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by mopsi 4y ago
> Do you think the US would be super-cool with China putting a military base with one single missle close to us? I think that these super-duper clever questions insinuating missiles and bases in Eastern Europe are also dumb and mislead
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> No, but what if China started setting up military installations in Canada on the US border with Canada's blessing, or even insinuated that it would? This is a dumb Russian PR narrative. Until 2014, the presence of US military in
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Without any doubt, if this snipped from Wikipedia is true: > After graduating in 1963, Bezmenov spent two years in India working as a translator and public relations officer with the Soviet economic aid group Soviet Refineries Construct
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by mopsi 4y ago
This ties well into the "three days to Kyiv" expectation at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russians really did think that Ukraine had been subverted to a degree that it would just roll over and die; that leadership
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by mopsi 4y ago
Indeed it isn't a video game. Recent footage from Vuhledar shows how Russian tanks and IFVs drive one after another onto a minefield.[1] If anyone programmed NPCs to play like that, they'd get crushing reviews on Steam. In total,
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by mopsi 4y ago
You are the only troll here. Instead of engaging in a conversation, you just throw talking points at me, and when I debunk them, you desperately try to move to new talking points. Not once have you said anything that would leave an impressi
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by mopsi 4y ago
> You're doing historical revisionism here. US ran a coup in Ukraine to overthrow a democratically elected government in 2014. This resulted in a civil war between Donbas and western Ukraine Says who? How many UN members out of 19
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I already showed how the assumption that the US can "twist others' arms" is not gounded in reality. The UN has a long and rich history of adopting resolutions that criticise US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, yet
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On top of that, I always loved that standard GUI elements like buttons and text fields came with batteries included: they could be navigated with keyboard only, they were easy to read for screen readers, they followed OS contrast settings f
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by mopsi 4y ago
I am not interested in introducing another debunked internet copypasta into this conversation. It bears no relevance to the international recognition of LNR and DNR's independence, legitimacy of Ukraine's government and the Crimea
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by mopsi 4y ago
> US de facto controls foreign policy through the UN and other international orgs for a majority of countries on earth. This is demonstrably false. For example, the US was very strongly against the UN resolution that declared Jerusalem
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> How do you know whether your blog is generating sales, or whether it’s the Q&A website, or the Youtube tutorials? Is there no other way to determine that other than feeding traffic to unrelated third parties who build dossiers on
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by mopsi 4y ago
If you think that the US controls foreign policy of almost all 193 members of the United Nations, including some if its greatest rivals like China, then this is just another view not supported by reality.
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by mopsi 4y ago
> we I am not "we the US". I was born in the USSR and I live in Eastern Europe. > ..and on and on. You can write anything you want on a website. Mafia shot Kennedy. Moon landing was faked. Covid doesn't exist. It do
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Well no, it's a fact that we were behind the coup. There was no coup and no-one recognizes it as such. > It's also a fact that Kiev cutoff the water supply to Crimea. The question is, why wouldn't you think it&#x27
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by mopsi 4y ago
There is nothing to refute. Kosovo is recognized by 101 UN members (out of 193). The narrative you described is a fiction that nobody in the world shares, not even Belarus is fully behind it (doesn't recognize LNR and DNR).
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Which countries in the world do not recognize the current government of Ukraine and all preceding governments since 2014 as the legitimate governments of Ukraine? Which countries recognize the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk? If both an
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by mopsi 4y ago
When you find yourself in a position where you have no arguments left other than calling names, you might want to consider that you are wrong.
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by mopsi 4y ago
No. The security architecture of Europe remained the same until Russia started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. No new signifcant NATO members, no significant troop or weapon deployments, no policy changes. Cold War stockpiles were disma
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by mopsi 4y ago
At the time, not even Putin himself opposed Eastern European countries joining NATO. A few days after further 7 countries in Eastern Europe officially became full members of NATO, Putin met with German Chancellor Schröder and raised no conc
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by mopsi 4y ago
NATO is just an excuse, even die-hard Russian nationalists like Girkin don't take that seriously and openly mock his constant whining about NATO.
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> You cannot even begin NATO application without an invitation. That's a formality, which usually happens in the final stage of negotiations. EE countries that joined NATO got the invitation 1-2 years before officially becoming me
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> And it would be something else if the west stopped there, they moved wartime weapons closer to Russia and increased the size of an alliance specifically created to counteract a Russian threat This is completely false. Becoming a memb
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by mopsi 4y ago
Some examples notable enough to have Wikipedia articles: * Arsen Pavlov, bomb in elevator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsen_Pavlov * Alexander Zakharchenko, bomb in cafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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The same kind of resistance as described happening in Kherson in the linked article happened in LNR and DNR too. Eventually Russian forces abandoned Kherson not because of local resistance, but because of military factors. Kherson garrison
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The so-called separatists don't represent the people no matter how you approach them. In the earliest days, they consisted of local thugs, the kind of people who come out just to destroy something at protests. Then intelligence operati
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> I think this dehumanizes them. They chose to become part of Russia and the fact that they have mostly become part of Russia doesn't erase that choice. Does not dehumanize at all. Ukraine fell into political turmoil similar to Ja
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There's no monolithic "ruling class" that both major parties serve equally, and nor did the article claim anything like that. Instead, there is a huge patchwork of constantly shifting interest groups who are looking for suita
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You claimed that both parties represent the exact same interests, and I don't agree with that at all and nor does the article support it. If we use campaign contributions as a proxy for interests, then internet companies like Google an
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by mopsi 4y ago
Nowhere does it say that "both parties in US represent the exact same interests".

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