Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Why didn't they let it land? Did they want it to disappear in the Caspian Sea to hide all evidence of the attack? But that would mean they don't value human life.
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  2. We don't actually want to be in alliance with a country which blackmails our fellow Europeans. There is no guarentee that this drift to authoritsrianism is a temporary phenonomen in the US.
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  3. It wasn't a row. President Zhelenski didn't raise his voice.
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  4. When the President of the USA tells blatant lies about aid, where can you go from there?
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  5. Hard to watch.
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  6. Perhaps the knowledgeable Chinese gentleman would care to explain how Russia's eastern neighbours' security is to be guarenteed without them being allied to their Western neighbours. Ukraine and Georgia would like to know the answer to that question, in the face of a militaristic Russia which breaks international treaties for fun.
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  7. I spoke to some Germans. For them the war is far away and they don't want to accept times have changed. It's more comfortable that way.
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  8. Their myth of victimhood insulates them against acknowledging that they are the aggressors. Its weird and has terrible consequences.
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  9. He would like to wipe it off the map, but he won't be able to. The Poles have already said they will deploy their forces in Ukraine if the Ukranians are in trouble, and the Polish army is quite impressive.
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  10. He just lectured the continent highest on the democracy and press freedom index, and lowest on the corruption index on free speech, while in tje countries his boss admires the citizens live in fear of arbitary imprisonment.
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  11. The US is not party to the Rome Treaty.
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  12. Germany has lived very well from my country keeping the trade routes open, and it safe on a miniscule 40 billion dollar defense budget for a quarter of a century.
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  13. The USA gave China most favored nation trading status to help it develop. Its economy did develop, but rather than becoming a normal democracy like Japan or South Korea it remained a one party state.
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  14. They just showed it. Did you even watch the video?
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  15. Europe and north america are victims of their own success. They are very attractive to those born in the various corrupt and autocratic countries of the world. We europeans should see migration of confirmation of the fact that we are on the fight path, abd do not need extreme ideologies.
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  16. He has a selective memory. In the defense of Moscow in 1941 the majority of the heavy tanks had been sent from British stocks. The tanks were sent in response to a request for heavy weapons by the USSR. Fighter aircraft (Hurricanes) were also sent to help the USSR defend itself against the aggressor.
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  17. It seems that Germany is putting narrow economic before collective security interests. I sense a lack of moral depth in the culture.
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  18. ​ @Mr.Clownensky 5% of us defense budget, creates lots of jobs in the US as the US is sending Ukraine their old kit and building new kit for the US, what's your problem?
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  19. Yes. About 10 percent remained behind. 18 percent voted to stay in Russia in that oblast. Many people left the east due to the war long before Feb 24th.
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  20. It does not denote confidence in ones own arguments. He has got the whole media under his control, and he still needs to ban people. I can only say, his arguments must be rather weak.
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  21. 38, but you're right.
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  22. ​ @DukeOfTheYard We're not into religious fanaticism. We shipped them off to the Americas.
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  23. In all the darkness, there is another side to Russia, a very brave, humane, and dignified side.
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  24. Like in 1934 you mean?
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  25. Most far right voters are not poor. Fa right parties generally attract an older male demographic.
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  26.  @kosarkosar7683  russia lost its empire because its economy is weak, and its still weak. Attacking Ukraine will just make things worse for Russia.
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  27. Europe, GDP 19 tr. Dollars, population 500 million plus, Russia GDP 2.1 tr Dollars, population 140 million. What the f.. is going on here?
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  28. Russia is a more militaristic culture than Britain and France, and doesn't have a strong economy, as Britain and France had. Its decline is pretty much assured.
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  29. Who cares.
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  30. I hate it when they say "as long as it takes" finish the sentence.
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  31. Protecting Trump.
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  32. It's not communist, and it's not a one party state, and people don't starve to death in manmade famines there, and it doesn't have gulags.
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  33. Europe has always done a lot of trade with America. What do you mean?
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  34. ​ @jasonhardee2860  wrong. Europe has sent Ukraine more aid than the US has, but the US has more stocks. This is why US support is so important, until Europe can develop its own arms industry. It buys most of its kit from the US.
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  35. North Korea, China and Iran aren't debating whether or not to continue to support the invader, and I can't recall them limiting the targets for the weapons they provide.
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  36. It has the happiest citizens in the world, the lowest poverty, and the least corruption.
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  37. Of course. You were forewarned that we would defend the UN Charter.
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  38. In my experience, germans would like to be seen as tolerant, but they are instinctively provincial. I was surprised at their attitudes towards east europeans, bordering on colonial.
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  39. Enlighten us.
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  40. He didn't apologise for shooting down the plane. He just said he was sorry, that on happened in Russian airspace.
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  41. ​ @thehoneybadgerusmc it is. The west refers to western liberal democracy.
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  42. Lost souls, or should one say dead souls.
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  43. No one else got it, because they would have asked tough questions.
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  44. My country has many faults, but it has backbone and knows the difference between right and wrong.
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  45. That escalation management didn't work very well.
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  46. They said that after the 1938 Munich conference. Total war came a year later.
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  47. But 25% of world gdp, the main reserve currency, and the technologically most advanced nation on Earth. With just 5%. What a country!
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  48. Strange that the citizens of the vassals are free, and the citizens of "free" Russia can't fart in the wrong direction without being arrested.
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  49. Most of us don't actually mind. Diversity and openness is a good thing.
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  50. A market.
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  51. How they gloat over tragedy. What sickness is in them?
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  52. Do you come from a far right dictatorship per chance?
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  53. Minderheiten werden ausgeschlossen. So fascist.
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  54.  @BobY-zc9ex  it wasn't 7000 and Russia's military had no right to be in someone else's country.
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  55. Ukraine has a very strong civil society, well capable of ensuring its leaders are held to account, as Janukowitch found out to his cost. A vibrant democracy.
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  56. It has nothing to do with Russia. But your jealousy is clear.
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  57. It wasn't an accident. A Russian warplane entered Turkey, so they brought it down.
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  58. The far right does.Wonder why?
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  59.  @adamabele785  yuk! The other countries want to deliver them. They need the permission of the original manufacturer. They are asking Germany for nothing.
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  60. He is demanding a full apology
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  61. That's not really true. Russia doesn't have unlimited resources. In long drawnout conflicts it always collapses economically without huge support. (crimea wsr/ww 1). It doesn't have that support now, but the opponent does. It is also severely hampered by not being able to mobilise due to internal societal tensions. Putin won't take that risk, as we can see already. We also know that Russia will struggle to resupply itself with precision weapons and tanks due to sanctions. Ukraine, on the other hand, has access to NATO weapon stocks, and this supply can be increased of course. Russia is in a weak position actually, because the result of this war lies in the willingness of Western countries to supply ukraine with modern weapons, something over which russia has little control.
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  62. ​@AlexP-mi2bc average salaries in Poland are 3x those in russia. They had the last laugh it seems.
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  63.  @Alexandra-zp3gr  it doesn't move very quickly. Its made about 200m in 12 months.
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  64.  @paulzx5034  I will not attack Ukraine is not perception. It is diametrically opposed to objective reality in which thousands of Russian tanks and soldiers crossed the Ukranian border and attempted to seize ukrsnian cities, towns and village by force.
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  65. Who will buy and who will invest?
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  66. To fight for freedom, yes, it's what being human means.
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  67. Zelenski is younger and healthier than putin. He also has democratic legitimacy. Not to be underestimated in a long conflict.
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  68. Signatories to the Rome Treaty have an obligation. We must be seen to be serious about upholding international law.
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  69. ​ @scottpreston-g5j the far right has different out groups; at present muslms are the prefered target.
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  70. No, he was afraid of being isolated.
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  71. There is a lot of natural gas in ukraine, and its wheat production is enormous.
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  72. @2206mph I dont see how you can compare biden and his Democrats with putin and his united russia. Biden doesn't imprison his political opponents, the American media is full of people deeply critical of Biden, and they are not shut down. Biden is also the fifth president since putin assumed power, because the American people live in a country where the ballot box still means something.
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  73. Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts voted 83% and 82% respectively to become part of an independent Ukraine. You are refering to an illegal referendum conducted in a part of the territory from which 75% of the residents had already fled. Ignorance is bliss.
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  74. The far left and far right are pretty similar.
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  75. Why bother, they just lie.
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  76.  @mac-xk1ec  excuse me, but he said russia wouldn't attack ukraine, and then Feb 24th happened.
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  77. Don't worry. NATO has enormous resources and five times the forces.
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  78. ​ @peterfyal4998 AfD support is highest among the over 70s. How about having a retirement age for voting?
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  79. But they are so poor.
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  80. You're right. We should issue Russia an ultimatum, that NATO conventional forces will enter Ukraine if his forces do not evacuate in four weeks.
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  81. I can't see any European leader can work constructively with a Germany led by a character which puts narrow national self-interest above European security, who basically thinks provincially.
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  82. ​ @dahaixing2376 We do not rely on US gas. We now have an energy and supply mix. You are misinformed.
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  83. The coup of the thick people.
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  84. A clear moral position does wonders.
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  85. Germany also sees eastern Europe through a colonial and chauvanistic mirror.
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  86. Blessings from the UK.
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  87. ​ @timmy-wj2hc that's actually not true.
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  88. ​ @unclegrandpaontrade3865 you got it wrong. Nobody believed a treaty with russia was worth thd paper it was written on. We regard you as liars.
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  89. ​ @phanor his weakness invites disaster.
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  90. They are actually.
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  91. Security and trade are not separate issues. China supplies Russia with 90% of its microchips, which Russia uses to attack Ukraine. China also keeps the Russian economy afloat with oil sales. Germany is being short-sighted and greedy again.
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  92. ​ @jimbehan478 We have. Russia has become permanently economically dependent on China, and China rejects nuclear war. China needs its western markets.
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  93. Please no. We like democracy and thd rule of law.
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  94. Germany isn't an authoritarian state. I suggest you visit it.
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  95. Don't you mean a neighbor of Russia.
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  96. ​ @KHAWAbunga the Anglosphere. Give me a break.
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  97. Inflation is 2% here. How about you?
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  98.  @dilonkumar4960  anyone who wants to live in Russia, go there. There's a ton of room.
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  99. Bigger economy, superior fleet, nukes. No threat from that rabble.
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  100. There aren't many immigrants there, at least not in Brandenburg, a lot of left behinds though.
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  101. The idea is to create an in-group which feels at one threatened and superior to the out-group. Simplicity works well because it Is meant to appeal to simple people who would like to feel better about themselves.
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  102. So Olaf Scholz is saying, that Russia can do anything it likes, because he has some historical hang-ups?
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  103.  @eveleung8855  those 700,000 people who left should have listened to you, but nobody was listening to you, and they still aren't.
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  104.  @РжанойПряник-щ6о  we found them. The US is the world's biggest oil producer anyway. Now you can sell it cheap, sbd get even poorer.
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  105. ​ @johnadam2885 if its clear disinformation, yes. Its disingenuous and manipulative.
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  106. Was lendlease insane?
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  107. That's not the problem. Social inequality, reckless economic policies including the brexit debacle and zero industrial strategy is. In fact the lack of workers has only compounded matters.
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  108. Is it common sense to ignore the consequences of global warming?
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  109. ​ @palamaruluca5052 you mean milosovic and assad. Yeah, they are/were genocidal states.
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  110. Eurasia; Europe isn't Asia. It has distinct cultural and institutional features.
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  111.  @Kinjshàl  less military aid than the UK.
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  112. ​ @felipe-vibor china gdp 19 trillion, russia 1.8, china population 1.4 billion, russia 140 million. 10x bigger!
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  113. Our forces haven't been deployed yet; a naval blockade of the Bosphorus and Baltic would bankrupt Putin in weeks.
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  114.  @anarabbasov8634  no, Russia has an economy the size of the state of texas and a population a bit bigger than Japan. It is picking an argument with a block of well over a billion people with half of total world gdp. In pure military terms with 3x the soldiers, 6x the aircraft and 15x the number of aircraft carriers. This block is giving ukraine a tiny portion of the help it could give(0.25% of gdp), and is absolutely capable of giving much more, should that ever be required. It is the perfect trap for a country which has lost touch with reality, and for some bizarre reason considers itself a superpower, against all the evidence.
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  115. They have a coalition. She represents 17% of the voters.
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  116. He's not very imaginative, so don't hold your breath.
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  117. The money we provide has enabled Ukraine to remain a free sovereign country.
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  118. You don't honor treaties. Your signiture means nothing. Why would anone negotiate with you? Total waste of time.
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  119. It does have 800,000,000 people and an economy 10x thd size of russias. Is it really so hard?
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  120. No other country wishes to spend 30% of its budget on weapons. We prefer having proper roads, decent education, decent health care, decent pensions etc.
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  121. Nobody's blaming Germany. You're our allies. We're all in this together.
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  122. The home of democracy. The best place in the world. I guess that's why so many of you lot came over.
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  123. You actually saved Stalin. The British Empire itself was not in peril. Germany didn't have a navy. And your 250,000 troops in France in 1918 came without any artillary and made a minor contribution. The breakthrough was actually achieved by battle hardened Canadian forces.
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  124. Impairing judicial control.
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  125. France didn't react well to losing its Eastern provinces to the Germans in 1871, but applies different standards to ukraine.
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  126. China won't let you do it. They want to live.
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  127. ​ @47aRealN  why did Russia lose world war one to Germany?
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  128. ​ @soreeyez  nope, we've been reducing spending on our militaries for years now in order to divert resources to more useful government departments.
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  129.  @lucasmarques4521  it's the future.
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  130. @@sunnyjesus what were the options given in the 2014 referendum? Yes, thats right; be part of Russia or autonomous. Being part of Ukraine wasn't a choice offered. The real results were leaked after. 30% turnout, so not only was it in breach of the Ukranian constitution, but russian law too.
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  131.  @fantozzi2444  this, isn't true. Ukraine is very fertile, it was called the breadbasket of the USSR, and was an important industrial region too for the USSR. For example; Russia still can't make powerful engines for new warships, as the factories and technologies are in ukraine.
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  132.  @MWENDA-vv5im  in the 1500s crimea belonged to the Turks. So that must belong to them.
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  133. ​ @gregkillam  Your economy is doing really well. I suggest you keep pursuing the same path. It will definitely not collapse due to rampant interest rates, inflation, the crashing currency, sanctions and critical manpower.shortages.
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  134. We have soooo much more.
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  135.  @sabreakkari7910  it is rather nice, yes. You would love California, but you will never get to see it now.
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  136. Putin's ended in 2007.
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  137. There are Chinese police in Belorus right now.
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  138. Germany is 2nd. They gave 17 bill. to the uks 7.5 bill.
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  139. Duncan. You're very active? Are you unemployed?
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  140. Bye America. Love to Canada, the Kiwis and Australia.
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  141. ​@garyyakamoto2648 crimea only belonged to the Russian SSR from 1945, because, hey ho, Stalin committed the war crime of ethnic cleansing in the Crimea, deporting and "resettling" the Crimean Tatars.
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  142. You're a regional power. To say otherwise would be dishonest. Spending more than you can afford on your military fools nobody.
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  143. ​ @mianmian3488 Europe's main economies are the 4th,5th, 6th and 8th largest in the world. It contains 2 nuclear powers, 800 million people, and its GDP is larger than China's. It is the main export market for both the USA and China. Its economy is 11 x bigger than Russia's. The German federal budget is 3x bigger than Rusdia's. No country has ever conquered it.
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  144.  @esosaiyamu2581  not dumb. It is of no strategic value, unlike Kyiv, which the Russians were forced to retreat from. If russia keep winning like this, they won't have an army left.
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  145.  @greggrimer1428  you obviously don't live there. Prices have rocketed in the last few months and pay can't keep up. For example, bus ticket prices have gone from 30 p. To 40 p. In the past 12 months, and in my tiwh they were offering free bags of sugar for burning ukranian flags in the town square, as sugar has been scarce here.
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  146. Blackmailing Europe with gas didn't exactly improve relations.
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  147.  @appletree6741  and it is legal to make jokes about zelenski too. The ability to laugh at yourself says so much about a person, don't you think?
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  148. Paul Joy is an economist😂😂😂
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  149. ​ @NicolasHaufe not a student of British history then.
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  150. Between you and me, Gorbachev is ten times the human being that Putin is. I trust him as a man of proven principles, honesty and moral integrity
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  151. We know that, but they are nullified by ours. Very simple to understand, even for you.
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  152. French fishermen in the channel warned the towns on the coast that Henry V's army was approaching. The channel has always been a common source for food.
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  153. Europe has 800 billion people and 20 tr. Gdp. Ig really shouldn't need anybody to help it. Poor leadership indeed to imagine that they could forever rely on the US.
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  154. Ukraine will win. People defending their homeland have a habit of winning. Usually against a larger. American war of independence for example. They just need to endure.
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  155. ​ @kyalokamina6497 explain
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  156. But you're very poor.
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  157.  @markharcourt2214  it actually is. Russia has lost half of the territory it occupied since February, and that's just the military side. On the economic side, which will cause it to lose the war, its gas exports are down 45%.
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  158. Why are we to blame? The Ukranian people don't want to live in Putin's dictatorship. I perfectly understand that.
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  159. ​ @lancecahill5486  West Germany integrated East Germany after the collapse of communism, regions which were decades behind in development, not an easy thing to do.
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  160. It isn't, the member ststes applied voluntarily, and the members voted in their individual Parliaments.
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  161. Does yozgat still have a fascist mayor?
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  162. ​ @Maissiz it's not the best time to be isolationist to be honest.
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  163. But you should. Your country is throwing its future away.
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  164. If it comforts you, the US sent ukraine 45 billion, and the Europeans sent 55 billion this year. If support continues at this level for a year or two, Russia will be bankrupted, because the russian economy is 1.4 tr. GDP, and the US and EU combined is 38 tr. dollars GDP. All will be well. A democratic west is assured.
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  165. Wars are really won and lost by how the countries involved learn from the conflict. This is why germany and Finland won the peace although the USSR won its military campaign against them. Russia has learned nothing, and is repeating the same mistakes.
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  166. @𝕽𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕽𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 if you like poverty and oppression, go for it!
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  167. If imperialistic chauvanism is a valid view, then yes.
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  168. He makes sure the angry mothers live well away from Moscow and St petersburg.
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  169.  Ismael  I didn't see you offering the russian troops champagne and flowers. We're you in a basement hiding?
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  170. I doubt his hand has ever been out of the cookie jar.
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  171. Are you looking at a putin imperial fantasies special edition map.
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  172. Agree. To maintain such a state he made ww2 the national myth. Unfortunately, Russia isn't the Ussr, it isn't communist, and the myth is based on victimhood and militarism, the tragic consequences of which we see in this war, as russia tries to fit the world to this narrative.
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  173. Such peaceniks, thought he talked about invading Canada and Greenland last week.
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  174. ​@AlexP-mi2bc are you saying you started world war 2. I thought you were the victims.
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  175. ​literacy is not the strong point of Trump fans
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  176. Of course. It was a disastrous decision for Russia. It has serious ramifications for its ability to access western technologies, capital markets and attract investment. Conservative estimates put the loss in GDP at 8 percent next year without longterm factors being factored in. It will simply stagnate, as happened in the Soviet era, but it's military parades will still bristle with missiles no doubt to maintain the illusion that it is doing well.
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  177.  @Tu-Vi-Dau-So  russia is mental, that is true, but luckily weak too
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  178. If Russians learn that the state and the nation are not one and the same, Russia will have made a great step towards a brighter future for its citizens.
