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by mopsi 3y ago
> Russia annexed those regions when it became the best way to protect the people there, after the collapse of negotiations. Taking into account the daily terror raids conducted with artillery and missiles on towns and villages of annexed
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Carbon copy of Russian propaganda, with central thesis that Ukraine doesn't want to fight, but Americans are forcing them to. For example, from the article: In March 2022, direct peace negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian del
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> Are you claiming that shelling ethnic Russians in Donbas The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine diligently documented the use of lethal force and resulting casualties in the low-intensity conflict before the full-scale invasion
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Mearsheimer is literally on Russian payroll. His works have received financial support from Russian government through the so-called Valdai club. Andrei Kozyrev, the minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation (1990-1996), had thi
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None if this is true. For example, the "pro-Russian President" wasn't overthrown. At Russian pressure, he ditched a very favorable trade agreement with the EU that would've opened up many new business opportunities for U
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> What Russia does in Ukraine is a conventional war, not Genozid neither. Scholars of genocide disagree with your assessment. Russian actions against Ukrainians, from massacres to kidnapping of children and burning Ukrainian books, not t
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Finland also built up a massive army to make any further invasion attempts as costly as possible, and with Helsinki Accords, got Russians to agree not to violently change borders in Europe, which they adhered to until Putin chose to invade
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> Russia made similar demands on Finland and Austria during the Cold War, and those 2 countries complied Not only those two. Russia also made such demands to southern neighbours of Finland: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. When they compl
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Electron-based applications seem like a hugo factor. When native applications were abandoned in favor of Electron, designers stopped trying to match their designs to established operating system standards and began designing from scratch, w
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I feel that the semantics are quickly becoming irrelevant. Many everyday items like sports watches, toys, kitchen appliances, alarm clocks or table radios already have more processing power, more memory and storage, higher resolution screen
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Unfortunately no. I was born in the USSR, and have traveled extensively to visit distant relatives, near Perm. That's why I understand very well the difference between what most tourists visiting only St Petersburg and Moscow see and t
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> I'm glad that you have implicitly agreed that Soviet regime wasn't "our own". Of course it was. You've made it your own by flying its flags, by marching under its banners, by celebrating its dictators, and by c
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> "Democrats" (Yeltsin's band of US loving nomenclature and friends) practically killed or dispersed just as many people as Stalin & company did. It was your own mismanagement that reached such level by 1990 that the e
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Spaniards and Italians, not to mention teenagers in Seattle, have no personal connection with Russian crimes and their ignorance is understandable. They have never lived under Russian control and have no real concept of what it means in pra
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I didn't know that "LGBT socialist from California" were the people giving ~70% approval ratings to mass murderers like Stalin in Russian domestic polls and erecting monuments to Lenin in occupied parts of Ukraine.
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> Some of this is true - but by Soviets, not Russians. I'm not sure why you would conflate the two. Was Stalin Russian? Perhaps Beria? Trotsky? Dzerzhinsky? Lenin? Whatever possible claims there were along the lines of "Hitler
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> What happened to Baltic Jews? Russians exterminated them. When Russians invaded in 1939-1940, they abolished Jewish cultural autonomy, closed all Jewish institutions (schools, associations, etc), rounded up Jews into cattle cars and se
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> You think there's a serious risk of a Russian tank column making it to Frankfurt? Lol. Lmao even. Tank column? I don't know. But Russia may very well attack the Suwalki gap and hit German cities with long-range missiles to te
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Nope. Unlike you, I am very sympathetic to people who have suffered from countries with imperialistic behaviour. I just don't restrict the list of such countries to only one entry. If you want to educate yourself on how Eastern Europe
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> Russia could certainly cause severe economic damage and kill many people, sure. But find me one credible expert who, given what we know now, supports your "hundreds of millions" claim. Since mid-2023, everyone from think-tank
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Nowhere did I tell you to be thankful. But I do find it hypocritical how oblivious and dismissive you are of the similar suffering caused by other countries, in even wider scale, over a longer time, in other parts of the world.
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> The argument is that any single country being overly powerful is a negative, and a more multipolar would would be healthier. I don't find that convincing, given that the main claimants to this "multipolar world" are tota
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> What's so bad about speaking Russian? Forcing Russian language and culture upon conquered nations was and remains one of the main methods of extermination of conquered peoples. There's even a word for it, Russification . You
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> No, we just have a different perspective. USA is the bully, not the rest of the world. There is no question that the US has acted like a bully in Southern America, but you ignore that other countries have acted the same way in other pa
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But it is a lie. Your own linked source says it too: > When Moseichuk asked the party leader why Ukraine did not agree to the offer, the he stated that Ukraine "had no confidence" in the Russians since they were ready to promis
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> Actually Russia and Ukraine were about to sign a peace deal in exchange for neutrality in April 2022. This was torpedoed by the UK and the US. That's a well-known lie. Why do you keep repeating it?
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> as the noose kept tightening around Russia. Was it tightening? Or was it looser than at any point in time since the WWII? What do figures like the number of troops, tanks, missiles, airplanes say? Do they confirm the Russian sob story
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RT does not offer "perspectives". Its sole purpose is to warp viewers' perceptions towards the position beneficial to Putin's clan without any regard for truth and objectivity. Since the latest crackdown, the entire Russ
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This is what you are led to believe if you consume RT. One of the cornerstones of RT's propaganda is cynicism paired with moral relativism; the idea that everyone is the same, that all governments and peoples of the world are the same
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> since there's not a lot of migrants coming from the arctic circle That's not true at all. Finland closed the entire border with Russia because Russians kept ferrying migrants to Finnish border. Russia had tried the same tacti

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