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  1.  @mr.gamewatch6165  Romania is already an EU and NATO member, so if Moldova were to reunify with Romania, they'd automatically become part of the EU and NATO. Just as what happened when Germany was reunified.
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  2. If Russia was actually worried about Ukraine joining NATO, literally everything they've done has been counterproductive. Ukraine never wanted to join NATO until after Russia attacked them in 2014.
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  3. That would be insanely suicidal of Venezuela to attempt, given that Brazil's army is more than double the size of Venezuela's.
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  4. Want to make a Russian mad? Ask them why nations want to join NATO.
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  5.  @lordhighexecutioner  Finland's "neutrality" was imposed at gunpoint by the Soviet Union.
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  6.  @causemean  Finland was forced to be a puppet and victim of Russia. That's where the term "Finlandization" came from.
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  7.  @causemean  NATO never "attacked Yugoslavia". Yugoslavia had already ceased to exist in 1991.
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  8. Putin really is some evil mustache-twirling villain, though. His motivations might be "logical" in that he and his regime directly benefit from conquering Ukraine. He's not just randomly causing death and destruction for no reason. But that doesn't make him any less evil. A hitman who kills for profit is just as evil as a serial killer who does it for fun, after all.
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  9.  @HolaBruv  A union of Ethiopia and Eritrea should've been of great benefit to both sides. But instead of partnership, Ethiopia insisted on dominating Eritrea. And it looks like Ethiopia's going to make the same mistake again.
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  10. The purpose of creating this lake was to place dams across it and convert the constant flow of water from the Mediterranean into hydroelectric power. This would dwarf the power output already produced by the Aswan High Dam on the Nile.
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  11.  @user-tr1zj  There is no legitimate "Crimean government".
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  12.  @twokool4skool129  The Rus' originated in what's now Ukraine.
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  13. The filibuster exists because the Senate is a fundamentally asinine body. People who want to keep it in place pretend that it's some grand tradition, but in reality it was created completely by accident. And the Senate didn't actually realize they had created a rule that would allow filibusters until decades later. When this was discovered, the filibuster was used primarily to prevent anti-slavery bills from ever getting to the floor for a vote. That is the "grand tradition" of the filibuster.
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  14.  @ChazWalkerWonders  That's a fundamentally ignorant view.
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  15. It was a huge mistaken on Ukraine's part to give up their nukes in exchange for completely empty "security assurances" under the Budapest Memorandum. They should've demanded NATO membership, or at least a separate treaty obligation for military intervention, in exchange for giving up the nukes.
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  16.  @sp3cterproductions  Just a reminder about your "invented ICBMs" nonsense? The inventor of the first ICBM, Sergei Korolev, was Ukrainian.
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  17.  @nashbridges-cu6dy  Serbia is hardly neutral. They're clearly allied with Russia.
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  18. The Salazar dictatorship was willing to to anything to hold onto Portugal's African colonies. Anything, that is, except for actually treating the African population as human beings.
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  19.  @causemean  Because that never happened. Russia never applied for NATO membership. That said, NATO membership does require the unanimous agreement of all current NATO members. As such, if Russia had applied for membership, many current NATO members certainly would have vetoed the application, and for good reason. And claiming that NATO doesn't "respect the security of Russia" is complete BS. The "security of Russia" is entirely within Russia's own borders. Nobody wants to invade Russia.
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  20. The advantage of sending them to Mars would be that it'd be much harder for them to ever come back to Earth.
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  21.  @User-jr7vf  The problem for the PRC is that the Taiwanese people increasingly no longer consider themselves Chinese at all. So there's really nothing that the PRC can offer them to make Taiwan an ally.
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  22.  @Psycho-go5yr  Texas's constitution does not in fact allow any such thing. It's a popular myth in Texas, but it's not actually true. New states can only be created with the approval of Congress. Splitting Texas would be subject to that requirement the same as splitting any other state would be. And in terms of DC, "shaking up the status quo" is desperately needed because the status quo is oppressive.
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  23.  @Psycho-go5yr  Why not Puerto Rico too? We absolutely should add Puerto Rico too. The United States should not have colonies. Puerto Ricans have repeatedly demanded statehood and should be allowed to have it. And you've made it clear that the you only care about the power of the Republican Party. Along with making rather racist assumptions that it's just automatic that any state with a non-white majority would automatically elect only Democrats. Puerto Rico routinely elects Republicans now, why do you assume that wouldn't also apply to their House and Senate delegations if they became a state?
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  24.  @jeradw7420  The states being "equal" is a fundamentally terrible idea and prevents equality of the people.
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  25. That "indirect influence" amounts to almost nothing.
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  26.  @ChazWalkerWonders  "Never getting anything done" is not a good thing.
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  27.  @virariueb7182  Having most global trade paid in US dollars is beneficial, but you're vastly overestimating how important it is. The more important factors are that the US has the largest economy in the world (yes, still larger than China) and a military that's quite literally more powerful than the entire rest of the world combined.
