Youtube comments of duncan smith (@duncansmith7562).

  1. CPS needs to be taken to court for racial discrimination
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  2. "we need to get more people into work to pay taxes to support them" no, we don't. we need to slash government spending, so, no more billions to Ukraine, no more sanctions on Russia, no more Green energy taxes, no more foreign aid, no more hotels for gimmegrants, the list is endless.
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  3. "I'm a taxi driver and I'm scared to leave my house" Now you know what it's like to be a white girl in Rotherham.
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  4. This is a load of DW nonsense, some weird attempt to create drama where no real drama exists. India is looking after its own interests in a neutral way very well. India is more than happy to work with Russia and the West and sees no reason to be forced to alienate either side. Simple as that. No big deal.
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  5. GBNews now aligned with BBC and Channel 4, using "far right" to describe Tommy Robinson. Dolan is just a dope.
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  6. What about the Far Left's antics in Croydon and Birmingham?
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  7. No, China isn't saying "don't force us to choose sides in this war", China is saying "we will choose Russia if at any point we feel it necessary". Big difference.
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  8. and there the world was calling Meloni a "fascist" when she became leader of Italy, for her "hard-line stance" on immigration. what an absolute joke she has turned out to be.
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  9. it's more than the fear of being attacked as a racist. it's the fear of being attacked.
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  10. remember the formula: the longer the nationality and origin of the attacker are not revealed by the Police, the more certain it is that a Muslim immigrant was arrested. As for ruling out terrorism, well, that would depend on the motive. Stabbing innocent children in public certainly seems to be a terror attack to me.
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  11. Great to see the Irish finally taking the drastic action needed to tell their woeful, ignorant leaders what the ordinary Irish people think of mass immigration.
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  12. it's not the "far right" that has risen, but the far left that has finally lost its base among Swedish voters
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  13. and some people wonder why Hungary and Poland refuse to welcome such wonderful diversity and multi culturalism. not a lot of looting happens in Budapest and Warsaw.
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  14. London is not only a dump, but a dangerous, dirty, crowded, stinking expensive dump that looks more like Baghdad than London. To the black guy that is confused why the fact that a minority of Londoners is now white British is a problem.....some of us much preferred London when it was vast majority white British, it's as simple as that. All power to those who wish Kingston, Jamaica to always be majority black. Respect the white British love and nostalgia for when London was white British.
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  15. Russian speaking Latvians are not in a foreign country. They are in their home country, speaking their native language. Imagine French Canadians being told that French was being phased out of use in Canada.
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  16. the fact that Starmer is 100% sure that David Lammy is the best person as Foreign Secretary tells you all you need to know about Starmer's judgement.
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  17. simply amazing they didn't blame the Far Right for this attack!
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  18. No, Luca, this invasion is NOT happening due to any Tunisian policy. Maréchal got it right when she stated that this invasion is happening because Europe allows it to happen. It's as simple as that.
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  19. "Who was behind it?" Muslims
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  20. France 24 fait l'autruche, encore une fois.
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  21. For the Police, the laws on child rape and child sex trafficking weren't worded clearly enough for any arrests in Rotherham and Telford etc, so we can be sure the Police will claim the wording of the law on hate speech is also unclear, unless the hate speech involves retweeting a joke about any protected minority.
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  22. Channel 4's definition of Far Right = anyone not Socialist
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  23. if the Supreme Court allows any state to remove Trump from the ballot, expect a revolution if the presidential election comes down to a handful of votes.
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  24. "Troop Shortage Saps Morale" Wasn't this the BBC headline about Russia up until 5 minutes ago?
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  25. The heart of the problem is not Israel's borders. The heart of the problem is Hamas refuses to recognize that Israel has a right to exist. A "2 state solution" cannot work if either state refuses to recognize the other. Hamas is the stumbling block.
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  26. 100% fully deserved. and it will not let up. France had the opportunity to elect Zemmour, who pledged to end immigration and start deportations, but France chose to side with yet more mass immigration. enjoy every minute of it!
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  27. a bit rich, Farage whining about the Muslim vote. Nige, you had your chance to embrace Tommy Robinson a decade ago, but you called him and his followers "knuckle-dragging thugs". Problem is, Nige, Tommy was right. If only you were wise enough to have seen the truth.
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  28. the problem is, what Bolt calls "going a bit nuts" is just presenting an argument against the mainstream narrative
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  29. it is absurd to criticize France. it is in France's best interests to let the migrants come to the UK and it is in France's interests to take money from UK. The French have figured this out. The UK is the fool, unwilling and unable to tow the boats back to France.
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  30. amazed that so many businesses are still head above water in UK. When you add up the billions spent on Ukraine, on paying healthy people to stay home and not work during covid, on illegal immigrants to stay in 4 star hotels , it's astounding any working folk in UK have 2 pennies to rub together.
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  31. "I'm fully transitioned" into what, exactly? students, pay attention, anyone about to circle the answer "woman" is making a big mistake.
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  32. Since Rotherham, our Sharia Police have done a fine job of keeping the Caliphate of Britanistan well and truly intolerant of anything non Islamic, in particular anything supportive of Israel. They need to be applauded for serving Allah so devoutly.
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  33. because they can, with almost no negative consequences.
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  34. she's certainly modest when she speaks, so what modesty does she think she is preserving? not many Christian girls get murdered for what they refuse to wear in the world.
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  35. Leicester IS Pakistan/India. Leicester ceased being part of England a long time ago.
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  36. A "guide for victims"? Don't get drunk and don't talk to Africans.
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  37. The problem is that traditional Conservative voters don't see this present Conservative party as anything Conservative. Many will stay at home and shrug their shoulders on election day when Labour win with a very low turnout.
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  38. UK needs to decide which of the 2 contradictory laws it is going to follow. either honour the law that says asylum seekers are allowed to enter a country by any means and thence claim asylum (in which case, the people smugglers are working legally and should be applauded for doing a good job) OR honour the law that says entry to the UK without the right documentation is illegal.
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  39. looks to me like the policeman succeeded in his mission. he protected the neighborhood from further imminent risk from an imbecile teenage joy rider.
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  40. whoever gave approval for this migrant to enter the country should be jailed for life.
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  41. what is astounding is the number of peaceful resolutions that have happened around the world of late, now that the US has been pushed aside.
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  42. The longer this goes on, the more attractive that Istanbul proposal that got scuppered by Boris Johnson starts to look.
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  43. "they are trying to find Russia's weak spots" reminds me of looking for WMDs in Iraq. How long will it take before the West concludes there is no weak spot?
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  44. when was the last time white community leaders were consulted about a level of policing that would be appropriate?
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  45. "Refugees are welcome here" does "here" mean in the houses and flats of those shouting "welcome"? or does "here" mean accommodated at someone else's expense?
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  46. integration only works with those who want to be integrated
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  47. what is stunning is that no political leader will ever look the nation in the eye and say what everyone's father should have said, "if ever you are stopped by the Police, co-operate fully and respectfully. If you don't, expect the worst"
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  48. Bridgen explained his position so well and delved into the science. the journalist could only shout "conspiracy theory" and looked pathetic.
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  49. what about the Labour MP who shared the disinformation tweet from Hope Not Hate about acid attacks against Muslims in Middlesboro? When is he due up in court?
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  50. Definition of bigoted, intolerant = go find another school if you do not accept the opinion of the school.
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  51. slowly, the penny is dropping with the media that Jay's disappearance is no big deal in Tenerife, but an investigation that reveals lurid details of teenage drug gangs, thefts and violence must be avoided at all costs.
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  52. fingers crossed Scottish Police will no longer have time to provide any security whatsoever to Scottish MPs.
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  53. the fact that the tapes were denied to the public for so long tells its own story.
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  54. If Sunak gave Boris a vote of confidence just a few weeks ago, how the hell can he stand now as the great replacement/alternative? new leader gotta be a long term Boris foe, even if that means a backbencher, like David Davis.
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  55. Watch Tommy's film, "Silenced", while you still can. It highlights why no faith, whatsoever, should be placed in UK's judicial system regarding immigration matters.
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  56. Here's an idea! How about the government agree to do what they have been elected to do? Reduce immigration levels drastically and protect the citizens from manic Muslim and immigrant violence?
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  57. As a digital nomad, I can recommend Istanbul, Bogotá and Belgrade. I've heard from others that street crime is something you have to be careful about in Bogotá, though I never experienced any. Quality of life is excellent in Belgrade.
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  58. Paris and Marseille are far too dangerous to visit, and will be in the future. French cities have become too risky to visit.
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  59. no prison space available, so once he is tried and found guilty he'll have to be released. UK 2024.
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  60. Integration is working well in the UK. The Police have become Shariah compliant quite impressively, green lighting Pakistani rape gangs and now refusing to arrest anyone for shouting hate and calls to violence against Jews. The ayatollah is delighted with the UK police.
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  61. every Democrat voter in these cities is now experiencing exactly what they voted for. enjoy every minute of it.
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  62. something tells me she won't be taking cold showers this winter when the energy supply runs out if her proposals are implemented. she imagines others will lose their jobs and suffer, but not her.
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  63. "The Police are there to keep the peace" No, you fool, the Police are there to enforce the law!
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  64. once again, Paris reaping the countless benefits of immigration and diversity. Europe will look like this every day in the near future.
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  65. which is why the LPR and DPR militias are fighting heroically and why the cannon fodder from Lviv really don't feel like they are defending their homeland when dumped in Donbass to confront the DPR, LPR and Chechens.
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  66. after 13 years of Tory rule, any malaise we currently have is their fault. end of story. too late to talk a big game. the whistle has already blown.
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  67. so sad to see there is more concern for a 17 year old hoodlum being dealt with, he certainly won't be terrorizing the neighborhood in the future, than for the shocking situation where the Police have to deal with so many people who never learned the most basic lesson - respect and cooperate with the Police.
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  68. Should have implemented the Minsk Accords. Should have met with Putin in early February. Should have kept negotiating back in March in Istanbul. Zelensky will keep making the wrong choice until he makes one final decision....to abandon Ukraine and go and live in his mansion in Miami...that last decision will be the right one, finally.
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  69. He was given a 24 hour head start when initially described as a "Newcastle man". the Archbishop of Canterbury probably knows where this good Christian man is hiding.
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  70. it's not unusual at all. southern Europe always has had extremely hot summer spells with comparable conditions to this that is forecast. what is unusual is the media hysteria that happens EVERY time there is extreme weather. Strange there is no reporting on those parts of the world where temperatures are below average,
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  71. big mistake to hold Eurovision in Malmo, the capital of Palestine.
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  72. Did you all hear that Egypt had finally agreed to open the border crossing and allow all Palestinians entry into Egypt in a humanitarian gesture to their Arab and Muslim brethren, to save as many suffering women and children as possible? No, neither did I.
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  73. How close are the Police to catching Azedi's accomplice, the priest that advocated for Azedi's asylum in the country?
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  74. Italy closing its borders to illegal immigrants will work. Australia did exactly that. it worked.
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  75. sadly, 2 big things need to happen for France to solve this. 1. a lot more rioting, looting and wanton criminality needs to happen if traditional France is to wake up to its plight. 2. the faces of the rampaging mobs need to be shown and seen on camera so France can see and hear who is responsible. without those two, this will keep happening over and over again.
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  76. "trying to defend their land" it ceased to be "their land" when "they" attacked the civilians of Belgorod, honey.
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  77. "we've failed to integrate them properly" 1. you assume the immigrants want, or are willing, to be integrated. I don't see such willingness. 2. it is not the host country's duty to integrate anyone, it is the newcomer's duty to become integrated.
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  78. why would a democratic election in the Netherlands be a "nightmare" for Brussels? if the Dutch people voicing their political wish is a "nightmare", then I guess DW is admitting the EU is afraid of its own electors.
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  79. The problem is, if Raynor is happy to lie about this tax issue, what else is she happy to lie about?
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  80. Here in France, businesses are obliged to accept cash. It is illegal to refuse it. It is simply impossible to turn down cash here. "Don't Kill Cash" should be more strident and insist it is written into law that, to refuse cash, is illegal.
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  81. "the migrant population on Lampedusa now outnumbers the native population" so, just like London and Birmingham
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  82. let's remove all symbols of the true font of hate, Islam, first.
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  83. most Europeans favor ending illegal migration. until EU leaders respect that wish, nothing of any significance will happen.
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  84. Zelensky's focus now is his mansion in Miami..his private jet has its engines running.
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  85. so, the rules for protests now is that if threatening tweets get posted, the protest must be cancelled for safety reasons. the side that threatens the most gets their way. justice and policing in the UK, 2023.
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  86. WOW! So even GB News and Arlene Forster are more worried about what bad things might happen to the masses of immigrants in Dublin, on the image of Dublin to the world, about the tourist numbers, and not a word about the anger and frustration of the long-suffering Irish citizenry that has been suppressed for years regarding violent crime caused by immigrants that were invited in by nobody.
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  87. One word made all the difference. In December 2021, when Putin asked Biden for a meeting on Russia's security concerns regarding Ukraine, Biden said "no". Trump would have said "yes".
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  88. If only Farage had stood alongside Tommy Robinson instead of calling him a "knuckle-dragger". Farage is too late to warn about Islam now.
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  89. The ONLY reason that Bojo is still in power is because the opposition have backed every major decision Bojo has made since Brexit, i.e. there is no real opposition. Bojo may limp on for a while just because the alternative, Starmer, is equally awful and deluded.
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  90. "over criminalising"...interesting phrase. gone are the days of law enforcement. it's now about the Police deciding which crimes count, and which don't. welcome to Britainistan.
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  91. i wonder if Zelensky will vow to find the Ukrainian troops who fired missiles into residential buildings in Donetsk?
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  92. the unavoidable results of hiring incompetent but diverse employees
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  93. so "Keep Sweden Swedish" is now a rallying call of the "Far Right"? Interesting how DW would define the "far left".
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  94. Karen Matthews found all the chatter around the disappearance of her child extremely depressing too.
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  95. UK needs to sort out which law it is going to follow. If it is legal to enter the UK by any means and then claim asylum, then the "smugglers" are doing nothing wrong. They should be applauded. If it is illegal to enter the UK without proper documentation, then they are all breaking the law, smugglers included, so deport them all. time to choose which rule to follow. either they all are allowed in, or none is.
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  96. "they will find other sources of energy"....they won't. they already tried Qatar, Nigeria, USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela..........Europe is screwed and will have a miserable winter and beyond, apart from Hungary and Serbia.
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  97. Got to laugh at the notion of Russia invading "sovereign European territory" when the Crimean Parliament voted 78-0 for separation from Ukraine post maidan.
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  98. "to those who feel targeted for the colour of your skin, or your faith, I know how frightening this must be" why was this speech not given when the nation learned of the Pakistani rape gangs terrorizing the white girls of the country?
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  99. speaks volumes that Starmer is so concerned about the "awful situation in Gaza" but not pressing for any votes on the awful situation in the UK
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  100. Charles is the king of woke. where do you think William and Harry get it from?
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  101. When Ben Wallace said back in October that Russia could mount only 2 or 3 mass missile attacks, I guess that was his idea of being funny.
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  102. EU values on full display....the best way to silence a leader advocating peace talks between Zelensky and Putin.
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  103. Of course the first migrant shown is a Ukrainian violinist, not an Algerian knifeman.
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  104. we used to laugh at America for its frivolous lawsuits
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  105. The British electorate did all that was needed to put all of these policies in place. Next time, choose wisely, vote wisely.
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  106. until Piers has spoken to Russians and found out how determined Russians are, he can make no comparisons.
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  107. absolute classic, USA and UK fighting for democracy together, by invading Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction that never existed.
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  108. remember, the International Rules Based Order states that military intervention to support Kosovar separatists is a really good idea, that Serbian territorial integrity should be ignored, and that military intervention to support Donbass separatists is a really bad idea, that Ukrainian territorial integrity must be respected.
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  109. Curious to see a "Moneygram" sign in the background. Wonder what chunk of benefits money get sent to Romania, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
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  110. Gazans voted for Hamas, so Gazans have now got what they voted for. What are they complaining about?
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  111. Sky News confuses Berlin with Bavaria, Liz Truss confuses the Baltic with the Black Sea...Sergey Lavrov must look at the West's class of '22 and think, "my God, how the hell did this lot graduate from anywhere?"
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  112. The Mollenbeek crowd just need to observe how Asian immigrants do it, with their work ethic and stable family backgrounds and dedication to learning,
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  113. On the contrary, given what happens when Russia takes an interest in defending the language rights of Russian speakers, it's bizarre that any country would decide to place limits on the use of Russian. you are confused between "promoting" a language and restricting a language.
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  114. the steel works closed down, so we, quite logically, decided to eat ourselves to death.
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  115. Given Biden can't remember yesterday, no surprise he has completely forgotten what happened on October 7th.
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  116.  @kirkhunter146  not very white, not the kind of British white that have names like Harry or Bob.
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  117. as usual, Russia "taking high casualties", but no mention of Ukraine's casualties. why the silence? what you hiding?
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  118. love the way she uses the word "kidnapped" instead of the more honest "sold into slavery". kind of lets the African slave catchers off the hook, doesn't it?
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  119. "fluid situation" is BBC's way of saying Russia is advancing. wow, for months Russian morale has been rock bottom, Russia has been running out of weapons, Russia is crippled by sanctions, Russian losses are unsustainable. but suddenly, Russia is advancing. what does that tell you about the media, and what does it tell you about the awful state of Ukraine's defences?
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  120. "It's not all going Russia's way, because even though the Ukrainian army is getting crushed, Ukraine did manage to target civilians in a block of flats in Belgorod and managed to kill some of the civilians, so that is quite a triumph for both Ukraine and NATO"
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  121. "there's enough real exaggeration out there" says it all. Climate science is all based on exaggeration. He said the quiet bit out loud.
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  122. "you would have needed a machete to get to where the phone pinged" which, we know, Jay carries with him habitually, so, what's your point?
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  123. did Zelensky ever admit the loss of Mariupol? Soledar?
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  124. Best leader in the world, Putin defends the honor and rights of all Russians.
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  125. Q: How did Crimea do without a Kerch Bridge for all those years? A: Absolutely fine
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  126. gotta laugh at his assumption that a judge outside of the UK would offer an independent judgement.
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  127. like Bulgaria and Rumania are going to police the Schengen border any more irresponsibly than Greece or Slovenia
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  128. that's right, print more money and throw cash at the masses to restrain inflation. this makes as much sense as sanctioning Russia to boost energy independence for winter.
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  129. if the Canadian Parliament can get this simple detail so badly wrong, what makes them think they can figure out the complexities of the actual conflict in Ukraine?
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  130. Only one eye-witness said she saw Jay at the airbnb and outside the airbnb. Ofelia. Ofelia's brother is a mayor dismissed from his office for corruption. He is also the owner of the airbnb.
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  131. and now the truth.....Fallujah took a month and a half to take, urban fighting is slow and grinding. it has NOTHING to do with low numbers on the Russian side.
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  132. Greece to Bulgaria to Romania to Hungary to Austria doesn't involve leaving the EU at all.
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  133. "the "DIY" centre blown up in Kharkiv" massive, multiple explosions set off in that "DIY" centre! Any chance it was also an arms storage facility? not the kind of question BBC would ever ask.
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  134. if sanctioning gold was such a game changer, why was this not done 4 months ago? desperation and panic by G7
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  135. France, yet again, reaping the enormous benefits of diversity and importing immigrants. I was so shocked to see the name of the driver was Arab. really, never expected that.
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  136. let me take a wild guess. The suspect was from Cardiff?
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  137. no one should have any faith in or expectations of a police force that think it is simply a brilliant idea to wait until Day 16 to do a forensic search of the airbnb.
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  138. "Ukraine's counter offensive has not gone according to plan" = Russia defeated Ukraine in every single attack along the front line. The words "NATO/Ukrainian defeat" so hard for DW to spit out.
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  139. If this were in Ukraine in 2014, it would be called a people's revolution and something we must support
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  140. Remember, the promise was to stop the boats, not fly people to Rwanda. Rishi praying that Rwanda flights will be such a deterrent that the boats will stop. They won't.
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  141. "that's a very good question" = "I'm not sure a truthful answer will work for me here, so give me a second to fabricate a decent lie"
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  142. so telling that she is reduced to parroting a mission statement in answer to basic questions
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  143. People like Blanc have a choice. She either stops acting in a racist, sexist way and declares that race and sex play no part in her hiring policy, OR she confesses that racism and sexism can sometimes be really good for society, and that when white males are the target, it is an excellent policy. There is no middle ground. Either she is sexist and racist and proud of it, or she changes her ways.
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  144. No Democrat ever explains what happened during the Trump term that was so horrific.
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  145. using old shells does NOT imply Russia is running out of ammunition. it just implies it has a lot of old shells to use.
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  146. BBC Verify needs to investigate why only one street interview featured an Erdogan supporter, but 3 featured supporters of the opposition. the usual bias seeping through.
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  147. it's a big shift, from "it never happened" to "you have no evidence". stay tuned.
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  148. "Russia is not the easiest country to migrate to" you'd be surprised! Millions and millions of people from the Central Asian republics and the Caucasus have gone to Russia for work, and continue to. Step out of your Western bubble, Alex.
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  149. Meloni makes a good point. what kind of asylum seeker fleeing war leaves his wife, mother and kids behind to fight?
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  150. So with no roots in the UK at all, she dares to lecture the natives on why we shouldn't have any borders. Tempting to think the Home Office made a big mistake letting her family in, and we should have enforced our borders better.
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  151. Yet again, DW refuses to state whether Ukraine's lack of supplies is because NATO is unable to match Russia in production, or because NATO chooses not to send Ukraine what it needs. Until Western media deal with this question, and the embarrassing answer that NATO can't match Russia, no progress will be made in understanding why Russia is winning.
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  152. well, Peter, I don't remember you vociferously coming out in favour of Tommy Robinson 10 years ago! when exactly did you realize that Tommy was 100% right?
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  153. cash or barter are the only 2 ways of a private transaction, and those of us who don't see why others should know of our private transactions will keep insisting on cash.
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  154. Suddenly everything that Russian commanders say must be noted and accepted as true! talk about cherry-picking
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  155.  @danielc9967  The Germans never attacked USA, but USA still declared war on Germany. Sounds like you believe a declaration of war can only be justified against a country that directly attacked you, right?
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  156. because the parties are exactly the same
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  157. as expected, Modi is attending the G7, not to be lectured to by the West again, but to lecture Zelensky to get to the negotiating table, a message Zelensky doesn't get from the sycophantic toady Western leaders. Got a feeling Brazil will give Zelensky an earful of the same message. Well done, India and Brazil.
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  158. No one coming from France could possibly be a refugee or an asylum seeker. they already have a safe refuge and no persecution at all in France.
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  159. After what happened to Gonzalo Lira, who in Ukraine would register their disapproval of Zelensky in an opinion poll?
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  160. she's right though. the new British culture sees pubs closing down and more and more areas restricting alcohol consumption, more charges against damage to the quran
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  161. yep, because by leaving a small cartel you have the market of the rest of the planet open to you. it's called genius.
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  162. then you must also feel for every civilian in Donbass who was a prime target for the Azov Nazi shelling for 8 years!
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  163. Great to hear that eminent climate scientist, the Pope, weigh in on the subject. And did you all hear His Holiness declare that he would reduce his own carbon footprint by cancelling all travel plans this year? No? No, neither did I.
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  164. there has been a gradual increase that matches the rate of immigration
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  165. Portugal, like everywhere else in Western Europe, is getting totally fed up of mass immigration. Chega will go from strength to strength.
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  166. it is NOT the government's job to support young people. that would be up to families and friends. bloody nanny state.
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  167. the way this "expert" stutters and ums and ahs tells you all you need to know. there was no reason to arrest Tommy.
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  168. Do the Ukrainian commanders still claim they have a small patch of control over Soledar?
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  169. 4 kids, can't take care of them (yep, I'm that irresponsible!) buy, hey, the German taxpayers can! why not just go to Germany illegally?
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  170. fascinating how she turns every question into a chance to comment on Trump's charges.
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  171. not that complicated. those not 100% female can't be in ladies events
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  172. I am simply humbled by the sheer determination of the Donbass people. The will of the Donbass ethnic Russians is one of steel.
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  173. "it was awful, Russians fired their guns near my house all night".....sounds like an average night in Chicago. Over the last 8 years, have you had any concerns for the ethnic Russians murdered by Azov Nazis in the Donbass, my dear?
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  174. It's just Britain, or Britanistan, nothing "great" about it.
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  175. great to see the Union Flag and the Cross of St George on the streets of the capital again. it's been a while!
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  176. I would be curious to know the percentage of Muslims that do support Hamas. I don't assume it's a minority.
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  177. Ayub Qassim. and Jonny Vegas. They work hand in hand with the airbnb owner, Roman Antonio Martin Canaves and his sister, Ofelia. They all know each other. Jay got in money trouble and got the Tenerife treatment.
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  178. a Haitian that speaks Spanish, so, she lived illegally in the Dominican Republic before getting kicked out and then landing the jackpot in USA
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  179. absolutely criminal, to accept on board illegal immigrants with no confirmation of acceptance by any country. Sue these NGOs for negligence and threat to human life.
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  180. If NATO had spent as much energy on ramping up ammunition production as it spent on shouting "Russia is running out of ammunition", then Ukraine might be in a slightly better position.
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  181. Zelensky should have implemented the Minsk Agreements, as he had promised to do
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  182. with no air superiority it will be halted and then reversed
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  183. "isolation from the global economy"...I guess she thinks record Russian trade with China, India, Africa is domestic and not global! Not much of an "expert" this one!
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  184. as always with DW, the key element of the story is missing. Russia has requested that documentation state CLEARLY that the transfer of the turbine to Russia will NOT be breaking sanctions. This is of great importance, as any legal action resulting from trade during these sanctions will need written exemptions, not just Scholz saying "yeah, this one time is ok". Why is Germany stalling on a written declaration?
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  185. "do you feel safe in Paris?" only a fool would say "yes".
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  186. Jay got out of his depth and the drug deal went south. The dealers drove him to the opposite side of the island where there are no sniffer dogs. oh, well. live and learn, well, maybe not live.
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  187. it's not the city or the rubble of the city that will send NATO into panic. it's the fact Zelensky was warned this would happen, but he threw thousands of cannon fodder to their deaths anyway, plus a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels beat NATO trained and armed ukrainian battalions, again.
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  188. Russia has no need to push Europe anywhere. Europe has done such a splendid job pushing itself into this horrendous crisis. Europe chose sanctions on Russia, so Europe chose to have an energy crisis.
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  189. "officially the Ukrainian position is that their troops are not withdrawing" officially, Soledar is still under Ukrainian control and Crimea is part of Ukraine. Update us on reality, not your wish list, Gulliver.
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  190. All power to the French! I would also celebrate wildly if someone gave me money to do nothing much at all. And the great news for the French is....the next British government will continue the same generously insane policy!
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  191. Putin is not in trouble, Nigel. you need to learn what is happening in Russia and Ukraine, not what you hear from Western media.
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  192.  @Irishman0855  Newsflash..it is possible to look Eastern European and to be a Muslim.
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  193. his paymasters prevent him from saying "the counter offensive has gone nowhere at horrendous cost in lives and weaponry to the beleaguered Ukrainians"
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  194. Russia won't be driven back to the Azov Sea, so dream on.
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  195. would be nice if they got a real military analyst to host this, someone who actually knew something about Russia and Ukraine, say, Brian Berletic.
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  196. his side is losing badly. difficult to hide the discomfort this brings, despite lying about the reality day in and day out.
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  197. honey, it's easier than you think. just pass a law that stipulates all asylum claims must be made outside the UK.
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  198. Good to know Francesco is wealthy enough to feed anyone who arrives. Will blacken up my face a little and get me some free roast chicken every day, looks delicious.
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  199. the "expert" forgot to repeat that the Wagner convicts and mercenaries in Soledar are low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led and that NATO's superior training and weapons of the Ukrainian forces will win the day.
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  200. if Ukraine had implemented the Minsk Accords, Russia would not be in Ukraine.
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  201. Just a mystery why Sunak and co would think ANY Tory voter would be tempted to vote Tory in the next general election. They have no idea how important immigration is to grass roots supporters (now ex supporters).
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  202. Viktor Orban for PM.
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  203. oh boy, that tentative peace agreement reached in Istanbul, that Boris Johnson told Zelensky should be torn up, is looking like an awfully good offer right now.
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  204. Given that the EU and NATO shattered Serbian sovereignty with 78 days of non stop bombing in order to effect secession for Kosovo, it is a bit rich to hear Borrell now claim that Russia is somehow wrong to try and achieve the same for Donbass.
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  205. it's really not just older people. loads of people of all ages don't have internet access or are not proficient enough to navigate online purchases. this is a recipe for disaster and a wave of angry customer complaints.
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  206.  @cedricvogt2576  Russia just had an election that put the West to shame. Democracy died a long time ago in the West.
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  207. so, a Dutch dog could find the spot with no body there within minutes, but no Guardia Civil dog could find the spot with a body there for 29 days? WTF
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  208. it;s the latter..they now have to start to tell the truth
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  209. It's Trump's fighting talk that energizes his voters. He rings a bell that no other candidate can get anywhere near matching. Sincerity in EVERY syllable he spits out. Love it.
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  210. Not bad, not bad at all! Given that Biden said back in July that Russia had already lost this war, this is an impressive last gasp from the side that lost.
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  211. Integration is not necessary or even desired at all. people can live separately, just obey the law and respect the traditions of the host country. there are Chinese communities the world over that don't really integrate, but they cause no problems. Importing Muslims is a massive problem, because the only law they follow is Islamic law.
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  212. McGregor would destroy Clarke, because Clarke just recites a script from his handlers.
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  213. "stronger because of our diversity" yeah, just look at those weak, crumbling non-diverse societies like Japan, South Korea, Hungary.
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  214. Does Elon Musk have a British grandparent, maybe? UK is desperate for a decent PM to replace Keir Stalin once he has been toppled.
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  215. it's so hard to just admit Russia has won and that NATO is an inept, paper tiger.
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  216. the persecution in their home countries is so awful, they leave their wives and children back there.
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  217. such a democracy, enforcing a date-change of a most treasured national religious holiday on the nation's faithful. we can see why the Donbass chose to separate from Kiev.
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  218. "no idea what Trump might do" that's right, heavens above, Trump might do what he did in his first presidency, start no conflict anywhere on the planet!
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  219. It's Europe that will pay the extra costs. Yes, Russia will incur higher costs getting the oil to India, but India will make sure the selling price of "Indian" oil to Europe will cover Russia's higher costs AND India as the middleman. Europe will lose out, not Russia. EU leaders have no grasp of basic economics, but just love to whine about old ships on the ocean.
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  220. Sunak doing all he possibly can to enter the record books for losing the most seats in a single general election.
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  221. yeah, finally, even the tolerant Dutch got fed up of Rotterdam looking more like Baghdad than anywhere Dutch.
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  222. it's not the world that has gone mad, it's Britain
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  223. US Intelligence saying Russia is dependent on Iranian drones. Keep in mind this is the same US Intelligence that said the Taliban would need 90 days to take Kabul (90 hours was the truth).
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  224. the chromosomes don't lie, and curious that neither boxer challenged the IBA's findings.
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  225. Wade is the epitome of how diversity hiring and affirmative action lead us to a bad place.
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  226. yeah, imagine that, a regular at the mosque who believes in jihad is surprised to see the indigenous population don't agree with him
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  227. Coutts need to explain why other customers in the same position as Farage were not treated the same way (why the discrimination?), and why it took years for them to address the issue. Two simple questions, with the follow up "when can ALL your customers who are presently below the threshold balance expect the same treatment as Farage?".. let's get Coutts on record and hold them accountable.
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  228. Les russes ont gagné, et Gulliver le sait.
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  229. as usual, totally wrong, the war in Ukraine has had no effect on oil prices. it is the Western sanctions against Russia that have turned energy market prices so high
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  230. Don't worry. Zelensky will be gone soon enough
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  231. not the brightest is he? "indisputable" that Jay was there at 7.30, because we have a photo of a hand that could be Jay's and some shoes that could be Jay's. No actual photo of Jay, but it is indisputable! Sir, I dispute that that photo is a photo of Jay. No face of Jay means might not be Jay.
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  232. hilarious how statements of the obvious can send so many into meltdown
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  233. irrelevant what "experts" think about the interpretation of the call for "jihad". Judge and jury will sort all that out. Police just need to arrest "on suspicion of" inciting violence, and given the context, you can be bloody sure "jihad" didn't mean a mental struggle against what's happening in Gaza.
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  234. "almost impenetrable" = penetrable
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  235. remember the days when this would have been a national headline story?
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  236. It's not what Joe Biden said in these conversations that mattered. It's what he DIDN'T say that matters. If Joe Biden talked about the weather and NOT about a state prosecutor that had to be replaced, that was a green light to go ahead and pay the required amount to Hunter, because Joe's only concern was how cloudy it was that day.
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  237. Hats off to the morale of the Donbass ethnic Russians, both soldiers and civilians, EIGHT YEARS into the war.
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  238. This is what happens when you skip school every Friday. The mind becomes so befuddled you just can't choose which mindless bandwagon to jump on next.
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  239. let's hope the coup state of Ukraine returns to being a democracy one day
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  240. Italy asking the EU for help needs to be explained to the EU taxpayers.....help to do what? If the request is to help get the infinite number of migrants out of Italy and spread around the EU, announce that to the EU citizens and watch the revolution happen. If the request is to refuse any boats from N Africa to land, announce it, and don't pay Libya to stop a few boats, get EU navies to do it.
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  241. Took US forces 6 months to take Fallujah. The Chechnya and Syrian campaigns took years. yep, Dnipro in 6 years might well be right. but Russia will prevail.
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  242. oh boy, just listen to poor Mathias stutter and stumble his way through explaining why Ukrainian drone attacks on the power plant are so PERFECTLY safe, but that he is sure the missiles were fired by Russians against their own occupying troops. Mathias getting more and more tongue toed with every bizarre explanation he has to fabricate to defend his beloved Ukraine.
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  243. BBC - "the city has little strategic significance" Zelensky - "the city has great strategic significance" you choose, which one is lying to you?
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  244. I wonder how long it's going to take till Ukraine loses too much manpower in its refusal to retreat.
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  245. I have no problem with wealthy individuals who feel guilty about this issue from donating all their wealth to poverty stricken areas like.....Bahamas?
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  246.  @georgebarnes8163  born and raised in Ireland with traditional Irish identity and beliefs, was he? Or an Irish citizen by virtue of a document such as a passport? Which one?
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  247. translation - yep, I went against the advice of NATO and threw thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder into my futile attempt to defend a city. in the end, despite NATO arms and training of my glorious battalions, a bunch of demoralized convicts armed with just shovels and really poorly led, won. but no panic, yet another wonder weapon is on the way, so our march to Crimea is guaranteed. Zaluzhny, currently in a coma in hospital, will comment later.
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  248. why target the traffickers? the traffickers are just providing a service to those happy to pay them. target the illegal immigrants. if they got thousands of euros to pay traffickers, they got thousands of euros to pay fines for attempted illegal entry to EU.
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  249. keep in mind, neither of these men challenged the findings of the IBA. Both men accepted they were men, then jumped for joy when the woke IOC announced that chromosomes mean nothing.
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  250. that's what happens in a dictatorship like Ukraine. At least in Russia the men are allowed to flee if they so choose.
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  251. Germany's biggest threat is not Russia. Germany's biggest threat is whoever blew up Nordstream, which Germany doesn't seem particularly bothered about.
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  252. "we're trying not to speculate"......and that, right there, is the problem in a nutshell. let's not speculate on the fact that Ayub Abdul has a drug conviction, let's not speculate on the fact that the airbnb is just 4 kms away from Masca Cove. let's not speculate on the fact that the Masca coast is where drug smuggling and people smuggling occurs routinely, let's not speculate on any of that, because God knows, we might come up with a hypothesis that makes sense.
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  253.  @James-9999  French speakers in Canada have full and equal rights with English speakers. French speakers have full and equal rights with German speakers in Switzerland. English speakers have full and equal rights with Welsh speakers in Wales. Russian speakers should have full and equal rights with Latvian speakers in Latvia. Equality is not a difficult concept to grasp if you are a fair-minded person untainted by russophobia.
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  254. streets can be cleaned and buildings rebuilt quite quickly. trust in the police and good faith of political leaders will take a lot longer to re-establish. Starmer has forgotten that the majority in the UK are still white, working class. If they choose to overthrow him, they can, and they will.
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  255. Let's start at the top of the supply chain. How much should the descendants of the African princes, who sold their own people into slavery, pay for such a horrendous crime?
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  256. Looking forward to BBC covering the wonderful state of democracy in Ukraine, where there are no opposition parties allowed in the parliament, no elections, no independent media, no possibility to leave the country.
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  257. especially the Russian speaking ones, fighting so desperately to be free from Kiev.
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  258. it's simply astounding that so many people still plan on voting for the "Conservatives"
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  259. a very inaccessible area, that was close to the epicenter of the search, that suddenly became accessible today, one month after the start of the search in the same location. yeah, right.
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  260. Some people are slow learners. Maybe one day Palestinians will learn not to mess with Israel, though I doubt it.
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  261. Vox is not extreme right. it's PSOE that has become extreme left, and the electorate don't appreciate that. The Zelensky curse will hit Sanchez. He'll lose.
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  262. "no matter his past" the usual insensitive virtue signalling from someone that was not a victim of this thug and reprobate. get a heart and start feeling for the victims, not the thugs.
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  263. well, now we know that transparent clothing crosses the line and is classified as indecent. those who disagree can vote against the present government next time, but got a feeling the majority of Rwanda will look upon the woman as a tart, not a victim
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  264. looks like Bud Light advised M and S how to punish its shareholders in one easy move.
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  265. not as entertaining as the deluded NATO trolls. Keep it going!
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  266. so curious that you hear the BBC describe a French politician as "far right". When was the last time you heard the BBC label ANY European politician as "Far Left"? Let's get BBC Verify on to this issue!
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  267. At least BBC finally admitted Ukrainian mines are what is preventing grain shipments, not a Russian blockade.
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  268. my guess would be a Welsh perpetrator, from Cardiff
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  269. easy pickings
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  270. Africa in general, and South Africa in particular, is absolutely fine with working with and trading with Russia. Nearly all of Africa cares little or nothing for Ukraine. Lavrov is received with smiles and warm hand shakes in Africa. Blinken gets distant looks and blank stares. Yet another example that the West has failed to isolate Russia, has failed with sanctions, and is failing to help Ukraine win.
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  271. it's fun to watch how Brits elect the governments that allow all this and then wring their hands over it. you had your chance to vote BNP, and chose not to. enjoy every minute of what you deserve.
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  272. what? there are still 6 people that think it a brilliant idea to keep searching futilely in an area that Jay never even went to, according to the evidence. astounding. when will the penny drop that Jay never went into the wilderness?
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  273. Ukraine had to switch to plan B, distract the world's focus from the failure of the counter offensive
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  274. "maybe Mellow Mushroom for lunch" well, honey, if you recall the specific place, then there is no "maybe" about it.
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  275. they are not being observed by India and China. India and China have established their own deals with Russia, outside of any Western influence.
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  276. Germany wants to stop buying Russian gas, so Russia is helping in that aim. Don't tell me the problem is that Germany insists on deciding WHEN the taps should be closed! That would be absurd.
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  277. no, Simon, I am not aware of anyone who said "I want to be treated as a third country national". None. I am aware of many people who can't understand why British citizens were trusted to the point of being allowed freedom of movement in the EU a few years ago, but the same British citizens now must be treated the same as someone just arrived from Bolivia. Makes no sense. Portugal has the right approach.
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  278. I left England a long time ago because it is no longer England. the cities are horrible places. UK imported all the wrong types.
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  279. Soledar is of little importance. But what is REALLY important is that the side described by the West as "convicts and mercenaries", "low on morale", "badly equipped" has just routed Ukrainian battalions, armed, trained and advised by NATO! Let that sink in!
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  280. fingers crossed this doesn't peter out and that it's the revolution for sure.
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  281. "being shelled from different sides, we don't know exactly from where"...have you ever heard a more confused and meaningless ramble by Matias as he just can't bring himself to say Ukraine is shelling the power plant. Matias still looks up to the sky sometimes in hopes of seeing Ghost of Kiev.
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  282. calling Putin a nobody is like the captain of the Titanic ignoring the iceberg
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  283. French opposition to mass immigration is just more vocal and visible than in the UK, but the sentiments among the masses are exactly the same.
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  284. "if honored by both sides" if only the EU had allowed Russian grain exports.
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  285.  @rgrn220  "innocent child"? no drivers license, stolen car, driving recklessly, resisted arrest, refused to comply with instructions to step out of the car. oh yes, 100% innocent.
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  286. poor people can't afford to travel from Africa to Mexico
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  287. No advances from the Russians, because no advance needed. The cauldron is complete. with fire control over the usable roads in and out. Now just a matter of waiting patiently and shooting the fish in a barrel.
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  288. David Amiss was somewhat affected by a migrant. The problem is the other MP's don't care because it wasn't them that got knifed.
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  289. "hardline views on immigration" = legal immigrants only. amazing as this sounds, such a view is quite popular in Italy!
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  290. import Colombians, import Colombian homicide rate and modus operandi. not such a big surprise for those who know Colombia
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  291. "the soldiers hide in houses" yep, as Amnesty International pointed out, Ukronazis and their weapons are placed in residential locations.
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  292. is that the same Ukraine southern operational command that said the Ghost of Kiev was real?
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  293. makes no sense. Wade pays for the Belize trip on his card, Willis pays him back in cash as it's his birthday treat, so why didn't Willis pay for the whole thing on her card in the first place? oh, that's right, because she never paid him any cash at all. she showered GA taxpayers' money on Wade who paid her back with lavish vacations.
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  294. say what you want? like "white lives matter"? Ukraine has no opposition parties allowed in the Rada! how is Ukraine democratic?
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  295. the very notion of a "protected group" means the principle of "equality before the law" has been abandoned.
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  296.  @trueblue2153  those who respect Britain's laws, traditional values and culture, as opposed to those who have qualified for a UK passport but who see Shariah as the only law of worth.
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  297.  @sametoruc1347  moaning that roaming jihadists stabbing children is not what happened in Ireland before waves of mass immigration. Get it?
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  298. you don't need a whole new Immigration Office to pass legislation that ends immigration.
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  299. "don't jump to conclusions" = don't ask any embarrassing questions. Hirsh has explained the whole thing. start asking him questions if you want to know what is true or what is false. your silence speaks volumes.
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  300.  @Ron_Coletta  do you think those stats might change when granma is found frozen to death in her apartment in December?
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  301. if green energy is such a great deal, how come it needs massive government subsidies to operate?
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  302. @peterholden3672 "invest" = throw money at projects that are a total waste and serve no purpose, e.g. DEI managers in the NHS.
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  303. the lawyer is confused. he advocates prosecuting the people "traffickers". But if claiming asylum once on UK soil is legal, then the "traffickers" are breaking no law either. They are merely providing transport for those who want to claim asylum in the UK.
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  304. yet more cultural enrichment thanks to Tony Blair
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  305. Time to back Serbia and tell Kosovo to respect the rights of the Serb minority. Let the Serb majority be autonomous. Having a Kosovar mayor in the Serb majority north of Kosovo is ridiculous.
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  306. something tells me the world, in particular Nanterre, is a lot better off without Nahel.
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  307. Corruption at the highest level in Kiev? who would have guessed, after all the billions in aid flowing into Kiev's coffers. and Zelensky with is shady past all apparent in the Panama Papers. Did you hear the news that Zelensky has sold his overseas properties to help fund the war effort? No, nor did I. Slava Rossiyi
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  308. Sunak and co did little to prevent any of this. Starmer has just increased the rate. We need someone who can reverse the trend. Maybe Putin.
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  309. it's not senseless if you are one of the Donbass ethnic Russians shelled for 8 years by your fellow citizens called the Azov Nazi battalion.
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  310. The only injustice in this story is sending Tatchell back to the UK
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  311. all those going to Africa to see these games must be prepared for a very unsafe stay in the 3rd world.
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  312. "Russia's ILLEGAL invasion of Ukraine" Would love to know Bell's list of LEGAL invasions in world history, and how he would explain which laws make the ILLEGAL ones so ILLEGAL.
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  313. OPEC already figured out the answer. If the aim is to reduce Russian revenues by forcing a price 5% below market value, for Russia to receive the same revenues, just increase the market price, by adjusting supply, by 5%. Not rocket science. It's the G7 that ends up screwing itself, again, but G7 citizens are getting used to this game.
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  314. "I'm gonna keep supporting Ukraine" how is funding a futile war in which all Ukrainian fighting age men get killed, crippled or captured "supporting" Ukraine?
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  315. Braverman and Badenoch, like Sunak, have very little allegiance to the UK and very little idea of what British values and British identity are. Tory voters are fed up of politicians with US Green cards, or who came from Africa as an after-thought, leading them.
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  316. "we will take all the steps necessary to halt the boats" except stopping the boats and towing them back to France.
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  317. everyone who cheered for lockdowns, here's your reward.
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  318. It is not up to the government to "solve" this crisis, but it is up to the government to move all its rules and regulations out of the way and let the free market resolve the issues of supply and demand.
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  319.  @anthonyowens6446  well said. simply astounding the number of people who think it is a really good idea to have a baby and then expect others to pay for its upbringing.
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  320. DW's "intensive fighting in Zaporozhe" = Russian advances, but we don't ever announce anything that implies a Russian advance.
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  321. "The Viking has ramped up pressure on Russian positions".....followed by the Viking explaining the opposite, that Russia's incessant shelling has pinned his forces down.
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  322.  Elena R  80% of Russia's million man army is not even in Ukraine. If war is declared you will notice the difference
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  323. On the contrary. Putin is the only leader who says exactly what he means. It's the West who choose not to listen to him.
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  324. If only Fareed had the slightest grasp of how most of the world views the US view of a "rules based order".
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  325. fully deserved for all those who applauded lockdowns, or sanctions on Russia, or unlimited aid to Ukraine, or mass immigration, or the green agenda. enjoy the results of the policies you so cherish.
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  326. Did you all hear that Warren is going to host a press conference where he kneels down and begs Lucy, Brad and Qassim to agree to answer any and all questions posed by MWT in on camera interviews arranged for tomorrow? No? Neither did I.
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  327. Germany is no longer envied. There are many rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of Germany's woke policies leading to its demise.
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  328. not unpleasant to watch at all! all power to shop owners and their staff who must protect their goods and livelihoods, given the Police are too busy monitoring online offensive comments.
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  329. when will Ukraine start tracking US missiles that were fired in Iraq to track war crimes?
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  330. I will happily contribute to any reparation fund as soon as the Scandinavian countries pay me reparations for the Viking raids they conducted on my Celtic village.
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  331. Habib is 100% right. NO trade agreement is needed to sell goods abroad. If Person A, who is abroad, wants to buy Person B's British product, all that is needed for the business to happen is for governments to move out of the damn way. Trade agreements are needed ONLY to manipulate a free market.
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  332.  @cariopuppetmaster  that's exactly right. The voters had the opportunity to change this mess in the immigrant areas pervading France, and only 7% were wise enough to choose the candidate that would have ended the mess. I feel sorry for that 7%, but for no one else.
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  333. "either way the vandalism is unforgivable!" the vandalism was changing Victor Hugo's race, not protesting the lie that was inherent in making Hugo black.
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  334. it's too late. Russia was preparing for this, while the West was debating if a man can become a woman, and sensitivity training for soldiers etc. Russia will prevail and dictate the new map of Ukraine when it chooses to. Now the West sees how it should have paid attention to Donbass over the last 8 years, right?
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  335. it is wonderful to see that Russia is showing NATO what an impotent paper tiger it is. Putin is the best leader in the world. If only the UK had a leader to stand up for the rights of ethnic Brits.
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  336.  @briankidd7206  par for the course
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  337. Lord Dannat, what happened to the massive fleet of tanks Ukraine had at the beginning of the invasion? What makes you think the same disappearing trick won't happen to the next batch of tanks sent to Ukraine?
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  338. they saw how NATO humiliated itself in Kabul and thought they would defeat NATO, and they probably would.
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  339. This interview was much more hard hitting than any interview Zelensky has had to face. Much more.
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  340. "the best informed" are we talking about the same people who said Qassim was of "no relevance to the case" and who thought it was a brilliant idea to wait until day 16 to do a forensic search of the airbnb?
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  341.  @Paludion  because they can't announce any positive news from their disaster of an offensive
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  342. Starmer's deal is that UK will take 100,000 immigrants. That's on top of the ones that come in illegally.
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  343. All power to Mizzy. He's showing Britain what a pathetic legal system the country has and giving the country a wake up call. The most disturbing thing is those in power don't care. Keep up the good work, Mizzy, and one day, maybe, the electorate will vote for someone who will end your nonsense. maybe.
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  344. there is no such thing as a "radical Islamist preacher". Muslims who preach jihad are just repeating commandments from Mohammed. They are not radical. They are mainstream Muslims.
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  345. so the answer is we have no idea how to deal with inflation, but we are happy to print loads more money and throw it at inflation, thus making inflation worse.
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  346. it's simpler than that! Biden could have said "yes" to Putin's request for a meeting on Russia's security concerns in December 2021.
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  347. fascinating that so many people assume the Russian objective was to encircle the city. I guess "cauldron" and "war of attrition" are concepts beyond their comprehension.
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  348. "very little strategic value" of so little strategic value, that Zelensky fired his Donetsk front commander, sacrificed thousands of Ukrainian lives in Bakhmut, is rushing in even more reserves to the place, will still lose control of the city, and all this because Bakhmut is of little strategic value!
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  349. the crime here is that no one, during Nahel's upbringing, took a minute to say, "Nahel, if ever you get stopped by the police, co-operate fully and respectfully, always". If someone did impart such valuable advice, then Nahel played Russian Roulette by ignoring it, and, voilà.
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  350. only problem is, Chris, we have a black swan. Belarus. Belarus took no action and, well, would you look at that, Belarus survived Covid in a better state than the UK did! Try using empirical evidence, if you want to be a real scientist.
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  351. Makes perfect sense. Given the BBC wanted Nazi Germany to triumph in WW2, that would mean what the Dambusters did was indeed infamous. The BBC also see the attack on Pearl Harbor as an uplifting moment of peace and consideration.
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  352. There's already a 2 state solution. Jordan occupies 80% of the Palestinian Mandate, and Israel the rest. Those Palestinians who want to live neither as a Jordanian nor as an Israeli need to ask for asylum in some other place.
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  353. "Biden's backed us into a stalemate" If only. Biden has backed us into a Russian victory.
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  354.  @steveb951  tell me what's Far Right about wanting a reduction in immigration levels?
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  355. so, let me get this right. Wagner Group mercenaries fighting for Russia indicates Russia is "not getting the job done", Mercenaries from all over the globe enlisted to fight for Ukraine indicates Ukraine IS getting the job done! Even though Russia is winning, and Ukraine is losing. I guess such reasoning fits the narrative , "Russia bad, Ukraine good"
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  356.  @1ndragunawan  yeah? when was the last time you saw a report from Bakhmut on fighting in the city of Bakhmut? Is Soledar still under Ukrainian control?
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  357. Western experts said the Taliban would need 90 days to reach Kabul. In reality it took them 90 hours. Ditch what Western experts say
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  358. so true. globalism has meant sanctions really just don't work. there's a plethora of work arounds.
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  359. Unbelievably poor and biased reporting. Basically explained the case for the opposition parties, and not one single word of explanation for why people voted for Erdogan. oh, of course the BBC reporter spent the night at the opposition election night gathering. wouldn't even consider popping by Erdogan's camp for 5 minutes.
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  360. suspects probably Welsh, from Cardiff I would guess.
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  361. "Russia intensifying attacks"? not possible. you keep telling us Russia is running out of weapons and that Ukraine is advancing!
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  362. so, Rupert is surprised air power has not played such an important role in this war? then Rupert is not much of an expert, is he? Both Russia and Ukraine had excellent air defence systems at the start of the conflict. explains everything. Ukraine's air defences have since been depleted, hence a lot of extra air cover from Russia over Avdiivka and over Bakhmut recently. Come on Rupert, learn the basics.
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  363. so the oil price cap is a really good idea, Germany says, but Germany also says the gas price cap is a really bad idea. Current thinking in the EU
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  364. the best way to break the people smugglers' business model is to reduce the demand for their services to zero. tow all the boats back to France, strip the illegal immigrants of their cash to pay for the service, no more people smugglers.
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  365. fascinated by the frequent use of the word "we". who is exactly the "we" in the statement, "WE need to support households improve their home's insulation"? Sounds to me like the more accurate statement should be "higher taxes need to ne imposed on the nation to pay for this"
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  366. progress
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  367. Wagners just waiting for the dirt road to turn to mud to then enjoy shooting fish in a barrel. well done, Zelenski, buenas noches to 10,000 more cannon fodder. Churchill, you are not.
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  368. "we have a baby" = we chose to have a baby. presumably you calculated cost of child care before deciding to have the baby?
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  369. UK "Conservative" government welcoming the illegal immigrants with open arms. How to encourage more and more to cross the Channel ad infinitum.
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  370. let the people decide. either a candidate will be repudiated for his/her beliefs by the voters, or not. it's called democracy.
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  371.  @davidboskett5581  Ukraine threw away its best bet for existence when it walked out of the negotiations in 2022.
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  372. a 2% drop in the value of the rand? that happens to the British pound every month!
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  373. why would Zelensky think $30 is the right price? why not 99 cents?
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  374. Zelensky a déjà commencé à chercher nouveau palais d'une valeur de 50 milliards de dollars grace à la générosité des citoyens de l'UE
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  375.  @bradhombre6912  that's right. using old ammo = Russia is running out. using new ammo = Russia is running out. using imported ammo = Russia is running out. we've heard this month after month. it's pathetic.
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  376. waiting for winter is NOT "unveiling a unique solution". it's another case of inaction.
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  377. what on Earth was her mother thinking? coming to London with a young child? she must be out of her mind!
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  378. The low on morale, poorly equipped convicts of the Wagner gang have beaten NATO trained and NATO armed Ukrainian battalions in Soledar! Let that sink in! Soledar is surrounded, so, yes, it is under Russian control, and yes, the poor cannon fodder Zelensky abandoned in the center of Soledar are still fighting for their lives, futilely. Soledar is of little importance. But Mariupol was the only other two to toe battle, a street by street brawl, so when Bakhmut falls it will be Russia/Convicts 2 Ukraine/NATO 0. That's why Soledar is significant.
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  379. it's amazing that there are still 6 people that see value in persisting in exploring a wilderness area, even though there is no evidence that Jay ever went there. had the Police spent 12 days actually investigating the background, the criminal past, the people involved, this would probably be all solved and the body found.
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  380.  @GalAxy-u9s  yep, Minsk would have retained Donbass within the borders of Ukraine. The West thought Russia could be bullied into backing down over time. Ooops!
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  381. time for Meloni to make a stand and do what the Italian voters want of her: send them back. she won't do that, but if she did, the roar of approval from Europe would be deafening.
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  382. will believe NatWest have acted on all this when we see a list of those staff members sacked for inappropriate behaviour.
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  383.  @paulchambers6537  his point is that without knowing the full story, no one can support it or condemn it or shrug their shoulders at it.
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  384. but you kept telling us Ukraine was winning? what about the Ghost of Kiev? and the heroic Ukrainian victory on Snake Island? and the safe evacuation of Azov Nazis from Mariupol? BBC...were you telling fibs?
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  385. will make no difference
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  386. on est plus libre en Russie
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  387. existential fight for Russia. Not for the West. Russia will win.
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  388. what is stopping all of them leaving of their own accord to somewhere much safer?
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  389. "they were really focused on that gorge" no, they were ONLY focused on that gorge. The Police thought it a brilliant idea to wait until Day 16 to do a forensic search of the airbnb. "incompetency" doesn't begin to describe it all.
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  390. "he missed the bus" no, he didn't. he was 2 hours early for the first bus of the day. get the facts straight.
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  391. Russia already promised free grain to those African countries in need! You can't get more generous than that! Only fair the Western countries with sanctions on Russia pay the full market rate if they won't drop the sanctions.
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  392. If only Farage had stood shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson years ago, Nigel's concerns would now seem a bit more sincere.
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  393. @peterholden3672 an investment is a scheme by which money sacrificed today brings a greater financial reward in the future. "investing" in the NHS brings no greater reward to me in the future. It just means longer waiting lists and more immigrants showing up with their 10 kids for immediate free treatment.
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  394. looks like Ukraine is so close to winning and regaining Crimea even. Just a little more help from the Ghost of Kiev and another trillion more dollars and maybe even Bakhmut can be saved.
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  395. right, who knows, Belarus might contribute to Russia's effort with, say, 12 tanks!
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  396. Who cares? Without Russia it's not a real Olympics anyway.
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  397. being jubilant about EU candidacy on a day when hundreds of Ukrainian troops got massacred is like a man celebrating being granted a job interview on the same morning his family got murdered.
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  398. I bet Leonid now wishes the Minsk Agreements had been implemented.
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  399.  @lindalovatt5799  why? why would moving out of the state have any bearing on the time limit to present a case? wherever the accused happens to be has zero effect on the time limits to present a case. location of accused simply it isn't a factor.
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  400. Jay's pals and family are in a tough position. 2 choices, 1. keep looking fruitlessly in a wilderness that Jay never entered, but keep the grift going, topping up the GoFundMe ad infinitum 2. solving the mystery, pushing for all crimes to be investigated, but then discovering the lurid details of Jay's criminal life, but finding Jay
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  401. I absolutely insist on the financial transactions that I want to be private, remain private. if it gets to the point where cash is refused on a routine basis for me, it's off to another country with more sense and respect for privacy.
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  402. Arab Palestinians, the only people in the history of the world to choose to remain as impoverished refugees rather than be citizens of a viable state, well, except the 20% of Israel that are Arab Palestinians but prospering as Israeli citizens.
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  403. great to see Ukraine is making all the necessary repairs in time for the peace talks when Ukraine is forced to hand over both Odessa and Kharkov.
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  404.  @jackkeane6  but not so spangled to rush out of the airbnb with his possessions at the first opportunity, not so spangled to fail to ask about the next bus departure time, not so spangled to chat jokingly with Brad and check his location. not particularly spangled at all, apparently!
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  405. "if you watch Russian state media" oh, I would love to! But I live in the EU, where the democratic powers have eliminated freedom of speech, so I am prevented from tuning in to Russian broadcasts.
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  406.  @terrysmith5168  good point. it's a contradiction.
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  407.  @ua697  the ukronazis have no one left to even think of recapturing Bakhmut.
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  408. Must feel great for those thousands of families of dead Ukrainian cannon fodder, who gave up their young lives for losing a strategically unimportant town.
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  409. "i just want my baby back" so, how many times a day do you beg Lucy, Brad and Qassim to reveal the whole truth that will lead to finding out what happened to Jay?
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  410. given the West is so protective of Ukrainian territorial integrity, we can be sure the West will back Serbia on this one and demand the Kosovars recognize Serbian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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  411. Correction: sanctions against Russia caused the rising energy bills, not any war in Ukraine. Get it right! Germany doesn't need to bother too much worrying about turning away from China, as BRICS decided a long time ago to move away from Germany as far as may be possible
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  412. "Capitol Police were grossly outnumbered"....one shaman, 10 policemen! Bang goes that argument for police refusing to stop the shaman
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  413.  @blacklion8208  not at all. MacGregor gets challenged by interviewers and will explain the reasoning behind his conclusions. Clarke has never been challenged by anyone to substantiate a single thing he blabbers, ever.
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  414.  @EYDuff  it's not progress when the result of probing is 30,000 dead and 20% of your weaponry up in smoke and still nowhere near the first line of defence.
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  415.  @bloodwargaming3662  Rudyard Kipling was born in India and lived in India. Would you describe Rudyard Kipling as Indian? Yes or no?
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  416. yes, you should care about every word Russia says. Ignoring Russia's words is what got the West and Ukraine into this mess.
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  417. love the way "invest in renewables" means shovelling more and more taxpayer money into schemes that cost taxpayers more and more to fund every year. that's not an investment. that's a suicide mission to bankruptcy.
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  418. every time Ukraine and Russia fight toe to toe, street by street, Ukraine loses. Mariupol, Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Lyzychansk, Soledar, now Bakhmut. Russia 5 Ukraine 0. Deal with it.
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  419. clearly more diversity and equity officers are needed urgently for the NHS
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  420. Ever the slowest kid in the class, the EU thinks another round of sanctions will succeed where the previous 11 all failed. At least Orban has figured out that Russia can figure out ways to cope with sanctions faster than the EU can figure out how to implement them.
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  421. too late! Russia has already forgotten about the West altogether, and good riddance.
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  422. Zelensky told the Russian speakers of Ukraine to go to Russia. They have. And they have brought their ancestral homelands with them. Slava Rossiyi
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  423. Ukraine and West NO idea how to deal with this. totally defeated. Russia watches for 3 or 4 days as repairs are done, and then destroys it all again. And Zelensky thinks this is what victory looks like!
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  424. on the contrary, Serbs are big supporters of Russia and Lavrov respects that.
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  425. Total fail by Jim to explain how one distinguishes a weather event from a climate induced event. if he can't explain it, he doesn't understand it.
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  426. If only Putin could be UK PM. This nonsense would end next week.
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  427. The Police statement said the guy was arrested for assault, not for his placard, though from the video footage it looks like the Iranian lad was assaulted first by the pro Hamas crowd.
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  428. because, as he fully explained, TO HIS KNOWLEDGE there were no plans to invade.
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  429. il pleut = changement climatique il fait du soleil =changement climatique mon chien a fait pipi sur mon lit = changement climatique
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  430. if you don't collect rent, then you are not renting your property. you have given it to someone else. other people in this world are not as wealthy as you, and don't have property they can give away, so please think of those poorer than you that don't have your luxury of choices available.
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  431. the Ukronazia counter offensive must be going terribly for Clarke to spend 3 minutes on talking about the ZNPP only.
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  432. she is 100% right. as the law stands, the asylum seekers have every right to choose where they want asylum, and make their way there by any means. one simple change needs to be made. all asylum claims need to be made from outside, and not inside, the UK. So the refugees will be free from persecution while in France, and will await a decision before admission, or rejection, from the UK.
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  433. Russia's buying artillery from Iran and N Korea does NOT show that Russian stocks are running low. It shows that Russia has secured a bargain deal and will most likely exchange nuclear technology to both countries for every missile both Iran and N Korea can add to Russia's massive stockpile. Russia must keep some back for when they have to dish it out to NATO.
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  434. so it's "far right" to want to limit immigration? so are the Swedish parties who accepted mass immigration "far left"?
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  435. you will find that the ethnic Russians of such places are fine with their "new" homelands just as long as they have equal rights. The problems start when nationalist governments in places like Kiev and Kishinyov think it's a really good idea to start limiting the Russian language and Russian cultural identity. Had Moldova decided to maintain good relations with Russia, it would have no problems at all with the Transnistrians, but Kishinyov decided to join the EU on a suicide mission to impoverish its citizens with excessive energy costs.
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  436. especially those fighting for their lands, Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk. Glory to Russia.
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  437. this what happens when you incentivize people to arrive in Europe this way. all those who say "Migrants Welcome" got what you should have expected. use every penny you have to improve their lives in their home countries rather than encouraging them to risk their lives at sea.
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  438. do you all remember that day that Mike Freer walked shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson to protest against Islamic ideology? No, neither do I.
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  439. telling us how many Russian missiles have been intercepted is irrelevant. if enough missiles get through and disable Ukraine to the point it can't wage war and push Russia back, Russia wins.
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  440. If USA was not involved at all, then USA will be more than happy for any US citizen ACCUSED of being involved to be questioned about it. Ditto Norway. Why not prove Russia wrong and be transparent and let those accused clear their names?
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  441. given that prices used to go up ten fold over the same time period, it looks like Milei's policies are working!
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  442. NATO can't even remove the Houthi threat, yet they claim they know how to beat Russia?
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  443. brilliant as a liar and propagandist
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  444. Zelensky's funniest joke since he became a comedian
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  445. "Bakhmut will be defended as long as it takes" = Buenas noches 5,000 Ukrainian fighters, thanks for sacrificing your lives for an inglorious defeat in a futile war.
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  446.  @lorenzo6868  just curious...was it the same "analysts" who said it was going badly for USA when their forces took a month and a half to take full control of Fallujah?
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  447. Diversity Migrants United 3 GB 0. Big loss, again, for the home team. Much safer in Russia, where you can wear your nice watch anywhere.
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  448. Any government serious about tackling inflation would stop printing money and sending it to Ukraine.
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  449. just like the EU is scared of RT offering a Russian perspective to EU citizens
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  450.  @bloodwargaming3662  Rudyard Kipling was thoroughly British, nothing Indian about him. So WHERE you are born, and WHERE you live have nothing to do with the nation or culture you identify with. That's why the vast majority of immigrants and offspring of immigrants are not Swedish. They don't identify as such and see no need to identify as such.
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  451. happens every year. it's called "summer". many places get extremely hot. has always been that way. the only thing that has changed is the hysterical news coverage of hot weather and its consequences. alarmism at its worst.
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  452. Great to see Gideon given the treatment he advocated for Tommy Robinson. Tommy was arrested for being Tommy. Time for Gideon to be arrested for being Jewish.
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  453. curious that her definition of "advance" is strictly limited to territory. given that one of Russia's objectives is to demilitarize Ukraine (kill Ukrainian soldiers and destroy its weapons) it would be fair to say that Russia IS advancing significantly in its battle aims.
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  454. mais, mais, en juillet Bidon a prononcé que la Russia a déjà perdu cette guerre. Il a menti?
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  455. if that includes the mentally disabled, all of Zelensky's ruling party will be called up.
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  456. what is a shock is that the guy who burned the Quran needed permission from "authorities" to do so! In a truly free country you can burn any book in any public place as you wish.
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  457. "a bridge torn down by the Russians" right, so Russian forces advanced to the bridge, tore it down, then retreated! Ukrainians tore down the bridge, forcing the cannon fodder in Bakhmut to stay, and fight to the death. That's how Zelensky likes it, a la Mariupol.
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  458. "yep, stay with Ukraine, even if the UK becomes a nation of paupers, because as an MP I will never be poor or needy, but the masses can be plunged into poverty for all I care"
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  459. energy price caps just means keeping demand higher than supply, so power cuts and rationing must happen.
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  460.  @James-9999  1. no one said they are going to prohibit Russian in all settings, but as with Ukraine, Russian will be limited and restricted, even in Russian speaking communities, it is pure Russophobia and discrimination. 2. Yes, Ukraine outlawed teaching Russian and then got invaded. What makes Latvia think their outcome will be any different? 3. An English speaking community in Wales, if told they were going to have to pass language tests in Welsh to continue living in Wales, would rightfully expect intervention from England to halt such discrimination.
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  461. let's not mention the pain inflicted by the Azov Nazi battalion that shelled the Donbass ethnic Russians with absolute joy for 8 years.
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  462. so if a Ukrainian official admits Severodonetsk is lost, the truth is Russia is now close to capturing all of Donetsk oblast too. Russia has won....now for the fun of watching all the finger-pointing
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  463. Jays pals and family have a really tough choice. 1. Call vociferously for a criminal investigation, which will find Jay or Jay's corpse, but expose all the criminality Jay was involved with, OR 2. Continue to keep looking for Jay in an area he never went to, biding their time until the full GoFundMe can be cashed in. Tough choice.
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  464. Thought I had tuned into a news show, and discovered it was some dystopian remake featuring a Jessica Rabbit impersonator.
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  465. "rescued"? more accurate to say they have been "escorted into the EU free of charge"
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  466. Masca Beach is well known as a drug smuggling and people smuggling cove. at least entertain the idea that Jay got down to the sea and the boat was waiting for him there. He got off the island about an hour after his phone pinged at the Mirador.
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  467. "Colonialism is a bad thing" well, that would depend on what colonialism replaces and what colonialism produces. Singapore doesn't seem to have emerged form its colonialism experience in such bad shape.
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  468. NATO said Ukraine received 98% of what was promised, so, you choose, who is lying? Zelensky or NATO?
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  469. as always, no mention of the Ukrainian casualties in Bakhmut, his handler doesn't want the Russian kill rate of 8:1 against Ukrainian cannon fodder mentioned.
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  470. Awaiting the vote on ending immigration to Ireland. Not holding my breath. Varadhkar knows he would lose that one too.
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  471. who is "we"?
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  472. if you want to see how Africa feels, contrast the hugs and smiles Lavrov gets in Africa compared to the silent distanced looks Blinken gets.
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  473.  @semen8082  This is a Russian speaking zone. Ukrainian is not recognized as an official language here. Your message in Ukrainian must be ignored. Use Russian (see how it feels to be a Russian speaker in Ukraine?)
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  474. everyone thinks they know Russia. Problem is, they don't, including you.
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  475. when the priest names the number of illegal immigrants he will personally house and feed ad infinitum, i might listen to him.
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  476.  @VolodymyrLisivka  Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk separated from Kiev after the anti-constitutional coup of 2014. Had nothing to do with Russia.
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  477. so the Estonian guy says "measures will be taken" and the host seems fine with that answer, and the Spanish guy has no anti inflation plan but says the rich have to pay more of a price than the poor. We now see how people like this got us into this mess, and why they have no idea how to get us out of it.
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  478. Donbass Russians defending their land, wives and children against an unprovoked and illegal aggression. They are fighting for the right cause and deserve international support.
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  479. every time they go toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins: Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Soledar, now Bakhmut. Russia 5 Ukraine 0. Bring on the 16 year olds and pensioners from the Ukrainian bench and see if that is a game changer.
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  480. even Macron has learned to ignore Channel 4
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  481.  @omarionbayley9721  Russia has reliable allies in this conflict. Ukraine doesn't.
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  482. we are not one year into this conflict. We are 9 years into this conflict. you were asleep and uncaring for the first 8 years.
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  483. I admire the strength, resilience, and integrity of Donbass Russians after 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling and bombing
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  484. especially as it happened as he struggled to get his foot out of a pedal strap while stationary. wasn't like he has hurtling down a canyon or something. dozy bloody fool
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  485. two pronged approach needed. 1. reverse policy and make asylum applications made ONLY from outside the UK valid. 2. those that try to enter the UK with no valid UK asylum granted get returned to France. France has to accept them, as it is the last country that admitted them before they failed their UK asylum application.
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  486. if she applauded lockdowns, green energy, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine, then she has what she deserves. harsh lesson on cause and effect for her.
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  487. an "incompetent force" that is winning! Do you envy the national solidarity of the DPR and LPR too, as they battle relentlessly for their homelands?
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  488.  @Khryss-jr7ju  Russia broke nothing. we already have Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel on record explaining that the priority of the Minsk Agreements was to buy time for Ukraine to gain strength. How many meetings did Holland and Merkel have to discuss ways of getting Minsk implemented?
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  489. I would love to hear NATO, a "defensive" organization, explain which NATO country it was "defending" when it bombed the living hell out of Libya.
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  490. so now "collaborators" means anyone who adheres to a religious faith not sanctioned by the government in Kiev? Such dictatorial attitudes explains EXACTLY why the Donetsk peoples want to be rid of Ukraine. You should be supporting them.
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  491. Ghost of Kiev
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  492. yep, Russia has so many freedoms these days that have been removed in the West. and, no, you fool, Putin doesn't envy the West for the parlous state into which the West has descended. Putin is proud that Russia is still a traditional-minded society that actually knows what a man and a woman are.
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  493. Charles Martel has returned and spoken. there will be millions who understand the desperation he felt.
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  494. The West squirming as it tries desperately to avoid confessing that Russia has demilitarized NATO. Ukraine has to keep begging for weapons because the West doesn't have much more to give, hence the rallying call of NATO, "Look, Russia is running out of weapons!" Russia won that card game.
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  495. investment means gaining a return on the money put into a project. Europe does not offer much hope of a decent return compared to other parts of the globe. The future is BRICS, not de-industrialized Europe.
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  496. Many thanks for the latest update from the Ukrainian Ministry of Propaganda.
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  497. Fani and Nathan are very much on trial, in the court of public opinion, and both have out of their trials looking sleazy and corrupt.
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  498. Just have the Navy tow the boats back to France and deal with any court action that results.
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  499. Gulliver finding it so hard to spit out that only Russia is advancing, and only Ukraine is retreating. Still, Ukraine has Snake Island, right?
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  500.  @ChickenNugNugz2  not true, but stay deluded.
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  501. Starmer forgot one really important fact. White working class Brits are still the majority in the UK, and if they decide to stage a revolution and overthrow the government, they can and will do that.
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  502.  @briankerrison8504  nonsense! other way round, the NHS is collapsing and GDP per capita has gone down. in countries where there is very little immigration, like Japan, Russia, Poland, Korea, life is SO much better. And Britain before mass immigration was so much better, and safer.
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  503. assimilation and integration aren't needed. look at the Amish and Mennonites. illegal immigration would be stopped immediately by announcing all asylum claims must be made outside the UK legal migration can be reduced by charging some massive application fees. it's really not that difficult.
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  504. So, Mathias confesses, amidst all his usual stuttering and fumbling, that Ukraine HAS INDEED attacked the nuclear power plant, with drones. But drones are acceptable, no problem at all, to be applauded.
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  505. and all this because the Ukronazis just could not allow Donbass to be autonomous. Compelling Russian speaking communities to ukrainianization was just too important.
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  506. it's SEVEN abandoned villages PLUS A PIG FARM! Get it right! And 3 of those villages have been recaptured by the Russians, but not the pig farm. and it only cost Ukraine 15% of its Western tanks (Zelensky already begging Germany for more, after just one week!) and a few thousand dead cannon fodder. Meanwhile, the Russian forces amassed on the FIRST defence line are twiddling their thumbs waiting for a chance to have target practice too. Total disaster for Ukraine and NATO.
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  507. and the Azov Nazis too
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  508. curious...Gulliver always assumes the Russians have lost tens of thousands in the Bakhmut campaign. He never reveals what reliable source he uses for that estimate. Might be that obscure data collecting agency called Wishful Thinking.
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  509. hope he gets to meet a kinzhal up close soon. slava rossiyi
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  510. Should Ukraine pay for every one of its war crimes too, or we give dear Ukraine a pass?
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  511.  @mirekslechta7161  it was the arrogance of USA that Russia would do nothing if Ukraine became a NATO member. It was a terrible miscalculation and everyone is now paying the price for this mistake.
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  512. Russia is running out of ammo, but it's Ukraine that is rationing it. got it.
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  513. the kill rate in Bakhmut is 8:1 in Russia's favor. Zelensky keeps serving up more and more cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder. symbolism counts for nothing. Demilitarization (killing Ukrainian troops) counts for everything. Keep the production line rolling. dear Volodymir
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  514. "maybe he is not on the island, maybe drugs involved, all this weird stuff going round", listen, honey, i'll tell you what's weird. searching for 12 days and finding nothing in an area where there is no evidence Jay even went to! that's weird!
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  515.  @odalanoix  vous pensez qu'on sait pas quoi faire quand il fait chaud?
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  516. instead of asking "what" is causing the fires, ask "who" is causing them. Currently, in Portugal, over 600 people are being hunted down in connection with arson.
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  517. "it's not the kind of building that would host a high level military meeting"...therefore, it sounds like the PERFECT place to host a military meeting in time of war. Did it have the word "CHILDREN" painted in big letters on the roof, to emphasize how it was "not the kind of building that would host a high level military meeting"?
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  518. how about instead of building more accommodation we just reduce demand. end immigration.
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  519. This is quite simple. look at Russia's stated objectives. Look at Ukraine's stated objectives. One of them is not far off achieving those stated objectives, and it sure as hell ain't Ukraine.
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  520. describing MediaZona as "independent" is like describing the BBC as "impartial"
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  521. "trained up to NATO standards" would those be the same standards that saw the Taliban kick NATO out of Kabul so unceremoniously in 2021? the same NATO that armed, trained and advised battalions in Bakhmut that got massacred by demoralized convicts with shovels, that NATO? Just make sure all those guys have passed the sensitivity and diversity course before they face up to the Chechens.
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  522. yes, Butterworth, Ukrainians and Hong Kong Chinese come and respect UK laws and try to better themselves. Those who come from the Quran reading nations do not, as only the Prophet's law is to be respected.
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  523. Good to hear that Tommy Robinson's question "what race is Islam?" is being echoed.
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  524. Brexit must also be to blame for the record number of flight cancelations and horrendous delays at Europe's two most over-stretched airports.......Frankfurt and Brussels! and the hundreds of miles of traffic jams today in France. All Brexit.
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  525. what if Ukraine is suffering much heavier losses than the Wagners?
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  526. Imagine being forced to go and die to save Zelensky from having to admit his mistake.
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  527. again, just hysterical that Clark thinks another 60 million dollars thrown at Ukraine will achieve so much more than the last 90 billion dollars thrown at Ukraine achieved. I guess he didn't see the horrendous failure of Ukraine's counter offensive that the 90 billion dollars bought.
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  528. meaningless debate. Russia has already lost this war, Biden told us.
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  529. had the Ukrainian flag been dumped on the fire I might have been tempted to shop in M and S, but no. the Lidl advert, with its white family and white kids, has secured my custom for Lidl.
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  530. plus on voit et on entend les faits et les preuves, plus on voit que le policier a agi correctement
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  531.  @briggs982  Only a fool would assume that Jay went there just for the rave. entertain the notion Jay might have gone to mix business with pleasure. you can get in money trouble in seconds, let alone a few days. try losing your wallet, or a bag of cocaine.
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  532. If Oleksander thinks the war is a stalemate, he needs to look at the number of Ukrainian males left to be forced into the conflict compared to the number of Russian males left.
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  533. who will get to Zelensky first and string him up? one of the Wagner convicts or a teenage Ukrainian cannon fodder who somehow manages to get out of Bakhmut?
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  534. oh yeah, Baerbock so concerned about the prolongation of a war, and that's why she refuses to consider peace talks and why she backed NATO's attacks on Serbia and Libya, because she detests the prolongation of war.
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  535. "far right" = label given to any non-Socialist party by DW "far left" = label never used by DW, as there is no party to far Left for DW
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  536. "Ukrainian soldiers were not in this building when the rocket hit"....translation.."this building has been used by Ukrainian soldiers, so it is indeed a legitimate target for Russians to hit"
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  537. evacuation? but Ukraine is winning ,right? and Russia is running out of ammo and weapons and troops since, like March, right? And Ghost of Kiev will save the day, right?
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  538. i wouldn't assume Jay ever intended to take a bus anywhere.
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  539.  @thorstenvogt6561  Russia doesn't have 25% of its population as Latvian speakers, so there is not the same issue in Russia. However, where there are significant numbers of non Russian speakers, for example, In Tartarstan, Tartar speakers have equal rights with Russian speakers. see the difference? Unless Russian speaking communities in Latvia have the exact same rights as Latvian speakers, then there is discrimination at play, and there will be trouble. If Latvia were wise, it would insist on no language tests for any of its citizens, period. Switzerland has 4 official languages, Latvia should have 2.
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  540.  @AbuAya245  one vote in Congress to halt payments to Kiev, and the war is over. Ukraine is 100% dependent on Biden, not on USA, bus specifically on Biden.
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  541.  @iancarpentier4887  et je suis sur que tu fais la même chose pendant l'hiver, tu encourage tout le monde rester dedans et jamais risquer l'air froid et la neige, non?:)
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  542. "you should have been GIVEN accommodation suitable for you and your family" that is the problem in a nutshell. the sense of entitlement, that the taxpayer needs to cough up more and more cash to house people who thought it was a really good idea to have 5 kids.
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  543.  @Israelipropaganda  criticising a block for enforcing rules that could lead to thousands of EU citizens losing their jobs seems pretty valid to me. remember, UK could also enforce UK immigration rules on all those Spaniards who work every day in Gib.
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  544. "fallen into the hands of Moscow"? but, Ukraine is on the offensive! and Ukraine is winning! and Ukraine has Snake Island and Ghost of Kiev, and every month we are told Russia is running out of ammo and weapons! How can this be?
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  545.  @run2cat4run  comparing Christ with Mohammed, I think we can see which of the two was the most violent and hateful.
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  546. and here is the heart of the problem. derussification = compelling Russian speakers and ethnic Russians to look to Russia to confirm their identity, rather than to the tolerant and accepting Ukraine pre 2014. Had Ukraine practiced the inclusivity preached by the West, we would never have arrived at this point. There are reasons why Crimea and Donbass abandoned Ukraine, and it wasn't any shift in attitudes in Moscow, but in Kiev.
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  547. oh boy, the Spanish Police now desperate. they spent 12 days searching an area that Jay never went into, found nothing, of course, interviewed and then released the 2 suspects, who are now on a flight to Paraguay. It doesn't get much worse than this! Keystone Cops at their worst.
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  548. "the cost of defending Bakhmut may not be worth it" That moment was 4 months ago. tens of thousands of dead cannon fodder later means Zelensky screwed up. He is no Churchill
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  549. WHAT? But the most esteemed genius, Ben Wallace, told us a year ago that Russia had only enough missiles for maybe 3 more attacks on Ukraine, and only yesterday Wallace said that Ukraine is winning! Now we hear that NATO is out of weapons! Can we have RT back and uncensored to know the truth, PLEEEEEEASE?
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  550. Her father backs Russia? But how is that possible? Russia is all bad and Ukraine is all good! Still, it was great to see fair and balanced reporting by France 24 by interviewing the father. Bet she wishes Zelensky had implemented Minsk Agreements!
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  551. The Azov Nazi battalion is embraced and welcomed into the Ukrainian armed forces, not the Russian.
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  552. the natives are at the back of the queue in Britanistan
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  553. the interviewer desperately failing to grasp the idea that forcing children to celebrate a particular agenda is wrong.
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  554.  All Out Of Bubble Gum  General Milley already said Ukraine lost well over 100,000 troops, Ursula van Der Leyen said the same thing. No one has found any evidence for Russia's death toll being anywhere near that horrific level.
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  555. "can attacks like this be described as war crimes?" the very question I asked myself when NATO attacked infrastructure in Serbia and USA did the same in Iraq.
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  556. Nigel had the chance of embracing Tommy Robinson a decade ago, and refused to. a bit late to ride the bandwagon against extremists now.
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  557.  @Linda-io2ns  let's assume I don't know what the word "dictator" means. educate me. give me the meaning and explain why that is relevant to anything. cue crickets.
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  558. I wonder when DW will start reporting on all the UN resolutions that call for the USA to lift its boycott on Cuba, which last vote got only 2 votes in USA's favor!
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  559. driving along a highway is not the same as taking territory. if it is, I took over 80% of France when I drove from the Spanish border to Paris, in one day!
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  560.  @sheilamargaretwardstoriesa494  yeah, with machetes too, so true, no...wait
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  561. Johnson got the disrespect he deserves, but not for the right reasons.
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  562. nothing stopping you from giving every last penny you have, right now. Zelensky would love you to give everything you have, remember he has a mansion in Miami and and a villa in Italy to maintain.
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  563. why would you assume, in the continent's most corrupt country, that any EU aid goes to civilians who need it? Some of us want Russia to win, so the sooner Ukraine surrenders, the better. sending aid just lengthens Ukraine's agonizing but futile fight.
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  564. Russia already won...he has secured Crimea, he has his land corridor, and pretty wide it is too, and Donbass within his grasp. Game over. Russia wins, Ukraine/NATO loses and is humiliated.
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  565. Not only is Great Britain not great anymore, it is no longer Britain. Might as well call it Migrantia, capital: Londonistan
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  566. waiting for the corresponding report on the below average temperatures in Northern Europe and Australia. something tells me that ain't gonna be reported on.
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  567. My God, how tortured poor Julia looks as she struggles to say "yes, the grain shipment deal is a success and shows how negotiations with Russia can, indeed, succeed".
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  568. translation "we need more money, so to make you think Ukraine is doing well, I'll pretend we are defeating the Russians, but won't give any specifics so you won't be able to challenge my vague narrative" next we'll hear that Ghost of Kiev is back.
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  569. "released without bail" tells you all you need to know. everyone who voted for Biden is to blame.
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  570. France has every incentive to get more and more cash from the UK, AND to keep allowing as many illegal immigrants to get into the UK. France should not be a part of this debate, except to find out how they will react when all the boats are towed back to France.
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  571.  @lindalovatt5799  makes no sense. the clock is ticking wherever a person is! someone who lives in FL can be charged just as easily as someone in NY. Trump could have been charged at any time, wherever he was, within the statute of limitations. I have a feeling you got this wrong and you are confusing two separate laws.
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  572. Douglas is confused about the laws on immigration (there is no one law on immigration).. Contradictory though it is, a migrant can arrive in the UK with no documentation, claim asylum, and that is legal (hence no migrants are arrested in Dover). Until that law is changed, the law on entering a country illegally (without valid documentation) is irrelevant.
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  573. it's a breakaway region. just like the Russian speaking part of Latvia, the Russian speakers of Moldova don't appreciate being told which language to use and when, so they broke away. same will happen in your country soon.
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  574. As he stated at the end, no reason for Russia to cut off water supply to Crimea. Every reason for Ukraine to cut off water supply to Crimea. So, which side is more likely to attack the dam?
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  575. Poor, gullible Nick, blabbering on about Ukraine's foothold in Krinky and use of kamikaze drones, as if any of this will even dent Russia's pressure all along the front lines. DW has failed to report the truth from Day One, and even now can't bring itself to understand that a "stalemate" is not a stalemate while the kill rate is so heavily in Russia's favor, and even a stalemate represents a victory for Russia.
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  576. Hitler was a very hard worker too. so what's your point?
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  577. as usual, turning a blind eye to the horrendous losses Ukraine is suffering, focusing solely on the supposed huge losses of Russia. NATO's hope strategy.
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  578. The very extreme of Russophobia..."No Russian soldiers have come to my village, but we are scared of them". Great to see some fine, balanced reporting with villagers in South Ossetia having their say on their fears of Georgian hostilities.
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  579. Ukrainians now sharing the same strategy as their NATO controllers....Hope.
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  580. "our men are dying. what have they done to deserve this?" if you really want an answer, ask the parents of the Donbass children killed and maimed from 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling.
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  581. 10% for the big guy
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  582.  @karliskokorevics6902  Majority of USA, in the past, approved of slavery. So, does that make slavery ok?
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  583. only if they have a clue what they are talking about, which Scholz doesn't.
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  584. the EU could do with a lot more Russian influence, to bring some common sense to the clowns in Brussels.
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  585. why would you be shocked that Russia can attack from long range? you swallowed NATO lies about how inept Russia is? oh dear.
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  586. Finally, Putin has decided to play some of the cards he holds. Clearly, in Samarkand, he got India and China to agree not to object, so green light for referendums and annexation. Makes sense.
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  587. his real complaint is not that his terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge has brought a terrorist attack on Ukraine's infrastructure, but that his powerless NATO chums promised he would win, but now they can't prevent the total destruction of his country. Oh Vlod, you should have seen how the Taliban humiliated NATO to get an idea of how inept a group it is!
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  588. Zelensky firing his corrupt minions because he's jealous they are getting a slice of the pie he considers his own.
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  589. The Spanish police made no grotesque error, given their priority is to keep the can of worms closed.
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  590. "many many more houses are built" right, so now a massively increased carbon footprint is acceptable?
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  591. so the EU call for a "coordinated response" comes AFTER Italy says it has already introduced extra covid measures for passengers arriving from China, but France said it won't! As always, EU too slow and hesitant to get any unity in place before individual states act.
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  592. 100% agree. Poland is far from being my favorite country but it does understand the dangers of immigration.
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  593. why are you surprised? you thought sanctioning Russia would work?
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  594.  @eyeballproductsoy  it stops when Russia wins
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  595.  @BenDover-1  exactly, while Ukrainian 16 yr olds are now being called up and are just weeks away from being sent into the Russian meatgrinder. Bet they wish they could go to Thailand.
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  596. Zelensky not receiving as many celebs and heads of state these days. His "supporters" beginning to distance themselves?
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  597. "I just want to have a good life" Join the gang, mate. But some of us try to aim for that legally, without being a parasite on others.
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  598. Russia did NOT do all in its power to exacerbate the energy problem. It was Europe that announced it no longer wanted to import Russian energy. Russia merely helped Europe reach Europe's goal. Just tell the truth, honey.
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  599. fireworks are innocent. it's the people throwing them that are the problem. keep the fireworks, kick out the people misusing them.
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  600. Do you support the Donbass ethnic Russians right to freedom?
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  601. Neither Bakhmut nor Soledar is of any importance in itself. What is of great importance is how NATO deals with the shocking reality that, according to Western media, a bunch of convicts and mercenaries, low on morale and poorly equipped, just defeated Ukraine's battalions of NATO trained and NATO armed troops. Ukraine not going to ever retake Crimea if Russia's convicts and mercenaries can rout NATO trained and armed troops in little Soledar.
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  602.  @bayafrica5909  of course you do. how do you think Germany and Japan did once they had surrendered to their enemies after WW2? Go figure that out.
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  603. Good to see the voluntary population exchange. Those who want to live under Zelensky should move out of Russian occupied territory now, and those who want to be Russian can move into the occupied territory now, then everyone will be happy and peace talks can resume.
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  604. there is no naivety involved. both church and judiciary will do whatever is needed to keep all asylum claimants in the country.
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  605. I wonder if he had tears in his eyes after the Union House massacre in Odessa?
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  606. Right, so Russia is indeed following the agreement. Odessa the port is covered in the agreement, the city of Odessa is not. No attacks while shipments are in process...but given the port is yet to be demined, there is no shipping yet. So, let's revise the headline..."Russia following the agreement 100% so far".
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  607. @FirstOrigamiUnicorn looks like the vegetable soup is giving Ukraine and NATO a lesson in how to win a war of attrition
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  608. entirely possible that the "cost" of not backing Ukraine is better relations with Russia.
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  609. there are still 6 people who think Jay went into that wilderness? when will the penny drop that you solve the crime, and Jay will be found!
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  610. well, well, well, the Scotland Yard detective goes back-peddling furiously and admits 2 weeks of searching for a body that was never there while ignoring the obvious criminality behind the scenes was a mistake. time for this old fool to start listening to the internet sleuths a little more attentively.
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  611. assimilation is not really the issue. plenty of communities don't assimilate much. just respecting the laws, traditions and the indigenous people would suffice. the Amish refuse to assimilate to American ways, but their own values are so virtuous, they are welcome in America. Britain's ghettos would be wonderful too if we had unassimilated Amish, instead of the rabble we actually imported.
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  612. what about Merkel's million immigrants so lovingly embraced? By now, they should all be entrepreneurs, professionals, productive workers, right?
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  613. myth number 3 is not a myth. a doctor leaving Syria is one less doctor to treat Syrians.
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  614. If only Poroshenko had made the phone call! "Hey, Barack, I got your VP here insisting on an extra unwritten condition for Ukraine to get the loan guarantees, namely, that we replace our state prosecutor. Is that true? Is that the official US position that you too are now insisting on, verbally, but not in writing?" would have been interesting to hear Obama's reply.
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  615. Murray lost so much cred after declaring Russia would lose in Ukraine.
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  616. just so funny that EU leaders think that they, and not Putin, will decide if Ukraine becomes an EU member.
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  617. makes perfect sense. so many people back Ukraine because it is the move that signals virtue. the truth is nearly all of them have no idea what the conflict entails. British government makes sure the Russian perspective is NEVER presented.
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  618. It would be great for lone-wolf heroes like Orban to be supported by a dynamic guy like Fico. The sooner Zelensky is told "no more weapons, no more aid" the better. the tide is turning, finally.
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  619. on the contrary, only the ignorant and deluded support Ukraine. the honest and the informed see what the true nature of Zelensky and his NATO backers is. Kiev bullied the Donbass for 8 years, and is now getting what it so richly deserves.
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  620. not shocking at all. it's the NHS. Wouldn't happen in a private system.
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  621. for Russia, it was never about and is not about taking territory.
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  622.  @ovidiukroi_mapping  thin end of the wedge. this is how it all started in Ukraine. If knowledge is never harmful, why not declare Russian an official language of Latvia and insist that all Latvian speakers must pass a proficiency test in Russian?
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  623. Yep, Erdogan has got NATO by the balls and will indeed drag out the NATO membership issues for a while. Bit strange that NATO is trumpeting Sweden and Finland's membership, which is still not a done deal, while ignoring the fact it has effectively lost the member nation of Turkey (now Russia's ally on the inside).
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  624. nice touch, to speak in Scots Gaelic for the interview. would have been useful to have English subtitles.
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  625. a price cap does nothing to increase supply. therefore the price cap will ensure demand stays greater than supply, which can only result in power outages and strict rationing. it also means printing more money and thus higher inflation. revolution on the way.
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  626. Could well be this guy got so frustrated with uncontrolled immigration he decided to take a stand.
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  627.  @paulzhang1310  exactly. where was this passion and rage from Scholz when German taxpayers saw their money go up in smoke when Nordstream was destroyed.
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  628. a thousand people arrested is an enormous number? in a nation of 150 million? Talk sense man! per capita, more people got arrested last week in Leicester
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  629. will make no difference at all. put them in the category of Jevelin anti tank missiles.
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  630. also makes sense in modern day Britain that "history of violence but no criminal record" would be a true statement. if only the guy had misgendered someone or said "all lives matter", then for sure he would have a criminal record.
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  631.  @doomoo5365  Ukraine shouldn't. Ukraine SHOULD have implemented the Minsk Accords, which would have awarded autonomy to the Donbass, but both Poroshenko and Zelensky refused to do so. why? BTW, one good reason for allowing the Donbass region to become independent states is because the majority there want to be independent. When you say Chechnya wanted independence from Russia, would that include the Chechens currently fighting for, um, Russia?
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  632. "they have the investigation under control" yeah, that's why the airbnb was given a forensic search on Day 16!
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  633. yeah, for GB News to broadcast an accurate assessment of the war in Ukraine is absolutely disgraceful, right?
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  634.  @silikdo6514  besides, most of the world supports Russia or is not against Russia
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  635. A hospital in Gaza is also a military base,
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  636. yeah, bigotry and intolerance is the way to go!
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  637. same as UK government regarding its policy of mass immigration.
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  638. yet more evidence that standards across the board have fallen to absurd lows in the UK.
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  639. Good on the French! They deserve to party at our expense. Only a fool would send money to a nation whose best interest is to see as many migrants leave their shores as possible. Party on lads! Rest assured, the British electorate will make sure the next UK government continues with the same policies! Guaranteed!
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  640. it won't. it just causes more division.
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  641. absolutely criminal to take illegal immigrants on board without confirmation of acceptance by port authorities. These NGO bosses need to be taken to court for trafficking and threat to human life.
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  642. drop the sanctions on Russia and then hope Russia is willing to resume trade. otherwise, there is no solution.
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  643. even towing the boats back to France won't stop this. the illegal migrants will just keep trying. the illegal migrants need to be stripped of all their valuables, to pay for the Border Force service, then dumped back in France, (the country that admitted them and which is therefore responsible for them). then the boats will stop.
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  644. civilian infrastructure = military infrastructure. the power that moves trains and therefore moves Ukrainian troops around comes from the same power stations that provide electricity to homes. there is no separate military power grid.
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  645. So, Ukraine still winning, right? Ghost of Kiev was real, right?
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  646. I think you'll find that the murderer didn't hate foreigners, but hated the fact that untold millions of them have flooded his native land with no invitation, and with apparent support from the "French" government. The murderer is far from alone in his hate of what has happened in France, and in Western Europe in general.
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  647. These Ukronazis enrage me. Stay strong Donbass. We love and admire you. We give thanks for your courage.
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  648. "Jay was alive when he last left the property", well, yeah, you would have to be alive to leave a property. a corpse can't really "leave" a property, but is "taken out" of a property. so, Jay was alive when he went out to buy cigarettes, but then never "left" the property again, but his body was removed. Got it.
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  649. Italy should help, by allowing the German tax payers to fund all the transportation needed to get these illegal immigrants on a one way ticket from an Italian port to Germany. But then, again due to Schengen rules, getting illegal immigrants into Germany doesn't guarantee they won't end up in Italy anyway, so maybe best to just say "no".
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  650. what makes you think the kill rate is in Ukraine's favor?
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  651. without Russia, no one can say they are the best in the world if they win in Paris. the Wokolympics will be a damp squib.
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  652. Given that the UK is so far ahead of the rest of the world in maths, science and language, it is a great idea to let the rest of the globe catch up while our genius students debate if a human can be a cat, and if a man can become a woman.
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  653. "let's get other suppliers".....so far, Qatar said no, Nigeria said no, Canada said no, USA said no, Saudi Arabia said no. Next on your list that Habeck has ignored or not thought about? i mean so easy to just get other suppliers, right?
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  654. the common European policy should be either a) tell Russia a terrible mistake was made and Europe wants to return to its trading relationship with Russia, and hope that Russia accepts (which it probably won't) b) pay for Russian oil and coal via third countries and pay a massive mark up, and beg USA for LNG at a massive mark up or c) just tell the masses a horrendous mistake was made and it's back to the middle ages, with strict fuel rationing and gathering firewood.
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  655. Bearing in mind Biden said he was going to take down Nordstream back in Feb, the only question remaining is if USA used an ally to do it, or did it themselves
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  656.  @Tobez1  No one invaded Donbass in 2014. The DPR and LPR declared independence, at which point the Azov battalion thought it was a really good idea to shell the city of Donetsk into submission, but found the DPR and LPR forces, yes, with Russian support, were prepared to give the Azovs as much fire as the Azovs could launch against Donetsk. The actual fighting was started by the Ukrainians. Why would 2 newly declared independent republics need to fight anyone?
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  657. so funny she answers the question "how is the counter offensive going?" with a description of WHERE the fighting is happening!
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  658. that's right, let's just keep changing the rules whenever things get difficult
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  659. So the Ukrainian definition of success has gone from 1) taking Crimea, to 2) reaching the Sea of Azov to 3) taking Melitopol, to 4) taking Tokmak, to 5) getting to Tokmak. i think we can see how this is going.
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  660. Macron, even on steroids, couldn't pressure a wet paper bag . More pertinent question for a former French ambassador to Russia is why France signed the Minsk Accords and then did absolutely ZERO to implement the accords.
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  661. and we are told Russia is where there is no freedom or democracy.
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  662. given that "Islam" means "submit", it is logical that Khan, as a Muslim, has indeed surrendered to those Muslim authorities above him. why would anyone doubt that?
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  663. Ukraine had plenty of tanks and planes at the start of the war. they all got destroyed by Russia. what makes you think replacing all those tanks and planes won't mean they all get destroyed, again?
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  664. the photo does not show Jay wrapped in a blanket. the photo shows 4 shoes poking out from behind a curtain, or blanket that is not being worn.
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  665. now that things are going so badly for Zelensky, Times Radio has to pivot to the desperate hope of convincing everyone that Putin is failing and will be overthrown. Yawn.
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  666. Britain allows migrants to enter the country and then claim asylum, so it is not illegal. None of the migrants are arrested for breaking UK law. I which case, the "people smugglers" are not smugglers at all. They should be applauded for facilitating a perfectly legal route into the UK. People smugglers can only be acting illegally if the asylum seekers are declared illegal immigrants.
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  667. because Ukraine has already lost huge parts of its country and can do nothing to retake them. but Ukraine can save hundreds of thousands of its own lives by agreeing to peace. just see what happened in Syria to see how things will turn out.
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  668. "a nuclear power waging an imperialist war of aggression in Europe" would describe USA's unprovoked attack on Germany's Nordstream pipeline.
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  669.  @Bill-uf6os  more green = more debt, more poverty
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  670. curious that Brad and Lucy already assume the body found is Jay's. no need to wait for confirmation, in their minds.
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  671. Time for the government to come clean with the people and just say, inflation (a tax on everyone, but especially the poor) is something they brought us and something we have to pay, because we have to print money and send it to Ukraine, we have to print money to pay off our mounting debts, we have to print money to cover the costs of paying perfectly healthy people to stay home and not work during covid. just tell us all this pain is because of the decisions they made.
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  672. so why was the offensive launched?
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  673. If Susan Hall loses, the Conservatives might question why they didn't back a Conservative as candidate.
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  674. imagine getting nastier and nastier when the authorities and media refuse to answer basic questions, to release key information and to do any investigations at all? hard to understand how any of that could lead to any frustrations at all!
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  675. We are praying for you Donbass ethnic Russians. Reclaim what is yours!
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  676. right, so the UN and Ukraine say Ukrainian grain exports are of great importance, but quite happy to see Russian fertilizer blocked in Latvia and not willing to give the green light for ammonium to be piped. So the obstacles are on the Ukrainian side.
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  677. you mean when Ukraine came to an end.
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  678. you talking about Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk City?
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  679. I wonder when DW will start reporting on all the UN resolutions that call for the USA to lift its boycott on Cuba, which last vote got only 2 votes in USA's favor!
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  680. what did Zelensky think would happen when he gave the thumbs up to attack the Kerch Bridge? Funny to see how the West's attempt to isolate Russia has led to the world uniting against the West. China, India, Turkey, Saudi, Iran, Brazil just a few who are all up for dedolarization and a multi polar world. Slava Rossiyi.
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  681. So, if Russia is in Syria fighting against Isis terrorists, does that mean USA is in Syria fighting WITH Isis terrorists? or, USA is supporting Russia's fight against ISIS in Syria? Which one is it?
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  682. @peterholden3672 You got one word wrong, only one. "Let YOUNG people fund their own retirement and stop looking for another handout". The multiplier effect on state pensions is absolutely enormous, because gone are the days when people sleep with bundles of cash under the mattress! How do you think banks loan out funds to entrepreneurs without access to people's savings? The NHS is a total drain on the economy. In my experience, countries that have private medical insurance schemes have much better health outcomes. Bizarrely, when obese chain smokers have to fund their own treatment, they tend to lose weight and stop smoking! or die. either way, they are less of a burden.
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  683. I remember seeing a tv ad in El Salvador that stressed getting out into the fresh air, into sunlight, and exercising regularly to combat Covid. My question for BJ would be why was he 100% sure El Salvador's approach was wrong, and at what point did he realize Britain's Covid problem was linked to Britain's obesity problem. Or did he ever?
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  684. Zelensky wasting his precious missiles on Belgorod. Losing strategy.
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  685. China is showing it doesn't need to follow the West or Russia, but just look after its own issues, which is wise.
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  686. More of the Hope strategy from DW's handlers. Just hoping Russia will run out of ammo, total focus on any hint of a difficulty on Russia's side, turning a blind eye to Ukraine's debacle.
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  687. perfect disguise for a boat full of weapons
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  688. it's by RELAXING sanctions that led to this deal! Russia now permitted in writing to export food and NO SANCTIONS CAN BE APPLIED TO SUCH RUSSIAN FOOD SHIPMENTS. Western capitulation on sanctions is the only reason grain shipments are happening!
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  689. Hungary and Serbia figured out a long time ago that Russia will win, so best to keep on Russia's good side for the future.
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  690. You know anyone blaming "Putin's war of aggression" has no idea what is causing economic malaise. She is clueless and needs to go.
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  691. so, Ukraine is winning? Ghost of Kiev is real? Snake Island was a heroic victory for Ukraine?
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  692. What? Mogg is saying the width of the Channel is the problem? So, the Channel is wide enough for thousands of boats to go from Calais to Dover, but the Channel is too narrow for boats to be turned around and escorted back to France? WTF?
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  693.  @lindalovatt5799  i can't find any mention of NY law "stopping the clock" on statute of limitations for crimes alleged against those out of the state. give me the words to google to pull up the exact wording of the law you cite.
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  694. As Putin so wisely said, "How can we defend the rights of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh when the Armenian leader himself has conceded that Nagorno Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan?" Hopefully Pashinyan will be ousted and some common sense will return to Yerevan.
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  695. Well done, Hungary. Let each individual country decide what it wants to send, or not send (it's called democracy).
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  696. @Número uno it was not. it was clearly about Zelensky. Zelensky is tiny, he has caused endless pain, he continues to lie (I mean even you believed Ghost of Kiev was real!). Time for Zelensky to go. Long live Russia and thank you, Putin, for defending the rights of ethnic Russians
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  697. if the latest sanctions were of any significance, why did the EU wait 7 months to announce this?
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  698. the threat is now much greater given the extent of the help GB has naively thrown the Ukronazis in Kiev. Had Bojo been a statesman, instead of a clown, and encouraged the peace deal being hammered out in Istanbul in 2022, we wouldn't be in this disastrous position.
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  699. as opposed to the European experts in the European energy sector who got us all into the horrific mess
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  700. will make no difference
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  701. Donbass has all the rights to defend their own country!
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  702.  @maximus7727  Rwandan. Big mistake to have allowed his parents into the country. next question?
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  703.  @shivathealmighty  right, like you can predict where a rampaging mob will gather and attack the next time you are wandering around Marseille. Give me a break.
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  704. "Germany rearms"......funny.
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  705.  @andylane247  because statistics only reflect reported crime, not unreported crime.
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  706. @roro what is the war currently raging in Senegal? in Gambia? plenty of young men "fleeing" from there.
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  707. they are not working together closer than ever. they are just talking about working together. wake up and realize Russia has won. if Ukraine was winning, there would be no need for these 3 clowns to meet and talk.
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  708. "between stealing and starving" they only way he would starve is if his local council refused to offer him basic shelter, so I guess he is saying he was forced to starve because illegal immigrants had been offered all the accommodation.
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  709. great to see EU solidarity......all united in bringing misery to their citizens
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  710. Stuart Ramsey not trying too hard to hide his campaign for Lula in that vote. Bizarre assumption that the favela voters will go for Lula.
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  711. yes, Zelesnky, justice will be served. you will be placed before a court at some point and required to explain why you thought it was such a wonderful idea to disregard the Minsk accords and to persist in shelling Donbass citizens.
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  712. The BBC helped Abdul get away, because the BBC initially told us he was a "Newcastle man", hence 24 hours was spent hunting down anyone humming "when th' boat comes in".
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  713. if you notice some things coming down in price, and not obvious mass poverty, then I would say Russia is faring better than the West.
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  714. more copying and pasting. bla bla bla. seen it before.
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  715. to quote Stalin, "quantity is a quality of its own"
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  716. once again, NATO using force to compel its version of territorial integrity and sovereignty by battering an outraged minority. truly sickening how this "defensive alliance" operates. which NATO member state was being defended today with the violence waged against Serbs in Kosovo?
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  717. Ditto Zelensky
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  718. but it did in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
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  719. Croatia joining the sinking ship just before it goes down.
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  720. absolutely anyone should be allowed to stand for election. Democracy is letting the people decide who represents them, whoever that person may be.
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  721. simply stunning that the expert, Jim Rodgers, thinks the Deutsch Mark still exists. that did not inspire a lot of confidence in his words.
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  722. Just as Europe needs Russia more than Russia needs Europe, so USA needs Saudi Arabia more than Saudi Arabia needs USA. MBS will love smiling and telling Biden "no more oil" and tell Russia all about what happened in the meeting.
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  723. Tucker's interview allowed the opposite side to give their perspectives. it's called "debate", i know, a strange concept for you, right?
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  724. Notice how all the talk is about throwing money (hot off the printing presses) at the problem, and not addressing the causes
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  725. nonsense. the same opportunities are present to Asian immigrants and to North African immigrants that come to Europe. One of those groups seizes the opportunities Europe offers with open arms and dedication to succeed. The other doesn't and moans endlessly about racism, poverty and being disadvantaged.
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  726.  @anthonymcken6050  without a definition of "racist" you on the "other side" are just as racist as anyone else!
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  727. "now starting to look at his checkered past" Keystone Academy graduates. should have started on Day One looking into the checkered past.
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  728. but Ukraine still has Snake Island, right? And the Moskva was sunk, so, Ukraine is still winning. Am sure Russia will run out of weapons soon, but then I thought that back in April. must be just luck that convicts and drunken mercenaries can push back NATO equipped and trained Ukrainians. that luck will change soon, surely. yeah, this one is in the bag for Ukraine. Crimea liberated by March I would say.
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  729. it's not investment to blame, but the insane government rules and regulations that discourage landlords from renting any properties.
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  730. plenty of money to send to Ukraine, but not to fund pensions
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  731. Import the 3rd world, import 3rd world problems. as simple as that.
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  732. interesting. Zelensky says these tanks are vital for "repelling Russian attacks". so, what happened to reclaiming Crimea and kicking Russia out? Looks like the objective now is just to stay in the game and delay defeat.
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  733. Russia found the apartment block where troops and weapons were kept, yet again. Slava Rossiyi.
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  734. In Target's case it must be because everyone wants gender neutral swimwear and just can't afford to actually buy such a treasured item.
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  735. There is no offensive in the South, It is a myth, just like "Ghost of Kiev". Not one town of any significance has been regained by Ukraine and retained. The last successful counter offensive by Ukraine was in 2014! Get real.
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  736. Not one single Ukrainian has reached anywhere near the Surovikin Line! Get real!
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  737. it must be systemic racism, because in his native Algeria, if 17 yr old Nahel showed the same attitude to Algerian police, they would do nothing to him at all. you see, because fellow Arabs never arrest or attack fellow Arabs, ever.
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  738. and Ukraine started it all. time for Kiev to be taken to court.
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  739.  @iche9373  integration does happen overnight if the immigrant is looking to integrate. as for xenophobia, well, turning part of your capital into a place that looks like Baghdad and then seeing immigrants attack ambulances kind of makes xenophobia a natural reaction. your economy is not dying because you lack immigrants. Japan and South Korea don't admit any immigrants, hardly, are their economies dying?
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  740. Russia did NOT pull out of any agreement. The agreement expired.
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  741. yep, word for word what the West said to the Afghans
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  742. if only they could train them to Wagner standards
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  743. agreed. even if he were lost and passed out, they would have found him. he was abducted or he escaped off the island, for whatever reason.
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  744. now entering Day 18, still no one knows the identity of 50% of the airbnb occupants. why did Jay go back with them and what happened at the airbnb before Jay left? knowing that, and all that was said between them, would lead us to where Jay is.
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  745. Zelensky absolutely delighted that more Ukrainian cannon fodder will get to end up biting the dust before total capitulation and surrender. Zelensky has improved his country so much since taking power under the promise of "peace in Donbass"
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  746. got money for Ukraine, got money to maintain pensions as they are
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  747.  @AtheistEve  keep in mind, when you are a poor family in Donetsk and the Azov brigade are shelling your city day in and day out, it is not so easy to just leave everything behind and scramble over a war zone to the border. have a heart! Russia wisely aided the DPR and LPR in their struggle for autonomy and then for independence. Shame on NATO for backing the aggressors in this conflict.
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  748. Sunak, Starmer or Putin? Which one is most likely to tow the migrant boats to France? Putin gets my vote.
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  749. you think symbolic nonsense like this deserves a reaction?
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  750. Russian shelling didn't destroy anything. it was the Ukrainian air defence missile, as always.
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  751. given she has no idea when inflation is transitory or not, why would anyone think she knows anything about taxes?
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  752. this is what happens when you say there is plenty of money available for arming Ukraine but not for pensioners in France.
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  753. @Número uno I respect Putin because he uses his power to defend the rights of his people He has stood up for the ethnic Russians in Transnistria, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and now Ukraine. Just wish some Western leaders would stand up for the rights of their peoples in the same way.
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  754. none of this would have happened if Ukraine hadn't taken sovereign territory of DPR and LPR and shelled those republics for 9 years.
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  755. anyone who blames the war in Ukraine, as opposed to the sanctions on Russia, as an exacerbating factor on inflation, doesn't understand economics. or does, but has to follow their paymaster's instructions.
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  756. you are confusing Fascism with democracy
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  757. just hilarious how the Ukronazis and the West keep talking about heading towards Melitopol when the tiny village of Robotyne hasn't even been captured. the counter offensive is such an abject failure that NATO has to pretend it's not THE counter offensive!
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  758. plenty of money for Ukraine, but not for topping up French pensions. we can see why millions in France are furious.
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  759. so Russia is both too weak to defeat Ukraine, and strong enough to attack other countries?
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  760. and when can we expect the African suspect of the Southport murders to appear in court? tomorrow? in a week? next year?
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  761. "we feel like it's coming together" right, so the teenagers and pensioners have all had their 2 weeks basic training, the 14 challenger tanks are in position, no air cover and no ammo, but hey, it's only Russia we have to defeat.
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  762. oh, they do need to be there! every single person in the family that has an inkling of the truth needs to be prepped to sing from the same sheet and make sure they ALL have their story straight! Now this is viral, only whispered face to face discussions would be safe! texting, calling all must be avoided
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  763. Love the pretence that Ukraine has massive forces and weaponry to follow up any breakthrough.
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  764. what? so the Dutch team have to "find" where the body was recovered from? Guardia Civil telling no one where the body was found?
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  765.  @Oakleaf700  knew exactly where to take their dogs? yeah, like the nearest ravine to where Jay's phone pinged would never have been an obvious place for the Guardia Civil to take their dogs, right?
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  766. right, but who committed the crimes? without proof and a court decision, only alleged crimes can be cited.
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  767. when homogenous places like Japan and Belarus see this kind of diversity, they must really regret having almost no immigrants.
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  768. the accusation isn't that the US had anything to do with it, apart from giving the green light to Ukraine to try it.
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  769.  @dltn42  the country has been crumbling for decades, that's the problem and that's why Milei won! importing natural gas makes sense when the quality of home produced gas can be sold abroad at a higher price, duh!
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  770. NATO will defend the Baltics with the same heroic stance it took in Kabul when total panic ensued as the goat herders, the Taliban, strolled into town. NATO, with its electric tanks and diversity in recruitment, is just a pathetic joke.
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  771. 43% of those planning to vote would vote for Starmer. the vast majority of the electorate are undecided. the party that can grab those votes will win, easily.
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  772.  @purplesorcerer2172  several members of the public intervened. the MSM just want you to focus on the Muslim hero.
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  773. And it only took just over 3 days for this explosion data to be announced!? I guess this Norwegian team (the same country involved in the Nordstream attack, according to Hirsh) only check their instruments every 3 days or so.
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  774. for lies and propaganda
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  775. "Orban is such a bad guy, because he won't give parasitic me all the charity I can get here in Luxemburg"
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  776.  @akeshshi9137  The Russian speakers of the New Russian Territories have moved to Russia, and taken their ancestral homelands with them:) problem solved.
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  777. integration is not needed at all. respect for the host nation's laws, contribute to the economy and not be a parasite, and keep immigration levels low enough so that the nation does not lose its identity. with those 3 things, immigration works fine.
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  778.  @zeffe0528  wrong. in Ukraine, when the recruiting officer comes knocking on your door, you have to sign up and fight. That is why men of fighting age are forbidden from leaving Ukraine. On the other hand, in Russia, men of fighting age are free to leave Russia. It's called "freedom". Yes, Ukraine has many mercenaries signed up. If we count the Wagner group, Russia does too, you just don't hear about them as much. More importantly, Russia has much greater support, economically, from around the world, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, all of Africa, Latin America.
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  779. far right activist = freedom of expression advocate. just challenging the free speech laws in Europe to see what is now allowed and what is now banned.
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  780. with no air cover, wonder how many will even get to the front
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  781. Good to know that France 24 is reporting accurately on how Russia is running out of weapons, and how the sanctions are really hampering Russian military activity.
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  782. For all Australians that voted for this government, you got what you voted for. Next time, vote for anyone advocating cessation of immigration.
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  783. and still no photo of the spot where Jay's body was so belatedly discovered on Monday? wonder why.
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  784. why would anyone trust the words of the very people who created this problem in the first place?
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  785. no one cares about the second home issue. we all care about a leading politician with morals of the gutter who is a hypocrite and a cheat.
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  786. then you better start DNA testing the majority of Europe,, as most agree that immigration needs to be reduced.
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  787.  @dannyquinn9128  He's Muslim.
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  788. Just wondering when Zelensky will sell his Miami mansion to aid UK consumers
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  789. so, he separates his cash precisely. the cash from Willis is kept as cash, the cash from his private business is deposited. why?
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  790. "difficult situation" = Ukronazis are getting massacred
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  791. Bakhmut matters because Zelensky, against NATO advice, poured cannon fodder into his precious "Fortress Bakhmut", sacrificed thousands of young lives for a place most analysts said was not strategically significant, and he lost. Churchill, he is not. More importantly, we are told the victors are a demoralized, poorly trained, badly led bunch of convicts armed with spades. Well, that is one hell of a victory over the NATO trained, armed and advised lads. For NATO, it is Kabul 2021 repeated, hence the panic to turn to air power.
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  792. fascinating that even DW now understands the aim of the sanctions has failed. if only the EU could grasp such a notion.
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  793. Scholz most vulnerable leader
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  794. no integration is needed whatsoever. many groups, like the Amish, have refused to be integrated and have done very well. all that is required is respect for the laws of the home country, limited numbers, and be productive rather than parasitic. integration programs are a waste of time for all those who don't want to be integrated.
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  795. yet again, repeating the myth of Ukraine advances in Kherson region. Heard this now for 3 months, but the map never changes. pathetic lies.
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  796. is the whole search of that area based on the assumption that because Jay's phone pinged the tower up there, that means Jay was there?
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  797. because he insisted on staying and they wanted to go home.
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  798. "they've been thinking about it for a long time, we are sure about that" the ever confident mind-reader who knows every machination of Putin and his boys. not.
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  799. This s++t doesn't happen in Russia.
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  800.  @craignoble9762  anyone who owes tax should be made to pay. but it's about the lying and cover-up that follows the accusation. Has Lord Ashcroft denied, denied, denied ad infinitum contrary to all the evidence? And if he has, how does that make Raynor innocent?
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  801. there may well have been demands. ask Lucy.
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  802.  @lepidoptera9337  Ukraine is the only country in Europe that welcomes nazis and embraces their ideology and insignia into the national armed forces. there are no black sun and wolfsangel insignia on Putin's uniforms. what converted your old uncle to nazism?
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  803.  @bloodwargaming3662  "we are stronger and better than yesterday"? Based on what metric? If number of people murdered and raped is your definition of "better", then yes!
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  804. what makes you think Putin's successor will be less of a Russian nationalist?
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  805. and i thought someone was going to explain the wording of a new law. well, sounds like Duda will go the way of Johnson, Truss, Draghi, Marin and soon Sanchez as the Zelensky curse kicks in.
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  806. the only policy that will work is to insist that all asylum claims are made before entering the UK
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  807. poetic justice that they all end up sharing a cell with Iyla Bryson
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  808. Huge respect to the valiant Donbass fighters... Outstanding morale & highly motivated... Fighting so bravely & tirelessly against all odds to defend the freedom & independence of their beloved country.. Slava Donbasu. Stay strong Donbass!
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  809. This is very simple. The government must decide either to accept those who arrive on boats across the Channel as asylum seekers...in which case, start praising the "people smugglers" for providing such good transfer service, OR declare all such arrivals as illegal migrants and deport them immediately, by turning their boats around and dropping them back in France, where they were in a perfectly safe place and legal. Given no migrant is arrested in Dover, one must conclude the migrants are all legal, so the numbers will only increase.
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  810.  @rosemarykennedy5430  so, the best alternative to waiting 2 hours in the local cafe was to wander around the wilderness and get thirsty? do you think the phone call to Lucy was genuine? it's all so murky.
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  811. until there is any kind of major breakthrough, this offensive will be in the "shaping, probing" stage. can't have a proper offensive that doesn't achieve anything.
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  812. "speculation of a Russian spring offensive".......hasn't occurred to NATO that there could be a Russian offensive next week.
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  813. and all the EU countries too
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  814.  @sl4074  In Europe we certainly believe in race. which bubble do you live in?
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  815. I wonder when the last time was that Stanley Johnson read the conclusions of eminent scientists like Ian Plimer, Patrick Moore, Judith Curry, John Christie, Richard Linzen, William Happer and many others who says he's wrong.
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  816.  @anonnemo2504  totally agree. blaming France for accepting cash and encouraging illegal immigrants to cross the Channel shows how useless UK is. It is the UK's duty to police its borders, not pay France to not police our border.
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  817. If the casualty rate is high, then the fighting is not "bogged down". In a war of attrition, one side, whether the front lines move or not, will run out of manpower/weapons/ammo/funding first, you choose which one Ukraine will run out of first..
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  818. all of you who applauded lockdowns, you got what you richly deserve, an NHS unable to cope. enjoy every minute of it.
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  819. So it turns out that all the Green dreams of COP 26 turned out to be of secondary importance if Russophobia were to become contagious. Glad to know what priorities environmentalists really have
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  820.  @anickname202  you would be amazed how many people across the globe resent the bullying, lecturing, hectoring of the West. Lavrov and Putin are greeted in places like Africa with MUCH greater warmth and respect than any Western leader these days.
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  821.  @LIV-FREE-VET  Putin doesn't need to fight. Russia is winning! At what point does it sink in, numnuts, that the West underestimated Russia? what convinces you that another 61 billion dollars will achieve what 91 billion failed to achieve?
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  822. Once again, the totally predictable lie about the mythical Kherson counteroffensive. The map never changes, and Ukraine has TALKED about a Kherson counteroffensive now for 3 months. It's pathetic. But I guess it keeps the billions in aid rolling in.
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  823. Zelenska has gone to the donor conference! Hurray, finally, she will announce she is selling the Zelensky mansion in Miami and the villa in Tuscany to contribute to the war effort! or, maybe she went to beg for more and keep her own wealth intact?
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  824. and glory to the people of Donbass who are fighting for their countries and their freedom, agreed?
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  825. it is in the interests of France to both take as much money as possible from UK AND to let as many migrants out of France and into UK as possible. therefore, France needs to be taken out of the equation, and all boats towed back and migrants kicked out onto French beaches with all valuable removed from said illegal migrants to cover costs. so, France, take us to court.
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  826. Learn what a war of attrition is and then it will all make sense. or, just for homework, look at how Russia fought in Syria and won, and look at how USA lost in Syria and Afghanistan.
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  827. Rob, mate, look at the map. The Wagners don't have to cross the Bakhmut River! They are already to the south and north!
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  828. the offensive is actually going quite well...the Russian one that is. In the Svatove, Lyman, Kupiansk areas, Russian gains are really stretching Ukraine's resources. strange that Bell refuses to mention the Russian offensive!
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  829. Hunter's own auto biography confirms just how addicted and regular a user of crack cocaine he was at the time he illegally bought the gun.
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  830.  @rostbif  it's even easier than that! Ukraine surrenders, today.
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  831. plenty of money to spend on weapons and aid to Ukraine's futile war. but not enough to feed the citizens
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  832.  @patrickbright4264  when addicts are forced off their drug, it's painful, but necessary. Argentina has been hooked on the drug of incessant government handouts for too long. now the rehab is going to hurt.
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  833.  @ronnie5329  i have indeed. have you seen where China is on the map?
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  834. the problem is, the government has decided such arrivals are legal, hence no arrests are made on arrival in Dover. that's why I'm confused why the "people smugglers" are vilified, because all they do is to allow asylum seekers to get to the UK to legally claim asylum and be housed at tax payer expense. The "people smugglers" are doing a good job. The UK government is terribly confused and can't figure out if this is all legal or not!
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  835. She said the quiet part out loud. "Trump wins if a decision is made on presidential immunity after the presidential election!" None of this is about defining presidential immunity, for the future. It's all about stopping Trump.
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  836. "very traumatic for the family" was Karen Matthews traumatized by the disappearance of her daughter?
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  837. could well be that the men featured in this news report represent 1% of those liable for mobilization. A balanced report would talk to a few who fully support Russia's war.
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  838. Ah, Justin Crump, he who predicted the massive Kherson offensive would see Kherson recaptured by Ukraine in September, back to lecture us on more things he will predict inaccurately
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  839.  @mohmedhassan6875  In UK we have refugees from Sudan and Syria and the country is suffering from an economic crisis. A privileged rich boy from Egypt wouldn't understand.
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  840. no it wouldn't. Ukraine doesn't have the trained soldiers to handle such weapons. Too many experienced Ukrainian troops already dead.
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  841. Why would anyone go to Paris? These days it looks like, and is as unsafe as, Baghdad or Kinshasa. It's not a real Olympics with out Russia, so, just a waste of time going to a 3rd world sh**hole.
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  842. and now the truth.....Ukrainian forces were not ordered to retreat. Ukrainian forces fled in panic. when will DW investigate rather than repeat Ukrainian officials' posts
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  843. maybe Zelensky should sell his Miami mansion and Tuscan villa to help the war effort?
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  844. better to plead guilty, otherwise the "10% for the Big Guy" comes up in court, not that there is any mystery to who the "Big Guy" is.
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  845. Russia holds all the cards. Ukraine begging for weapons to delay the moment the last Ukrainian soldier is gunned down, then Zelensky retires happy ever after to his mansion in Miami..the usual NATO playbook
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  846. the Saudis wanted to show the other Arabs what an absolute clown and fool Zelensky is, to re-enforce the notion that Lavrov and the Russians speak much more sense.
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  847. Zelensky not an economics genius, is he? Russia is now earning MORE from energy exports, though exporting LESS quantity. and so Zelensky urges even more sanctions, not grasping that such increased sanctions would just raise global energy prices, and Russia's income, even more! We can see why the slowest kid in the class became a comedian!
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  848.  @emadrafiee-lj4rg  so, when Sunni Muslims attack Shia Muslims, and Shia Muslims attack Sunni Muslims, are they both Far Right?
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  849. as usual, the host tries to push the blame on the US and not the chronic failures of Socialism.
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  850.  @nothuman3083  as Zelensky said about the Azov Nazis, "they are what they are"...and YOU support them!
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  851. Real pity for Donbass....slava Rossiyi, God save Russia
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  852. it should be very concerning to the ukronazi supporters that we regularly hear about heavy losses on both sides, but never any concrete evidence that the Russians are, in fact, suffering heavy losses. it is entirely possible that Zelenski has sacrificed tens of thousands of cannon fodder lives to buy time (time for what, exactly, remains a mystery) and to then surrender a city of no great significance. Churchill, he is not.
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  853.  Kleoptra  calling a hijab a scarf is like calling a crucifix a necklace. when was the last time you heard of a Christian girl getting murdered for what she chose not to wear?
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  854.  @gfzgf3  possibly the invasion force amassed by Ukraine, destination Donbass was a factor of slightly more importance than emulating Peter the Great.
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  855. the bully analogy is a good one. Zelensky is the bully who punched Donbass in the face, and Russia has shown up to deal with that bully.
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  856. "superior weapons and training"? NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian battalions just got routed by a bunch of convicts and drunken mercenaries in Soledar! Get real!
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  857. Russia sees no failing banks. Russia's inflation is now lower that EU's, and going down. Russia is trading with almost all the globe. Given the sanctions were supposed to cripple Russia, not slow it down slightly, the sanctions have failed horrendously.
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  858. I don't remember any family separation issue! when were immigrant families prevented from living as a family in Mexico?
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  859. "please put yourself in our shoes" i did that with Karen Matthews and learned my lesson.
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  860. a lot more to this than meets the eye. one month on, after intensive searching, suddenly the body is found close to where they concentrated the search in the first place! not buying it. did the Guardia Civil finally get Debbie to agree to split the GoFundMe 50/50?
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  861.  @sasa1982uk  but let's consider what he has FAILED to say! Has he EVER speculated that the Russian tactical withdrawal resulted in massive losses for the Ukrainians? I have ONLY ever heard Clarke state that Russian losses are far higher than Ukrainian losses. Clarke NEVER explains why NATO is incapable of sending the ammo and weaponry needed by Ukraine. Things we never hear from Clarke, a list of reasons NATO can't send what Ukraine needs. Clarke has only ever focused on failings in Russian recruitment (which even Zaluzhny said was, in fact, completed successfully) while avoided commenting on who exactly Ukraine is recruiting these days. Clarke is pure propaganda. Focuses on Russia's failings and apparent Ukrainian successes, hence so many people who watch Sky have no clue of the reality on the ground. Came as a big shock when Sky viewers learned that the convicts and drunken mercenaries, poorly led, poorly equipped, poorly trained, defeated NATO trained and equipped and advised battalions in Soledar and Bakhmut.
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  862. and the fact you don't even know the place is called Avdeevka tells me this is all fiction.
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  863. Now how did I know that grieving mother would be weeping over a Ukrainian soldier and not a DPR soldier? "Ukraine good, Russia bad" remember, viewers.
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  864. he is clear-headed on so many topics. just a shame he has no idea how to get out of the Ukraine mess.
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  865.  @run2cat4run  In Russia you can shout out at your workplace "A man can never become a woman". Try doing that at your British workplace and see how far freedom of speech gets you.
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  866. The Butcher of Bakhmut planning his next step to get thousands more Ukrainian cannon fodder massacred
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  867. Amazing how The Sun gets so many basic facts wrong. No one knows where Jay was intending to go that morning. He never mentioned to anyone that he was trying to get to Los Cristianos. Total fabrication to say that was his aim MWT says it was 18 degrees when Jay set off walking. that's not hot.
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  868. :full swing"? with ZERO villages, settlements, towns captured? this is 48 hours of "full swing"? God knows what happens to Ukraine's counter offensive when Russia replies with a half swing!
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  869. Hopefully, once NATO has been demilitarized a little more and has been humiliated in Ukraine in the near future, Russia will annex the Russian speaking borderlands of Latvia. The derussification of Latvia has seen shocking levels of discrimination against the Russian speakers in Latvia, a la Ukraine, so fingers crossed Putin keeps Latvia high up on his list.
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  870. Notice how his entire focus is on speculating how many Russians have died in these battles, never what the cost is to Ukraine's cannon-fodder. His paymaster has prepared his script to biased perfection
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  871. NATO's assumption was that superior Western weaponry would force the Russians to retreat. NATO assumed wrong, and now has no idea what to do.
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  872. A price worth paying to defeat the Azov Nazis and to free LPR and DPR. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  873. Whether Biden raised the issue or whether Hur asked the question is irrelevant. What matters is that in the interaction that followed, the Commander in Chief was unable to recall the year his son died. At least Biden could recall that he had a son. That's better than most of us expect of him these days.
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  874. here's an idea. asylum can only be granted to those applying from outside the UK, those who try to enter with no asylum already granted are stripped of all valuables and returned to France, the country that admitted them and which is therefore responsible for their well-being.
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  875.  @regularshiftrs3676  USA attacks lands that are not USA. Russia is just following the rules based international order so trumpeted by USA
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  876. Nice life. elenska spends 40,000 euros in Paris, and yet gets to criticize other rich people for not doing enough.
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  877. the legal basis is that after 8 years of shelling from the Azov Nazis, the people would like to express their desire for a change of government.
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  878. the whole "Russia is running out of weapons" line is fascinating, because it indicates that the anti-Russia faction were pinning the hopes on wishful thinking from very early on.
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  879. yep, and it could be that extra Russian forces are needed to restore order in France, where the mutiny there is making Prigozhin's 24 hours of mischief look like a tea party
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  880.  @mikeyacson9542  not at all. France is responsible for the migrants, but not to blame for the migrants choosing the UK. France admits into France who it chooses to admit, and is then responsible for them. Similarly, UK is responsible for anyone who enters the UK. This is quite simple. The migrants need to be towed back to France, stripped of their valuables as payment for the expenses of the operation, and dumped back into France. The French need to be told "you admitted them, they are your responsibility, nothing to do with the UK". This nonsense would stop within days.
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  881. So if Ukra,ine is winning on the battlefield, and Russia is running out of ammo and weapons, why would Ukraine need more weapons?
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  882. I love russian bots. Zelensky is on the front lines and they keep saying he's in a bunker, while putin is rarely seen anywhere. Also the language skills of some bots are mediocre even if judging by short sentences they post. Apparently other bots already killed in the war. Russian, capital R needed front line - he can't be on more than one front line at any given time Putin - capital P needed Also, comma needed after Also, mediocre, - comma needed after mediocre the short sentences they post - definite article needed here other bots WERE killed in the war - or are you saying other bots were doing the killing? appalling language "skills" from a Ukraine bot who has so much to learn.
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  883.  @Ryanowning  market forces are timeless, but international sanctions are a relatively new measure, and globalism has blunted their effects particularly since the rise of BRICS.
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  884.  @StennMathis  pointing out the exceptions basically proves the rule. it's curious that those who choose to live in the rich, mostly white pockets lecture the rest of the country on the great benefits of diversity, but themselves choose to shun the most "diverse" areas.
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  885. free countries like...Ukraine? where Russian speakers have no freedom to use their own native language..."free" countries like that, you mean?
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  886. so, Ukrainian victories are now defined as slow retreats that leave thousands of their troops dead or captured, in the unlikely hope that the enemies' losses are greater! Time to revive the "Ghost of Kiev" lie to improve morale, I would think, or launch another futile attack on Snake Island.
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  887. covid...the only time in history people were rushing to get tested to find out if they were sick.
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  888. "extreme-droite" = populaire, qui représente la majorité
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  889. Given the migrants seem to be quite wealthy, how about an on-the-spot fine for attempting to enter the country without correct documentation, all valuables and cash to be confiscated and thence returned to France, where they were all admitted quite legally.
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  890. would that be wood from chopped trees that were planted to offset carbon emissions?
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  891. it is NOT Russia's reduction in gas supplies that has caused the crisis! It is the EU telling Russia that it (the EU) no longer wants to trade with Russia that has caused the crisis! Get it right!
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  892.  @trembo835  it's likely to go the same way as Ukraine. bye bye Latvia.
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  893. Why is she complaining? She wanted Russia to follow the West's "rules based order", and Russia is doing exactly that, copying what USA did in Iraq and what NATO did in Serbia. She should be delighted.
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  894. so I guess the ruble is hitting record highs, that must reflect a destroyed economy, right?
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  895. Zelensky has no conscience. Territorial integrity means torture and force.
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  896. yep, maybe Belarus will contribute all of 12 tanks to the Russian effort!
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  897. Surovikin is an air force guy. makes sense, if massive air power is about to be unleashed on Ukraine, that Surovikin focus on that, but as usual, Clarke just giving a load of guff in his wishful thinking way, "Oh Surovikin was demoted, tail wagging the dog" nonsense. he forgot to mention that Russia is running out of weapons and that Russian morale is low! am sure he'll remember his talking points next time.
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  898. It's astounding that the BBC now has to go back one whole year to report on one battle where Russia's losses were significant. In other words, in the last 12 months, everything has gone Russia's way.
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  899. that was the last general election. a lot has changed since then. and it has nothing to do with being pro or anti russian. it is about free trade. i am not pro russian, but i believe in free trade, remove the sanctions and do what is right for the poor of the EU. cheap energy.
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  900. building churches was a waste of money. feeding children just encouraged another generation to grow up expecting handouts. your grandfather was part of the problem, not the cure.
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  901.  @SuperCaelia  You mean Soviets?
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  902. and the more the Far Left, like DW, throws around the term "Far Right", the more popular the "Far Right" becomes. Thanks, DW, for your role in helping Europe swing to the Right.
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  903. I love how he is relentless and watchful of the interviewer's deflections and logical fallacies in her uninformed comments. Slava Rossiyi
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  904. no reason why they shouldn't be returned to Sri Lanka
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  905. never the quickest lad in the class, Clarke finally realizing the Russian attacks on Ukrainian power grid were all about depleting Ukrainian air defences, not primarily about knocking out the national power grid.
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  906. is it as horrible as the children murdered by Azov Nazi shelling in Donbass over the last 8 years?
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  907.  @onusbaum  qualified professionals are fleeing France and Germany too.
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  908. makes perfect sense, more long-range weapons in the hands of Ukrainians means Russia needs a much larger buffer state to protect Mother Russia. Again, NATO policy making things so much worse.
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  909. Conspicuous by its absence of course, is any mention that the Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are aimed at stopping Ukrainian troop and weapons movements (no electricity = no trains = no troop/weapons movements, + Rising, rushing Ingulets river = Ukrainian pontoon bridges destroyed cutting off their pocket of troops on the river's eastern bank). DW refuse to analyze military impacts on infrastructure damage, hence Military Summary Channel would be recommended viewing
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  910. again, wrong, Russia does have time. Russia takes years over its military objectives....look at Chechnya and Syria. Russia may take 2 more years to liberate Donbass. NATO may take 2 more months to run out of ammo, which would make things easier.
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  911. the "stick of gum" argument is infantile. GA law already has a red line drawn, as everyone in court knows. All gifts over $100 must be declared. so, if the stick of gum costs more than $100, then, yes, if that gift goes undeclared, the law has been violated.
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  912. the significance of Bakhmut is that the Ukronazis, trained and armed by NATO, poured all their effort into defending it, and they still LOST to a bunch of demoralized drunken convicts who were armed with just shovels! This is a horrendously humiliating defeat for NATO/Ukraine. May 20 2022, Mariupol captured. May 20, 2023 Bakhmut captured. May 20, 2023, Odessa captured? Kiev captured? London captured?
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  913.  @AngelaNewcomb  who mentioned race? seems like you are the only one that has brought up race. Are you a racist?
