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@cielvague "Just go into further debt, that will solve the problem"
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@roxane5339 "I can tell you I'm not so much of a political person but for the first time in my life I will be striking Thursday because I can't accept a government that ignores 3/4 of its population over a reform he could have taken the time to build WITH us." This is the ONLY good reason to protest or even riot. The skipping over the democratic process by using flaws in the French Constitution (built in by De Gaulle apparently) is gross af. That being said, don't act like this is the majority of people. 99% of people that talked about this I have seen are only doing so because "we want to retire earlier". This is pure ignorance and is the reality of the protest and rioting; selfishness disguised as protecting democratic rights.
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@dogeyes7261 "a buffer zone against Western aggression" Russia has always been the one for all of its history to push west in its history, you tool. The only "Western aggression" that occurred in history were in 5 separate occasions; the Polish-Lithuanian Invasion and later occupation of Moscow, the Swedish Northern War (WHICH RUSSIA STARTED), the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia, WW1, and WW2. Of those, at best, only the first in the Polish-Lithuanian invasion was actually purely defensive and Russians being oppressed. The others? Russia was busy oppressing other Western minorities and fought for their right to oppress them. Everyone near Russia has a INFINITELY bigger right to attack Russia for defensive purposes and a buffer zone, but they're actually civilized nations unlike Russia.
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@gamermapper Not really coping when Russian troops invaded another country's land to start a referendum and Putin admitted that it was planned beforehand. Imagine being such an utter bootlicker, though lol "Democratically join Russia" LOL. No democratic institution on the planet recognizes Russian imperialism. But you're trying to cope so hard with it.
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@ЭЮЯ-о3к "Serbia did not commit genocide" Oh good, genocide denialism. I'm sure the mass graves found across the region of Bosnian muslims feel a whole lot better. And it has literally never been refuted; it had been affirmed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia who labeled the Srebnica Massacre and those alongside it as a genocide. Nice try, though. Ah yes, the evil West that stopped a genocide. I feel so bad. Nobody in the world believes that the US invaded Ukraine, and the US didn't even really invade Libya; that was more France. The international community considers Crimea to be stolen occupied land, not Russian, so you're like 1 of 5 countries in the world that actually believes that lol
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Why? Snowden ran to Russia who is possibly the biggest enemy to European governments currently. More to the point, European governments gleefully spy on the US too, so staking a claim there would be not only damaging relationships for no actual reason, it would bring further internal trust down.
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@BlindManInsane Great, but not all people in power are the same, and not all people in power even like each other. A person in power in Switzerland trying to keep their country tucked away in neutrality is not the same as one threatened to get invaded. Enough with this simplistic "99% vs 1%" narrative that makes zero sense in reality.
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@BlindManInsane There is no such thing as a unified 99% in the first place. Nor is it always that the 1% is even wrong, and the very concept of it is Marxist stupidity anyway. Who's "we" in this? What if some in the "99%" want to place a new fascist/Marxist dictatorship and the 1% does not? Does that mean everyone else has to unite under them because "fuck the 1%"? Fuck that. Stand for your ideology, but just as the "99%" is varied, so is the 1% that are extremely varied from country to country in the first place.
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@BlindManInsane It's better to have a war with Russia than let Russia just take territory in Europe, smart one. Russia won't fucking stop with Ukraine, or have you never heard of the poem: "First they came for..." before? The only one that seems to have forgotten history is you. The Nazi's expanded their power greatly not by acts of war, but through intimidation of war. Aggressive states that expand their territory don't stop after being sated once, they push and push until they can't anymore. So you need to place a line and say "we won't allow you to go any further". But hey, if you wanna bend over for Russia, feel free to do so. But not at another democracy's expense. Die a slave rather than a free man.
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@BlindManInsane Nazi's aren't Russians, but this specific instance of aggressive territorial expansion is like that Nazi strategy of exploiting Western weakness for power, yes. Western powers didn't come close, it's Russian neighbors that wanted to join NATO, and only because they were terrified, rightly so, of Russia fucking them again. In 2014 when this whole crisis began there were barely any NATO forces in Eastern Europe at all, you propagandist. NATO had made ZERO moves to harm Russia until AFTER Russia attacked Ukraine. "Europe needs to improve relations with russia and strive for cease fire in Ukraine" AFTER Russia took over Ukrainian territory??? It's like asking a battered wife to return to their abusive husband, Jesus Christ. Why the hell should Ukraine trust a single word from Russia after their "brothers" attacked them and supported separatists in their lands, huh? It was Russia that destroyed Ukraine's positive image of them, not the West. And everything you suggested involves bending over for Russia with zero consequences for their actions. Imagine my shock.
