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gdy
4y ago
"gazprom basically being used as an economic weapon of Russia right now" Why would Russia need European money if the EU either steals them (they call it 'freezing') or doesn't exchange it for what Russia needs (adva
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gdy
4y ago
"If I am a Jewish Doctor and a card-carrying Nazi came in, I should have the right to say "he can sit over there and I will not treat you". And if that causes him to die, that is his fault not mine." Would you be okay wi
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gdy
4y ago
And you prove these outlandish statements with what, exactly?
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gdy
4y ago
Yeah, right, because Denisova was the only Ukrainian person who was lying to get Western help for Ukraine. The only source this article cites is written answer of Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office and even it mentions only single anonym
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gdy
4y ago
Nope, just dozens of taxi app accounts were hacked and used to order taxis to the same street. That's a tiny fraction of over 70'000 taxis in Moscow.
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gdy
4y ago
No, you were trying to disprove "a lot of people ... intentionally spread misinformation with the sole goal to demonize Russia as much as possible" and were caught spreading misinformation.
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gdy
4y ago
The wikipedia article you are referring to doesn't even mention rape of children. It, however, contains this paragraph: "Lyudmyla Denisova, Ombudsman in Ukraine for human rights, "speculated" that sexual violence was bei
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gdy
4y ago
"and has its military rape children" Yeah, right. The woman spreading these accounts got finally fired. "... also accuses her [Lyudmyla Denisova] of having focused too much on media work, and on describing sexually motivated
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gdy
4y ago
So what are you saying? That Mariupol was empty of Ukrainian forces and Russians just shelled it because... what? Or that Russians had entered undefended Mariupol and then Ukrainians shelled it? How do you explain that Mariupol suffered so
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gdy
4y ago
"Can you source a link fort your actual claim that "Mariupol was held hostage."" What do you think happens when you put your military bases in the city and put you forces in residential areas? "this report has been
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gdy
4y ago
"the expansion of a defensive alliance" From whom was NATO defending itself in Serbia and Lybia[0]? "it is in vogue for supporters of Russia to blame everyone but Russia" You even quoted me: "It could've been s
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gdy
4y ago
"This is just wrong. Innocents being injured or killed while testing this tech is more akin to a negligent murder" Meatbags do it all the time. Two people die in a car accident every minute [0] and nobody cares. (Actually, two an
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gdy
4y ago
"Maybe if Russias little green men ... there wouldn't have to be fighting in Donbas" Yes, of course. Just like if the US hadn't 'mid-wifed' a coup in the Ukraine [1], [2], [3]. It's a spiral of escalation
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gdy
4y ago
'screen shots from a Russian telegram account' Seriously? 'why do you think they'd stop trying to force conscripts' Because there was a huge scandal and reportedly many officers involved in sending conscripts into t
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gdy
4y ago
You must be a child.
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gdy
4y ago
I'd recommend to follow the links in the article and read Ukrainian reporting through google translate[0] and the dailymail reporting too.[1] "genetically engineered super soldiers and black magic battalions" What? I have no
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gdy
4y ago
You are misrepresenting a couple of isolated cases in the beginning of the war and what looks like fake news as full picture. Meanwhile in the Ukraine: "According to a July 11 report in Ukrainian media, Ruslan Onishenko, commander of t
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gdy
4y ago
Soviet rockets weren't capable of such accuracy.
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gdy
4y ago
What is the point you are trying to make? The BBC journalists uttered neither 'Russian' nor 'Soviet', and arguing that a rocket made in Russia 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union cannot be called 'Russian ro
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gdy
4y ago
"How about establishing a country its citizens care for?" What does it even mean? Try googling the pre-war numbers of Ukrainians who left the country to work abroad. "Ukrainian army is revered" Yeah, so much that the Ukr
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gdy
4y ago
Of course, rocket built in Russia 25 years after the USSR dissolution is Russian rocket even if it's an upgraded version [0] of Soviet design. And there is nothing about people, nationality or ethnicity in my comment, just the name of
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gdy
4y ago
And yet it delivers cosmonauts to ISS in 3 hours [0], something that is out of reach for Western tech. "their hypersonics (which are just a plane-launched ballistic missiles)" You are confusing Zircon [2] with Kinzhal [1]. [0] ht
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gdy
4y ago
"So exactly like with Koenigsberg." You are mistaken, Königsberg means 'King's mountain' and Kaliningrad means 'Kalinin's city', these are two different names.
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gdy
4y ago
'So you'd be fine with people using names like Koenigsberg, or Theodorichhafen, or Ostland?' You seem to be confused. Kyiv and Kiev are different spellings of the same name. Kiev is traditional for English and Russian, Kyiv -
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gdy
4y ago
Of course I can - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32398991 Now please quote any achievements of post-Soviet Ukraine.
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gdy
4y ago
I don't see what point you are trying to make. Russia has almost completely replaced obsolete Soviet electronics of both Soyuz spacecraft and Soyuz rocket with modern tech. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz2-1a.html
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gdy
4y ago
Korolev was born in the Ukrainian SSR and let me quote wiki [0]: "His father, Pavel Yakovlevich Korolev, was born in Mogilev to a Russian soldier and a Belarusian mother. His mother, Maria Nikolaevna Koroleva (Moskalenko/Bulanina)
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gdy
4y ago
Oh, please. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100#Russified_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkut_MC-21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angara_(rocket_family) ht
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gdy
4y ago
Of course you didn't. As far as I can tell from this clipped fragment, these two talk about absorbing the Ukraine into Russia (or splitting it with Poland and Hungary, this idea is occasionally aired too) and 'denazification'
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gdy
4y ago
What exactly was functioning in the Ukraine? Russia has built new types of aircraft, new rocket, new nuclear icebreakers and power stations, its own internet search engine that can stand up to Google, and what not. Stop learning about the w
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