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by mopsi 2y ago
The aggressions started after Ukraine made moves (supported openly by unelected politically connected groups on _both_ sides) to join NATO after failing to do much to really make any attempt to deal with the corruptions around the gas
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by mopsi 2y ago
Do you have any actual evidence? So far, you have offered only conjecture. This seems to be a common trait among people who are into conspiracy theories: they take the mere fact that they can construct a remotely plausible scenario as proo
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Well, US/UK did it once with USSR. They allowed SU control over Poland and east Germany. You have forgotten the Cold War. The Russians stopped only where they were forced to stop. Western European countries set up an entire new
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by mopsi 2y ago
I've said my reasons why I think Russia may be satisfied with the eastern oblasts and not seek more. Exactly the same reasons apply to other oblasts of Ukraine as well (land bridge to Transnistria), and to Poland and Lithuania
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by mopsi 2y ago
What do you mean by a very big hole? That it would damage the brand and its civilian sales? Airbus is known for civilian airliners, but it has been a major stakeholder in many military projects for decades. Airbus has a 46% (largest) stake
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by mopsi 2y ago
Ukraine has a significant legacy in other areas too. The Yuzhmash factory in Dnipro used to manufacture some of the best Soviet nuclear missiles, but that alone does not mean that Ukraine still has a nuclear weapons program. Instead, they a
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by mopsi 2y ago
I have no regional experience with the tiny backwater corner of the world known as "the Baltics"....but I absolutely understand how my country exerts influence in numerous larger, more important places, with even more signifi
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by mopsi 2y ago
Why would the US invest $200M to build these labs in Ukraine of all places. The country is poor, corrupt, and unstable. Does that sound like the udeal place for a pathogen research lab? If you are studying drug-resistant tuberculosi
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by mopsi 2y ago
The point is that "biolabs" in Ukraine are inevitably conducting bioweapons research by any other name. Biological research != bioweapons. At the very least, every country that grows food has biological laboratories to mon
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by mopsi 2y ago
The alternative is stopping this comedic drip-feeding of tanks in batches of 4 out of misplaced expectation that Mr. Hitler will surely stop at Poland, and giving Ukraine the full support of European militaries and industries. This is by fa
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by mopsi 2y ago
You've fallen one of the dumbest conspiracy theories. There are no facts whatsoever to support it. Russia tried to label regular scientific research as "secret bioweapon labs" and even scientists from Russia published an open
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by mopsi 2y ago
Kherson oblast is for the land bridge to Crimea And Odessa and Mykolaiv oblasts are for the next obvious "land bridge" to Transnistria, and so forth. There's always some excuse.
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by mopsi 2y ago
I'm not saying those regions are more pro russia than Ukraine, but that there is non minor population in there that is pro russia, ethnically russian or speaks russian - which is why russia wants them. That's a very weak a
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by mopsi 2y ago
To prove that we'd probably need a FOIA request or a large CIA/USAID/NED document leak. Saying "nobody forced them" while the US operated probably the most effective coercive soft power institutions the world h
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by mopsi 2y ago
- The placing of bioweapons labs and other military installations in Ukraine, intentionally provoking Putin and creating internal pressure on Putin vis a vis Russia's own military hawks. This is literally garbage-tier Russian p
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by mopsi 2y ago
The most critical need is air defense: anti-air missiles and cannons capable of shooting down Russian missiles and drones. Long-range missiles are important too, because it is better to shoot the archer than to try take down every arrow. Lo
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by mopsi 2y ago
One of the issued draft notices: https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/31737 Most of such stories are on Telegram, another example: https://t.me/akaloy/7128 Human rights activists advise young men to li
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by mopsi 2y ago
In a coordinated operation, Russian authorities conducted raids on three of Moscow’s largest and most popular nightclubs on Friday night, detaining hundreds of men and taking them to military conscription offices. According to witne
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by mopsi 2y ago
> And Ukraine forces men into vans to send them to the frontlines. Russia just keeps increasing the pay. It would be honest of you to mention the flood of videos on Russian social media showing crippled Russian soldiers on crutches dragg
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by mopsi 2y ago
Yanukovych fled because even his own party turned on him after police snipers killed over a hundred people. Instead of securing a political deal with other parties to safeguard his future (as he had hoped), he faced the possibility of arres
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by mopsi 2y ago
They are a tiny fringe minority that gets humiliated whenever they try to debate actual experts. Here's Mearsheimer getting smacked down in front of a live audience by the Polish foreign minister: https://youtu.be/ivcSV
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by mopsi 2y ago
She is a weird centerpiece of Russian-pushed conspiracy theories that attempt to convince that a relatively unknown middle manager from the US State Department was a mastermind in a vast conspiracy that pitted Ukraine against Russia, which
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by mopsi 2y ago
I do not accept your hypothetical scenarios, but I am willing to investigate them. People often point to Napoleon or Hitler and claim that Russia fears an invasion over the flatlands of Eastern Europe. Yet, if we investigate this, we find t
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by mopsi 2y ago
Mearsheimer is on the Russian payroll through the Valdai Club, which was set up to influence Western thinkers. He omits facts or twists them to fit his narrative. So it's no wonder that Russians have paid to have his books published. I
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by mopsi 2y ago
Nobody installed any missiles in Ukraine. As to alliances, Cuba remained an ally of the USSR until its very end in 1991.
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by mopsi 2y ago
Haven't they been proven right? What was the point of decades of military spending on Europe, all those bases and other expenses, if in the end, the US simply lacked the willpower to use them as intended to stop a Russian invasion and
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by mopsi 2y ago
The need to transport items through forests comes from the new unjammable wire-guided drones. Anything on roads within 5+ kilometers of the frontline is easily spotted and destroyed.
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by mopsi 2y ago
Entire categories of drones are missing from the US arsenal, such as the ultra-cheap wire-guided ones that allow Ukrainians to fly 20 km into the enemy's rear, enter buildings, explore them from the inside, and leave behind presents or
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by mopsi 2y ago
Exactly my point: this is the story that the current dictator is spinning to justify his crimes. It's also funny how Putin now lies about how invading Ukraine is all about NATO, when in the first few years of the war, Russia denied any
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by mopsi 2y ago
And here are three different generations of Soviet and Russian high officials directly refuting your narrative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149963

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