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> Why not? Eastern Ukraine had no independence movement before Russians invaded and created an illusion that one existed, to fool western observers into believing that it was some kind of "complex" local conflict and not a clea
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> If the US was actually trying for moderate appeasement, it would have advocated for a militarily neutral Ukraine, and independence referendums in eastern Ukraine. Why? There was no genuine independence movement in eastern Ukraine. It
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> It is easy to sit and the west and imagine that Russia regrets its actions deep down, but as bad as this outcome is, I think you have to ask if there are worse outcomes that were considered even worse from inaction. I agree. Russia doe
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> Russia has invaded Ukraine and encountered NATO materiel paid for by NATO money and NATO trained soldiers using NATO intelligence to kill Russian troops and generals. They did not. It took 8 years, until the renewed invasion, before an
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> But the issue here is that Russia's actions if Ukraine joins NATO were very easy to predict. Ukraine has not joined NATO, and is not going to in any foreseeable future. At Russia's request, Ukraine and Georgia were denied ent
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> Because they're worried about being invaded by Russia, think NATO is substantially more powerful and likely to aid them? That seems like a pretty obvious one to me. Why should they be worried about being invaded by Russia, if thei
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> It just does not matter very much, Russia would not have invaded Sweden anyway. Swedish military experts think otherwise. If Russia were to invade Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then one could reasonably expect that they would close th
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> It looks a lot more like "Putin thought he could find a diplomatic solution and realised the only option left was to invade, but it was too late and didn't send enough forces". Ironically, this is the simplification th
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No. It's more like a writer describing their creative process. Knowing how someone else gathers ideas or structures text may help you improve your own writing, but that is still a very small part of publishing an original work.
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When someone says "military base", then most people imagine barracks full of life, tanks and IFVs being worked on in garages, people coming and going, groups of soldiers doing their PT in the background like in establishing shots
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> Edit: And my point of view definitely isn't from American exceptionalism. I oppose my country's (Finland's) NATO membership and watch in horror how there's now going to be 12 bases in Finland that are essentially un
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> The first was in 2008 when NATO decided Ukraine could start the NATO membership process. NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia was, is, and in foreseeable future remains a pipe dream. Any hope of NATO entry was dashed when Russia inva
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> with or without good reason or intentions as a threat When world leaders become delusional, a word he uses to describe Putin, should others enable that? When a world leader starts to think that, for example, that all Jews in the world
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> You don't think that Russia views NATO as an enemy? I guess it depends on who you ask. I recently read the memoirs of the man who was the Russian minister of foreign affairs 1990-1996. He certainly did not view NATO as an enemy. A
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> When you know your enemies have plans that are openly at ends with yours In what way are the EU and NATO enemies of Russia? Both organizations stipulate the goal of ensuring peace in Europe and have a good track record at that. Is peac
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> We didn't offer them ascension plans but we did repeatedly flaunt the promise that eventually both countries would be full fledged NATO members. In your opinion, how common it is in diplomatic forms of communication to send inform
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> To play devil's advocate and look at it from the other side of the fence, how someone might reason- Russia + some prominent figureheads in the West have told us over the last two decades that a Western aligned Ukraine is a red lin
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Those quotes from reviews that American publishers like to put on covers make books feel particularly cheap and disposable.
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None of this refutes what I wrote. If you're in the mood to read Wikipedia, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c... Looking at the amount of brown color on the map, you may notice tha
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Errol Morris made an exceptional documentary about UA232. One of the pilots just looks into the camera and tells the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf33RDu_D6M
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That's not how the events unfolded. Russians pressured Ukrainian president to block a very favorable trade deal with the EU that had already received overwhelming support and passed the parliament. The general public responded with mas
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> how does that contrived example address the point of "you are not entitled to these works?" It's not a contrived example, but an actual problem with converting books to braille. The only entitlement I see here is the exp
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> The fact is that Ukraine was being turned against Russia. Funny. I thought it was the invasion in 2014 and the crimes against humanity committed by invading Russians that soured relations between Ukraine and Russia. Are Americans at fa
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> However, the difference being that there was a 2014 revolution in Ukraine, and Ukraine did subsequently become aligned with the US, and the US is extremely aggressive toward its enemies and has been inciting anti-Russia hatred for many
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Given how few people among the general public ever cross paths with copyright law, and how common copyright infringements are in practice (eg posting a photo of a movie poster on Instagram or sharing a meme based on a shot from a TV show),
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> The false presumption you make here is that you are entitled to these works; you are not. That's not true. If a publisher refuses to publish a book in braille because they see no profit in that, but nevertheless sues everyone who
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> Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief But there are plenty of examples of companies threatening to leave, or leaving a state due to unfavorable politics. Companies choose all the time where and w
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> Serious question: why is NATO even needed? Shouldn't it have been dissolved after the collapse of USSR? Look at the list of wars involving Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
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Nobody denies that Russia has tried to do everything they could to leave their neighbours internationally isolated to make them easy to subjugate. Criminals would no doubt like to see the police abolished and security systems dismantled. Th
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> Where do you get this interpretation from, honest question. In Bucharest 2008 France and Germany voiced opposition against a NATO membership of Georgia and Ukraine. Despite that resistance the declarations of the summit says the follow

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