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by mopsi 2y ago
> it's about random unrealistic expectations placed on Russia that are not applied to other countries, in order to reject Russia. Not at all. Russia never adopted EU integration as an official government policy and never started mea
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> You are capable of making the distinction between IBM selling devices directly to the Nazi government knowing what it might do with them, and Namecheap selling hosting services to average Russians who might be using said hosting to say
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> For anyone that wasn't around, a few years back Namecheap decided without any warning to just instantly drop all their customers from an entire country because of political ideology. No, not because of political ideology - most of
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What deeper principles do you mean, profit above all else, like IBM and countless other companies chose to do business with Nazi Germany? Russia was and continues to rain down missiles and artillery on cities where most of Namecheap's
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> As we say in Russia, "and what are the downsides"? Tremendous wasted potential. You could be living the kind of life Norwegians are enjoying, but you are unable to climb out of the self-destructive pattern that leads to low d
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by mopsi 2y ago
Russian military operation against Ukraine started on 20 February 2014. This is the date inscribed on the medal awarded to participants of the operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Return_of_Cri...
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> It wasn't the EU that was desperate for Ukraine to join, it was the US. We wanted to use them as a strategic tool against Russia, whereas them actually joining the EU would cause nothing but problems for the EU because it'd r
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> And the catalyst there was us backing a coup that overthrew a [democratically elected] Russian leaning President, sending the largely ethnic Russian regions (including Crimea and Donbas) into outright rebellion, starting the exact civi
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And even there we can see copyright issues: Information by Subject Music Song lyrics (apparently disabled for copyright reasons) https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overvie...
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That's rarely done in practice. Even Tailwind's own site hardcodes colors.
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Lindbergh was a prominent speaker for the America First Committee, which has uncanny resemblance to the MAGA crowd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee The Iranian attack on Israel seems to have had s
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by mopsi 3y ago
There's an interesting sidestory to Dudayev. In the late 1980s, he was a divisional commander with HQ in Tartu, occupied Estonia. He had good relations with the local population and Estonian independence movement greatly influenced his
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by mopsi 3y ago
No, it does not stand, because they are not comparable examples at all. Since the end of the Cold War, European militaries have seen a reduction of up to 10 times in everything from personnel to equipment. Germany went from 3800 tanks in 19
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> US diplomats knew this perfectly well and pushed for Ukraine to join NATO anyway. The initiative for joining NATO came from Ukraine and not the US diplomats. Prior to 2014 the public support was too weak for it to happen. Popular suppo
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Nothing to do with belief. The facts about post-Cold War European disarmament are public and well known. German army had 335 200 soldiers, 3826 tanks and 2136 IFVs in 1980. By 2015, the numbers were down to 61 312 soldiers, 225 tanks and 40
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by mopsi 3y ago
Nobody was doing that until Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Europe was unilaterally disarming itself. Armies like Bundeswehr saw a 5x-10x reduction in manpower, artillery, tanks and other weapons between the end of the Cold War and 2014. Eu
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by mopsi 3y ago
NATO isn't a dough that expands on its own. Better ask why Russia has soured relations with all of its European neighbors to the extent that all of them are preparing for fighting off an invasion.
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Someone else's decision, and you are just following the orders? It doesn't work that way. Putin is not working in a factory building tanks and artillery shells. He is not in an office programming which cities ballistic missiles wi
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The bombing campaign of former Yugoslavia lasted for 10 weeks and stopped a series of civil wars that had gone on for 10 years and claimed at least 130 000 lives. The whole campaign killed a few hundred people, less than were executed in a
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Germany has changed the way it treats its neighbors and has become a trustworthy and reliable partner who seeks to solve disagreements through peaceful means. You don't see military parades under Swastikas, people voting Hitler their b
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There were no separatists in eastern Ukraine. The European Court of Human Rights has determined that the so-called separatists were either unmarked members of Russian armed forces and special services, or under their direct command. It was
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All of that is fiction.
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That says very little. Given the dynamics of military balance in Europe since 1991 due to the massive reduction of forces on the European side, what would the contents of such arrangement be and what would guarantee that Russia adheres to t
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by mopsi 3y ago
"The countries where most of the world's population lives" is another funny metric like Francophone Africa. Most of the world's population lives in countries that have very little to contribute in the first place, becaus
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by mopsi 3y ago
> The world? Yes, the world. Cherrypicking indicators like "respondents in Francophone Africa" doesn't change the simple fact that the majority of the world disapproves what Russia is doing and the attitude towards Russia
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Speaking of hypocricy, why is that Russians endlessly whine how the US has wronged them, but when anyone sheds light on the crimes that Russia has committed, you immediately bring the US up as an etalon of morality and try to act as if the
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by mopsi 3y ago
He has no freedom in Russia either. In ironic twist of fate, his is now a mouthpiece for one of the most oppressive governments on the planet. There's plenty of whistleblowers who haven't made such deal with the devil and haven&#x
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by mopsi 3y ago
> He fled a corrupt nation state ... to a far worse place where he'll get executed as soon as he steps out of the line. He has become someone who says only what his handlers allow him to say. A hero doesn't prostitute himself
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Cost, reliability and simplicity! A WWII-era 20-40mm cannon upgraded with automated targeting system doesn't even have to accurately hit the target if its shell explodes into a cloud of metal fragments that hits propellers and control
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You just don't hear news about affordable places because there's nothing to report. In Europe at least, housing is quite affordable outside of major cities and tourist hotspots like Ibiza. A couple with average income can get a ni

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