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@megamillionfreak Compared to your sources? We can't cite sources on YouTube, genius. But its easily fixed. Just Google "List of people indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia" and find the laundry list of Serbs indicted for war crimes. Of the 124 that were taken in by the former Yugoslavia, 94 of them were Serbs. Next check the "List of Bosnian genocide prosecutions" and find the laundry list there. I won't do further homework for you, but I will give you a hint; only Serbs have been indicted. Now you will likely deny reality and claim it was just a Western Op. In return, I will tell you to go cry about it, because it was righteous and the Serbs apparently deserve worse since they are being taught that genocide was A-OK still.
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 @RushOrbit Birth rates is among the highest in the West to begin with. Maybe it is an issue, but relative to Europe the US is doing great in this field. Which is the topic.
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@om391 This is true. But using this logic, literally everyone has the right to fear Russia since Russia has terrorized them at least once in the past 400 years.
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@Wustenfuchs109 You're alone in this. Most Russian commentators online treat the USSR as the next Russian empire; so they often defend anything the USSR does.
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@Zoloder At no point did the USSR surpass the US in science, though. And the USSR 100% needed to trade with the rest of the world in order to have a decent economy. No nation can do it alone, and it's pathetic that you choose imperialism over your country starving itself economically. It's this obsession with the US that has brought Russia to this point. Russia is more of a miserable colony than the rest of Europe ever could be to the US.
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@Zoloder Oh yeah, everything is fine, like how 70% of Russians lost their major ability to pay through credit through banks like Visa and MasterCard. Or how the Ruble's inflation has skyrocketed so much that people are now protesting because they aren't even getting paid at all. How global services are just being shut off and Russian news networks are being hacked to. Everything is just fine, eh? Keep living in denial all you want, but people would justifiably say this looks like a literal crisis in the West. Russia hasn't done counter sanctions because, as always, the West is more wealthy than Russia and can handle it better. It hurts Russia more than it hurts the West. Duh.
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@Zoloder Hey man, the Ruble inflation grew by 50% in one month alone. If you think that's A-OK, who am I to judge? I'm sure that's all Western propaganda. For the record, the bit about Mastercard and Visa was told to me by a Russian to begin with, no Western media is really covering this bit. Russian "security" which somehow supersedes the security of every nation next to it. Every democracy to boot. Also, Russia instigated this to begin with by invading Ukraine in 2014 with their "little green men". Ukraine's prior neutrality was what allowed that, so Russia literally pushed Ukraine to join NATO for their own security to begin with. Your pride is based on destruction and death. That's pathetic. I feel pity for Russians like you. And pity for the neighbors that have to deal with you. Ah yes. A colony of the British who have been mocked relentlessly in Europe after Brexit. And the US, France and Germany constantly questioning and putting them down. Ukraine did much less than France and Germany and Russia considered that to be just cause for invasion of Ukrainian territories. How your mind works, I can't fathom.
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@paulatreides7532 US troops near Russia only started happening after 2014, which was caused by Russian aggression. US was very cognizant of giving Russia no reason to fear; but their obligations forced them to place troops as an insurance policy for wary allies that could be on the chopping block of the next "special operations" of Russia. Again, NATO can't force members to invade. It can only force members to take part in war if Article 5 is triggered. I would have zero issue with Russia or China having troops next to US borders as long as they have permission. There were troops in Cuba and now in Venezuela with only grumblings from the US at most. Nobody cares. And most importantly; the US hasn't threatened or attacked either Mexico or Canada for almost a century, so are comfortable outside of trade spats. You can't ask people to ignore all context when making your comparison.
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@paulatreides7532 If NATO said both Ukraine and Georgia would be NATO members, why aren't they? You unintentionally proved that you're full of it. NATO saying they believe that x nations will be a part of it doesn't mean it will be. In fact, looking it up, they said that "one day" they can apply and gain entry, meaning the offer is open. That should be obvious, but apparently you need things spelled out for you. It's funny how anything Putinbots don't like suddenly become CIA ops. Did the CIA cause you to stub your toe too? Maybe the CIA is the one bombing Kharkiv as we speak and they're just blaming Russia for it? It's pathetic dude; you can't just blame the CIA for everything. Fact is that protests happened, Yanukovych was kicked out by his own Parliament for new elections in response, then Russia invaded and destroyed any trust between Ukraine and Russia. Now Russia denies Ukraine's right to exist; which is literal Nazi Germany all over again. LOL. Imagine taking Imperial Japan's logic as fact when we know for a fact that they just wanted their own imperialist power base in East Asia. I can see now that you're just a fascist masquerading as an anti-imperialist. You're A-OK with mass murder and conquest as long as its "anti-Western". Pathetic. Psht, I know all about US actions across the century. Really doesn't change the fact that everyone engages in it and you are using the US as a convenient scapegoat to delegitimize anything your favorite dictator of the week has done. If people are upset because they're starving, they're suddenly a "CIA inspired OP" and now the dictator has the right to murder them all. We all know what you truly are, fascist bootlickers are all the same.