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  179. ​@mugenmugen9632russia lost this war when they failed to take Antonov airport undamaged. The result will be another cold war which will again end in a Russian collapse due to economic pressures.
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  180. The EU has a GDP of 19 tr. Dollars, Russia is 2.1 tr. I wouldn't call Europe a puppet. It is rich and advanced, and very capable of mobilising its human and financial riches if necessary.
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  181. And to explain away their failure to act upon intelligence warnings.
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  182. ​ @khonuorutsa6495 eye witness reports say exit doors were locked.
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  183. That's what Germany was thinking, and they got in trouble. At least you can buy not very good Russian weapons. Nobody else wants them. We like HIMARs.
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  184. The Red army standing on the Atlantic coast with an extra 800 million people in its empire including modern economies like France and Germany, the Red navy using Atlantic ports facing the east coast was not in your interest btw. You are not a native English speaker.
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  185. The soviet union borrowed many guns from the USA. You forgot that.
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  186. The guys afraid of germs.
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  187. How far can you fall?
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  188. They're not pushing into Russian territory.
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  189. Mr Scholz has a colorful political background, red with a little yellow symbol including a hammer.
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  190.  @randomguy7175  I didn't support the 2nd Iraq, war, and nor did the 2,000,000 marchers in London. You can't do that in Russia.
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  191. China does. It needs investment, technology, and markets. It has to trade.
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  192. It was joined by Russia's former satellite states who never wanted to be under Russia's control again, understandably so.
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  193. They've been chased into exile.
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  194. Like the economic co-operation with Russia worked out really well for Europe.
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  195. ​ @JasonSmith-mg6pg it is de jure ukranian territory. In the 21st century we prefer rule of law to rule of conquest. You not so much, but keep developing, you might get there in a century or two.
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  196. She's a socialist and a nationalist, a social nationalist.
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  197. ​ @michaelafubwa8125 he isn't American.
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  198.  @Lucas-uo9ml  don't need to. Have better conventional equipment. Better technology courtesy of silicon Valley.
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  199. It was a scheduled flight genius.
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  200. Russias interest rates are 16%, inflation is 7.5%.
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  201. The provinces vote Tory. There is no hope.
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  202. ​Russia is a colonial empire, Europe's last. They just colonised Asia instead.
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  203.  @jackburgess8579  that is a Russian backed insurgency by a minority. Eu support is very high in ukraine. Around 80% or so.
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  204. ​ @vizned  the Netherlands is an advanced economy, it makes microchips which you can't. It also exports many medicines to you which you can't produce. However, unlike uour citizens, Dutch citizens are not prepared to be poor to have a large military. They spend 6% of their budget on the military. You spend 30-40%. Therein lies the difference.
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  205. ​ @csuporj Holland has the technology and the wealth, but its citizens are not prepared to spend 40% of the govt budget on all things military. They prefer to live well. Russian citizens are prepared to be poor, Europeans are not.
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  206. ​ @jonymanay it has. It also stole territory from Finland. It didn't help russia. Finnish citizens have a much better quality of life. Russia is doomed to expand and collapse, as it always has. The only thing that never changes it that it remains poorer than Europe, in spite of periodic territory grabs.
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  207. The US has strong institutions, as it showed on January 6th.
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  208. History suggests they don't claim responsibility for fun.
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  209.  @ohslimgoody  not everyone. I for one appreciate the fact that the US supports democracy in Europe. I know it is also important for America's own security, but still, I find it good.
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  210. ​ @СергейГромов-ф9я 5,500 should be enough to clean the ice from your pavements don't you think?
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  211.  @kiz11a  it isn't actually true. Russia has neither the economy nor the infrastructure to supply higher troop numbers abroad.
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  212. ​ @stumpymctool3718 2% of Russian territory was occupied. Stalingrad was an offensive which pushed from Ukraine, and had to withdraw back to Ukraine. 70% of German forces were in Ukraine.
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  213.  @moiseshuerta3984  if it wasn't for lendlease so would thd russians.
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  214. Benetton and reebok are still there.
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  215.  @surjakantasingh4287 for that you should be very grateful.
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  216. Tell that to Poland, Croatia, Czechia, Slovenia, and the Baltic states, and Ukraine.
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  217. Still waiting for our money back for the Iraq and Afghanistsn commitments. You didn't think we helped you because we were allies, did you? What a quaint notion. Slava Ukraina.
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  218. The long-term outlook is good. Ukraine might lose 10% of its territory to Russia, like Finland did, but it is Finland which is wealthy and free, not Russia.
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  219. He relies on Russian energy, and hasn't taken any measures to stop that situation, like other EU countries have done. He's a poor leader. Now Ukraine just stopped it getting to him, and he's desperate for a ceasefire to get the taps turned back on. Panicking due to his own poor judgement.
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  220. Most European citizens think freedom is worth dying for. Do you think tyranny is worth dying for?
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  221. ​ @robford3211  Rob Ford. Went to school with someone called that. But he wasn't from a russian village with no inside toilets.
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  222. Guy's a security risk for Europe. Needs to go.
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  223. It's how they explain to themselves how they can't defeat Ukrainf.
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  224. ​ @chibakutensei8799 being in NATO spoils his ambitions we know.
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  225. The lionesses of the fight for our wonderful Europe.
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  226. Napoleon' grand army wasn't mainly defeated by the russian winter, but the typhoid epedemic which killed half of its troops, 250,000, in summer 1812.
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  227. From the guy who's scared of germs. Don't think so.
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  228. ​ @cwpv2477 he doesn't defend our values
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  229. The east of Germany is historically more right wing, Iowa not so much.
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  230. And who will pay for your national security, or do you intend to feed Russia with the smaller nations of Europe in the hope, that it won't eat you?
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  231. ​ @snoreberry1786 Quote a few European countries spend more of their GDP on defense than the US. Poland, for example, spends 4%.
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  232. ​ @bobbysinger4053 which they won't. Little putin is more scared of dying than anyone else.
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  233. ​ @valevisa8429 hated MAGA
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  234.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  they are hardly going all in. There would be 5,000,000 troops and 24,000 aircraft in ukraine if they did that. They are giving just enough to bleed out russia's military.
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  235. Why would a Republican be against standing up to tyranny in the world? I remember Reagan and the Bushes of course.
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  236.  @First-Last_name  Finland has developed very well since then.
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  237. Yes, he did. And he liked the bread.
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  238. And European arms manufacturers sell to Russia.
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  239. ​ @mgronich948 you don't understand the diplomatic convention called "duty to warn". And you don't want to.
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  240. You didn't seem to hear the constitutional expert. You know best.
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  241. Please leave the EU. We are giving you billions of euros for nothing. Maybe Russia will hand you put some money instead if you ask them nicely.
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  242. You do. At this point in human history, you are by far the largest economy in the free world, which comes with a certain responsibiity, as it did for Britain in the nineteenth century, when we had to pay the most for the Crimean war costs to stop Russian expansionism in Europe (Russia invaded Rumania back then).
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  243. And lose access to Norwegian waters, where the fish we like live.
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  244. Unreliable.
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  245. Sometimes I think the population of Europe is much better than its leaders. People are appalled by what is going on in our small continent, and want decisive support for ukraine. So sick of these weak leaders we have. Always afraid to act.
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  246. Hut ab Pres. Steinmeier. Ukraine needs our support.
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  247. Non-entity? The only non-entity in Europe is Russia, cast adrift, ostricised, finding new friends like the Iranian supreme leader and North Korea.
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  248. And thanks to the Americans too, and a the other countries pulling their weight.
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  249. With an economy smaller than Italy's. Dream on.
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  250.  @lawrencekling8598  they withdrew because the US public didn't support the war. US citizens are free to protest, and elections are free, do governments have to listen to them.
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  251. ​ @d.b.2215 that is Germany's choice. Nobody forces Germany to be either in nato or the eu. France left nato once, austria and switzerland never joined it. Up to you.
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  252. It's more prosperous than it was in my parents generation. If this is decline, I'll take that.
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  253. Hang in there! Ukraine really needs Europe to stand behind her in this dark hour.
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  254.  @LaHayeSaint  tell Judy to watch RT with its western "experts", a strange assortment of very right-wing people, with the odd Marxist thrown in for fun.
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  255. Europe welcomes Ukraine. Better luck next game boys.
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  256. He has limited resources. Russia has a large military and a small economy and industrial base.
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  257. ​ @balattam2312 you could live in a radioactive arctic swamp, yes, if you could walk a few thousand kms through total darkness. Although I imagine, that you would have to fight your fellow survivors for whatever canned food is left on your supermarket shelves to build your strength first.
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  258. ​ @shischkebab9827  It will be 3 countries bigger after this attack into Europe.
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  259. There are a lot of older people.
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  260.  @Tu-Vi-Dau-So  it doesn't matter what russia wants. It woke the giant.
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  261. ​ @abrahamdozer6273  it's not that big; only 140 million. Japan size, with a third of the economic power. The land doesn't sustain a large population. Most of it is either permafrost or has a very short growing season due to the long cold winters there.
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  262. They will if they think they need time to regather their strength, which is why Ukraine should not negotiate with them.
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  263. Why NATO?
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  264. ​ @Ballardian ethnicity? It's been ethnically cleansed, which is a crime against humanity. Even after that, Crimea voted to be in an independent Ukraine.
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  265. ​ @TheUllur Germany does actually have a military base in the US, Holloman Airforce Base in New Mexico.
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  266. ​ @vladthepistol3974 nato isn't a country. The European countries which border Russia have all applied to join nato due to fesr of Russian expansionism, most recently Finland. Ukraine and Georgia were vetoed by Germany and France in 2008, so are non-members. Following their failure to secure nato protevtion, they have been invaded by Russia, and have both lost 20% of their territory to Russia.
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  267. Cool song.
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  268. It stays ahead because it is democratic. It's no secret.
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  269. Did you really, really?
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  270. Hopefully you're getting paid euros, it's 84 rubles to 1 euro now. This is how you will lose the war; a slow economic puncture until collapse comes swiftly and without warning.
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  271. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 so why did he go to war? There weren't any us bases, and why should ukraine want to be a buffer state.
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  272. DW is rather pro-Russian. It is allowed inside Russia, which is never a good sign.
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  273. Playing the victim, so tedious.
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  274. Britain didn't hold elections during ww2. Are you arguing that Britain isn't a democracy, because according to your argumentation it isn't.
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  275. Why would a Russian like you care? Don't you have your own channels?
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  276. A6 I think.
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  277. True. I would like them to explain why Ossies have such a problem with immigrants, when immigrants prefer the west of the country.
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  278. Then I suggest you give Kashmir to Pakistan. Then you will have no problems there anymore.
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  279. His hands are tied by Scholz, who fears his popularity. Scholz is desperate to be a weak chancellor again.
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  280. It is not for governments to question the court. It undermines the rule of law.
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  281. BS.
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  282. The ICC is a court. Courts need to be respected. The accused will have the opportunity to defend themselves.
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  283. Nobody cares though.
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  284.  @UnicornMeat512  a managed democracy putin calls it. A nice turn of phrase don't you think?
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  285. ​ @Dead4ev1 it eould be respectful to the host country to try to learn the basics, don't you think? After all, hey allowed you to live in their country, which is quite nice of them.
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  286. Yes, I can understand India thinking that Europe and colonisation are synonymous, but times change, and today's coloniser is russia. The rest of Europe has grown up.
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  287.  @patriziacasagrande3833  are you saying that the Russian army has better morale?
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  288. ​ @yidpgh what percentage of GDP do you spend on defense? Poland spends 4%. I bet you spend less.
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  289.  @515coldfire  Gorbachev says nato eastward expansion was never discussed. I trust him a lot more than a serial liar like putin.
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  290. They did. It was on TV.
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  291. They will head west, if they have a good education.
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  292. I don't recall Chasiv Yar being fought over multiple times in world war 2. Nobody has ever heard of it.
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  293. An illegal bridge.
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  294. And actually it is the voters who should decide, not the state. That would be dictatorship.
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  295. He saw Bucha. He knows.
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  296. He won't live to see the end. The russian people will pay the price
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  297. Being forced to flee your home and country is a step to a new life? Are you for real. She has experienced tragedy.
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  298. You are comparing the present conflict with the wrong war. It was world war 2 which was started by a revanchist fascist state using minority language rights etc. as a pretext for colonisation, not world war 1.
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  299.  @Alexandra-dd1su  and the German historians, unlike the soviet historians, had access to the documents and treaty secret protocols.
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  300.  @terrymullins9772  wait 'n' see. They thought they would win against the Japanese, British, and French. They lost.
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  301. Well said!
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  302. Are you saying that he isn't a rapist? Was the evidence tampered with of something? Interested in facts.
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  303. Show me the agreement or treaty? We have rule und law here.
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  304.  @babblo1389  we don't. Johnson's approval rating is around 30 percent. Putins is around 80 percent.
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  305. He has a moral compass.
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  306. ​ @grigol101 im in russis. They did. They also blurred the number plate of their vehicle to hide its belorussian flag.
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  307. ​ @hilite975 and the number plate. The belorussian number plate.
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  308. ​ @EmmaDwan8251 people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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  309. Police are everywhere in russia. Strange indeed.
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  310. No more questions. Thought so. Slava Ukrainya. Welcome to the European family with love and blessings.
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  311. Ukraine still being treated as an object. It is a home. Horrible.
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  312.  @Ютубводоканал  you have fascist forces. Russian imperial legion for example, and wagner of course.
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  313.  @olegilyukhin9309  you've lost 50% of your battle tanks. If you're not careful, you won't have an army left.
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  314.  @olegilyukhin9309  you got US lendlease in 1941; 410,000 US trucks and jeeps, 13,000 aircraft, 8,000 tanks. Not this time buddy. We're helping the Ukranians. You're toast.
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  315. ​ @wojstube9359 I'm sure the Russian military complex uses German equipment and technologies. What's your point?
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  316. ​ @Andre-kg6fu I don't recall the US telling the Red Army how to use its lend-lease equipment, which it got for free.
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  317. ​ @Andre-kg6fu The USSR paid a total of 100 million dollars from the 2.4 billion dollars of lend-lease aid it received from 1941 to 1945.
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  318. History will force them to arm themselves, whether they want to or not. America might not be there.
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  319. ​ @tenorio295 France and Germany asked Lithuania to back off.
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  320. 10%?
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  321.  @steveot  couldn't. You need to master negative forms or you risk saying the opposite of what you mean like Mr pootin.
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  322. The problem is, however, hardly typical.
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  323. He must be bought. Russia is using its military to conquer a sovereign European state. The situation is extremely dangerous. Does he want Putin to conquer more European countries?
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  324. It is a democracy. The parties represent different interests in us society. And bad presidents are removable peacefully.
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  325. If China backs the idea of spheres of influence, we should be very concerned. It is not supposed to, as a, signatory to the UN Charter.
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  326.  @BC_26fhj  it was about insulating tax havens. Rees Mogg moved his business to Dublin, and Lawson applied for French citizenship. Time to smell the coffee.
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  327. Of course! Scrutiny is vital, and anyone who avoids it should be treated with great suspicion. Let's see if Sunak let's Neill interview him, because Johnson and Truss didn't.
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  328. Without a modern state form, there is no hope for it.
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  329. Russia has done its economy and modernisation fatal harm. It will take decades to recover.
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  330. ​ @samtheresearcher Napoleon defeated Russia quite a few times actually. Austerlitz, Friedland etc.
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  331.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  it isn't though. Russia is vulnerable because its economy can't support its military for a long time. This mismatch will show eventually, as it did in ww1 and the crimea war. There is a reason countries with larger economies have smaller armies. They understand economics.
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  332. We live in a multipolar world already. The EU has a GDP of 20 tr. dollars, for instance. You like to talk about vassals, but in reality we have partners.
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  333. ​ @zimoliu9714 the problem is that you are talking about the 19. Century. We actually bought most of it. If you want real land grab, check 19. Century Russia. The difference is, we stopped.
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  334. If we are all vassal states, what was East Germany's relationship to the USSR?
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  335.  @moiseshuerta3984  the lives are unimportant. Even the russian leaders don't care about them. But there were: 419,000 trucks and jeeps 13,000 aircraft (total luftwaffe strength 3,000) 8,000 tanks 90% of rail network 60% of rail carriages 190 billion dollars. Stalin said that without lendlease he would have lost. But you know better.
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  336. They are actually useless weapons because you can't use them without dying yourself.
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  337. For the betterment of humankind😂😂😂
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  338. Is it possible to be a nationalist and a socialist?
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  339. She's a social nationalist.
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  340. ​ @Lucas-wn5wm is that why russia attacked Georgia and Ukraine?
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  341. No.
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  342. ​ @USMCvet-z2q he used to be a democrat
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  343. He has 1.4 million internal security employees and his own private police force to help him, at the cost of 10% of the national budget, complete with tanks.
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  344. ​ @ruyaal what is your rype of freedom?
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  345. Not a sycophant like Moscow Marco and Apartheid Elon.
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  346. Funny how absolutist channels are full of fascists.
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  347. He is a nostalgic socialist, and instinctively anti-american although the US guarentees his country's security militarily. He, like many of his kind, doesn't want to accept that Putin is nothing like a socialist.
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  348.  @fresh6993  nobody is releasing casualty figures. The russian casualty figures are estimated to be around 20,000 killed, based on officer deaths. Ukraine will have suffered significant casualties due to the nature of the warfare, but as the defender its losses should be fewer due to its forces being less exposed. 15,000 dead wouldn't be a bad guess.
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  349.  @tomtom34b  they can't make french fries😂
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  350.  Moni Penny  you weren't listening. But the tsunami is coming.
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  351. They don't glide.
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  352. Absolutely. But we've got Olaf Scholz snd Jake Sullivan, the most cowardly men in the western world.
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  353. ​ @Memovox are you saying that Finland was forced to join the EU and NATO, and Britain was forced to leave?
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  354. Not the real Macedonia, not Alexanders, his spirit was Greek, European. And yours isn't.
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  355. Germany has learnt very well. Unfortunately, Russia hasn't.
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  356.  @emmy5661  if Russia is so reasonable, why doesn't it respect the wishes of Ukraine not to be in its empire, and why were it's satellites so happy not to be part of the Soviet Union anymore?
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  357. ​ @PerceivedREALITY999 maths isn't your strength
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  358. Turkiye is rather worried about Russia.
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  359. ​ @jumpinggoldagatito9153 too old, living in the past.
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  360. ​ @markojuric4954 more pressure on the Russian economy then.
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  361. ​ @JG-xi4tu the other side doesn't have that. That's the issue.
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  362. If she defends our democratic values like Victoria did, we will be well served.
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  363. ​ @jon7243 there was no bargain. They signed an agreement which underlined the rights of nations to join whichever international organisation they wanted to. Poo tin is telling little lies again.
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  364. They are not the same. One is a young democracy looking for our aid, the other a former imperial power in search of an imperial identity.
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  365. We're not on a leash. I went to a nice cafe at lunch, and I'm looking forward to a nice holiday in Austria next month. Enjoy the thaw.
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  366. Well put.
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  367.  @josephezimora8995  why?
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  368. Poland won't. They know what it means to be Russia's neighbour. NATO is a godsend for them.
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  369. They don't believe in democracy.
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  370. ​ @lvnick915  500 billion would be 12% of German GDP, or 40% of the German federal budget, or three times the current Russian military war budget.
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  371. Bots are busy on German websites.
