myko

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by myko 5y ago
Could you explain what you mean? The west is strongly against the war in Ukraine that Putin started - what specific intervention do you recommend?
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by myko 5y ago
> Did not back them up at the UN or these news headlines about China not helping Russia with this or that? Both. > From what it seems, China is absolutely helping them in actions, China is helping Russia just enough to ensure the Russ
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by myko 5y ago
The document you linked proves my point. Included in the number of civilian casualties are those killed by Russia shooting down a civilian airliner. Putin's fabricated claim is that Ukraine is responsible for these deaths - when in fac
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by myko 5y ago
The point is the Ukrainian government isn't the cause - the cause there is Putin as well, as he instigated the rebellion and is backing it. There is no movement for Donbas to join Russia beyond the one Russia itself created. And the re
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by myko 5y ago
Russia committed mass murder in the region ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor ) and sent Russians to take the land from historically Ukrainian regions. This all happened in the last 100 years. Slobodan Milošević w
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by myko 5y ago
That's a really interesting perspective. I find it more interesting that Russia's largest ally, China, did not back them up. Heartening, actually.
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by myko 5y ago
> Is him asking Xi all that different than Bush asking Tony Blair before Iraq? I would argue yes. Bush was looking for a "coalition of the willing" to go along with his lies about why it was necessary to invade. AFAICT Putin wa
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by myko 5y ago
It's interesting that Putin asked Xi for permission before invading. Putin seems set on trying to make Russia into a world power but with this move he seems to have completely neutered that possibility in the near term, and cemented Ru
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by myko 5y ago
SA in Yemen and Russia in Ukraine are both horrible, and the US needs to not rely on either country. Unfortunately, we are years away from that - decades maybe, and attempts to move to green / renewable energy within the US are too few
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by myko 5y ago
> If you consider the NATO expansion over the last few decades around Russia, it was completely sensible for Russia to preemptively take aggressive action. This is reprehensible
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by myko 5y ago
This is an unequivocal good and should be applauded
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by myko 5y ago
I keep hoping Swift Package Manager will fill this void.
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by myko 5y ago
A big part of this is due to them not being military losses. In each engagement the American military closed with and destroyed the enemy repeatedly. The nation building part failed in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Iraq did a bit better in that
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by myko 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/vitaly-gerasim... >> The intelligence arm of the Ukrainian defence ministry said Maj Gen Vitaly Gerasimov, chief of staff of the 41st Army, had been ki
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by myko 5y ago
> Does that also apply if the "populous forceful overthrow" is being directed by foreign powers? I pointed out that this was false / not as your comment implies a few hours ago when you posted something similarly incorrect
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by myko 5y ago
> Russia was promised no NATO expansion when the Warsaw Pact was terminated This never happened, if it did please provide a link to the treaty text which proves it did.
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by myko 5y ago
That is not what happened. Ukraine elected a leader (with the help of Paul Manafort, who Putin paid for his efforts) that lied about his intentions to join the EU. In fact when he was in power he did an about face on his stated goals and st
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by myko 5y ago
Not really, we are in the paradox of tolerance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance ) here. It is in fact a bad idea to let Putin's propaganda machine have unchecked ability to spread anywhere.
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by myko 5y ago
> Show me one "How NATO's push eastward scared Russia into war" on CNN. The only time this comes up on CNN is when they show Putin saying it and talk about what a bullshit lie it is. The fact is Putin wants to reestablish
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by myko 5y ago
GOP voters/media, like the Russian government, are big spreaders of fake news - which is why so much of their media gets removed by fact checkers. They aren't supporting the Democrats or the GOP directly. Interestingly, if you rea
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by myko 5y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding the request here that is what folks are truly asking the Russian population to do. Someone must physically cast Putin down within Russia itself. I agree peaceful protests inside the country will not work.
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by myko 5y ago
They're both in Kyiv, during an interview earlier today Poroshenko asked the west for more help and talked about the steadfastness of his resistance group, which he is fighting with, during the interview he showed off his rifle: https
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by myko 5y ago
protests worked in russia in 1917
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by myko 5y ago
Complying means losing their sovereignty to a foreign autocrat who literally has a list of people he intends to kill.
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by myko 5y ago
Zelensky and Poroshenko are carrying rifles into battle as we are posting comments on this thread.
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by myko 5y ago
I think the lesson is Ukraine should have joined NATO years ago and countries should only elect leaders who respect the alliance and want to keep it strong.
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by myko 5y ago
Interestingly, trump hated NATO and wanted to leave it. I firmly believe that his griping about issues like this, while accurate, was really a move to weaken the alliance and make the relationship between the US and European nations worse.
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by myko 5y ago
It's clear that trump was cheerleading Putin's actions and mocking the US. He even "joked" that we should do something similar on our southern border: "And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest
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by myko 5y ago
> Several of the vaccines claims are falling apart, further stoking the fears. When people write about this, rather than showing why they are wrong, they are cancelled out. This leads to further suspicion, and the cycle continues. This i
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by myko 5y ago
Actually, trump was being anti-NATO and working against the alliance, trying to alienate US allies. He was very pro-Putin, he still is - he spoke about how brilliant Putin's strategy in Ukraine is during this latest escalation of confl

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