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  914.  @mikedon5205  oh, i see the logic, so the definition of dictator is tied to how many years a leader is in power! So, for the first 4 years of his time in power, Kim Jong Un was NOT a dictator! makes sense. you are right. only in a free nation like Russia can a convoy of military head towards the capital to express their frustrations. In dictatorships like Ukraine, such actions would be met with firing squads. you highlighted the difference between dictatorship Kiev and democratic Moscow.
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  915.  @hungusthefungus3461  believe me, if Putin was waging war against civilians, Ukraine's population would be half what it is. you are ignorant.
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  916.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Oh, I forgot, US knows all about kamikaze drones! Your revenge for defeat and humiliation in Kabul was to massacre that innocent Afghan family by drone attack! well done! proud of that are you?
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  917. Yep, now we see the results of having to pay for Russian energy in rubles, not euros, and the 40 billion euros worth of Russian tourism that the West threw out the window. Talk about unintended consequences.
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  918. Do the Donbass people have a right to defend themselves too?
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  919. please don't..they brought all this upon themselves
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  920. firing NATO missiles into Russian territory may well prompt Russia to return fire into NATO territory. I mean the destruction of Berlin or London may not matter that much, but it may.
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  921. so now Ukraine's EU neighbors are exempted from being dumping grounds for cheap Ukrainian grain, which means the Ukrainian grain will be taken to Germany, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia where it can be dumped and flogged off.
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  922. unless a leader with a spine decides to apprehend every boat and tow it back to France, this will never stop. it's as simple as that.
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  923. A third of the world - India and China. Those 2 countries abstaining, but happy to trade and work with Russia, means half the globe is absolutely fine with Russia
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  924.  Elena R  Some took refuge in Russia. Most Russians know of a Donbass refugee and that is why most Russians know of the horrors committed by the side you support, the Azov Nazis. Small numbers of Donbass folk who want to be Ukrainian and not Russian went to Western Ukraine. Some were forcibly evacuated, no choice, Many bravely remained, and many signed up to fight to be free from Azov Nazi shelling. The DPR and LPR militias have done a fine job over the last 8 years. all power to them. Only the true fascists like Elena would want the Azov Nazis to prevail.
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  925. now all the relatives have flown to Tenerife and handed all the cash they brought to Jay's mum, she can pay the kidnappers, and then reimburse the relatives from the GoFundMe so that the GoFundMe was, indeed, as she said, set up to pay for the relatives' travel expenses. so, yes, Jay to be released from somewhere on the other side of the island soon.
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  926. Trump doesn't need PA or MI if he gets NC, GA, AZ, NV, NH.
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  927.  @bigpants6121  no one is disputing that young people, like everyone else, have health issues. I am questioning why the nation's taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for their treatments. Families and friends should take such responsibility. Are you a Morning Star or Pravda reader?
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  928. again, Zelensky did NOT say what his country needs urgently. it needs peace and that means surrender.
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  929.  @D.M.S.  yep, and Ellis Island was the place where the poor were interviewed to see if they qualified for legal entry to the USA. See the difference?
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  930. we'll know the NHS is truly short of funds when it starts to question the value of having diversity and equity officers
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  931. EU leaders so childish they think they can decide when to turn the taps off.
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  932. correct. limited number of reasons why an individual would leave anywhere with 2 total strangers.
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  933. Ukrainian special ops were wiped out in Mariupol. they are buried under the rubble.
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  934. population decline, in the West, is not seen as a problem at all. The problem is how the state, that has committed itself to providing healthcare for all and pensions for all, keeps funding such Utopian programs when those working and contributing to the Ponzi scheme are declining in numbers.
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  935. I must say, all those people boarding the ferries looked absolutely horror-stricken, quaking in their boots.
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  936. Putin has plenty of customers. And decreasing supply will push global prices up. It's the G7 that will have to change, and they will, they will pay a lot more for energy, indefinitely
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  937.  massimomaghetti8349  Zelensky.....Zelensky gave the green light to his Azov Nazis to shell the Donbass.
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  938. Sadly, the Qataris and Saudis would send them all the funding they need and the Britanistan Caliphate would be established. UK tax payers would at least be happy in a different unIslamic place.
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  939. Yeah, Estonia heading down the path Ukraine took, discriminating against ethnic Russians and Russian speakers. We've seen this movie before and know how it ends. Tallinn, this will not end well for you!
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  940. totally unwinnable for Ukraine. Russia hasn't even mobilized for war, and has 3 times the population of Ukraine. The West is powerless to prevent Russia taking out the Ukrainian power grid whenever it so chooses. opposition to this war will grow a lot quicker in the West than in Russia. Disinterest in this war will grow a lot quicker in the west than in Russia. Ukraine's objectives are totally unrealistic. Russia will win.
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  941. Russian mothers are most proud of every single missile sent into Ukronazia to fight for the liberation of Donbass and Novaya Rossiya. and so should you be, Bandera lover
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  942. It's a shame for poor old Vlod that he has no air force, no navy and now only a trickle of NATO weapons
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  943. "women tend to get pregnant in their thirties", "there are these issues to address"...what, like laws forbidding pregnancies in your thirties?
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  944. the big winner in Rochdale was the low turnout. there's masses of voters ready to commit to the right candidate if that person can be found.
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  945. who would have ever guessed that paying people to stay home and not work for months on end would have caused inflation?
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  946. but not in Russia
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  947. 16th wave of strikes, that makes 13 since Ben Wallace said Russia was running out of missiles and wouldn't be able to do this again. 15 waves since UK said it would be sending sophisticated air defences to prevent such attacks.
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  948. you know those people who quit their job and then go crazy trying to survive while finding a new job? Germany told Russia we don't want your energy, and now in a mad panic searching for an alternative, an alternative that ain't out there. Papa Pu enjoying all this.
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  949. exactly the same goals that were stated for Vietnam and Afghanistan
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  950. curious these two totally ignore MWT's assertion that Jay left the airbnb and couldn't return there because he feared for his safety. it's omissions like this that fuels the speculation they say they despise.
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  951. so let me get this eight. Russia has wasted resources in Bakhmut, but the Ukrainians haven't at all, And Russia must have had far more losses than the Ukrainians based on, well, based on the fact that is the narrative we must stick to.
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  952.  @qbik911  sorry to heat that. no, nothing much in NY law makes any sense, but there seem to be a few out there that think this is all fine even though it was 7 years ago. I don't know anywhere in the world that pursues this kind of thing after 7 years of refusing to prosecute. just so bizarre.
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  953. Ah, Poland has become Haiti! Chop down all the trees for energy! What happened to the COP 26 pledge to plant more trees?
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  954. Ask Australians, where voting is compulsory. Russia just following the West's rules based system.
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  955. " I am Spanish and I live in my country. What kind of referendum can be held on Spain's territory?" So we can assume that all Catalan separatists and Scottish nationalists absolutely despise her sentiments.
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  956. yep, he said it, NATO wasn't ready for such a conflict on this scale going on for this length of time. No one at NATO remembered how Russia fought in Chechnya nor in Syria. No one did their homework. Everyone taken by surprise. Speaks volumes.
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  957. why does Ukraine choose to keep losing so much cannon fodder in Bakhmut?
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  958. Alexandra is not addressing homelessness. She is feeding it, making the problem a lot worse, and should be scorned for such destructive nonsense.
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  959. Russia does that every day, just your media makes sure you never hear about it
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  960. Back in Soviet times, Lithuania wasn't Lithuania, it was just one of the Soviet "republics".
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  961. exactly so. if there was a coup d'etat in Washington and Spanish language was banned from use in public in southern Texas, and southern Texas declared independence, followed by 8 years of heavy shelling by US troops and Mexico then invaded to liberate the new Spanish speaking republic of Southern Texas, I would support Mexico, wouldn't you?
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  962. was yesterday's Ukrainian shelling of a kindergarten in Gorlovka, Donetsk ALSO done out of embarrassment and failure? or....you are happy to ignore that particular horror? such the humanitarian, aren't you?
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  963. Had the police done their job, and released the relevant information, no one would have had to speculate! ONLY because tweets were circulating about the status of the suspect did the police eventually come out with "He's Welsh, born in Cardiff". And curious they chose those words, not "He's the son of African immigrants"."
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  964.  @Spectre11B  "should have been a domestic issue" why? should concentration camps and the Holocaust been left as a purely German domestic situation? should Kosovo have been left as a Serbian domestic issue? expand on where and when conflicts should be left as a domestic issue.
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  965.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Russia prevailed in Chechnya and yes, when you kill every soldier of your enemy, it takes a long time, but it is a real victory (unlike 20 years of American occupation in Afghanistan, only to see the enemy take over and win!) NATO, indeed, needs to learn some history before playing smart, like wars of attrition and how to win.
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  966. fair to assume Applebaum has investments in the US weapons industry
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  967. so a non member is threatening not to attend a members' meeting?
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  968. who would ever want to live in a low crime, high trust, prosperous place like Japan? Much better to live in the dystopian horror that is Western cities, right?
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  969. but no mercy for any Ukrainian madness, right? Russia does have a monopoly on madness in this war, right?
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  970. Russia says building struck in Ukraine's Vinnytsia was military target | Reuters When Vinnytsia chose to host a meeting of arms suppliers with government officials, it CHOSE to become on the front line.
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  971. French taxpayers have plenty of money to help Ukraine in a futile war, says Macron, but none to support French pension expenses.
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  972. Chechen Muslims are fighting for Russia too, so, what's your point? Muslims are fighting for both sides? big deal.
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  973.  @DjWellDressedMan  what the hell do you think Cuba has to trade even if the embargo was lifted? the embargo is just an excuse for failure.
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  974. Had these two hand-wringing dopes stood shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson a decade ago, this situation would never have arisen.
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  975. integration into society is working well. Brits are slowly but surely integrating into Muslim society.
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  976. "they maybe having some success".....Clarke's weasel way of saying "Russia is advancing"
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  977. @karmakazi apart from Bakhmut, there are quite a few other reasons NATO should be panicking. 1. the sanctions on Russia have failed. there is no evidence at all that the Russian economy is unduly suffering. Indeed, the IMF revised upwards its estimate of economic growth in Russia over the next year. 2. NATO never planned for a long term war of attrition. on the contrary, NATO over the last decade has reduced output of artillery and ammo. Russia, on the other hand, planned for all this. 3. Ukraine is bankrupting the NATO defence budgets. US produces about 250 Patriot missiles per annum! Ukraine used 30 of them just 3 nights ago, and STILL failed to hit the kinzhal that wiped out the Patriot battery! 4. Public opinion is turning against unlimited aid to Ukraine. Already, in Germany, more than 50% of the population are against sending more weapons to Ukraine. As the months roll by, more and more of the people will get fed up of Ukraine. NATO has failed and has good reason to panic that it is staring humiliation in the face. But then again, after Kabul in 2021, what's new?
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  978. not news. it's called summer.
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  979. would love to hear the other side of the story. at least once you have been subjected to monkey chants it would make you think twice about using the word "Gammon" in public.
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  980. "it's an unsolved mystery".......no, Seymour Hersh solved it, but you ignored his solution and hide from it!
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  981. all of you that champion green energy, lockdowns, the NHS, mass immigration, sanctions against Russia, unlimited aid to Ukraine, welcome to your reward. a government debt so big that investors will not want to touch the UK with a barge pole. Richly deserved.
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  982. still waiting for someone to explain what crime was committed.
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  983. yep, look how it went last time. while the bulk of Ukraine's troops were pinned down in and around Kiev, Russia snatched Kherson, Zaporizhe and chunks of Lugansk and Donetsk almost unopposed. try it a second time and their southern forces may well advance to the Dnipr. Game over.
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  984. did you have tears over the last 8 years when Azov battalions were firing on innocent Donbass civilians?
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  985. Don't include me. The Donbass victims are more deserving, but nothing stopping you sending your last penny to Kiev or to educate Ukrainians in Europe. I mean the members of Ukraine's parliament recently voted themselves a 70% pay increase, now that so much money is flowing in from the West, so maybe they could contribute a penny or two?
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  986. I guess so, and she is no doubt a massive fan of the oh so legal mass bombing of Libya and Belgrade
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  987. Waiting for the Sky report on the many places where temperatures are normal or below normal. hmmmm. and something tells me, once the "scientists" have made all their adjustments to the data, Sardinia will indeed break the European record, by hook or by crook.
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  988. dream on. tell me, which bridges over the Dnipro do you imagine the Ukrainians will be using to move all this stuff to the front lines?
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  989. true, which speaks volumes for the banana republic so much of Europe has become. Trump has done nothing criminal.
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  990.  @GF-pf6xh  care to correct what I said that was so wrong and give your evidence? or....you can't, only up for repeating the infantile "Ukraine good, Russia bad" mantra?
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  991. "Asian clientele"? what, yet more disturbances caused by people from Laos and Cambodia?
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  992.  @wynbrown5985  "should be" doesn't reflect reality. no responsible parent would ever take their child to London these days.
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  993. Great to hear him defend the rights of the Donbass Russians, even though the interviewer was DESPERATE to cut him off and prevent her audience from hearing about the liberation of the Donbass.
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  994. absolute dreamer. the tanks won't even be able to stop a Russian advance, let alone lead an offensive to Melitopol. someone needs to remind this fool that Ukraine had plenty of tanks this time last year. they all got destroyed.
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  995. No one has defended Brand. Plenty of people have come out to defend the notion that one is presumed to be innocent unless proven guilty.
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  996. Putin making sure the mercenaries that have been based in Odessa port are getting a taste of real action, and of course, making sure that Odessa can't be used for any more imports and exports. Best leader in the world, doing a thorough job, as usual.
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  997.  @IAm-NotHear  sure, if you measure success by land. but territory can be regained. lives can't. in terms of lives, the evidence suggests Ukraine is losing a lot more troops and can't readily replace them. guess what happens when Ukraine cannon fodder is all wiped out? Russia takes whatever land it wants. so a map of territory won or lost is meaningless unless you have a counter next to it adding up all the dead troops on both sides.
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  998. listing a pay off to a porn star as a legal expense is absolutely reasonable. it is a legal expense. the charges are bizarre and Trump will triumph. 10% for the big guy is the real crime that should be tried.
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  999. Russia has been through this in Georgia, Chechnya (twice), now Ukraine...defending the ethnic Russians no matter what it takes. Russia's tolerance for hardship is far greater than the West's. Russia will win.
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  1000. how many armies do you know that warn residents of upcoming attacks?
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  1001. Soledar has little importance in the big picture. what is really important is that Western media and Western leaders told us the Wagners were just mercenaries and convicts, that they were low on morale and poorly equipped, that Ukraine's battalions were NATO trained and armed, yet here we are, Soledar has fallen to the convicts and mercenaries. Yet we are supposed to believe that Ukraine is winning, advancing? NATO taxpayers won't put up with this for much longer.
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  1002. the day landlords are allowed to rent out their properties as they wish, rather than as dictated by government regulations, this problem disappears. the free market is king.
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  1003. Masca is the ideal location to either 1. smuggle someone by boat, unobserved, off the island, or 2. enact some vengeance for a drug deal that went south. Sounds like the Guardia Civil treated this as a missing person case, and failed miserably to deal with it as a criminal case. might be too late now. if the 2 strangers are wise, they bought a one way ticket to Brazil on landing in the UK.
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  1004. moods are shifting. expect much of the world to ignore yet another bullying mandate from the West
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  1005. yeah, and more javelins, and M77s and more himars and more of all those expensive game-changing weapons that have failed so far. NATO taxpayers have plenty of spare cash to give.
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  1006. Nice. Ukrainians should leave Donbass and let them (the Donbass Russians) live independently. Long live Donbass.
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  1007. Here in the Pyrenees, missing persons are found within hours, given the perfect conditions they had in Tenerife, and that is with all the tree coverage we have here. Dogs will listen and smell and, aided with the slightest breeze, indicate if there is a human presence at the bottom of the deepest chasm. Jay's festering remains would have been detected atop the chasm immediately. Guardia Civil are protecting someone very very high up.
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  1008. All the honour, All the love to sovereign Donbass, Fighting for the dignity, liberties and territory
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  1009. and the US and Ukraine would shout out "Ukraine is innocent" even without knowing any details about any bad news coming from Russia
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  1010. Just import cheap Russian gas as you did before
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  1011. the option of withdrawing, apart from a small number of troops on foot, has gone. Zelensky has not opted to sacrifice his cannon fodder in Bakhmut. He left it too late, so now he has to pretend he chose that option. Churchill, he is not.
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  1012.  @rv1684  there are so many more volunteers that are experienced and could have gone, but, wisely, they realized a log time ago, that Jay never entered this wilderness. He ain't there.
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  1013. bla bla bla
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  1014. Milley's job is to say what his commander in chief wants to hear. That is a good reason to NOT believe him.
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  1015. The Zelensky curse strikes again. Johnson, Truss, Draghi, Macron (lame duck), now Marin, Scholz tottering. Orban and Putin still very popular in their countries.
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  1016. it is indeed a great strategy. The case is already lost, so may as well let the public see just how biased and bent the judge is and what a sham the justice system has become. it will see more support across America for Trump.
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  1017. nope. that was Jean E Carrol
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  1018. just like when he described the Azov Nazi surrender of Mariupol as an "evacuation".
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  1019. we all know had the attacker been Paddy, a white indigenous Irish farmer from Sligo, all details would have been announced within minutes. remember the formula.....the longer it takes the Police to report the name and background and ethnicity of an attacker, the more certain you can be it is an immigrant, probably Muslim, with a criminal history.
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  1020. @@fredgarvin6097 a Parliamentary vote could be tabled today if anyone in Westminster really cared about immigration.
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  1021.  @RobBCactive  how little you know Russia
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  1022.  @leftylucy2263  the point is, he's an adult. Why the incessant "Jay", the "teenager", why not "Mr Slater". He's portrayed as a naive 5 yr old.
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  1023. totally hilarious that Germany might end up rationing energy....well, these poor developing countries like Germany, with its rolling blackouts, one can only hope they can join the first world one day:)
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  1024. what about the repeated shelling by hymars rockets over the last few months? how many cracks and holes would be needed for a collapse in tandem with a record high level of water?
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  1025. Ukraine's legal mobilization would look no different from its present illegal mobilization.
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  1026.  @blacklion8208  just as one example, McGregor will go into detail to explain the limitations NATO has on expanding ammo, shells, missile production. Clarke will NEVER analyze the details of military production. anything that might destroy his narrative, Clarke ignores, never tackles. he never has to!
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  1027.  @MikeTHEBOSS  on the contrary, McGregor has explained NATO's limitations precisely and has got it spot on so far. Clarke, on the other hand, just lies.
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  1028.  @steveosborne2297  McGregor needs no notes, but talks from the heart about his experiences in NATO and has insights Clarke only dreams of.
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  1029. the outbreak of war was not February 2022. It was 2014, when Crimea and Donbass separated from Ukraine following the anti constitutional coup in Kiev.
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  1030. As a non Pakistani I fully support and respect India's claims on Kashmir and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all of Kashmir within India.
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  1031. They are arriving legally. That is why none is arrested on arrival at Dover UNLESS asylum is NOT claimed. No matter how the migrant arrives, once asylum is claimed on UK soil, the migrant is legally in the UK. The only question that needs answering is why the UK government insists asylum can only be claimed in the UK, when the opposite (only claiming UK asylum from outside the UK) would reduce the migrant boats to a trickle.
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  1032. Judgement Day already here for Ukraine. it is destroyed. Ukraine should have implemented the Minsk Agreements
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  1033.  @slawomirozdoba4605  are all people around the globe who post comments in favor of Russia trolls?
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  1034. Russia just followed the US "international rules based order" as established in Guantanamo, Abu Graib etc
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  1035. she should speak to some refugees from Donbass, then she would understand why this has happened. or, she could have just paid attention to things happening in Donbass since the 2014 coup.
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  1036. "Western equipment that will become important in this fight". No, it won't. It will just get destroyed and delay Russian victory slightly.
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  1037.  @billcarson818  so how do the poor Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants succeed and prosper?
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  1038. if the war ended tomorrow and all sanctions remained in place, the economy would still be in a downward spiral. if the war kept going and sanctions against Russia were all removed, the economy would start to improve. The economy would really improve if sanctions were removed AND Russia agreed to restore trade with the West.
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  1039. "thank you to Boris Johnson for providing everything we needed to prolong the massacre of our men, creating 6 million refugees and for ensuring Russia seizes all territory it desires..Boris has supported us wonderfully"
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  1040. no one on the Russian side has ever mentioned an offensive. Only the babbling Ukronazi supporters go on about offensives
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  1041. and Germany laughed at Trump when he told Germany NOT to remain dependent on Russian energy.
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  1042.  @brettpilkington9539  he may well be dead in those mountains, and it will be fascinating to find out who killed him. my theories are a lot more solid than "hey, even though there is no evidence he wandered into this wilderness, lets look futilely for 11 days and find zero". now that is really outlandish.
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  1043. you must be living in a bubble and need to talk to more diverse people. Opinion polls show a 50/50 split.
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  1044. Wonderful to hear him confess he and other military experts were wrong at the beginning of the conflict. What makes him think we think he is right now?
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  1045. well if migrants are allowed to enter Italy by boat, why won't the EU admit them over the Polish border?
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  1046. Let me answer the question, Frank. Ukraine, rather futilely, keeps attacking bridges into Ukraine but never destroys them, so after a day or two of repairs, all bridges are working again, it really does nothing to hurt the Russia war effort.
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  1047.  @lepidoptera9337  sure, just like all the other deluded fools that think fighting on the side of nazis is a really good idea.
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  1048. "is he lying deliberately or are people around him not giving him the full picture" hold on to your seats, DW. Neither! Putin is right. This counter offensive is failing and going nowhere. So, DW, are YOU lying, or are people not giving YOU the full picture?
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  1049. so funny this guy is proud Ukraine retains control of Bakhmut, oblivious to the fact he is becoming surrounded. Like a mouse proud of the piece of cheese he has, not seeing the circle of cats around about.
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  1050. Putin has a profound knowledge of the historical background to what is happening in Ukraine, and he is well aware that borders and identities there are an absolute mess. No one has come up with any solution better than what Putin is proposing.
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  1051.  @facty_kit1742  Russia's security concerns about NATO's unceasing march to the borders of Russia, Russia's concerns about missiles, in particular nuclear missiles, right on Russia's border, Russia's security concerns about yet another US military base on Russia's border, you know, the same kind of security concerns that USA had in the 1960's when tiny little Cuba accepted Soviet missiles on its territory, when the US hysterical reaction to tiny little Cuba's decision brought the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe.
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  1052. It's not just Ukraine that's out of weapons and ammo...it's NATO that is close to the bottom of the barrel. Again, we were told months ago that Russia is running low on weapons and ammo...I get the feeling BBC has been economical with the truth.
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  1053. it's not the "Russian war of aggression" that is responsible for any of this. it's NATO's proxy war in Ukraine that has caused all this misery. what is so difficult about sitting down to discuss Ukraine's neutrality and self determination for the Donbass?
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  1054. Don't. Ukraine brought all this on itself.
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  1055. not the sharpest knife in the draw, Kemp finally realizing that Russia is fighting a war of attrition. just 18 months behind those who know how Russia fights, Richard!
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  1056. theories on what the 2 strangers were doing in a remote airbnb? booked for just a few days, close to the coast where drugs and migrants are smuggled in, were they avid hikers?
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  1057. Conspicuous by its absence in the conversation, the Russian success in setting up two pontoon bridges, a ferry service, pushing back the Ukrainians at the Ingulets River AND the multiple himars missiles successfully intercepted. Are we going to laud EVERY himars strike as a "pivotal moment" and disregard the hundreds of Ukrainian dead every day as nothing pivotal at all?
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  1058.  @99sillysausages  agree totally. no matter the befuddled state of Jay's mind, if the 2 strangers were still on good terms with him, he would have gone back in the house. seems likely he was kicked out.
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  1059. Like using my face to wear down the strength of your punches
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  1060.  @avet4521  of course you do. those would be the sentiments of any brainwashed ignoramus, makes perfect sense
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  1061. Given Latvia was where a young man was jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag, maybe a little freedom and democracy from Russia would be welcome to the genuine freedom lovers in Latvia.
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  1062.  @lr6477  In law it is only permitted to seek asylum once in the UK, whatever the means of arrival, so even if there were prisons aplenty, the migrants would be allowed to claim asylum and stay. Unless that law is changed, the arrivals will keep increasing. It's that simple. It neds to be reversed, namely, asylum in the UK can ONLY be claimed outside the UK, and those arriving with no valid documentation will be deported immediately and stripped of all valuables to pay for such service.
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  1063. there are no illegal crossings of the English Channel! it's all 100% legal. no one gets arrested in Dover, because arriving and claiming asylum is 100% legal. that's the problem!
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  1064.  @jd_99  the common thread is Islam. No one is surprised it's an Arab kid. imagine the world's shock if his name were Ying Tang Yu.
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  1065. l'idée des sanctions était de paralyser l'économie de la Russie ou l'économie de l'Ouest? Je suis confus.
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  1066. it's not the government's duty to "drive" any economy. the best thing the government can do to boost the economy is move out of the way.
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  1067. Zelensky dies but one year after his death he is allowed to return in human form to his beloved Kiev. Zelensky enters his favorite bar and asks for a vodka. Zelensky asks the barman, who recognizes him, "So, did we win?" "We won, oh how we won!" answers the barman.."and the vodka, you irresponsible, murderous fool, costs 6 rubles"
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  1068. and quite a few Chinese are in full support of Russia
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  1069.  @babajaga158  reality. if you don't calculate, you end up begging others, and begging is a really sad statement
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  1070. So YouTube is absolutely fine with Brand's words, they just insist that any money that would normally go to Brand now goes to YouTube. But Brand can still use the platform for broadcasting. And this makes sense?
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  1071. The himars that was sold to Russia by Ukraine, was that "making excellent use" of it? And the two that were already destroyed by Russia, was that an example of "making excellent use" of new weapons?
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  1072.  @JeffreyGoddin  she never answered the question! suggested answers "well, really well, spectacularly well, an overwhelming success, a disaster, terribly, total catastrophe, just as we expected, all as planned" blabbering on about how long the front line is, how hard they are trying, how well the Russians have prepared the security zone is AVOIDING giving an answer. but glad you thought this was an answer! always easily fooled are you?
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  1073. c'est ça
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  1074. will Christ receive the innocent Donbass Russians who passed away too, or will Christ reject those poor people?
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  1075. This is to be expected when Mauritius offers the PM a new suit and prescription glasses for territory in the Indian Ocean.
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  1076. as Farage once said "it's surprising just how popular populism has become" Rubin is right in that USA and UK are facing the same basic issues and very few voices in the mainstream want to tackle those issues. Big changes must come.
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  1077. yeah, maybe soon he will admit the fall of Mariupol.
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  1078. given the Azov Battalion was shelling the DPR for 8 years, safe to say the aggressor is the Ukronazis
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  1079. we always hear of Russia's "huge losses", but we never hear two things: 1. the actual numbers (apart from wild speculative guesses) 2. If Ukraine's huge losses are higher than Russia's
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  1080. "not relevant" = undercover cops OR there is no investigation, just a search for a body. undercover cops makes more sense, as the 2 have not been questioned in England either.
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  1081.  @karenhastings8561  i have experienced both systems. believe me, this kind of s**t doesn't happen in private companies.
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  1082.  @warbrain1053  surrounding Kiev was the means to get Ukraine to the negotiating table. which worked. incorporating 4 oblasts happened with no opposition, such were NATO and Ukraine focused on Kiev. Since then it has been a war of attrition. As long as the kill rate is in Russia's favor, which it is, gaining territory has little meaning.
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  1083.  @karliskokorevics6902  given the hostility, bigotry and discrimination that the Latvian speakers show to their fellow Latvians who are Russian speakers, it is not surprising that Russians would support serfdom for Latvians. Sounds like your russophobia has created a powerful enemy right on your border. Good luck hoping NATO will help you.
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  1084. NATO is toast. Its exit from Afghanistan was shambolic, and its failure in Ukraine is just embarrassing, NATO can only provide very limited second rate weapons to fight a proxy war, as NATO itself has no guts to actually fight anyone itself. but there is hope.....a few more courses on diversity and some more sensitivity training, along with those new electric tanks, should convince the world NATO means business.
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  1085. but not to innocent Russian people. Only innocent people of favored nationalities deserve your support. Innocence itself is not enough, one must check your passport to see if innocence deserves support, right?
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  1086. "what does Richard do this morning?" Richard drops his insane support for Ukronazia in the war with Russia, Richard focuses uniquely on UK issues, Richard stands shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson, Richard gets a bloody clue what Middle England really demands.
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  1087. and we all know how charisma puts food on the table for a poor family
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  1088. "Ukraine continues its counter offensive in Kherson" how would you know? there's a news black out on the Ukrainian side and the Russians say it's already stalled.
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  1089.  @kevinmcfarlane2752  I saw it on YT last night, but it has already been removed today. "Silenced" obviously the most aptly named film for a long time.
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  1090.  @Pfromm007  The Ukrainians recaptured nothing at all. They were handed it because the Russians withdrew. There was no face to face fighting at all. Learn the difference.
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  1091. you elected Macron, Macron told Russia that the EU wanted no more Russian energy, you got what you want, so....where's the news story here?
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  1092. and The West has no answer to the drone attacks. Javelins? Not a game changer. Himars? Not a game changer. Kamikaze drones? lights out baby, game changer just hit:) Slava Rossiyi
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  1093.  @ThomasDanielsen1000  name one lie that Hinkle said.
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  1094. @peterholden3672 unfortunately, state pensions are a LOT more than just a "Cost"! They are a contract between government and retired workers that a portion of their salaries taken by force during their lifetimes will come back to them in their retirement years. If you want to treat state pensions as just a "cost", then be honest, and say the cost of paying for illegal gimmegrants to be accommodated in hotels is a great idea, but paying all that we promised our retired contributors is now a bad idea.
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  1095. Ukraine's steady withdrawals and retreats means it is well on the way to liberating Crimea, right?
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  1096. No one has declared that Russia wants its empire back, so quit the lying propaganda. Most of the world recognizes that Russia has a right to defend and fight for ethnic Russians wherever they may be, hence Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia and now Ukraine felt the wrath of Russia after mistreating ethnic Russians, Places like Kazakhstan and Belarus have not suffered such a fate. Respect Russians, and live in peace...simple rule, right?
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  1097. after 8 years of the indiscriminate butchery that Ukraine wrought on Donbas, it is great to see the DPR and LPR getting revenge. and boy, how the West is making a mess of handling the consequences of ignoring the Donbas genocide. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  1098. well, well, well...Lvov gets just a taste of what the DPR and LPR suffered for 9 years. Don't be surprised if Russia decides to give Lvov a lot more treats from long range. there's 8 years of revenge to accomplish.
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  1099. I would recommend they move to a much more tolerant country, like Iran, or maybe China.
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  1100. this is just hilarious. talking of a planned Ukraine offensive in Zaporozhe when, as we speak, it is Russia advancing in Zaporozhe, the Kremina offensive stalled months ago and it is Russia closing in on Siversk. So funny this old dolt assumes Ukraine still has experienced tank crews after so many of them died in their metal coffins over the last 11 months.
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  1101.  @Robert-xy4xi  so true. NATO was so sure the sanctions would work and that Russia would not stay and fight. oh dear. NATO got it wrong. now what do we do?
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  1102. winning an award for "diversity and inclusion" will see another drop in share price. yet more bad news for Coutts
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  1103.  @Geranium2025  peaceful protest has failed for the last 20 years, so maybe if the Irish people fight fire with fire the politicians might start listening?
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  1104. right, so Russia suffered horrendous humiliation and defeats on the ground when it used flexible warfare to pull out of Kherson and Kharkov, but Zelensky pulling out of Bakhmut would be a tactical maneuver to save troops and weaponry for future battles. Got it.
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  1105. Even propagandist Bell knows that repeating "shaping operations" now we are in week FIVE sounds bloody ridiculous.
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  1106.  @TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar  just look next time you go shopping, and you will see goods from all over the world, but then again, as a Remoaner, you may well be totally blind.
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  1107. but you are NOT listening to their story!
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  1108. Ukraine too weak to even attempt a pummelling. all we hear is talk about a counter offensive, it never happens because Ukraine is beaten.
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  1109.  @vervetech9395  it's not surprising at all, unless you are one of those fools that assumes Russia is incompetent at such things.
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  1110. of all the far-fetched theories, the most far-fetched is that Jay managed to enter impenetrable undergrowth, become totally covered and obscured, died and then managed to prevent his stinking corpse from attracting flocks of crows.
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  1111. the same US Intelligence that said the Taliban would take 90 days to take Kabul? (they were only 84 days out)
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  1112. they said that about Sam Bankman Fried, until the truth was revealed.
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  1113. who is "we"? count me out. you send every penny you have to the billionaire Zelensky, not me.
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  1114. Russia knows that tanks swarming into Ukraine is not a problem. It might only be a problem if those tanks can reach the front lines, hence Russia is now working on cutting off roads, rail and supply links east of the Dnipr.
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  1115. would have been a lot cheaper to implement the Minsk Agreements
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  1116. we all know how the US would have reacted if an enemy drone had hit any part of the White House.
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  1117.  @danielc9967  The point I am making is that it is totally absurd to say that war can ONLY be justified when you have been attacked or invaded yourself. It is nonsense to say that Ukraine is the victim just because it was invaded by Russia. Let's have a look at the reasons why Ukraine was invaded. Agreed, let Hamas deal with the consequences. Ukraine is very much the author of its own distress. Ukraine deserves everything that Russia is dishing out right now. Had Ukraine respected its own constitution and ousted Yanukovich at the ballot box and not by force of arms, things would be very different.
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  1118.  IhuntFraud  The Donbass Russians are alive and well, living in Russia and so proud of how the DPR and LPR militias have fought against the bully Ukrainians in their battle for freedom. Slava Donbasu, Slava Rossiyi.
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  1119. but not drugged up so much he couldn't react with lightening precision to get out of the airbnb when the neighbor rang the doorbell
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  1120. "Oldham has been caught up in this grooming gang scandal" as if the Pakistani rape gangs had nothing to do with it, just a chance event that happened to afflict Oldham, but not Penzance.
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  1121. sure he went their for a holiday?
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  1122. now try to figure out how both statements can be true! clue.....it isn't helpful to endorse the lie of LGBT philosophy!
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  1123. and now, the truth. after 6 days of this failed counter-offensive, Ukraine has sustained massive losses in both men and weaponry. Yes, Leopard 2's and Bradleys have been destroyed. No territory has been gained, and at no point along the front has Ukraine/NATO punched through this Russian forward position. The Russian defence lines have not seen any action, because the Russian forward forces have smashed the enemy. Just a question of how long it will take NATO to understand the futility of this attack.
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  1124. "let the Police get on with it" yeah, 12 days of fruitless searching a wilderness where Jay never went is a really good approach. Guardia Civil should have listened to the internet sleuths, not Lucy Liar.
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  1125.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  stop kidding yourself! China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, all of Africa, all of Latin America, that represents most of the world, ALL of them more than willing to keep trading with Russia and to keep relations strong with Russia. The West tried to isolate Russia and failed miserably, hence the sanctions are a humiliating failure. BRICS has told the G7 to stop lecturing others on policy. Truth hurts, right?
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  1126. very little. profiteering happens at pretty much the same rate in periods of low and high inflation
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  1127.  @beatreuteler  in a war of attrition, what is the relevance of advancing 2 miles?
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  1128. Blessings, peace and luck from France to Russia. Freedom for the Donbass.
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  1129. Zelensky is certainly very short and certainly has caused all of the suffering. agreed.
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  1130. @Anthony M how about the billions of dollars worth of Coalition weaponry now in the hands of the Taliban? Or did the coalition fly out of Kabul with billions of dollars worth of Taliban sheep and goats>
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  1131. @Anthony M Taliban now in control of Afghanistan, totally. Coalition booted out and made to look loke bumbling amateurs. By that metric, BIG Taliban win
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  1132. Ukraine has not had a successful counter offensive in this war for 8 years, and this one ain't gonna break that miserable record. Time to call in Ghost of Kiev, right?
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  1133. "enough is enough" only works when you can vote into power an alternative vision. Labour, we know, wouldn't do anything differently. so GB is screwed.
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  1134.  @theblade9024  Zelensky's folly has resulted in nothing but a river of blood, ever since he took office.
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  1135. why shocked? with mass immigration and no incentives for landlords to invest, what else would you expect?
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  1136. "a 10 hour walk to try to get home" zero evidence that Jay was aiming to return to Los Cristianos.
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  1137. in their country to achieve what could have been achieved peacefully, had the West wanted that
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  1138. Given that Georgia already attacked Russia in recent history, Peskov well within his rights to warn against a repeat of that.
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  1139. Russia is a LOT safer than Paris these days! Sure, stay in Montenegro if you want freedom to say whatever you want about Russia, but don't think Western Europe has much freedom for you.
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  1140.  @realpolitics527  So you agree that Russia should now be allowed to keep the borders it has established in Ukraine?
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  1141.  @sanepillow59  1. why would developed land, with new housing on the land, depreciate the value of the land? you are ignorant. you think an empty field is worth more than a field with capital assets on it? you think it is cheaper to buy a field with a house on it than just an empty field? you truly know nothing. 2. landlords are not parasitical at all. they provide a service for those willing to pay. would you say a teacher, who provides education for a fee, is parasitical? this is much simpler than you imagine. no one wants to become a landlord because there is only headache and insufficient profit in it. period. remove government restrictions and the free market will take care of the problem.
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  1142. Day 17 of the 3 day sprint to the Sea of Azov, and the map hasn't changed, except for the 7 abandoned villages and a pig farm Ukraine claims to have recaptured. Not one single Ukrainian has made it to the FIRST line of Russian fortifications, the Russian forward troops are destroying the NATO trained lads and NATO equipment. Apart from that, obviously, Ukraine is winning handsomely.
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  1143. So, now for the truth, Chapman. there is no Ukrainian counter offensive in Kherson, There is only TALK of a counter offensive there, as there has been for 3 months. Look at the maps....they haven't changed, but judging by the way you butchered pronunciation of Lysychansk, I guess maps are not your thing. Also, you assume limitless NATO supplies can turn the tide of battle. Why? based on what evidence? at least entertain the idea that Russia has the capacity to grind on forward no matter what NATO sends to Ukraine. At least then you will be living in reality.
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  1144. you don't become Italian by being born there or living there or working there. it's much deeper than that. Euronews is confusing obtaining a certain nationality with actually being native AND culturally imbued with the nation. a dog born in a stable is still a dog, not a horse.
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  1145. reasons for Ukraine to do it; distract from the horribly failed counter offensive (which worked, MSM all focused on the flood, not the fighting) prevent a Russian offensive to Kherson city wash away Russian mines along the Dnipr shores and flood Russian trenchworks there allow Ukrainian troops to be moved to the Zaporozhe frontline, as the widened estuary now eliminates any threat from Russia
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  1146. good to know you changed your mind and are now praying for Russia
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  1147. EU values on display once again......silence dissenters any way possible.
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  1148. "Moscow's indiscriminate use of violence"...oh, in the name of fair and balanced coverage, will the next report mention the deaths yesterday in Donetsk of those shelled by Ukraine's indiscriminate attack, or is the idea to stick with the propaganda approach and just report one side?
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  1149. look at the map. if they cross the border into the part of Ukraine that is controlled by Ukraine, they do not end up behind Russian lines
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  1150. nice to hear Max confirm, finally, that there is zero evidence that Russia is targeting any civilians, but plenty of evidence that falling debris from both Ukrainian and Russian missiles hit the ground randomly.
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  1151. "Tourists go home"....well, duh, that's what tourists do, they go home, after injecting cash into your economy! masses of illegal migrants, however, don't go home. maybe spray the migrants with water, or better still, why not insist that tourism is reduced in proportion to all the Barcelona locals who pledge never to leave Barcelona ever again?
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  1152. So, if Lloyd Austin decides not to tell the world about his own health, why should anyone believe what he says about the health of Ukraine when he does decide to speak?
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  1153.  @joellee6142  Stalin never met with Britain and USA for peace talks, because they were all on the same side, you dope.
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  1154. congratulations! 10,000 young cannon fodder troops massacred to defend a town of no strategic value that the Russians will take anyway. Congratulations! Let's move on to Kramatorsk and see you do equally well there!
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  1155. and Zelensky would beg for 60 billion dollars to unclog it.
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  1156. Farage is the one that understands the nation's problems best.
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  1157. or negotiate for peace
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  1158.  @dansegelov305  take your pick! let's start with Merkel admitting over a million illegal immigrants! or, if you prefer, common fisheries policy (Lithuanian super trawlers vacuuming up as many fish as possible off the Cornish coast) or why not start with the fact the EU is a protectionist cartel? you choose!
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  1159. you have no idea how determined and united ethnic Russians are to achieve freedom and independence for the LPR and DPR. You have no idea.
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  1160. As a Russia supporter, I certainly do hope NATO decides to send in a lot more tanks. Russia will just destroy them, as it has done to much of Ukraine's previously massive fleet of tanks, and so demilitarization of NATO can proceed apace.
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  1161. Getting out of the ECHR won't change anything. Until we get leadership with the balls to just tow every boat back to France, ECHR or no ECHR, nothing will change
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  1162. Ukraine threw its sovereignty out the window in the 2014 coup.
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  1163. no, as admitted by Poroshenko and Merkel, the Minsk Agreements were not about getting a lasting peace, but to buy time for Ukraine to build up its military and its economy. that is why Germany and France did nothing to implement the Minsk Agreements.
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  1164. paying millions of healthy workers to stay at home and not work means now we have to pay the bill. the war in Ukraine has no effect whatsoever. the Western sanctions against Russia have a horrific effect. Green energy has contributed to inflation too. Investors aren't big fans of the blank check given to Ukraine either.
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  1165. so the pro Russian candidate is imprisoned in Estonia? Looks like Estonia has ditched EU values and adopted the Russian values that saw Navalny put in prison.
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  1166. "repelling Russian attacks"??????? I thought Ukraine was on a glorious game changing counter offensive? what changed?
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  1167.  @lcvillafan  either he felt he had to get away from the 2 strangers as quickly as possible, or he was told to get away from there as quickly as possible. for whatever reason, could be they told him to get out, get moving and don't wait outside at the bus stop, get away from the village. whatever happened or was said in that house reveals everything we need to know.
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  1168.  @reknakfarg7252  when only 3% of the electorate choose a candidate to be mayor, in my book, that is NOT being voted in. That aside, ethnic background doesn't matter IF equal rights and fair treatment is the way Kosovars deal with Serbs. But that isn't the way Kosovars deal with ethnic Serbs. Hence the EU is furious with Pristina for imposing such nonsense on the Serb community.
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  1169. Quran = Communist Manifesto, just look at the intolerance both books express for those who disagree with the contents of these 2 flawed works
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  1170. agreed, Ukronazi shelling of the Zaporozhe plant will continue, so that could be the next Ukrainian war crime.
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  1171. remember the days when Clarke and Bell were banging on about low Russian morale, poor Russian equipment, bad Russian leadership? Since Soledar they gave up those talking points.
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  1172. no need for Putin to cede anything. He is winning. Ukraine needs to abandon NATO membership and have neutrality written into its constitution, agree to outlaw all Nazi groups, agree to have a tiny army as overseen by Russia, confirm Crimea as part of Russia and also the territories Russia currently occupies. Then Ukraine can get back to being a normal state.
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  1173. how can there be any "vexatious reports" when all that is needed for a legitimate report is the perception that hateful speech has been made?
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  1174. almost certainly the suspect will have a traditional Dutch name like "Wilhelm" or "Johan".
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  1175. The Irish Republic is completely separate from GB! Both countries have horrendous immigration problems.
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  1176. as all the warmongers hope for
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  1177. since mid March we have heard, every day, about the great Ukrainian counter offensive on Kherson...just strange it never happens! Remember the Ghost of Kiev? Fake news
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  1178. no need to withdraw troops from the power plant. Ukraine just needs to stop shelling it.
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  1179. :1) "they have not said they are not going to take the whole of Ukraine"... yes, they have. Go back and read the list of 5 objectives issued at the beginning of the conflict. no mention of annexation or regime change. 2) We have a problem here....NATO cannot produce ammo in the same quantities as Russia.....NATO spent too much on sensitivity training and diversity/inclusion training, not enough on weapons/arms production...so in this conflict, Russia will ALWAYS have superiority of arms and ammo. facts matter. Russia has won.
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  1180. Given that the aim is to weaken Russia, according to Lloyd Austin, the Ukraine project is going well, because despite the kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor, Ukraine is still stupid enough to keep fighting until all Ukrainians are dead, and Russia is slightly weakened.
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  1181.  @AtheistEve  the problem is, Russia saw how the USA refused to allow any Soviet missiles in Cuba, and decided Russia had the same right to refuse Ukraine entry into NATO. It is the West that set all the precedents. the problem is, Russia saw US and NATO military intervention in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Libya, Syria and the list goes on, so Russia just copied the precedent already set. When there was a "civil dispute" between Nazi Germany and its Jewish citizens, did anyone have the right to intervene militarily? yes, or no?
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  1182. that summed up perfectly why Russia is winning. Incessant humming and hawing around basic questions that Biden and co haven't even considered, let alone answered.
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  1183. only one solution. tow every single boat back to France and confront France with whatever it decides to do about the issue. France has admitted them all, the illegal immigrants are their responsibility.
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  1184.  @justintimefortea7655  meantime, let's address the point at hand and see if you can answer the question. why the hell should someone else pay for your dog and any other expenses you had?
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  1185. remember, for this war, and this war only, the adjective "unprovoked" must precede the noun war/invasion/aggression etc. No need to apply "unprovoked" to any previous conflict, just this one. Propaganda 101.
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  1186. Just like in Soledar, Ukraine/NATO forces, armed and trained by NATO, have lost, again, to the convicts and mercenaries of the Wagner group. If MSM are correct, that morale is low within Russian forces, and Russia is poorly equipped and poorly led, what does that say about the losing side, the NATO/Ukronazi alliance?
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  1187.  @fantasy9917  thought so. you have no idea. field tactics reveal nothing about numbers and you have no idea of field tactics employed anyway. just wishful thinking that Ukraine is losing fewer soldiers than Russia. you sum up NATO's whole strategy. hope.
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  1188. the EU says it is ALWAYS open to asylum seekers! What changed? Suddenly the EU looks to deny basic human rights?
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  1189. ironic that Poroshenko, who had 5 years and the Minsk accords to settle all this, and failed, is now decrying Putin for settling this all once and for all.
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  1190.  @traceymitchell6619  i agree that Orfelia is not an independent witness, but i think it likely that Jay left the airbnb, that she saw him and there was some verbal interaction between them that neither of them understood, and yes, she probably saw Jay 15 minutes later on the road. and Jay's phone pinged the tower. all that means is that jay had walked 15 minutes up the road, and a bit later he, apparently, spoke briefly to Lucy. beyond that, we know nothing, except Jay disappeared. i don't get the logic that says Jay must have wandered off the road, slipped and died. given the drugs and gangs lurking in the background of all this, makes much more sense Jay was taken somewhere else or he walked on to the safe house the 2 strangers had set up for him, if they were on his side. the 2 strangers are key. are they helping or hindering Jay in all this?
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  1191. so cute that little Nick is swallowing hook, line and sinker every Ukrainian claim about its success rate at shooting down Russian missiles.
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  1192. Baffles me why anyone would think that the leaders that got us all into this mess would be the ones to understand how to get us out of it. Orban and Salvini the only two that would move Europe in the right direction.
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  1193. it meant we CHOOSE to control our own borders if we so wish, as opposed to having no control of our borders. We just need a government with the wisdom to decide HOW we control our borders. I would suggest goods arriving from the EU don't need to be checked. I would suggest immigrants arriving by dinghy do need to be checked. .
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  1194. Anyone travelling to African ghettos such as Paris should expect such outcomes. Quite why anyone would expect the night to go well in a kebab shop in Pigalle beats me. Safer destinations such as Libya or Kinshasa come to mind.
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  1195. No, you just watch every Ukrainian soldier die in battle, then watch the "dictator" take over. Great job.
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  1196. Yet again, we discover the European Union is often the European Disunion when the going gets tough and each tribe has to look after its own. It's downhill from here this winter, and beyond. But it's 100% deserved.
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  1197. Odessa is dear to the hearts of ethnic Russians, was the scene of the Union House Massacre, is on a valuable coastal stretch, and would link nicely with Transnistria...my bet is Russia will insist on Odessa and Kharkov at least.
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  1198.  @JC-rr1wu  I'm a big defender of Putin and the Donbass Russians, yes. Just as you fully support the swastika tattooed Azov Nazis and Right Sektor lads. As a British citizen, wouldn't be that easy for me to join the Russian army, but thanks for the tip. Here's one for you! why not REALLY support the Ukrainian war effort? Send Zelensky every last penny you have! You know he needs it to refurbish his Miami mansion
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  1199.  @hape3862  I am not committed to any energy policy. I am just fascinated by how so many people have become so deluded about the truth of the dire situation the West, in general, has put itself into. I am keen to see all the lies and nonsense about how the sanctions are working plays out. Yes, I'll enjoy watching the demise of the West, even though I am a part of it, because I believe in justice, and the West has blundered into a hopeless situation but keeps pretending it hasn't. it deserves to decline precipitously, and BRICS deserves to rise. it's just karma at work.
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  1200.  @Mikejackson-g2q  some of us fight discrimination wherever it happens, not just in our home country, but nice to know your humanity extends only within the borders of the country where you happen to live, the rest of the planet, who cares?
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  1201. No problem at all with Scotland taking Gazan refugees. Provided the scheme is 100% voluntary and private. Volunteers will sign legally binding contracts to provide food and accommodation to said refugees in perpetuity, and said volunteers will be jailed if they fail to cover all expenses for their guests and said Gazan guest ends up on the public dole.
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  1202. no evidence the pinging phone means Jay went wandering off into the wilderness. focus on the crimes, and the criminals, and their motives, not a pinging phone.
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  1203.  @hopeforbetter382  sure. DPR and LPR declared their independence after 8 years of unprovoked aggression from the bully, Ukraine. Donbass has every right to defend itself.
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  1204. no, honey, the war in Ukraine did not make prices rise at all. The consequences of sanctions against Russia did that. Had no one taken any side in the Ukraine war, prices would not have been affected.
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  1205. this is only news because it is a Ukrainian success. Russia succeeds in such strikes almost daily. We so rarely hear of a Himars success, basically proves how it has failed as a gamechanger.
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  1206. "scratching their heads" it's not that complicated. Russia is depleting Ukraine's air defence systems so that it can gain greater control of the skies. Won't be much of a counter offensive if Russia is unopposed in the air.
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  1207. where were you 8 years ago when the Azov Nazis battalion started shelling the poor Donbass folk to hell?
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  1208.  @Crashed131963  but when he wins, Putin will tell NATO under what terms it will continue to exist.
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  1209. so, if Ukraine wants more weapons and isn't getting them, which one is it? NATO countries have no more to give, or NATO countries don't want to give any more? Tell us.
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  1210. No, Chip, The Ukrainians do NOT have to take a maximalist position at the moment. The Ukrainians could, and should, do what they started to do in Istanbul in March and sit down and negotiate. When the West throws Zelensky under the bus this winter, they will have to sign a surrender treaty anyway
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  1211.  @Spectre11B  "almost unanimous condemnation from the world" nope. "the world" is a lot bigger than your Western bubble.
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  1212.  @luisekjeldsen1515  in wars of attrition, its men killed, not territory gained. foolish to assume the kill rate is in Ukraine's favor. see how Russia won in Chechnya and Syria, then you will get a clue.
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  1213. next time, mention the fact that Ukraine gained Kherson city, only to have to evacuate it and lose yet even more troops in the Russian artillery onslaught from the safety of the left bank. A Russian trap, beautifully executed.
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  1214. Liar! Wrong way round! The provocation came from Lithuania, reneging on the agreement to allow transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad
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  1215. implementing Brexit needed Westminster leaders with a backbone. therein lies the problem.
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  1216. must be nice to be so rich you can keep shelling out a thousand dollars a go to try and enter a country illegally.
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  1217. "tanks are expendable" yep, you got that right, 15% of the Leopard 2's already destroyed in just a few days of fighting! NATO weaponry proving to be definitely expendable!
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  1218. the only hope is Russia totally flattens Kiev with conventional weapons and USA decides to talk peace rather than retaliate with nukes.
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  1219. 4% of Hungary's EU funding was spent "irregularly"...what, as opposed to 96% of Italy's EU funding?
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  1220. For a force that back in March was low on morale, running out of weapons, described as inept and blundering, shamed by the great Ghost of Kiev, this is a pretty impressive recovery! I know that the 4 HIMARS the USA is sending will obviously turn things around and by October Zelensky will be leading the counter offensive deep into Crimean territory, in his high heels, but for right now....SLAVA ROSSIYI..Z
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  1221. yeah, NATO looks SO strong the way it panicked and exited Kabul in a fiasco of a disordered mess last year. Really impressed the world with its strength. Oh, and its move to electric tanks, sensitivity courses, diversity policies etc, looks so strong to the world, doesn't it?
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  1222.  @ashleywilson2072  so if you believe the government should allow second homes to be occupied by the homeless, what other property should be confiscated by the government? any family that has 2 cars? any family that has a spare room in their home? where do the rights to have private property end in your Marxist world view?
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  1223. so much safer in countries that have shunned diversity.
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  1224.  @abetterlivedlife  You can only make a profit when people trust your service. In a private company, the whole board of directors would have been fired by the shareholders way before the 7th baby was murdered. How many people have been fired by the NHS so far? The need to make a profit ensures excellent and trustworthy service is delivered, or bankruptcy ensues. A monopoly need not care about such things, hence babies get murdered.
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  1225. an energy price cap on consumers' energy bills will just keep demand high, so governments will be footing the bill, which means taxes will have to go up, or inflation rise even higher if borrowing and printing money are resorted to. if demand stays high, and supply remains low, rationing will have to happen too. Time to move to Hungary.
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  1226.  @creamofcardstv  Hamas refused to recognize Israel before Netanyahu arrived on the scene, so removing Netanyahu does nothing to resolve the issue of the impossibility of a 2 state solution if one side refuses to recognize the rights of the other state.
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  1227. After one year of this war the reporter has to keep reminding France 24 viewers where Donbass is (in the east of Ukraine) and that Lugansk is one of the oblasts of Donbass. France 24 must assume its viewers are not the fastest learners.
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  1228. so the entire report is based on the dissatisfaction of German voters regarding climate change because climate was the concern that registered a full 1% more than concerns of government handling of the Ukraine war. would have been a lot more interesting to hear what all the complaints were about German policy on Ukraine. Am guessing loads of Germans want peace talks, yesterday.
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  1229. "a MAINLY civilian area" = Ukrainian troops were based there among civilians, just as Amnesty International told us
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  1230. because as has already been shown to be abundantly clear, sanctions don't work.
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  1231.  @First-Last_name  France did invade Canada. You think the indigenous tribes of Canada invited the French in? French is indeed forced on people, even today, in Quebec. You try and go through the education system in Quebec with no French forced on you! The comparison I made is spot on. If you don't like it, look at Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has avoided all these problems simply by recognizing Russian as a language with equal rights and standing as Kazakh. Problem solved. Only bigots who insist Russian cannot be an official language get themselves into these disastrous conflicts.
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  1232.  @heyguyswhatshappening6210  Russian is the native language for all Latvians that are in the 25% Russian speaking community. Like saying English isn't the native language of Wales...English was imposed on Wales when the Welsh were occupied. So what? You can't change history, and none of the 25% of Latvians whose native language is Russian invaded and occupied Latvia! Why be a bigot against the Russian speakers for the crimes of Stalin?
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  1233.  @heyguyswhatshappening6210  You know, Spanish wasn't the native language of Mexico. Spanish was imposed on the Mexicans when they were occupied. By your reasoning, time to force all Spanish speakers in Mexico to prove their proficiency in Mayan, to become integrated, right?
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  1234. because it is an easy country to convert to the Sharia and Islamic state they so desire.
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  1235. so much for "living with covid" policy, back to futile rules and restrictions
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  1236. the problem is not the side effects from a vaccine. the problem is with the covid vaccine, for most people, their livelihoods depended on getting the vaccine. Choice was very limited. excess deaths from the effects of covid legislation and rampant fear of a virus has created much more of a problem than the virus itself.
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  1237.  @jeckjeck3119  on the contrary. sacrificing tens of thousands of troops in a futile attempt to retain Bakhmut means defeat. Had Zelensky followed U.S. advice to do what Russia did in Kherson and Kharkov, a strategic withdrawal, the Ukronazis would be in a better position today.
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  1238. it's only mid December. winter goes on through April there. let's see how many will be smiling and singing in 3 months.
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  1239. easier said than done
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  1240. The West (it's people) are largely tired of Ukraine (several opinion polls in many countries show the majority of people, especially the poor, care about cost of living, and NOT Ukraine. period) and as time goes on with more Russian victories, that number will grow. Russia now has no need to negotiate, it will slowly wipe out Ukrain'e's army and survive the sanctions better than West will cope with the sanctions' boomerang effect. That is the truth. How the West and Ukraine supporters handle that truth will be the fascinating story.
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  1241.  @freemusicforyou2011  he did? really? all I heard him whine about was Russian missiles hitting non military targets and how bad Russian arms production must be to rely on N Korea and Iran. I must have missed his other brilliant insights.
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  1242.  @TheTomexification  assuming the priority was to take the village over feeding as many Ukrainian teenage recruits into the Wagner meatgrinder as possible. in the end, three birds with one stone, Soledar taken, thousands of Ukronazis shredded, and the convicts doing much of the heavy work. Mission accomplished.
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  1243. looks like Andreas could do with losing a kilo or two. keep him out of the food bank.
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  1244. "my home country, Denmark" nope. If your last name is Aslam, very slim chance Denmark would be your home country.
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  1245.  @coffeecake8098  small town Germany needs to seek asylum in non threatening Syria these days
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  1246. "looking at making advances" = failing to make advances. everything these days is Russia making advances and Ukraine failing to make advances
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  1247. questions asked in Kiev..."what photos can be taken to make us look concerned?" questions not asked in Kiev...."If Putin nukes you, Zelenski, do you really expect us to nuke Russia?"
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  1248. Always chilling to hear a German mention that something is not "the final solution"
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  1249.  @StratoIV  how can there be a troop shortage on the Ukrainian side? Zelensky said there have been only 30,000 losses since the invasion!
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  1250. "tough economic sanctions" IMF projected growth for 2026: Russia 3.5%, UK recession. tough on whom?
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  1251. Depends if you are in a good position to repay added debt. Given that Germany is determined to deindustrialize and commit suicide in the face of competition from Japan and China, not many banks will be up for lending even more to a failing economy already in recession. Cheap Russian energy would have helped convince lenders, but Germany chose to throw that trump card out the window.
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  1252. would be more useful if the retired colonel analyzed why NATO got it so wrong in Kabul, 2021 and is getting it so wrong again in Ukraine, 2023.
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  1253.  @mikedon5205  Now the UK is free to protect its own manufacturing base and not the manufacturing base of 27 other countries! Tariffs on wine that were imposed by Brussels to protect French vintners are gone so, yes, British wine drinkers can now enjoy great wines from Chile, California and Australia at prices that are affordable! what a wonderful freedom it is to determine one's own trade rules, and not have them dictated to you by that corrupt body in Brussels.
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  1254. Blame the EU. EU law allows freedom of movement, so locals can never "get their beaches back". the beaches and towns are not "theirs" any more.
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  1255. the case will be withdrawn, just as Khelif withdrew his challenge to the IBA findings. attention grabbing theatrics, nothing else
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  1256. yeah, for encouraging more and more homelessness by feeding the homeless, she deserves a medal!
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  1257.  @lesgamester7356  yep, and Henry Seventh succeeded Henry Eighth, all makes sense in Lammy World.
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  1258. you must begin to ask yourself if talk of a counter offensive is just talk.
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  1259. we assume he is a journalist? In Ekaterinburg, receiving documents about Russian defence resources? he wouldn't be the first CIA employee posing as a "journalist".
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  1260. @@AndyK134 yeah, the truth hurts, right? encourage inflation and increase regulations = rental property crisis.
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  1261. I already contacted my MP to urge no more weapons, no more fighting, and peace talks immediately
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  1262.  @MAKCOH818  maybe not, but I do know how to play chess. do you know how to play chest? or chess?
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  1263.  @MrMartinSchneider  just as easily as you will find a willing donor for the brain transplant you so sorely need.
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  1264. Russia gains more and more international support every time it offers a ceasefire and every time Ukraine rejects it. India and China draw closer and closer to Russia with every clear rejection of peace from Zelensky.
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  1265. totally deluded about how things are going in Ukraine. also, totally deluded about how damaging government hypocrisy on covid was to the morale of the country
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  1266. Kira, dear, when will you realize that there is nothing the West can do to prevent Russia destroying Ukraine? The West said "we will stay as long as it takes" in Afghanistan, in Vietnam, they say that every place they ruin. Wise up, honey.
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  1267. "the only big city the Russians have taken"...except Mariupol is much bigger, and Severodonetsk ain't tiny.
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  1268. not if you are able to distinguish between terrorism and war.
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  1269. Until India and the West stand up, united, and announce to the Muslim world that blasphemous statements are allowed and welcomed, any time and everywhere, and those who disagree can move to a Muslim country, we will always have repeated bullying from Muslims. Sad to say, cowardice, and apologies to Muslims, dominate the West and India.
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  1270.  @SallyanneXxx  exactly! NATO has built up Ukraine for 9 years for this moment. now we see what happens when you under-estimate the enemy.
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  1271. A week ago Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were step by step advancing on Kherson. Let's just read the list of settlements, villages, towns taken by Ukraine in the first week......errrr, ok, nothing. but still, it's a counter offensive that is changing the tide of war, for sure. Call in Ghost of Kiev!
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  1272. so given that energy prices have gone up by more than 20 - 30% this process still means steel will cost a lot more than pre sanctions on Russia steel.
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  1273. "OUTSIDE Bakhmut Ukrainian forces are ATTEMPTING to encircle...." so, yes, Bakhmut has fallen to the demoralized convicts with shovels. speaks volumes for NATO training and arms that Ukraine's finest battalions got massacred.
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  1274.  @giuliochierici1916  you mean a free country where Russian language is effectively banned and where young men cannot leave the country, that kind of free country? Russia is so much freer than Ukraine.
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  1275. Hey, Zelensky, you wanted Kherson, you got it. Enjoying your occupation?;) "tents where people can go for warmth"..Ukraine under Zelensky
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  1276. except Russia
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  1277. This is what happens when an Indian US Green card holder becomes British PM.
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  1278. none of the NATO weapons are "game changers". tired old song that started with "javelins" then featured "himars" and now the chorus is "tanks, tanks, tanks" The game changer was Russia releasing the convicts to the Wagner group, who just routed NATO trained and NATO armed Ukrainian battalions in Soledar.
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  1279. "is it standard to search for 11 days in an area where no one saw him and which has no evidence he ever went there?" oh yeah, the internet sleuths are all wrong and Jay must be somewhere in that wilderness, even though there is no reason to suppose he is there"
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  1280. No, Mike, what is happening in Bakhmut is that a bunch of convicts you described as low in morale, badly trained, and badly supplied, poorly led, are defeating NATO trained, armed and advised Ukrainian battalions. same as happens EVERY time Ukrainian forces fight street by street against Russia.....Mariupol, Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Severodonetsk, Soledar, Pesky, now Bakhmut. The Russian meatgrinder filling up those Ukrainian cemeteries in remarkably quick fashion.
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  1281. Thankfully, most Ukrainian men are not as deluded as Svetlana and they know this is a futile war. My Ukrainian online students tell me most will pay the bribe, but it works only once, you pay, but then you must stay indoors forever, as the recruiters are not permitted to enter households, yet. Most "recruits" are jumped as they head into work, wherever that may be.
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  1282. we really trust Zelensky's words
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  1283. Guardia Civil really screwed up. The answers lie with the 2 strangers who were interviewed, and then, unbelievably, released. 12 days searching with drones, helicopters, dogs in an area where Jay never went is just lunacy.
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  1284. because that's irrelevant
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  1285. the Russian invasion was totally justified. UK has been backing the wrong side from Day One. Donbass was 100% justified to demand separation from Kiev, and UK should have remained neutral or backed Putin in forcing Zelensky to negotiate redrawing the map of Ukraine.
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  1286. DPR reports over 250 civilians killed in Ukrainian army’s bombardments since escalation - World - TASS DW...at least TRY to be somewhat balanced! You might just ONCE report on the 16 children recently killed by Ukrainian shells in Donetsk. or maybe those children simply don't deserve any sympathy?
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  1287. It's because of Big Oil and OPEC that a gallon of gas, with all the high tech and high production costs involved, costs less than a gallon of milk, for which a farmer has to just pull the teats of a cow. And a massive chunk of gas costs are taxes. If only you knew the great deal you got from Big Oil and OPEC, you would kneel down and offer huge thanks to Big Oil and OPEC.
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  1288. Finland ditches Russian gas for Russian uranium.
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  1289.  @Chiungalla79  the truth detected. deal with it.
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  1290. if by "we" you mean the russophobic West that can only view Russia as an enemy, agreed. If by "we" you mean the world in general, no, most of the world is fine with Russia. Global trade will increase and supply lines between most of the globe (that don't believe in trade-killing sanctions) will be fine. It's just the sanctions-obsessed West that will suffer, deservedly.
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  1291. Got a feeling it's yet another North African who's responsible, and not expecting someone called Patrick to be the name released.
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  1292. this is what happens when you send unlimited aid to Ukraine instead of spending money on national infrastructure.
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  1293. Khameini - we have the enriched uranium, you have the technology, want to help us make a few nukes? Putin - now we have the same enemy, the West, why not? Khameini - where could we test our first nukes? Putin - how about where Ukrainians are being trained to attack Russia....southern England
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  1294. safe haven? from the French?
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  1295.  @anjalicgirl  the Kerch Bridge has nothing to do with Ukraine. The Kerch Bridge was built after Crimea voted to, and indeed became, part of the Russian Federation. Only in your fantasy world does the Kerch Bridge have any connection with Ukraine. Time to wake up, honey.
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  1296. @peterholden3672 just curious about the "positive multiplier effect" of the NHS. does the calculation include all the negative numbers associated with the hundreds of thousands of family members that come pouring into the country to accompany the Bangladeshi and Filipino nurses?
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  1297. "targeting energy infrastructure to freeze the country into submission" no, targeting energy infrastructure to make troop transport via the electrified rail network impossible, and to deplete Ukronazi air defences.
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  1298. "his family say they are in a living nightmare" his family are a living nightmare.
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  1299. "we need to keep the Ukrainians in the fight on this one"...whatever happened to "Ukraine is winning"? We're just a step away from "one more round and we throw in the towel".
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  1300. Given Snake Sunak got us in this mess, how could we possibly hope he has a clue to get us out of it?
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  1301. Finland faces no threat from Russia, unless like Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Donbass and Crimea you have a large Russian speaking community that you wish to treat as second class citizens by placing strict limits on their native language. Latvia definitely seems determined to be next on the list, but not Finland.
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  1302. "illegal seizure of Crimea by Putin". Hitchens, after the coup in Kiev that you so criticize, the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev! A subsequent referendum confirmed that parliamentary decision! That is DEMOCRACY, nothing "illegal" or "seizing" about it, you fool.
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  1303. @peterholden3672 yes, do you remember Starmer's famous speech about ensuring the Pakistani rape gangs will face 24 hour courts and immediate convictions and imprisonment? No, neither do I.
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  1304. After Rotherham and Telford, etc, why would anyone go to the Police with accusations of a sexual nature?
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  1305. if this is revenge for 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling Donbass, Ukraine has just 7 more years and 2 months to put up with this:) Enjoy every minute of it and reflect on how Minsk Agreements should have been implemented.
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  1306. If the grain came from Russian occupied territory, then it's Russian, not Ukrainian. If the farmers/grain merchants who produced it/stored it are the recipients of the money raised by the sale of the grain, Russia deserves thanks, not condemnation.
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  1307. who would have ever thought that printing money in abundance, paying healthy people to stay home and not work, increasing debt and sanctioning Russia would lead to rampant inflation and real pay decreases?
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  1308. integration is of no importance whatsoever. How integrated have the Amish become in American society? Respect for the laws and traditions of the host country is paramount, and being a producer and not a parasite would be essential. Integration is not needed, though most welcome.
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  1309.  @thomasbaader6629  funny, then, how everything McGregor has said has come true!
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  1310.  @B1GK1NG  quick list of all settlements recaptured by Ukrainian forces please? hmmmmm crickets
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  1311. "fails to provide decent housing"....the West's problem in a nutshell. Housing is now seen as something a person is given and doesn't have to work for.
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  1312.  @andrewwarren4206  "directly support aiding Ukraine" includes humanitarian aid, which Hungary has given, so Orban is in line with what 58% of the people say. What is fascinating is that a massive 42% are NOT in favor of any direct aid to Ukraine at all! Many Hungarians just totally fed up with Kiev in every way.
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  1313. yep, as Amnesty International explained, this is what happens when Ukraine uses human shields and residential areas for their military forces and weapons. Russia totally attacking discriminately.
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  1314. In addition, a pig farm next to the settlement has been seized by Ukraine, at the cost of another 500 men and 3 Leopard 2's. Everything going really well in Zelensky's "Operation Cannon Fodder Kill".
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  1315. "so close to a two state solution" there already is a two state solution. 80% of the Palestinian Mandate is now Jordan. The remaining 20% should be Israel. There you have your 2 state solution.
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  1316. "we have to support Ukraine right to the end" so, when can we expect Rod's kids and nephews to be off to Chasov Yar to join the Ukrainian cannon fodder? Or, maybe when Rod said "we" he meant other people should die first, not his family.
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  1317. it may be that Starmer respects those who gave their lives for the country. but the question is, does he respect the number of votes Muslims give to Labour even more? if Starmer REALLY respected Britain's war heroes, he would have insisted on wearing a poppy all day, and sincerely apologized if the poppy had fallen out unbeknownst to him.
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  1318.  @frankjames7272  very diluted English I would suggest
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  1319. A good way to deter Russian aggression would be to treat ethnic Russians with dignity and humanity. Moldova failed to do this in Transnistria, and Ukraine failed to do this in Donbass. The West ignored both outrages. Bet the West will pay more attention next time (and the next time could well be in the Baltics)
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  1320.  @putinmustenduplikegaddafi2236  no one here is comparing the two conflicts at all. I am highlighting the fickle nature of Western promises. The West promised unswerving support to the Afghans....until it was clear the Taliban could not be eradicated. Same is happening with Ukraine. It is becoming clear that Russia cannot be defeated, so support will disappear and the West will move on to the next victim country to embrace and then disappoint. My bet is on Taiwan.
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  1321. the overprinting money comes as a result of over spending. the two go hand in hand. never has there been massive debts without massive increases in government spending.
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  1322. When Baerbock announces "we are at war with Russia" then Germany should not be surprised if Russia starts targeting Berlin to see if Article 5 will be triggered.
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  1323. interesting that the Ukronazi troops were filmed out in the countryside, not in the city of Bakhmut. looks like the demoralized, poorly equipped and poorly led Wagners have beaten the NATO trained and NATO armed boys.
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  1324. Fani - oh my love, let me treat you to a luxury birthday trip to Belize for your birthday Nathan (world traveler) - thanks babes, just give me your credit card details and I'll book the trip Fani - oh no, it's easier if you book it all and pay for it all on your business credit card, and I'll reimburse you the thousands in cash, in Belize Nathan (world traveler) - great idea. everyone says it's a really good idea to wander around crime-ridden Belize with bundles of thousands of dollars all wrapped up in your fist.
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  1325. Every migrant that arrives in Dover and claims asylum is 100% legal. Once the government realizes that all asylum claims need to be made before arrival in the UK, NOT on arrival in the UK, then the Royal Navy can lawfully intercept these boats and return them to France.
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  1326. present at the meeting, were you? or just repeating gossip that appeals to you? Ukrainian words like "Ghost of Kiev" mean the truth, always?
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  1327.  @gizmo6746  freedom for every Ukrainian to be compelled to use only Ukrainian in schools and public settings, even in Russian speaking communities, oh and the freedom to honor a Nazi, Bandera, who massacred 4000 Jews in Lvov in 1941. as a national hero. yes, so many freedoms Ukrainians are fighting for.
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  1328. What is simply stunning, in Britainistan 2024, is to learn such a welcome addition to the nation's diversity was refused TWICE for asylum! Two clerical errors in a row is a rarity in such cases.
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  1329. if, as Amnesty International pointed out, the "civilian" targets are where Ukraine is concealing troops and weaponry, then Russia is not attacking civilian targets.
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  1330. Zelensky - Our air defences don't work. we're getting hammered. can you help? Sunak - of course. here's 12 tanks.
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  1331.  @henkhenk7467  one km a day + 1000 Ukrainian casualties a day...give the full picture:)
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  1332. so the only thing that is "fascist" about Meloni is the flame symbol? Keep in mind Mussolini was a Socialist and Fascism is more connected with Socialist ideology than anything on the right. Given the Center and Left have failed to tackle the illegal immigration issue, Italy is left with no choice but to turn to the Right.
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  1333. Russia is winning the war of attrition (it always does) and Ukraine is dangerously short of missiles. the only hope is to switch to tanks and hope to win tank battles. won't happen. Russia will destroy most of the tanks before they get to the front. Ukraine is toast, NATO too.
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  1334. can't be that bad then, with all those thousands of people happy to line up outside despite the advisories not to.
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  1335.  @Chuck_N0rris  Bakhmut is a city. it is now completely occupied by the Russians. Ukraine lost, yet again. the Ukraine offensive on the flanks was halted yesterday....the ukronazis are now staring at Klysheevka and wondering how many thousands of cannon fodder they will lose in storming that place. what makes you think it was the capture of Bakhmut that was the priority over the last year?
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  1336.  @serebii666  Western Intelligence? What is Western Intelligence? name the country and the organization! like UK MOD. Western Intelligence is too vague. what would i google to see this "Western Intelligence" and how do you think this "Western Intelligence" makes its calculations? when you say "they" literally copy and pasted, who is "they"? let's get specific here.
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  1337. Zelensky's hoping his dream scenario takes place; a coup while he is out of the country with his one way ticket to Miami secure in his pocket.
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  1338.  @johnnyjohnson2268  well, we know West Yorkshire police never investigated Pakistani rape gangs because they feared the perception of racism, so maybe the Spanish Police are following the same pattern, don't accuse any black guys of any wrongdoing!
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  1339. "J'en ai marre de la guerre en Ukraine" dit la Slovaquie, alors, à voir si la Pologne dira la même chose ou pas.
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  1340. did you fully support India's sovereignty and territorial integrity before Pakistan separated from India?
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  1341.  @ratchet2505  it's the repeated "giving a hand" that increases dependency and makes it all worse.
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  1342. Good luck and more power to Philippines heroes, Abu Sayyaf.
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  1343. With a kill rate of 8:1 in Russia's favor, and NATO weapons supply dwindling, the Wagners have no real need to take Bakhmut, just as long as Zelensky keeps serving up his cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder, demilitarization of Ukraine rolls on apace. Slava Rossiyi.
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  1344. the very fact that they keep talking about Rwanda and barges shows they have no will to stop the boats coming. pointing fingers at "criminal gangs" is a way of saying that the bad guys are those who help migrants come to the place that welcomes them with open arms.
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  1345.  @AndRottn  they do have the same rights. a hetero man has the right to marry a woman, and gay man has the right to marry a woman.
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  1346. because a refusal to do so would be racist, you know how the game goes.
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  1347. Get it right! ffs. Jay never said to anyone that he intended to walk to Los Cristianos.
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  1348. Zelensky knows, but Zelensky is getting rich with all the dollars flowing to Kiev, both Zelensky and USA want this racket to keep going as long as it takes.
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  1349. Zelensky...dead Ukrainian soldiers can't blab everything they know about what happened at Mariupol and how appallingly Zelensky has led the war effort.
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  1350. The best thing Lithuania can do to minimize Russian aggression is to start treating its ethnic Russians with fairness and equality. Ditto Latvia.
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  1351. they only started searching seriously when a specialist group arrived from Holland to find Jay!
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  1352.  @LesleyDT6227  you only just noticed that? it's been that way since 2015.
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  1353. Glory to Donbass, after 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling, this is revenge
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  1354. USSR and Russia not the same thing. That said, Russia is very experienced in winning wars of attrition (as seen in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria). Russia has prepared for this conflict and will not run out of weapons. The West has made so much preparations and is as at a loss to know what to do in a conflict where air superiority has not been attempted and thus not achieved. Unless NATO gets involved with planes in the air and boots on the ground, Russia will exhaust the West. There is also a good chance Russia will win even if NATO does get involved in the air and on the ground.
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  1355. that's right! Like banning Russian language in schools, banning a branch of religion reinforces the perception that Ukraine is indeed a tyranny. well, at least opposition parties are still allowed in the Ukrainian parliament....oh, wait, maybe not.
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  1356. Fani figured out how to use taxpayers' money to enrich herself and her lover. it's that simple.
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  1357. modest gains? thousands of Ukrainian troops have been killed, captured or trapped. thousands! tell the mothers of Ukraine's cannon fodder young men that Russia's success is "modest"!
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  1358. "Russia's strikes hit......." no, honey, we don't know what hit the building. could be the Russian missile, could be the Ukrainian air defence missile, could be shrapnel from either. try to be honest, at least.
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  1359. "they didn't have anything like the resources they needed" oh but they did! Zaluzhny listed everything he would need for a successful counter offensive, and he got what he asked for. Zalensky, Zaluzhny and NATO dopes like Frank all assumed the Russian withdrawals from Kharkov and Kherson would be replicated, because, we were told, Russia is poorly led, poorly equipped, and with low morale. You got it WRONG! How about an apology to the families of the dead cannon fodder?
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  1360. Zelensky had his chance in March. Russia is now winning, so no need to negotiate anything
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  1361. great to know that any racist thoughts I may have can be blamed on the black DNA in me.
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  1362. conspicuous by its absence, he failed to mention that Wales voted for Brexit. nice try though, as always, to pin all blame on England.
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  1363. It's not the war that is sending prices higher. it's the sanctions, Thanks EU
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  1364.  @Slotsaurus  NATO's unrelenting expansion, despite promising in 1990 not to do so, is a major red line for Russia, as is the relentless shelling of ethnic Russians for 9 years in Donbass. Russia was totally provoked, and with hindsight, should have intervened 9 years ago.
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  1365. so, no mention of the Ukrainian attack on Donetsk that killed at least one person during Easter mass. so one-sided it would be better to allow RT broadcasts in Europe so that balanced media coverage would be available.
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  1366.  @hape3862  gas prices for the consumers are NOT down to pre-war levels. You need to take a look at some of the energy bills EU consumers have been sent. LNG tankers are indeed lined up to off load......simply because Europe has a dearth of LNG storage facilities, one of Europe's big problems. Order LNG, can't get it from boat to shore to customer. winter has not come yet, nor has EU's economic disaster...but like winter, we know economic disaster will come at some point. Yes, you are fine, now. will you be fine when you find grandma frozen to death on Christmas day?
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  1367. even if the ukronazis did it? we give them a free pass, don't we?
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  1368.  @boozolini4465  Ukraine had no nukes to give up. They were Soviet nukes, and the world decided the safest thing would be for just one successor nation to the |USSR, namely Russia, to have control of such nukes. Kazakhstan lost the Soviet nukes on their territory too.
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  1369. right, Zelensky, mentioned in the Panama Papers as having a dodgy fortune beyond the reach of European banking laws, is suddenly worried about corruption.
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  1370. Zelensky doesn't need a re-shuffle. He just needs to remove the man who is far more popular than he is, so that a coup is avoided, at least for now.
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  1371. looks like the price is the entire nation of Ukraine. how very nice of them to sacrifice themselves for us.
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  1372.  @faiezcader5681  so true. similarly, if you started the war with everything you need and now nearly all of it is destroyed, you ain't winning.
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  1373. throw the book at Bojo. he caused absolute misery with his draconian measures that he himself ignored. he belongs behind bars
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  1374. so, she's really angry that Russian speaking children finally get taught in their native language and have been liberated from Russophobic indoctrination. her bigotry reveals the heart of the problem in Ukraine. Slava Rossiyi
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  1375.  @bigeasy9259  it's the nazis I met in Ukraine that guide my thinking. like the one the Canadian parliament just saluted and honored.
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  1376. well, well, well, after all the Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod, imagine the Russians not caring too much about civilian casualties in Kharlov oblast.
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  1377.  @Spectre11B  25% of the world lives in India and China. How did those two nations vote? Oh, sure, St Lucia and Barbados will always cast their votes with USA. They depend on USA. Doesn't mean a thing. Instead of UN votes, look at actions. How much of the world has refused to continue trading and working alongside Russia? China, India, Brazil, South Africa, OPEC, Indonesia, all of Africa, Mexico, the vast majority of the world has decided to work with Russia and NOT isolate Russia. If you had any clue how most of the world views Russia, you would NEVER have bought into this Western delusion of isolating Russia. Western bubble deludes itself.
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  1378.  @Groggybandito  "on a battlefield that meant nothing" so, your answer is that it was Zelensky that lied. next question. how many other lies do you think Zelensky has told the world about this conflict?
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  1379. please cover how deluded outfits like the Telegraph ever thought that NATO/Ukraine could ever defeat Russia in a ground war and examine what assumptions were made that were totally wrong.
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  1380. into MONTH THREE of the Ukrainian offensive, so let's take a look at the list of villages, towns and cities regained by Ukraine......oh, nothing. not one single Ukrainian fighter has even reached the first line of Russian defences! that can be classified as a disastrous failure. thanks, NATO.
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  1381. especially to those Russian speaking Ukrainians defending their Donbass homeland
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  1382. i agree. given the hilarious propaganda he spouts, it's fun to see him twist and turn and try to explain how Ukraine is winning every time.
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  1383. when academics closeted away in their ivory towers actually walk around downtown areas of Western European towns and cities, they won't bother even asking the question.
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  1384. Russia doing a great job of applying constant pressure all along the front lines, forcing Ukraine to burn thru ammo faster than NATO can replace it. Russia is king of war by attrition. Slava Rossiyi
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  1385. "Russia's expected spring offensive" Russia has said nothing about any offensive. Yet again, DW repeating what it imagines is the truth, not the truth.
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  1386. Bucha is also the place where Ukrainian troops are accused of multiple atrocities
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  1387. they'll just get destroyed.. Russian air defences are excellent.
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  1388. so calling up reservists is "desperation" (I guess USA and UK were both "desperate" when they did the same thing for Afghanistan and Iraq) but Ukraine's forbidding any male under 60 from leaving Ukraine and instituting full mobilization is...well...NOT desperate?
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  1389. "indiscriminate Russian shelling"....come on DW, read the Amnesty International report, where its clear Ukrainian military uses residential/civilian areas for its troops and weaponry
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  1390. most of the world is backing Russia so far..Latin America, Africa, Asia (minus Japan)...so when do you think most of the world will switch from backing Putin to laughing at him?
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  1391. Not only has Russia claimed to have taken control of Lysychansk and Luhansk, but Ukraine has admitted losing Lysychansk and Luhansk. One down, one to go ...on to Donetsk
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  1392. "they're not military targets to why does Russia keep doing it?" ask NATO, as NATO did the same in Serbia, and USA did the same in Iraq. Russia should be applauded for copying the "rules based international order" to perfection.
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  1393.  @SMOKUHHH  I'm on about the photo and what it shows, not what you imagine it shows.
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  1394. translation - The Wagners have won and the Ukronazis have been kicked out of Bakhmut. The ukronazis in Chasov Yar are now bricking it. There is no evidence of any counter offensive brewing, just incessant morale boosting talk of a counter offensive. the demoralized drunken convicts armed with just shovels have kicked out the NATO armed and trained Bandera battalions. end of report.
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  1395. Zelensky has conspicuously gone from never leaving Kiev to spending every single day possible out of Ukraine. Word on the street is a coup is brewing and Zelensky would be delighted to deposed while abroad. Makes sense.
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  1396.  @gooldii1  believe me, it's not worth translating.
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  1397. it's revenge for Ukraine's crime against humanity
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  1398. what's the point in employing more cops who refuse to enforce the law?
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  1399. I'm sure you loved Nana's relentless pushing of the Covid vaccine that turned out not to be a vaccine, too.
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  1400. RUSSIA HIT THEIR TARGET IN VINNITSIA! arms suppliers got a kiss from Putin! Russia says building struck in Ukraine's Vinnytsia was military target | Reuters
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  1401. just imagine if Russia declared war and fully mobilized
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  1402.  @eoliveira3087  the 4 horsemen part just sums up wayward NATO thinking. what made NATO think that fellow sanctioned nations like Iran, N Korea, and Russia would never co-operate to ensure a Russian victory? NATO's mistake was to think Russia would become isolated.
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  1403. Poland absolutely wetting itself that a missile entered its air space. Wuss Nato hand wringing.
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  1404. yeah yeah yeah, throw more money at the problem and things will get better, but they won't we all, know it. just take a look at the homicide rates in Jamaica, Bahamas, Trinidad and it explains everything.
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  1405. not yet. how many will get destroyed before they see action on the front lines?
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  1406. this is what happens when in-fighting is needed within a party to get the nomination, then immediately followed by mass kiss-and-make-up.
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  1407. Compared to the desperate, dejected look of the 2 clowns, Biden and Zelensky, in DC this week, Putin looked confident, cheery, in total control. Oh, what a desperate mistake the West made in taking on Russia, and what a catastrophic mistake Ukraine made in thinking the West could help Ukraine to victory.
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  1408.  @johnmccarron7066  after 8 years of Donbass civilians targeted by Azov Nazis, yes, some of us want revenge. fair enough? Only 7 more years or so to put up with this:)
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  1409.  @TheSillyStringTheory  obviously not. if supply were elastic there would be no need for a price cap. it is the very inelasticity of energy supply right now that is driving prices up. supply low and inelastic = price rises, the markets way of determining distribution. introduce a price cap, demand exceeds supply, rationing or completely running out is the result.
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  1410. "after repeated defeats elsewhere" when the kill rate is 8:1 in Russia's favor, every day is a victory for Russia.
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  1411. China made its mind up a long time ago. China is backing Russia, and China hopes Russia can win this conflict on its own, but China will help if needed.
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  1412. remind me, sanctions against Russia were supposed to cripple the Russian economy and effect a change in leadership, or supposed to cripple the British economy and effect a change in leadership?
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  1413. "what on earth are you thinking? what on earth are you doing that for? after 30 years of being on the receiving end of Muslim and immigrant violence, the native Brits are enjoying their turn, having their say. what's so difficult to understand?
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  1414.  Lou Smith  Zelensky owns a villa in Tuscany and a mansion in Miami. Are EU citizens as wealthy as Zelensky?
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  1415. it's "expert" analysis like this twaddle that tells me Russia is winning.
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  1416. once again, a stunning victory by the EU to transfer business traditionally located in the West to Russia, and thus enhance revenues for Russia's war effort.
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  1417.  @richardbutler2749  a reflection of your warped mind
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  1418.  @tomarmstrong1281  The UK alone has a prime minister that was never voted in as PM by the voters, and a Foreign Secretary who received zero votes to represent the UK citizens in the last election.
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  1419.  @dragilxcom4176  so if Zelensky is blatantly lying about this, what else has he lied about? Bucha?
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  1420. The spirit of Schengen disappeared with Covid. Now, borders are back, just not necessarily on the border. Traffic entering France from Spain is monitored by Police and border guards at the first Autoroute pay station, and Police are on all the trains that cross the border. Technically the border is open, but entry to France is not. The Italian border is VERY tightly controlled.
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  1421. shovel production must be very low, hence Russia must resort to kinzhals, drones and cruise missiles. desperate times for Putin.
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  1422.  @Serg_Bro  no one is denying the Azov Battalion us defending Ukraine. some of us are just pointing out their Nazi roots, their Nazi wolfsengel motif, the Nazi black sun motif, their pro Bandera stance. The Azovs are nazi through and through. Good to know you support them. no doubt, along with Zelensky, you stood and applauded the 98 year old Ukrainian Waffen SS veteran presented as a hero to the Canadian parliament. not sure what one Russian warship has to do with anything. By the way, what happened to the 12 ships Ukraine had at the beginning of this conflict?
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  1423. Russia hasn't started fighting yet. DPR and LPR militias, Chechens, Wagners and convicts have done nearly all the front line duties and heavy lifting. The convicts and drunken mercenaries just routed Ukraine's finest in Soledar. the first 12 months is just warm up for Russia.
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  1424. no one is holding anyone captive. learn the basics.
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  1425. What, Russia is advancing during the great Ukrainian Spring counter offensive? Send more Javelins! (oh wait, that was last year's battle cry)
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  1426. sure, if losing every man of fighting age is your idea of "setting the standard"
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  1427.  @anthonymorris2276  So let me get this right Anthony. In a recording (God knows who made it and where it came from) in which one of the speakers says "the connection is shit, I can hardly hear you", released apparently by the SBU (no bias there, Ukrainian security service would NEVER try to blame Russia for anything) you are expecting the world to be CONVINCED that Russia is to blame! This, in your mind, is absolutely rock solid evidence? Yes?
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  1428. was your heart for Ukraine when its Azov Nazis were shelling Donbass for 8 years too?
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  1429. she would get a lot more support if she told us how much she would contribute to Trump's legal costs.
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  1430. 600 billion euros. wow! EU's printing presses will be busy for a long time! European citizens, can you say "hello rampant inflaton"?
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  1431. "just a campaign statement" this poor honey doesn't get it that Trump is the one candidate who says what he means, and means what he says.
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  1432. it will be great for Zelenski to hear someone other than Putin say "you started this, you gotta give up something, quite a lot in fact, to keep your country"
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  1433. i just wonder, in retrospect, if Oleksander would have been ok with letting Donbass join Russia and Ukraine remain a neutral country.
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  1434. million man army? I thought Zelensky had handed out arms to any civilians who wanted them at the start of the war? It's a 40 million man army. But 39,900,000 already sold their weapons on ebay.
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  1435. Given that TSA never spotted the bullets in his luggage when he went through "Security" in USA, maybe take USA off your list.
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  1436. there was a load of huffing and puffing when Northern Cyprus broke away from Cyprus. No one but Turkey accepted it, but that was decades ago, and Northern Cyprus is doing just fine, recognized by no one but Turkey. Same will happen with Novaya Rossiya
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  1437. 2 possibilities. the 2 strangers were the ones who arranged the boat from Playa de Masca to get Jay off the island, destination Morocco? or the 2 strangers turned on Jay and had him abducted, currently held hostage or lying 6 feet under, but nowhere near that national park.
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  1438. Obviously it's not illegal, otherwise they would be arrested and held in custody.
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  1439. Russia's not the aggressor, honey. where were you in 2014 when the Azov Battalion decided it was a really good idea to launch missiles against the ethnic Russians of Donbass?
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  1440. I think you will find that Turkey sent a list of names to Sweden and Finland, of those he wants extradited. If Sweden and Finland haven't extradited said people, can't see why they would expect Turkey to vote for their admission to NATO
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  1441. "Kiev's Western backers aren't providing enough arms" as always, Channel 4 refuses to contemplate why that would be. which one is it? The West no longer wants to supply Ukraine adequately, or the West is incapable of supplying Ukraine adequately. Please tell us which one it is.
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  1442.  @crushedmoon1503  unless the mum is in contact with the kidnappers and trying to raise the cash to pay them off
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  1443. childishly absurd to pretend Russia has a monopoly on war crimes. Fair and balanced would be to weigh up claims made on both sides.
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  1444. UN is powerless, this is the price that is paid when the world challenges Russia instead of negotiating with Russia
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  1445.  @cynthiaherbst3909  NATO cannot out-produce Russia, and won't be able to out-produce Russia for years to come. You don't grasp reality. Russia's armaments industry has won the battle of production. period. besides, Ukraine is running out of manpower. an abundance of weapons and only pensioners and teenagers to use them still means Ukraine loses.
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  1446.  @gordonmac3616  oh yes, Kiev, you were all so fixated on Kiev and Ghost of Kiev, you never noticed Kherson, Melitopol and that vast land bridge gobbled up by Russia! Best bloody fixing operation the Russians have done since Syria, and the naive West swallowed it hook, line and sinker:)
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  1447. Putin is by far the best leader in the world. He has single-handedly manage to isolate the West and demilitarize NATO.
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  1448.  @simonpedge  and all this from a country crippled by sanctions and using chips from washing machines to compensate for lack of technological components.
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  1449. if the Belize trip was a gift from Willis to Wade, why not just pay for the whole trip on Willis's card?
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  1450. just curious, when did the Ministry of Truth in the West ditch the term "Russia's unprovoked invasion" for "Russia's full-scale invasion"? did the Ministry get some evidence that the Russian invasion was, indeed, provoked, so had to find another accusatory term to accompany the word "invasion"?
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  1451.  @rachel.mcgowan  yeah? give the stats from your survey. one example of a "toxic idea" absorbed from the "Far Right" and the % of protesters "heavily radicalized". cue crickets
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  1452.  @BubbyBold  Oh, I already learned what racism is. the word is in the dictionary. what fascinates me is that people like you can't define it or give examples, let alone debate what is and what is not racist, so keep playing with your crayons and pretending you know something.
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  1453.  @misterae6430  I know so much more than you could ever know. ever been to Crimea have you?
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  1454.  @rhynzard  it is not my responsibility to do anything of the sort. I have made a statement and it is up to you to decide its validity. you can ask me why I believe what I believe, or just disregard it. poll after poll shows it is only a minority of European voters who want more immigration. take it or leave it, but if you leave it you are denying reality.
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  1455. Question for President Duda. which bridges over the Dnipr will be used to get these tanks to the front line, and do you expect these bridges to be still standing at that point?
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  1456.  @sarapu-lw6nr  not at all. unlike you, all my sensitivities go out to the innocent victims of Jay Slater. unlike me, you are wringing your hands for a thug and a thief, and not one word of mention for those that suffered at the hands of Jay. you are truly heartless.
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  1457. the problem is the supply. price caps don't address the cause of the problem. price caps = shortages = rationing. (power outages) sanctions on Russia ruining Europe must faster than any negative influences on Russia.
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  1458. When dear Imane shouted out "I am a woman" was it in a bass or tenor voice?
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  1459. I wish strength to the true people of Transnistria. To those who love peace, democracy, rule of law and freedom of speech. Slava Rossiyi.
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  1460. went to Ukraine as a medic? he went to UKraine as an absolute fool who walked into extreme danger because Liz Truss said she had no objections to such lunacy!
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  1461. who is stopping you?
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  1462. utopian babble
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  1463. Irrelevant to what extent the sanctions are hurting Russians. Irrelevant to what extent the sanctions boomerang effect is hurting the West. The only important question is which side has the greater tolerance for economic downturn. My money is on Russia having a FAR greater tolerance for hardship.
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  1464.  @danielwatson3273  good point...Africans kidnapped by the African slave hunters who couldn't wait to trade their brethren for a few baubles and trinkets.
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  1465.  @passbysimon3095  On my own corruptometer, I would think Ukraine is ahead of Russia. My own experiences living and working in Ukraine confirm the corruptometer. No, I don't want to live in Russia, but I want Russia to win. Yes, I support occupying other countries' lands, just as USA does, and the West in general, when huge injustices and evils have been committed on such land, as Ukraine has committed. We had WW2 exactly that way, to rectify horrendous evils committed on the sovereign territory of Germany, and we occupied Germany.
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  1466. 30 C à Perpignan, tout a fait normal
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  1467. she is excellent at shouting "four legs good, two legs bad"
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  1468. when do you think Saint Zelensky will sell his Miami mansion to help the war effort?
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  1469.  @sanepillow59  there is a very good reason why housing can't be in the hands of people owning it. to put it simply, very few people can afford to own a home. they ain't got the money. landlords are not feudal lords. they are entrepreneurs. when you say "they" need to build more housing, who is "they", exactly? it's clear you have no idea what is causing the housing shortage. you probably think mass immigration has nothing to do with the high demand for accommodation.
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  1470. "How can people do such a thing?" Is she referring to the Ukronazia attack on civilians in Donbass for 8 years, or the recent Ukronazia attack on Belgorod?
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  1471. the new normal, indefinitely. while Russia can keep manufacturing and importing drones and missiles, this is how life will be in Ukraine forever. But Ukraine is winning! Right?
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  1472.  @robertturner1308  yeah, organizing a protest and exhorting your followers to "protest peacefully" is a really awful, awful thing. The BLM lawlessness also happened during Trump's time, do you think Democrats list that as a horrific thing that is all Trump's fault?
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  1473. Can you all count the number of times you speculated that Russia is running out of missiles? Can you all count the number of times you speculated that NATO is running out of ammo?
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  1474.  @Ryanjoned163  i was being sarcastic. i don't consider the son of African immigrants to be Welsh, and i very much doubt the Bradford perpetrator is Welsh
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  1475.  @LoremIpsum1970  they were not naturalised. they were awarded British citizenship but nothing in their nature was British at all.
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  1476. nothing stopping you donating every penny that you have to Zelensky. and who knows, maybe one day Zelensky will sell his overseas properties to help his own war?
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  1477. let's consider supporting Zelensky once Zelensky has sold his Tuscan villa and his Miami mansion to support Ukraine.
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  1478.  @not.likely  Russia has a better chance of completing its mission than you have of distinguishing between "compete" and "complete".
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  1479. sounds like the fear of talking to the "wrong" kind of media outlet in Mariupol matches the fear of talking to the "wrong" kind of media outlet in Ukrainian held Kherson. no difference.
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  1480. i stopped listening as soon as her first question assumed Putin was unable to stop Prigozhin's drive to Moscow. Bimbo.
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  1481. because it's fascinating and because the media are refusing to ask the right questions and dig into the story, for whatever reason.
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  1482. like a child talking about unicorns, right?
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  1483.  @EllanaWolf  well, clearly, I do know better than the "professionals"! I called for a forensic search of the airbnb on Day One. The "professionals" decided it was a brilliant idea to do a forensic search on Day 16. which of us was correct? you tell me!
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  1484.  @marksullivan7220  it's Ukraine that has to make a move. Russia happy to sit pretty and keep shelling ad infinitum.
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  1485. who cares what the majority of Budapest thinks? it's the majority of Hungarian voters that matter.
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  1486. nonsense. it's just a bunch of out of touch judges joining the Jew hater bandwagon
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  1487. she keeps repeating how offensive some things are, but never once asks him what he finds incredibly offensive.
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  1488. it's called freedom of movement, and was fairly common in the USSR (which is not the Russian Federation). Derussification, a move to restrict Russian language and culture, is common in Latvia. as it is in Ukraine, so Latvia should not be surprised if it gets the Putin treatment, as it deserves it.
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  1489. Soledar in itself is of little importance. What is important is, we are told, Russian morale has been low for months, Russia is running out of weapons, sanctions on Russia are crippling it, Russia is incompetent, yet against Ukraine's finest, Russia is now advancing. That is where this news is important. Either the media were lying, or Ukraine's forces are weaker than Russia's.
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  1490. Chris Parry's ignorance about Russia exemplifies how NATO has become such a pathetic force. Totally wrong, yet again. Shoigu is on record as having told Putin he wanted to retire and go fishing, and Putin convinced Shoigu to stay on for the SMO and until the election. The election is over, Putin won, time for Shoigu to retire. No conspiracy theories needed, thanks, Parry.
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  1491. i thought the himars were the real game changers? and the Javelins? remember that.."more javelins"! and the stingers and M777s, both game changers. but you say the REAL game changers are Leopard tanks? hmmm.
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  1492. but it did stop its own contracted military group from marching on Moscow.
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  1493. Will Hungary's refusal to cooperate rein the EU in?
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  1494.  @trikstari7687  100% agree. I have lived in 2 countries where there is no income tax, Oman and Bahamas, both seem to function perfectly well, and, as you say, it is considered a private matter who pays you what and when and how. human right.
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  1495.  @drunkengamer1977  EU policies did indeed hurt the UK. Failures within the UK government and stupid EU policies are not mutually exclusive.
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  1496.  @lesterquintrell4844  you assume right
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  1497. build more hospitals. aging population, + growing population + mass immigration + more dependency on the state = enormous demand on the health sector. if there is no more money for more health services, let governments explain to the people why increased spending on the military and unlimited aid to Ukraine is such a wonderful idea, but improving health services isn't .
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  1498. If Putin would end mass immigration, abandon green policies and reduce energy prices, I would welcome his march across Europe and seizing control of the woke West.
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  1499.  @FatBoy-f9p  did the economic wealth of colonies also increase during the days of empire?
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  1500. sure, if you want a nuclear WW3
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  1501. happens all the time these days in the West. A teacher in France got beheaded for it. just another day in migrant-loving Europe.
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  1502. No, the draft does not imitate a Russian law. It imitates an American law, but nearly all countries have similar laws, where foreign entities contributing to NGO's must declare their contributions. Nothing particularly Russian about that idea.
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  1503. we knew it was a lie when we were told "we must learn to live with covid"
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  1504.  @georgechickful  you make my point for me. in the UK, voicing your opinion on so many subjects gets you a right dressing down from management. in many other places, diverse opinions are welcomed. In Russia there are so many things you can say and no one bothers you. these days you film yourself playing piano in a train station in London and you get a dressing down from the Police because Chinese people are upset. Russia has so many freedoms that have been stolen in the UK.
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  1505. Denmark, like Netherlands, has a decent amount of soldiers. these should be given to Ukraine as part of the coalition.
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  1506. you confused "eastern Russia" with "western Ukraine". Try again.
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  1507. only needed the Minsk accords to be implemented, but Ukraine refused.
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  1508. Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons. The USSR had all nuclear weapons.
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  1509. and you should feel guilty, because only a fool would think Ukraine can defeat Russia in a ground war, NATO weapons or not. But more than begging forgiveness, nothing is stopping you sending every penny in your pocket, to Zelensky, so he can buy another villa in Italy, right?
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  1510. or keeping it opaque because in reality the advances are of no significance
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  1511.  @tomatomi8041  the guy with the lacerated liver might disagree with you
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  1512. yeah, USA did so well in Afghanistan, 20 years occupation, billions of dollars wasted, handed over loads of weaponry to the Taliban, left in total chaos it was humiliated, and handed power back to the enemy it had failed to defeat! Russia does things differently. it eliminates the enemy and wins.
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  1513. when will DW report what most people think and say? The vast majority of people where I am in France support the police action and want a repeat of the same for any hoodlum car jacker. DW exists in a pathetic liberal bubble out of touch with the masses.
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  1514. some of us have gone hungry and slept rough and don't have empathy for those who wallow in that state and do nothing but blame others and the government.
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  1515. Amnesty International found out the opposite, remember?
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  1516.  @peterpeterpeter6315  in Russia you are free to say "white lives matter". try saying that in the West and see if you have a job the next day.
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  1517. Russia it is not interested in STOPPING gas supply to Europe, but it IS interested in limiting that supply. Big difference.
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  1518.  @johnnyjohnson2268  we'll find out at some point. i might be completely wrong, but that location has to explain something. location, location, location. the drugs have to come in from somewhere, and I don't think they are coming in through airports, just so risky. if they are coming in and out by boat, someone is coordinating it all from a remote rural location, would be my guess. just hope Jay didn't take all the secrets with him!
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  1519. Crimea is 100% Russian and will remain so. No one puts faith in a comedian who poses for Vogue during a war.
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  1520.  @AtheistEve  Presumably you agree that USA should get out of Syria and all its military bases around the world closed down, I mean, it is pretty aggressive to set up a military base in someone else's country, right?
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  1521. if this is the result of climate change, i want more of it. keep spewing out more CO2 everyone, my January days here in Spain are feeling wonderful.
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  1522. "back safely in Ukrainian hands" - oxymoron
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  1523.  @reddyreddy2618  yes, she is, because a one-eyed witness and one eye-witness are one and the same!
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  1524. you got to laugh at the "enforcement of the oil price cap" provision. "enforcement of oil price cap" = it isn't working, but let's pretend it could by throwing out the word "enforcement".
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  1525.  @dzsekk1  both decide to fight in a conflict that does NOT involve their homeland and both are integrated into the fighting force of a government that does NOT represent them. Get YOUR facts straight! In the Ukraine conflict, volunteer and mercenary one and the same thing. Learn the basics!
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  1526. nothing "far right" about Vox. Euronews definitely far left, however.
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  1527. no one is stopping you from giving every last penny in your bank account to the billionaire Zelensky. go ahead!
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  1528. "we have freedom of speech" tell that to Gonzalo Lira
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  1529. Quite the opposite. Flexibility and reassessing targets is what wins wars. Leaving thousands of your best troops in cauldrons like Lysychansk to be wiped out or captured is what defeat sounds like.
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  1530. and the 8 years of Azov Nazis shelling civilians in Donbass?
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  1531. they can't. they don't have any more resources to give. hence Zelensky does nothing but beg day after day.
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  1532. IMF is predicting modest growth for the Russian economy! Turkey and Kazakhstan are thinking of begging the EU to be sanctioned too these days!
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  1533. Just curious, the Biden advisor he so enthusiastically endorses, was she the same advisor to Biden on how to evacuate Kabul so efficiently and effectively a year ago?
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  1534. not quite as truthful as showing the forced recruitment of shoving men into cars and driving them to the recruitment office, next stop, the front line.
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  1535. let's see how it all ends. NATO might also need to learn that lesson
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  1536.  @CelticSaint  sure. we don't know exactly what Jay asked the woman by the bus stop, and the language barrier means the woman may have misunderstood totally. apparently she answered back "10" holding up ten fingers. In Jay's mind, bus number 10? in ten minutes? at 10 0 clock? or could well have been an answer to a question Jay asked that was nothing to do with the bus, like how far to the nearest big town? how many minutes walking to the nearest town? who knows? i wouldn't assume the intention was to catch a bus back to his hotel. focusing on the location, Masca. ideal location to board a boat, unobserved, to get off the island, or to hide out to administer justice for a drug deal that went bad. wouldn't surprise me if, the moment Jay left the house, the 2 "strangers" informed the hit squad that Jay was walking along the Buenavista to Masca road and ready to be abducted. who knows? doesn't seem logical to keep searching an area for which there is no evidence Jay ever entered.
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  1537. "Zelensky says Ukrainian troops are gaining momentum"...let's have a quick look at the occupation map...hmm, NOPE, as always, slowly getting more and more red.
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  1538.  @thl205  USA annexed the whole of Ukraine when it engineered the 2014 coup in Kiev.
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  1539. honey, Russia has not cut off any supplies. It is the West that declared it wanted to cease importing Russian energy. Russia has simply agreed to grant their wish.
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  1540. Russia will have achieved its objectives in Ukraine before any surge in production can have any effect. The time to go down this route was a year ago, when EU foolishly assumed sanctions would work.
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  1541. which Ukraine? the ones in the Donbass fighting for separation from Kiev, or the Ukrainians who honour Bandera as a national hero?
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  1542. exactly so. we are supposed to believe that Jay is so talented, he is able to penetrate impenetrable vegetation, become totally obscured to all drones, helicopter crews, binoculars, search parties, undetected by dogs trained to sense human presence a kilometer away, and then, miraculously, prevent his rotting, bubbling corpse in the heat of summer from attracting the crows for a month! and those of us who scorn this notion are labeled the "conspiracy theorists"!
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  1543. Western sanctions on Russian and Belarussian food and fertilizer exports is the reason for Africa's plight, NOT the conflict. Coupled with Ukraine's refusal to demine its coast. African Union already lobbied EU to drop food sanctions on Russia, which the recent shipping agreement has taken on board. Stop blaming Russia.
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  1544. so, she took him to Belize, but she told Nathan to book everything and pay everything on his business credit card, and she would reimburse him for everything by putting bundles of thousands of dollars in his had, because...she doesn't have a credit card and has no clue how to book a vacation. got it.
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  1545.  @CrazyEightyEights  and conspicuous by its absence is any comment from you that coherently rebuts anything I have said in my 100+ comments! What's up? Cat got your tongue?
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  1546. hats off to Northern Cyprus. showing the EU what a bunch of dolts they are to sanction Russia and Iran and thus boost the Northern Cypriot economy.
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  1547. Moldova has brought all its woes on itself. Had Moldova remained neutral and kept good relations with Russia it would have not blundered into the economic misery it now endures. The more it allies with the West, the more the poor Moldovan people suffer.
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  1548.  @theTeknoViking  made no difference to the outcome, just delaying the outcome. 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers dead, according to General Milley, so maybe NATO's weapons have kept that horrific death toll a bit lower than expected?
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  1549.  @LS_CHIPO21  what information? kill rate? New Atlas, Scott Ritter, Douglas MacGregor, Duran, Ribar, and Ukrainian sources, that freely admit that artillery is fired 6:1 in Russia's favor. I mean you can believe six times more artillery is raining down on Ukrainian positions than Russian, but somehow, by magic, Ukraine's losses are a lot less than Russia's, but it makes no sense. let me suggest what you are hearing is willful thinking, just hope, and not based on any logic or evidence
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  1550.  @oleksii000  aah, I see, so Kosovo = real country because what was happening in Kosovo matches YOUR definition of genocide, whereas what was happening in Donbass does NOT match your definition of genocide, therefore NATO attacking sovereign Serbia to support separatists should be applauded, but Russia's attack on Ukraine to support Donbass separatists is awful, horrific, to be denounced. The hypocrisy is astounding. tell me, what evidence do you have that Serbia's fight against Kosovar separatists was genocide but that Ukraine's fight against Donbass separatists was not genocide? Keep in mind more people died in Kosovo AFTER NATO's intervention than before.
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  1551. there are two dead people in Poland who thought Russian missiles were the problem, but they were killed by Ukrainian fire. keep an eye out for Zelensky's weapons too.
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  1552.  @ArtU4All  am not convinced Europe needs more people, but you are right that Poland also showed that if you assert "no means no" then illegal immigration can be reduced to close to zero.
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  1553. how would you know where Zelensky is?
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  1554. Totally explains why Sweden and Germany said they could not announce findings "for security reasons" (an ally is responsible). Totally explains why Liz Truss was bundled out of power too.
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  1555. interesting to hear Gulliver confess that Ukraine is out of weapons and ammo, but Russia isn't. "shelling may decrease because the Russians will have to move further away because it's flooded on their side"
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  1556. "so many wild ideas" the wildest idea is to keep searching a wilderness that, as far as we know, Jay never entered! remember, honey, when it was a "wild idea" that the virus could have come from a lab? or that the jab doesn't stop the spread of the virus?
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  1557. LOL Moldova. Had a golden opportunity to back Russia in this conflict, but backed the wrong horse. Lights out, Moldova!
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  1558. "the leadership of the Western powers have remained united over this conflict" Scholz would disagree, having been bullied into escalating the death and destruction in Ukraine, and the people feel quite differently from the leaders. Ordinary people are more focused on poverty and inflation. Outside of the West, many are hoping Russia wins or they just don't care.
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  1559. his tone and downbeat manner say it all. Russia ain't gonna be defeated.
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  1560.  @Spectre11B  I didn't mention annexation at all. I asked a question, which you refused to answer. If the DPR and LPR fight for independence was a Ukrainian domestic issue, would that make Kosovo's fight for separation from Serbia a purely Serbian issue? it's a yes or no question.
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  1561. oh yeah, it's a really good move to give basic training to cannon fodder conscripts so that they can face the bloody Chechens on day one and get riddled with bullets. such a fantastic idea!
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  1562.  @JustDucky-d9k  the tourist numbers from Pakistan are way, way up!
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  1563. The question is, which side is winning? Russia, killing hundreds of Ukrainian cannon fodder every day in the Wagner meatgrinder, or NATO, training Ukrainian cannon fodder in the UK and sending them into the Wagner meatgrinder? Which one, NATO or Russia, is hastening the objective of demilitarization of Ukraine the more effectively?
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  1564. so Russia is still on the back foot, and Ukraine is winning, but now Russia is advancing across Zaporozhe, Vugledar and around Bakhmut. hmm
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  1565.  @jakebhenry2228  because I paid for this service and as one of those compelled to pay for it, the least I should get is some unbiased reporting.
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  1566. Only 1300 arrests? in a nation of 150 million? shows how popular Putin's policy is, I would say.
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  1567. hmmm, no report on the Ukrainian losses. am guessing that means they were astronomically high.
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  1568.  @jayjayn007  fascinating that your narrow mind can't conceive of a Westerner with the last name Smith who could actually support Russia. At least you are honest enough to use your real last name, right, Jayjay001? when exactly did you declare your allegiance to the fascist ideals of Bandera?
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  1569. the NATO trained and NATO armed "incredibly adaptive military" of Ukraine just got routed and massacred in Soledar by a bunch of convicts and mercenaries. Let that sink in. But Ukraine's recapture of Crimea is just around the corner?
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  1570. If we assume Russian intel located troops, weapons or ammo in Odessa, then the attack was 100% justified. If we assume Russia did this for revenge after 8 years of the Donbass being shelled mercilessly by Azov Nazis, then just 7 years and 7 months more of this to endure, Ukraine.
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  1571. Ditto those parents from the far flung communities across Western Ukraine, when realizing their boy is not coming home? How long can Zelensky lie to the parents of dead soldiers?
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  1572. the call from the US, to withdraw and fight another day and to save lives and weaponry, came only 6 months too late. NATO living up to its Kabul 2021 reputation.
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  1573. funny you don't hear the claim "Russia is running out of weapons" much these days.
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  1574. bullshit. "operational silence" means Ukraine is a spent force. weapons supply down to a trickle, the Kherson offensive petered out weeks ago, Ukraine has nothing more to throw at Russia in these parts. the referenda are going ahead without any disruptions. Russia has won.
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  1575. there is no such thing as a "foreign policy expert". If they were all "experts" they would never disagree. the person you interviewed is just an advocate for the same views as held by DW.
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  1576. because the EU economy is NOT ten times bigger. let me guess, like so many other fools, you take GDP as your metric?
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  1577. do we assume he declared on his taxes he was "not married" after 2015?
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  1578.  @dorianissock732  First and foremost, it's in a country's interest to forbid immigration to anyone who brings no discernible benefit to the host country.
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  1579.  @jamesofallthings3684  exactly. First world cities have become third world hell-holes.
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  1580. looks like her body fat should give pretty good insulation from the cold. was that two or three sugars she heaped into her free cup of tea?
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  1581.  @Please_allow_me  read carefully what I said. I said the words "go find another school if you do not accept the opinion of the school" = (EQUALS) the definition of bigoted and intolerant.
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  1582. ha ha, Polish leaders took a look at opinion polls in Poland and realized support for Ukraine has plummeted. Same will happen soon in USA and Germany. Buenas noches Zelensky.
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  1583. Just reverse the current law that insists asylum can only be claimed from within the UK. Make it law that asylum can only be claimed from outside the UK.
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  1584. Dear NATO, please help us retain control of a small town that doesn't want to be part of our country - Ukronazia
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  1585. true to form, this fool Bell is ignorant of some salient points. Ukraine benefits enormously because now all the mines protecting Russia's east side of the Dnipro have washed away. A Russian advance across the Dnipro has been eliminated, so much needed ukronazi cannon fodder can be shipped off to the killing fields of Zaporozhe, hurray! Crimea's water supply is now in jeopardy the world is now focused on this rather than the disaster of Bakhmut and the pathetic counter offensive that can't even break through any Russian forward positions.
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  1586.  @michaeldunham3385  facts are so inconvenient sometimes. yes, she speaks her native language, as do all of the Russian speakers in Latvia. it is exactly the same situation as Canada. Both French and English were forced on what is now Canada a long time ago, just as Russian was forced on what is now Latvia a long time ago. so, what's your point?
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  1587. while NATO has no effective response to cheap Iranian drones, and while NATO is quickly depleting its own stocks, there is no reason for Russia to introduce any hypersonic weapons at this point.
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  1588. "clearly deliberately"....so, he has the evidence that there is absolutely no way that this was a missile fragment that was intercepted by Ukrainians, and/or he has the evidence the person responsible for firing this intended the target to be the shopping center, not the barracks next door? Also, was the Ukrainian shelling of the market in Donetsk recently also "clearly deliberate"...strange he is silent on that one! Remember, "Russia bad, Ukraine good" always, Infantile analysis
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  1589. This is the way Russia fights, whether it be Syria, Georgia, Chechnya...creates cauldrons, forces surrender en masse without massive street fighting. Russia focuses on how many enemy soldiers it can wipe out...gaining territory is not the priority. Russia has succeeded in demilitarizing both Ukraine and the West. It's over. Slava Rossiyi ..Z
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  1590. no excuse needed to exit the grain deal.
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  1591. you must be joking! the number one news in UK is always how much can Putin be blamed for everything!
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  1592. "Emmanuelle Chaze, what can you tell us about the kindergarten hit by Ukrainian shells yesterday in Gorlovka?" "Nothing, I am only interested in victims of Russian shelling, remember - Ukraine good, Russia bad" "oh yes, I forgot, ok, carry on"
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  1593. "The Police will look at every single lead" The evidence is to the contrary! Looks like the Police just want to keep searching an area Jay never went to.
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  1594. "Putin's illegal war in Ukraine". We have now had 2 PMs blame Putin for the economic disaster that is the UK, let's see if the third PM will blame Putin and meet the same ignominious end. At some point, someone has to realize blaming Putin won't work.
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  1595. if it were Ukraine in 2014, the West would be declaring their support for this popular uprising.
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  1596. precisely. NATO is fixated only on the lack of movement of the front lines, and they confuse that with a lack of Russian progress.
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  1597. international recognition is meaningless. Northern Cyprus has been internationally recognized as part of Cyprus for decades. Reality on the ground is that Northern Cyprus is part of Turkey, Turkey has full control there and life goes on as part of Turkey. Reality on the ground is everything.
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  1598.  @cameron6770  given the rampant inflation, soaring energy prices and cost of living crisis in the West, all potato donations should go to those whose sanctions have backfired on them. RIP common sense in the West.
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  1599. oh right, so if BBC and one woman from a village say it is a fully open and functioning mall, then it MUST be. I wonder what RT and one woman from a village in Crimea happen to say?
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  1600. The good people of Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Chechnya might disagree with you.
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  1601. Europe already lost 20 billion euros from lost Russian tourist revenue. Turkey is organizing special flights to bring as many Russians as possible to its beaches. Would be a terrible shame for all those flights and hotel bookings to be canceled over one cargo of grain, methinks.
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  1602. it would be quite easy to combat the misinformation spread on social media about the attackers nationality and origin. Police could just announce the attackers nationality and origin. They certainly would have done if the attacker were white Irish.
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  1603. why 30? why not 99 cents?
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  1604. where there is demand, there is supply, either on the regular market or on the black market. a "price cap" will only push up the global oil price, that suits Russia just fine. And yes, Russian oil will still flow, via a middleman, to the EU.
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  1605.  @jamesfe5  curious that you assume the kill rate in the war is in Ukraine's favor. you are 100% sure that Ukraine is inflicting much higher losses on Russia than vice versa?
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  1606. Many in the Donbass had to do it for 8 years, Azov Nazi shells raining down upon them!
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  1607. Ben keeps missing the point that it is legal to enter the UK and claim asylum. That's why none of them are ever arrested. The law needs to be changed so that all asylum claims need to be made OUTSIDE of the UK. THEN anyone entering with no documentation would be illegal and could be returned.
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  1608. if your house is open and you are willing to foot the bill, what is stopping you making the offer?
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  1609. It's a stunning indictment of how bad things must be in Georgia if the likes of Albania and Ukraine can be accepted, but Georgia rejected! Sounds like even South Ossetia would have a better chance of gaining admission to EU (the bar is set so astoundingly low these days).
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  1610. love how the deluded presenter thinks the huge losses the ukronazis are suffering all along the front line, and the steady gains made by the Wagners in Bakhmut represent, somehow, some great Ukronazi triumph. No one in Crimea having sleepless nights about a Ukronazi offensive.
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  1611. "Russia has had nothing to cheer about for the last 6 months" Every day that Ukraine loses more troops than Russia does is a big victory for Russia.
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  1612. But Ukraine is winning, right> Ghost of Kiev and Snake Island were the kind of victories that will bring Ukraine glory in the end, right?
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  1613. the wording is strange. BBC initially said "clothes found alongside the body with possessions" as if Jay was naked and his clothes neatly pressed and folded to his side. if Jay took one hell of a tumble I would have guessed the bag that he had ripped open and everything was scattered up and down the ravine. sounds suspiciously as if stuff was placed next to the remains.
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  1614. Day 11 of Ukraine's major counter offensive. Total number of villages, settlements and towns recaptured = 0 But Ukraine is winning, right? Ghost of Kiev will turn the tide, right? The capture of Snake Island was a pivotal moment, right?
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  1615. Nope! Remember the mission is to "demilitarize Ukraine"....plenty of Ukrainian soldiers still alive, so plenty more need to be killed before victory can be declared, and the 8 year butchery of Donbass be avenged. Slava Rossiyi ..Z
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  1616. Ukraine has precious little air defences and NATO has precious little to give Ukraine. the game is up.
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  1617.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  you may well be right, but I am pretty sure I would prefer Putin's Russia to where I have lived and worked, the Russophobic hellhole of Ukraine. Tell me your personal experience of living in Ukraine, please.
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  1618.  @benanders4412  so true
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  1619. according to these clowns, Russia has been losing for 2 years now. they know Russia has won.
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  1620.  @markblanchard9049  just curious, "Mark", when Zelensky came into office on a ticket of "peace in the Donbass", do you think he should have a) implemented the Minsk accords and held Donbass elections and taken steps towards autonomy there or b) allowed the Azov Nazis to continue shelling the Donbass into "submission"? he chose b), but which do you think he should have chosen?
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  1621. yet another copy and paste comment. Bandera's bot is alive and well it seems
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  1622. Would you consider the 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling of Donbass barbarism?
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  1623. absolutely hilarious, the assumption that if the Policeman's life is not in danger then there is no reason to pull the trigger. I guess the lives of the general public being in danger counts for nothing. Let the white van driver keep mowing down as many pedestrians as he wants, Policeman's life is not in danger.
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  1624.  @KSzkodaGames  UK citizens need no visa to travel to the Schengen Zone nor to anywhere in the EU. Learn the basics. The point is there are 500 million EU citizens (I'm not talking about Brits in this statement) and every single one of those 500 million citizens has Freedom of Movement in the EU, so the locals better learn PDQ that "their" town, "their" streets, "their" housing and "their" beach, as per EU rules, is NOT theirs, but now belongs to the whole EU, capisce?
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  1625. The US already admitted one battery was damaged, so we can assume the kinzhals did their job. more importantly, all 30 patriot missiles were fired in a futile attempt to stop the kinzhals. depletion of Ukrainian air defences is high priority, so by firing off all 30 missiles, Ukraine did Russia a big favor.
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  1626.  @LearnWithVikram7  beneficial to whom?
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  1627.  @HusseinDoha  good idea
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  1628. Just a matter of time before NATO suffers its most humiliating hour and loses ALL credibility. It will keep sending weapons that do nothing to change the course of the fighting, all the NATO weapons will be destroyed, captured or left behind a la Afghanistan, and the world will have a jolly good laugh at Western blundering into a disaster. Russia wins and deserves to win.
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  1629.  @xavariusquest4603  and for months we have heard the same nonsense over and over again. old ammo = Russia running short new ammo = Russia running short imported ammo = Russia running short repurposed munitions = Russia running short it's called wishful thinking, just hope, and NATO is reduced to hope as a strategy. it's truly pathetic.
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  1630.  @K_a_r_l_o_s  Russia wasn't hostile. It was the West being hostile to Russia while also depending on Russian energy that was the problem, as we all discovered
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  1631. Russia is playing its cards well .
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  1632.  @Mylostsock11  exactly....moral of the story, make as many threats as you can and the UK police will tell those who oppose you to go home and shut up.
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  1633. Lysychansk fallen? Only a few DAYS after Severodonetsk! How long before all of Donetsk is in Russian hands? Major defeat for NATO and Ukraine, but somehow it will be spun into a magnificent victory, a la abandonment of Kabul
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  1634. forest fires are happening less and less year by year. building close to dry forest areas is increasing year by year. arsonists grow in number year by year. nothing to do with climate change.
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  1635.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  as always, those unable to rebut the message have to fly, in panic, to start pointing fingers at details about the messenger. truly pathetic. tell me, do you think Bandera should be a national hero of any country?
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  1636. @glenn Dale the families of the 120,000 dead Ukrainian servicemen aren't laughing
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  1637. bla bla bla, yet another meaningless conference that has left a massive carbon footprint all for everyone to feel guilty about. waste of time.
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  1638. All your sunflower seeds are gone? well, Amnesty International says that's because your place was used by Ukrainian military. true or false? as for those Russians, shelling their own forces in the power plant, they DO love to play Collateral Damage when they have no enemy at hand to shell, right?
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  1639. just another day in lawless Britain. relocating to Paraguay seems like a good idea these days.
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  1640. you know you've lost when it is accepted we can't stop illegal immigration, so now we have to focus on flying a few of them to Rwanda
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  1641. Both Cuba and North Korea also believe in education, education, education. all depends on how you define education and where education becomes indoctrination.
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  1642. France can't even control an angry bunch of Kurds taking over the Paris streets, let alone help Ukraine. Ukraine has repeatedly shouted out for what it needs, so either the West is unwilling to fulfil those needs, or unable to. you choose.
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  1643.  @TetraDizzle  Russia's army is not fighting itself, and so funny how your tiny mind assumes I can't possibly be a Brit named Duncan Smith. Some of us are fine with using our real names, and don't need to hide behind some mumbo jumbo like "Tetradizzle". Shame on you.
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  1644.  IhuntFraud  just because you don't see my words doesn't mean I'm silent. i write plenty every day. and crazy as this sounds, i don't alert you when I write anything. so, just to update you, I am delighted the Ukronazia/NATO counter offensive has failed and that Russia's war of attrition is progressing nicely.
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  1645.  @zepher664  the US is not charging a fee. it's holding the Euro liars to account for refusing to pay what they promised.
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  1646. It's not "your " country. But it is your house! How many immigrants will you host in your house, indefinitely?
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  1647. Month 7 of being told Russia is running low on manpower, morale, weapons and ammo. Month 7 of Russia maintaining the same intensity of artillery attacks. If it is true that Ukraine is sustaining horrendous casualties, then Russia is winning.
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  1648. "cull the number of tourists allowed" EU allows freedom of movement, honey. 500 million EU citizens have the right to go to Mallorca and live there forever, dear. grasp reality. EU policy to blame.
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  1649.  @ukraine_will_win_  Ukraine already lost Ukraine thought NATO would come and fight. Weapons supply won't be enough. Russia has won.
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  1650. How many of the Vietnamese were English speaking and looked upon the Americans as their ethnic cousins? Ukraine has centuries of history as being part of Russia (the Crimean War was fought by Russia, not Ukraine). How many centuries of history does Vietnam have of being part of USA? Russia borders Donbass. USA ain't that close to Vietnam. The Russian occupied territories will be absorbed into Russia. Not so easy to absorb Vietnam into USA.
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  1651. "caught Russia by surprise".....really? you think Russia didn't notice the days of Ukrqainian troop build up to all this? you don't think Russia already planned a withdrawal? you don't think the vast numbers of dead on the Ukrainian side compared to the light numbers on the Russian side indicate this was expected? Time will tell if this was a big Ukrainian victory or not, but judging by how Kherson turned out, I wouldn't celebrate quite yet.
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  1652.  @benbo7042  London and Miami are the two cities truly in Zelensky's heart, where his heart beats a little faster when he thinks of the rental income he can get from his properties in those two cities:)
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  1653.  @stephenbingham5935  Yes, debate. when Tucker lets Putin present his side of the argument, suddenly the Western audience is presented with a debate, and not just a one-sided pro Zelensky propaganda show. You do know how a debate works, right? EACH side presents its case, uninterrupted!
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  1654.  @sattm8230  EU democratic values? I guess you are being sarcastic now! Democratic values like having an EU commissioner that has received a total of ZERO votes from EU citizenry yet speaks on their behalf! That kind of democracy? ha ha
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  1655. and all this because Ben Wallace finally told the truth
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  1656. bla bla bla, Ukronazia is getting destroyed, deal with it.
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  1657.  @MoooB74oooH  Did my research. XY = male. Both boxers XY, so both are men. Questions?
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  1658.  @IAm-NotHear  300+ days is nothing for Russia. Chechnya and Syria took much longer. war of attrition takes years, get used to it.
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  1659. Given he fought for the enemy, amazing his farm is not completely destroyed, somewhat merciful Russians
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  1660.  @philipboardman1357  and nothing wrong with putting the leader of the opposition under arrest, and nothing wrong with detaining the former Ukrainian president from leaving the country, and nothing wrong with merging all broadcasters in Ukraine under state control, nothing at all.....if you want Ukraine to be North Korea.
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  1661. This is only news because it is a rare Ukrainian success. The Russians have such successful strikes against Ukraine almost every day, but Tornado attacks are ignored. The fact that we have not heard about himars successes until today show that himars is no gamechanger. Russia is winning the war of attrition, just as it did in Chechnya, Georgia, and Syria.
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  1662. who knew that Mike Myers had put on so much weight, donned platform shoes and become elected leader of Lithuania?
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  1663. it's time every country that condemns Russia for its actions makes sure they have an alternative supply before the taps are turned off
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  1664. yeah, Pistorius, a real genius, sticking by his officer who thought it was a really good idea to talk war secrets over a hotel telephone! Tells you all you need to know about NATO competency.
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  1665. so, if we don't know who is responsible, why is the BBC headline "Russia has blown up major Ukrainian dam, says Kyiv" rather than "Ukraine has blown up major dam, says Moscow"? the wording of the headline tells us so much about BBC bias.
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  1666. it raises no questions at all for Qatar! Homosexuality is outlawed there, yet FIFA decided to award it the World Cup finals. So, it raises questions for people like Beckham...does he stand with Qatar, or human rights? Ditto the England team, do their rainbow laces mean something, or are they all hypocrites?
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  1667. in other words, NO extreme weather to report in Northern Europe, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, South America, Antarctica, Oceania, Africa, Middle East, and all of Asia minus China.
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  1668. and the next report, in the name of balance in reporting, will come from Lugansk where Russian speaking citizens will speak of their joy of being liberated from Azov Nazis. BBC DOES offer both perspectives of this war, right?
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  1669.  @BP-of5cp  try to grasp the idea of sarcasm and my reference to how an African was described as "a Welshman from Cardiff" after the Southport attack.
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  1670. Good to see that one EU leader, Orban, still has common sense. Hilarious that the other EU leaders think they, and not Putin, will decide if Ukraine joins the EU.
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  1671. Starmer is still trying to figure out what a woman is, please don't confuse the poor child with complex questions of ceasefire, or no ceasefire.
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  1672. curious he chose not to mention the protests in Odessa over power cuts. wonder why he chose to do that?
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  1673. @@Arthur-zp5we yes, I agree. I am a very private person, see no reason why anyone should have any digital record of where I am or what I am buying or for what reason, and I am dismayed how all this tracking the individual is just accepted. Not good.
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  1674. Russia making great progress with its policy of demilitarization of Ukraine, and now of NATO. When NATO has no more to give, Russia will be able to waltz into the chihuahua Baltic states and see if Article 5 applies when NATO has no arms left.
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  1675.  @hellostranger2700  indeed. it is easy to fool people, but to convince them they have been fooled is one big task.
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  1676. We heard that the good immigrant, who intervened to help, was Brazilian, immediately. How long will it take to hear the Police say that the attacker was originally from Algeria and is Muslim?
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  1677. Nothing will be solved until the West understands that Russia will stand up for the human rights of ethnic Russians wherever they may be. The West is learning the hard way. Russia took a stand in Moldova, in Chechnya, in Georgia, and now in Ukraine. The West is a slow learner, but one day it will get the message.
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  1678.  @bonafidemonafide7810  now I have to do your homework for you? surely you have heard of Google? start researching on Europe wide opinion polls on what voters think immigration levels should be. don't be so lazy!
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  1679.  @oli3096  where he has absolutely enormous support for expressing the wishes of the majority
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  1680. unless UK declares it will tow all boats back to France, whatever the French do or say, nothing will change. Sunak and Braverman don't have the guts to tow boats back to France, so forget the words, nothing will change
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  1681.  @NM-qt3oi  not at all. if government just deregulated the whole of the housing market and set stiff penalties for property damage, landlords would be prepared to offer basic accommodation at affordable rates to those who work.
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  1682. massive demonstration.....strange no mention of this on BBC! I wonder why?
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  1683. 5 kms de territoire gagnés, 2000 vies perdues, c;est une victoire pour les russes
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  1684. totally fed up of this nonsense about "treacherous terrain, deep gulleys" etc we have the same here in the Pyrenees, but tree covered to make it even tougher, and missing persons are found usually within hours when the conditions are perfect, as they are in Teno. the reason Jay has not been found is that he is not there. had a proper investigation been launched, Jay would have been found.
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  1685. if "long-term sick" includes the obese, then that number is remarkably low.
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  1686. we have no duty to refugees if citizens are unable to be allocated housing. hosting refugees is a luxury we can't afford, so let's make it voluntary. if Rees Mogg volunteers to host refugees in his own home, let him, otherwise, no, Jacob, you are not using my tax money to house refugees over my fellow citizens.
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  1687. Keep in mind Ursula has the backing of millions and millions of citizens who voted for her. she is the face of EU democracy.
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  1688.  @quillo2747  no one sane would bother investing in rental properties in the UK. Too much regulation that disincentivizes the potential landlord.
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  1689. just why would anyone look at Maurice and associate him with urban crime? BLM, George Floyd, Hands Up Don't Shoot would have nothing to do with it, right?
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  1690. so, if Yellen was completely wrong about the transitory nature of inflation, why would anyone think she has a clue about any matter of economics or finance?
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  1691.  @pho-kingsoup8126  How about you tell us Putin's words that have turned out to be so wrong? Putin listed 5 objectives, and he is close to attaining those. But you go ahead...give us the words Putin said that are so wrong.
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  1692. 20% of Georgia should never have been part of Georgia! Abkhazia and South Ossetia joined Russia because they have ethnic Russian majorities!
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  1693. I know. I was shocked. I expected to see Chinese or Korean faces
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  1694. The Russian mainland now includes Zaporizhe and Kherson, so Russia has plenty of mainland links from Crimea (Russia) into Zaporizhe (Russia) and Kherson (Russia).
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  1695. no one blames the immigrants. we don't like the immigrants and we blame the government. not that difficult to figure out.
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  1696.  @robertturner1308  really? what was so awful was the judicial system refused to investigate the election results. Jan 6th was a protest. nothing wrong with that. would you say the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine was awful!
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  1697. No one was demanding the name nor the age of the suspect. It was basic information that the Police CAN give that was demanded, oh, and oh how curious it was when the Police finally released some key information! We were told the suspect was a Welshman! Why did they word it that way rather than "the suspect is the son of African immigrants"? Two Tier policing
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  1698. Charles Martel has finally returned! Sooner or later the battle will happen, so might as well get it out of the way now.
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  1699. curious he doesn't mention the fact that global temperatures were much higher, and CO2 levels much higher, way before any industrialization ever happened.
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  1700. Paris looks like, and is, as unsafe as Baghdad or Kinshasa. Anyone who goes there is asking for massive trouble.
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  1701. why the assumption that Wagners want to capture Bakhmut? if the death toll is heavily in Russia's favor, the Wagners are fine with Zelensky cooperating with Russia's demilitarization objective with his non stop serving up of cannon fodder on a silver plate.
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  1702.  @netiturtle  what? Poland's joining the EU didn't hurt Dutch farming? so, Dutch farmers are a really happy lot, absolutely satisfied with their incomes and well-being? you need to talk to some Dutch farmers!
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  1703. except that the African delegation said there was no missile attack. it was just more theatrics from the lying Zelensky regime. in case you never noticed, Russia never attacks Kiev when a world leader or world leaders are in Kiev.
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  1704. The French have played this game perfectly. They get paid to appear to do something about a problem that is not theirs, in fact it is in their interest to get the migrants out of their jurisdiction, and they get to blame the UK for being such a powerful magnet for migrants. the problem lies with Westminster, 100%, not the French. The laws need to be changed and the boats forced back to French waters, and if the French object then the French need to be told that it was France that admitted these migrants into France, and therefore it is France that is responsible for them. Take the UK to court if you want to.
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  1705. almost as clever as that hero, Zelensky.
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  1706. on the contrary, it sends the message that Putin has the wisdom to distance himself from confrontation and to resolve the issue through a trusted mediator. BRICS and OPEC will totally respect this achievement. If only Zelensky had accepted Lukashenko's offer of mediation last year.
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  1707. on the contrary. we already had Brexit when none of this inflation was around. Look at the real causes. Lockdowns, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine. Brexit obviously isn't the cause, otherwise how to explain the same rampant inflation all over the EU?
