Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1. Time for Europe to unite. We are alone.
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  2. Money? They've got 250 billion dollars of Russian money in a Belgian bank. It's time to use it.
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  3. Imagination isn't his strength.
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  4. Appeaser. History will mock him.
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  5. He's in a strange place.
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  6. No time for British isolationism boys. Europe is actually in peril.
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  7. Please remove Sunak. His voice is so irritating.
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  8. How can we sit back and watch this happen in our wonderful little continent of Europe? I despair.
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  9. The 30 minute diatribe on medieval history was not evidence of a twenty-first century rational statesman.
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  10. America is pathetic. They asked for our help in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we stood with them. Never again.
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  11. ​ @SC4RRiGAN itbis declinong for a reason. Stealing land from other countries diesn't solve the underlying problem, the lack of economic development.
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  12. Humiliating a democratically elected head of state is the last straw.
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  13. They don't move to russia though. I wonder why?
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  14. Its time to ghrow slovakia out of the EU. It has made its choice.
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  15. That was bullying.
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  16. ​ @Arvidje i did after 3 days of the war. Russian armor was burning on the road to kyiv. And Hostemol airport was unusable. End of plan.
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  17. Dehumanising ukranians will not stop your defeat. The giant is waking.
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  18. 20%, a minority of voters.
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  19. ​ @richardwilson57 you forget the wishes of the Ukranian people. They want to be part of Europe. Obviously.
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  20. Chamberlain tried that.
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  21. Gross negligence and a failure of leadership.
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  22. This is what Merkel and Hollande negotiated at Minsk. The truce sort of held for 8 years.
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  23. Get your friends to vote in November, please. We in Europe dread Trump's pro-Russian stance. Putin is a monster.
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  24. ​ @minnihd6470 wageknecht, munzernich und den ganzen quatsch was ihr dort reden. Fuer ein bisschen billeges gas.
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  25. ​ @richardmarsden5610 Russia has never been the 4th largest economy. Even in the 19th century its GDP never got above 7th. Your PPP figure is not what serious enomists use to compare countries. Russia is currently 12th.
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  26. Schlotterbeck's a liability.
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  27. They'll have to remove him soon, poor Torygraph.
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  28. Temporarily?
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  29. We have a poor manager who always plays safe to hide his tactical deficiencies.
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  30. Small? It's economy is 60% larger than Russia's. Unlike Russia, it's an advanced economy.
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  31. Johnson cut defense spending.
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  32. Russia retreated from Kyiv too. Their problem isn't that they don't know when to retreat, it is that they have to.
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  33. It's a forum and a good way to organise international humanitarian projects. It does not, however, have an army or a nuclear arsenal of its own, so it has no means of forcing nations to comply.
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  34. Just your usual fascist. There's a lot of it about.
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  35. Don't count your chickens. Appeasement always leads to bigger wars.
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  36. We have to balance the uncritical Russian propaganda somehow.
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  37. ​ @yuglesstube  Not really. Russia is a fascist state. I am looking at a big Z on an even bigger poster, and a big orange and black ribbon poster, and another big poster with Glory to the motherland in big letters. If that's not facism, what is?
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  38. We do take it for granted, snd have no experience of what dictatorship is.
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  39. btw.the Saudi was an AfD supporter. (Laut deutschspraechiger Nachrichtenquellen)
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  40.  @d1ndark25  the west didn't torture, rape and execute the people of Bucha.
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  41. Perhaps, she could join the Telegraph's Ukraine podcast. They're not such a fan of "strong men" leaders there
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  42. Scholz actually let his entire coalition collapse rather than send Taurus. Has he been tempted by beauties in Moscow hotels, too?
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  43. Labour isn't a revolutionary party.
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  44. ​@marioformosa4259 we don't have delusions of grandeur unlike some countries, which is a good thing.
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  45. ​@seanniemeyer5437 not endless. The prison population has fallen from 420k to 260k since the start of the war. Russia is not the USSR, it already suffers manpower shortages at home, in particular a lack of specialists.
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  46. It is wrong to call the Baltics, Finland, Denmark, Poland etc. hawks. According to that logic, Victor Orban and Robert Fico are doves.
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  47. Blame "problem manager" Merkel and Putin fan Sarkozi for that.
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  48. South Korea is saving Europe from itself. What must they think of us?
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  49. Is throwing meat at Bakhmut good generalship?
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  50. Nope, we are the boys who will stop your little game.
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  51. ​ @robertmiskey5502 it already has.
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  52. It's called a colonial mindset.
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  53. ​ @dimas3829 and at kursk the red army had air superiority for the first time due to the Germans having to defend against allied bombing of theif cities. The f-16s will be there soon, alonv with Israel's patriot systems. Will be interesting.
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  54. ​ @briancarno8837 we know. We"ve got your money. Your banks were wobbling today.