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@lazyupload "Toyed" with Ukraine in reality just being regular interaction with another nation-state, I presume? I don't subscribe to the idea of power politics, and believe even great powers, including the US, must not play such games of spheres of influence. Fact is that Ukraine wanted to join NATO after 2014's invasion. Not before. Betraying the Ukrainians to Russia by vowing that they'd never join NATO is as reprehensible as the Munich Conference, though I understand why a geopolitical "realist" would suggest that. I'm a liberal, and I would never agree to such a thing. But I also wouldn't place more troops in Poland either, unless Russia keeps antagonizing the region, which is has recently. The "US empire" was just minding its own business before this crisis blew up. Putin has been planning this for a while, obviously trying to get concessions; you're acting like the US instigated this crisis to force Putin into unfavorable geopolitics. I think that's way too clever for the US, personally.
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@paulatreides7532 Russia never mentioned NATO at the time in the invasion and nobody thought that was the case at the time either; kinda looks like that now, though. You say that, but that proves that you literally have no reason to believe the CIA is involved. You just want to believe it. That's an "F" for logic for you. Edit: I love it. "It happened before, therefor it will happen again" logical fallacy. You do realize the Soviet Union backed guerilla groups across the planet too, right? And that China also did the same in India? Should we know believe that any group that goes against the West is backed by these nations too with your logic?
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Despite the size of the protests, they didn't matter because the population was NOT behind them at all. Protest size is always a relative non-entity in such subjects, what matters is how much the population backs them. In the case of Iraq 2003, most supported the war. In the case of this action by Russia? No idea how many Russians back it, but Putin seems to be quite popular, so...
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@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 For Iraq? Most Americans supported it initially. No one cares what Israel thinks. In May 2003, 77% of Americans supported it.
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@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 ...And? That doesn't matter. What matters was the US opinion to it, to starting the war and enacting it. Whoever starts the war; that's their public opinion that matters. And yes, that is true. There is no denying this.
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Why is that crucial? Ukraine's position has been static these past few years, so why is re-iterating that point in policy supposed to have changed anything?
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@solaroid4442 Everything is Western propaganda when Russia is involved. Russia can kill your family and it'd be Russian propaganda.
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Germany has no more a knack of "succeeding" than any other wealthy nation, tbh.
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@vedun9439 The Hague and all international organizations who know anything about the subject disagree with you. We are still finding more mass graves of Bosnians and Albanians btw. Latest one found in 2020.
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@JC-to5by Disbanding NATO is pretty much asking for the EU to be disbanded; Eastern Europe and Northern Europe truat the Anglos far more than they do Western Europe.
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@dkoda840 EU countries actively utilize geopolitical games against each other and the US. Why does it fall on the US to ignore such BS when European countries actively screw US interests all the time? France literally screwed the Italians in the Med in regards to Libya multiple times, and now has the gall to act like they were betrayed? Seriously?
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@taqiyasir8086 I honestly haven't even seen the British talk about the special relationship thing in a while, but the British have been the only country the US has a technology sharing agreement with, and the US can't built nuclear subs without the UK's permission. So obviously the UK DOES actually get something that no one else gets. In fact, AUKUS is literally just an extension of this, and the US refuses to ever share its tech with France. As for what France relies on the US for; again, it relies on it to maintain its operations in Africa. France literally didn't have the means to support any troops in Libya or West Africa without the US, literally running out of bombs and means to re-fuel its aircraft until the US came in. The UK has not needed the US to support its deployment overseas in comparison. Isn't that proof enough?
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@theyeening Cry all you want, but nothing you can't support retirees when they eventually make up 50% of the population. And its this logic why Marxist states always collapse; they gamble away the future for the sake of the present.
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@haidouk872 You're being willfully obtuse here. Russia doesn't need to invade anyone, it just needs the threat of an invasion or the application of asymmetrical warfare. Fact of the matter is that Western Europe has NOT really proven that it has any semblance of will to stand up to Russia at all. France constantly flirts with Russia, Germany shills for them, and the other countries barring the Netherlands flat-out doesn't care. If the potential of warfare occurs, it's not at all certain that Western Europe would not just sell countries like Poland or Romania for the sake of a more peaceful region. Your idea of "Russia vs the EU" makes no sense because there IS NO EU in which the Spanish or French feel the need to deploy troops to protect their eastern neighbors like there is a strong need from Oregon to reinforce New York in the US. No matter how you try and act; the EU is nowhere near a united entity, and forcing the US out will break it irrevocably, not fix anything. Economic growth be damned, to other countries the issue of Russia is life or death.
