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by mopsi 3y ago
It ends when Apple learns to balance the interests of their shareholders and the interests of their customers better. I would go as far as saying that the way Apple banned even any mention of alternative payment methods for in-app services
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by mopsi 3y ago
"Myth," Gorbachev said in 2014 interview to ZDF. He added that there is nothing in writing because there was no agreement. Had there been an agreement, they would've written it down. Clip: https://twitter.com/
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by mopsi 3y ago
No, he said that his words were taken out of context and he never meant the things people like you try to attribute to him.
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The only ones installing missiles anywhere are Russians, most recently moving nuclear missiles into an unstable dictatorship in Belarus, right on EU and NATO border.
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> There is quite a bit of evidence No, there isn't, the whole conspiracy theory lies on a few sentences taken out of context. Spend an hour vetting sources and you'll find that it's a Russian PR spin without any substance
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> (live in Germany) East or West? :)
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by mopsi 3y ago
Every link of yours is a well-known spin. For example, Bennett has clarified that his words have been taken out of context and misrepresented, and Arahamiya has said that no-one on Ukrainian side belived that Russian peace plan was genuine
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The money DID go to public transportation. The cost of the Concorde program is peanuts compared to how much value was gained from it. Concorde brought many innovations such as its electric control system, which was developed further for the
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Thankfully, that's dying on under its own weight now. Games have become so expensive to develop that sales from a single platform struggle to support many of them.
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Revenue != profit.
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> This lasted until Donetsk rebels started shooting down aircrafts, followed by the tragedy with the civilian plane. There was no such thing as "Donetsk rebels". They were unmarked Russian military.
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> If one country has been saying for nearly 2 decades that if another country joins NATO it means war, and then that country ratifies their constitution to seek NATO membership, and then a war happens, is it really that surprising? I don
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> Food is plentiful & inexpensive compared to the inflation that we see in America Is that why Russian TV channels are showing Putin heroically promising to "personally" "solve the issue" of egg prices? [1] Is tha
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by mopsi 3y ago
No, this is perfect analogy. Russia attacks those who are weak. Hence why everyone from the polar circle down to the Mediterranean have joined NATO.
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It did exist. Putin's speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2007 is one of the best-known examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladimir... His intentions have been obvious for a very
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by mopsi 3y ago
You have not presented a case for any year. In fact, western governments can't give such informal guarantees further than their election term even if they wanted to, because unlike in Russia, governments change every 4-5 years and the
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> You see, now you are inventing strawmen like "eternal commitment" and "the narrative of how NATO has always wanted to surround Russia". I don't think I can continue this conversation if you are not talking in
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> I suggest you study the link I gave. For example, document #30 [0] that gives an answer to the question "who on the Russian side has ever confirmed it?" There is nothing in the document confirming an eternal commitment to not
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The Soviet minister of foreign affairs has explained that references to "NATO expansion" have been mischaracterized, and that their discussions were limited to placement of US forces in East Germany after reunification, and that n
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by mopsi 3y ago
> I gave the link to the documents, not to hersay. It's a speculation that has been categorically refuted by the very persons it mentions. > You mean apart from 'nationalists', 'hardliners' and 'communist
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> GDP is not a perfect measure of an economy. An often-used example of this is the crash of oil tanker Exxon Valdez, which in terms of GDP is one of the most productive sea voyages of all time.
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> despite all the promises given by Western leaders This gets repeated a lot, but who on the Russian side has ever confirmed it? Many people from that time are still around. Both the USSR's last minister of foreign affairs (1985-199
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And Germany got what they wanted, and Russia invaded Georgia the very same year. Merkels and Schröders are how we got here. German military is now planning for missile attacks against their infrastructure: https://www.thetimes.co
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> USA undoubtedly had better access to a wide variety of groceries due to its geography and agrarian economy. Russia doesn't have a California or Mexico (the best candidate, Turkey, was part of NATO). Basic goods like sausages, stoc
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by mopsi 3y ago
It is very dishonest of you to dismis his impressions as if they were anything political. The shock and bewilderment of people from USSR when they first traveled abroad is well known; I know people who touched fruits as they walked through
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> what you're doing here is called gish galloping. It wasn't me who changed the topic from blaming Poland for Hitler's invasion, to denial of the well-known persecution of indigenous peoples in Russia, to calling internat
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> such a law obviously does not prevent people from using or learning their ethnic language It is only one measure of many that is driving the rapid decline of indigenous peoples in Russia. Russia has a long history of methodical persecu
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I see no reason to call any of what I quoted an exaggeration. These are very well documented episodes, which barely scratch the surface when it comes to German and Russian crimes committed in Eastern Europe. The described actions were merel
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> Putin did, however, explain what Hitler's motivation was, The Free City of Danzig. That was an excuse, not motivation. Hitler was motivated by theories of racial superiority, which he immediately began carrying out in Poland after
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by mopsi 3y ago
> until outside nations supported violent overthrow of a democratically elected government which followed its rise to power with oppression of an ethnic group. The trouble with this narrative is that it's fictional and not supported

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