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by mopsi 2y ago
You are missing the fact that the US manufacturer is paying more because the US tax system applies sales tax multiple times on inputs as they move through manufacturing steps. Raw materials like steel are often exempt even in the US, but ma
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> Do you think the US would have been willing to absorb similar levels of casualties if Mexico decided to join a military alliance with Russia or China? No, certainly not. Russian losses are totally insane. The US lost 107 903 killed in
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> War started in 2021, we are now in 2025, that's 4 years, estimated size of Russian army is ~1 500 000, which means they should have a minus 100 000 soldiers, that does not add up. The war started in February 2022, not 2021. I do n
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I don't see how the captured settlements indicate any better progress. Avdiivka, the "greatest success" of 2024, was a small town with pre-invasion population of 32 000, less than 5 miles of the frontline on day 1 of the inva
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In authoritarian countries, sports have long been an important tool for laundering their international image. East Germany had a particularly notorious government-run doping program (with horrible long-term health consequences), and the Rus
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> They have actually accelerated They have not. In the first 30 days of the war, Russia captured some 22% of Ukraine. Successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in 2022 reduced this to 17-18%. In 2023 and 2024, Russia failed to regain its fo
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Works as a uBlock rule too: youtube.com##div.ytp-play-progress{background: #f03 !important;}
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> So are the maps that I'm looking at all fake(including the Ukrainian ones) or the Russian army that is in shambles is till beating the Ukrainian army? In what sense is half a percent of territorial gain for 400 000 casualties &quo
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When I read articles like "What Are Tariffs and How Do They Work?", I can't help but feel that they are written in overly complicated and abstract language. For this kind of website, it might be a good idea to strive for Simp
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Wouldn't it reflect better on her if she had been paid to promote the insane conspiracy theories? Falling for garbage-tier internet hoaxes is not a good look for any high-level official, especially in the field of intelligence, because
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> They were literally fighting together with the Germans against the USSR. Learn your history before making audacious claims. Perhaps you should learn a thing or two yourself before making such remarks. In the first two years of the WWII
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> Oh, you mean the monument to nazi collaborators? No. But name-calling everything a "nazi" does not surprise me one bit. To hardcore Russian nationalists, the mere existence of Latvian nation and state is "nazism". S
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> Russia has never shown hostility to EU In some parallel reality, perhaps it's so. In this world, Russia has been remarkably hostile for a very long time, to the point where the entire 1300 km border between Finland and Russia - ex
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Now imagine the entire society standing in such lines, even the best doctors and brightest engineers, for all basic necessities, not knowing if there's anything left by the time it's their turn.
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None of this is true. Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president with strong Russian backing, torpedoed a highly beneficial EU-Ukrainian trade deal under last-minute Russian pressure[1]. Ukrainian youth, who had the most to win from increased trad
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> In the absence of US actions, the kleptocrats in Moscow would have been quite content continuing to print money selling natural resources to European industry and then wasting their largess buying up European villas and sports teams. B
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If your goal is to sour relations between Ukraine and its allies in Central Europe, then blowing up the pipeline makes perfect sense. The pivot away from Russian gas was well underway by then and the pipeline had lost its value. May as well
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For Aida, the experience of Buryatia was powerful in another way. Her parents are war supporters. The past three years have tested her bond with them, though when we spoke recently, over Zoom, she was home for a visit. Spending time wi
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> The sensible thing would be to pull NATO back to more reasonable boundaries and leave the Russians alone. This does nothing to address the core issue of Russia viewing over 100 million Europeans across more than 10 countries as "l
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> Unless a peace deal is secured (unlikely, there is no zone of possible agreement) a Ukrainian military collapse is coming and it will be a humiliation for western hegemony to see Russia sweep forward unchallenged on their front door. N
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> So a lot of Russian propaganda is effective because it is the truth /.../ the sanctions are improving Russia's economy This is not the truth, very far from it. Western observers are fooled by the official statistics beca
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Blatantly untrue. Russia got all it wanted: Ukraine seeked NATO membership in 2008, Russia threw a temper tantrum, the US, France and Germany bailed out of the invitation, and Russia invaded Ukraine a few years later without having to risk
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> They should have surrendered on day 1. That would have gotten them a bad deal but not so many people dying. No, many more would have died. It's not even a speculation at this point, but a reasonable conclusion that is solidly grou
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And those who didn't applaud learned what "punitive psychiatry" means: Refusing to bow to an occupier in Russia’s world labels you as “mentally ill.” Through forced diagnoses, drugging, and institutionalizing—even childre
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> sure, but that is sadly how world politics works. if the US expands nato right to the border of russia then they retaliate. ukraine fought a war against their own citizens in the eastern half when they sympathized with opening up to ru
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Historical track record shows that such justifications can be easily manufactured when needed, and are ignored when they are not needed, meaning that this approach serves no purpose other than tying one's own hands.
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> You can even go back to the 90s and promises that NATO made that it would not expand to eastern Europe if you really want to get deep on the causes of this war. The story about broken NATO promises was invented as an excuse for the wa
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> The war started because of NATO screwing around in Ukraine's politics and trying to set up NATO on Russia's border. That sounds like an attempt to rewrite history. Ukraine's prospect of becoming a member of NATO was comp
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The Budapest memorandum was signed in 1994 and not 2003, it sets no neutrality requirements on Ukraine, nor was there a coup in Ukraine, nor was Ukraine scheduled to have any elections in 2014, nor was or is Ukraine in the process of joinin
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> Russia let them go without a fight. That's hardly what you'd expect from an evil empire, is it? The USSR's collapse was rather peaceful not by their own choice. The USSR was in such a deep shit by the final days that off

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