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by gdy 6y ago
It's puzzling that you've decided to write this after reading a measured and polite comment with what I think are reasonable arguments.
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by gdy 6y ago
"the ethnic cleansing happening in Georgia, Crimea, eastern Ukraine, and a handful of areas within Russia continued from ussr days" South Ossetia isn't Russia. And neither it is Georgia. Despite locals in this republic being
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by gdy 6y ago
"An 'anti-moscow' candidate could be tolerated -- one who let foreign troops in would absolutely not be." I tend to agree.
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by gdy 6y ago
"Ethnic cleansing is continuing in the federation." That's a lie. Perhaps, you are confusing Russia with Baltic states. Share of all ethnicities with exception of the titular nations has dramatically dropped in these countrie
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by gdy 6y ago
You got the sequence wrong, American missiles in Turkey were first.
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by gdy 6y ago
"If it's the same country that's making a mess elsewhere, too bad." This reminds me about Poland and Hungary taking part in dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. People there probably were saying something similar to 'to
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by gdy 6y ago
"disingenuous" I disagree. Firstly, I explicitly wrote 'NATO members' in all cases except Serbia, where it was NATO. Secondly, the driving force behind NATO is the US and it's mostly the US who bombs or invade other
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by gdy 6y ago
I wanted to add the word 'technically', but recalled that in Abkhasia they have elected a candidate not supported by Moscow. Which countries do you think the US has 'annexed'?
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by gdy 6y ago
"but probably not bad for Americans" That is scary.
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by gdy 6y ago
True
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by gdy 6y ago
South Ossetia just like Abkhasia are recognized by Russia as independent countries.
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by gdy 6y ago
Please stay on topic. You are not bringing up anything I don't already know and what you bring up is irrelevant to the discussion.
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by gdy 6y ago
I wonder how would you explain why the US always feels threatened. For example [0]: "“Russia is the most significant threat just because they pose the only existential threat to the country right now. So we have to look at that from th
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by gdy 6y ago
"I cant recall NATO invading or annexing the territory of a sovreign nation." Funny you can't recall NATO bombing and partitioning Serbia. Funny you can't recall NATO members invading Iraq. Funny you can't recall NA
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by gdy 6y ago
"considering they have been annexing territory rather than losing it for decades" That's a lie. The only territory Russia got is Crimea which was Russian until 1954.
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by gdy 6y ago
No, I don't.
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by gdy 6y ago
Don't see the connection.
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by gdy 6y ago
It has nothing to do with Lebensraum.
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by gdy 6y ago
"Would you rather stand nearby and do nothing when Hitler was starting to kill and occupy?" What were you doing when the US invaded Iraq in 2003?
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by gdy 6y ago
What you offer ("It would be more precise to say the Russians were an American mercenary army.") by far beats the craziest Hollywood interpretations.
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by gdy 6y ago
You are welcome to present a Soviet equivalent of the Lebensraum concept.
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by gdy 6y ago
"a) EU doesn't have a military. However there are active discussions driven by France to establish one and it is getting support e.g. Eastern European states who feel threatened by Russia." Please do establish it. This way yo
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by gdy 6y ago
I know the story of the ordinary people. They are my grandparents. I don't know in what kind of warped reality you live if you write things like 'the Russians were an American mercenary army'.
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by gdy 6y ago
You remind me of people in the Soviet Union brainwashed by the propaganda and confident that it is all true. We have shook off that and got quite a cynical attitude. I see you haven't done the same. I don't have a hope that it wil
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by gdy 6y ago
The USSR lost the Cold War.
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by gdy 6y ago
The USSR won the Great Patriotic War. It had some help from Allies, people in Russia are aware of it. And what you see in the White House tweeter is a lie.
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by gdy 6y ago
"And Russians certainly did not win this war." We most certainly did, we still exist as a nation.
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by gdy 6y ago
Is this what they teach in American schools? The idea that the US bought millions of Soviet lives is as ridiculous as it is insulting. The Soviet people fought in an existential war, the defeat meant death in concentration camps for some, a
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by gdy 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668700
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by gdy 6y ago
The USSR gained so much needed strategic depth, the Germany gained Lebensraum. Which country wasn't trading with Nazi Germany?

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