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  1708. because a big part of GDP is government spending. keep printing more money and GDP goes up. GDP doesn't necessarily reflect the economic well being of a country.
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  1709. you will be rotting in the ground before that happens
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  1710.  @dayegilharno4988  why only twice daily? why not extend your fantasy to 10 times daily? just twice daily seems a very modest aim given that Ukraine is triumphing so magnificently on the battlefield these days.
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  1711.  @rosemarykennedy5430  good point! probably cried himself to sleep with his teddy bear when told that beating a victim with a golf club gets you jail time in Spain. it must have been a shock to his system.
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  1712. the airbnb is not a remote location if you wanted to clandestinely take a boat to Morocco. in fact, it is the perfect location for people smuggling. let us assume Jay had to get off the island quickly. he found the right people to help him.
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  1713. "doing something differently from the Russian Orthodox Church" Ukraine's problem in a nutshell. In order to appear to be a real country, the only identity Ukrainians can claim is to be "not Russian", but it fools no one. Russophobia is not a route to establishing a national identity.
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  1714.  @coldspirit9904  DPR, LPR and Crimea all chose to separate from Ukraine after the 2014 coup. Crimean parliament voted to be annexed by Russia (it's called democracy) while DPR and LPR voted for independence. So the destruction of Ukraine happened because the Ukronazis just couldn't accept the Russian speaking areas wanted out. Egged on by the West, the Ukronazis thought they could face down Russia. Bad move. Ukraine will be totally destroyed, and then the West will move on to the next victim country.
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  1715.  @crocolagerfelden6142  It's not a case of making Russian an official language of the state. Russian has been an official language of Latvia for a long time. The question is why would any government remove existing rights for Russian to be an official language? Why would Canada remove French as an official state language? Why would Switzerland remove French as an official state language? The only reason would be to enrage and alienate a large chunk of the native population. No one in Russian speaks Latvian. Eastern Latvia has a majority of the population as Russian speakers. Why should Russian speakers leave anywhere? You might as well ask why French speaking Swiss don't just leave and go to France? Curious how you advocate restriction of rights on the Russian speakers of the world but not on any other minority language group on the planet. Russophobia has claimed you as yet another victim.
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  1716. @Nobody-s2j9q that's good. just be aware that millions of people in the UK would prefer you to go home and not be in the UK, and that millions feel they want their country back, with no immigrants at all. I'm sure you understand such sentiments.
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  1717. the tax rates are not the problem. it's the national debt and no plan to correct that problem. all those who applauded lockdowns, sanctions on Russia, Green policies, sending limitless cash to Ukraine, this is what you deserve.
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  1718.  @Albert-Dyck  Alex, and you, are wrong. As I told you, there are hordes of workers from Central Asia that, both legally and illegally, work in Russia. It has always been that way.
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  1719.  @arielcuster6660  so true, many a family entered the USA and were not separated at any stage in their American life! not hard to figure out why.
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  1720. this is very simple. what law is broken by displaying golliwogs? if no law is broken, it's allowed. no police, end of story.
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  1721. Donbass definitely falls into the category of giving all for freedom
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  1722. probably expected Ukraine to target military installations and not residential areas, but given Ukraine is a terrorist state, Russia was foolish to expect anything by the rules from Kiev.
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  1723. once again, as Amnesty International pointed out, Ukrainian forces using a school as their base. same old same old
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  1724. who is preventing you handing over your very last penny, right now?
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  1725.  @ericp1139  and Orban gets repeatedly re-elected at that. Best leader in Europe.
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  1726. Ofelia SAID "la guagua sale a las 10" and held her fingers up to say "con los dedos cruzados" (fingers crossed). this guy is making stuff up or reporting misinterpretations.
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  1727. nah, not buying that. in the Guardia Civil Operations Centre, as the search moved out from the epicentre, when they got 20 minutes walk from the last ping, who decided it was a brilliant idea to skip winching a team down that gorge and just spread further out? the same dude who thought it was a brilliant idea to wait until Day 16 before doing a forensic search of the airbnb?
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  1728. "a rare victory for Moscow". every day the Ukrainian power grid is knocked out is a victory for Moscow. Every day more Ukrainian cannon fodder than Wagner convicts are killed is a victory for Moscow. get real.
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  1729. and all this because it is simply unacceptable for Ukraine to be a neutral country, like Austria, and to have the ethnic Russians and the oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk become part of Russia. Really?
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  1730. just hysterical that this guy puts "humane" and "Hamas" in the same sentence.
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  1731. "the key witnesses are now back in England" not if they have any sense! they are on a plane to a remote destination like Paraguay, I would guess.
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  1732. Ukraine can't win, so don't waste your money.
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  1733. just comical that justified opposition to the suicidal policies of Kishinyov is labeled "Russian destabilization", as if people who suddenly have to pay half their incomes on energy costs would all be perfectly content to do so if it weren't for "Russian destabilization".
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  1734. "I still believe in reparations" yeah, right. when will she be writing out her first reparations personal check and to which real black family will it go? Obama, keep your hand down, sir.
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  1735. Expect India and Brazil to put some pressure on the deluded G7 to push Zelensky to the peace table! BRICS and OPEC are making it clear, they will support Russia and it is the G7 that needs to start putting pressure on Zelensky to start negotiating.
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  1736. no schools open in Kherson, children's education out the window, what a wonderful victory for Zelensky. Time to celebrate with another Vogue photo-shoot and to check on the rising property value of his mansion in Miami
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  1737.  @luminousfractal420  indeed it was Putin who crossed the border first. Putin was just following the West's "rules based order" where US troops invaded sovereign Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan etc. and where the allies invaded sovereign Nazi Germany.
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  1738.  @luminousfractal420  manipulation of the nation's youth would describe Ukraine. It's Ukraine that welcomed into its national defense force the Azov Nazi Battalion and made Bandera a national hero. Not Russia. Get the basics right.
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  1739. "an annexation in the eyes of the international community" except that most of the world is happy to trade with Russia, work with Russia, support Russia. The "international community" is not the same as the West, hard though that is for Westerners to grasp.
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  1740. The Ukrainians never left Crimea. The Ukrainians in Crimea decided they were Russian. Who wouldn't after the fall of democracy in the 2014 Maidan coup?
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  1741. interesting to know that Russia has support from many ex Soviet countries. Yet more evidence that Russia is far from isolated, but can count on help from around the globe.
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  1742.  @hiddendagger7291  exactly so. some Europeans upset they got caught out looking for a free ride.
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  1743.  @jameschamberlain5817  that's right. if Zelensky never accepts some of "his" citizens really want to be Russian and want their regions to be part of Russia, this war continues indefinitely
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  1744.  @FatBoy-f9p  looks like you can't count! I said two things. economic growth from empire building is one, you claim, (don't bother with the study that showed India cost more to colonize than benefits accruing from its colonization), so the second would be...?
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  1745.  @jaydeeknights  my point is that violent crime rates are much much higher in black communities. what do you think the murder rate in Jamaica or Bahamas is compared to Poland or Hungary? I don't know Antigua, but I have been to Barbados and can tell you what the attitude to crime there is compared to, say, the Cayman Islands.
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  1746. keep dreaming. a bunch of convicts and mercenaries just routed NATO trained and armed battalions in Soledar. Russia hasn't really thrown itself into this conflict yet. Let that sink in.
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  1747. keep in mind, there is absolutely no desire to continue with any of these Trump cases if they get to be decided after the presidential election, as the objective is to hurt Trump's election campaign, not amend or improve any laws.
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  1748.  @zuzanazuscinova5209  nonsense. travel the world and see the many places where housing is not an issue at all
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  1749. absolute lies. nothing shipped from Morocco to Spain is sold as "Product of Spain"....how do you think the shipments get through customs controls?
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  1750. they have totally failed to focus on the background, useless operation.
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  1751. no comment on the Latvian guy taken to court for trampling on the Ukrainian flag? talking about intimidating the whole country?
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  1752. I really don't think this is the case at all. Not sure of the rules in Spain, but usually holding someone on suspicion of, for example, drug trafficking, for 24 hours, is fine. Had the sniffer dogs been allowed in their rental car or villa, something would have been found for the charge to stick. the problem was, the Police were 100% focused on finding a missing person, not on explaining that crime caused the person to go missing. a one hour interview was almost certainly directed at what the two knew about where Jay went, what direction, on foot or by vehicle, what Jay was wearing etc. to be deemed "of no relevance to the case" tells you no questions about the background were posed. we all know these two men are more than relevant to the mystery. they are key.
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  1753.  @Maugirl2  good point, never doubt the eco warriors penchant for sabotage
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  1754.  @gizmo6746  oh, yes, that cherished freedom to shell the Donbass people for having the temerity to declare independence after the president they elected was overthrown in a coup in 2014. The freedom to shell fellow citizens is SO precious.
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  1755. 400 Russian dead and Ghost of Kiev is real
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  1756. It's just wishful thinking and nothing more. Get real.
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  1757.  @michaelrunnels7660  you obviously care enough to read what I said, and you cared enough to reply! Hearing the truth really bothers you, right?
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  1758. sure it's your place to judge either way! Starving kids in Africa depend on resolution of this conflict, we ALL have a say.
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  1759.  @WilfChadwick  1. Macron has done nothing to stop mass immigration, he is to blame for that, as over 70% of the population want a stop to immigration. 2. Macron described the officer's action as "inexcusable" even though Macron has no idea of the facts of the case. This "blame the police" attitude from Macron gave the green light to the mayhem we have seen. Macron is totally to blame.
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  1760.  @wokeaf1337  and which parties would YOU consider "far right" in Germany, and which parties "far left".? Got a feeling your definitions might be different from mine, but maybe not. there are a lot of people on this globe who reject multiculturalism. does that make them racist or far right? all of Japan is racist and far right? i don't think so. what say you?
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  1761. when was the last time NATO found out how effective Russian air defence systems are?
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  1762. sure, I guess you think Bandera was amazing too.
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  1763.  @flopoz2575  given both Ukraine and NATO are now demilitarized, and Putin's other 4 objectives are close to completion, hard to say there are no significant gains! Surely you don't look at the territorial map and take that to reflect "gains", do you?
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  1764. No mention of the thousands of cannon fodder being shoved into the Russian meatgrinder. With Clarke, it's all about territory. Lives matter not.
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  1765. agreed, more than likely Jay was spiking every drink he could find and then had to flee with strangers as the security at the rave cornered him.
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  1766.  @oojimmyflip  Death Valley is a good point. Has always been exceptionally hot, but these days the media coverage of its heat is the only thing that has changed. US summer temperatures were MUCH higher in the 1930's. The number of places in the US that get over 100F is way down on a century ago.
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  1767. it's called war of attrition, Russia's favorite tactic, Russia prevailed in Chechnya and Syria this way. Giving up Kherson saved thousands of Russian lives and cost Ukraine thousands of lives. i mean, fine, keep looking at territory won and lost and feel smug things look good on the map, but without knowing the death tolls on both sides, it means nothing. let this sink in....NATO armed and trained Ukrainian battalions just lost to a bunch of mercenaries and convicts! that is the reality.
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  1768.  @ayoungethan  no factual basis? so, what do you think happened to all the tanks Ukraine had at the start of the war?
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  1769.  @st.golubets3836  of course it is. illegally crossing borders refusing to seek asylum is not.
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  1770. judge by the results, not by your prejudices
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  1771.  @AtheistEve  Russia did offer safe refuge to ethnic Russians. I'm curious, does this "any civil war going on in .......should have had little to do with......" position apply to every conflict in the world, or just to this one? Syria? Serbia? Iraq? Afghanistan?
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  1772.  @Wallace-g5o  and if he refuses to comply and decides to put the officers' lives at risk and the public at risk with his crazed, reckless high speed joy riding? let him go happily on his way?
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  1773.  @brianmcintyre14  Who you mix with and who I mix with is irrelevant. Facts are facts, and the fact is that this year, for the first time, the number of people in the UK that were net recipients from the government was greater than those who were net contributors. This should be deeply worrying to sane people, and is indicative of the widespread malaise of the UK.
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  1774. it's called the free market. stop whining and crying for government intervention for every life problem that pops up.
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  1775. @Goliath so if US was fighting in much easier circumstances in Iraq and it took 6 months to fully capture Fallujah, safe to say Russia is doing a much more impressive job with its progress in Donbass.
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  1776. playing football much more important than fighting for your country. gives you a clue why Russia is winning.
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  1777. and some people believe Ghost of Kiev is real.
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  1778.  @nicke0b  so how did Russia pick up the pace after autumn?
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  1779. neutrality brings enormous advantages, as Finland and Sweden will find out.
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  1780. definition of futile, working round the clock to fix something that will get destroyed in seconds next week. time to surrender.
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  1781.  @aylbdrmadison1051  facts hurt, eh? it's the fossil fuel industry that has reduced poverty globally. if you understood how the world worked, you would appreciate how fossil fuels have benefitted everyone immeasurably.
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  1782. "Do you think he will change his behavior?" YES! He did in Chechnya! Chechnya is now living in peace. Ditto Abkhazia, ditto South Ossetia, ditto Transnistra. Putin has a track record of intervening wherever ethnic Russians are discriminated against, fighting for their rights, thence restoring order and a lasting peace. Same peace arrangement is taking shape in Syria too, after Russian intervention. so, YES, if Ukraine ends the war, Putin will bring peace and potential for all ethnicities to live on equal terms. Exactly the OPPOSITE of what Zelensky brought!
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  1783.  @sergio7248  what is bad about it? surely you agree that NGO's should report when their funding is flooding in from outside the country?
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  1784. "why not use less?" Ukraine has been using about one sixth of what Russia has been using for the last year! Using LESS will dislodge the Russians and lead to the recapture of Crimea?
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  1785. oh yes, the morale must be so low among those convicts who, with their shovels, poorly led and poorly trained, just massacred the NATO trained and armed battalions of Ukraine. just a devastating result for the Wagners. they must be crying.
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  1786. Zaluzhny says he needs 300 tanks to win this. why is NATO choosing not to send the 300 tanks he needs?
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  1787. social Darwinism at work. Yet another fool who thought it was a really good idea to engage Russia in a land war.
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  1788. Curious that the Pentagon refuses to confirm it is Russia at fault. Like me, the Pentagon thinks the intercepted "phone conversation" wreaks of acting, and not great acting at that.
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  1789. simple.....deregulate the rental business, and let the free market sort it out. if you approve of the rental contract you are offered and the property is acceptable and you can afford it, sign and move in. if any of the 3 factors above doesn't apply, keep looking. mass immigration will always push prices up, so all of you who say "migrants welcome", welcome to high rental charges
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  1790. oh dear, indeed. those of you that applauded lockdowns and green energy and mass immigration and sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine, well, all the government borrowing needed to pay for all that has brought us what you wanted. enjoy every minute of the consequences of what you wanted.
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  1791. Donbass deserves as much support as possible, and Ukrainian aggression defeated. The West must stand firm against the Azov Nazis, on the side of freedom, democracy and human rights. Countries and people around the world must not bow to violent oppression and authoritarian rule from places like Kiev. Democracy is never perfect, but it is the best system we have, and respects the rights of all. If repressive regimes are so great, why do people continue to flee despotic places like Ukraine?
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  1792. Aaron chooses not to answer how it's fair to jail a person who throws an object in a riot but not fair to jail a person who throws an object at Nigel Farage by talking about his own experience. dodged the question
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  1793. Lie number 1 - Russia is blockading Ukrainian ports. Ukrainian port of Izmael, on the Danube, is open and ships are free to enter and leave port, no blockade. Odessa is inoperative due to Ukraine's mines along the coast there.
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  1794. Freudian slip by Gulliver there, "despite losses that they're suffering, the Ukrainians....ooops, I mean, the Russians" Heavy Ukrainian losses on Gulliver's mind before he remembers his paymaster doesn't want him to mention that.
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  1795. here in the Pyrenees, in fair conditions, missing people are found within hours with the range of technology now available. the only problem is if and when the public give inaccurate or false leads, but that is so rare, not that anyone in the jay Slater case would give any false information!
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  1796. Nothing that happens in Kursk will change anything. It's what is happening in Donbass that is leading towards a Russian victory.
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  1797. this is what happens when you attack Belgorod and the Kerch Bridge.
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  1798.  @mikele9878  and so are yours!!!
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  1799.  @gregmchale5011  Kiev should have allowed DPR and LPR go their own way. would have been so much easier.
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  1800.  @l3n221  agreed. if only these kids had a father who told them "when the police stop you, act respectfully and co-operate". simple way to stay alive. sadly, even Macron is incapable of giving such simple and useful advice.
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  1801.  @joysimpson7503  I'm guessing you really appreciate Stephan Bandera as a national hero of Ukraine, right?
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  1802.  @hape3862  exactly, no worries if someone else's grandma dies. got it. storage of LNG is full because there is so little storage capacity. it's like me saying my tiny little fridge is packed full, therefore I have enough for winter. it's nonsense. if storage capacity is not an issue, why is more storage capacity being constructed? when winter comes, the LNG can't be offloaded, stored and fed to consumers quick enough. again, that's why, in a mad panic, more storage is being built, but it takes years. full storage PLUS Nordtream working full flow gets you through a normal winter, NOT just storage (why do you think Nordtream 2 was built?). Government paying energy bills with more printed money just adds to inflation and keeps demand high, resulting in higher prices, shortages and rationing. basic economics. you'll see:)
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  1803.  @dkoz8321  tend to agree. hence Zelensky begged the West to have this won by winter. Russia solidifying defenses gives them a VERY strong negotiating hand.
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  1804. you must be pretty old to remember that
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  1805. @@hutrsscc So is Russian. Why not learn Russian so that then at least one of your newly acquired languages will be of some use to you?
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  1806. Just fantastic how Russia has recruited fellow sanctioned nations to its cause. For Iran, N Korea and Venezuela, this is oh sweet revenge on the West, and the West thoroughly deserves it. Slava Rossiyi.
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  1807. the Police aren't being asked to play semantic games. A judge and jury will decide all that. The police are just there to enforce the law and arrest those suspected of violating the law. Given "jihad" is clearly not a mental struggle that is being referred to here, Police should take the threat to be what it is, a call to arms.
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  1808. @mauritsvanoranje6725 you mean neighbors like Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Mongolia, all happy to be part of the CIS group or to work closely with Russia. those neighbors?
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  1809. @mauritsvanoranje6725 no one has been around such places with the contentometer to measure national content, but my experience of Belarus under Lukashenko is that most people are not noticeably scoring low on the contentometer. people in the West seem pretty pissed off these days. seen what the French have been doing in their streets over the last few months?
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  1810.  @Orto-jj2di  exactly. a country no longer has any sovereignty once it has chosen to throw democracy out the window. 2014 turned Ukraine into a banana republic without the bananas
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  1811. Russian has been banned in public spheres. How would you feel if you were a native Russian speaker living in a 90% Russian speaking community and compelled to have your entire education in a foreign language? Catalans use Catalan in public life in Spain. Walloons use French in public life in Belgium, the Québecquois use French in public life in Canada. Why do you ONLY insist the Russian speaking minority in Ukraine MUST follow different rules?
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  1812. Nah, if he had balls of steel he would ask a genuine question rather than a propaganda piece written for him by his brainwashed boss.
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  1813. a lot more freedoms in Russia than UK
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  1814. In Russia, a democratic country, men are free to leave the country if they so wish. and street protests happen regularly. In Ukraine, a dictatorship, men are compelled to remain in the country and forced to become cannon fodder, while no opposition party is allowed in parliament and no protests allowed. Azov Nazis rule in Kiev.
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  1815. what convinces you that Russia will just leave Ukraine without using some nukes to turn things around?
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  1816. "what do you think of that rhetoric? "I think, given what happened last Saturday, it is thoroughly understandable and deserved, next question?"
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  1817.  @thuncerd1087  NATO too cowardly to even sent men to fight.
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  1818.  @majowassen3021  indeed. 2018. i lasted 3 months. started with an open mind on the war in the Donbass, left totally disgusted with the horrific way Russian speakers were treated.
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  1819.  @simonpedge  Putin has to deal with Communists and other opposition parties in the Duma every day. Zelensky banned all opposition parties from the Rada. So the West, because it always backs "democracy", is championing Ukraine in this struggle! Go figure!
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  1820. heavy toll? pray tell, oh ye of all the facts and figures, exactly how many orcs died due to the last winter? what number did your research team come up with?
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  1821.  @ddoppster  really "dave"..feel free to correct my atrocious English mdr
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  1822.  @Spectre11B  But talking about annexation, presumably, when the Crimean Parliament voted for separation from Kiev following the anti constitutional coup in Kiev in 2014, you supported the Russian annexation of Crimea. I mean you do believe in democracy, in parliamentary votes to beg protection from outside forces when there has been a coup at home, right?
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  1823.  @alhambrabiker1476  who cares if the YT account is credible? the important point is you clearly have no clue how the world views the Ukraine conflict, and you need to learn some basic facts. Let's start with fact one. ONLY the Western bubble cares about isolating Russia. The vast majority of the world is absolutely fine with working with Russia, trading with Russia, supporting Russia.
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  1824.  @andylane247  it was only your mother's cooking that was shite
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  1825.  @brettrigby2226  it's not dark at 8 in the morning.
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  1826. Ukraine is advancing toward Slovyansk and Kramatorsk? When did Russia capture Slovyansk and Kramatorsk? Fake news
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  1827.  @David-ry9ly  it was Milley who made up the 3 day nonsense.
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  1828. Fantastic for the West to see how there is no popular support for deposing Putin, how popular the Wagners are, and how Lukashenko is a mediator that Zelensky should have accepted when he had the chance. Putin comes out so much stronger, with BRICS and OPEC admiring how he solved this peacefully and pragmatically.
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  1829.  @user-kh2jv8gm66  predictable way for the ukronazis to celebrate Easter
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  1830. If Liz Truss weren't so absorbed with becoming PM, she might do her usual trick of begging the Ukrainians to help when the person concerned is in the DPR, not in Ukraine.
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  1831. Latvia needs to pay attention to only one thing if it wants security and peace with Russia. Latvia needs to guarantee full language rights to all Russian speakers in Latvia, just as Kazakhstan has done, but the opposite to what russophobic/nationalistic Ukraine did. With full language rights in place, Latvia has nothing to worry about.
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  1832. In Kupiansk and Svatove area the overstretched, thin Ukronazia lines have already been penetrated by the Russians!
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  1833. Surovikin delighted to see so much Ukrainian attention paid to the Belarus border while he gets his invasion force ready for Zaporozhe and Kharkov. Slava Rossiyi, fingers crossed Zelensky keeps sending cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder.
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  1834. Russia won't be supplying energy after winter, so getting through the winter is no finish line. years of energy crisis and misery for Germany, but, Germany, you deserve it
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  1835. Glad it was the Moroccans who dished out this treatment to their fellow Africans. If Spanish guards had done this it would have been "racist", right?
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  1836. would have been nice to offer this secure location to the children of the Donbass over the last 8 years
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  1837. Only the Collective West bubble is anti-Russian in this conflict. Most of the world understands Ukraine started this with 8 years of butchery in the Donbass. When ethnic Russians are denied their human rights (supposedly a value of the West) then you can expect a Russian reaction. Ukraine refused to implement the Minsk Accords, now it's time to pay the price. Ukraine deserves everything it is getting.
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  1838. it's not about land. it's about the rights of ethnic Russians, just as it was in Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and now Ukraine.
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  1839.  @johnkitching2248  how about you point out the obvious lie?
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  1840. going to Notting Hill carnival and assuming you will escape stab=free is just delusional. taking a 3 year old kid with you is just plain irresponsible. as Saddick Khan said, such things are part and parcel of living in a big city these days.
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  1841. "it could be a gamechanger", only the tenth time we have heard this, the nine other wonder-weapons having failed to change the game.
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  1842.  @ryand141  yes, you are right, much better to let him continue driving recklessly so that he can mow down half a dozen people while shouting "Allahu Akbar", that scenario is much more like real justice.
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  1843. absolutely agree. mass rebellion. refuse to pay the bill and challenge energy companies to take every single customer to court. it will force action to remedy the situation (which would mean re allocating government spending on essentials like heating, not defense).
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  1844. exactly, some don't understand that printing money doesn't get more energy to flow into the continent
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  1845.  @Israelipropaganda  Both Gib and the EU would benefit enormously from Spain relaxing Schengen entry rules for UK citizens crossing that border. The UK is in a different situation entirely, as it is big enough to establish trading and immigration controls with the rest of the world quite independently, and has indeed done this, hence UK's economy is not faring any worse than EU's economy.
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  1846.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  oh, believe me, there are plenty of places on the globe who are very supportive of Russia and support Russia to the full. the norm, globally speaking, is Westophobia.
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  1847. What's the point in deporting someone across an open border?
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  1848. the game is up. NATO supplied all they could, Russia destroyed enormous amounts of weaponry and enormous numbers of Ukronazi fighters without one single Ukrainian reaching the FIRST line of Russian defences. The counter offensive is a total catastrophe. The only question now is how harsh will be the surrender terms dictated by Russia next year.
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  1849.  @thegreatshamalamadingdong9788  the same amount of evidence as those that believe he just wandered into the countryside and died of thirst.
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  1850. Lammy spoiled so much more than the Special Relationship the day he was born
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  1851. Spain holds all the cards. Gib needs Spanish workers to cross that border every day, unhindered. Spain has no need, at all, to allow a free flow of non Schengen passport holders access to Spain from Gib.
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  1852. "Ukraine has performed better defensively" oh, yeah, Bakhmut was an absolutely roaring success! Demoralized convicts with shovels beat NATO trained and supplied battalions! Brilliant example of glorious defence!
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  1853. post Rotherham, why would anyone respect, fear or even take the Police seriously?
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  1854. unless you know the guy, you wouldn't know how lovely or how nasty he is.
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  1855.  @peterstone9316  the history of Shariyah is irrelevant. what is relevant is its role in society today, and today it is the law the compels Muslims to disregard national laws and abide by ONLY what their religion allows. end of story.
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  1856. "vile trolls" just regular folks who, like Jay and the Spanish police, are prepared to do whatever it takes to make a buck or two.
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  1857. but you WOULD want to go to war for a good reason, like revenge for the 8 years of Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass, right?
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  1858.  @mitjed  believe me, I've lived in Zelensky's Ukraine, my statement is accurate as it is. What was your experience when you worked in Ukraine?
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  1859.  @757Poppy  Donbass certainly is their (the Donbass Russians') country, yes.
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  1860. If Griner is to come back to USA, at least a straight swap with Pelosi might be tempting to all powers.
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  1861. Biden is still looking for his
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  1862. Mathias still living in the mythical world of a Ukraine counter offensive. Look at the map, Mathias! It's over.
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  1863. sickening, the total disregard for the UK taxpayers who have to keep forking out for this scam.
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  1864. "many ordinary Ukrainians think the same". = the many extraordinary Ukrainians back union with Russia
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  1865. and still lose!
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  1866. it is not Dublin's right to order the majority in Ulster to unite with the Irish Republic. Northern Ireland is a democracy and repeatedly votes for Unionist parties over Nationalist parties. learn the basics.
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  1867. for those of us that support Russia, we can't wait. come on you ukronazis, let's see you out in the open!
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  1868. did you cry at all the Donbass children killed by Azov Nazi shelling for 8 years?
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  1869.  @Oakleaf700  Notice how the Guardia Civil refuse to say how far down the ravine the body was, and where exactly the body was found. Any ideas why this basic information is being withheld? What could be a consequence if we are told just how far down the body was and where exactly the body lay?
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  1870. talking about Zelensky?
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  1871. "Russia's poor management of the war" they're winning, against NATO! wise up, dumbo!
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  1872. "the Police said the Rayner case was not worth looking into" so, just like burglary and car theft then.
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  1873. so the Leopard tanks sent for the mythical Ukrainian spring offensive are already being used in the disastrous defence of Bakhmut? how many Leopards will be left for the massive spring offensive? 8?
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  1874. and the people who elected them into power.
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  1875.  @frederikzinn6568  curious about this phrase "civilian train stations". do you think the Ukrainian military use their own train stations and don't move troops along the same tracks as used by civilians?
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  1876.  @frederikzinn6568  i don't ignore war crimes. I ignore accusations of war crimes. it is because I respect human decency that I despise all that Ukraine has done to its ethnic Russian population. if only you had the decency to learn about it. ah, so you admit that a train station and train tracks are indeed used by the military! so Russia attacked military targets! we already know that Ukraine uses human shields. check out the Amnesty International report on all that. which train station did Russia attack? you are aware that it was a Ukrainian missile that was found as the culprit of the Kramatorsk attack, right? meanwhile, what Russian military targets, exactly, were Ukraine after in Belgorod? cue crickets.
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  1877. sniffer dogs can't find a corpse in the sea.
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  1878. the whole EV pipe dream is going up in smoke. it will be abandoned within the next 3 years.
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  1879.  @l.w.paradis2108  that only happened in films. bullets ricochet off tyres. so, no, I don't remember those days in real life.
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  1880.  @jeffreybresnahan  great point. i often use Fallujah as an example of how no matter what your numbers are, nor your competency, capturing and occupying a town, house by house, is a damn dirty, complicated and time consuming project.
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  1881. Watch the Redacted report on the 10,000 Ukrainian troops that have surrendered during the offensive. Once they make contact with the Russians on the Volga wavelength, whole platoons wave the white flag. This won't ever be reported on DW or BBC, obviously, but it is a massive setback for NATO....Ukraine is surrendering.
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  1882. les russes ont gagné. Macron le sait mais n'ose pas dire la verité
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  1883. maybe as a tiny city state in and around Kiev
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  1884. Russia also blew up its own pipeline, and attacked its own bridge in Crimea, and killed Miss Dugina, and....we get the picture, MSM
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  1885.  Leidolfr  speak for yourself, teenager
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  1886.  Leidolfr  around 12? and why would you not know her exact age when married to Joseph?
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  1887.  Leidolfr  ah, the old "let's point fingers at the failings of the Christian religion 500 years ago" approach. Christianity reformed itself. Islam refuses to. Grasp the difference.
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  1888.  Leidolfr  oh, this is fascinating! when you say "the records", which records would those be? and who is the historical authority that is 100% sure that the English phrase "came of age" meant in Palestine of 2000 years ago the moment of the first period? who said that Christianity is good? Christianity recognizes that child marriage is a crime and denounces such things. Islam embraces it, hence Pakistani rape gangs that are absolutely fine with ruining the lives of white English girls. Many white Christian rape gangs going around Bangladesh doing the same thing?
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  1889. All the extra CO2 in the atmosphere means here in France, it is the hottest June since 1981, ...when it was an even hotter June and a lot less CO2 in the atmosphere
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  1890.  @volo7877  Based on the US performance in Kabul, when a bunch of goat herders strolled into town, and the US in pure panic left behind billions of dollars worth of equipment, saw 13 of its troops massacred, managed to drone attack to death an innocent Afghan family and, in short, totally humiliate itself, I would say almost any military operation in the world right now would wipe out a US force. agreed?
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  1891.  @f.a.1308  was the "accident" a knife that somehow left a refugee's hand and entered your abdomen?
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  1892. Why do those who want to be Spanish, but who live in Cataluña, not just move to Spain?
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  1893. Wonderful news that at least Orban understands that peace negotiations are needed, not more arms and death.
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  1894. Great to hear there is a Bahamian supporting Russia! My wife is Bahamian and doesn't really get why I feel Ukraine/NATO is the aggressor in this conflict.
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  1895. I left UK years ago, I never feel safe there when I go back and visit. Just couldn't live there ever again.
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  1896. exactly. if Ukraine TRULY shared EU values, it would not discriminate between men and women, and would recruit equally from both men and women. We can add "sexist pig" to the list of epithets thrown Zelensky's way.
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  1897.  @healthytrout  you make my point for me. While EU values claim to include treating men and women equally, the truth is that it is all a lie, and that discrimination is the true EU value, men, but not women, are conscripted. Zelensky, by employing the same sexual discrimination, is sharing that precious EU value of gross hypocrisy.
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  1898. just reverse the law and insist all asylum claims must be made before arrival in the UK.
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  1899.  @davidthompson9141  well said.
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  1900. there is absolutely no reason to assume Ukraine is in any position to launch an offensive, though we can be sure Ukraine will talk up this notion of an offensive ad nauseum. after all, how else will it convince NATO to keep sending it the bundles of cash Zelensky needs to maintain his overseas properties?
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  1901. fiddling while Rome burns. Dec 21 to March 21 is winter, the difficulties have only just started. so futile. Russia will win and dictate terms. NATO powerless to turn the tide.
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  1902. it's a simple fix. Pass a law that states all claims for asylum must be made before entering the UK. That would then mean anyone trying to enter the UK with no asylum granted could, legally, be turned back immediately.
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  1903.  @dandansen571  more than approves! ever since his brother died of starvation, Putin has held firm beliefs in his heart that are thoroughly unshakable! "approved"? Putin lives and breathes my ideas, and for the most part, so does all of Russia
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  1904.  @takeitasacompliment.  what you call "propaganda" and "lies" are my views on the matter. deal with it. now, to the details. "well documented" and "reliable sources" mean nothing. Name them.
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  1905. so, the slowest kids in the class, the EU member states, having all got an F on the "Sanctions Against Russia project", are determined to make it another F on the Price Cap project. They will surely get the grade they deserve
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  1906. the protesters object too the law even being discussed in parliament = the protesters are anti democratic
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  1907.  @deeemtee7040  you might be surprised how many people, worldwide, don't consider Russia the worse side! Globally, do you think you are in the majority?
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  1908.  @patrickbright4264  what makes you think that living in Argentina makes you the one and only spokesman of the whole country one should listen to? what makes you 100% sure I don't live in Argentina?
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  1909.  @patrickbright4264  as expected, you are totally incapable of answering my 2 very simple questions. not the brightest, are you?
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  1910.  Lou Smith  if EU people are so rich and generous, why not make it voluntary instead of via government? very easy to be rich and generous with other peoples' money.
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  1911. well well well, fancy that, the Russians have actually made it difficult for the Ukronazis. i guess those who convinced themselves the Russian withdrawals from Kiev, Kherson and Kharkov were some kind of Russian defeat on the battlefield, then convinced themselves the same would happen with the great counter offensive! Surprise! When the Russians fight face to face, they win every time! Popasnaya, Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lyzychansk, Soledar, Bakhmut.....
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  1912.  @dirkdupont5004  2022 saw the highest trade deficit the EU has EVER seen! 2022 saw a rise of over 50% in UK trade to the EU compared to the previous year. Stop lying!
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  1913.  @Mark-Haddow  significantly reduced from what to what, give some specifics, and delineate all the factors involved in such reductions. we are also seeing EU businesses close down and leave the EU. Would that be due to Brexit too? Here in Barbate, Spain, tourist numbers are way down and business is sluggish. That must be due to Brexit, right? Economics is a remarkably complicated and multi-factorial business. Be damn sure the sole reason for any change is brexit legislation before you just assume it to be.
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  1914. Estonia feels safe? Ukraine felt safe with security guarantees from NATO when it relinquished its nukes, and when France and Germany signed the Minsk accords. Only a fool would feel safe from a NATO pledge.
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  1915. The reason I avoid ever going back to the UK is I know there would be a strong chance of being arrested for voicing my concerns that mass immigration has absolutely ruined the country.
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  1916. Just like Sunak, neither Kemi Badenoch nor Suella Braverman has enough of a British background to lead the country, let alone to truly understand the traditions of the Tory voters. Badenoch only came to the country in her late teens from Nigeria, what kind of loyalty to British values could we expect from her?
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  1917.  @zenon7094  Why should Russia have stopped fueling this conflict? when you have right on your side, and defending the rights of ethnic Russians is the right thing to do, fueling the conflict makes perfect sense.
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  1918. "they're just needs to be" = reality is so different from my dream world
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  1919. we all know. the West is too scared to name the villain, as the West is 100% dependent on the villain.
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  1920. finally, a theory that actually makes sense!
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  1921. until all the boats are towed back to France, this won't stop.
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  1922. Oh my, did you all hear about the MASSIVE gains made by Ukraine today, July 31, in the counter offensive? No, neither did I.
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  1923.  @Jay.Kellett  yep, and it was all sold on the black market, welcome to Ukraine Corruption 101 Class
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  1924.  @lostlogic6911  I'm sure you see nothing in the trenches and have no clue what is going on in the trenches. you might want to read the BBC report quoting the Ukrainian soldier describing life on the front line in Krynky to get a taste of reality.
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  1925. Reform came second in loads of constituencies. They might not want to shout about electoral reform too much, because when Starmer fails miserably, Reform will attract a load more Labour voters plus mop up the rest of the disaffected Tories and could well be in prime position to actually win power with the First Past The Post system. In constituencies with 4 top parties hovering around 25%, Reform grabbing 26% would win the seat. Brexit Party got up to 30% in its prime at European elections. Anything can happen.
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  1926.  @sergiosilva7528  where did I say that UK was in a unique position on this issue? looks like reading comprehension is not your forte.
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  1927.  @MMiragee  just questioning the assumption that the family must be traumatized by the disappearance of their kid. Karen Matthews wasn't.
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  1928.  @MMiragee  yeah, i haven't seen anyone overwhelmed with grief yet
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  1929.  @richardbutler2749  yeah, who would support a guy who secured the nation's borders, expanded the economy, and sent no US forces into any new conflict? just so astounding!
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  1930. it is how totalitarianism works. fear that the other side might say something that makes sense = panic and urge to shut up the speaker that might make sense.
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  1931. to be fair, the BBC did describe the suspect as a "Newcastle man", though that in itself probably meant that Britainistan's sharia police were looking for a guy muttering "''way the lads" and humming "when th' boat comes in".
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  1932.  andrewgrey6226  I see, so the UN is the sole judge and jury of the legal status of an invasion? Have all UN members signed an agreement to abide by this legal standard? Yes? No? What is the legal definition of "authoritarian nation"? Does Ukraine match the definition of "authoritarian nation" for invading the DPR and LPR who don't "want to be a part of" Ukraine? Was the US invasion of Afghanistan a legal invasion?
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  1933. "hard to see what else this could be" only if you are a biased BBC reporter, that is.
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  1934. there are no isolated incidents any more. they are part of a pattern.
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  1935.  @alexsilent5603  exactly. a Beslan style terror attack on a school in Ukraine led by DPR separatists never happened. No jihad was declared by the LPR or DPR on Kiev.
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  1936. the people smugglers are just helping the migrants get in. it's supply and demand. if you want to blame the people smugglers for seeing how easy it is to get people into Britain, fine, but people smugglers wouldn't exist if you removed the reasons why so many want to come to Britain illegally. like blaming drug dealers on your street when you have a big sign saying "drug dealers can get away with their trade on this street"
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  1937.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  invading another sovereign country is absolutely fine when said sovereign country has been shelling their own citizens for 9 years! of course! but why ask me? ask the Americans! USA has invaded sovereign Iraq, sovereign Afghanistan, sovereign Syria!
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  1938.  @anthonymorris2276  Anthony, hand on heart..did you also believe Ghost of Kiev was real? What about the tooth fairy?
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  1939.  @balaclavabob001  Given that Poroshenko and Zelensky shelled Donbass mercilessly for 8 years,, more accurate to say this is the tactic Zelensky would sanction. Remnants of the himars missile found on site points to the usual team effort of USA/Ukronazis.
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  1940. he is a total liar and charlatan who absolutely refuses to report the truth about Russian successes on the front line.
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  1941. leaving the corrupt cesspit of a bullying cartel was an excellent idea. Education, education, education
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  1942. "gradual integration of the Russian speaking population" = compelling Russian speakers to conform to diktats from Tallinn to derussify the country. a la Kiev. how did that work out for Ukraine?
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  1943.  @wesleymbewe9339  exactly so....few people understand why the US/NATO shock and awe aerial bombardment DOESN'T in fact win a war.
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  1944. "the first stage was a massive failure for Russia"...you mean when Ukraine's Black Sea ships were sunk or captured, when Ukrainian air force was knocked out, when Kherson and Zaporozhe fell so quickly to Russia, when 6 million refugees had to flee....all this was as a result of a massive Russian failure? Let's see what happens when Russia starts to win! should be interesting!
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  1945. if that is the real problem, then every single food producer has agreed to form a cartel, and not single one of them has refused to join the cartel and offer slighltly lower prices to corner the market. really?
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  1946. let's hope Zelensky has learnt that one after 8 years of shelling the Donbass.
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  1947. not much of a news story this one. Pacifists and conscientious objectors are leaving Russia. what would you expect? Two interesting points: Ukraine does not allow such freedom of movement to any such men in Ukraine (such a democratic country) and USA, that lectures us all on inclusion and diversity, has excluded a specific nationality from using Western payment systems.
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  1948. There is no such thing as a "people smuggler" given that it is perfectly legal to arrive in the UK and then claim asylum (which is why no one is arrested in Dover, they are all legally in the UK once the words "I claim asylum" are uttered). So, the "people smugglers" are just travel agents, providing the transport needed to carry out a legal journey. Talk about focusing on the wrong component of the problem!
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  1949. "Russians have been much more careless with their troops" and the follow up question "please cite independently corroborated evidence for your claim", but no, DW just accepts the bs reply and moves on.
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  1950.  @thegreatdane3627  that's right, let's condemn Russia for offering free grain to Africa and failing to deliver any just 5 days after the Grain Deal announcement! Both Canada and USA are massive grain producers. When was the last time either of those most generous and caring Western powerhouses offered free grain to Africa? What is Denmark shipping to Africa for free these days?
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  1951. "Zelenska, honey, get the chopper ready and all those US dollars cash we have under the bed, and pack an overnight bag for us, got a feeling we might be heading to our villa in Italy sooner rather than later! No, leave the kids, they can help with the last stand here in Kiev"
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  1952. France totally deserves everything that is happening. Richly deserved. Apart from the 7% who voted for Zemmour, the only candidate who vowed to end immigration and start a repatriation programme, everyone else chose a candidate that didn't want to confront the problem of North Africans and those with their origins in North Africa, from causing mayhem and out-of-control crime in France. Enjoy every second of it.
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  1953. If Richard Tice had spent more time tackling these issues and less time "helping" the Ukronazis, maybe there would be more respect for him.
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  1954. "the only major city it's captured in Kherson"....uh, Kherson IS the only major city in Kherson!
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  1955. "hate and abuse is bad" really? hate is NEVER justified? it's wrong to hate Hitler, Fred West, marmite? you have no idea what you are talking about. hate is a human emotion that can often be justified and deserved.
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  1956. why 45? why not 99 cents?
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  1957.  @martinledermann1862  seems like you have no idea what "anti Semitic" means. My comment was on Germany's demise, not about any Semites.
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  1958. @@Dobacat that's why Chinese, Korean, Indian and Japanese made vehicles and machines are so popular globally and why their exports are growing exponentially, right? because German engines are so great! you live in the past.
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  1959.  @chipbug  Not at all. In a debate, BOTH sides get to present their perspectives. In Western media, there is no debate. ONLY the Zelensky perspective is broadcast. EVER! Tucker made this a debate by allowing the OTHER SIDE to make their case. THAT is a debate! Allowing BOTH sides to present their arguments. You have been brainwashed into thinking there is only one side to this argument. Tucker was NOT in the debate! He was nerely allowing the Russian side to present its case! You don't "converse" questions! You "ask" or "pose" questions. Jeez, are you 12 years old?
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  1960. false choice. Hungary could choose to leave the EU and retain its democracy while watching the EU slide ever more rapidly into authoritarian decline.
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  1961.  @kev_naughty  oh yeah, Depression, the go to guy whenever you feel the need to excuse laziness, ineptitude and nonchalance.
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  1962. projection
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  1963. remember, the aim is to weaken Russia, so even though the kill rate is 7:1 in Russia's favor, it is still worth fighting to the last Ukrainian because sacrificing Ukraine will indeed help to weaken Russia. The project is on track.
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  1964.  @Ron_Coletta  Talking about the different culture you have in Germany, do you think Germans are particularly keen to support the Azov Nazis and their Ukrainian Russophobic nationalism because it feels close to the ideals of Lebensraum and Germany for the Germans?
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  1965. India knows that Ukraine is culpable. Congratulations to India.
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  1966.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  oh, let me guess? your definition of "world" is the Western World, that tiny bubble that thinks it can dictate some kind of rules based order to everyone else , right?
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  1967. and now the truth. climatologists do indeed join the dots, but they join all the dots that fit their narrative and dismiss all the dots that don't.
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  1968. exactly. only when asylum must be claimed from outside the country will it change.
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  1969.  @ddhh1270  every single army that has the capacity to do so and decides to do so. What's your point?
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  1970.  @DavidBennell  as i have pointed out, no Remoaner can ever specify what it is about Brexit that has caused any malaise. sad, your whole argument is to parrot "it's Brexit, it's Brexit" yet Costa Rican bananas are cheaper in Spain than Spanish bananas, and not one of you can explain why.
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  1971.  @trogdortpennypacker6160  so true. who knows, maybe Bojo never thought his promises of NATO ensuring victory would come back to bite him, personally. so far, given the media refuse to grill him on his infamous Kiev visit, Bojo is not in any trouble, but come the Russian victory, all the finger pointing will start, and Bojo will have some tough questions to answer.
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  1972. so, the Guardia Civil announcing that the body has been found means there was no foul play and it confirms, 100%, that Jay was walking back to Los Cristianos? sounds like if you assume that, you are one of the conspiracy theorists!
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  1973. Russia knows EXACTLY where its border starts and ends. If ethnic Russians are denied their human rights, as happened in Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia and now Ukraine, the Russian border includes those ethnic Russians. Pretty simple really, allow ethnic Russians the same rights as the majority population in these ex Soviet republics, and there are no border issues.
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  1974. 6 months of preparation, unlimited NATO support, and the great counter offensive to liberate Russian controlled territory has racaptured.....3 settlements? 2000 cannon fodder dead after being fed to the Russian meatgrinder, but this is a GREAT victory!?
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  1975. @Anthony M 13 US troops were killed in the pandemonium of the botched exit from Kabul. How many Taliban fighters died? Taliban 13 Coalition 0?
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  1976.  @sammiller6631  12 times the size of Russia's economy as measured by.......? Keep in mind, GDP includes all government spending, which means all the money printed to keep high levels of debt going, hardly a basis for measuring the strength of an economy!
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  1977. "they've decided to wean themselves off"...NO, they have decided to abruptly cut themselves off totally, if Russia so decides.
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  1978. une armée qui gagne ne garde pas silence sur les victoires et villes recapturées
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  1979. and to recruit 16 yr olds to feed into the Russian meatgrinder
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  1980.  @primafacie6442  it is a very humbling defeat for the West to see the orderly and cohesive, identitarian way of life in Russia that the West has lost
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  1981.  @ruZsiaNa-C  Putin is not the liar. You are the liar. Putin has never said that "he wants all of the former Russian empire back". check, word for word, what Putin has said about the Russian Empire, make sure the translation matches the original Russian, then tell me what he said.
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  1982. Russia will gain support for this move. From this point on, Russia will be able to say it was the party that proposed peace, Ukraine was the party that rejected peace, the likes of China and India will note Ukraine's rejection and move closer to support Russia, and the Russian people will support Putin even more.
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  1983. so, the Jew has decided to lecture the Arabs on what the Arabs must do to help Ukrainian Muslims. No doubt Kadyrov would have a different message, one Muslim to another.
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  1984. photos of Macron like we have never seen before? what you mean, behaving like a clown? sorry, that's how he looks and sounds every day.
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  1985. "who the f is Allah?" better late than never, but yes, a question that needs answering, because if the answer is "the Supreme Being who rewards knifemen with 72 virgins in heaven for slaying the infidel" then that would explain a lot.
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  1986.  @aurelia5614  if only you knew how well organized and democratic Russian elections are. No ballot harvesting and all the corruption that goes with postal voting as we see in the West.
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  1987.  @el3ndir97  I have no problem with anyone enjoying life in Monaco. It's a great place, so let Putin and co enjoy it. It is clear that, in the UK, when policy is driven by an unelected prime minister (in power NOT by popular vote) and a foreign secretary (in his post but unelected by ANY voters) that democracy has died in the West. At least Russia showed us how real democracy works.
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  1988. 6 volunteers? there are still 6 people believing Jay was ever in this area? gullible beyond belief.
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  1989. "NATO is a defensive alliance" Which NATO nation was being defended when it dropped bombs on Serbia for 78 nights straight?
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  1990.  @vannustube  ah, I see, so it is only a war crime if lots of water is in the dam! where is the line drawn? how much water must be in the dam for it to qualify as a war crime?
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  1991. Kiev doesn't need any Israeli early warning systems. Kiev needs to just have Joe Biden present, the warning sirens were going off non stop then, even though nothing was fired on Kiev.
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  1992.  @hendrixinfinity3992  on the contrary. Socialists commit pogroms. Ever heard of the National Socialist Workers Party? The Far Right are Libertarians.
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  1993. yet more wonderful benefits of having a diverse society and the "Migrants Welcome" movement.
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  1994. No, Nick, Russia's problem is NOT that Ukrainian grain is being sold around the world. Russia's problem is that the sanctions imposed on its own fertilizer and grain exports are still not totally freed from all restrictions. tell the truth, for once.
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  1995. all smiles as Biden delivers the message "NATO is out of ammo....so you have until June to win this, otherwise, buenas noches"
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  1996. and that is why the Donbass will NEVER surrender to Ukraine. Never.
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  1997.  @OilBaron100  why? either an asylum seeker has the right to apply for asylum in Finland or not. what difference does it make if Russia is helping that legal process?
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  1998.  @OilBaron100  makes no difference what the motive is. The EU either agrees to accept asylum applications on its border, or it doesn't. Let's hear the EU announce what its law says and that it will apply such law consistently everywhere. Why would a person's status to have refuge from persecution be 100% dependent on the perceived motive of a transit country? Either you care about the asylum seeker, or you don't. Which is it?
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  1999.  @ReggieThePug  now that I agree with. it is absolutely shameful that the government that got us into this mess should have any pay rise at all. in fact, the salary for a government MP should be the inverse of the inflation they are responsible for. 12% inflation should = 12% decrease in MPs pay.
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  2000.  @KeithMoon-yz5gi  the man who thought it was a really good idea to have 5 kids and then expect others to help finance their upbringing?
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  2001. Was expert Chief Admiral Lord West one of those who had a hand in NATO's most masterly. ordered, precision perfect withdrawal from Kabul last year? Is he one of the experts on NATO's push for electric tanks, and sensitivity courses? Has he never even learned how to pronounce the home port of Russia's Black Sea fleet? What a bumbling fool.
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  2002. Amazing how proud and patriotic the Donbass Russians are - it's all about survival - the rest of us can learn from their example.
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  2003. Hey, Air Marshall, any news on the Russian advances in Bakhmut? Any news on the massive buildup of Russian forces in Belarus? Any news on the kill rate? Still 5 Ukrainians massacred for every 1 Russian loss? Any possibility civilians are being moved out of Kherson to accommodate the 100,000 Russian troops setting up for the advance on Odessa? Any news on what percentage of Ukraine without power? Air Marshall.....which grandmother is more likely to freeze to death on Christmas Day? The one in Ukraine, the one in Frankfurt or the one in Moscow? Ghost of Kiev ready to win the day?
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  2004.  @patriciastone9836  Syria has no monopoly on Saint George as a hero, but these days the Cross of St George is nowhere to be seen on the Syrian flag, so I guess St. George's standing is considerably higher in England, right?
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  2005.  @Chiungalla79  Interesting you have no counter arguments. Russia is succeeding in all its objectives and Russia is doing so in exactly the same way it has before, slowly, methodically, thoroughly. You didn't pay attention to the campaigns in Syria, Georgia, Chechnya.
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  2006. the Ukraine issue is not a Left or Right thing. it's obvious that Ukraine cannot win and it's time to talk to Putin.
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  2007.  @DilbertWhitehead  they could all celebrate on one day, if they so wanted, before this decree. it was called freedom of choice. since when was it a government's job to announce when the birth of Jesus must be celebrated? slowly the West is learning why so many of Ukraine's ethnic Russians hate Zelensky.
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  2008. so, if you are rich enough you can pollute as much as you want, but if you are poor you can't. the stuff of revolutions.
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  2009. such a massive missile, such a big hit, that a few hours later both rail and road bridge are open again.
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  2010. would be nice if he occasionally said something that made sense in any of those 5 languages.
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  2011. there is NO blockade of Black Sea ports. Shipping is flowing in and out of Mariupol, no problem. Ukraine REFUSES to demine ITS ports, hence no progress. Once Ukraine demines its ports trade can flow. It's that simple.
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  2012. when it used to hit 50C in Oman and work places closed, the Indians used to go to he park to play cricket. UK, grow a pair.
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  2013. the medicine is tough to swallow, but the patient needs it.
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  2014.  @napolean_ragland  you make my point for me, thanks. Sunak and co didn't want to send anyone to Uganda either. they all agree.
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  2015.  @napolean_ragland  that was Rwanda, not Uganda. Do you have any clue where Africa is and which country is which?
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  2016.  @shinji1264  so is most of the world, so what's your point?
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  2017. key question DW never asks Mike Martin. "you say Russia has had many losses. how would you know the numbers exactly? and in comparison to Ukraine's losses, tell us how you are so sure Russia has lost more troops"
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  2018. the terrible events were not the riots. the terrible events were Jenrick and co allowing waves of mass immigration to destroy the fabric of the country.
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  2019.  @soul8938  ah, so the rules say that territorial integrity and sovereignty mean nothing. they can be ignored when some arbiter, some authority on high, deems military intervention to be justified. many people disagree with you. many people see what happened in Ukraine as the only means possible to allow the ethnic Russians of the Donbass to truly separate from Kiev. So, you tell me, who is the almighty authority on high who decides when the international rules based order is to be followed, or ignored? let me guess. you?
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  2020.  @soul8938  multi polar world means something. it means US and allies no longer have sufficient power and influence to direct international politics and economics. it means BRICS is more influential than G7 and dedollarization is rampant. to say a "multi polar world means nothing" is to show your ignorance. on the contrary, it is the expansion of the European federation that has CAUSED instability and danger. it is not Russia or China that has hundreds of military bases around the world and who have invaded Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. that would be Europe's master, USA, backed up its European lapdogs. the rest of the world is leaning towards Russia and China because it is fed up of US aggression and European lecturing on rights and wrongs, like some colonial master. Western hegemony is over, and good riddance.
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  2021.  @soul8938  it is not propaganda that is telling in how I express myself. it is my deep felt emotions and beliefs, stemming from the time I spent in Ukraine. I wouldn't expect you to understand. conspicuous by its absence is any definition of genocide and clear examples of such on your part. coming to the "right" conclusion is nothing to do with intellect. the very fact you use "right conclusion" shows you have no idea that perspectives can be very different, no matter the intellect of the minds that arrive at certain perspectives and conclusions. Germany in WW2 had hardly any pushback? what? you missed the fact Germany was defeated in WW2? oh boy. The Serbs had "hardly any pushback"? you missed the 88 nights of non stop NATO bombing of Serbia? oh boy. I guess reading comprehension is not your thing. No, I never mentioned that Ukraine tried any ethnic cleansing or genocide. Re read what I said and think again. wherever Russian speaking minorities are threatened with discrimination, Putin has the balls to intervene. South Ossetia, Abkazia, Transnistria, now Ukraine. Could be Estonia next. simple lesson to learn...treat your ethnic Russians fairly and equally. not so difficult really, is it?
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  2022. only 2 changes have to be made. 1. reverse the asylum seeking process, so that all asylum claims must be made outside the country. then it will be illegal to enter UK waters without proper documentation (at the moment it isn't, hence no one gets arrested). 2. instruct the RN to return all small boats to France, where the French have already accepted these migrants as being in France legally.
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  2023. Hey, did you all hear about the MASSIVE munitions and aid package just agreed upon by Europe destined for Ukraine immediately? You didn't? Neither did I. Only Zelensky now talking about "winning". All other leaders talking about containing the Russian advance. Oh, what fools the Western leaders were to think they could sanction Russia to collapse and to defeat Russia in a ground war. Finland's PM shows why we have such brainless leadership in the West.
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  2024.  @DennisTheInternationalMenace  as I said, Ukrainian sovereignty was overthrown with a coup, and rightly, Crimea and Donbass refused to recognize any new leader installed by the oligarch/Azov/US "elections". With the democratically elected president overthrown, Ukraine abandoned its sovereignty.
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  2025. sorry, honey, Russia never stopped delivering gas to the EU. The EU chose to stop receiving Russian gas. Get it right.
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  2026. Translation_ the Paper Tiger NATO is unable to supply Ukraine with the ammo it needs, even though Russia is firing EIGHT times as many missiles on Ukraine as the other way round! And since March we were told Russia is running out of ammo! Again, the lies and deceit coming out of NATO is just astoundingly shameful. Ukraine demands 300 himars, and gets 12! That's how uncommitted or how unable (take your pick) NATO is to win this!
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  2027. "the rule of force"....uh, that would be the Azov Nazi battalion shelling the Donbass for 8 years.
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  2028.  @mac7040  so if this is such a wonderful money saver, why does no one buy it?
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  2029. they were all given the chance to be evacuated from Kherson under Russian control. those that refused surely knew Russia would shell the city as soon as Ukrainian troops moved in, so why any surprise? Russia set a trap, Ukraine walked into it. so what?
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  2030. So, Ben Habib is saying that no one will be able to seek asylum in the UK, as at the moment, only those in the UK can do so. I'm fine with that, but it needs to be stated, the UK is now closed to all asylum seekers. The problem is, Westminster has decided that there is no such thing as illegal immigration. No one is arrested on arrival in Dover. Every single one of them is welcomed and housed. Which begs the question...why are the people "smugglers" vilified, when what they are doing is providing a legitimate service to all those seeking asylum in the UK?
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  2031. all those who will go bankrupt, will freeze this winter, will have power cuts, they all wish they had the luxury of just "glossing over" as you can! Nice to be super rich, is it?
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  2032. Poroshenko is so smart he refused to implement the Minsk Agreements and that has now resulted in the destruction of his country. really smart guy.
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  2033.  @LoremIpsum1970  the whole "integration" argument always assumes that the host country wants immigrants here, and that the immigrants want to integrate. I would suggest that both those assumptions are wrong, hence the mess we are in.
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  2034. no, honey, it raises wider questions about why these incidents so often seem to stem from law-breaking by Arab and Muslim youth in particular. It raises the question of when you import the 3rd world, do you import 3rd world problems? Homogeneous nations like Japan, Korea, Poland, Russia, don't have this kind of problem. Places that permit more and more Muslim immigration get more and more of this kind of problem. look at Malmo.
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  2035.  @briggs982  why would Jay steal an AP or a Rolex if he had no money problems?
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  2036.  @briggs982  Jay might well have swooped and picked up the watch, and/or Jay might well have been part of a group that planned the mugging. The report I read said the victim was from Eastern Europe. Either way, I thought your argument was you can't be comfortably off one day and cashless the next. which is just an absurd argument.
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  2037.  @jeffthompson8551  as an ignorant Russian bot, let me correct your English, "Jeff". "why do all Bots have the name of Smith or Jones?"......preceding "Jones" with the word "the" makes no sense.
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  2038.  @alexpp219  Did Russia want to take Kiev last March? Nope.
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  2039. oh dear, how desperate are Western media getting now? without any evidence, they are just hoping the Western sheep will believe that Russia has had enormous losses in Bakhmut and that Ukraine is relatively unscathed. The score is now 7-0! Russia 7 Ukraine/NATO 0! EVERY time the two sides go toe to toe and street by street, Russia wins. Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Lyzychansk, Mariupol, Peski, Soledar and now Bakhmut. Convicts and drunken mercenaries, low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led, defeat NATO trained and armed battalions EVERY time. It;s an embarrassment beyond Kabul, for NATO. losing every time.
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  2040. evidence suggests that kid was arrested for wearing an Inter Milan shirt, nothing to do with going into supervised care.
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  2041. Putin has never said he wants total control of Ukraine. Securing Donbass is the objective, and Putin is prepared to take a few years over it. He will succeed.
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  2042. what is a bit confusing is that it was Ukraine that was continuously shelling the Russian side of the dam, yet Ukraine pointing the finger of terrorism at Russia. So, what was the objective of the Ukrainian shelling of Nova Kakovka?
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  2043. Hitler Youth also understood the topic very well and had come to their own conclusions.
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  2044.  @gvidon300  Ukrainian bot are always care about foreign money and armies and not for their own.
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  2045.  @dominicpelle7841  just childish thinking to assume that Putin didn't have the means to stop Prigozhin's drive. Allowing Prigozhin to drive all that way and attract no military or public support should have proven a point, but the West is too dumb to see that.
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  2046.  @parnamsaini4751  really
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  2047. Half of Boris Johnson's fellow party MPS want him out, Macron now in a minority, Scholz's coalition looking fragile, Biden approval rating down to 30%.......Putin is the only leader looking secure. tell me again, Western sanctions were aimed at removing Putin, or aimed at removing everyone opposed to Putin?
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  2048. In WW2 the USA sent aid that helped defeat the Nazis. In the Ukraine conflict USA is sending aid to the Nazis.
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  2049.  @dmagz0121  looks like you don't know the difference between a personal experience and a shared experience.
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  2050.  @ThatCanadianBrother  the question itself reveals the intolerance and bigotry in your heart
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  2051.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  you may well be Russian and you may well live in Russia, but so is my dog. Doesn't mean you have a bloody clue about Russia, does it? Any idea whare I am from and where I live? Migration and immigration are the same things when it comes to entering Russia and working in the black market in Russia. Whether legal or illegal, there is a massive chunk of the Russian work force that has come from outside of Russia to work and send money back home. During the Soviet era it was very much the dream of many Central Asians to get a job and accommodation in Moscow or in any of the other major cities. And yes, many Central Asians strove to be employed in Russia rather than in poor backwaters like Samarkand or Frunze. Since the collapse of the USSR the desire for many Central Asians to work in Russia has remained, and many find a way to do exactly that.
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  2052. shortage of EU workers? we have thousands arriving every day from Albania that will happily replace whatever EU workers Britain once had!
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  2053.  @njones420  no one said it's the most likely scenario, Einstein. Looks like reading comprehension is not your forte. The lesson I learned was that never assume someone who appears to be traumatized is definitely genuinely traumatized. Suggest you don't assume such a thing either.
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  2054.  @ad_astra468  1. how would you know if Russian missiles or Ukrainian air defence missiles killed those Ukrainians? cue crickets. 2. It's clearly the infrastructure and military locations that Russia is after. 3. Belgorod has no military base, so as they have been doing for the last 8 years in Donbass, Ukraine just attacks civilians. 4. Why would you expect a Banderite state to target anything but civilians? cue crickets. give me a break.
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  2055.  @sasa1982uk  ok, it may be hard to prove he lies. If we take a lie to be something one says which, at the moment one says it, one knows it to be untrue, maybe when he says "morale is very low among the Russian troops" he really thinks he is saying the truth, but then, only a fool would presume to know the spirit of a group of fighting men in Mariupol while broadcasting from London.
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  2056. Still no confirmation that the perpetrator is another manic Welshman?
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  2057. No rush to judgement. could well be that the offender was Japanese, follower of Shinto, or an American Amish activist. pretty safe to dismiss the Religion of Peace.
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  2058.  @joeordinary209  on the contrary, Hungary is the only power that understands that Ukraine's survival depends on it negotiating with Moscow, as Ukraine was doing in March 2022.
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  2059. I'm sure you'll be laughing even more when Trump is elected president.
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  2060.  @dayegilharno4988  and given there is zero evidence any Russian supporting logistics have failed, looks like your side has to do all the coping! Coming up to WEEK NINE, how does it feel to have lost 20% of weaponry destroyed and 30,000 cannon fodder massacred and still mired in the security zone?:)
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  2061. Where and when did China Fish protest when she heard of all the Israeli children killed a month ago?
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  2062.  @foilhat1138  If your point is that like all political leaders, Putin has said things that appear to be lies, well observed, Sherlock. However, that doesn't mean it's a really good idea to discount every single thing Putin says. You need to have an astute mind to distinguish when to pay attention to Putin's words, and when to suspect something is less than truthful, but clearly you have no such mind. On the red line that Ukraine will not join NATO, I advise you to believe those words, given that Putin was prepared to go to war over it. That said, when you check exactly what Putin said, you will find he did not say that he would "never" invade Ukraine. And neither has Putin changed the constitution. Your ignorance of things Russian is simply astounding.
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  2063. I think that guy interviewed was the one who brought ashore the asylum seekers who massacred so many at Paris's Bataklan theater, no?
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  2064. Glory to the brave people of Donbass
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  2065. place your bets. the offender was a) Japanese and Shinto, b) Polish and Catholic, c) American and Amish, d) Arab and Muslim.
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  2066. nope. BIG mistake for Donbass to trust Ukraine would implement the Minsk accords.
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  2067. On the contrary, Nige, our media are not full of stories like this. They should be, but by and large such news is ignored.
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  2068. right now the only hope Ukraine has is to keep talking about a counter offensive to keep NATO engaged. the writing is on the wall for NATO's failed "weaken Russia by using Ukronazia in a proxy war" project, and deservedly so.
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  2069. Kurdish center? so, yet another wonderful benefit of diversity and mass migration?
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  2070. heatwaves are not more frequent nor more intense. It's called "summer", a phenomenon that happens every year.
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  2071.  @sergeykish  then keep on fighting and have 1000 Buchas.
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  2072. "The Belarussian people do not want to get involved in this war" Bell has worked hard scouring Belarus to conduct such a poll. what were the final numbers? gives us the precise percentages of the Belarussian voters' opinion, please!
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  2073.  @Arch497  a lot less than the cost of one of Zelensky's overseas properties.
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  2074.  @nicocrestmere9688  if there is no strategy in rubble, explain the Allied mass bombings of Dresden and Berlin.
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  2075.  @DrRusty5  and which political party does admit fault?
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  2076.  @clowncarqingdao  easier to leave the EU than fruitlessly try to change the mindset of Brussels. like trying to get the Mafia to re-think their ways. better to just leave the gang.
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  2077. looks like you have no idea the difference between the USSR and the Russian Federation
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  2078.  @ninzki143  loses any remnant of global support he might have had and wastes precious weapons.
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  2079. what? Kiev was targeted with missiles because Putin wants Belarus involved? Makes no sense, mate. errm, errm.
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  2080.  @TK-nk1cv  Ukraine was part of Russia before the Soviet Union. The Crimean War was fought between Russia and Great Britain, not Ukraine and Great Britain
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  2081. if Finland and Sweden treat any Russian speakers in their country with dignity and respect (as opposed to trying to massacre them, as Ukraine did in the Donbass) Finnish and Swedish kids will have no need to leave their homeland.
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  2082. and rapidly sinking
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  2083. penny slowly dropping that searching a wilderness, where Jay never went, for 2 weeks, was a waste of time, but that investigating the crimes of the characters involved will lead to Jay, dead or alive. media guilty of dismissing the internet sleuths, who were on the right track all the time. eventually they will twig that the airbnb owner, Ramon Canaves, is the key to resolving all this.
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  2084.  @PepeCoinMania  and it was wrong for any NATO member to join Bush in his futile war.
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  2085.  @elizabethroselle9807  i could agree with that, yep.
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  2086.  @mbusombuso9119  i think the rainy weather and muddy fields gave Ukraine the perfect excuse for delaying their offensive, and no doubt when it has all dried out we will be given another excuse for not going on the offensive, like Easter break.
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  2087. why do these two plumby 12 year olds get to stay at GBNews while stars like Calvin Robinson were sacked?
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  2088. hilarious he mentions "Germany's diplomatic efforts". what diplomatic efforts? did I miss the phone call last week from Scholz to Putin asking for peace talks?
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  2089.  @nicolasmeinen3055  QE is a form of creating money, it increases the money supply and has the same effect as printing more cash.
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  2090. Crimea is part of Russia, so no Ukrainian consent is needed
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  2091. Fantastic to see murals of war heroes. A breath of fresh air to see some genuine patriotism. Makes a change from the graffiti and ULEZ cameras befouling the urban landscape of Londonistan.
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  2092. This is simple. Putin has been in power for decades, and he has used military force to defend the human rights of ethnic Russians, be it in Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia and now Ukraine. If you are a country that treats ethnic Russians as second class citizens, be afraid (pay attention, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia). If you respect human rights, you can exist quite soundly with Russia.
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  2093. Coulter has long said that Trump failed in delivering his promises. This is not news.
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  2094. we'll know that more money for the war effort is something dear to his heart when Zelensky starts selling his overseas properties to help provide for his cannon fodder soldiers. Don't hold your breath.
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  2095. Curious that no statement of "shock and horror" at a whole month of Hamas's holding captive innocent hostages was issued.
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  2096.  @AlanFagan-y5l  shows you how dumb our government is. UK needs to copy Hungary. All asylum applications to be made outside the country, so that anyone in a small boat crossing the Channel is illegal.
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  2097.  @0816M3RC  The USSR was led by Russia? Really? Stalin was Russian? Are you kidding me? Kruschov was Russian? Pull the other one! It has bells on it!
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  2098. Sadly, I think Gonzalo made the wrong decision. A number of Ukrainian men have got out of Ukraine by crossing the river into Romania, illegally. That would have been his best hope, I fear.
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  2099. it will be really important for Ukrainian tanks to use those transportable bridges for getting back over the Dnipr to safety when the Russian advance happens and when Russia has destroyed the existing bridges over the Dnipr.
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  2100.  @cormchm2853  makes a lot more sense to go to an Arab speaking country, like Saudi Arabia. No rampant Islamophobia in Saudi. So much closer to make the Hajj when you live in Saudi.
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  2101. "some reports mention limited gains" = the offensive is a failure, as Russia is holding its forward positions, doesn't even need its defensive lines at the moment.
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  2102. It's a shame what Zelensky has done to Ukrainian people, going without heat and water. At least Zelensky still has his Miami mansion and villa in Tuscany.
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  2103. oh, pixelated pictures and Ukrainian officials "tight-lipped"? Translation - Russia hit its target and it was indeed a legit military target
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  2104.  @alba7519  could be. so, do you think, as soon as he left the house, the 2 strangers alerted the big cheese to where Jay was heading and some strong lads bundled Jay into a car and zoomed off? but then again, the 2 strangers could have just driven Jay to the big cheese when they drove him to their house after the rave.
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  2105. "given the opportunity", always "gimme gimme gimme" whatever happened to the notion of earning the opportunity?
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  2106. Sam Harris thought too highly of himself and pride came before a most spectacular fall. He proved himself capable of clear thought and expression on "yes" or "no" questions like "Does God exist?" But on complex, multi factorial phenomena like Covid, Harris showed the world how way out of his depth he is.
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  2107.  @nerdyali4154  and now the truth...Poroshenko and Zelensky are jointly responsible. Donbass and Crimea wanted to control their own destinies free of Ukrainian control and Kiev is afraid of that. That is he bottom line and anything else is justificatory rubbish from Kiev and politically based conspiracy theorising from Westerners. Donbass needs help, but they are determined to fight even without it. Denying them help would just condemn even more of them to death. Thank you, Russia
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  2108. At what point does Zelensky think "shit, I should have implemented the Minsk Accords"?
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  2109. some of us remember the seventies and the overwhelming scientific evidence that said we were all heading for a horrific ice age.
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  2110.  @michaelrunnels7660  never. am here to tell you the truth.
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  2111. "Kherson is the one major city Putin has captured so far".....Mariupol is bigger and of much greater importance. that Russian capture slipped his memory, conveniently
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  2112. curious that DW always mentions Russia's "Iranian made" drones, but never outlines the origin of any Ukrainian weapons. let's hear a little more about those "US made" cluster bombs, please, DW.
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  2113. plenty of cash to help Ukraine in a futile war, not enough to help pension funds
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  2114. it's not possible someone just offered to take Slater along the coast, as Slater had no idea whare he would be only 3 hours beforehand! If anyone took him by boat, it was all arranged well ahead of Sunday night. Assuming it was all arranged, and assuming the intention was to scam the public with a gofundme while Slater was alive and well in Morocco, then the boat theory makes perfect sense, but not to just take him to Los Cristianos.
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  2115. well well well, the great Ukrainian spring offensive, that has liberated nowhere, is now seeing Russia counter attack toward Kupiansk! oh, how this Ukrronazia counter offensive is going so well! DW, invite a real military analyst on your broadcasts! Invite Brian Berletic!
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  2116.  @insaneclownponies9599  just curious, are you one of those that thinks Russian troops are fighting on the front lines with shovels? do you think Ukraine still controls Soledar and Bakhmut?
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  2117.  @georgebarnes8163  it's so curious that the BBC can tell us where one of the heroes who intervened to protect the children was from (originally from Brazil) but can't, or won't, tell us where the attacker was originally from.
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  2118. so what?
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  2119.  @ayoungethan  here are some facts for you. sanctions failed. isolating Russia failed. Billions of dollars in aid failed. NATO air fences failed. Russia took Soledar with just convicts and mercenaries fighting Ukraine's finest NATO trained battalions. Russia is winning and the West knows it.
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  2120. at what point do our leaders question why Ukraine needs more weapons? Ukraine started with a massive military force, then captured loads of Russian weaponry, we are told. So, why do they need more, especially if they are winning, as we are told.
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  2121. so only oligarchs who support Putin are bad and living it up in France. There are no corrupt oligarchs who support Zelensky in the whole of Ukraine (the most corrupt country in Europe). This type of biased "reporting" shows why so few people believe the MSM these days.
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  2122.  @mbeale100  absolutely. no exit stamp from France and/or no travel document on hand = back over the border to where you came from. standard practice.
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  2123. Yet again, Ukraine targeting civilians who decide to move to Russian territory. They did the same in Kharkov oblast.
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  2124.  @serebii666  when the BBC investigated and added up estimated Russian dead, what number did they come up with? do you know?
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  2125.  @pokey5736  indeed I am, but more importantly, Putin's support in Russia is high, whereas the support for the warmonger leaders in the West has collapsed.
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  2126. so, he admitted that there is two tier policing! "when the crowd is simply too big" right, so, big crowd = no policing small crowd = rigorous policing... I call that two tier!
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  2127. Mathias, NO ONE disputes you have to be in a city to defend a city. What angers us is that you cannot station troops in a city in public buildings, and then expect when missiles rain in to have no civilians killed, only for the Ukrainians to accuse Russia of "indiscriminate attacks". It's the hypocrisy that is stunning. If Amnesty is right, then the Russians have been firing discriminately. An apology is due to Russia.
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  2128.  @abodabalo  German taxpayers may well disagree with you. plus those who see Scholtz as a timid puppet handled from Washington.
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  2129. 4. Jay got off the island. He agreed to be a drug mule for the 2 mystery men, they packed him up with a backpack full of drugs and pointed him in the right direction to catch the Belgian boat awaiting him in Masca Beach.
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  2130.  @AtheistEve  so, you assume the UN and its courts understand the rights and wrongs of a dispute better than those involved? by what means would any UN court decision be enforced, given there is no UN police or army? how did the League of Nations do in handling the rise of Fascism? would you be absolutely fine if the UN court authorized Israel to annex Gaza? would Hamas accept such a court decision? are you 12 years old?
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  2131.  @a564-c3q  Russia is not Moscow, just as Germany is not Berlin. Associating the history of a capital city with a nation and culture is childish. Russia has been where it is forever! Kievan Rus was part of Russia. The notion of "Ukraine" did not exist then, in fact the name Ukraine tells you that the area is on the edge, or borderlands of.....Russia! The correct plant analogy would be that the whole tree is Russia, and the seed of that tree has the name "Kievan Rus". "Ukraine" is just the name of the gardener who came along a lot later and never understood how the roots of the tree were so intertwined with the tree itself.
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  2132. finally, a corner of Europe is waking up to the reality of mass immigration from certain corners of the globe. remember the days when Sweden was homogenous, peaceful and safe? seems like a long time ago.
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  2133.  @prujbonar6045  and let me guess...all the horror stories come from the Russian soldiers, nothing at all to complain about from the Ukrainian cannon fodder, right? you will believe anything
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  2134.  @freedomordeath010  as I said, who cares? just do it. let France take the UK to court. given that they are not refugees (what is happening to them in France that they need to take refuge from?) any accord concerning refugees does not apply.
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  2135. a reasonable EU would not just dump the UK into the "rest of the world" category, but create a special designation for UK passport holders, so that e gates can be used and no stamp in the passport needed. millions of illegal migrants flood into Europe with loads of Europeans helping such illegal migrants, but a Brit staying 4 months instead of 3 is some kind of horror.
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  2136. this sounds almost as unjust as the Julian Assange case.
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  2137.  @donut2111  yes, so true, let the kid go and mow down a few innocent passers-by, he already narrowly avoided killing one pedestrian and one cyclist. even better idea, next time we see a white van mowing down people in Nottingham, let's just note the registration number and track the killer down later.
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  2138. it's not a ceasefire treaty. timely reminder from Putin that sneaking a military boat into Odessa port still means it gets blasted out of the water. Zelensky learned his lesson, though he is the slowest guy in the class.
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  2139. so the Ukrainians fighting for their homeland is a morale booster, but the LPR and DPR militias fighting for their homelands counts for nothing? Does this guy really think an 18 year old kid from Lviv fighting in Donbass feels he is fighting for his "homeland"? He has no idea what he's talking about
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  2140. Russia is using aerial glide bombs? so, why doesn't NATO send all its aerial glide bombs to Ukraine? wait....NATO does have loads of aerial glide bombs, right?
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  2141. here in Perpignan, France we have had just a handful of days so far that got within TEN DEGREES CENTIGRADE of the summer record temp of 42. everything normal or below normal here. yawn.
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  2142.  @gilbertknight6617  understood. very sad Swedes live in a time and place where security is needed for a simple book burning. ideally this should happen every day until it becomes an uncontested right.
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  2143. gotta smile at the pampered old buffer in his country mansion telling us that people who have no electricity and water will have their will strengthened by all this. he would probably have the said the same thing about the Japanese the day after Hiroshima.
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  2144.  @SiobhanIreland  exactly. and when that leadership makes the colossal mistake of attacking Israel, the Gazan voters must take responsibility for choosing the wrong leadership.
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  2145. welcome to Islam
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  2146. Argentina leading the way. It's so painful to start a strict diet, but the results are so encouraging. Stick at it, Señor Milei.
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  2147.  @Jay30-z1s  exactly. more to this than meets the eye. makes no sense
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  2148.  @Mortthemoose  your assumption is that despite being remarkably competent and determined, it is entirely normal to end up finding the body close to where the phone pinged! it isn't. this whole saga is suspicious from beginning to end. maybe it took a month for the Guardia Civil to get Debbie to agree to split the GoFundMe 50/50?
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  2149.  @hus390  I'm telling you that the arrival of the Dutch searchers made the inept Guardia Civil think they better do something to avoid being shown up as incompetent fools who, for example, think it a brilliant idea to wait until Day 16 to do a forensic search of the airbnb!
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  2150.  @georgezee5173  almost as ridiculous as a Guardia Civil that thought it an absolutely brilliant idea to wait until day 16 before doing a forensic search in the airbnb.
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  2151. 3 questions the Western MSM refuse to ask: 1. who ordered the attack? 2. why were the 4 suspects driving as fast as possible to Ukraine in their escape? 3. what details and from where did the US get their tip off about a terror attack in Moscow?
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  2152. Oh, so we know the nationality of the hero who intervened to stop the attack, but not the nationality of the attacker! How very odd!
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  2153. "It'll be his (Biden's) name on the ballot come November" wanna bet?
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  2154. @Icarus 7c and you assume the priority was to take the town of Bakhmut?
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  2155.  @9UaYXxB  Duncan, the voice of truth, enters the chat
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  2156. the fossil fuel industry does an absolutely amazing job at providing us with comfortable lives. they deserve every penny they can get.
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  2157. something tells me the local police messed up. they treated it as a simple disappearance, didn't see any obvious violations of the law from what the 2 strangers said, and let them go with the focus 100% on finding the poor lost sheep, Jay. in retrospect, local police probably kicking themselves for not charging the 2 with at least a drugs offence so that they could dig deeper into the cover up.
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  2158. Massive mistake. Reform UK need to let ALL views be debated and raised. Richard Tice is not the God of Censorship. Reform UK need to explain clearly and explicitly what their "standards" are. The "muppets and the morons" are expressing valid views that millions share and agree with.
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  2159. bit rich, convicted criminal Lula lecturing on punishments for lawbreakers
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  2160. what happened to the massive arsenal of tanks Ukraine had at the start of the invasion? what will prevent what happened to the massive arsenal of tanks Ukraine had at the beginning of the invasion happening again? which bridges will be used across the Dnipr to get these tanks to the front line?
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  2161. price caps = shortages. get ready for black outs all winter. the problem is supply. if the rest of the world can't replace Russian energy, go beg Russia's forgiveness or explain to the people misery has been self-induced and EU leaders screwed up big time. Those are the options.
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  2162. the very same arguments made about Russia's violations could equally be made against USA. why not strip USA of all its assets outside the country as recompense for violations made in Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Libya, Serbia, etc etc?
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  2163.  @warbler1984  how about you look at the other side of the equation? if Ukraine lost more than 16,000 troops in losing Avdiivka, after fortifying that place over 8 years, it's a bitter loss for Banderaland.
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  2164. hopefully, in the back rooms, G7 ask Zelensky why the hell he threw all his cannon fodder into Bakhmut, only for them to get destroyed and lose the strategic city, and ask what the hell he thinks he is doing firing off 30 patriots in just one night!
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  2165. when Russia wins, everyone will criticize Germany for "helping" Ukraine.
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  2166. and NATO has nothing more to spend on offence or defence
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  2167. With Ukraine winning so easily, no need to be concerned at all about what Belarus does or doesn't do.
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  2168. @mrb.9822 Russia clearly has plenty of say in it, and is demilitarizing (killing all Ukrainian men of fighting age) while the West does all in its power to aid Putin in that goal. Grow up and understand your naive ideals have no place in the real world.
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  2169. Hodges certainly suckered you into believing bs.
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  2170. talking about increasing defence spending = admission there is nothing left to send Ukraine, it can only be supplied in the future, and even then, to a lesser extent than Russia can produce armaments. Russia has won.
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  2171. I wonder which one is lying to us? Lloyd Austin says Bakhmut has no strategic importance, and Zelensky says Bakhmut is of great strategic importance. and whichever of the two is lying, have they been lying to us from day one?
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  2172.  @mazenkaiser7234  so, this Yanukovich "firing on his own people", did that happen before or after Victoria Nuland went around the city handing out cookies to the rioters? On balance, would you say Yanukovich's "firing on his own people" was on a par with the students killed during the Penn State protests, worse, or much more lenient?
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  2173.  @chemeister  we all are. everyone likes to speculate, analyze and tackle the puzzle. everyone is a detective.
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  2174.  @FontaineDerby  let's make this easy for you. when was the last time you decided to spend the night at a stranger's house?
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  2175.  @chiz_dog1238  the last time you decided to spend the night 30 kms away at the home of 2 strangers was because....... so easy to scorn those who offer theories, but offering your own is a little more challenging it would seem.
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  2176.  @Commander_ZiN  no one is angry about it if the delegates are all paying their own way. If my taxes are contributing to it, I would rather my taxes go to something more useful, productive and beneficial
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  2177. clearly you are not an expert. when the vast majority of the planet's people are represented by governments happy to work with Russia, trade with Russia and not vote against Russia, we can say that Russia is pretty popular.
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  2178. and his dear father is on record as supporting applying the full force of the law on scum bag criminals, like his son, who did such a thing.
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  2179. This shows exactly why Russia is winning. We all knew it was curtains for USA in Vietnam when Kissinger started belting out "Twist and Shout" in a karaoke bar in Saigon. History repeats itself.
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  2180. how do you define "correctly"? As you would like?
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  2181.  @kmick8108  easy to do...just surrender.
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  2182. The West is kept in the dark on such matters. if you search you can find plenty of updates on how Mariupol is being rebuilt and looking absolutely great. Mariupol's celebration of Russia Day was impressive. All Ukraine needs to do is surrender and everything remaining will be kept intact, IF that is the priority. If, however, the priority is to keep fighting a futile war and get all Ukrainian men massacred, then just keep on fighting.
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  2183.  @misterae6430  so, explain the context for me. what makes violating the sovereignty of Serbia ok, regarding Kosovo, at the ruthless meddling hands of NATO, so wonderfully acceptable, while violating the sovereignty of Ukraine by Russia is so horribly terrible? explain full context.
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  2184. what's silly is thinking NATO/Ukraine could ever defeat Russia in a land war.
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  2185.  @TheNoobPube  given that the majority of Germans would never tolerate its army waging war against Russia, safe to say the Germans wouldn't even step on the battlefield. though I must say, those Kinzhal missiles Germany has developed are impressive...oh, wait, that would be Russia, not Germany. Germany, so powerful it can't even prevent or find out who blew up its own oil pipelines. you are so funny.
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  2186. billions of dollars wasted. NATO stupidly thinks an army can be formed on the fly. it can't.
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  2187.  @Andrew-ob5ij  it's compulsory to vote in Oz. You are free to choose to vote or not to vote in Russia. How can you compare the two? One is freedom to choose, one is compulsion.
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  2188.  @steveerossa  1. as i pointed out, when that kid has balanced a household budget, then he will have some authority to comment on the importance of gas prices. 2. Russia has provided enormous help to Transnistria, and that is why Russia is so popular there. it is Moldova that ignored the region and is despised there. 3. everyone wants more than life in a hovel. Nothing to stop you providing the kid with every penny he needs, but why EU taxpayers should foot the bill for his stay in the EU beats me. 4. The future of Russia is much brighter than anything the EU has to offer. How's the recession going in Germany?
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  2189.  @anthonymullen6300  either way, shows you the lengths some people will go to keep the war going and prevent peace.
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  2190.  @mdjey2  why are you crying "Kremlin propaganda" when the call for peace talks is common sense and humanitarian? When your country is getting destroyed it is 100% logical to request peace talks. All Zelensky has to do is to call Putin and say "we are ready to talk peace". easy to do, if you care for your people.
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  2191.  @riwen0851  that's why you have so many problems with race in France.
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  2192.  @scarlett2299  nah, just imprisoning them when they break the law would be a good idea
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  2193. just reverse policy on asylum claims. make it illegal to enter the UK without asylum granted after the application process has been done through the British embassy in Paris.
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  2194. always goes unmentioned, the drastic rise in arsonists since records began.
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  2195.  @daHumbleOne  yes, what a wonderful accomplishment, she has managed to postpone the hunger of today until tomorrow and forever more. how about she works on a project to solve the problem rather than encourage the problem?
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  2196. so, Nick, true or false, the Ukrainian train system is almost exclusively an electrified system? so, Nick, true or false, destroying the Ukrainian power grid would severely reduce Ukrainian troop movements? so, Nick, true or false, just as NATO did in Serbia and USA did in Iraq, destroying infrastructure like the power grid is a basic military maneuver to reduce enemy troop movements? check your own fact checkers, Nick, use common sense, and you will change your tune
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  2197.  @michaeldunham3385  spare me the lectures on history. it's you that seems to be out of your depth here. yes, during the Soviet era there was Russification all over the USSR. And not one single ethnic Russian now a citizen of republics like Latvia is to blame for that. So, your way of correcting past Russification is to force Russian speaking communities in Latvia to be compelled to learn Latvian as some kind of revenge against Stalin? That's called bigotry. Kazakhstan has the best approach. Make Russian an official language and keep the ethnic Russians invested in the country, rather than feeling alienated from the country.
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  2198.  @XHGA  Ticino is part of Switzerland, but it is Italian speaking and the Italian speakers of Ticino have full and equal rights with the German speakers of Switzerland. Why is it so difficult for you to accept equal language rights? Russia has no rights over Latvia, but then again, USA had no rights over Japan, but ended up dropping an atomic bomb on Japan! Sometimes, when a minority is treated with discrimination, bigotry and inequality, as the Russian speakers of Latvia are being treated, you can expect a big, powerful country to intervene and correct matters. USA does it all over the globe every year. Looks like you will have to get used to Russia doing the same.
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  2199. Mike Martin, previously so dismissive of Russia's capacity to wage war indefinitely, now confessing the West is having supply problems. BIG turnaround.
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  2200. Ukraine has certainly exceeded expectations in how many refugees it can create, how quickly it can become bankrupt, how astoundingly wealthy Zelensky has become, according to the Panama Papers, how quickly it can get its own cannon fodder wiped out, and how easily it can turn its own Russian speaking citizens into avowed enemies. exceeding expectations every day.
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  2201. it's important for Jay's family to keep funding the search to continue ad infinitum, otherwise the Police might start searching in the right area.
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  2202. Fully support love and respect Indian sovereignty and territorial integrity (which means Pakistan has no right to exist. Pakistan was carved out of India)
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  2203. a bit late to "want your baby back" after you gave the toddler a green light to go on a wild drug and booze binge, with some violence and theft thrown in, amidst the criminal underworld of Tenerife.
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  2204. just building more houses solves nothing. if there is no incentive to be a landlord, you still won't have property to rent. what's wrong with just having a contract which both parties can either accept or reject?
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  2205.  @jirachi-wishmaker9242  but what they say just happens to be right on the money! Focus on the message, not on the messenger
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  2206.  @CHMichael  try to keep focused on the message, not on distractions like the age of an account or the messenger. i know it's tough for the weak of mind, but try your best. here in France it is the most beautiful sunny day, thanks. how's the weather where you are?
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  2207.  @HermesTTT  making the decision to take a human life is indeed synonymous with being an executioner. get real.
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  2208.  @regu6582  am always interested in people who refuse to see the truth
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  2209.  @sergeyb8  Ukraine's eastern territory has been occupied by ethnic Russians for centuries! After the 2014 coup, Crimea voted to separate from Kiev. The vote in the Crimean parliament in Simferopol was 78-0. it's called democracy. LPR and DPR declared independence. you can deny it and pretend otherwise, but those are the facts. Just curious. do you see Kosovo as an independent country? Cataluna? Scotland?
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  2210.  @boozolini4465  of course Ukraine was part of the USSR. It was a Ukrainian warmonger, Leonid Brezhnev, who led the USSR into its fiasco in Afghanistan. But only ONE successor state was chosen to inherit the Soviet nuclear arsenal, and that was Russia. Not one single country in the world supported the idea of Ukraine having any nukes.
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  2211. "Asian grooming gangs"...as if some of them are from Japan or Vietnam
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  2212.  @bramposthumus9300  I take it then that you were absolutely fine with the NATO destruction of a neighboring nation (Serbia)? Or were you wringing your hands with grief that Serbia's sovereign integrity was so horribly and criminally violated by NATO?
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  2213. let the revolution begin...time for indigenous British to take back control.
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  2214. simple maths. if you can't be sure of the kill rate (and many believe it is about 8:1 in Russia's favor) you can't be sure how this conflict is going.
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  2215.  @TheRealBlueValhalla  DPR and LPR made their declarations of independence in 2014 and have subsequently joined Russia!
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  2216.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  I have no great interest in Putin. I do have enormous interest in seeing the ethnic Russians of Ukraine liberated from the extreme nationalism of Zelensky. and you should too.
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  2217. nah, just a brain of mush. he understands nothing about this conflict.
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  2218.  @fishlivesmatter  and begging for money while he watches the value of his Miami mansion soar in value
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  2219. "international isolation", again, the world roars with laughter at her tiny Western bubble world. Honey, the West's attempt to isolate Russia FAILED! ALL Latin America, ALL Africa, ALL Asia (minus Japan, big deal) more than happy to continue trade with Russia. It was the African Union that DEMANDED the West relax sanctions on Russian food exports that FORCED the West to finally do something to show they oh so care about starving Africans, this gal is totally clueless!
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  2220. @Roger Mellie good analogy. too many people think they have a right to a Ferrari and others should pay for the astronomical costs of insurance. it's actually selfish thinking.
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  2221.  @Jeffcoolio  did a guy convicted of drug offences invite you back to his places too?
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  2222.  @Ja3mi  body language experts can tell when you are lying when observing facial expressions
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  2223. A place IN England that is majority non English cannot possibly be called English or British. Time to wake up. There's a gated community in Nassau, Bahamas called Sandyport, very few Bahamians live there, majority white ex pats, it's not the Bahamas, Mollenbeek, Brussels is majority Muslim, there is nothing Belgian about it. Just stupid calling Leicester "English".
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  2224.  @nathanmerritt1581  anyone who wants to learn how to defeat him or to deal with him. Only a fool would ignore him. Guess we can see which one you are! Although Zelensky is a murderous liar, one should listen to him and pay attention.
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  2225.  @SerBallister  Russia already does respect other countries' rules, and Russia does follow other countries' rules. USA and NATO attacked Serbia in support of the separatists in Kosovo, so Russia attacked Ukraine in support of the separatists in Donbass. Agreed? or do you need to explain the rules a little better?
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  2226. @JaxtheDoggo Given the Guardia Civil lied about ending the search, why should anyone suddenly believe they found Jay's body where they claim to have found it?
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  2227.  @37Raffaella  no such thing as "very inaccessible". a place is either accessible, or inaccessible. the location shown was accessible.
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  2228. fair enough, so what was all this hypocritical talk from the West about allowing Ukraine to defend itself but not being a part of any attack on Russia? Why no honesty from the start? If UK is fine with Ukraine attacking Russia, get ready for Russia to be fine and help ISIS attack UK, over and over again.
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  2229.  @sharassh1  on the contrary, NATO and Zekensky thought they could beat Russia in a ground war. same arrogance that led to the downfall of Hitler and Napoleon. 100% blame on NATO and Zelensky.
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  2230.  @kmg474  just curious, were you cheering on the Azov Nazi battalion when it started this conflict by shelling its own citizens in the Donbass in 2014, oh clueless one?
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  2231.  @sushi_wolf  so smart aren't you? Russia was never in Afghanistan. That would have been the USSR, led by a Ukrainian war-monger named Leonid Brezhnev! Learn the basics, smart one.
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  2232. "will ensure that Putin doesn't get a victory before the first snow begin to fall." but doesn't ensure that Putin won't get a victory one week AFTER the first snowfall?
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  2233.  @freedomordeath010  not concerned with low or high, only the truth
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  2234. Scholz "was expected" to sign LNG contracts with Qatar, never happened. and with Nigeria. never happened. and with USA. never happened. and with Canada. never happened. Now, the fifth string choice is UAE. Olav, can you say the words "ain't gonna happen?"
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  2235.  @ramadankadriu5336  it could. would you like to see the nuclear holocaust the Russians could send to Berlin, Madrid, Paris? After nuclear armageddon, Paris wouldn't look so different as it does now following the 5 day civil war, but Madrid and Berlin would.
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  2236. weapons won't help with so many Ukrainian dead soldiers..manpower is the problem. Slava Rossiyi Z
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  2237.  @olivesama  sure. look at the populations of all the world's countries. then see which countries are fine with Russia (no sanctions imposed, all relations with Russia as per normal) and you will see the vast majority of the world is fine with Russia. Or, you could do it the other way round. look at the populations of the few countries that have imposed sanctions and tried to isolate Russia, compare it to the vast populations of the globe's majority that still work as per normal with Russia, and compare. But, do you really want me to do your homework for you? Need more help? Here are some REALLY big countries with massive populations. Which ones have taken a stance against Russia? China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh. Let me guess, you live in a Western bubble and consider a small country like Germany as being of much greater importance than Nigeria?
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  2238.  @Spectre11B  "almost unanimous condemnation from the world", yeah, right, that same world that continues to import Russian energy as it always has done. The West knows that the oil imports from India is refined and blended Russian oil, but imports it anyway, because at heart the West only cares about pontificating and spouting nonsense while continuing to do what it always did.
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  2239.  @JustDucky-d9k  I was being sarcastic
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  2240. Cameras aren't allowed in any American court house? What, including the court house where Fani Willis was just grilled on her Trump case in Atlanta?
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  2241.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  so if they are fleeing brutality and repression, why not seek refuge in the first safe place? Afghans would be safe in Iran or Pakistan. Iraqis would be safe in Jordan. Gambians would be safe in Senegal. Senegalese would be safe in Mali. why head to Europe, so far away and. for a poor person, bloody expensive to get to?
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  2242. Prayers for Donbass Russian speakers' victory against the enemy in Kiev
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  2243.  @colsonjoachim1594  combien d'immigrants aimerez vous avoir chez vous? Combien de jeunes musulmans voudriez vous accueillir sous votre toit?
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  2244. "there are a lot of options on the table, just that none of them are actually there" great, so oma and opa are found frozen to death in Frankfurt mid February, while German ministers talk Green hydrogen for 30 years down the road. you really can't make this stuff up.
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  2245.  @brettrigby2226  true. could be exactly as you said. the nagging doubt is that no sign of Slater has been found, so it makes sense he is not there and never died there, but somewhere else. if it's a case of abduction, it wouldn't be random. some 3rd party knew where he was and had a good reason to get him, which makes me think the 2 strangers are in on something.
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  2246. why assume it was the wrong direction? without knowing where Jay was trying to get to, we don't know which was the "right" or the "wrong" direction.
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  2247. Slava Rossiyi. The convicts and mercenaries have done a great job of defeating the NATO trained and armed Ukronazis. Zelensky, the master tactician, looking at 5000 of his cannon fodder being cut off in the next few days.
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  2248. "feral youth" is inaccurate. I didn't see any Chinese or Sikhs. the elephant in the room is the fact you couldn't bring yourself to say the truth. it's "feral black youth". look at the footage carefully. just long prison sentences, in prisons that are miserable places, would solve the problem.
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  2249. oh, silly me...there I was waiting to hear someone pro Russian in Kherson who would speak...should have known DW would make sure the two people featured would both be pro Zelensky. nice balanced reporting, guys
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  2250. refusing to join boycotts and making a point of using a chain like McDonalds even more than normal also makes a difference.
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  2251.  @solvableknave9141  no one is arguing with the facts of the situation. many of us are just pointing out that the situation, as it now stands, does not benefit the EU cartel because it restricts the entry of Brits and therefore reduces EU tourist revenues. But maybe reducing the income of many EU citizens dependent on tourist revenue is outweighed by the pleasure of punishing the UK for voting to be independent?
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  2252.  @kristianvelle5637  no one voted to be a third country. "third country" is an EU designation thought up in Brussels. UK voted to separate from the EU. what designation Brussels then gives the UK (2nd country, 3rd country, 2nd and a half country) is a Brussels decision, but clearly applying 3rd country status to Brits is hurting the tourist revenues of some places. Portugal has opted to not apply strict third country status. good decision.
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  2253. yep, the island mafia got their man, his drugs, his cash, and he fits nicely in that 6ft deep ditch they had him dig that got him so thirsty. glad Tenerife found a way to cut out the middleman for justice for Jay.
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  2254. only one problem.....the Russians have found the Ukrainian weak spot in Svatove and Kupiansk areas, now advancing toward Krasny Liman! uh oh!
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  2255. there is no such thing as "extreme Islam". There is just Islam, which just so happens to be extreme in just about everything it holds dear.
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  2256. Just imagine the outcry in the media if it were a white group of youths tearing down Hindu flags.
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  2257. honey, the grain has been trapped in silos since Ukraine mined its coast. Ukrainian shipping is moving in and out of Izmael, the Ukrainian Danube port, so stop blaming the blockade/fighting, start looking at Zelensky's refusal to demine.....that's if you want to report in a balanced way.
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  2258. did you also have a good laugh at how Russia exhausted enemy forces in Chechnya, and Georgia, and Syria? or have you only found out where Donbass is on a map 5 minutes ago?
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  2259. So, Peskov is right, this "expert" confesses. The West should have accepted Putin's invitation to talk about Russia's security concerns last December. Big Mistake. The West should be reporting on Ukrainian indiscriminate shelling in Donetsk too.
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  2260.  @sylenyap7557  don't think so. here in the Pyrenees, such disappearances are found within hours with the technology they have today. it's almost impossible to escape even if you plan to! they didn't find Jay because Jay is not there.
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  2261. But Ukraine is sending in their soldiers to die with inadequate weapons and training. happening every day
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  2262.  @jeremytine  and only a fool would assume Russia has a monopoly on war crimes
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  2263.  @grief1  what do you think the "S" in BNSM stands for, Einstein?
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  2264.  @taylorlatch2635  depends what you mean by "size". what counts is a country's economic power, influence and the global demand for its products. GDP doesn't measure those specifics, hence fools keep scratching their heads in bewilderment at how Russia survives sanctions so easily, whereas somewhere like Italy, that can match Russia in GDP, would have crumbled in a matter of days had it been so sanctioned.
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  2265. what with? pensioners and teenagers fresh from their 2 weeks of training?
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  2266. Russia was under no contractual obligation the moment Germany announced sanctions against Russia and the moment Germany announced it no longer wanted to import energy from Russia. All that Russia did, when it turned off the Nordstream tap, was to assist Germany to move forward with its announced plans of ceasing to import Russian energy.
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  2267.  @Daniel-uc9ll  you wouldn't be able to spot a "russian bot" if it rushed up to you, slapped you in the face and shouted "I'm a russian bot".
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  2268. it was NOT listening to Russia that got us all in this mess. should have listened intently when Russia said it will not accept Ukraine as a NATO member.
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  2269. Curious to see, at 1:32 the MIG jet sculpture right in front of the Garrison Officers Club in Vinnytsia. Pretty much confirms what the Russians said, that it was a legit military target. No "indiscriminate" targeting here, so yet more Ukrainian lies exposed.
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  2270.  @ryand141  depends what the joy riding entails. if the joy rider has already shown that he has come perilously close to mowing down members of the public, as was the case with Nahel, then refusing to stop and cooperate with Police should result in a shoot to kill. Easily avoided. just cooperate with Police. Nomadic, born in UK, currently in France, but have been all over the world. You will find Nahel is a lot more than a "petty thief" and yes, I found that the safest places in the world are the ones with the most draconian laws against this kind of criminality. I would suggest it's YOUR way of thinking that is, globally speaking, in the minority.
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  2271. nonsense
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  2272. very strange that this fair and balanced reporter has the exact number of Ukrainian children killed, but not of Russian speaking children killed. weird.
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  2273.  @dorianissock732  I can guarantee you one thing. If you go round telling the French that they need to pay for a workforce to help you get integrated in to French society, you will have made your path to being accepted in France a lot, lot more difficult!
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  2274. glad to know you are happy to pay a lot more taxes for such a project.
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  2275. 100% deserved. France had the opportunity to elect Zemmour, and chose to continue with mass immigration. Don't think anyone was surprised to see the kid was not called Ying Tang Wu, but an Arab name.
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  2276. so, now we need to move to a war time economy, even though NATO is not a party to this war.
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  2277.  @Please_allow_me  i completely agree! That is why I said the very definition of "intolerant" and "Bigoted" is what that teacher said.
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  2278. "don't break the law, you won't face jail time" naive fool.
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  2279. weapons are of no use without soldiers. The Ukrainians are down to newly trained draftees and reservists. their great summer offensive (hello, it's July, July is summer, where's the offensive?) ain't gonna happen. Russia, the Chechens, the LPR and DPR have won, and they deserve to win.
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  2280. no need. Russia is winning.
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  2281. sorry, honey, Putin is not the aggressor. in 2014 the Azov Nazi Battalion launched the first shells on the Donbass and the war started. you were just asleep and uncaring for 8 years
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  2282. No. The EU wants to allow access to the EU via Gib airport as well as the land border. It would ease the congestion at the land border. The aim is to keep the land border open and free-flowing. At the moment, if all UK citizens were always scrutinized to the full extent of Schengen law at the border, the queues would be horrendous and unsustainably long.
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  2283.  @Israelipropaganda  Spain should relax customs and immigration controls to help its own citizens, obviously. By what measure is the UK economy worse than Europe's? You think Germany's 0% growth is better than the UK's?
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  2284.  @MorganSullivan  Just as Gibraltar "was there" before Spain even existed.
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  2285.  @CelticSaint  correct, but for the sake of argument, let's assume both Jay and phone were at the Mirador when the phone pinged, he had plenty of time to descend the trail to the cove to get away by boat, or indeed to be picked up by car, if that had been arranged. i struggle with this notion that because a phone pings in a certain location, on 1% charge, that that must be the place to start a search. given all the other factors in the story, it defies logic.
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  2286. What happened to all the talk about Russia running out of weapons and ammunition? And morale of Russian troops? Is that still rock bottom after the victories in Soledar and Krasna Hora?
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  2287. France needs to be left out of the equation. just refuse entry to the UK, tow or pilot refugee boats back to France, let France go to court if they wish.
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  2288. Victory to the Donbass
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  2289. this is the crap that happens with socialized medicine. scrap it. privatize it.
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  2290. "not in his right mind", or "makes no sense". but he does.
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  2291. Civilians not being attacked. Read what Amnesty International said about Ukraine using human shields
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  2292. Russia produces energy in all its forms and the world needs energy. That is why Russia will do just fine. Where it might see a decrease in exports, it sees an increase in revenue as global prices rise. Oil is now being sold by Russia to Saudi, thus Saudi marks the oil price up and exports to the West, so Russia is not really hurt by Western sanctions. Unlike the West!
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  2293. Donbass and Crimea, keep going defending against the aggressive Ukrainian invaders of your territory, victory, sovereignty, glory and freedom to Donbass and Crimea. God bless Russia.
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  2294. no answer to the question "what did you make of it, that "the world is against Russia"? we all know it's not true, and that one of the many big failures of the West is to isolate Russia. On the contrary, all through Latin America, all through Africa, OPEC and the Middle East, all through Asia (bar Japan and Korea) the world cares very little about Ukraine and is fine with working with and trading with Russia. Gradually, it's the West that it is isolating itself.
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  2295. let all the EU corrupt countries go, and reduce the EU to Denmark and Luxemburg
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  2296.  @bb1111116  remember, the travel embargo was placed on Cuba in the first place because Castro refused to reimburse any US property holders for assets seized and confiscated as a result of the revolution. what has Havana done to address that issue? Also, the US dollar is hit with an extra government mandated exchange rate penalty compared to the euro, what has Havana done about that? There was plenty of tourism to Cuba from Europe and Latin America before Covid....why has it not returned? if you can answer that question you will be getting close to understanding why Cuba has nothing to offer the world. Capitalism would solve almost all Cuba's woes overnight.
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  2297. the mum consulted a surgeon regarding plastic surgery, facelift etc, so, that explains the £30,000 needed right there.
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  2298. petit à petit, Gulliver comprend que l' Ukraine va pas gagner cette querre
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  2299. the recent by-election in Rochdale showed us just how superior Russian democracy is to British "democracy".
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  2300. but clear headed enough to escape the airbnb the second the neighbors knocked on the door, and to take his possessions with him, and to ask about the time of the next bus
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  2301.  @samdherring  no one in Russia refers to this as "Comedy Central"
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  2302.  @davidlloyd2583  along with Ukraine remaining a neutral country and not a NATO member, a la Austria. A good deal for all.
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  2303. just staggering that Chan 4 still puts credence into anything announced by the Ukrainian military. Chan 4 still expecting Ghost of Kiev to win the day.
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  2304.  @andrew30m  clearly a Fascist government would be able to take over the government of any European country. Fascist governments are not deterred by any court announcement from Strasbourg! Fascist governments just laugh at such nonsense and challenge the court to enforce the law! You think a court in Strasbourg would have stopped Hitler or Mussolini seizing power? Don't make me laugh.
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  2305. there is no such thing as "price gouging" or "profiteering". Companies charge the highest price they can. if you don't like the price, don't buy it.
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  2306. hey, Frank, did your friends also visit the residential buildings in Kherson where Ukronazi fighters hide themselves and their weapons, you know, as described by Amnesty International in their report? Frank, can you say "human shields"?
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  2307. Zaluzhny says he needs 300 of them. How many are you personally offering to pay for?
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  2308. Zelensky remains broadly very popular"...so does Putin. so what's your point?
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  2309.  @johnproton259  problem is, Russia is also making 134 billion dollars every single month! Evidence the sanctions aren't working!
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  2310. good to know this cretin Armstrong is "uncomfortable" and not "outraged" by Tommy's arrest. When they come for Armstrong with pepper spray, I might feel a little uncomfortable, but it wouldn't be a disaster if he got a taste of the treatment that didn't outrage him.
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  2311.  @sparta-zh7yk  how could he possibly know that?
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  2312.  @blancavelasco32  ¡20 minutos caminando del centro de la búsqueda! y necesitaron 29 días. aquí en los Pirineos, en condiciones peores que existen en Tenerife, necesitan solamente unas horas. ¡Que verguenza!
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  2313.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  ¡nunca! hay que analizar la corrupción que existe en Tenerife igual como la de Leeds.
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  2314.  @peterbarton9856  Peter, why would you assume I have a russki name?
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  2315. Time to surrender, kiss NATO membership and Crimea, Donbass etc goodbye, and beg the West's taxpayers for more unlimited funds for reconstruction, plus hopefully learn the lesson of not messing with Russia again.
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  2316. China has diverse suppliers. Russia is just one part of the jigsaw
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  2317. after 17 months of this conflict, and bulls*****r Bell still can't pronounce Shoigu's name right. and still no word on why Zaluzhny disappeared! what useless reporting.
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  2318. of course, 2 Russian soldiers would know exactly who was responsible, because soldiers are informed of everything in these types of operation.
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  2319.  @farallimacha  amazing, then, that Spanish laws are so lenient with such awful behaviour.
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  2320. you said it, it's just a suggestion and an opportunity. meanwhile, Russia is winning in reality. deeds, not words.
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  2321. this fool was probably blabbering on about Russian losses, lack of morale, and invincible NATO as Mariupol fell, as Soledar fell, as Bakhmut fell, as Avdeevka fell, as New York fell as....
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  2322. almost as amazing as the lack of objectivity in their reporting
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  2323.  @Poleeze1  "no political upheavals yet" with the mass immigration problems, massive upheavals now on the way
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  2324. once again, Russian firing discriminately, as opposed to the Ukronazi shelling of Donetsk city.
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  2325. typical woke fool correspondent, when asked why the shift in opinion on immigration in Germany, he refuses to answer the question and starts rambling on about elections and debunking false claims! So, Benjamin, let me answer the question. Like all other Europeans, Germans can now see how mass immigration brings more crime, higher costs, and changes the identity of Germany for the worst. People want Berlin to look like Berlin, not like Baghdad.
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  2326. The important question was never asked. "If you had had the freedom to leave Ukraine back in February, would you have left?"
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  2327. not the 2 villages that are so important, but the hundreds of dead cannon fodder trying to defend them.
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  2328.  @frederikzinn6568  what a Russian missile hits, and what a Russian missile targets, could well be two different things, and that applies to Ukraine's missiles too. Tell me, are you assuming that shopping malls and train stations are never doubling up as ammo stores and troop bases? how naive are you? tell me, what Russian military targets were Ukrainians aiming for when they killed civilians in Belgorod? cue crickets.
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  2329. Even the words "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian" didn't exist until the mid 19th century! The Crimean War was fought against Russia, not against Ukraine!
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  2330. There is no blockade. Grain shipments flowing from Mariupol, and from Ukrainian held port of Ismael. Odessa not functioning as a port because of the mines, Ukrainian mines, along the coast there. Clear the mines and the grain can be shipped.
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  2331.  @eansmith4925  you mean the "stolen grain" that was inspected by NATO member Turkey last week, and cleared for export because there was ZERO evidence of theft, you mean that kind of stolen grain?
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  2332. yawn, the same drivel copied and pasted yet again
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  2333.  @fabik805  being dragged into a NATO war rarely is still a lot worse than never being dragged into a war. and those Finnish tax payers have to cough up to pay their NATO membership fee and to pay for the useless border wall in the middle of nowhere, all to make Finland a target where it never was before. big own goal by Finland.
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  2334.  @chrisso871  conspicuous by its absence is any explanation from you of what the crime is! look in the mirror to see the cult member.
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  2335. All of you who applaud Green energy policies, sanctions on Russia, unlimited aid to Ukraine, absurdly high government spending and borrowing, here is your reward. Embrace Recession and love every second of it, dear Germany.
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  2336. Clarke's ignorance of things Russian is just astounding. He knows nothing. He should have listened to Putin more carefully to truly understand what Russia's objectives are.
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  2337. Macron was a drama student. his acting fooled you.
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  2338. I'm sure the Ukrainian teenagers cannon fodder recruits will master handling all these tanks in just a few days.
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  2339.  @FordRangerClassics  a last name like "Aslam" doesn't eliminate the possibility, but it makes such a possibility very slim. Given that Aslam is from a community that seeks to replicate their traditional home life in the new host country, there is only a slim chance that Denmark is his "home country". He is Danish only in that he lives there and has the papers to say he is Danish, but his heart and soul won't be Danish. If Aslam had to write an essay on the true nature of what it is to be Danish, he wouldn't have a clue what to say. Aslam is good enough to be a person in anybody's eyes, because Aslam is a person, but Aslam ain't no Danish person, just as George Orwell was never an Indian, agreed?
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  2340.  @leagarner3675  DA's have to account for EVERY PENNY of any gift over $100, you know that, Fani knows that and the corrupt judge knows that. Wade paying for the whole thing would prove that Fani had a financial conflict of interest...hiring a prosecutor on top dollar and then getting treated to luxury vacations. wise up, child.
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  2341.  @kirkpatrick7475  Russia created the Soviet Union, but in so doing it meant the Soviets, those who invaded Afghanistan, were a whole host of ethnicities, from Estonian to Khirghiz, not just Russians, obviously.
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  2342.  @Teabag-jt  ISIS massively active in Central Asia? Name one terrorist attack committed by ISIS in Tadjikistan.
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  2343. Wagners just waiting for the dirt roads to turn to mud so that Ukronazis get stuck in panic exiting, their vehicles turned into metal coffins. the genius of Zelensky.
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  2344.  @brinjoness3386  then stop using the word "everyone"...English not your first language maybe?
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  2345. evidence?
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  2346. yeah, well, plans change when red lines are crossed. looks like NATO and Ukraine chose to learn the hard way.
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  2347. so now we are supposed to believe the same people who brought us Ghost of Kiev?
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  2348. If only Putin were PM. None of this nonsense would be happening.
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  2349. please join immediately. what are you waiting for? the fall of Kupiansk?
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  2350. at the expense of other German people who are also in need
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  2351.  @ciaranbrk  quality and quantity on the Ukrainian side? so how did this quality and quantity on the Ukrainian side get defeated by a bunch on convicts and drunken mercenaries with low morale in Soledar? you are truly delusional!
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  2352.  @spage80  what is a "Memorandum" as opposed to a treaty, or agreement, or accord? Also, look at point 6 of the Budapest memorandum. Which side broke Point 6 in December 2021?
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  2353. Labour wanted longer lockdowns, which would have created more excess deaths and illnesses, not less
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  2354.  @abraham4961  do you think there are any non-Muslims in the world that really respect the Muslims?
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  2355. it's unbiased when you show both sides of a conflict
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  2356.  @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191  no one is going to die from climate change, only from hysteria and stupidity
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  2357. 4 months of the Great Counter Offensive and let's take a look at the facts: % of Russian occupied land "liberated"....0.08% Ukrainian losses in the counter offensive...at least 50,000 cities recaptured: none, but the villages of Robotyne and Klysheevka are now free! estimated time, at current rate of progress, it will take Ukraine to reach the Sea of Azov....16 years. what a joke.
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  2358. until the boats are towed back to France, nothing will change
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  2359.  @KSzkodaGames  not allowed under EU Freedom of Movement laws. 500 million people live in the EU, and not one single one of them can be banned from going to Spain, to Mallorca, and living there, so the locals, having embraced the EU, have lost all control of their immigration, their beaches, their streets. time to wake up.
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  2360. hilarant qu'elle décrit le coup d'état anti-constitutionelle de Maidan comme "soulèvement"
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  2361. given Zelensky is a lot younger than Putin, not a shock of a prediction that one!
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  2362. @Broodje worst are you a Ukrainian who agrees 100% with the Zelensky policy of forcing Russian speakers to be educated ONLY in Ukrainian, even when 90% of the Donbass area is Russian speaking and their teachers are native Russian speakers?
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  2363. exactly why some of us who prize free speech above all else simply can't bear to live in GB any more.
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  2364.  @markhayward7400  and Blair did that, not by raising the living standards of the poor, but by squeezing the rich and thus encouraging the haves to leave the country, resulting in smaller tax revenues from that point on. such a marvellous "gain".
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  2365. makes perfect sense to sting the high spending tourists and divert that tax revenue to housing illegal immigrants in hotels.
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  2366.  @dabby249  if we define "his own people" as "fellow Africans" it most certainly is true, and it still happens in places like Mauretania, where slavery still exists. If we define "his own people" as his fellow tribesmen, then maybe not. As was correctly pointed out. Slavery existed in Africa, African on African slavery, for centuries before any European arrived. When Britain enforced the abolition of the slave trade, African rulers resisted it, as they made a handsome income from the slave trade. Do you know anything about African history?
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  2367.  @neverlookback1244  "fleeing violence"? what horrendous violence is sweeping Cameroon, Gambia, Senegal? you are deluded.
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  2368.  @jacquelineithell307  i have a feeling none of them is fleeing war.
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  2369. where in the job description of Vice President does it state "monitor all 200 countries on the planet to ensure every state prosecutor performs his/her duties as the US requires"?
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  2370. you have no idea what stocks Russia has. stop guessing.
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  2371. a nice welcome kick in the teeth for deluded wokesters and their destructive agenda.
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  2372.  @barrylane1055  the truth
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  2373.  @stuartx7865  tell me, when idiots like Bell tell us that morale in the Russian army is low, what does he base that conclusion on?
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  2374. more Azov Nazi troops caught hiding in civilian areas
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  2375. a lesson for the West on how a truly democratic election takes place. secret ballot, paper ballot, in person voting, no mail in ballots, international observers, diverse political views represented in the candidates. if only Rochdale or Chicago could offer the same high standards.
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  2376. it is very strange. so far, we have not been shown where Jay was found, just video of a ravine.
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  2377. NATO focuses on electric tanks. Russia focuses on winning wars. NATO focuses on diversity in recruitment. Russia focuses on winning wars. NATO focuses on sensitivity training. Russia focuses on winning wars. NATO has won the battle to be seen to be diverse, sensitive and tolerant. Russia has won the war.
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  2378. the snapchat photo, honey, shows 4 shoes/feet protruding from under a curtain, or blanket that is not being worn. it does not show Jay Slater.
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  2379. plenty of help for Ukraine's military, nothing more for UK's sick and needy
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  2380. Russia happy to prove Ben Wallace wrong and regularly remind Wallace that Russia is not running out of weapons
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  2381. it is baffling that you believe the video is genuine
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  2382.  @markushayes  and then there are some fools who don't realize how great Trump is as a leader.
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  2383.  andrewgrey6226  sorry, one last question. was the Norman invasion of 1066 legal? If not, why not?
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  2384. Africa already knows it's the failed Western sanctions that are to blame for the grain crisis. Russia is doing the right thing and refusing to play ball with the lying West.
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  2385. counting how many Ceasars we have left...un ,deux, oh, that's it.
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  2386. not too much deluded russophobia on display in the comments here
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  2387. Anyone who has enough cash to get out of Britainistan before Sharia is enshrined in law, as opposed just de facto by the woke Police, should do so and make a fresh start in any country that still has values akin to those Britain once had.
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  2388.  @richardhoner7842  just curious, when was Trump's conviction for treason?
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  2389. Deluded Mike Martin STILL talking about a Ukrainian offensive in Zaporizhe! Hey, Mike, while Zelensky is set on serving up as much Ukrainian cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder in Bakhmut, there ain't gonna be a Zaporizhe offensive! Read what Zaluzny himself said in the Economist!
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  2390. well there we go, from individuals who have been on the Ukrainian frontline, it's not an attack but a repositioning.
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  2391.  @staticbuilds7613  also, with Lucy, looks like she has been in the Schengen Zone for a lot more than 90 days in the last 180 days, assuming she is a UK citizen. Spanish Police could drag her in on immigration violations, if she is still there. if not, they missed their chance! they need to charge her with something to make her start singing.
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  2392. so if Zelensky says the tanks could "turn the tide of the conflict" it sounds like Zelensky is admitting that Russia is winning. interesting. his use of "could", and not "would", reveals he is thinking the tanks might make no difference.
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  2393. Quran burnings should happen every day and in multiple locations until the Islamic world gets used to it.
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  2394. because Ukraine recently crossed into Russia and created a pocket through which the terrorists could slip through.
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  2395. so true. the moment Dan Wooten said "Russia has lost this war" I put GBNews in the same rust bucket as BBC.
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  2396. Bizarrely, Zelensky LOVES playing this game of repairing the electrical system and then watching Russia destroy it again. Given the West has no means to prevent this process, how long will Zelensky and his handlers choose to continue this losing game?only 4 more months of severe winter to go, then an indefinite number of winters after that.
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  2397. assimilation and integration really are of no importance. the Amish did neither. it's simply respecting the laws and traditions of the host country, and a restriction on numbers so that the host country retains its identity.. nothing more needed.
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  2398. when will the BBC report on news of great interest, like where is Zaluzhny? where is Budanov? where is Gonzalo Lira? where is investigative journalism?
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  2399. the West urged Russia to follow the "rules-based system" of the West, Russia saw how NATO targeted civilian infrastructure in sovereign Serbia, and has copied such behavior in Ukraine. Bit confusing why the West hasn't congratulated Russia
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  2400.  @Hollywood041  bit more complicated than that. USA has federal laws and EU has EU-wide laws but the two only sometimes overlap. just one example, flying into any US state, passengers have to follow US federal laws, but flying into the EU passengers follow individual country's laws. it's all a bit of a mess.
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  2401.  @shazanali692  Had an Australian come to London in the 50s and 60s with his/her 11 year old child, the chances of being pickpocketed on public transport or in the street, let alone mugged, raped or killed, were close to zero. we all know those chances have sky rocketed today.
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  2402. hit the nail on the dead
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  2403. "Ukraine is still there"...well, not the 6 million refugees. nor the 70,000 dead soldiers. Nor all the captured Azov Nazis jailed in the DPR. they are not there. All the money and tax revenue has left too. That's not there either. And 20% of Ukraine is now Russian controlled. So, Ukraine isn't really still there, I would argue.
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  2404.  @WinterGK  the last movements were 3 months ago! the last movements saw Ukraine take nothing. The last movements saw Russia withdraw and give away territory that was too thinly guarded (what Ukraine would do now with Bakhmut if it had a president who was something other than a puppet actor drunk on adulation). The important movements are the ones where the Russian forces and Ukrainian forces go toe to toe, street for street, in a battle to the last man. So far, those battles have NEVER resulted in a Ukrainian win. Mariupol, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Popasnaya, and now Soledar. Every time they go toe to toe, Russia wins, and that is why Kiev and Washington are now in panic. Slowly the penny is dropping. it's not territory on the map that matters. it's how many fighting men are left, how many weapons are on hand, and who wins toe to toe. Russia wins in all three categories. Enjoy the territory Ukraine regained! It all goes straight back into Russian hands when the last Ukrainian drops dead.
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  2405.  @Els-se6ky  yep, like every Western European city, neighborhoods crawling with migrants to the point that Western Europe no longer looks like Europe. Eurabia will be debating whether Brussels or Rotterdamstan should become the capital of the Caliphate.
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  2406.  @FontaineDerby  Just Debbie and Warren begging Brad, Qassim and Lucy to take the polygraph test would put some pressure on them to start singing. given the police are totally disinterested, something has to be done by the family to resolve this.
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  2407. and the Donbass ethnic Russians, right?
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  2408. what about combat experience and working in coordination with other offensive forces, can all that be compressed into a few weeks of practice too?
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  2409.  @Purple_flower09  it was a promise. NATO leaders pledged to contribute at least 2% of GDP. If it wasn't a promise, why is not one single European leader standing up and proclaiming "we never promised any such thing"? check your facts.
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  2410. what makes anyone think Western tanks will arrive? which bridges will these tanks take to cross the Dnipr? which of those bridges will Russia leave intact?
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  2411. They certainly can! and in so doing, they can suffer the consequences and be wiped off the map. Slava Rossiyi Z
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  2412.  @brettrigby2226  it's not that deep. his drug deal went south and he's dead, but not in the wilderness.
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  2413.  @janeburke147  sadly, it's not their duty to find anything. it's their duty to conduct the obligatory 2 week search. job done. no one in authority in Tenerife wants teenage drug dealer and Moroccan gangsters arrests and court trials. the search was done, nothing found, case closed.
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  2414.  @ant318  oh, i see, so when EU countries have a much worse situation than the UK it is for reasons OTHER than Brexit, but when UK has a worse situation than certain EU nations, then the cause MUST be Brexit. Got it. By the way, walk me through it, why would a "border situation" result in rampant inflation? explain, step by step .
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  2415.  @AkiseAk  Ukraine was never a nuclear power, because the newly constituted state of Ukraine that formed following the collapse of the Soviet Union was prohibited from inheriting nuclear weapons. By international agreement, of the 15 new ex Soviet republics that emerged in 1991, it was decided ONLY Russia would be the successor state with a nuclear capability. "Ukraine" had no say in the matter, effectively, and was never a nuclear power. Same as Kazakhstan. Question, if your father's car is located in YOUR garage, and your father dies, does that mean that car, by law, is now yours? Yes, or no?
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  2416. who is "we"? speak for yourself. majority of Europeans now favor peace talks.
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  2417. sabotaging a bridge is also wrong
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  2418.  @JamesC785  I think you will see some waning of support when the first German pensioners are found in their apartments frozen to death this winter. Already, opinion polls in Germany show half the people say the priority needs to be Germany now, not Ukraine. It's over.
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  2419. This is very telling, when the greatest Ukrainian success story for weeks is a damaged bridge. It basically tells us Zelensky lied when he said Ukraine was advancing step by step towards Kherson. It's all talk about a counter offensive, and no action but a few himars that hit their targets, Big deal. Meanwhile, no media coverage on Ukraine's 2nd biggest power station captured by the Wagner Group. Times Radio focused 100% on Ukrainian propaganda. RT MUCH more reliable and balanced.
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  2420. businesses don't pay taxes. individuals pay taxes. Businesses just transfer any taxes due onto the individual consumers by adjusting prices, so your big scheme won't work.
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  2421. "racist in its delivery to the person who was offended" the modern definition of "racist"! offense taken = racist! Nonsense! asking about family origin, roots, background is mostly curiosity and innocent. Normal people have no problem talking about their background. Only those looking to be offended will object.
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  2422.  @Muddslinger0415  on the contrary, the added CO2 we have in the atmosphere has resulted in the greening of the planet and massive increase in crop yields. you didn't notice that famine, as caused by nature, ended a while ago? also, good to note, that parts of the globe previously too cold to produce food, are now warm enough and are adding to food stocks. global starvation, as caused by nature and not human conflict, ended a long time ago, thanks to more CO2! it's called the "greenhouse effect"
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  2423. the usual propaganda about huge Russian losses without any evidence of such. so tiresome.
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  2424. since when was the truth also "ugly"?
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  2425. No such thing as reverse racism. There's just racism. Racism, by definition, doesn't go in any one direction.
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  2426. Ireland is a rotten recommendation. It has turned into a 3rd world dumping ground. Unless you want to feel you are in Bangladesh or Baghdad, and be constantly concerned if you will be the next stabbing victim, don't bother with expensive Ireland. SOOO many better places to consider.
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  2427. the very fact you mention "designer companies" leaving Russia makes me think Russia is winning, if that is top of your list of effects of sanctions!
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  2428. bunch of idle rich who never have to worry about paying bills
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  2429. when the judge donated to Fani's campaign, he announced to the world his impartiality. there is no reason to believe such declared impartiality has evaporated over time. therefore, it is a travesty of justice that this impartial "judge" should be deciding this case. is this really the legal standard in GA?
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  2430. they are just liars. wise up.
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  2431. The UK voted in a Conservative government that pledged to have strict limits on immigration. No need to have a referendum. The voters already spoke. Just withdraw from the ECHR if that is needed to fulfill the manifesto pledge on immigration.
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  2432. yet more evidence that the elites in power have absolutely no clue what the masses feel is important. holding my breath for the referendum on drastically reducing immigration in Ireland
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  2433. totally naive to think that family unity means the women and children will move back to Ukraine rather than the Ukrainian men fleeing to Europe.
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  2434. "why should anyone give any of its territory to Russia?" because the majority of your citizens in those parts of your country who opted for separation from Kiev in 2014 want it that way, and are prepared to fight for it. Get real.
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  2435.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  hence you are terribly confused why most of the globe looks favorably on Russia
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  2436. "the aim is to weaken Russia" said Lloyd Austin. The problem is, Russia is getting stronger, both economically and militarily, compared to the West, and Ukraine is getting destroyed (not that concerns the West unduly), so the new aim is to lengthen the conflict as long as possible to weaken Russia and pretend the West is stronger. Ukraine loses either way.
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  2437.  @nigelsynnott7344  it hasn't already been done because the government has no spine. if UK had admitted hordes of illegal immigrants who then invaded France in small boats, I would fully support the French in their efforts to tow all such boats back to the UK. In the situation you describe, the UK would be responsible, and should be responsible, for every illegal immigrant it admitted onto its soil, not France.
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  2438.  @bishyeahbish3758  it's not muther, it's mother, so "moth" makes more sense.
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  2439. Unlike NATO, that in Kabul couldn't even flea without droning an innocent Afghan family before it fled in panic, right?
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  2440.  @sloeberdoet  in Russia, they certainly have some freedoms we don't have in the West. As for money and riches, you don't see tent cities of homeless and drug addicted in Russia as you do all over USA. Compared to life in the West, life in Russia is safer, more traditional, with a LOT more social cohesion and trust within society.
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  2441. "we don't know when and we don't know how many" = too little too late.
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  2442. just hilarious that Germany, ten years too late, is realizing the whole Schengen idea is plain nuts. what do you expect if you let another country control who gets into Germany?
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  2443. they're all coming from France. France is not a war-torn country.
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  2444. it's only a strange question if you don't care about your nation's identity.
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  2445. why are only some protected? Scotland just abandoned equality before the law.
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  2446. tell me again, sanctions against Russia were supposed to cripple the Russian economy, or the German economy?
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  2447. slowly sinking in that with or without US aid, Ukraine is toast. should have listened to those of us that said, from day one, talking with Putin is better than fighting against Russia.
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  2448. troops are moved by trains, trains run by electricity, therefore destroying the power grid hampers troop movements and therefore power stations are a military target.
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  2449. "two of our most experienced men lost a leg each this past week" so how many legs/bodies/lives will be lost when the teenage recruits with 2 weeks training get pushed to the front lines this summer? gotta keep fighting until the last Ukrainian, and THEN we will let Russia dictate peace terms. Great plan, NATO.
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  2450.  @CelticSaint  yep, what is the deal with the refusal to focus on the 2 black lads from Luton? why are they deemed "of no relevance"? what the hell is the deal here? when was the last time 2 Luton lads booked a 10 day stay in a secluded hamlet in the mountains of Tenerife? Reports that they spent almost all the time indoors. Apparently drove to the rave 3 nights in a row. Jay goes back with them to have one last beer? and then the 2 lads fall asleep and Jay does what exactly? goes out to have a cigarette and a wander around? frustratingly bewildering, the whole thing.
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  2451.  @cabanford  how little you know the Russians
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  2452.  @ruZsiaNa-C  who wants or needs Kiev? Look over Putin's 5 objectives, not what General Milley invented as supposed Russian aims.
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  2453.  @ruZsiaNa-C  fine, if you want to live in the world of invented Putin quotes, that's your choice. Those of us who live in the real world understand exactly what Putin wants, and we support his aims because they are just.
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  2454.  @liammurphy2022  not while watching the Euros Final on Sunday night! who do you think was checking to see if a body bag was being winched down a gorge while Spain and England were tied at 1-1?
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  2455.  @mazocco  it's basic numbers. rising immigration = rising demand = rising government costs (unless the majority of the new arrivals are net contributors to the tax system, which they are not). nothing xenophobic about the facts. I am equally harsh on the native parasites. why would anyone, no matter where they are from, expect someone else to pay for their accommodation?
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  2456.  @JeffreyGoddin  look at the population density of England. look at the population density of the Mid West. that comparison will give you a clue as to why building more housing for 300,000 more people year on year is a MAJOR problem. "providing" housing is the key phrase you used. Immigrant population growth is not Economic growth. If you have a rise in net recipients over net contributors to the system, you have a big problem. Immigrants paying for their own housing can be a plus. Immigrants with their hands out waiting to be "provided" accommodation is a problem. Yes, the UK government stands in the way of ever more construction. The environmentalists have demanded such. So, we have the Left demanding no more construction and the Left demanding more housing. Get the picture?
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  2457. @@Arthur-zp5we my comment was specifically in reference to ticket offices at train stations. your comment seems to be about digital controls generally.
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  2458. Bell, just like Hitler in his Berlin bunker, drawing massive arrows and talking big offences when there is nothing on the ground for Ukraine to attack with.
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  2459. "Russia invaded its neighbour" so did Israel. Israel invaded its neighbour, Gaza. Israel reacted to the Hamas attack. Russia reacted to 8 years of the Donbass ethnic Russians being shelled. pretty comparable, really.
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  2460. spelling mistake.....the word is UNpopular.
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  2461.  @silvasdamata  Name me the "serious" opposition candidates excluded! You are probably one of those who thinks convicted plotter and traitor Navalny actually registered higher than 5% at the height of his popularity, or rather unpopularity, right?
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  2462. Guardia Civil were faced with some kind of dilemma. The Dutch super sniffer cadaver dogs were going to indicate BOTH where Jay's body was, AND where it had been moved from! So, hastily, Jay had to be "found" and his body removed, no questions asked, pdq, and so it was, on Monday morning. no other explanation, or....
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  2463.  @BubbyBold  par for the course, the likes of you resort to threats when you can't argue any points with any intellect or insight.
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  2464. Keep going Donetsk and Lugansk, fight for your land! Defeat and level the bully Ukrainians!
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  2465. Matthaeus is lying. No gains whatsoever have been made in the last week by Ukraine. On the contrary, Ukraine has been pushed back from Klysheevka and has given up on the Bakhmut offensive, and neither side has advanced in Zaporozhe.
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  2466. well well well, imagine that, when sanctions are relaxed and we negotiate with Russia, a deal can be secured and can work!
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  2467.  @timeames2509  was NATO's 78 days straight bombing Serbia cowardly?
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  2468. Turkey gave up on the failed EU a long time ago.
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  2469.  @protagonist9716  EU is still buying Russian oil. Remember, as long as EU refined oil products have one drop of NON Russian oil, such blended oil can be imported. Russian energy revenues have risen beautifully. It's the West that is suffering.
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  2470.  @NM-qt3oi  most landlords can't rent out property for vast sums as a holiday let, because most places are not holiday places. who the hell is going to want an airbnb in Stoke for a month? in places like Cornwall, the demand for holiday accommodation is always going to price the poor out of the market, so the poor need to be realistic and look for accommodation in Crewe or Derby, not Newquay! unless you want a communist system of government, individuals will choose freely what they want to do with their property, and renting it out to the poor is not a very attractive option.
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  2471.  @melvipais  and what happens when what is stored is used up?
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  2472.  @bennathan7353  well said, exactly the same here in the Pyrenees. with the technology available and with dogs on a scent, in fair conditions a missing person is found within hours. you couldn't avoid detection even if you tried. Guardia Civil either incompetent, or corrupt, or both.
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  2473. other way round, both India and Brazil told Zelensky to get to the negotiating table. it was a chance for the BRICS countries to lecture Zelensky, a position he is not used to.
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  2474.  @wokeaf1337  but Russians are much tougher, they don't wring their hands and cry at being misgendered or canceled
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  2475.  @ThePierre58  No one is questioning the nature of UK's democracy. Some of us are only questioning the advice, or lack thereof, that was given by the likes of Truss to the dim-witted of this world thinking a trip to Ukraine was a really good idea. I am not a Russian troll. I have lived and worked in Ukraine and still have Ukrainian students online. Are you a Ukrainian troll?
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  2476. "easy to cut off Russian supplies there"...ok Nick, so easy that after 7 months it hasn't been achieved. that easy, right?
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  2477. of the 12 EU sanctions packages so far announced by the EU against Russia, which one really hurt Russia would you say? regarding more Western military support for Ukraine....which one is it, would you say? NATO doesn't want to give any more, or can't give any more? why the delay?
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  2478. Waiting for DW to update us on the over representation of immigrants in the French prison population....that report never seems to come from DW.
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  2479. "I can't recollect the answer to that question" made it sound like he had been coached what to say, but whatever the prepared response was had slipped his mind! "was my plan to say "yes" or "no"?...I just can't remember" Weird answer for someone who claims to be telling the truth!
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  2480. "devastating for the family the search has been called off" sure is! Jay's family and "friends" have done everything they can to keep the search in that wilderness, where Jay never went! Spanish press saying the search has switched to the main city, Santa Cruz. Should have been looking there 2 weeks ago.
