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by gandhium 8y ago
Crimea happened because Russia thought they can do anything and without repercussions. There's no protections from that kind of behaviour.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> he wrongly thought they had weapons of mass destruction They _had_ WMDs, and quite a lot of them. Not on the scale they've believed, though.
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by gandhium 8y ago
European (and British) tea is just a version of Chinese tea, but differencies in tea culture are huge.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> How would this help with any kind of Russian insurgency, espionage, etc. at all? According to the article there is 20% of ethnic Russians and more fluent Russian speakers (94%) than Kazakh speakers (74%). Look at the Crimea and Eastern
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by gandhium 8y ago
> What is the benefit of this change? Protecting themselves from Russian insurgency, among other reasons. Kazakhstan had protected themselves before, shutting down Russian-inspired "People Republic".
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by gandhium 8y ago
> I thought stealth aircraft is already visible on the latest Russian gear That's just a usual FUD stuff from Russians.
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by gandhium 9y ago
From your second link: > Medics and survivors who have remained in Douma, and others who have fled for northern Syria, ridiculed competing claims that the attack either did not take place, or did not use gas.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> F-35 as a plane is mediocre compared to say Su-57 Su-57 is still in infancy stage and judging from Russian problems, there's high chance it won't be around soon.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> What's stopping them from going this route The same issues, that preventing them from fullfilling their promise to open Moon base in 2015. They're behind in technology, in science, in work culture and they're plagued wit
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by gandhium 9y ago
So how it should void the fact of their pact?
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by gandhium 9y ago
> their motives are grossly misrepresented Can you please elaborate on their motives?
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by gandhium 9y ago
Random agreements? Like "hey, let's do something... maybe invade a few random countries"?
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Hitler did manage to kill more Russians than Stalin did It's debatable. Stalin's tactics of "scorched earth" and fighting with human waves may shift the toll.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Imagine if china, russia or any other nation acted like this. Russia invaded and bombed Ukraine. Still meddling there, btw.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> non-aggression pact is not an alliance Jointly dividing Poland and having a military parade there is not an alliance? Providing secret base for U-boats - just a pact, not an alliance?
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Who does this article really work for? Judging from number of Russian references - I'd say it's trying to whitewash recent Telegram ban. Like "See - it was all piracy, bad Telegram, bad!"
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by gandhium 9y ago
> each developer in the offshore team had created an exception class based on their own name This is wonderful! Did they honor their work hierarchy, i.e. exceptions from junior developers will always extend exceptions from senior ones?
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by gandhium 9y ago
> For a couple of weeks, I've been trying to bootstrap an environment to read an existing database Correct me if I'm wrong: for several WEEKS you're struggling with implementing a database read?
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Patriot: killing allies in the skies and civilians on the ground since 1990. This quote is nowhere in the article, where did you got it?
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by gandhium 9y ago
And this link clearly says: > It’s the _first_ time the organization has leaked (what it claims is) material directly pertaining to the Russian state. So... first time for how many years? And as, article points out, the leak itself is ra
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by gandhium 9y ago
In order to respond to accusation, I'd like to see any sources that support the accusation. But none were provided.
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by gandhium 9y ago
I think his source is plain whataboutism.
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by gandhium 9y ago
Internet is also used by terror organizations around the world. Money is also used by terror organizations around the world. Moreover, oxygen and water are also used by terror organizations around the world.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Hillary wanted to put a no-fly zone over Russia's sole operational naval base in Tarus, Syria. What happened to rest of Russian operational naval bases? What did they do to them, close them out?
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by gandhium 9y ago
Odd behaviour? Just a few months ago Russians send a government airplane (like Secret Service government) to pick up a load of cocaine in Argentina. A few years ago they've send an AA to Ukraine and downed MH-17. They're definitel
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by gandhium 9y ago
Sorry, leadership in Ukraine wasn't "deposed". President simply fled the country.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was made a number of promises that really weren't kept For example, not expanding NATO wasn't even a promise, it was a rumour. OTOH, Russia broke several international _agree
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by gandhium 9y ago
Either lost control or donated it to FSB in secret. He's not exactly a knight in shining armor, judging from all that 'Facebook cloning' affair.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> On a related note, could someone explain to me how Russia manages to stay a threat with a military budget that's about 6% of the US budget? It doesn't make sense to compare amounts directly - labour cost (and cost of life) in
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by gandhium 9y ago
I don't think autocannon can be efficient against drones. You need to hit a small and fast-moving target - that's a job either for AA gun (which will need to spend a lot of ammo saturating the area around drone) or for high-powere

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