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  372.  @michaeldy3157  your emotional response doesn't take away from the fact that Russia is a failed state angry because the ukranians and belorussuans can see that, and want to be part of Europe, not russia Mia, which for them is a dictatorship which only offers repression and poverty.
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  373.  @behuman868  a successful ukraine is an existential threat to Putin's system of government. He knows this, which is why he is attempting to destroy ukraine.
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  374. ​ @SonoftheAmericanRevolution they are liberal democracies
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  375. They should definitely not allow themselves to get encircled for such an insignificant place.
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  376. They would like to live in freedom and in relative prosperiry, as as happened in many European countries since the collapse of bolshevism in eastern snd central Europe. Who wants to live in fear, on low salaries, and unfreedom?
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  377. Rule of law. Principle.
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  378. A rational politician would realise that this war will last for decades as long as russia denies ukraines right to be an independent country, and instead sees it as part of a greater russia.
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  379. It's always a risk, but the alternative is to let the tyrants do what they want, which we cannot allow.
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  380. The one which was cut off. Great idea.
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  381. The self-congragulatoriness of 2 countries giving a tiny proportion of their GDP, and the arrogance of 2 men, who believe that appeasement will maintain the peace. Chamberlain and Dadalier knew what was going to pass. These don't seem to get it at all.
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  382. He wants ukraine to give up territory to appease putin so that Germany can gou back to buying cheap Russian gas. It's not complicated. It is, however, incredibly naive.
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  383. How so?
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  384. Countries which breed like rabbits are not to be taken seriously.
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  385. I think you'll find united tobacco isn't on this channel.
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  386. ​ @zjeee his bow tie is so cool.
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  387. False sense of security.
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  388. It's a great tank. The Germans encircled millions of red army troops with much worse ones.
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  389. Populism.
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  390. ​ @richardmutabaruka4298 you are clearly not a man of logic. Are you russian, per chance?
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  391. Not prepared to invest money in defence.
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  392. ​ @tileng.5186 Italians wouldn't accept 1.5 millions without heating in winter and having virtually no health care system.
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  393. It's 3 words. You forgot the on.
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  394.  @baroneleve1196  the second most powerful army in the world on a 65 billion budget fights a little army on a 5 billion budget, and takes two little towns nobody has ever heard of. The wehrmacht gained an area three times the size of Germany in the same time against a bigger army. Jokers.
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  395.  @williamhunt1422  delusions of prosperity and human rights. Love these delusions.
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  396.  @bjarkiengelsson  live in North Korea or Russia. Nobody's stopping you. Nobody goes there, so you'd be a bit of a celeb.
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  397.  @ioanvalentinpavlov605  imperialists? Projecting methinks.
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  398. True. He said he wouldn't invade Ukraine or mobilise, and he ....
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  399.  seeyouseemee3863  he may end up regretting that. Solyvov was talking only the other day about recapturing the Ussr satellites, including East Germany.
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  400.  @FD-zr2nc  chamberlain said of Germany's annexation of czechia; what do we care for people in a distant land of whom we know very little. Six months later his country was in a world war, because he thought it wouldn't affect Britain.
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  401.  @saranvjs  is he committed to democracy? He says he is, but he acts like he doesn't actually care.
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  402. @Rob Moreno the eastern Oblasts voted heavily for independence, but most people have left, and the ones left behind belong to the minority who voted against independence. Most of them are old.
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  403.  @thepoliticalanalyst5684  what was the purpose of their intervention, something to do with stopping the Serbs committing genocide maybe.
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  404. ​ @aleserban9322 Britain recieved military assistance from Chile in 1982. Chile has never been in NATO. Chile is closer to the Falklands than is Argentina.
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  405. ​ @AzzVipa the talented young people will leave, as they have left Russia. Only the old and the poor will stay.
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  406. Like February 1917 in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Maybe Victoria Nuland time travels.
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  407. It's a poor asiatic bear, not a European bear at all.
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  408. Vassal, give it a break. There was a trade war between the EU and the US a few years back.
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  409. ​ @UAVTVideoTeam-qi3pj  Actually, we are free. And the US supports that.
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  410. But which one is the fascist, and which one is the communist?
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  411. Making wespons, which you are not selling, it not sound economics. You get growth, but no revenue. Russia does not have access to the capital markets. It risks bankruptcy if there is no peace deal. That may not come in time.
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  412. They were German. Duh!
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  413. They did. I was told this when I lived in Russia. Much more oppressive now. Fascism is actually worse than communism.
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  414. Becsuse it wasn't true.
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  415. Bots will get mobilised now.
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  416. By what exactly? The Russian tanks have inferior armor and targeting, plus the turrets blow right off rather easily. They can't fight at night either, which is a bit of an issue when your opponent's tanks can.
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  417. ​ @gerard02700 you need to get out more. Western economies generate wealth through knowledge and innovation. Free societies are better at this.
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  418. How awful that our anti-escalation geniuses have allowed this to happen, the same people who were freeloading off cheap Russian energy for years. Just disgusted.
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  419. Ah, the Chinese. Another dictatorship supporting Putin with arms which blocks youtube.
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  420. He would blame victoria neuland and madelaine alllbright, the little misogynist.
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  421. The inside toilets will delight them.
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  422. A Russian told me it was their national idea to be aggressive and expansionist, and that most russian's get a kick out of that. He's emigrating to Canada soon.
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  423.  user-mk7xq4oc5s  Europe would love that too. No more chance for Russia to attack westwards. Contained beautifully.
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  424.  @Truthorfib  Russia has a bigger fascist problem than any country I know. They literally sit around discussing which countries deserve to exist. We won't talk about the imperial russian legion and wagner (clues in the name) because I know you don't want thd readers to know that these are both fighting on ukraine and are far-right entities.
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  425. The US is great. That's why Russians are queueing at the Mexican border to get a shot of living here. And no doubt people from your country too.
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  426. ​ @AlperMeydan yes, that was also a failure. I remember the 80s.
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  427. He's a lawyer by profession.
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  428.  @RUTHLESSambition5  that was the orcs.
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  429. ​ @neo433 Ukraine has the right to choose its own path. You chose dictatorship abd a return to a doviet style economy, it chooses democracy and open markets.
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  430. Not all unthinking sheep then. There is hope.
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  431. We will be the only place on the planet where people are free, together with our friends in Canada and Oceania. We will be surrounded by tyrants of course.
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  432. ​ @jimmyjakes1823 and peace and prosperity in North America.
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  433. Thanks racist. Good that you are on the other side of the iron curtain. Suggestion; visit Istanbul.
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  434. True. We need to fight the disinformation.
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  435. ​ @AaranMoonlight North Korea, you have to live the dream.
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  436. ​ @YcarinChannel it isn't. It's gives the most overall aid.
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  437. ​ @PopularesVox No, Putin has something on him. No other American administration has ever voted with Russia, Belorus and Iran before.
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  438. ​ @Elena-fe3os Stegner, Munzernich, Kretschmann, Schroeder, M.Schulz....
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  439.  @gala6558  a zombie from totalitarian land spoke.
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  440. And we know what happened to the first axis.
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  441. They do a lot of business with Russia. Its called change through trade. It is a very profitable idea.
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  442. Who will strong brave Russia attack next? Moldova.
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  443. You have the little grinning coward instead. Maybe you could swap them.
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  444.  @reasonerenlightened2456  the US is our historical and present ally, not threatening to invade us, and shares our values, so I'll take that happily.
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  445.  @TheShalalai  the US is a reliable supplier and it hasn't invaded europe. That means a lot.
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  446. They will just say some of his signatures have the wrong addresses etc, although he collected 200k, and the rules only allow him to submit 105k.
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  447. Necessary to prevent further invasions by mad putin.
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  448. Low salaries basically. Imports are very expensive of course.
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  449. I would hardly describe Russia's relationship with China as a partnership. Total economic dependency would be nearer the mark.
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  450. ​ @willis23jm1 usa gdp 25 tr. Dollars, EU 18 tr. Dollars. China 19 tr. Dollars, Russia 1.8 tr. Dollars. Who's the little brother?
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  451. ​ @lucasworktv we're not. 15% of our gas was from Russia. Managable.
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  452.  @alexander8688  Don't worry. China has the same autocratic limitations to its ability to operate effectively. As long as the west cherishes the freedom of its citizens and the integrity of its technological superiority which results from this, it will always have the means to protect its way of life from places like China. Happy New year!
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  453. Afghanistan did.
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  454.  Филип Трендафилов  you called uz hysterical for saying you would attack ukraine. You are totally untrustworthy.
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  455. ​ @esQmo explain us where the border is open. It would be interesting to know where the russian side of the border is undefended.
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  456. ​ @wackey2k10 where is the russian border undefended. I'm interested because that would allow NATO forces to stream into Russia unchallenged, and i would like to inform the Russisn MOD that Russia is in great peril.
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  457. Which wars do you mean?
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  458. It's true. Partying muscovites killed while russia attacks ukraines largest dam and fires 140 cruise missiles at ukranian cities. A hard sell.
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  459. Recall the England and Wales cricket team at once, and request a joint boycott from australia and new zealand. They can play their mates Pakistan instead, and they can emigrate to Russia rather than to the UK, since they are such good allies.
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  460. He fights for light, you for darkness. Your life is pointless.
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  461. Inflation 2%, interest rates 5%, average salary 40,000 dollars p.a., average life expectancy 81, clean drinking water. How about you?
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  462. Read about 1917.
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  463. ​perhaps you would like to return tjis territory to the Tatars. It was their autonomous republic until 1945.
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  464. It actually is.
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  465. Putin would shat himself if we DoWed him.
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  466. One bored old man who lost interest in addressing the pension crisis, rotting infrastructure, and diversification of the economy decided to be a glory boy instead. There are good reasons for presidential term limits, as Plato wrote in Republic.
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  467. ​ @univeropa3363 at the time Russia was fine with it, Putin reinvented the past later.
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  468. No, it isn't. He didn't invade Ukraine.
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  469. Ukraine's population was 45 million in 2014. Today it is 29 million. It is the year 2024.
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  470. Sounds like Russia, where employers, esp.the state, pressures people to vote for the incumbent govt. Btw. In Russia 60% of the population works for the state.
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  471. The west has the wealth to outgun russia, and this is a great opportunity to move to renewables.
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  472.  @denisgorjunov  they can move to russia if its that important to live in Russia. Its quite big. There's plenty of room there.
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  473.  @denisgorjunov  about 25 billion in military aid. Ukraine's defense budget is 6 billion, russia's 65. Year on year russia has spent billions more. I think ukraine has performed remarkably well considering the difference in money available.
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  474.  @alexstorm2749  donbass isn't prorussian. In the 1991 independence referendum Lugansk and donetzk voted 82 and 83% for independence. It is another big putin lie.
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  475. The German people aren't democratic at heart, but they like money.
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  476. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 who told you that putin wants to negotiate. He thinks he's winning, he thinks trump is coming, he thinks ukraine is running out of ammo, and he said negotiations were absurd.
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  477. ​ @GokhanYlmaz-eg7jf  Tell us all how Germany lost air superiority on the eastern front in 1943? You are clearly an expert on the subject.
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  478. Why does he think he knows better how to protect ukraine than ukraine does?
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  479.  @dovhanimakhado2434  you made 2 critical errors. I recommend not trying for your tofel any time soon.
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  480. There's a reason for that. The horde is behaving badly.
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  481. It can afford it.
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  482. You think genocide in Europe should be permitted?
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  483. ​ @esQmo you all-knowing person, you. Such wisdom.
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  484. Is this political opportunist lecturing us on morals? He was a never Trumper.
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  485. 2000 dollars a month, and a free bus pass.
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  486. It still exists, that is its victory.
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  487. ​ @NguyenHuy-u6g the seeds of the next collapse have been sown.
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  488. ​ @paulmes7667 peace loving? You don't know Russia too well.
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  489. ​ @goodintentions5189 cunning, i guess that's why the defense minister was kicked sideways.
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  490. And where would you base your assets?
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  491. You are correct, morally and militarily.
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  492. ​ @jeffstewart3170 Europe has 6x asmany people as Russia, its economy is 12x bigger, but we are allowing these oafs to intimidate us, embarrassed.
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  493. Lunatics call proper regulation "red tape". And here we are.
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  494. We cannot allow ourselves to be guided by fear. It will lead to disaster.
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  495. There is a reason why the leaders after brezhnev all tried to conduct reforms. The system itself wasn't delivering. Gorbachev was not the problem, the command economy with unaccountable leaders was.
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  496. Fact check and comment. If he is lying, say so, with reasonable evidence of course.
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  497. ​ user-ok2mn4bw7u show us your evidence? Go ahead, waiting. Back your mouth up with facts.
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  498. Has China ever been denied oil? I thought thd US gave it most favored nation trading status to help it develop.
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  499. ​@ghostrider13bg so are you saying that Latvian and ukranian speakers, etc, were forced to go to russian language schools. So they were treated like pigs in purins words.
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  500.  @mohammadraihan4107  russia was and remains imperialistic. Most of its dead soldiers come from the territories it colonised. Western Europe stopped that behaviour around 50 years ago.
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  501.  @chikiboomboom665  into successfully dealing with the russian army, which is generally regarded as the second most powerful military in the world.
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  502.  @behuman868  russian's blame everyone except themselves. They can't take responsibility for anything, so how should they learn to take responsibility for their own actions. The real consequence of authoritarianism.
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  503. Those same polish farmers allow grain from Belarus and russia to enter poland, so who are they with?
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  504. He's five foot one and a half.
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  505.  @Moon-ns6op  the planet is eliminated. Both sides have 6000.
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  506. We are, and it does us no good either. Europe has moved on.
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  507. Which social and political issues drive the better off white southern voters of England, who drove Brexit. What makes them angry?
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  508. Ignore the horrid bots. We wish you well, and may God walk with you.
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  509. Democracy will be defended if necessary. We have a lot of nice toys, carrier groups, devastating air power, to name but two.
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  510. Don't get it. If germany has such big issues with war, why does it have such a large arms industry. What does it think countries are going to do with the weapons it makes, put them in museums?
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  511. Putin is also being interviewed by a western reporter, a neo fascist westerner, but a westerner all the same.
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  512. Europe has to be self-reliant, and support Ukraine seriously.
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  513. It will take years to get those minersls out.
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  514. He won't stop, because he knows that war cements his power at home. He prefers long wars.
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  515.  @ibrahimmuhammed6210  well.. They have zero out of 5,000,000 troops in Ukraine and zero out of 24,000 planes in ukraine, and zero out of 16 aircraft carriers there, but there are 8 out of around 900 long-range High precisuion multiple rocket launchers. How many do you think they would need to beat putins conscripts and 152 ml artillery barrages?
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  516. ​ @mianmian3488 yes, Ivan. You hang on to this thought.
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  517. ​ @D.D.-ud9zt  Quite on the contrary. We want Russia to remain intact, but to stay in its borders. That's all. We don't like instability. Its bad for trade.
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  518.  @Ютубводоканал  liberate? You need to read the sociological research on eastern ukraine and Donbas, which your rulers failed to do. Civic ukranian nationalism is the order of the day there, regardless of ethnicity or language, something you wouldn't understand. Lots of good material on the Web on that. If you had looked, you would have realised that the concept of ukranian citizenship has been strengthening year on year since 1991, and accelerated in Donbas after 2014. 2.7% of Donbas residents regard themselves as Russian citizens. I can send you the research if you are interested to read it.
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  519. That 300 billion is sitting in a Belgian bank.
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  520.  @roywallbank8065  visit brixham, and ask the fishermen there what they think of farage and Co these days. He hasn't been back.
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  521.  @Keith-uu4iu  and the need to humiliate, which comes from an inferiority complex.
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  522.  @Alexandra-dd1su  lots of good German history books about ww2.
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  523. 80% want to be repressed, intimidated, and stolen from. No future.
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  524. ​@richardfrancis5447 can you read?
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  525. Tell us Stephen, do.
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  526. ​ @First-Last_name France doesn't publicise its aid.
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  527. China's done well out of it. It was impoverished 50 years ago.
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  528. You mean the maximum extent of the tsarist empire. Should the UK invade Ireland? Should Germany invade Poland? Should France invade Germany? You are actually crazy.
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  529. Of course he's weak. Strong personalities don't need to try to impress others by bragging and boasting. He knows his army would have no chance against a professional army with air and sea power.
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  530. Scholz will be gone in 2025.
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  531. You don't know home very well.
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  532. Mr Marlborough and Mrs lucky strikes.
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  533. Easier to manipulate the vote outside major cities. Erdogan does the same.
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  534. The US isn't a serious country anymore. It's government is a freak show of reality TV stars, news hosts and tin foil hats.
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  535. Well. Russia spends 3,600 dollars per citizen per annum,of which 1,200 goes to the milutary. The UK govt spends 12,000 dollars on each citizen, of which 300 goes to the military. I'll leave you to work out the rest.
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  536.  @sshuriksevo  that's a very serious accusation. Do you have documentary evidence for your claim?
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  537. ​ @yummydishes2279  your belief is counterfactual. In February 2014, before the annexation of Crimea, 10% of Ukranians wanted to reunite with Russia, 90% not. You can find this data online very easily. It would of course confuse you somewhat to find out your state lies to you in a big way.
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  538. ​@Krusty2024check it, if you don't trust the source.
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  539. I think he recognises there is a chance of that, but that you can't let your foreign policy be dictated by fear.
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  540.  @nicolasiden4074  stay strong. The world is with you and you will prevail and take your place in the European family of nations. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦
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  541.  @brianlowe3529  it's designed for the European plains, perfect for Ukraine, and the technology is excellent. It can fire on the move, has night vision, great armor, crew safety is good etc.
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  542.  @beenec.hamumba2872  what would you have advised George Washington at valley forge, or Churchill after the fall of France, or stalin after the defeat at vyazma? You would have told them to quit, but they didn't quit, they persevered, and their perseverance brought them victory. And Zhelenski's perseverance, his people's perseverance and his military's perseverance will bring them victory too.
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  543.  @Stephen-we6do  germany hasn't had any colonies since 1919. Can we try living in the present?
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  544. We know you have weapons. Thats why we have nato and our own nuclear arsenal.
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  545. We did😂
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  546. Trump missed his big chance to define Kamala Harris. He won't get another.
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  547. All these english names here, but they all seem to have a writing age of a five year old.
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  548. We should stop worrying about either of them.
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  549. Now we know that the elite troops of the red army were the ukranians.
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  550. Why would left wing people not want to counter Russian imperialism? Weird.
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  551. The EU has to be at the table. Putin will walk all over Trump.
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  552. We are all rather close.
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  553. 33% of budget on military spending is not sustainable for any state.
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  554.  @billnikola2463  vangarians, hint. Duchy of Muscovy, hint. 18, century name change, hint.
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  555. Our Nordic Gods you mean?
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  556. Oh, if Europe and the US had had a Churchill and FDR. We got Scholz and Biden instead.
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  557.  @AFLnewsNtruthatstorytime  the only way to stop a nuclear state is to wear it down and make sure it can't rebuild. Not very exciting, but rather effective.
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  558. Putin is proof that there is no God.
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  559. Oh look! Czechia hasn't been nuked.
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  560.  @Jimmy1972  nonsense. The protests lasted months and the president went to moscow instead of signing the EU partnership agreement, as promised to the citizenry. The next time he went he took lots of money he'd stolen from the people.
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  561. ​ @Алексей-ь9я3м you shouldn't compare yourself with the US. The US is the largest economy and military power in the world. You are an irritant.