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  2481.  @tobytaylor2154  Spanish taxpayers
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  2482.  @John-wick00  I can think of a few of my family members I would LOVE to send to wander around this corner of Tenerife in the middle of summer
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  2483. something tells me there is more to this story that DW is refusing to cover
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  2484. Vive Trump et la fin de financer la guerre
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  2485. let's hope Zelinsky has a good lawyer
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  2486. right, so there is a news blackout covering all the settlements Ukraine has recaptured because Kiev doesn't want Ukraine to lose morale!
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  2487. those of you who applauded lockdowns, mass immigration, sanctions on Russia, green energy policies, unlimited aid to Ukraine, government regulations on housing, this is what you richly deserve. enjoy every minute of it.
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  2488. keep in mind, every Russian missile aimed at a Ukrainian military target that is intercepted by NATO supplied defense systems HAS to fall somewhere....so it's NATO weapons that are diverting missiles into civilian areas. NATO doing a great job of massacring Ukrainian civilians. NATO to appear in the war crimes court?
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  2489. "Kremlin spin is presenting this as a triumph for the president" BBC spin is presenting this as something other than a triumph for the president.
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  2490.  @chrisworthman3191  you bet! the sooner Scotland goes, the better!
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  2491. Birbalsingh suddenly realizing why mass Muslim immigration is a really bad idea.
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  2492. "our form of Socialism hasn't worked"....as opposed to the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan models that have been such wonderful success stories?
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  2493.  @ZoragRingael  Not when they are used as bases for the military, for weapons, for ammo etc, no.
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  2494. shows you how deeply attached the Donbass folk are to Donbass, and how they remain there in the hope of being liberated by the Russians they support. Better to live in a basement to be liberated by Russia than "evacuated" to Ukronazia to live as second class citizen. Totally understandable why the ethnic Russians wait patiently for their beloved DPR to rescue them.
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  2495.  @moderndemon84  oh, but it does! when government ministers decide "funds for Ukraine, or funds for the rail system" the people get upset when they see multiple deaths at home is the result! Don't be fooled by the BBC. there is a lot of anger about Greek money being sent abroad.
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  2496.  @HamidKhalid369  not for Nahel. the bullet in his thorax dominated him. al ham du lilah
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  2497.  @napolean_ragland  tell you what, you sort out the basic facts of your case, learn a little basic geography, and then we can debate when you are beyond primary school level, ok?
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  2498. curious to see these two clowns have finally dropped their absurd "this will all lead to more and more escalation" bs. neither of them has a clue how politics in the Middle East works.
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  2499.  @Longcloud  you bet, compared to these fools. want to take me up on any matter of substance regarding what is happening in the Middle East?
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  2500. laughable assumptions made by someone who knows nothing about what is happening on the ground. . how does he think the morale is of the 18 yr olds from Lvov who just saw their comrades' limbs blown off? the morale of Ukrainian reservists told to go street fighting with the bloody Chechens? LPR and DPR are fighting for their homeland! And their morale is pretty damn high! Ukraine's army is gutted, and no weapons imported can change that. Russia has won.
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  2501. hysterical that 4 abandoned villages and a pig farm is considered such a grand victory after 15% of Ukraine's western tanks and IFV's are destroyed, thousands of ukronazi troops massacred and Ukraine nowhere near even the first line of Russian fortifications after 10 days. Russia clearly winning. NATO in panic that things have gone so badly. where is Zaluzhny? where is Budanov?
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  2502. finally, some reporting showing the destruction on the Russian side of the front, though DW still can't bring itself to identify the UKRAINIAN rocket fire as that responsible for such devastation.
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  2503. will do so once I hear Zelensky has sold his mansion in Miami and his villa in Tuscany to help fund his own army. deal?
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  2504. totally behind the request for more donations. it's a good grift and it's fascinating to see how many people are happy to donate money to a scam.
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  2505.  @tabsntoot  I think most voters have figured out the Tories are no longer Tories, so Starmer will be the next PM by default.
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  2506.  @NigelShepherd-z7k  seems like you assume the Guardia Civil and Police are actually investigating something! wow!
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  2507. The Tenerife Mafia got Jay's cash and drugs, and cut out the middle man of the justice system by laying him to rest 6 feet under.
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  2508. looks like Weather Change at work
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  2509. More lies from Martin. Russia has pressed forward quite impressively towards Krasny Lyman and Kremina. This front may well collapse in the next month. Vugledar has not been a success for Russia, but it's not over yet, and Russia may well not need to capture Vugledar to take control of the railway they want to hold.
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  2510. tenth EU sanctions package = the first nine all failed
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  2511.  @soul8938  exactly, the world order depends on your opinion, and no one else's. one would have to question the intellect of someone whose world order depends on his/her own opinion. who defines "genocide"? were the ukronazis committing genocide in their attacks on ethnic Russians in Donbass for 8 years? some say yes, others say no. so, this is where your philosophy crumbles. as a planet, no, we are not "smart enough to differentiate the situation" in places like Kosovo or Donbass. as a collective, we have VERY different perspectives and interpretations of the rights and wrongs of war in any one place. it is an absurdly naive idea that "surely we have the intelligence to differentiate right and wrong". no, we don't, and never will. get real and leave behind your Utopian fantasies.
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  2512.  @Craig121000  what contribution would disabled people be prepared to make? you don't just get a "pay" raise by demanding one!
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  2513.  @sanepillow59  simple question for you. do immigrants coming to Luxemburg from places like Hungary increase, or decrease, the demand for housing?
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  2514. poor Mike Martin, now has to resort to lying to make his propaganda sound believable. Mike, as you know, there are 3 lines forming the Surovikin defences. Ukraine has not penetrated any of them. the first line you are referring to is in the Crumple Zone or Security Zone, and that is nothing more than Russian trenches and minefields. It's nothing compared to the Surovikin Line. No Ukrainian heavy vehicles have crossed the first Surovikin line, only small armed groups of infantry who are getting massacred outside Verbove. it's a total disaster, hence no victory speech this time from Zelensky in Washington.
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  2515. pro negotiations doesn't mean pro Russia. it's as simple as that.
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  2516. Putin wants a half time pause, not to end the match, nothing wrong with that. Ukraine gave up its nukes but then gave up its sovereignty with the 2014 coup, so the sovereignty for nukes deal was annulled.
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  2517. DW trying to blame Russia for the fact that the Moldovan government CHOSE to sanction Russia, in an attempt to embrace EU values, and now has super expensive energy costs that the poor and middle class of Moldova can't afford. Blame the EU. not Russia.
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  2518. Debbie Duncan is going through the same trauma that Karen Matthews went through
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  2519. for no reason? look at the causes of this war again, you will see plenty of good reasons
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  2520. what could go wrong, believing the West has Africa's interests at heart?
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  2521.  @xoigel8106  "disappearing" is quite different from "being removed by force" Did the Nazis impose Aryan supremacy on Germany by pragmatic force?
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  2522. "coming to look for a better life" better for whom? for the native Europeans?
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  2523. Ukraine must respect the choice of Crimeans and the Donbass Russians to be Russian nationals.
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  2524.  @Ryanjoned163  but remember, the Southport suspect is a Cardiff man, you don't think there is a pattern here?
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  2525.  @gd3369  or we all fight free speech with more free speech and start talking about an enforced "back to Africa" policy to avoid problems with BLM.
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  2526.  @ohdearism  why would you assume I don't know Russian?
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  2527. the invasion of Ukraine? what the hell did that do to fuel prices? Western sanctions imposed on Russia did all the damage, honey.
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  2528. curious how she focuses on hate messages of the Irish "far right" but says nothing of the hate messages of the Muslim "far right", the Quranic call for jihad and death to the infidel. Well, looks like the Dublin jihadi will survive, so no heaven and 72 virgins for him this time, though no doubt he will try again.
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  2529. oh wait, did he say the reason there are no grain shipments is because of Ukraine's mines along the coast and its distrust of Russian promises? So, a Russian blockade is now NOT the problem! Big shift in narrative, DW. Glad to see the truth gradually seeping into your reporting. And smaller shipments of grain coming out of the smaller Ukrainian Danube port...so NO Russian blockade problems there! Finally, we can ditch the Russian blockade lie.
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  2530. all of you who thought it was a really good idea for perfectly healthy people to be paid to stay at home and not work, all of you who think it is a brilliant idea to send billions to Ukraine's futile war effort, all of you who cheered the sanctions imposed on the globe's biggest energy exporter, these are the results of what you wanted, so quit whining, cough up, and learn some common sense.
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  2531.  @Breznak  Just remind me, who shelled the Donbass for 8 years and massacred ethnic Russian children now buried in the Alley of Angels?
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  2532. Had the West relaxed sanctions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports months ago, none of this would have been an issue. Blaming Russia with lies about a blockade caused so much hurt. Yet again, the West ruined everything for so long.
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  2533.  @Mr7ich7  every country in the West should treat its large communities of Russian speakers the way it treats its other large minority communities, like the Catalans in Spain, the Walloons in Belgium, the French speakers in Switzerland. Russian speaking Latvians are Latvian. They are not Russians. Just as French speaking Canadians are Canadians. They are not French.
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  2534. Putin would be speaking to them and thanking them for their support!
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  2535. Integration is not needed. Respect for the traditions and laws of the host country suffice.
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  2536. Getting excited about TALK of a counter offensive shows how victorious Russia has been and just how defeated Ukraine is. Ukraine's last successful counter offensive in this war was in 2014! When we see Ukrainians at the gates of Kherson we can take it seriously, but the Russians will be MORE than willing to "retreat" somewhat and thence create a pocket to massacre those cannon fodder advancing troops.
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  2537.  @darbas57  if Brussels allows Ukrainian agricultural products into the EU while Ukraine does not adhere to EU food production rules, then it would only be fair to scrap EU food production rules on EU farmers. Level the playing field.
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  2538. "what I heard in there was alarming" = Russia is absolutely crushing Ukraine on the battlefield and there is nothing we can do about it. only a fool thinks it is a really good idea to take Russia on in a ground war. Ask Napoleon and Hitler.
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  2539. weak answer. Neither JD nor Trump has the guts to say what needs to be done to end the Ukraine conflict. Trump needs to tell Zelensky to negotiate a peace deal with Putin and make it quick, because no more US funding will be on it's way. just a shame JD won't say that.
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  2540. on the contrary. it is pretty clear that in Samarkand, Putin got the green light from India and China to go ahead with the refernda idea.
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  2541. just hilarious that this "expert" believes every Ukrainian claim made. i guess he still believes Ghost of Kiev is real and that Snake Island is a strategic win for Ukraine.
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  2542. as to the all important question, which side has lost more troops in the Bakhmut conflict? never an answer. just insisting that Russia has lost thousands and thousands. right, so, compared to Ukraine, who came out ahead? crickets.
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  2543.  @saba1030  wasn't like that when Berlin was a city of white Germans.
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  2544. put the water supply to Crimea in jeopardy
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  2545. a real ally would be pushing Zelensky to talk peace, not to continue seeing hundreds of young cannon fodder troops massacred every day.
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  2546. so, between 8.15 a.m. and 8.50 a.m. Jay is both joking around and laughing with one friend that he is taking a short cut on his wandering around the wilderness, but with another friend anxious that he is lost, thirsty, and no phone charge. things turned bad very very quickly.
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  2547.  @kevinmcfalls945  so what was the death toll on the Ukrainian side? Was Kherson a strategic fallback to prepared positions for the Russians?
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  2548. Georgia going down the EU path of having less transparency in NGO's in the country.
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  2549. you can be as adaptive as you like, when you are recruiting 16 yr olds and giving them just a month of training, you are going to lose. Slava Rossiyi
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  2550. @@fredgarvin6097 it seems that way to me. it looks like all parties want to talk about resolving the migrant problem but do nothing to resolve the migrant problem.
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  2551. ok, so let's assume Germany makes it through this winter, then how does it build up its reserves for next winter? i guess by printing loads more funny money to keep paying USA and Qatar to send hyper expensive LNG and yeah, if necessary, outbid Bangladesh so those poor suckers in Asia end up with no fuel. sounds like a plan.
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  2552.  @pechudin9086  one of the great unknowns in all this is accurate numbers on the kill rate etc. My gut feeling is that Ukraine has had staggering losses, but not Russia.
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  2553. just like the West already did with the Minsk Agreements.
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  2554.  @not.likely  was going to ask you the same thing! you sure Ukraine will succeed in destroying the Kerch Bridge? why so sure? in 16 months it has tried twice and failed twice.
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  2555.  @17losttrout  spot on. we have brought this upon ourselves, it is richly deserved.
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  2556. Clearly many in the West are absolutely praying some obstacle will impede this grain shipment agreement from working. After all, if relaxing sanctions and trusting Russia leads to help in relieving starving Africans, that would be disastrous for the Western narrative! I mean, whatever next? Negotiating a ceasefire and peace agreement for Ukraine? Unthinkable. Better to keep fighting and dying, the West would say.
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  2557.  @brettpilkington9539  the way they refer to him makes it sound like he is 5 years old. why call him "Jay" and not just "Slater"?
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  2558. "wrongfully detained"....Griner plead guilty! Like Zelensky, Griner learning the hard way not to mess with Russia
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  2559. yet another nail in the coffin of Britain as a place to live. anyone who can, should get out, and of the 200 or so countries in the world, I would guess 100 or so are much more civilized, safer and more pleasant places overall
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  2560.  @hellzz5525  right, so that Jay is buried or dumped in the sea on the other side of the island from where the phone was tossed into the deep.
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  2561. Had Germany done what it signed up to do, implement the Minsk Agreements, we wouldn't be in this mess.
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  2562.  @amacke4736  on the contrary. many leaders on your ukronazi side have reverted to calling Russia a "superpower" again now that they have seen how it withstands sanctions, is popular and well supported worldwide, and has managed to demilitariza all of NATO.
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  2563.  @dwightd.eisenhower2031  every Leopard 2 i see go up in flames helps me cope just wonderfully, Danke, Adolf.
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  2564. We already have one. The British embassy in Paris issues visas etc. So, let's reverse the policy. Insist that ONLY by applying for asylum OUTSIDE the UK can asylum seekers be admitted to the UK. Then, anyone who attempting to enter the UK with no documentation showing asylum has been granted is breaking the law and can be deported/fined/jailed whatever. At the moment it is legal to enter the UK and claim asylum on arrival, hence no one is ever arrested in Dover.
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  2565.  @bigbinji6145  not sure that one would work. we want them to stop coming, not figure out ways to pay their hotel bills.
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  2566. The biggest wedge being driven through Latvian society is done so not by Russia, but by nationalists in the Latvian government. When both Russian and Latvian are treated as equal languages, and Russian culture allowed free expression, then Latvia will be a more united and happier place.
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  2567. Best leader in the world. Finally, a leader who is refusing to allow the deluded science deniers known as "trans" to pretend they are the opposite sex.
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  2568.  @LancesArmorStriking  indeed, rules aren't overly enforced, as you said. there are swarms of Kazaks and Uzbeks working in Russia illegally but no one really checks.
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  2569. but that's what happens when a company is bankrupt, which is pretty much where the US government is right now.
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  2570. that's right, unless you mention Ukraine and your support for Ukraine, you are subhuman! She should have said 30% of Germans want the West to push Ukraine to negotiate peace to actually give a true picture of feelings in Germany.
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  2571.  @ad_astra468  do you think all those buried in the Angel's Alley were military targets of the Azovs? Really
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  2572. no headway will be made until costs/spending is slashed. cheap energy from Russia was foolishly kissed bye bye, so we are now stuck with extremely expensive energy costs. the national debt has to be slashed and government spending across the board reduced. only then can taxes come down. not possible to spend our way out of this mess.
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  2573. notice how cold and robotic this goon is when he says, automaton style, old and infirm Ukrainians will die. gone are the days when the West was talking about bringing Russia to its knees. Now the talk is about how many "old and infirm" will freeze to death in Ukraine.
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  2574. "there's terrible morale"....yep, we've heard this wishful thinking since March. what would be the morale right now of Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, almost surrounded and knowing a bunch of convicts with low morale just destroyed Ukrainian battalions in Soledar, Jeremy?
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  2575. obsessed right up until the number of refugees climbs to 10 million, to the last Ukrainian soldier is dead, to the moment Zelensky flies to his mansion in Miami. keep up with the obsession!
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  2576.  @borisxbg  the money will go to Putin to purchase energy at a great price, which the Hungarian people will benefit from, as opposed to the poor citizens of other EU countries who have to decide whether they eat, or heat, this winter.
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  2577. @larryhuston8433 you must be ready to kick Biden out then!
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  2578.  @qrsx66  Because they (if you are referring to Palestinian Arabs) don't have any land, and never did. The UN decided that Palestine would be divided into a Jewish state and an Arab state. You can't rewrite history. Jordan is the Arab state, occupying 80% of the Palestinian Mandate. So, the choice for Palestinian Arabs is Israel or Jordan. Palestinian Arabs are the only people on the planet who have chosen to be permanent refugees rather than settle in the area offered to them. Jews, on the other hand, have migrated from all corners of the planet to re-settle in the area offered to them. If you can't see the difference, I can't help you.
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  2579. absolutely not
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  2580. The Russian air force has performed very well. This dunce knows nothing. In demilitarization campaigns, it is shelling and shooting dead the enemy that counts, that means artillery strikes and house to house fighting. Having your air force get shot down by air defences doesn't help in that aim. What does help is massive attacks on Ukraine's air defences to deplete them, which Russia has done, so now we see much more Russian air power annihilating the Ukronazia offensive.
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  2581. there are still white girls in Camberwell?
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  2582. If only they had spent a little less time praying to God and a little more time checking the contents of their own luggage.
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  2583.  @MichaelPetek  your ancestry would be no predicter of how you process information
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  2584.  @markusdee6136  what? so to add insult to injury, Ukraine gets the cast-offs? the junk? just pathetic.
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  2585. Poroshenko is right. you can't organize a referendum over 48 hours. That's why Russia has been working for the last 6 months to organize these referenda
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  2586. no matter what measures are put in place to hide the problem, the problem remains unresolved. Germany uses more energy than is now being imported. therefore just a matter of time before it runs out and the lights go out. Merry Freezing Dark Christmas, Germany...you should have listened to Trump when he warned you!
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  2587. ditto those fighting for Russia and her allies
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  2588. just wondering when this ruling party will officially change its name from "Conservative" to "Socialist".
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  2589.  @joellee6142  the foe does have to be in the meeting if the topic in hand is achieving "peace". a group of people all on the same side cannot discuss peace, only their hopes for peace. you are clearly not bright.
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  2590.  @wom_Bat  which of these quotes do you disagree with and why?
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  2591.  @wom_Bat  pick one. let's debate. you might see some sense if you actually consider the reality and the context of these quotes.
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  2592.  @wom_Bat  The very idea of Donbass is offensive that statement fill you with disgust and loathing too?
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  2593. it is in Japan, and Korea, maybe not in Haiti
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  2594. funny how laws on covid restrictions only took a day or two to be passed, but laws on Border Force actually forcing boats back into French waters can never be passed. Both Braverman and Sunak are useless.
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  2595. Ben Wallace doing what Mario Draghi and Mark Rutte did.....getting out of politics before the imminent Russian victory kicks off all the finger pointing in NATO.
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  2596.  @fenrifegads5571  so true. draconian covid laws were passed in a matter of hours! all that is lacking is the will for Parliament to vote on new asylum laws.
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  2597. there is no climate crisis. hottest temperature recorded in Greece, 48C in 1977. Greece today is cool compared to that. the crisis is in dumb people wanting to build homes too close to forest areas. it's that simple.
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  2598. "it has to stop" then urge Zelensky to get on the phone to Putin
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  2599.  @Yocambio  yep, the only two choices, Brighton or Spain.
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  2600.  @zivaradlovacki2666  USA took a month and a half to take full control of Fallujah. That's the nature of urban combat. Russia's territorial gains in comparison are impressive.
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  2601.  @luminousfractal420  there was no "NATO agreement to keep Ukraine as a buffer zone". if there were, looks like NATO broke such an agreement by inviting Ukraine to join NATO!
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  2602.  @amandabotha1431  Ukraine started the war, in 2014, when it attacked the newly declared independent DPR and LPR. Learn some facts.
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  2603. Germany, you could always give Norstream 2 the go ahead. But no, that would help German people.
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  2604. The problem is, UK law states that asylum can only be claimed within the UK, so whether the asylum seekers arrive from France or from N Korea, the law entitles them to claim asylum on arrival at Dover Docks, It's all legal. The law makes no sense, but that is why the migrants don't get arrested. The law needs to change so that asylum can only be claimed, and granted, from outside the UK.
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  2605. instead of setting up a counselling service, how about setting up a swift system to kick these parasitic s***s out of Europe?
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  2606. the famous Mariupol "evacuation"!:)
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  2607.  @Arch497  the question was "at what cost?" i gave a sarcastic answer referring to the much higher cost of a Zelensky property, but it's hard for you Zelensky bots to detect sarcasm, I know. Keep trying!
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  2608. exactly. Jay is no longer there. he made it down the path to Masca Beach, unobserved, though the woman at the bus stop panicked him somewhat, but he fobbed her off with some cockamamy question about "when is the next bus?" and the boat was there waiting for him to get him off the island. My guess, he's in Morocco and finally away from the drug gang who were after him. plenty of water, lying low in Marrakesh waiting for the GoFundMe to peak.
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  2609. both statements are true. Wagners have control of Soledar. they have surrounded it. also true Ukraine is still fighting for Soledar, but they are trapped. so the mercenaries and convicts have defeated Ukraines NATO trained and armed battalions. worrying for NATO, but no surprise to the Taliban who saw NATO incompetence in Kabul in 2021.
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  2610. The UN is charged with not taking sides, but to seek a peaceful solution to conflicts. In this regard, Lavrov is right. The UN has done NOTHING to promote peace in the Ukraine conflict. Finally, the UN is called out for being a toady to the West. Well said, Lavrov.
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  2611. yet another wet Tory that is too cowardly to admit that the words Lee used were spot on and 100% correct.
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  2612. perfect example of how sanctions hurt innocent people but do nothing to change behavior of the sanctioned nation
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  2613.  @macmcleod1188  what have they lost that is irreplaceable?
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  2614.  @heathermccall8015  No one has promised they would NOT put nukes in Ukraine! But we do know Zelensky has requested that right! Far too great a risk for Russia. Let's see what would happen if Russia started negotiations with Cuba on revisiting rights to arm Cuba with nukes. Am sure USA would recognize Cuba's sovereignty and give the nukes in Havana a thumbs up! Not!
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  2615.  @alanbellas513  Ukraine was in the process of joining NATO and NATO issued no guarantees that Ukraine would remain non nuclear in perpetuity. Grounds for Russia, as per the Budapest Memo, to request a security conference, which was rejected by the West. Big mistake. Hence the mess we have now.
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  2616.  @alanbellas513  by stating that Ukraine once belonged to Russia I am indeed arguing for Putin's right to claim Ukraine. I argue for the right of any world leader to claim anything. Doesn't mean I would like such a claim put into destructive action. so let's define what "pulling a Hitler" means. Delineation needed. Was USA invasion of Iraq "pulling a Hitler"? why, or why not? it is obvious that Putin DOES accept the sovereignty of Ukraine! Putin has been in power for decades, and accepted Ukraine's sovereignty right up to the 2014 coup. And Putin STILL accepts Ukraine's sovereignty! Putin doesn't want anything to do with the likes of Transcarpathia or Vinnitsya or Lvov. Those Bandera strongholds will never accept being Russian. But Putin does challenge, rightfully so, the Ukronazi sovereignty over ethnic Russians in Donbass and Crimea. and you should too. I have no problem with US bases all over the world. My problem is with whining snivelling hypocrites who wring their hands about Russian aggression and Russian invasions when the West does exactly the same thing repeatedly. It's your hypocrisy that is wrong, not the US bases.
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  2617.  @jjosephm7539  depends who you are.
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  2618. oh, but remember France 24 told us Ukraine was shooting down more and more drones, things getting better, and some Patriots from USA will reverse all this. yeah, right.
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  2619.  @seanpittaway5341  and talking of "cowards' war", doesn't get more cowardly than NATO! No guts to actually fight, only to give money and weapons to the poor country getting destroyed! Yellow-bellied NATO, just like how they fled in panic from Kabul last year, butts kicked by the Taliban
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  2620.  @UNNYANEMPEROR38  no one is arguing that point. the point is that Russian men have the freedom to leave Russia if they fear conscription, as evidenced by the large number of Russian men who have fled to Turkey, Georgia, Kazakstan etc. Not one of them has been refused exit. Ukraine, on the other hand, has refused all fighting age men, and now women, from leaving the country. Ukraine has lost all freedom of movement. So don't try telling me Ukraine is the more free and democratic of the two. It's nonsense, and the West has been duped into thinking Ukraine is a democracy.
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  2621.  @Robert-xy4xi  when the Azov Nazi battalion started shelling the ethnic Russians of the Donbass in 2014, safe to say it was Ukraine that started all this, not Russia.
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  2622.  @monumentaltravel3745  Apartheid was during the Soviet era. Soviet writers had no freedom to comment on unauthorized subjects.
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  2623.  @themadmoderator8465  keep focused on the message, not the messenger, and learn how to spell "Tory", please.
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  2624. it was only a surprise to those who can't figure out what is happening in the Ukraine/Russia conflict.
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  2625. "energy, it's a world crisis, isn't it?" No, not in Russia, nor anywhere that trades with Russia
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  2626. I blame Brexit
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  2627. just hilarious how foreign tourists are blamed for everything. fine, go ahead and ban AirBnB, let the tourist revenue go to other places, you'll still have the same problem of illegal squatter camps and rampant inflation. Deregulating the bureaucratic rental market would help, but no one wants market forces to solve the issue.
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  2628. bet Ukraine is starting to wish they had implemented the Minsk Agreements
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  2629.  @kirkpatrick7475  Ukraine has never succeeded in any street by street battle! Again, here is the list! Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Sieverodonetsk, Mariupol, Soledar, Bakhmut plus 101 villages and other settlements. Ukraine/NATO never wins, and that is what is causing panic among the NATO leaders.
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  2630.  @kirkpatrick7475  Russia has failed in every area? Ukraine or Russia has half the country as refugees or displaced? Ukraine or Russia is bankrupt and dependent on the West to fund government? Ukraine or Russia has to beg every day for help just to survive? Ukraine or Russia has lost 20% of its territory to the other? Ukraine or Russia is having to recruit pensioners and teenagers? Ukraine or Russia has half its power grid destroyed every 3 weeks or so?Your definition of "winning" is very different from mine.
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  2631. I Know! It's on a par with the "Ghost of Kiev" bullshit that the ...oh wait, that was Ukraine that made that up.
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  2632.  @maxdgr  "genious" or "genius", genius? now, who ever mentioned sinking anything?
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  2633.  @rebekahthesaint6460  you have no idea what Jesus ever said, nor even if he existed, get real.
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  2634.  @FatBoy-f9p  tell me two things that were great benefits of empire, just two. let's see how you weigh up things.
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  2635. there is no Russian offensive, yet. Russia is advancing incrementally in the East because Ukraine is short on ammo, weapons and men.
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  2636. which means Ukraine needs to surrender
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  2637. wild guess....yet another crazed Buddhist monk who yelled "Buddha Akhbar" as he opened fire.
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  2638. Mike Martin is a total liar and deluded propagandist. There are NO reports of Ukrainian forces getting through ANY Russian fortified defence line, simply because no Ukrainians have even reached the first line of defence. At the moment, the Ukrainians have barely made a dent in Russia's FORWARD POSITIONS, and the 4 villages and a pig farm captured comes at the cost of 15% of their western tanks destroyed. The offensive is a failure, but Mike Martin is paid to say the opposite. MSM for you.
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  2639. bending over backwards but on the wrong track. like a car spinning its wheels and going nowhere
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  2640.  @mikeh2613  what, experts who have been searching for 11 days and found nothing? experts who have no evidence that Jay even entered that wilderness? experts who failed to arrest the 2 strangers on any charge whatsoever, but let them leave the country? those experts?
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  2641.  @mikeh2613  as I said, it's too late. the 2 key witnesses should have been detained. they weren't. can't undo that horrendous error. all i can do now is correct the wayward thinking of fools that can't think straight. besides, i don't like Tenerife much.
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  2642. "the attempt to drive everyone out of Gaza has been unsuccessful" this is the level of dumb, cretinous thinking between these two. the assumption than an Israeli aim was to "drive everyone out of Gaza"...yeah, where to? Egypt? through the closed border? into the sea? hopeless analysis from these two goons.
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  2643. Suddenly BBC interested in this desperate group of convicts and mercenaries that are routing Ukraine's finest battalions, NATO trained and NATO armed. Not looking good for NATO. Maybe Ghost of Kiev will win the day?
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  2644.  @AlanFagan-y5l  I think the point about the processing centre in France is being missed in the debate. If the law is not changed, a processing centre in France would be shunned by the migrants and they would continue to arrive in small boats. Before any processing centre is opened, the law needs to change so that asylum can ONLY be claimed from OUTSIDE the UK, and therefore anyone entering UK waters with no documentation will be turned back immediately. In fact, no processing centre is needed. The application process could be started via any British embassy.
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  2645.  @christinerussell113  I expect UK and Europe to accommodate no more migrants at all. It needs to end. I'm merely pointing out which laws need to be changed because, as things stand, arriving at Dover and claiming asylum is legal. That's why none of them are arrested.
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  2646. Russia did not exist in 1968. Do you mean USSR?
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  2647. there is no tactical pause. the Wagners are delighted to have a cauldron from which the Ukronazis can barely enter or leave, so like shooting fish in a barrel, just sit, wait, kill. Mr Zelensky, can you please keep sending battalions into the cauldron? Slava Rossiyi
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  2648.  @sergeyb8  look at the map and see the land bridge from Kherson oblast to mother Russia. see the advances? 250,000 dead ukronazi cannon fodder...a big advance towards demilitarization of Ukraine. learn the truth.
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  2649.  @sergeyb8  oh, I see, so the point of the exercise is to choose a date that would exclude all Russian gains since the beginning of the conflict! Got it. Does the game also mean "advance" is strictly limited to territory, and the numbers of killed and crippled ukronazis don't count as part of Russia's advance to demilitarization? reminder: Ukraine's definition of "winning" is capturing Crimea and Donbass in their entireties. Russia's definition of winning is liberating just the Donbass and securing Crimea. Which side is closer to winning?
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  2650. Outstanding speech. I was so delighted when tiny homogenous Croatia defeated oh-so diverse England in the 2018 World Cup. We didn't hear too many cries of "diversity is our strength" on that night.
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  2651. it's a pathetic response to the latest batch of 20,000 Ukrainian cannon fodder dead and buried after experiencing the Russian meatgrinder. Get real.
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  2652. the only reason to build more houses would be to make a profit. government regulations and restrictive laws discourage landlords from investing in property, so even with zero immigrants, you won't see new housing developments, apart from those for millionaires. makes sense.
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  2653.  @adrianm.2043  but if sanctions in banking remain, food exports payments can't be made. so back to square one, no grain shipments. This was why the African Union took the side of Russia and told the West, withdraw ALL sanctions (including banking) connected with food exports, and the grain can flow, which, when the West totally capitulated on the banking sanction, led to grain moving. Now Russia will work the system to make sure all kinds of payments are made under a food export account. The sanctions are falling apart and rightfully so. the best thing the West can do if it wants to help Africa is to repeal sanctions. it would also be the best thing for Europe. The sanctions have failed miserably, as they have against Cuba, Iran and Venezuela. Time for the West to learn something.
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  2654.  @andyb6866  how would you define "genuine" opposition? people like Navalny, whose highest poll numbers were, what, 5%? what makes the Communist and Nationalist candidates fake, rather than "genuine"?
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  2655. How can the counter offensive "stall" when it never even got going? I mean, taking the village of Robotyne is now the definition of a counter offensive in full motion? Really? No...this thing never stalled because it never actually happened. DW as deluded as always.
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  2656. When you get a chance, look up exactly what it was about the Socialist Mussolini that she admired!
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  2657.  @UnfollowYourDreams  read a biography of Mussolini and absorb the chapters of his time as an ardent Socialist. Maybe do YOUR homework!
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  2658.  @mathildaisidore2191  when you hear the truth, it hurts, right? Western media keeping a lot of VERY important facts from you.
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  2659. Frank is having to pretend the failed offensive is just a slow offensive. conspicuous by its absence, any mention of the Russian offensive in the Lyman area and the advance on Kupiansk.
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  2660.  @gillianlaing1073  "11 days without water" is your explanation for knowing that Jay stole a Rolex?
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  2661.  @gillianlaing1073  what? so, Jay stole a Rolex, and the 2 men said "right, now that you've stolen a Rolex from us, you have to take the bus back"? again, what makes you think Jay stole a Rolex?
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  2662. Yes, in your scenario, if 6 million Brits had fled as refugees, if GB was totally dependent on others for weapons and economic survival, yes, if thousands of GB forces had been massacred in futile attempts to hold back a superior enemy, yes, we would sit down and negotiate, and more than that, we would try to establish the reason for the invasion (things not done yet in the case of Ukraine). In the Falklands, superior force pushed the Argentinians out quickly and decisively. Opposite is true in Ukraine.
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  2663.  @kieran5191  quite possibly
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  2664. it is of no relevance whether the initial phase of an offensive is the hardest or not. The only relevance is if it succeeds. this one failed.
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  2665.  @mochtegerndane7097  given the cost of living in the West since the sanctions on Russia backfired, and given the strength of the ruble, I'll take it.
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  2666. Freedom of speech in Russia is to be envied compared to the shackles the leaders have placed on the speech of British citizens.
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  2667. Catalonia already voted for secession and Spain stamped out the independence push. Presumably, then, all the Catalans fully support the Donbass vote to break free from Ukrainian rule.
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  2668. welcome to the consequences of Merkel's "we can manage this"
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  2669.  @tomasnozka1  When you say "Glory to Ukraine", do you include the ethnic Russians in Ukraine, including those in Crimea, that favor separation from Kiev?
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  2670. This is what happens when you impose sanctions on Russia. Totally deserved. Next time, talk with Putin instead of fighting with him.
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  2671. Britanistan is a sinking ship and can't be saved, though all credit to those trying. Eastern Europe still values its traditions and identity, and South America is still relatively free of mass wokery and Islam
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  2672. yet again, we see the results of a useless government, and compliant "opposition", having printed loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay at home and not work. Pay disputes will all be linked to the rampant inflation the government and "opposition" has wrought upon us.
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  2673. Russia waiting to attack from Siversk and create its own cauldron. Lyman is only cut off if Ukraine can hold on to the territory to the south.
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  2674.  @rossty777  no one has any idea what the loss ratios are. it makes no sense for Russia to invade the whole of Ukraine, no matter the loss ratio, given the 5 objectives listed by Putin.
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  2675. you mean stop criticising the people who lied to us, who deemed Qassim and Rocky as "of no relevance", who thought it a brilliant idea to do the forensic search of the airbnb on Day 16, who realized the Dutch professionals were about to search and actually find the body? boy, supporting the Keystone Cops is a weird way to analyze all this. if the terrain is so difficult, why would you refuse help from those trained to search such terrain? makes no sense. Guardia Civil messed up massively. about time people stopped praising them.
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  2676. Slava Donbasu, freedom from Ukrainian oppression.
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  2677. supporters of Russia love any foolish nonsense broadcast in the West! It's hilarious!
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  2678.  @martiedoherty5765  so suddenly you have a device that measures Putin's capacity to care for Russian life?
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  2679. that's just hilarious, the big yellow arrow pointing towards Tokmak. it's bull. the Ukronazis are stalled, they are nowhere near Tokmak and now we are in WEEK EIGHT, the clock is clicking to the end of the summer fighting season. Russia is winning.
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  2680. "illegal annexation of the peninsula"? The Crimean parliament requested Russian intervention following the ILLEGAL ousting of Yanukovich. As usual, you got it backwards.
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  2681. the worst misinformation is what is spread in the education system and in the media: all cultures are of equal value, mass immigration is a benefit to all, diversity is our strength, Islam is a religion of peace. etc
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  2682.  @sarfaraz.hosseini  Ukraine's air force "still operable" = their 3 surviving planes take off occasionally. so, let's see your numbers. how many Russian fighters were shot down over the last 2 months, and reveal your source for such info. or are you just full of bs? Russian fighters don't fly freely because Russia chooses not to let them fly freely. Demilitarizing a country doesn't work from the air, U.S. style. Demilitarization is killing every enemy by artillery and in street battles. that's why it takes years, but it works (as in Chechnya and Syria). The U.S. style of shock and awe from the air, so that the enemy hides in a cave for 20 years and then emerges victorious, is not the Russian style.
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  2683. The Russian narrative is almost as biased as the DW narrative, where "Ukraine good, Russia bad" predominates. The Russian presenter has a point...Germans were always known for being somewhat stinky anyway, so God knows what health issues will arrive from reduced shower times and cold water only this winter in Germany. Hold your noses as you fly over Berlin!
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  2684.  @andrewmclaughlin2701  nailed it.
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  2685. How much manpower is Ukraine throwing at defending Bakhmut? Which side has the higher death toll?
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  2686. "don't get hysterical about it" so, when do we get hysterical about it? when 20 kids are knifed to death, when 100 kids are knifed to death?
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  2687. why not 99 cents?
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  2688.  @ethanarmstrong1974  and yours does not exist
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  2689.  @TheNilla2020  would that validate or invalidate the message?
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  2690.  @TheNilla2020  fine, the messenger is all important, not the message. deal with the message, not the messenger. it would serve you well.
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  2691.  @badmonkey2222  who, exactly, is "we"?
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  2692.  @SpecialMuppetOperation  On the contrary, Russia has security concerns with every member of NATO, and the whole raison d'etre of NATO, which has become an anti Russia alliance. The only reason to join NATO is to share russophobic paranoia and keep the Western arms industry profitable. NATO should have disbanded when the Warsaw Pact broke up. Huge mistake.
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  2693. Borrell must be perplexed how Russia is now exporting less energy supplies but earning more revenue. All part of Borrell's master economic plan, that no one else can figure out at all.
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  2694.  @shanetonkin2850  whilst wearing a T-shirt with IMPLEMENT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS on it
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  2695. so, we have to wait until the very last words of the report to learn that it was a Ukrainian plane, Ukrainian crew, Ukrainian cargo company. carrying weapons. to......Bangladesh? yes, because in Bangladesh's war with, well, no one, mines and weapons are needed in abundance, now. pull the other one, it has bells on. Russian intel, as always, found their target and executed their plan perfectly.
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  2696.  @btet19  I forget nothing of the kind! I know very well what the law says. I am just pointing out that according to the definition of "refugee" and "asylum seeker", no one coming from France can qualify, according to the definitions. The lunatic law is another matter entirely. Time to ignore the law or write a different one that applies.
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  2697.  @mbeale100  I live in France and I have to tell you, if you arrived in Paris on the Eurostar with no travel document from London, claiming asylum, the French Police Nationale would make sure you were on the next train back to London within the hour.
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  2698. methinks thou doth protest too much. the more you insist Ukrainians are willing to fight, the more I suspect they are fed up of all the fighting.
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  2699.  @robburns2111  where is the proof Russia is responsible? Don't judge Russia by the standards that Ukraine follows regarding innocent civilians (read again the Amnesty International report on Ukraine using human shields)
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  2700.  @serebii666  what makes you think the priority, over the 9 months, was to capture terrain?
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  2701.  @ericdpeerik3928  if we are talking about Poland, people flee Poland from poverty, not fear. People like Denis Nikitin flee Russia because he is on a wanted list, but in Ukraine he is free to form a government-backed Nazi militia.
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  2702. Russia has abided by the agreement, as always. No missiles to be targeted on the port area during the transit of grain shipments. Russia followed the rule. If Ukraine was too dumb to word the agreement better, then wise up and get smart.
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  2703.  @_Twink  How does Russia benefit from destroying its own pipeline?
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  2704. If we didn't know before the war what Zelensky and his henchmen were like, we certainly do now. There are no illusions at all about what low lives we're dealing with and what needs to be done.
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  2705. On the contrary, when the world's sanctioned nations combine forces, the West is in serious trouble. Trying to isolate Russia was a really dumb idea.
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  2706.  @johnnyjohnson2268  it's a tough one to figure out, for sure. everything depends on if the Luton lads turned against Jay while Jay was with them at the airbnb, or if they turned against him when he left. most people assume jay went their willingly. I'm really bothered that Ofelia was the ONLY eye witness to say Jay left the airbnb and was walking along that road.
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  2707.  @AtheistEve  just curious, offering safe refuge but no further involvement, the policy you believe Russia should have abided by, would you say that Hamas should do exactly the same, offer a refuge in Gaza for any Palestinians, but no involvement with Israel beyond that?
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  2708.  @AtheistEve  when you say states should "stay within their own borders" does that mean their rockets, missiles and bombs should too? So, Hamas and Hezbollah should stop attacking Israel, agreed? And Ukraine needs to get out of Kursk, agreed? Also, what happens when there is a border dispute? Who gets to decide whether Crimea is Russian or Ukrainian? Let me guess, delegates from Bahamas and Burkina Faso in a UN back room?
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  2709.  @solomonblack6344  very true. and in fact, Russia is now fighting within Russia, in Kursk.
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  2710.  @a564-c3q  territorial integrity does not include the compelling of a separatist region to remain part of the mother country forever, otherwise International Law would forbid USA from having any right to have ever seceded from Great Britain.
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  2711. Stu is very much a Liberal and on some matters Socialist. His disdain for the unvaxxed during the pandemic was oozing with vitriol.
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  2712.  @BigRedDragonFan  you don't think the audio recording is someone pretending to be Russian troops? You don't think the Pentagon has seen the himars missile remnants and can see it is indeed a himars piece, and that's why the Pentagon won't say who they think did this?
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  2713.  @ma55382uk  yeah, and George Soros and Carlos Slim too.
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  2714.  @kek7320  yep. Nahel no longer a threat to the lives of the law-abiding public. thanks to the police officer for cutting out the middle man.
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  2715. Trump is leading in all the swing states. the polling average is nonsense. it includes numbers from pollsters who consistently under count the Trump vote and have done for the last 8 years. AtlasIntel was the most accurate at the last election, and AtlasIntel has Trump as winning the swing states.
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  2716.  @krissy-jw8kj  AtlasIntel came closest, out of all of them, in 2020, so sorry the facts hurt, but Trump is leading. Harris has given up on AZ and GA, and her internal polling now tells her she is underwater in MI.
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  2717.  @N3gativeR3FLUX  yeah, like get a tattoo, or buy some healthy food
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  2718.  @brianmcintyre14  fine, ignore the stats if that makes you feel better. and keep basing your reality on your perceptions. what could possibly go wrong? bye bye, Brian
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  2719. as a kid, did you also walk in the opposite direction to the where the bus stop is, as indicated by the neighbour?
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  2720. yeah, fingers crossed Meloni will get into power and then unite with Hungary to start blocking the far left ideology pouring out of Brussels these days
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  2721. only a fool thinks Russia can be defeated in its objectives in Ukraine. Idiotic leadership in the West just astounding
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  2722. What? "Ukraine is an independent country" you must be joking! Ukraine is TOTALLY dependent on Western aid.TOTALLY DEPENDENT!
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  2723. "47 degrees is unliveable" nonsense. In Oman, only when it hits 50 do they close schools and workplaces. the Indians and Pakistanis then find a shaded area to play cricket.
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  2724.  @joman563  Ah, you and I may well have VERY different notions of the best way of "backing" Ukraine. You see, I don't think providing all the money and weapons needed for Ukraine to fight a war that results in its total destruction is "backing" Ukraine. I think that is effectively killing Ukraine. To me, backing Ukraine would be to help it establish good relations with its neighbor Russia. Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Belarus could help show the way to Zelensky too, Hey, if some of Russia's neighbors can live happily next to Russia, why not all of them?
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  2725.  @fractalarchitect  absolutely agree. and that is why the good folk of the Donbass refuse to appease the dictator Zelensky, and why we should support them in their refusal to appease him. You see, when Zelensky and his Azov Nazis banned opposition parties, banned Russian language, shelled those who disagreed, we should have never appeased Zelensky. We should have forced him to implement the Minsk accords. but we appeased Zelensky. Big mistake. You are so right.
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  2726.  @markalexander832  I am a passionate defender of the rights of the people of the Donbass. After working in Ukraine in 2018 I have devoted much time to my Ukrainian students and to understanding what is happening in Ukraine. I have many insights you don't have, I would guess. I am paid nothing in rubles (my Ukrainian students pay in USD), but I wish I were paid in rubles because since the boomerang effect of the absurd Western sanctions, any ruble payment now would be worth a lot more than before the conflict! agreed?
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  2727. there is only one solution, but it will never happen. all boats have to be towed back to France and all illegal immigrants stripped of their possessions, otherwise they will just try again.
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  2728.  @MrDosonhai  Putin lets the actions speak for themselves, just as he did when he prevailed in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria.
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  2729.  @Djamonja  not making excuses, just explaining to the brainwashed and deluded that taking Bakhmut is not one of Putin's high priorities. Demilitarization of Ukraine is.
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  2730.  @jcldctt  what's astonishing about that? adaptability is an amazing thing and to be praised. part of survival.
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  2731. and then get Medvedev in as leader, who favors a full declaration of war rather than just the Special Operation. Would that be better?
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  2732. They never learn, do they? Yet again, the arrogant colonialists in the EU are dictating what the rest of the world must do and not do, this time regarding oil purchases. This won't end well for the West, as the globe will reject more lectures and arm-twisting from Western bullies and will back Russia even more.
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  2733. just surrender. Russia can take down the energy grid whenever it wants and NATO can do nothing about it.
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  2734. Mike Freer finally realizes backing the likes of Tommy Robinson would have avoided all this s**t
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  2735. ditto NATO and the West.
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  2736.  @dyggas  less missiles compared to whom, or when?
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  2737.  @stevenmartin8828  we're not talking facts. we're talking impressions. there is no way to scientifically measure "reliability of allies". but my impression is that Iran and N Korea in particular are 100% behind Russia. Ukraine's allies SAY they are 100% behind Ukraine, but they are not. otherwise they would deliver 100% what Ukraine keeps begging for.
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  2738. the Police have said that "all hypotheses are on the table", so start to lambast the Guardia Civil if you want to pick a fight with those who say all explanations are possible.
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  2739.  @bobdillon1138  given the state of things where I live, Russian style government would be just fine.
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  2740. certainly true in Zelensky's case
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  2741.  @somethingelse9535  LOL. Zelensky invaded the free speech of Ukraine's ethnic Russians by banning Russian in the public sphere. Try to make sense next time.
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  2742.  @jdnthecanadian424  you confuse a target with where intercepted missiles and shrapnel end up 12 years old are you?.
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  2743. No, Italy has NOT closed its borders to "rescue ships". Stop lying. It has closed its borders to trans Mediterranean taxi services for illegal immigrants.
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  2744. the usual pro Ukraine propaganda. Bakhmut is a Russian meatgrinder, Wagners have no real need to seize the city while Zelensky is doing so well serving up his cannon fodder to the daily artillery slaughter. Russia winning the war of attrition as it did in Chechnya and Syria
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  2745. what about countries defending themselves from a PROVOKED attack? (8 years of Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass would, I am sure you would agree, a provocation extraordinaire)?
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  2746.  @hus390  make up your mind! did they stop the search, or did they make it a low key search? those two are mutually exclusive, so once you have decided which one fits your narrative best, get back to me, and then we can continue the debate based on which one you choose.
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  2747.  @georgezee5173  now I'm curious. are you assuming that the Guardia Civil claiming to have found Jay's body proves there was no foul play and that it proves Jay's intention was to walk all the way back to Los Cristianos?
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  2748. happens every summer and always had. not news.
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  2749.  @honved1  which words would i google to find a report from Bakhmut about its recapture by Ukraine?
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  2750.  @Harry-mc3gv  lol ukronazi lover
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  2751.  @nvelsen1975  even if there were subsidies, energy companies have enormous government taxes imposed on their products AND have to pay business taxes, so governments are taking more than they are giving to fossil fuel companies.
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  2752.  @zenon7094  Russia does not respect all human life, of course not. Russia is very good at ending the human lives of all those who think it is a really good idea to treat Russian speakers as second class citizens. Respect Russian citizens and Russian speakers, and Russia will respect you. Disrespect Russian speakers, and you will regret it, as the slow learners in Moldova, Chechnya, S Ossetia, Abkhazia and now Ukraine are learning.
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  2753. Salvini is right. It's an organized invasion. Such a shame that Salvini is not premier, in place of this wet rag, Meloni.
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  2754. American intelligence reporting that Russia is buying shells from North Korea? Would that be the same American intelligence that estimated the Taliban would take 90 days to take Kabul? (it took 90 hours!)
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  2755.  @polaris7122  a lot of doubt has crept into the minds of a lot of people. gone are the days when it was 100% sure that only one of two parties would win. we are already not far away from seeing many constituencies where 3 or 4 parties are all hovering around the 25% mark. if everyone just voted as per their convictions, the 2 party system would collapse even in a FPTP system.
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  2756. yeah, right, this MP is at home shivering in sweaters. pull the other one.
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  2757. hey, did you all hear about the massive new arms shipment heading from Europe to Ukraine this week? No? Neither did I.
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  2758. remember Lloyd Austin's telling remark..."the aim is to weaken Russia" so, if Ukraine gets destroyed and that weakens Russia, the Ukraine project was worth it.
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  2759. "open up those ports"....uh, that would mean demining the ports, which Ukraine can do at any time...so Russia is indeed NOT the culprit for grain ships stuck in port!
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  2760. "Putin is always lying" so, when Putin said "we have made some mistakes", the truth is, Russia has made no mistakes? such a childish train of thought Western propagandists are resorting to.
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  2761.  @budgeman218  Mark Williams Thomas
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  2762. so how to explain the witness who says she saw Jay, twice, after he walked out of the Airbnb? the two men allowed Jay to just walk out and walk away free as a bird? so, what was the point of taking him to the airbnb?
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  2763. "the pandemic".....no, the government's misguided handling of the pandemic "the war in Ukraine"....no, the government's misguided sanctions against Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine two lies that confirm why Tories shouldn't vote for these Socialist lying non-Tories.
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  2764. dream on. but there is nothing stopping you giving ALL you possess to Zelensky
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  2765. that's assuming you are actually advancing! if you are failing to advance and repeatedly taking big losses to the counter punch, the 3:1 ratio goes sky high, hence Ukraine's astronomical losses in the last 6 weeks.
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  2766. Llanelli, an area well-known for being a hot bed of far Right politics and Thatcherite attitudes.
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  2767.  @unarmeduim2150  It's not that NATO is unwilling to supply Ukraine with all that Ukraine needs. It's that NATO can't. The cupboard is bare. So, you choose. Correct me if you think I'm wrong. NATO has loads of spare weaponry and ammo but chooses to say "no" to Zelensky?
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  2768. good to know you view the EU as a dictatorship, not a democracy, regarding Hungary's membership
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  2769. It is too late. Time to abandon Europe and leave it to the Muslims. Time to move to Paraguay, Alaska, or Chile and build Muslim-proof societies.
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  2770. just like the Western "i have never been to Russia, but I know it's bad there"
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  2771. latest announcement from the Spanish Police is that the 2 lads from Luton are of "no relevance"! Couple that with the fact that the 2 Luton lads were not questioned or interviewed in the UK, and it would be fair to assume they are undercover cops. so, why would cops take Jay back to their place? to let him spill the beans on the drug gang he works for and works with, and to allow him a safe house while the Moroccan gangsters search for Jay. Jay blew it somewhat by choosing to walk out of the house 2 hours too early for the bus and then deciding to walk. The Moroccans caught up with him, bundled him into a car, and now are awaiting payment.
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  2772. Unlike Stoltenberg, who is so ignorant and deluded he assumed every NATO member loves Sweden and Finland, Erdogan has played his cards brilliantly. Neutrality serves the Turks the best, and unlike the West, Turkey will come out of this in relatively good shape. Only Erdogan, Putin and Orban have a clue these days
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  2773. exactly, so when Ukraine decided to walk away from the Istanbul talks, Ukraine cooked its own goose.
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  2774. so Rupert believes the latest wild guess numbers from the US Security Council and totally dismisses the numbers revealed by the Discord document leak. I wonder why
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  2775. There is NO blockade! The Russians have agreed to grain shipments leaving Ukrainian ports! There are no shipments for TWO reasons only..1) Ukraine refuses to demine its coast, and 2) Ukraine distrusts Russia would allow shipments to pass. So, mines and distrust prevent shipments, NOT a blockade.
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  2776.  @PerryPerfectPerson  try to understand the law as written, though it seems your command of English isn't up to it. no reason why any charges should have been brought, but go ahead, explain the crime that Trump committed.
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  2777.  @PerryPerfectPerson  if you state what the crimes are I could comment! the entry in the accounts for business expenses were made before his election. so what crimes were committed while he was in office?
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  2778.  @chemeister  maybe i dealt with too many gangsters
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  2779.  @Commander_ZiN  are you suggesting that Europe is in the mess it is because not enough discussions of important issues happened? I contend that Europe is in the mess it is because too much talking happened and not enough clear thinking. More discussions will do nothing to arrive at better policy. Nothing at all.
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  2780.  @Commander_ZiN  how much would you be prepared to pay out of your own pocket for these delegates to go to Prague to talk all week?
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  2781.  @clamchoder1386  oh NATO is excellent at following the rules based order. NATO backed the Kosovar separatists with military might, and bombed Libya, all in the name of the rules based order that says to respect the territorial integrity of every country.
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  2782. 200 million pounds spent on missiles? wow! nearly as much as the UK spends on accommodating illegal immigrants in hotels.
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  2783.  @lucyboyce7491  indeed there is. baffles me why anyone would doubt that Biden fulfilled his promise.
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  2784.  @Intervent89  but we agree Ukraine can be only one. one little rump state around Kiev where all those who want all Russian culture and language banned forever, where Bandera remains the national hero, can live in poverty together forever more. Good idea.
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  2785. "we plan to make more progress soon" = failed to secure a deal
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  2786. only a madman tries to keep throwing money at a corrupt partner while drowning in horrific debt himself.
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  2787. you know the ukronazis are losing thousands more fighters than the Russians when the propagandist Western MSM trot out the line "massive casualties on both sides"
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  2788.  @CoachKnapovicLifestyle  the man's point was that Brexit happened against the wishes of NI and Scotland, pointing the finger at the English as the one nation of the 4 that voted Brexit. but it was 2 of the 4 nations that voted for Brexit. Both Wales and England voted for Brexit, so if any finger pointing needs to happen just make sure the Welsh take their share of the blame.
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  2789.  @lepustimidus7016  having said that, referenda in Europe right now to see how many people want to continue with all sanctions against Russia might throw up some interesting results. In 3 months time would be even more interesting!
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  2790. better in Russia!
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  2791. what happened to all those posting about incompetent Russian drunken convicts armed only with shovels?
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  2792. don't underestimate the rabid anti Ukrainian sentiments of the majority of Belarussians. The silent majority outweigh the protesters
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  2793.  @candidaprout8441  agreed. if only Ukraine had stuck with negotiations back in March, 2022, instead of convincing themselves that NATO could deliver victory.
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  2794.  @kagefisk  after 80 nights of NATO's non stop bombing of Serbia, how about you ask the families of those Serbs who died from NATO bombing how NATO can be hostile? or ask the Libyans how NATO can be hostile after bombing there? or ask the families of Russians killed by NATO weapons in Donbass how NATO can be hostile! How can you conceive of NATO being anything but UNhostile? it is a warmonger machine that seeks to intervene and expand wherever it can!
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  2795.  @steveerossa  when you live in poverty, life depends on cheap gas, though nice to know the affluent middle class kid can dismiss cheap gas away as no big deal. i wonder what experience this kid has of balancing a household budget?
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  2796.  @Faby-tp7hz  maybe. the same outfit that destroyed Nordstream decided to sacrifice one of their deluded, elderly assets to warn peaceniks around the world to just let the Ukraine war keep rolling along.
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  2797. criticism of Brussels' policy and European leaders is not criticism of Europe at all!
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  2798. Classic move by Ukraine, deploy weapons and ammo in a "protected zone", not surprised at all.
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  2799. working on his next script of fantasy that explains how Ukraine is still winning
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  2800.  @far_centrist  exactly so. that arrogance that "no one can out-produce the West" has been shattered. no one joking about Iranian drones or North Korean missiles now.
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  2801.  @scarlett2299  a dog that is born in a stable is still a dog, not a horse.
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  2802. wonder when they will look into if Trump's Russia collusion accusations
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  2803. Putin Aim 4.....secure Crimea as part of Russia. Done. When Ukraine surrenders it will be signed into the constitution, but of course, Crimea now has the buffer of Kherson and Zaporozhe between it and Ukraine, so it is now in the heart of Russia
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  2804. the hatred for Putin comes from his devotion to traditional values, his patriotism and how popular he is.
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  2805. Chechnya...now living in peace. Transnistra....now living in peace. Abkhazia and South Ossetia...now living in peace. Russian intervention to defend the rights of ethnic Russians leads to peace, for all. All we are saying, is give peace a chance. Ukraine fighting to the last man is insanity. It's only the Azov Nazis and their Western supporters that want this annihilation to the last man.
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  2806. "not encircling the city but uh uh uh uh uh uh uh pretty much u h uh uh " so hard for propagandist Mateus to spit out "Russia has control of what comes in and out of Bakhmut"
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  2807. sanctions on Russia were SUCH a good idea, boosted energy costs so that people are freezing all winter, but not in Russia
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  2808. Ukraine was running out of ammunition? what? for months we were told that Russia is running out of ammunition! what changed? BBC started to tell the truth?
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  2809. so all the Russians in trenches are vulnerable, but Ukrainians in trenches are safe. the level of thinking of NATO revealed by this deluded "expert"
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  2810. the big story will be how many people decide not to vote. a massive Labour majority does not mean Labour are popular at all.
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  2811. would have made no difference. Russia is not isolated and Russia exports what the world needs. deal with reality.
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  2812. spot on. Zelensky, when he saw the fiasco of NATO's exit from Kabul, should have realized his protector was full of BS but full of incompetence. Still, did you all hear the news that Zelensky has sold his Miami mansion and villa in Tuscany to help fund the war effort? No, neither did I.
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  2813.  @michaeldunham3385  are you asking me or telling me? and what is your point, either way?
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  2814.  @ezj2117  Their mother country is Latvia! Born in Latvia, raised in Latvia, always lived in Latvia. We can expect the same thing as happened in Ukraine. The ethnic Russians of Latvia will feel compelled to do what the Donbass Russians did.....separate from their mother country and take their ancestral lands with them and join the Russian Federation. Here goes with another war. If only the Baltics would embrace the wise approach adopted by Kazakhstan.
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  2815. what a load of bla bla bla to say "yes, I agree that thousands more Ukrainian cannon fodder should die in a futile stand in a war already lost"
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  2816. and someone will spend next Christmas in his villa in Italy or mansion in Miami, having destroyed his country, murderous fool
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  2817.  @startracksha  well said.
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  2818. if they speak Russian and are ethnic Russians, then they are indeed Russian. Ukrainian nationality was forced upon them in 1991.
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  2819.  @angelopugliese6034  Have 5 billion troops on alert on Russia's border if you wish, if NATO hasn't the guts to fight, it makes no difference. NATO can watch Russia triumph from the border.
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  2820. if Putin's aim is to confuse analysts in the West, Putin has succeeded magnificently. this guy confesses he is confused by the Belarus move.
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  2821.  @Huu159  why would you study to become a doctor with the aim of leaving Syria? just leave Syria and become a doctor in your new country.
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  2822. "I talked to someone who said the Russians were demoralized"...yeah, the same person who said the same thing 6 months ago. and this is called "reporting"?
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  2823.  @thegreatdane3627  it's not Putin who refused to open Nordstream 2!
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  2824. The Minsk Accords were not implemented by Poroshenko, so there is your answer
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  2825. that's right, and any nuclear force will be met by nuclear force, Got to keep these BRICS upstarts under our thumbs.
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  2826. Not so sure Ukraine has decided on a counter attack. After Boris's visit, the comedian president Zelensky may well have been told to counter attack or kiss good bye to waning Western support. The decision was not made in Kiev (given we heard from Ukrainian sources 24 hours before that Ukraine was not in a position to counter attack).
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  2827. there is only one policy that would work, and that is to make asylum claims obligatory from outside the UK, not from within the UK.
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  2828.  @GeeJay1971  I worked in Ukraine in 2018. I know it.
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  2829.  @roeci6  Armenia and Azerbaijan just signed a peace agreement. Neither country is particularly keen on turning away from Russia.
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  2830.  @thomastumasang2770  big English? I had no idea language could be "big" or "small"!
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  2831.  @bramposthumus9300  When exactly do you think Zelensky will sell his villa in Tuscany and his mansion in Miami do help relieve the suffering of his own people?
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  2832. "not bad for a young lad from Ukraine" yep, nothing racist at all in speculating how a young person from a modest background made it so big. this is yet another example of searching for racism where there is none.
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  2833. and we believe it was a grain ship because the honest and incorruptible government in Kiev say it was a grain ship?
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  2834. locals hostile to Ukrainian forces? but how could that be? Putin is a crazed, cruel dictator and Zelensky a living saint!? this makes no sense! Unless, just maybe, there is some truth to the notion that the Donbass got slightly fed up of 8 years of shelling from the Azov Nazis and the rabid Ukrainianization coming from Kiev?
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  2835.  @ebonymaw8457  because Peskov understands that while more weapons shipments won't change the outcome, more weapons shipments will mean many more innocent people dying. Unlike the Ukrainian side, Peskov is concerned about the death toll.
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  2836.  @MidCoastAdventures  at least in Russia you can still say "a man cannot become a woman" and that "white lives matter" without losing your job.
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  2837. The Zelensky curse....Johnson and Draghi gone, Macron, Biden and Scholz on the way out. Scholtz will probably fall when the first German pensioners freeze to death in early winter. And the sanctions were supposed to remove....Putin? laughable.
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  2838.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  why do you choose to support the Azov Nazi battalion that shelled the civilians of Donbass for 8 years?
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  2839.  @Ptls68  Learn some facts. Google :language policy in Ukraine" to learn the truth and read what the EU said in criticism of the denial of human rights on the subject. I don't want to be Russian or live in Russia, just want justice and equality for the ethnic Russians of Ukraine, and you should want that too, instead of supporting the Azov Nazis. It was me that was told "not to use Russian" while teaching class in Ukraine, not you, so spare me the lectures on language laws in Ukraine.
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  2840. @Liam Miller I don't. I support all those ethnic Russians fighting back for the basic rights the West embraces, but refuses to acknowledge for Russian speakers in Ukraine, and you should too. you should be championing the rights of Donbass Russians, not wishing more discrimination against them.
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  2841.  @Swish-x7b  what makes you so sure I am not living in Russia and am not able to make the perfect comparison that you can't make? in Russia, saying that a man cannot become a woman will never get you anything but a round of applause, unlike the woke nonsense that goes on in the UK. How many stabbings did you have today in the UK? take one in the heart yourself, did you?
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  2842.  @Swish-x7b  you wouldn't believe the joy of those ethnic Russians living under Russia as opposed to being abused under Zelensky's nationalists. Putin is a liberator. Just ask the good people of Mariupol
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  2843.  @sergeyb8  exactly. if you are winning on the battlefield and the opposition are running out of weapons and ammo, you don't need anything more. How could you possibly lose?
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  2844.  @maximusvaliant8597  LOL am pretty sure you have a lot more blocked videos than me. a lot more
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  2845. truly poverty stricken, to have 1200 pounds cash on hand to pay to get a bus from Belfast to Dublin. asylum seekers or a bunch of globetrotting rich kids?
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  2846.  @CimmerianAssassin  not true. Russia FAR out-produces NATO in weaponry and ammunition. You know nothing about Russia. The technology in modern-day weaponry means that USA can NOT just ramp up capacity. These systems and training for their manufacture take a LONG time. We are in a different age. Russia has prepared for this for 8 years. NATO hasn't, NATO is depleted, and NATO is reduced to trying to form a defence force on the fly. it won't work.
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  2847. at least this guy is talking about foul play and drugs. the real plonkers are on the morning shows, blabbing on about the machete lad accidentally falling down a ravine.
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  2848. yep, she got the foreign aid question right too. a nation with a 30 trillion dollar debt has no business borrowing from China to send cash to Ukraine or Israel. If only Biden would listen to her.
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  2849.  @KJ-js7pi  good advice. I don't trust anyone. their parents, or parent, needs to teach them to cooperate with the Police, because one's life depends on it. wherever you go on this planet, that advice is golden.
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  2850. @@wqsuuhhdrvjj there can be 101 reasons why people don't trust law enforcement, but that is irrelevant regarding how to survive when stopped by the police. Golden rule: wherever you are in the world, when your car is stopped by the police, cooperate fully. Had Nahel done this, he would be alive now. it is very simple. you can ask why people don't trust the police all you like, the reasons won't change the magic formula...cooperate with the police respectfully, and you have a very high chance of living to tell the tale. refuse to cooperate, and the chances of very grave consequences, even death, sky rocket. Political leaders and parents need to hammer this message home in the Arab and Muslim communities. Asian communities already learned this, they sre no problem at all. perfectly behaved and respectful. that's why we all knew the name of the criminal would be an Arab name, not a Chinese name.
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  2851. At the current rate of advance, Ukronazia/NATO will get to the Sea of Azov in 16 years. That's great news for Kiev, because then any baby boy born today will be eligible to become cannon fodder just as the ukronazis cut the Russian land bridge to Crimea.
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  2852.  @profefabianaaguero8464  creo la palabra de mis estudiantes ucranianos y mis propias observaciones de cuando vivía en Ucrania. y usted, conoce Ucrania muy bien?
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  2853.  @profefabianaaguero8464  y su experiencia personal de vivir en Ucrania?
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  2854. "Ukrainian soldiers have superior will" not when a bunch of convicts and drunken mercenaries massacred them and kicked them out of Soledar! in fact every time these 2 sides go toe to toe, street by street, Russia ALWAYS wins. where was the superior will in Mariupol? Severodonetsk? Popasnaya? Lyzychansk? Soledar? now Bakhmut?
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  2855. Please support Donbass. Let's pray fervently. It's heartbreaking. God please hear our prayers for Donbass, and close your ears to the prayers of those who support the Azov Nazis
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  2856.  @Worldsamess2024  definitely sounds like a lost in translation conversation to me.
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  2857.  @torehaaland6921  list the "large scale war crimes" Serbia was found guilty of committing in Kosovo and name the court in which these war crimes in Kosovo were adjudicated.
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  2858.  @martinportelance138  when?
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  2859.  @martinportelance138  right, Castro's "La historia me absolverá". Like Kim Jong Un is the present good guy in history. Got it.
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  2860.  @rosiepayne7712  "almost impossible to search" = possible to search
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  2861.  @kmg474  I can't help you kmc474. Utterly clueless.
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  2862.  @sharassh1  Ukraine's Azov Nazi Battalion started the war in 2014. The first shells fired came from them. Check your facts, mate.
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  2863. "the need to build more housing" funded by whom? Which investor or landlord in their right mind would ever consider such a burdensome and regulation-ridden enterprise? Makes no sense.
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  2864. "air defense weapons are already arriving" back in October, after Kiev was attacked by drones and missiles galore, NATO promised air defence systems to combat this threat. it's nearly May, and you say "air defense systems are arriving" thanks for highlighting NATO's inability to supply urgent defenses in a timely fashion!
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  2865. @de caesaris it's a memorandum. it's non binding and meaningless
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  2866. Day 12 of the great counter-offensive "advancing step by step toward Kherson" Zelensky said. Still no list of towns taken by Ukraine, 28 days to go. hmmmm
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  2867. @Coma White doesn't answer my question, but anyway, would a Russian nuke response end the West's silly games too, do you think?
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  2868. still awaiting France 24's investigation of Gonzalo Lira's arrest and incarceration in Ukraine for expressing his opinions on the war. Got a feeling that side of the debate won't be covered by France 24.
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  2869. "Putin's regime will lose in the long run", right, like Cuba's, like Venezuela's, like Iran's, because those sanctions have a track record of working so well.
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  2870.  @TheSanddancer  just alerting you to the reality that UK wouldn't have to pay too many military salaries if we go to war with Russia. it's called black humour. get with it.
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  2871. Let me answer the question that Eggert refused to answer. No, Russia is not facing any recruitment problems. The volunteer rate is still high, and unlike Ukraine, women and teenage boys are not being forced into becoming cannon fodder after a few weeks of basic training.
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  2872.  @sammyleaves9777  where is Ukraine "coming back"? Eurovision Song Contest?
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  2873. There would be more time to look into the Supreme court if Adams just pleads guilty, but he won't.
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  2874.  @JawaThePwn  Not true. Article 5 mentions nothing about anyone being compelled to jump in and defend any other member. Article 5 merely mentions taking appropriate action, which could be just a letter of complaint! Re read Article 5.
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  2875.  @ImperativeGames  yep, Amnesty International already documented this. Ukraine uses human shields and hides in residential areas. we all understand why, but no point crying about civilian deaths when this tactic backfires.
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  2876.  @Spectre11B  once again, you refuse to answer the question. let's try a third time. You say that the DPR and LPR fight against Kiev was a purely domestic issue and should have been treated as such. Now, explain why NATO did not treat Kosovo's fight to separate from Belgrade as a purely domestic issue. The world awaits your answer. Don't hide behind this "false equivalency" nonsense. explain WHY it is false equivalency.
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  2877.  @Spectre11B  nice to know your forces were forbidden to engage against either side. yet, did you fully support NATO's incessant bombing of Belgrade? You were cheering on those NATO bombs destroying Belgrade, intervening in a domestic issue, right?
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  2878.  @Spectre11B  so, let me understand how this works. it ALL depends on motivations, right? so, interference in a domestic situation is absolutely fine if the motivation is "right"? And who is the referee that decides if the motivation is right? you? me? Russia had no desire to annex the LPR and the DPR. That is why the LPR and DPR were not even recognized by Russia, let alone absorbed into Russia. In the Minsk Agreements, Russia agreed for the LPR and DPR to remain as autonomous republics but part of Ukraine, so don't give me this "Russia wanted to annex the Donbass" bs. ONLY when the Azovs started shelling ethnic Russians in Donetsk did Putin, justifiably, consider intervention. Had the West honored the Minsk Accords, DPR and LPR would be part of Ukraine today. Now, where else has Russia annexed a territory out of pure lust for more territory? pray tell.
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  2879.  @Spectre11B  So, Putin should have just stepped aside and watched ethnic Russians get slaughtered in Donetsk and respect such slaughter because "it was a domestic issue"? You misjudged your enemy! Putin didn't take kindly to ethnic Russians being targeted in Chechnya. in Abkhazia, in S Ossetia, in Transnistria, yet you assumed he would in Ukraine? how dumb was that assumption?
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  2880.  @Spectre11B  I listened intently to all arguments made against Russia, and I also watched intently any actions taken against Russia. The words and the actions don't match! The words at the UN were just words. The actions show the world is more than happy to keep working with, trading with Russia and supporting Russia. You mistook posturing and posing at the UN for something of substance. oops.
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  2881.  @DoubtingTom  would that be the same OSCE that was kicked out of the Donbass for flagrantly collaborating with Ukraine?
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  2882.  @borgri9125  Have a look at what was the internationally recognized border of Serbia. And then answer, where is Kosovo? It's clearly a Serbian internal matter! So, why 65 nights of NATO bombing Belgrade?
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  2883.  @Spectre11B  so, 20 years of occupation = totally allowed, accords with rules based order, to be applauded, but any annexation is a horrendous crime, right?
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  2884.  @Spectre11B  I mean the US exit from Afghanistan was not a total failure. That innocent Afghan family did get droned to death before 13 US servicemen got killed, and then the US left, so a pretty tidy exit overall, right?
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  2885.  @Spectre11B  Transnistria has been a breakaway state from Moldova, where 2000 Russian soldiers act as peacekeepers, no annexation of Transnistria into Russia, so that intervention gets the two thumbs up from you, right?
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  2886.  @olivesama  just curious, why do you fully support the restrictions placed on the use of the Russian language in Ukraine? Would you support restrictions placed on Yoruba if Hausa speakers were in supreme power? Why not?
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  2887.  @olivesama  glad you understand how nationalistic, imperial discriminatory language policies from Kiev alienated the Russian speakers of Ukraine from the Kiev regime. I'm sure if you were ordered to stop using your native language in public you too would be glad of a neighboring force coming to back you up and insist on your language rights and freedom of speech. you are very much on the Russian side, it seems. Would you describe the war on the people of Biafra as "violent imperial aggression"? why not?
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  2888.  @sudipjang7867  avoiding military call up, and they are going to places where they are legally allowed to enter, passing through the correct ports of entry, as required by law. . understand the difference?
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  2889.  @johncollins2037  Spain, Italy, Greece, UK, but not Hungary. Hungary built a fence and stopped them. Poland and Lithuania build fences too, so that route was closed too.
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  2890.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  no one is blaming the people who flee at all. They get what they can. Many of us blame weak European governments for admitting illegal immigrants and we want it to end. We only insist that the laws on the books are followed, not waived. If Europe wants open borders and limitless immigration, then pass a law allowing that, don't have laws you refuse to enforce. They enforced immigration laws on the Poland Belarus border, why not on the Italian border?
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  2891. "it's not exactly a counter offensive"....beautiful understatement. so, Khlan may be a little off when he said "Kherson recaptured by September" (hey, one week left!).
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  2892.  @thegreatdane3627  what cheap gas alternatives are going to replace Russian gas in the next 12 months?
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  2893. the 2 strangers have insights into what happened, and unless the local cops are graduates of the Keystone Police Academy, they too have insights not shared publicly, but felt it was wise to let the UK men return home. the 2 strangers are well mixed up in all this, whatever this is, but police decided that in the big picture, best to let them get off the island. all will be revealed. think abduction/hostage/ransom scenario.
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  2894. Dream on! Time is on Russia's side and here we are on Day 11 of the great counter attack, and not one single inch of territory has changed on the map.
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  2895. the biggest deterrent would be to make asylum claims obligatory from outside the UK
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  2896. "difficult for Ukrainian army" = losing to Russia. speak plain English.
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  2897. Godspeed and strength to Russia and her allies and God bless. Finally ending 8 years of Azov Nazi tyranny and liberating the ethnic Russians from hell.
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  2898. The ultimate desperate act of Zelensky as he sees the Bakhmut disaster followed up by the catastrophic failure of his pathetic counter offensive. Zelensky has reached a new low.
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  2899.  @mraj2192  so you assume the Donbass Russians who shot down that passenger aircraft did so on purpose? what was the aim? to win over support from the rest of the world by murdering innocent passengers en route from Malaysia to Netherlands? what benefit did the Russians gain if such an attack was deliberate?
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  2900. absolutely wonderful to see the Banderites in panic mode as the reality of Russian might and NATO weakness sinks in.
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  2901. most probably in Santa Cruz, if you follow the evidence.
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  2902.  @adrianh332  from the last 2 months of fighting, what indicators would you point to that Ukraine is winning?
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  2903.  @Funkywallot  Switzerland, formerly occupied by Napoleonic France, has French as an official language. Besides, Latvia has never been occupied by the Russian Federation. Language rights have nothing to do with who once occupied or didn't occupy a country. Language rights are all about granting the same rights to citizens no matter what language they speak. it's called human rights. It's called Freedom of Speech. In Switzerland, Italian is an official language, although only 4% of the Swiss speak Italian. Time for Latvia to copy Switzerland, if Latvia were decent.
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  2904.  @lauravilsone5554  so, to sum up your position, an Italian speaking kid in Switzerland gets to be educated in Italian, guaranteed, and that's a good idea because Switzerland is a federated state. a Russian speaking kid in Ukraine is compelled to be educated in a second language, and that is a really good idea too, because Ukraine is not a federated state. this all makes sense to you?
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  2905. just hilarious that DW thinks anyone is actually investigating this act of terrorism.
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  2906. but you WILL forget all the abuses and injustices inflicted upon Russian speakers over the last 8 years?
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  2907. "rallying cry" indeed. only losing sides need rallying cries.
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  2908.  @peabase  1. you have no clue what Russia's losses are, and no idea the degree to which Ukraine's losses are even more staggering, so stop pretending you do. 2. There is no stalemate here, because stalemate does not only apply to territory gained or lost. Other metrics like casualties, weapon supply, ammo supply, morale, etc all come into play. It's not Russia begging incessantly for more supplies. 3. If we accept stalemate as the status quo on the ground, then Russia has won. Crimea remains part of Russia, Donbass plus Zaporozhe and Kherson now form part of Russia, Ukraine is not in NATO, Ukraine is bankrupt and begging, Ukraine is demilitarized, NATO is demilitarized, the Azovs are now killed, crippled or captured, it's Russia that is so close to achieving all its objectives, and not Crimea....or you think in a week or so Ukraine will be marching into Crimea, victorious and jubilant?
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  2909. Russia destroyed bridges in Ukrainian held territory? really? Or Ukrainian high command ordered the bridges destroyed so that the cannon fodder would have to fight and die, Mariupol style?
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  2910. how little you know Russia and the Russians. certain fools said the same thing about Assad too. yawn.
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  2911. if Ukraine can't even beat Wales for a World Cup place, Ukraine sure as hell can't beat Russia in a land war. Good night. Volodymir....enjoy your mansion in Miami.
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  2912. The young teacher would find a free life in Russia.
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  2913. Yet another terrorist attack from Ukraine. The Azov Nazi follow up to Dugina's assassination. The sooner Russia wins the better.
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  2914. Putin is by far the best leader in the world. Articulate, measured, informed. Stands up for his people and does not waver. If only the West had leaders like Putin.
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  2915.  @solaireastora5394  who said any intervention in a NATO country would happen at the same time as the Ukraine intervention? who said the forces currently in Ukraine would be used?
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  2916. Importing Muslims = importing hate to Jews, plus hate to Western values. Only the deluded would see it otherwise.
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  2917. Finland suddenly understanding that there were some major benefits to having good relations with Russia. Some people are slow learners.
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  2918. please stop calling the covid jab a "vaccine". Vaccines prevent the person catching the disease, and prevents the patient spreading the disease.
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  2919.  @AngelaH2222  He also ABANDONED the EDL because he felt it had become far right, I'm fairly sure that is conclusive evidence that Tommy is NOT far right!
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  2920. Singapore should be in charge of setting the rules for UK
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  2921. straight off the factory floor and straight into the recycling center once in the cross-hairs of Russia's weaponry.
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  2922. The answer to the first Gulf War question is "who cares? you intervene militarily if you believe you are right to do so, and you live with the consequences, whether that is USA invading Kuwait or Russia invading Ukraine"
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  2923.  @jeremytine  I repeat my statement of truth. Given the first missiles launched in this war came from the Azov Battalions launched against the DPR, safe to say the aggressors are your beloved Ukronazis. have a gilded portrait of Bandera under your swastika emblazoned pillow, do you?
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  2924.  @oldskoolrools1353  am happily retired in France, no need of any extra rubles, thanks. Having worked in Ukraine, I have a passion for highlighting the horrors of that place, and yes, I think Putin is right on the Ukraine issue, though I would prefer Medvedev to be the Russian leader. the ruble and the Russian economy are doing just fine. Russia allows the value of the ruble to fall when the cause is a rise in purchases of imports. don't worry, it's Western banks and companies in big trouble, not Russia's.
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  2925. believing their own propaganda. we were expected to believe Russia was shelling its own forces at the nuclear power plant it occupied, now we are expected to believe the Russians destroyed their own pipeline which was delivering no gas. Next, we'll be told Ghost of Kiev was real, that the sanctions are working and that the vaccine stops the spread of the virus.
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  2926. it's now just amusing the extent to which Zelensky and the West are prepared to delude themselves into thinking Ukraine can win this....more weapons, more weapons, more weapons....right, but how do we replace all the dead Ukrainian soldiers? more boys. more boys, more boys, more pensioners, more pensioners more pensioners
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  2927. so i guess the small man syndrome applies even more to the puppet dwarf, Zelensky..probably why the Azov lads laughed in Zelensky's face when he popped up on the Donbass war front
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  2928. there are some who freeze every winter. there will be more than the average this year, given the astronomical energy prices due to failed sanctions on Russia. not sure what you are celebrating exactly
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  2929.  @MausTheGerman  Western governments are free to throw whatever amount of money they choose at weapons factories. the problem is, the majority of Western voters don't want them to. so, Western leaders play the game of saying lots of supportive words about supplying Ukraine while refusing to commit the necessary funding to match Russian production. it's that simple.
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  2930.  @MausTheGerman  of course. i wasn't saying that throwing money at the situation would resolve things in the short or mid term. for reasons you have outlined, it won't. i was just saying that, in the long term, Western governments could turn things around with 10% of GDP going to defence spending, but voters would reject it, hence we get this blabbering of "as long as it takes" and "Ukraine has our full support" instead of action that might turn things around in 5 years or so.
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  2931. Ayub Abdul, Luton lad of Somali origin, renting an airbnb at a location where drugs are unloaded and driving every night to the festival. not relevant to the case at all.
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  2932. And all of this because Zelensky just can't endure the thought of Ukraine as a neutral country and Crimea + Donbass joining Russia. Much better to destroy the country in futile protest.
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  2933. "we would give you arms if we had any left. why the hell do you think we had to send cluster munitions last time?" Biden during a rare honest moment.
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  2934. there is no blockade. when Ukraine demines its coast, Russia has agreed to let grain shipments pass. If Ukraine doesn't trust Russia, then the reason grain shipments are not flowing is because Ukraine doesn't trust Russia. End of story. Nothing to do with a "blockade" that simply doesn't exist. Grain is flowing out of Russian controlled ports......negotiate with Russia to use their ports!
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  2935.  @_Painted  exactly so. we always weigh up the consequences of our actions and inactions. Ukraine has every right to apply to NATO. Putin has every right to say he would not accept Ukraine's membership without severe consequences. NATO has every right to accept or reject the application. You make my point that this is why this should have all been discussed like adults, rather than the West refusing to listen. Now we must all pay the consequences.
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  2936. just wonderful to see those who proudly declared NYC to be a Sanctuary City now experience NYC as a Sanctuary City.
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  2937.  @kralikkral5560  the fact you can't explain your numbers, your source, tells me everything I need to know. as I explained, only a few people in the Kremlin know the numbers for the Russian side, so that excludes you!
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  2938. Ukraine needs time to decide exactly how it will get wiped out.
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  2939.  @ryand141  i would say if you think a 17 yr old that has a rap sheet as long as your arm and who is terrorizing the neighborhood by speeding recklessly in a Merc should NOT be shot when, for the second time he refuses to get out of the car, I would say YOU have one f***ed up sense of justice. luckily, most countries have laws that allow police to make this call too. just crime appeasement countries like France allow rampant criminality.
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  2940.  @ryand141  yep, in most countries I've been to, and that would be over 100, failing to stop and cooperate with Police while driving recklessly would at least allow the officer to make the call of shooting to disable the driver. Not much point in listing the countries, but vast swathes of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and even in Nahel's beloved home country, Algeria. Those Maghreb countries aren't well know for tolerating wild, reckless drivers with a slap on the wrist.
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  2941.  @aliah1732  if GDP won wars, Italy would be able to fight Russia alone and win! only fools equate GDP with economic and military might.
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  2942.  @marcwareham9351  as a much respected trader and specialist, Marc, what's your prediction for when, exactly, the sanctions will take such effect that Russia will cease to wage war in Ukraine? Give us, with your expert insight, a date.
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  2943.  @marcwareham9351  Russia's GDP is no match for the GDP of NATO, but the capacity to wage war has almost nothing to do with GDP. Learn what other factors dictate success on the battlefield of attrition, Mr Specialist
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  2944.  @kevinkingmaker7395  on the contrary, when you measure economic power based on essential commodities exported, and debt levels (the true measure of economic might) you will see Russia is king. This is why the West is so confused that a country that is just a "gas station with nukes" has survived the sanctions so well and has returned to economic growth. learn what makes nations wealthy, not what you think makes them wealthy.
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  2945.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  careful, John, Marc Wareham describes himself as a "specialist" on this subject! One can assume that Marc has thought of everything!:)
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  2946. certainly Cuba is looking to host a Chinese base and Russia may well start supplying long range missiles. May well be that at some point Mexico is happy to host similar BRICS military operations. We can only assume Washington will agree to all of the above and give full respect to sovereign decisions made by Cuba and Mexico.
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  2947. quick trip abroad for Zelensky, then right back to Kiev for another Vogue photo shoot, while his cannon fodder get massacred in Donbass. now, that's leadership.
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  2948. I'm sure Western sanctions will change everything in a week or so.
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  2949. "follow the most obvious theory" after 10 days of finding nothing, what would the "most obvious theory" be, Einstein? that you just searched an area where Jay never went to?
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  2950.  @dorianissock732  I too live in France, and I can assure you, if you show a willingness to integrate, how successful you are is of no consequence. You will be welcomed for trying. I don't look to anyone in France to help me integrate! That's my job! Why should French taxpayers be obliged to pay cash to accommodate me in any way? Your problem is you seem to assume that most immigrants want to integrate rather than just replicate their home society in the host country! Why do you believe that?
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  2951. Because the Police cannot face down the mob and enforce the law, their idea of "policing" is to force innocent bystanders out of the way in the hopes such discrimination will maintain peace.
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  2952. No courage needed to censor dissenting views. Courage would be to allow all views to be aired and to have an open mind. Poland, yet again, has failed to be open minded.
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  2953. "going well for now, but MIGHT not go well in the future" sums up the whole strategy of the West. Hope, but nothing else. What escapes these two buffoons is that Russia has excellent trading relations with most of the globe, so importing spare parts from allies is not a problem at all.
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  2954. moral of the story? Negotiating with Russia can bring enormous dividends for all. Shame the moral of the story won't apply to the war.
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  2955. there's no such thing as "price gouging" in a free market, supply and demand dictate the price, end of story. if the price is way higher than you expected, don't buy it.
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  2956. the Zelensky curse: all who back him eventually get booted. Draghi, Johnson, Truss, Marin, Rutte, soon Sanchez, Macron with no parliamentary majority, Scholz's coalition fragile, Biden with a year and a bit to survive. Putin, like Assad, will survive all those pious Western dopes calling for his ousting. and that includes this dunce Clarke. Once Russia has prevailed, fools like Clarke will be revealed as a total charlatan.
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  2957. "Russia's propaganda eco system" Just like BBC and Western media are Ukronazia's propaganda eco system. there's no difference.
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  2958.  @Please_allow_me  no problem!
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  2959.  @mysticmarble94  truth hurts, eh?
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  2960.  @joli8218  pigs can fly a lot better than any Ukrainian air force, obviously.
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  2961.  @dayegilharno4988  the kill rate is massively in Russia's favor, read up on the BBC/Mediazone survey.
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  2962. Just a little bit of Social Darwinism at work. The next 17 yr old driver, maybe Mohammed, may think twice about copying Nahel's brilliant idea.
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  2963.  @batrachian149  easy to cope when Russia is winning, thanks
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  2964. Still waiting for Norway to pay reparations for all those Viking raids against England not so long ago. Where's my payment, Norway?
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  2965. Donbass is Russian. Glory to the brave Donbass freedom fighters
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  2966. ​ @P13N5  no one in Latvia would be a "leftover of the occupation" given that, as Soviet citizens, they all had a right to live in Estonia. Unless you want to class all such people as "leftovers of the occupation". Spanish speakers living in Cataluña are "leftovers of the occupation", Ukrainian speakers in Donbass are "leftovers of the occupation", Urdu speakers in London are "leftovers of the occupation", Afrikaans speakers in South Africa are "leftovers of the occupation". Let's make them all pass a language exam to qualify for citizenship or residency of their HOME country. your bigotry and intolerance knows no bounds.
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  2967.  @bottomhat2534  just like all the weaponry Ukraine had at the beginning of the conflict, Russia will find it and destroy it. get real.
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  2968. As a retired POLSA, why would finding a human being in open terrain be more difficult than in, say, closed terrain, like a forest? I remember one case of a girl missing in the Alps, found deep in the forest in one and a half hours! the dogs smelt her clothes at home and followed her scent. what was difficult about that? maybe you are saying it is difficult for a bunch of cretins to do?
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  2969.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  because it instils faith in the public that the Guardia Civil are making progress. Apart from that, they are public servants, paid by the public and accountable to the public. what arrogance dictates that the public deserves to be left in the dark on such important matters.
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  2970. @TBT half the year in France (small town, very few imported migrants, but the nearest city, Perpignan, is overrun with them) half the year in Mexico. the rare occasions I go back to England I dread it. from landing at Heathrow to leaving from Gatwick I feel like I'm in some dysfunctional refugee camp that has hijacked the country i was born in.
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  2971. so, a bunch of mercenaries and convicts advances on Ukraine's best and NATO's "superior" weapons? not a good advert for the West. The world is watching and cheering on Russia.
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  2972.  @AppleMartial  true, as there are plenty of kids who grow up in one parent families and, somehow, they avoid getting shot by the police.
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  2973. a lot of things are not right in this world. moaning about what is right and not right won't bring peace to Ukraine. talking to Putin will.
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  2974. "Ukraine is fighting on home territory for its survival and morale is high"....yeah, but same applies to the DPR and LPR. and do you mean to tell me Kadyrov and the Chechens have lost all their morale? Biased beyond belief.
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  2975. nothing stopping you giving your very last penny to Zelenski, who will gratefully redecorate his Italian villa with what you send him.
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  2976. weird....where are all those "experts" who said, months ago, that Russia was running out of missiles and such attacks were unsustainable? I guess they are all chatting about how Russian morale must be very low.
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  2977. all the leaders are united....keep impoverishing the citizens of the G7 by throwing tax payers' money at a futile attempt to beat Russia in a land war, until the last Ukrainian is dead and Putin dictates how the surrender looks. Got it. Any wonder why people now focus on whatever sanity pay come out of the BRICS group rather than G7?
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  2978. It wasn't Lavrov who told us the Ghost of Kiev was real
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  2979.  @nigelmorley5414  "just watch this autumn"...you think this conflict will still be happening in autumn? if sanctions take time to "work", tell me how many more decades will sanctions against Cuba "work"? How many more decades will sanctions against Iran "work"? and Venezuela? Nigel, even the slowest boy in the class can see sanctions don't "work". get real.
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  2980.  @whatscooking104  it is impossible to evaluate Cuba's GDP.
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  2981.  @geofflepper3207  "Cuba losing trade with the nearby USA" let's express that truthfully. "the Cuban government refusing to address the issues that prevent trade with the USA". Havana just needs to remove the source of the reasons for the embargo.
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  2982.  @DjWellDressedMan  Had Cuba addressed the reason why the embargo was imposed in the first place, many of its problems would have disappeared by now. No lectures needed on when the embargo came into effect, thanks. Until you address the refusal of Cuba to settle legitimate U.S. grievances that resulted in the embargo, then you have no clue how it can all be resolved on Cuba's end.
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  2983.  @richardsanders.4624  so the cut he got from the cactus was the least of his bleeding worries?:)
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  2984.  @garethsheals7663  no, just black humour regarding mum's boat face
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  2985. yeah, such a boost to tourism because there were millions of people allowed entry to Schengen that were forbidden from going to Croatia.
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  2986. the usual fair and balanced reporting from DW. 2 interviews with the pro Moldovan supporters and zero with a pro Transnistrian supporter.
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  2987. "political Islam" oh boy, Mercouris so way out of his depth on this subject. he really is clueless. There is no political Islam! Islam covers ALL aspects of one's life. The same rules as established in the Quran, the hadiths and the Suri apply equally to government as they do to the individual. there is NO separation. Jeez, learn some basics, won't you?
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  2988. Moldova is backing the wrong horse. Should have backed Russia and would still have cheap energy.
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  2989. In a few months this same guy will be reporting on the autumn floods in France and farmers will be complaining of too much rain.
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  2990. even better, just send every penny you have to Zelensky! why force the tax payers to cough up money they don't have, a coalition of the willing, to give every penny they have would speak volumes.....or let me guess, you want OTHER people's money to be wasted on Ukraine?
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  2991.  @muddymaker3721  Ireland is heading down the same road, mate. Iceland, Poland or Hungary maybe.
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  2992. 50% fall in value of stocks sounds about right, when this is said and done. Reflects economic reality. Printing trillions of dollars to pay perfectly healthy people to stay home and not work HAS to reduce the worth of companies.....am guessing any recovery will take a long time and will be faltering
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  2993.  @bluecardholder  on the contrary, what I write is the truth as I see it and as I have experienced it in Ukraine. it is the truth you are not exposed to by Western media. Am happily retired and in no need of any cash from anyone, but my heart and soul are with the Donbass ethnic Russians and I hope they can finally break free from the tyrant Zelensky soon. Got it?
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  2994.  @phucanhtran1980  as always, a detailed and analytical response from Phuc
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  2995. The chihuahua states in NATO are deluded. They advocate provoking Russia into escalating, time and time again, and foolishly think Article 5 would mean they would somehow be protected if Russia did decide to try its luck and liberate the Russian speakers of the Baltics.
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  2996.  @younesshmd9852  depuis 6 hr ce matin, sans doute
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  2997. UK voters are such a funny bunch. They elect the government that allows all this, and then complain.
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  2998.  @mitjed  for example, German elections observer Stefan Schaller has observed that the referendum in Melitopol, Zaporozhe, is going transparently and fairly. you should at least entertain the possibility that this guy is reporting the truth, instead of dismissing automatically in the Orwellian "2 legs bad, 4 legs good" way.
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  2999.  @Crashed131963  you assume taking such a large city would be worth the cost. Putin's 5 objectives don't mention taking any large cities.
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  3000. just curious....does ANY site reporting the Ukrainian shells hitting a kindergarten in Gorlovka get categorized as "pro Russian"?
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  3001. " a clear message!" understatement. a bunch of mercenaries and convicts just defeated Ukraine's NATO trained, armed and advised battalions. let that sink in. at some point the West will understand that whatever weapons they send can't replace the dwindling stocks of teenage boys and old men Ukraine needs to call on to keep this conflict going.
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  3002.  @MrAnonymous1515  it's just way easier to assume Russia is all bad and Ukraine is a nation of innocent bunnies being cruelly slaughtered. the sheep don't have the will or energy to look into Ukraine's shocking past.
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  3003. Russia tried to take Kiev? Russia conspicuously AVOIDED trying to take Kiev! Russia bombarded and pinned down countless Ukrainian forces while Russian troops in the south seized Kherson and Zaporozhe unopposed! Learn the basics!
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  3004. at least the referenda have expedited the exchange of populations. Those who want to live under Kiev's rule are going to the Ukrainian controlled side, and those who want to be Russian are now in the Russian occupied zones. Let annexation happen, peace negotiations and we are done.
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  3005. this deluded trio of fools will talk about support and do nothing. the only factor that MIGHT change the outcome is boots on the ground, and none of these three has the guts to send their soldiers to Ukraine. 15% of Ukraine's Western tanks already destroyed in 7 days of fighting, Ukraine already begging for more tanks. just so funny to see Western leaders smile and pretend it is all going so very well.
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  3006. how did you feel about all the Donbass citizens killed by Ukrainian shelling over the last 8 years?
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  3007. oh dear, UK slowly realizing that the country wasted billions on the futile war in Ukraine that Russia is destined to win. unless you got the arms to ensure victory, don't throw taxpayers' money away on a humiliating, lost war.
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  3008. when only 3 governments of the world's 20 most populated countries supports Ukraine, you know you failed to isolate Russia but succeeded in isolating yourself.
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  3009. China has not backed itself into any corner, honey. on the contrary, the rest of the world has done extremely well at getting trapped in corners, while China has benefitted enormously.
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  3010. right, so when Ukraine lies about attacks it's "ambiguity" and when Russian claims are dismissed they are "misinformation". Got it, Mike.
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  3011.  @Memovox  yep, that's right. After 21 "game changers" we have demoralized, badly equipped Russians, poorly led, halting in its track the grand NATO counter offensive!
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  3012.  @beaur252  it is the world that is due the truth, not Russia. All those taxpayers and customers that saw their investment turned to debris are due respect.
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  3013.  @robertharper3754  curious to see you laughing at the loss of freedoms in the West.
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  3014.  @chino3796  but you do believe "Ghost of Kiev" is a real pilot, right? And you do agree that Bandera, a Nazi murderer, deserves to be a national hero of Ukraine, right?
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  3015. Antonovsky or no Antonovsky, Kherson is being supplied and Russia will defend it and thence advance to Odessa. 70% shot down = 30% hit the target = enough to destroy Ukraine's power grid. A failure by the West. Thousands of examples = insufficient to change the course of the conflict. Russia also has himars and have thousands of examples. Slava Rossiyi
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  3016. more immigrants = greater demand for housing = higher rents. simple economics. so anyone complaining about high rents should also complain about immigration.
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  3017. Belarus didn't even bother to introduce any restrictions. They must have fared horribly. oh wait, they did pretty well.
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  3018. yet a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels defeated NATO trained and armed battalions in Bakhmut. one hell of a win for Ukronazia that one!
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  3019.  @Percival5  true. it is simply staggering the Western ignorance when it comes to anything Russian, right up to the leaders of the West. They still think in stereotypes that date from the 80's.
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  3020.  @ericbuck6034  let's just ignore the fact that if the hostages had been released, maybe those 50+ people would be 100% fine today
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  3021. OMG! Week SEVEN of the great counter offensive, and FOUR villages have been captured! At that rate, Ukrainian forces reach the Sea of Azov in 16 years! Only a fool would engage Russia in a protracted ground war.
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  3022.  @t0m0ffel  killing the enemy much more important than gaining or losing territory. territory can always be regained. not easy to regain 100,000 dead soldiers
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  3023. the very fact this discussion is happening shows just how much Russia is free compared to Scotland.
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  3024. "would be".....yep, conditional.
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  3025.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  Leeds es un desastre también, pero eso es otro asunto.
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  3026. UNRWA is just another arm of Hamas. Let those who support Hamas supply Gaza, not Western taxpayers.
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  3027. The EU is such a joke. It sends billions to Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe, and welcomes Ukraine with open arms as a candidate country, then points the finger at Orban and shouts "corruption". Brussels learnt nothing from the Brexit experience.
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  3028. we all knew we had idiots in charge when we were told the best way to combat a virus is to stay indoors, get no sunlight, no fresh air, and trust in a vaccine that is just a treatment to reduce serious cases, not a real vaccine.
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  3029. there are two things that are in France's best interests 1) take as much British money as possible. 2) let as many illegal immigrants as possible go to UK. the French will work on both of these aims relentlessly, as they should do. unless all boats are towed back to France, nothing will change.
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  3030. as you rightly said, NATO fighter pilots would lose. never take seriously anyone confused between "lose" and "loose".
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  3031.  @natalieturko4808  Russia is winning. you forgot, it's the losing side that surrenders! so that would be NATO/UKRONAZIA
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  3032. she certainly looks like she has built up an impressive amount of calorie reserves to make it through the hunger weeks ahead.
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  3033.  @titteryenot4524  so no worries at all then about NATO supplies to Ukraine, even though Biden said "we have to send cluster bombs because our stocks of 155mm shells are so low"?
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  3034. much more money should be sent to Ukraine. that will help our NHS recover
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  3035.  @thegreatdane3627  they will hand over what Russia demands because Ukraine is fast running out of men, weapons, ammo, financial support from the bankrupt West, and political support from the US. If you had kept your eye on the polls, you would see the West is fed up of ad infinitum bailing out of Ukraine. but let's hear your analysis. when exactly do you envisage Ukrainian troops parading victoriously through the streets of Sevastopol?:)
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  3036.  @haydotherapper5401  true, but remember, the Great Dane only looks at territory and in particular Bakhmut, there are no other factors in his war analysis, just which field and which village is occupied by which power! infantile, i know, but that is how he sees things.
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  3037. you are part of the problem. why use the word "Islamist" when the word "Muslim" is accurate? or are you saying the prophet, who was a mass murderer and a paedophile, was no extremist?
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  3038.  @Rose-jz6ix  hopefully the world learned not to trust the words of the "experts"
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  3039.  @PGHEngineer  on the contrary, never let the guilty forget just how idiotic they have been, Adolf.
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  3040. France thoroughly deserves all of this. Had the chance to vote for Zemmour to end immigration and start the deportation process, but chose Macron instead.
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  3041. we all know Zelensky would love to drag Poland into the war. good chance, if it is a missile, it came from Kiev
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  3042. agreed. i wish Brandon would just admit to US interference, so that the rest of the world could see American hypocrisy and low standards in all its embarrassing glory.
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  3043.  @frederikzinn6568  I'm guessing a "war crime" in your book is 1. any accusation made of something that contravenes YOUR understanding of international law and 2. something committed by Russia only. are you 100% sure that 100% of the war crimes committed since this all started in 2104 are committed by Russia, and 0% by Ukraine?
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  3044. Gotta laugh at the MOD's term "illegal invasion of Ukraine", as if NATO's bombing of sovereign Serbia and Libya was all perfectly legal.
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  3045. so the judge feels that the "odour of mendacity" that Willis brought to this case is something that is absolutely fine to carry on permeating the case, as he gives Willis the thumbs up to remain leading it? this "judge" defies belief. cretinous reasoning.
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  3046. LOL whining about energy terror. should have thought about this when his side tried to blow the Kerch Bridge and innocent motorists to little pieces.
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  3047. won't have a beneficial effect. On the contrary. it will just prolong the conflict, add to the death toll and lead to worse consequences when Russia dictates peace conditions.
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  3048. How about we consider an apology once we have heard the Kenyans apologize for all the hurt and suffering they have done to fellow Kenyans and to non-Kenyans over the centuries.
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  3049.  @l.w.paradis2108  in one video, if you look carefully, you can see the officer is aiming down, at the leg of the idiot driver, but the officer's shooting arm moves up as the car moves forward. hell of an irony if it turns out that the decision to drive forward moved the shooting arm up that made the bullet enter the thorax and not the leg!
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  3050. As Amnesty International pointed out, Ukronazis use human shields, so the missile attack on Avdiivka may well have been targetting troops and/or weaponry. Fair game.
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  3051.  @imconfused1237  yep, you nailed it with the words "condescending undertone". he drones on as if his audience has never considered the subject matter in hand and that he has some stupendous revelation to offer his pleb audience. if only!
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  3052. just laughable. NATO is sending whatever it can lay its hands on in pure desperation. Sending tanks is an admission that NATO doesn't have the missiles and rockets to win the war of attrition and that himars failed. Now the idea is to turn this into a tank battle. Russia already destroyed Ukraine's massive tank fleet months ago. If 25% of these tanks actually make it to the front lines it will be a miracle.
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  3053. Fingers crossed all the UK migrants choose to cross that open border to the Irish Republic. 1. it will show that Dublin was right to insist that the border remain open post Brexit and 2. Given that "diversity is our strength", the Irish will be much happier with loads more migrants making them stronger.
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  3054. hmm, no mention of the children murdered from Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk....I guess DW and Ukrainian State Media merged into one company.
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  3055.  @soundscape26  possibly, but your "home country" is not just a system that issues a passport and social security number. your home country is what formed your mind, thinking, spirit, soul and so much else.
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  3056.  @karimcherki130  same for me, lived and worked in Ukraine in 2018, saw the Nazi influence growing and how the Russian speakers were treated. I left and never went back nor would go back.
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  3057.  @BrokenBackMountains  in wars of attrition, territory counts for very little. only a fool would ignore the body count, supply of munitions, state of the economy, support from allies etc. Russia is winning, and USA is delighted Ukraine has agreed to fight its proxy war to the very last Ukrainian teenage recruit. Did the Allies run from the Ardennes in WW2?
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  3058.  @kleoqwer  all you had to do after the Maidan coup was allow Crimea and Donbass join Russia, as the majority of their people wanted, but no, you had to start a war about it. well, you got what you deserve, so let the tears roll.
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  3059. Glory to Russia, South Ossetia and Abkazia love you
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  3060. Western leaders know that Russia has won. The shock and awe sanctions have hurt the West a lot more than Russia, the Russian objectives of demilitarization and denazification are on course for completion, Donbass will be free of Ukrainian rule. Nothing the West can do to change this. The only question remaining is how the West will explain its deluded folly to the voters and citizens. Long, miserable, energy lacking expensive winter ahead for the West. Well done, guys
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  3061.  @volo7877  "all Ukraine should be theirs now". why would Russia want all Ukraine? Not one of Russia's objectives
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  3062.  @wamingo  Russians feel that huge parts of Ukraine ARE Russia. NATO in Ukraine, to most Russians, means kissing bye bye, forever, to Crimea, Odessa, Kharkov, Donbass and other areas that Russians consider historically Russian. Bit like asking why the Americans felt nuclear weapons being shipped to Cuba by Kruschev threatened the existence of USA.
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  3063.  @smitty347  when the Soviet Union collapsed, no one was in any position to contest where Russia starts or ends. Most Russians were ok with Ukraine as a sovereign state, as long as the ethnic Russians were treated fairly, which they were, up to the nationalist coup of 2014. After 2014 the ethnic Russians were treated as inferiors and discriminated against, so that is when Russians started to fight to have either autonomy or be independent. The West should have supported this.
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  3064.  @Marvhead  if USA wants to continue to exist then it should withdraw from Syrian territory. If NATO wants to continue to exist then it should withdraw from Kosovar territory.
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  3065.  @rogerpennel1798  the first batch of British soldiers arriving home in body bags will see Britain looking for PM number 4 for the year
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  3066. "we have problems of crime and violence in our own British culture" agreed. so, why would it be a good idea to add to that by importing more crime and violence from abroad?
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  3067. do you think it possible that some educated and intelligent quiet Australians are likely supportive of Donbass ethnic Russians in their brave defensive efforts against the aggressor NATO/Ukronazis?
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  3068. Hirohito thought the Allies were bluffing too.
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  3069. just surrender, then they can all go back and live in a Ukronazi state and be happy ever after. just let the Russian speaking Ukrainians become part of Russia.
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  3070. "Wave after wave of Russian soldiers" = the reservists have arrived, with plenty more on the way
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  3071. For DW, "far right" = anyone not espousing Socialism and wokery.
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  3072.  @janstapaj9689  on the contrary, Serbia and Russia have always had a close relationship and share much in common. it is no surprise that Serbia is not obeying the EU's bullying commands to distance itself from Russia.
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  3073.  @alexandrearaujo2877  which NATO member state was NATO defending when this "defensive alliance" bombed Serbia?
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  3074.  @andrasnemeth8333  just curious....who would be videoing underwater in the middle of the night in the expectation that something might blow up on the dam wall?
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  3075. Integration is working remarkably well. More and more British institutions, along with our "leaders", have become Sharia compliant and playing their role in allowing the Caliphate of Britanistan to come about.
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  3076. oh boy, this dude is a dope. "what does it have to do with Trump?" if she's corrupt enough to screw the GA taxpayers to enrich herself and her lover, she's corrupt enough to fabricate a case against Trump to enrich herself and her reputation. how dumb do you have to be to fail to grasp that, dude?
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  3077. As we speak, climate "scientists", with no agenda at all, are setting up their thermometers at Ajaccio airport, directly underneath where the planes take off, to make sure Sardinia does indeed record that highest ever temperature in Europe.
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  3078. how much you ready to bet?
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  3079. Tommy was arrested because march organizers said he wasn't welcome to join the march. news to me that it is illegal to join a march if the organizers specify an individual who must not join it. how can a public march be private?
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  3080.  @altaruss2838  what obvious reasons? Ukraine is desperate for recruits! what is the obvious reason to exclude female recruits, especially if you believe in equality between men and women?
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  3081.  @2russo.phobic4u  do you think supporting an invading country is ALWAYS an example of showing a lack of morality? Are there exceptions? USA in Iraq? the Allies in Germany? please explain if there are any exceptions to your moral rule. Slava Rossiyi, Glory to the Allies, Long live USA (even though it invaded the sovereign territory pf Iraq and Afghanistan)
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  3082. not at all, why should it be?
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  3083.  @hanshansen3885  the problem is, Hamas has promised to attack Israel in the future, so, yep, it's self defence when you attack the evil that has vowed to attack you as soon as it possibly can. self defence isn't necessarily just waiting to be hit.
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  3084. @teotronia and what history do you claim to know?
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  3085. so fascinating to see how such a snake in the grass actually looks just like a snake in the grass.
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  3086. 3 more fools that know nothing about how Russia works and what is happening there. it's all about contracts and putting on a show of force. Prigozhin was under pressure from his men to get a much better deal, Putin wanted to distance himself from such confrontation so let Lukashenko handle it (if only Zelensky had accepted the same offer from Lukashenko a year ago). Putin comes out stronger and most of the Wagners will re-enlist and go back to demilitarizing Ukronazia/NATO. Happy ever after.
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  3087. Losing your press accreditation in EU is a necessity, to keep the masses ignorant of the Russian perspective
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  3088.  @frankhusel5033  Oh Frank, sweet innocent child, living in the world of good and bad and no in-between! So, you say that the Russian perspective that claims most people in Crimea prefer to be part of Russia, and not part of Ukraine is a "lie", right?
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  3089. not really. it's been that way for a long time and, globally speaking, no one cares.
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  3090.  @markblanchard9049  why do you think the Donbass claims for independence are less deserving than those of Kosovo? of Catalonia? of Scotland?
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  3091. "financed by the EU" = taken from Hungarian taxpayers and then given back to them with the order that their money must be spent on railways.
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  3092. everyone in Mexico needs to post on line that this man is indeed a man and not a woman, as the court system can't punish the whole country.
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  3093.  @dandansen571  check the exchange rates...ruble exactly where the Russian governent wants it, one of the best performing currencies of the past year....the sanctions failed:)
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  3094.  @takeitasacompliment.  I don't say absurd things like "reliable sources"...the focus is all on you here. so, let's get to it. BBC you say? I'm trying not to smile, BBC, hmm, ok, got the link to what the BBC says on Russians shelling in the Donbass?
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  3095. One pretty reliable source I found over the years of Donbass shelling from 2018 onwards, when I worked in Ukraine, was my students. I could find no reason to disbelieve what they told me.
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  3096.  @johnriach8365  I mean the children buried in the Angels Alley and the ones my students told me about. You have been to Donbass, right?
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  3097.  @takeitasacompliment.  particularly intrigued by this claim that Russia even fired from Russian land on them (civilians in the Donbass) before 2022. Got the BBC link to that one please?
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  3098.  @takeitasacompliment.  how reliable was BBC in describing the "Ghost of Kiev"? Did you give the BBC 10 out of 10 for reliability on that one? and the heroic stance on Snake Island where the Ukrainians fought to the last man, but in fact surrendered. good accurate reliable reporting there?
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  3099. 3 of Ukraine's top fighter pilots just killed each other in a mid air collision, and this incompetence before they even got to see an F16 or a Russian enemy! You can't make this s**t up! But Ukraine is winning, right?
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  3100.  @Farzocalypse21  on the contrary, it is those that boost CO2 levels in the atmosphere that are helping their children. CO2 is helping green the planet and produce bigger crop yields.
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  3101.  @whitneyanders5945  a huge negative impact, yeah. more CO2 is good. greens the planet, bye bye famine
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  3102.  @aminamangera4871  look forward to seeing you protest 24/7 outside the Chinese embassy
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  3103. more important than territory gained, one key aim of the Kremlin was the demilitarization of Ukraine. Any idea what percentage of Ukraine's enlisted soldiers have been killed or crippled in the last month? A lot more than ).3% I would think
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  3104. @Li F grasp reality, Adolf
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  3105. Kirby astoundingly ignorant on how banking works. with just the PROMISE of 6 billion bucks on the way from USA, small chunks bit by bit or not, Iran has access to loans covering 6 billion from banks aplenty to do whatever it wants.
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  3106.  @bonnie7898  then let's keep it as private donations and no government throwing taxpayer money at the futile war. and let's hope Zelensky decides to help his own people by selling his properties in USA and Italy, but then again, don't hold your breath.
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  3107.  @teleguy5699  i would never expect your child's mind to understand the difference between a declaration of war and a limited special military operation, so let's leave it there, junior.
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  3108. democracy in Russia means bloggers can push the government to reveal the truth. in the Zelensky dictatorship, such media posts are not allowed, hence we never get any coverage of Ukrainian barracks' being hit, as they have been, by Russia.
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  3109. just imagine how the real Russian military will attack the rest of Donbass when its time to give the poorly equipped convicts of the Wagner gang a break! Soledar was just the warm up!
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  3110. love the way this fool is just reeling off a wish list of places he would like to see taken by Ukronazi forces. meanwhile, in the real world, we have already seen the next step. Today, Ukraine sent an urgent request to Germany for more tanks! after just one week!
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  3111.  @bearnecessities9568  it's always a pleasure to bring you the truth. keep analyzing both perspectives, not just one.
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  3112.  @Mark-Haddow  it is correct that NI is the region with steady growth (though all regions showed growth, albeit unsteady rather than steady) but that would be because NI has the enviable position of being able to choose between goods and services flowing in from the EU AND most goods and services that come in from the UK which are NOT subject to EU scrutiny. Best of both worlds, which we free marketeers preach non stop. Since you are not in Spain and have no idea of day by day comparisons between the EU and UK, can I ask you to keep your lying to matters related to your area of interest.
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  3113.  @dirkdupont5004  oh, I see, so when business is down in Spain it is due SOLELY to the cost of living crisis and the sanctions on Russia (the war in Ukraine has no effect on business, but the sanctions do). But when business is down in the Uk is is NOT to do with the cost of living crisis and the sanctions on Russia. ONLY Brexit explains the same phenomenon in the UK. Explained with the wayward logic of a truly deluded Remoaner! you genius!
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  3114.  @dirkdupont5004  Do I need to remind you that while the EU was haggling over terms and conditions of a contract for covid vaccine supplies, UK was already injecting people? So, one advantage would be UK, free from Brussels red tape, saved lives when vaccines became available. Is the EU stll going ahead with taking Astra Zenica to court do you know?:)
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  3115. when she looks into Ukrainian war crimes then we'll consider her as an impartial investigator
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  3116. yeth, Gulliver, Ukraine needth more weaponth and NATO hath tho little to thupply thethe dayth. tho thad.
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  3117. she didn't answer the question, so here goes. Vox are doing well because more and more Spaniards believe immigration should end, that a man can't become a woman, that abortion = murdering an unborn child, that violence against men is as much a crime as violence against women, that traditional Spain had much to be proud of. oh, SOOO far right! really!
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  3118. DW NEVER makes it clear whether delays in weapons systems are due to an unwillingness to supply Ukraine (and thence explain this unwillingness) or due to inabilty (and thence explain this inability).
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  3119.  @binkabi4725  As EU citizens, the locals can go anywhere in the EU they choose, for as long as they like. and anyone in the EU can outprice them in their own home town and hang around their beach forever. welcome to the horrors of the EU
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  3120.  @sabinenadal8470  a stupid answer only to fools who don't grasp the underlying causes.
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  3121. interesting that Clarke confesses Ukraine had no sense of nationhood before the war. Clarke not bright enough to realize this lack of nationhood led to the derussification of the whole of Ukraine in a desperate bid to find an identity. Sadly, the only sense of nationhood Ukraine could fine was "we are not Russian, look, we erased all Russian culture and compelled everyone to speak Ukrainian"....the very heart of why war broke out. should have left the Russian speakers alone.
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  3122. Bealrus will side with Russia if ordered to do so. For right now, Russia just needs Belarussian territory as a base and a threat.
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  3123. price cap = shortages, therefore EU looking to create the right conditions for blackouts this winter and beyond. screw the idea of dropping sanctions on Russia, let's just suffer and increase how many die of the cold this winter.
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  3124.  @LearnWithVikram7  Ukraine has received untold billions in aid and weapons so far. Do you see a remarkable benefit to the country of Ukraine now compared to 4 months ago? What makes you think printing more money to throw at Ukraine will help Ukraine? So far it has led Ukraine to the brink of utter disaster and defeat!
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  3125. Xi gave Zelensky a long overdue lecture on how to stop being duped by the West and how to get out of this mess by peace talks with Putin.
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  3126.  @michaelyun2407  sounds like a good idea. let the half of Ukraine that wants to be part of Russia be so. now you are talking sense.
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  3127. oh yeah, doing really well. at the current rate of "progress" it will get to the Sea of Azov and cut the Russian land bridge in 16 years. any boy born today will be drafted into the Ukrainian armed forces to witness this magnificent triumph.
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  3128. "spending always has to come before taxation" other way round. you can't spend what you don't have. first something of value is taken from the people, and then when that thing of value is in the hands of the authorities, they start spending, and so the cycle goes on. without taxation first, borrowing is impossible too.
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  3129. La Russe a gagné, alors les faux amis de Zelensky ne parlent qu'au sujet de comment critiquer les vainqueurs, la Russie et la Chine.
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  3130.  @unworthy42  invasion was the only option available given NATO's refusal to talk peace and security in December 2021
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  3131.  @menschin2  despite the fact that Biden said he would blow up Nordstream
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  3132.  @fredtaylor9792  you wish.
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  3133. Assume that anyone who assumes they know what Putin thought or thinks is a total fool. That would be Lloyd Austin.
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  3134.  @dweb  Obviously the EU would be much better off if it heeded the words of Orban. All of you are free to disband the EU if it is no longer to your liking, and just let the US dictate all your policies and destroy whatever pipelines the US chooses to destroy.
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  3135.  @ghazanfaryaq6776  Ukraine has a big army, and Russia is doing just fine...steady progress to achieve the 5 objectives
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  3136. I wish for Christmas we could communicate to the Ukrainian people the evil being done in their name.
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  3137. Poor Owen Jones is not much of a linguist. He hasn't learnt the definition of "hospital" in the Dictionary of Hamas Arabic. "Hospital" = military centre under a building that purports to care for sick and injured people.
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  3138. oh, silly me, I was waiting til the end of the report to hear about the poor Donbass folk in a similar situation after their residences were destroyed by Azov Nazi Ukrainian shells. I guess that bit got edited out, for whatever reason.
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  3139.  @ashleylittle6776  why not? what part of what Hirsh said is 100% evidently incorrect? pray tell.
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  3140.  @sergiosilva7528  as I pointed out, reading comprehension is not your forte. Focus on what I say, not on what you think I am saying. not all Western countries are facing the same issues. Is Brexit an issue in Austria? in USA? being "close" to Russia or Ukraine is irrelevant. what is important is to what extent any Western country has decided to throw money and aid at Ukraine, and to what extent they have pursued sanctions on Russia. Both policies have hurt the West enormously. My solution is to allow the free market to operate, and, no, that would not lead to the death of the planet. alarmist and bedwetter by nature, are you?
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  3141.  @sergiosilva7528  tell you what, let's make this easy. you pick any Western country you like, and you explain why that particular country is recovering quicker than the UK. Then I'll set you straight, if needed.
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  3142. Option Four, Ukraine surrenders
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  3143. given that Ukraine invaded the DPR and LPR, Putin is the guy standing up and defending the victims in this fight.
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  3144. Social Darwinism. Not the brightest civilians that think it is a really good idea to mingle with NATO mercenaries in the pizzeria next to the Hotel NATO, just a few kilometers away from the front line.
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  3145. for anyone bothered to solve the crimes behind Jay's disappearance, and that would exclude the Tenerife police, solve the crimes and get the suspects to sing, and you'll find Jay.
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  3146. speak for yourself, Ms Expert, when you say Europe assumed security and peace within its borders! Europe's fools might have, not all of us.
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  3147.  @kfoods4853  yeah. Give me a timeline. This is Day 11 of the Great Ukrainian counter offensive on Kherson. Not one single village or town taken yet. Kuleba said Kherson will DEFINITELY be in Ukrainian hands by September. You agree? Russia has done all this before. Crimea was never retaken. Chechnya was never retaken. Transnistra was never retaken. Abkhazia was never retaken. South Ossetia was never retaken. Syria not retaken. But you are 100% sure that Ukraine WILL be retaken! When?
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  3148.  @Galopo  I'm challenging what to you is "obvious". the "stronger" army of NATO was an absolute fiasco of disorder and defeat last year when the Taliban walked into Kabul. I would certainly question a "stronger" army when the tolerance for masses of dead lads being shipped home in body bags in the West is VERY low, and the West has not fought a war against a hardened professional army for. well, forever! My guess is China and Russia BOTH have stronger armies. "Stronger" economy is doubtful too. This often is expressed as "Russia has the GDP of Italy"..yeah, but Russia exports what the world needs, precious metals, oil, gas, coal, food....Italy doesn't. I would say value of exports is more of a factor than GDP, as Western nations are now discovering with their misguided sanctions. Many people emigrate to Russia..from Ukraine (DPR,LPR), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan. Flow of immigrants, to a great extent, reflects the ease of entering a country rather than desire to enter said country. Maybe one test of who is fitter is who different nations ally themselves to. Recently we have seen how most of the globe, in defiance of Western arm-twisting, have kept relations and trade with Russia open and flowing. There has been reluctance to follow the West's lead, and willingness to ditch petrodollars and SWIFT and many other Western systems. My gut feeling is that the world has changed, and the West is now in its death throes of dominance. it senses the globe is shifting toward China and Russia and is panicking. The West has lost a LOT of its fitness! One clear example, AMLO recently led a mini boycott of US policy at the OAS conference, Mexico dropping out because USA refused to allow Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to attend. Just not sure BRICS and developing countries view the West as fit to lead anymore.
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  3149.  @davidk2906  maybe so, but present the world with all of your evidence that proves Trump is, and Biden isn't. cue crickets.
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  3150. Gotta laugh at the West's naive assumption that Russia has a monopoly on war crimes, and that Ukraine has a 100% unblemished war crimes record. Pure Russophobia when the objective is not to try war crimes, but to try ONLY Russian war crimes. So typical of Western bias. and you wonder why we don't believe a word you say, minister?
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  3151.  @ancietman  when did Trump mention carbon capture?
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  3152. Priority number 1 for Putin is the demilitarization of Ukraine. Given that it could well be that Ukraine is close to out of cannon fodder and weapons and arms, who's to say the plan has faltered?
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  3153. what's truly baffling is exactly why Kiev wants to keep losing thousands of men every week in order to retain/regain territory whose people want to remain Russian. just redraw the map and let those who want to become Russian become Russian.
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  3154. "called a sham by the West"....any vote not manipulated by the West is a "sham". the rest of the world is fine with this referendum. Speaks volumes that the West fully approved of the coup that removed the democratically elected president of Ukraine in 2014. That's Western values and rules based system for you.
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  3155. So, Mark, how did the "best Police force in the world" handle the Pakistani rape gang horror in so many of our cities?
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  3156.  @Julia-Richter  Russia just copied what USA did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and is a little surprised to see that the rule book exempts USA from having to follow the rules.
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  3157. the British voters elected the government that presides over all this. the British voters will do the same thing again in the next few months.
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  3158. "the main thrust of this counter offensive hasn't happened yet" curious way of saying that here we are in Week 4, and not one single Ukrainian fighter has got anywhere near the FIRST line of Russian defence. Bogged down and massacred in the security zone = steady progress! Got to love the BBC for spinning horrendous defeat into "progress".
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  3159. Tit for tat. If this missile strike was intentional, then maybe it is pay back for the missile attacks on residential areas of Donetsk by Ukraine. Sweet revenge.....but oh wait, BBC did report with equal outrage on the recent Ukrainian attacks on civilians in Donetsk, right? You did all see that report, right?
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  3160. his English is certainly better than his Ukrainian
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  3161.  @ByddinRhyddidCymru  so true. not much point in begging in Ukrainian to his own oligarchs.
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  3162.  @zytoses9223  and English is what he uses 24/7 to keep begging to continue his futile war, so yes, it is understandable.
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  3163.  @flopoz2575  1. No self-declared fascist is allowed to enter the Russian army. Russia lost millions fighting the Fascists in WW2, and does not abide by admitting Fascists into its ranks. Of course, there are a small number of Fascists fighting for Russia, but that is despite the Kremlin's policy, not because of its policy. Ukraine, on the other hand, reveres Bandera as a national hero and embraces Nazis into its ranks. whether those Ukrainian nazis invade others' territory or not doesn't change the fact they are nazis given official welcome and embraced by the Ukrainian government. 2. Ukraine is far from being a democracy. there are no opposition parties allowed in the Rada, and Zelensky has cancelled elections for 2024. Putin, on the other hand, has to deal with opposition in the Duma every day, from the likes of the Communist party, and it is Putin standing for re-election again in 2024. 3.Some of us have worked in Ukraine and seen the Banderites up close. Unless you have, STFU
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  3164. so this "expert" states Italy NEEDS "strong leadership", and given Draghi is unelected, I guess the "expert" approves of dictatorships? Wonder if he prefers Dictator Putin or Dictator Zelensky
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  3165. c'était juste est uniquement un hôpital, ou base militaire de Hamas aussi?
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  3166.  @delos2279  really? i thought it was Ukraine that refused to implement Minsk accords? hmmmm
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  3167. the recurring theme is of unsustainable debt levels. you can live off your credit card very well for quite some time, but when the walls start closing in, things get very ugly.
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  3168.  @alexsilent5603  it's a long lost dream
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  3169. huge amount of resources spent in spinning wheels frantically and getting nowhere. solve the crime, and jay will be found. doesn't work the other way round.
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  3170.  @anthonymorris2276  Pentagon. presumably, listened to your 100% conclusive evidence, but the Pentagon has NOT concluded that Russia is responsible! Having any second thoughts?
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  3171.  @samhavoc1066  ahh, so there ARE circumstances under which a declaration of war can be justified OTHER than being invaded oneself. thanks for falling in to the trap and clearing that point up. now then, to the matter in hand....can you think of any other good reason why war should be declared on a foreign power that never actually invaded you? keep thinking!
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  3172.  @danielc9967  Ukraine should have done what Putin wanted, not because what Putin wants counts for anything, but because what Putin wanted was also best, in this case, for the Ukrainian people. Putin just wanted ALL Ukrainians to have a voice over the 2014 coup, and that is something you should have wanted too.
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  3173. She voted for the people who are responsible for what happened to her. she decided that Portland was the most wonderful place to live! slow learner.
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  3174. 1. he never missed a bus. he was 2 hours early for the first bus of the day. 2. he never said he intended to walk back to Los Cristianos. 3. MWT reports it was only 18 degrees on that fateful Monday morning. facts matter. why do the media get so many of them so wrong?
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  3175. import the 3rd world, import 3rd world problems. totally deserved result.
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  3176.  @AngelaNewcomb  "all people of all cultures have the same problems" No, they don't. How many terrorist incidents happen in Japan, or Chile, or any country with virtually no Muslims? Learn something about the world!
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  3177. By the time Ukraine joins the EU, how many refugees will be living outside Ukraine? How many of Ukraine's young men will be dead and buried? Will the EU still exist?
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  3178. After 6 days of this offensive, Ukraine has suffered massive losses of men and weaponry, has gained no territory, and has punched through nowhere in these forward Russian positions. It is a NATO/Ukraine disaster. It will only get worse.
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  3179.  @thegreatdane3627  NATO always assumed it would have air superiority against an opponent. Now that Russia's drones and missiles are penetrating Ukraine's air defenses frequently enough to destroy the country, what do you think NATO will do?
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  3180.  @lyliavix4366  congratulations! you lived in 6% of the total number of European countries! that sure makes you the expert! would anyone who lived in some of the remaining 94% of countries have any insight to offer you?
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  3181. this whole "English towns and cities going down the drain" is so true. I'm English, my wife is from the Bahamas, we both work online and move around a fair amount, but avoid England. strolling around any English town at night my wife would say "this isn't how I imagined England to be" and I'm forced to answer "this isn't how it used to be" we have a small apartment in rural France where, so far, the migrant masses haven't invaded, but where we feel most at ease is Mexico. I just dread spending any time in London, in particular, from the very first moment when someone in a turban at passport control asks me in broken English "why I am coming back into the UK". horrible experience.
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  3182. 100% right. The cauldron drew in Ukrainian battalions ad infinitum, and they got massacred.
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  3183.  @georgebarnes8163  so if the attacker is in his fifties and was only in Ireland for 20 years, that means he is not from Ireland. thanks for clearing that up.
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  3184. and Ukraine has so many men and weapons on hand it doesn't even have to ask NATO for a thing!
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  3185. Great to hear that the US spy is meeting his just desserts in the Russian judicial system. Next time, don't go snooping around the enemy's munitions facilities!
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  3186.  @BatMan-oe2gh  less government services does not mean more suffering
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  3187.  @BatMan-oe2gh  affecting people can mean in a positive way or a negative way. Only a fool would assume that anything that affects more people must mean more suffering. Look up the word "affect" in a dictionary.
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  3188. and now the truth....after a full week of the counter offensive, thousands of Ukraine cannon fodder have died, Western wonder weaponry destroyed, but zero territorial gains made and the ukronazis are nowhere near reaching even the FIRST Russian defence line. absolute disaster for Ukraine/NATO. Roll on those images of Bradleys and Leopards getting destroyed. heartening.
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  3189. Only the totally blind and ignorant claim this "has nothing to do with race". look at every video of those looting and shop lifting, and those who are the shop owners.
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  3190. curious that these three ignore MWT's assertion that Jay left the airbnb scared for his own safety and just had to get away from there, anywhere he could. omissions like this lead to all the speculation they say they so despise. Do your job, GBNews, and you won't get so much pushback.
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  3191. careful what you wish for...when the Wagners catch the deluded puppet in his Kiev bunker, Zelensky may well have to stand trial for crimes against humanity
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  3192. more support = empty words and hand wringing, but no ammo and air defences. enjoy all that support!
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  3193.  @JamesHussain82  yep, just enough time for some sky diving before heading back for that bus, or, maybe not.
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  3194.  @soil-play  of course. the huge tactical blunder was believing NATO assurances that it could deliver a victory over Russia.
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  3195. the mystery, criminality, lies, ineptitude, it's compulsive viewing this one. some kid wandering off and disappearing has no great crime/mystery attached to it
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  3196.  @janeburke147  definitely. just astounding how many people are posting about "leave it to the professionals". it's the professionals that are just leaving things hang in the air. don't rock the boat is the policy in play.
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  3197. no doubt Brexit is also the reason record food inflation has hit Estonia and Lithuania too.
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  3198.  @caravanstuff2827  Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons, so you can retract that lie to start with. If you were living in Africa, you would learn just how much Russia is respected and applauded and just how much Ukraine and the West is despised and shunned.
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  3199. if the Kerch Bridge is "vital" and of such strategic importance, how did Crimea survive for 4 years with no land bridge to Russia AND no Kerch Bridge?
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  3200.  @MrNeversweat  depends at what cost
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  3201. always truly fascinating how these "experts" wax lyrical about Ukraine's resolve, determination, fight for independence, yet have nothing to say on DPR's and LPR's and Russia's resolve, determination and fight for independence. Do they assume, for some bizarre reason, that Ukraine possesses greater amounts of these things? weird.
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  3202. same police force that allowed the mass rape of thousands of white working class girls by Pakistani gangs, same police force that did nothing to stop real hate crime in Rotherham.
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  3203. assimilation is not needed at all. The Amish refuse to assimilate, but they prosper. all that is needed is respect for the laws of the host country, and be a contributor and not a parasite. no assimilation is needed. Chinese communities in France don't really assimilate, but they work hard and respect the laws of France.
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  3204. Western leaders know the truth. this war is unwinnable for Ukraine, but given the aim is to weaken Russia, down to the last Ukrainian soldier, the West feels it is doing ok. Ukraine will be destroyed and the West will move on to the next victim country. and looks like Russia won't be terribly weakened, so all in all, a futile war, but at least no NATO lads will get killed.
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  3205.  @itranslatestuff6507  and Soviet Ukraine also lost a lot of people fighting FOR a fascist rot, all those Ukrainians who followed Bandera's lead to take an allegiance to Hitler. Soviet Russians didn't take such oaths, however.
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  3206.  @grigol101  if colonialism is to blame for everything, explain how Singapore and the Bahamas have become such success stories.
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  3207. let me guess, the Maldives and Bahamas will be totally under water?
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  3208. It's dreadfully tough for Donbass its people and forces... keep strong I'm sure your day will come
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  3209. We don't care how appalled you are by such comments. We want to know why you assume such sentiments are not widespread on the Left.
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  3210. "street to street fighting continues" yep, so Wagners are withdrawing while the battle rages on, and BBC accepts the battle rages on because Ukraine says so. RIP journalism in the West.
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  3211. Sadly, the guest is 100% wrong. All those coming across in small boats are 100% legal. It is legal to request asylum on arrival, no matter how you arrive, hence none of them is arrested at Dover. Only reversing the law, and allowing asylum claims to be made ONLY from outside the UK, will change anything.
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  3212. It's a Russian company, Rozatom, that controls uranium production from Kazakhstan. Russia and China are gradually gaining a stranglehold on uranium and nuclear fuel supply to the world. The complacent West may well shrug and say "we have huge stocks, we are fine" but, for example, France would suffer horrendously if the global price of uranium sky rocketed. Yet another example of sanctions on Russia backfiring
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  3213. She is not far right. It is DW that is far left. Hey, DW, when did you last describe any European political leader or party as "far left"?
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  3214. NATO needs to learn to pay its bills. period.
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  3215. just startling how many people have decided to take the side of the terrorists.
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  3216. he certainly is, and more importantly, he is right.
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  3217. Zelensky doesn't fear for his country. Zelensky fears the world will see what an absolute fool he has been.
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  3218. "Russia's war with Ukraine" = Ukraine/NATO's war with Russia
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  3219.  @stolemycoconut5448  protesting what?
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  3220. after all that waffle and word salad, I feel sure that this man has no clue what he should be doing to keep Britons safe. none at all. he spoke like a bumbling bureaucrat that just wanted to get out of the office and forget reality.
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  3221.  @johanhirte9661  child poverty rates is no indicator of good or bad investment opportunities! Russia has a much more robust economy than EU. By "smaller" you are looking at that misleading and outdated GDP nonsense. Same mistake the EU leaders made, thinking a smaller GDP = weaker economy. It doesn't. China remains a sound place to invest. It's shrinking economy is still more productive than the West's. South Africa is mineral rich, and produces commodities the world needs. You are clearly ignorant about Brazil....but par for the course, you seem ignorant on most things. Saudi Arabia and Iran would be VERY useful BRICS members. Just see how the West panics every time Russia and OPEC work together to lower oil production.
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  3222.  @johanhirte9661  1. Correct. Japan and Korea are not BRICS countries. Who said they were? However, both Japan and Korea produce machinery, engines and vehicles that rival Germany's and are competing most favorably with Germany. Remember, I was replying to the observation that Germany produces "the best" machinery. 2. Correct, US and Japan are big rivals of Germany, and right now, investing in both USA and Japan would look a whole lot wiser than investing in de-industrialized, green obsessed, recession hit Germany. 3. Investment decisions are based on anticipated, future growth, NOT on the current situation, so describing current stats is irrelevant. it is the trend and the future that is of concern. 4. small in volume CURRENTLY indicates a possible great opportunity for investment! 5. Clearly you have learnt nothing from the Ukraine conflict. Russia is absolutely massive when it comes to the world economy. Only the West has failed to grasp this.
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  3223.  @fatmir-t9p  exactly, though you are quite generous with your assessment that the US and UK have, as allies, 4 "strong enough militaries with them"!
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  3224.  @jasonodlin8305  you tell me. if NATO is in such a strong position to support Ukraine, why is NATO failing to do so? why the constant begging from Zelensky? you choose! which one is it? NATO CAN'T supply anymore, all its stocks are reduced to next to nothing, OR NATO doesn't WANT to supply any more. which one is it?
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  3225. No, sir, if you are in a crowded theatre and you shout "fire", AND THERE IS A FIRE, you have done your duty and breached no rights!
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  3226. She is not an MP, but she is brilliantly intelligent, as you pointed out.
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  3227. no it won't
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  3228. oh! DW dedicated 8 seconds to mentioning the shelling of Donetsk City! Yeah, I know 3 seconds of those 8 seconds questioned whether Russia was shelling its own city, but still, 5 seconds of acknowledging Ukrainian war crimes is progress!
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  3229. makes you wonder why Kennedy had such a meltdown in 1963.
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  3230. I wish the Donbass ethnic Russians the best of luck in defending their homelands.
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  3231. Another failed Ukrainian terrorist attack. The bridge is open and both vehicles and trains are passing, and of course Dugin is still alive. However, we get it, unable to push Russia out of the Russian occupied zones, have to resort to terrorism. At least Russia now has every right, nay duty, to reply in kind and see what Ukrainian infrastructure can be obliterated without concern for human life. Slava Rossiyi
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  3232. The refusal of Police to enter the Bristol/Colston violence was because "they did not want to escalate the situation" so, when, exactly, do the Police think that intervention, arrests, handcuffs etc results in de-escalating a situation? explain your reasoning, so we all understand.
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  3233. Ukraine lost all sovereignty with the Azov Nazi coup in 2014
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  3234.  @Дмитрий-п9ь7щ  for those who can't pay it's life or death, not about price. People die EVERY winter because they can't afford heating. Germany will see a spike in those numbers this winter that will be a horrendous humiliation. Telling an old person that "heating is just about price" is like telling a starving African "there's food, it's just about price". callous, heartless, deluded.
