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by gdy 4y ago
"Why would I need to avoid it?" Because it's a slippery slope to collective punishment. "This is a telling slip; Lewy is talking about ‘the Armenians’ as if the defenceless women and children who comprised the deportatio
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by gdy 4y ago
"you start to respect the culture of minorities" That's quite a leap from questioning why the federal government websites aren't translated into local languages. Care to share examples of such disrespect? "Good exam
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by gdy 4y ago
And how is visa ban justified? Just curious how you would manage to avoid the words 'collective guilt'.
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by gdy 4y ago
Did the US grew peacefully? I mean all the territory of the United States was taken from Native Americans. Do you get as agitated about this as you are about Russia?
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by gdy 4y ago
You seem to have an answer. Would you mind sharing it?
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by gdy 4y ago
Do you have different standards for Russia and France?
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by gdy 4y ago
Yeah, because the whole world wants to take away their freedom. That's the most ridiculous cliché of American internal propaganda.
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by gdy 4y ago
"you either call yourself russian or get marginalized" Marginalized for not calling themselves Russian? Marginalized how? "yet all the federal websites are only in russian and maybe english" That's true, but only 3%
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by gdy 4y ago
And here we go again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835337
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by gdy 4y ago
And Facebook is fine with "Russians don't deserve to live" comments.
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by gdy 4y ago
You are going in circles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32829679
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by gdy 4y ago
Again, you are justifying an action by the reaction to it.
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by gdy 4y ago
Just like almost anyone else which makes it a deflection and not an answer.
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by gdy 4y ago
"but can hardly be called an invasion" It was an invasion in support of one of the sides in Russian civil war. Russia made peace with Germany 1917 [0], the intervention started in 1918. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by gdy 4y ago
And Russia isn't about to sink American ships. Yet. Here is NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talking about moving American nukes to Eastern Europe. [0] "The alternative to NATO nuclear sharing is different kinds of bilatera
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by gdy 4y ago
You're deflecting. I remind you that I asked 'Why?' in response to your bold statement "Not letting e.g. Baltics into NATO/EU would almost certainly mean they have been already absorbed back into Russia. The rest of
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by gdy 4y ago
Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War Czechoslovaks, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Estonia, Serbia, Italy, Romania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_
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by gdy 4y ago
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
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by gdy 4y ago
And Russia has been invaded by most of the European countries in the same time period. Starting from the Intervention and Poland's invasion to the invasion by Germany and its allies.
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by gdy 4y ago
Is Spain the prison of Catalonians?
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by gdy 4y ago
You too are trying to justify NATO expansion by Russian reaction to it.
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by gdy 4y ago
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner [0] [0] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book
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by gdy 4y ago
"Not letting e.g. Baltics into NATO/EU would almost certainly mean they have been already absorbed back into Russia. The rest of CEE would be vassalized." Why?
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by gdy 4y ago
And which neighbor hasn't invaded Russia? Russia remembers that too. In the 1990s there was a perfect chance to turn the page, but it was squandered by the West.
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Just like Cuba wanted to host Soviet missiles in 1962. Oddly, the US didn't think 'there is nothing we can do' and was about to start WW3 over it.
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by gdy 4y ago
"which you give no agency" It takes two to tango. Those countries didn't promise anything to Russia, but the West did. "Should a finger be pointed" Yes, please. But be sure to read the memorandum to the end, where y
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by gdy 4y ago
You are justifying an action by the reaction to it. It's like saying that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is justified by the Ukrainian drones and rockets attacking Russian cities [0] and villages near Ukrainian border. [0] https:&#
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by gdy 4y ago
"Western Europe just learned a painful lesson that you can't trust Russia. " Russia learnt that it cannot trust West when NATO started expanding into Eastern Europe and ex-USSR not too long after Warsaw pact and the USSR diss
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by gdy 4y ago
Yes, but you are quite far from where Russia is, not to speak of China and North Korea. On the other hand, in Russia police don't use dogs against protesters, so maybe Netherlands are not that far.
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by gdy 4y ago
Sorry

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