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  55. The propagandists in Russia called the idea of Russiz attacking Ukraine western hysteria. That dated well.
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  56. He's one of those romantic socialist types at heart, used to visit the DDR in his youth. No hope with him around.
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  57. Yawn.
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  58. Stormshadows. Love 'em.
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  59. The usual BS from Russia.
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  60. Germany is the most angst-ridden country of all. I don't know why.
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  61. ​ @rjScubaSki the russians weren't so dumb back then. They didn't want escalation.
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  62. The US isolationists of 1941.were actually fascists.
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  63. ​ @adsfwef1331 says the fact that they broke every treaty and agreement they ever made with Ukraine with respect to its sovereignty, thinking of 1994, 1997, and 2003 specifically. The treaty would be worthless.
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  64. Russia was in no position to oppose it in 2008. That's the point.
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  65. The IOC isn't democratically accountable. It's basically, like FIFA, self-appointed.
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  66. The bankers are queezy.
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  67. Yes. reuters reported that the US is planning to give 90 patriot systems. All I ever hear is nations uuming and aahing about giving 1 or 2, and congragulating themselves when they give 3 or 4.
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  68. ​ @CountDuckEgg alas, ths blue wall looks strong. Trump can retire in 6 weeks.
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  69. 29,000 a year. Not a lot for the 5th largest economy on the planet to handle.
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  70. ​ @Arvidje a strange victory. It's now got Finland and Sweden against its imperial goals, too.
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  71. But russia breaks every agreement it signs. Negotiation pointless.
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  72. ​ @hazelwray4184  so what.
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  73. ​ @JohnCSmith-lp1qr .no, not nearly enough. Russia is spending its wealth fund on this.
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  74. ​ @samsungtap4183  the cold war was very expensive. 6% of GDP. We currently spend 2.2%. We don't want an encouraged militarised Russia.
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  75. ​ @JohnCSmith-lp1qr what a great idea it was to mske uour biggest investors yoyr enemy. How many car factories has China built in Russia? Answer, none.
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  76. They won't be in Russia, but on the front lines fighting the Ukranian army.
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  77. The Chinese won't be happy.
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  78. Sara Wagenknecht is calling for Russia to hand over Kursk oblast for the sake of peace.
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  79. Where is the 350 million a week for the NHS Mr. Farage?
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  80. It's weird. I guess the distance makes Americans feel safe.
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  81. They put their heads in the sand in the 30s too. Many European countries paid a terrible price for it.
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  82. Good point.
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  83. ​ @ElNino-xm3ej  i see the state of russia from my window. They stopped building a school near me cos the money ran out. So sshhhh.
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  84. He's a weak US president. I lived through Reagan, Clinton and the Bushes. I never saw such hesitation in the face of threats to the free world.
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  85. Moldova will be next, except Ukraine will hold them.
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  86. Are they gonna drop it in Siberia like that genius Margerita Simiyan suggested
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  87. I wouldn't put it beyond the far right government in Washington.
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  88. They're being to realise the ruse.
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  89. ? The US spends around 2.8%, but the Poles, the Norwegians and the Balts do spend 4%. It's all online.
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  90. The Russian ambassador to the UN is protesting at being invaded🤮
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  91. She was in favour of the single market, an economic liberal in fact.
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  92. ​ @susannamarker2582 They weren't that stupid back in the day.
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  93.  @simongray2533  91% to have an independent ukraine, including majority in crimea and Donbas. The option to stay part of Ukraine wasn't on the 2014 ballot.
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  94. The bots have targeted this website.
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  95. Wasn't that a muppet character?
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  96. They don't come to Russia. Its rubbish there.
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  97. ​ @yudhihartadi6636 russia didn't exist until 1611.
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  98. The bots will feel very at home then.
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  99. ​ @michaelwilson9921 she didn't say that. She said keeping Putin diplomatically engaged delayed the invasion. She was covering her arse for the failure of her appeasement policy btw, for which she has been heavily criticised at home in Germany. She was basically trying to defend her much tarnished legacy.
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  100. What's the funny bit? Personally, I find the whole thing horrifying and sickening.
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  101. It had experienced Stalin. Maybe they thought it couldn't get any worse.
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  102. Rishi Sunsk's charismatic voice to be added soon.
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  103. He might have done a deal with the Chinese to not supply ukraine more in return for Chinese pressure on Russia to not use nukes. I don't know if that's true, but it is possible.
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  104. Trying to undermine faith in the EU "Richard"?
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  105. Many Americans didn't want to provide the USSR with a lifeline either, but luckily for Stalin they did
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  106. Dim by name, dim by nature.
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  107. ​ @timwhale9434 velocity? We should be having a construction boom, which is very good for growth btw, but vested interests are preventing that.
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  108. too "steve"
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  109. Scholz is trying to cling onto power long enough to sell out Ukraine, till March, and go into the German elections with his white piece of paper in his hand proclaiming peace in our time.
