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  1. 6:30 The problem is that Russia is financially incapable of not waging another war soon. Their economy is such a disaster that they'll see plunder of other nations as the only possible way forward.
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  2.  @Drunken_Master  No, it's a defeat for Russia. Le Pen getting into power is what would be a massive win for Russia.
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  3.  @iROChakri  That's as far from reality as it gets. Russia was never "defending itself" by attacking Ukraine. It's none of Russia's business whether Ukraine joins NATO.
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  4. That's exactly how every Trump voter feels, yes.
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  5.  @ПавелИванов-б5б2я  That's completely meaningless. The "command consoles" in Moscow were not in fact necessary for Ukraine to operate those nuclear weapons in their possession. It's not as if would've been beyond Ukraine's ability to "unlock" those nukes and make them usable without Moscow. And no, the declaration of independence of Ukraine did not have any guarantees of neutrality. That's another ridiculous Russian lie, just like the constant claims that NATO "promised" not to "expand" eastward.
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  6.  @notforrestbono3100  Yes, Ukraine is innocent in this war. Russia is entirely at fault.
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  7.  @olegshevchenko5869  It gives Europe leverage? No, it gives Russia leverage. That is why Europe should never go back to Russian gas.
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  8.  @Grayg  The referendum was scheduled before COVID existed. And FLNKS wanted to use COVID as an excuse to delay a referendum they knew they would lose. By December 2021 when the referendum happened, New Caledonia had high vaccination rates and plummeting infection rates.
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  9. Moldovans are Romanian speakers because Moldovans are Romanians. The Republic of Moldova is actually the eastern half of historical Moldavia, with the western half still being part of Romania. The eastern half was stolen by the Soviet Union in 1940.
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  10.  @jerricklittle3306  The US hasn't donated hundreds of billions to Ukraine.
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  11.  @MadsThorlund  No, the US did not "fund the whole war effort". Why are so many Americans this ignorant?
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  12. And while the US itself doesn't spend anywhere near 5% of GDP. It's another example of the sheer dishonesty of Trump.
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  13. Russia has never had anywhere near "half the people" on their side in Ukraine.
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  14.  @JSK010  Red-brown refers to a blend of communism and Nazism. Something that existed even in the 1930s before they were purged in the Night of the Long Knives. It was also known as Strasserism, after Gregor Strasser (who tried and failed to challenge Hitler for leadership of the Nazis Party).
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  15. @ Those "3rd party snipers" were Russian mercenaries. And as for why Russia didn't warn Yanukovych that it was a bad idea to use lethal force to suppress protesters? Using lethal force to suppress peaceful protests is the standard way of operating in Russia. It wouldn't occur to a Russian to think that's a bad idea. And yes, in fact, the Ukrainian protesters did just organize themselves. They did in fact just arm themselves to fight back when the government got violent. The United States had nothing to do with it.
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  16.  @paulb8118  Leave it to American conservatives to be wrong about literally everything.
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  17.  @prominentmagpie7153  That's the literal opposite of reality. Russia has never kept their word, and the claim that Ukraine threatened Russia is flat-out comical.
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  18. The problem is that the AfD doesn't have any reasonable concerns.
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  19. 5:30 Odd that you don't mention those three countries are all ruled by military juntas. With the democratically elected governments removed, it's an open question how popular those anti-French juntas really are.
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  20. Your third "point" is complete BS. Russia's military focus is entirely expansionist and not "defensive".
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  21.  @user-ox9mk7cr2h  That's interesting, given that Norway isn't even in the EU. But I guess the average person in Saint Petersburg doesn't know that. And no, there are not any Norwegians dying because of ambulances supposedly not being able to drive fast.
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  22. Has anybody who's pro-Russia and pro-Putin ever turned out to not be bad?
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  23. They're the very definition of far-right.
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  24.  @Casualphilosopher-db9gy  "Taking Belarus" would be redundant, since Belarus is already Russia's puppet state. Also, it wouldn't be "liberals" who'd argue for just letting Russia have the Baltic states. It's the conservatives who support Russia.
