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by mopsi 1y ago
And some of the most influential Westerns were shot by Italians in the deserts of Spain, often without any of them ever having set foot in the US, and with a grasp of English barely a notch above miming. The stereotypical Western (as it is
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> From the Russian perspective, the US promised not to expand NATO eastwards in return for allowing German unification. Myth, refuted by many Russians from different backgrounds, including by Gorbachev himself on multiple occasions: htt
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by mopsi 1y ago
On Firefox, you can get rid of Shorts with Enhancer for Youtube extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...
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by mopsi 1y ago
It's hard to make informed choices and vote with your wallet when you're unaware of alternatives. Apple's ban on even mentioning competing options tries to preserve this information gap to the detriment of its customers.
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by mopsi 1y ago
> it's european version of Cuba crisis - geopolitical enemy in the underbelly of nuclear power The Cuban Missile Crisis was about nuclear missiles only minutes from Florida. After the crisis, Cuba continued to host Russian fighter j
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by mopsi 2y ago
The only likely candidate close to Zelenskyy in popularity is Zaluzhnyi, the former commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That's not a person who sees surrender as an option. All major political factions oppose holding elections no
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by mopsi 2y ago
> The political will to commit troops and to defend Ukraine simply isn’t there, especially not while Taiwan is looming. Wanting Europe to reindustrialize and handle it’s own defense allows America to focus more domestically and on potent
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by mopsi 2y ago
Just yesterday, a Russian missile strike on apartment buildings in Kryvyi Rih killed 19 people (incl 9 children) and injured 72. It was followed by drone strikes that targeted rescue workers. CNN article: https://edition.cnn.com&
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by mopsi 2y ago
> 1. Crimea, Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson Oblast, Zaporozhskaya Oblast are now parts of Russia. Not factually, nor legally.
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The strongest argument against him being a Russian asset is that the Russians would have instructed him to maintain a plausible cover. :) This isn't merely a joke. If you read about famous intelligence stories, you'll see how much
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> But seeing as Zelensky has the power to end martial law at any time, he is single-handedly preventing Ukranian elections He doesn't. The president of Ukraine can only propose the imposition or termination of martial law to the p
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Can you link me to the examples of the EU going after EU companies for DMA violations? https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
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Which movies by David Lynch have you seen? Lynch, by the way, was an outsider in Hollywood and in the wider movie industry. He didn't make large budget movies nor did his movies bring in a lot of money. When he was promoting his last m
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by mopsi 2y ago
Provided that things like paperwork are in order, which often they are not, on purpose. For example, there are so many examples of Russian command refusing to collect the bodies of dead soldiers. No body, no death certificate, no payout.
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by mopsi 2y ago
> But I'm sure that Russia has no intention of seizing territories of Western countries /---/ I'm not saying it's good to seize territory even in that case, but all other countries that has little only Russian l
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by mopsi 2y ago
It's not just Gorbachev. The minister of defense Dmitry Yazov also refuted this myth, as did the minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze and his successor Andrei Kozyrev, along with many others. You are clinging to your interpr
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by mopsi 2y ago
Baker verbally assured gorbachev that there would be no eastward expansion True or false? Gorbachev called it a myth: https://x.com/splendid_pete/status/1650735533826375680 And it's obvious if you f
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by mopsi 2y ago
There is not a single mention of Elbe in the linked document. However, there are numerous references to the 2+4 agreement, which is the informal name for the treaty I previously cited. That's what they were discussing and that's w
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by mopsi 2y ago
There are more risks than getting shot down. All sorts of dangerous activities may be going on in restricted areas: missile launches, dogfights between fighter jets, tests of unmanned vehicles, etc. You don't want to be a surprise gues
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by mopsi 2y ago
I think it proves the opposite: an 81% reduction in a few years is remarkable. Heating and power generation infrastructure is not something you can pivot quickly. These transitions usually take decades.
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> We already put nuclear-capable F-16s in Ukraine for example. So no missiles, no missile bases. The best you can come up with are a bunch of old fighter jets delivered a full decade after Russia invaded, to shoot down cruise missiles an
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by mopsi 2y ago
Baker and Gorbachev talked about the status NATO forces in East Germany until the Soviet withdrawal in 1994. They agreed that only the forces under direct German control would enter East Germany until the last Soviet forces had withdrawn. T
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania are in NATO. "Defensive alliance" means the US bankrolls and guarantees their security, there is no two way street with them, they can do nothing for us. They
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by mopsi 2y ago
Probably not - the Cuban missile crisis was about nuclear missiles and nothing else. Cuba remained an ally of the USSR after the missile crisis and continued to host Soviet conventional forces, including fighter jets permanently stationed j
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by mopsi 2y ago
Photos of a Mirage fighter jet shooting down a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile over Ukraine, published two days ago by the Ukrainian General Staff: https://x.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1898105929364648055
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by mopsi 2y ago
Except that no-one put nukes or conventional missiles in Eastern Europe, so the entire point is moot.
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That's most likely an artifact of automated translation.
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> That's why they won't suffer hostile forces putting missile bases only a few miles from their border. Nobody put any missiles in Eastern Europe. That's a worn-out Russian talking point that lacks any substance. And the C
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by mopsi 2y ago
> This war was provoked and escalated by the US State Department. The State Department provoked the war by: * Stating that the US would not put boots on the ground if Russia invaded Ukraine. * Opposing troop deployments from other NATO c
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by mopsi 2y ago
If Kursk appears not to be covered by the Russian nuclear umbrella in practice, what realistically will cause any country to fire off nuclear missiles? Existential threat. An attack like Prigozhin's mutiny; an overwhelming forc

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