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  3235.  @Ron_Coletta  that perfect feeling of solidarity in the Berlin bunker as the Fuhrer and his stooges committed suicide as the Soviets approached.
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  3236.  @starvictory7079  just curious, do any of your industries use gas at all?
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  3237. sanctions on Russia is crucial, isolating Russia is crucial, stingers and javelins are crucial, himars is crucial, tanks are crucial, fighter jets are crucial, a limited number of NATO pilots is crucial, a limited number of NATO ground forces are crucial, supplying Ukraine with all our armed forces is crucial. at least Germany has woken up to how this tragedy unfolds.
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  3238. BBC is just a clown show. A massive turnout to vote for Putin is now evidence of massive Anti Putin protests across Russia. hysterical.
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  3239. Beware the Russian pocket, allowing enemy forces to be drawn in and then surrounded.
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  3240.  @Checobeep  Given what you said, you need to learn about the realities of life in Ukraine. been there, have you? Lived and worked in Ukraine before?
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  3241. Only the truly deluded think that Russia can be defeated. The same people who believed in Ghost of Kiev and swallowed the lie about those Ukrainians who surrendered on Snake Island as being heroes who fought to the death.
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  3242.  @Gilga66  anyone with a working brain knows that India has several reasons for remaining neutral, not least because India has Russian support in the UN over Kashmir and India is a good client for weapons sales from Russia. The reasons for India's neutrality are manifold, but you would have to have a brain to understand such things.
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  3243. well well well, for once someone in MSM in the West focuses on the Ukraine dead, not the Russian dead. Yep, the stupidity of deciding to fight Russia in a land war is starting to register with some. Give it a few more months and fighting age men will have been wiped out in Ukraine and the Russians will be rumbling towards Kiev. Let's see how popular Zelensky is then
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  3244. yet more evidence that colonialism would serve Ghana much better than the independence to get in horrendous debt every few years.
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  3245. "you cannot justify in any way the attack on the mosque" how would he know what messages of intolerance have been preached and spread in that mosque?
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  3246.  @nigelsynnott7344  correct, I know little of the law, but speak about what is just and what justice looks like. The UK has indeed admitted hordes of illegal immigrants. if they were legal, they wouldn't be accommodated in hundreds of hotels up and down the country. they entered the country illegally. all those that arrived from France face no persecution in France and thus do not qualify as asylum seekers. they are all safe in Calais. if laws need to be changed then change the laws, but as i said, i care about justice, not laws.
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  3247.  @nigelsynnott7344  then let's break the law. what's France going to do? go to the ICC to get an arrest warrant for Sunak? Take a look at what is happening in France these days over pension reforms...does it look like the French are hard and fast law respecters to you?
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  3248.  @nigelsynnott7344  if France took the UK to court, would that worry you? would that give you sleepless nights?
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  3249.  @socillizt4life  i am not talking about legality. the laws on immigration are nonsense. I am talking about what is true and what is just. I said any illegal immigrant arriving from France cannot possibly be a refugee or an asylum seeker, given that such a person faces no political persecution in France and needs no refuge from any laws in France. Any "asylum" claim from such an illegal immigrant is null and void. it has as much merit as claiming to be an alien from Mars. it's nonsense. Fact, so deal with it.
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  3250. agreed, NATO needs to send Ukraine each and every weapon it has, so that Russia can destroy these weapons, and then both Ukraine and the West will be demilitarized. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  3251. and is always wrong on all matters concerning the war in Ukraine. Hodges has no idea how Russia works.
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  3252. Russia is so far ahead of the EU in arms production, it is a joke. some deluded fools still think a few F16s will change the course of Russia's inevitable win!
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  3253. as things stand, granma has a good chance of being found frozen to death in Frankfurt on Christmas Day, but the EU notion of a "great success" is a mandate to vote on a proposal! 100% explains Brexit.
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  3254.  @rollerrollerichson6258  It's nothing to do with Brexit. Just curious, do you blame the rampant inflation in Lithuania on Brexit? Just curious, where are you from?
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  3255.  @Dylanesque  Brexit is not costing the UK in lost trade. let's try you with the simple question. If the single market and frictionless trade within the EU is so wonderful, why do Costa Rican bananas cost less in the Spanish supermarket than Spanish bananas
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  3256.  @Dylanesque  AHHH, so you finally admit that there are MANY factors in how a price of any good or service is determined! Well, well, well! So, logically, all those SAME factors that make Costa Rican bananas cheaper than Spanish bananas in Spain will affect ALL trade between any 2 countries. So, logically, pointing to ONE factor, Brexit, and saying "that ONE factor explains everything" is clearly ridiculous. Thank you for highlighting why your dumb mantra of "it's brexit, it's brexit" is pure bs. Now, as to your figures, explain how these figures are calculated, exactly. over what time frame, for example.
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  3257.  @andrewadams6905  would all major Ukrainian cities include Mariupol? when did Russians ever enter Kiev or Kharkov? seems like you have no clue how this war has gone!
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  3258. baby steps worked in Syria and Chechnya for Putin. They'll work in Ukraine too.
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  3259. Notice in Western MSM how huge Russian losses are invariably mentioned, but in those same reports, never a mention of any huge Ukrainian losses, or the possibility that Ukraine has lost even more, or a lot more. roll on with more propaganda, BBC
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  3260. yep, that would be Islam
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  3261.  @wendymaxfield  le conflit en Ukraine
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  3262. Ukronazia already lost.
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  3263. The assumption is that NATO has weaponry and ammo aplenty to send to Ukraine. Word on the street is that NATO didn't have stockpiles anything LIKE Russia did/has, that the stuff just ain't there to send! NATO won't admit this. Ukraine won't contemplate this. But this could well be the sad truth for Ukraine's war effort.
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  3264. so none of the people interviewed were leaving Russia due to being called up as a reservist!
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  3265.  @sabretooth5404  none of those involved in the mystery are being asked any key questions. even in this Brad interview, the dumb trout interviewer doesn't ask the obvious....."at what time did you make your call to Jay?" or even, "you say you had just come out of the festival, but the festival ended at 4 a.m., so, you called Jay at 4 a.m.?" no questioning at all. even the 2 "strangers" who, bizarrely, were allowed to return to the UK, have not been grilled by anyone. Williams-Thomas is the only person presenting the public with key information on the mystery. no one else is.
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  3266.  @BkNy02  1) Taliban won control of the millions of people who live there. people do have some importance, still. Taliban won respect for kicking out USA in such a humiliating way, while USA and NATO were laughed at by the world. 2) never mentioned Afghans killed by drones because I was talking about the ignominious cowardly shabby pathetic exit from Kabul, not the fighting in Afghanistan leading up to the Great Embarrassment.
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  3267.  @dain6250  1. what defines a "war economy"? in what way is Russia's economy on a war footing whereas NATO's is not? 2. so your answer is that NATO chooses not to do what is necessary to supply Ukraine adequately. makes "as long as it takes" sound a little hollow, right? 3. what convinces you that NATO, even implementing a war economy, would out-produce Russia? 4. with all those Abrams tanks stuck behind Russian minefields, why has NATO chosen to send a bunch of extensive sitting ducks for the Russians to destroy?
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  3268.  @sammiller6631  you're making the same mistake as all the NATO leaders made at the beginning of this conflict. Western leaders just assumed the massive difference in GDP between the West and Russia meant it would be fairly straight forward to destroy the Russian economy. What the West failed to realize was that Russia works very closely with BRICS and OPEC and other sanctioned nations, so that, in fact, the West is up against the rest of the world! Also, Russia exports commodities that the world needs, so the value of its exports are far greater than the West's. Don't confuse price with value.
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  3269.  @Kaz850  au contraire, je regarde bien les faits
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  3270. this is the silent majority sending a message to Just Stop Oil. most people are absolutely fine with pumping more oil.
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  3271. Ukraine is at the tipping point. Not Russia. If Russia forces Ukraine out of Soledar and Bakhmut, that will mean more Western taxpayers see this conflict as a losing cause and they will not want to keep funding it. Already, 30% of Germans polled said they want their government to push Ukraine into peace talks. Once that number hits 50%, and it will edge up to 50% with every kilometer gained by Russia and every village lost by Ukraine, then this futile war is over. Russia is not at the same tipping point. Every day that Ukraine is stepping back a few meters it appraoches the day the Western taxpayers shout "enough!"
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  3272. "They killed our children" yep, that's what happens when your elected government attacks Israel. what would you expect?
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  3273. Investors had no faith that even more debt for the UK would be sustainable. There is no parliamentarian with the guts to slash spending and tackle the debt. Britain is doomed no matter whether it is led by Truss, Hunt or Starmer. Putin for PM
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  3274. Just how many drones do you think it will take to kill the Russian determination to liberate the Donbass?
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  3275. investment, not charity? so, when will Zelensky be selling his mansion in Miami and his Italian villa to take advantage of this wonderful investment opportunity?
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  3276.  @ruZsiaNa-C  but just to play your game for a second, let's assume that Putin does want to recreate the Russian empire. what would be so terrible about that? the fewer US military bases around the planet the better, right? and given that Putin has been in power for 2 decades, why has he done nothing to reclaim the Baltic states in all that time|?
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  3277.  @ruZsiaNa-C  no doubt you were one of those applauding along with Zelensky and Trudeau the Waffen SS veteran honored so enthusiastically in the Canadian Parliament.
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  3278. the "surprise" day time assault was no surprise to those who understand what is going on. it was just more evidence of Ukraine's inability to defend its skies even in the best conditions. Russia is depleting Ukrainian air defences and waiting to decide when it can assert air supremacy. The West can't supply Ukraine with air defences at the rate Ukraine is using them up, so just a matter of time before Russia will dominate the skies all over Ukraine.
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  3279.  vi2829hj  sadly, leaving the EU doesn't mean leaving the EU mindset
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  3280. yeah. let's ditch the idea of private property and have the state take over all housing. after all, it worked so well in the USSR and works wonderfully in Cuba
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  3281. uhhh, colonel, exactly which bridges over the Dnipr will still be standing when those Leopards head towards the Donbass?
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  3282. that was so touching. People of Donbass hoping to liberate ethnic Russians. My heart cries
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  3283. For months we were told Russian morale is low, Russia is running out of weapons and ammo, sanctions on Russia are crippling the country, NATO is giving Ukraine what it needs to win Suddenly, Russia is advancing. So how quickly will Russia win when its morale goes up, more weapons are on the way, its economy stabilizes and NATO struggle to keep up with ever more demands for massive supplies?
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  3284.  @JeffreyGoddin  0.4% is 300,000 extra people every year, that we know about. who is going to pay for their accommodation? you?
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  3285. "Russia has already lost this war" said Biden in July. With liars like that leading the West, better that Putin wins.
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  3286. just hilarious that an ignoramus like Kisin. forever posing as some kind of native Russian savant, thinks he has some kind of grasp on what happened in Ukraine in 2104. He doesn't. Hinkle is 100% right. Putin is defending the democratic rights of the ethnic Russians. As for Morgan's "illegal war" nonsense, which wars would he consider "legal" and as per which nation's laws?
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  3287. it's an absolute pleasure to see the German voters learn the hard way what results when you implement Green policies, sanctions on Russia, mass immigration and a mania for borrowing.
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  3288. Just a shame the dwarf puppet comedian Zelensky didn't have the wisdom to accept Lukashenko's mediation when offered last year. Par for the course that NATO/Ukronazia never fail to miss out on a great opportunity.
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  3289. right, so Russia getting arms from N Korea is a sign of Russian weakness, but Ukraine begging for arms from S Korea is a sign of great Ukrainian strength.
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  3290. stop lying, DW. Russia did NOT withdraw from any grain deal. the grain deal expired. get it right.
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  3291. "offering their properties illegally" as if it were any bloody business of government to dictate how a property owner should use his property.
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  3292.  @silvasdamata  I mentioned Australia's rule compelling all citizens to vote to show you that Russia is not alone in having an imperfect democracy, yet you want to highlight just Russia. I mentioned Trump being struck off the ballot in Colorado to show you that the USA does exactly the same thing as Russia, yet you want to highlight only Russia. I mentioned the Rochdale by election to show you that in the UK, candidates are dismissed before election day, yet you choose only to highlight Russia. I do all this to show 2 things. 1. that Russia is not alone in having an imperfect democracy 2. that you are ignorant. capisce?
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  3293. le resultat d'importer des gens qui pensent faire ça et font ça. Zemmour est la solution.
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  3294.  @terjeoseberg990  just as 8 years of appeasement of Ukraine's Azov Nazis led to this conflict.
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  3295. Had Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia taken Russia seriously, they wouldn't have been invaded. Best to take Russia seriously.
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  3296. wow! lucky the kid never mentioned his opposition to the Taliban and al Qaeda!
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  3297. Jim Dale needs to listen to some real scientists who understand these things, scientists, physicists like Richard Lindzen, Patrick Moore, Steve Koonin, Judith Curry, John Christy, Ian Plimer, William Happer, etc. Dale's assumptions about CO2 are way off the scientific truth.
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  3298. every day i thank God for putting Russians on this planet to show us the meaning of "fight for what is right".
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  3299. all the blame
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  3300.  @hendrixinfinity3992  curious you refuse to answer my key questions! par for the course. still, I'll answer all your questions, as I know what I'm talking about. how long a list do you want? 1. nationalization of the banking system. let me know how long a list you want. You do know why the National Socialists ensured they incorporated Socialism into their movement, right?
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  3301.  @hendrixinfinity3992  "can be far right" which Islamic beliefs are Far Right, and which are not? please give an example of each.
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  3302.  @hendrixinfinity3992  The Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics was Far Right?:)
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  3303.  @hendrixinfinity3992  i recommend that you put aside all your reading and start talking more to people like me, older, well travelled, experienced people who know the world a little better than the clowns who write the tripe you have, sadly, digested so gullibly. start thinking and grasping reality.
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  3304. given the US is so far ahead of the rest of the world on math scores, it does make perfect sense to allow the others to catch up and show the genius American kids some videos of two men kissing.
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  3305. what a useless wet drip this Mortimer woman is. just a load of bla bla bla. she's clueless. has no idea what is needed to stop this nonsense. 1. reverse policy and announce that asylum applications can be made ONLY from outside the UK. 2. anyone arriving in the UK with no asylum granted will be denied entry and returned to France immediately. No one is arrested in Dover at the moment because it is legal to cross the Channel and claim asylum on arrival.
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  3306. No, honey, Russia didn't bus any migrants to the Polish border. The migrants flew into Minsk. Nothing to do with the Wagners.
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  3307. makes you wonder why supermarkets weren't on Xmas mode all year before the pandemic.
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  3308.  @gcharb2d  sure, pay your boyfriend 3 times the rate of the other prosecutors, let him pay for a luxury lifestyle and make sure you leave no evidence of repaying him, nothing wrong with that at all.
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  3309. interesting that the translation of "killed" is "casualties". again, DW trying to avoid the harsh realities of Zelensky's war.
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  3310. There is a much greater chance of war coming to Poland if Warsaw continues to poke the bear. Tusk is so dishonest.
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  3311. Glory to Donbass, home of the brave and free ethnic Russians
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  3312. So do I, but what you described is the Ukraine pre 2014, before Yanukovich was overthrown by the Azov Nazi/oligarch/West alliance
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  3313. curious how the dopey host believes the Ukrainian propaganda of Russia losing 7 men for every one Ukrainian. i guess he also believes in the Ghost of Kiev, the Tooth Fairy and that Matt Hancock is a man of great integrity.
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  3314. time to come back to the negotiating table that you abandoned in Istanbul, IF you want a lasting peace.
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  3315. Lie 3 - every possible solution has been considered. not quite. Mariupol is back open again and ships are coming and going. Negotiate with Russia use of Mariupol port. Oh, I know, that means negotiating, and you would prefer African kids starve rather than negotiate with Russia. so, scrap that idea.
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  3316.  @meoff7602  the loss of anywhere is a massive deal when your finest battalions have been routed by a bunch of convicts and mercenaries, DESPITE being NATO trained, armed, advised and financed! Russian morale was low we were told. you believe that now? The Ukrainian goal is to take land. how else Ukraine gonna recover Crimea?
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  3317. "financial solidarity with Ukraine"..= giving as much money from struggling, despondent destitute Western tax-payers as possible
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  3318. so what? the asylum speakers pouring into UK are not French. what's your point?
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  3319.  @lewisdelicata5334  a windfall tax discourages investment, plain and simple. lower investment = increased poverty. If a business has two locations in mind to open a new branch/operation, and one is prone to windfall tax announcements, and one isn't, guess which location gets the new branch/operation, Einstein?
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  3320.  @lewisdelicata5334  Might I add, if companies already aren't paying their fair share, having them leave doesn't exactly impact us. After all, they already weren't paying. 1) they already weren't paying ANYTHING? or they already weren't paying their "fair share"? so we haven't lost anything if a company that pays 1 million tax a year and employees 1000 people decides to leave because you decided their "fair share" was 1.5 million tax a year? we end up with no net loss? really? welcome to the loony Left School of Economics!
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  3321.  @YA-hm5zy  of course it will not stop them investing. we all know that. windfall taxes however will REDUCE their investments, and lower investments = greater poverty.
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  3322. plenty of time for Vogue photo-shoots, and embracing Ben Stiller, no time for setting up air defense systems to protect the citizenry. the president is indeed a comedian. just not a funny one.
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  3323. and now the truth. Ukraine controls only 6% of Bakhmut. Ukraine has lost far more fighters than Russia in this futile battle. Zelensky should have followed US advice to get out of there.
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  3324.  @citronski  NATO has not grown by 2 countries. On the contrary, both Turkey and Hungary act as though they are much closer to Russia than to NATO. Putin is very popular with the Russian people. Boris Johnson, Mario Draghi, Jacinda Ardern, Olav Scholz, Liz Truss not looking so popular now
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  3325. Ditto, Slava Donbasu, Slava Rossiyi
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  3326.  @FoolsDiary  caused by desperation? any of it caused by some really bad decisions made by the individuals concerned?
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  3327.  @JanetJames-dw6xo  good point. the asylum seekers live rough on the beaches of Calais. why does the UK need to upgrade them to nice hotels?
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  3328. Anyone who blames the economic crisis on "Putin's war in Ukraine" is hiding from the truth and not to be trusted. Lockdowns, Green policies, sanctions on Russia and sending billions to Ukraine are to blame, and Liz Truss ain't got a clue how to combat those effects
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  3329. So this is EU policy.....asylum seekers arriving in Lampedusa, accepted into the EU. asylum seekers arriving in Finland, rejected by the EU. am sure this all makes sense in Brussels.
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  3330.  @kingnevermore25  too funny!
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  3331.  @saba1030  with such an easy solution as turning to Norway, Netherlands and Belgium, makes you wonder why Habeck went to Qatar to talk about LNG contracts. Habeck should have just listened to you!
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  3332. Really bad news. justice not served in either case
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  3333.  @Melior_Traiano  one would expect nothing but
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  3334. Voices ringing with defeat. No wonder the West bans broadcasts of Russian tv. If the West could only see the upbeat, high morale, confidence-filled expressions of the DPR, LPR and Wagners, the shock of the reality on the ground would lead the Western sheep to demand an end, and negotiations, yesterday. Censorship and ignorance so vital for the West.
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  3335. 13 sanctions package = 12 failed previous attempts to slow down the Russian economy.
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  3336. "messages of fear" = messages of hope for many of the marginalized Russian speakers of the Baltics.
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  3337. "controversial foreign agents bill"....it's based on that of the USA, FARSA! are ALL countries' foreign agents bills controversial?
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  3338. absolutely heartbreaking for the EU to see this happening. I mean if grain shipments can happen by reducing sanctions on Russia and by negotiating with Russia, hell, people might actually figure out the whole conflict could be resolved by relaxing sanctions on Russia and negotiating with Russia! Or...better just fight on until Ukraine is destroyed?
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  3339.  @PeterSedesse  Russia was not forced to abandon Kherson. Russia chose to abandon Kherson, because supplying the west bank of the Dnipro had become a nightmare, and the evacuation of all ethnic Russians that accepted the invitation to move to Russia had been completed. After 15 months of war, how much closer is Ukraine now to retaking Crimea?
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  3340.  @rappakalja5295  some of us understand that some people's free will is bent, shaped, distorted, inverted by the words of the elite and powerful, something that a Zelenskist who bows down to the dwarf puppet comedian so passionately that he can't fathom what the hell has driven Brits to ever go to Ukraine.
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  3341. it's sad to see that Ukraine has decided to be demolished over and over while the Western world keeps encouraging such destruction
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  3342. Putin's only mistake was to have not invaded in 2014, at the start of the war, and to have believed the West wanted to abide by the Minsk Agreements.
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  3343.  @drfelren  Scotland and England have more in common than they have differences and unity is right for both of them. Catalonia and Spain have more in common that they have differences and unity is right for both of them. Russia and Ukraine have more in common than they have differences and unity is right for both of them. People the world over express the first two of these ideas, and no one gets excited. Putin expresses the equally valid third idea, and the world has a meltdown. it's called russophobia and hypocrisy.
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  3344.  @Lloyd-yy6vf  exactly. any more sanctions from the West on Russia will surely bring a long recession and more misery on the West. The Russian economy is seeing modest growth due to the absurd sanctions "imposed" on it.
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  3345.  @bradleyroth9870  yawn, refuse to deal with the message and focus on the messenger.
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  3346. oh, but they do and they are adapting very quickly. the "shock and awe" sanctions that were supposed to cripple the Russian economy have not worked, but rather backfired. I guess the West didn't learn from the same failed philosophy re. Venezuela and Iran
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  3347. if i can buy apples for $20 a box, and then sell them for $40 a box, I'm gonna keep buying and selling apples (even though my orchard produces loads of apples). Saudi Arabia, due to western sanctions, is now sitting pretty, buying Russian oil at a discount, in a position to sell its own oil or the Russian oil to the West at a marked up price. This is why Saudi might just play ball with Biden and sell more oil on the global market. MBS might also just refuse to do that to piss off Joe Biden, who he just can't stand with a vengeance.
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  3348.  @16252  sure, like speaking Russian in schools is perfectly allowed, no enforcement against it, all is done by popular choice in Ukraine, we get it. any opposition parties allowed in the Rada these days, or did they disappear .."by popular choice"?
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  3349.  @chaoticneutral6729  oh yes, some BIG concerns. Let's take Donbass. Quite common in the Donbass to find communities where 90% speak Russian, so 90% of the students speak Russian, 90% of the teachers speak Russian, but under Ukrainian law, ALL high school classes must be conducted in Ukrainian, a foreign language for 90%. facts are inconvenient sometimes, right? now, you were saying, cow, speaking Russian is allowed in all classrooms? We see why the Donbass and Crimea decided to split from Kiev.
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  3350. "we've heard from Ukrainian officials"...seems to be the way DW reporting goes these days. no need to doubt sources, just take their version as legit.
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  3351. Heathrow is just an awful experience and one assumes any flight using Heathrow will be delayed or worse. Ryanair has shown us how air travel can be so much easier without connecting through dystopian mega hubs.
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  3352. "they refuse to pay taxes and are part of the anti covid restrictions" where can I join this new party?
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  3353.  @karlhungusjr1  you mean apart from Zelensky?
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  3354. "a surprise to see the Ukrainians arrive"....conspicuous by its absence any distinctly positive adjective, no "wonderful surprise" no "long-awaited surprise" no "absolutely fantastic surprise". "
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  3355. 12 tanks are a "major boost to Ukraine's firepower"....the West has become so deluded, it is sad. just a question of when and how the West's leaders accept that Ukraine cannot win this conflict. It will be fun to watch the recriminations though.
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  3356. Let's hope the Hindus win, as they don't believe in jihad
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  3357. bla bla bla, diversity is our strength, don't look back in anger, must be mental health issue, yawn
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  3358. Misinformation. Grain prices did not soar because of the war. Grain prices soared because of sanctions on Russia. Russia had a record harvest and was willing and able to provide the world with its record grain harvest. The West preferred to starve Africans and impose sanctions on Russia.
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  3359.  @hmu05366  I still think the UK is leading the way in the global decrease in average IQ scores.
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  3360.  @aloysdegonzagueniyoyita1974  they represent the feelings of the people who put them into power. deal with reality.
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  3361.  @paulbird3235  RIGHT. Fight until Paul Bird is dead,...no, wait, I mean, "Fight until the last Ukrainian is dead". Yep, that's what I mean.
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  3362. "numbers down by a fifth" in other words, despite my promise to stop the boats, the boats are still coming and 80% compared to last year are getting ashore and provided with hotel accommodation. That "success" rate ain't gonna get you elected, mate.
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  3363. The French have got exactly what they voted for.
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  3364.  @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568  that's my feeling. if Greeks were asked to vote tomorrow on a) sending 50 million euros to help Ukraine buy weapons or b) 50 million to improve public transport in Greece, I think we all know how that vote would go. People are gradually waking up.
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  3365.  @CowmanUK  "lost THEIR jobs" oh dear. you see, a person doesn't have his or her job. a person has A job. it's not something they possess. when the boss wants to offer that job to another person, you no longer have A job, but have to find another job, which, in turn, will not belong to that person. until you learn the basics of economics and stop using this nonsense of "their" job, you will understand nothing.
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  3366.  @BanjoPixelSnack  better still, blame both
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  3367. I don't, unless those decent people voted for Zemmour and his anti immigrant stance. Those decent people voted for the policy of continued immigration that is now ruining their lives. Slow learners.
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  3368.  @Shaddarhim  obviously not, given the Donbass has voted once for separation from Kiev, and then a second time for union with Russia. It's a strange notion called "democracy", you wouldn't be familiar with it.
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  3369. Great, Bradleys on the way for Russia to destroy, as demilitarization of NATO rolls on.
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  3370. dream on. Staromayoeske is in the gray zone and until Ukraine reaches the first defence line they have no idea of the horrors awaiting them.
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  3371. France will have to take all migrants back if ever Britain gets the balls to tow boats back to France. France is not at war with anyone, France has admitted all these migrants and thus it is France's responsibility to provide for those it has admitted on to its soil. End of story. The migrants do NOT have the right of asylum in UK as there is no danger to life, or persecution, in France, and the migrants do not have the correct documentation to enter UK. dump them on the beach in France every time.
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  3372. No, the grain isn't stuck in Odessa because of "the fighting". Shipments are flowing from Izmael (Ukrainian held port) and from Mariupol (Russian held port). It's the Ukrainian refusal to remove Ukrainian mines from Ukrainian waters that is blocking Odessa. Try telling the truth for once!
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  3373. Zelensky needs to leave Ukraine
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  3374. it would just be SOOOO great to get Kerry in jail to share a cell with Joe Biden
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  3375.  @VladimirPutin-p3t  curious you were incapable of countering the point made, and chose to scorn the approach made. so, let's try this. Russia is fighting against ISIS in Syria. who is USA fighting with? who is USA fighting against?
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  3376. Wonder when Borrell thinks sanctions against Cuba will bring about a change in attitude. and Venezuela? and Iran? Maybe Borrell will see the results he desires in Russia in 4 decades or so, but probably not. And just laughable that he thinks, in his arrogance, that without parts coming from Europe Russia will grind to a halt. Pssst, Borrell, the parts are sold to Pakistan, then Pakistan sells them to Russia! Sanctions busted! Just like Russia sells oil to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia sells it on to Europe, Sanctions busted! infantile ignorance. Explains the demise of Europe so well.
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  3377.  @napolean_ragland  as I said, when you are adult enough to distinguish between Rwanda and Uganda, then you are allowed into the debate.
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  3378.  @mouniash  it's always the same; words of protest from the Arab nations, anger at Israel, but no deeds to help the Palestinian Arabs. there is no escalation because the Arab world doesn't care that much for the Palestinians. Alex and Alexander have yet to grasp this reality.
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  3379. rebuilding Ukraine? It hasn't been fully destroyed yet....maybe wait to see how poor you are and how much it will cost after winter?
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  3380. all the talk of wonder weapons is just nonsense. Ukraine had plenty of himars at the start of the conflict, and they got destroyed. yesterday it was javelins, today himars, tomorrow bla bla bla. Russia has won.
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  3381.  @bonnie7898  try again! After the anti-constitutional coup of 2014, the Crimean parliament voted to separate from Kiev (it's called "democracy") and the LPR and DPR proclaimed independence. There was no Russian invasion. Maybe sort out who the allies were in WW2 before you spout lies about more modern history?
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  3382.  @sebastianwrites  Putin has indeed invaded Chechnya. And today? Chechnya is at peace, and the Russian speakers there have equal rights. A success. Yes, Putin invaded Georgia, and today? Georgia lives in peace, with the Russian speakers of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have autonomy and full rights restored. A success. Syria was not invaded. Russian forces came to assist the, what is your phrase, "sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Syria, helping the government defeat al Qaeda terrorist groups (which no doubt you support with your warped sense of right/wrong side of history). You missed Transnistra...Russian peacekeepers there have established, wait for it, peace, and Moldova and Transnistra live side by side. Now, the same will happen in Ukraine. Russian forces will re-establish full rights for Russian speakers, and once dictator Zelensky surrenders, peace will be restored and Russian speakers will have equal rights. Ukraine, in due course, will follow the pattern of being a Russian success. What is hampering such progress is the attitude of sheeple fools like you that know nothing about history and the truth of Ukraine.
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  3383.  @sebastianwrites  murdering 100,000's of people? 2 questions. 1) how many people did the Allies massacre in World War 2? 2) When you are fighting on the right side of history, can such death tolls be justified? I submit that it is not the death toll you have a problem with. It's the fact that the side you support is losing.
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  3384. a total bs report and fake news. Moldova is bankrupt from joining the EU failed sanctions policy on Russia, the rising inflation and poverty have driven mass protests - nothing to do with Russia - and the useless government, begging for EU handouts like a true parasite, has been toppled. This is just another Western failure, but as always, taking responsibility is tough, and blaming Russia is easy.
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  3385. "we are determined to protect the public" clearly not, while you allow thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants to pour into the country unvetted.
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  3386.  @far_centrist  well said. too many Western sheep believe their own lies and propaganda. that's why the media in the West bans Putin's actual words from being aired.
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  3387. imagine being a Ukrainian soldier, told Bakhmut is of no significance, knowing some of your fellow soldiers got massacred there, and you are expected to fight to the death, for a place of no significance. no wonder Ukrainian morale is rock bottom.
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  3388. Just a reminder of the scorecard over the last 20 years: Muslims and Immigrants killed by the Far Right = 0 white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+ thanks to the NHS that the 100+ number has not been 1000+
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  3389.  @lawrencekling8598  thanks for agreeing that DW's coverage is rubbish
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  3390.  @lawrencekling8598  the report, at the end, specified the report was coming from the Russian occupied zone. are you denying that Ukraine is firing on any Russian occupied zone?
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  3391.  @lawrencekling8598  "here, on the Russian occupied side of the front" so, either Ukraine is responsible, or Russia is firing on its side of the front. Given Ukraine is non stop shelling Donetsk city, pretty sure it is Ukraine doing the shelling. so, what exactly is rubbish?
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  3392.  @lawrencekling8598  right, so you are confirming, it is indeed Ukrainian shelling that is destroying and killing in Donetsk city. Like DW, why is it so hard for you to say it, if it is justifiable? why the term "Russian missiles" when Ukraine is the target, but the vague "rocket fire" when the target is Russian occupied land? so dishonest of you both. on a par with "Russian made missiles hit Poland" when the more accurate "Ukrainian fired missiles killed 2 people in Poland" should be used. Only cheats use language to deceive.
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  3393. "we told you so"...hmm, actually, miss, I don't recall Ukraine EVER speaking out about Western dependency on Russian energy. Probably because Ukraine has been a puppet state of USA for 8 years. On the other hand, Donald Trump DID warn Germany loud and clear about the folly of depending so heavily on Russian energy. And Germany laughed at Trump. Just shows who the EU should have been listening to and how the EU has handled everything so badly for years now.
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  3394. is this guy a moron, or what? the mercenary got a visa to go back to Russia because he agreed to fight for Russia! Makes perfect sense, you fool!
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  3395. further south, same day. in Tarifa, it was cool, temperatures similar to a normal January. Sky has to keep cherry picking to push its propaganda and lies.
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  3396.  @Elfdustify  I never went away
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  3397. Meloni, who stood as an anti migrant candidate, has done nothing to end mass illegal immigration. she is a fraud.
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  3398. "the Ukrainians may well be able to operate an amphibious landing across the Dnipro again" right, so there was a strong motive for the Ukrainians to flood the area. wash away the land mines and trenches, thus facilitating an amphibious landing. more evidence that Ukraine had every reason to blow the dam.
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  3399.  @glanguish9390  you are probably right, or it would have happened with nukes instead of himars and grads
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  3400.  @glanguish9390  and of course you forgot to mention that Proviso ONE (concerning non interference in the sovereignty of Ukraine) and Proviso 6 (requests for conferences to be held by any concerned party) were BOTH violated by USA, thus making the memorandum null and void. Funny how you forgot that part!? SEE HOW UNTRUSTWORTHY YOU AND USA ARE?
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  3401.  @glanguish9390  1) There is no evidence Russia has any plans to occupy Ukraine. It has a list of 5 objectives, and occupation is not one of them. 2) Russia objected strongly to ANY eastward expansion of NATO, you just ignored their protestations.
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  3402.  @cozymk4fan  more or less revenue for oil exports compared to what? compared to when?
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  3403. The last few years have revealed how shockingly retarded so many CEOs and industry bosses are. How the hell did they get to the top position?
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  3404. Russia will keep selling it to the likes of India, who will sell it on as "Indian oil", at astronomical prices, to the dumb EU
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  3405.  @Martin-rh7mf  anyone who speaks the truth is a wonderful person. anyone who deludes themselves into thinking Ukraine can win this hellish conflict is living a lie. "supporting" Ukraine is NOT cheering on the war until the last Ukrainian is dead...such people are evil. would that be you?
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  3406. If you approach from Transnistra side, you don't need to cross the Dniepr
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  3407.  @badmonkey2222  the regular contract army, keep in mind 80% of Russia's troops are not in Ukraine. this is a special military operation because there has been no mobilization and an expeditionary force of 20% of the army will achieve the 5 objectives.
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  3408.  @patavinity1262  you are assuming that Ukraine has plenty of ammo and means to shoot down helicopters. If Ukraine had plenty of weapons and ammo, it wouldn't be begging for more every day. depends on how many Russia would be prepared to lose in an effort to create another front and avoid the Dniepr, that's all.
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  3409.  @mikeshoults4155  try telling that to the masses of Azov Nazis now killed, crippled or captured
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  3410. "Russia targeting civilian infrastructure" The West urged Russia to follow the West's "rules-based order", so Russia did, and copied what USA did in Iraq and what NATO did in Serbia. So, where's the thanks and congratulations from the West to Russia for following the rules?
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  3411. @peterholden3672 i am talking about both private pensions and state pensions, and pointing out you and i agree, young people should be told the state pension has been scrapped, so start taking responsibility for your own retirement.
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  3412.  @baardagaam  Read some basic macro economics. Belgium does not have the richest people in the world! The good people of Monaco and Qatar are laughing hysterically at you! When you say "exploiting it", tell me exactly what that means. I suspect you mean renting out developed units to people who need them! That is not exploitation, but providing a valuable service!
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  3413.  @baardagaam  "should be able to" = your vision of an ideal world. some of us aren't interested in your visions, but in how the world actually is. in the real world, some people can afford their own home, and some can't. end of story. get real.
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  3414. the big question is not how Russia will be affected by this price cap nonsense. it won't be. The big question is, will the global price of oil go up and how THAT will affect the West.
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  3415.  @ricco123tube  a subsidy is a payment to offset production costs. how much does the government give BP to offset BP's production costs?
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  3416. Last Ukrainian successful counter offensive in this conflict -2014. EIGHT years of talking about imminent counter offensives but nowt else.
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  3417. Russia is winning. grasp reality
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  3418. The war was started by Ukraine in the Donbass. Russia has an excellent chance of winning handsomely.
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  3419. pledging help and delivering help are two different things. let's see what Germany actually delivers when the lights go out this winter.
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  3420.  @BrokenBackMountains  that's right, NATO scuppering the peace deal and prolonging the war horrifically has had its most wonderful effects, agreed?
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  3421.  @BrokenBackMountains  the one signed in Istanbul, then reneged upon following Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev, the one Putin showed the African delegation a few days ago, come on, don't force me to do all your homework.
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  3422.  @caranaar  she is NOT threatening a blockade against neighboring countries. all traffic sailing into France and Slovenia etc will be as normal. No neighboring countries will be affected at all. The only country affected will be her own Italy, where no ships full of illegal immigrants will be allowed to dock. this is common sense, and it follows Italian law, not extremist! Australia does the same. Is Australia extremist?
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  3423.  @caranaar  next time you try to enter any EU country without any documentation, let's see you call the officer arresting you "extremist"!
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  3424.  @kierano8390  NATO has no choice. NATO lost
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  3425.  @Fr0mSpac3  don't confuse poor David! He has dutifully learned the mantra "Russia bad, Ukraine good" and now you cite an example of Ukrainian evil and poor David will have a meltdown!
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  3426.  @DingDong-gn7hj  Ukraine is indeed separate from Russia, but Ukraine never separated from Russia. Learn the difference. Russia is doing in Ukraine what it did in Georgia, Chechnya, Transnistria, ...supporting the democratic rights of ethnic Russians. Equal rights for ethnic Russians = no problems with Putin. It's not about dominance, but fairness. Learn the basics.
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  3427.  @bonnie7898  Russia has every right to dictate to Ukraine when Russia feels its security is threatened. This right was established in the 1960's when the USA declared it had every right to dictate Cuba's defence policy in the Cuban missile crisis. Again, Russia is just following the precedent set by the USA.
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  3428.  @bonnie7898  when you say there was a "popular uprising", exactly what percentage of the Ukrainian population participated in and supported this uprising? Specific number with source, please.
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  3429.  @bonnie7898  you see, my Ukrainian students told me that this "uprising" was, in fact, actually not that popular. what first hand evidence do you have that it was overwhelmingly popular?
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  3430. you can't make this stuff up! just too funny. The Greens in Germany, now in government, looking to increase Germany's carbon emissions as much as possible by importing Colombian coal!
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  3431.  @Cipher123  only according to the same NATO experts who saw Kabul as a wonderfully organized and disciplined withdrawal.
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  3432. not to worry. Russia is running out of weapons and ammo. I have heard that since March, so it must be true. Fascinating that the West is powerless to stop these attacks......just so used to having air superiority, the West dumbfounded by what to do. Ukraine going under, day by day
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  3433.  @Tomartyr  everyone should grasp the reasons for this conflict
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  3434.  @AahFukIt  EXACTLY! Just imagine if Mexico declared itself Russia's ally and was demanding nukes in Tijuana aimed at all cities in USA. Biden would say "Mexico is a sovereign nation and no interference is allowed in Mexican affairs"?
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  3435. curious that empty-headed, privileged, spoilt-brat American students are all upset about Gaza, but their counterparts in the Arab world are silent.
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  3436. Owens made an absolute fool of herself by talking nonsense about what is happening in Israel. She knows her stuff on race and politics, but she is as dumb as a rock on Israel. Better she goes.
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  3437. of course, the minute AI reveals the truth about the Azov Nazis you admire and support, you want to ditch humanitarian groups. makes perfect sense.
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  3438. Given the last 90 billion dollars paid for a failed counter offensive, why do some feel sure that 60 billion more sent to Ukraine will bring victory? makes no sense.
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  3439. That's right! When the other side of the coin is revealed, you just can't handle it! Unless it is pure Ukrainian propaganda, your mind melts! Now you understand how those of us who support Russia's stance feel when we have to listen to lies like "Ghost of Kiev", :heroic defense of Snake Island", "Ukraine doesn't put troops and weapons in residential zones". etc
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  3440.  @krakhedd  I don't need to know him you dolt! I'm listening to his words! What did he say that you are 100% sure is a lie? All sounded plausible to me.
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  3441.  @krakhedd  so you failed to say what he said was a lie! what did he say that was a lie?
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  3442. funny how we never hear estimates of the number of Ukronazis dead in Bakhmut. embarrassingly high? shut up, just keeping talking about Russia's losses, always.
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  3443. One thing that's broken is when fools like you refer to "Islamists" and "Islamism" when you mean "Muslims" and "Islam". If you start to use the correct words, instead of politically correct fabrications, we might have more respect for you.
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  3444.  @toastedterps  sad to hear.
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  3445. glad you support Tommy Robinson
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  3446. or if Zelensky had implemented the Minsk Accords
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  3447. all those armoured vehicles, manned by teenagers and pensioners on 2 weeks training, no air support, no ammo. this counter offensive is most welcome........to Russia
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  3448. "they're arriving with minimal training"...some of these guys are not long out of contract after serving in bloody Syria! Safe to say, they've had training and then some!
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  3449. Croatia joins a sinking ship just as it is about to sink. Throws away fiscal independence and hands over power to Frankfurt....poor suckers.
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  3450. a lot of huffing and puffing that will change nothing. No one but Turkey recognizes Northern Cyprus, but the reality on the ground is that Northern Cyprus exists and is doing just fine. The annexation will go ahead and will be fine. those who prefer to be Ukrainian can go to Ukraine.
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  3451. Things are desperate in Cuba. Havana will almost certainly agree to a significant Russian military presence in Cuba, and thus on USA's doorstep, in return for energy supplies from Russia.
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  3452. "the brave Ukrainians"....hmm, I never heard the word "brave" come out of her mouth! looks like the Ministry of Disinformation in charge of subtitles
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  3453.  @DarxKies  it's called war
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  3454.  @thilakhari  no one knows for sure if the intelligence was right or not, but it makes sense that Russia had a reason to target that particular block, or if the missile was targeted on another block and got intercepted. makes no sense for Russian gunners to say "hey look, we have a spare missile, let's fire it at this particular block I found randomly on a street map of Zaporozhe"
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  3455.  @Noel-ji8nm  and they were whining and complaining fruitlessly long before Oct 7. the only refugees to be determined to remain refugees forever.
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  3456. great to see the white British finally have a say. may indigenous Brits continue to let their feeling be known.
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  3457.  @IronMan-u2m  so did Southport, but the Rwandan lad was described as "Welsh, from Cardiff", remember?
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  3458. 4 mins and 30 seconds of repetitive babble and empty rhetoric. Mark, if you can't reveal your solution to the crisis, shut up. either have the guts to say the government should employ the Navy to take every boat back to France (the only solution) or give it a rest.
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  3459. why would you assume I am not in Russia?
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  3460. Russia certainly will attack any vessel that is involved with the military in any way, deservedly so, Let's see what happens.
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  3461. this fairy tale might start to gain some credibility when we see some arrests.
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  3462. but it can't. Under Trump the US was self sufficient in energy. Under Biden it isn't.
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  3463. Totally disagree. whoever leaked the dox is a hero. the criminals are those who lied to us about the numbers of Russian and Ukrainian dead, who lied to us about no NATO boots on the ground and that NATO is not a part of this war, those who lied to us about the state of Ukraine's air defences.
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  3464. simply stunning how this twit of a detective assumes absolute nonsense. no one has any idea about the battery level of the phone, nor if Slater was without water, nor where he went after leaving the airbnb. start with what makes sense, not with what you assume to be true!
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  3465. so now we have two Green Parties. The fake Greens that see weakening Russia as the priority over environmental concerns, and the Real Greens who want to ruin everyone's life in a futile attempt to tackle climate change. Good to know.
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  3466.  @cncshrops  you are always welcome to a dose of the truth. Enjoy reflecting on it.
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  3467. so a 4 year sentence for using the f word, walking through an open door and being escorted into the Senate chambers! CNN is just so funny
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  3468. "Russian missiles evaded Western air defences" I thought NATO technology was far superior to anything Russia can produce?
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  3469.  @TheJrr71  How would you explain the judge's conclusion that Mar-o-Largo is worth only 18M?
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  3470.  @TheJrr71  I am fully aware of what the case is all about. Are you? It sounds like you are saying that a person is automatically deemed guilty of fraud whenever he/she submits a property evaluation at two different moments in time for 2 separate purposes! Really? How many years in prison should we give for a person who claims their property is worth $100,000 when applying for a bank loan, but $80,000 when assessed death duties? 10 years in jail a reasonable sentence for the millions of people who estimate high and estimate low depending on the purpose? When a disclaimer is posted on page ONE of such evaluations that the estimate is only an estimate and should be evaluated by the other party concerned, where I am from, that means no crime has been committed. Thank God I don't live in NY or USA these days. Ukraine has less corruption. This stuff happens in every country in every continent every bloody day, it's how business is done and there is nothing illegal about it at all. Again, who are the victims of this and who lost out on the loans granted and the loans re-paid?
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  3471.  @TheJrr71  The defence did not contest the evidence, because the evidence was in their favor. the evidence did NOT demonstrate persistent fraud. that is your assumption and the corrupt judge's assumption. but anyone knowledgeable about property evaluations and how different appraisals are submitted for different purposes know that this is NOT fraud, it is how negotiations take place when loans and repayments are discussed. it's business, not fraud. if it were fraud, the banks concerned would have brought fraud charges, instead of the corrupt unhinged NY AG.
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  3472. Was George W Bush arrested for the unprovoked and illegal invasion of Iraq?
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  3473. got a feeling that Ukraine will run out of men. weapons and money can't make up for lack of manpower. NATO won't put boots on the ground. so, looks like Ukraine will lose, everything, and the West will move on to Taiwan as the next victim.
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  3474. "independent verification comes from British and American intelligence" No, you fool, British and American intelligence wouldn't grasp the notion of "independent" if it rushed up to them, slapped them in the face and said "hello, i'm independent". Give us a break.
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  3475.  @solconcordia4315  Read point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum and then tell me which side refused to honor point 6. "will soon result in the destruction of his country" = wishful thinking. the destruction of Ukraine is reality.
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  3476.  @solconcordia4315  why do you think the Budapest Memorandum is a "memorandum" and not an "agreement" or "treaty"
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  3477.  @solconcordia4315  what we need are some straight answers from you, otherwise you reveal yourself as dishonest
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  3478. only the dumb and ignorant ones do
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  3479. notice how when asked to comment on "self-harm to Europe" she answers by describing, yet again, self-harm to Russia. if you look carefully you can see someone pulling her strings and working her vocal chords!
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  3480. curious that the 2 strange men he overnighted with seem to be in the clear. what was in it for them to convince Slater to spend the night with them?
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  3481. "Thanks to Georgia for opening the border"? what? the border has always been open!
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  3482. Another fool who doesn't understand how weak and pathetic EU truly is, and he doesn't seem too concerned his pensioners will be freezing to death this winter.
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  3483. oh dear! this is the low level of journalism today in the West? The elephant in the room........Joe Biden promised he would blow up Nordstream! why not ask this lying dope Crump to explain exactly what detail in Hersh's account is obviously untrue?
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  3484.  @Zyzyx442  EU farmers want cheaper food too, and they can produce cheaper food, if EU lawmakers just abandon the insane Green restrictions imposed on farmers.
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  3485. Then Ukraine will have peace terms imposed on it when Russia wins.
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  3486. even with convicts, drunken mercenaries and wild Chechens, Russia wins every toe to toe, street by street battle. every one. just imagine how NATO/Ukraine will fare when the real Russian forces are thrown into this!
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  3487.  @carn1fex_  who in Russia ever mentioned 3 days to Kiev? More Western lies
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  3488.  @authoritariangentleman7570  direct us to the exact words, place, date when Putin pronounced on any time line for this operation
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  3489. curious he chose the 1980's as his start point. avoids mentioning the baking 1970's. in USA, which was the hottest decade? (1930's, hence all "climate scientists" make their comparisons post that infernal decade).
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  3490.  @VINLAND_777  1) 1945 = USSR, NOT Russian Federation. FAILED 2) 1970 = USSR, NOT Russian Federation. FAILED 3) Budapest Memorandum was made null and void when the clause that ensures security talks whenever any side has security concerns was IGNORED by the West last December. FAILED 4) Any official referendum on Ukrainian independence was made null and void by the 2014 coup, which saw Ukrainian sovereignty thrown out the window and a US puppet state installed, by force. FAILED So, dear USA and NATO, do whatever you want on your own recognized territory (which is big enough already) and leave IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, SERBIA, and the rest of the planet ALONE, FINALLY!
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  3491.  @VINLAND_777  may help you to google the difference between "USSR" and the "Russian Federation", dear 5th grader
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  3492. Bulley was under water, or on dry land? which one of those 2 is more difficult to explore for sniffer dogs? Guardia Civil refused all help, not just from Lancashire Police. Guardia Civil thought that their one helicopter would be better than 2 or 3 helicopters searching difficult terrain. make sense to you?
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  3493. Ditto Zelensky "I'll bring peace to Donbass"..yeah, right.
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  3494. just as it was with the Nordstream terrorist attack, right?
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  3495. nothing surreal about a spy being arrested for spying. when you mentioned a political prisoner I thought you were going to talk about Julian Assange!
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  3496. it does, but 91% gas storage PLUS the usual flows from Nordstream One get Europe through winter, just (hence Nordstream 2 was built). 100% storage with nothing flowing in all winter ain't enough, hence the panicked begging of Iran, Saudi, Venezuela, Qatar, Canada etc.
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  3497. It was Lagarde who described the current inflation as "spontaneous". her words have no value at all.
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  3498. uh oh! the referendum that makes Luhansk part of Russia would then trigger use of nukes, after all, Putin said only an attack on Russia would lead to use of nukes. here we go, thanks Zelensky so much.....all this misery JUST because you couldn't let ethnic Russians in Donbass become independent.
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  3499.  @JM-yy9td  then illuminate the world. I stated that NATO either can't or won't supply Ukraine to the levels requested. you say I am wrong on both accounts. tell us then the true reason
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  3500.  @Flugzeug101  Neither, but it is fascinating to see what your indoctrinated mind assumes and how you react to a different perspective! I give alternatives to audiences that are convinced they have figured everything out. and i use my real name (Duncan Smith, not your misspelt version of "ducansmith"). UK citizen, living in France, and curious to know if your handle is your real name, or, are you really called Adolf?
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  3501. "it needs to replenish its manpower too" yeah, well, with every fertile Ukrainian woman now living in Germany, UK and Spain, the manpower replenishment will be coming courtesy of their new German, British and Spanish lovers, and my guess is the dual nationality offspring ain't gonna be in any hurry to rush to Vuhledar to be the next crippled kid courtesy of an Iskander missile.
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  3502. mass immigration = much more demand on health services.
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  3503. the only question remaining is that at what point Zelensky realizes the West cannot and will not supply enough help to prevent Russia winning.
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  3504. it's only due to the internet conspiracy theorists that we have learned so much about this case! The police and media have revealed almost nothing about the motives and shocking underworld of Tenerife.
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  3505. Nick, the place name you are forgetting is "Severodonetsk", but don't worry, it's only your job to know such things. How many losses did Ukraine have in this operation, Nick? oh, yeah, we don't mention that side of things, right.
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  3506. getting just a little tired of this repeated "Ukraine's last ditch attempt, throwing everything at ..." we've been hearing this since last summer's failed offensive. i want Russia to win, but things in the field are not going as planned for Russia. The territorial advances are minimal and the imminent collapse that has been predicted for years now is not happening. just a lot of talk of it.
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  3507.  @monjaspoerl4439  of course demilitarization has a lot to do with territorial advances! As Ukraine becomes demilitarized, it will be unable to hold its frontlines! Problem is, territorial advances have been minimal, which indicates to me that Ukraine has only suffered minimal demilitarization! and now we have an invasion of Russia. if this all looks like rapid demilitarization of Ukraine to you, maybe you need glasses!
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  3508.  @monjaspoerl4439  yet none of what you said addresses the contradiction that if Ukraine is being demilitarized, why is Russia now under invasion and making minimal gains along the frontlines? If your point is that demilitarization takes decades, thus advances will be just meters per day, fine, but neither Alex nor Alexander were saying last summer that once the Ukrainian offensive had failed, this whole thing should be wrapped up in ten years. Do you think all Russians think this SMO is going as planned?
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  3509. US has no say in what happens in Cuba and in Cuban waters, so the US would be fine with a Russian naval base being built right next to its Guntanamo base and with nuclear weapons being set up in Cuba and possibly along the Rio Grande. Washington would be absolutely fine with that, because they are with arming Ukraine, Russia's neighbor.
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  3510. Gorbachov was a bumbling fool who knew the USSR was going to disintegrate but had absolutely no clue what to do about it. None whatsoever. He never grasped the basics of a free market system at all. Clueless.
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  3511.  @Gopferteckel  even you could have done a better job!
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  3512. Now there are two pontoon bridges and a ferry, and Russian troops were always supplied via the rail bridge atop the dam. Day 11 of the counter offensive and ZERO territory has changed hands!
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  3513. Some people learn the hard way that it's a really bad idea to engage Russia in a land war. Such a shame Biden refused Putin's invitation to sit and talk about Russia's security concerns back in December '21.
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  3514.  @paulgilbert9346  16 year olds now banned from leaving Ukraine. I guess they are banned from leaving Ukraine because their high school education is so superior in Ukraine compared to, say, Singapore, right? Now, you explain to me, why you are 100% sure that Ukraine would have absolutely no need of any 16 yr olds in its armed forces.
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  3515. "Ukraine is trying to hold the line" but, Biden said last July that Russia had already lost this war! Someone is lying.
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  3516. you said it. the NATO strategy is now "hope"
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  3517. Spanish Police don't want any investigation that portrays Tenerife as a place with drugs and gangs. They will conduct no investigation, just keep searching in areas that Jay never entered. Eventually the penny will drop that Jay never left the road and is in no ravine. His pals seem particularly eager to keep the search in that area too. No calls for finding out who could have taken Jay away from that area.
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  3518. the 15th massive missile strike. After the third massive missile strike, the expert Ben Wallace announced that Russia didn't have enough missiles to continue with such strikes. In October, Rishi Sunak said a super air defence system was on its way to Ukraine to prevent such strikes. When will the West wake up to the fact that their leaders are incompetent liars?
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  3519. the whole point of Nordstream 2 was that in a harsh winter, full supply from Nordstream 1 PLUS 100% storage may not be enough! So without Nordstream 1 AND Nordstream 2, suddenly France can find enough gas to save Germany? Just Macron posing as hero again. He's got nothing.
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  3520.  @peterpeterpeter6315  oh, the familiar "Russia will go bankrupt, Russia won't be able to wage war". exactly how many more months of Russia's economy doing better than the West's and Russia waging war will convince you that you got this all wrong? "some from nuclear"...sums up Germany's energy policy! let's close all the nuclear power stations! now let's open all the nuclear power stations! absolute chaos!
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  3521.  @quettagladiator5272  My world is reality. Given the massive sanctions on Russia, -3.4% growth is an achievement (given that many Western countries ALSO had contractions in the economy and are heading for or already in Recession). The point is that the Russian numbers are heading in the right direction. The West's are not. Russian ruble strength reflects demand for Russian goods, The ruble is not "artificially inflated" any more or less than any other currency. EU has NOT found alternatives to Russian energy. 2022 saw EU import MORE Russian energy, not less! EU filled up its gas stocks on...RUSSIAN gas! The West has isolated itself from the rest of the world, and most of the planet is more than happy to work with and trade with Russia. EU will continue to buy Russian energy, the only change will be the EU pays a lot more and the oil tankers will have an Indian flag instead of a Greek flag. The tankers will be insured in Russia and not London. Lose lose for the West. Russia has lost a rich customer? look at the mountains of debt piled up in the West! That ain't rich! The West is doomed as dedolarization moves apace and BRICS takes over from the feeble G7. Now you know the reality. Enjoy record energy costs and record inflation there:) check on oma and opa to see if they have frozen to death round about mid February:)
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  3522. Funny how all the supporters of Ukraine's russophobic Azov Nazis who watch this channel just LOVE to shout "Russian propaganda" but never actually provide evidence to show that the Ukrainian version of events must be 100% trustworthy, even after the Ghost of Kiev lie, and the "we don't use human shields" lie exposed by Amnesty International. Sad deluded sheeple who think the West has a monopoly on honest, fair and balanced reporting.
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  3523. yeah, that's right, a massive turnout to vote for Putin is a massive protest vote for Navalny. Got it.
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  3524. this is not as complicated as the ex copper is describing. all constabularies need to just instruct their forces to interpret "significant disruption" as one or more motorists facing a delay caused by protesters.
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  3525. it's over. the only question is how and when the West will admit that Ukraine can't win this war.
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  3526. National Rally is not far right. DW is far left.
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  3527. reservist call up is not mobilization. Peskov was right. lol reservist call ups were made for US and UK forces to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  3528. Scholz knows Ukraine can't win. His military top brass have made it clear. So, now the question is does Scholz have the balls to say "enough is enough". Probably not, so expect Scholz to cave and NATO to keep allowing more and more deaths until Ukraine is totally destroyed. Just as long as Russia is weakened to some degree, NATO will feel happy that sacrificing Ukraine was well worth it.
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  3529. nonsense. The Kremlin showed the discussion between Putin and Shoigu in which it was decided to withdraw Russian forces to east of the Dnipro. there was never any talk of anything being "stopped on day one". on the contrary, Kherson west of the Dnipro was handed over on day one.
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  3530.  @pechudin9086  so why to you totally trust the number cited for Russian casualties, but totally doubt the number cited for Ukrainian casualties?
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  3531.  @pechudin9086  so your gut feeling is that Russia, firing shells, missiles, rockets at 7:1 the Ukrainian rate, even by Ukrainian admission, is suffering much heavier casualties?
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  3532.  @claudemaggard7162  doesn't depend on Russian soldiers. Depends on Western taxpayers. When the West is fed up of paying for this futility, it's over and Russia wins. We already see signs that the voters in the West are getting fed up of this proxy war. with every passing day, Russia is a step closer to victory.
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  3533.  @_Twink  not sure where you get your news from, so let's check it out, step by step. give me the words to google to read about the recapture of West Bakhmut.
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  3534.  @_Twink  ok, i see nothing there in your words about West Bakhmut being recaptured nor about Belgorod being "in revolt" but I'll look carefully and get back to you.
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  3535.  @_Twink  just curious, do you EVER read news stories published by the other side?
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  3536.  @_Twink  obviously, there is no point in me reading any of the other articles you mentioned. if your reading ability is such that "fighting on the Western fringes of Bakhmut" claimed by a Ukrainian propagandist = "the confirmed recapture of Western Bakhmut" in your mind, it would be waste of time looking through the other garbage articles you mentioned.
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  3537.  @AJ-Lohinska  In 2018 I lived and worked in Ukraine as a teacher. I was TRULY horrified at the rise of the Nazi militias and the anti ethnic Russian discrimination. I talk to Ukrainians and Russians every day as I teach them on line, today. I have followed the absolute horror stories coming out of the Donbass and my heart breaks for the victims of Azov Nazi shelling. What is your experience of this conflict?.
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  3538.  @AJ-Lohinska  Who pays the ICC?
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  3539.  @Spitfire_Cowboy  fine, if you want Medvedev in charge and war declared. Most of the criticism in Russia is from people wanting an escalation of the conflict, not peace. Let's consider regime change in Ukraine first. will happen sooner or later.
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  3540. hiring 20,000 more woke, incompetent police officers to patrol social media for hate speech won't help.
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  3541.  @PK-999  strange how you omit all the chaos that the poor kid caused between leaving home and getting shot!? totally normal for a 17 year old poor kid to be driving a Mercedes, right?
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  3542. Neither the Algerian nor the Taiwanese man challenged the IBA finding of XY chromosomes. If you knew you were 100% woman, you would challenge immediately and insist on another test. Neither did. Because they know they are biological males. end of story.
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  3543. Peace is also possible when Russia wins and Ukraine is reduced to rubble and ashes
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  3544. Orban is so right. What is the point in staying in the woke cartel known as the EU if a nation's contributions exceed what it gets bacK?
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  3545.  @olafsigursons  given you have no idea how many Ukrainians have been killed, you are hardly arguing from a position of strength. Russian artillery is swinging the fighting in their favor. learn the truth. in winter, Russia will inch towards its objectives, as planned.
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  3546. "La Russie a déjà perdu cette guerre" a dit Biden. Alors, France 24 ment
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  3547.  @GrinGottsGBL  exactly.
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  3548. thanks for retelling us all what we already knew about Progozhin. and there I was thinking you might have some news.
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  3549. just hilarious how Piers assumes any invasion is illegal and bad. Did he grill the US on the same topic re Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria? Does Piers consider the Allied invasion of Normandy as illegal and bad? Such a naive child.
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  3550. the airbnb owner is Ramon Canaves, he refuses to answer his phone, he was mayor of El Tanque but then banned from public office for corruption, Ramon and the Luton Somalis are up to their necks in the drugs business. grill the right people and you will find Jay.
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  3551.  @tord008  The Budapest agreement became null and void when articles 1 and 5 were violated by NATO and the West. Russia made this quite clear, but it was ignored by the West, of course. and by you , it would seem
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  3552. Let's just call it a "stupidity fee". bet the couple won't make the same mistake again! it's called personal responsibility. I did exactly the same thing once in Italy with Ryanair, and back then it cost me 45 euro charge. Fair enough. Got a cheap flight and then messed up on the rules. My fault.
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  3553.  @hellzz5525  not a conclusion, just one of the many possibilities. i am just challenging the notion that a phone pings a tower, therefore the phone's owner must have been there too. that's all. a clever crook will understand that too.
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  3554.  @wtl912  Look at point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum and tell me who broke that in December 2021
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  3555.  @onlyfacts3178  false choice. the market isn't JUST foreigners buying a house in Portugal and locals not affording a house in Portugal. If government moves out of the way, the market will attract constructors and investors to build properties for rent, for locals, or anyone. If no one in Portugal can afford the market price for rentals or for buying, the Portuguese need to look at their own government and ask what it is the government has done to destroy the market.
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  3556.  @silus73  so why the sudden use of the phrase "unfunded tax cuts" when no govt has had a surplus for decades? Ceteris paribus, a tax cut does not mean reduced government revenue. simple example. 10 billionaires pay no tax to the UK govt while residing in Dubai. Massive tax cuts at home induce them back, and suddenly the UK govt gains revenue from them. Lower income taxes is a stimulus for more work (people are happier to work longer hours and be more productive if they keep more of their earnings) and this increase in working hours brings in more tax revenue than with the higher tax rates but less work/income. Prescott already proved this effectively, but Socialists refuse to believe it!
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  3557. Nah, don't believe it. Burns went to give Zelensky the bad news. NATO is close to out of weapons and ammo and the new Congress will probably not sign off on more aid, so Ukraine needs to prepare for harder times ahead. it is the beginning of the throwing Ukraine under the bus process...then it will be time to move on to the next victim country, probably Taiwan.
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  3558. Only the swing states are relevant. Trump will regain GA, PA, WI, and Trump will retain FL, OH, ain't nothing Biden can do about it.
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  3559.  @moiseshuerta3984  try thinking, not just reading
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  3560.  @mediocresetup  what makes you think it was the Russian cannon fodder that died in massive numbers and not the Ukrainian cannon fodder?
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  3561.  @JoeyBlogs007  not true. it demonstrated that Putin believed he had time during the slow crawl toward Moscow to convince Prigozhin that there was an alternative, and Putin proved to be right.
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  3562.  @JoeyBlogs007  so if you don't believe Putin, what is the point in commenting on what Putin said? makes no sense. what you said was ridiculous. you gave only 2 scenarios to explain what happened, and you missed the 3rd and true explanation, that Putin calculated, correctly, that the 20 hours needed to get to Moscow was time enough to find an agreement. you clearly understand nothing about what is happening there.
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  3563. obviously she never read the Amnesty International report that confirmed Ukraine does indeed locate troops and weapons in residential areas. Therefore we can take Putin at his word, civilians are not targeted. Ukrainian military hiding among civilians are targeted. BTW, Bucha gone quiet recently! don't suppose the investigators are finding out the massacres there were reprisal killings by Ukrainians do you?
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  3564. Sky News spins the reality that Biden will lose control of the House and maybe the Senate
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  3565. the repeated ummms and er, ummms, of both of these people tells us how difficult it is for them to speak openly and honestly about the subject.
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  3566.  @torehaaland6921  sadly, you have swallowed Western propaganda hook, line and sinker. Ukraine has brought everything upon itself. Should have pushed for implementation of the Minsk Accords.
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  3567.  @sergeyb8  so suddenly you admit a combination of Ukrainian attacks and Russian mismanagement could have caused all this? interesting.
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  3568.  RedHeadNINTY9T9  agreed. but just dumping them back in France would just allow them to try an illegal entry again, and over and over again. the failed illegal immigrants need to be stripped of all their valuables (after all, if they can afford thousands to pay smugglers, they must be well off) to pay for the "return to France" policy , and left to request the government of France pay for their benefits now that they are penniless. Only then will France tighten up on its own borders.
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  3569. and destroyed it
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  3570. Only 80% enter the Republic of Ireland from the UK? So, what, 20% fly in on airlines that say at check in "ah, no papers at all, that's ok, you don't need any i.d. or travel document to fly to Ireland" or via ferry from France? yeah, right. Nearly 100% arrive from |UK.
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  3571.  @antmck99  right, so when you are in Russia, you are behind Russian lines. when you are in the part of Ukraine occupied by Ukraine, you are behind Ukrainian lines. it's not a difficult concept.
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  3572.  @adriantomasz1916  except they were arrested near Bryansk....100kms from Ukraine and nowhere near Mongolia.
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  3573.  @sgt_lensky  talking facts and logic to Ukronazia supporters is a waste of time. fun, but a waste of time:)
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  3574. nearly impossible = possible
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  3575. Makeevka was a week ago! Since then hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in their barracks. Desperate Western reporting trying to hide the truth about the war.
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  3576. ALL of Western Europe has become one big dystopian dumping ground for masses or refugees. Western Europe is a sh**hole. Even if Vox came into power tomorrow, doubtful they could reverse anything. At least places like Slovakia and Hungary have retained their identity and soul.
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  3577.  @OliDavids  If Russia truly aimed to inflict maximum casualties, Kiev would look like Bakhmut and the death toll would be up to a million by now. Grasp reality. Would I be right in thinking that you assume NATO has all the state of the art technology and Russia doesn't?
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  3578.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  that may well be true, but the issue raised was nothing to do with gaining Russian citizenship. Alex erroneously stated that Russia is a hard country to immigrate to. It isn't and never has been, for MANY nationalities. Working in the black market are hordes of workers from Central Asia and the Caucasus. It's always been that way in Russia and is so today.
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  3579.  @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2  1. It has nothing to do with coming from a former "USSR sphere of influence", otherwise Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would enjoy such treatment. It has to do with current cordial relations between former Soviet republics that still cooperate very closely together. Do your homework before you pretend to be an expert. 2. Many Central Asian workers are working in Russia illegally or for bosses who are more than happy to bend the rules. Such corruption is common in Russia. Do your homework before you pretend to be an expert. 3. Of course they speak Russian. Who suggested they don't? Do your homework before you pretend to be an expert. 4. Of course Russia has severe immigration laws for people coming from the West, but the laws, and more importantly, THE APPLICATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS in Russia, for Central Asians, is quite different. Do your homework before you pretend to be an expert.
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  3580.  @am1d  the ruble is only weak when converted into dollars or euros, which is no longer possible, so the whole talk of "weak ruble" has become meaningless. there are still plenty of rubles in circulation in Central Asia and a job that earns rubles in Russia is still an attractive option compared to no job at all. I'm sure you find many observations disingenuous, but that says a lot more about you and your weak mind than it does about those you listen to. "it is by no means easier than moving from Berlin to Budapest" Given both Germany and Hungary are in the EU and Schengen zone, freedom of movement means that moving from Berlin to Budapest is remarkably easy. Now you seem to want to make my point for me!
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  3581.  @Lady.MD67  don't be dumb. just take a few minutes to research "children killed by Ukrainian shelling in Donbass".
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  3582. Gamechanger. Russia will now go to war to achieve its aims. We can assume that China and India raised no objections at the recent Samarkand meeting, so full steam ahead. Putin wins.
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  3583. "caught in the middle are the desperate" so desperate, they have thousands of euros in cash to pay smugglers for their adventure. the desperate ones are the European taxpayers who have to pay for all of them once in Europe.
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  3584. as opposed to all those LEGAL wars
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  3585.  @retfordshop506  the anti-corruption activist is wrong. By and large, unlike the leaders in the West, Putin has VERY high approval numbers and the Russian economy has stabilized and is stronger that that of Europe. Gonna be German pensioners freezing to death this winter, not Russians. Anyone taking the word of Navalny's friend as an unbiased statement would be a total fool.
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  3586.  @AlphaMaverick1111  what happened to Nance? is he still alive? came home with shell-shock? he's no spring chicken.
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  3587.  @kevinchen7403  so true. and how many Western journalists have posed that question? why should 18 year old NATO lads be sent to Chasov Yar to be killed, crippled or captured, while 24 yr old Ukrainian men play guitar alongside Anthony Blinken in a jazz bar?
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  3588. pathetic propagandist. no evidence at all that Russia is targetting civilians or military installations. plenty of evidence that Ukraine's own air defence missiles are responsible.
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  3589. if it were Zelensky, I wouldn't help. He deserves a horrible end for killing so many people and destroying his country.
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  3590. Based on election results, Starmer will go down in history as the most popular Labour PM ever!
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  3591. There will be 3 decisive factors in the Ukraine conflict, all 3 factors in Russia's favor (obviously, because Russia planned for this). 1) Morale is high among the DPR and LPR militias, the Chechens, and fairly high among the Russians (it is pretty low among the Ukrainian cannon fodder). 2) Russia produces more ammo, much more, than NATO CAN produce. 3) Russia has a million man army, with only 200,000 in Ukraine. Russia has a surge capability. Ukraine doesn't. Russia has won.
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  3592. "the United States is categorical that Iranian drones are being used" would that be the same United States that said the Taliban would need 90 days to take Kabul?
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  3593. EU sponsored trolls have arrived in comments ha ha
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  3594. NATO has lost Turkey and Hungary! Both are more than happy to work with and trade with Russia! Russia just annexed a massive chunk of Ukraine, so it is growing. you must have missed the news!
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  3595. but Ukraine is still winning, right? i mean bankrupt, 8 million refugees, no power supply, kill rate of 5:1 in Russia's favor, but Ukraine has Snake Island and Ghost of Kiev, right?
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  3596. the Russians retreated and handed over the territory. there was no fight. every time the 2 forces stand toe to toe and fight street by street, Russia wins. you never noticed that?
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  3597. only a total fool would assume Russia can be defeated in a protracted land war. NATO and Zelensky would be 2 of such prize fools. Both Ukraine and NATO are learning the hard way.
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  3598. "without either side making much progress"......like she has ANY idea the death tolls on the front lines.
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  3599. where did all Zelensky's cheerleaders go? Just can't see all the comments yelling about "Russia has lost this war" anymore! maybe they are all waiting for EU Sanctions package number 14 to be announced before celebrating, again?
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  3600.  @JossWainwright  yep, quite a feat, remove troops from Donbass and STILL break through and take Pesky. Russia simply unstoppable and with General Winter to call upon soonish.
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  3601.  @Vestu  Ask Napoleon and Hitler about Russia's General Winter. People like you have been parroting the lie about Russia running out of ammo since March! It's nonsense. Let me guess, Russian morale is very low too? Fuel supply lines? doesn't seem to have slowed them down at all, 60000 missiles launched a day! Russia's expeditionary force is handling things just fine.
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  3602.  @Vestu  if your argument is that Zelensky is Jewish and therefore Nazism can't exist in a country with a Jewish leader, do you also embrace the argument that Obama was black and therefore a nation that elected a black president couldn't have any racism in it? Makes no sense to me.
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  3603.  @Vestu  Totally unsurprised Finland laughs at RT. I would imagine Finland conforms to the Russophobic narrative 100%. Thanks for confirming my impression of Finnish audiences!
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  3604. so funny he blames Western nations for halting supplies! how about he blames his dunce of a president who was so dumb to believe NATO's promise of delivering victory over Russia?
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  3605. so, if the African slavers were just a small number of collaborators, with whom were they collaborating before the arrival of the Europeans?
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  3606. just a card that Putin has in hand and he decided to play it now. Only about 20% of Russia's forces were ever in Ukraine at any given time. A lot of the 80% who weren't there are now heading there, that's all
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  3607. Sad news that not all the Azov Nazis were killed. Better luck next time.
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  3608. Donbass doesn’t have anything they have to prove ! This isn’t about who has the bigger penis ! This is about the rights of people to live peacefully and not being worried of being invaded and tortured by Azov Nazis! Ethnic Russian people are fighting for that right for themselves and the rest of the world . They are truly inspiring. I support Donbass and Russia for as long as it takes. !
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  3609.  @debrabosch5540  "when the economy turns to trash" when the sanctions against Russia were introduced 9 months ago, when did you assume, exactly, that the Russian economy would turn to trash? 2025? 2030? March of this year? please tell.
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  3610.  @masteryas80  if my statement were nonsense, you would have ignored it, or pointed out what is nonsensical about it. but, you did neither, oxymoron.
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  3611.  @erikhai1  Congratulations! You have succeeded in writing an imbecilic reply without addressing any issue of substance! On to the next round of Prize Dunce of the Year for you!
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  3612.  @chidera66  indeed I did, and it is absolutely hilarious!
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  3613. define "rich"
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  3614.  @qrsx66  Looks like English is not your first language, or reading comprehension is not your forte. If you can't understand the difference between "taking land" and "accepting land that was offered", then I can't help you. A small part of Palestine was proposed as a Jewish nation by the British, who were given the Palestinian Mandate after WW1 by the League of Nations. This offer was subsequently backed by the UN, who recognized Israel as an independent state. You can't rewrite history. I don't consider the UN as a supreme arbiter of justice, but the majority of the people in power do, hence the vast majority of the planet, including some Arab states, recognize the right of Israel to exist, as a Jewish state. You are in a small minority. Yes, Palestinians have the right to defend whatever they want to (remember, Israelis are Palestinians too, they live in the part of the globe known as Palestine). And after 3 wars between Israel and the Arab world, Israel has won 3 times. Palestinian Arabs are entitled to fight a fourth war, and lose for a fourth time if they choose to, but it won't help the Palestinian refugees at all. Curious that you always support the weak. What I recommend you do is support those who are morally right, not the weak, otherwise you might end up supporting the likes of the Ku Klux Klan, who, at the moment, are a very weak organization.
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  3615.  @qrsx66  There are plenty of examples of countries being established to fit the demographics on the ground. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh were established as separate from India, to reflect the Muslim majority in those 2 countries, and whole migrations of people were set in motion to accommodate this aim. No refugees, as in the Palestine situation. Hindus moved into India, Muslims moved into Pakistan and Bangladesh. The UN accepted this relocation of populations and the new states it created. Where you are right is that it is rare that countries are formed by mutual agreement of 2 radically different peoples. Usually it is all settled by war. So, for example, Germans living in what is now Poland were ordered by the victorious Allies to relocate to within the borders of the new Germany, as drawn by the Allies in 1945. What is amazing is that even though Israel has won 3 wars against its Arab neighbors, it STILL seeks to accommodate Palestinian Arabs, rather than just commanding and forcing them into an area the borders of which Israel, and Israel alone, has established. Israel has been too generous.
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  3616.  @qrsx66  what is so curious is that you ask nothing about how 80% of Palestine was declared by the Hashemites as the Kingdom of Jordan! By what right did the Hashemites proclaim their own personal fiefdom from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire? Oh, let me guess, it's only when JEWS declare their own state that you have big problems, not when Arabs do exactly the same! I think we all see the Jew hatred and anti-Semitic nature of your whining.
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  3617.  @qrsx66  Judging by your deep, deep concern for innocent Arab lives being lost in the world, and your advocacy for the weak, always, would I be right that you spend many hours protesting the Saudi attacks against the poor Houthi rebels in Yemen? Regularly write to the Saudi authorities in defence of the poor, weak Houthis, do you? Or, when Arab lives are snuffed out by other Arabs, it doesn't really bother you?
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  3618. Ben, how can Israel blockade and besiege Gaza when Gaza shares a border with Egypt?
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  3619. Made no difference if the Southport knifeman was a Muslim asylum seeker or an African offspring of Rwanadan immigrants. The misinformation changed nothing, because the mob are fed up of 20 years of being attacked by people who should not even be in this country, full stop. Long may the brave rioters continue to vent their anger until someone in power decides to listen to them.
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  3620.  @alexgill2455  "probably" we'll never know. such an "interviewer" is only interested in lecturing and not listening.
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  3621.  @teddoyle491  not when they have been shelling ethnic Russians for 8 years and pursuing russophobic policies. Think again. Bully Ukraine tried to force little Donbass to stay in the corrupt gang, but big brother Russia gave bully Ukraine a damn good kicking. Well deserved.
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  3622.  @teddoyle491  just curious. Did Serbians have the right to determine their own fate without meddling from NATO ?
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  3623.  @lupus3824  you are very confused, so let me straighten you out. No one is committing genocide in this conflict. The Azov Nazis were not trying to eliminate all the Donbass Russians, just compel them to rejoin Ukraine. The Russians are not committing genocide in Ukraine, otherwise you would see millions dead by now. Now, tell me, which Russian individual ever accused Ukraine of committing genocide? No one has ever said "Ukraine is basically all Russian". What has been said is that, historically, Ukraine is part of Russia. Remember, Britain fought the Crimean War against Russia, not Ukraine. Only in very recent history has Ukraine been a separate country, and that due to the 15 republics as constituted by the Soviet Union, not for any cultural, historical or linguistic reason. you have so much to learn on the topic. in the end, Ukraine will have wished it went ahead and promised neutrality and let the Donbass Russians become part of Russia. You'll see.
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  3624. and NATO has no answer. Russia destroys what it can, waits a few days for repairs, and destroys it all over again. Not even the end of November, months of freezing misery ahead and some fools think Ukraine is winning.
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  3625. he's contesting the validity of the subpoena, which is his right.
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  3626.  @harold9394  the truth hurts, eh? such a subpoena from such a committee goes against executive privilege, to be decided by the Supreme Court.
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  3627. Certainly those fighting for the freedom of the DPR and LPR would agree with you. Chechens too.
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  3628. not boring = nye noodno in Ukrainian. "nye skoochniy" is Russian! so the village is in a Russian speaking area! Seems to me then it should be part of Novaya Rossiya.
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  3629. sanctions against Russia really starting to bite.........Germany
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  3630. The mistake was for the member of the public to NOT say "someone was misgendered and it looks like a Pride flag was torn down at the supermarket"
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  3631.  @Franchesko653  you are clueless.
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  3632.  @edwardvalivonis23  i was being sarcastic. in most countries of the world he would have been shot for what he did.
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  3633. don't be fooled by the "more tanks" narrative. Russia is winning the war of attrition, NATO is short on missiles but Russia isn't, so in desperation, the West has to hope tanks change the nature of the war. It won't work, because Ukraine started with plenty of tanks and they all got destroyed. Scholz knows this and really does not want to lose all his Leopards for a futile war that Russia will win anyway.
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  3634. @Peter from NZ On your atrocityometer which you have used to measure atrocities all across Ukraine during this conflict, what percentage exactly of the atrocities committed were done so by Ukrainians? What's the reading? On the "atrocityometer" that you have, what was the reading for EIGHT YEARS of AzovNazi shelling of Donbass civilians?
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  3635.  @davidpryle3935  you are 100% right. there are contradictory laws at play here. i believe international maritime law also allows any sovereign country to restrict arrival by sea when the nation faces a security threat. UK government needs to choose which law it wants to enforce, but the problem is this government seems to want to only talk about laws, and not enforce anything.
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  3636.  @douglastodd1947  sadly, you are wrong. there are contradictory laws at play here, and the one the UK has decided to follow is that agreed upon and signed by the UK issued by the UN. Refugees do not have to claim asylum in the first safe country (that's why none of them are arrested in France either!) and they can claim asylum having entered a country by any means! That's what we signed up for! The solution is to stipulate that any claim for asylum must be made outside of the UK. But, strangely, the UK government doesn't like this idea!
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  3637.  @RossHickey-i1c  no doubt you are convinced Ukraine is winning, right?
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  3638.  @JaneSoole  if you are referring to Zelensky, that annoying smirk left a long time ago, round about the fall of Bakhmut, though it was an unconvincing smirk after the fall of Mariupol.
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  3639. anyone is qualified to run for office, because it is the voters who decide, not courts or judges. USA needs to learn what "democracy" means.
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  3640. why?
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  3641.  @allwrighty100  sadly for the locals, EU law prevents the locals having their beaches back. EU freedom of movement means the locals don't have a beach. that beach is open to anyone in the EU.
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  3642. Russian: if you had implemented the Minsk Agreements you signed, you could have avoided all this. Next time, be honest.
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  3643. Absolutely laughable to think NATO could "ramp up" production to assist Ukraine, within a decade. Russia produces ammo at a rate greater than NATO CAN produce ammo. A decade to completely restructure defense production, ain't going to happen. Ask WHY Zelensky specifies victory by Winter? Has he been told that Ukraine will have no economy to wage even a defensive war by winter? Bojo said we fight on until victory...no mention of winter from Bojo.
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  3644. no one is complaining. blocked pipe = no deal. simple
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  3645. not cruel, but sensible. who the hell is going to open a discount shop in an area where shoplifting is rife and criminal damage above average?
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  3646. It's the Police who gave the green light to Pakistani rape gangs all over the country. Not likely any Police will object to hordes of Hamas supporters. Slightly surprising the Police aren't joining in the pro Hamas chants.
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  3647. so, on his tax returns, did he state he was married, or not? if he claims his marriage was over, then he couldn't have filed taxes as a married person. and he had statements of all his personal transactions, but no receipts? how slippery is this snake?
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  3648. Even if the whole world recognized a fully independent Palestinian state, there would still be war, because this is all about destroying Israel, not about Palestinian statehood.
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  3649. AFD is not far right. Euronews is far left.
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  3650. There is no energy crisis. Just cooperate with Russia, respect the human rights of ethnic Russians, tell Ukraine it was wrong to refuse to implement Minsk ! and 2 and get the gas flowing again.
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  3651. And this is just one of the unintended consequences of locking perfectly healthy people down and paying them to stay home and do no work. Our so called "leaders" have no clue how an economy works.
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  3652. "this gentleman" here's the problem. when the Police and media refer to a drug dealer who served 9 years in prison as a "gentleman", no wonder no investigation gets off the ground or reported fairly.
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  3653.  @blkted2945  yep, keep laughing, along with the families of thousands of young Ukrainian men massacred by Russia and her allies. You'll be laughing all the way to the signing of the surrender documents, just so funny
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  3654.  @laars0001  you only get the truth from me. the problem is you couldn't even recognize the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face and said "hello, my name is Truth"
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  3655.  @dermaniac5205  take a look at the Alley of Angels in Donetsk and then tell me who the victim is
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  3656. there are so many more appealing options than Spain
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  3657. skip the generalities, give us the numbers. compare the manpower lost by Russia and manpower lost by Ukraine. Ditto the weapons. Without the numbers. it's all bla bla bla.
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  3658. Lie number 2 - Russians are laying mines in the Black Sea. Nonsense. Russia controls the Black Sea, why would it lay mines to blow up its own vessels? Ukraine laid mines outside of Odesa to prevent a Russian amphibious landing. The mines are Ukrainian, honey.
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  3659.  @johnbrewer9833  businesses in France are obliged by law to accept postage stamps as payment? I had no idea!
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  3660. it was Zelensky who was talking about a NATO pre-emptive nuclear strike on Russia, and who was begging for nukes in Munich. After the bridge attack, he may well get a few nukes.......landing close to his office,
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  3661. just hilarious how "far right" defines a party that stands for family values, there are 2 genders, an end to immigration, and allowing bullfighting. by these standards, almost the entire globe can now be tarnished with the brush "far right".
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  3662.  @satisfied656  most people eat poop and fail to learn their lessons yet think they have.
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  3663.  @mrchoudhury6611  well said
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  3664. every summer we hear this nonsense. it's summer and places get hot. so what? after Climategate and "hide the decline", no one sane believes "scientists'" data on temperatures anyway. Here in Perpignan the temperature is just a normal July temp, high of 29 degrees.
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  3665. just so funny watching the deluded fools at DW trying to explain why it now seems like it wasn't such a brilliant idea to engage Russia in a protracted ground war. should have listened to the doubters early on!
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  3666.  @larzkruber822  from Mexico to Madagascar the cry is "we love you Russia", but the West is deaf.
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  3667.  @Ikkeligeglad  so, who threatened NATO when NATO bombed Serbia non stop for 80 nights?
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  3668.  @amandabotha1431  exactly. it was NOT Russia that seized government buildings. It was local separatists, ethnic Russians who were Ukrainian citizens but who wanted independence. they were BACKED by Russia, supported materially. Thank you for confirming that Ukraine started the conflict, NOT Russia. The UKRAINIAN military launched the first attack on Ukrainian citizens. Russia started nothing. good research. Now, start supporting the Russian cause against those who started this conflict!
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  3669.  @peterpain6625  indeed we will
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  3670.  @billyyank5807  neither is it shocking that people like you don't understand the bubble you live in and how your society functions.
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  3671.  @steadynumber1  sounds good to me. all applications for asylum should be made online or at a British embassy, to be processed while the applicant waits abroad. make waiting in Calais obligatory and trying to enter UK without asylum granted a crime.
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  3672. yes, the West's better professional forces really proved their worth a year ago when a bunch of goat herders waltzed into Kabul and caused a panicked fiasco of an exit the likes of which hadn't been seen since Kabul! NATO, toothless tiger
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  3673. Latvia has decided to start something stupid, with its demands for Latvian language exams to be imposed on Latvian Russian speakers in order to qualify for Latvian citizenship. It's the Kiev route that leads to eventual war.
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  3674.  @sallyal5266  ooooh, that's such whole-hearted support, a nice little road trip to pose as heroes, staying in 5 star hotels along the way, getting lots of press coverage, SUCH a sacrifice. listen, honey, "supporting Ukraine right to the end" is not a one off, narcissistic road trip. As I said, "right to the end" is volunteering to get shot in Chasov Yar. what i did for the war is of no relevance, given I'm not blowing my trumpet about any 3 day road trip. get real.
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  3675.  @deborahwyndham-lewis5188  yep, this is the problem when celebrities who live in a bubble are desperate to be seen as being concerned, ordinary citizens. they make themselves look ridiculous and hypocritical.
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  3676. why delete the black sun image from the Azov logo? why not just explain why it is there and keep it proudly?
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  3677. here we go again. more lies. "the war in Ukraine sparked an energy crisis". No, it was sanctions against Russia that created the energy crisis. Let Russia and Ukraine fight a war with no intervention from any outside power and energy would flow as per normal.
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  3678. The fact that this is the 8th package of sanctions tells you they ain't working. And keep in mind, Russia hasn't even bothered to sanction back in any meaningful way. Let's see how united Europe is when the lights start going out over Christmas.
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  3679.  @Ian-pm8ll  Russia has not defaulted on its debts. A default is when the party owing the money can't repay. Russia can repay. The West is refusing to accept the payment. Given that financial transactions have all but ceased between Russia and the West, "defaulting" is now meaningless. It's a problem for the West, not for Russia. The fact that such a "default" hurts the West more than Russia shows the sanctions aren't working. Just curious, when the first German pensioners are found frozen to death this Christmas, will you still be proclaiming that the "sanctions are working"?
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  3680. as usual, the overwhelming bulk of the interview time was devoted to those spouting anti Russian rhetoric. par for the course with biased DW.
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  3681.  @Arch497  while we are chatting, how about you answer the question that DW refuses to tackle? Why does Ukraine continually need more weapons? is NATO unable to supply more, or unwilling to supply more? which one is it?
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  3682.  @bonnie7898  so what is the answer? Is NATO unable to provide Ukraine with the weaponry it needs, or is NATO unwilling to provide Ukraine with the weaponry it needs? cue crickets. p.s. looks like you have conceded defeat. what happened to all your boasting about how NATO produced far more armaments than Russia could ever produce?
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  3683.  @bonnie7898  to find out from the NATO fans, who swore that NATO would ensure a Ukraine victory, fans like you, why NATO failed. Lack of will or out-produced by Russia? but of course, I never get an answer. par for the course for those who never understood anything about Russia.
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  3684.  @nicocrestmere9688  and how would you know the Russian casualties were 60k? standing on the front line with your abacus and clipboard, were you? Mariupol was all rubble too. Look at it now! rebuilt and a vibrant Russian city! i get it, it's tough when your narrative and your side lose.
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  3685. As if Bolt has any idea what has been going on in the US sponsored bio labs in Ukraine or any idea what nuclear technology is present in the nuclear power plants occupied by Russia. Before Bolt rants about Russia's "aggression" in Ukraine, maybe she should get up to speed on Ukraine's 8 years of aggression in the Donbass. Bolt is woefully ignorant on this subject.
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  3686. so, having pissed off the Arab leaders with his lecturing and hectoring in Saudi Arabia, now the clown dwarf puppet is in Japan to beg for more weaponry that Russia will destroy, and to be told by India and Brazil that he needs to get to the negotiating table.
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  3687. no Tories scapegoat the immigrants. Tories scapegoat the Tory government for being so soft on immigration.
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  3688. "The Ukrainians are still going forwards:..yep, and Ghost of Kiev is real, Snake Island was a heroic stand to the last man, the sanctions are working, inflation is transitory, the euro has lost no value but the rubles has collapsed, Ukrainian losses are minimal, Ukrainian economy is buoyant, all 6 million refugees are heading back to Ukraine now, 70,000 people took to the streets of Prague over the weekend to support the sanctions, and one of my best friends is black.
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  3689.  @hotsky83  6:1 artillery rate raining down on Ukrainian forces, who are most likely boys with a few weeks of training.
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  3690.  @hotsky83  search youtube BBC and DW reports on Nazi paramilitary groups, and ask yourself which other country has welcomed and embraced a Nazi battalion into its national ranks other than Ukraine? which other country would celebrate Stephan Bandera as a national hero?
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  3691. Baerbock supports the side killing Russian troops. Hardly surprising a Russian politician would represent the views of his constituents and mention the possibility of killing Baerbock. It's war, and NATO is participating in it.
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  3692. We are approaching the moment of truth. Pitched battles between Muslims and their Lefty supporters and those who love traditional Britain. Given the Police have decided not to enforce the law, looks like the matter will have to be decided on the streets mano a mano
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  3693. She's making 2 massive mistakes. She's talking too much, and therefore unnecessarily leaving too many falsehoods on the record. She's acting disrespectfully to the legal process with her arrogant, aggressive attitude, and as DA, that's a disgrace. Fani is endearing herself to no one.....she will regret it.
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  3694.  @feliperomanoff9808  good point. in the "rules based order", sanctions killing Iraqi kids are just fine. oh how the world should strive to follow the "rules based order" of the West. for the future of the children!
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  3695. everyone should be made to pay for their own medical care. it's called "taking responsibility"
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  3696. Just comical how many people claim to know Putin's ambitions. So many mind-readers around. Better focus on the 5 objectives of the mission as stated, and judge how close Russia is to achieving those objectives. In its own good time, Russia will declare victory and dictate terms. Those Minsk Accords should have been implemented, agreed? Slava Rossiyi Z
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  3697. No, honey, Russia attacked one of your military patrol boats, not Odessa port. Stop lying.
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  3698. are you sure about that? Ukraine "forced" Russian troops out of Kharkov? Given the Russian withdrawal started on Sept 2nd? Every time Ukraine combats Russian forces head to head, Ukraine fails to force anything. Ukraine has a perfect record on that score! Kherson, Mariupol, Popasnaya, Severodonestsk, Lysychansk, now Bakhmut
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  3699. Time to call out this "2 state solution" nonsense. The Palestinian Mandate was the territory currently occupied by Jordan, Israel, West Bank and Gaza. Well over 80% of that is Jordan, plus within Israel, 20% of the population are Arab Palestinians. How about a 2 state solution that lets Jordan keep its 80%, and Israel has the remaining 20%. Any Arab Palestinians unable to live as the Israeli Arab Palestinians already do can be settled in Jordan, where the likes of Qatar and Kuwait will provide them with a life of ease forever.
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  3700. 12 + years that saw loony Green policies, lockdowns, mass immigration, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine. The country fully deserves the fuel poverty it has wrought on itself.
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  3701.  @deneskovacs6220  not really. you don't get arrested for misgendering people online in Liberia
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  3702.  @f.fromme1988  not much. they are all losing their identity year by year. Malmo looks like Bagdad these days and Paris is like the Congo but without the work ethic
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  3703. No, the one year anniversary of the war was back in 2015. the one year anniversary of Russian forces invading Ukraine will be on Feb 24.
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  3704.  @kylesmith8128  conspicuous by its absence is any mention of what was inane. let me repeat. The negotiations with Russia that successfully started grain shipments, and which prove that serious negotiations with Russia can bear fruit, could not be recognized by poor Julia, as that would have shattered the entire DW narrative of "Ukraine good, Russia bad".
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  3705.  @alanbellas513  sure, but you obviously don't. it's "Lebensraum"...get the spelling right and we might think you know something about it
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  3706.  @colby25  absolutely. Russia is a nuclear power. so, what's your point? do you realise that Pakistan has nukes on India's border?
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  3707.  @colby25  1) right, so "pulling a Hitler" is defined by the very flimsy notion of removal of a leader one sees as legitimate. after 8 years of the Azov Battalion shelling Donbass I consider both Poroshenko and Zelensky as terrorists and war criminals, so to me, and to millions around the globe, Putin is in no way "pulling a Hitler" That is settled. 2) your definition of "far right" and mine are very different. to me, and many others, any person who is happy to have a national hero who is responsible for the murder of 4000 Jews in a pogrom in Lvov would count as far right. that would account for most of Ukraine. Can you imagine the UK declaring Oswald Mosely a national hero? Can you imagine a Mussolini Street running through downtown Milan? Only in Ukraine would such far right ideology be acceptable. shame on you for embracing such.
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  3708.  @johnroche7541  regarding Nazis in Russia and other counties.....no one denies there is a Nazi presence in Russia, as there is in all countries. The difference is ONLY Ukraine embraces its Nazis and makes its number one Nazi, Bandera, a national hero. And ONLY Ukraine openly welcomes a Nazi regiment into its national defence force and celebrates them. If you can't see the difference between state sanctioned Nazis that are glorified and honored, as opposed to skinhead football fans, I can't help you.
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  3709.  @johnroche7541  USA - "I'm a white supremacist, David Duke is my hero, I am a member of the KKK, can I join the Marines?" ANSWER = NO Ukraine - "I'm a white supremacist, Stefan Bandera is my hero, I am an Azov member, and Tornado member too, can I join the Ukrainian army?" ANSWER - OH YES, WELCOME TO THE UKRAINIAN DEFENCE FORCE MY BROTHER
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  3710.  @alanbellas513  All parties agreed on autonomy for Donbass, but Ukraine refused to implement Minsk and Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel confessed the terms of Minsk were of no importance, that Minsk was all about winning time for Ukraine to build up its military and develop economically. This is why Putin will not trust the West again. Regarding Budapest Memo, take a look at point 6 of the memo, and tell me which side ignored point 6.
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  3711.  @bonnie7898  quick question...when the "defensive" alliance, NATO, bombed the s**t out of Libya, which NATO member nation was it "defending"? Belgium?
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  3712.  @nenadmitrovic3469  yep, funny how NATO thought supporting separatists in Kosovo and attacking sovereign Serbia was fine, but that Russia supporting Donbass separatists and attacking "sovereign" Ukraine is awful. i guess that is all in the international rules bases order, somehow?!
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  3713.  @bonnie7898  Putin and I agree. we don't see Ukraine as a separate country. So what? I don't see Belgium or Catalonia as separate countries? so what? what's your point?
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  3714. just another day in Londonistan. and the British electorate put into power those who brought all this about.
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  3715. you can give every last penny you have to Zelensky and his oligarch buddies
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  3716.  @paulgibbon5991  just like Australia, voting is compulsory and the Police are armed.
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  3717. set up the migrant processing system in the British Embassy in Paris and one in Calais. then, if the migrants refuse to seek asylum at the processing centres, they have established that they are not asylum seekers, and therefore are illegal immigrants, and can be returned to France.
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  3718. The Zelensky curse strikes again. the more a leader supports Zelensky, the more likely that leader gets kicked out. Mario Draghi, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Sanna Marin, Macron is a lame duck president, Mark Rutte, soon to go.....Pedro Sanchez, Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden, the fragile German coalition, Zelensky himself. Putin will be the last man standing. We saw Assad survive all those that said he must go. Same will happen with Putin's detractors.
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  3719. Bad choice, Moldova. Side with Russia and get loads of cheap energy, or side with the EU and get limited supplies of bloody expensive energy. no brainer, but you went the wrong way and went with the sinking ship, EU.
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  3720. every time Ukraine has major setbacks on the battlefield, it has to distract the world with a disaster: Nordstream, Kakova Dam now the ZNPP. Would be an absolute dream for Zelensky, just before the NATO summit, to go cap in hand collecting yet more billions for the nuclear disaster "Russia" created. Par for the course for the puppet dwarf comedian to pull this one.
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  3721. How can there be more air strikes from Russia? Ben Wallace and British intelligence have affirmed that Russia is out of missiles! You don't think the West is now reduced to wishful thinking as a its main weapon, do you? Winter is Dec 21 to March 21. it's only just started. let's see when Ukrainian anger starts to turn on its own leadership.
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  3722.  @sarahosman4933  and dying
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  3723.  @eugenecrabs8622  in other words, Ukraine is indeed a dictatorship. It is a dictatorship that is justified, you say. well, that is indeed quite a climb down! You started off saying you would supply me with the correct term to use instead of "dictatorship"! Was Britain a dictatorship during WW2, professor? and what are the names of these "terrorists" given shelter by the church? what acts of terror were they convicted of committing, professor?
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  3724. a tenth sanctions package = the first nine have failed
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  3725.  @archivalhorror  if you really think the UK is a country where the law truly "deals with them" then you must have been living under a stone for the last 50 years!
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  3726.  @EarthSouljah  a very angry person
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  3727.  @emmanuelonueze8080  i would say the risk to any country of a Russian attack is pretty much zero, unless said country thinks it's a really good idea to treat ethnic Russians as second class citizens.
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  3728. Argentina has bowed down to the unions and pursued extreme protectionist policies and Socialism at every turn. It now has to print money to prop up domestic production. Unsustainable. A Libertarian is indeed needed, but more pain will come first and then the recovery.
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  3729. always good for a laugh to check in with the latest delusional blabber being broadcast on Times Radio. prediction for 2024.....Times radio will be the slowest in the class and the last media outlet to finally grasp that Ukraine has lost and has been totally destroyed. let's see. Slava Donbasu
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  3730. i would have thought it was abundantly clear by now that there is no Western air defence system that can prevent Russia shutting down the power grid.
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  3731. why would a "motivational address" be necessary if Ukraine is winning? surely all that is needed is words of congratulations to all those delivering such an impressive and splendid victory?
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  3732.  @joshbamber  it's the politicians who set the rules as to who is allowed into the country. Blair let everyone in. let's count all those he let in that then committed crime or had family who committed crime and, well, look at that, our prisons would be half empty if Blair has severely limited immigration!
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  3733. it must have been an absolutely awful day for the Ukrainian counter offensive if the propagandist Sky News has to deflect to pay raises in the Russian army.
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  3734. that's true, that's why on the news we see all those ships waiting out at sea for the LNG terminals to finish construction in 5 years or so.
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  3735.  @mstrmren  who mentioned 3rd world country? surely you understand the difference between a 3rd world country and a country that has 3rd country status regarding EU rules?
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  3736.  @danieljames2015  debt default, now that the West has cut off Russia from international markets, only hurts the West, not Russia. As Peskov said, "not our problem". Only in the warped mind of the West is a default defined as a nation has the money to pay, is willing to pay, but is blocked from paying by the creditor nation. the more Russia "defaults" on debt, the more it hurts the West, not Russia
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  3737. Slowly but surely the Azov Nazis are being killed, captured or crippled. Liberation from the Zelensky russophobic tyranny has finally arrived for Donbass, and Russia gets Kherson and Zaporozhe too as an added bonus. Slava Rossiyi, Slava Donbasu
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  3738. Zelensky would disagree with you
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  3739.  @Wolfways  quite right. "enough" does not equal "all". and your point is...?
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  3740.  @davmetz4451  exactly. the offensive is the meatgrinder that keeps eliminating more of the ukronazis than the Wagners are losing
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  3741. looks like we have a history professor who never heard about the white slave trade!?
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  3742. nothing wrong with people saying they believe viruses don't exist. the problem is when the sheep are too stupid to make their own evaluation on such statements that they automatically want to press the "censor" button.
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  3743.  @SajjadKhan-cl3yf  the Crimean Parliament of 2014 was elected to vote on behalf of their constituents, not on behalf of what they think deported Tartars would, or would not, want. In poll after poll after poll throughout Crimea's history as art of Ukraine, the vast majority of Crimeans considered themselves as Russians. Justice has been done.
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  3744.  @SajjadKhan-cl3yf  is every election in France since the 17th century invalid since the deportation of the Huguenots back in the 17th century?
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  3745.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  of course there is proximate legal causation. so who plays God and says supplying weapons to a nation is a crime, but supplying vehicles that could be used to transport weapons is not a crime? there is also something called "legal precedent". call me crazy, but looks like a legal precedent has been set that supplying a nation with weapons is not a crime.
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  3746.  @nicolasmeinen3055  EU banks are allowed to borrow from financial institutions outside of the EU.
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  3747. Spain now seeing the wonderful effects of mass immigration and EU freedom of movement laws. Enjoy every minute of what you voted for.
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  3748. wrong way round, sunshine. Ukraine gonna have to spread its forces VERY thin, to keep an eye on Belarus, to combat the Russian advance toward Kharkov, AND to try and fool everyone that they really do have enough forces to threaten Kherson. And keep in mind, 80% of Russia's forces are in Russia, not Ukraine. As Putin said, "we haven't really started anything, yet".
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  3749. Oh so poor, $800 spare in his pocket to pay the smuggglers, and then even more spare cash for week after week of having to survive with no income. Quite the rich kid! Wonder if he has any left over so I can go to Senegal and sponge off his government ad infinitum.
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  3750. so no mention of a Russian blockade? turns out you get rid of the mines. allow Russia the right to export its grain too, and we have a deal! Only the West to blame for its intransigence. All it needed was equal rights to Russian and Ukrainian exporters.
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  3751. and now the truth...the Russians have plenty of missiles and ammo, they are not running out. they have a whole range of missiles at their disposal, and the Russians use them effectively,. the counter offensive has been delayed, yet again, for the simple reason that Russia keeps destroying all the weaponry and ammo Ukraine needs for a counter offensive, and this will go ad nauseum until NATO is demilitarized and bankrupt. Slava Rossiyi.
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  3752.  @alhambrabiker1476  Russia is winning, Einstein. Looked at IMF growth predictions lately? See where Russia is?
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  3753. you know you are gonna get a big load of bs from anyone that uses the words "what Putin believes". these mindreaders have gotten so much wrong so far, time to put their crystal balls away and confess they misjudged so much so very badly
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  3754.  @disposabull  on the other hand, research into electric tanks has moved on apace and diversity and inclusion courses have made our defence forces much more sensitive to others' feelings.
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  3755. Typical BBC bias, using the absolute of an argument, when it is the average that is being discussed. Come on, Rosenberg. She never said there was no repression in Russia. She said she hadn't seen it, but she had definitely experienced it back home in Austria. Grow up and understand that, on balance, there is more repression in the West for academics like her.
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  3756. you don't have to stand them. ignore them.
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  3757. @Pho-King Soup Russian Federation was never in Afghanistan. USSR, led by a Ukrainian, was.
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  3758. @Pho-King Soup so you accept the bet?
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  3759.  @Cavc8g  and let me guess who the referee of "unjust laws" is....you, Carlos?
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  3760.  @deborahfreedman333  so you approve the idea of women going shirtless wherever men can go shirtless? how many places in the world agree with you do you think?
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  3761. But Bakhmut is of no military significance, remember? so, so what?
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  3762. what hate has he been spreading, and if something warrants hate, what's wrong with that?
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  3763.  @christinerussell113  and indeed they would have to stay in France if the if their applications were rejected. but another problem is that most applications are accepted!
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  3764.  @timg1246  agreed, but how to stop the boats?
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  3765. Unfortunately for the slow learners like Nigel, there are two black swans out there: Belarus and Sweden. Neither locked down, and Belarus didn't even impose any restrictions at all. Belarus and Sweden both have better covid survival stats than the UK. Yep, put them on trial, these "experts" that fear mongered so many to death,
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  3766.  @woodsmaneh952  it didn't. You tell me, did Russia invade Czecholovakia, or did USSR? You probably confuse England with Great Britain too. Think you might need to read a bit deeper.
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  3767.  @sergeyb8  how is the evacuation of Kupiansk going? once that place is under Russian control the score will be 7-0! Ukraine/NATO STILL looking for the first town where street by street fighting brings it a win! Fact.
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  3768.  @sergeyb8  you exemplify NATO's hope strategy. out of ammo, out of weaponry, out of men, just hope left to re take any territory. ain't gonna happen. 300,000 Russian trained reservists ready to join the fight if needed, the sanctions failed, hope is all you got. just like the Taliban did in Afghanistan, give it time and NATO gives up.
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  3769.  @sergeyb8  oh, sanctions are working? so Putin has been removed from power and the war is over? I missed that news! you are so funny!
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  3770.  @sergeyb8  after the Kharkov offensive we were told Ukronazis had captured so many Russian tanks, that Ukronazis had MORE tanks than they started the conflict with! Sergey, what do you think happened to that vast arsenal of tanks, eh? KABOOM! Russia destroyed them. And Russia will destroy whatever else makes it to the front line. talking about repeating the same error over and over again and expecting a different result!
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  3771.  @sergeyb8  even if Vugledar is repeated over and over and over again, Russia produces vast amounts of tanks, and China has basically said it will supply Russia with weapons, if you believe Blinken.
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  3772.  @michaelcerda5514  according to....?
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  3773. at some point, dopey DW will figure out that Russia's repeated missile attacks are aimed at depleting Ukraine's air defences. 30 patriot missiles wasted by Ukraine yesterday (only 250 a year are produced in USA!) and each patriot missile costs at least 100,000 USD, so Russia steadily bleeding the US weapons and tax payers dry:)
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  3774.  @frmcf  or if you are Christian, or if you got fired for turning up late to work, or if you got an ugly, loud mother in law, or if you got bullied at school, I mean "persecution" takes many forms, right?
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  3775. Ukronazis and their supporters must ask themselves the question: is Ukraine begging for weapons and ammo 24/7 because NATO is unable to supply what is necessary, or unwilling to supply what is necessary. choose which one you believe is the truth, but either way, understand that Russia has won.
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  3776. Russia receives first shipment of Leopard tanks for target practice
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  3777. Charles Martel has returned, at least in a spirit of resistance.
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  3778. whining working parents who moan about the cost of childcare should pay attention to how their tax payments are spent.
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  3779. "support in the West might wobble a bit" the fear in Kiev should be that support disappears totally and that the Western sheep start demanding peace talks. Everyone knows this counter offensive, IF it happens, is a do or die move for Ukraine. It isn't for Russia. Russia will be happy to play defence and keep massacring as much cannon fodder as it can until Ukraine is demilitarized (no more fighting age men).
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  3780.  @zzmmz3789  things couldn't have been that great in Mexico pre European immigration. otherwise, how to account for the Tlaxcalans allying with the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs?
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  3781. Russia can strike any facility in Ukraine it chooses, and NATO has no Patriot batteries available to stop that. But Russia already lost this war, we were told by Biden, last July. We were lied to.
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  3782. yet more evidence Russia is running out of missiles and weaponry, just like every day for the last 12 months.
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  3783. "men typically stay behind to fight or work" no. all men are compelled by the Zelensky dictatorship to stay behind and fight or work. get it right.
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  3784. the kind of stupid game a dwarf comedian puppet president would play, while a thousand cannon fodder get chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder every day.
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  3785. the hope now must be that there IS foul play afoot and that Jay is held hostage or was helped to get off the island.
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  3786. the Russians are also fighting for their family, land and freedom, and winning
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  3787. just like Che Guevara. and Zelensky will end up the same way
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  3788. black youth seem to be massively over-represented. what induces black youth over, say, Jewish kids or Asian kids, to do this?
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  3789. The Guardia Civil screwed up. They should have listened to the internet sleuths. Guardia Civil treated it as a missing person case for days. Internet sleuths shouted out "foul play" from day one. Guardia Civil got it wrong.
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  3790.  @marymarlow3646  they just had an election, something that was cancelled in Ukraine.
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  3791.  @andyb6866  secret ballot, diverse candidates with diverse policies, in person voting only, id checked on entering, yep, that is how an election should be, as opposed to the corrupt mess in places like Rochdale and Detroit. Russia showed the West how an election should be. Learn the truth.
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  3792. fingers crossed Trump wins and the war in Ukraine ends. time for NATO to apologize to the Ukrainians for their false promises of victory against Russia, time for NATO to eat some humble pie, and time for NATO to understand, the world has no respect for the West's bullying and lecturing and wants the West to shut up and stop its bullying and proxy wars.
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  3793.  @nelsonking  and as always, NATO will wash its hands of yet another miserable chapter and move on to the next proxy war. Look out, Taiwan.
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  3794.  @bjsc1100  and more and more new Wagnerites are finishing training, armed with shovels, and will relieve the Chechens and DPR forces when needed. Just brilliant how Russia is keeping its real Russian forces back for when needed to massacre NATO when NATO is forced to send boots on the ground.
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  3795. another missile attack? But for months we have been told that Russia is out of weapons? Looks like the West's new weapon is wishful thinking. Winter is Dec 21 to March 21. The bad weather and cold has only just started. Only a matter of time before the Ukrainian masses will start to turn against their leadership.
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  3796. Far Right 1930's - nationalist supremacists that put non Aryans into death camps Far Right 2020's - the indigenous population begging their government to keep the promise of severely reducing immigration levels.
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  3797. homes without power for a week? when will Ukraine step up and help victims in UK that have no power?
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  3798.  @nenasiek  not to the dull minded, I know.
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  3799. No sense of shame that her ancestors were the ones who captured and enslaved people and then happily sold them to traders. How much in reparation payments does she intend to fork out?
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  3800. So surprising his name is Abdul! My first guess was Mohammed.
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  3801.  @UnfollowYourDreams  so is UK and various other EU nations. So, EU nations that are hereditary monarchies cannot be far Left or far Right?
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  3802.  @UnfollowYourDreams  Not at all. I am testing YOUR understanding of basic politics .All you had to say was European monarchies are indeed hereditary monarchies, but they are all constitutional monarchies too, and constitutional monarchies are different from monarchies like North Korea. ok, so how about you list all the hereditary monarchies that are not constitutional monarchies on the planet, just so I know the list of places that cannot possibly be far Left OR far Right. Let's see if you have a clue what you are talking about!
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  3803.  @UnfollowYourDreams  so even though North Korea starts where capitalism ends, it still does not fit in the box of "far left" because......it's leader inherited the post of leader, and was not elected!? Only elected leaders can be far Left or far Right?
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  3804.  @UnfollowYourDreams  if only Charles had limited his role to representation, as his mother had. The truth is that King Charles willingly stepped into the political world a long time ago, with many a controversial political opinion expressed ad nauseum. You need to learn some basic politics and read up on all the political statements made by Charles, and then you will see just how much of a political figure he is and how ridiculous your statement is about him being non-political. Followed his career closely, have you?
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  3805.  @UnfollowYourDreams  he can propose legislation and has proposed legislation. every time he speaks about Green energy he is proposing what laws should be introduced to make the planet Greener. He does nothing BUT propose legislation it seems! Every time he speaks at a COP event, Charles is recommending the Green Party. You are confusing the theory of what his constitutional bounds are with the reality of his political influence and his political activity. Is Cuba a hereditary monarchy?
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  3806.  @UnfollowYourDreams  On the contrary. YOU don't know what proposing legislation means! Your thoughts are limited only to theory, not to reality. ANYONE with power or influence who suggests new laws is suggesting, or proposing, new legislation. You need to understand the full scope of the English language, and reality, rather than be limited by your tiny world of political terms and academic definitions that restrict your view of the real world.
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  3807.  @UnfollowYourDreams  which countries are currently led by far Left governments?
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  3808. Only a total fool would ever think Ukraine, with or without NATO weapons, could beat Russia in a ground war. Only the deluded keep pretending Ukraine is winning. stupidity.
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  3809.  @ht8602  sure, if you keep looking at the map from 2 weeks ago.
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  3810. looks like the "far right" AfD is now supported by millions and millions of "far right" voters! at what point does DW grasp the notion that "far right" = ordinary folk who want no more immigration!?
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  3811. How about you actually challenge deluded hypocrites like Klitschko with a tough question, like "what percentage of ethnic Russians in Donbass, do you think, would choose to be citizens of Ukraine in a referendum?"
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  3812. When Biden hears Europe now importing Qatari LNG, Biden will find a way to sabotage this pipeline too, at some point.
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  3813. the Jussie Smollet incident taught us the lengths to which some people will go to create an example of racist behavior. the Guardian is getting almost as desperate.
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  3814.  @gillianlaing1073  yeah? what makes you think that?
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  3815.  @leightzmill  yep, but it's damn hard to die and not be found for 11 days. that's quite an achievement!
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  3816.  @True_Heretic  glad to see you are unable to rebut anything I said
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  3817. the King should be sacked for agreeing to wear it.
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  3818. "warning signs of climate change are being ignored..." the hypocritical king forgot to finish his sentence, "....by people like me who refuse to give up our private jets and reduce our massive consumption of energy".
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  3819. when Justin Welby announces how many migrants he will personally house and feed in perpetuity, then I might listen to him. though I doubt it.
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  3820. it's very simple. ignore any court rules, everyone caught entering the UK illegally gets all valuables removed and returned immediately. France won't go to war over this.
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  3821. so Germany is the only EU country still embracing the European values of tolerance and inclusion, The chihuahua states, (Lithuania etc) have thrown inclusion out the window by banning entry to those based on place of birth - born in Russia, can't come here (hey, why not extend that ban to color of skin and stop Africans entering too?). You can see why "EU values" are being rejected the world over.
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  3822. any Ukrainian war crimes to consider, or Russia has 100% monopoly on war crimes? grow up, child.
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  3823.  @adenoidhinkel34  more failures, yes.
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  3824.  @mochtegerndane7097  and not for the first time in your life, you are absolutely wrong. I am a UK national, Bahamian wife, living in France. yes, cost of living is the most important thing. independence and sovereignty count for nothing if you are poor. and more important than the cost of living is one's health.
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  3825.  @frenchimp  beg pardon for defending the rights of ethnic Russians in Crimea and Donbass? what world do you live in? oh, i forgot, the world that honors Bandera as a national hero.
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  3826.  @hugoc2660  no need to send Putin anything. unlike Zelensky, he doesn't beg me for anything. My taxes have only gone to Zelensky. None of my taxes have gone to Putin. learn the difference
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  3827.  @hugoc2660  sorry, I answered the bit about the money, but not the soul. Yes, Putin very much has my soul. Best world leader by far. Unlike someone like Biden, Putin's academic qualifications are outstanding, his analysis and insight truly impressive, and he stands up for Russians and ethnic Russians admirably. That's why he has so much support, at home and globally. BRICS, OPEC, Latin America, Africa, Asia, all very happy to work with Putin.
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  3828.  @DavidOfWhitehills  what's your point?
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  3829. charlatan and propagandist. so Russia's invasion is colonialism, but US and UK invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria are all anti colonial? astounding nonsense from an absolute liar.
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  3830. not black, looks white, place your bets. Native Brit or immigrant? Muslim or not?
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  3831.  @thianthiptopia2925  the precedent was set in the 1960s when USA ordered Cuba had no right to be a base for Soviet missiles. Sovereign Cuban wishes were ignored. Likewise, following the West's "rules-based order", Russia is ordering the same on Ukraine.
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  3832. there is certainly no evidence if you refuse to look at the evidence.
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  3833.  @steveb951  Far Right 1930's = non Aryans forced into death camps Far Right 2020's = voters begging for Westminster to do what it promised to do for the last 2 decades and reduce immigration levels.
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  3834. yeah, Ukraine really got the strategy thing going. Kherson, no gains at all, and 3000 dead cannon fodder, Brilliant strategy.
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  3835.  @triode1212  The wise among us assumed nothing at the beginning, regarding the abilities of the Russian forces. The wise among us today see that Russia has opted for its favored war of attrition, and that it is winning.
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  3836. All this pain and suffering just because one short comedian waving his other hand madly wants to be the creator of Greater Nationalist Russophobic Ukraine, something more significant than Poroshenko. Why are puppet comedians allowed to decide wars where young men and civilians die and suffer?
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  3837.  @JJ-zg1hh  "would have to comply with WTO standard rules" time to tear that old rule book up! A truly free nation complies with no such diktats from bureaucratic bodies. Tell the WTO where to shove it.
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  3838.  @samhartford8388  oh sure, it takes two to tango, and no one said it's easy to convince governments addicted to tariffs and quotas and duties as a cash cow that free trade and frictionless trade is the way to go, but it should definitely be the aim and governments with a high "ease of doing business" index would be more than willing to think along these lines. obviously, that would exclude the EU.
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  3839. Wagners have no need to surround or capture Bakhmut. As long as it is a cauldron, thousands of Ukronazis are going nowhere but a nice long dirt nap over the next few weeks.
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  3840. "i don't know why that is the approach taken by the Spanish Police" oh come on! Why would the Spanish Police want to open up a can of worms of teenage drug dealers, police corruption, thefts and violence?
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  3841. and really great news that Zelensky has agreed to sell his overseas properties to contribute to the war effort! Fantastic leading by example. you did all hear that news, right?
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  3842. just hilarious to see how the Italians were such fools, electing a weak Liberal with no clue how to deal with the migrant problem when they thought Meloni actually wanted to end the crisis.
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  3843. Atlas poll gives Trump a 3% national lead and leading in key battleground states. Trump will win.
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  3844. "Volodomyr's nerves are in shreds" so, he is doing a lot better than the dead Donbass children buried in the Alley of Angels in Donetsk, massacred by Azov Nazi shelling over the last 8 years.
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  3845. Just Allah's way of saying "please don't waste your time with all this nonsense"
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  3846. get the jab, kiss your immune system goodbye, indefinitely. now we understand the importance of looking at long term effects of a vaccine before sticking it in ourselves.
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  3847. already tried that, it failed
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  3848.  @jasonsccheung3831  without Russia there, no one can say they beat the best in the world. Slava Rossiyi
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  3849.  @gabagool_ovahere  that's what Marion Jones and Ben Johnson said.
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  3850. Russian low morale, low on ammo, no recruits, isolated from the world, the usual nonsense from the West. Been hearing this since March. Meanwhile, 20 days into the great Ukrainian counteroffensive, how's that going?
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  3851. without a doubt, any PM who had refused to get involved with Ukraine would have been serving the British people's interests best.
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  3852. 3 months of power outages across the EU this winter, pensioners freezing to death over Christmas, soon there will be a list of members wanting to get out of the EU.
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  3853. So, who strings Zelensky up by a rope first, the drunken Wagner convicts or the 16 yr old Ukrainian cannon fodder recruits unwilling to take a compelled early dirt nap?
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  3854. Honest, working people have much more freedom in Russia than in the UK
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  3855. all the losers, wastrels and deluded ignoramuses of the Canaries unite to blame those who feed their economy for all their woes. pathetic.
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  3856. he said it, the Ukrainians never agreed to a ceasefire. Ukraine from now on will be seen by the neutral parties (China, India etc) as the side that gave a thumbs down to a peace offer. Good move by Putin, yet another bad mood by the out-of-his-depth puppet Zelensky
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  3857. thoroughly deserved to all the French voters who didn't vote for Zemmour. You had a chance to reverse the mass immigration and consequences such as Nahel causing mayhem in the streets, but you turned away from the right option. You reap what you sow.
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  3858. more NATO junk on its way to being yet more target practice for the Russians. when will Zelensky realize that NATO's promise to kick the Russians out of Ukraine was a load of b***shit?
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  3859. over 90 countries attending is just DW's way of saying over 110 countries absolutely refused to attend.
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  3860.  @rossty777  just pointing out the truth
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  3861. yet more evidence that GBNews has abandoned the core values of its audience. let me check what is being said on BBC to see if it is more in line with true Conservative views.
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  3862. "which world does Rubiales live in?" the normal world, where a spontaneous kiss in celebration is fine. which world does this dopey journalist live in? a weak woke cesspit of fragile worrywarts that have nothing better to do than to wring their hands in fake grief.
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  3863.  @gravelydon7072  not at all. I have forgotten nothing. I'm asking you what does Wagner PMC have to do with rampant support for Nazis in Ukraine and the fact that Ukraine is the only country in the world that has welcomed and embraced a whole nazi battalion into its national defence force? I'm also asking you to tell me which words I google to find evidence of Nazi tattoos on the founder of Wagner. Cue crickets.
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  3864. So if Crimea is dependent on power from the ZNPP, how did Crimea survive with no power from the ZNPP from 2014 to 2022? Bell is such a bad liar.
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  3865. " a giant explosion in the venter of Belgorod" yep, the massive military complex Russia has in the center of Belgorod. give me a break. yet again, the terrorist state of Ukraine massacring indiscriminately. we see why Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk separated from the nazi bully boys in Kiev.
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  3866. which shows you the massive vacuum to be filled when a party of truly Conservative values emerges.
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  3867.  @Ikkeligeglad  a lot less than didn't vote for the Lib Dems
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  3868. his ideas on regulations make no sense. let the market decide. if people want to gorge themselves on c**p, that's their choice. one of the problems is when the NHS provides medical care for "free", there really isn't much incentive, for the fatties who feel fine with being a fatty, to change any eating habits.
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  3869. no surprise no one has resigned over the US's refusal to press Hamas to release any hostages
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  3870. there is no counter offensive. just ceaseless talk of it, to keep NATO engaged. if a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels can defeat NATO trained and armed fighters in Bakhmut, it means Ukraine is not capable of mounting an offensive.
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  3871.  @burns281981  learn the difference between "becoming surrounded" and "encirclement". once you have improved your reading comprehension skills, then you can rejoin the debate.
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  3872.  @Blodhelm  it is absolutely 100% true. absurd only to those who are now frustrated that the agreement doesn't guarantee Odessa city is out of bounds.
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  3873.  @conorwhite2066  exactly, this bizarre Alice in Wonderland view the media want us to believe. Russia is poised to invade all of Europe, while Russia is so weak it can't even defeat Ukraine after one year. which one is it?
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  3874. funny how we haven't heard Ben Wallace pronounce that Russia is running out of missiles lately.
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  3875. Africa now knows it is Europe's sanctions on Russia that are causing big problems for Africa, so Russia certainly will not be blamed for backing out of the grain deal. Hypocritical Europe will, rightfully, be blamed.
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  3876.  @upnorth2421  The Russian speakers of the Donbass would agree with you 100%. thank you for supporting their struggle against Ukraine.
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  3877.  @johndoe-ss9bz  so now you have a device that measures the capacity for Putin to care about children and grandchildren? when you hold your amazing device close to Zelensky, what does it read?
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  3878. S - If we rebuild the Nordstream pipe, will you just destroy it again? B - You know it S - ok, so, I'll wait til Trump wins in 2024 for that project.
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  3879. why should the government be involved in building more housing? let the free market sort out the problem, not the tax payer.
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  3880.  @troywright359  murder is the unlawful and premeditated killing of anyone. what happened in Paris was both unlawful and premeditated. it was murder. whether it was righteous or not, that would be up for debate. to my mind, it is symptomatic of the feelings of millions of people in Europe and that is the important point. no one should be shocked by it. everyone should see it as a protest against the spineless politicians who have ruined the continent. it's not the three people who were murdered that are to blame.
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  3881. Jay never mentioned to anyone where he was trying to get to when he left the airbnb. where does this assumption come from, that Jay was trying to get to Los Cristianos? makes no sense.
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  3882.  @garbancitolentejas486  I believe Ofelia said that Jay asked the time of the next bus. The Titsa 365 bus doesn't go to Los Cristianos. It goes to Santiago del Teide. Then you have to change buses and go to Adeje, and then change again to get to Los Cristianos. If you listen to Ofelia's precise answer again, let me know what she says, but for sure, Jay never told any of his mates that he was intending to return to Los Cristianos. Not sure Ofelia and Jay understood each other well at all.
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  3883.  @garbancitolentejas486  correct. Jay never missed any bus. the first bus on a Monday is at 10.05. clearly, for whatever reason, Jay had to get away quickly, so given that no bus was about to arrive, he took off walking fast.
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  3884. Day 5 of the massive Ukrainian counter offensive. Here is a list of the settlements captured so far:.........hmmm Kherson will definitely be captured by the end of September. just 34 days to go!
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  3885. Mercouris is so wrong on so many matters. Galloway is NOT pro Palestinian (after all, Israelis are Palestinians too). Galloway is anti Jewish and would have fitted in, perfectly, with anti-Semitic, Hamas-befriending Jeremy Corbyn. But thanks, Mercouris, for explaining that Manchester is a big city in England.
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  3886.  @cobralord4279  Milley's myth that became so popular in the West!
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  3887.  @flopoz2575  a war of attrition is not won by territorial gains. let me know if you need to learn how a war of attrition is won.
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  3888.  @flopoz2575  If NATO weren't demilitarized, why would Ukraine keep having to ask for more and more weapons and ammo? If NATO weren't demilitarized, why is Russia able to fire off at least 5 times the number of missiles as NATO-supplied Ukraine? Key questions you never answer.
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  3889.  @Joshpox  "defend themselves" you make it sound as if Ukraine is actually attacking!
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  3890.  @bonnie7898  The combined militaries of 32 countries that are incapable of matching just one nation's production of weapons: Russia. Simple question for you; if NATO is not demilitarized, why was it incapable of providing Ukraine what was needed for Ukraine's failed summer offensive, and why is NATO incapable of providing Ukraine what it needs right now? Looks like you are saying that NATO is CHOOSING not to supply Ukraine with all it needs? why? Keep writing your asinine and ignorant comments! light relief is always appreciated.
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  3891. "..who haven't had time to integrate" Hitchens assuming those who come to this country desire to be integrated? it's just a question of time before Muhammed from Pakistan embraces the gay community and Muslim apostates?
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  3892.  @georgebarnes8163  not true. according to the constitution it confers Irish nationality on the passport holder. doesn't mean the person is Irish in heart, soul and mind. I know a Ukrainian woman that married a Japanese guy and she got a Japanese passport. That doesn't make her Japanese! She has Japanese nationality. Big difference.
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  3893.  @bornwithoutconsentobviously  well well well, who would believe that an Arab sounding name is the that of the suspect! So rare that a person of immigrant background gets caught up in any killings in Europe. Hardly ever happens!
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  3894. which is exactly what the Chechens said, and the Georgians, and the Moldovans, and the Ukrainians...and let's see the consequences of such nonchalance at those thoughts! Up next for the Russia treatment..oh, Lithuania! Get ready to suffer:)
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  3895. How can we be having this conversation now? Surely ALL these consequences and worst-case scenarios were calculated by the EU leaders BEFORE sanctions were imposed! Surely? I mean, Habeck and co DID envisage this eventuality, right? I guess they thought maybe the sanctions would lead to reducing Russian energy revenues, not BOOSTING them? Anyone else get the feeling we are being led by a bunch of 12 year olds?
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  3896. "we're not hearing much from the Ukrainian front lines" that would be because you are not listening to those who are updating us every day with how Ukraine is getting absolutely massacred in Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Kupinsky.
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  3897.  @christianevanherck6023  4% of the Swiss are Italian speakers, but those Italian speakers have their education in Italian, and rightfully so. 10% of Spaniards are Catalan speakers, but those Catalan speakers have their education in Catalan, and rightfully so. in the Donbass, there are communities where 90% of the people are Russian speakers, but that 90% are refused education in Russia. The Russian speaking children and Russian speaking teachers are compelled to conduct all instruction in Ukrainian. Explain why the Swiss and Spanish so wisely respect minority language rights while Ukraine refuses to. Maybe you now see why so many Russian speaking Ukrainians now hate Kiev and the fascism and apartheid for which it stands.
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  3898.  @lena-qe1pg  genau!
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  3899. summer forest fires happen every year, always have, always will, the only increase of any note is the number of arsonists these days who start them.
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  3900. welcome to the consequences of building properties too close to forests.
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  3901. Once again, the arrogance of Western media on display to the public. The "international community" is NOT the same as the Western bubble of nations and its few lackeys. Only 54 countries voted to condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine in the U.N. August vote, and that, once again, after all the threats and arm-twisting from the West. The vast majority of the globe is happy to work and trade with Russia.
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  3902. no, Bleksley, the disgrace is fools like you that for 2 weeks clung to the absurd notion that Jay got lost in the wilderness and only now, kicking and screaming, have to admit that the internet sleuths made much more sense than the Keystone Cop wannabes in Tenerife.
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  3903.  @CorporalCookie  no one will have to fork over any extra for insurance. do you think oil shipping was insurance free pre price cap? just means the non G7 insurance companies will have a bonanza in trade and places like London will lose business. another loss for the dumb West. The rise in cost of oil will more than compensate Russia. why do you think Russia has received more revenues from its energy exports since the sanctions? Cut supply, demand remains the same, price goes up...basic economics old boy. Time for the West to re-think.
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  3904.  @TheNilla2020  apart from everyone else in the world who actually understands the situation in Ukraine. deal with the message, not with the messenger, and it shows how weak your side is that they can't deal with the arguments without screaming in panic "bot, bot bot"
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  3905.  @DonLuc23  who do you think is buried in the Angels Alley in Donetsk? Do you think shelling Donbass is a really good way for Ukraine to entice the DPR and LPR to rejoin Ukraine?
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  3906. sanctions on Russia on top of paying millions to stay home and not work = rampant inflation = salary increase demands = big trouble for France and the West in general. All those who applauded sanctions on Russia and lockdowns, you deserve this.
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  3907. he was never seen in that wilderness, surely? he was seen in Masca, by the bus stop and then seen wandering off out of town. he was, according to Lucy, heard on his phone talking about a low battery and being thirsty. no one saw Slater where thy are searching for him.
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  3908. Ukraine is NOT fighting for Western values. Anyone who holds Bandera up as a national hero does NOT share Western values. And Ukraine is not fighting for anyone's freedom. Ukraine has been fooled into fighting Russia because it will weaken Russia and NATO won't lose any of its soldiers.
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  3909. No one in parliament has the guts to announce the problem is the nation's out-of-control debt and that enormous cuts have to be made. Putin for PM
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  3910. Scholz realizes that the game is up. His military leaders have told him the tanks won't change anything and that the Germans can't afford to keep supplying weapons. Scholz has an eye on the opinion poll that says 49% of Germans DON'T want German tanks going to Ukraine. But Scholz is a weak weasel, so though he sees how futile the war is, he has no guts to stand up and say it.
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  3911. if no one thinks that US spending on Ukraine is A factor in driving inflation, then no one understands basic economics.
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  3912. BBC still peddling this nonsense about the Wagners trying to surround Bakhmut. At what point will the dullards at the BBC learn what a cauldron is?
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  3913.  @edwardvictormartin7511  so funny you think Russia is ready to sign a peace agreement.
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  3914.  @edwardvictormartin7511  i would imagine it will go nuclear at some point. i can see NATO sending in some boots on the ground, then Russia targeting a NATO base or two in Poland or Romania, and then a nuke exchange. entirely possible. it's a good time to move to Argentina.
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  3915.  @mbeale100  France. look, if somehow you make it aboard the Eurostar and arrive in Paris with no travel document, you are not allowed entry into France. You are returned to the UK. It's the same everywhere. if you are refused entry into any country you are returned to where you just came from.
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  3916.  @mbeale100  right, but what I am saying is that given you have come from a place where there is no persecution of you, i.e. you have no need to change country to find asylum, and given you have no valid travel document, then you should be returned. it's very simple. France admitted the person, and therefore France is responsible for the individual. If the individual was admitted into Schengen as an asylum seeker, then let him seek asylum where he was admitted.
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  3917.  @flow1406  like me after my last tequila. must be climate change
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  3918. sanctions have both positive and negative effects. however, the intention (to cripple the Russian economy to the point that Russia cannot wage war) has failed totally.
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  3919. and the funny thing is, Zelensky is STILL pouring in more Ukronazi cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder! Zelensky must really hate his own youth.
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  3920.  @ultonian63  thanks for the potato, Adolf. What are you going to snack on? something fresh from the Russian meatgrinder maybe?
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  3921. "we should all strive to get better" yeah, well, "better" in my world, mate, doesn't include any beheadings for people who drive a caricature of dopey charlatan Mohammed.
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  3922.  @serebii666  your source for the casualty rate? i go by the US Intelligence as stated in the leaked Discord documents, kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor. your trusted source?
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  3923.  @galanis38  David goes by "Western Intelligence", whatever that means.
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  3924. just to ensure another massive strike will happen in two weeks, Ben Wallace will announce today that Russia has no more missiles to fire on Ukraine.
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  3925.  @XsiadzBiskup  unemployment is even lower than 2.7% in Cuba, but Cuba is a grim place to live. so, another thing you have learnt....low unemployment doesn't guarantee a lovely place to live. sure, all those Ukrainians are not a drain at all on the Polish taxpayers. in fact, another million or so would make Poland even richer, right? you may be right about Silesian towns today. haven't been there for a while. Russia's economy is doing just great and it's good to see Putin stand up to nazis like Denis Nikitin and the ever provocative NATO. Let's hope Zelensky and his neo fascists are defeated soon.
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  3926. if the dog and the tarot reading sister both agree austerity is needed, then both have more brains than the economists who have led Argentina to the brink of absolute ruin.
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  3927.  @cherryfressh6188  Day 5 of the massive Ukrainian counter offensive! Which towns, settlements or villages have been taken by Ukraine so far? Getting close to Kherson are they?
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  3928.  @cherryfressh6188  so the answer is after 5 days of the massive Ukrainian counter offensive, no territory has been gained. Got it.
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  3929.  @cherryfressh6188  oh, I see, so the big counter offensive you mentioned 5 days ago is in fact the big PREPARATION for a counter offensive! Bit different that. So when Zelensky says "bit by bit we are advancing to Kherson" he means "bit by bit we are preparing an advance toward Kherson". And now the truth. Ukraine did indeed attempt a counter offensive, as they have tried several times before. As always, it was beaten back with severe losses to the Ukrainians. The attempts to destroy any bridges has failed miserably, the counter offensive preparations have stalled. Ain't going to happen. But let's count down. 34 days to end of September and the "liberation of Kherson".
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  3930. Tice has a future if he ditches his absurd support for the corrupt Kiev regime.
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  3931. No one likes Putin? He's the best leader in the world, by a mile! If only the UK had a leader that stood up for ethnic Brits as Putin does for ethnic Russians.
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  3932. And now, the truth. Into WEEK FIVE of this great counter offensive, and it is a total failure. Not one single Ukrainian fighter is anywhere near the FIRST Russian defence line. Ukraine is getting absolutely massacred stuck in the security zone, Russian helicopters and planes picking off hundreds of cannon fodder and weaponry every day. About 8 villages and a pig farm have been captured by Ukraine, but most of the pigs said they were determined to stay part of Russia. Clarke no longer repeating "Russia is out of missiles"....interesting.
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  3933.  @thrivingnow7395  try Lloyd Austin's own words, and the leaked Pentagon documents. RT not needed to see the truth here.
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  3934.  @jeckjeck3119  disinformation = any opinion that clashes with your deluded assumptions, it would seem
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  3935. Salvini may well convince the Fratelli to back out of sanctions on Russia if the groundswell of opposition to sanctions in Italy keeps growing.
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  3936.  @RuLeZ1988  Those investigating it have ruled Russia out. Hence all the latest bla bla bla about Ukraine being responsible, with help from Poland.
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  3937.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  stilling correcting your wayward thinking
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  3938. it's quite simple. the Police have decided their role is to keep the peace, even if that means bending to the will of the mob. when the Police return to their duty of enforcing the law, OR admitting they are powerless to enforce the law, the sooner we can address the issue.
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  3939. when Lucy can't make enough money on her back, she got plenty of the white stuff to sell, but she messed up when she got Jay in on the action. Machete man Jay is not the discreet type to make it in the narco world.
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  3940.  @a564-c3q  Kievan Rus confirms that Kiev was Russian
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  3941.  @solomonblack6344  and let's not forget that the Crimean War was fought against Russia, not Ukraine.
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  3942. Lots of shiny, new EU flags been handed out to the crowd there. I wonder who paid for all that? Georgia's proposed FARA law would reveal the source of such massive funding to undermine democracy in Georgia. It doesn't come from Russia. It comes from the West.
