vogre

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by vogre 4y ago
>it’s banned because it’s a part of information war Yup, just call anything you don't like "russian disinformation", and you are free to ban it, easy.
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by vogre 4y ago
Actually the Russian internet censorship is mostly bypassed by simple VPN app/extension. We have problems paying for them because VISA/Mastercard payments don't work, but there are plenty of free ones. Tor is mostly used for
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by vogre 4y ago
Well, these are far from being prison cities
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by vogre 4y ago
First, there is no proof of the original claim, other than words of Ukrainian mayor. Second, this explanation is much more logical than the version with russians firing superexpensive anti air weapons to random ground targets. Third, there
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by vogre 4y ago
Most probably he will not be a military strategist, but something like governor whose task will be reintegrating these territories in Russia. He has a great experience running Roscosmos which is quite a large corporation. And he is very pat
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by vogre 4y ago
Or a great chance to show himself.
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by vogre 4y ago
Criminals for ones, heroes for others. US has nuked Japanese cities, no one got punished for that. Abe was very pro-japanese, straight and honest politician. And very uncomfortable for the West.
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by vogre 4y ago
Try “the Last Ringbearer”.
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by vogre 4y ago
>don't know it's from Russia Oh these famous Indian URALS oil fields!
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by vogre 4y ago
Not actually true. Current borders of Russia are defined by its reckless self-destruction in 1991. Also some land on the east of Russia was given away without any fight. For example, Alaska or Fort Ross.
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by vogre 4y ago
And if you don't have nukes, nuclear powers can do pretty much anything they wsant to you. As we have seen in Lybia, Serbia, Iraq, Syria. So don't be surprised when another country is rushing for nukes at all cost. These are the
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by vogre 4y ago
You forget there are two red lines and vague space between them. For NATO the borders of its members are red line. For Putin the red line is borders of Russia, that include Crimea and L/DPR for now. There is no way Putin leaves Crimea
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by vogre 4y ago
Funniest part is that US and Europe buy Russian oil from India. Because Indians are able to remove all evil totalitarian molecules from it.
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by vogre 4y ago
1) Money. "Kaliber" missiles are expensive, need more money to build them. 2) Poitical gains. It will be very hard for US to push other countries for sanctions when they can't hold their own. 3) Resilence of production. It&#x
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by vogre 4y ago
> there is a big difference between freezing access to a bank account and taking ownership of the funds. No it’s not so big, because freezing can be unlimited in time and you can’t use that money. What point of having money on account if
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by vogre 4y ago
Actually all the sanctions from the west are unilateral change to thousands of contracts, and expropriation of russian assets is straightforward stealing. Even freezing of central bank accounts is basically the unilateral unlawful change of
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by vogre 4y ago
That changes nothing. Finland refused to pay. Most of the European companies adopted the new scheme within their current contracts, so it was a technical thing. Russia just needed to be paid in currency that can not be stolen by some lunat
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by vogre 4y ago
It did after Finland refused to pay.
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by vogre 4y ago
Don't forget that LNG market is mostly short-term, and Russian pipes work under long-term contracts.
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by vogre 4y ago
>Name one city that has suffered the fate of Mariupol from US actions Raqqa, Mosul, TONS of cities during WWII, including Dresden and Tokyo.
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by vogre 4y ago
Why not see Armenia or even modern Georgia, who don't use aggressive rhetorics on Russia, don't deploy NATO weapons and feel okay?
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by vogre 4y ago
And make Germany completely dependent on US, of course.
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by vogre 4y ago
Why would they do it? Russia never failed delivering cheap gas.
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by vogre 4y ago
It's easy for small country like Lithuania, but completely impossible for country like Germany. There is not enough gas without Russian one to feed its industry.
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by vogre 4y ago
EU has 37% PPI. https://ru.investing.com/economic-calendar/ppi-935 It usually converts to CPI in 3-6 months
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by vogre 4y ago
Russia tried to avoid involving in Donbass for 8 years meddling with Minsk-2. It's still not sure if it will take Donbass. All the new captured parts of Ukraine are becoming new or join existing "People's Republics". I
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by vogre 4y ago
Covert sabotage is just terrorism and russian special services has quite good experience preventing this. Drones and missiles are flying in belgorod district but mostly countered by aa.
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by vogre 4y ago
>Ukraine hasn't carried out a lot more behind-the-lines attacks on Russian supply convoys It's hard to do on Russian territory because of closed borders and anti-air. It's hard to do on captured eastern territories because
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by vogre 4y ago
The law should be consistent, clear and applied to everyone. If US leaders were not tried for Iraq, French weren't tried for Lybia, Saudis weren't tried for Yemen, Israel weren't tried for Palestine, but suddenly Russia shou
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by vogre 4y ago
Should I start with Peter The Great and Mazepa?

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