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  110.  @bryanmoyna9715  it's positive if your culture prefers autocracy to democracy. Maybe the culture is the issue here, not the English. .
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  111. They know we'd blockade their trade routes with our navy. Their ragtag army couldn't do much about it, and we've seen the admiral kuznetzov close-up, rather amusing.
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  112. Napoleon had the best army in the world. It won a lot more battles than it lost.
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  113. Terror regimes do this; Gadaffi, for example.
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  114. He does nuance. Horrible.
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  115. Peaceful. Really?
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  116. Ah, yes! The Telegraph, its aversion to all things European and its behoathenness to the "special" relationship. So out of touch.
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  117. Take my hat off to the US. Europe needs to do more.
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  118. It was a message of hope. The wonderous unvanquishable free Ukranian human spirit. What a wonderful people they are.
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  119. ​ @DebbieGlenn-f9u  the us doesn't make empty threats.
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  120. Ukraine would be glad of such loans.
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  121. This is true; peace yhrough strength is tried and tested. Escalation management, well, we're commerating our dead from June 6th 1944 due to that.
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  122. Because the cost isn't economically significant compared to severe labour shortages.
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  123. ​ @awf6554 I live in Russia.
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  124. I don't recall the leaders of its major economies sending a strong message to Moscow. I do remember them telling Moscow they feared nuclear war and a Russian defeat, so wouldn't help Ukraine win.
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  125. Watch?
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  126. ​ @paulmarshall3053 you mean he understands his subject.
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  127. More like the plantagenots, the original conquerors of Ireland.
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  128. Very nice, but it won't help Russia. It has no access to the world's capital markets, and will go bankrupt if forced to continue war spending at the present rate. Don't expect a ceasefire.
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  129. I don't think Russia is fighting for the ideals of the French revolution.
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  130. Trump dodged the draft, did he not?
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  131. But it's not plausible. Exports from Kyrgistan to Russia are up 2000%.
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  132. Vested interests at work. Probably German.
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  133. Read the LSE study on the effect of EU free movement on the UK economy. It's very educational.
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  134. Scholz and co use the nuclear threat to help putin.
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  135. Tell China that.
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  136. ​ @dandun30 The question is, is Ukraine or Russia closer to achieving the goal?; the continued existence of Ukraine as a sovereign nation state.
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  137. Strange that the polling shows 80% support for joining the EU.
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  138. And there was I thinking the Russians and their dictator friend Assad are killing Syrians.
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  139. ​ @samsungtap4183 73 the US left, it came in In 65. The wat started in 55 as i recall. Could be wrong. The US came in to support anti-communist forces. We tried.
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  140. He's giving Russia sovereign European territory for narrow national interests. Chamberlain did that.
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  141. Thomas Bach is so compromised by his past. Germans I've spoken to regard him as a national embarrassment.
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  142. ​ @Fenristhegreat No time for isolationism. Innocent people are being murdered, and that is wrong.
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  143. Tell the citizens of Bucha that the Orcs didnt falll upon them.
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  144. Not really. It was blockaded by the Royal Navy in the Crimean war in both the Black Sea and Baltic, and the coalition forces were able to supply their forces in the Crimea easily.
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  145. Reason there is no strategy is that they cant agree. This is the USA's role.
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  146. 750,000 losses, none of Ukraine's major cities. That's rubbish. We took Hamburg, Dortmund, Tripoli, Brussels, Antwerp and Hanover for 250,000 losses.
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  147. Orban is truly despicable, after Budapest 1956 and all.
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  148. Ukraine won't accept this. And then Europe will have a big decisuon to make.
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  149. ​ @samsungtap4183 They have money. It is always a question of priorities.
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  150. ​ @paulbrimble8204 unaffordable.
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  151. Whatever. Move to Iceland.
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  152. It's disgusting. It's Lindburgesque.
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  153. Turkey isnt a bridge. It has an antiwestern leadership, but it needs nato as much as the baltics, and it knows it.
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  154. The peace is worthless.
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  155. The British people. 94% of us believe Ukraine has to be supported.
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  156. ​ @a13xdunlop The nato countries on russias border have bitter recent experience of Russias lack of respect for their borders. That's why they joined nato. Your fault for being naughty. But taking responsibility for your actions is not your strong point.
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  157. With 200,000 casualties, the Russisn people are suffering greatly. So many fresh graves stuffed with broken disfigured young bodies.
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  158.  @evolassunglasses4673  the russian ethnic East. And I thought ukraine and russia were one people because they are orthodox East slavs. What happened to that line?
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  159. People are afraid. We can't say that we wouldnt be too.
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  160. Because young people like her music.
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  161. ​ @paulstewart4195 civil war? In your fascistic dreams.
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  162. ​ @sebastianforbes1 they said" come and take them"".