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  3943.  @mrsam0496  they love having fun revealing their ignorance and deluded visions of a Ukraine win when i turn up. when they get my replies they smile and enjoy life. or maybe not?
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  3944. Starmer and the woke elites are in panic mode, for one simple reason. the white British working class are still the majority in the country, and if they so desire, they could remove this government with protests that would bring the country into a state of utter paralysis. this fact hasn't sunk in yet, but if the white British masses decide to act a la Just Stop Oil or BLM, Starmer will be forced to negotiate. Exciting times.
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  3945. not the war in Ukraine. it's the sanctions on Russia, as chosen by the EU, that's causing economic misery for so many.
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  3946. USA attacked Afghanistan for harboring the enemy, Osama bin Laden, and training the Al Qaeda enemy. Russia sees UK doing the same with the Ukrainian cannon fodder troops being trained in UK. Maybe Russia will follow the West's "rules based order" and launch a strike on UK? crazier things have happened.
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  3947. Takes two to tango....the world sees that Ukraine rejected a peace offer and backs Russia even more now.
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  3948. and you would too if the law didn't compel you to.
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  3949.  @stephenphillips1660  the committee that subpoened him had no right to demand he attend at all, and the method of issuing the subpoena was irregular to say the least. Do you believe that anyone subpoened by any committee is obliged to appear? really?
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  3950.  @Hoophey  talking about Western names, "Kerry", looks like you mispelled yours! That "H" in "Hoop" is surely a "P", right? so accurately describes what comes out of your mouth.
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  3951.  @Hoophey  Help me out, "Kerry". Is Kerry a man's name or a woman's name? Where I'm from, men are men and women are women, so maybe, as you are a Westerner, you are one of those in between?
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  3952. "and we still know no more" obviously, if fools like you refuse to do your jobs and refuse do some investigative journalism, what the hell do you hope to find out?
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  3953. Compare the way Lavrov engages with and listens to and cooperates with African countries as opposed to the way the West lectures, hectors and cajoles developing nations into isolating Russia. The West has failed miserably. Latin America, Africa and Asia, the VAST majority of the world, are happy to trade with Russia. The West is now isolated and despised. Putin wins again.
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  3954. curious that the ICJ has had nothing to say on the Hamas government in Gaza. no violations or any war crimes committed by Hamas, of course not.
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  3955. "more police officers in England and Wales". great, so we can expect 12 coppers to raid a pub and seize golliwogs instead of 6.
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  3956. yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons
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  3957.  @susanjohnson5298  Ofelia is a dodgy one, giving her interview Lucy style with only the back of her head on camera....what is she hiding? body language experts detecting her every lie?
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  3958. Janet "transitory inflation" Yellen gives no one any confidence in anything. she should have been fired a year ago.
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  3959.  @Jmp5nb  the whole point wasn't to "hurt Russia where it hurts the most", but to hurt Russia to such an extent that Russia has to abandon the war. Nice shift of the goalposts, but IMF projected growth for Russia in 2024 is 3.5%. which is 3.5% higher than Germany is looking at! Maybe the Germans need to learn Mandarin Chinese?
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  3960.  @Wallace-g5o  a car is a deadly weapon in the hands of a person like Nahel. You will catch up with the facts at some point. Criminal record, no license, stolen vehicle, before being stopped Nahel had almost killed a cyclist and a pedestrian. Nahel put everyone's lives at risk with his arrogant criminality. the world is so much better off without him, and what is truly disgusting is you seem to think the police officer is to blame for Nahel choosing to endanger the lives of the public. absolutely disgusting. shame on you.
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  3961.  @donut2111  we are talking specifically about a kid driving without a license, in a stolen car, criminal record, already just narrowly avoided killing a cyclist and a pedestrian, refusing to cooperate with police. a drunk driver who is under age, has no license, in a stolen car, who just narrowly avoided killing someone, who is then stopped, but refuses to cooperate and drives off while Police are trying to effect an arrest, would, i believe, be shot at in almost every country on this planet, and rightfully so. take it or leave it. Nahel richly deserved his trip to paradise. what is truly disgusting is that you sanction behavior that puts so many innocent people at risk.
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  3962.  @chrisgronskei5416  Rasmussen and AtlasIntel were the 2 most accurate polls in 2020, and both have Trump ahead in the Swing states today. If you want to take comfort in the fact that hideously inaccurate pollsters like CNN have it as a narrow Harris lead, fine, delude yourself, but remember all the polls had Hilary leading right up to election day.
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  3963. why the hell should others pay for you and your dog? typical whining of parasites
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  3964.  @dinimakhmudov1674  it's the "taking responsibility" for bad decisions that society's parasites are not so good at.
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  3965.  @evolassunglasses4673  most likely! and remember, 10% for the Big Guy! Biden needs his cut!
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  3966.  @Basauri.48970  it's not the middle of the Sahara Desert either. there are people driving by regularly. it is weird that no hiker, no passer by, no motorist, no one saw him at all. leads some of us to believe he was picked up, by appointment, in a car and driven off somewhere.
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  3967.  @greengarnish1711  we have the same wish! NATO is a paper tiger and would sue for peace immediately. Given how the goat herding Taliban humiliated NATO in Kabul, safe to say Russia would wipe the floor with NATO
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  3968. the only reason the Western media are forced to call this a "sham" referendum is because, having lectured us on how everyone wants to live in Ukraine with Zelensky, and no one wants to be Russian under Putin, it would be impossible to explain a massive majority vote for union with Russia. You can be assured if Ukraine staged a similar referendum in northern Zaprorizha it would be lauded to the skies as "Ukrainian democracy in action"...but don't worry, Ukraine ain't no democracy, so no referendum will happen there.
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  3969. the right to protest was cancelled during Covid, so Parliament has already approved limitations on the right to protest. A precedent has been set.
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  3970. I can't tell, is this some Democrat, Biden supporter speaking? He sounds 100% behind everything Biden is aiming or.
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  3971. Ban all people who criticize private enterprise
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  3972.  @melgrant7404  and he was sober enough to ask about the bus departure times. just not sober enough to realize that walking aimlessly into the wilderness is not a great idea.
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  3973. The only reason the Makeevka attack is news is because it is such a rare Ukrainian success. Russia kills hundreds of Ukrainians in such missile strikes every other day, but of course, this news is best ignored by the West.
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  3974. she's the type of dumb reporter that would have done nothing but criticize the failures of the Allied war effort against the Axis powers right up to 1944. clueless.
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  3975. Still waiting for Josh Fenton Glynn, Labour MP, to be arrested for spreading Hope Not Hate misinformation about Muslim women being acid attacked in Middlesboro. We know it won't happen but we demand to know why.
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  3976. Sunak is not the brightest, far from the sharpest knife in the drawer, and worse than that, he is woefully out of touch with the man in the street. RIP the "Conservatives".
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  3977.  @JTMaster  agree with that
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  3978.  @thefunkybassist9916  there is even more for international investors to gain by rebuilding relations with Russia
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  3979.  @brianwarburton4482  we had stable relations before, not good. we coexisted. Putin was never happy that NATO still existed even though the Soviet Union was long gone, and that NATO insisted on expansion towards Russia. Putin, rightfully so, was dismayed that the West did NOTHING to implement the Minsk accords and stood back and watched their man, Zelensky, shell the Russian speakers of the Donbass. Putin tolerated a lot, things were more or less stable. The straw that broke the camel's back was NATO refusing to talk about Ukraine's neutrality. Putin realized that the West would not listen to Russia's concerns, so he was forced to act. The West threw away a path to peace. Very sad. Biden, Johnson, Macron...not able or willing to listen to Putin.
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  3980. @Vintage Bollinger Aiden Aslin? Sean Pinner? all the Ukrainian POWs?
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  3981.  @danwisher7878  your response to the substance of the debate is on a par with the G7's response to Russia
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  3982.  @ukpaullouis2708  yes, this time is different. This time the European tyrant is Zelensky and the West has backed the tyrant rather than the man trying to liberate the people of the Donbass from the Azov Nazis and the oligarch-backed tyrant, Zelensky. Quite, quite different.
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  3983.  @camillep9346  other way round. Putin is working hard for my values, and my experience in Ukraine tells me Putin has got this right. Many, though not all, of my Ukrainian students agree.
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  3984.  @joman563  Russia is much smaller than USSR, but it is also a lot more efficient and developed. Ukraine has wider support than Afghanistan? Not sure about that one. The vast majority of the globe, wisely, wants NOTHING to do with this conflict and wants to trade with Russia. Afghanistan had the support of all the Muslim world, and many who detest NATO. I do agree with you that, generally, illegitimate regimes are more vulnerable than legitimate governments, and that is precisely why the LPR and DPR will prevail, and Ukraine (DEFINITELY headed by an illegitimate regime) will collapse. Just my reading of things.
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  3985. Tommy Robinson already did all the reporting on this disgusting state of affairs. If GB News were REALLY concerned about this they would invite Tommy to join them and reignite the debate.
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  3986. you and who's navy, big boy? maybe just allow the fertilizer exports to go unfettered and for the ammonium to be piped, as Russia wants.
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  3987.  @dirkvanrensburg7315  that's right! a mystery why Ukraine would have to mobilize any forces at all, because according to the Western media, Ukraine doesn't suffer any losses worth reporting, ever!
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  3988.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  and I'm not Putin
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  3989.  @RodneyWolfram  dunbass or Donbass?
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  3990.  @versuch8239  nah, not really. like all politicians, Putin plays to the crowds, but in essence he is a man of substance and vision. defeating the sanctions and victories in Chechnya, Syria, Georgia and Transnistria have shown that.
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  3991.  @uA-gy8wk  the meeting becomes a little less "symbolic" when Biden breaks the bad news..."we're out of ammo, you burned through it all, you have until June to win this, otherwise, buenas noches"
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  3992.  @A.Martin  maybe. an extra round of Iranian drones raining down on Kiev as a welcome gift, maybe.
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  3993.  @MrDosonhai  no, I don't remember, so I am sure you can provide me with the full quote, context and date spoken. "Ghost of Kiev is real", remember that one? Zelensky's words and actions often go in opposite directions.
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  3994.  @MrDosonhai  yes, prevail, check out how things are now in Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Syria, Transnistria. prevail.
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  3995.  @MrDosonhai  I never knew Zelensky ever mentioned running to the U.S. as an option! Speaks volumes that a Churchillian war time leader would ever mention such an option! As I said, I'm sure you can provide me with the source, full quote, context and date of Putin's "never invade Ukraine" statement.
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  3996.  @MrDosonhai  Zelensky also said it was Russian missiles that killed two people in Poland, before the West told Zelensky to stop lying.
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  3997.  @versuch8239  keep laughing, it will help you deal with your state of denial, tonight.
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  3998.  @boota1979  so true. just waiting for Western media to reveal that most uncomfortable truth.
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  3999. strange how DW media coverage of civilian deaths in Donetsk, massacred by Ukrainian shelling, and civilian deaths, thousands of them, in both DPR and LPR over the last 8 years was, well, non existent. But suddenly, civilian deaths are worth reporting on? Very hard to explain. Unless, surely it can't be, that DW wants a biased coverage that slams the Russian side but not the Ukrainian side?
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  4000.  @soldiers23  you really think the masses will obey an order not to go to the beach on a sunny summer afternoon? do you live in North Korea?
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  4001. looks like Ukraine prefers another winter of power outages and missile attacks to considering no NATO membership and letting the ethnic Russians in Ukraine become Russian citizens.
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  4002. "a bit less of an effect than was hoped at the beginning of the war".......just a bit. The expectation was hyper-inflation, the ruble reduced to rubble, banking system dismantled, economy wrecked. IMF now predicts modest growth for Russian economy and revenues from energy exports are up. yep, just "a bit less of an effect".
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  4003.  @timq8470  and, please tell me, why are the "people smugglers" called "smugglers" when entering the UK to claim asylum is perfectly legal? they are not smugglers at all. just helping with the transport of willing applicants.
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  4004. Russia showing the West what real democracy looks like: diverse choice of candidates, secret ballot, paper ballot, in person voting with all ids checked. If only places like Rochdale or Detroit could emulate such high standards.
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  4005. those entering from France are not fleeing persecution. they already fled persecution and found safety in France. thus no one entering the UK illegally from France is seeking asylum (they already had asylum in France) and none are refugees (they had a refuge in France).
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  4006. Does your insurance company come to your aid when you are delinquent paying your bill? American taxpayers are fed up of the Euro freebooters. Pay up, or, yes, we'll be cheering on Putin's expansion. Maybe a dose of Putin would knock some sense into the Euro cheapskates.
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  4007. "trying to improve its air defense"...what? now? after multiple attacks that have reduced the country to huddling in tents? talk of lack of preparation and slow reactions. then again, maybe NATO has no reply to this form of warfare? NATO so used to having air superiority, a little ironic that another sanctioned country, Iran, is providing the means to defeat NATO in the air.
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  4008. any white, indigenous Brit that has enough cash to buy a one way ticket to Brazil to make a new start, but who chooses to remain in Britain, is making a massive mistake.
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  4009. the point is that without reliable electricity, Ukrainian troops can't be transported by the electrified train system. this will become a big factor when the Russian mobilization takes full effect. there are always brave words when a crisis starts. let's hear the words of defiance when Grandma is found dead, frozen to death on Christmas Day. and it is indefinite, no sign this can get better. time to negotiate with Putin.
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  4010.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  i have a feeling that between them, Russia, Iran and North Korea can, plus help from China maybe. Definitely NATO can't.
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  4011. Gotta laugh at the assumption that Ukraine will still exist when the war with Russia is over. Europe still in denial that Putin will be setting all the conditions when the surrender treaty is signed.
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  4012.  @somethingelse9535  LOL. Putin didn't ban all opposition parties from the Duma. Zelensky did from the Rada! Try to make sense next time.
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  4013.  @somethingelse9535  Putin did not prohibit any fighting age men from leaving Russia. Zelensky has now banned all fighting age men and women from leaving Ukraine! Try to make sense next time.
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  4014.  @somethingelse9535  It is wartime for Russia too, but citizens' rights have not been stripped a la Zelensky. Collaborators? Opposition members of parliament are now labeled "collaborators" in Ukraine? wow! Now you are making my point for me! Russia does not imprison opposition in peace time. why do you think the Communist party is alive and well in the Duma? Zelensky, however, had opposition leader Medvedchuk put under house arrest. Zelesnky even had Poroshenko, the previous president, detained at the Polish border! Nice try, Azov Nazil lover. Keep backing the forces of tyranny and dictatorship
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  4015. Let's add this one to the list of lies - "we are pushing the Russians back in Kherson oblast"...really, give us a quick rundown of the settlements, villages and towns captured after one week of the counter offensive....crickets
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  4016. never expect mercy from anyone!
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  4017.  @devanman7920  to the same extent?
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  4018.  @devanman7920  there's all kinds of stuff online. quite how you have weighed it all up and concluded it comes out 50/50, and definitely not 60/40, baffles me.
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  4019. even though Joe Biden promised to do it!
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  4020.  @Matt1975ism  I know the truth and open debate hurts the sheeple, but I gave you the truth. Try to break free from the propaganda and lies you have been fed.
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  4021.  @somethinglikethat2176  It's the DPR that's holding them, not Russia. The Azov Nazis were captured in Mariupol, DPR. They are held in a DPR prison. All the DPR is near the front (but hopefully all the DPR will be liberated soon). The prisons in the DPR are overflowing with Ukronazis, so many have been captured. Not much choice where to put them. Russia is not violating the Geneva Convention (stop parroting the nonsense you hear in your corrupt infantile media) and DPR has not signed the Geneva Convention. I'm not sure that Russia or the DPR cares if these Nazis live or die. I'm guessing that the DPR thought that even the butcher Zelensky wouldn't stoop so low as to attack his own troops, but Zelensky stoops to new lows as his position becomes more and more desperate.
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  4022. really weird how Ukraine shoots down every Russian missile aimed at infrastructure, but when the Russians target a civilian location, those missiles always get through! bizarre.
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  4023. That's right, 8 years of Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass is NO provocation at all! None at all. Get real.
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  4024. no comment from the great propagandist that the map now shows the entirety of Bakhmut under Russian control. the fool prefers to keep speculating on the future mythical Ukrainian counter offensive.
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  4025.  @chunis  there is no reason to accept the Guardia Civil's word on anything ever since Qassim and Rocky were deemed of "no relevance". just accept it!
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  4026.  @georgezee5173  it's not a question of bias. those of us who question a narrative that makes no sense have no bias, we just don't accept things that make no sense! I don't deal with conspiracy theories. I deal with false assumptions and suggest scenarios that could be true. Let me ask you. Given that the Guardia Civil lied about calling off the search, how many other lies do you think they told?
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  4027.  @georgezee5173  explain how the level of vocality equates to partiality! is a referee who is very vocal during a football match necessarily biased?
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  4028.  @courtneysquill8843  and the fact that such straight forward yes/no questions go ignored and unanswered tells us SOO much.
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  4029. Import the 3rd world, import 3rd world attitudes. So much safer and more pleasant in Japan, Poland, Russia, Taiwan and other homegeneous societies where the culture respects law and order. The French rejected Zemmour as president, thus the French rejected an end to the immigration that is destroying them. Suicide voting.
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  4030. the same BBC that informed us that Russian fighters are reduced to fighting with shovels, is now informing us of Russia's massive fire power! you can't make this stuff up! Classic example of biased, awful journalism.
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  4031. all nonsense. these fools have no clue what Russia's revenues are. India is not going to disclose how much Russian oil is blended into the mix which India sells as a refined product to Europe. Japan already abandoned the price cap, Europe will follow. Just funny to see the smug look on this gal's face as she says the price cap is working while millions across Europe cannot stay in business because of sky-rocketing energy costs and while the IMF is predicting modest growth for the Russian economy.
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  4032.  @Steven_Edwards  then in the "rules based system" advocated by the West, announce to the rest of the world that the West's "rules based system" only applies to countries that want to be part of the West, and NOT to tribal shitholes. Then the rest of the world can decide if they want to abide by such a rules based system or not. I think we can see why most of the world has more faith in BRICS than the West. Your delineation of Ukraine v Afghanistan, one whose sovereignty we must respect, the other's can go ** itself shows perfectly the Western arrogance now so hated and rejected by most of the world.
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  4033.  @will123134  yep, you hit the nail on the head. no one in Westminster has the backbone to say "we made a terrible mistake all these years. all those migrants should be waiting in tents in Calais, at their own expense, for a decision, not in 5 star hotels at UK taxpayer expense" sad state of affairs.
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  4034.  @Callsign_Spartacus_37Fox  I can guarantee your experience is worth zero in this evaluation of how the war is progressing. You now make my point for me! Correct, I don't know how the casualty numbers are collected, and that is why I doubt the numbers. YOU are the fool posting how many casualties there are, not me! The current situation reflects the fact that Russia and its allies are out producing Ukraine and NATO in weaponry, and for that reason Ukraine is getting massacred. It's not complicated.
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  4035. no point wasting any time testifying when the judge and jury already decided on day one to assume Trump is guilty
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  4036.  @MikeW165  again, your reading comprehension skills are lacking. I said when you pay a lawyer to arrange an NDA, that IS a legal expense. I am waiting for you to quote the law stating that NDAs can only be a legal expense when arranged by a lawyer on a retainer! Go ahead, quote the law.
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  4037.  @stephenkeen6044  extra CO2 is not a problem. it is greening the planet nicely and has a minuscule effect as a greenhouse gas.
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  4038.  @scooby1992  i can only think these 2 lads are undercover cops or informants who messed up. no other explanation for the total blackout on who they are and why they were there.
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  4039. too late..Putin was already permitted to win this war. you are behind the curve on this one.
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  4040. Meloni turned out to be a wet rag and a total fraud. Salvini would have stopped this.
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  4041. Considering Russia was running out of missiles 12 months ago, the demoralized and poorly led Russians seem to be doing pretty well these days with their shovels and few remaining missiles! At what point do the deluded sheep of the West figure out their leaders and compliant media have all lied to them? No wonder RT has to be banned.
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  4042.  @scrambledmandible  it must be so hard for you, trying to figure out the Ukrainian situation without knowing a bloody thing about that part of the world. "thrown a coup"? you mean "staged a coup"? is English your third language? the only coup of any relevance is the 2014 one in Kiev, which was anti constitutional and promoted by the West. Crimea and Donbass were right to refuse to be part of such an undemocratic horror show. The list of countries I gave you were relevant because all had governments that tried to trample on Russian human rights, and Putin set them all straight. Don't be surprised if the nationalist fools in Riga go down the same path and will later be scratching their heads trying to figure out why Russian troops are pouring over the Latvian border in the vicinity of Daugavpils.
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  4043.  @ElusiveTy  many a true word is said in sarcasm. that's how sarcasm works. Russians certainly respect human life a lot more than the maniacs in power in Kiev. Just a shame you are too blind to see that.
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  4044. oh, oh, a realization that Russia can't be kicked out of Ukraine? But Ukraine is winning, we were told. Putin is dying of cancer, we were told. The Russian economy is in tatters, we were told. The Russians are running out of weapons, we were told. The Russians use drunken convicts and mercenaries, we were told. The Russians are so poorly equipped, they have to use shovels, we were told. Suddenly, after the very best of NATO training and top notch weapons, Ukraine can't win?
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  4045.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  oh, I think given that its 5 objectives are all close to being attained, I think we can say that Russia's perfect record of achieving its objectives in Transnistria, Georgia, Chechnya, and Syria will be replicated in Ukraine. Don't worry about that.
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  4046. after Rotherham, Middle England has no trust nor respect for the Police. they are useless at protecting the public
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  4047. Quentin, Ukraine's total dead is NOT in the "tens of thousands". It's in the HUNDREDS of thousands. Check out Kyivpost's reference to "400,000 fallen heroes".
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  4048. US taxpayers compelled to pay for more weapons to be sent to the black hole known as Ukraine where the charitable donation will be destroyed by Russia, as usual. at some point the West will figure out the insanity of this failed project and insist on peace talks. not yet, but soon.
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  4049.  @FandersonUfo  enjoying every himars that has been destroyed (9 of the 16), enjoying the fact that no more himars are on the way, and enjoying the fact that the ones in action have done zero serious damage of late. How's the massive Ukrainian counter offensive going? Still gonna recapture Kherson by September? the pin prick attacks in Crimea show how Ukraine has given up on fighting this war. they are now trying to score consolation points with drone attacks. it's over. Russia victorious, yet again.
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  4050.  @FandersonUfo  hilarious to all fools who actually thought Russia could be defeated in a ground war. how is that counter offensive on Kherson going? Ghost of Kiev gonna save the day? Hey, did you hear about that MASSIVE shipments or munitions on its way to Ukraine from Europe? No? Neither did I. It's over
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  4051. it didn't target a shopping mall
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  4052.  @viewpoint365  NATO keeps raising the spector of Russia rolling into other countries once it's done with Ukraine, and then proceeds to tempt Russia to do exactly that by reducing NATO stocks to a bare minimum! Very tempting for Putin to nibble away at the Baltics just to see what sticks and stones NATO has left next year to resist him!
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  4053. 14 months into the war and NATO discussing who should supply ammunition now. explains precisely why Russia is winning.
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  4054.  @zoeherriot  oh yes it is! Russia has said it will guarantee safe passage for grain shipments, and Russia is already shipping grain through Mariupol! If Ukraine wants to ship grain it has TWO choices..a) demine its ports and trust the Russians to allow free passage or B) come to a deal with the DPR to allow shipments from Mariupol. Ukraine has chosen option C)..do nothing but blame Russia, par for the course. Hey, we all understand that Ukraine doesn't trust Russia, but then be honest..just say grain shipments can't happen because we don't trust Russia....nothing to do with a blockade.
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  4055. bla bla bla. Tate has done a fine job of exposing the hypocrisy of the West and in promoting free speech. his enormous following shows people appreciate the two fingers he sticks up to the speech police.
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  4056. Democracy is alive and well in Russia. Putin faces opposition and criticism in the Duma every day. Ukraine, on the other hand, has banned opposition parties. As usual, DW refusing to shine the light where it is most needed.
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  4057.  @anjafark  so which NATO member country was NATO defending when it bombed Libya to sh*t?
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  4058. USA invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban were harboring and training Al Qaeda. Fingers crossed Russia will send a nuke or two to the UK to give them the same message, no harboring and training of fighters who are enemies of Russia.
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  4059.  @iratespartan13  it's a nonsense and useless rule to apply. please, ditch it. it presumes "all things being equal" which they so rarely are. for the sake of argument, let us assume all the ukronazi defenders are 17 yr olds fresh from their 2 weeks of training, up against hardened and experienced Wagners and Chechens. you REALLY think this rule applies? it is bs.
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  4060.  @iratespartan13  let's hope the 9 months of training with NATO resulted in the ukronazis doing well on the Diversity and Inclusion course, along with a high pass on the Sensitivity Training
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  4061. Alexandra still trying to figure out how it is that giving the homeless more and more handouts results in ever more homeless people coming in search of more and more handouts. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is she?
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  4062. Starmer thinks he can arrest and legislate his way out of this mess. He's wrong. This revolution might be sporadic and protracted, but patriots will get better organized as the Muslim/Immigrant stabbings increase, until general strikes, blockading ports etc will bring Keir Stalin down. He forgot that the British white working class are still the vast majority of the country.
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  4063. this tells us a lot about Ukrainian failures in the Donbass, which is by far and away the main front. Russia still winning the war of attrition there, and Ukraine is so desperate to trumpet some kind of gain, it has to try something in the area of least importance to Russia, Kherson. Take the Kherson counter offensive as confirmation that Donbass is going really badly for Ukraine.
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  4064.  @carltaylor6452  the size of the country is irrelevant. Paraguay's population is tiny compared to the UK's. Have the Mennonites assimilated into Paraguayan life? There are Chinese and Vietnamese communities in Paris that really have not assimilated into French society, and France has no problem with that at all. They work, pay their taxes, respect that law, respect French traditions, no assimilation needed.
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  4065.  @alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361  I totally agree. my only point was that those that keep banging on about assimilation are missing the point. British missionaries in Africa never assimilated to African ways, but they were no great harm to African society. This whole assimilation thing is of very little importance compared to respecting the ways of the indigenous population and being a law-abiding and productive member of society.
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  4066. which one is lying? Ben Hodges or Zelensky? Hodges says Bakhmut is not strategically important. Zelensky says it is.
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  4067.  @viewpoint365  yeah, 100% agree. there's a lot of guff coming out of NATO too. A month ago the UK PK was promising some enhanced air defence system, and then nothing more was heard about such bs. it's like everything is now a game of words to make the sheep think all is going just fine. it's pissing me off.
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  4068. when do you think Zelensky will sell his Miami mansion to help the war effort?
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  4069. how are NATO logistical operations compared to Russia's with Ukrainian cannon fodder trained crews in the tanks?
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  4070. yep, Russia is losing twice as much artillery as before. only problem is, Russia is able to replace its lost artillery at twice the rate it could before. and Ukraine is losing artillery at 3 times the rate it did before. Mike loves to cherry pick his data.
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  4071. Just as EU needs Russia more than Russia needs EU, USA needs Saudi Arabia more than Saudi Arabia needs USA, hence the panic over energy shortages mean Biden will be groveling like the toady he is before the feet of MBS
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  4072. yet another fool who knows nothing about Russia. hilarious to see how while Putin succeeds in Ukraine, cretins blabbering on about imminent collapse in Russia are unaware of how NATO's proxy war has destroyed Ukraine and left the West much weaker.
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  4073. excellent summary. Thanks. I teach Ukrainian students online. Taught in Vinnitsa, Ukraine in 2018. You would be amazed how many of my students, both Ukrainian speakers and Russian speakers, just want Ukraine to be neutral and Donbass to be allowed to do its own thing. It is clear Zelensky is a puppet and NATO picked a fight here. Shameful.
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  4074. no point watching this report when, at 31 seconds we hear the lie "Ukraine joining the EU is the very thing Russia was focused on stopping". If Sky confuse the EU with NATO so easily, reveals the ignorance they broadcast.
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  4075. Russia doing a great job of demilitarizing the bully nazi ukrainians. slava rossiyi
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  4076. Nothing is stopping you from sending every penny of your life savings to Zelensky.
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  4077. the "obvious aggressor" would be the one that started indiscriminate shelling of civilians in Donbass 8 years ago, namely the russophobic Ukraininan Azov Nazis, agreed?
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  4078. Putin holds all the cards. Scholz is fearing his coalition will fall. or oust him. total weakness from Scholz. If Ukraine were winning, Putin would be making the call.
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  4079.  @NomiYtAnwar  no one said the people involved were from the Middle East! I think the original poster was saying that the scenes of street violence resemble what is seen in the Middle East.
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  4080. "Oh my God, I've been raped. I'll wait 5 years before I report this to anyone".
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  4081. just hilarious that Germany sanctioned Russia and sees Russia doing just fine while Germany has to check its reserves and the cost of energy every day. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. And the Green party are celebrating all the extra emissions that come with global LNG Transportaion. What a bunch of hypocrites.
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  4082. Zelensky told by his handlers in the West to grab some headlines with a victory, and no defeats, in order to get ,more handoits from the West. It's Ukraine fixated on Bakhmut, not the Wagners. The Wagners happy to shell hell out of the UA cannon fodder and step forward ten meters a day.
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  4083. Let's just check the scorecard: over the last 20 years, Muslims and immigrants killed by the Far Right = 0 white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+
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  4084. he's a pathetic propagandist that has been proved wrong repeatedly. at least he shut up about "Russia running out of weapons"
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  4085. @mrb.9822 I ask myself that question every day, and the evidence I see is that it is undoubtedly Ukraine that is being demilitarized, but I am more than happy for you to think otherwise and be shocked one day when you wake up and hear there are no more Ukrainian men left to force into the front line cannon fodder brigade.
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  4086. Clarke is the ignoramus who knows nothing about Russia and has got everything wrong from Day One. He's so lucky that those who listen to him are equally ignorant
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  4087.  @mrswavee2470  just like Vietnam. Mission creep, ends up with troops on the ground, masses of corpses sent home, protests in the streets and a humiliating defeat of the West. Bring it on.
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  4088. beautiful clear footage of the trees that totally obscure what was hit.
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  4089. let's cut through this song and dance bs. sanctions failed, Russia is not running out of weapons, NATO is tapped out and can't magically expand production to save Ukraine. end of story. how they are going to spin the truth is fascinating, but it's over. Russia has won.
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  4090. not sure why she moved from one ethnically Russian area to another ethnically Russian area. if she loves Ukraine and Ukrainian so much, why not move to Lvov?
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  4091. well, you might get something back. you might get a knife in your heart if you are on the wrong street on the wrong day when Mohammed the jihadist decides your time is up.
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  4092. yep, avoiding tax DOES count towards well being, because it allows more money to be in the hands of people who will spend it wisely, as opposed to waste it, as the government does. As Milton Friedman pointed out, those who spend most unwisely are those spending other people's money on other people's projects (governments).
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  4093.  @happyhappynuts  you are forgetting that Ukraine fired the first shells into the DPR, and Ukraine can simply go home.
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  4094.  @PerryPerfectPerson  not saying I know the law better than anyone, but I am questioning the truth and logic. No one, including you, has quoted the NY statute that stops the clock on statute of limitations regarding an accused who is out of state. Neither have you explained the logic. "evidence and care" is meaningless. the evidence is the evidence, no matter whether the accused is in NY, NJ or Brazil. Learn basic logic.
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  4095.  @PerryPerfectPerson  living in FL and visible to the public every single day, as Trump was, discounts the "living in hiding" bit. would be interesting to see the definition of "official misconduct". what makes conduct "official" or "unofficial"? could be argued that anything done while "out of office" is unofficial. not clear at all.
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  4096. this guy just waffles on about nonsense. Japan, with its aging population, doesn't have immigration issues anything like the UK's. Just end the immigration racket and we'll deal with any negative consequences.
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  4097.  @FontaineDerby  plenty of evidence. look into the guy's drug past. look into the reasons why people go spend the night at the home of total strangers. look into how criminals remove evidence. plenty of evidence and leads, but nothing concrete, obviously.
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  4098.  @FontaineDerby  let's get your insight. why do you think Slater traveled 30 kms to spend the night with strangers?
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  4099.  @njones420  looks like you chose not to answer the question. i asked you when, not for what reason. jeez, teaching kids reading comprehension these days is such an uphill struggle.
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  4100. no integration is needed. all that is demanded is that the laws of the country are followed and respect for British traditions shown. Hong Kong Chinese, Sikhs, Hindus do this just fine. Immigration levels need to be slashed so that only those who represent a clear benefit to the country be admitted.
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  4101. For most of the globe. ANY assistance to Russia is applauded!
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  4102. "the coercive power of the state" so, when a Russian voter goes to mark their secret ballot, what is the coercive power that forces him/herto put the x next to Putin's name?
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  4103. Oh listen, honey, there has been talk of a Ukrainian counter offensive in Kherson SINCE MARCH!! Reality is it never happens. The map hasn't changed since March in Kherson or Zaporozhe. Stop taking Ukrainian military "reports" as a reliable source!
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  4104.  @Commander_ZiN  the question was "what is more productive?". acting is more productive than discussing. what is more productive, a hound that chases a rabbit and kills it for dinner, or a group of 40 hounds meeting in Prague to discuss catching rabbits?
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  4105.  @rollinas1  well said. yet another Euro charade followed by drinks at the tax-payers expense
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  4106. fascinating how he speculates on Russia's corruption, but nothing to say on the most corrupt country in Europe, Ukraine
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  4107. We are proud of the humble leaders of Donbass and all the people of Russia. We are praying that everywhere in Russian speaking areas will be safe in Jesus name, the enemy will not return in Jesus name. LORD let your angels surround the boundaries of Donbass and Crimea in Jesus name 🙏. Love you all
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  4108.  @stc3145  along with gluttony, did you know that?
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  4109.  @hans895  I included Jesus as a riposte to the original poster who dragged Jesus into it, so take your fake outrage to the original poster. Poroshenko and Zelensky allowed 8 years of Nazi shelling of Donbass, and it is THEY who are responsible, and they will face justice for their crimes.
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  4110.  @Zockopa  basic math. take the number of Gazans even Hamas claims have died since Israel's invasion. compare that to the records of births since Israel's invasion. What do you see? If Israel was trying to commit genocide, it could accomplish its goal in 45 minutes. newsflash for you, sweet child, when you commit horrific acts of terror against Israel, expect collateral damage when Israel retaliates. Capisce?
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  4111.  @darrellcrook6334  just curious, would you say the thousands upon thousands of Jews expelled, over the decades, from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Yemen, and many other places, were they displaced too, with no right to return to their homeland?
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  4112.  @Zockopa  source - World Population Review. Population of Gaza in 2014 = 600,000 Population of Gaza in 2024 = 800,000 where's the genocide?
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  4113.  @tamerlane7  agreed. Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan pushed Beijing closer to Russia, and BRICS generally is moving away from the dollar and a Western oriented focus.
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  4114. Good to know there are 2 judges on the panel that understand what is going on in Gaza. The others are just out of touch with the reality of Gaza.
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  4115. yep, tyrants like Zelensky who thinks it is really a great idea to shell ethnic Russians that want to separate from Kiev.
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  4116. agreed. the tyrant is USA
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  4117. No, that's how he described the Azov Nazis who shelled Donbass for 8 years! You got it backwards!
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  4118.  @tonypetts6663  got a feeling they are not quite ready to roll just yet. i suspect immediately after another attack on the power grid all hell will be let loose and General Winter will help Russia rather than Ukraine.
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  4119.  @CoachKnapovicLifestyle  obviously so, but the point made in the video was that only England voted for Brexit, and that is not true. Of the 4 nations in the UK, 2 voted for Brexit and voted against. If you want to discount the influence of the Welsh vote, then be fair, discount the influence of the NI vote and the Scottish vote.
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  4120.  @Ilifansix  how about you try that question again in English?
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  4121.  @Ilifansix  try and write that again in comprehensible English and we may get somewhere.
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  4122.  @BreadAccountant  of course, any fool knows that. that was not the point being made by the man interviewed in the video. he was whining that the smaller home nations, NI and Scotland, had voted Remain, and it was ONLY England that voted Leave. But that is not true. BOTH England and Wales voted "Leave". Of the 4 nations, 2 voted Leave and 2 voted Remain, so whining about the result is pointless.
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  4123. friendship and cooperation went out the window with the 2014 coup, the Union House Massacre, the banning of Russian language as an equal and official language, the shelling of Donbass. The playground bullies in all this were Poroshenko, Zelensky and the Azov Nazis. Now the pathetic West is wringing its hands that the Crimea and Donbass called their big cousin Putin to dish it back at the Ukronazis. Kiev asked for all this, now they got it.
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  4124.  @Silent824  as per Ukrainian sources, when the Ukrainians need more weapons and hand around the begging bowl, they claim 1000 a day casualties, in a plea for more weapons
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  4125.  @williamsmith8271  yep, amazing the difference an upgraded, multi function washing machine makes! Time for NATO to ditch electric tanks and go for the deluxe washing machine as the game-changer weapon of choice!
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  4126.  @robertosalinel3358  it is following the rules. the rules allow a veto.....or are you embracing tyranny a la Zelensky?
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  4127.  @robertosalinel3358  you either believe in the rule of law, or you don't. the rules say ONE veto is allowed. If you call for Hungary to be kicked out, it is YOU who is the tyrant. Learn something about democracy.
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  4128.  @dirkgonthier101  Hungary is an ally of Putin, and there is no rule that says the EU excludes allies of Putin (until 5 minutes ago, Germany was an ally of Putin). Your definition and my definition of who is the enemy is probably very different.
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  4129. ditto Zelensky, like, implementing the Minsk Agreements
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  4130. Karma...he probably voted for a party that has allowed such crimes to go unpunished.
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  4131. too late. you should have been shouting this out 8 years ago when the coup happened in Ukraine
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  4132.  @courtneyadkins1580  on the contrary, the shop assistants confirmed it was her, elenska, and the amount. truth hurts, eh? if she is begging taxpayers in the West for money, as she is, and Zelensky is unwilling to sell his extensive overseas properties to help his dying cannon fodder soldiers, as he is, then we can see what an absolute charlatan and fake family the Zelenslys are. time for another Vogue photo shoot before flying to the villa in Italy. Good riddance to them and that cesspit of corruption called Ukraine.
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  4133.  @kagefisk  facts hurt eh? 1990, James Baker promised that NATO would not expand eastwards once former East Germany had merged with West Germany. NATO then proceeded to go back on Baker's word and expand ever eastward, right up to the borders of Russia, despite Russian protestations about its security concerns. William Burns years ago said this crossed a Russian red line and represented a provocation. what part of this is history lesson is "wrong" ? You think the USA would be absolutely fine with hostile forces moving right up to the Rio Grande and setting up military bases and missiles aimed at San Diego and beyond? Or maybe you don't understand what "provocation" means?
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  4134. given they can't bully real polluters like China, they pick on the little kid, Guyana. Guyana should tell them to get stuffed and proceed according to the wishes of the Guyanese voters.
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  4135.  @gregmchale5011  Russians do allow it, but there are obviously few Ukrainians in Russia these days. In Russia, how many Ukrainian speakers are there? where in Russia would you find a Ukrainian speaking community demanding Ukrainian be the language of instruction in their local schools?
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  4136. fascinated by the term "sham" referendums.....I guess "sham" means likely to produce a result we don't like. Brexit, the "sham" referendum. Bieden's victory, the "sham" presidential election.
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  4137. the victory is, finally, a leader standing up to protect his people from attack. Putin, time and time again, goes to defend the rights of ethnic Russians. Best leader in the world, by far.
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  4138.  @estusflask982  not since the declaration of separation from Ukraine and the declaration of the DPR in 2014. Crimea is part of Russia and LPR is too, now. learn the basics.
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  4139.  @estusflask982  so if Donetsk is Ukraine, and Ukraine forces attacked Ukrainian civilians, Ukraine is in a civil war.
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  4140.  @Worldgonemad99  sure, if that's you, Gauleiter Speer
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  4141. funny, i never heard anyone mention arresting any volunteers on the Ukrainian side! Both Ukraine and Russia are at peace with UK, so the 1870's law applies equally to those who joined Ukraine's fighting force.
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  4142. maybe not the Africa that depends on Russian grain exports
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  4143.  @sophiaabramovich8401  yeah, right, that's why Russia keeps begging Africa for oil and Africa's "natural goods", right? It was Africa that was begging the West to exempt Russian grain exports from the sanctions list, not the other way around!
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  4144. so, let me get this right, the EU sanctions were aimed at crippling the Russian economy to effect political and policy changes in Russia, or to effect drastic changes in political and policy change in EU? confusing.
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  4145. simply inconceivable to fools like this guy that the Navy and RNLI escort boats back to France or let the migrants board Navy/RNLI boats to be taken back to France. His only argument against it is that people will drown!
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  4146. well well well, who would have thought there was still so much corruption at the highest level in Kiev? still, good excuse for getting rid of those in government who are starting to feel peace negotiations are the way to go, and that Zelensky is the problem, not the solution.
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  4147.  @riwen0851  indeed I am. what makes you assume it's not my country too?
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  4148.  @blablablabla1111111  when they riot in places like Egypt or join armed militias in places like Somalia, is it because their own people also treat them like second class citizens?
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  4149.  @asmirann3636  fits the profile
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  4150.  @hape3862  and what truly fascinates me is how the West thinks it can get through all this indefinitely. Assuming no more energy comes from Russia, ever, how does Europe replace, immediately, the shortfall. "we'll be fine" is the most amusing, nonchalant yet ignorant reaction one could possibly imagine! ok, bring on winter and the next winter and the next winter and the next..you get my point.
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  4151.  @hape3862  and now the facts (as opposed to your delusions). Putin's 5 aims (as listed clearly at the war's start, you should have paid attention). 1) establish Ukraine as a neutral country, to be written into its constitution. now that NATO has made it clear it was only kidding about NATO membership for Ukraine, Ukraine is resigned to being neutral, and basically agreed to this in the Istanbul talks. Putin basically got what he wants there.
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  4152.  @hape3862  Putin Aim 5, clear Ukrainian forces out of Donbass. Lugansk has been liberated, and Donetsk will be too, slowly but surely. No timeline, just minimizing losses and meter by meter liberating the Donetsk oblast. overall for Putin, grade B. should have realized earlier that partial mobilization was needed, but he is on course for victory.
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  4153. "so dehumanizing we can't broadcast it" just who is the God at BBC who decides what must be censored and what can pass as permitted speech?
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  4154. just wonderful to see Spain suffering from EU rules that it embraces so much. this is what happens when you allow unlimited freedom of movement.
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  4155. Glory to Donbass and Russia
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  4156.  @goldenphoenix4475  definitely, yes. I'm not convinced Ukraine can keep finding thousands of new recruits, so at some point a Russian offensive on Odessa and Kharkov seems likely.
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  4157. why? either 1) revenge for the Donetsk market being shelled by Ukrainian troops or 2) collateral damage, not EVERY missile will hit the engine repair plant across the street. Both 1) and 2) quite normal in war.
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  4158. The whole premise of this counter offensive was that "superior" Western weapons and training would see the Russians retreat as they had done in Kkarkov and Kherson. Not surprisingly, NATO/Ukronazia never understood the reasons for Russian withdrawals in 2022, so now they are astounded that Russia is standing and fighting and defeating the counter offensive. NATO/Ukronazia, do your homework next time.
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  4159.  @hmmcinerney  projection
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  4160. mass Muslim migration is a big factor too. not exactly a community known for ditching the prayer mat and having a knees-up in the local of a Friday night.
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  4161. wonder if she will go on to visit Soledar, if her aim is to see a different face of the conflict.
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  4162.  @geopolitix7770  the Bucha story has gone VERY quiet. As more and more evidence of Ukrainian troops torturing and killing "traitors" emerges safe to say Bucha will disappear as a story altogether. You list a lot of different places. Now list all the evidence you have that these places were intentional targets, OR all the evidence these targets at no time were used by Ukrainian troops. Also, given Ukrainian shells killed Donbass civilians in Donetsk recently, would you see retaliation on the shopping mall as fair? Returning to the shopping mall incident EITHER it was evidence of "weak Russian targeting" OR of intentional targeting.....sounds like you are saying this military expert is wrong.
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  4163.  @RodneyWolfram  the point is, if you wring your hands about indiscriminate Russian shelling, at least do the same for indiscriminate Ukrainian shelling...unless you celebrate the massacre of some innocents while weeping over the massacre of other innocents.
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  4164.  @michaeldunham3385  what was your point when you assumed I had never been to Russia?
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  4165. Donbass ethnic Russians, God be with you as always
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  4166. since when was it the duty of the Police to keep the peace? the duty of the Police is to enforce the law! and, surprise, surprise, there are times when violence and confrontation are part of enforcing the law.
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  4167.  @Angerua1  estoy en Francia, pero no soy francés nacionalidad no se trata de su ubicación
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  4168.  @psymantronic1528  well he tried that in Donbass, armed to the teeth with NATO weaponry, for EIGHT years and you can see how it worked out!
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  4169. "inflating the value of your assets" implies there is a universally agreed value of any asset. it's all nonsense. the value of any asset is the highest amount any bidder would be prepared to offer, and quite how a judge would be a mind-reader of the entire planet's population and know that amount is, obviously, absurd.
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  4170. yet so many men who insist on hijab wearing are welcomed into the UK with open arms as asylum seekers. what could possibly go wrong?
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  4171.  @Themillenial555  Yep, Merkel admitted Minsk was a way to play for time and preparation. for war. She got her wish!
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  4172.  @corky8280  nothing wrong with that, it's just most of the woke want foreigners to be cared for first.
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  4173. France 24, take a look at how you are being ratioed in the comments! you have become a comedy show, your audience laughing at you, not believing you!
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  4174.  @romeob.8369  absolutely true. Zelensky is feeling the squeeze
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  4175.  @miguellopez3392  why would you believe the same people who brought you Ghost of Kiev?
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  4176.  @miguellopez3392  Ukraine couldn't even admit that all 12 of its Black Sea "fleet" got scuttled on day three of the conflict!
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  4177.  @miguellopez3392  yep, the Moskva sank. now, in the important news, Ukraine is bankrupt and begging from an increasingly fed up and impoverished West. Which of these two events will have more of a bearing on the war?
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  4178.  @busblu1475  Territory can be regained in the future. How many of Ukraine's 120,000 dead cannon fodder can be regained in the future?
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  4179. when Brexit is actually enacted, e.g. securing our own borders, then we can judge.
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  4180. Just a reminder of the scorecard over the last 20 years in the UK. Muslims and Immigrants killed by the Far Right Nationalists = 0 White British killed by Muslims and Immigrants = 100+ It has to be the chant of 2024 to remember..."Allah, Allah, who the f*** is Allah?"
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  4181. Russia is absolutely delighted that Zelensky remains in power. Who else would keep recruiting cannon fodder to stuff into the Russian meatgrinder to help Putin achieve his aim of demilitarizing Ukraine?
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  4182. just how desperate are the Democrats to suspend democracy and eliminate the opposition? Biden's USA = Banana republic.
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  4183.  @abcamacho6187  glad you agree
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  4184.  @CHMichael  again, focus on the message, not on the messengers, then you might say something of value
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  4185.  @remix-yy1hs  indeed it does. we can only hope some adults emerge from this and act, in the future, as leaders with a little more humility, honesty and vision....don't hold your breath
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  4186. a Libyan, once again an adherent to the "religion of peace" decides to kill as many people as he can. the French just wish he had chosen to take a small boat to England instead of stay in France.
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  4187.  @marcbiff2192  and he has been driving for 2 years! incredible how the media are refusing to give us more details about how and why this kid was "known to Police"
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  4188.  @joannebottcher9779  all nukes belonged to the USSR. The world agreed that only one successor state would possess the USSR nukes, and that would be Russia. Ukraine never had any nukes. if your dad's car is in your garage, and your dad dies, it doesn't mean the car becomes yours.
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  4189. just hysterical the solace and high this fool gets from one missile doing damage (that can be repaired in a few days) to one bridge in Crimea. The very fact he mentions this as some kind of crowning achievement of the failed counter offensive tells you how desperately badly things are going for NATO/Ukronazia. Now into Week 4, 10,000 dead Ukrainian cannon fodder, 5 villages and a pig farm re-captured. wow.
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  4190. Shame there was no gay Pride parade 8 years ago to keep the spotlight on Ukraine's war of aggression against the ethnic Russians of the Donbass.
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  4191. no air raid sirens? no info on where the missiles came from? = Ukraine no longer has an air defence system, Russia is hitting all its targets, so these lies about shooting down "most" Russian missiles are on a par with "Ghost of Kiev". NATO is absolutely powerless. Russia just waits for repairs to happen and repeats the destruction. My guess is the 380,000 reservists pour in when the whole grid has gone and NATO is still debating whether 10 or 12 tanks should be sent to help. Pathetic.
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  4192. sounds like things were run much better under the minority white government. and now the truth. banks turned woke and no longer invest in fossil fuels. SA can't get the investment it needs to improve its coal power plants. the climate change alarmists, yet again, have forced the poor to suffer for their deluded vision of a world run on green energy.
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  4193. if absentee votes = sham election, then all Western countries hold sham elections.
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  4194. "as a result of Russia's war in Ukraine" = as a result of the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev and its consequences
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  4195.  @zwcdamien  So the 78 consecutive days of bombing Serbia was Serbian planes bombing Serbia? Serbian air attacks destroyed Serbia? Today we have Ukrainians who live happy and are doing well in European and North American societies, so by that measure, the war in Ukraine should just keep going, right?
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  4196.  @bramposthumus9300  Why, in the West's "rules-based order" is the targeting of infrastructure to be applauded in Iraq and Serbia, but not in Ukraine?
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  4197.  @bramposthumus9300  In Kazakstan, Russian speakers can choose to be educated in their native language. In Ukraine, Russian speakers are compelled to be educated in a foreign language (Ukrainian). Which of those two approaches is the more considerate and less confrontational? which is the more respectful of human rights?
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  4198.  @bramposthumus9300  Why did France and Germany BOTH sign the Minsk Agreements, and then proceeded to do NOTHING to implement them?
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  4199.  @bramposthumus9300  Russian men are allowed to leave Russia. Ukrainian men are not allowed to leave Ukraine. Which of the two countries affords greater freedom of movement to its male population?
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  4200.  @bramposthumus9300  do you think I need a "generic English sounding name"? Do you think I don't "sail under my own flag"? Nothing to hide here. Kazakstan allows its Russian speakers to be educated in Russian. Ukraine doesn't. which one is the better approach do you think, and why?
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  4201.  @bramposthumus9300  would it be fair to tell French Canadians that English is the one and only official language of Canada and that all education and government business in Quebec, henceforth, will be in English only?
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  4202.  @bramposthumus9300  which NATO member was being defended when NATO attacked Libya?
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  4203. 20 years in Ireland. So, an imported jihadist then.
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  4204.  @vwbora26  Ukronazi bot
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  4205.  @ciro_costa  sure, the time lag between Chavez's ruinous measures taking effect and the previous free market policies in effect are going to show a rising GDP. to be expected. "neoliberalism could never provide this", well, except in India and a whole host of economies that have made massive strides to erase poverty by focusing on capitalism. absolutely hilarious you actually confess the workers' paradise of Cuba has similar GDP as Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere! How about we compare Cuba to its northern neighbour, the Bahamas. how does Cuban GDP compare to Bahamas GDP? Are Bahamas literacy rates lower than Cuba's? life expectancy? access to university? And you think Cuba is a tiny island....Bahamas is only a twentieth the size of Cuba! If US sanctions were removed, what does Cuba produce that the world would suddenly love to purchase? cue crickets.
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  4206. Fascinating that the governments representing the vast majority of the world's population refuse to back Ukraine. The West is looking isolated and pathetic.
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  4207. what are their names?
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  4208. Count on the BBC to report breathlessly on every word Prigozhin says while the counter offensive gets nowhere and hundreds of Ukronazi cannon fodder are slaughtered every day. Expect zero coverage on what has happened to Zaluzhny and Budanov.
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  4209. incompetence of Russia that sees 85% of its troops not even IN Ukraine, a Russia that is achieving its objectives steadily and an operation that is successfully demilitarizing both Ukraine and NATO.
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  4210. almost as horrific as people who speak out against Zelensky
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  4211. The thing that is killing civilians and putting Ukraine's safety at risk is Ukraine's refusal to implement the Minsk accords.
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  4212.  @TheBarnestah  you don't think the Minsk accords were broken when Zelensky did NOTHING to allow elections in Donbass and a vote on autonomy, but gave the Azov Nazis the thumbs up to keep shelling Donbass, you don't think that decision broke the accords?
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  4213.  @stevenmartin7159  therefore stop saying that Russia fires indiscriminately. it's targeting military presence
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  4214.  @theTeknoViking  you need to watch RT a little more and BBC etc a lot less to get a balanced picture
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  4215.  @oleksii000  is there such a country as Kosovo? yes or no?
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  4216.  @sebastiaanl9876  so, was that the case with Kosovo?
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  4217.  @oleksii000  is that your answer to my question about Kosovo? Your answer to "is Kosovo a country?" is "is Chechnya a country?" Let me show you how to answer a question. No, Chechnya is not a country because it was forced to remain part of the Russian Federation. see how to answer a question? now then. Is Kosovo a country?
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  4218.  @oleksii000  I answer everything that comes my way. no hypocrisy here
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  4219. @Liam Miller simple question for you. do you support the rights of French speaking Canadians to be educated in French? Or do you think English should be made the one and only official language of Canada, and all French-speaking Canadians henceforth compelled to use only English in public life?
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  4220.  @scaleyback217  3) Keep in mind, the Minsk Agreements had all the major issues settled, and Poroshenko agreed to implement the agreements, with France and Germany signing off on it. No mention back then of Russian speakers moving out of Ukraine. So Ukraine decided, along with the West , to see how Russia would respond if the agreements were not implemented. They found out.
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  4221. "prioritizes its use"...Orwellian doublespeak. Russian is not ALLOWED in civil society! Speak to a government official in Lvov on ANY matter in Russian and see what response you get! Absolutely criminal to strip away language rights in this way. It would be unacceptable in Cataluna, in Belgium, in Canada, ANYWHERE where a linguistic minority were commanded to use a foreign language in civil society. Stop with the russophobia and five Russian speakers the same rights as others worldwide.
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  4222. forced to vote? simply copying Australia's electoral laws violation of international law? yet the West fully approved of the coup that overthrew the democratically elected president in 2014 no independent observers? just like here in France The West HAVE to call this a "sham". Otherwise, how to explain the "Russia bad, Ukraine good" narrative with 4 referenda that show the majority favor life as Russian citizens rather than as Ukrainian citizens.
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  4223.  @damianodonnell5844  Ukraine and Russia are at war, but Poland said it was considering sending Ukrainian men in Poland back to Ukraine. European values really don't extend to caring about sending men into a war zone.
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  4224. unlike Biden, Putin has a PhD in Economics and articulates his case well. As an analyst, Putin is spot on. Best world leader by far.
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  4225. Scholtz will fall when the first German pensioners are found frozen to death in November
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  4226. bla bla bla . Russia has already used hypersonic weapons to devastating effect in combat, while NATO hasn't even got to the point of being able to deploy such a weapon, so let's cut the BS about Russia being down to using old stocks. Reality check....Russia is able to manufacture weapons and ammo at a greater speed than used or destroyed on the battlefield (unlike NATO), Russia is much better supplied than Ukraine, NATO is tapped out and now looking at procurements (ORDERING manufacture of weapons). This disaster has led to Biden, Scholtz and now Macron to talk about talks with Putin. It's over. Russia has won. How many years will it take NATO to come up with an air defense system that can save Ukraine's electrical grid?
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  4227.  @DecievedREALITY999  no surprise you are incapable of rebutting the statement!
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  4228.  @DecievedREALITY999  i have replied to you several times, but YT is removing every single answer.
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  4229.  @DecievedREALITY999  On the updated Freedom Index, UK is now below Venezuela!
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  4230.  @DecievedREALITY999  As I said, you have not checked the revised Freedom Index since Starmer came into power, nor the index that is based on freedoms cherished by those of us who disagree with the recent laws introduced into Western society. just curious....who are the Gods who determine the value or worth of the many freedoms in any society? why do you believe in such indexes?
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  4231.  @hayleyfay4779  it has an absolutely massive, unpatrolled coastline that makes it easy for people smuggling, and it is not in the middle of nowhere when its northern tip is just the Torres Straits away from millions of Asians who want to get in. It just takes the will to say "no one entering illegally will ever be able to stay" and once that is enforced, the people smuggling ceases.
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  4232.  @ArtU4All  no doubt there are many immigrants of a much friendlier disposition than natives, and vice versa, anecdotally this could be a to and fro ad nauseum. however, it would be nice for the natives of a country to be offered a vote on more or less immigration, given everyone is affected by it but are never consulted on the matter
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  4233.  @thegreatdane3627  just curious, when NATO attacked Serbian power plants and when USA attacked Iraq's civilian infrastructure, did you cheer and find that was all part of the West's "rules based order?"
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  4234.  @thegreatdane3627  looking back, in December, when Putin asked for a meeting to review Russia's security concerns over Ukraine's militarization, do you think Biden should have answered "yes"?
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  4235.  @richardploss4494  Crimea is Russian and always has been. Ever been there, have you? A more culturally and ethnically Russian place you could not imagine. Hence the Crimean Parliament (it's called "democracy") voted for unification with Russia after the 2014 coup that turned Ukraine into a rogue state. Did Britain fight the Crimean War against Ukraine? or against Russia? Crimea will remain Russian for the simple reason that the vast majority of people in Crimea want it that way (it's called "democracy"). Learn some basics about Crimea.
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  4236.  @maximusvaliant8597  who, exactly, is "we"?
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  4237. If Hitchens is right, that Western meddling in the Middle East has caused all the immigration flows, how to explain the Albanian wave, the Vietnamese wave, the Eritrean wave, the Gambian wave?
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  4238.  @noodles169  you say all that based on what evidence? what makes you believe Russian military equipment is inferior? Which country, Russia or USA, has developed and employed hypersonic weapons? Name one Russian weapon that you KNOW, based on evidence, is worse than its US equivalent. What makes you 100% sure that the multi layered Russian air defence systems would not wipe out the US Air Force? What makes you think you know anything about Russia?
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  4239.  @babajaga158  you did calculate your two children. you just needed only a second or two, maybe subconsciously, to make the calculation and decide you had enough to raise two children. No need to lecture me on my attitude to children and my personal wants. You don't know me or anything about me.
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  4240.  @mazharul  i agree with all you said, but you failed to analyze what needs to change. As you said, it was normal in the past to have dad as the breadwinner and mum was a housewife and two kids were raised on the one income. so, you tell me, where did it go wrong?
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  4241.  @mazharul  this is where you and I differ. You can't "make work pay" pay is determined by market forces. you can only disincentivize NOT working by reducing benefits drastically. If you think you can "make work pay" by things like minimum wage hikes and lavishing printed money on government employees, you just create inflation, and we are back in the mess we are in now. honestly, if you don't want to tackle the bloated welfare state you won't change the shit we have right now. Tax the rich as much as you like. They will leave and then you killed the goose that lays the golden egg.
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  4242.  @glendaadams1481  "attacked by a strong bully for no reason" do some research on the Azov Nazi battalion and its unceasing shelling of the Donbass, 2014 to 2022, and then tell me the Russian invasion was for "no reason". you are so ignorant.
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  4243.  @Vanderearden  only if you want to live. Is Japan a police state?
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  4244.  @Vanderearden  I never mentioned a police state. YOU used the words "police state". Not me. So, YOU should be offering a definition. I asked you a remarkably simple question. Is Japan a police state? You are either incapable or unwilling to answer. which is it? Now, to answer your question, I would much rather live in a society where papers had to be produced on a whim IF that meant there were no Nahels terrorizing my neighborhood, yes, but it is a false choice. Answer please, is Japan a police state?
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  4245.  @Vanderearden  you presume so much about me without knowing a thing about me. Childish. So, your answer is that Japan is NOT a police state. We agree on that. Next question. why do you think that Japan does not suffer from such incidents as the Nahel one? Do you think it is ANYTHING to do with a cultural respect for authority and the understanding that showing respect and cooperation with police officers is the best way to handle such encounters?
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  4246.  @Vanderearden  "but that's designed to steer away from the actual topic and create a new narrative." you assume to know the purpose of my question. you don't.
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  4247.  @Vanderearden  "as for your desire for security" who mentioned a desire for security? you presume too much, again. in a choice of 2 extremes, living in Nahel's totally insecure neighborhood or living in a totally "produce your papers" society, I gave you my choice of which extreme I would favor, but you shouldn't assume from that choice of 2 options I have some great desire for security! you assume so much. My DESIRE, if you really want to know, but I suspect you don't, because it is easier to assume, is to live in a society devoid of ever present security where the general population don't need any great level of security.
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  4248.  @Vanderearden  "That's where you are. Submissive to authoritarianism for what you perceive to be security." again, you know nothing about "where I am" or "what I perceive". nothing at all. piece of advice for you. if you want to know things about me, ask some specific questions. assuming you know me won't get you very far
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  4249.  @Vanderearden  indeed, the topic is civil unrest in France, but you decided to interject "police state" into the conversation. you steered away from the topic and created a new narrative by talking of a police state. I introduced Japan to see if you would recognize the fact that there are PLENTY of NON police states on this planet that hardly ever suffer from the mayhem, looting, rioting, burning, carjacking, shootings we see in France and many Western countries. There are. So, what is their reason for success? No, France is NOT a Police state. not at all. I have lived here for over 20 years and had a handful of interactions with the Police, including being stopped by traffic cops in Paris, at Perpignan train station, driving over the border with Spain, and it has always gone well. I have seen so many positive and non confrontational Police actions here that I'm left impressed. but then again, I am respectful and cooperative. Nahel wasn't. Among the masses here, the big complaint is that France isn't enough of a Police state, in that it is clear the Muslim neighborhoods have been ceded to the local gangs, because what is the point in applying the law in such areas when all that results is mass protests and violence? Many in France talk about the disappearance of a police presence.
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  4250.  @Vanderearden  I give you limited information which then you take to assume things about me you don't know. Grow up. Liberty is not a state of being that is defined by having to present papers on a whim or not! I feel perfectly free in France, but there are times when, for example in a train station, Police will ask for ID papers, and by law people in France should carry ID on them at all times for such "on a whim" encounters. No one feels particularly devoid of freedom! Jeez! it's a false choice you presented, because obviously there is a middle ground! one doesn't have to give up one to have the other! people feel BOTH secure in Japan, AND FREE. There is no need to give up liberty to be secure, in the right society, that does indeed exist.
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  4251.  @Vanderearden  as to the word "willingly", and this is important, there are many things in life we do unwillingly, but we accept the need to do so in order to get on with our lives. producing papers is one such example. do i "willingly" stand in line at an airport to show ID? No. Do I accept I have to? Yes. That's life. Well, not for idiot Nahel. He decided he was "unwilling" to comply with the law. Great. enjoy paradise, you genius free-spirit Nahel.
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  4252.  @Vanderearden  again, child, you assume too much. you pretend to know my designs. obviously i give you limited information. the nature of these exchanges is they can't include every thought I have on any given subject. you would be reading pages ceaselessly. i am no victim and I don't seek victimhood, but for sure, you assume far too much without reflecting on exactly what I say and what I don't say. It's a skill you really need to develop. The paying taxes one, let me help you out here, was designed to be the best example of a dichotomy, a genuine "either/or". Broadly speaking, most people pay taxes because they are compelled to do so, by law, they do so unwillingly. There are a smaller number who do so willingly, assuming it is for the greater good of society. whether I pay my taxes willingly or unwillingly is not the point. the point is that the vast majority pay their taxes unwillingly, but they accept the fact they must, otherwise the agents of the law will come to arrest them. just one of the compromises we must make in life. that doesn't mean such obligations put us in a "police state". it is just reality. Back to Nahel. No one ever explained to Nahel that in such circumstances, it is best to comply, even though you disagree, because the consequences on non compliance are terrible. you do the same thing every day in your life. yet for some bizarre reason you seem to think unless we all have perfect freedom do to as we wish, that somehow means we live in a police state! why do you think Japan doesn't have the kind of problem France is now experiencing? Nor Russia. Nor Poland. Nor Taiwan. (psst, hint, homogeneity and respect for the law!)
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  4253.  @Vanderearden  you are confused between doing something "willingly" and simply accepting something as a requirement. to agree with something and to accept something are not the same thing. I believe you understand this, but your argument is starting to crumble, so you resort to more "false choices". which police states do you have experience of living in? what is your experience of life in a police state?
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  4254.  @Vanderearden  on the contrary, I lead you to think clearly about your own views, but you get so confused so easily! I don't give limited choice if I offer you a dichotomy! Some situations, like paying taxes, or showing ID at an airport, are "either/or" situations, yes or no choices. questions like "does being compelled to show your papers on a whim mean you live in a police state?" is more nuanced, it really isn't a simple yes or no, so I see you are struggling to define the nature of certain situations. sorry you are struggling with certain questions, but it is par for the course with moaners about "police state" and "living in freedom" types. In which police states have you lived? why does Japan not suffer from what France is currently going through?
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  4255. regarding Russian troops "absolutely demoralised"..haven't we heard that since March? Yet Russia still keeps winning. Are the LPR and DPR militias also demoralized? And the Chechens? and the Wagner Mercenaries? Does Yanchenko really think an 18 year old cannon fodder recruit from Lvov is extremely moralised to fight in the friggin Donbass for Zelensky's Nazi Azov boys?
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  4256. "Russian ground forces struggle to advance" = Russia happy to see Zelensky keep serving up cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder in Bakhmut while Russia destroys infrastructure in Ukraine at will.
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  4257. in between doing Vogue photo shoots and redecorating the villa in Tuscany
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  4258. but Russia is running out of missiles, and has been, since March
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  4259. Totally explains why American college students are so dumb.
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  4260.  @profefabianaaguero8464  claro, después de 8 años de ataques de los Ukronazis contra Donbass, todo el mundo debería apoyar a los rusos
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  4261. how much you want to bet?
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  4262.  @als4817  UA come round the back of Wagner? UA troops can barely grab a second to crawl out of the trench to pee!
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  4263.  @alilashari8128  unless you were writing in full support of my analysis, in which case, thanks for the support!
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  4264. yep, really hard to understand why the Russian speaking family, waiting to be liberated by Russian troops, won't move away to somewhere like Kiev where they will be treated like second class citizens. no idea why the lady didn't want to speak her mind to DW with Ukrainian soldiers next to her.
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  4265.  @NemeanLion-  but Bot's message is spot on
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  4266. so a third of voters want the "extremists" to represent them. maybe it's the ruling party that is the real extremists with their embrace of more and more war in Ukraine and more and more mass immigration?
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  4267.  @pblossom3757  i would not assume that Jay intended to return to his hotel. seems like he intended to head towards Buenavista, for whatever reason. and i would not assume that he asked about the bus to Santiago, rather than Buenavista.
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  4268.  @matiasluukkanen7718  "My priority is to bring peace to Donbass" Zelensky
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  4269. one hell of a weak team when the diversity hire, VP Harris, is even less capable than an 81 year old with dementia.
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  4270.  @gazpachopolice7211  NATO would have done as poorly as it did in the Kabul fiasco of 2021, hence it did nothing.
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  4271. Gotta laugh at Nick Connolly pretending he knows what Russian casualties are in Donbass. If you look carefully, you can see Nick's boss pulling the strings in the background. No mention of Ursula Van der Leyen's assertion that Ukraine has lost 100,000 troops, Nick? I mean Nick's handler?
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  4272. Just absurd that the covid jabs were ever called "vaccines". A vaccine prevents the individual from getting infected and from spreading the disease. The covid jabs were just treatments, something that would decrease death rates and maybe, hospitalizations, like staying fit and getting fresh air would also achieve.
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  4273.  @matbell1514  what are the chances Hungary and Turkey vote for NATO membership for Ukraine AT ALL? EVER?
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  4274. no, they just want to spread Ukrainian propaganda and lies. nothing more nothing less. it's pathetic
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  4275.  @drei_thirteen  indeed they were. had it been the other way round, in London say, a violent mob would have beaten the sh*t out of such a propagandist.
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  4276. just hilarious that Piers is hung up on this "invading a sovereign democratic country" nonsense when Ukraine is NOT democratic, when Ukraine threw its sovereignty out the window by holding an anti-constitutional coup in 2014, and when Ukraine is not a real country, just a former Soviet republic struggling with figuring out which part is still Russian and what it really means to be "Ukrainian".
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  4277.  @martinportelance138  and why would the day that Israel becomes majority Arab be the day that Finkelstein is "on the good side of history"? Explain.
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  4278.  @37Raffaella  I must ask someone who lives there.....when the Guardia Civil announced they were ending the search two weeks ago, did you know that was a lie? also, do they regularly lie in these situations?
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  4279.  @mikesstories2762  make who regret? the tourists or the immigrants?
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  4280.  @artstation707  no you don't.
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  4281. "inflation running at 44% a key factor"......who says? not wishing to break ties with Russia and opposing Sweden's integration into NATO could be the key factors. how is the BBC getting inside the minds of the electorate to pronounce what is the "key factor"? more biased rubbish from the British Broadcasting of Communism.
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  4282.  @majowassen3021  proof I was in Ukraine? or proof that my Russian speaking students expressed their desire to live in a place separate from Kiev where their language and culture would be accepted? which one?
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  4283.  @sergiyrospysdiyenko6224  don't use slava and ukrainian nazi in same sentence
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  4284.  @QTwoSix  who said the Azov Nazis shelled the same city for 8 years straight? not me! looks like English reading comprehension is not your forte! try again.
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  4285.  @flnoname9586  Both Germany and Japan were rebuilt post WW2 thanks to the Marshall Plan, massive aid given by the US victors to the losers. Same will happen, and is happening now (e.g. in Mariupol) where the victorious Russians are paying to rebuild in their newly acquired territories.
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  4286. Shoigu was not sacked and it was known for years that Shoigu wanted to step down from his defence position.
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  4287. right, but 41T of the 42T economy goes on equity and diversity courses.
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  4288. There is no Far Right. It's just a bogeyman term to deflect the blame from our leaders who destroyed the country with massive immigration.
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  4289.  @kmg474  Poor kmc474. Smart enough to access the Internet but just not smart enough to parse the information he finds.
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  4290.  @bigeasy9259  only "well known" in the Western propaganda press, but, go ahead, tell me the words to google so i can see real evidence of this. cue crickets.
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  4291.  @matthewsill748  if you are one of the Catalans why are you living in Spain and not France? if you don't want to be part of Spain then piss off if you are one of the French Canadians why are you living in Canada and not France? if you don't want to be part of Canada then piss off if you are one of the Italian speakers why are you living in Switzerland and not Italy? if you don't want to be part of Switzerland then piss off. if you are one of the Irish why are you living in Scotland and not Ireland? if you don't want to be part of the UK then piss off.
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  4292.  @marions7423  let me guess, you stood to attention and gave a standing ovation to the nazi that was honored in the Canadian Parliament recently? You, Trudeau and Zelensky just love those nazis who fought against the Russians in WW2, right?
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  4293.  @brianshockledge3241  No doubt you joined Trudeau and Zelensky in applauding and saluting, with heart-felt gusto, the Ukrainian Waffen SS nazi honored in the Canadian parliament last week. Made you feel great, that moment, right, Adolf?
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  4294.  @matthewsill748  Scots who want to remain in the UK and who live by the English border. Should they all be obliged to leave on the day Scotland declares independence? yes, or no? simple question.
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  4295.  @matthewsill748  You are so bloody ignorant. I live in Northern Catalonia (Catalogne du Nord, the part that is in France). The people of Barcelona (just the main city of Cataluña) are split roughly 50/50 on Catalan independence. Cataluña is NOT its own republic. It is still a part of Spain. Spain seeks to accommodate the Catalan nationalists as much as possible with autonomy a plenty. Unlike Kiev, Madrid does NOT insist on only one language being the official language, Madrid does NOT impose limits on media broadcasts in Cataluña, and I can assure you, Madrid NEVER sent a Nazi militia to start shelling Barcelona on the day Cataluña declared independence. Spain knows how to handle separatists. Kiev doesn't, but you still fully support the violent approach, don't you?
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  4296.  @vincentadams4223  simple question for you. In Wales, there are counties where 90% of the people speak only English, and no Welsh. 90% of the teachers there speak only English, and no Welsh. Would you support a proposal that insisted that ALL pupils in ALL schools in such counties be educated solely in Welsh? Yes, or no?
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  4297. "Russia on the back foot and morale is very low" well, after a bunch of convicts and mercenaries just massacred NATO trained and NATO armed Ukrainians in Soledar, and after pitiful air defences just allowed Russia to smash the Ukrainian power grid for the umpteenth time, if Russian morale is still low and this is Russia on the back foot, heaven help pathetic NATO and Ukraine when Russian morale goes up and it gets on the front foot.
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  4298.  @danielvilliers612  talk about cream of the crop, did you hear how himars and javelins totally halted any Russian advances in Bakhmut and Avdiivka? No, nor did I.
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  4299.  @solconcordia4315  what makes you think Russia is taking huge casualties in Bakhmut? What makes you think time is a priority for Russia? You need to check out how many years Russia was fighting in Syria and Chechnya. Eliminating the enemy takes years. Unlike you, I don't know any Wagner convicts, so I have no idea who might be grumbling about what. I do know, according to Western media, the Wagner convicts are poorly armed, poorly trained, and low on morale, but at the same time are beating back Ukraine's NATO trained and armed battalions:) Unless you are Ukrainian, it doesn't really matter. The aim is to weaken Russia, not for Ukraine to win anything.
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  4300.  @khanhvu6918  check out the 2018 Reuters report on the horrors of flourishing Naziism in Ukraine. It tallies with my experiences in Ukraine in 2018. And you? what personal experiences do you have of life in Ukraine?
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  4301.  @JamaicanToast  sure. where I am today, the sky is blue today.
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  4302.  @JamaicanToast  and keep in mind that St Pierre et Miquelon is a French territory in North America.
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  4303. yeah, right, Ukraine had nothing to do with the Belgorod terrorist attack. all those American vehicles and weapons involved, the rebels bought those online.
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  4304. this is what happens when woke bosses decide too many 50 yr old white men work for the company.
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  4305. No, Nick, these are people getting out of the Ukrainian held territory and attempting to get to Russian held territory, attacked by Ukrainian forces. Just for once, balance what Ukrainian authorities are saying with what Russian authorities are saying and use some common sense to figure out what is going on.
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  4306. just hysterical he keeps referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine when that had no effect whatsoever on oil prices or energy prices. he's not the brightest, is he?
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  4307. Russia is so much closer to achieving its objectives than Ukraine is to achieving its objectives. Time is on Russia's side too.
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  4308. if only Biden took the time to try to think
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  4309.  @vg9137  Snake Island? :)
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  4310. the pathetic territorial gains compared to the horrendous losses in men and weaponry means the counter offensive has failed. Ukraine is nowhere near even the first line of Russian defence. Crump and co are just spouting bs pretending that Ukraine has a chance. NATO and Ukraine are not far off being completely demilitarized.
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  4311. too late. while the West was fixated on Ghost of Kiev, Russia destroyed or captured the tiny Ukrainian navy. Russian subs control every single vessel passing into and out of the Black Sea. Dream on.
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  4312.  @ramadankadriu5336  how about you translate that into English, or French, or Spanish, or anything comprehensible!?
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  4313. TOTAL LIES FROM THE DODDERY OLD FOOL. If there were a Russian blockade on grain shipments, why are such shipments suddenly being allowed out of Ismael? Russian subs have controlled the Black Sea since Day 1, Snake Island is irrelevant. There was never a blockade. The mines along the Ukrainian coast are UKRAINIAN...laid there to prevent a Russian seaborne invasion. It's simple. When the Ukrainians demine their coast, the grain shipments can pass, no problem.
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  4314. the bright pink hair tells you all you need to know.
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  4315.  @Greksallad  there is no guarantee anyone will come to anyone else's defence in NATO. Article 5 just states that member states will decide together on appropriate action. it's a meaningless statement in the event of an attack.
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  4316. Hats off to the French! They have played this all very impressively. They receive loads of cash from the UK, they occasionally appear to stop a few dinghies to keep the cash flowing, but they also get rid of loads of unwanted migrants by allowing free passage, or even escorted passage, into UK waters. Given that claiming asylum on arrival in the UK is allowed in law, "people smugglers" aren't doing anything illegal at all.
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  4317. sounds like a struggling, developing country to me. energy rationing is not first world.
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  4318. oh, but he had plenty of money for arms full of tattoos. looks like he should have forgone that pleasure and planned for a rainy day.
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  4319. First western pilots filmed being brought home in body bags would end the Western war effort, dead. While Russia has focused exclusively on air defense systems, the West has focused on equity and diversity. The Western masses have no stomach for a real fight involving thousands of dead. Russia wins.
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  4320. something has gone terribly wrong with the Russian efforts. we are told of horrendous Ukrainian losses, yet Russia is on the back foot and in some areas are retreating. how much territory will still be in Russian hands by the time mobilized forces show up? will mobilized forces make enough difference to turn the tide?
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  4321.  @MaxVliet  All today's Socialists are far left, such has the Overton window shifted.
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  4322.  @MaxVliet  everyone who thinks a biological male can become a female is far left. everyone who believes Islam is a religion of peace is far left. everyone who believes any illegal immigrant sailing from France to the UK is a genuine asylum seeker is far left. so, which prominent European politicians does that leave who are NOT far left?
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  4323.  @MaxVliet  Just because you are so far left that you can barely see the centre doesn't actually turn centrists into the far right... you do know that, right?
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  4324.  @alhambrabiker1476  how about you tackle the ideas. the messages, the opinions rather than the messenger? I guess you have no arguments of your own.
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  4325.  @Spectre11B  oh dear. you might want to edit your comment. Russia has never even been in Afghanistan. Confusing the USSR with the Russian Federation is a childish error. That said, the USSR warmonger leader that did decide to invade Afghanistan (though there was no annexation) was Leonid Brezhnev, a Ukrainian! Par for the course, eh? No need to tell the US not to annex Afghanistan. The ever pathetic NATO already got kicked out by a bunch of sandal wearing goat herders. Yet NATO thinks it is capable of stopping Russia in Ukraine? Oh boy.
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  4326.  @olivesama  would you describe the abduction, rape, imprisonment and killing of Nigerian schoolgirls as "violent imperial aggression"? or is that just plain old African on African crime, not quite as bad as it is not committed by white imperialists?
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  4327.  @p_ness  and in Africa?
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  4328.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  Japan has almost ZERO immigration. ditto Korea. are their demographics in trouble? a wave of immigration gonna save Japan you think? Think again.
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  4329. The people of Donetsk and Lugansk would agree with you. It is the bully Ukraine that attacked the DPR and LPR in 2014. Now the DPR and LPR have called on big cousin Russia to defend them, and the world wrings its hypocritical hands in grief 8 years too late.
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  4330.  @dougaltolan3017  you have no more idea of the human costs on either side than you do of understanding war by attrition. let this sink in....low on morale, running out of weapons, incompetent and desperate, yet a bunch of mercs and convicts have routed Ukraine's finest, NATO trained, NATO armed and NATO advised. think about it.
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  4331.  @cw3894  trisha is a child and probably cries easliy! be gentle! trisha thinks NATO planned to leave all that equipment as a goodbye gift. trisha also thinks US intelligence is the best, even though the one kill they got during the evacuation of Kabul was an innocent Afghan family.
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  4332. it's hardly an illusion of access when Biden confessed he got a state prosecutor fired because he preferred another state prosecutor. that's proof that Joe Biden was an insurance policy for any of Hunter's companies from being investigated.
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  4333. something funnier than seeing so many dopes who think engaging Russia in a protracted land war is a really good idea, is to see Zelensky think he can lecture the world on what it must do to get him out of the horrendous mess he has created.
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  4334. Finally, from the horse's mouth, propaganda outlets like the Telegraph will be challenged. Putin will make so much sense to so many people who have a grasp of NATO's bullying and blundering in Ukraine.
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  4335.  @jeanlevieux9140  quel bonne nouvelle qu'ils sont partis! Osama bin Laden était ingénieur aussi! Quand vous avez parlé avec eux au sujet des gays, ils ont dit qu'ils acceptent 100% les marriages entre deux hommes, par exemple? Ils faisaient quelques entorses au sujet de ça? hmmmm
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  4336. Putin still holds all the trump cards and given that Kharkov was never on his objectives list, Putin is still on course to achieve his aims. Many hawkish leaders in Russia are calling for full mobilization and a declaration of war, let's hope that happens so this can be wrapped up sooner rather than later.
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  4337.  @thegreatdane3627  anyone who is 100% sure there will be enough energy to keep all thermostats at 19 degrees winter after winter after winter needs to think again. anyone who assumes the state can assure every single person can afford 19 degrees winter after winter after winter is making a mistake. would that be you, little dane? anyone you know caught hypothermia yet? give it time.
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  4338.  @thegreatdane3627  "already winter" = loads of winter still to come, and more winters year after year. no panic = deluded and complacent Putin's energy war = the West choosing to cut itself off from cheap energy and make its poor suffer
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  4339.  @sarahbrown5073  well put. if the masses can't see the nature of the problem, there is no hope of any solution, and government throwing funny money at the problem is not a solution
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  4340.  @liam208  elementary, my dear liam
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  4341. Mayorkas is just implementing what Americans voted for. Dem voters gave the thumbs up for mass immigration and the crimes that come with it. That's democracy.
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  4342. this might come as a surprise to Marina, but the Russian forces in the new occupied territories are supplied via the land bridge of the new occupied territories! supplies and logistics coming from Rostov will go through Mariupol, not Crimea. this Ukronazia terrorism is all just to keep up the illusion that Ukraine still has a fighting chance. it doesn't. the counter offensive is over.
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  4343.  @VaduzVaduz  la verdad te duele, no?
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  4344. just so funny watching DW and its "experts" explain away the total catastrophe that is the Ukrainian offensive. We are in WEEK SIX and slow progress has been replaced by NO progress. Hundreds of ukronazian cannon fodder get massacred every day, NATO training and weaponry has failed to enable one single Ukrainian get anywhere near the FIRST line of Russian defences. The Ukronazians are getting massacred in the security zone! Cut to the chase...NATO under-estimated Russia's ability to counter Western weapons and Zelensky was fool enough to believe NATO's promise that NATO would be able to deliver victory.
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  4345. This guy always goes on about "joining the dots" He never tells us which precise dots he cherry picks before joining them up.
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  4346.  @Fractal369  I've heard Bjorn Lornquist mention the "9 times more people die from the cold than the heat, and even in Africa more people die from the cold than the heat" fact many times. Ivor Cummins too. also, common sense, most people live in the northern hemisphere, and older people freeze to death in winter much more readily than they boil to death in summer. check out hospital data for winter and summer.
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  4347. a real shame Navalny wasn't a candidate. had he been, and had he attained his highest ever poll numbers, he might have grabbed 4th place.
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  4348. Biden said he would take down Nordstream back in February, so we already have a confession. The only question that remains is if Biden is proud of his mission accomplished?
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  4349. also, Zelensky doesn't have to sell his own assets, like his mansion and villa in Italy, and his wife can spend 40,000 euros in Paris, and yet they get others to fund their lifestyle. Agreed, Zelensky is brilliant. Or the Western leaders are fools?
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  4350. Talking with Russia is a waste of time. Talking with Ukraine is waste of time. For customer service, press DPR.
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  4351. Germany is going to have a horrific time this winter. Scholz won't survive
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  4352. "going to Germany to be trained and then back to the front" well, maybe some of them. the wise will stay in Germany.
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  4353.  @David_Bower  just giving you a much needed dose of the truth. Try to think beyond the parameters that the Western media limit you to.
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  4354. yet another impoverished failed state that wants to derussify under the protection of the EU umbrella, sticking its hand out for EU tax payers to stick a load of cash into the Moldovan coffers. yeah, let's all celebrate that an influx of thousands of gypsies and mafia types are soon to be moving into a neighborhood near you!
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  4355. Can't wait to see Ukraine's offensive on the Eastern front! another 100,000 turned into mincemeat.
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  4356.  @Pureevilhotsauce  because rather than help their own tourist economies and benefit their fellow citizens, most Europeans get much more pleasure from thinking they are inflicting punishment on the Brits. it's the very attitude that convinced the majority of UK voters that leaving the corrupt cartel is a good idea.
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  4357.  @1ndragunawan  The separatists of Cataluna would passionately disagree with you. So would the Turkish Cypriots of Northern Cyprus. When did Serbia give permission for Kosovo to become independent? Presumably you are FURIOUS NATO bombed Serbia for 70 days when Serbia insisted it needed to give Kosovo permission for a referendum? The real world is MUCH more complicated than "permission for a referendum". Get real.
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  4358.  @Lucas-ix8bg  so, should be ready just in time to see the Wagners storm Zelensky's office
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  4359.  @adrianh332  google "Ruslan Onyshenko". take a look at the convicts Ukraine has been using since day 1.
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  4360.  @takeitasacompliment.  exactly how many Russian have died so far, and what is your source?
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  4361.  @adrianh332  "oh look another one" is your answer to "how many Russians died in Soledar compared to Ukrainians?
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  4362.  @Blanka1100  The list of horrific things Germany has done to Poland and the Baltics FAR outweighs anything the Russian Federation has ever done, yet Germanophobia doesn't exist! We should always care what Russia wants because it is the big boy on the block and it can destroy any neighbor it wants. Yep, language rights. instead of dismissing language rights, maybe actually enforce language rights in places like Latvia, and then the Russian menace will disappear.
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  4363.  @testsalv4366  yes, of course I believe what I wrote. I agree, Kremlin did not invade JUST because of that, but it was a major reason of the list of reasons. same as it was the major reason in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Transnistria. Kazakhstan has Russian as an official language alongside Kazakh, there is no discrimination based on language in Kazakhstan, and KZ cooperates well with Russia. Ukraine and Latvia should copy Kazakhstan. too late for Ukraine.
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  4364.  @lauravilsone5554  I am not mixing anything up at all. "your native language in a foreign country" so, Russian speaking Ukrainians are in a foreign country? i think we understand, from your attitude, why Russian speakers in Ukraine feel that Ukraine abandoned them! Are French speakers in Switzerland using their native language in a foreign country? "at the expense of the native population"...what would be the cost to Ukrainian speakers that a 90% Russian speaking community be educated in Russian?
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  4365.  @lauravilsone5554  do French speaking Canadians have the "right" to get all their interactions in their native language in a foreign country? hmmm. yes, they do. maybe Russian speaking Ukrainians should have the same right as French speaking Canadians?
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  4366.  @lauravilsone5554  In Switzerland, only 4% of the people speak Italian as a native language, but Italian is an official language of the country. Would you advise Switzerland to follow Ukraine's example and compel all Italian speakers to use ONLY Swiss German in schools, courts and government?
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  4367.  @lauravilsone5554  given you mention French speakers in Belarus, it IS perfectly legal for a French speaker to walk into a pharmacy and be served in French in Belarus! But in Ukraine, it is ILLEGAL for a Russian speaker to walk into a pharmacy and be served in Russian, even if the pharmacist is Russian speaking! See how nationalistic and russophobic Ukraine's laws are and have been since 2014!?
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  4368.  @lauravilsone5554  maybe you should have done your homework before trying to ridicule me! now you want me to do your homework for you? to start your project, google "language policies in Ukraine" as you dig deeper you will find there are several spheres where only Ukrainian can be used, even in Russian speaking areas where both speakers are Russian! One such sphere, where only Ukrainian can be spoken, is in the sphere of medicine, which includes pharmacies. So, by law, in Donetsk, a 90% Russian speaking oblast, by law, a Russian speaking customer would have to ask the Russian speaking pharmacist for a prescription and advice in a second language, Ukrainian. slowly you will understand why Donbass Russian speakers want nothing to do with Kiev ever again.
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  4369.  @lauravilsone5554  pharmacies aside, you seem to have ducked the big question. why should French speaking Canadians be allowed to have full education in French in a country where 80% have English as a first language? Surely, if Kiev's language policy is such a great idea, all French Canadians should be forced to use only English throughout their educational life.
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  4370.  @lauravilsone5554  So as per Ukrainian law, according to your research, in a community like Donetsk, 90% Russian speaking, a pharmacist MUST be able to perform duties in the language that only 10% speak as a native language! And said pharmacist has no duty or obligation to ever speak the language of 90% of that oblast! And this makes sense to you? In Wales there are counties where 95% of the population speak English only, no Welsh. Does it make sense to you for the Welsh Senadd to pass a law that says all pharmacists in Wales must speak Welsh, and may refuse to serve in English if they so choose? Really?
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  4371. Britain in 2022, a cesspit of failure. Get out if you possibly can.
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  4372. could be the local Spanish police totally messed up with the interviews of the 2 "strangers"
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  4373.  @danielm.4346  when the government of ANY country effectively limits the use of the native language of half its population, you know it is no longer a democracy. Russian is spoken by Zelensky, but Russian is banned as a language of educational instruction. Both statements are true. Ukrainian people speaking in Russian, and radio broadcasts cannot be exclusively in Russian. Both statements are true. Time YOU got a clue! I was a teacher in Ukraine in 2018, INSTRUCTED not to use Russian in the classroom. ANY language spoken by an EU member was allowed, but NOT Russian. I have first hand experience of this mindless discrimination. Now, you tell me your first hand experiences teaching in Ukraine, please.
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  4374.  @dimwitsixtytwelve  In war BOTH sides commit atrocities, so it is PURE hypocrisy for "humanitarians" to pray for JUST the victims of war crimes committed by one side! Either pray for ALL victims of war crimes, or not at all..any other position is hypocrisy.
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  4375.  @primalamusica3  because it is illegal to steal others' assets, though the EU pirates are working hard to break the law and yet hide their crimes at the same time
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  4376. Please cover the exact cost to British taxpayers of the massive aid given to Ukronzaia in this futile war, and how the government intends to repay the UK taxpayer once the war is concluded when Putin dictates terms of surrender.
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  4377. Can't wait for the BBC's follow up report on "Fascism in Ukraine". To be released on the 12th of Never
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  4378. if there's enough money for unlimited aid to Ukraine and for subsidies for green energy and for hotels for every illegal immigrant, then there is money for the nurses.
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  4379. yep, NATO such a bunch of cowards they can only stomach Ukraine fighting to the last Ukrainian in Ukraine. Anything that happens in Russia might lead to NATO actually losing some of its own troops, so, best to keep it all in Ukraine.
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  4380. Finally, the Muslims get to learn what jihad really means. Enjoy every second of it!
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  4381. so now, Irish citizens who would prefer to not have their children stabbed to death in the street by imported murderers are "far right"! We can all see why Geert Wilders won the Dutch elections. May Ireland find a Geert asap.
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  4382.  @kermitthethinker1465  if, by "they" you mean the Russians, you are correct, namely in the Kupiansk area, Klysheevka, Andreyevka, Verbove, and lately Robotyne.
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  4383.  @cskvision  "stalemate" is not a condition determined solely by a moving or static front line. many other factors are involved in this war. as far as supplies, manpower and morale are concerned, this conflict is far from being a stalemate, but hey, if you just want to stare at the front line every day, knock yourself out and keep thinking that is what a stalemate is.
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  4384.  @MotoRide.  just curious...when exactly do you think the sanctions regime on Russia will mean Russia can no longer finance this war? let's hear your prediction.
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  4385.  @martinnoyes8507  of course, the presidential suite in the Gaylord Hotel, better warn the bellboy not to bend down and pick anything up off the floor.
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  4386. his intelligence reports were prepared by the same people who said the Taliban would need 90 days to take Kabul!
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  4387. the problem is, the Wagners may not have been sucked in, and, on the contrary, the Ukronazi cannon fodder has been wiped out in a futile defence of an unimportant town. Zelensky is no Churchill.
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  4388. funny how these different approaches by different forces always end up with the same result......light or no policing for Muslims and immigrants, heavy handed policing for white Brits.
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  4389. the way to stop the drowning is to deport, immediately, anyone who makes into Italian waters and to refuse NGO boats access to Italian waters. after a week or so the illegals will stop trying to enter Europe uninvited.
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  4390. Farage has broken the elite's erroneous narrative, so no wonder panic has broken out. He is right.
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  4391. in terms of education, it would seem Tosh's journey hasn't even started! when will she read up on the centuries of Arab slavers on Africa's east coast? oh, let me guess, unless the slave traders are white it really doesn't matter?
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  4392. so Russian messages are "propaganda" but Ukrainian billboards are "patriotic messages" no wonder the developing world howls with laughter at the low standards and bias of Western media today
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  4393. "parts of the continent will see record high temperatures", another way of saying "many parts of the continent will NOT see any record temperatures and will not reach the high record temperatures set in the past when man made CO2 in the atmosphere was lower".
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  4394. because Hamas would still be intact and threaten Israel's existence. Next question?
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  4395. funny how Russian "misinformation" seems much more believable to most of the globe compared to the lies coming out of the West.
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  4396. it's EU policies that are crushing places like Portugal. Lisbon has to follow Brussels' diktats on immigration and residency rules, so, leave the EU or stop complaining.
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  4397. señora, hay dos lenguas oficiales en Barcelona. catalán y castellano
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  4398. "he left here alive" sure, he left alive to buy his cigarettes. then he came back. but a corpse doesn't leave anywhere. it is removed.
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  4399. This guy sounds like a total Islamophobe, lecturing the Qataris on what is right and moral and what isn't.
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  4400. A real offensive is happening in Donbass. Russia is gaining ground every day, including Ukraine's second biggest power plant. Western media chooses to ignore this advance. An imaginary counter offensive is being covered by the Western media, a frenzy of attention on a bridge hit by missiles. Conclusion...the only good news to report for Ukraine is a plan to attack a tiny slice of occupied territory. Pathetic. RT is much more balanced in its coverage.
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  4401. why the hell would a developer want to throw money into a crime-ridden s**thole that no one wants to live in?
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  4402.  @mydogeatspuke  by "gentrify" you mean make it habitable and pleasant. sounds like a good idea to me. not a big fan of crime-ridden abandoned properties in general. and you?
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  4403.  @MiMI-hh4ue  that was Iain Duncan-Smith. Not sure he is that old.
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  4404. Still waiting on border czar. Kamala Harris, to release her report on tacking the root causes of the border crisis. any news on when that will be released?:)
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  4405.  @HansSprungfeld-p9b  you just said what the good folk of Donbass have been saying for the last 8 years. defend your country and recapture your territory. Donbass is Russian and its territory will be totally recaptured from the tyranny of Ukraine.
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  4406.  @captaintoyota3171  just waiting for you to contradict any specifics of what I said. Go ahead.
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  4407.  @norbertjendruschj9121  what sarcasm?
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  4408. it's all richly deserved. this is what you get when you applaud lockdowns, green energy, sanctions on Russia, ballooning welfare state, uncontrolled mass immigration...enjoy every minute of it, UK, it's what you wanted!
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  4409.  @AngelaH2222  not al all. only the far Left consider anti mass immigration policies "far Right".
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  4410.  @AngelaH2222  when you say a "leopard doesn't change its spots" would that also apply to the likes of Tony Blair, who was part of Far Left movements in his youth?
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  4411. so, the Guardia Civil lied when thy announced they were ending the search. what else did they lie about?
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  4412.  @johanselander7708  low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly trained, poorly led drunken mercenaries and convicts just routed Ukraine's NATO trained finest battalions in Soledar! Looks like Ukraine already lost, hence the panic to get tanks ASAP...I mean, if Russia is on the back foot, why the haste to get any tanks? why the talk of "turning the ride" if Russia already lost?
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  4413.  @danielsea0019  i know Ukraine has been promised a lot of Western arms. what Zelensky has at his disposal right now cannot be so impressive, as Zelensky himself has said Ukraine needs more to make the counter attack happen.
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  4414.  @NZobservatory  ah, Benmore Peak again! I contacted the observatory to report use of their name on such a contentious discussion forum. time to follow up on that, I think.
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  4415.  @chrissmith7669  so Chris, you tell me where you heard these objectives! can you tell me the source? Putin never mentioned any of these, so you go ahead and tell me why you have thought, all this time, that these are Russian objectives. Don't be shy to say "i just made them up".
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  4416. Like it or not, Putin has red lines. Like it or not, Putin has nukes. Like it or not, Putin has massive global support. Cross the red line and you get this s**t.
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  4417. After 8 years of mass butchery wrought on the ethnic Russians of Donbass by Poroshenko and Zelensky, and ignored by the West, this is now payback, and Russia will press on until all objectives are met, and the West should be supporting those objectives. One big bonus, not only will Ukraine be demilitarized, but NATO will be too:) SLAVA ROSSIYI..Z
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  4418. "it's incredible" no, it's perfectly credible. it's to be expected. this is what happens when you import Muslims. grasp reality instead or repeatedly being shocked.
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  4419. just like the 2014 coup d'etat!
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  4420. So God definitely on the side of Putin, sticking it to Germany in all ways possible.
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  4421. this fool knows no history. Look at how Russia fought in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. Russia fights wars of attrition and takes years to wipe out its enemy, but prevails. Only a propagandist would pretend Russia counted on taking Kiev in a few days. Kiev was pinned down and thousands of Ukrainian troops fixed around the capital while Russia seized Kherson and Zaporozhe, to gain its land corridor, without opposition!
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  4422.  @unworthy42  Given that 80% of Russian forces are in Russia, NOT Ukraine, the Russian expeditionary force is doing just fine. Ukraine couldn't even re occupy Donbass over EIGHT years, with just the DPR and LPR militias against it! 100 Chechens could wipe out 1000 Ukrainians. Russia is handling things pretty well, and is close to attaining all 5 objectives.
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  4423.  @run2cat4run  there certainly isn't if you refuse to look for it
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  4424. "Russia's illegal invasion" as opposed to USA's 100% legal invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, etc
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  4425. supply and demand. with massive immigration and rising population, more housing is needed or rents go up. no one is going to invest in rental properties if they think they will have problems removing awful tenants, so airbnb and selling to new home owners is the way to go. the government is not the answer.
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  4426. "misinformation"? You big twit! What was said on social media was TRUE! The attacker was an Algerian Muslim. Had the Police announced the origin and background of the attacker in the first place, there would have been no need for any online speculation! Thanks to social media, and no thanks to the Police, we learned who was responsible.
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  4427. Ben Wallace an "excellent defence minister"? sure, if wasting billions of pounds on a futile war that Russia will win is a measure of success.
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  4428.  @buk3695  that would help
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  4429. If there is no evidence, then why is it a "false claim". It's a claim, as legit as any claim made by the West.
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  4430. sweet revenge for the attack on the market in Donetsk city. war of attrition going well for Russia compared to the desperation Ukraine now faces. NATO delighted that Ukraine doing so well to weaken Russia and that Ukraine is prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian to help NATO.
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  4431. No doubt Biden will be revealing exactly how and why the Russians blew up their own Nordstream pipeline.
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  4432. mass immigration, crazy green policies, sanctions on Russia, funding a futile war in Ukraine, yep, Europe is in big, big trouble. it will all end in tears and violence.
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  4433.  @yunusgokcen174  it is very frustrating. our leaders, apart from Orban, have no clue.
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  4434. Russia, where men have the freedom to leave the country. Ukraine, where men are compelled to remain in Ukraine. Which country offers true freedom of movement to its male population?
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  4435. yeah, sure
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  4436. NHS was never designed to cope with so many old people, fatties and parasites living on the welfare state.
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  4437. now we see the results of the lunacy of a policy of printing loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay home and not work during covid. obviously, sanctioning Russia so that commodity prices shoot up was a brilliant idea to boost inflation. Hello Recession and Stagflation! Meanwhile, Russia coming out of all this looking relatively healthy. Bloody marvellous leadership in the West.
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  4438.  @jujutrini8412  ahh, so any organization including the name "Socialist" in their name is in fact, extreme right wing, correct? Including all those left of centre European parties calling themselves socialists, really they are far right?
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  4439. Best wishes to the brave Wagners, battling with just spades to defeat the ukronazi bullies. Slava Rossiyi
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  4440. have a chat with a few refugees from the Donbass and then let's hear you say it is "not because of too many Nazis there". ever talked with ethnic Russians from Donbass, have you? hmmmm
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  4441.  @fabiss23  so if EU does not produce weapons to match Russia, how does EU ever hope to deliver victory to Ukraine?
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  4442.  @fabiss23  depends how you define "at war". when you supply the getaway car and drive the robbers to the bank, you are part of the team that robbed the bank and you are 100% involved. remember, in Afghanistan, USA invaded because the training camps of Al Qaeda were located there. Didn't matter that Afghanistan was not in a war with USA. Don't be surprised if Putin decides to attack the Ukronazi training camps located on NATO territory.
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  4443.  @palar4195  indeed she has. and she may well get to be replaced in the not so distant future by someone who actually does care about the German citizens. The Scholtz government is fragile.
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  4444.  @taylorlatch2635  so is a tape measure when measuring an obese man, but it says nothing about the health or robust nature of the individual, just as GDP numbers reveal nothing about how an economy could withstand sanctions. think more along the lines of what commodities a nation exports.
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  4445.  @andyabuteo6084  it's not just bureaucracy. in the West, you have to be sure the voters want more and more of their taxes to go to make weapons. the majority of voters don't. they want more money in their pockets, not more air defence systems to be given to Ukraine in a futile war.
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  4446. his example of Latin America is just laughable. Yes, in Mexico, food and drink is labelled with great big blaring black hexagon warnings. eye catching when you fist see it. so what? the masses still buy it and consume it willingly. they don't care. like smoking in France, packets of cigarettes have scary pictures of people dying of cancer. no one pays attention anymore. many people love to stick 2 fingers up to the nanny state. get real.
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  4447. a building called the "Garrison Officers' Club" with a sculpture of a MIG jet outside MIGHT not need so much intelligence to conclude it's a legit military target.
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  4448.  @Election-sv6ok  arson is intentional setting fire to something, so, yes, arsonists are growing in number year by year. i would be curious to know if any of the arsonists are also climate alarmists.
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  4449. if the Quran had been set on fire, the only punishment should have regarding the fire risk, and nothing else.
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  4450. Some of us remember when the top scientists were warning of an impending ice age because pollution was blocking out the sun's rays. it's all alarmist bs. the only people who are worried are those who have nothing else to worry about.
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  4451.  @Daniel-uc9ll  tell me, now that you see that Russia is not isolated, that the Russian economy is doing fine, that Russia is outproducing NATO in weaponry, that Russia has so much more men under arms, what makes you cling to the absurd notion that Ukronazia is winning?
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  4452.  @Daniel-uc9ll  Weeb Union, Defence Politics Asia, Military Summary Channel, all the places you should be consulting to get the true picture.
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  4453. Please, drop the word "Islamist". The Muslim religion is extremist, therefore all its devotees are extremists.
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  4454.  @nicktecky55  great summary. the only thing I would add is this nonsense you hear in the West about "Russia has a gdp of that of Spain". The economically ignorant don't understand that Russia's gdp comes from exporting commodities the world needs, every day. Spain's gdp comes from selling cheap holidays to families. the arrogant West didn't learn the rule about not messing about with the vendor that supplies you with the things you need to survive.
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  4455. these 2 clowns have been preaching and predicting "escalation" since Oct 7th, and it hasn't happened. Hezbollah has done nothing, ditto Iran, ditto the rest of the Arab world. these two just don't get how Middle East politics work. way out of their depths.
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  4456. uh oh, the puppet has been called into the principal's office, told to expect one last hand-out and then if there are no more wins on the battlefield, it's over.
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  4457. oh, Frank, you prize propagandist, you were asked a simple "yes" or "no" question regarding defence ministry comments on the stiffness of Russian resistance, and your answer was some rambling nonsense about what MILLEY has said! Tell us what YOU think, you great lemon.
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  4458.  @solenbreen7483  and the poor US tax payer has to pay for the weapons sent to Ukraine that Russia then destroys! unbelievable disrespect for the hard working American and European workers.
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  4459. These attacks came after 20 years of mass immigration and the tragedy such a policy has brought. Let's check the scorecard, in the last 20 years: Muslims and Immigrants killed by the Far Right = 0 White Brits killed by Muslims and Immigrants = 100+.....our rioting heroes were just trying to balance out the scorecard
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  4460. "you look fabulous", and said without bursting out laughing.
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  4461.  @ryand141  some things are entirely predictable. just look at the criminal history of Nahel.
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  4462.  @ryand141  so, Ryan D, let's see what your worldly wisdom is. where do you live and how many counties on the planet do you have experience of, where have you worked and integrated yourself into the foreign community?
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  4463. but it's "Russia bad, Ukraine good" so, how could any ethnic Russian want to join Russia?
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  4464. yet trade from the UK to EU is up by over 50% this year, and it's the EU with the biggest trade deficit it ever faced. Sky News, as always, avoiding the stats that show Brexit is working overall.
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  4465.  @marcwareham9351  ok, Marc "economics is my specialist subject" Wareham. if GDP is some kind of indicator of success on the battlefield, given that Italy and Russia have about the same GDP, would you assume that Italy could wage war to the extent Russia has for the last 15 months? or do you think, oh high and mighty specialist, that some other MUCH more important factors might be at play here?
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  4466.  @westwindsailer  so why does NATO refuse to eneter the war?
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  4467.  @shaddapforever  please explain to Zelensky that, if he doesn't have the support of the local people (the Crimeans and the Donbass) he can never hold on to that territory.
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  4468.  @rogerthornhill1491  my comment has nothing to do with the spirit of the fighting men. my comment simply highlights the fact that comparing two countries GDPs and then saying the one with the higher GDP will win a military conflict is absolute nonsense. GDP is not a measure of wealth. GDP to debt ratio is more useful, but most of all, value of commodities exported. Italy and Russia have roughly the same GDP. No one cares what Italy thinks or does. the world DOES care what Russia thinks and does, because the world is massively influenced by what Russia exports.
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  4469.  @meso8848  I was talking about Pavlovka, not Kherson. I am so happy for the ethnic Russians there liberated by the Russian forces.
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  4470. "Russia's oil sales are about the same level as before 2022 DESPITE a Western imposed price cap" At some point, DW will grasp the notion that the Russian oil profits may well be high BECAUSE of the price cap!
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  4471. In the words of Martin Luther King, "riots are the voice of the unheard" let's support our rioters so that our cloth-eared leaders can actually hear something as they see the nation go up in flames
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  4472. so a bunch of mercenaries and convicts, low on morale, running out of ammo, incompetent and desperate, has just routed Ukraine's finest battalions, NATO trained, NATO armed, NATO advised. let that sink in. explains the panic in the West about how to get out of this mess.
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  4473.  @rogerwilco5918  truth hurts, eh, Roger?
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  4474.  @RussiasSufferingInUkraine  so you tell me, Ukraine's finest brigades are where? On the border of Belarus watching the Russians amassing their forces? just useless cannon fodder told to die in Soledar? you tell me.
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  4475.  @rogerwilco5918  which part are you disputing? it is Western media, not me, that has repeated the claim (and it is true) that Wagners recruited criminals. Do you dispute that?
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  4476. IF the Supreme Court sides with removing Trump from the ballot in CO, the USA will have officially declared itself a dictatorship.
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  4477. It looks like there is a break in the Surovikin Line, where infantry could pass through, but not armoured vehicles, just in front of Verbove, like a channel inviting and advanced group of Ukrainians to come through. Keep an eye on this, as it could be accurate to say that Ukraine has passed through the Surovikin Line.
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  4478. she is so deluded. OPEC and BRICS have joined forces and nothing the US does will change the global price of oil to anything that will hurt Russia significantly. just let Russia win and focus on how to pay off 32 trillion dollars of crushing debt.
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  4479.  @dorianissock732  our previous conversation was about the integration of immigrants into the society of the host country. looks like you gave up on that idea and now want to pivot to immigration itself. fine. Yes, all immigrants must be vetted very carefully. No, screening immigrants is just one small part of the "legal immigration process". Obviously, determining the validity of asylum claims is part of the nation's whole immigration process. Next question?
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  4480.  @dorianissock732  you don't need any workforce to integrate new arrivals into the society of the host country. If the new arrival is willing to integrate, it will happen. But why would you assume a Muslim would want to integrate into British society over just replicating the society of the home country in Britain?
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  4481.  @MrJonezy541  I disagree. Complete capitulation to Russia and disbanding NATO would be the best idea, if you want genuine peace.
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  4482.  @sophrapsune  Putin having a great laugh at Euro Greens firing up coal powered plants and turning to nuclear and chopping down trees, and he's only just started
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  4483.  @creamofcardstv  sure. plenty of evidence that "suggests" tells me all I need to know. Got any evidence that proves anything?
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  4484.  @creamofcardstv  certainly looks like the Palestinian Arabs have decided to stay in their refugee bubble, forever.
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  4485. The Far Right doesn't exist. The only people who keep throwing out the words "Far Right" are those who have to dream up a bogeyman explanation for the failure of their own policies of mass immigration.
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  4486. this is just the first of what will be a wave of "let's be neutral" protests. the russophobic Western media will ignore the protests, but as winter rolls on the people will demand action. things will change and governments will fall.
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  4487. right, with a few nukes back in the direction of Kiev
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  4488.  @richardsmith3585  depends on the nukes used and the response from NATO. who knows? My point is that it would not be wise to target the Kremlin.
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  4489.  @ettoreatalan8303  and do what? run away, like they did in Afghanistan, after killing an innocent Afghan family before they fled?
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  4490.  @Omega0850  then there will never be any security in Europe. what's the point of a forum on the security of Europe when the security of Europe is in the hands of the people you refuse to converse with? Russia is a nuclear power. Fine, ignore the nuclear power, call the nuclear power a liar and ignore the nuclear power. it just makes Europe less secure and more vulnerable. Do you think Zelensky has a 100% record on telling the truth? Still waiting for Zelensky to agree with Biden that Poland was struck by Ukrainian missiles!
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  4491.  @T.E.O.-13  Belgrade is a fantastic deal all round. Agreed.
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  4492. These two clowns don't understand the basics of the Hamas/Israel conflict. The vast majority of voters in the US back Israel, and rightfully so. The vast majority of voters in the US want Hamas destroyed, and view all casualties in Gaza as Hamas's fault. Biden, on this issue, has done nothing wrong. Pay attention to the silent majority, not the Twitterati and loud mouths on social media.
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  4493. "foreign disinformation" = the alternative perspective the West hates its sheep to see, as it might put into question Western disinformation.
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  4494. it's not the prolongation of war that bothers Baerbock, after all, she has done all in her power to ensure no peaceful end to this war can come about. No, what bothers her is the list of countries backing Russia, with arms and ammo, is growing....Iran, N Korea, China, South Africa. She knows the West is out produced by these places, panic setting in as the realization that Russia cannot be defeated hits home.
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  4495. God bless Donbass and its ethnic Russians and their militia
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  4496. just start towing them back to France and stripping them of all valuables to pay for the towing service. Let France take us to court. It just takes a backbone. France has no incentive to stop the flow, and every incentive to encourage it, so working with them makes no sense. once in France, no one needs asylum because they are already in a safe country.
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  4497. how can an individual be arrested under a "dispersal order"? That surely applies to breaking up a group and those who refuse to break from the group? seems like if anyone deems another "unwelcome", then the police can arrest. surely all the Labour MPs are "unwelcome" in Parliament, so let's have them arrested.
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  4498. maybe the UK cyber security efforts should have been on home soil, preventing Israeli malware picking up Liz Truss's text "done it" to Blinken one minute after Nordstream went kaboom.
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  4499. just how demoralized do you think Russia is after its massive success in "fortress Bakhmut"? A victory gained by poorly led convicts with just shovels!
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  4500. at least she kind of knew what apartheid meant. just a shame she couldn't produce an Israeli example of it, after years of trying to think up something.
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  4501. They have been saying that for 4 months, and whatever weapons are sent make no difference.
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  4502. what makes you think Donetsk Ukrainian civilians want Russian troops ousted? what makes you think Donetsk Ukrainian civilians don't want to be liberated by the DPR militia and its allies?
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  4503. "the likelihood there would be violence" what a load of bull. like "Intelligence" can pinpoint the threat level of violence occurring during a march, it's nonsense. EDL was banned because the wokerati didn't like gammon having a voice.
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  4504. Ukraine keeps asking for more weapons. Does NATO, therefore, not want to give more, or doesn't have any more to give. which one is it (either way Russia is winning, just curious which one it is).
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  4505. who is "we"? nothing stopping you volunteering to go to Ukraine now to help out.
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  4506. yep, a "remarkable achievement" this reduction in energy use, as people shiver to death, unable to afford heating their homes, "remarkable achievement" he boats from his toasty home.
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  4507. there is no rip off when some dullard agrees to pay loads of money for a useless degree. it's just stupidity. all power to the universities for taking easy cash from some really dumb people.
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  4508. only fools think Ukraine can win this war. the sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, out-fighting Russia has failed, out producing Russia in ammo and weaponry has failed. demoralized convicts with spades keep massacring Ukrainian cannon fodder. Russia is winning and will win.
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  4509. Hey, Gulliver, a building called the "Officers' Club" with a sculpture of a MIG jet outside might give you a clue as to whether it was a legitimate target! Yes, collateral damage happens in these attacks, but just be honest and say the Officers' Club that may well have been holding a meeting with high ranking military officials was targeted! No need to dance around the issue as if you are following the orders of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry!
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  4510.  @Israelipropaganda  difficult as this notion might be for you to grasp, it is not in the interests of the Spanish economy to reduce the levels of spending from UK and Gib visitors.
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  4511.  @chrisspencer6502  just as all the EU countries know how things will go by sticking together. Germany with 0% growth. Nice.
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  4512.  @MorganSullivan  In a spirit of cooperation, UK authorities have allowed, and even encouraged, Gib Airport to employ Spanish staff to operate the airport, precisely because the airport is on disputed territory, but UK authorities could easily announce a cessation of such cooperation. If you dispute UK control of waters around Gib, the same argument can be used for Spanish waters around Ceuta and Melilla that should be Moroccan, so, again, Spain either accepts UK sea limits or declares itself to be 100% hypocritical on the issue.
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  4513.  @Israelipropaganda  sure is. when you grasp the truth, the world is a fine place. hopefully you will discover the truth one day.
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  4514.  @notyourordinarygran  you are right, but the Spanish control who enters and exits by land, so they have the power to make life unbearable for Gib.
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  4515.  @AdeboFunkyVoodoo  sorry you didn't understand that we all understood what we were voting for.
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  4516. Week 4 of the Great Counter Offensive, still only 5 abandoned villages and a pig farm recaptured, only 10,000 more Ukronazi cannon fodder wiped out, but Ben Hodges still sure Ukraine is winning. You can't make this stuff up.
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  4517.  @passbysimon3095  i am not saying lockdown is the sole cause. i am saying that you can't hope to escape poverty after having most of the nation paid to stay home and not work for months on end.
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  4518.  @CelticSaint  if he were at 1% charge at the Mirador I would guess his phone died and no pinging at all anywhere from that point on. Just saw Mark Williams Thomas explain that Jay definitely went off road and was doubling back toward the airbnb on a footpath, so need to watch that again and see the evidence. Am just really bothered by this notion that the guy can be coherent enough to chat on his phone, then soon die where no one passed him, saw him and his body could not be found. honestly, if you tried to do that, planned to do that, you couldn't! it is so weird.
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  4519. So, Liz gives Kwasi's budget the thumbs up, endorses it 100%, then sacks him for what she endorsed! This is chaotic nonsense. Putin for PM
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  4520. this is what happens when governments prioritize Green policies, arms to Ukraine, foreign aid, mass immigration, lockdowns and printing money, more government debt. it's what Britain deserves.
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  4521. as usual, this total fool Connelly poses as amateur psychologist and announces to the world what sanctions the Kremlin expected. As always, he has no clue what he is saying, but sadly, no investigative host to fire back at him
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  4522. this is what happens when a dumb lesbian/tranny gets recruited to boost diversity stats and it turns out she has no idea how to police a community, but has a fantastic passion for bullying an autistic child that told the truth.
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  4523.  @mho...  she already spoke the language that was a native language of 25% of the population, and spoken as a second language by most of the rest. no need to waste time learning Latvian when she never needed it. Like the ridiculous idea of learning Catalan to go to Barcelona for those who already speak Spanish.
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  4524.  @DarrelX-im2hb  ah, yes, the pilot suits adapted for pregnant women too. NATO, all kitted out and politically correct to take on Russia and China at any time:)
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  4525. it is impossible to "integrate" Muslims. It is impossible to believe in democracy AND believe in Islam. If democracy decides that gay marriage is allowed, Islam says that gay marriage is NOT allowed. there is no possible integration over such issues. hence clashes over values which leads to violence and mayhem.
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  4526.  @emma9348  retreat to safer ground and then negotiate to establish which part of Ukraine will remain Ukraine. Crimea and Donbass are no longer Ukraine. It is up to Zelensky and his handlers to negotiate the new borders of Ukraine. They should have simply implemented the Minsk Agreements. Too late now.
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  4527.  @eagleairborne7132  that is what I have heard, and I hope it is not true, but I fear it is. The cousin of one of my Ukrainian students was recently "recruited", 50 years old and with such a bad back he is incapable of lifting any great weight. desperate times for Zelensky.
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  4528.  @whatdoesntkillyoumakesyous6707  really? so why is Ukraine losing ground? why is Ukraine recruiting 50 year olds and 16 year olds? why the panicked appeal for tanks and fighter jets? doesn't sound like a country confident it can do this "all day long". maybe time to question your own propaganda and look at the facts on the ground.
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  4529. he has no clue. more patrols? patrols to do what? take migrants on board to taxi them to UK? patrols to let migrants know they can never be sent home once they hit the Kent coast?
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  4530. "there will be collaborators"? the least of your worries, little boy. you will have the native Donbass Russians with their Chechen brothers ready to slit your throat in the blink of an eye after what your lot did to Donbass over the last 9 years.
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  4531. the people being made to look stupid are those who can't answer even the most basic of questions. like, why was Jay in that airbnb?
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  4532.  @i_kissed_a_pixie1537  looks like you are the one not seeking real understanding. in my part of the world, the professionals who are charged with finding a body have a procedure that works, and in fair conditions, it takes a matter of hours, not 29 days!
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  4533.  @sbaumgartner9848  "suspender" in Spanish means "call off, end". they lied and announced they were ending the search. how many other lies did they tell?
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  4534.  @johnstuart7244  then just say "outdoors". to me, "open terrain" means space unencumbered by buildings or vegetation.
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  4535.  @celtictarotreadings333  phD in common sense
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  4536.  @i_kissed_a_pixie1537  it's curious you keep returning to this nonsense of the treacherous terrain and terrible conditions! Compared to the Alps or the Pyrenees, Tenerife is a walk in the park! Hours of daylight, perfect weather....try tree covered Pyrenees in winter!
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  4537.  @i_kissed_a_pixie1537  on the contrary, we attempt to explain phenomena that make no sense, instead of blindly accepting the official narrative. let me guess, you and Tracey still believe getting the jab will prevent you getting covid?
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  4538.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  as I said, your argument is with the OP, the original poster. it was johnstewart and you arguing about POLSA or PoLSA, not me! I already accepted Chris's challenge, but suggested it go live, online, livestream, so the world can see him flounder when confronted with basic questions he can't answer. I have no problem with the Guardia Civil in Tenerife! They are corrupt and look after their own interests. what's wrong with that? my problem is with fools who refuse to even consider them to be corrupt!
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  4539.  @celtictarotreadings333  when you lie you do so much more than confuse the public. you lose their trust.
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  4540. "Who gets exhausted first?".....Ukraine gets exhausted first
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  4541. yet again, Zelensky does all he can to provoke Russia into closing off the Black Sea. Mission accomplished, no wonder Africa supports Russia and not Ukraine.
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  4542. so, the Azov Nazis shelling a market place in Donetsk is an example of the Ukrainians waging war only against the Russian military?
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  4543. reality hitting home.....US about to throw Ukraine under the bus. Zelensky, the fool, actually believed NATO support would deliver victory over Russia.
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  4544. oh, and oil, and coal, and gold, and nickel, and uranium, and grain to feed the world, and fertilizers, oh and suddenly we see Russia exports what the world needs, hmmm.
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  4545. you reap what you sow. France was warned by Eric Zemmout about France's impending race-based civil war, but France voted not for Zemmour but for Macron and more immigration. So, all this is richly deserved. Why anyone should be shocked by it is simply ridiculous. All those who are calling for a curfew are looking at just a short term measure. Ending North African and Muslim immigration is the solution. Chinese, Indians, SE Asians, Ukrainians don't cause these problems.
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  4546.  @cerberus2654  not true at all. Israel has Arabs in the IDF, Arabs in the Knesset, Arab judges, name one single right denied to Israeli Arabs.
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  4547.  @ken__2526  1. It is not up to the UN to reserve any land for anyone. The UN has no such power. 2. No one is asking Palestinians to not stay as Palestinians. They are being asked to be Palestinians in the part of the Palestinian Mandate allocated to the Palestinians! 3. Germans who had to be resettled after WW2 retained their cultural identity. Resettlement doesn't mean forced loss of identity! 4. Name one war crime Israel "performed" and explain why it was unjustified following the horror of Oct 7th.
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  4548.  @cerberus2654  Palestinians DO choose to rely on Israel for water rather than invest in their own water supply. Palestinians DO choose to rely on Israel for electricity rather than build their own power plants with all the aid they get given. Palestinians DO choose to refuse to develop their economy with all the friendly nations that want to cooperate with Gaza. Palestinians have an entry/exit point with Egypt that is devoid of IDF soldiers, and with Jordan that is devoid of IDF soldiers, You lie. Thousands of Palestinians crossed the Israeli border to work every day in Israel, but that was before Oct 7th. Hamas took care of that lucrative income for Gazans on Oct 7th. Can't have your cake and eat it.
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  4549.  @cerberus2654  Both things are true. Israel is a Jewish homeland, and Christians and Muslims that are Israeli citizens have full rights and freedoms. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
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  4550.  @cerberus2654  Israel is a beacon of religious and ethnic freedom. for those who accept the state of Israel, life is good.
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  4551. how high tech were the Taliban? How badly did the Taliban kick NATO butts last year in the Kabul fiasco?
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  4552.  @claytonjordan8821  stalemate = victory for Russia. Ukraine is neutral, not in NATO, Crimea remains in Russia, all of Lugansk and most of Donetsk too, plus the new territories of Zaporozhe and Kherson, Ukraine is totally demilitarized, and the Azov Nazis are killed or crippled. so what's your theory? if Ukraine accounts for only 5.6% of the US military budget and the US public are SO behind Ukraine, what is stopping making US aid 20% of the military budget? Why not 100%?
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  4553. Read the Quran, especially the Medina verses, and you will see how Islam is no friend of Western values.
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  4554. Only a total fool would think Russia could be defeated in a protracted ground war, but both NATO and Zelensky are 2 such total fools. the goat-herding, sandal clad Taliban gave us all a clue as to how pathetic NATO is when NATO was so unceremoniously removed from Kabul in 2021. Now we see the desperate act of turning to cluster bombs because NATO can't replace regular 155mm shells at the rate Ukraine uses them up. NATO needs more diversity and inclusivity training to take on Russia.
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  4555. the Spanish police announced the end of the search for Jay's body. so, now you are lying!
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  4556.  @public.public  where there is demand, there is supply. scrap the NHS and people will still need medical attention and the private providers will step in, - no more diversity officers and trans clinics at tax-payers expense
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  4557. Liz Truss strikes again. and some people think she is wise enough to lead the country. Ye Gods.
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  4558.  @hizzlemobizzle  when Zelensky sells his properties abroad to help support the Ukrainian troops, then we will know Zelensky might care about the outcome.
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  4559.  @DSan-kl2yc  sure it does. you are not compelled to use Ukrainian in your classes at school, but if you use Russian you will not graduate.
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  4560.  @hizzlemobizzle  Putin isn't begging from Western taxpayers to fund the war, so he can do what he likes with his wealth. It was Zelenska who spent 40,000 euros in Paris, courtesy of Western handouts, not Putin.
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  4561. Oh Jesus, another ignoramus on the Moldova situation. Listen, mate, Russian peacekeepers have been in Transnistra FOREVER and guess what...they have KEPT THE PEACE THERE! Moldova only has to fear Russian intervention if Moldova does what Ukraine did, and start shelling Russian speakers for the temerity of wanting equal rights with non Russian speakers! If Moldova treats its Russian speakers fairly, as Kazakhstan does, nothing to fear. Just do the right thing!
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  4562. why can't NATO just be disbanded as a waste of time paper tiger organization that achieves nothing but trouble.
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  4563. I'm sure those poll numbers will flip once Biden destroys Trump in the debate they have.
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  4564. just hilarious when Biden goes to list all those countries in the world that have made Russia a "pariah", NATO, EU, Japan....then a long pause, and a vague off the top of the head "and 40 nations". well, Joe, even if you are right, and you're not, that still leaves the vast majority of the globe happy and willing to work with Russia! You made Putin's point for him, you old dunce.
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  4565.  neilj8224  true, but maybe it is a disappearing that went wrong. Slater was so good at disappearing that no one on the planet knows where he ended up!
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  4566. you are deluded. Russia has won and deserves to win. Their 5 objectives are very close to being attained, we are not that far away from the last Ukrainian being gunned down and surrender terms dictated. You probably believe the Ghost of Kiev was real and Snake Island was a great Ukrainian victory?
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  4567.  @dltn42  he is a clown, indeed, but he also understands Argentina's problems. Don't think a clown is the same thing as a fool.
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  4568. yawn. game changer himars is old news. didn't prevent Soledar, didn't prevent Bakhmut, the convicts and mercenaries don't stay awake worrying about himars any more. bring on the next game changer dud.
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  4569.  @Teachersincharge  Name one UK law that applies uniquely to Christians
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  4570. Trump is not guilty. He was found guilty by a Democrat court. Let's see what the appellant court says and then the Supreme Court.
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  4571. This fool puts some faith in Ukrainian claims of massive losses on the Russian side! Presumably he still believes the Ukrainian claims about the Ghost of Kiev and the defiance of Snake Island!
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  4572. No need to be shocked, this is what happens when you import masses of Muslims. Expect a lot more of the same all over Western Europe ad infinitum.
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  4573. interesting. "last chance for Ukraine to push Russia back"......doesn't sound like Ukraine is winning to me. Nick, what went wrong? After 10 months of "Russia is losing", "Russia is running out of weapons" "Russia is so desperate it has to use convicts", what has gone wrong?
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  4574. "what a big matter this is"...yep, so BIG it took Germany and Canada WEEKS to sort out the rights and wrongs of it. Why expect Russia not to take WEEKS to sort out the rights and wrongs with this?
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  4575.  @PedroFerreira-ze5yp  did the Ukrainian narrative ever change at any time? Ghost of Kiev? Surrender of Snake Island?
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  4576.  @nigelmorley5414  a simple example of how sanctions don't work, be they on airplane spare parts or ANYTHING! USA has sanctions on Russian oil. USA has NO sanctions on Saudi oil. KSA has no sanctions on Russian oil. USA goes to Riyadh begging for more Saudi oil. Saudi agrees and sells more Saudi oil to USA. Saudi then imports cheaper Russian oil, job done, Russia exporting energy, sanctions failed. It is that simple. Same will apply to spare parts for planes. you will see. Just a question of which middle man will make the profit.
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  4577.  @SteveSmith-oi2xz  Lavrov is such the voice of truth and reason. He figured out the West's hypocrisies so quickly, hats off to him.
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  4578.  @DjWellDressedMan  so why does Cuba not negotiate on removing the reason for the embargo?
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  4579.  @DjWellDressedMan  I haven't heard anyone argue that Cuba is a threat to the world, nor that it is a threat to USA, so not sure what your argument is there. Are you thinking the US embargo is connected with Cuba posing some kind of threat?
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  4580.  @UnderwaterJohn-fn7jg  and not one single person has stepped forward to debunk it.
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  4581. can't imagine the lad limping around like that then goes to a rave and bops up and down hour after hour. but if he were high, i guess he might.
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  4582. this is what happens when you mess with nature and do cloud seeding.
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  4583. because we always take the time to return the yacht when we carry out the biggest terrorist attack on infrastructure of the century.
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  4584. Exactly the mantra of the Donbass in reference to Ukraine
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  4585. And now the uncomfortable truth.....NATO has neglected serious defense spending for decades. Russia hasn't. Russia can produce more ammo than NATO can, and a decade long revamp of defense spending would be needed to change that. Russia has demilitarized Ukraine and the West. Just a shame our "leaders" ignore that or are ignorant of it.
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  4586. you mean a failed state like, hmm, France, where you get beheaded for showing a classroom a picture of Muhammed....that kind of failed state you mean?
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  4587.  @ronaldcole7415  let's start with this absurd focus on territory lost or gained. Given the 5 aims as declared by Putin, gaining Ukrainian territory is not the priority. Demilitarizing Ukraine is the priority, meaning killing as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible. Western leaders should be analyzing the numbers killed, the kill rate, and determining all policy decisions on those numbers. cheering for the "liberation of Kherson" is wasting your breath, Studying the kill rate of Ukrainians over Russians in that operation would be useful to get an idea of who is winning this war of attrition. Many of us suspect it is Russia. Soldedar has been lost to Russia....now if a bunch of mercenaries and convicts have routed Ukraine's finest battalions in Soledar, an expert like you would be more than concerned that Ukraine ain't gonna win no war of attrition, correct?
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  4588.  @lennyrex1  Russia never fought in Afghanistan. Get out a history book and an atlas and find out the difference between the USSR and the Russian Federation. Also, try to get a clue about people's nationality, so you don't confuse Russians with Brits. Yes, USA went to Syria to overthrow Assad, US troops still in Syria, but Russia intervened, fought its usual war of attrition, and won. back to school with you, little Kevin.
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  4589.  @scurra1163  problem is, only a few people in the Kremlin know Russia's death toll. You don't, but for some reason you like to think you do. what we do know is, by Ukraine's own admission, six out of every seven artillery shells rain down on Ukrainian positions, and just one on Russia's positions. Logic says the kill rate is in Russia's favor. in a war of attrition, preserving your forces is key. Russia has shown it does this. Ukraine hasn't. it is Western propaganda that kept repeating the line about "mercenaries and convicts", not me. so now Western media have to explain how "mercenaries and convicts" destroyed NATO trained battalions in Soledar. tough sell to the Western taxpayers.
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  4590. Gulliver, "Russia is only inching forward" isn't the case when hundreds upon hundreds of Kiev cannon fodder are being massacred every day. A war of attrition isn't about inching forward, but demilitarizing the whole country.
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  4591. anyone who votes for the government that granted this guy asylum is both inhumane and dumb.
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  4592.  @Gaetano.94  explains why so many millions of people have left Sicily over the centuries, and so very few have chosen to move to Sicily.
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  4593. just a fancy way of saying governments can't just print money to maintain or increase spending, otherwise rampant inflation would destroy the economy. Taxes are needed to restrain such inflation. So what? You think we don't know that?
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  4594. you can't. you got no more weapons
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  4595.  @bluecardholder  now then, you tell me exactly what I said that was untrue and how you know it to be untrue.
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  4596.  @joh22293  what's your point, Sherlock?
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  4597.  @joh22293  keen to debate the issues? or just desperately looking at registration dates as a way to defend the Azov Nazis?
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  4598.  @tryingtocorrect  your definition of a "small" aerial (local?) conflict would be different from mine. so give me a number. how many people would have to die for a "small" local conflict to become a big local conflict? in my book, once you are over 100 (and Donbass has seen thousands and thousands) deaths, it ain't "small". would you say the Germans setting up concentration camps for German Jews was a purely German conflict and we should have let Germany deal with it? After all, if Jews don't like living in Germany, they can move out. And if black people are discriminated against in France, they can just move out, right? let them all just move out. If Kosovars don't like life in Kosovo, move to Albania! ...except NATO decided to bomb Serbia for 78 days...in this case it was not a local conflict. see why so many people are confused by your "rules based system". it is horribly illogical and inconsistent.
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  4599. Just a loose cannon who, out of frustration, did whatever he could to get a better deal and better contracts for his Wagners. It worked, Wagners will be back on the front lines soon. Putin comes out stronger. The West saw that there was no popular uprising to depose Putin, so, now, regime change is out of the window, so it's back to the fight and thousands more Ukronazi cannon fodder getting slaughter.
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  4600. just hilarious that a reporter in a country that has banned RT and Sputnik, in a country that broadcasts non stop pro NATO news, thinks it is only Russians in Russia that are denied balanced media coverage.
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  4601. Had the Telegraph had any clue about Russia and Ukraine, it would have declared in Feb 22 that it is an insane idea to fight Russia in a protracted ground war and expect to win. But the Telegraph was one of the cheerleaders for this futile, senseless war that Ukraine/NATO cannot win. Now, the problem, for the Telegraph, is how to spin a narrative that doesn't make them look like the bunch of dopes and fools that they are.
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  4602.  @cnccarving  apart from in all the cases of ballot harvesting in USA
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  4603.  @samdherring  No lie. it looks like English reading comprehension is not your thing, ukrobot. Zelensky is referred to as a comedian because that is his profession. The fighting, the missiles and the deaths are not regarded as a comedy in Russia.
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  4604.  @judyives1832  about time you also started believing what a British language teacher tells you about his experiences in 2018 living in Poroshenko's russophobic regime
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  4605. sounds like the problem is that Spain is so soft on crime, Spain can't manage miscreants. this nonsense doesn't happen in Dubai or Singapore. if Spain can't handle law-breakers, Spain has a big problem.
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  4606.  @SherifBender  Russia has gained territory in the last month. Ukraine hasn't. There is no timeline for Russia. There is for Ukraine. The West is focused on a Ukrainian counter offensive that ain't happening. The West ignoring the Russian offensive that is happening.
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  4607. would it be true to say that any site REFUSING to cover the story of Ukrainian shells destroying a kindergarten are pro Ukrainian?
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  4608.  @Andrew-ob5ij  oh, dear Andrew, your usual method of debating the issues, scurrying to check the date when someone joined. pathetic.
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  4609.  @andrew30m  and when Johnson shut down parliament illegally how was parliament reopened?
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  4610. so Tucker was right. all the lies from the Leftist media about Sicnic dying from anything on Jan 6th are all lies. CNN should be ashamed
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  4611. Given the limited resources the Guardia Civil of Tenerife had, according to Blundering Bleksley, why did no outside force volunteer to help the Guardia Civil with the search?
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  4612. a leader is most vulnerable to a coup when out of the country. I believe Zelensky is hoping a coup will happen while he is abroad so he can get out of the fix he put himself in.
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  4613.  @ERSCAUS  and neither does it make the comment invalid. it highlights the fact that the poster thoughtlessly pastes the same words under any video. mindless.
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  4614. Putin for PM
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  4615. every consumer that applauded lockdowns, green energy, sanctions on Russia, mass immigration, unlimited aid to Ukraine, you have exactly what you deserve. enjoy every minute of it.
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  4616.  @jamesgreen1116  Sinn Fein was indeed the SINGLE party that received the most votes, but Unionist parties combined still have the political majority in NI. There is still a voting majority for Unionists in NI.
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  4617. pathetic. no investigation into the background of the case and a futile search of an area Jay never entered, based on the evidence. useless Police.
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  4618. it's called the free market. if you want to blame someone, blame the leaders who imposed sanctions on Russia
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  4619. how many captured Russian tanks do you think Ukraine has? two? three?
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  4620. what makes you so sure? Talked to Putin, have you?
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  4621.  @madalinradion  in the 3 brigades, how many are teenagers, cripples and pensioners? what is the combined fighting experience of these 3 brigades compared to the Russians on 1) the forward positions 2) the FIRST defence line 3) the SECOND defence line? 4) the THIRD defence line?
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  4622. just so funny he blabs on about geo-political "experts", yep, the same experts that have misread Putin so horrendously so far, and got the West in an expensive mess which Putin is winning.
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  4623.  @Funglutton  SINCE 1940! SINCE 1940! In other words, it was HOTTER when there was a lot less CO2 in the atmosphere! FACT!
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  4624.  @srambrero  it's a really easy choice, if you are a realist and not a deluded dreamer. Zelensky picks up the phone and says to Putin "I totally misjudged Russia's capacity to fight a war of attrition AND NATO's ability to help me. Let's talk a peace deal to end this".
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  4625.  @Memovox  truth hurts, eh?
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  4626. Ukraine has lost. it's all about manpower, and Ukraine is reduced to scraping the bottom of the barrel for teenagers, misfits, and pensioners to shove into the Russian meatgrinder.
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  4627. the true analogy would be the "someone standing in front of it" was, for decades, legally given access to transit your property, as signed and agreed by....YOU! You need a lesson on how to use analogy!
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  4628.  @VINLAND_777  Lithuania has signed an agreement to allow free transit of all goods from Russia through Belarus to Kaliningrad. If it now decides to break that agreement, FOR WHATEVER REASON, it can expect repercussions. Surely you know that....once you have signed a contract, there are legal and other repercussions to then opting to break the contract.
