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by aguaviva 2y ago
I think "in its very borders" was supposed to mean "to its very borders" And we could forgive them for that small particular exaggeration, if that was all it was. But they took extra special care to double down on the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
For what it's worth, the version of events that Wikipedia offers is much closer to what the commenter said than what you're saying: Muhammad Umar told Pakistan that he would be willing to turn bin Laden over to a third countr
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by aguaviva 2y ago
When Biden was trying to hand them over the country. Effectively it was Trump who made that decision, via the Doha agreement. Biden's role was merely to fumble the actual delivery as spectacularly as possible.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russian lost many battles against Afghanistan against the very same government today "taliban". Except they weren't "the same" parties at all.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Musk is better advised that it's a foolish attempt to become the fourth one. Instead he managed to pull off a trick that not even Capone and Scientology were bold enough to try. He became the government.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Ugh, the U.S. supported the Taliban during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban did not exist during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. If you can't get that right, after all these years -- how can you hope to make heads
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Who would have ever thought that pushing a cold-war coalition eastwards towards an ex-superpower, including shoving it in its very borders, which it has long declared a "red line" Except that's not what happened. In you kno
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But revolutionary fascism is but one variant within a broader palette, is it not? If we substitute "The West and its degenerate values" for the usual enemies, then Stanley's definition seems to describe Putin's regime qu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And if you go that route then it's on you, not Super Mario. Or because of anything intrinsic to the latter's Weltanschauung .
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Boris Johnson didn’t allow ukraine to negotiate No, that's just a myth. Was a matter of speculation for a while, but when it got investigated, it didn't hold up. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Economically Russia is irrelevant (a.k.a puny). So any country at or below Russia's GDP ranking (11th worldwide) is "irrelevant" and "puny". Is that what you're saying?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Because Putin isn't a Nazi. He's something new.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Wrong-o, man. Talking to actual people is the magical, indispendible ingredient you need in your analysis. Of course they're quite often biased. That's not the point. But at least you get a human perspective. And even when th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not about what they "should" have. But rather the fact that it seems difficult to imagine such a state being set up without further conflict / ethnic cleansing.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Unless we’re now cheering for ethnostates This is a misuse of the term. Even the Syrian Kurds don’t want independence, rather just autonomy as part of a multiethnic Northern region. Doesn't have to be full-scale independence. I thi
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Plenty of stuff on internet. There's plenty of "stuff on internet" about piles of beheaded babies on Oct 7, too. Links to reasonably trustable reports needed, please. Otherwise what you're saying is just more "st
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It seems that something like "they've trashed their economy" would have been a better choice of words. But -- "destroyed"? What's that supposed to mean? What purpose is served by the use of such hyperbolic la
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not sustainable for -either- side. Both sides are aching (very badly) for this thing to be over, or at least taken off the stove. One can quibble further as to the details -- which are a matter of metrics, wildcards, politics. An
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Extremely helpful - mulţumesc
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Like video games cause violence, I guess.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But Minsk was dead for several years already even before the FSO. Nonetheless it seems clear now that the West could have come up with a greatly more coherent escalation strategy that it seems to have sleepwalked into.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
OT why is your comment history all about politics and mostly Russia? It's not "all about politics". You could have said "Why is it mostly about ...?" and the question would have had an entirely different ring to
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by aguaviva 2y ago
"in this wonderful utopian future we now live in, you can easily zero in on a reliable answer to your question within minutes (even starting from scratch):"
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This equation is just wrong, as applies to both Putin and Orbán. And (ironically) simply convinces people that those who are concerned about Putin's arguably fascist (as opposed to actual Nazi) inclinations are just hyperventilating an
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except it's not. Chernobyl is just another popular spelling that people have gotten accustomed to. But no one outside the Russian Mir ever refers to Alaska as Aljáska. There's no signficance or import to the chosen spelling. This
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except the posts are from the Kremlin/Dialog-affiliated outlet Readovka. Which means their assertions are about as reliable as what Nayirah "saw".
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Which leak are you referring to?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Nothing heavy-handed about it at all. Plenty of countries have changed their names (slightly or entirely) over the years. The more diacritics we are compelled to learn and use, the better I say.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why are all the links being posted here from disreputable sources? A careful analysis indicates that about 18 percent of the links in this thread are from the sites you mentioned. Can you explain how you arrived at the formulation "a
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not nonsense at all. If he loses that base, he'll start to look bad and his legitimacy within the security forces will be called even further into question.

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