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  562.  @Tikoliko12  in your country people get sedated by the FSB if they do that, like the mother of the dead Russian submariner who died on the Kursk. "she sank".
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  563. I doubt they would let you anywhere near the USA.
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  564. Ah. Duncan. You normally troll the Ukraine war. Here you are here. Quite the versatile one.
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  565. ​ @Gerrard_Pike2008 the mandate resulted in his toppling because he relied on air power. They knew the consequence.
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  566. ​ @ilovenathi2082 belorussian border it was.
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  567. The war isn't about land, it's about Ukraine's future direction.
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  568. You don't want to hear.
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  569. ​ @MargaretCho-pt3ng winning looks different.
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  570. ​ @springbloom5940 the conscripts, inexperienced kids.
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  571. Wow! We're so scared. Do you have tampons, clean drinking water, and inside toilets yet?
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  572. UK. You flatter us methinks. You don't understand the power of the human spirit because russians are weak willed and scared of an old slug like pootin.
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  573. Which one is the worst?
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  574. ​ @JeremiahNgwira listen to your conscience, and you will know.
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  575. It's the hope that kills you.
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  576. He's not safe. He's a security risk.
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  577. Let's not forget Sarcozy's and Obama's appeasement.
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  578. It doesn't work, as Pearl Harbor and the sinking of American merchant shipping proved. America cannot secure the freedom of the seas without European naval support. btw.Orban and Fico don't have navies.
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  579. Germany isn't a natural democracy like northern Europe. It emerged from militaristic Prussia, and had to be "liberated" to become a modern liberal democracy. It does not surprise me, that many people there admire dictators more than democratic nations.
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  580. ​ @sturmeko no, they didn't. They refused to give away parts of their countries to bullies.
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  581. ​ @WingkKong  Russia 1.8 tr. Canada 2.4 tr. The UK 3 tr. Germany 4 tr. Japan 6 tr. The EU 18 tr. China 19 tr. USA 27 tr. What were you saying again?
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  582. Taiwan doesn't have a carrier group, well it might.
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  583. ​ @MukadisAymen-ui8fy all of NATO is a monster. Literally the most powerful military alliance in human history.
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  584. It will be like the crimea war. The west will back the opponent, and the rest is history.
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  585.  @yours_sincerely48  does that mean russians will stop coming to the west then. We don't need people with a slave mentality.
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  586. Endangering European security is not common sense. It is extremely reckless.
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  587. And who can afford to suffer a bit? Europeans or Russians?
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  588.  @dgen77  it's actually true as well. Russia economy 1.5 tr. Dollars. Europe 18 tr. Dolllars. Russian population 145 mill. EU 800 mill. etc.
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  589.  @kakabhai6779  then you haven't been to russia. 50% of people there have no savings left and food inflation is very bad. This is very bad for the average Russian, who spends a large proportion of their income on food.
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  590.  @oxidemeta7793  it isn't depreciating. In fact it is appreciating against a ruble which is being actively propped up by the russian central Bank.
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  591.  @johnlenin830  I like the USA and am happy to be its partner. You can be iran and north korea's partner. They are serious abusers of human rights, if you want to talk about morals.
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  592.  @515coldfire  they had to stop trading it, and bought it themselves to keep its value up. You do know that, right
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  593.  @johnlenin830  in your warped view of the world that is certainly so, but we, that is northern europe and North America, happen to have the same values, and want to live in a world where you can freely criticise power without fear of being fined or imprisoned, as is the case in countries like Russia and China, which are very repressive. You can live there if you wanna. I don't wanna. I like it in the west, where individual rights mean something, and are protected in law. .
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  594. Interesting. Germany had democracy imposed by the west. They chose dictatorship. Are germans democrats or autocrats? Time will tell.
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  595.  @petertwiss4215  it could send ukraine the 3 patriot systems like Poland asked it to. Russia will escalate as and when it feels like anyway. .
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  596. Germany is morally compromised by the holocaust, the US did not sign the Rome Treaty, and does not recognise the court. France has acted as one would expect. I hope my country, the UK, backs its treaty obligations, but this government is threatening to leave the ECHR. Dark times.
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  597. Still waiting for him to mention the systematic torture, rape and child abduction being conducted by Russia in Ukraine.....
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  598. Freedom is the point. Without it life is nothing.
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  599. This is the strategy Reagan used, to great effect.
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  600. I know. How dare we try to grow Chinese and russian prosperity. Serves us right.
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  601. He seems to want the war to come to him. Not the whole of Europe. They wanted the invader to be defeated.
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  602. Do you care about human life? I am surprised. Hope yet.
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  603. ​@attilamarics3374 it's why they created rules of war, Geneva convention etc.
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  604. Sorry to disappoint you, but people in the UK aren't interested in Russia. Its hard to hate a country you don't think about.
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  605. ​ @rbrb5275 you know we aren't. And so do we.
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  606. ​ @nurdinabdirahman2776 yes I have, and it is repressive and poor. I feel sorry for you.
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  607.  @Dikar2005  how original. How's your independent journalism, independent TV and radio stations doing these days? Do you still imprison people for disagreeing with the war? 20 years prison. Enjoy.
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  608.  @Dikar2005  how original. How's your independent journalism, independent TV and radio stations doing these days? Do you still imprison people for disagreeing with the war? 20 years prison. Enjoy.
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  609. Ukraine gave up its nuclear missiles, and look what happened. Russia even guarenteed its sovereignty in agreements, twice.
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  610.  @roysmith3767  you remove human agency from ukranians and russians. You also do not live in Russia, so you do not understand the powerful imperialistic forces at work.
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  611.  @poornalingam6261  Europe's problem is causing a global food, climate, financial and energy crisis, for what it's worth, and you might even get nuclear annihilation if you hang around.
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  612. He knows we don't buy the BS.
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  613. It's depressing how easily they swallow the BS about NATO expansion. He needs to read the history of Poland, and then explain to them how he can guarentee their security as a neighbour of a Russia which has attacked them, annexed them, partitioned them, made a satellite out of them, and murdered their entire intelligentsia. He can then explain to the Baltic states, Georgia, Moldova, Rumania, Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia how he intends to guarentee their security without NATO membership. Turkey has had 10 wars with Russia, so he might like to talk to them too about leaving NATO.
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  614. It's not funny for the people. South Korea is prosperous.
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  615. The Ukrainians weren't occupied by the Mongol empire for 300 years, so they don't have the slave lineage. They have a European lineage.
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  616. They know its a BS pretext as well, but they want Sphere of interest themselves, so ultimately they will back Russia. This is the international world order Russia rails against.
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  617. Russia needs China. China said no.
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  618. Like kaliningrad. Such a beautiful place.
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  619. Let us hope your arrogance is as misplaced as it was in Afghanistan.
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  620. It's not helping much. GDP will contract by 5 to 10% this year, its in recession, and inflation is high. Its spending beyond its means, which would be doable if it had access to the capital and bond markets, which it doesn't. Headed for bankruptcy in reality. Its already defaulted on its debts and stopped publishing economic data, so things must be pretty bad.
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  621.  @munguci12  China would never buy more than 15% of its energy needs from one country. It is far less reckless than germany and Italy.
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  622.  @aadarshkushvaha295  China is concerned. The west is its main market. The regime there promises prosperity in return for no political freedoms. Its very important for them to avoid western sanctions.
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  623.  @Truthorfib  Russia is bigger than the whole of Europe you say. Most of it is uninhabitable of course. Winter temperatures between - 30 and - 50 do not encourage population growth. In reality, Europe has 6x Russia's population, and its economy is 12x bigger. Interesting fact:As many people live in Belgium as the whole of Asiatic Russia, which is absolutely enormous. .
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  624.  @gerard02700  the energy market is changing. Soon Europe will only have electric cars, and is now taking renewable energy seriously.
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  625. Ukraine is not a satellite state of the USA. Its citizens have chosen their own goals, and other countries influence events. If you were correct, it would have been in NATO since 2008.
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  626. ​ @happymelon7129 democracy is a political system. Of course those who wish to destroy it should be excluded. It already happened in Germany in 1934.
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  627.  @bobpadok5331  no chance.
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  628.  @freeworld6783  nobody's panicking. There are 2000 leopard 2s if needed.
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  629.  @thomasngetich1425  we will defend the sovereign borders of European countries.
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  630.  @rainbowrose2000  bit counterproductive though.
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  631.  @НиколайНиколай-п5к  ooh. You're so scary for a second world country.
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  632. It was 400% after world war 2. Don't get your hopes up.
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  633.  Putin the great🇷🇺  you must feel very proud forcing a country which doesn't want to be with you to be with you by use of violence rather than offering it a positive future.
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  634. Scholz is such a slime-ball.
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  635. Tend to be the same demographic; old people who have USSR nostalgia.
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  636. The economy always fails Russia. Without lendlease it will collapse. The economic data is horrifying.
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  637. It would be good if Xi sticks his neck out too far. He needs to be reminded that expirters need markets, prosperous ones.
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  638. The goal is war. Read 1984.
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  639. We wanted to stop the genocide in yugoslavia. And we don't kill our citizens, like in the tyanimin square massacre. So grow up.
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  640. Pearl clutching? You got the Catholics. They were starving.
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  641. Washington and Berlin fear Russia's collapse. That is true.
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  642. ​ @tylerrjohnson68 In your conspiratoral head, yes, but in the real world it was started by an embittered revanchist chauvanist dictator.
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  643. Trump wants an alliance with Putin. This reality is hard to accept it seems.
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  644. What goes up must come down
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  645. Olaf loves the USSR and erich honickes SED.
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  646. India does not have good relations with the west. The west feels very let down by India. Millions of Indians have made thd west their home. We expect more.
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  647. The country too scared to attack big countries threatens again. Yawn.
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  648. ​ @eddastrohmayer251  troops may be required. Russia has more troops. I guess you know the name Von Falkenheim and Verdun. The British had to send troops in 1916 because France was short of soldiers.
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  649. Yes, russia is invading its neighbors again, with a little German collusion.
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  650. NATO keeps us safe from all the crazy countries around us.
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  651.  @moiseshuerta3984  PS. We didn't use sturmoviks. We had our own, b 52s etc.
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  652. The right man.
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  653.  @attilavegh5022  sorry. Wasn't it the Soviets who killed the Polish intelligentsia and massacred the Polish officers, for which, lying as ever, blamed the Germans.
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  654. ​ @JasTheKariol  Georgia already was invaded.
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  655. Bot
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  656. Hes talking off his hat. Only 10 percent of under 30s support the war. The pensioners, who support the war, wont live long.
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  657.  @jmolofsson  his party worships Brandt, and Brandt sought normal relations with the USSR, and saw Germany as morally in debt to it. He hasn't moved beyond that, alas, because Putin has little in common with the old communists of that age, and Russia and the USSR are not the same animal.
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  658. We're not laughing, but we are determined to see this through to final victory. And we have the resources of course.
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  659. OMG. We have nukes. We deter too. Please stop being afraid of this towrag Putin.
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  660. ​ @naszadynastia  we create, russia steals, China copies. T'was ever so.
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  661. It's a dictatorship run by a dictator who has banned Winnie the Pooh.
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  662. Scholz is.
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  663.  @PlaYer-sn5or  is this a game called name the terrorist state? I would add russia to that list. Be good.
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  664. Those carefree days in east germany with his SED soulmates..
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  665. ​ @vervetech9395 bringing thd war closer doesn't seem very caring.
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  666. Not a soft cell fan then.
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  667. Ww2 fact; 12% of soviet population died, 6% of them civilians. 18% of Polish population died, 15% of them were civilians. If you want sympathy, have sympathy for Poland.
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  668.  @JOVICANMANIC1  not so. Vichy remained neutral and the free French fought with the allies.
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  669. We saw your better world at the children's hospital.
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  670. How much do they pay you?
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  671. Ruble is very weak
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  672. And the woman being interviewed. She was very prickly. They need a psychologist, not a strategic partner.
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  673. ​ @tatarin3471 lucky he's so old then.
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  674. Yes, it should have been said in January 2022. Failed deference was not a good strategy.
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  675. She wised up. She knows Russia can't be part of our security infrastructure.
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  676. Biggest trading partner and closest strategic ally.
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  677. Did the Germans send someone?
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  678. Who is gonna help you when China turns nasty? Russia's army is useless.
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  679. 2 million disloyal Indians in the UK. Go!
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  680. Yes, they can vote for a stalinist who has said he won't criticise putin, a fascist who said he doesn't want to win, or a party created to attract young voters which has decided not to have a campaign.
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  681. ​ @Mrblazed420 I've lived in Germany. It's a nice boot, Germans have their human rights respected and live rather well.
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  682. If you believe in God. And eternity in paradise. Why would a little earthly discomfort be an issue?
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  683. Leverage Mr. Scholz. Where is your big stick?
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  684. I don't think Adam Smith is representative of the Democratic position. Why did they select him to speak? Lloyd Austin is livid.
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  685. ​ @Os_man8903 it's great, but not as nice as North Korea yet. Give them time.
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  686. The last time was 300 years ago😂
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  687. She met the grinning cowardly gnome.
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  688. India isn't doing very well. It should have stayed a colony. Its so poor. Germany is rich, and doesn't have a religious maniac in charge of it.
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  689. You mean the Russian Empire. What good would that do humankind?
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  690. They did turn to another far right Austrian once. It didn't end well.
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  691. He visited Dachau. He learnt nothing.
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  692. You've obviously never lived in Germany.
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  693. ​You're probably too young to remember the massacre on Tianimen Square. You forget the brutality toward its own citizens.
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  694.  @ARTILLLA04  how do you know? Your government isn't releasing the data.
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  695.  @Светлана-ф4с8н  evil west, nice Iran, nice north Korea, nice Syria. Happy days!
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  696.  @sailor67duilio27  not western employment standards. Surely russian's don't want any of that western human rights s**t.
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  697.  @ARTILLLA04  you don't have any arguments, just imperialistic false history BS. Thank god there won't be any russians in Europe anymore. They are so irritating.
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  698. What is glory? Defeating little countries? Alexander the Great gained glory by defeating the Persian Empire, Julius Caesar by conquering Gaul. And Russia? Which great power will Russia fight on the field of battle and defeat, because so far I have only seen georgia, ukraine and tchechnia, hardly military powers.
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  699. Get out of Ukraine then.
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  700. No JD. We do not see you as a beacon of democracy, semi-democratic at best.
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  701.  @santaclaus0815  it's not true. We would help germany.
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  702.  @WolfgangWeller-fw9ks  russia imposed a communist government on eastern germany, for 46 years.
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  703.  @Art-si7cj  don't worry. They will. Russia has a GDP of 1.4 tr. dollars, my country has a GDP of 25 tr. V dollars, and we will make sure that you go bankrupt, again.
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  704. No. Putin wants to destroy as much as he can to satisfy his thirst for revenge. Odd though that he decided to massacre his brother Slavs.
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  705. You mean prisoners and untrained militias I suppose.
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  706. China. North Korea and Iran are actually dictatorships.
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  707. ​ @raisonneur682 what do you think?
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  708. He can pretend he is the leader of the second most powerful country all he likes. Everyone knows that Russia is a second world country whose future is bleak, since it is too reliant on fossil fuels for its income, and they won't be much in demand in 20 years or so, and in case anyone forgets, it has a GDP of 1.4 tr. Dollars which is not a lot.
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  709.  @babblo1389  are you gay bab? Psychology would say yes. The spartan hoplites had boyfriends. They would have spat you out like a fly.
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  710. You will have to massively increase defense spending.
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  711. Then why do you all live in Britain???
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  712. 30% of people have the sheep gene. So there's some room for improvement.
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  713. Not doing so made Schroeder very rich.
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  714. Like trying to stop China and North Vietnam invading the south you mean?
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  715. They are crazy nationalists.
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  716. That's good. I don't want my tax euros spent on developing you.
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  717. For a country rife with antiwestern conspiracy theories, there seems little interest in ghe notion that this was a russian govt conspiracy to allow a terrorist attack to occur.
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  718. They are close ideologically; just that one emphasises class struggle, and one a struggle between races.
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  719.  @mnovich6857  two absolutely different systems? You mean you are not a democracy? Shouldn't russians be trying to correct that problem?
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  720. All those parades, heavenly.
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  721. It has, but it is still outgunned. Russia fires 20k to 5k shells a day, for example. The Ukranian army has, in truth, performed remarkably. They enjoyed the reputation of being the best soldiers in the Red Army by the way.
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  722. It is so, because the level of paranoia is extremely high, the fear that the carefully created parallel reality might go pop.
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  723. Worse than Chamberlain. He used the time after the betrayal of the Czechs to re-arm. Scholz has done nothing.
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  724. Scholzs approach is failing, and has been failing for 10 years.
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  725. ​ @unclejoeoakland culturally not European. I don't see much evidence of humanism there at this time.
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  726. ​ @rouz0 so if the west wasn't geared up for war, why did Putin say it was about to invade Russia. Odd.
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  727. ​ @borincod I went to chelabynsk once. Not nice.
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  728. Is russia in the top 20 economies? It's economy is half the size of Britain's!
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  729. You know that isn't true. Food price inflation is high in Russia. Basics like milk and transport have gone up a lot, and only state employees and pensioners have been protected to some extent. Prices have risen around 50% in the last 3 years.
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  730. Tucker won't talk about this.
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  731. It's legal, so they do happen.
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  732. You're going to invade the United States. Do try.
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  733. Putin can't run again according to your constitution.
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  734. ​ @AstroGremlinAmerican not everyone is susceptible to conspiracy theories.
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  735. ​ @mkodyglobalsouthsoldier for aid.
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  736. ​ @mikeblatzheim2797 it wasn't even that. It was discussed but was not in the following agreement. Basically, the idea was rejected.
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  737. Go ahead. It's a free country. You won't be arrested here
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  738. It's the foreign investment you should be concerned about. That will determine your future, not thumping your chest.
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  739. He already did.
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  740. A war of aggression. Ukraine is in a war, but only because it was invaded.
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  741. ​ @criztaliz3413 you're not old enough to remember Russia's disastrous 10 year Afghanistan war.
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  742. The professor must be a volatile character.
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  743. Like they poked Hiroshima.
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  744. ​ @aku345 The UN Charter, deaen up by Stalin, Truman, and Atlee and adopted by the nations of the UN in 1949.
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  745. Hungary is heavily subsidised by the EU, it's a small country, don't they have leverage???
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  746. She's fine. I'm English. I know.
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  747. Your promise is like the rest of what you say, a myth.
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  748. 68 times.
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  749. They think the stolen Ukranian natural resources and lands will make them richer one day.
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  750. Consisting of the US, China, and the EU.
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  751.  @1112viggo  lying is more culturally accepted there. Its a tough environment to survive in, so more is allowed to do so. Russians won't mind that putin lies to them, but they will mind if he loses. They take their nationalism very seriously.
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  752. You wanna live in North or South Korea? One is rich, one has famines and gulags.
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  753. State doping 2014, not individual athletes and coaches. Individuals are banned by the WADA, including people like Greg Armstrong, the world-famous American cyclist, who was banned for life for doping.
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  754. He knows. China likes the idea of spheres of interest more.
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  755. Britain, Poland and the Baltic Sea states weren't.
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  756. Weetabix fan and geipolitical commentator wrapped into one. Wow.
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  757. Macron is much younger than Scholz, and he doesnt have a romantic attachment to the soviet union, and he isnt trying to grab votes in former east germany.