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  28.  @stivvits1067  That's the literal opposite of what happened. Nobody gets "invited" to join NATO. Nations have to apply to join NATO, and convince all of the current members to allow them in. And contrary to Russia's "NATO expansion" narrative, it was actually quite difficult for the former Warsaw Pact members to convince the US to allow them into NATO. The US in the 1990s should've done more to "contain Russia". Instead, the main focus of the US was a naive attempt to coax Russia into becoming a Western-style liberal democracy, and paying no attention at all to preventing Russia from reconquering the other former Soviet republics. The US attitude in the 90s was that Russia was the only ex-Soviet republic that mattered.
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  29.  @stivvits1067  Russia's pretense that NATO is an "existential threat" to them is complete and utter nonsense. The only thing NATO "threatens" is Russia's ability to invade its neighbors. If Russia was willing to peacefully coexist, NATO wouldn't be a problem to them at all. (Hell, at the beginning of Putin's presidency, he didn't consider NATO a problem. It was only when he decided to engage in expansionist wars that it became a problem to him.) Also, the Warsaw Pact was very obviously not a voluntary alliance of equals. The Soviet Union imposed puppet governments on the nations it was militarily occupying, and forced them to join the Warsaw Pact.
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  30. 14:07 The most apt comparison, though, would be the similarly genocidal slavery carried out by colonial overlords in what was then known as the Congo Free State/Belgian Congo.
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  31. Yep, Portugal's original African colony is now held by Spain.
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  32. ​ @cruzgomes5660  Ceuta. Conquered by Portugal on August 21, 1415. Officially transferred to Spain on January 1, 1668 .Though it had already been de facto Spanish for a century due to gaining a Spanish majority population during the Iberian Union, and was the only (nominally) Portuguese colony to side with Spain during the Restoration War.
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  33. In reality, that's a "solution" where everybody involved loses. Maryland doesn't want DC added to their state, and DC doesn't want to be added to Maryland. The only "winners" would be tiny rural states like Wyoming, who don't want the check to their disproportionate power in the Senate that would be come from adding new states.
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  34.  @sp3cterproductions  Russia's missiles are so bad that they'd be more likely to glass themselves. If the warheads are actually still functional at all. It's very expensive and technically demanding to maintain nuclear warheads, after all.
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  35. It's not a valid concern at all. It was always a silly concern that reflected deeply skewed priorities.
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  36.  @dudewatevs56  That entire narrative of "the entire nation being dominated by a single city" is complete and utter nonsense.
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  37.  @dudewatevs56  Because how would the city "dominate" the government? Just by existing? Does Maryland's location surrounding DC give it any special power over the federal government? Of course not. Neither would DC had such a power if granted statehood.
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  38.  @dudewatevs56 If DC becomes a state, all of the federal buildings would not be part of the state. It would simply be surrounded by the state. Just like DC is now surrounded by Maryland. What's so hard to understand?
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  39.  @nashbridges-cu6dy  NATO did not "invade them".
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  40.  @kryz8847  You're a buffoon. All of the nations in Eastern Europe had to beg the United States to let them join NATO. Calling it "hegemonic aggression" is Russian propaganda. Russia thinks it's entitled to have Eastern Europe as its "sphere of influence", and that the nations of Eastern Europe shouldn't get any choice in the matter.
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  41.  @linkplays2952  224 years of history being not part of any other state isn't good enough reason for for DC to be its own state?
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  42.  @blakekaveny  And it absolutely should be changed. Having locked in the size of the House at 435 seats for over a century is insane, given how vastly larger the US population has grown in that time. The House should have to grow with the US population.
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  43. It's now known that there's lots of oil. Thus, the USA will be looking to "liberate" Antarctica in the future.
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  44.  @LizardKing-io9vi  You're deranged. Sisi is a despot, and he's bankrupting Egypt building a ridiculously extravagant "new capital" in the middle of the desert that will benefit only himself and the rest of the ruling class.
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  45.  @beepthemeep12  The issue is that given the heat of the Sahara region, the water would evaporate too quickly for erosion to get the job done. That's why such a large canal would've been needed: so that water would flow in faster than the rate of evaporation.
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  46.  @SHARMTFT  The Minsk agreements were themselves an unacceptable Russian intrusion into Ukraine. If you wage an armed rebellion, the government has every right to use military force to stop it.
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  47. In reality, you're just desperately flailing for a reason to not make them a state, solely because you're a supporter of the political party that's unpopular in DC. The residents of DC have no connection to Maryland, and Maryland also rejects the idea of being "given" that territory and population. Maryland doesn't want it because those DC residents (who again, have no connection to Maryland, having been separate from the state for centuries) would instantly become a powerful political force within the state. Because DC would become the largest city in Maryland.
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  48.  @TainyaGaming  Making DC part of Maryland would be unconstitutional unless approved by Maryland. And Maryland won't approve it, because they don't want a bunch of outsiders to suddenly become Maryland's largest population center. The only way you'd be able to force such a transfer against Maryland's will is if you pass a constitutional amendment transferring the residential parts of DC to Maryland. Statehood for DC is in fact the far easier and more reasonable solution.
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  49.  @libraryofpangea7018  This whole "Neom" boondoggle is going to bankrupt the country. He's apparently under the delusion that Saudi Arabia's wealth isn't merely vast, but infiinite.
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  50. That's exactly how Russia sees the nations of Europe. They think that Russia is entitled dominate all smaller countries.
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