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by mopsi 2y ago
> That's barely a thousand people Enough to stage a grand welcome. Where is it? Where are the kids dancing, grannies crying with joy, people waving flags and kissing soldiers? Like when Ukraine liberated Kherson: https://
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Kherson welcomed Russians in the Feb 2022 Welcomed with "Go home!" chants, to be precise, and were shot at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrf0yLxViRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886GLfYI
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by mopsi 2y ago
Why would you count trips and not distance? The output of "traveling" is distance, and air travel is by far the safest method of generating that distance. Measures like accidents per hour or per trip skew the numbers, because air
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From the article: > If not for a delay in a connecting flight, the incendiary bomb would likely have burst into flames in the belly of a plane flying high above the European Union. Instead, it ignited on the ground in Germany’s Leipzig a
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by mopsi 2y ago
Even by such early point in time, Cuba had already banned free elections. Castro proclaimed in 1961 that "the revolution has no time for elections" and that his dictatorship represents the highest form of democracy. If anyone argu
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by mopsi 2y ago
Legitimate is an interesting choice of words for any government in a country that has not had free elections since 1948. Fidel Castro was in charge of Cuba for 50 years without receiving a single ballot cast in his name, despite promising
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Does Russia have the right to apply policies equivalent to the US' own Monroe Doctrine, or doesn't it? Yes it does, but I think you've misunderstood what the Monroe Doctrine was. The Monroe Doctrine was not a blank licen
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by mopsi 2y ago
The quote you picked is from Ukrainians who are requesting Tomahawks. US responses in the articles you linked: 1) "the U.S. and NATO are hesitant to endorse due to fears of nuclear escalation." 2) "I don’t see the Biden admin
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Read my words again: the threat was made. You are making things up at this point. Eastern Europe has no Tomahawks, and nor has anyone given any indication that this would change, nor does the extreme caution in supplying much weaker we
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by mopsi 2y ago
> The West has been repeating the mantra of "the Russians are out of [insert Russian weapon here]" for two and a half years now, but objectively judging by what happens on the field (which is the main thing that counts during t
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... complains the neighborhood rapist.
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Yes, true No, not true. Nothing in any of the provided sources says that Tomahawks have ever been given to Eastern Europe nor that there is any intention to. Ukraine has requested them, but your own source says that Ukraine is "un
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by mopsi 2y ago
> NATO has deployed Tomahawks in the past and threatened to put them in Ukraine in the not so distant past. Not true. > Would you find the deployment of Kalibr (the Tomahawk analog on the other side) to your borders, within 7 minutes
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by mopsi 2y ago
It should be noted that Putin was personally an enforcer for St Petersburg's mayor Anatoly Sobchak[1] in the early 1990s, and his "circle of friends" from that time now mans key positions of the entire government. For example
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by mopsi 2y ago
But that's what military leaders are saying too: by giving Ukraine better weapons to defend their homes, we hit two birds with one stone. Better weapons save Ukrainian lives and do more damage to the resources that threaten us too. Eve
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Generalization is to assume that they have any interest in going further based on this fact. Russia is expanding itself westward by force and that's a fact. That it will stop at Ukraine is your speculation and not an observable fa
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> Military leaders are politicians. I am in the Military. The official position, is inline with what the political leaders want. That's not the case in countries bordering Russia, starting from Finland and heading south, where milit
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Russia is not creeping westwards. This is a false generalization of their strategy in Ukraine, which is not to expand westwards, but merely to retain control over periphery. This is not a generalization, but a fact. Four regions of Ukr
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by mopsi 2y ago
> These statements are false? Yes. The "separatists" were entirely a fiction created by Russian armed forces as a cover and pretext for their invasion. The lengthy verdict by the European Court of Human Rights[1] lays it all ou
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by mopsi 2y ago
We already live in a reality where Russia keeps creeping westwards with aggressions that grow larger on every turn. Why should Russia stop if you validate their strategy? Makes no sense whatsoever. Attack through Belarus against Poland and
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by mopsi 2y ago
If you ask European military leaders where we should invest and how we should prepare, they'll tell you that strong support of Ukraine is one of the best investments into European defense that you could make at the moment. They calcula
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by mopsi 2y ago
What Tomahawks, where? If this is supposed to be some kind of clever hint about weapons in countries that have joined NATO since the end of the Cold War, then unfortunately none of them have Tomahawks, or anything close to them, or anything
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by mopsi 2y ago
This is not "Russia's viewpoint", but a narrative to advance their ambition of enslaving again the roughly 100 million people who became free after the USSR collapsed. The Russian viewpoint is that Eastern Europe would be muc
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by mopsi 2y ago
What weapons? Cold War era stockpiles have been dismantled in Europe and nothing has been installed in countries that have joined since the Cold War.
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by mopsi 2y ago
How many casualties per month will the peace you are advocating bring? The parts of Ukraine that have fallen under Russian control have seen almost their entire male population wiped out by forcible conscription for fighting against Ukraine
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Until just a few years back, this would have been one of the top comments. People have had the time to learn what the "peace" they are offering to the victims of aggression means in practice.
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by mopsi 2y ago
Swedish telco Telia reports that the undersea internet cable between Sweden and Lithuania was also damaged on Sunday: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2416006/undersea-ca...
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by mopsi 2y ago
Yes it is. And even then, looking at what Putin is doing to Ukraine, they decided to promptly join NATO and seek further direct military cooperation with the US. They are currently building facilities to pre-position American equipment in F
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Sounds very emotional.
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Putin is far from perfect and modern Russia has many trends I'm deeply unhappy with. But the fact is that every alternative suggested by the West or its puppets is immeasurably, inconceivably worse. No, it's not a fact - it&#

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