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  758.  @paulzx5034  you will find out how bad this went in around 20 years, when your present dictatorship falls. The million Russians who escaped this month know already.
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  759.  @paulzx5034  You're not fighting the US. The US would crush you. We have 4x as many planes as you and modern equipment. We even have a lot more soldiers. Don't kid yourself that you are fighting uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is sitting in America laughing at you being defeated by the Ukranian army. A 5 billion a year army with 20 himars to help them a little bit. We have 600 of them.
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  760.  @paulzx5034  I assume they hate you because you invaded them. Strange how people don't like that. Be friends with North Korea. You suit each other very well.
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  761.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  Putin is destroying his country's future for an imagined past based on a distortion of history and an obsession with military glory. The damage to your economy and the loss of a million of your brightest and most educated citizens cannot be compensated for.
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  762.  @Thugzbunyyy  it woukd never have dared attack ukraine without a nuclear threat to the rest of the world.
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  763.  @duhhtor  it didn't work of course, because the patriarchs won out, but if it had, the women of Afghanistan, many of whom want the chance to study and work without prejudice would have been very happy. Why? Are you glad that tyranny won?
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  764.  @anarabbasov8634  "western" do you mean non-dictatorships? North Korea isn't western, right?
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  765.  Yanks R EVIL  we know russians are jealous of the success of Europe. There is always a danger that their bitterness at their own failure to build a country worth living in could turn outwards. Its happening now in Ukraine of course. Russians must be very unhappy.
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  766. I was in russia. A lady tried to pay the driver, but there was a problem with her phone. Nobody helped, so i gave her 50 rubles cash. Now i know thd problem with Russia. Everybody just looks on.
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  767.  @estebanpardo9611  no, crimea, kazan, buratia, siberia, the caucuses, etc etc. But ukraine will be free. Slava ukraina!
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  768. ​​ @jasonrusbuldt317  you are not being truthful.
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  769. They have already lost. The loss of technology transfer and investment will set them back years. Russia has no future. The fossil fuels won't be needed forever, and it has nothing else to offer the world.
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  770.  @mwapemike  the last hurrah of the Russian empire involved taking a few medium sized towns nobody has ever heard of. The west will cut off technology transfer and investment, China and India are already distancing themselves, and when nobody needs fossil fuels anymore, in the not too distant future, Russia will be literally finished.
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  771.  @luci75d76  this agreement does not exist. It's a myth.
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  772.  @startracksha  we are those you resent for their success and prosperity. What you secretly would love to be, but you're too useless.
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  773. We know what has happened in the Crimea since 2014: ethnic cleansing. Nothing else needs to be said.
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  774. Only the US has the satellite intelligence and the weaponry. Unfortunately, we convinced ourselves we didn't need a credible defense after 1991.
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  775.  @alexsilent5603  russia is finished dude. The west is investing heavily in renewables. The past belonged to us, snd so will the future. Just more culturally advanced.
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  776. It's hardly a secret. The house votes were televised live by all the major news outlets here in the US. It was hard to miss.
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  777. ​ @davidcwitkin6729 cover what? The vote was transparent.
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  778.  @jameslyddall  the spd got close to the bolsheviks in 1922 against Ebert's will. By 1933 germany democracy was dead.
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  779. Scholz was a communist in his youth, used to toddle off to East Germany for camps. The Stasi had a file on him. God knows what connections he has.
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  780. It is a way of maintaining power, but it corrodes public institutions like the armed forces.
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  781. No, the Stalin era.
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  782. Russia will always feel threatened, because its leaders know there is a world outside which provides its citizens a much better, more prosperous, and longer life.
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  783. Georgia is also in the grip of evil oligarchs.
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  784. Nothing funny about a big military punching a small one. Russia should pick on someone bigger if it doesn't want to be looked at with contempt.
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  785.  @GamingwithBlaze  of course Russia is weak. It stole territory from Finland too, and compare the two countries now. Finland is a modern successful country, and Russia is second world.
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  786.  @joeylopez7978  it's a big country.
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  787.  @GamingwithBlaze  sorry. Your English is so poor that I can hardly understand what you are trying to say. Another sign that Russia isn't equipped for the future, and will remain economically and culturally 50 years behind the western world.
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  788. He might do that. Don't be surprised.
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  789. ​ @PurpleChamelion-iy2xe kharkiv is 25km from the border. The Germans took it in 6 months, and it was 1500 km from their border.
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  790. They don't know. They think they are heroically liberating ukraine from neonazis and satanists. The russian state tightly controls the narrative.
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  791. He hasn't traveled to a Rome Treaty signatory yet. He should try Mongolia.
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  792. You might as well. Your reputation couldn't be any worse than it is now.
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  793.  @mariaadelecagna3540  all he says is poor me. Pathetic little man who was scared of the Covid virus more than anyone Ive ever met. Total coward.
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  794. Covets? They were happy to buy them in case you hadn't noticed.
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  795. With total control of the media, putin can blame anyone he likes, and 90% of russians will believe him. Did he explain why he ignored intelligence warnings on tv tonight?
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  796. Das ist durchaus nachvollziehbar. Es ist gut zu wissen, dass es deutsche geben, die bereit sind, Ukraine's Freiheitskampf zu untetstuetzen.
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  797.  @annetteschneider2301  yep. Isn't war so glorious.
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  798. It's all relative.
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  799. They have historically been effective. They just take time. Crimean war and ww1 were decided by them in the form of economic blockades, and in ww2 Japan was forced to go south rather than helping Germany because of oil sanctions.
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  800.  @TheBikeOnTheMoon  renewables are becoming more common with every passing year. And nuclear energy is always an option. Europe will adapt successfully, and Russia won't ever get the same revenue again.
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  801. They don't like China, so they think letting its main partner win in Europe, where their main allies are, will help them weaken China.
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  802. ​ @lakedistrict9450 Russia and China work together. Go figure.
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  803. ​ @terencefield3204 they don't do effective.
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  804. ​ @LoannaFaskioti your cynicism is a consequence of your own environs. Live somewhere, where people are happy.
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  805. The bots are targetting German sites.
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  806. Did you think that up all by yourself? You sir are a genius.
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  807.  @ramdev9578  why? Germany is giving a million ukranians a home right now.
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  808.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  Europe is a postindustrial society already. Mostly high paying service economies. Very little primary sector industry left.
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  809.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  why is russia so much poorer than Europe? A failure to analyse correctly, perhaps.
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  810.  @moiseshuerta3984  you don't respect sovereign borders. Great. Let's all make war till the small countries are eaten up then
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  811.  @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq  Ukraine is in Europe. So are 85 percent of Russians.
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  812.  @bhaashatepe5234  what would you suggest? Not trying to recover their country?
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  813.  @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq  Ships are by their nature very vulnerable. At the end of the day, they're just ships, and ships can't take much damage if the shells explode inside their hulls.
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  814.  @kotmark  they have harpoon missiles. They sink ships.
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  815. Correct. The US should sign the Rome Treaty. It undermines our credibility, with disasterous conquences for fledgeling democracies.
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  816. Rascism. Aggressive nationalism, changing national borders through force. It's 1938 again. Europe will be at war, and the aggressor will not be forgiven.
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  817. It wasn't NATO, but you know that.
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  818. ​ @kokoko1159  it's illegal to hit children, in the civilised world.
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  819. He'll be there till November 2025, and he will campaign as the appeasement, sorry, peace chancellor.
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  820. Everybody in the world saw the ballot stuffing pictures and the violence against the opposition, unless you live somewhere with no free press, which you probably do.
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  821. What damages the economy kills the poor. They need public services. The rich don't.
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  822.  @williammatthews2287  where is the boom william?
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  823.  @williammatthews2287  national sovereignty? The markets spoke, and the UK government obeyed. There's your sovereignty right there.
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  824. ​ @babahanuman83 it's not really politics, more a kleptocracy.
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  825. ​ @DIREWOLFx75 is that why the soldier's familes had to buy their own equipment?
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  826. I don't think Russia has a death wish, but perhaps it does. Nuking nuclear powers isn't the smartest move generally, but go ahead if you want to die under a mushroom cloud.
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  827. You can't win a war against a country receiving massive western backing, as Zhukov admitted.
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  828.  @grantchallinor5263  did you need the money that badly? Inflation in Russia is double that in Europe, and its economy is going to shrink by 8 percent. Europe will have low growth.
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  829. Except he can. The Russian elites may choose to depose him if the war is crippling the Russian economy and decimating its military capability, which may well happen.
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  830.  @cyberfunk3793  it's not very much. Britain used to spend 9 billion a year on EU membership, just to put it in perspective.
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  831. It probably isn't.
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  832. Let's hope all dictatorships do as "well" as Russia. The world will be a better place sooner than we hoped.
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  833. They deserve one another.
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  834. NATO is splintering on the back of misplaced German SPD sympathies and business interests. Its very worrying indeed.
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  835. I don't like 2 million disloyal Indians living in the UK. But they won't go and live with their friends in Russia. I know. We should act in our self-interest and replace them.
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  836. ​ @mynjeri5469  you and your mother will be dead if that happens. You do realise that, right?
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  837. This is part of the attempt to destroy Ukranian identity and to repopulate Russia.
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  838. Trump locked the most reliable news outlets in the world out, AP and Reuters. Question why?
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  839. I don't want countries which treat their citizens like meat balancing anything.
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  840. The last dictatorship in Europe. Good luck with that.
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  841.  @Khalid_Looby  I wonder which awful godforsaken country you come from, to think Russia is good.
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  842. Not deterence.
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  843. It might. It gave up all claim to eastern Europe in 1991, and to its Polish possessions in 1917.
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  844. I don't know who it is they want to partner with, but it sure isn't Europe.
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  845. America First wants to retreat from the world stage abd leave it to China and Russia.
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  846. The poor Asian countries. Japan, Australia and South Korea are applying sanctions
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  847. It could just become a free democratic country, but it has terrible leaders who care much more about their own personal wealth than China's peoples' future.
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  848. By what they say and do.
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  849. Nobody invaded in winter. Horses need fodder.
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  850. Bots are swarming over this report.
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  851. Why?
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  852. ​ @soreeyez why is it a fact?
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  853. With 1.4 million people in the internal security forces, I wouldn't hold your breath.
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  854. Don't forget the women and children. They also die when cruise missiles hit theaters, high rises etc.
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  855. ​ @solomonblack6344 why don't you replace putin with a more reasonable person. Oh sorry, I forgot you live in a dictatorship.
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  856. A lot of brown beneath the surface in germany.
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  857. Winter fire. Inspiring. Such courage.
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  858. You rely on the west too. Can you make microchips and advanced medicaments, don't think so.
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  859. It's the tip of the iceberg. You are talking about the first world nations. They will send just enough to keep the Ruskies interested, and bleed them dry, so they can't pull this stunt again for a generation.
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  860. Thd only criticism allowed in Russia is from jingoistic nationalists, because they basically back the Putin narrative, and make Putin look measured and rational by comparison. Liberal voices have been crushed.
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  861. Nobody's interested in you. We used to have the odd mafia or corruption story every couple of months or so.
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  862. ​ @AmericanEducationIsTrash not yet.
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  863. ​ @voice.of.reason you think the death will stop if Putin wins? You think he will stop, has he ever stopped? Rissia under Putin has never known peace.
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  864. Falling birthrate, and nobody wants to live there, so they have to steal young people from other countries.
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  865. Jakobs coffee is all over Russia. No shame.
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  866. They are indeed dictatorships run by dictator types.
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  867. True.
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  868. Putin likes to kill his brothers, so don't get your hopes up too much.
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  869.  @alexlaroque5108  they don't annex countries.
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  870.  @TacynMegan  few genocidal and terrorist regimes in there. What's your point?
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  871. True. Appeasement doesn't satiate fascist dictators. It emboldens them. Scholz must want Russia to win.
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  872.  @awarenowhere  It would be a great sacrifice on the part of Germany, but it would cripple Russia. The free world would be very grateful to Germany if it did that. The dependence is on the Russian side too.
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  873. If you want to say that the USA started the world wars, say it.
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  874. Most English speakers are American, and dw has an English speaking service to reach international listeners. Next question, brains?
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  875.  @auggievu2972  you forget the issue of the Russian elites fearing the repercussions of full mobilisation, which they do.
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  876.  @mondo_stunts27  really? Not what Russians I know say.
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  877.  @gerhardformetoknow6493  that will be a surprise. The Russians don't know about that themselves.
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  878.  @kaloyantodorov9063  ukraine has been given more modern antitank weapons by its friends than there are tanks in the world.
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  879.  @viaceslavmikhailovich9825  alas the training is outdated.
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  880.  @drakelang8342  he can't equip and train them. The weakness of the Russian economy will be the decisive factor, as it was in ww1 and the crimean war. The USSR had a GDP of 12,4 tr. dollars, Russia 1.4. This is why, by the way, Russia doesn't have an empire anymore. Reality check: Europe has 12x the economic strength and 5x the population of Russia. Your war is an illusion.
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  881.  @Josh93B93  except ukraine has been given more At weapons than there are tanks in the world. Strange, but true.
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  882.  @Josh93B93  this tactic has literally never worked. You really think it will work with the toughest nation in europe, the ukranians.
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  883.  @frantad945  putin doesn't really have a manpower advantage. He darent risk mobilising as much as ukraine is for internal political reasons. Plus Russia also doesn't have that many young people. The birthrate was extremely low in the 90s. It is a very old population.
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  884.  @Thinkingaroundthebox  a lot of the tanks sent to them are upgraded first.
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  885.  @pecadodeorgullo5963  nobody has ever done anything as barbaric and evil as that to a country before, but it won't work because russia doesn't have enough missiles to keep destroying the electricity grid. At one point the attacks will have to stop.
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  886.  @kokomo9764  you need proper clothing, no matter where you are from, or you get frostbite at best.
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  887.  @Chaldon-hl6yk  really? Evidence of cities being 90 percent destroyed please. There isn't any is there you second world peasent.
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  888. Have they issued a nuclear threat yet?
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  889. Wrong website Ivan.
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  890. Not blue-eyed, greed.
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  891. Trump is trashing the US's good reputation.Sad to behold.
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  892. Attacking a nuclear power is rather dangerous. They have a nasty habit of obliterating your cities and towns.
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  893. From the country which censored Pooh Bear.😂😂
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  894.  @jesusaguilar4585  Charles Lindbergh and the isolationists weren't insignificant but FDR ignored them because democracy was more important. The same is happening in 2023.
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  895. We have Scholz😮
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  896. Wandel durch Handel. That went well.
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  897. Pistorius married Schroeders wife didn't he?
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  898. Yeah, that's why the US is asking Europe to grow its militaries.
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  899. When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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  900. She left Germany defenseless and Russia with the money to rebuild its military. Here we are.
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  901. You can get away with it if you don't need tax revenues, which Putin thinks he doesn't due to fossil fuel income, but down the line, when the world doesn't need fossil fuels, Russia will be in huge trouble. His failure to invest the revenues in civil projects will be his true legacy.
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  902. Not ultraextreme. Reagan drove down oil prices by pumping more oil. Russia is dependent on its oil sales.
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  903. For voting against helping Ukraine I think.
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  904. Lesson; don't declare war on the USA.
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  905. It's spent half of its war chest.
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  906. ​ @gerryhouska2859 it's desire to be accepted by Europe is the problem. It has a rather eastern despotic idea of what brings respect.
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  907. They do here. They always have. We have transparent elections and strong democratic institutions. We're not like you, in any way.
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  908. Mongolia, back to his roots.
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  909.  @fritsgerms3565  germany doesn't have an army worth the name, so that's not actually so worrying as it once was.
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  910.  @testingstudionideas3620  it's 2022. We don't accept the concept of a Sphere of influence. You Russians need to join the rest of us in this century, and leave the nineteenth behind
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  911. And ukraines has allies:)
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  912.  ƲԼƬƦƛ ƔƖƠԼЄƬ  Russia's economy is smaller than South korea's, and yet it sees itself as equal to the USA. That is delusional. It spends less than the UK, and the UK only spends 2.3 percent of its gdp on its military.
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  913. They are fascists.
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  914.  @jfryer485  they mostly voted to be free of Russia. Putin hates them too.
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  915.  @ebonytv3414  it was outnumbered 5 to 1, and 4000 km away from its bases. It won. Now that is what I call a professional army.
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  916.  @loks117  rubble for great material loss, great reputational loss, and the economic damage doesn't bear thinking about. I won't count the loss of life because russians don't care about human life.
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  917.  @paulpeter6138  you might die in a nuclear war. The west regards putin as psychologically damaged as a consequence of child abuse on the part of his father, hence he can only express himself through violence.
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  918.  @harmless6813  he already has. Stalin's really popular in Russia now, although to be fair, he doesn't emphasise that Stalin killed millions of russians.
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  919. A small price to pay for our security. Berlin and Paris sem to think the front lines are a long way away. They actually aren't, and with two days ammunition, germany really has to hope ukraine stops the russian army.
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  920. Didn't Lenin introduce Marxist ideology, while the rest of Europe moved to democracy and open markets. How was that good?
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  921. How do you negotiate with a country which doesn't even recognise, that you are a country?
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  922. ​ @SnowCat6 Then the EU is the wrong home for it.
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  923. ​ @SnowCat6 nobody believes you.
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  924. Ukraine should not have had elections lady. No elections during wartime is written into its constitution.
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  925. Germans remember Versailles Treaty, as do the French, but they tend to forget that you have to win first, then you can try to ensure the peace isn't a twenty year truce.
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  926. He wants to pretend to be the peace chancellor, so all the pacifists and putinverstehers vote for him.
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  927.  @kerrynball2734  they could have, but where do they hide when the russian ranks roll into lithuania and Poland. Its awfully close.
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  928. That will secure a golden future for Russia then. Who cares if the developed world will want nothing to do with it ever again.
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  929. Why's that then?
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  930. It's an indication of how the elite is feeling right now.
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  931. The same trick this time no doubt.
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  932. Except it isnt. The Russian economy is fragile. It can't finance a long war.
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  933. It's normal for countries in ukraines position to wear the invader down. It is often successful. Washington barely won a battle but he won the war.
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  934.  @nobody-y7i1r  conscripts. No use.
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  935. Americans speak English because, what do you know, the Americas were colonised by Europeans. Unlike you, we had proper ships.
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  936. That's the most ignorant thing I've ever read. I woukd recommend not living in a tyranny.
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  937. The Russians I met in Russia tried their hardest to not think at all.
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  938. The US economy is 50% bigger than the EU's. The EU's is 1000% bigger than Russia's.
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  939. ​ @Mr.Clownensky they should get real. The west was investing massively in the Russian economy, China not so much.
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  940. Thanks for your brilliant insight. Now I wont need to worry my head about those people who say that invading your neighbours with your army is an act of wilful aggression, and killing and deporting its civilians an inhumane act. You just made the world so simple to understand.
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  941. Give it a break. It just sounds naff.
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  942. The German media tends to play down Ukraine's chances. Only, their "realism" hasn't turned out like thought it would.
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  943.  @AnexoRialto  the elephant against the whale. Stalemate.
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  944. He can't behave differently because he is weak.
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  945. Best German politician. Scholz's cowardice will result in 45,000,000 people being added to Putin's Orwellian nightmare.
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  946. ​ @ХейХей-ю3ф go ahead. The Olympics is from Greece, the home of democracy and humanist philosophy. That's not your legacy.
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  947.  @DQ_Mine  a large part of Russian public opinion wants the borders of the Romanov empire back. Putin is a reflection of this, otherwise he could not pursue this course.
