like he's going to follow through on any of it w
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The US didn't give Israel Mandatory Palestine - Britain did. Well, Britain didn't quite "give" all of Mandatory Palestine, or any of it technically, to the Zionists. What it did do was first, proactively set a firm dat
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Imagine the absurdity of if China put missiles on the Mexican border ... Imagine the US engaging in an invasion of Mexico as equally stupid and unprovoked as Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Then not only would Mexico have a perfect rig
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Frankly Botswana is beating Ukraine in GDP Ukraine's GDP is close to 10x that of Botswana, and in the last year has grown 10 percent over that of 2022.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This is a wildly unpopular opinion after 2022, but ... False. Ukraine not only has everything to do with Europe -- it is unequivocally European in culture, language, historical involvement and (to the extent that Russia is also considered
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Even right-wingers (Europe right, not US right) are laughing at Trump and the Republicans. Any examples you can point to?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Indeed I did. I thought the referent of "as though they [were]" was "the USSR", rather than "a global superpower". The second possibility makes much more sense (and is more informative), so I should have assum
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Anything can happen, and people say all sorts of stuff online. But from the fact that the warning was expresed privately , and using carefully chosen language (unlike Putin's warnings, which are generally aimed at the public sphere, a
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russia's regime pretends to be fighting those entities. It's real enemy is simply independent Ukraine with its currently recognized borders. This is entirely straighforward. Nothing that requires any struggle to understand.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why wouldn't russia use a tactical nuke in west Ukraine to destroy tank factories? Because the Biden administration communicated to its regime (in late 2022) that this would definitely trigger a massive kinetic response. In particul
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The basic flaw in what you're suggesting (that the war could have been averted by mollifying Putin on the terms of his stated narrative), is that, as we both seem to agree, the stated narrative was never the real basis for his decisi
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The phrasing is in any case that of the AP article, not the Defense Minister. What the latter actually said was much stronger and less ambiguous. As detailed in the helpful sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Which still says nothing about the conflict being fundamentally a proxy war.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But Germany and the EU know deep inside that this isn’t about ideology and conquest Looks like an attempt to project your own views onto people you don't know. Meanwhile, to the extent that we do have a recent, official statement fro
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Most likely you are one of the brain damaged cia astroturfer. The same garbage propaganda from braindead retards like you You're in explicit violation of site guidelines. Recommend you stop. https://news.ycombinator.com
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not to them, either. That's just your projection.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Here is a BBC article from 2 DAYS AGO that basically says what I'm saying Which says nothing at all about the conflict being "a proxy war".
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Doesn't need to be a huge escalation. Just enough to send the tide of attrition turning slowly the other way for a while. After which HN will instantly fill up with comments about "how badly Russia is losing", "it&#x27
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Tit-for-tat response to the NS2 bombing. Assuming it bears out that the Russian state is the perpetrator.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Acting and speaking as though they are is part of how we got into this mess, Actually it was Putin's acting and speaking as if he could partially restore the glory of the former Soviet empire (whose collapse he called "the great
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You're not explaining why you think so, which is what it is.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You were asked which war was won purely by defence to which you answered "WWII" I never said it was won purely by defense. Only that you might want to take a closer look at its various subcampaigns -- several of which (including
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, they're just explaining why they believe it is a colonial power.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If that was that simple they could implement Russian vision of Minsk agreements or accept non-alignment and the war would stop. Alas, that seems very doubtful. By all indications, Putin is going to demand not just non-alignment, but perm
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, there's just so much propaganda-addled thinking floating about here that it's frankly exhausting to wade through, and as a result, I sometimes misread people. The vastly bigger point is -- there's plainly no logic to the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Or we acknowledge that D-Day was a comparatively small part of WW 2.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Well, if that’s the take, it is very far from “Russia will attack NATO”. It probably won't, but the whole point is that the current regime is definitely gaslighting the West in regard to its intent (and so therefore it must be trea
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by aguaviva 2y ago
First, if you ever get a chance to travel to Eastern Europe, you'll be very glad you did. Western Ukraine itself is actually reasonably safe (compared to many large cities in the world), though you should definitely do some research o
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by aguaviva 2y ago
As you like, and what you're telling me about your information sources is quite helpful. The additional context I've provided (in regard to the initial causes of the conflict) is intended to be helpful, also.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, I'm just answering you with basic logic. Extremely basic logic, in fact.

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