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by mopsi 2y ago
> So, which industries did European countries develop in their African colonies, for example? Racists usually bring up ports, railways and whatever resource extraction they set up in Africa as their gift to humanity. As the other poster
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This just goes to show how incomparable the situation is with the Cuban missile crisis. The US has nothing to remove, because their nuclear weapons stand where they stood 40 years ago.
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> That's not true, Russian Federation did "participate in European initiatives". Nowhere near the level of those did who eventually joined the EU (or even EFTA). Even preparing for accession was a major effort that requi
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by mopsi 2y ago
The CIA did not topple Yanukovych. Yanukovych got over 100 protesters killed and ran away from Ukraine when he understood that he was not going to get away with it and would be facing jailtime. Ukrainian parliament assembled to resolve the
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> They're (alleged) intelligence facilities, not military bases. Ukraine didn't have even that. Prior to the Russia invasion of Ukraine, there were no permanently stationed foreign troops at all east of where they had stood in
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China already has bases much closer than Panama, in another country Russian apologists like to bring up as an example, Cuba. It's such a non-issue that you're not even aware of it. Burns has changed his mind since 2008 and now adv
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by mopsi 2y ago
> At the same time they do have great impact on the lives of ex-USSR citizens. No, that is not true at all. If we count all the people who lived directly in the USSR and in the Eastern Bloc dictatorships under Russian control, then that&
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My point was that the freedom of movement is not only for trivialities such as riding a bike, but the same ease extends far beyond that, including being able to permanently move across Europe for work, study or leisure - which I did mention
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> Russians had something comparable in 1990. Who are you trying to fool? The USSR had internal passport system and residency permits known as propiskas. People went as far as arranging fake marriages to get propiskas into major cities an
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> Russia wants a land bridge towards ... A man in Finland can take a bike and ride through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia and Austria to the southern tip of Italy, then head west to visit the westernmost point of Europe in P
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Kherson oblast, unfortunately, is spoils of war and a bargaining chip. And thus crumbles another excuse. > The part that Russia now holds is essentially an empty steppe with, IDK, perhaps ~150k population in total and most of its te
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by mopsi 2y ago
> How can you bend you mind to the extend that I'm propagandized and that the Russians are the fascists here? That's a great question to ask on a day when Russia conducted another major missile attack on Kyiv. Among apartment b
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Karelians has never made dominant part of the population of what is now republic of Karelia. Nor did Russians form the majority in Donetsk or Luhansk or Mariupol before the war, yet you have no issue making territorial claims. This is
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by mopsi 2y ago
> I can see that happening easily if Putin loses his war Putin lost the war a long time ago when the attack on Kyiv failed, Ukraine managed to maintain unified government and military command, and found allies. Countries representing the
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> For Russians, the 1990s are as coupled to territorial losses and new borders as they are to economic hardships. So tearing down these borders is a case of recovery. No, I am not speaking about the mythical 1990s as they exist in the ma
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> DPR was already proclaimed by then, and I believe most of these comandos were on Ukrainian passports ATM. Ukrainian citizenship doesn't prevent one from serving Russian interests. As the ECHR concluded after reviewing facts, there
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> Why does LPR/DPR militia fight the Ukrainian army then, from 2014 onwards? Because they totally do. They are among the most motivated troops. There never was such a thing. The war in the east started on 12 April 2014, when Russian
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> Since it excludes Russia from the day one I also care very little, and for me that's a liability not a virtue. There is nothing in the key treaties of the EU excluding Russian membership, provided that it meets the criteria, of wh
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> It was wild; still I don't understand why I would feel responsible for any of these events in history. > Great for them, but as a Russian I saw nothing useful coming from it my way. So why would I care. > After several dead
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> I'm honestly not sure which kind of a different response would one expect after murdering more than 20 million Soviet citizens in the four years before that. Ah yes, FOUR years, 1941-1945. Because the year 1939, when you signed a
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I'll compile them at some point.
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> The "raped their way to Berlin" is represents a completely undeserved slur. It does not. The war memorial that Russians erected in central Berlin is still colloquially known as "the tomb of the unknown rapist". The
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There is none. Gorbachev himself called it a myth: https://twitter.com/splendid_pete/status/1650735533826375680 In the same clip, USSR's minister of defense says the same when journalists ask about it: don&#x
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> Russians don't care and don't think in such terms. That's a lie and you know it. Variations of it like "We can show it again!" (that is, rape our way to Berlin) are in very widespread use among the Russian publ
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> Russians genuinely do not care about Eastern Europeans. That's not what actions say. Constant economic, political and social sabotage since the end of USSR, combined with hostile rhetorics from popular slogans like "The maste
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> The only way people are going to respect some arrangement is if they believe it's good for them. Russians now believe "some voting" they had forced on them was catastrophic and "some treaties" are fundamentally
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by mopsi 2y ago
As with Uvalde, I believe that the choice to maximize own wellbeing at the expense of others will often lead to worse outcome for all. Vaccines are a good example of this. Everyone is better off when they take a personal risk to eradicate p
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I am a reservist in a country that has such a high risk of Russian invasion that defense leaders have stopped all non-essential spending in favor of hoarding as much artillery and rockets as they can for when the time comes. I do not have a
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Your kind of thinking leads to societal decay like the kind seen at Uvalde. Each of the 374 cops chose to prioritize their own wellbeing over collective interests, ultimately leading to 19 kids and 2 teachers getting killed despite overwhel
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Russia never embraced globalization. Right from the start in 1991, it tried to use energy deliveries and punitive trade tariffs as tools to manipulate former USSR countries into submission or punish them in revenge, regularly causing crises

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