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  948. They pay badly, but the corruption works against them.
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  949. You need English lessons. Your English reads like anglo-saxon.
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  950. Did you want them to, or would you prefer them to be under Russian rule?
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  951. Russia doesn't release its economic figures anymore. The yale study got around it by general cleverness and it doesn't look good.
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  952.  @sergeykish  it is better to ignore that for the bluster which it is.
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  953. That's what Navalny found out. Luckily for Snowden, he wasn't tortured and murdered.
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  954. ​ @Hangman11 why is the budget 20% of GDP? It's usually in the 30 to 40% range. Thag seems verh low. Is it corruption on s huge scale?
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  955. If you think that Germany, Britain and France, with the 4th,5th and 7th largest economies in the world are backwaters, that's your choice.
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  956. Germany doesn't have any colonies. Whoops!
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  957. There is no glory in being a second world nation with a low birth rate, low life exoectancy and a corrupt society and institutions.
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  958. Check the GDP, then think.
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  959. ​ @cosmicpsyops4529 their carrier groups you mean?
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  960. ​ @Serbinator_Dominator  perhaps Russia should stop calling countries with larger economies than itself vassal states then, and people wouldn't say it.
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  961. ​ @sheshatheblackqueen it didn't stop you in grozny and aleppo. Why the sudden discovery of a conscience?
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  962.  @qgxii  being generous with reconstruction costs assumes there will be a country left to reconstruct.
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  963.  @moffig1  I can only think it has to do with the hannover-Moscow connection. The SPD has got itself far to close to Russia, and who knows what has been agreed and exchanged. It makes no sense. Putin is an avowed enemy of Europe, and he is literally attacking it.
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  964. She picked Tim Walz, a good friend of Ukraine.
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  965. I take it, you don't live in a democratic country.
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  966.  @reubensandwich9249  what?
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  967.  @connergazal3072  I hope they come for you next. Then you will squeal for help. Like you squeal for EU funds.
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  968.  @amandathurston2720  and yet you take the EU billions very happily. Hypocrites.
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  969. That they thought they could succeed. Who are these lunatics?
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  970.  @РудикДудик  don't say you disagree with the war. You can go to prison for that.
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  971. No limit to your jealousy.
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  972. I just never got the way they eat out of my head.
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  973. Not a good election result. CDU/SPD/Greens do not have a 2/3 majority. They will need the Linke to get rid of the "debt brake". Of course, Die Linke, whose support comes mainly from older East German voters, won't support rearmament, so won't release the necessary funds, which require getting rid of the debt brake.
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  974. Some are.
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  975. Russia has no future. Its a gas station not a country, and in 20 to 30 years nobody will be buying it.
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  976. Olaf is compromised. He lied about German personnel having to launch Taurus missiles, after his military chiefs had made it clear thst this wasn't true.
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  977. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 then he needs to explain the threat and implications of a russian victory more clearly. Its his job.
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  978. France and Britain have large military budgets, and Germanys 1 percent is worth 40 billion dollars, two thirds that of russia's spending.
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  979. It has been researched. There are 50,000 of these so-called hero chairs in schools.
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  980. Counted the hero chairs. They're in the Russian media.
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  981. Don't you know what happened to Athens?
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  982. Which pays much less of course, not great when fossil fuels make up 45% of your total income, but good for India certainly.
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  983. Hey mutzernich, you olld sozi you. minsk was an attempt to freeze the conflict. Whos side are you on?
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  984. You forgot one minor detail. China has to sell its goods to someone, and Russians don't have yhe purchasing power. So where do you think it sells its products? That's right. The west.
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  985. Yuri, you're talking nonsense. It's not the same everywhere. Here inflation is 2.3%.
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  986. He hasn't read the history of Poland and the Baltic States. Poland has been partitioned four times, it ceased to exist between 1795 and 1918, and each time Russia was involved . It was also a soviet satellite state until 30 years ago. The USSR murdered its entire intelligentsia. How will he guarentee Poland's security without it being in NATO? .
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  987.  @xcitemex6353  she's called panzi ushi, something known to bilingual Europeans.
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  988. You approve of Israel's methods having seen Grozny, Mariupol and Aleppo. What do you disapprove of?
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  989. Putin thinks the more territory he destroys, the more he will be remembered. Don't hold your breath for peace.
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  990. Where to?
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  991. China needs to be careful. Its wealth is built on trade with the west. I hear its banks cut ties with Russia recently.
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  992. Afraid of who?
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  993. Pootin doesn't regard Finland as part of Russia Mia. Not on his crazy radar.
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  994. Far right means fascistic in my country. Gibbons desribes this ideology well.
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  995. English, easy to understand, unlike Labrov.
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  996. Ask poland, czechia. and the rest of the former Warsaw pact satellites if life is is better
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  997. It's an election strategy a la Trump. He is using the suffering of millions of Ukranians to create an image of "the peace chancellor" to improve his reelection prospects in 2025, at the expense of Ukranian lives.
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  998. ​ @PepeCoinMania if it stops people investing, it isn't working.
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  999. In England's case, 1400, in your case 600 tops.
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  1000. It is in Ukraine.
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  1001. It's not a person, it's an idea.
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  1002. He needs our microchips and medical technology, and phones, and aeroplanes. He will need to steal some more soon.
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  1003. ​@user-lh1xf5zx6u cold today, is it? I hope you didn't slip on the ice your govt can't afford to clear.
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  1004. What this guy doesn't tell us is that the Russian state justifies its war in an entirely different way inside Russia. There's little talk of NATO expansion there, rather an existential battle between decadent evil western civilisation and Russia, inheritor of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, saving true European civilisation from satanists. Its weird.
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  1005. More equal; US GDP is 27 trillion. The EU's is 18 or so. China's is 11 x more than Russia's and it has 10 x the population.
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  1006. ​@markusberzborn6346 nobody believes you.
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  1007.  @ИринаЛукьяненко-ь3ъ  we will, to stop a country stuck in the eighteenth century from stealing land, washing machines and toys from ukraine. And we are so much stronger.
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  1008.  @ИринаЛукьяненко-ь3ъ  the Mongols crushed you as history remembers, and the swedes and Germans did too at tannenberg and narva.
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  1009.  @ИринаЛукьяненко-ь3ъ  always playing the victim. Pathetic country.
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  1010. ​ @bhuvszuc88 Not really. Russian minorities are in the republcs primarily due to colonisation and ethnic cleansing, a deliberate policy to weaken independence movements.
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  1011. I imagine meetings are taking place to decouple from the USA. We had fascism in Europe, and we aren't going to be partners of a fascist US. Time to part ways. Russia and Iran are pretty lonely. Try them.
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  1012.  @oppolandy2069  you'll be uraaing when your bus hits a pothole.
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  1013.  @clevernduruza8624  ukraine is the world's sixth biggest food exporter. Very important to stop a delusional senile leader like putin from getting it of course. He will only build tasteless palaces with it, and give the profits to his cronies.
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  1014. A Russian told me it was their national idea to be aggressive and expansionist, and that most russian's get a kick out of that. He's emigrating to Canada soon.
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  1015.  @ЛюдмилаАртюшкина  they decolonised actually. You are out of step.
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  1016. Putin isn't the USSR. He's a kleptocrat.
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  1017.  @Nehas949  ukraine isn't retreating. Russia is.
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  1018.  @bazlur-Vancouver  when China attacks, we won't help you, and Russia can't help itself.
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  1019. China's involved there, too (belt and road).
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  1020. Cambridge analytica.
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  1021.  @Bermuda-e7f  it is less dangerous to European security than Russia, which is a major threat to it.
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  1022. There's a genocide going on in China as you write of old history.
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  1023.  @emmany5302  it reflects their dark sense of humour, which helps them cope with the tragedy be falling their nation.
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  1024.  @samsungtap4183  the red army had the ability to conduct manouvre warfare. This army can only use world war 1 tactics. It has many tanks, but lack the skill to use them effectively on the steppe, which is ideal for such warfare.
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  1025.  @ricardowilliams9201  Europeans know that russian armies lose wars when their economy breaks. This has happened a few times, most famously in ww1 and the crimea war, despite having larger forces and initially gai ing ground. Both times it took 3 years.
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  1026. I agree. Too slow. Too cautious. Too pro putin.
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  1027. He's not exactly the underdog. He's got the collective west supporting him to the tune of 10 billion dollars a month.
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  1028. ​ @AlexanderSomm you aren't very up on this subject. Perhaps you should comment on gardening on something.
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  1029. ​ @FreeSpace-v9f  germany is free to leave nato. De Gaulle did, and switzerland, austria and ireland have never joined it.
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  1030. ​ @thegunner971 no nations are. It is an absurd concept in an interconnected world with a global economy. If you want that, you would be like North Korea.
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  1031. To live as a slave is not to live.
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  1032.  @jbbeiser983  I imagine that mosern japanese people are glad the sick sadists who ran their country lost. Japan is normal, free and prosperous.
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  1033.  @schwanzusminimus3321  Deutschland ist ein fantaschisches Beispiel von wie Nationen mit Ihrer Geschichte umgehen soll. Da habe ich als Brite total Respekt. Jedoch ist dies genau der richtige Moment, eine Selbtopferung zu machen, um ein Kriegsverbrecher zu beseitigen, I dem Deutschland hoert auf, Gas und Oel zu kaufen, oder zumindest zu sagen, wir zahlen nicht bis Russland zurueckzieht.
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  1034.  @cryptoprepper1463  I believe Germany was a genocidal fascist state then, unlike now. Do you like genocidal fascist States by the way?
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  1035. The media's job is to hold the people in power to account, by asking tough questions, like here.
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  1036. China is 10x larger than Russia.
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  1037. ​ @markojuric4954 Scholz is, alas, a provincial technocrat, cloaked in the robes of state, and they do not fit him.
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  1038. They want their cake and eat it.They want their pensions and economy to function well, but they don't want the labour required to achieve it. Germans aren't having enough children to solve their demographic problems without inward migration, but they don't like foreigners very much. A dilemma indeed.
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  1039. ​ @nakatanakata2665 actually, it was cowardly.
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  1040. The cities of Donetzk and Lugank were established by British industrialists. If Odessa is Russian, does that mean these cities are part of Britain?
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  1041. ​ @jac9176 ypu're the only colonial empire left.
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  1042. Good that nobody listens to China then. Welcome Finland!
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  1043. ​ @thecoin5394 it has a 27 trillion dollar economy. Putin, who thinks he should sit at a table with us, has a 2 trillion dollar economy. I suggest you sit with your peers, Spain and South Korea. You're small fry.
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  1044. ​ @thecoin5394 4th😂, no economist uses PPP to compare states, they use it compare shopping baskets. Nominal and real GDP are used. After your currency's collapse, you'll be lucky to make the next G20.
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  1045. ​ @jesusaguilar4585 in Russia a litre of milk costs 1 dollar. How much is it in the US?
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  1046. ​ @Makroti1050-z9y  Your economy is worth 2.24 trillion dollars. Mine is 27.5 trillion. Your economy is the same size as the state of Texas, but people in Texas earn 75,000 dollars a years, your people earn 6,000. You will never know how poor you are because you will never travel.
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  1047. He is a successful millionaire. He was a massive film star before.
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  1048. What a ball that will be. To witness thd end of the world. Cool.
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  1049. You assume that your government cherishes human life, including of its own citizens and soldiers, of which there is actually no evidence right now.
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  1050. When are you finally going to leave the EU, and stop begging for our hard earned tax Euros?
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  1051. The US is not our enemy.
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  1052. We have bases in the US actually.
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  1053. ​ @user-343-8fx yes, putin has to do exactly wnat xi tells him. We can all see that.
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  1054. ​ @videographiya it's an alliance. The UK has a base there too.
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  1055. ​ @sanjivsyal3856 that's what allies do. Stalin and Germany did the same before the war.
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  1056. Belgium wouldn't let Anglo-French forces enter Belgium to build defensive lines until Germany actually attacked Begium. The Belgian government feared provoking German retaliation. Result: Belgium was occupied by Germany for 5 years.
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  1057. ​ @commando2113  Germany broke that treaty in 1914.
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  1058. If prosperity, rule of law and personal freedom is being a puppet, its nice to be a puppet. Why? What does russia offer? Nothing.
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  1059. Just you have zero sense of humor.
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  1060. How can a country negotiate itself away?
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  1061. A clash of civilisations. I wouldn't describe Russia as a civilisation. The French invented ballet, the Germans invented classical music, the Italians invented opera, the Russians invented playing the victim.
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  1062. ​ @Andre-kg6fu that's what it was. Cheeky little chappie.
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  1063. ​ @Tanduy12 piglet visits pooh. Sweet.
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  1064. Russia refused to attend. Does telling lies make you hard or something?
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  1065. Shall we deport the 2 million Indian's living in Britain, I'm sure russia would love to have them. Since they are your friends.
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  1066. The successor will be Petrushev's son. He makes Putin look normal.
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  1067. Putin is pissing off China. That's good. It's his last hope.
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  1068. Dream on. Europe doesn't want to be ruined like Russia is.
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  1069. BIden Is so weak. An embarrassment to the land of Eisenhauer, JFK, and Reagan.
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  1070.  @Annubys1  the self interest and the interests of the alliance are not in step. Hungary needs to join the russian alliance.
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  1071.  @cinpeace353  there are common intetests, like stopping russian imperialism. Hungary nerds to wake up.
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  1072. Love how he accuses the west of attacking his religion. Nobody knows what it is.
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  1073. Being 10x smaller.
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  1074. They get it, but they have narrow self-interests. We don't have good leadership, and putin knows this.
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  1075. 62% of Russians get their news from TV. It's been surveyed.
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  1076. Provoking🤔
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  1077. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 thd realist school, that works well with messianic dictators.
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  1078.  @riversidegardenradio9070 russia hasn't won a war since the nineteenth century without western support, and that was against the then sick man of Europe, the ottoman empire.
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  1079. So what? There are nutjobs everywhere.
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  1080. It is. Are we prepared to die for our freedoms and way of life, or is it better to live in a totalitarian world?
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  1081. Macron and scholz tried that. He assured them he would not attack Ukraine. They havent been back.
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  1082. Scholz is a closet communist. Alas for him, putin isn't.
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  1083. Germanys thd only country ive ever experienced antiforeigner hostility. Im english. I got a better reception in scotland. Lovd the scits by the way, good people.
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  1084. It's called open markets and rules to govern them.
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  1085. ​ @golmgolm Russia spent 300 billion.
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  1086. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 why? They will never have z better chance to escape Russia's influence and join the west. They know this, so they won't give up. If they give up, they will have no future. Who wants to be a poor slave in a mafia state when they could be like poland or Finland in 25 years.
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  1087. It's gonna collapse. 2 years max. Wait n see.
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  1088. So, all the Indians who live in the UK will be moving to Russia, don't think so.
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  1089. ​ @GongGhuru  it would be human to.
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  1090. ​ @claus-not-santa a very successful country. They all have toilets, proper pensions, have foreign holidays, and don't get imprisoned for criticising their government.
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  1091. ​ @nextentrepreneur9288 Finland abandoned neutrality because of Russia's unstable government and imperialist policy.
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  1092. ​ @bakthihapuarachchi3447  The UK and Germany have bases in the USA. Make what you will of that.
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  1093. ​ @watercutterlan1401 yes, the UK has a base there too.
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  1094. So negative of the "expert"; we held the Ypres salient for the whole war despite Germany trying again and again to take it, wasting countless lives and resources in the process.
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  1095. Deliberate election strategy. Scholz thinks he can get 2 or 3 percent more by letting ukraine be conquered. He calls himself the "peace chancellor". Peace in our time.
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  1096. ​ @jaska-jalmarixvi5757 maybe France isn't advertising it. It would be smarter.
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  1097. Scholz says Helmut Schmidt is his mentor. Schmidt was a prolific writer. Scholz should take up reading. I read Schmidt. He was nothing like Scholz.
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  1098. ​ @YcarinChannel it is the largest country. Its gdp % give isn't that great.
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  1099. ​ @freedomm it's already started.
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  1100. ​ @ilcop2907 are you Russian? You can't use the articles.
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  1101. ​ @Ademir2809 dreams don't count. There is a majority for sending them now in the Bundestag.
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  1102. 😂😂😂
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  1103. The USSR lost the peace. Russia awaits the same fate. Russia does not seem to understand that playing the strongman in the modern world is counterproductive.
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  1104. He is just hateful, because Russia is a failed state, and his exceptionalism doesn't allow self-criticism in, so he has to find others to blame.
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  1105. And the election is going to you know who.
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  1106. We should guarantee ukraines borders then, so russia stays out.
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  1107. You are afraid of NATO. ​ @cte4dota 
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  1108. He's not your president.
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  1109. They weren't, but russia is far more repressive than many people realise. The internal security forces number 1.2 million.
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  1110.  @thejourney6712  we don't live in a freezer compartment five months of the year. Our winters are mild. It won't matter. But it will deny russia its key markets forever.
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  1111.  @LaHayeSaint  you think it's okay to try to freeze the population. Really? Did your mother hate you or something?
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  1112. A serial groper, a stalinist who refused to criticise putin, and a young guy who refused to campaign.
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  1113. It won't help you. Your food will get more and more expensive, until one day you won't be able to afford to eat, and then the OMON and Rossgardia will be waiting for you.
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  1114. True. To the heroes!
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  1115. SED connections no doubt. He will be out of power in 2025 fortunately.
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  1116. They don't. They are imperialist in their thinking. The west is the enemy of choice now that the military has been recreated. Europe was useful for building the military, that's all.
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  1117.  @andrejs2708  I think you will find the kremlin backed insurgents in Donbas killed civilians, and ran the territories they took like the criminal gangs which they are.
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  1118. They couldn't. Adminisrations come and go, hence the need for formal binding treaties.
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  1119. ​ @momala3919  russian autocracy, live the dream.
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  1120. ​@jackkruese4258 the effects of immigration have been studied intensely, but racists don't read the results. How can you engage with bigots who want to scapegoat vulnerable minorities. There is no point at all.
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  1121. It may well be necessary. Let's hope the Russians aren't total maniacs.
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  1122. 0.1% of GDP to be exact.
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  1123. ​​ @dr.strange6458 these threats are regularly intercepted. The Russians were forewarned, so they should have acted. There was inadequate security at the concert hall, and many visitors were trapped inside because exit doors had been locked, according to eyewitness accounts.
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  1124. We never were. The cold war immunised us.
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  1125. You're not from India.
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  1126.  @maxsmith3580  it has given a shot to renewables, which are the future for Europe.
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  1127. ​ @Meeko2689 I wouldn't be so sure.
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  1128. And cheap British labour, which was most of it, and working single mums, people like that.
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  1129. The question is why does Scholz want Ukraine to be destroyed by Russia? He knows the consequences of not giving Ukraine the weaponry it needs.
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  1130. The people will it, but Dav', even in the worst case, the USSR once did the same to Finland, and it was isolated while finland became part of the European family. Ukraine has a bright future no matter what happens. Finland is a great country today, and so will ukraine be.
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  1131. Do grown ups also talk about ninth century vikings?
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  1132. SPD and German corporates are bought and sold. It would have been better if germany had remained neutral like Austria.
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  1133. When this war ends ukraine will be fast tracked into the EU, and Russia will be denied technology transfer it needs to develop. Finland also got attacked by Russia, lost some land even, and look at Finland compared to russia. Its citizens have a far better life.