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  163. ​ @samsungtap4183 usual hot air being spouted I see by a backward country which is in love with western technologies like smart phones, cars, TVs, and computers.
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  164. In humankind's eternal struggle to be free of tyrants? Don't. The human spirit is stronger than any of them.
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  165. Is it so hard? Revenue exceeds use of services. Why? The people coming in are young, healthy, and economically active.
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  166. That's not actually true.
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  167.  @Harry-wb7uv  your innane conspiratorial thinking is just boring.
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  168. Well done to Germany.
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  169. Thd role suited johnson better. Everyday government bores him. His head is full of ancient Greek and Roman heroes. It was an opportunity to do something grand. I don't like the guy, but he isn't timid.
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  170. Another place nobody has ever heard of which took a year to take. I note, that Kharkiv stands. But why?
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  171. Russia doesn't care for reason. That is an enlightenment concept.
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  172. They make good human bone fertiliser.
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  173. He likes being chancellor. He'll be gone soon.
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  174. Very difficult to supply too.
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  175. We don't.
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  176. ​​ @briancarno8837 punish the childnappers.
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  177. It's their dream to join the EU do they can live in prosperity. Having a crap health service is nothing to play down. Being isolated from Europe and going downhill is not what the Ukranisns are fighting for.
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  178. ​ @samsungtap4183 he broke through the German front in Normandy, and created the southern pincer of the Falaise pocket, too.
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  179. Well. No more Putin the Vassal of Pooh.
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  180. He rejected Pompeo, Pompeo backs Ukraine.
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  181. Their problem is that people holiday abroad these days, because EU membership made most Britons wealthier.
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  182. Your name isn't James it's ivan the brain.
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  183. They have isolationist instincts but russia is acting in such a hostile way towards the US that Americans are rightly horrified.
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  184. So stop bloody trying to get into the West then. We don't need all these economic migrants. We don't migrate to your country.
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  185. Frost was against Brexit till he entered politics.
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  186. Sweden and Finland have not been reduced to rubble. Ukraine is under attack because it is not in NATO.
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  187. Americans can spell Americans.
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  188. It's what native English speakers do. It's a filler word.
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  189. ​ @sebastianforbes1 Julius Streicher said that.
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  190. ​ @sebastianforbes1 MSM a Goebbels buzzword still used by extremists to this day.
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  191. Putin's propagandists will be most pleased at what is going on in Britain. Farage was all over the Russian news yesterday, edited of course. And Russians will support their invasion more now.
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  192. Russian occupation is not peace, it is violent repression.
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  193. Idiots? What's your doctorate in?
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  194. It's a positive thing, that we aren't so narrow-minded.
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  195. I'm sure Assange is treated better, and wasn't poisoned twice, and ghete aren't 750 of hom in penal colonies with a 25 year prison sentence.
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  196. Emotion, especially fear, beats reason. How else would fascism be so successful?
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  197. War expenditure. They're selling less.
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  198. I didn't think democracy would die in the USA. Shame.
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  199. ​ @sebastianforbes1 encircled, an amusing thought.
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  200. What sort of syntax is that ffs?
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  201. It's 143 million, and has been steadily falling since 1991,when it was 175 million.
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  202. Lenin believed in the right to national self-determination, which was a key principle of the 1919 Versailles Treaty anx the League of nations. They just had to be part of his communist union, too.
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  203. ​ @wendyholland2339  Shexwas in favour of the single market.
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  204. PC?? I thought that died out with the boomer generation.
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  205. ​ @boxingsense3459 we know who could.
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  206.  @hoodatdondar2664  does he apply this logic to the nato expansion line I wonder.
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  207. Then it is our good fortune that it values our markets.
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  208. TPP, WTO, Eutopean security, nah.
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  209. He actually knows what he's talking about. There have been impact studies done.
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  210. He's a national embarrassment. One assumes he couldn't find a proper job.
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  211. ​ @Withnail1969 i wouldn't say that. China needs market access.
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  212. ​ @Withnail1969 it stopped trading in Russia.
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  213. Do some serious research. Migration increased under the last Labour govt. Waiting lists virtually disappeared. The professor explained why. They invested the increased revenues in health care.
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  214. Are they aliens?
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  215. ​ @gdiwolverinemale4th stalin also said it, because he knew, he was there.
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  216. The home office publishes the figures.
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  217. Great to hear that! Democracy is too precious and fragile to take for granted. We have blue and yellow ribbons on our Christmas tree, and we live in Russia.
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  218. ​ @mfallen6894 it's only hungary. It's a financial burden to the rest of us, and of no military relevence
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  219. Macron isn't Scholz's bestie. They have a poor relationship.
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  220. That's what mostly happens.
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  221. Your ignorance of the UK constitution is nearly as great as putins contempt for yours.
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  222. ​ roshfort actually it is. The Jewish Marxist world conspiracy it was called.
