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by aguaviva 2y ago
Whether or not it aligns with whatever you say it does It's wrong on its own merits, not on the basis of anything I say. How would I really know? It is mostly hearsay. Actually it's not. It's actually pretty easy to get
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russia is not creeping westwards. The current invasion of Ukraine, plus open threats to the Baltics/Poland and random assassinations / acts of sabotage == "creeping westwards", is my take. But they are not idiots to
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That is merely coincidental. What matters is that it's a false and misleading narrative. These statements are false? Yup - either false, or misleading/irrelevant. Time is short so we'll just go over 2 of them for now: &
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Nearly every war has both offensive and defensive phases.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, it began with Russia's regime sending paid mercenaries (to the Donbas) and regular troops (to the Crima) in March-April of 2014. There was no indigenous revolt of any significance before this happened. Even pro-Russian sources ac
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It’s far beyond current Russian capabilities, just like NATO does not have capabilities to start and win an offensive war against Russia. The 2022 invasion was also far beyond Russia's capabilities, yet its regime took that action an
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm not ignoring it. I considered it, but I just don't think it adds up to what you think it does.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not a single serious war And you're both changing the goalposts, and setting a ridiculous standard (WWI/WWII) for the minimum standard of what constitutes a "serious" war.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Disagree, based on the increased frequency/belligerence of the regime's threats, and its increasingly delusional and irrational tone and behavior generally over this time period.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There was a major conflict in Europe from 1939-1945 you might want to look into.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The war started in 2014. That's known, and already implicit in what I said.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Apparently you haven't seen the map going around with Trump's proposed solution. Because apparently there isn't one. It seems some Republican "strategist" put out a map, but it has since been disavowed by the inc
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not like a line in the sand, admitted as such by both sides, was broken, one with explicit promises that it wouldn't be. Indeed it's not, because that's an extremely distorted and misleading narrative. For exampl
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except it's nothing of the sort. It's just a bunch of random talking points (e.g. "Ukrainian neo-nazis killing people in Donbas") they read or heard somewhere, without making any effort to discern whether there was any
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm not dodging questions. You were absolutely, unequivocally were dodging the commenter's question. I don't care one way or the other. If you plainly don't care, and won't answer questions, and since you obviou
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Funny, it definitely seemed as if you were presenting it as your own.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Maybe we are talking past each other. We certainly are. In my view, "talking shit" about invading additional countries, while actually engaged in a large-scale invasion of a neighboring country (on top of a centuries-long hist
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Nato has zero combat experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You can't stop a war if you are only allowed to defend. Actually plenty of wars have been won in exactly this way.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But have they actually become more threatening to other European nations? Russia's regime has already made statements threatening or questioning the borders of Poland and the Baltic states, in addition to numerous other threatening m
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You're saying Russia couldn't have invaded Ukraine successfully in 2018 They didn't invade successfully in 2022, either. Meaning they were never able to invade successfully at any year before that. The whole war is a giga
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Are you aware that NATO expansion into Ukraine seemed very likely at the time of Russia's invasion? Actually it was effectively impossible, as NATO's bylaws prevent the admission of states with active border conflicts. This is
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Biden had a great deal of incentive to destroy that pipeline. But far too many more obvious counterincentives. Unlike the Ukrainians, NATO/US were smart enough to see that blowing up NS2 would be hugely stupid, providing precisely ze
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russia will not give up and surrender. That's just its propaganda. In fact it has given up, surrendered and gone home with its tail between its legs in countless wars which, like the current one, were not in the least existential to
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Would you feel threatened if your neighbours set up weapons right outside your property line, ostensibly to defend in case you attack? Except that never happened in Ukraine, or in any of the other NATO countries close to Russia. You know
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Need I remind you how the US responded when the USSR set up missile positions in Cuba? We can safely say "no", as the US never set up missile positions in Ukraine, or had any plan to. There's simply no analogy between the t
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Dismissing Russia's concerns is exactly what led to this war. Provided one accepts that those concerns are valid. And that its stated "concerns" were in fact its actual reasons for starting the war. But there is no compel
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why would he need cash reserves if he has a toadie in the white house? You may want to think about the chronology again. And then ask yourself if your statement above still makes sense.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, every conflict the US has been involved in is not "de facto NATO".
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Many EU countries are now little more than US vassals They're nothing of the sort. Your perspective is seriously out of touch with reality.

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