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  1134. Like the history of Poland: 1795 to 1990.
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  1135. You can't eat identity.​ @prody666 
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  1136. They didn't use up all their soviet military stocks for four oblasts. They want it all. And they will end up with nothing.
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  1137. Genius commentator thinks they started the war to stop Ukraine joining NATO. BS.
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  1138. ​ @Liboch Russia always loses lots of soldiers because it always sends poorlly trained and poorly led troops to fight its wars.
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  1139. Finland prospered although Russia stole some of its territory. Ukraine will be just fine. Europe will help her and turn her back on Russia for good.
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  1140. The balance between what and what exactly, freedom and tyranny methinks.
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  1141. ​ @lucasworktv in what way?
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  1142. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 you co-operated well. Read a proper history book. Poland, Finland, Romania, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova had a different experience of your co-operation.
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  1143. Similar goals? No. The 8000 tanks the western allies sent to the Ussr had similar goals, to repel an invader.
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  1144. If we were as evil as putin always says, he would never have invaded ukraine. We are the enemy of choice, because he knows that we are reasonable compared to your usual bunch of dictators he allies with.
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  1145. If he loses, he will likely die. The Russians don't mind how many children he kills and mames, they just want to be feared by the rest of the world.
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  1146. ​ @monichat he is. He took all your freedoms from you, gave the oil and gas profits to himself and his friends, and uou still support him. Maybe he will let you stay in his palace one day as a thank you for your sycophancy
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  1147. Jude, Jude , Jude.
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  1148. He doesn't explain how Eastern Europe can be protectedfrom Russian expansionist aspirations. It has a lot of bad experience of that. Polish history, for instance, is tragic.
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  1149. Olaf Scholz said no more than 2%. Apparantly many Germans want to be defenseless.
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  1150. ​ @calvin8677 IS have already claimed responsibility. The question is why you don't accept that. They attacked concertgoers in Paris and London. What does your logical mind tell you about that?
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  1151. ​ @TR_Emeritus  that's not true. They fled the Paris attack.
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  1152. No, putin wants land, not peace. Haven't you noticed yet?
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  1153. ​ @Black_Sun_Dark_Star strengthening the Russian economy didn't work well first time round. A different approach is required.
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  1154. English sentences require a verb. Which language leaves out "to be" I wonder? I think we all know that.
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  1155. ​ @thunkjunk  post truth mentality is what I see around me.
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  1156. Britain pays as much in % terms, but France does sweet fa.
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  1157. They didn't deport children.
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  1158.  @stevencharnock9271  that went well.
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  1159. And democracy neither, as the hoplites at Marathon and Plataea demonstrated.
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  1160. It's morally bankrupt.
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  1161.  @santaclaus0815  the 1930s is repeating itself, and Germany will be drawn into war if it does not stop this appeasement of a tyrant.
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  1162. So what.
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  1163. ​ @AlexanBudni I'd get a VPN if I were you, if you can face the truth.
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  1164. Did you ask ukranians what they want? 80% of them want to join the EU, which will happen.
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  1165. Hiroshima did not gain. Be careful mother Russia.
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  1166. There are no winners, except those trying to protect their offshore money from EU scrutiny, and they finance the Tory party.
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  1167. Competition is healthy, deporting children isn't.
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  1168. Visit North Korea. Take basic food with you. Thry have famines.
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  1169. You're watching it. Nobody asked you to.
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  1170. Why would anyone trust a Russian? They are the world's top liars and thieves
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  1171. ​ 1YUGE_RichardBulge they can do what they like. They are a NATO partner after all.
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  1172. ​ @eddastrohmayer251  russia's is the same as texas😂😂
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  1173. We're laughing at 2 poor countries pretending to be civilised.
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  1174. The question I ask myself is why Putin is so keen on the smaller countries not getting NATO protection. NATO is already conventionally way more powerful than Russia, It already borders Russia and Belorus. If it attacked through Finland and the Baltics it would win anyway. So what's it really about?
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  1175.  @goenzoy  a victorious russia might not be in Germany's interest. I mean; east germany was part of the last empire.
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  1176. ​ @danielzmau8015  holloman airforce base
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  1177. ​@pollutingpenguin2146 they never have.
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  1178. ​@unknownindividual7036because you want to. It is called faith.
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  1179. ​ @madaz56 it's not a language. Good try botski.
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  1180. ​@josephshields2922 then other countries send troops, as occurred in 1916.
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  1181. Fighting over a ruined planet.
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  1182. ​ @ferry602 you edited it, but it still makes zero sense.
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  1183. Appeasement not wanted.
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  1184. Ukraine has the same right as Russia to have nuclear weapons. If Ukraine hadn't given her nukes to Russia, she would be safe from attack. Instead, she is being murdered, raped and tortured.
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  1185. It will be believed inside russia. The ukranians have been totally dehumanised there.
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  1186. Are you afraid of Putin invading you again?
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  1187. A lot of this is in the east, where people were exposed to totalitarian ideologies.
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  1188. ​ @baddoopey  the far move to the left? Germany has liberalised its economy in recent years. It is mich less social than it was a generation ago.
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  1189. A man who doesn't use his real name is hard to trust.
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  1190. The Russians are very strange people. They invade a country, attack its civilians for months, then pretend to be the victims.
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  1191. We don't like russian's, but what is there actually to like about them? Maybe it's the playground machismo, bullying it's smaller neighbours, or the habitual lying which you admire so much.
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  1192. He banned winnie the pooh. A chkldren's book. Dictators, so sensitive.
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  1193. Conflict???
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  1194. ​ @Tell_It_Right It's unacceptable to spread hate speech and do things like threaten the children of judges, as Musk is doing on x. People have a right not to be threatened.
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  1195.  @tasreasfatemsa8266  the bases are there with government approval, because they are necessary for NATO to function effectively. Where are the 300,000 US troops who would arrive in Europe in the case of Russian attack meant to go if they don't have bases there, arecthey going to stay in local hotels? .
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  1196. Which is why they started when the temperatures dropped. Don't trains like cold weather? 😂😂😂
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  1197. History says otherwise. Without western support it has always crumbled first economically, then militarily, see 1856, summer 1941 and 1914.
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  1198. We should watch as India shrinks and say we are non aligned.
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  1199.  @jesusofnazareth3507  stalin starved millions of ukranians to death. I would not be surprised if many Ukranisns hated him for that.
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  1200.  @denisgorjunov  why is 1991 significant? Every country was young once.
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  1201.  @StrongRespect  russia didn't exist until the end of the seventeenth century, so how could it be part of Kyivan rus?
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  1202.  @bonnie7898  Kyivan rus was an amalgum of Swedish vangarians and slavs. It collapsed in the twelfth century. Modern Russia developed from the duchy of Muscovy, which was renamed russia by Peter 1 in the late 17. Century.
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  1203.  lalnunzualadarlong4296  there won't be a victory. The west has unlimited resources, Russia not so much. It is deliberately bleeding russia dry. Haven't you noticed that, giving Ukraine just enough to hold russia, encouraging russia to use up its stocks of armored vehicles and missiles.
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  1204.  @alexstorm2749  Peter the great renamed Muscovy russia. Historical fact.
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  1205.  @denisgorjunov  in 1917,but it was repressed again.
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  1206. India is buying oil from Russia, and selling it to Europe. Not neutral.
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  1207.  @shoneshaji9380  they would destroy you. We beat you with 40,000 troops. They've got 2 million.
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  1208.  @Slavic_Goblin  ukraine is confident of victory. It gets 10 billion dollars support a month, so it should be.
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  1209.  @moralfuxery  russia and russian backed separatists took advantage of the political vacuum in Kyiv when yanukovitch was removed. Its not a secret. What putin really feared was that Ukraine's western turn would put the lease of Sevastopol naval base to Russia at risk. Putin considers the port vital for Russian power projection, as a good old-fashioned imperialist.
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  1210. Belgium's fear of provoking the aggressor in 1940 resulted in it being occupied by a fascist state for over four years.
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  1211. He obviously hasn't read the history of Poland. Explain to them that Russia is a peaceful neighbour that was provoked by them being in a strong defensive alliance. They woukd laugh in your face.
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  1212. Appeasement encourages tyrants. We know that from 20th century wars.
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  1213. Freedom is more important than peace, but you wouldn't understand.
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  1214. It is their mentality to trust the state with everything, so they don't need to take responsibility for anything. It's not a coincidence that Russia has such a government.
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  1215.  @2Barts1  they find it easier to pretend they are not being brainwashed.
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  1216.  @Pers0002  yes, and I fact checked it. It was historical revisionist BS, coupled with false claims of genocide in the Donbas, and some stuff about the Ukrainians being national socialists. It was the stuff of fantasists and weirdos. An old guy reading tsarist maps and fooling himself he is a hegemon with the right to dominate the countries around him. In 2022)))
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  1217. It's behind the west because its political culture hinders progress. It did invent fireworks though.
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  1218. No glory in mass poverty.
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  1219.  @MWENDA-vv5im  the one that says russiia is a secondrate power after a century of economic decline, as the war in ukraine shows.
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  1220. Russia GDP 1.8 tri. EU 19 tri. Russia pop. 145 mil. EU 450 mil What did you say again?
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  1221. That bear will be dead of course, from radiation sickness no doubt.
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  1222. He is demanding zero concessions from Russia. Why should that be "difficult"?
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  1223. Scholz will be out soon. The CDU/green/fdp coalition will work better with its allies.
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  1224. It's already started, and it will devour its children. Putin will get his page in the history books.
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  1225. Pistorius called for weakening sanctions. We have a Germany problem.
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  1226. ​ @rowaystarco there is no opposition media inside russia.
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  1227. ​ @anasttau9908  my grandmother said we shouldn't have spent our money on lendlease for Stalin. She said Americans needed the money, and Russia would only cause us problems later. How right she was.
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  1228. True. Ukraine, like the USSR before it, will need western support to defeat the invader. History teaches us that it will get that support, until the job is finished.
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  1229. German tanks going toe to toe. They figured out that ukraine isn't in Russia at least.
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  1230. Countries which rely on natural resources do not see the need to invest in their human capital meaning they are generally kleptocratic and represive in nature, as the elites rely on cash flow rather than tax revenues. For the russian people, more reliance on income from fossil fuels will just lead to more repression.
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  1231.  @jimmytimmy3680  Don't you even know that the German army defeated the russian army in the great war. Sue your history teacher.
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  1232. North Korea must be running low. We'll have to send in team America to sort out those lotten lascals.
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  1233. All the dictatorships and wannabe dictatorships. So many outside civilised Europe.
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  1234. That was in 1949. Times change.
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  1235. They will see alright when russian tanks appear on their borders.
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  1236. ​ @Chaldon-hl6yk no it isn't. Uou clearly never lived in either country.
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  1237. ​ @ThePawcios he is certainly a throwback to sometimes around 1721.
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  1238. ​ @catchannel4421 the old guard stayed in power too.
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  1239. You mean, Europe wasn't militarised and preparing to attack russia. Surely not. That would make your president a liar.
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  1240. An old sozi, a bit anti-american, a bit anti-capitalist, a bit willie brandt, who doesn't seem to want to accept the fact that putin is anything but a sozi.
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  1241. I don't know. They may take the opportunity to kill many of their criminal class there.
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  1242. I don't think that putin cares about Russian lives very much.
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  1243. CHINA 19 TRI.GDP RUSSIA 1.8 US 27 TRI. EUROPE 21 TRI.
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  1244. Opposing tyrants does not make anybody a warmonger.
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  1245. ? We played Croatia in the 2018 world cup, we're playing Slovenia and Serbia this time. I don't think Yugoslavia exists.
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  1246. You will be happy to know that in Russia only one opinion is allowed. To criticise the war is literally illegal. So enjoy our freedom of speech on your slowed down youtube feed with your not yet blocked VPN. I hope you didn't discuss your VPN with anyone else. That is also illegal in Russia.
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  1247. It is bound to uphold the UN charter, as is Russia, but we've long given up on them. Let's see how far China goes.
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  1248. Why does Hungary want to be in nato and the EU? Is it just for our money? I don't see a sharing of interests and values.
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  1249. It isn't strong. There are capital controls in place to protect it. If it were freely traded, it would plummet.
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  1250. They have party programs which people are free to vote for.
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  1251. Ask yourself why governments start wars. You will find that it's often to distract from their inability to solve domestic issues.
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  1252. Of course. Putin's Russia is a hard sell to people with internet access. Telling people you won't be nice their LGBTQ citizens doesn't appeal to balanced people.
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  1253. It's the way it will abused, as in Russia.
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  1254. We don't experience TV presenters protesting live that viewers are being lied to. They really do lie. Putin said the west was about to invade Russia. Really??
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  1255. A market, and technology transfer, and an ally against tyrants.
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  1256. Historically isolationalist party, with the exception of the cold war period, when communisism was threatening to engulf Europe and the Pacific ring, at which it was rather successful.
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  1257. It is.
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  1258. A pause in fighting isn't peace. Peace will only come when the Russian elites abandon their imperial mindset, which aint gonna happen.
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  1259. Obama sent blankets.
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  1260. ​ @RangKlos this scheme was rejected.
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  1261. Hyes, putin is sending a lot of shells and missile to his forward supply dumps, that's true.
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  1262. ​ @johnadam2885 it's called critical objective reporting.
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  1263. ​ @gumby2241 sensitive to whole societal trends. Gifted.
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  1264. Very true. They feed the egos of corrupted spirits.
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  1265. No, it isn't. We have a great relationshop with the Balts etc.
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  1266. The russian army hasn't run out of civilians to murder and rape, or washing machines to steal, unfortunately.
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  1267.  @AndrewGunner  like in world war one, it magically collapsed.
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  1268. Some western governments don't care about Ukraine's fate. They just pretend they do.
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  1269. He will lose.
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  1270. It's not escalation; ukraine has the right under article 51 of the UN Charter to request and receive military aid as the defender.
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  1271.  @occamraiser  or narrow economic self-interest, while taking the risk that Russia has no ambitions beyond ukraine.
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  1272. Trolls reacted fast today.
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  1273.  @TheKkpop1  the russian economy will shrink by 3% this year and 4% next year according to the forecasts. That's actually catastrophic.
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  1274. He is indeed. Not a man for dangerous times.
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  1275. How so?
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  1276. 1997,2003. Russia also guarenteed Ukraine's sovereignty in two bilateral treaties. Your word isn't worth anything.
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  1277. They advanced 10 km.
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  1278. Maybe russia needs highly educated people to have better governance. His English is fantastic compared to the russian ambassador to the UK.
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  1279. Germany benefits most from the single market. We had this same idiocy in the brexit debate.
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  1280. Salients can be held indefinitely if the will is there; Ypres, for example.
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  1281. No, he isn't.
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  1282. ​ @elbibwen3019 war is war. Your pseudo-legal language reminds me of your illegal annexations of sovereign Ukranian territories.
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  1283. The 80s was the real disaster. They sold the housing and had no intention of replacing them. That was criminal.
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  1284.  @corygriffiths4394  400,000 cases of frostbite in fact. Brrr..
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  1285. Russia "lost" the cold war because it bankrupted itself in Afghanistan and on its military industrial complex, and an inefficient economic system, but Putin doesn't have the courage to accept this basic truth, and seeks scapegoats instead, which is a tragedy for the world.
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  1286. Human rights are far more respected in Germany than in China. She has a right to say that. It's true.
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  1287. Biden's outdated cold war fear of Russian retaliation.
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  1288. Putin's a total tit.
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  1289. The opposite would be dictatorship. Whey hey.
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  1290. ​ @artmaknev3738 they block all outside news sources.
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  1291. Very true. We need to defend our values.
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  1292.  clemathieu JT  hmm. Vladivostock didn't actually form part of Russia originally.
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  1293.  @abhishekbhattarai3375  not for survival. It is prosperous enough to defend its territories.
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  1294.  @bryandimery6509  no it didn't. The russian empire had these imperial ambitions long before the USA existed.
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  1295. @Wiegraf the world is interconnected. The US needs partners, and it needs markets. There is also a climate crisis.
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  1296.  @PlaYer-sn5or  colonies? Strange thought.
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  1297.  @PlaYer-sn5or  whose proxy is russia, china's?
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  1298. Social media, giving men who can't get a girlfriend somewhere to vent.
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  1299. Are you equating the media environment in Russia and Europe? Do you know that journalists get murdered or long jail time in Russia if they get too critical of the government there?
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  1300.  @Thor.Jorgensen  western is a meaningless term. Europe has around 63 countries, each with their own unique features.
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  1301.  @vladnickul  having experienced Europe and Russia, I feel very sorry for anyone born in Russia. The gap in living standards is enormous, and the oppression is terrible in Russia. Its like living in a prison.
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  1302. We will see. NATO hasn't been tested yet.
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  1303. Are you afraid of combat?
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  1304. Can repressive regimes actually liberate? It comes from the word liberty after all.
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  1305.  @Hvitserk67  It is indeed. Commercial media is, as you know, susceptible to this temptation because there is a profit motive at work, but I wouldn't want to only have state media, because that tends to be too risk-averse, and open to government pressure (employer) , but I can only speak for the UK of course. The people I really appreciate, though, are brave investigative journalists.
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  1306. ​ @dweb there was no security
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  1307. ​ @soreeyez you would do what stalin did, ignore the warning, and be invaded. Then you would do what stalin did, be tipped off about operation citadel, and heed the warning. A learning curve.
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  1308. ​ @jesusaguilar4585 it was on the american embassy website. You could have read it.
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  1309. Is Sara Wagenknecht calling for Russia to hand over Kursk oblast in the name of peace today I wonder?
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  1310. It will require military intervention of course.
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  1311. They aren't worried. They are disuptors.
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  1312.  @nebonaladoni2678  you stole land from Finland too. Nobody would ever live in poor corrupt second world russia rather than rich first world finland. The future belongs to ukraine. You will have to glorify your past because you don't have a future.
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  1313. Piglet visits his master, Pooh. That was actually funny to see.
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  1314. Capitulation is not acceptable. And not necessary.
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  1315. They can kill the t64s from 4000m at least. A challenger killed a T-72 from 6km away in the Iraq war.
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  1316. To someone with a Serbian name, who presumably speaks Serbo-Croat, I congragulate you on learning the Ukranian language to a high level.
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  1317. He demanded that the eastern European countries Russia had made communist satellites lose their NATO protection. I wonder why he wanted that?😏
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  1318. Russia is doomed. It has the whole collective west against it.,the wealthiest most technologically part of the world. Russia has.. Iran, North Korea and Congo.
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  1319. They are planning incorporating 45 million ukranians to solve this. They already have deported 2.4 million ukranians to Russia itself, and 5 million people live in the occupied territories.
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  1320. He's not in an easy position. Half the population doesn't want to send tanks, including the left wing of his own party. He could have split his party. But the moral case won.
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  1321. Go to downtown kiev and say that😂😂😂
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  1322. They are not ridiculous. They do not murder their political opponents.
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  1323. Russia isn't Europe's soul. Ancient Greece is.
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  1324. Nobody cares about your silly missiles. Trump will pump oil, and the price will fall. I remember Reagan doing this. The results were devastating for the economy.
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  1325. Yes, stormshadow doesn't have the same explosive force.
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  1326.  @thekaiser4333  they're not though. Putin is afraid to mobilise, lukashenko is afraid to join because unlike democracies they have no legitimacy. For all their bluster, they are essentially weak.
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  1327.  @BatchLampasaMuyong  where are you from? If that's an African name, a lot of Africans try to get into Europe every day. They risk drowning to do it.