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  223. ​ @ibabayaga1353 the aim was to colonise ukraine and grab the oil fields of the caucuses. History seems to be repeating itself.
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  224. Are they avoiding Sunak's "audit" because the Telegraph is a Tory rag?
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  225. In Germany, the women have courage, the men are total cowards.
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  226. ​ @normrobichaud1223 i hate that line so much, and they all use it.
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  227. The fringe is running your party. It just sided with Iran, North Korea and Russia at the UN. Even China abstained.
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  228. How does fascism solve social deprivation? Reform's policies ae designed to help the top earners most. This has been assessed by the IFS btw.
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  229. There are people inside the German institutions trying to sabotage support for Ukraine, because they share Russia's colonial attitude to Ukraine.
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  230. The smart Americans know that isolationism isn't a realistic policy, if for no other reason than that Europe is America's natural ally and its biggest trading partner, so what happens in Europe affects what happens in America.
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  231.  @dimsum947  2014 ruble to dollar 30. 2024 95. Go figure the rest out for yourself.
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  232. Bot
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  233. A professor against a politician. Just gets shouted down.
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  234. Slow creep, after that. Guarding Belorus border, then if really necessary boots on the ground.
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  235. ​ @lw1zfog keep clinging onto straws.
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  236. No, they are throwing the kitchen sink to get as much territory as possible in case Trump wins.
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  237. ​ @philiplbrown you may well be right, but why on Earth would it be the US narional interest to strengthen a country which openly insults and mocks it, imprisons its citizens, and even says it is at war with it?
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  238. Why should anyone care?
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  239. The ad stops at 2:27. What's all the fuss? I just moved the red bar with my finger. Not hard. I imagine the people who couldn't figure that out support Putin.
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  240. What's a barncake?
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  241. Which is why it's important for journalists to be able to work without having to fear for their lives.
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  242. That's why white people are so much more successful. They don't support genocidal lunatics.
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  243. ​ @jevgenijs39 not strong enough to take it. It takes months to take small towns.
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  244. Do Welsh people strugggle with basic Enhlish grammar. No they don't Ivan.
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  245. ​ @chezfalcini6793 the allies haven't come in yet.
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  246. Kim Jong un is more loved. He got 100%. That's because he's obviously so great
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  247. The IOC sure doesn't care about the 400 or so Ukranisn athletes killed in the war.
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  248. There's a lot of self-interest in the US's investment in western security. I'm not anti-American, but it's hardly babysitting. ​ @sparks1792 
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  249. It won't. Our manager isn't good enough, and neither is McGuire.
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  250. ​ @mrizaldi7199 If they don't, they won't have a country. Maybe we should stop being cowards and help them instead of wringing our hands and covering our own arses.
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  251. Their voting rights should be suspended until they show solidarity.
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  252. ​ @The_ZeroLine dominance too
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  253. ​ @samsungtap4183 And so are we. Three guesses for where China's main export markers are.
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  254. The establishment is defending itself against a person of color. Yuk! Abolish this ridiculous monarchy.
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  255. Not my experiencd of university. Overseas student at Bath were maiinly enrolled in the engineering and management faculties there.
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  256. That's what happened at the Munich conference. It shows how stupid Scholz is.
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  257. ​ @ralphvandereb66  he was in the SED. They were not pacifists.
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  258. Why so much AIDS in Russia?
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  259. To the West Germany model: East Germany wasn't ethnically cleansed by Stalin. Putin is not Stalin.
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  260. Europe is paying more than its "share". Its another trump lie. Europe had zlso taken in 7,000,000 ukranian refugees.
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  261. Does anyone know why Russia is in Ukraine? Imperial fantasising maybe.
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  262. Read the UN charter. The USSR helped write it.
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  263. It will result in Ukraine's freedom. Everything else is secondary.
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  264. Yeah, nice way to go.
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  265. 25% it is, French origin 40%. Due to 1066 and the ensuing French overlordship and colonisation waves, which we don't like to admit happened, but the proof is in gje pudding, ad they say. The other 35%, norse 12%, Greek 6%, Latin 15%, other 2% including gaelic.
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  266. ​ @MKSense1 they never go quietly, but they go.
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  267. They already did that. They called it the Minsk Agreements. This is the full-scale invasion.
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  268. It doesn't matter, if their army is hollow, which it is.
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  269. Stupid people. Migration is necessary to deal with the demograpgic crisis. We should be grateful to the young people from far away who come to work in our societies.
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  270. Alma.
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  271. Musk is a white South african. I have never met one who wasn't extremely rightwing.