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  4629. Russia is a free country, no need for the anti terrorism security we have to have in the West.
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  4630.  @ryaku5  let's take bets. who falls first? Zelensky or Putin? How much you willing to bet on this one?
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  4631.  Alex Perez  every day Russia loses fewer troops than Ukraine is a victory. every day Russia loses fewer tanks than Ukraine is a victory. Russia has been winning for the last 3 months.
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  4632.  @snowlady8308  only after Zelensky has sold all his overseas property to fund his war.
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  4633. Ukrainian soldiers running out of artillery, and soldiers, and morale, and Western support, and hope. DPR,LPR, Chechens, Russians ever encouraged to push on with the Special Military Operation. It's game over. Only the deluded brainwashed West are blind to reality. Should be fun to see when the finger-pointing begins when Russia declares victory
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  4634. The "traffickers" should be praised. They are providing transport to get to the UK and it is all legal. Asylum can ONLY be claimed within the UK, and no one gets arrested at Dover because once the words "I claim asylum" are uttered, the migrant is legally present. The "traffickers" are just providing a legal service and they do a good job. If asylum to the UK could ONLY be made outside the UK, THEN the traffickers would be breaking the law.
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  4635. a bit surprising that someone gang raped in India would appear to be so untraumatized and just carry on with the travel blogs and lecturing about the fun of traveling in India.
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  4636. So now the Police decide who is "welcome" and "not welcome" to join a march, and have the powers to arrest anyone they deem broke the law of "being unwelcome" to a march! These days, it's a toss up, North Korea or UK has more restrictions on movement and speech?
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  4637. "why do the Police become the villains in all of this?" ivory tower elitist fool who never heard of Pakistani rape gangs and 2 tier policing.
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  4638. "Liman is a supply hub for the region meaning Russian positions in Luhansk are now under threat" supplies enter Luhansk from Russia! Not Liman! Do these reporters know anything?
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  4639. notice how the BBC asks how people are feeling about "another attack on a woman" and not how people are feeling about another attack perpetrated by a Muslim immigrant.
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  4640. "Bakhmut a symbol of Ukrainian resistance" no, a graveyard of thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder sacrificed for no good reason. get it right, DW. of no strategic importance but, hey, let's serve up as many young Ukrainian lads as possible into the Wagner meatgrinder, then pull out. Zelensky such a useless tactician.
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  4641. "you've given us much to think about there" says the bewildered host, never previously exposed to the Western faction that are now ready to push Ukraine into a peace treaty.
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  4642. Curious to see that Russia is now to blame for everything, instead of Brexit. Maybe the fact that NGOs ferry across all the migrants and Italy does nothing to stop them is a factor to consider?
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  4643.  @OptLights  so, yeah, if the IDF doesn't want the hostages, that means it's an excellent idea to keep the hostages, forever.
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  4644.  @ericbuck6034  in the same way that Australia has been occupying the island of Australia for 100 years. so, what's your point? Britain has been occupying Gibraltar for 300 years, so what?
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  4645. "Do you think there is any possibility that the sanctions have backfired"? Not at all, our wonderfully insightful leaders KNEW the sanctions would lead to rampant inflation, energy shortages, Germans taking cold showers, and 5 months into this war absolutely NO let up from Russia at all. They knew that and so it is all working wonderfully well.
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  4646. this is what happens when EU law allows freedom of movement
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  4647. Only those naive ignorant Lefties who know nothing about the heart and soul of Muslims think its a really good idea to import people who aim to follow a prophet who was a paedophile, mass murderer and a slave trader.
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  4648.  @sparta-zh7yk  and believed what he said? ever heard of taqqayah?
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  4649.  @sparta-zh7yk  here's another theory, and it's just a theory. maybe he's Muslim and decided to follow in the footsteps of his prophet and murder some infidels? And maybe such a motive, somehow, doesn't fit the modern Police definition of terrorism? Even though it is.
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  4650.  @sparta-zh7yk  1. I don't write things wrong. 2. who said they had confirmed his race? not me.
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  4651.  @Thecommentator-hc1fz  yeah, we have no clue at all. probably some Jewish guy, or maybe a Buddhist, right?
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  4652. wrong. Bakhmut is in Donbass, the liberation of which is one of the 5 aims on Putin's list
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  4653. oh, so now the mud has dried out, it makes it easier for the Ukrainians to attack Russian positions in Kherson. So there WAS a big benefit to Ukraine to destroy the Kakovka Dam after all!
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  4654. what makes you think NATO has any more to give?
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  4655.  @steve-real  sure. and Ghost of Kiev will lead the winter campaign, right?
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  4656.  @steve-real  who is "we"?
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  4657. Remove the sanctions on Russia and help feed the world.
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  4658.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  pues, visto que no hay basura en mi casa, tengo el derecho de criticar a todo el mundo. la verdad es que la Guardia Civil, desde los días de Lorca, han tenido muy mala reputación en cuanto a la corrupción, y hay muchos que dicen que echan vista gorda con los narcotraficantes en Ibiza y n Tenerife en particular.
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  4659. "en peores condiciones".....necesitas estudiar la lengua castellana con más atención si piensas que "en peores condiciones" quiere decir "en todas condiciones"
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  4660. Chris Twitty, one of that new breed of scientists who refuse to look at empirical evidence. Belarus had no lockdowns and, well, Chris, all those extra covid deaths you say would have happened, they never happened. Belarus had a low covid death rate. Please explain that, Chris.
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  4661. "I want to get back to teaching and I will do anything to make that happen" tell your government to surrender.
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  4662. "I don't see the Spanish press doing the same about beaches in the UK" might have something to do with the fact that Spanish families don't go on beach holidays to the UK!
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  4663. what kind of democracy is there when Draghi has received the same number of votes from the Italian electorate to govern as you and me? All three of us never received one single vote from the electorate to lead Italy.
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  4664. listen , mate, Western weapons are drying up! Reduced to a trickle. Russia has managed to demilitarize BOTH Ukraine and NATO. Himars has dropped out of the news the last few days, apart from the one that corrupt Ukrainian officers sold to Russia. And all this with 80% of Russian troops still in Russia. Such a humiliation for NATO. But after the fiasco of Kabul, totally expected.
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  4665. Absolute nonsense. Taxes go into the pot, and it covers a chunk of government spending. It's the REMAINDER of spending NOT covered by taxes that needs an overdraft. No wonder you are confused about things! You don't even know the basics!
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  4666.  @DRKrust492  doesn't change the fact his father has called for strict punishment and zero tolerance for such reckless, life-threatening behavior of his son.
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  4667.  @2909dk  what makes you think capturing Kharkov would be an objective? weird thinking!
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  4668. The DEI crew keep insisting that companies and teams reflect the community which they serve, so 50% of Parliament should be women, and in the UK 20% non white, yet when it comes to the German national football team, anyone insisting that the German team be white is told they are racist, even though a team reflecting the nation/community would be 90% white.
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  4669. @peterholden3672 a state bailout is when a group has gone bankrupt and the state rescues the bankrupt group, not when the state has rendered you bankrupt!
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  4670.  @stevezodiac491  respecting Russia's red lines would have ensured peace. too late now
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  4671. there is plenty of news from the front lines. The Russians are advancing. start watching media that reports the truth instead of hiding it.
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  4672. Liz Truss had no problem with any of this.....and we still think she has a clue how to end the Ukraine mess? Only Putin has clear objectives and clear vision of how to achieve them.
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  4673.  @dpelpal  the last we heard of it!
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  4674.  @dpelpal  Russia laughs at the fake "Kiev in 3 days speech". BTW, who gave that speech? Same person who gave a "Russia victory in Syria in 3 days" speech?
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  4675. she has no clue..none. the war in Ukraine is nothing to do with this inflation. it's Western sanctions that have caused the problem, along with printing money to pay perfectly healthy workers to stay at home and do nothing during covid. she's part of the problem, not the solution
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  4676.  @gooldii1  to give brainwashed sheep like you a chance to consider the facts and an alternative perspective. enjoy!
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  4677. Every day we get case after case of anti-white racism. To the point it is not only tolerated, but encouraged in many quarters. we need to start calling the Police and report this hate speech immediately.
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  4678. nearly all kindergarten teachers are female. waiting for AOC to demand 50% of all kindergarten teachers be males.
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  4679. Fantastic news that Iran going to supply Russia with drones. More and more countries refusing to obey the West's command to isolate Russia and mora and more countries supporting Russia in this conflict.
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  4680. Battle of the Bulge......ultimately the horrendous loss of manpower will hasten its defeat.
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  4681. Russia has won. Every single honest military analyst knows Russia can't be defeated and that it is just a matter of time before Ukraine is totally destroyed.
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  4682.  @cameron6770  how's it going in Bakhmut?
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  4683.  @jebbo-c1l  the best way to help frontline countries is to end illegal immigration. i see no evidence of ANY EU leaders, apart from Hungary and Poland, speaking out on this issue. All the EU talk is how to share the punishment of floods of illegal immigrants.
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  4684.  @joelpetersen2480  alleged Nazis? nothing "alleged" about the Azov Nazis. Why do you think Congress refused to send any aid that would end up in the hands of the Azovs?
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  4685.  @joelpetersen2480  just curious, were you duped by EVERY Ukrainian lie? I mean do you believe in Ghost of Kiev still?
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  4686.  @joelpetersen2480  back in March, did you believe those lies about Russia running out of weapons and ammo?
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  4687.  @ГеннадийШуплецов-р8п  I agree 100%. EU has no right to interfere in Russian exports to anyone.
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  4688.  @mortenrobinson5421  yes it does, if it wants to make money on the export of its grain (most exporting countries do so to make some money, not for free or for fun). while there are Western sanctions on Russian banking and insurance and shipping, Russian grain can't go anywhere unless those sanctions are removed. so, effectively, Russia needs Western cooperation/permission on the sanctions to make the grain deal work for them.
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  4689.  @rostbif  not at all. the "orcs" are close to attaining their 5 objectives. all the pressure is on the NATO/Ukronazia side the longer this drags on.
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  4690. I mean if you are a big enough idiot to think Ghost of Kiev was real, or that Ukraine can defeat Russia in a ground war, you would be imbecilic enough to believe Putin is in bad health.
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  4691. whether the terrorists are ukronazis or demented Russians, they did their job, along with compliant DW. they got the horrendous calamity of defeat in Bakhmut out of the headlines.
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  4692. so, 250 dead and a number of tanks and armoured vehicles destroyed after just day 1 of a probing attack to see where there might be a weak point!? how many soldiers and what weapons will be left after a few more testing and probing days like this?
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  4693. Next time, be true to the Olympic spirit and invite Russia. Brought this on yourselves, IOC and France.
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  4694. If the West insists this is war, and not a special military occupation, then what do you expect? Seems strange that Russia hasn't targeted MORE power plants, transport infrastructure and fuel depots. Maybe this is when Putin takes the gloves off.
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  4695. the war in Ukraine changed nothing. it is the sanctions on Russia that helped push prices sky high. sanctions on Russia pushed gas prices up, so obviously Centrica are going to make more money. that's how supply and demand works. steady demand, reduction in supply, price goes up, profits increase. if you don't like it, don't sanction Russia.
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  4696. Imagine you are fighting and then the backups arrive. Your cousin who is 35 and has years of frontline experience in both Chechnya and Syria.
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  4697. "if you don't give them jobs, offer them anything" there is the problem. the Left believe a job is simply a gift, to be handed to anyone who wants a salary. what is stopping him "giving" ten jobs as taxi driver to 10 immigrants?
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  4698. shows how clueless this "reporter" is, unable to understand why Putin would invade.
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  4699. makes no sense. Russian morale is low, we are told, Russia is poorly led, Russia is always running out of weapons, Russia has poor equipment, Russia is on the back foot, Russia is crippled by sanctions and isolated. what does Ukraine and NATO have to fear? maybe NATO/Ukronazis should fear the media got it all wrong.
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  4700. "inflation surprisingly sticky" only if you had no clue as to the causes of the inflation.
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  4701. China, India, Brazil and co have a good laugh at this and for every loony eco law like "no gas stoves" they just open up another coal fired power station to remind us how futile green policies in the West are.
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  4702. after Climategate and "hide the decline", only a fool would believe what a climate alarmist has to say.
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  4703. Adler is such a liar. when you look at the VIDEOS (yes, there is more than one) it is clear that both officers' lives are at risk as the car moves forward. Both officers are pressed in tight between the car and a wall.
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  4704.  @jebbo-c1l  with every Ukrainian cannon fodder that Zelensky sends into the meatgrinder, and Zelensky is now down to sending teenagers, pensioners and women, Putin gets a step closer to the day when it just tells Zelensky the cities that will become Russian as part of the peace treaty. BTW, how about you list all the settlements recaptured by Ukraine after 6 months of the great counter offensive!
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  4705.  @thegreatdane3627  as if the front line will determine anything about this conflict! learn what a war of attrition is all about.
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  4706.  @bonnie7898  look at the state of Ukraine's finances and the kill rate Russia has imposed on Ukrainian fighters and you will understand what the big push is all about. Learn what a war of attrition is all about. Grasp reality.
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  4707.  @loddiecamomileparrot  why would Russia ever want to "take Kiev"? makes no sense.
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  4708.  @thegreatdane3627  and when the front line has barely moved, Russia has won. Russia's aims are no NATO membership for Ukraine, demilitarization of Ukraine (Zelensky is helping with that one, now that he is shoving teenagers, pensioners and women into the Russian meatgrinder), denazification (no one is talking about the Azovs and their influence in Ukrainian politics is now dead), Crimea remains part of Russian Federation, and the Donbass becomes part of Russia. No movement in the front line means Russia is MUCH closer to its objectives than Ukraine is to its objectives. Stalemate = win for Russia
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  4709.  @sogerc1  How could Russia lose Kiev? It never gained Kiev! Never wanted Kiev,
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  4710.  @sogerc1  you are learning! well done! it's called a fixing operation. absolutely paralyzed the country for long enough for Russia to make all those sweeping gains in the South, from Kherson to Mariupol. Classic Russian cauldron.
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  4711. Russia is the largest country on the planet. if it came to nukes, Russia has the best chance of surviving, as a country, of all nations. while all UK and France is covered by mushroom clouds and horrific nuclear fall-out, Putin and co are alive and well in Vladivostok.
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  4712. at what point does DW broadcast the real news, namely, Jake Sullivan in Copenhagen to discuss how peace negotiations might start.
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  4713. oh dear, Liam confusing "pollution" with greenhouse gases.
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  4714. is Ukraine part of the free world? a place where native Russian speakers are banned from speaking their native language? that's a free country?
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  4715.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  the 3 day SMO that was a figment of Western imagination, nothing that ever came out of the Kremlin. just curious...from what source did you originally hear this "3 day SMO" line?
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  4716. if the wrong questions are asked, you won't get any answers that help. it's that simple.
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  4717.  @MA-xw7ux  being welcome or not is irrelevant. the law permits such visits, live with it.
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  4718. it wasn't given. it was taken.
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  4719.  @jackiegeritz5345  so, you think he can say "Islamists" without getting censored, but saying "Muslims" would be curtains?
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  4720. So after's NATO's absolutely humiliating fiasco of a panicked exit from Afghanistan when a bunch of goat herders called the Taliban strolled into Kabul, now the West is describing Russia's expeditionary force in Ukraine, which is winning, as "incompetent"? You can't make this stuff up.
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  4721. Who says Ukraine is an ally? Matter of opinion. It is legal to support Russia in this contest, and while Britain has not declared war against either Ukraine or Russia, the term "treason" does not apply. These dopes in their ivory tower news studio are bloody clueless. Good luck to the lads. The sooner Russia wins, the better.
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  4722. beautiful divine justice, beautiful karma. as you point out, "i'll resign if i am found to have committed an offence" = yeah, i'm on the fiddle, but if you can't prove it, or be bothered to try and prove it, why should i step aside? such moral probity in our leaders.
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  4723.  @thatotherguy7596  perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the fact that Russia is inflicting MUCH more hurt on Ukrainian troops than vice versa?
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  4724.  @Paul-wo3qh  Russia has dealt with sanctions since 2014. Venezuela and Iran have survived sanctions. fantasy land
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  4725. Let me guess, this old buffer thinks that the NATO abandonment of Kabul was a wonderfully organized, precise and effective withdrawal. Yet another Zelensky shill, blabbering about how Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland.....any chance the militias of DPR and LPR are fighting for their homelands?
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  4726. like you have any clue what either side is targeting when the missiles are fired.
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  4727.  @Pippie5555  On the contrary, I am straightening everything out for the deluded fools who have been bombarded with Western propaganda. I enjoy the reactions of those who have no clue of the truth. And you? Tell me, when exactly do you expect Ukrainian troops to march proudly into Crimea?
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  4728.  @frederikzinn6568  how strange.....you are so incapable of defending your opinions that you have to, in pure panic, pivot to the subject of how old an account is! Noce try, Adolph!
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  4729.  @Thedrewzz  how do you think these military analysts get their data?:) ever wondered why the BBC/MediaZona investigation into Russian deaths was never done to discover Ukrainian deaths?:) Did Ukraine take great care with its deployments when it sent thousands to their deaths trying to defend the lost cause known as Bakhmut? and to think....NATO trained and NATO armed battalions were defeated by a drunken bunch of poorly led convicts using shovels! Doesn't say much for NATO training and arms, does it?
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  4730.  @tnickknight  The ignorance is all yours. You probably have no idea what the word "Ukraine" means.
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  4731. exactly so. do you think Hodges is ignorant of this basic fact, or being disingenuous?
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  4732. Islam rules the UK. The fear of mass Muslim riots has meant kid gloves treatment for Muslims. It's that simple.
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  4733. once again, the total lie about the Ukrainian counter offensive in Kherson. There has been TALK of this for 3 months. the map never changes. pretty soon these parrots, repeating the same lie endlessly, will actually believe it. pathetic.
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  4734. never any mention of the vast amounts of arms and ammo that Russia has been busy destroying over the past month. hilarious how BBC refuses to answer the difficult questions with Ukrainian leaders. everyone knows Ukraine can't win this. Ukronazia's only hope is to gain some territory and perhaps limit the demands Russia will make for peace.
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  4735. and hopefully they happen right outside your house so you can't go anywhere
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  4736.  @12tribes61  more vulnerable and he's an easier target when drugged out of his mind at a rave.
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  4737.  @M3-AZONE  yeah, you know me, not into nice, just the honest truth. nice and nasty is up to other people to deal with once the honest truth is staring at them:)
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  4738. well well well, NATO, just think, if you had accepted Putin's invitation to talk about security issues last December none of this would have happened. but now you have a good chance of Russia and N Korea doing an arms for nuclear technology deal. Kaboooom
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  4739. total lies. Russia ran out of cruise missiles last March.
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  4740. Borrell is right, that NATO cannot be "a la carte". so, let's dissolve NATO completely. it is an expensive waste of time.
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  4741. there is no distinction between Islamic and Islamists. Islam is an extreme movement.
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  4742. Given that Ukraine no longer has an effective air defence system, here's your choice: 1) let the Russian missiles hit what they are targeting, or 2) intercept them, and then watch the diverted missile hit whole apartment blocks that get destroyed and civilians massacred. Given Zelensky chose option 2, time for him to face war crime charges.
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  4743.  @stephenl7048  but with RT in mind, what is true is that RT covers news that Western media refuses to cover. A good example would be the walk out of Swiss parliamentarians when Zelensky addressed the Swiss lower chamber by video link. it is important to check what RT covers to find out what is happening that Western media chooses to ignore.
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  4744.  @noelbartley1084  the war in Ukraine.
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  4745.  @noelbartley1084  Inflation in Russia is just over 2%, employment numbers are good, and growth is actually predicted to be about 2% in the next year. Russia's economy is one that Germany and the UK would LOVE to have right now. How's the recession going in Germany? Russia, regarding government spending, does a load of front loading, so as the year progresses government debt decreases. you need to be better informed. or, do you really think the sanctions are crippling the Russian economy? if they are, why the debate about sanctions package number 12? i guess the other 11 packages succeeded beyond the West's wildest dreams!
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  4746.  @sovereign126  yep, it's all that easy
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  4747.  @stevierubalcava5924  same level as your vocabulary, "bruh"?
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  4748.  @AdrianneJH  only a few problems with your wayward thinking. 1. no evidence that the source of the hush money was campaign contributions. 2. no evidence any lies were told about the hush money. on the contrary, Trump paid a lawyer to take care of the situation, which Cohen did, so it was a legal expense. it's done every day. 3. there is no laundering going on. it's all in the ledger, "legal expense". laundering might be cited if there was nothing at all in the accounts. tell me, why do you think this case has not been taken up by the Electoral Commission nor any other prosecutor, given we are now 8 years down the road from when it happened? just a coincidence there are suddenly 4 Trump trials happening in the months before the presidential election? just pure coincidence, right?
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  4749.  @AdrianneJH  who was the victim of this "fraud"?
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  4750. Reversal of asylum application policy has been needed for a long time. Only those applying for asylum from OUTSIDE the UK should be considered valid asylum seekers. By dictating that it is only INSIDE the UK that asylum can be applied for we are inviting all these boatloads in.
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  4751.  @robertgannon-cx2mm  There is a mechanism already in place. It's called the British embassy. The only difference is that the application would be initiated outside the country, and then processed as it is now, within the UK. People come over in boats because it is legal to so so. Make it illegal to do so, and the boats can be returned. No asylum granted and no paperwork to prove it, no entry to the country, as at airports when arriving passengers are returned immediately if they don't have the correct visa/documentation. People wouldn't risk their lives if they knew asylum had to be granted before entry. C'mon man!
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  4752. with Biden's poll numbers this low, his imaginary friend is the one keeping him going.
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  4753. yep, this is the problem when you mine your own coastline. you render your own state landlocked. well, if USA has $40 billion for weapons, it can spare an extra few billion for extra grain transport by truck
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  4754.  @edelgyn2699  at least in Israel one is allowed to protest against the government, something repressed in all the Arab states.
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  4755. NATO already crushed itself. Russia demilitarized it by destroying the weapons sent to Ukraine, and NATO's credibility went out the window last year, when the Afghan goat herders waltzed into Kabul and NATO fled in panic like screaming schoolgirls. Welcome to the club, Finland and Sweden!
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  4756. thanks for the blabbering lecture on how banking is just a system of keeping a record of who owes whom what amount. if your point was that offshore banking is just the same as regular banking in this respect, i think we all knew that!
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  4757.  @willysnowman  of course, and you would know where he ran to, at what time, and how, because you are privy to such information.
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  4758.  @bobuxdupe  At various points, Prigozhin has repeated ALL the talking points of the West. Makes you wonder who was backing him since he started his rants.
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  4759.  @richardreynolds6398  sure it's cherry-picking. repeat and highlight the words of the guy that says what you believe in, and ignore all the others who say the opposite!
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  4760.  @forkeke  what? how contradictory is that? "they have no interest in making them up" yet they have an interest in "hiding the true extent of their losses" so, how do you think they "hide the true extent of their losses"? if they don't make up a number what do they do? "it's not like Prigozhin tries to get a Western audience on his side" how would you know? no one has any idea what is in Prigozhin;s mind, nor who may be backing him. Don't let your ignorance of the mind of Prigozhin lead you astray!
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  4761.  @forkeke  what makes you so sure Prigozhin knows what he is talking about? What makes you so sure he doesn't want to portray Russia worse than it is? where do these assumptions come from? Google "Reuters 2018 Ukraine Nazi problem", read the article, and get back to me explaining why it is all untrue. I worked in Ukraine in 2018. I can assure you, Ukraine needs to be denazified! what is your experience of working and living in Ukraine? Looks like you have accepted Western MSM lies hook, line and sinker.
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  4762.  @forkeke  so, the children that Ukraine evacuated from Donbass are all living happily ever after, but the children evacuated by Russia are all kidnap victims, right? is that how your thinking goes?
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  4763. who cares about root causes? the objective is to keep them out, whatever the root causes
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  4764. Curious that the West is so determined to prevent transparency to the Georgian people. Georgia's FARA laws are just a copy of US laws, nothing to do with Russia. Any honest person would love to know exactly which Brussels slush fund is financing the mob and all those bright, new shiny EU flags
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  4765.  @stefandinu6389  express your self more freely on line. UK saw over 3000 people arrested for words they had written on line last year, Russia only 400 or so. the freedom to say a man cannot become a woman without losing your job. the freedom to leave the country, as opposed to "democratic" Ukraine. the freedom to watch news broadcasts from Russia. the list is endless. the freedom to say "white lives matter" etc
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  4766. If Russia went to war with Ukraine, no leader would be able to visit Kiev, because Kiev wouldn't exist. Thousands of civilian deaths would be millions, if this were war. And if you DO consider this operation a war, then NATO (laughingly self-described as a defensive organization) went to WAR against Libya, against Serbia, against Afghanistan. Slava Rossiyi....this is payback time...RIP all those innocent souls massacred by Ukraine in Donbass 2014 to 2022
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  4767. "I can't fathom how we have got to this" I can The Left has to keep lying about who is committing such crime, otherwise their mantra that all cultures are equal is crushed. and people live in fear of rampaging Muslim mobs dong what Hamas did on Oct 7th in Israel, so they cower under the table.
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  4768. yep, just like Ukraine is on the right path. if getting totally destroyed is the right path.
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  4769. Zelensky's "you won't be mistreated" is on a par with his vow to "end the war in Donbass". a cynical politician through and through.
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  4770. @DolphinsWIthIgloos accepted as a candidate nation, but it amounts to the same thing for Ukraine. no one will have the guts to vote against the most corrupt country in Europe being fast tracked and admitted.
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  4771.  Elena D  no one is arguing that corruption doesn't exist in some countries, but we all know it exists to a lot greater extent in some countries rather than others. I don't know where Russia and Ukraine are in the "Corruption Table" but I know Russia is not a candidate nation for the EU, but Ukraine is, so from a European perspective, it's Ukrainian corruption that must be scrutinized.
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  4772. this is such nonsense. in a free market, what the hell is a "regulator" going to find that is illegal? that the supermarkets saw an opportunity to enhance profits? that is the aim of any business!
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  4773.  @astragreen  if people stop buying milk, the price will collapse.
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  4774. So, "Man United are rubbish and a disgrace" is ok, because it is true to the person who said it, and doesn't stir up hate? "Islam is rubbish and a disgrace" is unacceptable, because it is true to the person who said it, but does stir up hate? who has the hatemeter and how do we know the score on the hatemeter of every utterance?
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  4775. Any chance Zelensky could contribute something? Like, sell his villa in Tuscany or his Miami mansion? No, of course not, that would be absurd.
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  4776.  Leidolfr  if you want to make a comment to me about the number of likes on social media, you'll get an answer back regarding likes on social media, but maybe you replied to the wrong person.
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  4777. The New Elite are still in panic mode with the notion that the internet offers the plebs, or the "deplorables" as Hilary Clinton would say, platforms to counter the woke nonsense spouted by the New Elite, hence the rush to enforce cancel culture, because the masses have such easy access nowadays to views that echo their own, and the New Elite look to control that access. it's a battle for survival for them.
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  4778. and to think naive NATO never figured out massive support would come to Russia from fellow sanctioned nations.
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  4779.  @Hidinginthetreeline  the evidence is the cell phone data. learn some basic facts. get over yourself, child. just curious, when was the last time you paid for a Caribbean cruise in cash?
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  4780.  @bonnie7898  "the aim is to weaken Russia"..Lloyd Austin
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  4781.  @frankozrin5611  because there is no evidence that what you say is true, but go ahead, send me the latest opinion polls from Dagestan and Chechnya showing voters' preferences for a) part of Russian Federation, b) autonomy and c) independence
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  4782.  @frankozrin5611  you are such a liar! No one claims Russian is "banned". The claim, and it is true, is that Russian is banned in education from Middle School up and in all government spheres, that Russian has been removed as an official language. tell me, do you favour compelling all French speaking Canadians to use only English from Middle School onwards and to be compelled to use English for ALL official, government business? yes, or no?
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  4783.  @frankozrin5611  Donbass is NOT Ukrainian territory. It is Russian. Chechnya, like Ukraine, was hijacked by an illegitimate government, an extremist one at that, with no popular mandate, and Russia restored the rights of the ethnic Russians there.
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  4784.  @bellohadiza9414  gotta understand, Bello, the international "rules based order" says that when USA invades, occupies, murders, bombs and destroys, that is allowed in the rules, but if Russia does the same, it is against the rules! I think we see why most of the planet has had enough of this sick, hypocritical American bullying and murder.
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  4785. Lavrov, rightly, wants a greater buffer zone between Ukrainian missiles and Mother Russia. Makes perfect sense.
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  4786.  @kirkpatrick7475  so there was no Ukrainian supplied food going to the Soviet army? All the food supplied to the Soviet army came from Russia? Sure about that? Not one single potato came from Latvia? sure?
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  4787.  @kirkpatrick7475  was there even ONE single general in the Soviet army who was from one of the Soviet republics other than the RSFSR? hmmmm
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  4788. Zelensky absolutely convinced that a nation with no reliable power grid is about to advance and capture Crimea? laughable
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  4789. "we need more time" = we can't defeat Russia. the sanctions have failed and NATO can't supply us with what we need.
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  4790.  @skitpare2627  perhaps you should ask me what drives my passion to back Russia in this conflict?
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  4791. no surprise that Denis Nikitin, a Nazi on Russia's wanted list, is eagerly sheltered in Ukraine, armed with NATO weapons and sent to fight against Russia. Putin was right. Denazification is a must in Ukraine
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  4792. The West knows this conflict is unwinnable for Ukraine. So the question is how to find an off ramp that incurs as little humiliation as possible. offering 12 tanks is a joke, but it maintains the facade of support. Russia has played its cards well.
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  4793. Given that Russia has over a million men in the army, that the navy is hardly used at all, the air force already wiped out Ukraine's air force, the ground forces in Ukraine are just an expeditionary force. Russian losses are light....the heavy lifting is being done by the LPR and DPR, along with the Wagner Mercenaries and the Chechens are used for street fighting. In fact, for Russia, given their experiences in Syria, Chechnya and Georgia, this is a "not particularly special military opposition"...just another day at the office for the Russians. SLAVA ROSSIYI ..Z
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  4794.  @ciprianpopa1503  my point is that the foolish West focuses on irrelevant trivia like Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, withdrawal from Kherson, while having nothing to say on Ukraine's bankruptcy, repeated drone attacks, massive kill rate in Russia's favor. Time to wake up to how Russia is achieving its aims
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  4795.  @casper6014  given the Azov Nazis targeted Donbass civilian areas for shelling for 8 years, do you think Russia is entitled to a little revenge of shelling Ukrainian civilian areas?
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  4796.  @neilsmith9398  not really. Russia will fight for the rights of ethnic Russians wherever they may be. Alaska is not top of the list
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  4797.  @neilbadger4262  which approach is right in your mind? Kazakhstan.....equal rights to Kazakh and Russian speakers in all public spheres, or Ukraine....only Ukrainian permitted in education, government, or for public transactions?
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  4798.  @jessefisher1809  really? when was the last peace deal that involved Putin?
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  4799. like Jussie Smollett, the dearth of real anti black racism means it now has to be invented to keep the worn-out narrative alive.
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  4800.  @Bengal2923  Europe isn't promoting late marriage. Europe, with some notable exceptions, is promoting no marriage!
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  4801.  @vesakaitera2831  you have no idea what Putin's goals were, are, or will be, so stop playing mind-reader. when you are ready to be an adult and talk facts, let me know.
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  4802. I wonder if the teacher lets her kids know about the 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling of kids in Donbass, and how Russian speakers there are banned from using their native language in their classroom? Does she repeat Poroshenko's boast "our children will be in school, their children will be in basements"?
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  4803. " a turn around in the war".....so, Russia is winning.
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  4804. you know it has to be systemic racism, because had Nahel done the same thing in his native Algeria, the police there would have just waved him fondly goodbye, the Algerian police are well known for not enforcing the law with a bullet in the back.
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  4805.  @SammyDingusJr  so if the Ukrainians inherited a full third of Russian armor, what happened to it all? why is Ukraine now begging for more and more armor? hmmm, maybe it all got destroyed by.....Russia? guess what will happen to the next load of armor sent into Ukraine?
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  4806.  @SammyDingusJr  oh right, so it was mothballed, put in storage for maybe, one day, when Ukraine might find itself in a war! you are a funny guy.
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  4807. This report confirms why Britain is no longer my home, but it was my home.
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  4808. the terrain in the Alps and Pyrenees is same, but worse, yet missing people are found within hours. the search conditions were perfect in Tenerife, every day, perfect weather and lots of daylight.
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  4809.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  right, but in the Pyrenees there is no corrupt Guardia Civil or Mossos d'Esquadra supervising everything, like there is in Tenerife. Also, in the Pyrenees, help is given by the CRS, because unlike the Guardia Civil in Tenerife, getting international help is appreciated in the Pyrenees.
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  4810.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  I am sure you know how to use a search engine to pull up all the stories of corruption in the police in Tenerife
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  4811. why is a speedy delivery of tanks needed? Russia is on the back foot, we are told. Russia has poor leadership, low morale, poor equipment, is running out of weapons, we are told. sanctions are working and Russia is isolated, we are told. Yet a bunch of convicts just routed NATO trained battalions in Soledar. hmmm. maybe the likes of Lord Dannat have been lying to us for 11 months.
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  4812.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  yep, i think so. top military brass are telling Western leaders that arms supplies are now limited and ineffectual. Russia is winning the war of attrition. the sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, there is no evidence that Russia is running out of anything, 380,000 reservists poised on Ukraine's border, Western leaders now figuring out how to find an off ramp and minimize humiliation. Buenas noches Ukraine, time to move on to the next victim country.
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  4813. every single one of them more than delighted to die alongside their new Nazi Ukrainian comrades, absolutely determined to force the ethnic Russians of Donbass to live lives of misery under the Zelensky Russophobic, nationalist dictatorship. Such brave fools. May the LPR, DPR and Chechens wipe them all out asap, so that freedom can return to the Donbass. Slava Rossiyi Z
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  4814. it's just gotta be embarrassing for MASSIVE GDP NATO not to be able to provide ammo and weapons to tiny Ukraine so that it could get at least one victory in the street by street fighting.
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  4815.  @Joelmonterrey  now here is a mystery. we have Ukraine non stop begging for ammo, desperate. NATO chiefs warning NATO has almost no ammo stocks left. Western leaders pledging ammo that does not exist. and you boasting your country has loads of ammo. Someone here is not telling the truth, and the truth remains, Russia has plenty of ammo and Ukraine doesn't. let that sink in.
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  4816.  @Joelmonterrey  keep track of the score, Joel! Russia 6 Ukraine/NATO 0! every time the two sides go toe to toe, street by street, Ukraine/NATO loses! Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Severodonetsk, Mariupol, Soledar, Bakhmut. NATO arms and training can't even get one win! Low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led, convicts and drunken mercenaries keep winning, every time! explains how the Taliban humiliated NATO into that embarrassing panic of an exit from Kabul in 2021, right? but good to know your country has plenty of ammo! not that changes anything at all! dream on.
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  4817. As usual, the West cares more about keeping its failed sanctions in place rather than global grain supplies to those in need. Par for the course from the selfish, narrow-minded West.
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  4818. Klitschko never learned that if you can't move smartly against a bigger opponent, you lose, hence Tyson Fury beat him. Now Klitschko is against another bigger opponent, and he ain't moving smartly. Again, he's losing.
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  4819.  @bossaudio12  think clearly
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  4820. "40 people in hospital" You know if any were women or children, we would hear about it. Take it that the Russians found a UkroNazi hideout.
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  4821. ça vaut combien ça, les mensonges d'autre criminel?
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  4822. Biden promised to close down Nordstream if Russia invaded, back in February. He finally got round to keeping his promise.
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  4823. "unwanted record"? every single climate change alarmist is rubbing their hands with glee
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  4824. @ju doom Both Crimea and Donbass are Russian. Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 in favor of separation from Kiev (it's something called "Democracy") and Donbass voted for independence. Put par for the course you believe in compelling separatists to remain as second class citizens in a russophobic extreme nationalist hellhole.
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  4825. waiting for BBC Verify to look into the 100,000 Ukrainian dead mentioned by General Milley and Ursula Van Lying Again MONTHS ago. won't hold my breath. let me guess, the goal of BBC Verify is to cast doubt on any claim, any claim that runs counter to the BBC narrative.
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  4826.  @Ray-555  right, his phone pinged the tower.. not Jay, but his phone.
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  4827. Here in France, so many are furious with how this has been forced upon the masses. plenty of cash for Ukraine and hosting the Olympics, nothing to bolster pensions.
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  4828. If Western governments banned RT because it broadcasts Russian misinformation, why does Times Radio give the green light to broadcasting Russian misinformation? Either Western governments got it at all wrong, or Times Radio got it wrong.
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  4829. "Belarus is a vassal state to Russia!", so, a bit like the way the EU is a vassal state to the USA?
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  4830. "so many mines in the Black Sea"...aha, finally the truth! So grain cannot be exported because of Ukraine's refusal to demine...why not just tell the world that Africans must starve to death because Ukraine refuses to demine its coast?
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  4831. So many wonderful alternatives out there. Turkey, Albania, Caribbean, S America
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  4832. discipline like promoting electric tanks, sensitivity training for the troops, rainbow motifs for the MOD, while Russia actually trains servicemen to win wars. Give me a bloody break!
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  4833. sure, if you like one way propaganda and babbling fools who parrot narratives fed them by their paymasters
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  4834. Russia will respond, and justly so. Either it will send in troops on trains to force the free flow of all goods, or it will blockade Lithuania's coast. Like Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova....Lithuania will feel the wrath of Russia and lose.
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  4835. An added bonus for Russia.....not only is Russia successfully demilitarizing Ukraine, it is also demilitarizing the West! Can't wait to see the US reaction when CNN and co start showing American mercenaries swinging from a rope once tried and convicted in the DPR. Oh my, how pay back for 8 years of Ukrainian butchery in Donbass is so sweet. Slava Rossiyi.
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  4836. why does the debate have to happen after the riots are quelled? what prevents that debate happening today? Jenrick is a la Sunak, snake in the grass.
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  4837. hey, when your choice is going bankrupt and/or freezing to death in desperate deindustrialized Deutschland, or overthrow the government, I kind of get the idea of the coup.
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  4838. "it's sustainable for now" means it's not sustainable!
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  4839. "Bakhmut would be Ukraine's biggest military loss in months" nope. the thousands of cannon fodder troops sacrificed for no good reason would be bigger. it would just be confirmation that EVERY time Russia and NATO/Ukronazis go toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins. Zelensky can't get even one win in those contested towns. Slava Rossiyi.
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  4840.  @2Dracula2  you do realize that all the hundreds of tanks Ukraine is now begging for is because Ukraine got hundreds of tanks destroyed in their kamikaze offensives in Kherson, Kharkov, Izium, and Kupiansk? Burned through their whole arsenal and lost thousands of their best fighters. Hence we now see 16 yr old recruits forced onto the Bakhmut front line to face the Wagners! Pitiful disaster for Ukraine.
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  4841. what a lot of nonsense from Thomas Sparrow. Scholz is hesitant because he knows Ukraine can't win this, his top generals have told him so, and Scholz knows kissing goodbye to his Leopards will change nothing in the wat but will be acostly blunder for Germany. But Scholz is also a spineless coward and can't face declaring Ukraine's reality to the world.
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  4842.  @Hans.Dewitt  if "he" refers to the Russian ambassador, he is countering Western bias and propaganda soundly. Any one thing he says you know to be untrue? It was great when he reminded dopey Derbyshire that the "Rules based system" of the West includes destroying civilian infrastructure in Iraq.
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  4843.  @2russo.phobic4u  point out specifically what I said that lacked morals and we'll take it from there. Or go back under the stone whence you crawled.
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  4844.  @letsbaagora  it is wonderful just to hear the Russian perspective, given the censorship in the West that bans so much pro Russian discourse
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  4845.  @philcollins2546  so true, hence all the interruptions as the interviewer's usual indoctrination methods don't seem to work so well this time.
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  4846.  @torehaaland6921  what? who says I don't speak Ukrainian? in what way did I get "schooled in Ukraine"? Not sure the ideas in your head are translating into coherent written English. answers to the questions about when your ex was at school? did you read "language policy in Ukraine" on Wikipedia?
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  4847. LIE AFTER LIE AFTER LIE FROM UKRAINE. It's sickening. Russia is abiding by the agreement (no attacks on THE PORT area during TRANSIT of grain shipments), Russian subs have TOTAL control of every vessel that sails in and out Odessa, Russian Black Sea fleet controls everything in and out of the Bosphorous, Snake Island changed nothing, Putin demanded demining of Odessa coast, such demining has started. Putin demanded ALL THIRD COUNTRIES be allowed to import Russian oil, sanction free, he has won that. Putin demanded all rail transport between Kaliningrad through Lithuania be allowed, he won that. Putin demanded ALL Belarus and Russian food exports and fertilizer exports be formally recognized as sanction-free, he won that. There never was a Russian blockade. The African Union and Sri Lanka RIGHTFULLY blamed the Western sanctions for the food crisis, and pressure from them pushed the West to capitulate. TOTAL WIN FOR PUTIN. Just more lies from MSM and Ukraine.
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  4848. What a fool Perry was to think that if just one person disagrees with a theory, then the one person must be wrong and not the theory.
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  4849. shows how faulty your methods of assessment have become.
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  4850.  @christianevanherck6023  not only every dictatorial regime falls in the end, but every regime falls in the end. so what's your point?
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  4851.  @christianevanherck6023  are you referring to Zelensky's dictatorial regime?
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  4852. Such a shame Navalny wasn't alive to be one of the candidates. At the height of his polling numbers, he might have grabbed 4th place.
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  4853. this is the sh*t that happens when you decide to intercept a missile heading for a power plant and you succeed in redirecting it into a block of flats. Ukraine responsible. Next time, save your citizens and let it hit the power plant.
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  4854. I agree, let's send NATO pilots and troops and naval forces to war with Russia and watch all the body bags come home and then see where the chips lie before the nukes start flying. makes perfect sense.
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  4855.  @Jakedelus  or even maybe break
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  4856.  @vikramkumarp  Ukraine just buying time to create broader...and increase NATO military manufacturing
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  4857.  @kevinmeganck1302  in the sense that ethnic Russians are the bulk of the population in Donbass, yes, of course they were.
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  4858. why? respect is something earned, not just given out to anyone in line.
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  4859.  @danielwhyatt3278  lucky? they may well have worked for every penny of their trip? how would that be "lucky"?
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  4860. Interesting that God spoke to you but He never yelled out "Don't marry this fake Christian gal"
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  4861. not much. so much flows in from Rostov on Don
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  4862. Access to Odessa port is blocked by Ukrainian mines. Snake Island abandoned by the Russians does nothing to demine the Ukrainian coast!
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  4863. His Wokeship King Charles is part of the problem, not the solution, keep your nose out of it.
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  4864.  @robertgannon-cx2mm  Not at all. Your reading comprehension skills are not so great! It is my understanding that they all arrive with either no documentation or insufficient valid documentation that allows them to enter the UK legally, so they choose to claim asylum at the border so that they can then be allowed in, legally. Agreed?
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  4865.  @michaelsrowland  so why are none of them arrested?
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  4866. keep in mind Russia's objectives for victory are much more attainable than Ukraine's. when Donbass is fully under Russian control, and yes, that might take years, just as Russian operations did it in Chechnya and Syria, Putin can declare Ukraine demilitarized and denazified and objectives fulfilled. Putin will then only have to secure an agreement from Kiev for Ukraine to remain a neutral country, which Ukraine was close to agreeing back in March in Istanbul, and Putin has won. For Ukraine to win, what, all of Crimea to be liberated? with the 12 years olds and 80 year olds that will be the sole remaining male population of Ukraine? everyone knows Ukraine can't win. some are just fumbling for excuses to prolong the agony.
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  4867.  @stephenjon3502  it would only have been done years ago if we had a government willing to do so. we don't. i repeat. make asylum claims valid ONLY if made outside the UK. given you have no counter argument looks like you agree.
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  4868.  @stephenjon3502  and the fact that we never saw plane loads of migrants flown back the first safe country they entered tells you all you need to know about that period to which you prefer. A law that was impossible to implement, or unwilling to be implemented.
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  4869.  @stephenjon3502  You are ignorant. FoM means you can travel overland from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Circle and there are no immigration checks. That was the whole point of the Schengen Zone! Yes, documentation is checked at airports, but that is only to establish identity, not the right to travel within the Schengen Zone. Any asylum seeker who arrives in Spain or Italy gets to Calais with no immigration check whatsoever, thanks to the wonderful freedoms legislated by your dear friends in Brussels. I live 29 kms from the Spain/France border. There are no immigration checks.
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  4870.  @david-pb4bi  yep, we both agree that the Rwanda nonsense won't work. the only chance for any idea to work is the will to make it work, which doesn't exist at the top of the UK government, sadly. take care.
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  4871.  @finnodonnell4342  so unsafe that the Masca Visitor Center has been organizing hikes down to Masca Beach for years and have a remarkably impressive record on few hikers die on this hike!
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  4872. surprise surprise, another follower of the "religion of peace" tries to kill as many as he can. surprise, surprise, France expels a dangerous criminal who doesn't feel like being expelled and just carries on killing, in France
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  4873.  @Tabula_Rasa1  NATO is not ramping up production. NATO is only talking up ramping up production. No new contracts or orders have been issued, and the complexities of extending production of missiles is a major problem. there is no on/off switch for such production. it takes years of adjustments and investments.
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  4874. yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons, just as we have been told by the West for the last 12 months.
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  4875. the women boxers are having their cake and eat it. either refuse to enter the ring en masse, or fight and be prepared to get thrashed.
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  4876. but Russia nowhere near as isolated as the USA when it comes to resolutions denouncing US embargo of trade with Cuba. USA and Israel win the UN Unpopularity Contest hands down.
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  4877. "there's no excuse for it" yes, there is. if you don't get the fury of the masses, you are the problem!
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  4878. they have killed, crippled or captured a lot of your young men. if you fight on they will do the same to every one of you. i would say that is "breaking " you.
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  4879. makes no difference for the country. Tory, Labour, Lib Dems all indistinguishable with only slightly different shades of socialist policies their hallmarks.
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  4880.  @UncleReg  not literally Paraguay, just somewhere remote where extradition ain't gonna happen. Brazil, Bolivia, take your pick.
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  4881. why doubt it was USA? Biden stated back in February that if Russia invaded Ukraine, Nordstream would be put out of action. Job done.
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  4882.  @dandansen571  what for?
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  4883.  @johnriach8365  How many children in Donbass have been killed by Azov Battalion shelling?
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  4884.  @YouTubeExplore777  Russians in Donbass have left....and they brought their ancestral homeland with them. DPR and LPR are now part of Russia, as it should be. All those who want to remain part of the Ukronazi republic are free to do so.
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  4885.  @YouTubeExplore777  Does Kosovo belong to Serbia?
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  4886.  @dorotazapolnik234  and Churchill was responsible for war in Normandy. so what's your point?
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  4887.  @sookie_the_fairy  maybe thank him for the balls up! he got no clue!
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  4888.  @donnypaul6262  if the good people of kaliningrad so vote, why not? when NATO is destroyed and energy costs are through the roof, you may find Germans wanting to live in Kaliningrad.
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  4889.  @donnypaul6262  had the Allies not declared war on Nazi Germany, not a single shell or rifle would have been fired! complete peace, no war! so, I guess your point is that any leader who chooses to invade another sovereign territory is wrong, always?
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  4890.  @takeitasacompliment.  I said that my Ukrainian students are my source for information on Ukraine, and made no mention of what ideas I may offer them on what subject, so, rather like the BBC, you make rather wild assumptions. My role is rather to ask questions and listen carefully to answers, such as, do you support the independence of Kosovo, and why? maybe you would care to answer that one?
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  4891.  @donnypaul6262  given that the vast majority of the world is more than happy to work with Russia and trade with Russia, not sure you understand the word "pariah"
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  4892.  @donnypaul6262  "vaccinations" or "vacations"? Contact me if you need help with basic English.
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  4893.  @dandansen571  Russia has plenty of trading partners, so no need for Europe as a client anymore, even though Europe did increase purchases from Russia dramatically last year! Energy costs have levelled off....at a very high level! Europe's industries are struggling, as are the poor, but don't let that bother you.
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  4894.  @dandansen571  and there I was thinking there might be either humor or a point to your joke!
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  4895.  @donnypaul6262  they won't have to choose, you poor sweet innocent child
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  4896.  @donnypaul6262  you did mention that..can't remember your own words from 5 minutes ago? I'll call you "Biden" from now on.
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  4897.  @johnbrown3235  the genius Donny said "vaccinating", not "vacationing", but that tells you Donny's level of comprehension. To Donny, relaxing on the beach is the same as getting the pfizer jab.
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  4898.  @johnriach8365  I am asking for reliable evidence. Who funds the International Partnership for Human Rights? I guess I can do some digging. the very name smacks of US funded think tank.
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  4899.  @adrien5834  Only one country in the world recognizes Northern Cyprus. Yet Northern Cyprus is a de facto separate country and if you went to Northern Cyprus you couldn't even tell that the rest of the world doesn't "recognize" it, so big bloody deal this pathetic "international recognition" is. Really, you think there is some great significance to Iran not recognizing Crimea as part of Russia? There are people in Scotland who don't "recognize" London as their national capital, so what?
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  4900.  @takeitasacompliment.  On military matters in Ukraine, Colonel Douglass MacGregor would be the most believable.
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  4901.  @donnypaul6262  have you learnt the difference between "vacationing" and "vaccinating" yet?
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  4902.  @ahhmm5381  Why would a slow, plodding Ukrainian advance be considered something positive given the horrendous losses they are suffering?
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  4903.  @chriss521  if Russian jets were shot down regularly, believe me, it would be trumpeted incessantly across the Western media. The deafening silence on this subject means Ukraine's air defences are minimal and that Russian pilots are not being shot down. What I am saying is that if Ukraine's best can't even stay alive in training and avoid killing each other, what hope is there for the second string pilots who climb into an F16 and fight experienced Russians?
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  4904. The problem is, NATO/Ukraine never expected to be in such a conflict over such a period of time, and has not prepared for such. You can't build a military force on the fly. Russia, on the other hand, since 2014, has been aware it would need to prepare for such a conflict, and is executing its war of attrition, just as it did and still does in Syria.
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  4905.  @TheAArmstrong  you are right. time and money are not the issues. the issues are taxpayers' support in the West (both USA and Germany now see opinion polls where the majority favor ending supplying Ukraine with weapons) and industrial capacity. NATO can't produce weaponry at the rate used up by Ukraine on a daily basis. Time and money are now irrelevant factors. we agree.
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  4906.  @ahhmm5381  the Ukrainians are not advancing! one village in 3 months is not really advancing, come on! Besides, your thinking is illogical. advancing and taking horrendous losses are not two mutually exclusive situations. Both can, and indeed, are happening at the same time. yes, losses are relative to the other side. I happen to be sure that the kill rate is heavily in Russia's favor. You believe it is the other way around. Strange, though, that the Western press is now starting to report on Ukraine's lack of manpower, agreed?
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  4907.  @ahhmm5381  you did hear about the opening of a new Ukrainian military cemetery with 400,000 plots, right?
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  4908.  @martinwood3289  keep in mind, Germany is in recession, but Russia isn't (despite all the sanctions against it). UK has 7% inflation, Russia's is down to 3%, despite all the sanctions against it. if Russia isn't a superpower, we have to start calling Europe the "minnow, failure of a wrecked mini-power, right?"
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  4909.  @NickRno77  that's right, the Wagner Group are based in an outdoor market in Donetsk
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  4910. just hilarious that these dopes think a price cap, and not market forces, determine the price of Russian oil.
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  4911. possibly, though neither you nor I know what, if anything in particular, the Ukrainians were targeting. similarly, we don't know what the Russians are ever targeting. all we know is that it is foolish to assume one side has moral superiority over the other when it comes to missile strikes, though we do know the Azov Battalion launched indiscriminate attacks against Donetsk for 8 years!
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  4912. I'm sure politicians know exactly what hours restauranteurs and their clients favour. And something tells me these legislators will have night time escapades in bars that are, strangely, exempt all such rules.
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  4913. Sly News propaganda missing the point that Russia has nothing to do with this. The proposed law is a cut and pace of USA's FARA legislation. It's about transparency, and boy, we all know why the EU wants no transparency, or we would all find out the NGO's and protest groups are all paid in euros coming from Brussels.
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  4914. I'm sure EU Sanctions Packet number 14 will kick in soon and cripple the Russian economy.
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  4915.  @vme1111  the truth is that both sides commit atrocities in war. it is childish to think only one side has a monopoly on war crimes. AI just pointing out what the sane of this world all know.
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  4916. they will have a massive impact all right. These metal coffins will be destroyed by Russia, as the original tank fleet was, and Russian morale will soar.
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  4917.  @Cj-kl2ol  NATO countries were. USA is in NATO, USA was in Afghanistan. UK is in NATO, UK was in Afghanistan. Got it?
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  4918. one glimmer of hope is the German coalition is really shaky these days, and public opinion in Germany is swinging towards no more involvement in Ukraine. possible change of government in Berlin might push for an off ramp that the rest of NATO feels obliged to follow. maybe.
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  4919. Oh, Nigel. If only you had had the guts and vision to back Tommy Robinson ten years ago. Had you spoken out then, we might think you had some credibility now.
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  4920. and as welcome as covid
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  4921. "there's no Russian that wants to be there" in a nutshell, the reason why Ben Hodges has gotten everything wrong since day one. he knows nothing about Russia and Russians.
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  4922. well, wel, well, now we have another person claiming to live in Argentina, and that Milei's measures are working. looks like your arrogant authoritative "i live in Argentina" bluster has collapsed, as both of you can't be right! what makes you think the other guy is so wrong?
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  4923. such an abuser, the country that provided affordable and reliable energy to the point Germany got as much of it as it could.
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  4924.  @alfonsosalazarestrada6091  if you can write that again in English, I will be able to answer you!
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  4925.  @EspenFrafalne  the problem here is you have backed yourself into a corner and you don't like it. you bought the media lies that Ukraine was the good side in this, but when examined, it turns out both Donbass and Crimea had legitimate reasons to reject the 2014 coup. the fact you believe these separatists should be forced at the point of a bayonet to accept a coup speaks volumes for your lack of morals and your confusion. Slava Donbasu.
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  4926.  @fry22417  so true. call me crazy, but if Putin had asked me last December for talks on security and status of Ukraine, I would have accepted immediately.
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  4927. The LPR and DPR would disagree that this is a petty adventure, as would Russian speakers in general.
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  4928. speaks volumes for the inept useless teachers in the country who see their students every day face to face, but it's Tate that has won their students' hearts and minds. It's not Tate this woman should be concerned about. It's the limp bunch of pathetic "teachers" we have in schools today.
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  4929. the real outrage among the real French is that, yet again, an immigrant from North Africa has refused to comply with the law and caused mayhem. time to end immigration. this s**t doesn't happen in homogeneous societies like Japan, Korea, Poland, Russia
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  4930. House of Officer's - Google Maps
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  4931.  @saltminer7065  those of us who watch media from both sides absolutely LOVE the truth:)
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  4932.  @let0atreides  indeed it is
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  4933.  @mch4735  apples and apples
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  4934.  @bannol1  Australia is interested in trade with anywhere that will buy its products. learn some basic economics
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  4935. @Pronto running away from the issues and now in panic checking out the messenger and not the message? looks like you lost the argument!
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  4936.  @morten3465  or maybe even "outshone". and unicorns well be in everyone's back garden and Islam will rule everywhere.
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  4937.  @eugenieponleve667  no, many died with covid, not from covid.
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  4938.  @kimwit1307  not for the first time in your life, you guessed wrong.
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  4939.  @guleiro  Morocco takes care of that for us, and it way undercuts the EU deal:)
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  4940.  @jimmiller5600  Bojo is indeed the clown that promised the opposite. Taxes went up because of the enormous government debt the UK now has. Services are failing because most of the UK population now receive more from government than they contribute to government...such parasitical societies are unsustainable. Next question?
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  4941. pas trop compliqué comprendre, Prigozhin a fait le nécessaire pour gagner des meilleurs contrats pour ses Wagners, il a vu que les russes ne veulent pas deposer Putin, il est content de diriger tout de Minsk. Mieux que passer 9 mois a Bakhmout.
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  4942.  @labt8194  I never said anything about the tourists "involved in this video". looks like reading comprehension is not your forte.
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  4943.  @agbomolica1  His Majesty the King brings total disrespect to the English culture and people
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  4944.  @humphreysliftingandfitness626  maybe if Spain had some kind of serious consequence for such behaviour things might change?
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  4945. Following the disaster of non Policing in Rotherham and Telford etc, no one should believe a single word any of these charlatan morons in uniform should say.
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  4946. send the 12 billion to Ukraine so it can be blown up in a futile war.
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  4947.  @vksasdgaming9472  Russia guaranteed Ukraine's safety with the proviso that Russian speakers and Russian citizens in Ukraine would receive equal rights. ...I guess 8 years of Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass made that agreement null and void?
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  4948.  @trebordraw  been to Ukraine have you? who gave you the "1000 Azov Nazis" number? completely deluded and out of touch.
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  4949. Slava Rossiyi. the independence that came to Slovakia will also come to DPR and LPR. you should be supporting that
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  4950. wonderful to see the agony on these reporters' faces as it slowly dawns on them that they got it all so wrong for the last 2 years.
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  4951.  @tommyhallum2054  what more could have been done? oh, how about learn something about how places like Afghanistan can't be dragged into a Western way of thinking and operating and leaving such shit holes to rot in hell rather than waste 30 billion bucks on them. how about that as a solution?
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  4952.  @lattehour  good question! Why should NATO stay in Kabul? I have no idea. Who do you know that believes NATO should have stayed in Kabul?
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  4953. clearly Jacob understands nothing about economics. "prices are higher than they need to be" prices reflect supply and demand, Jacob. there is no "need" connected with a price in the free market.
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  4954. NATO never respected Serbia's territorial integrity when it bombed Serbia, so time for Serbia to copy the West's "rules-based order" and bomb Kosovo for 78 days non-stop.
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  4955.  @burns281981  why can't the Ukrobots tell the difference between speaking English and writing English? It's written English that is posted, not spoken English, Einstein.
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  4956.  @DevouringKing  Russia is only the aggressor when it is the right thing to do. Putin ain't the kind of limp leader the West admires: Putin will send in troops wherever ethnic Russians are under threat, à la Transnistria, Chechnya, Georgia, or where USA has illegally invaded, as in Syria. Learn some basic facts.
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  4957.  @bogdanmchugh6747  Bogbrain, "writting", in correct English, should be "writing", but such errors are excusable for someone with the metal age of six. "ain't" is used ironically, to mimic the voice of the casual pundit, but no one would ever expect a 6 year old to pick up on elements of self-deprecation and societal humor. Yep, learn some facts, Bogbrain, and sign up for my English composition class to progress beyond first grade level! how's the weather deep inside the part of Bandera's anatomy where the sun never shines?
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  4958.  @bogdanmchugh6747  oh, Bogbrain, ain't you willing to treat me to some more of your brilliant writting? lol please explain why it was such a brilliant idea for NATO to attack Serbia and back the separatists of Kosovo, but it's such a bad idea for Russia to attack Ukraine and back the separatists in Donbass. pleeeeease, dear Bogbrain.
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  4959.  @DavidMcdonald-df8tb  just, determined, loyal to his people, but brutal
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  4960.  @DavidMcdonald-df8tb  ahh, my apologies, I thought you were referring to my "his people" (Netanyahu's people). ok
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  4961. there is no solution to the problem that NATO has no more weapons top give. "procurement" is just a fancy word for re-structuring the whole arms industry in the West and spending billions on weapons that Ukraine needs yesterday. It is no solution. Sending Ukraine every single weapon that NATO already has would successfully demilitarize NATO, one of the big aims of Russia. there is no solution and the EU knows it. these leaders are just dancing around the subject rather than admit defeat
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  4962.  @karlhungusjr1  not many Wagners in Spain, but I'll look out for them and buy them a beer out of gratitude if I see them.
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  4963. that's right, the Russians keep doing all these things to themselves. Nordstream, Kerch Bridge, Dugina assassination, Kremlin attack, all done by Russia to itself. well, at least the Western brainwashed sheep still believe this corrupt puppet liar.
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  4964. Just a matter of time before EU Sanctions package number 15 brings Russia to its knees.
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  4965. only a fool thinks the EU will stop buying Russian oil. it will continue buying Russian energy, and the oil may well enter the EU on tankers insured in India and under an Indian flag, sold to the EU at twice the market price, but seems like the EU's misplaced bravado means it will just have to cough up.
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  4966.  @user1qaz2wsx3edc  exactly. where there is demand, there will be supply, even if that means black market or bending the rules.
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  4967. Very simple. If Moldova is pro EU then it can kiss Russian energy good bye. Moldova is backing the wrong horse, so enjoy a miserably cold winter and the next thirty years of being a candidate country.
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  4968. difference is Putin had, and has, all the time in the world. the priority was not seizing territory, but massacring the enemy, street by street. while the kill rate is in Russia's favor, which it is, and while Russia can replace its weaponry and ammo as it is used up, which it can, Ukraine can only lose.
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  4969.  @thegreatdane3627  we agree. the sanctions will not be lifted, but trade with Russia will continue and slowly increase as everyone turns a blind eye to buying Russian energy through third countries.
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  4970.  @thegreatdane3627  You do realise some sanctions already have been lifted, right?
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  4971.  @pipo4158  sanctions on export of food from Russia and Belarus, sanctions on export of fertilizers from Russia and Belarus, sanctions on shipping of food and fertilizers from Russia and Belarus, all these sanctions had to be dropped in order to allow Ukrainian grain to be exported through the Black Sea. Yes, the Western media chose not to tell you that part of the agreement brokered by Turkey...so now you know.
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  4972. you know things are bad when the commentator is saying Mulvaney is "sick" but then refers to Mulvaney as "she". seems like you are both sick.
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  4973.  @LearnWithVikram7  exactly what percentage of the electorate in the West would vote approval of a 10% extra tax on income/goods do you think?
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  4974. "my friend from the Hitler Youth just left thee room" "my friend from the Ku Klux Klan just left the room" "my friend from the BNP just left the room"...3 things Corbyn would NEVER say, but Hamas? said with sincerity and regard.
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  4975. "as a consequence of the war in Ukraine". NOT TRUE. AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA. simple formula....sanctions on Russia = more expensive energy costs = higher cost of making steel = Europe uncompetitive with rest of the world = bye bye steel industry in Europe. sanctions on Russia = economic suicide for Europe.
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  4976.  @thegreatdane3627  Given Germany is in recession and that European output is so low, and that we are in the middle of summer, no surprise that demand for natural gas is low and thus market price is low. So heart-warming to know rich nations can just buy expensive LNG and thus price poor nations like Pakistan and Bangladesh out of the LNG market, adding to the poverty and misery in those countries. Such a wonderful triumph all round. And to top it all, the Russian economy is doing great. No need to sell anything to dumb Europeans.
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  4977. just like Ukraine shelling its own citizens in the Donbass for 8 years is probably not a great model for sustainable economic growth
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  4978.  @ndjibukabengele973  let's have a friendly wager. I say Odessa is under Russian control the last week of October. Your guess?
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  4979. total lie about Russian military not getting much criticism. Telegram channels are absolutely full of criticisms, non stop, about how the war is conducted. It's in the West that those who support peace talks are shut down for being a "Putin propagandist"
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  4980. Diversity and Migrants United 3 GB 0 another massive loss for the home team
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  4981. How can the US lose from destroying Nordstream? Biden promised, in 2022, that he would destroy Nordstream and there was not one single word of protest from ANYONE in the West! Get real!
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  4982. AND ditto the crimes committed by the Azov Nazis against the innocent folk of the Donbass, right?
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  4983. that's right! maybe we will get a really big win when Russia gets so annoyed it starts attacking Berlin and London.
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  4984.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  you still haven't grasped reality, I see
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  4985.  @shadowbanned636  How do you think NATO would react if Russia launched a couple of cruise missiles into Riga?
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  4986.  @u.p.1038  apart from the millions of ethnic Russians
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  4987. hmmm. no mention of Russian advances around Bakhmut. Poor puppet is restricted to mention what his paymaster tells him to mention.
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  4988. just deport the Muslims, end of half the nation's misogyny
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  4989. and now the truth: only a fool (Clarke) would believe any info from Ukraine's Ministry of Truth. The evidence on the ground indicates that Ukraine's air defences are pitiful and failing. More and more Russian planes are being brought into action on the Donbass front lines. Russia is getting to the point where it will be confident that its spring offensive will be led by massive air strikes. The media blabs on about power stations being destroyed, but the big targets are the air defence batteries, and Russia is winning.
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  4990. easy for you to say. how many family members have you lost in the Russian meatgrinder? How many more are you prepared to lose?
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  4991.  @RunOfTheHind  There has never been such persecution of a former president before.
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  4992. So, Ukrainian isn't winning? explain why not.
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  4993.  @lawrencekling8598  I am no mind reader and it would be foolish to think we know what Putin thinks. On past evidence, Putin is prepared to take years to achieve his objectives, as he did in Chechnya and Syria. Might be wise to assume the same for Ukraine.
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  4994. liar puppet Zelensky still describes the situation in Soledar as "critical". we can expect, in a few weeks, the total capitulation of ukronazi forces in Bakhmut to be described as " a tense situation". Ghost of Kiev to the rescue.
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  4995. because no one knows if he is missing or not
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  4996. Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust, the word itself is a word and it is a historical truth, so Fabricant needs to get over his own distaste for the word and consider the truth or not of any statement that includes the word. If "distasteful" is Fabricant's problem, why does he think it acceptable to appear in public with hair like that?
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  4997.  @kreb7  the maritime insurance business
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  4998. Russians in the woods = scary the effects of 8 years of Ukrainianization and Russophobia foisted on the citizens of Ukraine.
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  4999. The penny is slowly dropping in Germany. Sending weapons will not enable Ukraine to win. We just saw a bunch of mercenaries and convicts defeat battalions of Nato trained, Nato armed, Nato advised Ukrainians. 380,000 Russian reservists are on the Belarus border ready for action. At some point Western leaders will figure out that Russia can't be defeated in a ground war in Ukraine. Time to talk.
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  5000. of course, had this genius teenager done the same thing, refused to stop at a Police checkpoint, in his native Algeria, nothing would have happened, the Algerian police would have just let him go by with no consequences whatsoever, because Algerian police are not racist like the French police. No way, in a place like Algeria, would dear Nahel have ended up in a coffin, things like that don't happen in N Africa.
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  5001.  @aichemansouria240  and you tell me, what happens in Algeria if you get stopped at a Police check point and decide to drive right through it?
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  5002.  @aichemansouria240  oh really? have you ever tried it? and what if you have a criminal record or a warrant out for your arrest? still the Algerian police just wave you goodbye? lol. you are so funny.
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  5003.  @aichemansouria240  just a thought...is there any chance that Algerians, now they see the Police just shoot them and that they are treated like second class citizens in France, will decide en masse to go back to wonderful Algeria? Many of us really hope so.
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  5004.  @ari1234a  so why the delay? the "explosion data" was evident seconds after the "explosion". why the delay?
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  5005.  @Klaus-y3v  it's the bla bla bla of Russian trolls that turned out to be correct. or let me guess, you really believe that 6 more months of the glorious NATO/Ukrainian offensive will succeed in liberating one more village? ha ha, you guys are so ignorant of the reality of what is happening in Ukraine.
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  5006.  @Klaus-y3v  yep, that wonderful foothold that will be the launching pad for another 500 meters of land gained at the small price of 20,000 more cannon fodder. Ukraine certainly knows how to create a nation of refugee widows.
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  5007. something not adding up here. entry to the EU can be made by walking into Croatia just to the west, or to Romania, just to the east. why camp out by the Hungarian border?
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  5008. and now, reality, after 2 and a half months, Ukraine has not even reached the first line of defences. Russia has its own counter offensive in the Kupiansk area, and Mike is lying, Ukraine has precious few battalions left it can throw into the meatgrinder. the end game is upon us. Russia has won.
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  5009. who says Russia wants to control Kiev?
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  5010. "the far right mayor" = the non Socialist mayor who is not deluded about the horrendous migration issue.
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  5011.  @markroberts7093  and such a relief to know, finally, there was no foul play at all! all's well that ends well!
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  5012. Translation - everything is same as back in March. talk of a counter offensive, preparations for a counter offensive, no counter offensive.
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  5013. at least we now know the whole country is nothing more than a herd of sheep and will do anything they are told by charlatan leaders. useful to know the media were totally complicit and unquestioning too. we have learnt so much.
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  5014.  @atticusfredericks6210  what exactly makes Bell less of a Ukrainian apologist, propagandist and liar than makes Ritter more of a Russian apologist, propagandist and liar? give some examples of what both say that, in Bell's case, is an obvious truth and in Ritter's case is an obvious lie.
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  5015.  @daviddoran8474  that's it? attack the messenger and ignore the message? enjoy your 12th birthday, whenever that might be, laddie.
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  5016. almost certainly amnesia Joe got on the wrong train and ended up in Kiev instead of Krakow
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  5017. as suspected, ukronazis using kids and cripples, such is their desperation.
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  5018. when. as Ukraine has now admitted, Ukraine has troops and weapons embedded in residential areas, Russia is discriminately targeting those ensconced men and weapons, thus any civilian casualties are a result of DESCRIMINATE Russian attacks and the Ukrainian policy of using human shields. it's been happening since March.
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  5019. the usual pin-prick attacks designed to grab some headlines and mask the massacre of Ukronazi cannon fodder in Zaporozhe.
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  5020. oh boy, how desperate is the West getting, talking up the same nonsense from a year ago, "Russia is running out of weapons". and maybe a handful of suckers still believe this propaganda and nonsense?
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  5021.  @Materia-Hunter  go ahead, correct my wayward thinking, preferably with some logic and substance
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  5022. So, Admiral Kirby, given $90 billion to Ukraine funded a failed counter offensive and a hundred thousand dead Ukrainians, with Russia now pressing forward, by what logic does a further $60 billion achieve so much more than the failures that resulted from the $90 billion dollars of aid?
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  5023. maybe they're not.
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  5024. Russia to destroy some more Polish tanks in Ukraine "in a few days"
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  5025.  @cass6790  but the facts do support a conspiracy narrative.
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  5026.  @zed351  not at all. like saying football and basketball is an oxymoron. two different things.
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  5027.  @celtictarotreadings333  can't educate you about things that are not public, can I?
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  5028. I did 3 weeks in a detention center in NC before court appearance and release. really wasn't that bad. caught up on sleep and heard some fascinating stories.
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  5029. love the sarcasm!
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  5030. yep, fancy that! paying the healthy population of a nation to stay home and not work, then pouring as much money into a futile war as we can, and imposing sanctions on the globe's major energy exporter, what the hell would you expect? All those who supported lockdown, Ukraine and sanctions, stop whining, this is the results of what you wanted.
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  5031. it's irrelevant that Russia is running out of ammo if Ukraine is running out faster. On the day Ukraine has nothing left to fire, Russia wins, no matter how depleted Russia's stocks are. N Korea and Iran have slave labor to keep cranking out what Russia might need, today. NATO is only talking about new contracts for projects to extend ammo production, way into the future. NATO has to keep talking up Russian depletion....it's the only way to distract from the one important fact...NATO's cupboard is bare.
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  5032.  @sebasstein7014  unless you know how much Russia started with (which you don't), unless you know how much Russia has since produced (which you don't), and unless you know how much Russia has imported (which you don't), you can't possibly know if Russia is running out of anything, so put the crystal ball away and deal with facts.
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  5033.  @sebasstein7014  importing drones from Iran indicates some kind of shortage in Russia? Really? You don't think it indicates Russia got a really good deal from Iran in exchange for selling nuclear technology?
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  5034. drug deal gone bad, and now Jay finds himself where he should have been all along, six feet under and out of range of the sniffer dogs. all's well that ends well.
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  5035. everyone is confused because there are 2 different rules that contradict each other. 1. a person is allowed to claim asylum on entering the UK with no documentation in their possession 2. it is a crime to enter the UK illegally (without the appropriate documentation) if we accept that entering the UK to claim asylum is legal, why are we angry with the "smugglers" who facilitate this legal action?
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  5036. pathetic NATO. Hope is not a strategy, but Milley is hoping that more training = less use of weapons and ammo! Now I see why the Taliban needed just 90 hours, not 90 days, to boot NATO out of Kabul and humiliate the West.
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  5037. Duralex is just the tip of the iceberg. when rationing kicks in, masses of workers will be laid off. Revolution could be on the way
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  5038.  @CelticSaint  good one!
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  5039.  @Spyder6664  the investigation will "carry on"? when exactly did it start? yesterday, with the forensics searching the airbnb?
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  5040.  @Spyder6664  tell me, how do you think drugs are brought into Tenerife?
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  5041. except Crimea, that's Russian. And DPR and LPR, those two aren't Ukrainian any more. And Kherson, that's Russian. And Zaporizhe too.
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  5042. Come on DW, get it right! Russia did NOT pull out of any deal. Russia chose not to renew the expired deal. Learn the difference, you dunces.
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  5043. Thoroughly deserved. Eric Zemmour warned the French about this impending civil war and promised ending immigration and commencing repatriations. Zemmour got just 7% of the vote. The French voters sided with continued immigration. Enjoy every minute of it.
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  5044.  @Galopo  I'll take your word on AMLO, though he certainly speaks out in public about refusing to tow the Western line. The Russian campaign in Ukraine is going well and will result in yet another horrendous humiliation for NATO and the West. We will have to agree to differ. I see already a new world order where it is quite clear the West is in serious decline and has become flabby rather than fit. The likes of India now tell the West to "stop lecturing us" on what we should or should not do. As world trade starts to ditch the dollar, the West will decline further. What is not clear is who, apart from Chia, will benefit.
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  5045.  @tomgibson9620  "learn the truth"? so you claim to know the truth because you ONLY believe verified reports from those physically on the front lines? when was the last time you were in Ukraine, Tom?
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  5046.  @boholde2757  yeah? tell me the "credible" news sources it comes from and how exactly it was verified.
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  5047.  @markushayes  Imagine spending your days refusing to see that Trump is the same as any other world leader.
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  5048.  @_Lazare  the Bidens and Clintons are certainly rich and above the law. vote Trump.
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  5049.  @christophercook723  and Obama was so dumb he didn't know how to pronounce the word "corps", but I don't recall the world having a meltdown over Obama's appalling lack of English knowledge.
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  5050. nothing has changed. illegal immigrants can still enter Canada at Roxham Rd. I don't see any barbed wire or guard dogs.
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  5051. So even though she can play God and tell us what Putin thinks and what Putin expects, her divine powers fail her when it comes to telling us what percentage of Russians back this measure and want a declaration of war. strange how that number escapes her.
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  5052. now it is "everything we can give them". gone are the words "everything they need". reality hitting home.......the cupboard is bare, isn't it, Old Mother Wallace?
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  5053.  @darrylcampbell4426  EU doing well compared to the UK because everywhere except Venezuela and Ukraine is doing well compared to the UK. 2023 will be the year of disaster for the EU, Greece in 2016, x 27.
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  5054. preaching Socialism but behaving as a Capitalist, always the Labour way.
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  5055.  @JC-ko1bp  not in Spain in this era of instant communication. think again.
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  5056.  Gorilla  1) No one was talking about the war in Afghanistan. I referenced the EXIT from Afghanistan. Excuse me, when a bunch of sandal wearing goat-herders called the Taliban stroll into town, and USA loses the lives of 13 of its servicemen, AND drones to death an innocent Afghan family, and leaves in scenes reminiscent of Saigon, THAT is a humiliating defeat. You are blind to reality.
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  5057. such a good idea for Ukraine to attack the infrastructure of the Kerch Straits Bridge. What possible retaliation could lowly useless Russia bring to mighty Ukraine?
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  5058.  @anarabbasov8634  Europe just switched dependency on cheap Russian energy for dependency on really expensive US energy, but Europe is too dumb to understand the trap they walked into.
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  5059. exactly so. while the West celebrates the slow rate of Russian territorial acquisition, Russia is jubilant at the numbers of cream of the crop Ukrainian soldiers being massacred, crippled, captured and trapped. As you say, it bodes badly for what is to come..though Zelensky and NATO don't really mind.....thousands of 18 year old reservists thrown in as cannon fodder against ruthless Chechens is fine, just as long as it might appear NATO is "weakening Russia". Useless NATO "leadership"....get the private jet ready for Zelensky to get to his mansion in Miami.
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  5060. because they have ethnic Russian populations who are denied equal rights, and these ex Soviet republics are scared shitless that unless they join NATO, they won't get away with treating ethnic Russians as second class citizens, and that they may get justice served Russian style, a la Moldova, Georgia, Chechnya and now Ukraine. Next question?
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  5061.  @superhumantrueman  then again you could actually counter my point, if you had any historical knowledge with which to do that!
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  5062.  @superhumantrueman  Let me give you a few practice questions so you can get used to the concept. 1) Did it reek of desperation when NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days non-stop? 2) Did it reek of desperation when NATO bombed the hell out of Libya? 3) Did it reek of desperation when USA bombed Iraq, twice? 4) Does it reek of desperation that Russia is bombing Ukraine?
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  5063. so are ALL bombings "desperate"? how would you distinguish between a bombing that "reeked of desperation" and one that didn't? Let's see your clarification
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  5064. remaniement = une équipe qui perd
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  5065. Time to declare Islam a terrorist organization
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  5066. it's the CNN propaganda that is starting to unravel. Example: Russia never "pulled out" of the grain deal. The grain deal expired. The fair-minded of this world are fed up of lies such as these, from the likes of CNN.
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  5067. what, another gamechanger? Javelins, drones, himars, how many gamechangers are needed to change the game?
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  5068. In the year to date, Russia has gained twice as much territory as Ukraine, so you tell me, which of the two is on the offensive?
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  5069.  @Writeous0ne  good point. Russia has more than one product on the market.
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  5070. Ukraine started this conflict with hundreds of tanks. Ukraine seized loads of Russian tanks, we were told. Plenty of Soviet era tanks have been sent from ex Warsaw pact countries for months. What has happened to all these tanks? If Russia has destroyed them all, then Russia will destroy any other tanks sent to the front lines.
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  5071. Sweden and Finland rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of having their cannon fodder wiped out in the next NATO blunder, probably Taiwan.
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  5072.  @carolyns3720  paying hush money is not illegal, and that is not what the charge is. the charge is illegally accounting for it....an absolute nonsense charge that has already been dismissed years ago.
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  5073. Russia will choose when to turn off the energy taps to Germany and Germany will not choose when the tap is turned off. Russia controls German economic future.....sanctions, really bad idea!
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  5074. just hilarious to hear US leaders talk about "illegal wars" and "illegal invasions" and "Russian aggression", suffering from acute memory loss over US illegal invasions, wars, massacres in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc etc. About time Lavrov called out the UN for refusing to comply with its mission to seek peace, and for acting like a US toady.
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  5075. "polarizing" = situation where a tiny number support the terrorists, but where the vast majority call a terrorist a terrorist.
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  5076. But Ukraine is still winning, right? Ghost of Kiev was real, right? Snake Island was a crucial victory, right? At what point does Ukraine understand that the West is now trapped? The West knows Russia has won, but the West can't bring itself to admit that. So the West stalls on sending aid and weapons while still using bellicose, encouraging words, Bit of an expensive and silly game by now.
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  5077. what a long-winded answer to :"how is the Ukrainian counter offensive going?" Fanny could have saved 2 wasted minutes of my life by simply answering ":it isn't"
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  5078.  @kirkpatrick7475  Now that Ukrainian women of fighting age are being conscripted, how many of them will be wiped out do you predict in this conflict? 100,000, same number as the men? at least that would bring some equity, a value much prized by the West these days, agreed?:)
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  5079. Welcome to Nazi Germany, where any Jewish presence antagonized the mob. But in Nazi Germany, they at least had a leader who had won an election.
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  5080. so what?
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  5081. the whole point of a cap is to limit how high a bill can be. but a cap also limits how low a bill can fall. an unintended consequence of a cap is that when wholesale prices fall, the cap can be used as a mechanism to keep charging customers high prices. yet again, when you interfere in the free market you cause more problems than if just demand and supply would determine the price.
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  5082. "we want to see a conclusion to the war that is fair to the Ukrainian people" would that include the Ukrainian people of the Donbass who have chosen to separate from Kiev?
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  5083. desperation talk when Egyptian navy is mentioned. So the Egyptian navy can sail through the mined Ukrainian coast better than any other navy?
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  5084. Azov Nazis weaponized winter by shelling Donbass for 8 years. BBC didn't care to report about that. Now the Russians are getting revenge. Just 7 more years and 2 months to put up with this.
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  5085. "help Ukraine defend itself"...no mention of victory or even of ensuring Ukraine defends itself. interesting.
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  5086.  @baldyslapnut.  convicts, drunken mercenaries, disunited...but still able to kick NATO's ass in Soledar and Bakhmut:)
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  5087.  @Gunit867899  not trying to take Ukraine. Russia is trying to kill every Ukrainian soldier, and thankfully, Zelensky keeps serving them up by the thousands in places like Bakhmut and Soledar. Destroying NATO's weapons is also a priority, so please hurry up and send those tanks in!
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  5088.  @Gunit867899  Crimeans, DPR and LPR all defending their land and soldiers know what they are fighting for.
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  5089. women earn less than men because they work less then men, on average. very simple.
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  5090.  @winstonsmith935  well stated, Winston
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  5091.  @Hypocrisywatch1  yep, like Nixon you mean? BTW, would you leave office with dignity if you had good reason to challenge a flawed election?
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  5092.  @johngrant5881  the only insurrection led by unarmed protestors given a guided tour of the Capitol led by a man who urged them to protest peacefully.
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  5093. failure to stop the boats is the only option to this government.
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  5094.  @dylanvogler2165  so cute you learnt to parrot a line fabricated by the West and never mentioned by the Kremlin.
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  5095. EU trying really hard to shoot itself in the foot again, and succeeding. EU will end up paying for gas at much higher prices through third countries. Putin laughing at such foolishness
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  5096. so demoralized convicts with shovels defeat NATO trained and armed Ukrainians in Bakhmut, Soledar etc, yet Ukraine is able to launch a counter offensive that will defeat Russia? the West has become deluded to the point of ridicule.
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  5097.  @bestboy1986  we are only concerned with this particular crime, and given the nature of it and the people involved, yes, this one is 100% solvable. but you need to investigate and try to solve it in order to solve it, instead of blundering around a wilderness with dogs for 2 weeks.
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  5098. well, well, well, who would have thought the Russians would have mined so many places? Quite shocking that the incompetent Russians actually prepared for this.
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  5099. oh dear. NATO trained and armed battalions lost a strategic city, so described by Zelensky himself, to a bunch of demoralized convicts who were poorly trained, inadequately armed, and lacking support, if you believe Western media. this fact should cause panic within NATO. None of NATO's high tech weaponry has kept back the drunken demoralized convicts from winning!
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  5100. just so funny that 2 years into this conflict, and dopes like Clark are reading out a list of what Ukraine needs. and DW, as always, refuses to address the simple question of whether NATO can't supply Ukraine as needed, or has chosen not to supply Ukraine as needed. always, it's just hand-wringing and words, never an analysis of why Russia so easily out produces the West, and will do over the next few years.
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  5101.  @maxcarbers  the White House is in the US
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  5102. No one respects the police nor cares about them, post Rotherham. For many, they have become the enemy. No one should be surprised that police officers get stabbed....that is what Britain has become, and that is how the Police are viewed.
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  5103. The vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving? They revere a man who was a mass-murderer, slave trader and who was having sex with his 9 yr old bride, Aisha! Get real.
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  5104. you don't have to pay any more tax to support Ukraine. You can send your wealth directly to the Ukrainian embassy, so that more weapons can be bought, and thence destroyed by Russia. Seems like a waste of money to me, but go ahead!
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  5105. exactly. it's the supine, cowardly masses that don't represent the community. vast swathes of the community would vote this legislation out if offered a referendum on immigration.
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  5106.  @richardstatham3715  you make my point for me! Thanks so much! All of the incidents you mention show how war can be declared with perfect justification even when a country has not been invaded. so why do we take Ukraine to be the victim just because it was invaded? maybe the invasion is justified!?
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  5107.  @sot11cat  ​ Moammar Ghadaffi was Libyan and his election or ousting was a Libyan matter. How can USA have anything to do with any INTERNAL AFFAIR of any other sovereign country? Are you nuts? Judging from all comments you have posted here, this is PROVED to be true..
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  5108. yeah, so many white, working class voters went for Galloway. look at the turnout and compare the numbers of white working class voters who stayed at home because there was no candidate representing them.
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  5109. the new sniffer dogs are scuba specialists to search the sea bed.
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  5110. Remember, this judge was so convinced of the merits of Fani Willis, he donated to her cause. speaks volumes for the appalling judge of character that he is. spinless, witless, gormless, coward. which means he is absolutely perfect for Fulton County, he'll be re-elected.
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  5111. Day 14 of the Great Counter Offensive. 26 days to go. Total number of towns or villages captured....ZERO. The counter offensive is in FULL SWING! Bring in Ghost of Kiev to wrap this victory up!
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  5112. once again, it's nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. it's the sanctions on Russia. lift the sanctions, watch the prices start to fall, war or no war.
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  5113. "as much ammunition as possible", so, NATO collected one and a half shopping bags of ammo to be sent off some time next year?
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  5114. Russia has Germany by the balls...but when, how hard and how often Russia decides to squeeze is a lively game that Russia will LOVE playing for quite some time. Germany got it wrong. Germany thought it would be Russia on its knees after sanctions. It's Germany on its knees, BEGGING the likes of Qatar, desperately, for help. How many German pensioners will freeze to death this winter? People like Habeck really don't care.
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  5115. absolute kangaroo court. the very title of this piece "so, what did he do?" tells you that the charges were bogus. the allegation was that the hush money payments were entered as "legal expenses" to hide another crime, but no other crime was ever alleged! The biased judge even said "it might be tax fraud, it might be influencing an election, you don't have to agree on what the crime was".....banana republic.
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  5116. who is "we"?
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  5117. all this whining from Ukraine....all Ukraine had to do was implement the Minsk accords. "Ukraine planning a counter attack"...these words have been out there since March! Pure fantasy. Nick Connolly, surely the least reliable source for balanced information in the media.
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  5118. Russia is methodically doing what it said it would do. demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Russia doesn't need to advance to do that, it just needs a fool like Zelensky to keep shoving men into the Russian meatgrinder, as Zelensky so capably did in Bakhmut.
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  5119. Hopefully Russia can reverse these Ukrainian advances, rather than resort to nukes, the sooner Zelensky signs a peace treaty the better
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  5120.  @managerofthebotfarm7111  so what's your point?
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  5121. Over 70% of French voters want a referendum on immigration. Sky News refuses to report on that. Over 70% of France wants an end to immigration. Sky News refuses to report on that. No interest in what the French majority have to say.
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  5122.  @thegreatdane3627  nice try to pivot! is that the best you got when you can't answer some simple questions? Try this one. When exactly do you think NATO will have nothing more to offer Ukraine?
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  5123.  @thegreatdane3627  do you think EU sanctions package 9 will make all the difference and will defeat Russia?:)
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  5124.  @thegreatdane3627  when do you think Russia's mobilized reservists, the 320,000 waiting in the wings, will attack? When Ukraine's power grid is 60% destroyed? 70%? 80% what's your number?
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  5125. Diversity is our strength. such attacks happen way way more often it heterogeneous places such as Korea and Poland.
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  5126. Way out of her depth, as is the diverse and inclusive cabinet she picked. None of them have a clue how Britain got in this mess (think lockdowns, Green energy, sanctions on Russia, indefinite billions handed out to Ukraine, uncontrolled immigration) and thus they have no idea how to get us out of the mess.
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  5127. the EU sheep feel someone else is paying whenever they hear "EU funding". too dumb to understand it is still coming out of their pockets.
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  5128. Baffling how NOBODY is coming forward to explain WHY the great Ukrainian counter offensive was talked about so much, but never happened? what went so horribly wrong?
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  5129. crystal clear footage of......the trees that totally obscure what building was hit.
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  5130. what a load of waffle from deluded Nick. Let me answer. "Yes, Ukraine is screwed, because, as Budanov said, there are no more reserves to send to the front lines, so as Russia extends the front, so more and more Kiev cannon fodder gets massacred. Yes, Russia's objective of the demilitarization of Ukraine is happening".
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  5131. Pfarrer is as dumb as rocks. He knows nothing about wars of attrition, nor about Russia.
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  5132. As usual, DW has no idea what democracy is. "Russia illegally annexed Crimea"......following the 2014 coup in Kiev, the Crimean parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev. It's called a "democratic vote". Another democratic vote, a referendum, confirmed Crimea's desire to become a part of Russia. DW clearly is confused over what is democratic and what is not. par for the course in Western media these days.
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  5133. any chance those Soviet T72s have been improved by Russia over the last 4 decades?
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  5134. " i feel sorry for the Police" since Rotherham grooming gangs, I don't ever feel sorry for the police. it's police policy that has brought this upon themselves.
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  5135. the elephant in the room......race. no Chinese, Sikh, Jewish kids leading the looting, so what to do with the black youth?
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  5136. Absolute nonsense to talk of a "stalemate". Back in July, Biden told us that Russia had already lost this war. Why would anyone doubt the wisdom of President Biden?
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  5137. The testimony and evidence is irrelevant. The judge and jury want to convict Trump, and so they will. This is the US legal system in 2024. Fingers crossed it can be overturned on appeal.
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  5138.  @agnelomascarenhas8990  1) Crimea's parliament voted to leave Ukraine after a coup. such a vote is called democracy 2) Russia supplied arms to the Donbass militias to defend themselves against the Azov Nazis, rightfully so 3) The issue of Russian speakers' rights being a matter for Ukraine is like saying Jewish rights are a matter of Nazi Germany and Nazi Germany alone. 4) If Minsk agreement doesn't apply to Ukraine, why did Germany and France sign it?
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  5139.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Western powers refused to act on clauses 1 and 5 of the Budapest Memorandum. Clause 5 calls SPECIFICALLY for consultation with Russia whenever Russia had concerns. This was ignored by the West, hence we are where we are now.
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  5140. only a fool would decide to become a landlord in the UK these days. the present "Conservative" government is doing all in its power to alienate entrepreneurs from entering the housing market.
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  5141. which bridges over the Dnipro do they think will be still standing the day any of these tanks roll into Ukraine?
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  5142.  @richyphillips  Tax is income for the government. If it isn't, what income would governments have without it?
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  5143.  @mireillelebeau2513  and a lot of us DO listen attentively to every word, and we conclude that Richard is idiotically wrong, that the government DOES need taxpayers' money!
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  5144. it is just hilarious to watch Times Radio try to spin the most catastrophic counter offensive ever. Ukraine has not even dented the forward positions of the Russians, and all those Russians on the FIRST line of defence have been twiddling their thumbs for 20 days, hoping THEY get some target practice against the ukronazis. Disaster for NATO/Kiev, but funny to see Times Radio cling to straws.
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  5145. "Refugees welcome here"....as long as "here" doesn't mean under the roof of the protester, but under someone else's roof. the usual hypocrisy and generosity with other people's money.
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  5146.  @truthandfreedom8145  and so when prices go down it's also intentional, you fool?
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  5147.  @noseboop4354  no one is disputing the numbers. some of us are disputing the causes and saying it's market forces. No evidence of a cartel.
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  5148. GDP fails to measure how resilient an economy is. Russia exports what the world needs, hence it is resilient and robust. end of story. such economies cannot be destroyed.
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  5149.  @pascalramael5678  maybe both are barbaric, but one can be justified, the other can't. would you describe the Allies efforts in WW2 as barbaric?
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  5150.  @JG-xi4tu  there is little difference for anyone who dies suddenly. one minute you are alive, the next you aren't. so what?
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  5151.  @MathyBoonen  ISIS waited 10 years to retaliate against Russia's actions in Syria? really?
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  5152.  @janstapaj9689  name one fact I stated that is not straight.
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  5153.  @Anton_Danylchenko  Is there a Bandera Street in your hometown? (assuming you are Ukrainian)
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  5154.  @Anton_Danylchenko  Lviv Polytechnic National University is located at 12 Stepan Bandera Street. Oh, how proud you must be to laud a Nazi collaborator who sent Poles and Jews to their tortured deaths so happily! Those of us who witnessed Nazi mayhem in Ukraine are sickened by your apologist words. Go lecture someone who doesn't know Ukraine...me, I left Ukraine because I was sickened by the Nazi hatred I saw there. Thank God Putin has the guts to stick up for the victims of Nazism. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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  5155.  @orvalprosacco1951  Russian media organization offering 500,000 rubles for the first destroyed Leopard, and 1,000,000 rubles for the first captured Leopard. Russians have motivation too!
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  5156. truly pathetic. if these mayors can't even protest the cause, rampant out-of-control immigration, then they truly deserve the same mayhem, violence and destruction the next riot. do they not understand the causes, or are they too cowardly to shout it out?
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  5157. ERROR: AfD is NOT the "far right". AfD is centrist. the "far right" fell in 1945. DW is far left.
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  5158.  @michaelk.jensen1611  you are confusing the word "pledge" with "target". 2% minimum was pledged. Now, let us assume it was just a target. Would European NATO members be fine with USA declaring it couldn't make its 2% "target", but due to its massive debt, was going to contribute just 0.2% GDP? that would be fine for the likes of France and Germany?
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  5159.  @zepher664  once again, the fact you have to ask the question shows you have no clue what you know or don't know. understanding technology has nothing to do with the fact that there are considerable risks attached to storing so much personal info on one single device that you use repeatedly. pfft, lol.
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  5160.  @happyguy8725  you earn respect, not get respect.
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  5161. I guess the fact that theft of Russian assets is now considered confirms that sanctions failed.
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  5162. she makes a good point about a benefit of Brexit. consensus in the EU takes time, it's debating time that boosts the energy prices, yet again, slow plodding EU causes its own problems.
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  5163.  @harryseldom6472  never been more clear-minded in my life, Adolf
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  5164.  @Joaquin546  yeah don't compare the invaders to the victims! Donbass is fighting for its continued independence, not Ukraine.
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  5165.  @migsvensurfing6310  because everyone has been lied to. are you so easily duped by any claim? interested in buying my seaside property in Kansas?
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  5166. to get Trump in court on 4 different cases and fail to get a conviction before the election will boost Trump's vote numbers and the Dems are turning everything against themselves. not so smart people leading this persecution.
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  5167. does you heart go out to Ukrainians from other countries, or just those Ukrainians from Australia?
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  5168.  @sharontuck9426  are you including all those in the Donbass? they are all united against the Russian invasion? really? all the Donbass refugees? all the LPR and DPR forces fighting against Ukraine?
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  5169. agreed. a lot of leads are no doubt being followed up and the main investigation is about figuring out who else is involved and how. the body search is just a small part of the puzzle, just one step to confirm how the story ended.
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  5170.  @gillianlaing1073  having learned he had 2 hours to kill before the bus left, it's not so bizarre he wandered off in the direction of where the bus would be coming from. a morning walk in any direction is not so baffling.
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  5171.  @moravianlion3108  after James Baker's 1990 promise "no NATO expansion one inch further east" I think you'll find the Russians don't care for too many lectures on honesty from any Westerners.
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  5172.  @SpecialMuppetOperation  rumor has it that Porky Potatoshenko, the Chocolate King, kept a few nukes for himself, just in case, hence he still hasn't been arrested and charged with corruption.
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  5173.  @SpecialMuppetOperation  oh yes, post 2014 and the coup that kicked democracy out of the window in Ukraine, Russia has no intention of recognizing any agreements that once pertained to the sovereign state of Ukraine. The post Maidan Puppet subsidiary of US/NATO INC, formerly known as Ukraine, deserves to be treated as the rogue state that it is. Yep, it's war baby, who cares what agreements regarding nukes and Belarus have been broken? Send cluster bombs Russia's way, expect Lukashenko to get Warsaw in the crosshairs of his nukes. This is what happens when you cross Putin's red lines and call his bluff.
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  5174. Western leaders: let's look at the "to do" list for the Ukrainian counter attack. Air cover? nope. 3:1 advantage in manpower? nope. Element of surprise? nope. Abundance of ammo and weapons? nope. right, so, Zelensky, everything ready to go! Get moving!
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  5175. It is with amazing "ineptitude" that the Orcs are wiping out their opposition in massive numbers, and coming very close to achieving their 5 objectives. Day by day the Russians get closer to victory, and Zelensky's dream of fighting on to the very last Ukrainian gets closer and closer too.
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  5176.  @stranger6797  focus on the message, not the messenger, if you are able to
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  5177.  @biglebowsky6586  obviously not, if they can't see how Russia is winning just as it did in Syria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Chechnya
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  5178. united in recognizing the truth. Russia has won. Time to apologize for failing to implement Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 and recognize the DPR and LPR
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  5179. it's called "summer". it happens every year. would be nice if DW reported on deaths from the cold in winter.
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  5180. illegally interfering with private property is precisely why most people detest these criminal climate alarmists and will refuse to bend to their juvenile demands.
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  5181. "a shambolic Ukrainian defense at the beginning of the war"...Nick, you mean when Russian forces had Ukrainian forces pinned down in Kiev and Kharkov? Next you will be admitting that this whole swathe of captured Russian territory occurred because the West was so focused on "Ghost of Kiev" and "heroic stand on Snake Island" that the West took its eye off Kherson and Zapoizhe.
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  5182. Blame the corrupt DNC for that one.
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  5183.  @museonfilm8919  I used to work in Paris as a tour guide. After so many of my tour groups suffered pickpocketing, a couple of assaults, and they kept asking "where have the French people gone?", I gave up and decided Western European cities are no longer part of Western Europe.
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  5184. so no comment on the Russian offensives in Lyman and Kupiansk? Fools like Crump ONLY see signs of Ukrainian progress because he absolutely refuses to look at Russian progress.
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  5185. "We don't let tyrants win.....except in Afghanistan, oh, and Libya, oh, and Syria"
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  5186. That's what happens when you know BBC cameras are on you.
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  5187. Remember the days when stewardesses were pretty?
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  5188. the real world powers chatting to decide the world's fate, as opposed to a bunch of unpopular clowns that do nothing but spew foolishness at the G7.
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  5189. all of you who applauded lockdowns, green policies, massive government borrowing, sanctions on Russia, unlimited aid to Ukraine, allowing migrants to enter illegally, welcome to what you deserve. enjoy every minute of it.
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  5190. "what is Russia trying to achieve with this barrage of attacks?" Russia is trying to show that charlatans like "expert" Bell are total liars every time they say "Russia is running out of missiles".
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  5191. given the disaster she's staring at, diaper would be appropriate wear
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  5192. if the boat crossings are "illegal", why are those who cross illegally allowed to claim asylum and have their claim processed and face no prosecution for what they did illegally? if it is legal to arrive in the UK by whatever route and to claim asylum, why are those who organize this legal activity branded as criminals? Looks like the UK doesn't even understand its own laws.
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  5193.  @martynanstis1620  how long? up for a bet?
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  5194. big difference between "taken the town" and "poised to encircle it". BTW, how's the massive Kherson offensive going?
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  5195. As Amnesty International pointed out, "dormitory for the elderly and the deaf" = Ukrainian barracks, but Channel 4 still determined to broadcast misinformation.
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  5196. at some point the dumb West will figure out that as soon as weapons and ammo are sent to Ukraine, it gets destroyed by Russia. The Russians are enjoying demilitarizing both Ukraine and the West with one stone. but the West hasn't figured it out yet. no counter offensive can happen while Russia keeps destroying the arms and ammo.
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  5197. rambling, empty speech by a defeated man. Putin has played his cards right and now Russia just has to make modest, incremental progress on the ground and wait for NATO to wear itself out. The latest aid package is meagre. Russia has won.
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  5198. NATO trained, advised, armed ukronazis have never defeated the drunken, incompetent, poorly armed, no morale, spade wielding convicts in any street to street fighting. From Popasnaya to Bakhmut, Russia always wins. Yet we are supposed to believe yet another delivery of modern weapons will suddenly make Ukronazis victorious. The West is truly deluded. Next we'll be told sanctions package number 12 will turn things around.
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  5199. yeah, right, a big corruption drive right in the middle of a war. more likely it's a purge as opposition to Zelensky grows.
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  5200. DW reports have now become a childish exercise to see how many times the words "far-right" can be repeated, ad nauseum. Grow up, DW. Many on the left want less immigration and no war against Russia. DW exists in a woke bubble, so out of touch.
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  5201. the objective is no longer to enforce the law, but to keep the peace by whatever means. therefore, given the Police cannot control the mob, they choose to keep the peace by expelling the innocent and law-abiding from anywhere the mob choose to be. Sharia Law enforced in Britainistan quite a wonder to behold.
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  5202. Meghan Rapinoe as VP would grab some of the LGBTQ, soccer mom, suburban female votes Trump so badly needs.
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  5203.  @markrymanowski719  the law would have to be changed then, but yes, it is simple.
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  5204.  @starmnsixty1209  how little you know Russians
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  5205. and here's the problem 30% of Ukrainians want Russia to win. it's the end for Ukraine
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  5206. it's a simple decision to make; do you want British farm produce to be protected with subsidies and tariffs and to prosper, or do you want cheaper food imports and the decline and doom of British farming? you can't have both, given that foreign produce is cheaper.
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  5207. Zemmour
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  5208. Are the Azov Nazi Ukrainian forces who shelled Donbass mercilessly for 8 years also in your prayers?
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  5209. Kemp clearly has no idea what a traitor is! Britain is not at war, so given the 2 Brits are not fighting against Britain, they can't be jailed for treason. It would be good to see Kemp in jail, for lying to the public about what is happening in the war, and pretending Ukraine is winning for so long. All power to the 2 men. the sooner Russia wins, the better.
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  5210.  @julianday  Russia never promised never to invade Ukraine if Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons. Russia promised, under certain conditions, to guarantee Ukraine's security. Given that the West broke Proviso 1 and 6 of these agreements, the deal was made null and void.
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  5211.  @brigittaleuthold4374  Russia didn't exist during the Vietnam War. You mean USSR
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  5212. Its Lugansk and Donetsk that are fighting for the rights of minorities EVERYWHERE. It's Lugansk and Donetsk that are fighting for ethnic Russians to be able to speak and use their native tongue in their own society. Russia, rightly, has come to support Lugansk and Donetsk. Ukraine is the aggressor, trying to stamp out the rights of minorities. Shame on Ukraine.
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  5213. so funny that John Simpson can't detect sarcasm and irony when it is said in Russian
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  5214.  @johanhirte9661  GDP does NOT indicate the productivity that is necessarily essential to a successful economy. Instead, look at commodities exported. Russia exports what the world needs: uranium, precious metals, oil, gas, wheat, grains, fertilizers. Africa doesn't care what Italy produces or what the GDP of Italy is. Italy could disappear tomorrow and Africa wouldn't care that no Italian products could get to Africa. But with Russia, it's the opposite. the World wants and needs what Russia produces, and that is the true measure of a strong economy. capisce?
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  5215.  @johanhirte9661  I never said investment in BRICS was a good idea. I said investment in BRICS was a better idea than investment in Germany.
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  5216.  @jasonodlin8305  tell me, when you heard about Gonzalo Lira's death in a Ukrainian prison lately, did that confirm to you the true nature of democracy in Ukraine?
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  5217. they're only being called "sham" referendums by the media in the deluded West. Just like the deluded authoritarian West called the 2014 coup d'etat that removed Ukraine's democratically elected government "legitimate"...welcome to the West's "rules based system" that the globe is gladly rejecting.
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  5218. Nope. Bryansk, where the suspects were stopped, ain't on the way to Belarus. It's on the direct route to Ukraine, so, try again.
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  5219. oh, Hitchens, come on! The French have no "job to do" regarding preventing people getting into boats! It benefits France to take as much cash from the UK and to get rid of as many migrants as possible! Wake up! The trump card the UK have is the fact that France has admitted all these migrants into France. the migrants need to be brought back to France and dumped in Calais, where they are the responsibility of France again, the country that admitted them.
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  5220.  @CvC1167  You misspelled "Western Press" when you wrote "Tuckers"
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  5221.  @PaulGappyNorris  name one more intelligent
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  5222. and with his multiple passports, Andrew Tate is unable to go to any country of the world outside of Romania. my one passport allows me to go to almost all of them. keep your life simple.
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  5223. UN adopts resolution calling on USA to end embargo against Cuba, leaving USA totally isolated and the pariah of the world.
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  5224. "that's always the problem" yeah, internet sleuths that show you how dim and incompetent the authorities have become is a real problem! now you can't hide from your blunders and stupidity!
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  5225. Palestinians are the only people in history to choose to continue being refugees forever.
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  5226. Almost certainly another Welsh perpetrator. The sooner they are all deported back to Wales the better.
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  5227. she's talking bs. no "return agreement" is needed at all. if you arrive in Paris on the Eurostar with no travel document to enter France, you are escorted immediately on to the next train back to London.
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  5228. better to have pulled out 5 months ago, but losing tens of thousands of cannon fodder life for an insignificant town doesn't bother Zelenskyy. Just as long as his property in London and Italy is intact and Vogue are ready for another photo shoot, that's what matters
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  5229. what is weird is the 4th and 5th generation immigrants of Vietnamese and Chinese and Hindu, and the recent influx of Ukrainian refugees, none of these people are whining about racism or being second class citizens. oh, wait, you don't think the jihadist and intolerant aspects of Islam might have anything to do with it, do you?
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  5230.  @ianuy3346  was
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  5231. The bit she got right was that Trump would have avoided the mess in Ukraine. The bit she got wrong was that Trump would have avoided it by meaningful threats against Russia. In December, 2021, when Putin requested a summit about Russia's security concerns, Biden refused. Trump would have said "yes", and found a way to avoid a Russian invasion. Therein lies the difference between Trump and Biden.
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  5232. heartbreaking..slava donbasu
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  5233. "Ukraine prepares for a potential counter offensive", yep, that's vague enough to mean Ukraine can't mount a counter offensive. conspicuous by its absence, mention that over 95% of Bakhmut now in Russian hands and that the Wagners, demoralized convicts and armed with just shovels, are defeating the NATO trained ukronazis.
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  5234.  @manufacturedconsent7850  I'm in the same boat. I start to feel down and guilty if I skip a morning jog and work out, but feel I've accomplished something if I get through it and that I can face anything.
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  5235. the war in Ukraine has no relevance at all to the cost of living crisis. it is the senseless sanctions on Russia that are too blame, and the fact that the West has pushed OPEC and Russia to work together.
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  5236.  @ejt3708  so true. the very notion of a "challenging question" is beyond the grasp of DW.
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  5237.  @timothywoodard8766  wow! you have been busy, logging all these destroyed Russian artillery systems with your clipboard! How did you manage to get behind enemy lines to do all this work?! or....are you just running with Ukrainian misinformation?
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  5238.  @timothywoodard8766  a lot of people believe in ghosts, doesn't mean ghosts exist. For every analyst that says what you say, there are more analysts that say the opposite! Generals on both sides regularly complain about insufficient munitions for the job in hand. Doesn't mean they have less than their opponents, just means both sides want more munitions! again, you mention something that is "obvious" on the front lines. you are not on the front lines. so, who is telling you this and why do you believe it 100%? hmmm
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  5239.  @timothywoodard8766  you say Russia has been losing so many units. please state the exact number of Russian units lost and the precise number of Ukrainian units lost along with your sources. cue crickets.
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  5240. The "Far Right", honey, don't believe in democracy and do believe in concentration camps. you mistake the "right of centre" parties with Fascism. Shame on you. The biggest danger comes from your type, the Far Left!
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  5241.  @thinker646  sadly, no one has that right.
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  5242. NATO is such a bunch of soft milksops. wringing their hands about a Russian missile flying by. yawn.
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  5243. Quit playing amateur psychologist, honey. Not only do YOU have no idea what Putin had expected by this time when the invasion started, there's a good chance Putin himself had no firm expectations. it's war! it's unpredictable, so spare us the lectures on your omniscient powers.
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  5244. Who cares? Without Russia, it's a fake Olympics anyway.
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  5245. so indefinite aid pledged to Ukraine. Russia started with the aim of demilitarizing Ukraine. it ends up with demilitarization of Ukraine, bankruptcy of Ukraine, demilitarization of the West, and soon, bankruptcy of the West. What a bunch of imbeciles Western leaders are.
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  5246. Johnson, Sunak, Truss, makes no difference, they all care nothing about immigration. Unless a Brexit style 3rd party can seize control and start towing all boats back to France (and yes, we'll ignore any international court decisions or whining from France) this will continue ad infinitum.
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  5247.  @MoooB74oooH  what do you mean, "she"? we are talking about two men! Do your research! When I write "both men" that is plural! So, asking me where "she" is from makes no sense! Maybe English is not your first language? One man is from Taiwan, and the other man is from Algeria. My proof is the blood samples taken by the IBA, twice. By the way, what is your proof that they are both XX chromosomes?
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  5248.  @MoooB74oooH  1. I made no allegations at all. I stated facts. 2. If you are 100% sure both men are in fact female, you must also have proof, where is your proof? 3. Correct. Algeria doesn't allow transition. But Imane never transitioned! Imane was born a male and has always been a male. 4. There are no pictures of Imane as a little girl, because Imane was never a little girl. There are only pictures of Imane dressed as a little girl or looking like a little girl. 5. Imane was mistakenly registered as female at birth, because the doctors were unaware Imane had internal testes. Imane has gone through male puberty and has XY chromosomes. 100% male. Just amazing how backward Algeria must be for no one in Algeria to understand basic biology.
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  5249.  @MoooB74oooH  Just curious....were you present when Imane was born?
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  5250.  @MoooB74oooH  and the doctor got it wrong. the Algerian doctor probably had no idea that a baby could have internal testes. it's not the kind of subject that is spoken much about in Algeria. Algeria is the kind of place where you are either male or female. Can't blame the doctor. Blame backward knowledge of biology in Algeria.
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  5251.  @MoooB74oooH  Do you know what DSD is?
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  5252. 2 possibilities. Either Blinken has gone to break the bad news to Zelensky; that Russia is way out-producing NATO so Ukraine is screwed. or Blinken has gone to lie and say that help is on the way and that victory is just around the corner. Place your bets.
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  5253. The footage of the old folk greeting the Ukrainian soldiers was exactly the same as that of the joyous babushkas greeting the Russian liberators of Lysychansk and Severodonestsk. Meanwhile, how is the offensive in Kherson going? Don't tell me 3000 Ukrainian cannon fodder got served up into the Russian meatgrinder there for nothing!
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  5254.  @Hero4fun77  they took back nothing, they were given it back. surplus to requirements, learn the difference.
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  5255.  @babelhuber3449  so Russia's second string troops with its useless equipment just captured Soledar, even though Ukraine troops are trained by NATO and have more modern equipment. How is that popcorn and beer tasting?
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  5256.  @andro3455  the Discord document leak
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  5257.  @jansix4287  Russia has no need to worry about car production now that Germany is paying SO much more to receive LESS energy:)
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  5258.  @testingtimes8759  hit the nail on the head. the lesson learned after the Cuban missile crisis was "not in my backyard" and Ukraine is in Russia's backyard.
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  5259.  @Asdfgghhhjj  We just want one where USA, UK and Ukraine keep their word. In the 1994 agreement the most important proviso was that the powers agreed to talk and negotiate over any issues fellow signatories might have. Russia had BIG security concerns with NATO expansion, and begged over and over and over again to deal with this around the table, The talks that were promised in the 1994 agreement were rejected by the West. Why should Russia EVER believe a word from the West or Ukraine again? The Minsk accords, signed by Ukraine, refused implementation by Ukraine. Zelensky elected on a ticket to "bring peace to the Donbass' but then increased shelling of the Donbass. Why would Russia EVER trust Ukraine or the West ever again? It explains why Russia is choosing to cooperate more with india and China. Good decision.
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  5260.  @brynleytalbot778  as I said, in reference to the Ukrainian soldier who found his farm mostly intact, looks like the Russians were somewhat merciful.
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  5261. what? "the Russian invasion of the second world war"? so, Nazi Germany was the rightful occupant of Ukraine, and the Soviets were the invaders of the USSR?
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  5262. Imagine my surprise to learn he's called Abdul and not Dave or Brian.
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  5263. "worried by rising prices in the country" welcome to the consequences of Green policies, lockdowns and sanctions on Russia, honey. Get used to it.
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  5264. funny to hear Western experts declare that Russia is running out of drones and missiles every few days. talk about projection.
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  5265. Imagine that, armed men in a war zone, entering buildings. that proves it's a sham!
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  5266.  @philipboardman1357  are the LPR and DPR also nations? Are they fighting for their survival?
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  5267. spoilt middle class luddites drive people away from the environmental cause
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  5268.  @BullGator-kd6ge  stingers, javelins, M777s, himars, now patriots, all hype, no gamechanger. 100,000 Ukrainian cannon fodder as evidence. Back to the drawing board, NATO
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  5269.  @brentjamescollins9731  does it stand up to any subjective scrutiny? how about a little more detail, Brent James Collins. How about you pinpoint what I said that is false and provide counter evidence.
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  5270. @cushyglen4264 I remember some of them!
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  5271.  @FactsBeFacts  there are more trees on the planet now than at any time. check the facts. Due to more CO2 in the atmosphere, the planet is much greener and there are no natural famines any more, crop yields are way up. check the facts.
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  5272. it is entirely possible that Saudi Arabia WILL increase oil production, but given that Saudi Arabia is already BUYING cheap oil from Russia, Saudi Arabia will be selling ITS oil at a higher price that will hurt the West even more. Western leaders so dumb they can't understand that sanctions against Russia hurt the West much more than they do Russia.
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  5273.  @Goprof150  from many public spheres, it was. no education in Russian, limited broadcasts in Russian, even in commercial transactions, and that would include a trip to the pharmacy, Ukrainian was the language insisted upon. Nowhere else in the Western world would ever DREAM of this! why are you fine with it?
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  5274. @kelpy what makes burning a book far right rather than far left? what makes it far anything? if a Maoist decides to burn the writings of an avowed capitalist, does that mean the Maoist has become far right?
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  5275. "we're not ready for a diplomatic track yet" would "we" include all those facing winter in freezing temperatures and no electricity, bombed at will by Russia? you include those people in "we" or just those in comfort and warmth outside of the actual battle?
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  5276. let all those leaders who want more immigration foot the bill, not the taxpayer. Raynor has 2 houses, give one to the migrants.
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  5277. "Thanks so much Boris, for supporting everything that has led to the deaths of thousands of our soldiers, to our women and children becoming a refugee nation and to ensuring that the Russians will prevail and dictate terms as and when they wish. You have helped Ukraine so much...oh, that offer you made of me and my family eligible for residency in UK whenever we want, your successor will honor all that, yeah?"
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  5278.  @doejoe-es9bg  well said. Russia has so many freedoms that have been removed from American life.
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  5279. it's not baffling that the French don't care what happens to masses of migrants. it's baffling that we care so much that the French don't care.
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  5280. la Russie a gagné
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  5281. "swift justice for criminal behaviour we see on our streets" when will we see the same swift justice for criminal behaviour we see at Manchester Airport? Let me guess....when the perpetrators are white British and not Pakistanis.
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  5282.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  thanks so much for the lecture on what China and India want in the future. In the meantime, what I said was true, Right now, Russia has secured the cooperation of most of the world, and the West's arrogant blundering patronizing attempts to strong arm other nations into isolating Russia has been a humiliating failure. Speculate as you wish on the future. Right now, Russia has more than enough support globally. It is the West that is flailing in panic at a new world order that sees it lose hegemony. Game set and match Putin.
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  5283. Zelensky much prefers running out of ammo and every single Ukrainian soldier massacred than giving up territory. Much better to lose it all. Sad fool. he actually believed NATO could save Ukraine. idiot.
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  5284. oh God, DW, please stop lying. Russia never exited a grain deal. The deal expired. learn the difference.
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  5285.  @TwitchingBomb  the "criminals" who traffic them are people too, and the "criminals" are just providing a service for those whose dream is to come to the UK. they, the traffickers, deserve no punishment at all. they wouldn't exist if nations took border control seriously.
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  5286.  @nigelsynnott7344  something difficult or dangerous is no reason to refuse to do it. employ all resources to stop all boats in the Channel, seize the possessions of all illegal immigrants (only fair they should pay for the expense of the operation), tow them back to the French coast and drop them off. this nonsense would stop within a week.
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  5287.  @nigelsynnott7344  yes we can. we can leave anything we want to. consequences would have to be met, but "we" are sovereign. we can leave whatever we want.
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  5288.  @Tom-ct6rp  my black Bahamian wife advocates for any boat full of illegal Haitian immigrants entering Bahamian waters be towed back immediately to Haiti. Does that make her "scared of black people, bless her"?
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  5289.  @govinda102000  the US taxpayers voted for the government that handed out the subsidies, so I guess they taxpayers are fine with that.
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  5290.  @robert100xx  depends what you mean by "it"
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  5291.  @kirstenandreasen908  bit like never seeing Jesus with my own eyes, He's just internet gossip
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  5292.  @beatreuteler  so, the fact that not a single missile came from a Russian sub or ship makes you think such a salvo is not to be repeated any time soon? really?
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  5293. Rangers and Celtic fans will be breaking no hate speech laws, because as white males, they are not a protected group, so the law doesn't apply to them. Equality before the law has been abandoned in the UK, so white males can be abused as anyone wishes.
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  5294. On this issue, Murray is out of his depth and ignorant. "Russia has no justification for being in Ukraine". tell that to the families of massacred victims in Donbass after 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling, you limp propagandist
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  5295.  @liliatursunova4950  as if those are the only two options.
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  5296.  @liliatursunova4950  as I said, there are other options to crying, in whatever car. the reality is Germans are crying over their demise, Russians are proud of their nation's rise.
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  5297.  @bpdbhp1632  sure, in your brainwashed state. when was the last time you made a comparison between your life in Russia and your life in your home country?
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  5298. Saying "Julia Hartley Brewer is all about Julia Hartley Brewer" is as vacuous and infantile as trotting out "Tommy Robinson is all about Tommy Robinson" If Julia can't even explain what's wrong with what Tommy has said, and has to rely on "Tommy is only pretending to be anti anti-semitic just so he can shout out against Muslims", then Julia needs to start talking substance and not vague supposition. pathetic, Julia.
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  5299. Vivek: "everyone deserves respect" WHAT? No they don't! Respect is earned, not given to everyone! Stop mollycoddling the electorate!
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  5300. "many people buy into the Kremlin's alternative reality" I wonder if that would be the same kind of numbers that have bought into the West's alternative reality, ie Ghost of Kiev, Russia is running out of missiles, the sanctions are working etc.
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  5301. Stay strong, Donbass! Azov Nazi Evil will soon be defeated. With God's mercy and blessings, Russia will win.
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  5302.  @inesdamonteines3985  could you translate that into English, please?
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  5303.  @timeames2509  yep, could be a problem. US invaded Afghanistan when US discovered the Afghans were hosting and training Al Qaeda. Maybe soon Russia will attack the UK, where Ukrainian troops are being hosted and trained. Would be interesting to see what exactly a demilitarized NATO would do with respect to Article 5
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  5304.  @timeames2509  why does NATO refuse to send its "super tech" weapons?
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  5305.  @timeames2509  Neither Sweden nor Finland are in NATO. On the other hand, both NATO members Hungary and Turkey are more supportive of Russia than they are of NATO! That sure backfired on NATO! US is definitely the master of taking out ISIS agents in 3rd world cesspits. They did the same to an ISIS agent in Kabul, but turned out to be a charity worker and innocent family. When US special forces face a real enemy, like Russia, we'll find out how weak USA in fact is, though Kabul 2021 already showed us.
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  5306.  @cog600  If Russia has donated so much weaponry and ordinance to Ukraine, what happened to it all? Why is Ukraine begging for more, now?
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  5307.  @lawrencebolt3540  spot on
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  5308. Did you all hear that Himars, over the last month, has been so successful a game changer that Ukraine is now advancing beyond Bakhmut and deep into Russian occupied territory? No, neither did I.
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  5309.  @Dylanesque  just today, TATA chooses the UK over Spain for its giant car battery plant. Brexit is such a failure, obviously.
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  5310.  @Guest01010  sadly, Romanian born gypsies are recognized as Romanian nationals, and I guess are "natives" of Romania given the gypsies have been there for centuries.
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  5311.  @ryuuguu01  Given that a war of attrition means winner takes all, and given that the loser is the first of the two sides to run out of manpower, funding, weaponry or ammo, what makes you think Russia will lose, and which of those 4 components will Russia run out of before Ukraine does? I have said from the beginning that Ukraine will run out of manpower first, and that will lead to Russian victory. your prediction?
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  5312.  @yasdnilknarf1885  the previous Labour government were just as incompetent, but after 13 years in power, it's a bit late to come up with new ideas how to solve these key issues. Labour started the malaise, the Tories have shown themselves clueless how to tackle it all.
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  5313.  @brianthirling9260  exactly. 13 years later, to come up with new bright ideas to improve the country is insulting and pathetic.
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  5314. he's not the sharpest knife in the draw, is he? 2 years into this conflict, and only now does Hodges say the West needs to think about how to deal with the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. No, Ben, the time to figure all that out was 2 years ago, you know, when Biden was celebrating that the "ruble had become rubble" and that "Russia was isolated". The West f****d up. Too late now.
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  5315.  @Yankeepride03  2014. coup d'etat. Yanukovich ousted illegally. Ukraine did all that, Putin only reacted. you need to watch some other media that give you the full picture
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  5316.  @Anselm243  Born in Germany doesn't make a person German. George Orwell was born in India. Does that make George Orwell an Indian?
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  5317. and now the truth....Ukraine hasn't had a counter offensive that was successful since 2014! Russia has won and Russia has no need to negotiate a thing. it's over.
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  5318. integration really isn't that important. immigrants just need to obey and respect the laws and traditions of the host country, and be a producer and not a parasite. nothing more needed.
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  5319. @M_C you would be surprised how often corruption makes things happen everywhere, especially in "democratic" countries. she's just being honest.
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  5320.  @indieanna4764  again. "ounce of decency" means different things to different people. "ounce of decency" to many Muslims is that women are covered in public at all times. to others it means allowing topless bathing on public beaches. again, are you the planet's judge on what constitutes "ounce of decency" ?
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  5321.  @UKLogic22  and as I pointed out, last year 400 or so people were arrested in Russia for words they had written on social media. In the UK over 3500 people were arrested for what they had written on social media. so, you tell me, in which of those two countries is there more freedom of speech?
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  5322.  @indieanna4764  indeed there are people in this world who are just evil, but again, evil to you is not evil to others, so all of your opinions are worth nothing, because they are just words that don't reflect reality. Female genital mutilation may be an evil act to you. NOT performing female genital mutilation may be an evil act to others. until you grasp that your world and your assumptions are not those of others, you won't understand why people argue, fight and go to war.
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  5323.  @TheDynamicmarket  agreed. in Europe, you can be taken to court for saying "a man can never become a woman", but in Russia speaking scientific reality is still allowed. Russia is more free.
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  5324. "Why would a mosque be attacked?" let's have a look at the tally over the last 20 years. Muslims and immigrants who have killed white Brits = 100+ white Brits who have killed Muslims and immigrants = 0 next question?
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  5325.  @colinreay2678  good point. and we'll need extra boats to deport those migrants who end up in UK prisons back to France.
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  5326. yet another cover-up, all paid for by the license fee payers.
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  5327. con toda la imigración y globalización de hoy día, la mitad de los que están en Barcelona no habla ni entiende catalán. comparado con las oportunidades de aprender un idioma verdaderamente internacional, el aprender de catalán parece de poca utilidad
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  5328.  @alejandror.planas9802  depende del lugar donde te encuentas y con quien quieres conversar. si te encuentras en Barcelona, donde todos hablan y entienden castellano, mejor usar castellano. si te encuentras en Lisboa, donde todos, o casi todos, hablan portugués, mejor usar portugués....aunque en general los portugueses entienden castellano bastante bien. si no hablas castellano, en estas situaciones, mejor usar inglés, el idioma universal. solamente cuando te encuentres en un lugar donde solamente y unicamente hablan catalán (tal lugar no existe) es el catalán util. si quieres aprender catalán por otro motivo, está bien, pero en cuanto a la utilidad de un idioma, catalán no sirve para nada.
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  5329. Leave it to those who can figure out Jay never went into this terrain.
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  5330.  @marshgirl  yes, but there is no investigation of this case, just a manhunt.
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  5331. the courts said there was no evidence of fraud in the election, not that there was no fraud. more importantly, the courts said they would not listen to any evidence of fraud in the election. the courts decided to stay out of it.
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  5332. Gulliver breathless as Ukrainians have an enormous victory over 50 year old DPR reservists and civil guards. He didn't have much to say about the 3000 Ukrainian troops fed into the Russian meatgrinder for no gains whatsoever in Kherson. Strange.
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  5333. then listen to Putin and Lavrov speak..they also tell you the truth!
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  5334.  @robertmoore8821  what irks you, Robert, is not that I spout nonsense, but that I highlight the nonsense you have swallowed hook, line and sinker.
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  5335.  @_NLS_John_Rambo_  truth hurts, eh?
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  5336.  @robertmoore8821  a lie is a statement one knows to be untrue the moment one says it. what lie have I told? crickets
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  5337.  @jacksonmiltin4199  what's your point?
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  5338. every town Ukraine captures is "strategic". never explained why so strategic though
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  5339.  @sammiller6631  and China has a lot more people than NATO and is best buddies with Russia, but not sure what your point is. More people doesn't equal more output. There are many more factors than that. "Bigger peace time economy" only if looking at the very dubious metric of GDP. A much more reliable indicator would be export of commodities. No one really needs all Italy's exports of Gucci fashion accessories, but Russia's grain, uranium, and oil are pretty darn useful to the world. "all those Abrams" was a sarcastic comment. "All those Abrams" are useless when stuck behind Russian minefields.
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  5340. Russia has low morale and is poorly equipped. That is why a bunch of convicts keeps defeating battalions of NATO trained, armed and advised troops, every day.
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  5341.  @Lorne.Mccuaig  And now all the important stuff you absolutely refuse to state. Canada has lost FAR MORE of its forests to fires in the past, and globally, far less damage is done by forest fires today than a century ago. China just smashed its warmest day on record is another way of saying China is nowhere near the hottest day it suffered before records began, and that the rest of Asia has NOT seen any records broken to date! BTW, given that Climategate and "hide the decline" showed Mann, Jones and co rig the numbers to fit the narrative, why do you believe the data? Antarctica has the lowest sea ice on record, is another way of saying the Arctic is doing just fine. The Middle East is ALWAYS in exodus from the heat. I used to live in Oman. Nothing has changed there. People like you believed the experts that said, 25 years ago, that by today Florida would be under water! Florida, Bahamas, Maldives, all doing just fine. Quit the hysteria and look at it all globally, not what the media feed you to panic you.
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  5342. when will the revolution start?
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  5343. EU will announce an energy price cap, will print money to pay for it and thus boost inflation, demand for energy will remain high due to the price cap, so the energy will be used up and rationing (blackouts) will result, Check on granma every day, as she may freeze to death round about Christmas Day.
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  5344. Sunak's solution for illegal immigration is just to make it all legal.
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  5345.  @seanmelhuish3898  seems like Julia wants the kind of husband who, rather than grabbing an assailant round the throat, would prefer to let any thug attack Julia and step aside and let anything happen to Julia. Throat grabbing can be very effective. Never assume a throat grabber is the baddee.
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  5346. so, by the time this junk gets on the battlefield, we can confidently expect Ukraine to have lost another 50,000 cannon fodder and captured one more village?
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  5347.  @VLF2022  je dis la meme chose, la vérité. une armée qui gagne ne garde pas silence sur les victoires. depuis 3 jours on entend beaucoup de bruit des ukraniens sur leurs victoires en Kharkov. Encore de silence sur Kherson, alors on peut présumer qu'ils ont perdu énormement en Kherson.
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  5348. The only part of this that makes sense is France accepting loads of cash in exchange for appearing to prevent migrants leaving France. What makes no sense is why France would ever want such migrants to remain in France, why migrants going to England would be bad for France, or why such a process is needed, given that asylum claims can only be made within the UK and not from France. All the laws in place, and motives of those involved in France, encourage as many migrants as possible to leave France for England.
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  5349.  @CelticSaint  exactly so. insisting that they are "of no relevance" and leaving it at that, when there are so many questions involving them, is just bizarre. i can only think they are informants and their cover can't be blown for whatever reason, but it is all so strange. yep, so, if Lucy had a good idea where the airbnb was located, and if she drove up that way and if Jay stuck to the road, or close to the road, there is an excellent chance she would have seen him. in fact, really bad luck that she would have missed him. BTW, scouring the Spanish language press is fascinating. all kinds of details are quite different. Just now on UCO Digital I read that the search has not ended, but switched to the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife!
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  5350. not huge at all. Turkey also keeping all air routes to Russia open and more than happy to receive Russian tourists. Turkey just performing a balancing act, as it always does, and also indicating it is ready to settle differences between itself and Russia in Syria.
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  5351. absolutely disgusting that this deluded egotistical fool thinks it's a really good idea to deny the Dpnbass ethnic Russians their freedom. They deserve everything they get at the hands of the valiant Russians. Slava Rossiyi.
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  5352. I'm amazed Biden stayed alive until election day. maybe he didn't. maybe his repeated gaffes are the ventriloquist struggling with the autocue.
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  5353. where's Victoria Nuland handing out cookies declaring "this is a popular uprising we must support?"
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  5354. They have..it's called legal immigration
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  5355. it's racist but true. I mean if this white family are British, as opposed to Lithuanian or Polish etc, then it would be a minority family and not representative of Londoners these days.
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  5356. Putin joking and laughing as he demilitarizes NATO Zelensky joking and laughing as he sees the value of his Miami mansion sky rocket while the West sends billions of dollars to him and his corrupt friends.
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  5357. well, well, well, two and a half years too late, but finally Channel 4 tells us there are Ukrainians who would prefer to be under Russian rule! Why didn't we hear that on invasion day?
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  5358. so after hours of desperately seeking SOMEONE who would say "NO" to going back to Russia now there is mobilization, France 24 managed to find only TWO who said "maybe, maybe not"...evidence the majority are in favor of mobilization I would say.
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  5359. while Ukrainians are being massacred every day, Dancing Queen showed her deep, heartfelt concerns by posting the party video. she got her just desserts.
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  5360. Oil price cap, relying on the whole world including OPEC to cooperate en masse, sure sign of absolute desperation. Putin is rubbing his hands with glee...he sees the G7 clowns have run out of ideas.
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  5361. sadly, not true. it is only Russian incidents that are being recorded. The Ukrainian ones go ignored, proof that the process is nothing to do with justice, but punishing Russia.
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  5362. so Ukrainian troops have only praise for Zelensky but Russian troops have only scorn for Putin. fair and balanced reporting as ever. My God, RT is a lot more impartial than this propagandist drivel.
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  5363. Britainistan is under de facto Sharia law, as shown by Rotherham and Rochdale. Fear of being beheaded will keep Britainistan that way. Islam has won.
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  5364. Labour approved of all the contributing factors. Green policies, lockdowns, sanctions on Russia, mass immigration.
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  5365.  @stealthbum34  Cuba and North Korea will be leading the way in economic recovery then seeing as they ditched right wing ideology decades ago! you will find the EU's record trade deficit this past year is testament to the horrific trade barriers the EU cartel has imposed on themselves. Brexit trade barriers are minuscule compared to the EU trade barriers.
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  5366. his clothes were close to the remains? so, he stripped of naked, plunged to his death, with his clothes in a bag?
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  5367. I agree with Zelensky. we should refuse to accept terrorist nations, like Ukraine, that shelled the innocent people of the Donbass for 9 years.
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  5368.  @liammurphy2022  yeah, that's right, there are so many of them sat there at that precise gorge at nightfall, just waiting to check to see if a helicopter comes by! you're a funny guy.
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  5369.  @DrewWithington  so dangerous, they found Jay.
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  5370. totally predictable. sanctions on Russia have boomeranged to hit Germany hard
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  5371.  @Tony11806  looks like it, sadly
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  5372. misogyny is attacking a woman, or women, solely because you hate the woman, or women. Fox is not a mysogynist. He explained very clearly why he detested, deeply, one individual who belongs to the female sex, not because she belongs to the female sex, but because of the horrible things she said about men in general.
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  5373.  @JustMe-nj6dp  it needs to be a totally free market. if you don't like the rental property and contract offered, just walk away. if the landlord can't find a tenant, he'll have to offer a better deal. what's wrong with that? if a landlord is getting a better deal by using his/her property as an airbnb, all power to him. it's his/her place. if government deregulated the rental market, more property owners would be interested in renting places out.
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  5374.  @hhuodod2209  the country gets no good, only harm, when tight regulations mean no one wants to invest in property. what good is it to the country to have tight rental regulations and therefore no places to rent?
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  5375. just hysterical that these Mallorcans, who advocate for the EU, are now waking up to the horrors of the EU, freedom of movement, freedom to buy housing there and price out the locals, freedom to stay forever in Mallorca, the locals have lost their housing, their streets, their beaches, ha ha. EU freedom of movement is ruining you, Mallorca. Keep voting for pro EU parties to complete your ruination!
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  5376. faux chrétien....musulman qui se déclare "chrétien" parce que l'UE renvoie pas les chrétien à un pays islamique ou tel chrétien serait persécuté
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  5377. oh boy, what a horrendous stumbling bumbling non-answer to explain why the West is so incapable of effectively arming Ukraine. Too damn sacred to tell the truth and say the UK has bugger all to give that will actually help.
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  5378. hilarious that he thinks only the Russians are using convicts as troops, and only Russia uses barrier troops. He probably never heard of Ruslan Onyshenko
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  5379.  @paoloadam  This is heartbreaking indeed. Let's make sure never to forget and not to forgive until the Ukronazis will have acknowledged what they did and paid what it owes the poor people of the Donbass.
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  5380. Only when migrant boats are towed back to France will the situation change. Rwanda, Navy presence, talking to France, all meaningless. Towing the boats back will stop it.
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  5381. yep, more target practice for the already very efficient Wagners.
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  5382.  @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756  The Wagners that are doing such a great job at wiping out Zelensky's constant stream of cannon fodder and incrementally gaining territory in the Donbass.
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  5383. Funny how the reporter associates RT with Russian propaganda but is blind to BBC as Western propaganda.
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  5384. Russia and Wagner, China too, are so much more popular in Africa than the West. Understandably so. The whole Western idea of isolating Russia, globally, has backfired as the Global South sees what a bunch of hypocritical fools Western leaders are.
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  5385. meanwhile, no tears at all for the children killed in Donbass under massive Ukrainian shelling
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  5386. Blinken lives in a fantasy world. Russia has won and NATO is a whimpering wreck.
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  5387. After a month of negotiations, Guardia Civil and Debbie agree to split the GoFundMe 50/50
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  5388.  @thatbeme  of great comfort to Aiden Aslin and co
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  5389.  @falloutking2819  on the economic front, how's it going for the West? After 6 months of isolating Russia, of crippling the Russian economy so that Russia can't fund the war, after 6 months to weaken the ruble, after 6 months of trying to reduce revenues from energy sales, how's it going? Noticed any change in behavior from Putin and the Kremlin? where do you think the power cuts will happen this winter, Germany or Russia?
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  5390.  @vforwombat9915  the power cuts will happen all over Europe, but particularly in Germany. Russia will be fine this winter and beyond. Cars are being made in Russia and will continue to be made. Even if the entire car industry dies in Russia, cars are easy to import, especially in Russia's case as it has such good relations with China and in fact most of the world is happy to trade with Russia (importing energy, as our idiotic leaders have discovered, is not quite so easy as importing cars). All the young technicians have fled the country? You obviously missed the news that Russians no longer can get visas for Europe, at least. Plenty of fantastic technicians remain in Russia, and again, can be encouraged to immigrate from the likes of China and Kazakhstan. New world order! The West is the boss of no one! Hurts, right?
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  5391. it's that easy. one attack, one and a half million people without power. NATO powerless. any regrets at not implementing Minsk Agreements yet?
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  5392.  @timbow614  exactly, hence the question about if any of our esteemed leaders have any regrets, with hindsight, about refusing to implement the Minsk Agreements.
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  5393. it's not the Far Right who just murdered three little girls, and it's not the Far Right that begged the government to use taxpayers' money to house illegal immigrants.
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  5394.  @alnboriy545  tochno...Nevalniy, gyeroy tolko zapada
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  5395. no wonder there is a housing shortage with rabid Capitalist sharks like Rayner, "owning" properties that is her "home" depending on what day of the week it is.
