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by drysine 1y ago
Because they were lied to by American mass media that presented mujahedeen as freedom fighters. When 9/11 happened Americans suddenly found themselves on the receiving end and stopped being supportive of Islamic extremists.
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>That doesn’t mean that vaccine programs are bad. Obviously. But the organization that discredits vaccine programs by being a front for CIA is bad and deserves to be dismantled.
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>Barak is an unsavoury character and Epstein was of course evil on a different level. Of course they are totally eclipsed by Assad and Putin who are many orders of magnitude more evil. >Best of all the new order And "the new orde
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>If a partner in a relationship was constantly going through your phone, they'd end up in prison in most countries recognising domestic violence. that's disproportional
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Zelensky is doing damage control for his crony's company. "Ukraine's anti-corruption agency has been investigating the country's star deep-strike drone company — Fire Point — over concerns it misled the government on pri
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>Moscow stops being a pest Quite dehumanizing, isn't it?
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>drones or happy little accidents What would you call 9/11 then?
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It's been 165 years since Opium Wars, but the GB can't realise that.
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That is a lie. Putin said that the plane was damaged by a Russian missile during the attack of Ukrainian drones. The plane was offered to land in another Russian city that wasn't under Ukrainian attack, but the pilot refused and direct
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And the solution to that "solution" is to fly around it.
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It was somewhat sarcastic comment inviting reader to replace China with the US and the US with Russia or the Ukraine. China doesn't offer citizenship for foreigners but if I wanted to see the cities of the future I could go there visa-
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And what are the downsides?
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>Russia sent missiles to Houthis just this year. The article says it didn't happen, just that maybe some people disembarked. >The meeting where Putin says they have longstanding ties with Hamas That's not exactly what he sai
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>That is not really a function of whether Ukraine does It's a function of what you call what the Ukraine does. If you use a report of an isolated episode to justify the claim that "Russia deliberately targets civilians" ac
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>that other people in history What? It's atrocities that are being committed right now by the Ukraine. Do they mean that "Ukraine deliberately targets Russian civilians"?
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Here is one of the top Ukrainian propagandists posting in his personal channel a video from Belgorod (Russia) that shows wounded Russian women screaming and thrashing in agony (the text reads "Happy New Year, bitches") after Ukrai
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>I extrapolate from Putin's allies really. ... they're all in the same bucket Hamas, Hezbolla or Houthis are hardly Russian allies. Iran isn't fighting on the Russian side like North Korea did, but I guess you can call the
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>which is likely correct Why do you think that? >almost requires us to also believe That's easy. Russia deliberately targets civilians, but being totally inept, misses and hits different civilians. >of which the evidence is sc
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>when you miss, whatever ammunition you used falls on somebody on the ground No problem, you just say that Russians deliberately target civilians.
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>the usual axis of countries that actually will deal with Russia Which is all the world except for the West and a couple of countries elsewhere who depend on the US support.
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>Gorbachev and Yazov never emigrated. Gorbachev used to live in Germany. [0] The rest of your comment is again a straw-man argument - Matlock (American ambassador to the USSR at that time) was talking about promises not given in a legall
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>Everyone of importance on the Soviet/Russian side has refuted this. Whose people you cite also happen to emigrate to the West or at least from Russia. >Soviet diplomats were not dumb. Or very interested in not looking dumb after
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I wasn't talking about transport and communication infrastructure. That's a classic example of straw-man argument.
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>as calling out Russian war crimes (eg deliberate targeting of civilians) "russophobia". Yes, that's russopbobic atrocity propaganda intended to manufacture consent for arming and financing Kiev regime.
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"Moscow’s old colonies" Can you name a single colony where metropole built nuclear power stations, developed heavy industry, shipbuilding, space and military industries? I mean, apart from USSR's "colonies".
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That's Andrei Illarionov, he says a lot of things. I opened the video anyway with the intention of watching it, but after seeing the title "Putin's fake about "NATO non-expansion to the East" closed the tab. Here is
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"So then the war has been an abject failure, right? NATO’s borders with Russia have massively expanded. Putin bamboozled." You are mixing up the events of 2014 and 2022. But yes, the war is not quite a success. "this has alwa
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"he’s almost perfectly modelled by every other expansionist dictator" Only if you are willing to ignore the facts that don't fit into your model. Namely specific triggers for Putin's actions like 2008's NATO declara
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"I find it difficult to believe that Russia wouldn’t have embarked on an expansionist project" Why?
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"Putin will bitch and moan about a downed fighter. But he'll also stop lobbing them across." Such was the thinking that accompanied NATO expansion - Russians would bitch and moan but wouldn't do anything. Look how that w

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