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by rmind 4y ago
> Arguing NATO didn't expand into the Baltic states is semantics, at best. Sure the countries have to apply to join but the current NATO members have to acquiesce. Even with this relationship the US can (and has) communicated policy
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by rmind 4y ago
Ruble is a weak indicator as the central bank has tools to control the exchange rate. Soviet ruble also had a strong and, for a long time, quite stable exchange rate with the US dollar. However, in Soviet Union you could not legally own for
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by rmind 4y ago
You are buying too much into the Russian propaganda. First, it is not NATO which expanded "into" the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. These countries voluntarily applied and their diplomats lobbied very hard to get accepted into
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by rmind 4y ago
Why do you think there should be a "valid" (you mean face-saving?) exit from the war? I would argue that a full military defeat of Russia is a valid end of this war.
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by rmind 4y ago
It is absolutely a loss-loss situation for Russia and Ukraine. However, as long as the West maintains sanctions on Russia and provides a substantial support (both economic and military) to Ukraine, then Russia will not be able to sustain it
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by rmind 4y ago
Russia didn't invade Ukraine "out of the blue". Russia has been at war with Ukraine since 2014, when it occupied and annexed Crimea, and at the same time orchestrated and instigated covert War in Donbas. You ramble something
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by rmind 4y ago
You forgot couple important aspects: he also ruined the Russian economy (the conservative estimate is -12% GDP drop this year). Russian military industry also lost access to the Western high tech (unfortunately, a lot of it has been used in
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by rmind 4y ago
The very concept of a nuclear country being "pushed" (what does that even mean?) to wage a war against a country, which is more than 3x smaller in population and around 5x weaker economically, is simply delusional. Russia attempte
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by rmind 4y ago
It's done within the constitutional system in Finland and Sweden. The timing and the speed of process is a rational choice while Russian military is choking in Ukraine and is unable pose a serious military threat elsewhere right now. I
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by rmind 4y ago
The Finnish defense budget for 2022 was €5.1bn, but I am sure they bumped it up after the Russian invasion. The overall cost of the F-35 acquisition is €8.378bn (jet fighter cost being €4.703bn of that). Naturally, such acqusitions are done
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by rmind 5y ago
"Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West" (2018) by Keir Giles is also worth reading: https://icds.ee/en/the-moscow-rules-ten-principles-for-worki... It explains the reality that Russia's c
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by rmind 5y ago
The article is well overdue, given that it was written in 2019. The strong and overwhelming sanctions on Russia should have been adopted in 2014 when Russia started the over War in Donbas. A strong Western response then could have prevented
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by rmind 5y ago
Like it took a night for the Russians to wipe out Ukraine (which has been lacking modern weapons)? The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown how weak the Russian army is in reality. They have no chance against NATO whatsoever. Poland and Ba
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by rmind 5y ago
NATO would have become a dysfunctional organization. It is not about the Russian fear of NATO. Russian political system cannot get over its loss of an empire, despite us living in the XXI century. It's entirely different root of the pr
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by rmind 5y ago
You are delusional. NATO doesn't want anybody to join. It's all eastern Europeans who actively lobbied and had to sweat convincing NATO leaders to accept them. It was voluntary choice of those nations. Why did they choose to join?
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by rmind 5y ago
Were German people responsible for Nazis? Russians have been figting Nazis so fiercly during the World War 2 and it is so ironic that they have a Nazis in Kremlin now.. with many supporting them or just doing nothing about it.
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by rmind 5y ago
Baltics have LNG terminals and can fully supply themselves from alternative gas providers. Tell it to Germans who addicted themselves to the Gazprom drug needle.
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by rmind 5y ago
War in Donbas was orchestrated and fueled by Moscow, with covert militants coming and running it from Russia. Please.. read at least some basic literature with plenty of supporting references (by international organizations, such as the Uni
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by rmind 5y ago
Following the full-scale Russian invasion of a sovereign and peaceful country, the Ukrainians are defending their home, their land, their freedom, and their way of life. Putin essentially told in his speech that Ukraine, as a nation, does n
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Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine(bank.gov.ua)
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by rmind 5y ago
EBV VCA IgG antibodies remain present for the rest of your life, as your immune system maintains certain antibody levels to keep the virus in check (it's a delicate host-virus balance). EBV VCA IgM indicates a primary EBV infection and
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by rmind 5y ago
If you want to test whether you already had EBV, then it would be a test for Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies to the EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA). It shows whether the virus has established the latency in your body. Most laboratories w
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by rmind 5y ago
Back in 1980s, there were proposals for a "chronic mononucleosis" or "chronic mononucleosis syndrome" as a diagnosis / standard disease. There were very comprehensive studies trying to investigate the patients who h
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by rmind 5y ago
NATO never promised to not expand, see Myth 3 here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/05/myths-and-misconception...
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by rmind 5y ago
The Baltic States have electricity links with Finland, Sweden (subsea cables) and Poland (with another cable link planned). They are scheduled to pretty much disconnect from the Russian/CIS electricity grid by 2025: https://
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by rmind 5y ago
NATO has more than enough military power to defend, as long as it has enough political will and freedom to act. I think that is what the debate is about. Also, I would not underestimate Poland. The country spends 2.2% of its GDP on military
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by rmind 5y ago
The information in this Wikipedia page is out of date. There are quite a few new LNG terminals in the EU now which diversified the gas supply. High consumption from Russia doesn't not necessarily mean dependency, e.g. Lithuania has an
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by rmind 5y ago
You suddently jumped to conclusion that EU could not do much without NATO, but that's just your speculation. - EU is basically the third largest economy in the World. Meanwhile, Russia is about similar size economy as Italy. The combin
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by rmind 5y ago
Just a few points: - The Budapest Memorandum was, unfortunately, not legally binding. Not justifying the lack of support from the West, but just pointing out an important aspect. - North Atlantic Treaty is legally binding. Also, the Baltic
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by rmind 5y ago
Moderna seems to be also developing an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) vaccine [1]. It might not only prevent from some lymphomas and other oncologal diseases, but might also help the people who suffer from the EBV subset of the chronic fatigue sy

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