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by mopsi 2y ago
Swim, sea invasion, huge fleet - why? It's the Swedes who would need to do swimming after Russians airdropped VDV onto Gotland in a surprise attack like they did in Hostomel, secured Visby airport, and started landing heavy equipment w
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by mopsi 2y ago
> It is pretty well established now that this was indeed the case. It is not. The title of your linked article is "What Gorbachev heard" - why speculate instead of asking him? Gorbachev, Shevardnadze, Yazov and other top USSR o
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> For a moment, let's take your highly simplistic statement at face value. USSR gave up East Germany and voluntarily dissolved itself on the agreement that NATO won't expand east of Germany and Russia will be "admitted&quo
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> But just to be on the safe side, they also did a lot of mediatic fear mongering about russia invading sweden very soon™, which is ludicrous if you look at a map and see that there's a sea in between. Perhaps you need a better map.
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> USSR/Russia’s safety record is actually far superior here. It's not; the US has launched more people into space; most of them using far more complex vehicles (reusable shuttles); some of them into far more dangerous missions
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I just honestly don't understand what the issue is with NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and why Russians in particular are so butthurt about it. During some of the worst massacres in Yugoslavia, more people were murdered in the span of a fe
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> The subtexts that you are pinning on me are your own invention, I just say about unfaithful representation of history in the press. What is the purpose of having to mention that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were in Russian Empire in t
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by mopsi 2y ago
Indeed, one of the most notorious war criminals in "Judenfrei" Estonia was Idel Jakobson[1], a Latvian Jew, who in the 1930s tried to overthrow the democratic government, but got arrested and imprisoned. He was freed under 1938 ge
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by mopsi 2y ago
Here's a helpful map visualizing how Russia and Germany divided Eastern Europe in the secret protocol[1] to the Hitler-Stalin pact: https://i.imgur.com/DvCrPWB.jpeg As to the "Judenfrei" status, that's a
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by mopsi 2y ago
> I can forgive people for forgetting to mention that Baltic states were part of Russia for centuries before they were re-annexed by the USSR in 1945. Indeed I can see how people had 20 years of independence and weren't fans of bein
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The treaty of Nystad from 1721 is obsolete and has been superseded by other treaties. Estonia[1], Latvia[2] and Lithuania[3] fought successful wars of independence against Russia in 1918-1919 and made peace treaties in which Russians recogn
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Grand Theft Auto V uses curl and earns about that much in a year. Fortnite, Roblox and PUBG use curl too; they're massive money-printing machines. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/06/09/games-curl-to
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Russia wanted to join nato, but nato wouldn't let them. That's not true. You will not find a single law approved by Russian Duma that sets it as a foreign policy goal like in countries that did choose to join NATO.
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by mopsi 2y ago
That's true. Proper ventilation with heat exchangers and all that is a very recent thing and not very widespread. Almost the entire housing stock, offices and other buildings were built without modern ventilation. Instead, buildings go
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by mopsi 2y ago
The bar has been crossed. Finland and other airlines flying in Northern Europe are suffering from GPS disruptions that make landing at smaller less-equipped airports impossible: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe&#x2F
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> If you took the Soviet union to be a totalitarian society, we could name Mikhail Bulgakov, Stanislaw Lem, etc. Bulgakov was driven into poverty, despair and early death at age 48 by relentless harassment by Soviet authorities. Many of
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by mopsi 2y ago
Ukraine alone is too weak by any measure, but the way Biden acted before the war was escalatory. For example, he announced that "there will be no American boots on the ground" instead of leaving it at least ambigious. This lowered
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by mopsi 2y ago
It is literally the opposite of escalation. Show strength and shoot down the intruder like Turkey did and Russia will send a delegation to apologize. Or show cowardice and they'll continue violating your border and endangering civilian
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by mopsi 2y ago
How can you graduate from a CS program without having had to learn git somewhere along the way? Do you never collaborate on any project? Do you never check out a repo or make changes to it?
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> They're dumping 10s to 100s of billions of dollars into Ukraine's defence. They've claimed to have been a part of killing something like 300,000 Russian soldiers. This has come only after years of war against Ukraine and
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> But that doesn't change the fact that the US was provoking Russia by signing everyone up and the US acting on that expansionist urge in Ukraine seems to be the major driver of this war. ??? But that's exactly the opposite of
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> The pattern is NATO expands. NATO is not a loaf of rising bread that expands on its own when left on a windowsill. My country is in NATO because I voted for successive governments that set it as their top priority, because I believed t
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by mopsi 2y ago
Very unlikely. Many mistakes are small jokes. Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language. Ukraine has a city named Salo, an obvious reference to sa
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by mopsi 2y ago
> He explained Russia's stated motivation for invading Ukraine, that it felt threatened by NATO's continual eastward encroachment and breaking of promises not to do so. That is a total nonsense that has been called as such by p
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No I don't. If you want to nitpick, then for starters the Ukrainian parliament didn't go through the formal impeachment process (which requires 4/5 majority), because the Ukrainian constitution has no provisions for a situati
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Facts are facts. Russian representatives were given an opportunity to demonstrate how LNR and DNR were domestic separatists and not members of Russian military, and they completely failed to do so. The facts against them were overwhelming.
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The internationally accepted standard is 2/3. Not a single country besides Russia recognized Yanukovych as the president of Ukraine after the vote, and even Russia gave up being a sore loser after a few months.
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There was no coup in Ukraine. Yanukovych was removed from office by the constitutional majority of Ukrainian parliament with votes 328-vs-0. Not even a single member of his own party supported him.
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The European Court of Human Rights has determined that there were no such things as DNR and LNR; they were a Russian military ruse from the get-go to justify the invasion of Ukraine.

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