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by mopsi 2y ago
> The last time the USSR lost 26 million people because of European invasion. No - it lost them because it allied with Hitler in destroying Europe as it existed then. From the Winter War against Finland, to invading Estonia, Latvia and L
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And now think what a shithole Russia must be that Ukraine prefers all that to the loving embrace of mother Russia.
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Major public organizations and interest groups (such as the EFF, ACLU or AARP) that are independent from the state: Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and i
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It is the third year of a three-day war, are you not aware how stale these long-debunked talking points sound by now?
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> Official UN data. Which by their own admission is incomplete and of very poor quality, because no-one lets them count the dead in places like Mariupol. The picture is as muddy as with Jews in Europe during the WWII. Some are refugees,
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No there wasn't, and the article you linked is from one of those bottom-feeders who keeps circulating long-debunked anti-American conspiracy theories. And the NYT article you linked earlier says that CIA provided instructors for Ukrain
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There was no "CIA-backed coup" in Ukraine. A president that caved in to Russian pressure to back out of tighter economic relations with the EU saw massive protests in response, ordered to shoot protesters, killed over a hundred of
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Over time, the scar transformed into a state religion in the USSR: obsessive celebration of all kinds of anniversaries, children tortured in schools with made up stories of heroism, huge monuments everywhere, TV and cinemas filled with endl
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> I will acknowledge that the people making policy decisions on this also, as well as probably being just plain better at this area than I am Maybe. Maybe not. This reminded me of Jake Sullivan's essay in November/December 2023
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It's interesting that whenever Russian apologists see pushback, they resort to treating Biden and the US government as a etalon of morality that others should be compared against. I don't share this view. If you want to lock up Ch
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>> genocide in Ukraine > I would be very interested what your daily news sources are. Putin is literally wanted by the International Criminal Court for forcible transfer of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children, which is a cr
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> That is the kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours. Only if you subscribe to the argument that Russia has no intention to gobble up countries west of it at least to the furthest extent of USSR and it
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You cannot expect to invade another country, drive away the local population and replace it with colonizers from your homeland, and expect that when the tide turns and your military is driven away, your colonizers will get to keep the homes
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> A central tenet of Nazism was its hatred for Bolshevism (and that was tightly connected to the Nazis' antisemitism as well). Another central tenet of both Nazism and Bolshevism is their hatred for capitalism and democracy. Their a
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What you call "petty bribery" are vast networks where people at every level squeeze citizens for bribes, take their cut, and pass the rest upwards to their superiors. People who run the country are the bosses of various bribery ch
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When's the last time you were forced to pay a bribe? How often have doctors, cops, city officials, ladies at the DMV and other people in power explained how they cannot help you despite a completely valid request, and at the same time,
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I happened to live in the USSR for quite a few decades against my will, and I've seen many westerners with such naive impressions. You don't even understand how detached from reality you are. It's exactly the opposite of what
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> There's literally no evidence that's the case, this is fear-mongering on a scale I've never seen before. To the contrary, the reaction of the world to this conflict has already made enough of an impression on any would-b
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> Putin has declared very recently he's open to dialogue Then he can pick up a phone, call Shoigu, and have a dialogue with him about issuing an order down the chain of command to withdraw troops from Ukraine if he is so keen on pea
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> For example, try arguing that the USA should try to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine. You'll be immediately accused of being a "Putin puppet" when all you care about is that the war is ended with as
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> For that matter Russia made it clear that Ukraine in NATO was a redline since basically forever. An interesting aside is that that cable was written by William Burns, current head of the CIA who was, at the time, the US diplomat to Rus
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> Take close note of their captured territory - this is the buffer zone that they think they need, whether you agree or not, to safeguard themselves from NATO forces they do not trust one bit. Take a close look of any map of Europe, plea
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by mopsi 2y ago
I don't have to volunteer anywhere; I already face rising odds that I'll be conscripted even before this year is out. As to France and other countries occupied by Nazis, capitulation meant a ride to death camp for some, slave labo
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This is only going to get more people killed.
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> Considering the sitation in ukraine, we've wasted a lot of money and a lot of ukranian men for what exactly? The alternative is that Russia rolls over Ukraine, murders between few hundred thousand and few million people to enforce
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> The problem of EU as I see it is that it is comprised of "normal" European countries - meaning, for all of their economic development, small-ish and not having direct military ambitions, or requirement to have those. If Russi
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> Perhaps there was an option of multi-speed Europe and perhaps it will perform better in maintaining peace in Europe, but it wasn't chosen. It was decided to integrate all the Eastern Europe into the EU. That decision came late in
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> A hundred percent positive. Maybe Poland was viewed with some reservations, but with Czech, Baltic states and Croatia there was no cloud of doubt. Each one of these had patron states inside EU who would spend effort to ensure their ent
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There's no need to speculate. Even with 1960s tech and no physical access, the US military somehow managed to produce really good maps of the USSR, superior to those that were available to the public. So ironically, the intentional ina
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> But the truth is, I've not seen any concrete steps from the EU to enable that. With such attitude, Eastern Europe would not have joined the EU either. Do you think anyone in 1991 wanted to see Poland in the EU? Do you think anyone

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