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foverzar
4y ago
Objective reality does exist.
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4y ago
> Russian propaganda says that Nord Stream 1 is closed due to repairs. It obviously is not. It is closed because Russia wages economic warfare against Europe. You won't find a peer-reviewed double-blind study saying this, signed by
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foverzar
4y ago
It could, if the CAs were globally distributed. Unfortunately currently they are all under the US influence.
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4y ago
> It's well known that this is not true Well known? Is it? Could you please give some reference then? No one would be surprised to see a "work-to-rule" action, but how is it "russian propaganda" that Europe had
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4y ago
> It's not NATO who invaded Ukraine, it's Russia. Yes, and? If your point is that we should exclude all the cause-effect from our thought process, then sorry, but no. > You're blaming the victim NATO isn't the vict
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4y ago
You are rather misinformed on specifics and nuances, thus building your arguments on quite a lot of false assumptions, but at this point I'm kinda lazy to address multiple points at the same time. Consider that quite a lot of what you
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4y ago
Well learn to read, then. You can live in an imaginary world of ponies and rainbows where wars don't happen at all cuz you really-really-really want them not to happen. Unfortunately in real life they DO happen. And when they do, they
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4y ago
Ah, yep, 100%, westerners impressions of Russia is something directly from fairy tales. I actually wonder if Russia somehow uses it as a part of it psyops. At least that clearly helped with the sanctions.
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4y ago
> Those new people will be less trained than real soldiers Ok, I see you didn't even bother to do a minimal research on the topic at hand. Sorry, but it's really hard to take you seriously when your reasoning is based on assump
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4y ago
> Poland, or Finland, instead of Ukraine Is Finland as willing to deploy NATOs military infrastructure and become target/source of the first strike? Consider that you are comparing stable countries with stable government and social
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4y ago
Seems more like a translation TO doublespeak. You can argue with every point, but won't ever win cuz "it's just a way to communicate without being pedantic", but then you put all of this together and get a complete and u
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4y ago
> Its obvious, if you think the Ukrainian military really represents the might of NATO you are kidding yourself. I think it is a representative fraction of NATOs might. You also probably don't assume that LNR/DNR soldiers with
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> Its only 12m since 2006. If you were born in 1980 like the poor soul linked above you served 24 months. 2006 was almost two decades ago. And it doesn't matter when you when one was born (at least not directly). "Since 2006&qu
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4y ago
> You are arguing that it's fine to kill a lot of people as long as it's fast and you can overcome the mild inconvience of your own life, insane. That wasn't really my point, lol. Like, that wasn't my point AT ALL, di
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4y ago
> Russia says they are fighting NATO itself in Ukraine as a way to try and justify there armies poor performance in Ukrain Says who? Cuz this awfully seems like western propaganda talking points, where it's always "we best, the
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4y ago
> They can't keep territory because of manpower shortage, but they surely have a million others, they just can't be bothered to get them involved? :-D Ergo mobilization, that, among other things, changes the way the military an
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4y ago
> It's not just Huawei that left Russian market. Wow, it did? Huawei brand shops are open though. You can even buy a RosTest certified Huawei P50 Pro, which was released in August. In any case, this is just a fraction of Chinese bus
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4y ago
> How is Finland in NATO sad? I was talking about Russian perspective. > the largest defensive military alliance in the world Putting aside the question of whether large military alliances are a good or a bad thing, NATOs "defens
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4y ago
Would anyone decent enough to actually respond instead of silent minusing, tell me how dead laptop replacement can start costing year's wages, when it's assembled right near the border? Cuz it really looks like people either have
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4y ago
This is all nice and dramatic, but I actually live in Russia, my father is a retired officer and I call on your bullshit. Your numbers are all messed up and incorrect (24 months, when it is actually 12, 60 y.o, when the upper limit is 50, 6
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4y ago
This all had been well before February 2022, when the war had started. One could argue that the half-civil war between Kyiv and Donetsk/Luhansk is also a part of this war (that would imply though that you see the civil war in Syria as
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4y ago
> likely Ehh, "likely". Seems to me like there were quite a lot of much more pressing factors. > Because, if its really over NATO, why isn't Russia invading Finland?. Why would it? Russia had warned Finland of repercuss
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> You should really start to learn about more than the last 100 years of history. Oh please, get off your high horse and stop acting as a superior if all you have is vague accusations of your interlocutor being not as smart as you are. I
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> See apartment bombings that led to second Chechen war. The Second Chechen war had started in August 1999 when Chechen militants invaded neighboring Dagestan (Russian territory), with random skirmishes starting as early as May 1999 The
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And the answer is still "nothing". Russia doesn't really gain anything substantial. From Russia's point of view it is a huge price to pay for preventing another Turkey-Cuba missile crisis, except this time it is Ukraine
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> What's to be gained by starting a nuclear war with the entire world Who says it would be the entire world? At worst, it will be with a nuclear-capable fraction of the Western world (a really small part of the world) Besides, someh
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You are saying this like it's a bad thing. Practically all 21 century conflicts were initially local and would have vented out fast, but there is always some superpower that comes along and starts pushing it's interests, pumping o
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I think the idea was that dick-swinging and escalating this whole deal into a war was kinda an avoidable thing, and now all we see is the sunk cost falacy
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> They also quietly joined western sanctions. Are you sure that you don't stretch and projecy a few international Chinese companies with substantial business in the West on the whole of China?
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> half of Russia’s army is gone Where did you get these numbers from? Russian army has 1 mil active personnel and 2 mil reserves. Even the propaganda numbers are much less than 200k killed/wounded, and that's including LNR/
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