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  272. Very lasered in on the years 862 to 1140, as they claim to be the heirs of Kyivan Rus, a medieval federation established by Swedish viking slave-traders, whose leader Valdomar converted to Christianity in the tenth century in present-day Sevastopol, former a Greek city known as Cherokenose. The synthesis of Greek and Scythian culture producedwhat we call the golden age of Greece, much more interesting than Viking slave-traders. Achilles is, according to legend, buried on Snake island, and the Greek heroes went to the fields of Elysium after they died, that's also present day Ukraine. Fascinating, or what😂 Oh, and the first towns were built not in Mesopotamia as once thought, but between Odessa and Kherson, and Ukraine was where the Indo-European languages, the ones we speak, came to Europe.
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  273. The gap isnt that big. Europe is rather rich.
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  274. ​ @RyanBrown-w4n the tsar and his 140 million little sheep.
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  275. The only lasting peace will result from Russia giving up its imperial ambitions. I can't see that happening personally. The resentment and hubris is too entrenched in their elite.
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  276. China is the daddy in that club.
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  277. Germany was pretty active as I recall.
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  278. Investigate UKIP and Reform's links to Moscow. They are the Kremlin's useful idiots.
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  279. And Samsung, South Korea!!
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  280. Planet academic research.
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  281. ​ @sarahsteeleuk4196 What was the effect of EU freedom of movement on the UK economy?
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  282. ​ @briancarno8837 320k it is, mate.
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  283. They didn't conduct a military invasion on the European continent.
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  284. Nor can we take a trans-atlantic alliance seriously, where one side of the Atlantic doesnt take the security of the other seriously, except our good friends the Canadians of course, unsung heroes for whom we have great respect.
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  285. ​ @sebastianforbes1  A dictator? Ukraine's Parliament voted for martial law, and they have the power to decide when it ends.
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  286. ​ @todd1770 Ivan fears the US changing its policy, which it will.
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  287. ​ @jonathanjacob5453  I've seen the Adm. Kuznetzov struggling down the channel. Chill.
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  288. Having lived in Russia, allowing the Russians to think they've won by ceding territory, would be a fatal mistake. I cannot stress this strongly enough. This conflict is being driven by toxic masculinity, which must be dissuaded from violent acts. Every Russian I met in a position of power in society was like this, devoid of morals as we understand them, excited by the notion of spreading destruction westwards.
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  289. A lot of Farage's supporters like Hitler and Putin.
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  290. Bad deal for Ukraine. They literally gained nothing.
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  291. He is very sobre. Britain's gain.
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  292. That's not politics.
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  293. Well said! If only our leaders could feel our fustration with their procrastination.
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  294. Strange how people who support antidemocratic legislation in the UK are so supportive of democracy abroad. I doubt they see their own double stdndards.
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  295. ​ @CountDuckEgg not pointless for the 4 million Ukranians who are presently living under Russian occupation, and the 8-12 million displaced civilians. But who cares about them, huh.
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  296. ​ @grundgesetzart.1463 8 million were Ukrainians.
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  297. ​ @alexsilent5603 440 of the 1000 tanks defending Moscow in 1941 had been urgently sent by the Western powers yo shore up Moscows defenses. They were needed north Africa. And the 14th army in South East Asia got none, which proved fatal at singspore.
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  298. ​ @alexsilent5603 yhd germans lost half as many troops. 6 million to 12 million.
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  299. It is very important. Russia needs China a lot.
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  300. American voters seem to like candidates like that.
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  301. ​ @mitchyoung93  Yes, tribes move around. It was once Scythian.
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  302. ​ @marisabenson1222  not generations, 800 years. They were established as a Haanate after the Mongol invasion of the region in the twelth century. The Horseriding tribes which had settled there from Asia 4,5000 years ago brought us our Indo-European languages. Their descendents were the Scythians, who synthesised with Greek civilisation to give us what we understand as western civilisation. Cherokenesos, near Sevastopol, was a Greek city. A Swedish coloniser, Valdomar, converted to Christianity there. This is modern Russia's historical claim to Crimea. They want this legacy to have a worlf-historical role, rather thsn being a collection of tribes which were sold as slaves unyol they were assimilated into a loose Viking state based around Kyiv, founded in 540ish.
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  303. ​ @ChorltonBrook United Russia card holders are given preferential mortgages in Cromea now. One million ethnic Russians have been resettled in Crimea since 2014.
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  304. If the west want to give ukraine the weapons to win, ukraine will win. Putin and Shoigu will hope that the west will want peace before total victory is achieved. Time will tell..
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  305. Innanity.
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  306. No, it's declared itself independent.
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  307. But at least our journos aren't routinely murdered.
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  308. He loves his aqua disco.
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  309. We lost 3 0 in the camp nou, and won 4 0 at anfield. It aint over till its over.
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  310. I take it uou have never lived in Britain, nor Russia, which has around 140 languages.
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  311. No. They are indoctrinated to believe it is as Russian as Moscow. They say russia is the descendent of the ancient Greeks, and crimea plays a big part in this myth. They also claim to be the third Rome. They have many myths to justify their thirst for other people's land.
