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by mopsi 3y ago
In Europe and the US, it wasn't too long ago either when families could only afford to send some of their children to school. Others had to work from a very early age to support the family. If you ban child labor without offering any
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by mopsi 3y ago
> But none of that even addresses my argument, Russia opposed NATO expansion, Russia threatened severe consequences, NATO gave no signs that Ukraine would not be allowed to join NATO or entered any kind of negotiations, Russia delivered
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by mopsi 3y ago
> You ride the public transport to work and your counterpart drives his luxury SUV. Oh, it's way worse. Within 10 minutes' walking distance from my home, I have a professional theatre, a concert hall, a cinema, a library, multi
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by mopsi 3y ago
> They might be "fully aware" that those areas are used by the "enemy" to stockpile materiel and gather personnel. You are approaching this from the wrong end. People like doctors or firefighters are multipliers, th
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by mopsi 3y ago
> No. The notion that all soldiers fighting on the Germany side in WW2 were monsters is, however. If the world subscribed to your ideology, there'd be a catacomb of millions buried under Nurnberg (there's no such thing, if you
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by mopsi 3y ago
The large Polish purchase from SK confirms what he said. For example, out of 1000 tanks bought from SK, only 180 will be manufactured in SK. The remaining 820 will be produced in Poland. This also sways other countries in the region towards
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by mopsi 3y ago
> They got (imho) the lowest speed limits in any of the countries I've travelled, cameras everywhere (that's good though), and even on their "motorways" (imagine crappy roads in the US in the 60s, but worse) the limi
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by mopsi 3y ago
> I can understand, if not sympathize with, their reaction as Western powers have established footholds in bordering countries. That is a wrong way of thinking about NATO for several reasons: 1. Eastern European countries were not in t
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by mopsi 3y ago
> It is reasonable for people and countries to want a buffer zone of security. Not at the expense of others. I fail to see why I should give up my freedoms, my language, culture and material possessions, and become a slave for Russians
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by mopsi 3y ago
> Remember when Yeltsin tried to join NATO after the end of the cold war, or how even Putin tried to integrate into NATO and the Western system? I don't, because that never happened. It is a baseless myth manufactured to fool west
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by mopsi 3y ago
He is one of those Russian trolls who roams around HN telling that the slaves brought to the Americans should be thankful for the free trip they got. Except since they work on a different historic context, their vile nature gets lost on mos
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by mopsi 3y ago
This is pure western overintellectualization that has nothing to do with the ground truth. Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin has recorded lengthy interviews with hundreds of Russian POWs in Ukraine and published them on Youtube[1]. In e
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by mopsi 4y ago
That was the reality of daily life in the USSR in 1970s, not spy fiction. To anyone from the USSR, the first instinct is to check the date of that quote (pre- or post-1991?) and the rest needs no comments. You made a faux pas that revealed
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by mopsi 4y ago
It's not about her. Mid-1970s were the golden days of the KGB. All communication in and out of the USSR was under total KGB control. All foreigners in the USSR and the people they were in contact with were monitored around the clock. Y
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Solzhenitsin's own wife said his book was "folklore," ... in 1974, while living in the USSR at the prime of Andropov's KGB. On a 0-10 scale, how much freedom do you think she had to form an opinion and express tha
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by mopsi 4y ago
Is there any notification via email or SMS? "Decades" suggest that they are just physical lockers that you have to go and manually check for mail. We have these too in rural areas, where delivery to every single farmhouse is too e
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by mopsi 4y ago
> It's ironic how Russia is always assumed to be a passive unresponsive corpse with no concerns or perspective and memory of its own. Indeed, and apologists of Russia often take this position: in their mind, Russia has no will and
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by mopsi 4y ago
There is no need for hypotheticals. Russia already has military bases in the middle of Europe and hosts nuclear missiles there. Map: https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2016/1...
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by mopsi 4y ago
Yes, dear Eastern Europe, please don't join NATO, otherwise we won't be able to invade you once we finish modernizing our army. After all we are a master race destined by God to rule over Eastern Europe. Please respect our concern
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by mopsi 4y ago
Yup, pretty hard to come up with a meaningful reply when Daddy Putin said at the time that it was fine. Even hardcore Russian nationalists have grown tired of Putin's constant whining how the whole world has now wronged him: https:&#x
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by mopsi 4y ago
> 1990. nato makes the not one inch eastward promise Never happened. In fact, Russia and NATO have explicitly in writing (1997 treaty) that they respect the right of third parties to seek security as they see fit. Nor did Russia ever b
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by mopsi 4y ago
The recent news about Finland and Scandinavia forming unified air force command is a major shift too: > COPENHAGEN, March 24 (Reuters) - Air force commanders from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark said on Friday they have signed a let
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Why not comparing the number of times NATO states invaded some country, and compare with the number of times Russia invaded some country. The relation would probably be somewhere between 10:1 and 100:1. Not even close: https:/&
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by mopsi 4y ago
That has been taken out of context. He later clarified that Washington and London were nudging Ukraine towards a peace deal, but after Bucha massacre was uncovered, they stopped doing that and instead increased military support for Ukraine.
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by mopsi 4y ago
> NATO proved in Yugoslavia that it's not "just a defensive alliance" Yes, it also stepped in to stop genocide where it could (and waited too long, if you ask me). Even by the highest estimates, the whole 78-day aerial w
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Regardless of how much you keep repeating a one sided narrative, Russia’s invasion was not “unprovoked”. That's a fringe opinion. Not a single government in Europe shares this view. If anything, Western Europe has walked on eggs
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by mopsi 4y ago
See? You have nothing but hyperbole to offer. Entry of Eastern Europe into NATO is now so far in the past that we have a good amount of memoirs and personal recollections in addition to all sorts of documented evidence like laws, policy pap
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by mopsi 4y ago
Genocide is a part of that. People capable of leading a country (top politicians, lawyers, academics, businessmen, military leaders, etc) must be murdered so that there is no-one to lead the opposition to Russian rule. After WW2, former lea
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by mopsi 4y ago
30 legal scholars of genocide have compiled a comprehensive report explaining how Russian actions match the legal definition of genocide: https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/English-Rep...
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Can you admit that Bush and the US were pressing for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO at a time when solid majorities of their actual people were against it? This is a lie, no matter how many times you repeat it. For example, you quo

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