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  25.  @goldenfiberwheat238  Finland was far from "happy" under "Finlandization".
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  26.  @charlesiragui2473  Bessarabia was seized by the Russian Empire in 1878, and managed to escape from Russian rule in 1917.
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  27.  @de_Voux  The majority of the New Caledonia population wants to remain with France.
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  28.  @TeemoTemosson  The US had the luxury of being the the other side of the planet from where the actual fighting was happening.
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  29. Are you seriously trying to pretend that social conservatism is not right-wing? And that seeing Russia (a right-wing dictatorship) favorably is not right-wing?
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  30.  @mauroger86  The are the very definition of far-right.
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  31. 316 seats are needed for a majority. AfD has 152. It would be mathematically possible for them to form a coalition, but the idea of any of the parties of the left joining an AfD coalition is absurd. The parties who have seats are CDU, AfD, SPD, Greens, and The Left. Meaning the only possibilities for AfD would be as CDU's junior partner (which CDU isn't going to agree to) or to be the opposition.
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  32.  @Robert9-tz1  Move to Russia, then. It's impossible to be both pro-America and pro-Russia.
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  33.  @thearbiter3351  Lavrov and Putin repeatedly denied that Russia would ever invade Ukraine. Their denials mean absolutely nothing.
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  34.  @claudiopereira9900  It's Trump who does that.
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  35.  @malehumanperson7901  England doesn't get to prohibit Scotland from holding another referendum. At some point, Scotland will just declare independence without asking for England's permission.
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  36. If the EU federalizes, it's unlikely that "exiting" would be allowed anymore. A federalized EU would be Europe as a single country. And no country allows secession. Secession only ever happens via a successful rebellion.
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  37.  @mugen7819  She's pretty much the definition of a Nazbol. The Gregor Strasser of the 21st century.
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  38.  @de_Voux  Should people whose families have lived there since the 19th century not get voting rights?
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  39.  @ПавелИванов-б5б2я  The Orange Revolution was a direct response to Russian interference in Ukraine! And again, it's none of Putin's business whether Ukraine wanted to join NATO. Though in 2014, Ukraine actually remained strongly opposed to NATO membership. And Putin just made up the "information" about America wanting to "place their base" in Crimea.
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  40. Yeah, a "federal EU" would need to exclude Hungary.
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  41. America certainly hasn't learned anything from that, given that 77 million of us were stupid enough to elect Trump.
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  42.  @n_utd  The Minsk agreement was an illegitimate policy imposed on Ukraine at gunpoint, due to Europe's policy of appeasement.
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  43.  @hyhhy  No, the authoritarianism.
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  44.  @Natsukashii-Records  No, the whole thing happened because Russia refuses to accept that Ukraine is not part of Russia. Russia considers the very existence of an independent Ukraine to be "provocation".
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  45.  @kurumbaatoll9190  "Foreigners" whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were born in New Caledonia? Also, the Kanaks were not the first people to live there either. Some 3,000 years ago the islands were inhabited by the Lapita people, and 1,500 years before that by some unidentified earlier civilization. We don't know what happened to the previous inhabitants, and Kanak history doesn't say either. It's not clear whether the Lapita were the ancestors of the Kanak, or a previous group who the Kanak...defeated and colonized.
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  46.  @Ghreinos  Having the debt break in the first place was a catastrophically dumb idea.
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  47.  @adamfarmer7665  That's because Turkey has been carrying out an illegal military occupation of Northern Cyprus for 50 years.
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  48. Yes, imagine that. Austerity, the policy that has never worked in history, didn't work again. The craziest part being that Merkel managed to literally enshrine austerity into German constitution.
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  49. Yes, they should be pronouncing it "potkan".
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  50.  @keto0303  Russia doesn't own Ukraine. It's none of their business whether Ukraine joins NATO.
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