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  312. Biden's so weak.
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  313. They do, all the weird ones thst nobody wants to live in.
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  314. Putin won't negotiate while he thinks he's winning.
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  315. ​ @piotrd.4850 so quite a lot.
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  316. Jake Sullivan, the US version of Neville Chamberlain.
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  317. Like the abortion issue then.
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  318.  @WayneTheSeine  i truly don't care. It ceased to be an issue in the UK long before I was born. Fortunately, religion plays no role in our political life.
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  319. ​ @craighughes2191 i doubt they have a soul.
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  320. ​ @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 occupied countries don't have much of that. Countries which freely enter powerful national groupings do.
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  321. It's not bold, it's enlightened, and Russia doesn't do enlightened.
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  322. Biden and Scholz planned for Ukraine to lose slowly, even when they were on the cusp of victory in September 2022. Shameful.
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  323. And yet your spelling remains that of a 4 year old.
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  324. ​@williammorris584 and the millions who Want to live in freedom and not be tortured etc., do they count for something?
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  325. The German media is generally defeatist. Germans worry more about their pockets than the suffering and threat.
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  326. A lot of dumb people out there.
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  327. Is that the guy who says we're breeding slav biting mosquitoes😂😂😂
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  328. Nuts!
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  329. I doubt Russia cares about its economy. Otherwise why would it have pressed the self-destruct button on its economic model of energy preeminence in Europe and attracting inward investment. Gathering land and destroying Ukrainian national identity seem to be it's only goals.
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  330. She was racially abused by these cretinous chinless wonders.
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  331. Which study was that?
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  332. What are they afraid that Putin will do, launch an all-out war against the largest democracy in Europe? Perhaps, someone should inform them, that the invasion began over two years ago.
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  333. Crude propaganda.
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  334. Too many Russians buy into the strong man act, and think its okay to invade and absorb other countries, for Russia to be anyghing more than it is now, and less when fossil fuel dependency is a thing of the past.
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  335. So Russia is making war on us. Time to raise the fleet anchors and get the blockades going.
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  336. Very trying
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  337. So that's how they had 50,000 casualties.
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  338. Tell that to the hospitality industry.
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  339. ​ @RepairBeyond you should. But wait a minute; Valdomar was an Icelandic prince, so I'd let Iceland have it personally.
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  340. ​ @LordEmperorHyperion  what percentage does Xi get? Is it 99 or 100?
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  341. ​ @theapple3160 well, if being free and prosperous means being called a puppet by failed ststes like yours, I'll have that.
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  342. ​ @dannyc8876  Nobody is impressed by a psychopathic state.
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  343. ​ @MrObsvenchilde no, it's worse. It means, that he thinks he can hurt others, and if they defend themselves, he thinks he has the right to hurt them more. What psychological illness is that? Narcissism I suppose.
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  344. ​ @davidcanyoustop1846 but they're nice cities. We know what happened to the beautiful city of Koenigsburg. It now looks crap.
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  345. It was an attempt to open up a supply line to Russia, which was struggling economically. Sound familiar?
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  346. Back to truth-seeking.
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  347. Blue on blue?. Brown on blue.
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  348. Wrong on crimea. The leaked results of the 2014 referendum led putin to move a million russians into crimea to create a putin majority. The Tatars have been expelled. Ukraine and Russia are not that close. Russia has a huge nonslavic population. It is a multicultural multifaith society.
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  349. Silver birch was a man who would say anything to undermine the common good. How apt.
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  350. Wow. Big letters.
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  351. Trump is pro-Israel. He doesn't like Iran at all.
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  352. Thanks genius.
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  353. ​ @tubthump prosperity😅
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  354. @tubthump  a big second world economy of mostly uninhabitable permafrost, which is why tens of millions more people live in Indonesia.
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  355. They wanted to believe Putin wasn't a threat. Now every time he and his lackies threaten us with nuclear war, our leaders poo their knickers. The 1930s revisited.
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  356. Then they will of course be prepared to return all the occupied territories, since they clearly were never interested in stealing Ukraine's sovereign lands, just stopping it making sovereign decisions..
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  357. Nationalist hubris. Microchips. Take your pick.
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  358. Is Euocratic a real word? Like Eurotator, Eurotion, Euromosis are.
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  359. ​ MrWrath777 why is the prof silly?
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  360. What else can the generals do with untrained militias than to tell them to run forwards.
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  361. Good, that Scholz is the candidate. He is very unpopular, and Merz will be chancellor. And the chancellor decides in German politics, as Scholz did against the wishes of his coalition partners.
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  362. We did establish the cities of Donetzk and Lughansk, because uou didn't have the technology to produce steel, and we did. But I'm not aware that Ukraine was ever a part of the British Empire. Actually, the Russian Empire formally annexed it in around 1700, and held it until its collapse in 1917. It was nominally a sovereign soviet republic until 1991, but as Lithuania found out in 1988, when it tried to leave the USSR (forcibly annexed by Stalin in 1940 btw.), it was a vassal state.
