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by mopsi 6mo ago
4. Farmers are already facing great difficulties from economic shocks like Brexit, Covid, Ukraine and Hormuz in a short span of time, and further strain is unwelcome.
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The Wikipedia article summarizes a notable piece published in Russian state media.
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Russia's intentions for Ukraine were not limited to only destruction of statehood and identity, but included the physical extermination of Ukrainians too; at least to such extent that Ukrainians would not be able to self-govern anymore
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by mopsi 6mo ago
Except it isn't: https://www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/_processed_/4/3/csm_mi...
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Only if you accept the hidden assumption that Russia is an antagonist toward the rest of Europe. Otherwise the common "national security" justifications make no sense, because Russia benefits immensely from other NATO members inve
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Aircraft depend on the air for lift and/or propulsion. Rockets do not; they are not aircraft because they can operate outside of the atmosphere.
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by mopsi 7mo ago
> I gave you a link to the video where former American ambassador to the USSR is saying "though it was not a legally binding assurance, we gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev, back when the Soviet Union existed, that if a
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by mopsi 7mo ago
> He lied.[0] No one wants to look like a fool. He didn't. Talks about NATO's future were limited to East Germany alone and written down into the articles 4 and 5 of the so-called "4+2 treaty" from 1990, which
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by mopsi 7mo ago
To put this into perspective, the US provided Ukraine with $64.62bn of military aid and $50.72bn of humanitarian and financial support in the four years between January 2022 and December 2025.
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by mopsi 7mo ago
If you'd like to try something like that from the safety of your home beforehand: https://store.steampowered.com/app/381780/80_Days/
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by mopsi 7mo ago
Sponsorblock offers by far the best experience. It skips over channel intros and outros, engagement prompts, sponsored segments, tangents, etc (configurable per channel) and offers jumping to "highlight" (that is, the most importa
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by mopsi 7mo ago
> They have such beautiful names for this: "The end of history". Yes, really. "The peace dividend". "The unipolar moment". "Military-to-civilian conversion". Who is this "they"?
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But it is a talking point. The cable simply shows an American diplomat who has swallowed the hook and reiterates how Russians want to be perceived as thinking. One of the main efforts of Russian diplomacy is to invite foreign dignitaries
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It is the US government that threw reciprocity overboard, openly and publicly humiliating allies and partners throughout the past year, threatening to invade several NATO allies, publicly mocking soldiers from allied countries who had fough
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by mopsi 8mo ago
No.
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> Was there something major that happened in 2013-2014 involving violence that interrupted the term of elected, legitimate president Yanukovich? Yes; under extreme Russian pressure, Yanukovych blocked the passage of the highly an
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by mopsi 8mo ago
There's nothing to prove; by definition, elections != coup.
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by mopsi 8mo ago
There was no coup in Ukraine in 2014. It's one of those immediately revealing things like height of the chimneys in Auschwitz; just barely mention them and we all immediately know who you are.
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by mopsi 8mo ago
> only like 3% of that program was spent on actual AID, like food and medicine for the third world, but most of it went to funding media, news and journalists across LatAm, Asia, Africa dn EE Source please. This doesn't pass
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by mopsi 8mo ago
> The narratives about the benevolent West reaching out it's hand to help and framing every perspective which contradicts yours as "victimhood" (your post history) is also quite pathetic. But that is exactly that -
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by mopsi 8mo ago
Since your post is dead already, I'll respond here: > speaking as someone who has an interest in history If you have interest in history, then why are you clinging to the meme-level Soviet boomer grudges? It's strange t
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by mopsi 8mo ago
> Speaking as a half Russian, half Ukrainian living in central europe, btw. Speaking as a standard-issue vatnik, rather, hitting all the traditional made-up grieviances of the national victim narrative that is supposed to legitim
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> It's clear from this comment that you do not understand the complexities of US politics. Overall, it doesn't seem like a very complex problem. The US simply does not have a vote of no confidence nor the tradition of u
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by mopsi 8mo ago
> Other sources disagree "Consumption" figures are also misleading. In monetary terms, Americans consume more health services than anyone else, yet have fallen behind in life expectancy: https://ourworldindat
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by mopsi 8mo ago
> The US prosperity trend has been the same before and after WW2: GDP alone doesn't tell the story, because it has become detached from real income metrics: https://aneconomicsense.org/wp-content/uploads
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by mopsi 8mo ago
No, the Euro-Atlantic alliance produced incredible prosperity in its heyday. The current deteriorating state of the US is the result of departure from the previously held values and forms of cooperation. Nothing illustrates this better than
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by mopsi 8mo ago
Earlier you wrote: > I favor a policy of neutrality and world peace, not rivalry between major powers like the US and Russia. The thing is, nobody's offering you that. In the ideal scenario for Russia, the US would be mired i
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Nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee#Issues
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> Imagine I came to you and said 'hey stickfigure not only with this war last for years, but in 4 years Russia will have the strategic initiative, control a massive chunk of Ukraine, and be continuing to push forward' -- w
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by mopsi 8mo ago
> Or soviet imperialism. How can you call yourself a Marxist if you have apparently not bothered to read a single book on the history of the USSR? Shining examples of imperialism are unavoidable turning points in Soviet history.

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