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by drysine 8mo ago
>Are you questioning the choice of metaphor? Yes, there is nothing like 'nuclear war without nukes' that is happening here. And I was trying to demonstrate that your logic seem to lead to conclusion that the 'nuclear war w
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>When you knock out primary energy source in a large city instead of attacking military consumers, it has one goal - terror. Not if that city's industry is contributing to the war effort. >Most people suffering from it will be ci
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by drysine 8mo ago
Targeting dual-purpose infrastructure is not the same as targeting civilians. The infra can be repaired, people cannot be resurrected.
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by drysine 8mo ago
No, the Ukraine didn't cede anything. They cut water and electricity to Crimea to punish Crimeans and they were building up the army with Western help.
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>And Ukraine is in an existential struggle, I don’t see the Ukrainians caving. Only the current regime is in existential struggle. This why it closed the borders[0] and kidnaps men on the streets[1] to send to the front line. [0] https:
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by drysine 8mo ago
>It‘s a nuclear war without nukes No, it's not. Even Ukrainians rarely target civilians.
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>Russia's military force currently relies on men willing to die for money. And Ukrainian military force currently relies on kidnapping men on the street and dispatching them to the front line after minimal training.[0][4] The border
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Yeah, imagine how it reads from Russia and what kind of motivation it gives.
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by drysine 8mo ago
>They hire workers from poor countries promising a good life here in Dubai and they send them in Ukraine to fight. Really?
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by drysine 8mo ago
>Your first point is unsubstantiated by the link. Only if you don't click on the "Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists". Here you are: "The OUN intended to create a Ukrainian state with widely understood Ukrainian t
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by drysine 8mo ago
>Ukraine (slava) "Slava Ukraine" (Glory to the Ukraine) is the slogan used by the Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with Nazis and mass-murdered Poles and Jews. "In the 1930s, it became widespread as a slogan of the
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by drysine 8mo ago
>Perhaps its timing is useful to remind Kremlin sympathizers about who they’ve chosen to bed. Cui bono then? Talking about the claim about poisoning, not the death itself.
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by drysine 8mo ago
Here is how the "winning" side is replenishing its losses. Come and see.[0] Watch desperate mother whose son was grabbed on the street and "busified"[1]. She later died in the ER after the stroke she suffered. Here is so
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by drysine 8mo ago
All right, noticing now.
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Putin's press secretary has said that he "has hard time to believe telegram or other messengers are used by the army". People at the top don't have a clue what's really going on the front.
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by drysine 8mo ago
>doesn't seem so impossible in the States any more A great war means both our countries will be thoroughly nuked.
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Haven't actually noticed that but seems to be true nonetheless. Looks like they started from Saint-Peterburg region
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>financial independence (let's say, $10M in the bank) In Russia $1M gives you financial independence for life
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by drysine 8mo ago
I know people who feel nostalgic about 90s and it's time of freedom and opportunity for them, but for me it's the time of poverty, crime and extreme stress when two father's friends died from heart attacks while in their prim
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by drysine 8mo ago
Does this include "mentioned" as in "Don't read this book, it's full of errors"?
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This means Putin won't afford to keep up his Special Military Operation anymore and will turn it into a total war. You may have read in the news that Russian military is now disconnecting Soviet-built nuclear power stations from the Uk
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>in a respectful way The irony
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by drysine 9mo ago
>the EU doesn't work like that It does work like that. The EU just plays a zero-sum game. "As part of its strategy to secure supplies of critical raw materials, the European Union signed an EU-Ukrainian strategic Partnership on
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by drysine 9mo ago
Here is yesterday's Euronews article[0] which quite clearly shows who doesn't want to engage. "Russian President Vladimir Putin should make tangible concessions before the European Union picks up the phone to re-establish dir
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by drysine 9mo ago
>It's Russian media who have labelled him Putin's Brain, and they're not likely to say anything disparaging about the Tsar. I've seen that only in liberal opposition's media
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by drysine 9mo ago
>they will avoid talking to EU The only thing the EU is saying is "Get out of the Ukraine and we maybe remove sanctions in some distant future if you behave". You may think that it is a right stance towards Russia but it leaves
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by drysine 9mo ago
>Russian leadership's willingness to take massive casualties of their own with little if any political fallout All Russians joining the war after partial mobilization of the autumn of 2022 are doing this voluntarily. The West and Uk
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by drysine 9mo ago
>$0.85 for a box of Barilla pasta That's cool. Which one? The cheapest one in Russia costs about $1.20 [0] > a photo of their QR code and reuse it over and over again Don't you think it's a wrong thing to do? [0] https
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by drysine 9mo ago
>I do trust BBC That's a mistake. BBC has perfected the art of omitting relevant information thus creating a completely different story. My favorite example so far is that after that debacle with Canadian parliament giving standing
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by drysine 9mo ago
Can't the CCF's decision be "predominantly political"? That paragraph you quoted is "generic and formulaic" and is an "inadequate explanation".

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