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  1328.  @mdfaisal216  except it isn't fine. The government is afraid to mobilise for fear of its own population in spite of the huge numbers of internal security forces it has built and the draconian laws it has introduced.
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  1329.  @CyprusTM  huge material support, plus of course the western allies kept italy and Japan busy, as well as doing a job on their Air and naval assets. The Soviets did a great job on their land assets too of course. Team effort as they say.
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  1330. Then have a try. We're here, and the developed world is a big prize.
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  1331. Through the roof, so I guess you aren't american.
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  1332. Youre not in the uk. Its through the roof. Youre a Russian liar, with no morals.
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  1333. Antiliberal too. Fascists talk about power, dominance and strength a lot.
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  1334. ​ @univeropa3363 fascists are antiliberal and socially conservative too. They also like harking back to a "great" past.
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  1335. Milk and public transport aren't luxury goods and they've risen steeply in price in Russia.
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  1336. ​ @anandsivadoss desperation? You talk like the ukranian army is at the gates of Moscow.
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  1337. ​ @simbol5638 Chamberlain tried to keep the war from his door. He just emboldened the aggressor to escalate.
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  1338. You clearly don't have diabetes.
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  1339. ​ @munkombwestanley5692 the soviet satellite system lasted for 44 years. I wouldn't get too optimistic.
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  1340. ​ @konstantinbush295 grateful is the wrong word. A sovereign state has the right to expect other normal countries to assist it when some unhinged dictatorship attacks it.
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  1341. The whole war is a metaphor for it. An empire's last gasp.
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  1342.  @marmotd2319  ukranians were. That's for sure. 8 million ukranians died in ww2. That's double the percentage of russians who died.
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  1343.  @coreyguy5216  no western leader has threatened russia with nuclear war. Its just another of putin's lies.
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  1344.  @jonber9411  unlikely. The USSR and Germany had close ties between the wars.
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  1345.  @Benjamin-tg79  democratically elected, unlike putin, who gas been manipulating elections for years.
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  1346.  @Benjamin-tg79  Zhelenski is a qualified lawyer, putin is a qualified spy. I prefer the lawyer.
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  1347.  @vladislavtodorov4371  don't you know that the Serbs were massacring people, call it genocide. The Hague tribunal did.
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  1348.  @omarismail8551  germany did. It is in a strong alliance.
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  1349.  @tinaforbes1059  check the NATO inventories.
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  1350. ​ @yummydishes2279 from white people. But you've got the Iranians and the North koreans
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  1351. It will never be a democracy. Its antiliberal, imperialistic and antidemocratic. There's a word for that.
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  1352.  @edwinsalau150  democracy; government through elected institutions underpinned by freedom of information/organisation and independent judiciary. Plus a culture of peaceful transfer of power.
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  1353.  @donm3844  no they don't. Thy don't get on very well either, especially India and China.
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  1354. DW spreads disinformation you say. Can you provide some examples?
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  1355. ​ @nenadmitrovic3469  If the facts dont fit what you want to believe, ignore them. Irrational beliefs are rather popular these days.
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  1356. ​ @nenadmitrovic3469 yes, nations can make sovereign decisions. You're getting it mixed up with the Warsaw Pact.
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  1357. ​ @Darkdrium what's Russia in Chinese?
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  1358. Time for Orban to be shown the door from NATO and the EU. His subsidy dependent 10 million state will not be missed.
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  1359. ​ @anrmlumlwundlistr7620 Latvia could do what russiz does, and take other languages off air. Thd only English channel is RT in english😮
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  1360.  @facelessgod-kg7xk  nato soldiers. If only. It would all be over against this second world military.
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  1361. ​ @mikehummel232 yes, they do. I'm in Russia. I heard that from my students.
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  1362. @Козырь no, it didn't. Its professional forces numbered 125k on Feb. 24th compared to russia's 290k.
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  1363.  @chikiboomboom665  in repelling and defeating the second military power in the world on the battlefield.
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  1364. Not if you used to be a young communist like Scholz was.
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  1365. ​ @mak51smith80  Where are you from? Belorus.
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  1366. ​ @adityapuar3848 you didn't spend that. You spent 83 of a committed 168 billion.
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  1367. It's their bad education which is the problem.
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  1368. ​@user-sv7mg6qd1w because they deliver higher living standards than western countries, so they are very popular, or is it their repression of dissent. You decide.
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  1369. He sent light forces straight for Kiev. They werecdestroyed of course.
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  1370. Is that before of after they nearly went to war.
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  1371. China is TEN TIMES bigger than Russia. Not a junior partner, really?
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  1372. He does project. I like how he accuses the west of hating Russia, and then delivers a hate speech full of insults.
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  1373.  @suportbghelp4938  if you're a lunatic you might.
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  1374. You will get there, in 2087.
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  1375. Karma! The pseudo-democracy is beaten in the T20 semi-final by England, a real democracy. Have fun with your new autocratic friends, and don't ask us for help when China comes for you.
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  1376. ​ @ypointNull uou can find this by googling margarita simiyan 3 days to kyiv
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  1377. ​ @BG-ej5fy Japan was Britain's ally in WW1, and the German states had generally enjoyed good relations with Britain, in particular Hanover, Prussia, Nassau, Brunswick, and Hessen.
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  1378. ​ @goenzoy Immigration is higher since leaving the EU. Funny innit.
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  1379. ​ @mweskamppp Germany built Nordstream 2 after the annexation of Crimea.
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  1380. Really? I thought 20% of russians were asiatic. Or are you saying only white people are Russians? Bit racist that.
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  1381. Alexander the great: conquest of the Persian Empire. 50,000 troops.
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  1382. Right. Explain why joining NATO was aggressive from Poland's perspective, given their experience of Russian and Soviet expansionism.
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  1383. Absolutely.
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  1384. The worst thing is the cynicism which people like yourself spread. You have no idea what you are are talking about. Perhaps, rather than comparing itself to the USA russia should get real. Its economy is half the size of Britain's. A war of delusions.
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  1385. Stalin didn't evacuate Stalingrad either. He said it was a Soviet city.
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  1386. ​ @jaang7424 don't gloat too early. There's a nice currency devauation and tax rise coming to your area soon. And we are giving Ukraine 5% of our defense budget of 840 billion dollars at the moment. Your country's total economy is the same size as the state of Texas😂. Don't ever think you can compete with us. We're not even trying, just practicing containment of a regional power.
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  1387. ​ @jaang7424  our defense budget is 840 billion dollars a year, our GDP is 27 trillion dollars a year. Texas, like you, has a GDP of 1.8 trillion dollars. How much more can you afford to spend? I hear you are going to raise taxes and devalue your currency soon. We just gave Ukraine 41 billion dollars, 5% of our defense budget. We're not trying very hard, and you are spending 30% of your federal budget. The soviet union collapsed because it was overspending on defense, trying too hard to be a superpower. You also can't afford to be a superpower. You're not wealthy enough, just the US. China, snd the EU bloc.
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  1388. Don't worry. Our winters are mild. Where I live the average temperature in January is plus 8. Jumper weather. We don't live in a frozen wilderness like you. The strong tribes got the best land. You got the bits nobody wanted.
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  1389.  @StrongRespect  how, pray tell? Lendlease went to 3 countries, Britain, China and the Ussr.
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  1390.  @mlionea  we have 6000 too. Be careful what you wish for.
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  1391.  @medic145  the challengers and Abrams destroyed the t 72s in Iraq. They are much better tanks.
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  1392.  @medic145  they have fought against t 72s in Iraq. They were very successful against them.
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  1393. There's always that 300 billion in a Belgian bank. Just waiting there.
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  1394. The intention is to tell the Russian people that he can do anything he wants. To cower, to demoralise, to psychologically crush them.
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  1395. Is your country democratic?
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  1396. He visited Dachau concentration camp today. That's where hate speech leads you.
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  1397.  @lostintashkent  do expand?
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  1398.  @TonyDootjes  BMW will come back from China. They won't.
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  1399. Just introduce majority voting.
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  1400. Thd EU isn't appropriate. A coalition of the willing is.
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  1401.  @elbibwen3019  is that relevant? Do you know he killed between 6 and 9 million Soviet citizens, put 10 million in gulags, and forcibly repatriated millions more. And he is your favorite person of all time🤣🤣🤣
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  1402.  @Truthorfib  Russia is the only European country not to decolonise. Buratia and Yakutia for example.
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  1403. Imagine if he were President of Russia. What an inspiration.
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  1404. Have you ever lived in Europe? You seem to know an awful lot about it.
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  1405. ​ @alesh4654 of course. 30 percent of the budget goes on the war. Revenue has fallen by 28 percent since the start of the war. It's economically unsustainable. Russia is staring at a repeat of 1917 by 2025. It's an open secret here.
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  1406. How? Russia still doesn't control them?
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  1407. Highly skilled😂😂
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  1408. Frank. How much do you pay for English lessons? Do they give refunds?
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  1409. ​ @El-px6wl  , from occupied ukraine, and they looted the bodies too. That's what the Dutch really can't forgive.
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  1410. Poor russia. Impoverished by its useless leaders, it is doomed to losing the peace yet again.
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  1411. But why send a high school team to Munich?
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  1412. You doped your entire Olympic team. What do you expect?
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  1413. ICBMs don't recognise shields.
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  1414. ​ @Meeko2689  that doesn't make sense in English.
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  1415. The Ukranian army is intact. I guess you learned about the revolutionary war? Washington barely won a battle, but his army remained in being until the British lost the will to sustain the effort. This happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan, and the USSR was much more powerful than modern Russia, which is an economic lightweight by comparison.
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  1416. The only thing the Russians can release are prisoners with no military training.
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  1417. It is dependent on Western technology. The loss of western technology transfer is a very serious problem. eg 85% of the parts in its iskander missiles come from the west. Without western parts, it won't be able to make them.
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  1418. How much is one innocent person's life worth?
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  1419. ​. We certainly do. Dictators like Putin feed off signs of weakness. It encourages them to go further.
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  1420. ​ @kevinc1200 becoming increasingly aggressive.
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  1421. Their losses were double those of Germany; not a luxury they can afford this time round.
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  1422. ​ @Isildurd  Russia has made NATO very popular. Sweden had been neutral since 1815, but you managed to make it feel threatened enough to seek membership.
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  1423. You're not, believe me, as someone who lives in russia.
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  1424. Don't blame them. I saw a young Russian guy the other day. Sat in a wheelchair with no legs and half of one arm. It made me think. I've never seen that before.
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  1425. ​ @Memovox on the contrary, we noted that India and the Saudis rejected dedollarisation, and that more and Chinese banks are refusing to accept payments from Russia. There's going to be an unfortunate liquidity problem soon.
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  1426. ​ @chrisrobert5252  Sorry to have to disappoint you, but Russia lost the Crimean War. Something to do with Sevastopol being lost, and St.Petersburg being blockaded. Never mind.
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  1427. But why did Germany allow itself to become so dependent on Vladimir Putin? It's so strange.
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  1428.  @JS-ip8xm  the steppe became a home to those who didn't accept serfdom. A hard but free life. They are called cossacks, and this mentality is in Ukraine's culture.
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  1429. This de-escalation policy is working reallly well by the look of things. The peace chancellor might get his peace after all, the formerly democratic republic of Ukraine will, of course, be occupied by Putin's armies.
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  1430.  @thesampsoninstitute  against tinpot dictators like poo-tin of course.
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  1431. They think of modern Russia as being like the USSR. A fatal error.
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  1432.  @larsrons7937  it is not the action of a warmonger to help a country which another country has invading with the intent of destroying it in every way. It is an act of humanity and mercy.
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  1433.  @romeob.8369  25% of them did.
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  1434. Not that good. The president of Tadjekistsn got 99.5% and a rotating gold statue of himself.
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  1435. @Ruslan they have it)
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  1436.  @dadbidad1322  we don't have 400 tanks.
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  1437. It's called scrutiny. That's what democracies and serious journalists do. Russian journalists don't do this. They throw Putin easy questions, and then applaud his answers.
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  1438. Always blaming someone else for everything. Try conducting serious reform, then complain.
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  1439. They are meant to, to put the Russian govt under pressure, and to deny it technologies for making advanced weapons, and to make it hard to raise capital.
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  1440.  @Maria-ox4km  russia isn't that old. 800 years at most. Quite a young country.
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  1441.  @Maria-ox4km  may 9th wasn't celebrated loudly originally. Putin has made it loud.
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  1442. The grandiose self-delusuon. Oh dear.
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  1443. ​ @everypitchcounts4875 they believe in democracy, America not so much.
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  1444. And become a vassal state of China.
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  1445. When was the concept of annexation not poisonous:)
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  1446. A challenger killed a T-72 from 6. 4 km away in Iraq. World record.
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  1447. Fascists basically.
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  1448. Scholz and his slimy SPD just wanna buy cheap Russian gas and oil. They don't care about 45 million Europeans being invaded by a messianic dictator.
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  1449. He's starting to talk sense.
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  1450. The far right takes any opportunity to undermine our institutions. Institutions limit the power of autocrats.
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  1451. Little men shouldn't throw stones.
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  1452. The EU binds Europe, which makes Europe safer. Ukraine is desperate to join.
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  1453. Didn't 5 people die?
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  1454. Yes. Social inequality is very great. The boomers had cheap housing, free higher education, and they sold off the state assets. Now we have a shortage of housing, tuition fees are expensive, and the state's assets are gone. A very selfish generation created a disaster for the next generations.
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  1455. Don't forget Schroeder, Martin Schulz, Stegner. Mintzernich and the whole rotten core of the SPD either. The German polity was compromised by overreliance on Russian energy.
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  1456.  @dragons_hook  you should try living in Russia. According to the news here, NATO was about to invade and keeps threatening to use nuclear weapons. I'm not sure that's true, you?
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  1457.  @nixiontm  It was when the Russians said that the dead of Bucha were actors, or was that puppets, that I knew I could trust Russisn state media.
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  1458. Wars of aggression in Europe always lead to coalitions against the aggressor. Germany belongs to that coalition.
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  1459.  @crpfcommando9771  can you all leave Britain please. We don't want anti-democrats.
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  1460.  @crpfcommando9771  is that why we conquered you with 2 division's , because you're so powerful? You're as small and weak as him.
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  1461. Putin despises both. He may use them though.
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  1462. Their commander too, or is his corpse still being propped up with a broomhandle shoved down its back?
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  1463. Just bullying your smaller neighbours. Nobody respects you. Nobody is stopping you attacking NATO with your conscripts and 50 year old tanks that blow up rather easily.
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  1464. It is, but by ignoring it, our "leaders" are not required to respond. History will judge them with the same contempt it reserves for Chamberlain and Dadalier. Biden can forget his legacy after this debacle.
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  1465. The post-war Soviet leadership wasn't a man child like putin.
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  1466. Do you seriously believe anything the russians say? How many times does putin have to lie?
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  1467. ​ @aslampervez2294 dove wing of the Democrats, unlike Clinton and jfk.
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  1468. Reagan showed us how it should be done. He flooded the oil market with American oil, driving down oil prices, and at the same time incresed military spending. These measures broke the back of the Soviet economy, which was mucj larger than that of the Russian Federation.
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  1469. Has she been hypnotising millions of citizens into desiring a free democratic future again? Quite a lady.
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  1470. ​ @magnacarta9364 putin is throwing money at them.
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  1471. ​ @Fannystark007 the average salary is pretty decent.
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  1472. He controls the media. Russians are told otherwise.
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  1473. France lost 2 million in ww1, with a similar population. This war will go on for a long long time yet.
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  1474. They have been asked. They said openly that they would pursue their own narrow economic self interest. They like the cheap oil.
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  1475. They didn't try to conquer anyone. You are trying to carve an empire. That's why we all hate you, plus the cynical lies about corpses being actors etc. And you are a totalitarian state, and people hate those.
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  1476. Putin is truly afraid. Hopefully, Russians have the common sense to see it.
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  1477. If they were there.
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  1478. They announced this in June 2022.
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  1479.  @pipo4158  nothing to be proud of.
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  1480. You can't negotiate with Revanchism. You have to defeat it.
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  1481. Agree. He infers that Ukraine started the war.
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  1482. Airbus, Carlsberg and Danone found that out.
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  1483. They need to sell their manufactured products. Guess what their biggest market is; clue, 500 million rather propsperous people.
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  1484. The German political establishment's attitude to Russia is strange. Do they know that Ukraine was the main battlefield of ww2, and more ethnic ukranians than ethnic Russians died? If it wasn't just naked economic self-interest with fingers crossed, or corruption.
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  1485. Poor russia. It will never be as developed as the west. It will keep trying to close the gap with violence, but it never will, because Russians are genetically inferior to pure Europeans.
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  1486. It's absolutely disingenuous. How does he expect Poland and the other Eastern European states who were former Soviet satellites who had communism imposed on them to be safe from Russian imperial ambitions without being members of a strong alliance? Read thd history of Poland. It is tragic.
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  1487. Wilful ignorance, nothing worse.
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  1488. They are fighting the good fight for getting their Tsarist Empire back. They see something moral in that. Somehow.
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  1489. Wallace said, Scholz is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. About right.
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  1490. How? Putin wants the hun empire back. The empire Europeans don't want.
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  1491. ​ @selfmademan3201 ?
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  1492. Western democracy is very attracive to the world's oppressed and poor. I'll let you figure out why.
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  1493. I don't recall Stalin caring too much about expanding west. That's what the eastern Europeans remember. Maybe we should consider their needs .
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  1494. I hope the parade uniforms they bought with them haven't gone mouldy yet.
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  1495.  @amckittrick7951  yes, it took 3 years for Russia to be crushed, but this time the west won't save them.
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  1496. Don't argue without facts. Some people have a good education.
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  1497. You could try reading eastern european history. It would help you to understand that putin is whacko.
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  1498. ​ @bps7209 no, he isn't. He makes it up. That's why fox had to pay 767 million dollars for defamation. He spread a made up conspiracy theory which caused the company massive reputational damage. Call him a liar.
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  1499. NATO is stronger. Sweden and Finland weren't planning to join until the Ukraine War. NATO will be happy.
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  1500. Has it occured to anyone, that Putin has been at war for 19 of his 21 years as President. Maybe he likes being at war.
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  1501.  @mrindia3710  I think the combined strength of the richest and most technologically advanced regions of the world should be enough to defeat a corrupt, second world autocracy. It will squeal about nuclear weapons a lot, but its leaders are too used to a life of palaces, yachts and casinos to want to die.
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  1502.  @EyesonEnforcement911  yes. He got 73 percent of the vote in the 2019 presidential election. Does totalitarian russia have any more questions?
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  1503.  Faiez Cader  that would be russia. Russia is 138th from 180 on the world corruption index. Ukraine is 111th, not great, but not the worst. It is also not true that all political parties have been banned unlike in Russia where parties putin doesn't like are labelled extremist organisations and their leaders poisoned, murdered, imprisoned etc.
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  1504. Don't let the Germans influence anything. Minsk was an unmitigated disaster, fuelled by German economic self-interest, und led to disaster.
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  1505. The UK parliament voted against supporting the prodemocracy militias in Syria. But don't let facts stop you.
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  1506. ​ @julianpetkov8320  I think you'll find that president Zhelenski was elected.
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  1507. Muntzernich is writing the new oil and gas contracts as we speak.
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  1508. Then God bless the USA.
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  1509.  @ellenation2294  it's the past. It's what we do now that counts. We don't torture civilians.
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