chrysler

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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Literally today ; talking about 'running out of money and raising the debt ceiling' - but zero acknowledgement of the ~250 BILLION dollars we have thus far sent to Ukraine A lot of that money exists only on paper. Take a
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> So no agreements had previously been made then? Not according to direct participants like the foreign minister of the USSR. https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-e... Moreover, NATO
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by chrysler 3y ago
Nice move of goalposts from "better than ever" to "pre-war", that is, Covid-riddled era with low demand. The hard facts are that federal revenue is down -22% while expenditure is up +26% and Russia is running a 30% defic
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> while Russia is better than ever. In same fairytale, that may be so. In the real world, oil and gas revenue is 40% of Russia's federal budget and down -52% YoY as of April, so that's more than -20% from oil and gas alone
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Even left-wing Guardian admits as much I don't put much value into what the Guardian write on topics like these. Joining a major international organization is a huge undertaking that involves thousands of people from many inst
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> After the collapse of the USSR, Russia repeatedly tried to join NATO. That never happened. You will no find no trace of that in State Duma transcripts, policy papers or any other contemporary source. I can show you a long trail of
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Some of us are actually old enough to have been adults when the Soviet Union fell and to have lived through that period of time. So am I, and I remember very well how this hoax appeared out of nowhere in late 2000s. But as Shevardn
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> If Russia or China built up Mexico or Canada's military with arms and training and they were hostile to us, I think we would be a little concerned. What do you think we should do about Russian nuclear missiles set up in the mi
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> One interview with the dead Gorbachev is a source, but assurances were given by Western leaders to other people in Russia as well which are documented. To whom, documented where? Gorbachev's foreign minister Shevardnadze also
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by chrysler 3y ago
Virtually everything you write is a lie that present-day Russian government media bombards its population with in a desperate attempt to justify why their military leaves behind a trail of childrens' bodies, poured over with gasoline a
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by chrysler 3y ago
The point is whether Russia could extort countries (eg: prevent from sending military aid to Ukraine) or not. While a little over half of all gas in Germany came from Russia, Germany was among countries with the highest proportion of gas in
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by chrysler 3y ago
Rosy IMF forecasts and "Russian economy is doing fine" articles are based on official Russian stats that are literally made up. Western analysts are unable to fathom that some guy could just type figures into Excel and present the
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>> I can see that you expect Russians to be better people than Germans or Americans More Germans opposed Nazism than Russians oppose Putinism. "It has been estimated that during the course of World War II 800,000 Germans were arr
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by chrysler 3y ago
This cynical take ignores that in free societies, such efforts are far less effective than in closed societies with no free media and no tradition of civic participation and civil disobedience. COVID showed that very well.
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