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by aguaviva 2y ago
So what did the West promise to Ukraine and when, in this regard?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The US, especially, seems to by trying to help Ukraine win, but not win so hard that Russia collapses, My sense is it's not that they don't want Ukraine to win that hard -- they just (very reasonably) don't see how anyone
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But Russia collapses if it's pushed out of Ukraine. No, it just goes back into its corner with its tail between its legs for a while, like all colonial powers do. Whenever they choose to enmesh themselves in conflicts that are defin
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The USA has 700 military bases world wide 128 actually. The 700-1000 numbers are disinformation, but people like to copy-paste them around endlessly, anyway.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And people write nonsense books about nonsense topics all the time.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
One could, but Mearsheimer is a crank, and Youtube is notoriously full of disinformation of all sorts. So most of USA and other NATO countries citizens are totally unaware of it. They're perfectly aware of it, because the Russian nar
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Technically neither Russia nor Ukraine are in war with each other. Then the "technical" distinction is obviously irrelevant. That's why officially it's called "Special Military Operation" And the official j
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Prohibiting Russian language usage which is mother tongue for majority of population of Ukraine etc. The Russian language is not prohibited in Ukraine, and it is not, by any stretch, "the mother tongue for [the] majority population o
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russian military was already in Crimea. They had a lease at, and were restricted to a specific military base there. They were definitely not "in the Crimea", in terms of the peninsula at large, as you are perfectly aware. To su
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by aguaviva 2y ago
How many nuclear states have been invaded in the past 80 years? Aside from Ukraine invading Russia's Kursk oblast last summer, the answer is a big fat zero. The answer is Israel was subject to a full-scale invasion in 1973, despite
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The claim that Russia should consider NATO expansion irrelevant to its security is pure gaslighting. And even more precisely: it's a claim that absolutely no one makes.
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Backlash as San Francisco votes to transform stretch of highway into park(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
All good, and I appreciate the correction. BTW I only chimed in like that because people routinely cite, for example, casualty figures ("Ukraine has 1M+ dead") intended to make the situation look much worse for Ukraine than it act
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Biden was free to do as he wished in Afghanistan. Actually no, because Trump signed the Doha treaty with the Taliban which (though it wouldn't have been impossible) would have required significant effort to undo. But the drop-kicking
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by aguaviva 2y ago
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This appears to be one sheriff pushing a personal agenda. Unfortunately it's not - there's a whole "child safety" department behind them, ready with a "safety plan" and even an app that they're going for
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.md/WXM06
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Trump's drop-kicking Afghanistan was probably the largest external factor that encouraged Putin to launch the full-scale invasion against Ukraine. More specifically: the final troop pullout happened under Biden; but the real damage was
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That he will, of course. Just the same: there's no point talking in terms of wild exaggerations (e.g. Putin/Belgium); that's Trump's territory.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Left Ukraine without a US Ambassador from May 2019 until after the invasion, Biden took over in January 2021.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
He’s about to give Putin carte blanche to keep pushing to (eventually) Belgium. He's not of course, and weird, untenable exaggerations like this aren't helpful.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Dobre, at least 10 million (or about a quarter) seems like a more reasonable figure then.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
She literally called him a Nazi after he got shot. She did absolutely no such thing. Yet you've come to believe that she did, for some reason. Why is that? Half of her campaign has been that you should vote for the black woman presi
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by aguaviva 2y ago
About a third of Ukrainians are currently outside Ukraine due to war. More like about 15 percent as of Feb 2024, per the UNHCR. https://www.unrefugees.org/emergencies/ukraine/
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I won't respond to stupid questions along the lines of "how is this relevant", Which is a pretty strong indication that it most likely isn't.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Lustrations ("purges") are a bad idea in general, especially for larger countries that don't have a history of democracy. I don't see one can look at recent history and come to support this view. The lustrations in the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It was planned years in advance but Pompeo's decision to invite them into Nato was the trigger that made it inevitable. Except there was no such decision, it isn't Pompeo's to make anyway, and no such invitation to Ukraine
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except in regard to the first trigger (Biden's gaffe) -- there's just not much logic there, being as it came rather late in the game (Jan 2022), whereas the decision to invade had essentially been made several months back (before
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russians received more from North Korea in 6 months than Ukraine has received since the War began in 2014. Care to provide a numerical breakdown of the assistance NK has provided (even a very rough one) that would support this view? Or i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Oh I'm quite certain that many of them are. But I appreciate the thought.

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