sidibe

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by sidibe 5y ago
Well he's definitely not, but there's a spectrum
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by sidibe 5y ago
Probably would have been effective if not for Putin's support
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by sidibe 5y ago
You are delusional, very clearly Russia has not succeeded as expected. It's not some master strategy going on here, Putin thought it would be over by now according to lots of evidence, from misprint in Russian news agency, presence of
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by sidibe 5y ago
This completely sucks and I'm sorry for you. One if the goals of these sanctions and other actions is probably to snap the other 90% out of their trance. If all the daily things they take for granted don't work maybe they will ask
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by sidibe 5y ago
> These companies banning Russia is AMAZING opportunity for the Russian government. If Russia is run by smart people, they must be delighted by it. Are you living under a rock? Russia's leaders are in the process of destroying their
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by sidibe 5y ago
Chinese people are more likely to rage at the government if the economy goes bad. I don't know why that is considering the media is much more locked up than Russia's has been until now, but you can see local fury every once in a w
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by sidibe 5y ago
For his pride and image it is, which seems to be the most important thing. Taking Ukraine also appears to be impossible at this point though. The only major city he has taken has massive protests. Subduing 40 million hostile people in a cou
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by sidibe 5y ago
You might not have known this, but in this world only the Americans have free will. Not Eastern Europeans, not Putin. Everything else that happens in this world is just a reaction to the USA making the right or wrong decision. Apologies if
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by sidibe 5y ago
It's an underdeveloped theory of mind and refusal to see how any Eastern Europeans could form their own opinions
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by sidibe 5y ago
It takes no pushing. Put yourself in the shoes of an Eastern European. Why would you not want to be part of EU and NATO... Staying in Russia's influence seems to just offer corruption and oligarchs, the countries that joined the EU are
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by sidibe 5y ago
> pro-russian half of the population Half?! Putin's propaganda is quite effective
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by sidibe 5y ago
I don't know, every time I hear these realist pragmatists they seem to me to be ignoring the reality in favor of their theories. NATO's growth, if you believe Eastern Europeans, is because they didn't want to be pressured by
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by sidibe 5y ago
Mearsheimer and other geopolitical overthinkers are in a fantasy where small countries should have or have no will of their own and would never choose to reorient to liberal democracy without USA forcing it on them no matter how much more a
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by sidibe 5y ago
This is the purported reason of the Russian leadership and supported by academic "geopolitics experts" in the West, who trade in depicting the world as 2 or 3 powers and a bunch of helpless will-less vassals doing their whims and
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by sidibe 5y ago
No you don't understand power politics, sorry you're leaning on your own experience instead of the expert approved only USA and Russia matters geopolitical framework. No way that without CIA puppet masters Ukrainians would use the
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by sidibe 5y ago
It doesn't surprise me if they believe that considering the ridiculous stream of fantasy being spewed out of Russian leader and media.
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by sidibe 5y ago
He should be forced to resign. This is not helpful at all to American foreign policy, and very helpful to Putin This is the same guy by the way that was standing up for Trump's shakedown of Zelensky not so long ago. And besides if he
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by sidibe 5y ago
Indian media seems to be on a blitzkrieg of anti-Ukraine stories. I'm not doubting theres truth there but the emphasis is all about the evils of Ukraine and almost nothing about Russia invading. This was a pretty funny moment worth wat
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by sidibe 5y ago
This is a bold take to believe in Ukraine propaganda and your own experiences. Trust me I am a very rational well-read geopolitical expert in power politics from California. Everything is about the USA, NATO, Russia and China. Little people
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by sidibe 5y ago
I'm not saying Ukraine should or shouldn't fight. I'm not the one talking about stories I'm just observing what's actually happening and that's the Ukrainians are fighting. I think your worldview is a relic whe
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by sidibe 5y ago
Only you very rational geopolitics experts who understand power politics understand anything that's going on right? Everyone else is just too hopey feely and not paying attention to the framework you have set up. If you look up from yo
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by sidibe 5y ago
This. Plus sanctions are also a deterrent, and not using them when a state goes over the line will weaken soft power in the future. So while it sucks for Russians who don't support Putin it will make the Chinese or American or whoever
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by sidibe 5y ago
How do you vouch for them? I don't necessarily agree with cutting the internet but didn't think it was a bad comment and agree with the false neutrality
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by sidibe 5y ago
How about giving people a little slack on being emotionally charged when most of their employees are in a war zone? Guarantee their employees were pressing for this and in the big picture it's not fair but it's nothing compared to
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by sidibe 5y ago
#1 Putinversteher. The reason he's been right about some things is because he has aligned his theories with Putin's worldview so Putin does what he expects, but he hasn't accounted for any other actors like Ukrainian people o
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by sidibe 5y ago
Lots of new accounts like parent and gp blaming America for Russia invading Ukraine
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by sidibe 5y ago
I can't help but read that as you acknowledging Ukraine deserves some of the guilt of wanting to join NATO instead of just the USA's fault, which is definitely not what I meant. Russia is the lone guilty party in this invasion, or
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by sidibe 5y ago
With neighbors like Ukraine has article 5 is the obvious temptation, USA didn't have to do anything. Believe it or not Ukrainians can have their own opinions and not everything they do is because of they are pawns
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by sidibe 5y ago
I don't know but now is not the time to suck up to this Russian regime, the next one might not look kindly on it, not to mention the rest of the world
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by sidibe 5y ago
Navalny is detested by Russians. He has successfully been painted as everything evil: hopelessly corrupt, western stooge, nazi. I don't have any idea how much of that is true, probably mostly fabricated or exaggerated, but Putin unders

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