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by aguaviva 2y ago
Both of these things are said here in the West. Except they're not. No one says Russia is a "puny country", or that it could "invade all its neighboring countries" (which would have to include, for example, China
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Wait did you just equate the Israelis to the Nazis?? No. They have the right to fight back. That's not the point.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Hmm - we can't go on dissecting polls each day, but here's one (dating from January) which measure sentiment across 10 countries and along several key questions: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/how-strong-is-public-support-f
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I still don't get what the "concern" is supposed to be. That Nietzsche's worldview was intrinsically fascist (or proto-fascist)?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
At the same time it was one of the few media platforms that allowed criticism of Israel to go viral. Actually, it has been the 76 years of increasingly brutal occupation with no end in sight, along with all the compltely ludicrous propaga
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Many Germans thought they were simply defending their country against external threats during its final genocidal adventure, also.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
when they say Trump = Hitler, because he had a rally at MSG. No, not "because he had a rally at MSG". But because of the things he said at that rally . Do you understand the distinction? It's also definitely not true that
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by aguaviva 2y ago
One of his major campaign leads wears Romanian nazi symbolism (think the Romanian equivalent of a swastika). One of these, perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romanian_fascist_symbols.... If you could provide
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by aguaviva 2y ago
NATO propaganda is incredibly pervasive and much stronger than any other propaganda from outside can be. Only because you don't see the latter (as propaganda). But rather as a sequence of neat-sounding, worldview-confirming factoids.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Upvoting you actually, because what you're saying about the "deep state" is reasonably correct. And people really, really need to stop triggering themselves over the term (simply because it is often misunderstood and used as
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In direct response to an official declaration of military action by Zelensky against legal Russian territory. It was not "legal Russian territory". The very edict you cite refers to it as "temporarily occupied". (It&
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Sweden and Norway used to be one country. Does that mean it would be "not completely non-sensical" for one to invade the other?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No (and I don't see much value in hypotheticals, generally).
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Well, we disagree about the language issue then. Which in any case means essentially nothing compared with what these people are going through. In that sense I appreciate your clarification as well.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
My take is that at worst it was a strike made by mistake by people who were unaware that the hospital wasn't evacuated. A highly unlikely premise.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The average European finds supporting Ukraine not only a lost cause nowadays, So what's an "average European"? You and your friends? A recent poll from Germany, for example, found solid (>60 percent) support for both sa
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russia voluntarily let Ukraine secede from the USSR under certain conditions, which they have not kept Please identify the specific treaty/protocol you are referring to, and which clauses you believe Ukraine has violated. Clearly un
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The exact percentage of Russian ethnicity is is a little hard to determine, and varies through out that region But the comparative proportions identifying as "Ukrainian" or "Russian" in the last pre-war census is not,
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Pretty facetious comparison I think you meant to say "specious". The commenter doesn't understand what they're saying sufficiently for it to qualify as facetious.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The idea that votes have to be ignored in Romania because Russia is a unique understanding of democracy. And it's uniquely yours, because no one (even in Romania) is saying "votes have to be ignored because Russia".
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If your non-democratically installed government wants EU and Nato membership against the majority of citizens...that absolutely undermines Ukraine's national sovereignty. Here's what I mean by "too much to unpack": (1)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Yes, but it also seems to have plateaued, and has held steady for the past 9 months or so.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Subtracting the "people" vs "men" noise, I was trying to draw the distinction between the phrasings "they don't have enough people" and "they have no people left" (in both cases to meaning availa
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Thanks, I'll put it on my list.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
We each do our part. Every bit helps.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
We're broadly on the same page it seems. I just found that the original choice of wording tiltied more into the territory of spin than a sober assessment of the state of things. That is all. Unfortunately, this kind of blurring has p
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Are we in kindergarten? I guess we all are, in a sense.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
"Russian invaders, and the occasional local collaborator or two." Who in any case know exactly what's coming to them.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Because you aren't using "estimates" Because you don't know what source I'm referring to, how can you possibly know?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That... is not obvious at all. Actually it is, and the commenter's language was perfectly clear. If it helps try thinking in terms of, you know, sets and stuff. Don't know what else to tell you.

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