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by mopsi 1y ago
> OK, so give me some evidence of M' being a russian asset / funded That's written on the title page of his book.
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Yes, it indeed is. Mearsheimer's books are financed by the Russian government, and Nuland is an insignificant middle manager in the US State Department whose intercepted phone call about recent events has been hyped into a vast conspir
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No, they're not, although Russian propaganda tries to create that impression by amplifying fringe voices like John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs. If anything, the Western international relations crowd has finally woken up to recognizin
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> Either way, I'm not defending russia; Whether you recognize it or not, you are. You have been propagandized to such an extent that you perfectly repeat well-known lies from the Russian propaganda machine, all while being convinced
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That site became operational in 2023. There were no foreign missiles of any kind in Eastern Europe before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. This is an indisputable fact. The rest of your narrative is just as flawed. For example, you refer to
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> If you want to know what actually happened: the US has been using bribes and threats across eastern europe to turn those states into allies, placing armies and missles in them, for decades. That's an incredible flood of lies. Star
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You forgot to mention the widespread coercion of Russian conscripts into "voluntarily" enlisting for the war in Ukraine. Stories like this are extremely common: Semyon* (name changed) was conscripted in Chelyabinsk, in the Ura
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That might have been the case decades ago. For example, in the USSR, various finger gestures usually implied something related to a penis and were considered extremely offensive. But that hasn't been the case since at least the early 1
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Finnish use of swastika predates Germany and the Finnish Air Force Academy uses swastika to this day in their official insignia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Academy_(Finland) Taboos are a cultural thing, an
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The one seen in the video is a fancy store. There were far worse ones that had literally nothing for sale, just empty shelves, with employees sitting on their asses all day long, staring blankly out the window and waiting for their shift
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This goes beyond games and calls for regulation of anything sold as a product, but working more like a subscription service. Similar issues also affect an increasing number of appliances that rely on apps and connect through manufacturer-ho
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This line of reasoning is exactly why everyone bordering Russia is preparing for an invasion, and why no one deludes themselves with "Mr. Hitler will surely stop at Poland." It's not about NATO, ethnic Russians, or any other
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If anything, the media is downplaying the preparations to calm the population. Russia is not a pretext, but the reason for the preparations. Russian actions, from invading Georgia in 2008 to annexing Crimea in 2014 and launching a full-scal
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Almost no-one[1] recognizes Crimea as part of Russia because it was entirely manufactured. Unmarked foreign soldiers invaded a country, pretended to be local rebels, staged a referendum and immediately asked to join the invading country to
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Not only is this realistic, but the affected countries are taking remarkable steps to counter it. Sweden withdrew its military presence from Gotland in 2005 and disbanded the Gotland Regiment. After Russia invaded Ukraine, Sweden re-establi
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> "Putin has an eye on Sweden" does not pass the most basic smell test, now even less than during the Cold War... It does pass. Invading the Swedish island of Gotland would cut off air and sea routes to the Baltics, while a gro
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Those drone companies are offering ridiculously expensive and overengineered products like the Switchblade, even though a drone 1/10 of its price can do the same job in many scenarios. These are bloated products that have seen little c
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That has nothing to do with "NATO tank invasion of Moscow".
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> I see a lot of comments saying that "but the technology will improve". When people say "the technology will improve", I think they're usually referring to the drones currently in use becoming much better not du
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by mopsi 1y ago
I recommend looking up European military readiness levels before diving too deep into fantasies. Who is supposed to invade Russia? Latvia, with its tank army of exactly zero tanks? Or a major country like Germany, with its barely 100 operat
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These are just stale deflections. Russian diplomacy is indeed stuck in Clausewitzian times: diplomacy is seen as an extension of military strategy and not as a tool for building durable cooperation. This becomes especially apparent when com
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> Yeah, they invaded twice and in each case a little diplomacy would have been sufficient to roll back the invasion. That's just a stalling tactic. The very people who built Russian diplomacy and personally mentored figures like the
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It neither needs nor wants to be closer, and the long-standing rejection of Ukraine's membership application is a testament to that. Yet every neighbor of Russia is desperate to join it to secure themselves against yet another expansio
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The vote by the parliament did follow formal procedures: not those of an impeachment, because the president was not impeached, but those of snap elections, as the parliament chose to replace the government through elections. In terms of leg
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The fact that someone won elections doesn't mean they get to stay until the end of their term no matter what they do. Yanukovych had over 100 people killed in a violent crackdown on protests, then fled to Russia as he was about to be i
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> please perform a thought exercise and consider what would happen if a foreign government's members were discussing the personal choices , makeup and "talks" for members of the next American government. We can discuss pot
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> Pissing off Russian citizens as the level of lies they keep producing for years is just unbelievable. Radio Free Europe has maintained a strong focus on social issues, and that seems to piss off trolls the most. Stories about ordinary
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Radio Free Europe is a really solid outlet that has maintained a balanced and consistent coverage of Russia for many years, and this seems to piss off Russian trolls like nothing else. Thank you for adding a data point.
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You conveniently forget the part where conscripts are coerced into signing up for the professional contract, or the signatures are falsified altogether without them even knowing. Semyon* (name changed) was conscripted in Chelyabinsk, in
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Russian police are targeting migrants and draft-age men in a wave of raids on gyms and martial arts clubs across major cities, with activists describing them as part of a broader crackdown that intensified ahead of the country’s spring

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