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@alexlo7708 ...What? Eastern EU countries are not nuclear ballistic shields, and they do not prevent nuclear attacks on the US. Eastern EU countries ASKED for them to be there, so why exactly are you trying to frame that as the US forcing its will? It's literally the opposite.
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@madselmvig1457 NATO wasn't involved in any war in the ME barring Afghanistan, no. This is a common and frankly ignorant opinion because people on the internet are stupid. Individual countries in NATO got involved, 100%, but NATO itself had nothing to do with anything barring countries within NATO using it to organize. If NATO got involved, then France would literally have no choice but to join in, and the ones France did join were either in French interests (Syria) or was genuinely NATO (Afghanistan). Haiti was a UN mission that only had the US, Poland, and Lebanon involved. Lebanon had the US, UK, France, and Italy I think; but no, that was not NATO either. NATO command had no say in any of these conflicts. Again, Trump never refused Article 5, and if you begin taking him at his word with everything, then you'll believe a lot of stupid stuff. And unlike you, every opinion based on US willingness to protect an ally was extremely high. Both in the US, and in US allies, so idk why you're acting like this is a common opinion. Especially with US troops literally there acting like a human shield. Hey man, "doing business" is perfectly fine, but when that business starts to look a lot like helping them at the expense of an ally; then yeah your allies are gonna start abandoning you. But yeah, you seriously need to learn the difference between NATO itself getting involved (Afghanistan) and countries in NATO getting involved.
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@paul1979uk2000 It used to. It stopped by 2008 and has remained stagnant for the past decade now -ever since the 2008 financial crisis that hit Europe especially hard.
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@yanbarbosa8092 That's not what a bunch of Indians are saying, nor is it what Chinese and Russians are saying.
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@nnnik3595 If it's purely civilian targets, then no. But hitting military installations within civilian centers or other critical infrastructure (like oil fields) can prolly be justified. The Allies firebombed entire cities in WW2 after the Germans did the same earlier; at some point it may be necessary to force Russia to the negotiating table if Ukraine manages to take back its land. After all; I doubt Russia will stop even at that point.
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@wothin Indian channels tend to be far-right and hypocritical. Not neutral.
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I suppose it's better to just let the lands be conquered then, right Chamberlain? Peace at any cost!
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@0816M3RC Nukes won't be involved due to the nature of WMD's. They are a weapon of last resort, and the Kremlin doesn't want to die any quicker than Washington. People are always screeching about nukes being used and don't even know how the concept of deterrence works. Russia won't use nukes unless nukes are used on them, same with the US.
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@MDP1702 ...So do EU companies, or do you think Airbus isn't in the military industry? What, should the US spend less on aircraft and just let the EU directly subsidize companies now?
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@FreeRiceCookerDMme I love how Europeans erase their own responsibility in shady dealings by claiming that it was superpower pressure; as if Europeans gave a shit about pressure from the US without economic sanctions involved. The Danes likely engaged in this spying game to gain information for themselves, like the Germans and the French also did. But yes, governments doing as governments should do does not equate to Danes being bad.
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@aaroncousins4750 Russia only feels secure when Russian troops are occupying everyone near them, apparently.
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@barseraydn4300 You're conflating Cold War politics with modern US politics. US doesn't care what nations do in Latin America, though it can complain; it's pretty hands-off.
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@jedidiahmarada Russia never asked to join NATO. Putin complained that Russia was being looked down on, and if it didn't then he would consider joining NATO; but these days that sounds more like Russia wants to split Europe into spheres of influences again.
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@thesoundinyourhead1782 Turkey is its own sphere of influence; and it acts out against the West and Russia for its own goals. Nobody can say that Turkey is aligned with Russia, of all states.
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@Mark-rf6pe Geez you sound like an abusive husband telling their battered wife that they're at fault. What's wrong with you?
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@mangalores-x_x I think the idea is that France refuses to share the tech so such subs would need to go back to France for maintenance while these UK-US subs would share tech and be able to do maintenance in Australia. So yeah, AU got a better deal for sure.
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@havocgr1976 We loved Soviets when they were anti Nazi as well, sending billions to the USSR for support. I'd rather every dictator die than tolerate them, to be honest.
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