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by racional 2y ago
But now the situation is worse, a hot proxy war. The thing is -- the response you're retroactively advocating here (aggressive brinkmanship) would have been by definition a major gamble. And it does seem that you're basically a
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by racional 2y ago
Yeah, poor kids. But you're an adult (per your bio), and are choosing to fall for fascist propaganda. The only difference is that its colors are red and blue, rather than blue and gold.
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by racional 2y ago
They should go to Putin and sign some ceasefire or peace treaty with him if they don't like it. Why come to me. I am not Putin and I didn't even vote for him. And yet - when someone corners you on the internet you run to stand b
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by racional 2y ago
The article describes the allegations of such support -- alongside their debunking. That's why it has the word "Allegations" in the title.
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The US began arming and supporting Pol Pot in 1979 This allegation floats up from time to time, but lacks veracity. Of course Kissinger would have loved for the US to have done so -- but that doesn't mean it actually happened. https
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by racional 2y ago
Why would you assume that? Because in the vast majority of cases, when someone posts some version of "The US/West could have prevented this war if they wanted to" (or "It could have ended with the March 2022 negotiatio
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by racional 2y ago
Hey, can you point to some live instances for these fun quotes ("The masters will be back!", "We can show it again!")? Particularly from anyone public and notable? Original Russian is fine; no need to translate.
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by racional 2y ago
Are you saying Mariupol is not being rebuild? The point is you're sharing a link to an obvious propaganda piece, put out by the same folks who destroyed Mariupol in the first place. Like it's some great revelation that explains
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by racional 2y ago
The Ukrainians have actual Nazis. It has its share of fashy types, but very few "actual Nazis" in fact. Meanwhile the U.S., Canada, every European country, and Russia of course all have a solid contingent of the exact same kinds
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by racional 2y ago
It could have been stopped diplomatically By agreeing to Russia's demands for a "friendly" regime to be installed in Kyiv, and that Russia be allowed to annex whatever regions of Ukraine it set its fancy on. Would you have
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by racional 2y ago
The USSR lost in Afghanistan, to a US armed Taliban. The Taliban did not emerge until 5 years after the USSR left the country. If you can't get that right, why should we be interestedin any other analysis of the situation you may hav
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Brazil's unparalleled spate of book bans is page out of US culture wars(theguardian.com)
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Study Finds Alaskan Ice Field Melting at an 'Incredibly Worrying' Pace(nytimes.com)
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Ismail Kadare, Whose Novels Brought Albania's Plight to the World, Dies at 88(nytimes.com)
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Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
It doesn't matter what I think. I'm not the one trying to scare everyone about Azov's "role in Maidan" when in fact it did not exist at the time.
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by racional 2y ago
Paul Wexler's thesis is that the Eastern dialects of Yiddish actually independently descend from early Jewish Slavic languages (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaanic_language ), and the Western dialects are d
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by racional 2y ago
The point is that with all of your concern about these momentous events, and all your "research" -- you're clearly hallucinating about the key players involved. Does this fact not bother you?
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by racional 2y ago
Citation needed. Otherwise, it's a smear. Again: 100 percent, you said.
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by racional 2y ago
US fighter jets flying formations around Lviv in 2016 was a clearly offensive move Given that Ukraine was already quite openly invaded by Russia in 2014 -- these were, by definition, defensive moves.
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by racional 2y ago
Wikipedia cites the Holodomor You cited, as an encyclopedic fact, 10M as having perished specifically "Yagoda's torture chambers" per your words, which can only refer to NKVD (or otherwise "political") persecution
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by racional 2y ago
> And used today In the mainstream, I obviously meant. Check in on any American Nazi rally from the 1930s to the present day (the photos are all over the place); you'll see the Stars and Stripes displayed very prominently right al
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by racional 2y ago
10 million people died in Genrikh Yagoda's torture chambers. These are some wildly inflated numbers you're posting here. Total estimates for the number of persons killed in pre-war political repressions in the USSR top out at 1
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by racional 2y ago
It was prudent to do anything to save Ukraine. Including allowing the Germans to run the Final Solution on your territory. And please, don't tell us he didn't know what was in store for Ukraine's Jewish population. By the
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by racional 2y ago
They weren't ideologically into Nazism. The point is -- he was a willing collaborator. And you went out of your way to describe his actions as "at any given time, prudent for his country".
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Sieg Heil originated in Germany around the 1900, etc A broken analogy. The difference lies in the fact that these symbols were utterly obscure to German public before the Nazis introduced them in the early 1920s; though they had previous
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by racional 2y ago
At any given time, he was doing what was prudent for his country By which you must mean his issuing the Act of Restoration of the Ukrainian State, which famously states: 3. The newly formed Ukrainian state will work closely with the N
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.md/M814m
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https://archive.ph/QOYIL
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Scientists Find First Evidence That Butterflies Crossed an Ocean(nytimes.com)
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