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  363. Their North Korean and iranian friends will be helping them. All the parish states hanging out together.
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  364. It's like Hitler and Roehm all over again. Wonderful!
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  365. We demilitarized because we couldn't imagine any country starting a war in Europe. It was rather naive. ​ @Peacekeeper1989 
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  366. I smell a very nationalistic Serb.
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  367.  @robertsteele474  thank the lady.
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  368. Rutin can buck right off fack to Pussia
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  369. He lives in Plymouth.
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  370. Bilgorod was.
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  371. Immigration hasn't been an issue for time immemorial. Passports didn't exist until 1905.
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  372. The thin Winchester wail, sounds so fake.
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  373. Stressful times.
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  374. That Russia still understands itself as an empire in an age of sovereign nation states is a disaster for humankind. Its opinion formers are wicked indeed.
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  375. ​@user-ej8tt6lr2k we dont talk about them, we use em.
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  376. No, I stopped watching Simiyan's cynical rants long ago.
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  377. Don't be a Terry all your life.
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  378. Why did we massively cut defense spending? Explain me that.
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  379. Only 80%.
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  380. It's less under Sunak and Schnapps, two people not known for their morality.
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  381. The old fart can't control his eye muscles anymore, shame, bowels?
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  382. ​ @Sean-p3o what experience and study does Daniel bring?
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  383. Sad that the Telegraph is so anti-EU. It's been such a force for good in recent years. The opposite vision of this awful Russian and Hungarian nationalism.
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  384. France just sent tanks and said the goal is victory for the first time. Its clear that he just ran out of patience with Russia.
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  385. Their internal security forces number 400,000 people, sixty percent bigger than their army. Only the outside world can stop them.
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  386. Scholz will be rubbing his hands at the chance to buy cheap gas again. I don't trust that guy at all.
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  387. The sad thing is that the majority of Russians will believe it.
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  388. ​ @robinbreeds9217 Nobody listens to them because of your prejudices.
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  389. Yes, these people are the "land" our leaders would like to placate Putin with, as if they are handing him sacks of empty earth.
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  390. 10% of the Brexit disinformation on social media was traced back to Russia. The bees are busy.
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  391. He did that 2 years ago. But nobody wanted to hear it.
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  392. The US would find a way to pretend it hadn't happened. The failure of leadership is cataclysmic. Every country will now seek to acquire nuclear weapons, and dictators everywhere will think they can launch wars. Here in Russia the victory parades and parties are already being planned.
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  393. It is the sense of loss of a certain inperialist mentality driving both, and both will end in disaster, because the tide of history does not forgive those who try to turn it, it drowns them.
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  394. Attuturk chose to turn westward.
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  395. Didn't Stalin also use defending Russian speakers in Finland as a pretext for his imperial war?
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  396. I'm British, and your German boomers were the grown-ups I imagine.
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  397. NATO has extensive naval resources to deal with one frigate.
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  398. They have the advantage in trench warfare because they have more artillery, but they can't do mobile ops, which the ukranians can, so we will probably see a repeat of last year, slow grinding Russisn advances and swift ukranian mobile operations.
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  399. Some of them actually back Putin, and not just students who think it's cool, the leader of the SPD faction in the Bundestag, for instance.
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  400. Badenoch's, Patel's and Braverman's famjly followed.
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  401. ​ @anthonyhulse1248 his apartheid views are from south africa.
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  402. ​ @martavdz4972 The German media treats Russia like it's invincible. They seem to have conveniently forgotten, that they were fighting Ukranians too.
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  403. This would make it clear that our goal is to bankrupt Russia.
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  404. We got them already.
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  405. He knows scholz is weak minded.
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  406. Orios
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  407. Londin was much worse in the 80s.
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  408. @drecepy6213  they are convicts, and people inside russia are happy that the convicts are being taken, because they don't want to go.
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  409. Explain.
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  410. He reflects Biden's instinctive caution. Reagan understood the Russian mindset better.
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  411. ​ @shawn-stuff you obviously know nothing about the Minsk agreements.
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  412. Oh yes, and he didn't survive his blundering. Neither will they. Scholz is toast. His blocking aid for ukraine won't save his miserable skin.
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  413. Illegal migrants don't get support, only people who live here legally, or who are awaiting their case to be determined. Get used to migration. Our demographics demand it.
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  414. Bot i think.
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  415. ​ @sarahsteeleuk4196 you just agreed with a Russian bot. Nice one.
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  416. The Minsk Agreements left parts of Donbas in Russian hands in return for a ceasefire. Stupidity is doing the same thing which hasn't worked again and again it is said.
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  417. That's a bit too smart and forward thinking for your average British manager.
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  418. That happens in real democracies.
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