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  5396. retreat = bad optics = Western taxpayers losing appetite to keep funding a futile war. so NATO has ordered puppet Zelensky to never retreat and fight to the last man...then NATO moves on to the next victim country. Probably Taiwan.
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  5397. Russia 37 Ukraine 2 not much of a strike back
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  5398.  @DEFENDER-lx2hs  Neither you nor I know what Russia targeted, which targets Russia hit, which places were struck by intercepted missiles, which places were struck by shrapnel of incoming missiles, and which places were hit by errant Ukrainian air defence missiles, so why speculate? oh, because you love to blame Russia, I forgot the obvious answer!
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  5399.  @DEFENDER-lx2hs  Never discount the possibility that a school can also be a Ukrainian ammo dump....the 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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  5400.  @silvasdamata  In Australia, citizens are COMPELLED to vote! It is illegal to choose not to vote! Do you think that is a wonderful example of democracy?
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  5401.  @silvasdamata  do you think the Russian elections were more, or less, democratic than the Ukrainian elections this year?
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  5402.  @BananaBossYT  truth hurts, eh?
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  5403. A pathetic, suicidal attempt by the Ukronazis to distract from the Bakhmut debacle. This will certainly help to boost anti Ukrainian solidarity among the Russian population
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  5404. No, the maps DIDN'T show what the Russians had TRIED to take. All that narrative was in your deluded, assuming mind. The maps merely showed who was occupying what. Also, Putin NEVER said that an aim was "to take the country"..yet another fabrication. Stop lying! NO counteroffensive is taking shape near Kherson....since mid March Ukraine has repeatedly tried, and failed, to move towards Kherson. All they have achieved is sustaining heavy losses and being pushed back. This "Kherson under threat" narrative is as fake as Ghost of Kiev.
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  5405. translation - all Russia has to do to win this is play sensible defence, keep exerting artillery pressure all along the front line, take down the power grid every two weeks, keep hoping Zelensky persists in pushing more and more cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder, and by summer this is over, Russia has won.
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  5406.  @wiimooden  looks like we have to rely on Middle East reporting for fair and balanced coverage!
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  5407.  @Julia-Richter  oh good. did it get more than 3 views?
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  5408.  @masaacc-cr9uo  they just need to surrender. simple.
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  5409. you mean the nurse was fine with EU citizens availing themselves of EU Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Labour and Freedom of Residence rules, but didn't think that North Africans should be imported into the EU. I agree with the nurse.
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  5410. just funny how the deluded West and Ukraine keep trying to convince themselves they can defeat Russia. Pure lunacy. Russia has won. Ukrainian soldiers being wiped out. This is just revenge for 8 years of butchery in Donbass against ethnic Russians..Slava Rossiyi Z
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  5411. Sowell danced around this key question somewhat. Certain races, no matter where they live on the planet, score higher on IQ tests than other races. Chinese students in China, N America, Europe, Malaysia, score better than the others. Could this be genetic, in part? Sure. Why expect, after millions of years of evolution, for all races to arrive at the same point, mentally?
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  5412. almost as sickening as the many Islamic beheadings on Europeans, like Lee Rigby and that French teacher. Ukronazis won't be that shocked by such behavior.
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  5413.  @megasin1  Thank you, dear subject! I reached Paris unopposed, and intend to enter the Palace of Versailles tomorrow. Just one step away from capturing all of France and declaring a new kingdom under my reign. Wouldn't be surprised if Macron comes out in support of me.
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  5414. white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants in the last 20 years = 100+ Muslims and immigrants killed by the Far Right in the last 20 years = 0 and Alex Phillips suggests the answer to this horror show is to....stay at home? this is the same Alex Phillips that was whining the other day about unrequested attention from immigration males?
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  5415. maybe it's time for Zelensky to sell his villa in Italy to help finance his war, before pleading with Western taxpayers.
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  5416. not a news item, just senseless gossip
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  5417.  @hendrixinfinity3992  you do realize that Hitler instituted state control of major industries, right?
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  5418.  @hendrixinfinity3992  1. belief in hierarchy. USSR had that, from Politburo down to the soviets, so USSR was Far Right?
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  5419.  @hendrixinfinity3992  4. Conventional Gender Roles. So ONLY the Far Right are saying that a boxer with XY chromosomes should not be punching women in an Olympic boxing ring? ONLY the Far Right? This isn't controversial. You just don't know what "Far Right" means, but boy, is it fun finding that out in this format for the world to see!
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  5420.  @hendrixinfinity3992  The Pope is Far Right?
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  5421.  @hendrixinfinity3992  You are right. I am not very good at this, "this" meaning reading your mind and your twisted definition of "Far Right". So, given that just about everyone in Europe 100 years ago believed in the traditional role of the husband and wife, are you saying that everyone 100% years ago was Far Right? A traditional German family in 1933 that believed in the traditional role of husband and wife were Far Right and shared in the values of the National Socialists? Karl Marx was Far Right, earning the income and letting his wife attend to the children?
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  5422.  @hendrixinfinity3992  "The more hierarchy, the more right wing" So, all dictatorships are Far Right? North Korea is far Right, Venezuela is Far Right, Cuba is far Right? the Vatican is Far Right?
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  5423.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Thanks for the lecture on right wing and left wing, but we are not focused on that. We are focused on who exactly you class as Far Right, and it would seem to be nearly everyone. All Catholics, Muslims, those who believe in the traditional family...turns out most of the world is Far Right!
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  5424.  @FrankHeuvelman  No one seems to be bothered with the Far Left! Starmer and the media have only repeated ad nauseum "Far Right", so let's get a definition of these people that are Far Right. What do they all believe in? Is believing the nation would be better off with immigration at lower levels a Far Right belief? In which case, what would be just a right of centre belief?
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  5425.  @hendrixinfinity3992  just to give you an idea of how the world works, the free market is the default position and starting point of all societies. The more a person advocates for government interference and government regulation, the more that person moves to the Left. In general. In general, a Lefty believes in government intervening to attain ideological, egalitarian goals, and the ends justifies the means (hence Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao were all Lefties) and proponents of Laissez Faire, market economics are right of centre (Milton Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher etc) The nine words a conservative dreads, "I'm from the government, I'm here to help you"
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  5426.  @hendrixinfinity3992  1. Government intervention is both a liberal and left wing position. the further left you are, the more government intervention you believe in. 2. A communist does NOT believe that a mixed market economy is a transition to a state of free association. when challenged on this you couldn't name one aspect of Stalin's USSR that was based on the free market! 3. What a communist may naively believe and what communist governments implement are 2 very different things. Been to Cuba lately? 4. hierarchy has nothing to do with politics. hierarchy is a biological state. Again, you refuse to answer, are bees all right wing because they live in a hierarchical society? hippy communes still have a hierarchy! 5. Dictators are inherently left wing, because they believe in maximal government intervention, and that opposes right wing philosophy of individualism. 6. How about you look up how Capitalism has brought billions of people out of poverty, while Socialism and Communism has caused millions to die in poverty and misery? there is nothing "far right" about wanting your country to be as it was 30 years ago.
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  5427.  @hendrixinfinity3992  if you think nationalized industries work better than the current free market enterprises, then you must be too young to make the comparison! some of us are old enough to remember the nationalized train system! It was SO much worse than what we have today! some of us have lived in countries where medical services are based on private companies! you wouldn't believe how superior the treatment and availability is! Profit makes quality of service improve. State control makes quality of service disappear! Some of us spent time in the USSR and saw it all first hand!
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  5428.  @ifirespondiamstupid7750  clearly integration is not a must. The Amish have refused to integrate into American society for centuries. Yet the Amish are welcome and cause no problems at all. So, if integration is so necessary, explain the Amish, and the Mennonites, and the Chinese community in Paris!
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  5429.  @SmilingNinja  exactly, it's a disgrace that part of my earnings go to the NATO killing machine in Ukronazia
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  5430.  @SmilingNinja  Russia saw how USA recognized Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian sovereign territory, and Russia decided to follow the "international rules based order" as demonstrated by US invasions. you reap what you sow.
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  5431. all depends on how you define "autocracy"
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  5432. @MSD Group I totally agree! If I had to choose between moving to Russia or USA to start a new life, it would definitely be Russia that gets my vote. A "democracy" where you can lose your job for saying "a man can never become a woman" is no democracy in my book.
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  5433.  @rickarnold6704  you don't need any analysis from me. just listen to what Zelensky says and watch what Zelensky does. Zelensky has said that Ukraine will have to retreat unless it gets massive and immediate military aid from the West. That aid has dried up. Russia has demilitarized NATO. Zelensky is in panic mode trying a massive recruitment program that is failing. Russia has no need of recruiting. it is winning.
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  5434. the Indian lads probably thought she was traveling with her grandfather.
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  5435.  @gcharb2d  looks like reading comprehension is not your thing. no, i am not saying there is no evidence of wrongdoing. I am saying there doesn't need to be any evidence of wrongdoing, just the appearance of likely wrongdoing. the judge should dismiss the whole case because it is clear it was brought for political reasons and for the personal and financial gain of Willis. 6 charges have already been dismissed before anyone has said a word in court! let me guess, you want the trial to go ahead so the whole thing doesn't offend Biden supporters, like you, is that it?
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  5436. it's the "bizarre and colorful" ideas that make a lot more sense than searching a wilderness that Slater probably never even entered!
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  5437. a load more votes go Trump's way. Middle America knows this is all bs and that it is part of a witch hunt. Biden can't beat Trump in the polls, so has to get his biased DA's to bring bogus charges. As Beria said, "show me the man, and I'll show the crime"
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  5438.  @Blanka1100  Russia is so much more than a gas station, but not surprising you cling to the arrogant nonsense that led NATO into a losing war in Ukraine. Putin defends the rights of ethnic Russians the world over. The West has only corrupt, spineless politicians. Russia's "victims" need to stop abusing their ethnic Russian populations, and then they will be left in peace. You'd better listen to the ethnic Russians and their complaints.
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  5439. National Rally is NOT far right! It's that DW has become far left.
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  5440. yet more convincing evidence that life in Russia is so much more appealing than in the West these days.
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  5441.  @geoms6263  the truth hurts, eh? when I nail it, you are reduced to name-calling:)
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  5442.  @VINLAND_777  what would help us to communicate is if you answered my questions I sent to you! you did receive them, right?
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  5443.  @cetaepsilon  exactly! so if Russia kept shelling Chechnya and eventually got it, makes sense that if Russia keeps shelling Kherson it will eventually get it. you have seen the logic behind me repudiating the original post.
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  5444.  @timeames2509  agreed. USA does it, Ukraine does it, Russia does it, everyone does it, so what's your point?
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  5445. The pressure on Belarus from Russia must be almost as much as the pressure on Hungary from the EU
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  5446. Just hysterical how the dopes at Times Radio treat this "Russia is losing" delusion with a straight face. Next they will have Ben Wallace on to commemorate the 18 month anniversary of his "Russia is running out of weapons" announcement.
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  5447.  @karinasarah_24  can have, which means it is not always possible to know to what degree an individual is truly rooted in a certain country. many factors need to be taken into account including the cultural values of the individual.
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  5448. really? after 8000 casualties in 2 weeks of "probing" operations, weaponry aplenty destroyed by Russia, this fool of a propagandist expects us to believe that the great counter offensive operation is still going to happen? Newsflash - Despite their best efforts, Ukraine/NATO can't even get through the security zone, where Russia has its forward troops. In 2 weeks, not one single Ukrainian has reached Russia's FIRST defensive line! Horrendous failure for Ukraine/NATO.
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  5449.  @krystofk.2279  "we cannot really make assumptions right now" "Russians don't have much morale" you dope!
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  5450. private health care is the way to go. abolish the NHS.
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  5451. so when Putin said yesterday that Russia is facing a shortage of drones, you don't believe him?
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  5452. moral of the story.....think VERY carefully before you fire at a Russian incoming missile targeting a power plant, because by intercepting said missile, you could well divert it into apartment buildings, as happened here. Zelensky to face war crimes charges, no doubt.
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  5453.  @CelticSaint  totally agree. a phone pinging the nearest tower doesn't mean a whole lot
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  5454. Penny Mordaunt's ace up her sleeve is no one knows who she is, thus she is relatively untainted by the Bojo fiasco years. With the Biden approach, say nothing and smile benignly, she will win because she is neither Snake Sunak nor Liz disTruss
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  5455.  @anarebeca2401  exactly so. anything is possible in the gang underworld. we don't know any details. "hold Jay until 7.30 a.m. and then tell him to start walking toward Buenavista, he'll be picked up on the way, about 20 minutes from Masca", and the 2 strangers would complete their assignment and have no idea what the end game would be.
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  5456. just how desperate is NATO? a bridge is now the main target, even though it would do nothing to change the military situation.
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  5457.  @ElusiveTy  it is no more Russia's obligation to "look after them" than it is France's obligation to "look after" all the asylum seekers amassed in Calais. Of course such people aren't "supposed" to be choosing their country of asylum and trekking through many a transit country, but that is what the law allows! That is what the EU allows! Russia, having seen the foolishness of such EU laws, is doing us all a favor by highlighting such lunacy, so Finland must deal with it. or change the law!
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  5458.  @lewisdelicata5334  yes it does. unless you drastically reduce government spending and stop printing money you will not get out of the crisis.
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  5459.  @michaewelina7983  what is "abusive margin increase"? sounds like you too want to do everything possible to drive as much investment out of the country and thus increase poverty.
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  5460.  @MrSize14feet  which would drive up poverty even more given your massive incentive to companies to leave UK
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  5461. you simply cannot imagine the pleasure it gives to see Democrat voters deal with the reality of what a "Sanctuary City" means. Enjoy every second of it, dear NYC.
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  5462. she makes both Biden and Harris look like bumbling imbeciles, but then, so does a bumbling imbecile
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  5463. If the Palestinian Authority has any jurisdiction over Gaza, then why are there no negotiations between any party and the PA over Gaza?
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  5464. The Taliban are having a great laugh at any sentence with "NATO" and "great" in it.
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  5465.  @protagonist9716  so true. OPEC is CLEARLY working with Russia. you only had to look at the smirk on MBS's face when he told Biden where to go, in Riyadh. USA has really blundered big time. BEGGING Venezuela and Iran to help the US out...ha ha, now THAT is desperate!
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  5466.  @citronski  Ukraine attacked Donbass first, in 2014. Why do you start retelling the story in the middle of the book?
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  5467.  @scepticalwalker3984  which traders? when Russian exports are sold all over the world, they are paid for in rubles, or in another currency and exchanged for rubles. how is that a currency that is not "free-trading"?
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  5468.  @citronski  ahhh, so there is no compulsion in Ukraine to fight. that's why Ukraine sealed its borders to all fighting age men at the beginning of the war, because it is all voluntary. and thousands of Russian men left Russia, freely, because Russia compels its men to fight. makes sense.
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  5469. For now
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  5470. apparently the situation in Soledar is still "extremely difficult" and perhaps Bakhmut might eventually fall to Russia?
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  5471.  @davidnoelfranks1124  exactly so !!!
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  5472. so will Ukraine be totally destroyed BEFORE the sanctions effect change in policy in Russia, or after?
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  5473.  @tonyleedham5462  if you are one of those so concerned, what is stopping you giving every single penny you have to fund new housing? even basic human rights have to be paid for, so you and your chums need to start handing over all your cash.
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  5474.  @FoolsDiary  if you were a landlord, why would you risk renting out your property to a dodgy low income person rather than a tourist? you wouldn't. that's not a dodgy choice. it's common sense. if you want to give every penny you have to help those in need, go ahead, but expecting everyone to volunteer to do the same is absurd. at some point, individual's have to figure out their own way to survive.
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  5475.  @KeithMoon-yz5gi  i am not convinced that she is disabled and has to live in an old bus. there are some details of this story that are missing. i don't believe the local council told her that there are zero options open to her and that there is no accommodation option except living in the old bus. if i am wrong, and that is the only option given by the council, then the question is why are we sending billions to Ukraine and imposing Green taxes on everyone when the handicapped are forced into a bus or on the street? something tells me the brother gets an allowance for taking care of her, and doesn't want to give up that income. income from taxpayers like you to feed the 5 kids he chose to father!
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  5476.  @daydays12  Please explain, if a government prohibited the owning of any second home, how would that help the homeless?
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  5477. "Palestinians" ( a misnomer if ever there was one. let's call them what they are, Arab refugees) the only people in world history that chose to fight and lose 3 futile wars and then chose to accept refugee status and live in misery, governed by terrorists, rather than resettlement and prosperity.
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  5478.  @Lenser  the economies of the West are sustained by mountains of debt. having the credit card with the highest limit doesn't mean the West is so much richer.
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  5479. they did, Crocus attack.
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  5480.  @Chiungalla79 I have not seen the piles of bodies around Bakhmut. I have heard many people assert that there are piles of bodies around Bakhmut, but seen no evidence of it. If there are piles of bodies around Bakhmut, it would makes sense that they are Ukrainian bodies, not Russian.
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  5481.  @Chiungalla79  "defenders usually do" = sometimes defenders lose more than the attackers. when USA invaded Iraq, did the Iraqis take much more Americans with them as they died in places like Fallujah?
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  5482.  @Alnero80  it's funny how, in panic, the Guardia Civil are now hiding behind their "it's tough terrain, it's tough terrain" excuse to cover up their failings.
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  5483. but there was no decline of Germany after 1996. the decline is post the lunatic Left agenda: sanctions on Russia, Green policies, high priced energy, mass immigration.
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  5484. bla bla bla. the end is nigh. yawn.
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  5485. but probably you are even more impressed by the 8 years the Azov Nazis shelled Donbass incessantly, right?
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  5486. So, if last year's 110 billion dollar aid package resulted in stalemate, by what logic does a 2024 budget of 60 billion ensure victory?
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  5487. maybe El Salvador is the place to go to.
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  5488. lots of nice new shiny EU and USA flags there on display. wonder which NGO funded all those props just in time for the big performance? If you look carefully, in the background, you can see Victoria Newland handing out cookies.
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  5489. No, Michael, there is no stalemate. Russia has won. If the front line is not moving, it means Russia has achieved its aims and Ukraine is powerless to change anything in its favour. You are being dishonest.
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  5490. The Wagners have done a great job in Bakhmut. Progozhin is right, time for the Chechens and regular Russian army to rotate in and give the Wagners a break, as the Wagners will be needed when NATO sends boots on the ground over the Polish border.
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  5491.  @JD-rt5sd  wishful thinking. let me guess, you believe Ukraine still controls Soledar and Mariupol?
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  5492.  @atomic4650  come on Atomic, why the silence? Let's set it up so that I can prove my identity to you so that you can put your money where your mouth is! what have you got to lose?
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  5493. really? but we keep hearing how NATO is united and will do whatever is needed for as long as it takes!
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  5494.  @PeterSedesse  on the contrary, the question of Crimea was NOT a major obstacle to progress in the Istanbul talks. Recognizing Crimea as part of Russia would be a major step Ukraine could take to starting a peace process. It is more likely that NATO would much prefer Ukraine to be wiped off the map, of course, just as long as Russia gets slightly weakened in the process. Crimea will remain Russian. everyone knows that. it's just so hard for NATO to say that out loud because it has boxed itself into an embarrassing corner.
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  5495.  @PeterSedesse  what should really concern NATO is that after arming and training the ukronazis for the last 9 years, and after pouring in so much high tech weaponry, whenever the two sides face each other toe to toe, street by street, the Russians win, every time. whether led by Chechens, DPR, LPR, Wagner demoralized and poorly trained convicts, same result, ukrobazis lose. Mariupol, Soledar, Severodonetsk, now Bakhmut. Ukraine always loses head to head. that is what is causing panic among NATO leadership. and rightfully so.
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  5496.  @rocksmo3384  "heating or eating", a UK problem, not a Russian one.
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  5497.  @bdogmccool8096  and UK costs are 6 times higher, so Russia is in a much better position.
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  5498. Certainly Hamas know all about brutality.
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  5499. you know the argument is lost when the chihuahua Baltic states start quoting international law. let's turn this around. Scotland, in international law, is part of the UK, but many believe Scotland should be independent. what's wrong with that belief? Crimean parliament voted for separation from Ukraine in 2014. does "international law" refuse to recognize democratic choices?
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  5500.  @rappakalja5295  I certainly do understand that there are some people on this planet who don't want there to be a war. Nearly all people I would guess (the Aidar, Tornado and Azov Ukrainian Nazis would be the exceptions, agreed?). I would imagine that nearly everyone wants NEITHER Ukrainians NOR Donbass Russians, NOR Russians to suffer. (again, Ukrainian Nazis probably an exception). These people who so dislike war might even, gasp, go and help ALL the victims of this war, the Donbass folk shelled by Ukraine for 8 years or those shelled relatively recently in Ukraine. People like Urey, due to the biased media coverage in the West, always seem to choose the victims in Ukraine and not those victims in the DPR or LPR, to run and help. On the other hand, biased media coverage in Russia will mean all aid and humanitarian assistance from Russia tends to be directed to the Donbass and other Russian speaking areas. gasp! Given that you support Ukraine/Nazi aggression, and presumably you have for the last 8 years, i know this is so difficult for you.
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  5501. Slava Donbasu God bless every brave Donbass soldier fighting for their freedom
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  5502.  @zollen123  without knowing any pertinent details, why would you totally discount any Ukrainian involvement?
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  5503.  @zollen123  so, given that Ukraine today confessed to the terrorist attack on Dugina, why would you assume Ukrainian innocence regarding the Moscow attack?
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  5504. yep. energy prices will fall when a Recession hits, less output in a slump means demand falls. so, let's celebrate that a recession has hit.
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  5505.  @jamesmain_email6969  yes, I think in this war of attrition, the Russian troops are doing well. you mention "huge costs". tell me two things. exactly how many Russian troops/Wagner troops were lost in the Soledar operation, and exactly how many Ukrainian troops? unless you have accurate numbers, reliable numbers, you can't be sure about "huge costs". I mean if Russia lost a load of convicts and mercenaries, but Ukraine lost some of its finest battalions, I would say that shows Russia is doing well, right? in a war of attrition, why is momentum of any importance?
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  5506.  @ChrisVillagomez  Napoleon lost because, just as in Ukraine, Russian troops fell back and ceded territory to a dumb enemy that could only think in terms of territory. General Winter stepped in and wiped out Napoleon's forces. Demilitarization of France complete. Stalin knew that "quantity is a quality in itself" and outmanned German forces. Again, NATO needs to keep focused on the 30 million men that Russia can call on, and the 300,000 remaining men Ukraine has yet to force into military service.
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  5507.  @asinine9ben  and Russia is getting all the support it asks for, unlike Ukraine and the tapped out NATO.
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  5508.  @jamesmain_email6969  got it all backwards, dude. you don't know how many nor which Russian troops died in the first month. Only a small number of people in the Kremlin know that, so you can put your crystal ball away. Russia has 30 million men it can call on to fight this war, if needed. Ukraine is down to 300,000. It's Zelensky moving dead troops around, hence the convicts and mercenaries just routed the Ukrainian last ditch cannon fodder in Soledar.
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  5509.  @jamesmain_email6969  you just named one what? what you call facts, I call bs, I suspect. the bottom line is you have no idea what the Russian death toll is, and it is foolish to assume what it is. it would be wise of you to see how Russia prevailed in Syria and Chechnya, its tactics of attrition and how it plans long term and with contingencies. James, dude, you have so much to learn. try to start sifting "facts" from speculation.
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  5510. @Kieron Mac that's my feeling. i can't imagine Ukraine has anything like a full fighting force left, and I get a feeling Russia is advancing slowly to preserve as many of its own troops as possible. Russia has no time scale, we have to be patient to see how they proceed.
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  5511. Yep, the first grain shipments are happening! See what happens when you relax sanctions and negotiate with Russia? Obviously it is painful for the West to see any success resulting from talking to Russia, so many in the West will be praying for some obstacle to pop up.
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  5512. best thing that GB News did was to get rid of that fool Andrew Neil. Good riddance to him.
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  5513. "no opposition" well, apart from the Communist party candidate, and the Nationalist party candidate. it's certainly a lot more democratic than the recent Rochdale by election, or the crooked mail-in voting of the last US presidential election.
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  5514. translation, the West should freeze to death this winter and go bankrupt in order to keep arming Ukraine so that it can lose this futile war more slowly
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  5515.  @oneshothunter9877  1. Despite no evidence, Russia was blamed for interference in the Brexit vote and Trump's election. Russian "disinformation" is the go-to lie the media will trumpet at the drop of a hat. NATO's expansion eastward has been a provocation since 1990. Get real. Russophobia is a media obsession. 2. "Fixed things to get needed energy from other places?" So why does energy cost SO much more today compared with pre sanctions on Russia? For working people struggling with energy bills and the inflation caused by higher energy costs, THIS IS NOT FIXED! Russia and OPEC work hand in hand to keep energy prices high, but just for for the West. you need to wake up.
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  5516. We're now into month three of this deluded fool talking about a Ukrainian advance on Kremina! At least he gave his other favorite mantra "The Russians are running out of weapons" a break, just for today. Just curious how he thinks any tanks entering from Poland will make it to the battlefield if the 300,000 Russian reservists enter western Ukraine from Belarus and seal off the border, or if the bridges over the Dniepr are destroyed.
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  5517. fascinating how DW's reputation for bias precedes its microphones! Vox have no intention of letting DW twist and turn its statements out of all recognition!
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  5518.  @ZuzkaK6  you don't agree with Putin coming to the defence of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine? why not? if only Western leaders fought for their citizens and people as Putin does.
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  5519.  @Ea-pb2tu  some say genocide is being committed in Gaza, others don't. what does the International Rules based Order, so beloved and oft repeated by the West, say on the genocide happening in Gaza? Yes, a Kosovo style intervention is needed and to be led by NATO, or not?
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  5520.  @georgiossgk7384  you are so right. The West only refers to "territorial integrity" when it talks about a territory the West supports. What happened to Syrian "territorial integrity" when US tanks rolled in and are still occupying a big chunk of Syria?
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  5521.  @DSan-kl2yc  just curious, what did the UN declare on the Catalan separatists? and the Scots separatists? what is the UN position on those separatists?
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  5522. bla bla bla, Russia destroyed its own pipelines, Russia destroyed the dam it controlled, now Russia is going to cause a nuclear horror show in the power plant it runs. at some point, propagandist Clarke is going to think "surely some sheep are going to realize I'm a charlatan and liar".
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  5523.  @blackoutboy030  correct..the people of the Donbass would say that for the last 8 years, it has been Ukraine. agreed?
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  5524. ok honey, let me answer your question....key infrastructure points are attacked by Russia because certain infrastructure affords military help to Ukraine, and Russia doesn't want to help Ukraine militarily, so it tries to destroy such places. It's called war, though so far Russia has minimized collateral damage, at least better than NATO did in Libya, Serbia, Afghanistan etc.
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  5525. Best way to end the war would be for Ukraine to surrender
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  5526. any coverage would show the horror of Ukraine's folly, so, no, not so amazing Western media not showing reality on the ground.
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  5527. "pleading"? why? Russia is on the backfoot, Russia is losing, Russian morale is low, Russia is running out of weapons, Russian forces are poorly led, Russian forces are poorly equipped, Russia puts only convicts and mercenaries on the front lines, and I know all this because Western media told me so. so, why is Ukraine pleading for anything?
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  5528. Meloni is frustrated with herself at having made such absurd pronouncements about standing with Ukraine, and now understands that Russia has won. she got trapped by her own rhetoric and knows not where to turn.
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  5529. Macron is such a clown. USA and Europe are so far behind in the arms race, it's a joke. Russia and its allies are out producing the West massively, and always will be. The West only produces to make a profit. It has no idea how to mass produce for protracted warfare. Russia has already won.
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  5530.  @karlhungusjr1  drunk on water?
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  5531.  CH0L3R1C  Ukraine had no means to do so? so why the constant barrage of Ukrainian himars aimed at the dam wall? what were the Ukrainians TRYING to achieve by their constant shelling? Go back to December 2022, when Ukraine said they would destroy that dam if they needed to!
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  5532. Free speech is alive and well in Russia compared to UK. Russians are nowhere near as reticent about speaking their minds.
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  5533. "talk about the root causes".......nonsense. no one will be mentioning "out of control mass immigration from Africa"
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  5534.  @antonb348  I never mention random countries. I've either been there or know enough about them to be sure their homogeneity is a key factor in their low crime rates.
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  5535.  @shahnazkayani2310  1. No one said life was so good in the UK in the 50's and 60's compared to Australia. 2. There was no shortage of workers in the UK. There was a shortage of work available in the Caribbean. 3. No one asked the Windrush lot to come over. They were allowed to enter as citizens of the Commonwealth. 4. Dad given a visa does not mean that the entire UK needed more workers. It means in certain sectors there are/were vacancies. Same reason I was granted a work visa for USA. 5. Correct, India now does a lot of the manufacturing that UK used to do. That's why UK needs no more immigrant workers.
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  5536. lying propagandist. Clarke just can't being himself to say Russia is advancing everywhere, Ukronazis have lost thousands in the Bakhmut meatgrinder, there is nothing with which to launch a Ukronazi offensive, Clarke probably thinks the sanctions on Russia are working. thickhead.
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  5537. she raises a good point. maybe a few concentration camps in and around Dover would convince the migrants to stay in France. she's on to something there.
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  5538. Maybe she is really a man and that's why she can't be fired
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  5539. just goes to show any brainless moron can become a major general. only a total fool would think taking on Russia in a protracted ground war could turn out well. "illegally annexed Crimea".....I guess he is ignorant of something called "democracy" whereby the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev in 2014.
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  5540. it's thanks to Tucker that we have evidence that a so-called insurrection features Capitol police escorting a the Q Anon shaman into various sacrosanct chambers. when was the last insurrection that had law and order acting as tour guides to "rioters"? ever?
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  5541. to hear the truth, listen to Patrick Lancaster, retired US military broadcasting from the RUSSIAN side of the front. Otherwise you get the usual censored narrative that Ukraine allows broadcast from its side.
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  5542. "do you have any evidence?" "look at the prison population in Germany. Are Muslims under-represented or over-represented in that population?"
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  5543. The reason no grain will be shipped from Ukrainian ports is because the West keeps trying to figure out how to break a blockade that doesn't exist. The West needs to figure out how to convince Ukraine to demine its ports. The reason no progress has been made on the "blockade" problem is because there is no blockade, and so no grain shipments will happen. Keeping its ports protected by mines is Ukraine's greater priority over saving the lives of starving Africans.
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  5544. John and Fani, such a close father and daughter relationship, so close that John has no idea who his daughter is dating and has no clue which country his daughter is in when she leaves town. they really care for each other.
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  5545. there is no evidence that any extra CO2 man pumps into the atmosphere has any significant effect on climates. it's all supposition in an effort to control our behaviors.
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  5546. "the leftovers the western military are handing over"...proof right there that Putin has demilitarized Ukraine, AND the West. Slava Rossiyi.
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  5547.  @huguesjouffrai9618  how would you know if Ukraine needs more men or not?
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  5548.  @alvaro701  again, what makes you think Ukraine is turning down volunteers? who is telling you this? There is no point in Ukraine actually asking for non Ukrainians because NATO has made it clear, no boots on the ground. but not asking for something doesn't mean you don't need something desperately.
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  5549.  @agnezz4985  No idea the total. The Panama Papers revealed his extensive holdings abroad, I remember mention of a villa in Italy and property in USA. It is virtually impossible to become leader of Ukraine without being bought off by the oligarchs
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  5550.  @huguesjouffrai9618  some of us read various news sites every day. you would be surprised how they disagree with each other! you have no idea how many men Ukraine currently has available, so put the crystal ball down and start doubting the word of propagandists in Kiev. again, you have no idea of what weapons are currently available to Ukraine. nor to Russia. Ukraine has been begging for weapons and ammo since day one. Ukraine is bankrupt and totally reliant on the West. like Afghanistan, just a matter of time before USA throws Ukraine under the bus.
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  5551. Can't have your cake and eat it! If the media were right about low morale, poor equipment and general incompetence in the Russian ranks, now explain how such a motley crew just beat the UK trained and armed Ukraine battalions.
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  5552. the idea of the sanctions was to cripple the Russian economy so that it would, in short order, have to abandon the war. eggs increasing in price by 50% or whatever is indicative of just how much a hopeless failure Western sanctions were on Russia, though they certainly crippled the West's energy supply.
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  5553. just curious, anyone remember Murray speaking out in exactly the same way when the ICC announced the arrest warrant for Putin?
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  5554. more lies. by and large the local population has NOT been hostile at all to the Russian presence in Kherson. Tens of thousands have applied for Russian passports and the ruble (a strong, stable currency) has been in effect for 6 months (the hrivme has collapsed and no one will touch it). The Kherson offensive failed, Russia is under no threat in Kherson, This fool has been talking about Russian supply problems and a "noose tightening" for bloody months. totally deluded.
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  5555.  @Gucci_Membrane  truth hurts, eh? Following the Nazi Denis Nikitin's invasion of Belgorod and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, Russia and its many supporters around the globe are absolutely fine with revenge attacks on restaurants in Kramatorsk. Only an insane fool would take on Russia in a ground war. Zelensky, enjoy every minute of your mindless folly.
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  5556. yet you refute nothing she says. I guess you have no clue.
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  5557. it's the "background noise" that the media and police refuse to investigate that will tell us where Jay is! searching a wilderness without evidence Jay ever went there is just absurd.
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  5558. any punishment for Poroshenko and Zelensky for EIGHT YEARS of shelling the Donbass and thousands of civilians massacred there? or we just ignore that? Russia bad, Ukraine good, right?
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  5559. 8 years of Ukraine shells killing civilians in the Donbass. Now the Donbass Russian speakers are getting their revenge. Ukraine, only 7 years and 8 months of this conflict to go!
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  5560.  @alcogito8287  exactly. having a clear vision for multiculturalism requires realizing that mass Muslim immigration is an awful idea.
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  5561. "three day operation" was a lie created by the Western media. No Russian ever gave a timeline for this operation. Sheeple like you just swallowed it because you wanted to.
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  5562. Kherson was taken in March! This blithering idiot really believes the treason charges are connected with stuff back in March? Any chance the treason charges are connected to the Himars recently sold to Russia by corrupt Ukrainian army officers?
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  5563.  @bonnie7898  I very much doubt it, but I can't say I studied his election manifesto in great detail. next question?
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  5564.  @bonnie7898  No one knows the will of the people except at election time and via opinion polls, and they can be inaccurate too. At the moment, the approval rate in polls for Putin are much higher than those for Biden, Sunak, Macron or Schultz! Zelensky campaigned on a message of bringing peace to the Donbass! How do you think that pledge worked out? Think before posting, and better yet, get educated and at least learn the basics.
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  5565.  @bonnie7898  no mental gymnastics involved, just clear thinking, which you don't have. 1. yes, leaders attempt to reflect the collective mind of their people. some leaders are better than others at this. 2. correct, I have no idea what Putin's election manifesto included, but I doubt there was any reference to war with Ukraine, as that scenario was on no one's radar at the time of his election. 3. also true that only opinion polls can attempt to show a leader's popularity or approval rating at any given point of time, though polls are unreliable. All 3 statements are true. Deal with it. Speaking your mind can get you jailed in any country, grow up.
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  5566.  @bonnie7898  No agitation from me, though I suspect you are immensely frustrated that I have to keep schooling you on the basics. I never said that I don't know if the people were given a choice about the invasion of Ukraine. You must have me confused with someone else. What I said was that leaders try to reflect the collective mind of their people. Some succeed, some fail. Putin believes that the majority of Russians approve of the Ukrainian invasion, as I do, and as I think most Russians do, but without a referendum, who could be certain? A roasting from so many commenters? For sure, there are thousands who are as ignorant as you about the Ukraine situation, and many of them share their ignorance in their comments, but that is hardly a roasting! Slava Rossiyi, Slava Donbasu, time for Zelensky to retire to his villa in Italy. Russia has won.
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  5567.  @bonnie7898  If a free and fair referendum were held in Ukraine, tomorrow, do you think there would be a majority that would accept the peace agreement offered back in March of '22?
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  5568.  @jabato9779  y el masacre de los en Donbas por Ucrania, 2014 - 2022?
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  5569.  @hiddendragon415  you wouldn't recognize a democratic country if it bit you in the a*s
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  5570. Regarding Russia's projected GDP drop....Russians' capacity for suffering far exceeds that of the West. the West will cry and panic first...it's already happening..get ready for energy rationing, Europe.
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  5571. ditto all the civilian deaths as a result of Ukrainian shelling in the Donbass, agreed?
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  5572. strong language and message from NATO. Lots more dead Ukrainian soldiers from Russia. Please, quick, help Ukrainians with more strong language!
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  5573.  @oneofakind5668  typical of the lies the Far Left love to dream up. We all know acid attacks are not a white British thing, but are very much an immigrant thing.
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  5574. who would guess the market lost trust in a country that paid healthy workers to stay at home and not work, imposed sanctions on Russia and sent billions to Ukraine?
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  5575.  @CUNDUNDO  Rich but happy is also possible, and attainable
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  5576.  @clancywiggam  be my guest, drop in the ocean!
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  5577.  @doylecastanie1903  just here to bring the truth to the deluded sheeple
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  5578.  @gabriellamclellan1102  except most of the world, that supports Russia in all this (Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Asia minus Japan)
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  5579. well, apart from Zelensky, who has a mansion in Miami
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  5580. Not for the first time in your life, you are totally wrong. Lavrov is always keen to explain the Russian perspective to anyone who might listen.
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  5581.  @geoffreycodnett6570  and what would that be in English, rather than 10 random English words? Try again, or use your native language
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  5582.  @kmaggs7804  well said. Lavrov commanded so much respect in his meetings with African leaders. Blinken attracted only scorn.
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  5583.  @wom_Bat  give me just one African country where the Wagners secure a regime. It's because Russia has no colonial history in Africa that so many African leaders have time for Lavrov, and not for bumbling Biden or the colonialists in the EU. Africa needs to have Russian energy, grains and fertilizers, and they will do what they can to keep Lavrov on their side. Lavrov is the true diplomat. No one in the West comes close to his skills on the world stage.
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  5584.  @wom_Bat  sounds like the West has been negligent to let such Russian dominance happen so easily. I'll check out your claims and get back to you
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  5585.  @wom_Bat  Mali? but French forces were there, and they withdrew. so, Wagners stepped in where the French didn't want to be? again, sounds like negligence on the part of the West, to me
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  5586. only the West ever talked about a 10 day operation. Russia has no timeline
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  5587. the Zelensky begging circus comes to town, and as always, when not being coddled by fake friendly Western leaders, he makes a fool of himself. lecturing the Saudis and other Arabs on "burying their heads in the sand" will make him no friends and will confirm their commitment to helping Russia defeat the West. Zelensky is so out of his depth in this format.
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  5588.  @ZoragRingael  how could you possibly know that? oh, let me guess, because the media you 100% trust told you those buildings were not used for any military purpose! Look, Russia has drones, spies on the ground, intelligence aplenty...if it targets a building, it targets it for a logistics/military reason. If Russia wanted to kill as many civilians as possible then the most densely populated residential areas of Kiev would be destroyed every day...and that ain't happening, right?
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  5589. hard to believe that a mosque, where jihad and intolerance are preached, would be the target of any anger!
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  5590.  @frenchimp  I think you'll find that most Russians consider the DPR and LPR pretty much as their homeland, just as they considered Abkazia and South Ossetia in Georgia as part of Greater Russia, and Transnistria in Moldova, and Chechnya, and Crimea. Russians are prepared to make enormous sacrifices for what they see as the Greater Russia. Putin's brother died of starvation in Leningrad. Got a feeling Putin and his comrades can ride out SEVERE economic downturns better than Bojo and Liz Truss. Just a feeling.
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  5591. the civil war between the multi-culturalists and the traditionalists will go on for quite a while, flaring up and dying down, but until immigration is stopped it won't go away.
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  5592. Corbyn would have had the sense not to get messed up in the Ukraine disaster and waste billions on a futile, losing cause.
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  5593. Parts of Lisbon look like Pakistan, and so many Portuguese hate that their country is slipping away from them. The usual story in Western Europe.
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  5594. Colombian grooming gangs copying the success of the Pakistani rape gangs in UK
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  5595.  @jdjd9935  but you'll find black overweight Americans way over represented.
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  5596. "unable to verify this claim" obviously only applies to what Russia says. Anything that Ukraine claims is accepted as truth by DW and their propagandists. so, success for Ukraine will be capturing some territory, maybe a city or two, in this offensive. at what price? re capturing Severodonetsk would be worth what? 10,000 cannon fodder? 20,000? what's your number, Frank?
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  5597. in the name of fair and balanced reporting, when might we hear about Ukrainian war crimes? or are all the sheep in your audience supposed to assume that Russia has a monopoly on war crimes, it is 100% Russia and 0% Ukronazia?
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  5598. the dude has a penis and his voice is broken, so, there was no misgendering.
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  5599. an extra hijab and 2 or 3 more robes to cover every inch of flesh would have kept the heat out
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  5600. sad to see that Kisin doesn't understand that all those migrants arriving in Dover on boats from France are all 100% legal.
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  5601.  @ultrainstinct6496  indeed it is, which emphasizes the point that every euro in hand should be spent on infrastructure, not on a futile war in Ukraine.
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  5602.  @kanyenortheast  the usual infantile assumption that the only supporters of Russia must be Russian trolls. step out of your bubble one day and understand that most of the planet is fine with Russia. The weather in Spain is fine. How's the weather deep up Bandera's backside?
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  5603.  @aokiaoki4238  perfect sense
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  5604.  @permissiveanalogy2565  I didn't say that Greece had sent money to Ukraine. Has Greece sent any aid to Ukraine?
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  5605.  @permissiveanalogy2565  2 questions. Does Greece contribute to the EU budget? Has the EU sent funds to Ukraine?
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  5606.  @permissiveanalogy2565  will the "long paid-off military equipment" be replaced? at what cost? who pays? maybe your phrase "long paid-off military equipment" is your way of saying Greece should be proud of sending useless junk to Ukraine?
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  5607.  @permissiveanalogy2565  I am asserting that Greece sent money to the EU and the EU sent money to Ukraine, so Greece sent money to Ukraine indirectly and Greece sent weaponry directly to Ukraine, if you understand the difference between "indirectly" and "directly". And I am right. Ah, yes, you are right, Greece is no longer a sovereign nation, so once it has been compelled to send its cash to the EU, it has no say on how such a contribution is spent. Yes, I see what you mean, Greece has sent money, indirectly, to Ukraine and can do nothing about that, thus its infrastructure has to go to ruin because Greece is powerless to change such arrangements. well pointed out. Greece is totally unable to demand a reduction in its contribution in order to improve infrastructure so that loads of people don't die in train derailments. "Vehicles are replaced for free" oh dear! someone who never grasped Friedman's "there is no such thing as a free lunch" I guess the debate ends there. sweet child, nothing is for free, and everything has a cost.
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  5608.  @permissiveanalogy2565  as I said, arguing with a child who asserts that something can be replaced "for free" is not good use of my time. learn the basics, and keep sending all that cash you have to Brussels instead of keeping it for improving your own murderous rail system.
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  5609.  @permissiveanalogy2565  as I said, it might be worth debating you when you have learned that it is impossible to replace something for free. go back to 6th grade.
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  5610.  @CowmanUK  so curious you use the phrase "became pregnant" as if it were pure chance! how about a dose of reality? your friends "chose to get pregnant"! or were your friends "pumped and dumped", slags who are now wondering who the father could be?
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  5611.  @jazminemctaggart8486  first things first, you point out where I said that you had stated anything about others paying your way. looks like you are imagining I quoted you, when I never did. just curious.....where's the father?
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  5612.  @jazminemctaggart8486  oh, so suddenly you retract the accusation made, that I said you said you expected others to pay for you and your kid? apology accepted. yet again, you are putting words in my mouth! Suddenly, I see why you are having problems in life. You don't mean what you say, and you don't say what you mean. I never said people are having babies for money. Yep, single parent with single income. no one needs to know any background. got it. good luck, but sharpen up on your reading skills. Twice you accused me of saying things I never said, and that ain't good.
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  5613.  @CatherineX-ph3on  well said. if everyone had your spirit, there wouldn't be any of these "woe is me, the poor economy is to blame" type news stories.
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  5614.  @zakjuly6721  she would do nothing. only Zemmour has promised to end immigration and start repatriation.
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  5615.  @ant318  ah, the old "unable to refute his message, so let's investigate who the messenger is" approach. sums up the desperation of the Ukronazi supporters.
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  5616.  @paulgibbon5991  what is your definition of hate speech?
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  5617.  @masakitonguba8919  true. but it's a bad idea
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  5618. Borders were re-introduced across Europe during the covid crisis, but being invaded by millions of immigrants is not considered a crisis.
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  5619. NATO thinks it has gained Sweden and Finland. It hasn't yet. NATO has lost Turkey, though. Turkey is now Putin's ally within NATO, and it's working well. Notice how the BRICS nations are forging ahead with deals, trade, cooperation. Compare that with the stagnation and hot air of the G7. The future with BRICS and Russia, as NATO and EU loses hegemony and global respect by the bucketful. Most of the globe is backing Russia.
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  5620. The rest of the world IS choosing! They are starting to use the Russian bank messaging system, ditch the dollar and look to decrease trade with the West! Your dream is coming true! enjoy the pain!
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  5621. so, even though 110 billion dollars aid resulted in a stalemate, 60 billion will result in victory. how does that work?
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  5622. Once again, Europe screws over the developing world, printing more funny money to pay inflated energy prices for inflation battered European customers, leaving poorer Asian countries devoid of fuel, but hey, that's Asia's problem, so, who cares?
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  5623. the slowest kid in the class, G7, not bright enough to see sanctions have failed, so now think threatening the world to comply with their manipulated price will surely work. It will be another F for poor G7. BRICS and OPEC the newest bright sparks of the class.
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  5624. "The Leopards will get there PROBABLY in time" = we may be too late and Russia will have won by April
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  5625. paranoia? who was it that took the world close to nuclear armageddon when they could not accept Soviet missiles placed in Cuba? Non paranoid USA?
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  5626. only the numbers in the 7 swing states matter, so this is all blabber as it talks about things nationally. Trump is ahead in the swing states.
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  5627. the truth is that the occupied territories, in the next few days, will become part of the Russian Federation. Ukraine can thenceforth expect to be absolutely devastated by attacks on ALL infrastructure until reduced to ashes. Great leadership from Zelensky and the West.
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  5628. The ruble is doing well against the dollar, and prices now are coming down in Russia. The sanctions were supposed to cripple the Russian economy right? Am I the only one that sees Western governments got this 100% wrong?
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  5629. so if Kerry couldn't convince his own wife to ditch the private plane, why the hell would he think China has any chance of acting on his words..
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  5630.  @farkoskupi4267  Russia already has a motive to attack Moldova! Transnistria is home to ethnic Russians, but thankfully, Transnistria has broken away from Moldova and the peace there is guaranteed by 2000 RUSSIAN peace-keepers! If NATO decides to push Moldova to confrontation with Russia, then Moldova will receive the same treatment as Ukraine, and deserve it. I remember Georgia VERY well, do you? BOTH Abkhazia and South Ossetia are home to ethnic Russians, Russian speaking areas, and like Ukraine, Tbilisi imposed nationalist policies on those areas that marginalized Russian speakers. As with Ukraine, Putin responded to defend the rights of those Russian speakers, and was right to do so. Today, both Abkhazia and South Ossetia live peacefully under the Russian umbrella and things are fine. Lesson learned? Poland has no Russian speaking minority, so no need to fear Russia. Latvia is the one that should be concerned. Latvia has a sizeable Russian speaking population that is being discriminated against. Latvia is the one edging toward getting the Putin treatment. Treat ethnic Russians as equal citizens, and Putin has no problem with you. Simple as that.
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  5631.  @Lussra  1) if you go by most reports (like General Milley and Ursula Van der Leyen), Ukraine's 100,000 dead soldiers represents a MASSIVE Russian gain! The day you learn that Putin's aim for demilitarization is all about killing Ukrainian troops, and not about territory, you will understand the reality of things. 2) Russia will win. Its objectives are within reach and attainable. Ukraine's are pure fantasy. 3) It may be that Russia is more corrupt than Ukraine. I doubt it, based on my own experiences in Ukraine, but the point is that only a fool would give aid to Ukraine and assume such aid goes to help those in need in Ukraine. Kiev has so much experience in siphoning off aid from gullible Westerners. Did you hear the news that Zelensky has sold his mansion in Miami to help his own citizens? No, neither did I!
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  5632.  @tennishistoryandresultsdat4540  and this is where we find out that you are 100% coward! Let's see you put your money where your mouth is! If you are sure that I am not Duncan Smith, $1000 bet that I can prove that I am! Unlike you, I don't hide behind a fictitious name. Ready to bet?
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  5633.  @georgigeorgiev891  what has the EU's most corrupt country got to do with comparing corruption in Ukraine and Russia, and corruption in Ukraine and EU as a whole?
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  5634.  @passbysimon3095  your English is not so good here, so not sure what you are asking. I am not Russian and obviously I don't know how rich all Russian oligarchs are. what I do know is that the oligarchs of Ukraine control Zelensky, but Putin controls the Russian oligarchs. and that is a difference of great importance.
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  5635.  @farkoskupi4267  Keep in mind that Putin has been in power since last century! When has Putin even threatened to attack any NATO country? Putin has intervened militarily when ethnic Russians have been denied their rights. period. Georgia, Chechnya, Transnistria, now Ukraine. Also, you can't have your cake and eat it. If you sincerely believe Russia is heading toward a humiliating defeat in Ukraine, then you would also believe that Russia has nothing with which to attack NATO. ONLY if you believe that Russia is prevailing in Ukraine would you believe Russia could also attack NATO. which one is it? Russia is indeed strong enough to destroy Ukraine AND NATO?
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  5636.  @dltn42  the gas has not tripled in price. what you mean is that gas is now sold at its true market value, and that subsidies have been removed. it's the medicine that needs to be taken to recover. too many Argentinians got used to fake prices that have ruined the economy. shock therapy is needed.
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  5637.  @tailofahippopotamus9775  certainly worked for every single leader that ever went to war, right?
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  5638. Behind the curve, mate! Start watching some reliable media! Africa, for a LONG time, has been solidly behind Russia and AGAINST the West! African Union lobbied the West to drop its food and fertilizer sanctions against Russia, and Belarus, which the West has done, TOTAL CAPITULATION! Africa KNOWS it's Western sanctions and Ukrainian mines that are holding up shipments, NOT any blockade. Africa fed up of dictatorial lecturing attitude from Western colonialists and already backs Russia.
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  5639.  @chrisypcream6792  so, the USA and Russia are allies in Syria, fighting against the same enemy, correct?
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  5640.  @mr.dr.inc.4832  point taken. so, getting back to Syria, are Russia and USA allies against ISIS in Syria?
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  5641. After the ethnic Russians of the Donbass learned not to ever trust the Kiev government post Maidan.
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  5642. Pure lies. How can African countries pay for grain when Russia has been banned from SWIFT? The very sanctions that were designed to cripple Russian banking are also crippling trade with Russia, obviously. Africa must be absolutely delighted that the West is blocking international payments for life-saving grain.
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  5643. so all those PMs who said they would reduce immigration rates to the tens of thousands, when can we expect them to be arrested for misinformation and disseminating inaccurate information?
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  5644. Ignore this reporter...his job is to say what his paymaster's demand of him. The reality is that only a fool would think Russia won't win this conflict. It is only a question of the route Putin takes to victory. Many in Russia have been calling for full mobilization to get the Ukrainians out of Donbass and to demilitarize Ukraine once and for all. It's about to happen.
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  5645.  @pho-kingsoup8126  yep, according to Russia.....if you are going to allege something Putin said that is inaccurate, then give us the quote!
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  5646.  @FRIPPE_THE_GREAT  Remember the 5 objectives! keep focused on the objective of "demilitarization of Ukraine". Ukraine air force...destroyed. Ukrainian navy...gone!..Ukrainian army....18 year old cannon fodder recruits up against Chechen street fighters in Lizychansk tells me Ukraine is running low on real soldiers! NATO took a month and a half to take Fallujah! Urban fighting is a slow, grinding affair....but Russia has the time, patience and will. 85% of Russia's million man army NOT in Ukraine. Just imagine how things would be if war was declared, and not just a special military operation?
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  5647. ​ @pho-kingsoup8126  I worked in Ukraine AFTER the Maidan...you should have stayed to see the difference! Azov Nazis drumming up the Russophobia, the Ukrainian oligarchs calling the shots, Donbass Russian speakers spat on and called "traitors", Russian speakers like myself banned from using Russian in the classroom, and the list goes on. These "issues" , as you put it, erupted with the coup d'etat that replaced Yanukovich (democratically elected president) with a puppet of the West. Crimea and Donbass immediately declared themselves separate, rightfully so. Donbass and Crimea never left Ukraine...Ukraine abandoned democracy and abandoned its Russian speakers.
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  5648.  @livingtribunal4110  keep up the good work! At least between us we can help introduce some of these deluded Western bubble sheep to the Russian perspective
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  5649.  @jeffreykalb9752  you leave something when it becomes more of a liability than an asset. simple as that. I took the "goodwill gesture" to be a joke, as the Russians know grain shipments are blocked by Ukrainian mines, not by who occupies Snake Island, but who knows?
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  5650.  @shadowbanned636  But BOY have they massacred a whole bunch of Azov, Aidar, and Right Sector Nazis, plus destroyed thousands of Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, including the cream of the crop, Fantastic progress on the "demilitarization" and "denazification" fronts. Given that NATO needed a month and a half to take just Fallujah, Russia's territorial progress in the urban settings has been impressive.
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  5651.  @pho-kingsoup8126  Correct.....Russia has only the right to ASK for Ukrainian neutrality. However, once Ukraine has signed the Minsk accords and thence refused to implement said accords, Russia has EVERY right to take control of such a nation and force the implementation, or to create any government that will ensure equal treatment of Russian speakers. You are right...Ukraine can do what it wants. It can also suffer the consequences of shelling its own civilians for 8 years and refusing to honor what it signed.
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  5652.  @livingtribunal4110  pho can't...Pho just digests all the Western propaganda and takes it as some kind of truth. Pho is a primary example of why RT should be allowed to broadcast anywhere, so that Pho can get a glimpse of reality.
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  5653.  @livingtribunal4110  as always, well said, but delving into "Kievan Rus" will just get you blank stares...most of these goons posting here have NO idea of Ukraine's past, and don't care. They would wring their hands if Spain started shelling Cataluña, but they give Zelensky the thumbs up for what he has done in Donbass
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  5654.  @shadowbanned636  as already pointed out, there is a difference between accepting something and agreeing with it. Like Putin, I disagree that Ukraine should exist as a state. Like Putin, I accept that it does and will do. Tough one for you to grasp, I know, but what we accept as reality and what we agree with often diverge.
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  5655.  @alanbellas513  I would agree with Putin. I would say he is right, not wrong. Ukraine is a Soviet creation that, historically, has no independent history detached from that of Russia. Kievan Rus (look it up). Ukraine's connections to Russia are FAR MORE enduring and historical and deep-rooted than any differences. Was the 19th century Crimean War fought by Ukrainians or by Russians? I have the same argument with Catalonians. Cataluña is not a real state, because its attachment to Spain historically is far greater than any wish to be different. So this one is pure opinion, viewing the bottle as half full or half empty. You might disagree with Putin's view of history, I don't. He's right in MANY people's eyes, including many Ukrainians'!
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  5656.  @livingtribunal4110  Oh, so PHO was basing things on what the UN says! Explains his ignorance and befuddled state!
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  5657.  @Anglo_Saxon1  exactly so. but what's your point exactly? That English speakers told they can't use English any more shouldn't expect help and support from fellow English speakers?
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  5658.  @futonclutch5040  remember, NATO took a month and a half to take Fallujah, which was defended by a bunch of goat herders! Urban warfare is slow and grinding by nature. When we see the first stunning Ukrainian counter offensive then we can say Russia might be struggling. not til then.
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  5659.  @davidallison5529  The NATO that Sweden and Finland plan to join, would that be the same NATO that, when a bunch of goat herders strolled into Kabul, exited Afghanistan like panicked shrieking schoolgirls, leaving all their weaponry behind, humiliated and discredited to the core? That same NATO? The shock and awe sanctions have failed, and are now hurting the weak-stomached, pampered Westerners more than the Russians. We are witnessing the death throes of Western hegemony, and the West is in panic as Russia and China establish a multi world order. so great to see.
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  5660.  @pho-kingsoup8126  to ascertain Ukrainian resistance, to fix in place Ukrainian forces while the South was taken and occupied, and to wipe out as many Ukrainian forces as possible, obviously.
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  5661.  @stephenbingham5935  no one who truly knows and understands Russia would connect "goons" with Russian leadership, but the brainwashed deluded West might.
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  5662.  @livingtribunal4110  By September Zelensky will be in his mansion in Miami and Ukraine will have been thrown under the bus by Biden and co. Well, maybe by October, but NATO will find another proxy war somewhere.
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  5663.  @livingtribunal4110  one thing is for sure...Aslin, Pinner and the Moroccan dude won't be seeing how the full scale war goes!:)
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  5664.  @alanbellas513  I know only that Russia is in total control of the Black Sea. If Ukraine had a Black Sea fleet, it would be engaged in battle and grain would be flowing from Odessa port. Snake Island represents the finest victory of Ukraine so far (I mean apart from the Ghost of Kiev)...which speaks volumes for the horrendous losses Ukraine must be suffering if Snake Island is the celebration of the week! Russia is up against Ukraine AND NATO, with only an expeditionary force (85% of Russia's million man army is not even in Ukraine). It is Ukraine that has 6 million refugees, Ukraine that is begging for economic and military help to survive, Ukraine that gets out fought by the tiny DPR, LPR and the Chechens! Going really well for Ukraine, is it?
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  5665.  @davidallison5529  hegemony ain't linked to GDP. This is the mistake the West keeps making..."Spain has the same GDP as Russia" etc. Hegemony is more about influence and military might. Africa couldn't give a monkey's backside what Spain thinks or does. Africa sits up and listens to what Russia says and does. If ever you drop the misguided notion that GDP is a factor in world influence, you might start to understand world events a little clearer. maybe
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  5666.  @alanbellas513  but now that Sweden and Finland are signed up for NATO membership I'm sure the organization will grow a backbone and may even, one day, have the guts to stand and fight a real enemy...but I doubt it. Easier to pay the Ukrainians to do that, or the Afghan tribes etc
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  5667.  @alanbellas513  why would Russian battleships need to enter the Black Sea?......the Russian Black Sea fleet, amazing as this might sound, is in the Black Sea already! Yes, I had assumed that Ukraine had a navy and that it had been destroyed. I most humbly appreciate your correction. Makes you wonder how Ukrainian troops got to Snake Island with no boats, doesn't it? I guess they are great swimmers?
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  5668.  @pho-kingsoup8126  Oh, so when Poroshenko went on Ukrainian radio to explain that his government had no intention of implementing the Minsk Accords because Ukraine needed to stall for time to build up the nation's forces and economy, what Poroshenko MEANT to say was that he considered the Minsk Accords null and void because of Russia's actions! Strange he never said that, though!
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  5669.  @pho-kingsoup8126  ok, switch NATO for USA (I consider it the same thing)..now you can comment on my "USA taking Fallujah" post
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  5670.  @futonclutch5040  NATO/Coalition/USA/West I consider it pretty much the same entity....the larger point is that it took USA (not NATO) a month and a half to take Fallujah, so why would anyone expect the Russians and its allies to move any quicker in the very well fortified Donbass?
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  5671.  @alanbellas513  Wikipedia says Ukraine scuttled their flagship to prevent it falling into Russian hands. So, joke you may about the Moskva, but it saw more active service in this conflict than its Ukrainian counterpart, agreed?
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  5672.  @alanbellas513  so if Ukraine has some boats, sounds like it has a navy? I mean armed boats with men with guns = navy, right? either Ukraine has a navy or it doesn't. which one is it?
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  5673.  @GARDENER42  yet you are incapable of countering one single point he makes with "the truth". Most telling.
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  5674.  @alanbellas513  Just curious...do you think the Russian ships in the Caspian Sea would have to get Turkish approval to enter the Black Sea?
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  5675.  @pho-kingsoup8126  When Germany and France realized that Russia was breaking the Minsk Accords, did Germany and France, as signatories to the accords, do anything to rectify this situation? What did Germany and France do, exactly, to confront Russia with her blatant bad behavior? Anything...or nothing?
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  5676.  @alanbellas513  So, there is no system of canals that allows vessels to move from the Caspian to the Black Sea? Sure about that? or want to reconsider your answer before making a fool of yourself? Your point was that Russia cannot get its ships into the Black Sea without Turkey's approval. Not for the first time, you are wrong. I know that Russia DOES transfer ships from the Caspian to the Black Sea, thus I know that Turkey has limited say and ability to control Russian vessels entering the Black Sea. The whole conference that just happened in Ashkhabad was about Russia and its Caspian allies maintaining the Caspian open to only "friendly" countries. So, I know that sarcasm is a tough one to spot for some people, dear Alan, but it was a sarcastic question...would Turkey have much of a say on Russian vessels entering the Black Sea from the Caspian Sea? The answer is that Turkey, a lukewarm NATO member anyway, KNOWS that Russia can get its Caspian fleet to the Black Sea, so Turkey is bloody unlikely to kick up a fuss about Russian vessels using the Bosphorous. Also, check out how many billions of euros Turkey receives from Russian tourism. Erdgogan ain't gonna lose all that over restricting Russia's Black Sea access. Thought all this through, have you? or you get all your info from Sky News and BBC?
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  5677.  @pho-kingsoup8126  no one is talking about failure! where did you get that from? Quite the opposite! My point was that taking control of large cities is a slow and painstaking process. If you want to say that Russia is slow and inept at taking control of big cities, then Fallujah is evidence that so is USA. It would indicate that scorn over Russia's "slow progress" is ignorance, nonsense, biased tripe that those who know nothing but "Ukraine good, Russia bad" pedal. Russia's slow, steady progress in Donbass is what was expected...by those who understand these things.
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  5678.  @rickarnold6704  the cost is losses that can be sustained. The prize is demolition of Ukraine and the liberation of both DPR and LPR. A worthy prize. Russia will hold the territory gained. The last successful Ukrainian counter offensive was in 2014. This war is over. Russia won.
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  5679.  @rickarnold6704  Churchill did some horrible things to. Bad/good leader is very different from effective leader. I don't know anyone who says Putin is a morally outstanding person. Plenty of us think he acted correctly on the DPR/LPR dilemma and that he calculated correctly. Many of us also think the depiction of Putin as the archetypal villain is just more of the "Ukraine good, Russia bad" mantra that the West, like a brainwashed child, keeps repeating ad nauseum.
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  5680.  @rickarnold6704  No, but the rubles he might get are now worth a LOT more than back when the invasion started...thanks so much to Western boomerang sanctions, right?:)
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  5681.  @rickarnold6704  So the DPR and LPR militias are low on morale, fighting for their homelands? Meanwhile, in the real world, Russian low morale, Russia running out of weapons, Russia unable to retain its gains, Ukraine counter offensive imminent, Ghost of Kiev...a bunch of deluded day dreams from the losing side. It's over. Russia won. NATO lost, again.
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  5682.  @rickarnold6704  flexibility of attacking options. Ukraine needed such flexibility in Donbass, instead of stand and fight, get massacred, get captured, get trapped.
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  5683.  @rickarnold6704  my source is Wikipedia. Says Ukraine scuttled its own flagship. Says the Slavyansk was destroyed by Russia. Says Russia captured 12 Ukrainian vessels in Berdyansk port. What do you dispute about that? What are your sources?
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  5684.  @alanbellas513  when Britain fought the Crimean War, who was the enemy? Russia? or Ukraine? Crimea was a part of........?
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  5685.  @alanbellas513  "gone" doesn't refer to ONLY battleships sunk, "Gone" refers to out of action, i.e the 12 vessels Russia captured in Berdyansk port, and the Slavyansk, that Russia destroyed, according to Wikipedia. Got it?
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  5686.  @alanbellas513  Ukrainian naval vessels that had "not been there to start with"...so, how do you account for the 12 Ukrainian vessels captured by Russia in Berdyansk port back in March? Let me guess, they were really Bulgarian?
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  5687.  @pho-kingsoup8126  so Ukraine absolutely refused to discuss autonomy for Donbass, as they had agreed in the Minsk accords, due SOLELY to Russian funding of the Separatists? Absolutely sure about that? In retrospect, don't you think it would have been wise for Zelensky to hammer out autonomy legislation WHILE addressing his concerns over Russian funding?
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  5688.  @futonclutch5040  in 6 months Zelensky will be in his mansion in Miami and NATO will have chosen another victim for its Russophobic/Sinophobic paranoic proxy wars
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  5689.  @ramadankadriu5336  and your point is?
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  5690.  @rickarnold6704  three minutes into the game, you see the goalie off his line...it's worth a long shot! No idea how clumsy or brilliant the goalie is, don't expect to score, but let's test him! The worst that can happen? We find out the goalie can defend his goal. That's hardly a "rout".
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  5691.  @rickarnold6704  capturing 12 enemy naval vessels and sinking the 13th is a naval victory in my book. If you describe what I just stated as "fictional" then your argument is not with me, but with Wikipedia. And YOUR source of Ukrainian naval info would be....?
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  5692.  @livingtribunal4110  Rick's moral compass is 8 years of civilians shelled in the Donbass is no provocation, totally moral behavior
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  5693.  @alanbellas513  You will earn your break when you start telling the truth:) In the meantime, if you get something wrong, just admit it! Otherwise I will keep pounding away like those Ukrainian grads raining down on civilians in Donetsk and Belgorod.
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  5694.  @pho-kingsoup8126 so, let's go through this step by step. why did Ukraine sign the Minsk accords? (Poroshenko already gave his answer, which you choose to ignore), pray, tell. Why did France and Germany sign the Minsk accords? If Ukraine knew Russia was funding and supplying and fighting for the Separatists from the beginning, why did Ukraine sign anything?
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  5695.  @pho-kingsoup8126  Upset the balance? you are incorrect on this point. Russian speakers have ALWAYS formed the VAST majority of the population of the Donbass. Always. you have been misled badly by someone. Ethnic Russians have always been able to relocate to Russia, and Ukrainian speakers have always been allowed to relocate to anywhere in Ukraine they fancy. Not sure what your point is here. The bottom line is that after the coup of 2014. the VAST majority of those in the Donbass wanted nothing to do with the new government AT ALL. Like Crimea, they refused to recognize the illegal new government and they chose to align with Russia. Really not complicated at all. Ukraine, rather than accepting this separation or promoting autonomy, decided to send the Azov Nazis to shell the Donbass into submission, but didn't work. You really should have stayed after the Maidan...you would have seen a difference that was truly unbelievable. When you saw what happened at the Union House in Odessa, what did you think?
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  5696.  @pho-kingsoup8126  have you been to Crimea? Just how Russian did it feel to you? In the Crimean War, did Britain and France fight against Russia, or against Ukraine?
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  5697.  @pho-kingsoup8126  Let's assume Russia did all that you allege. What do you think would have happened, after Maidan, in the Donbass if Russia had done nothing? Do you think all the Donbass folk would have been absolutely delighted with the new anti-Russia, pro West regime?
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  5698.  @pho-kingsoup8126  you still haven't answered two of my "yes/no" questions! I am guessing you are avoiding the bitter truth of your answers. 1) Yes/no.....The Crimean War was not a war involving Ukraine, but Russia. Yes? No? (I'll give you the answer as I think you need help...it was a war against Russia. Ukraine didn't exist. This fact emphasizes Putin's point that Ukraine is very much an abstract Soviet concept, that for almost all its history what we now call Ukraine was part of Russia) 2) Yes/no did the Allies have the right to invade Germany in 1944/45? Germany was an independent, sovereign state, so, did the Allies have the right to invade Germany? If your answer is "yes", then please explain why Russia has no similar right to invade Ukraine in 2022.
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  5699. "when you say "Russia was sending troops and equipment into Ukraine" do you mean the Russian government, or freedom-loving Russian groups supporting their Donbass brethren? If it was the Russian government, why not provide the evidence and also, why not negotiate how to implement Minsk, the promised elections, the autonomy promised, and no further Russian funding/intervention INSTEAD of the Azov Nazis relentless and uninterrupted shelling? If you are saying Ukraine could have done NOTHING more to implement Minsk, you are not telling the truth.
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  5700.  @pho-kingsoup8126  you still haven't quoted one thing Putin said that was wrong!
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  5701.  @burlhorse61  no scam, just a spineless and pathetic miscalculation, typical of the faux "Conservatives" of the last 13 years.
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  5702.  @porthmeor1  thank you
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  5703.  @napolean_ragland  sort out where Rwanda is and where Uganda is and then you can make a fool of yourself guessing my thoughts.
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  5704. 1. divvied, not "divvyed" 2. there are more of us, not "there is more of us" 3. where were you standing when brains were handed out?
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  5705. "talks of women being the property of men". so does Islam. therefore she considers Islamic verses as hate speech and an offense to free speech?
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  5706.  @traceymcintyre6265  not in the Muslim world
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  5707.  @giorgiofruscalzo6498  yep, 7 months ago we heard the West's wonder weapons would win the day....just like the West's wonder weapons taught the Taliban a lesson in Kabul, NOT
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  5708.  @bonnie7898  No one is talking about the referendum. Read more carefully. I cited the Crimean Parliamentary vote, 72-0, to separate from Kiev. Check the Guardian article on it. Or are you now saying a Parliamentary vote is undemocratic? Be that as it may, a legitimate referendum is simply where the majority express their will in a free and fair vote. The Catalans did the same. Do you think the Scottish referendum on independence was one in which the whole of the UK voted? No, of course not, but then again, you know nothing. You were the dunce that said "The allies never invaded Germany, it was the Russians who invaded Nazi Germany". Want me to retrieve your dumbest of dumb postings?
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  5709. so EVERYTHING he reports is based on the words of prisoners of war (spoken under duress) and Ukrainian propaganda. That's it. No firm numbers offered, no data on Russian tank production, no statistics, nothing. And the more Russia advances the more Ukraine is winning. This is the parlous state of Western media today. 100% pure BS.
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  5710.  @jamesjohnsonjimenez2272  evidence of what? evidence he's lying? No one in the world can name the towns and villages captured in the recent "counter offensive". because nowhere and nothing has been captured!
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  5711. The obvious solution is that when Russia has destroyed Ukraine and NATO, and it is close to that now, then the West will allow Transnistria to be fully independent rather than the West get its butt kicked yet again.
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  5712. "far right AfD party" wrong. France 24 is far left, and the AfD are centrists. "far right" would be a military dictatorship, not the AfD.
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  5713. no it wasn't. read what Putin actually says, instead of what your lying media wished he had said
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  5714. 2 big factors the West has overlooked. Zelensky is asking for the same amount of weaponry he started this conflict with (all the weaponry that has been destroyed by Russia)..so I guess he wants the same thing to happen all over again? Also, NATO cannot produce the ammo in the quantities Russia can......all those decades of reducing arms production and debating how to get minorities to join the armed forces has, just maybe, reduced the West's capacity to actually fight?
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  5715.  @tryingtocorrect  maybe some think the West reports unbiasedly? when was the last time you heard Western media report on the shelling of Donetsk?
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  5716. Western media report 6 million refugees outside Ukraine, 6 million displaced within Ukraine. Zelensky destroying his own country so easily. should have implemented Minsk accords
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  5717.  @ok-vk9fv  so between 1991 and 2014, why did Russia do nothing about the Donbass? pretty amazing coincidence that Russia started problems in Donbass EXACTLY the same time there was an illegal coup in Kiev!
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  5718.  @wellbi  good point, so to rephrase, the West is perfectly happy with the coup in 2014 which, by definition, was totally illegal, but are aghast at referenda which allows people to express their political opinions
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  5719.  @ettoreatalan8303  in that case, how to explain all the opposition parties in the Duma, including the Communist party? Either you are ignorant or you are confusing Zelensky (no opposition parties allowed in the Rada) with Putin! Which is it?
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  5720. Nigel still doesn't get it. He's not the brightest. It's not illegal to enter the UK and then claim asylum. Why does Nigel think no arrests are ever made in Dover? It's all perfectly legal, thanks to the insane notion that asylum can only be claimed within the UK.
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  5721. she's right. the Western media need to start calling Al Shifa as a terror base below what looks like a hospital.
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  5722. "you need to be strong"....yep, and you think NATO projects strength the way it fled Kabul to a bunch of goat herders in absolute panic? You think NATO projects strength with its diversity and inclusion programs, with its sensitivity training, with its "don't ask, don't tell" policies? Russia focuses on massive weapons and ammo production, NATO doesn't. NATO has WEAK stamped all over its forehead. The shocker is, sir, you are too blind to see it!
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  5723.  @lawrencekling8598  Did USA steal part of Syria with the areas of Syria now occupied by US troops? Did NATO steal Kosovo, now that Kosovo is occupied by NATO troops? Yes or no? You really have to think deeply and clearly to sort out in your mind the distinction between "stealing" an area and "liberating" an area. whenever you are ready to give your definition of the two, go ahead.
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  5724. so, now Butterworh is a mind-reader and can see how surprised Russia was at the West's reaction to the Ukraine invasion? or, maybe Butterworth talks regularly to Putin? Or, maybe Butterworth is a blabbering imbecile who knows nothing about this subject?
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  5725.  @countfosco8535  and your point is.....?
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  5726. why choose Thatcher when Blair was the obvious choice?
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  5727. thatth tho true, Gulliver, companieth not tho sure about exthporting grain with mithiles about. Lookth like Rutthia hath abided by the agreement of not shelling the port during tranthit of grain shipmentth. Ukraine trying to hide a naval boat in the port didn't work, did it?
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  5728.  @APBpa  yet another deluded, brainwashed failed mind-reader. Putin has never communicated to you his wants nor his goals, so quit the mindless assumptions, honey. try to focus on the essential facts...if your mind can handle the truth.
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  5729. Has Ukraine demined its coast yet, or does Ukraine prefer kids in Africa just starve to death?
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  5730. then again, it could be simply the abandonment of something that has become more a liability than an asset. Regarding patriotism and defending their sovereignty, do you think the DPR and LPR forces feel enormous patriotism and morale to defend their sovereignty against Ukrainian aggression?
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  5731.  @laladoingwhatiwanna9489  then correct me with facts. better still, read Ian Traynor's Guardian article from 2009 and learn some facts
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  5732.  @helloadventurer4689  learn the truth, google the Guardian article from 2009
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  5733. re-affirm their support for Ukraine = keep the war going for as long as possible to maximize destruction of Ukraine, deaths of Ukrainians, and bankruptcy of Ukraine. well, at least EU "support" already achieved the third objective.
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  5734. right, so the sanctions that have done NOTHING to alter Russian behavior, but have done EVERYTHING to cripple the West, should have been more and sooner, says "expert" Connolly. Jesus Christ.
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  5735. the word "Islam" means "submission", so Khan, like all Muslims, is indeed controlled by the imams and Muslim authorities that watch over his every move.
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  5736. Sweden never even locked down. the schools continued as normal. she is an ignorant liar.
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  5737.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  it did when the Germans voted for Hitler
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  5738. An absolute pleasure to see Gideon confronted for being "openly Jewish". Maybe Gideon will learn his lesson and not dish out similar injustice against Tommy Robinson in the future.
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  5739.  @teleguy5699  oh, they will mind, but it won't change the outcome of the war and it will just mean more Ukrainians lose their lives as a consequence. happy now?
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  5740.  @ninzki143  i guess so, and the script is carefully slanted that way.
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  5741. The Pope never mentioned Zelensky or Ukraine. Why the assumption his remarks were not directed at Putin and Russia?
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  5742. so all those Jews who report incidents of racism are all liars, eh, Chris?
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  5743.  @fritzraake22  attacking side loses 3 times more? sure about that? so when USA attacked Iraq, USA lost 3 times more than the Iraqis? sure?
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  5744.  @bramposthumus9300  then the 3 to 1 rule is not a rule if everything depends on the context and the war! thanks, so called "Bram", for agreeing with me.
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  5745.  @misterwise1742  so let's hammer down this rule once and for all. The 3:1 ratio ONLY applies when there is no air superiority, right? any more exceptions to the rule you want to consider, before I hammer you with more examples of how this "rule" is nonsense?
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  5746.  @d.b.2215  and doesn't need it outside of the territories it controls. obviously.
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  5747. are the hookers in the windows impeccably well-dressed|?
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  5748.  @Sharkbait_Soybomb  yeah, those Brits who formed gangs and sexually assaulted countless girls in Cologne that New Year's Eve should never be allowed in Germany.
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  5749. The hundreds of lives being taken by Israel on the West bank are those who refuse to recognize Israel. This fool doesn't get it. When all Palestinians recognize Israel, Israel is fine with establishing the borders of that Palestinian state.
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  5750.  @PGHEngineer  the Amish don't integrate at all. But they respect the laws of the host country, are peaceful, they bother no one and are remarkably productive and never a parasite. only your prejudice and ignorance would spurn such a community. Bigot.
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  5751. The Rwanda idea is an absolute joke. Once an asylum claim has been made, the applicant will disappear, never to be found again to be marched onto the plane for deportation. Hungary got it right. Any asylum claim must be made outside the country, so anyone arriving at the border with invalid or insufficient documentation is refused admission. end of story.
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  5752. turning the boats back won't be enough. they will just keep trying. there has to be a consequence to trying to enter the UK illegally. The illegal immigrants need to be stripped of all valuables before being dumped back in France. Not right that the UK taxpayer coughs up for this expensive service.
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  5753. Russia will get its revenge on the UK. Russia will strike against UK interests around the globe and give its full support to any group that wants to attack the UK. If I were Gibraltar or the Falklands, I would be concerned. UK government's stupidity has brought the UK into conflict with Russia, and Russia will win.
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  5754. me too. the Donbass Russians deserve to be part of Russia, not Ukraine.
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  5755. those of us who back Russia in this conflict are just begging for the Ukronazi cannon fodder to come pouring out into the open. Come on you Bandera lovers, do it!
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  5756. Had Republicans opposed all aid to Ukraine and demanded those billions be spent in USA, they would be sure to sweep the mid terms. as it is, many voters see little difference between their Dem and Rep candidates.
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  5757. so curious that even after Climategate and "hide the decline" that this guy accepts that the scientists are being honest about global temperatures!
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  5758. "an election Putin rigged in his favor" except no one ever explains what was rigged and how.
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  5759. all power to the rioters tonight. the more mayhem and disorder created, the more the pressure piles on 2 Tier Keir to listen and negotiate.
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  5760. "people on the border live in fear" says the reporter ..."let the Russian soldiers do their maneuvers on the border, it doesn't bother us" says the Lithuanian woman.....yet again, deluded West not listening to the people and just giving the audience propaganda
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  5761.  @davidaleksidze3381  yep, Georgians have a history of ethnically cleansing non Georgians, makes sense.
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  5762. SLOW? no advances were made over the last week! None! Based on the advances made by Ukraine in its most "successful" two weeks, Ukraine will reach the Sea of Azov and cut the land bridge in SIXTEEN YEARS! Just in time for Ukrainian babies conceived today to join the cannon fodder and get massacred! Only a total fool would take Russia on in a protracted ground war. The counter offensive has been stopped. it's over.
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  5763. Yet more evidence that Russia has so much more freedom than the UK.
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  5764.  @Mygg_Jeager  ha ha, back to the useless teacher who has lost control of the classroom approach, "silence, silence, I order you to be silent". ineffective and pathetic. expert in your field, eh? clown.
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  5765.  @glanguish9390  as i said, there is no evidence Russia wants to occupy Ukraine. not sure why you are pressing a point none of us is positing. Obviously a Russian puppet will replace Zelensky at some point, but that is way down the road.
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  5766. "the belief is that they will try to take the Ukrainian capital again". 1) They never tried to "take" the capital the first time. why would they? 2) it's "your" belief and "the belief of some Ukrainians" but not THE belief. None of you have any idea what the Kremlin believes, so why speculate and make fools of yourselves? Is it "the belief" the Ghost of Kiev will save the capital....again?
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  5767.  @Muzakman37  sadly, as a brainwashed, deluded member of the sheeple swallowing Western media lies, you only THINK you know what the Kremlin thinks. You are 100% mistaken as to why I choose to express how I think of events in Ukraine. You are ignorant of my motivations. 100%. It is clear you don't care what the Kremlin believes...if you did, you would actually understand the reality of the situation, There was no attempt to take Kiev, or storm Kiev. There was no attempt to take Kharkov or storm Kharkov. What could possibly be the benefit of that? It's called "fixing"..you pin opposition forces in a limited area, a cauldron, while major operations (Kherson, Zaporozhe, the land corridor) can proceed unfettered. Along with the "storm Kiev" lie you probably believe the Ghost of Kiev is real. Such a shame you are ignorant of basic truths.
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  5768.  @cravingtuna1561  you really don't understand international trade
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  5769.  @thesisLAx  poorer nations are already irate at Western bullying, lecturing and meddling. you didn't notice? why do you think so many countries abstain on votes connected with Russia? they DON'T disapprove of Russia's stance or actions.
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  5770. only a fool thinks immigration numbers can be slashed by planes taking off for Rwanda.
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  5771. yet it's working. the convicts are defeating NATO's finest European army.
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  5772. turns out his concern for human life extends only to his mum's life and maybe some of his patients, selfish, entitled idiot.
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  5773. "western countries need to provide more air defense systems"......they can't. they don't have anything that can shoot down sufficient drones to prevent mass power outages. NATO built upon the assumption of mastery of the skies, suddenly they don't have that, hence there is no answer to Ukraine's begging.
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  5774.  @wallacewhybrow2705  are Muslims over represented in the nation's prison population?
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  5775. evidence mounting up that Russia destroyed its own pipeline, then shelled its own nuclear power station, and now blowing up its own dam. oh, and the Russian drone that attacked the Kremlin, and the Russian assassination of Dugina.
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  5776. "Some mosques"? ALL mosques preach Islam, the heart and soul of which is extremist, intolerant and bigoted by Western standards.
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  5777. Now I see why Singapore and China are so far ahead in test results.
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  5778. what makes you think the tanks will appear on the front lines? which bridges over the Dnipro will they be using?
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  5779. she lost any respect i might have had for her when she mentioned the goal of joining the EU. Loser.
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  5780. "we are unable to provide the people this winter with proper housing or warmth" ...honey, Zelensky has bankripted the country. you ain't able to provide anyone with anything, threw your independence away and now begging the West for survival dollars. pathetic. should have implemented the Minsk accords.
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  5781. yeah, like, "the virus could have come from a lab", or "the jab will not stop the spread of the virus", that kind of misinformation, right?
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  5782.  @alganis3339  I understand economics very well. if the EU finds a cheaper alternative to Russian energy, the global price of energy will indeed go down. the converse is also true. If the EU CAN"T find a cheaper alternative (and at the moment, it can't), then it will pay more and global prices will rise. Russia is working very closely with OPEC, so as a cartel, OPEC + are doing a great job of ensuring the West is truly screwed and will keep paying very high prices for energy. maybe you missed the news that energy costs in the West have sky rocketed?
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  5783. Ukrainian people so strong that they have lost 25% of their territory, the mothers and kids, millions of them, are refugees, men dying hundreds every single day as cannon fodder, nation bankrupt reduced to begging for weapons, fuel, cash so that....it can delay the inevitable destruction of itself? Oh, SUCH a strong people!
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  5784.  @Martin-rh7mf  and I commented on the idiocy, shallowness, superficiality and total lack of awareness of such a comment. i believe such a comment is what is the problem here....people like you don't take war seriously..just someone else dying. should be ashamed of yourself.
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  5785. "determined to keep Russia out" no, they are determined to keep their own citizens, the DPR and LPR, from becoming part of Russia. Slava Rossiyi. Demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine rolling on.
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  5786. Discount the comments of anyone who says "I think Putin...."...you have no idea what Putin thinks, beyond the stated objectives of the invasion...objectives that are being attained.
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  5787. Russia is winning and will win and has absolutely no need to negotiate anything. NATO's strategy failed miserably.
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  5788. Zelensky says fighter jets are needed. Stoltenberg says they are not. They can't both be right. Welcome to the chaotic world of NATO incompetency. "Russia is running out of ammo" we have heard for the last 10 months. Yesterday, that switched to "NATO is nearly out of ammo". Memories of "the Taliban will need 90 days to take Kabul". 90 hours later, NATO is in a mad, chaotic panic to get out of Kabul. NATO = sick joke.
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  5789.  @badmonkey2222  no way to get any over there? what do you think all those helicopter transporters are amassing in Rotov na Donu for?
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  5790.  @badmonkey2222  the counter attack has indeed started. and when it stalls?
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  5791.  @badmonkey2222  bit like Northern Cyprus then? but unlike Northern Cyprus, a wonderfully located base for Russian forces
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  5792.  @patavinity1262  let's see what happens. i don't buy the argument "it would have been done by now". circumstances change, obviously. Transnistra as a springboard to create a landlocked Ukraine is an option.
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  5793.  @badmonkey2222  keep in mind Ukraine's counter offensive in Kharkov.....remember the photos of Ukrainian forces on the border with Russia? Russia pushed them all the way back to Kharkov. Same could well happen in Kherson
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  5794.  @badmonkey2222  the usual pathetic comment when objections are made to rampant Ukrainian propaganda and nonsense. Anyone who questioned "Ghost of Kiev" was a "putin loving bot"...until the truth was confessed about the Ghost of Kiev
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  5795.  @badmonkey2222  it's Zelensky who is more than happy to keep serving up his 18 year old cannon fodder into the Russian meat grinder. If you want to focus on forced conscripts, shed a tear for those guys
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  5796.  @robertscott961  both East and West
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  5797.  @mikeshoults4155  1). A wonderful invention called helicopter transports, built to fly in troops in numbers. they have been used in many a theater of war. look it up sometime. 2) into Ukraine? Same way I did. walk across the border. outlandish behavior, right? walking/driving.
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  5798.  @Paisa231  "can't empty its borders"? who knew its borders were full? full of what? Putin IS winning this war. he had no need to move on Nykolaev before, but now, as an option for attacking Ukraine from the west of the Dniepro, if needs be, using Transnistra is an option.
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  5799.  @malcolmgibson5088  already tried to leave? according to whom?
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  5800. relevance of You Tube stats in the argument?
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  5801.  @Paisa231  right. it's nothing about the West being tapped out and no longer able to provide what Ukraine desperately needs to survive. It's not about that, is it?
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  5802.  @mikeshoults4155  you have no idea what Ukraine has left and doesn't have left. you have no idea what has been destroyed and what remains. none. though like all experts, you love to pretend you do. Russia has amassed helicopters and planes aplenty in Rostov....will let you, the expert, figure out why.
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  5803.  @mikeshoults4155  you forgot to mention all those shot down by Ghost of Kiev, remember?
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  5804.  @markalexander832  those 1500 won't be going anywhere, so can't imagine they will get destroyed
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  5805.  @Paisa231  everything would depend on what Ukraine has in place and what it has access to regarding air defense systems. No one should presume to know that right now. Russia has no timeline, and months may well be acceptable. It remains an option if Russia really needs to attack Odessa and Nykolaev from the west of the Dniepr. Depends on priorities.
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  5806. one day, Liberals will make the connection that sending in boundless relief and aid actually makes the long term problems so much worse.
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  5807. "illegal invasion" which laws were broken by Russia invading Ukraine as opposed to which laws were respected by USA invading Afghanistan?
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  5808. yet again, internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists get it right. solve the crime and you will find Jay's body. looking fruitlessly in a wilderness that Jay never entered is absurd. Jay's phone pinged from the main road, and there is zero evidence Jay ever went stumbling into the terrain that was searched.
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  5809. if the US is self sufficient in energy why does Biden keep begging for Saudi help and running US reserves down? She is confusing USA under Biden with USA under Trump.
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  5810. the West, by refusing to sit down and talk peace, is doing all in its power to keep this slaughter going
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  5811.  @Steeeef2004  ok, let me choose an Albanian name. maybe Enver H.
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  5812.  @masg9122  exactly so. time for the West to stop referring to this nonsense of a "International Rules Based Order" that they embrace only when it suits them.
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  5813.  @soul8938  no one questions the borders of Germany today because Germany was defeated and no one of any power or influence was around post WW2 to challenge such border re-drawing. Today is different. In the multi polar world, no one single power has the might to force re-drawing borders without the real threat of igniting war from a whole host of opponents. Times have changed.
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  5814.  @realpolitics527  agreed. it should not be, but it is. waging wars and changing borders is easier today, but the consequences are greater. the opposition you might face can wipe you out. yes, we are just as barbaric as our ancestors. to be expected. in retrospect, Kiev should have just let the Crimea and Donbass go their own way. would have saved the destruction of the whole of Ukraine.
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  5815. Come on, Hitchens, don't act the fool. Challenging the legitimacy of a national election is absolutely fine, in fact should be encouraged, when done democratically (as it was) and it is the authoritarians who declare "the votes are counted, we can dismiss all the claims of fraud, quick, declare Biden the winner". That ain't democracy, when just 40,000 votes separated 2 candidates and there was plenty of evidence that certain states, like PA, broke laws when they enabled mail-in voting.
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  5816. it's abundantly clear that NATO is powerless to prevent Russian drone attacks. NATO has always assumed mastery of the skies, for the first time it doesn't have that. Ukraine is screwed, but then that is Ukraine's fault for taking NATO's promises at face value. Rich irony that the two most sanctioned nations of the world, Iran and Russia, are combining forces to get revenge, but, hey, sanctions do work, right?
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  5817.  @volkerr.  bla bla bla. Iran and Cuba and Venezuela and all sanctioned countries are always on the brink of a revolution according to the deluded West. Strange that such revolution never actually happens. Point out one area where the Russian economy is crumbling. Remember when Biden said the "ruble will become the rubble"? How is the ruble doing right now?:)
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  5818. "no one knows the death toll, but it is high" let that sink in. the media have pushed this nonsense for so long, even the dumbest sheep are beginning to see through the charade. tanks are needed immediately, even though Russia is on the back foot, sanctions are working, Russia is isolated, Russia is poorly led, with poor equipment, low on morale, out of missiles, yet its convicts routed NATO trained battalions in Soledar. hmmm
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  5819. are you touched by the 10,000 Ukrainian lives thrown away in a futile defence of a meaningless city in a futile war?
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  5820.  @juanbarus9420  Crimean Parliament voted 78-0 for separation from Kiev in 2014. you do believe in democracy, right?
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  5821. @peterholden3672 Why should they get state support? Because it's the state that forced the older folk into the Ponzi scheme of forced contributions to keep the government afloat year by year. I have no problem with younger people being told that the state pension scheme has been scrapped for them, and that for them, everything is now privatized! Now you have joined my side with this suggestion!
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  5822. @peterholden3672 not sure why, given there are about 200 countries in the world, you picked the USA! every country in the world has a private health care sector! what's your point? USA also has an absolutely enormous public, state medical system called Medicare and Medicaid, again, what's your point? the countries where I have lived and worked that have primarily a private medical system have much better outcomes. much. i would be more than happy for the smokers to be compelled to pay for private care and for tax to be removed from smoking. let personal responsibility take over.
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  5823. @peterholden3672 without migrant healthcare workers the country would have to do what it did in the past, namely. train UK citizens to be healthcare workers, and it would get us out of the Ponzi scheme of unlimited immigration to pay for an ever booming population! Paying for cheap immigrant labour is not a long term solution to anything maybe getting the masses of parasites too "sick" to work to get off benefits and contribute to the system would help?
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  5824.  @martinabsolom2231  immigration, controlled or otherwise, is a loser, and won't pay for anything. massive reduction in government spending and borrowing is needed.
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  5825.  @shanaz3  and which part of British history are we checking exactly?
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  5826.  @sanepillow59  no, they didn't explain "why" in the video. in the video, they gave a woke, socialist version of what is wrong and never addressed the underlying reasons. they never do in these lefty reports. the underlying reasons, like mass immigration, government overreach, Green policies, are things they don't want to explore, because their narrative would be destroyed.
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  5827. @HarisP000 and how would fewer people buying places to rent, and therefore fewer places to rent, make rental accommodation MORE, not less, available? it would surely make the situation much worse!
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  5828.  @karlabritfeld7104  and sometimes it is an investment that works out! sometimes not.
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  5829.  @pipfox7834  and in this case, the "arch troll" is giving you the truth. feel free to point out what i said that is not true. if you can.
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  5830. homes have ALWAYS been an investment.
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  5831.  @pipfox7834  who cares what, or what is not, "formally classed" as anything? whatever system of bogus classification you love to cling to, housing has always been an investment! Always!
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  5832.  @0ozmichka0  how would you define "empty"? a farm? a bird sanctuary? a national park? any green field with a footpath through it? Wembley Stadium pitch? your plan would scare people away from investing in any project that involved land and would make the problem much worse.
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  5833.  @pipfox7834  I recommend you get your nose out of propagandistic socialist nonsense and talk to someone like me, who lived through the Thatcher years and went to work in USA in the late 80's. The Thatcher and Reagan years were golden years. of course there were those who lost out when government handouts and subsidies were removed, but the long term effects of deregulation were freedom and a healthy economy. I'm sure you much prefer the hyper inflation of the Carter years and the 3 day working week under Heath, but those of us who lived through that period know the truth.
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  5834. "refrain from the use of force to influence territorial integrity" so, I guess that means we will see an immediate pull out of US forces from Syria?
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  5835.  @briantitchener4829  who knows what grades these Romanian pilots got at school?
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  5836. Far more coherent answers than you would get from similar questions to the public of USA or UK. Both publics would blabber a certain amount of propaganda picked up by their respective media, but the Russians certainly understand the core issues of Ukraine's spiral into nationalist tyranny more than others.
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  5837. Zelensky is incorrect. People are not burying their heads in the sand. People see how Zelensky and the West brought all this misery on themselves by provoking Russia endlessly for the last 9 years. They see Zelensky as selfish and deluded and back Russia, rightfully so.
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  5838. not since the leaked documents confirmed the death toll is 7:1 in Russia's favor.
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  5839.  @XX89948  we respect our veterans who served honorably, not those who served reluctantly
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  5840.  @XX89948  you couldn't identify political jargon from the harsh reality if your life depended on it.
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  5841.  @XX89948  the greatest military in the world would be Israel, followed by Russia. Neither Israel nor Russia would have executed such a s**t show as the US managed to do in Kabul, 2021.
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  5842. UK should brace itself for a whole host of Islamic attacks across the country, aided and abetted by Russia. Time for Moscow's revenge.
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  5843. Latvians should fear attack from Russia simply because Putin, rightly, intervenes when ethnic Russians are discriminated against, and Latvia, like Ukraine, has anti Russian language laws in place that could well lead to mass unrest. Just allow Russian speakers equal rights and there will be no problems.
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  5844. let's talk about institutional racism when white working class boys are regularly excelling at school and in the jobs market compared to their equivalents in all other races. until that happens, STFU about discrimination and understand there can be 101 reasons why people may not want to employ you, especially if the employer picks up on the fact you cry "victim" at the drop of a hat.
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  5845.  @daphneduryea9136  how many primaries did Kamala go through?
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  5846.  @laurareznick9097  you sound just like all those scoffing fools who pronounced, back in 2016, that there was no way Donald Trump could become president. start warming up that humble pie.
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  5847.  @danasutton6769  it will be a repeat of 2016. Trump takes the sun belt and the rust belt. The left leaning polls are, once again, missing out a good 3% or 4% of Trump voters. Curious that Kamala has given up on Ohio and Florida, once bell-weather states, now securely for Trump. Kamala needs to campaign hard in VA and NJ in the hope of avoiding a humiliating landslide.
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  5848.  @zl1David  yeah? which two?
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  5849. So, in THIRTEEN minutes of exploring this topic, not enough time to repeat Joe Biden's PROMISE to blow up Nordstream, NOR to feature the Polish foreign minister's tweet ..."THANK YOU USA" I think we can see very weak and biased reporting when we see it. Thanks DW, this was instructive. Better chance of getting meaningful answers from RT.
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  5850. that would be news that would be broadcast to the world. importing coal from Indonesia not a story that would grab headlines, so the German Greens can get away with it.
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  5851.  @spxram4793  Wrong. Plenty of people, the wise ones, want Russian energy, Only the tiny corner of the world known as the "Western bubble" refuse to accept Russian fuel. Wind, solar, hydrogen too expensive and don't generate enough power, so the West will start to move back to the Stone Age. Welcome to reality.
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  5852. MASSIVE MASSIVE WIN FOR PUTIN! All along, Putin has argued for the demining of Ukrainian ports..these agreements are the first steps to that end. Putin has insisted there was never any Russian blockade..he was proven right. All along Putin insisted on clear stipulation that Russian food products and fertilizers and those of Belarus be sanctions exempt, and HE NOW HAS THAT! Putin insisted it was Western sanctions causing the food export problem, the Global South agreed and pressured the West, and again, the West capitulated. On top of all that, the agreements confirm Russian oil can be exported to third countries without limits, so the West can now buy Russian oil from middlemen, like Saudi Arabia or India, no problem, The West can avoid its own sanctions. Beginning of the end, the West in full retreat, Putin on the way to complete victory
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  5853. This is how desperately deluded Times Radio has become....BRICS and CSTO are drawing closer and closer together, the world is doing all it can to detach itself from Western hegemony, but the arrogant West has convinced itself that Russia is isolated! You can't make this nonsense up!
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  5854. Meloni and Van der Leyen have absolutely no clue how to resolve this. No idea whatsoever. They don't even know which law to follow. If the migrants are legally allowed to request asylum on arrival, then those who bring them over to Lampedusa are not doing anything illegal, so why talk badly of the "people smugglers?
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  5855. the West still fooling itself that Ukraine can mount an offensive. just talk while an off ramp is figured out. how many more cripples, pensioners and teenagers can Ukraine recruit?
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  5856. doing well? the Ukronazis are getting obliterated! it's a disaster!
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  5857. 73% of voters ay Biden is too old, and 27% say he's not too old, just too senile.
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  5858. oh, suddenly Ronnie Barker knows all the Kremlin plans for Moldova! He was present in Putin's meetings! what a charlatan and fake this blob is.
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  5859.  @Tayletubby  yep, time goes so slowly when you are losing so many men and so much weaponry to the Russians
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  5860.  @nataliescott1914  that was concluded with the signing of the Istanbul peace agreement, rermember? As Putin explained to the African delegation, peace was signed back in March 2022, only for NATO to intervene and tell Zelensky to fight on because Russia would collapse. oh dear!
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  5861.  @petergoodwin7038  quite the contrary. the government passes immigration laws and then refuses to enforce them, erasing the line that was set in law. It is this willful disregard for the law, as exemplified by the Left, that has led the public to back Orban, the Swedish right, and now Meloni. you astound me that you don't see this.
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  5862. "escaping war-torn countries".....they all came from FRANCE! how about dumping them all in Westminster, Islington, Belgravia, Richmond?
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  5863.  @kierano8390  NATO is getting totally demilitarized. NATO can't spare any more weapons and the mighty US is reduced to sending cluster munitions! This represents a horrendous embarrassment and defeat for NATO. Russia is out-producing NATO in all materiel, and while NATO is trying to sort out long term contracts, Russian factories are churning out missiles and weaponry 24/7. Total disaster for NATO. Russians are not killing Russians. Russians are killing Ukronazi cannon fodder. Maybe with a few more courses on diversity, equity and inclusion NATO will perform better?
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  5864. yeah, but the head of the Treasury said inflation was just transitory, so those in charge clearly know more than us
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  5865. Russia is focusing on wiping out as many as enemy troops as possible, and it is doing an excellent job. NATO cannot match Russia's production of ammunition. It's over. Russia may or may not decide to try and occupy Kiev. It will probably demand Kharkov and Odessa form part of the Novaya Rossiya, and may well fight on until those 2 cities are under its control. Either way, Ukraine has lost and only the deluded imagine some miracle event that will avoid the inevitable.
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  5866. Baerbock giving more encouragement to those Ukrainian suckers to keep dying for NATO's very vague aim of "weakening" Russia.
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  5867. "the advance of our guys in Donbass"...poor deluded comic puppet. Even Reuters admits it's Russia making incremental gains in Donbass. Time to tell Zelensky the truth.
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  5868. but you kept telling us Ukraine was winning!? Soon you will be telling us "Ghost of Kiev" was a lie, and that Snake Island surrendered, not fought to the death! Get your reporting straight! just so funny how the truth escapes the Western media these days
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  5869. with a kill rate of 8:1 in Russia's favor, the Wagners are happy to proceed street by street and plod on with Bakhmut, demilitarizing Ukraine steadily day by day. NATO is not being wishy washy with aid. NATO has hardly anything more to give, so much has already been given and has been destroyed by Russia or used up.
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  5870. typical Channel 4 takes his word that he was in and out of detention centres for 17 years. could have been on the run for 17 years, who knows?
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  5871.  @bigbrowntau  Scotland, for sure
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  5872.  @davidwolf8991  all Ukrainians speak Russian, you dope.
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  5873.  @alienfish8521  au contraire. Russia has the option of winning and taking what it wants.
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  5874.  @Huppy1234567  or they can go to Russia and bring their ancestral lands with them. Ukraine is a massive country for just Ukrainians to live in.
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  5875.  @urikamoment  except you don't. you know nothing about the war crimes that are happening. nothing.
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  5876.  @braxxian  and boy, is Zelensky a despot!
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  5877.  @DingDong-gn7hj  Nothing? you are ignorant. Two areas of Georgia erupted into fighting and Abkhazia and South Ossetia allied with Russia! Ukraine never separated from Russia. learn some history. "they love Russian rule and law, move to Russia"....they have. and they have brought their ancestral lands with them:) job done
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  5878.  @unregisturd  and boy is it hard work to keep straightening out the unthinking on these issues!:)
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  5879.  @mikadsu  if Ukraine violates a ceasefire, Zelensky can kiss goodbye to any future support from neutral countries and will lose support from some who tepidly support him now. But Zelensky is a clown puppet, he will probably go ahead and keep on killing while the opposition lays down arms for a ceasefire
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  5880.  @davidwolf8991  important to understand how little you understand these issues, so keep learning and try to improve
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  5881.  @DennisTheInternationalMenace  Putin is offering a ceasefire so that if Zelensky refuses, the rest of the world will see that Ukraine is the one looking to continue killing on the holiest day of the year for most Ukrainians
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  5882.  @bigbrowntau  wanna bet?
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  5883.  @davidwolf8991  I don't know what you know but I can see from your comments there is a lot that you certainly don't know. You need to learn a LOT about the background to this conflict. Ever been to Ukraine, have you?
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  5884.  @bonnie7898  Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were indeed Ukrainian citizens. They gave up that citizenship when they saw the coup of 2014 unfold, and they opted for independence. Happens all the time in world history. The Donbass ethnic Russians were the ones who DID respect Ukrainian democracy by refusing to recognize the 2014 coup. it was the rest of Ukraine that decided to stop respecting the institutions of their home country. Learn the basics.
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  5885.  @bonnie7898  glad you finally recognize the events of 2014 as a coup d'etat. you are beginning to understand why Crimea and Donbass wanted to be free from Ukraine.
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  5886.  @urikamoment  we don't. only your deluded brainwashed mind assumes Russia has a monopoly on war crimes.
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  5887.  @puraLusa  yes, just one. why run like cowards and not stay and fight these thugs?
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  5888.  @bonnie7898  Ukraine for one! Ukraine is bankrupt and is totally dependent on US aid, so it has been effectively taken over and ruled by force...Ukraine has no choice in the matter. By your own definition, you have established that USA is an occupying force. If you want to stick to a literal definition of occupy, how about that portion of Syria occupied by the US? When will that third of Syria be liberated?
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  5889.  @bonnie7898  "NATO is not a hostile entity" Try telling that to the Libyans and Serbians massacred by NATO bombs.
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  5890.  @bonnie7898  it's the truth. learn the basics and grasp the reality.
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  5891.  @DingDong-gn7hj  no, you are NOT there to offer me shelter. Not at all. It may well be that I deserve to suffer the full fury of the tornado, that I deserve no shelter. Depends what kind of person I am.
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  5892.  @alexandratheavenger3436  no. Ukraine was foolish to embark on nationalist Russophobic policies that alienated half the country. Plenty of countries have no nuclear arms and they are neutral and they live wonderful lives.
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  5893.  @groomboek1978  bad guess. anyone suspected of colluding with Russia will be executed, has already happened.
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  5894.  @joda7129  and Russian speaking Ukrainians being forced to use Ukrainian is an idea cheered on by the West, though the West also cheer on the right of Catalans to use Catalan, and not Spanish. hypocrites.
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  5895.  @DSan-kl2yc  You see nothing happening to those suspected of collaborating with Russia because your media refuse to show such. the recriminations that actually happen are awful and yes, Russia has no monopoly on war crimes.
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  5896.  @bonnie7898  protesting what? when?
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  5897.  @bonnie7898  1) Russia's security is threatened by the West, hence Lloyd Austin's pronouncement "the aim is to weaken Russia". Besides, if Russia perceives that the West is a security threat, the right thing to do is sit down and talk about such perceptions, but Biden chose not to do that in December 2021. Colossal mistake.
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  5898.  @bonnie7898  Finding out what NATO "does" is not done by typing into a search engine! How naive are you, sweet child? Just watch the NATO bombs fall on Serbia for 78 nights straight, and watch NATO bombs destroy Libya to SEE the truth! You need to get out of your search engine and start looking at reality!
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  5899.  @bonnie7898  here are the facts. USA dictated to Cuba, a sovereign country, that Cuba would NEVER be allowed to host nuclear missiles. Russia is now dictating to Ukraine that Ukraine will never be a NATO country and will never have nuclear weapons. Russia is copying, exactly, the US policy. Through the Monroe Doctrine, US has dictated policy from its position of strength, to countless countries "in its backyard", e.g. the invasions of Panama and Grenada. Russia is now applying the same doctrine to its neighbors in it's backyard. You should be applauding Russia's adherence to the "rules-based order" of the West.
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  5900.  @bonnie7898  no reliable source will tell you the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian population regarding the 2014 coup. but let us assume the number of protesters on the streets numbered one million. compare that to the 40 million who chose not to protest on the streets. 39:1 ratio for those who didn't want a revolution? suddenly this revolution doesn't look so popular, right?
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  5901. 20 Russian ammo dumps destroyed by himars, though 19 of them didn't make into the news, and one was a fertilizer plant.
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  5902.  @TheAllMightyGodofCod  really not sure. we hear about the damage done by the himars, but all of this comes from the Ukrainian side, the same side that sold us Ghost of Kiev. Russian losses could well be quite low, as the DPR, LPR, Chechens and Wagner doing the heavy work. Given USA took a month and a half to take Fallujah, and that was against Al Qaeda/Iraq, Russia is not moving that slowly at all. it is quickly massacring MANY Azov Nazis and Ukronazi cannon fodder for sure. For sure Russia looks MUCH more likely the winner than the NATO/Ukronazi alliance.
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  5903.  @rogerout8875  because it works just fine. 50000 dead Ukrainian soldiers based on Ukrainian numbers and counting.
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  5904. makes no sense for landlords to rent out a place to someone. too many rules and restrictions. unless the housing market is freed up by deregulation, it will only get worse.
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  5905.  @JamesGreen57447  you couldn't distinguish a bot from a real live person if your sad life depended on it, Sherlock. Take a break from the late night reading of that Mein Kampf you and Bandera love so much.
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  5906.  @janw839  indeed. you know that Bandera is a national hero of Ukraine and that he organized the 1941 pogrom that massacred 4000 Jews in Lvov, right? is he your hero too?
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  5907.  @janw839  not interesting at all. his ethnic tribe has benefitted enormously from being part of Putin's Russian Federation. If he can't recognize the fact that deNazification and demilitarization of Ukraine is a noble aim, I can't help him. He just needs a little education. Sounds like you do too.
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  5908.  @johanwittens7712  1) Did racism disappear with Obama as president? No, it did not. Did Nazi support die out with pseudo Jew Zelensky as president? No, it did not. Learn the facts. 2) Ukraine is the only country to welcome into its national defence force an openly nazi group. Learn the facts. 3) 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling of the Donbass is PROVOCATION! The Alley of Angels is PROVOCATION in the extreme. Learn the facts. 4) I was living and working in Vinnytsa, Ukraine in 2018, not you. I saw the Nazi youth openly parade their vile hate. YOU didn't. Believe me, Nazi lover, I need no lectures from the likes of you. Learn the facts.
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  5909.  @johanwittens7712  No lectures needed on freedom of speech. 450 people last year were arrested in Russia for things they said on social media. 3500 people were arrested last year in UK for things they said on social media. No lectures needed on freedom of speech, you deluded dope.
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  5910.  @johanwittens7712  where were you wringing your hands and whining about the invasion of a sovereign state when USA invaded and occupied Iraq? Ditto Afghanistan? Ditto Syria? Where were you weeping tears of sorrow when NATO bombed sovereign Serbia? ditto L|ibya? You stinking hypocrite, one rule for your side, but not for Russia. You should be applauding Russia for copying EXACTLY the "rules based order" of the West. Instead, you snivelling hypocrites just display Russophobia because you can't handle a leader who defends his people, ethnic Russians, and you can't handle the fact you will lose. Get over it and grow up.
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  5911.  @johanwittens7712  and by the way, The Nazi Republic of Ukraine (national hero = the Nazi, Stefan Bandera) ceased to be a sovereign state when its democratically elected president was ousted in a coup in 2014. Oh, I'm sure you Azov supporters cheered the death of democracy in Ukraine, but some in Ukraine did not. Spare a thought for them once in a while, swastika lover Johan
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  5912.  @Tomartyr  on the contrary, NATO is under no obligation at all to defend either a member nation and certainly not an applicant nation. The reason for the war is 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling of the Donbass and the refusal by Ukraine, France and Germany to implement the Minsk Agreements. it's that simple.
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  5913.  @janw839  Hollande, Merkel and Poroshenko have all confessed that there never was any intention to implement Minsk Agreements, that they were signed to win some time for Ukraine. Russia has never said that Russian troops were authorized to enter the Donbass to wage war, though personally, I think they should have done given the shelling of citizens by the Azov Nazis you love so much. This war is happening because Ukraine and the West refused to implement Minsk, and refused to talk security arrangements with Russia in December 2021. The West, in it's arrogance, assumed Putin would not fight. Wrong. should have seen what happened in Chechnya and Syria. Did you cheer when you heard the Azov Nazi Battalion had been admitted into Ukraine's Defence Force?
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  5914.  @janw839  You do fully support the Nazi collaborator and mass murderer, Stefan Bandera, as a national hero of Ukraine, right? I mean Polish groups, Jewish groups and Human Rights groups have denounced it, but you fully support Zelinsky's view that Bandera is a national hero, right?
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  5915.  @takethegas  then you will know all about the Kubanian missile crisis of the 1960's
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  5916.  @janw839  so if Zelensky is so badly wrong in judging Bandera to be a national hero, what other decisions has Zelensky made that are simply awful? what about banning Russian in schools where 90% of the community are Russian speakers, where all the teachers are Russian speakers, and all the students are Russian speakers. You on board with that too? It was a really good idea to force the Russian speakers of the Donbass to use a foreign language in all their schools?
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  5917.  @janw839  what percent of war crimes are committed by Russia and what percent by Ukraine?
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  5918.  @janw839  The Russians wanted to discuss all the possibilities you just mentioned, especially UN troops, at the proposed December meeting, that Biden refused to attend. So, do you fully support the West's refusal to talk with Putin in December 2021? Another great idea that, was it, to ignore Putin's request for talks?
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  5919.  @janw839  all of this was up for discussion in December 2021, but the West said there was nothing to talk about. I am guessing you cheered loudly at the West's refusal to sit and talk security matters with Putin, right? a really good decision, right?
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  5920.  @janw839  why so upset about an invasion of Ukraine? were you this outraged by the Saudi attacks on Yemen? by the US invasion of Syria? by the US invasion of Iraq? by the US invasion of Afghanistan? by the NATO saturation bombing of Serbia? by NATO's bombing of Libya? why so outraged by this one invasion? Russia is just following the example set by the West. you should be cheering Russia on!
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  5921.  @janw839  keep in mind, I lived and worked in Ukraine in 2018. I left the country in absolute disgust at how the Russian speakers were treated. I need no lectures on the amount of Nazi sympathy there was and still is in Ukraine. I still work online with Ukrainian students. You think what you want to think. But some of us have seen the truth of Ukraine, and it is a horrible picture. Those who support Zelensky, who is just a puppet of the oligarchs, know nothing about what a disaster he has been. Nothing. .Putin will always support ethnic Russians no matter in which country they find themselves discriminated against. Russian speakers in Kazakstan are treated fairly, and Kazakstan should have been the model to follow for Poroshenko and Zelensky. Sadly they chose the opposite route. They got what they deserved.
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  5922.  @takethegas  I was joking. get a sense of humour! Actually, Cuba is the country, and Cuban is the nationality.
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  5923.  @janw839  the problem is not that there are people of Russian origin everywhere. the problem is that where such Russian speaking communities form a majority (so that would exclude Berlin) and where such communities are native to that area (that would exclude Berlin) those ethnic Russians are due the same human rights as any other citizens of the country. Most people accept this human right as a given. French speakers in Canada have this right. French speakers in Belgium have this right. Catalan speakers in Spain have this right. English speakers in Wales have this right. The only places where it is denied is with Russian speakers. But not everywhere. Kazakstan allows education to be in Kazak, or Russian. Good, sensible, inclusive idea! Ukraine tried to compel Ukrainian on everyone. bad idea. Georgia tried the same with Georgian, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia revolted. Moldova just floated the idea of Romanian in all schools, and Transnistria revolted. If you believed in human rights, you would be backing the Russian speakers. But you don't, you back the Azov Nazi total nationalists of Bandera loving Zelensky, so you rub your hands with glee when you hear of a 90% Russian speaking community compelled to go through all years of education in a foreign language. Shame on you.
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  5924.  @Tomartyr  How little you know. Read Article 5 again and tell me where it mentions an obligation to do anything. each member state will "consider" an attack on one member state as an attack on all, and will decide what action should be deemed necessary. if you don't even know the wording of Article 5, I can't help you.
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  5925.  @vijek6435  why are you so sure that I am not in Ukraine, know all?
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  5926.  @janw839  so, where exactly do you agree with Zelensky? So far you are sounding like a Putin shill! You say that Bandera should be no national hero of Ukraine! You say admitting Nazi battalions into the Ukrainian defence force was a bad idea. You say the Russian speaking communities should be allowed equal language rights! You are on Putin's side! Welcome to the gang!
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  5927.  @janw839  How did other countries achieve equal language rights? Simple, they used common sense and respected human rights and wrote laws that guarantee equal language rights! Not that difficult, right? If Kazakstan can do it, so can Ukraine! EXCEPT, if Ukraine is governed by a puppet who just follows the demands of nationalist oligarchs and Azov Nazis, then we get a government that thinks compelled Ukrainianization of the entire country is a really great idea. Then we run into trouble, as has happened.
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  5928.  @janw839  Minsk Agreements contained everything you wished for. Autonomy and language rights for Donbass, while remaining as part of Ukraine. All parties agreed to this. Except that it was a farce. Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande all admitted that Minsk was a way to buy time for Ukraine to re-arm and build its economy. No one but Putin really wanted Minsk implemented. so, here we are, no implementation of Minsk = settling the matter by other means. The West had a chance to settle this and they turned their backs on it.
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  5929.  @janw839  Putin has been in power for decades and never ONCE mentioned taking over Crimea. Not once. The coup of 2014 led Crimea to reject the 2014 coup, and the Crimean parliament (it's called democracy) voted for annexation with Russia. Let me ask you....have you ever been to Crimea?
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  5930.  @janw839  The red line was crossed with the refusal to talk security concerns in December. That refusal, as Putin said, made it clear that only Russian military intervention could bring the 8 year war of Donbass to a close. and here we are!
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  5931.  @janw839  I am not twisting any words at all. Let me repeat, all 3 of them, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande have all said that Minsk was a way to buy time for Ukraine. This fully explains why not one of them ever sought to implement the terms of the agreements in any way. On the contrary, all three of them did zero to implement Minsk. Zero. They are dishonest, and this is why Russia will not trust the West with any other written agreement on Ukraine. Dabalzovo showed that the Ukraine/NATO alliance was not going to win in Donbass. Ukraine had masses of forces surrounded and about to be annihilated. Putin, he now realizes, should have just massacred them all, but foolishly Putin sought peace. Never again. Come on dude, see reality. Russia was the honest broker suckered by the conniving West. At least now you understand why Russia has no trust in any words from the West and just wants to trade and work with the East and Global South.
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  5932.  @MrJdsenior  Putin has a lot more support from his electorate than Western leaders have from theirs. Putin is going nowhere and most Russians want it that way. The war ends with a Ukrainian surrender, and that would be the right thing.
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  5933.  @eremstemero8823  oh look, you omitted point 11! curious, given that point 9, which you cited, is dependent on point 11! hiding something? Tell me, what exactly did Hollande and Merkel do to get things moving on the Minsk Agreements and remedy the lack of progress? Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel all confessed that Minsk was a means to buy time for Ukraine. You need know nothing more to understand why Russia can no longer trust the word of the West. OSCE...would that be the same OSCE that were kicked out of Donbass for revealing locations of DPR and LPR forces to Ukrainian forces? that same OSCE? Your Western lies know no bounds. Putin has taken a stand and the rest of the world, outside the deluded Western bubble, is cheering him on.
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  5934.  @eremstemero8823  Things we never heard from Merkel and Hollande, "it really is very important we get these elections in Donbass all organized and done, what exactly can we do to achieve that or at least move the process along? Should we meet with the Donbass leaders?"
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  5935.  @gertjanmokum  better to be labeled the super bot rather than the super butt
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  5936.  @davids5126  "minimal warfare" = fewer Donbass children massacred by Azov nazis than normal. Putin announced 5 objectives of the Special Military Operation. Read the 5 objectives again and you will see why simply occupying the Donbass wouldn't achieve those in itself (i.e. you can't demilitarize Ukraine by simply occupying the Donbass).
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  5937.  @saskiavermeulen3346  only problem with your argument is........Russia does acknowledge Ukraine as an independent state.
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  5938.  @saskiavermeulen3346  let me ask you, do you think the French speakers in Belgium, a minority, should be compelled to speak Dutch/Flemish, the language of the majority?
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  5939.  @saskiavermeulen3346  when the Americans invaded Grenada, was it a Special Military Operation or did USA declare war on Grenada? which one?
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  5940.  @skehleben7699  are you talking about Zelensky?
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  5941. riding in that quintessential Italian car, the Renault
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  5942. "saving lives and resources for battles elsewhere" was what Russia did in Kherson, but without sacrificing thousands of cannon fodder troops, as Zelensky has done in Bakhmut. The puppet dwarf in LKev is no master tactician
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  5943. blaming Trump, blaming the pandemic...again, Trump and pandemic were around for all the Caribbean countries, but Cuba suffered a lot more than the others. Socialism
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  5944. Just gotta roar with laughter at the incompetency of the West. Remember when we heard the "shock and awe sanctions" were going to reduce the ruble to rubble? Ruble stronger than ever and it's the euro that has crashed. Remember the idea was to starve Russia of the income needed to fund its invasion? Russia now earning more revenue from energy exports and exporting LESS quantity! Voila, the results of our leaders getting briefings from experts on climate change and equity and diversity, rather than economics.
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  5945.  @taipizzalord4463  you clearly know nothing about basic economics. Landlords are not "siphoning" any income from any tenant. The tenant is agreeing to pay a monthly fee for accommodation, and the tenant is 100% free to refuse to pay and live elsewhere. If providing a roof over someone's head is considered producing "nothing in the economy" then the same goes for every hotel, hostel, campsite....anywhere that provides accommodation! Get a grasp of reality instead of whining in your infantile socialist world of make believe.
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  5946.  @coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13  those of us who can see the extent fools have been brainwashed in the West KNOW you can no longer distinguish fact from fiction.....the first sign is that you have no counter narrative or evidence to challenge what I say!
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  5947.  @masterman1502  just giving you the truth and challenging your assumptions. it's good for you.
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  5948.  @xoigel8106  and Germany voted Hitler into power. what's your point?
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  5949.  @xoigel8106  and Kherson voted to become part of Russia. You do have faith in all votes in this part of the world, right? in the most corrupt country in Europe, right?
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  5950.  @46mrph  give me one example of Putin trying to remove Ukrainian heritage from anywhere in Russia, or Ukraine.
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  5951. down the rocky path there is a beach where boats transporting drugs and migrants come ashore. either Jay had arranged to be taken to Morocco illegally, for whatever reason, and he made it, OR he got in trouble with a drug deal and is held hostage or dead. he ain't in that wilderness where they think he is.
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  5952.  @FortitudineVincimus  of course you thought that, because you are not smart enough to realize the "3 days" tag was fabricated by Western media, and didn't come from the Kremlin. I guess you believe Ghost of Kiev is real too?
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  5953. so, it's a "forum to discuss security matters in Europe" that bans a key player involved in discussions needed to secure Europe. Nope. It's yet another Western taking shop that follows only one narrative and censors dissenting views. Ignore them.
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  5954.  @shizuokaBLUES  compared to how many Americans that already died in the Biden term? Did you conveniently forget that Americans die every day?
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  5955. "it's about firming up public statements"...yep, that really helps granma survive winter and helps struggling businesses survive, those firm statements. she is part of the problem. can't see reality from her deluded bubble of Western hegemony.
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  5956. Biden promised to blow up Nordstream. He must be furious that a bunch of amateurs like this lot beat him to it.
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  5957. Stoltenberg needs to answer what he knew about USA's act of terrorism on the Nordstream pipeline. Turkey is doing a great job acting as Russia's agent in NATO, along with Hungary.
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  5958. @RandomAmerican🇺🇸 a chorus that started a year ago, yawn
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  5959. it's only a big short-term victory for Fani. the story ain't over yet. Jim Jordan, the GA Senate, the GA bar association and many more have a whole load of dirt to sift through on Fani, and she ain't gonna come out of it all looking clean. Her career and reputation will still go over a cliff edge. patience.
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  5960. "Putin rarely talks to international journalists" No, honey, that would be Biden. Putin talks incessantly to foreign journalists, but dopes like you choose not to read his words.
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  5961. Criminal Ukraine has to completely leave Russia
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  5962.  @luminyam6145  well done, you get the prize for the lame rebuttal of the day! something tells me you win this accolade quite often, right? let me know when you have more than 2 brain cells for a debate.
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  5963.  @angrydoggy9170  when you learn what the word "Ukraine" means you will understand why Ukraine is part of Russia. Putin's claims are a lot more valid (you mean "valid", not "valuable") than yours because Putin knows the history, culture and demography of that part of the world, plus he has nukes. you don't. claim anything you want, but be aware that Putin has calculated everything very well and has won. and you have lost. or, maybe you truly believe Crimea will be in Ukrainian hands in just a few weeks? lol
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  5964.  @luminyam6145  ok Zelensky troll
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  5965. nothing to do with Brexit. the majority of Brits are now net recipients, getting more hand-outs than they make contributions to the system. it's unsustainable. who the hell will invest in a place like that?
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  5966. the threat to national security is liars like Lloyd Austin saying "Ukraine is winning" when the truth in the leaked documents confess that Ukrainian losses are SEVEN times higher than Russian losses. Fools like Hannity, who then parrots such lies, are the national disgrace, not the leak of documents.
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  5967.  @winsomemartinez  really weird that Russia stopped exporting petroleum and yet China and India are buying tankers loaded with Russian petroleum! weird! no doubt you know the names and locations of the 9 refineries that caught fire. certainly it sounds like Russia is about to collapse. when do you predict that Ukraine will declare victory?
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  5968. "shocking footage" this is the new normal. Voters had to choice to elect the BNP but preferred to elect the parties that opened up the borders.
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  5969. "not lost yet in the Donbass" oh wow, sounds different from "Ukraine is winning" and "Ghost of Kiev" a few months ago (both lies). what's the next statement going to be "still an outside chance Ukraine can turn this around"?
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  5970.  @stefan2796  and you are the 20th Azov Nazi cheerleader to so accuse me, but too cowardly to prove it. like the side you support, too scared of the truth.
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  5971. disagree that Kiev is a military target in any way. Eventually, the Russian speaking cities of Odessa and Kharkov will be incorporated into Russia's demands, but Kiev won't. The attacks on Kiev are just a reminder that anyone or anything can be taken out by the Russians, that Patriot defences make no difference, that such havoc can be created in Kiev that Ukraine won't be able to make any advances towards Crimea whilst Ukraine and NATO have to keep pouring time, effort and money into protecting Kiev. Fixing operation as we saw in March '22
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  5972. "the magnificent job Ukraine is doing" 8 million refugees, 8 million displaced, 120,000 dead, bankrupt and begging, no reliable power grid, waiting for the next deluge of drones and missiles, Russia's convicts and mercenaries defeating Ukraine's finest in Soledar. If this is doing magnificently, would hate to see things when Ukraine starts to lose.
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  5973. just hilarious how the West has to drag itself to admit that Russia is calling all the shots.
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  5974. Bizarrely, Trump wins whatever the outcome. Acquittal or hung jury would count as a win. "Guilty" would be such a shocker and travesty of justice that droves of fair-minded people would swoop to Trump's side and the protests would hurt the Dems enormously. Hold on tight, this could be the spark that starts the long delayed second civil war.
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  5975.  @DonaldWickles  ready to fight for an America that returns to its constitutional roots, yep.
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  5976. now that 2 weeks have been wasted looking for Jay in a wilderness he never went to, maybe interrogate the many dodgy key players in this saga and that will lead you to where Jay really is. Jeez!
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  5977. clearly Russia is running out of weapons and ammo, just as it was every month for the last year. weird that BBC assume the capture of Bakhmut was an objective. I guess the experts at the BBC never heard of a "cauldron".
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  5978.  @sH-ed5yf  if the definition of "running out of weapons" is dependency on weapons coming in from another country, then Ukraine has zero weapons at all. none. agreed?
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  5979.  @sH-ed5yf  and what evidence do you have of what Russia has in storage? none. Russia still bombs and destroys Ukronazi weapons systems and kills soldiers day after day. again, you have no evidence of a decrease in the rate of weapon destruction or killing of Ukrainian soldiers. which country, Ukraine or Russia, is firing more shells on the opposition every day? which country has a kill rate in its favor?
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  5980.  @sH-ed5yf  my point is as I stated. you claim Russia is low on weapons because it imports Iranian drones. Following that logic, Ukraine has no weapons at all, because all weapons it imports come from the West. you can't have it both ways. if the amount of imported weapons is an indicator of low weapons supplies, then Ukraine has nothing. of course, your logic is fatally flawed! Russia has plenty of weapons, and chooses to import cheap Iranian drones as the most cost effective way of depleting Ukrainian air defences, and this is working. Ukraine imports Turkish drones, so what? what should concern you is that Russia has prepared for 8 years for this war and weapons production has been at a high level for a long time. The West was totally unprepared for such a war of attrition and is out of artillery shells and the ammo Ukraine needs. Russia is winning.
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  5981.  @sH-ed5yf  yet another massive wave of attacks on Ukraine last night from the side running out of weapons! how much longer will you carry on with your deluded "Russia is running out of weapons" nonsense?
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  5982.  @krakhedd  "the world was chugging along just fine..." well, the 14,000 dead and their nearest and dearest in the Donbass, after 8 years of relentless shelling by the Azov Nazis that you so firmly support, they weren't exactly chugging along just fine, were they? Nor were the hundreds of thousands of Donbass and other Ukrainian refugees that were forced to leave Ukraine after the 2014 coup, they weren't chugging along nicely were they?
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  5983.  @krakhedd  Russia, unlike Ukraine, has not mobilized. it is fighting with a peacetime army, so the vast majority of Russian troops, unlike Ukraine's cannon fodder, is a volunteer force. You and I have no idea how many "feel" forced to be fighting, on the Russian side. The mass of recent desertions on the Ukrainian side would indicate absolute despair on their side. As with all Ukrainian allegations, the reality is beneath the surface, one only need possess a modicum of intelligence to clearly discern it (Ghost of Kiev, heroic stand on Snake Island, no weapons and troops in residential areas)...at least i gave some specific examples!
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  5984.  @nunyabusiness863  he told the truth. it's not a war. War has NOT been declared. There is no mobilization, Russia is in combat with a peacetime army. 80% of Russia's peacetime army is in Russia, most of them no where near Ukraine. Believe me, if Russia declared war, you would notice the difference! He told the truth, It is you that is the liar.
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  5985.  @krakhedd  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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  5986.  @nunyabusiness863  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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  5987. snowflake
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  5988. the two other fronts aren't collapsing.
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  5989.  @jackt883  given the working class did so well under Trump, until Covid hit, you will see most of the working class back Trump again. no rampant inflation, open border, or wars started by Trump
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  5990. gonna take a wild guess....this "Welsh" suspect is not last name Jones.
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  5991. if someone invades your house and TAKES three rooms, you haven't got three room to GIVE!
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  5992.  @Truckeren01  that's what Russia is doing Ukraine is part of Russia.
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  5993.  @thinkerly1  all the evidence points to the contrary, that Putin recognizes the former Soviet states as independent, and only has issues with those states where ethnic Russians are discriminated against. Places like Kazakhstan, Putin is absolutely fine with.
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  5994. "Russia's surprise attack"......only to brainwashed, out-of-touch dopes at the BBC that have no clue what is going on in Ukraine. to the rest of the world, it was clear Russia was amassing a major force for an offensive. why does my license fee go toward paying reporters like this fool asleep at the wheel?
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  5995. Bit of a mystery, this one. Given that "diversity is our strength", why aren't Ireland and UK both trying to retain every immigrant they have?
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  5996.  @tariqjoseph3562  totally agree! why should young, healthy taxpayers be compelled to pay anything for the elderly, who are the nation's wealthiest demographic! makes no sense! the government should have nothing to do with such wealth redistribution! glad you are a libertarian, like me!
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  5997. But the irony is Russia gave up on this nutty way of thinking, and Western colleges embraced it.
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  5998. yet another bleating Marxist who is ignorant of the real world.
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  5999. curious photos of Bakhmut were chosen and not Donetsk City, or both. curious that destroying infrastructure was mentioned, but not the fact that NATO and USA did that too. Basically Ukrainian propaganda, which we get non stop here in the West.
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  6000.  @EbliZ  Azov Nazi lover since when he first saw a photo of Hitler and Bandera together, so damn obvious, go gat another swastika on your fecal encrusted buttocks, bro, then STFU
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  6001.  @peterbrunner1978  learn some history, you dope. USSR invaded Poland, led by a Georgian called Stalin. Russia is just copying the "rules based order" of the West, following the examples of NATO bombing Serbia and Libya, following the example of USA invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. If you weren't a stinking hypocrite, you would be applauding Russia
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  6002. there is no investigation. Tenerife police have no interest in investigating crimes of teenage drug dealing, thefts and violence. best let the story die
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  6003. That lie again! There was NEVER a Russian blockade. Ships have been coming and going from Izmael with no blockade. Ukrainian mines block the passage of ships from Odessa, not Russian vessels. Nice try. African Union got wind of this Western lie and pressured EU to completely drop ALL restrictions on Russian and Belarussian grain and fertilizer exports, the part of the agreement you REFUSE to cover. COMPLETE EU capitulation. Now, once the mines are out of the way, grain from Ukraine can flow, and thanks to EU capitulation, grain and fertilizer can flow from Russia and Belarus too. See what happens when you negotiate with Russia?
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  6004.  @matteusvirtanen392  her loss had everything to do with Ukraine, it's just that the plebs are too dumb to realize it. sanctions on Russia are leading to horrendous economic problems throughout Europe. the voters are wise enough to see that Marin has messed up the Finnish economy, but are not wise enough to figure out exactly how.
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  6005.  @slopflop9006  no, he does not support Ukraine at all. If he supported Ukraine he would not be backing policies that have created 8 million refugees, bankrupted the country and led to the destruction of the entire nation. Get real.
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  6006.  @oliivioljy9700  she partied while Ukraine died and Finland got suckered into NATO. shame on her. her successor may well be a small improvement, but maybe not.
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  6007.  Kalevic  makes no difference to what I said and Finland's reality. Marin lost because the people have no faith in her leadership (partying it up while Ukrainians are massacred). the winning parties, when Russia wins and Finland is in the crosshairs forever more, forced to contribute millions of euros to USA/NATO's next disaster in Taiwan, the new government will become just as unpopular.
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  6008.  @ragnarian  so true
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  6009. Rewind to December 2021: Putin : we really need to discuss Russia's security concerns given NATO's moves to admit Ukraine. Biden: Agreed, let's go through any aspect of what is happening in Ukraine that bothers you. CORRECT RESPONSE Biden: Nothing to talk about. Ukraine is free to do whatever it wants, and so is NATO. REALLY BAD RESPONSE. West slowly learning what Realpolitik is all about.
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  6010. part of the problem is that judges are not elected in the UK. the people need to choose who our judges are, not told who our judges are.
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  6011. Since Climategate and "hide the decline", no one with any sense believes the stats issued by those climate alarmists that get paid to keep raising the alarm.
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  6012. Just hysterical, that all those who embrace EU values and EU laws, such as freedom of movement, then wring their hands in angst when they are flooded by EU yobs who take over the streets!
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  6013. just as he has no backbone and no morals, Scholz has no red lines, just words he spouts according to how the wind blows.
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  6014. finally, white Britain gets to have its say......20 years in the making, let the Stasi police know what a summer they are in for!
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  6015. which law is forbidding Obama from volunteering 90% of his wealth to those suffering from inequality?
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  6016. as usual, deflection from Russia's advances on the ground with the cry of "but look how many men they lost!" You fool no one, Kirby. For once, give us the numbers, Ukraine lost and Russian lost, and account for how you make your calculations. otherwise, stfu with your guesses and deflections.
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  6017. Russia wipes out hundreds of Ukrainians almost every day in such attacks. this is only news because, for once, Ukraine has a success. Tells you how the war is going.
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  6018. Powerless NATO. what's the point boasting that "most Russian missiles get shot down" when Russia only needs a small fraction of their massive launches to penetrate defenses and reduce the country to blackout? So let me get this right, Western leaders think Ukraine will retake Crimea, even though nothing can be done to prevent Ukraine from losing its power grid.
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  6019.  @pyneface5415  Donbass is not part of Ukraine. You missed the first referendum and declaration of independence, then you missed recognition of its independence by Russia (and Syria and North Korea and Venezuela, which means 3 more countries than recognize Northern Cyprus, but let me guess, you don't care a monkey's backside about the injustice of Northern Cyprus?). People from Donbass can move to Russia. 70,000 were evacuated there. But now Donbass is part of Russia totally, so the 10% who don't want to be part of Russia can go to Ukraine. Better that 10% move than 90%, agreed?
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  6020. No one sane believes the scientists who "measure" temperatures since Climategate and "hide the decline". it is all nonsense. 9 times more people die of cold than die of heat, so warmer temperatures should be celebrated.
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  6021. yet more begging from the billionaire puppet, desperate to prolong the war and get more Ukronazi cannon fodder massacred. well, the UK has no government debt at all, so why not compel the UK taxpayers to escalate the conference and entice Russia to start attacking UK assets around the globe?
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  6022.  @mac7040  makes sense. so the free market, at the moment, offers little encouragement to many, hence demands that tax payers be forced to insulate the nation where possible.
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  6023.  @consolerepairseire  that's right, screw the others who have to suffer. Germany in particular on course to become a third world backwater this winter
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  6024.  @whatsupbudbud  as a renter, why would you be? it's the owners who have to worry. lack of education on how economies work on your part.
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  6025. just the title is hilarious. like the woke nancy boys from Finland would have any chance against the Wagers or Chechens. just make sure your diversity and equity training is completed and your electric tanks are at the ready! NATO, what a joke. NATO 0 Taliban 1
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  6026.  @sdfghgtrew  just shining the light of truth on deluded NATO' supporters' fantasy world.
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  6027. GBNews, please find reporters who can speak without um, ur, um repeating, um every other , um, kind of every idea.
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  6028. The way those older ladies in Severodonetsk were kissing their Russian heroes on the cheek gives them all the motivation in the world to keep going. The smiles and the way their faces lit up brought tears to my eyes. "we have waited 8 years for you to liberate us" wept one. God bless from France. Slava Donbasu
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  6029. Tucker Carlson is not right wing, honey. it's you that is left wing.
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  6030. this is what happens when you vote in a government that prints money and sanctions Russia
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  6031.  @gedenironald8635  exactly. it's not random. intelligence fingers the spot to target.
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  6032.  @thilakhari  so if it is the Russian missiles that are "dumb", that means the Russians firing them are innocent of any civilian deaths. all the blame is on the "dumb" missiles. Your argument exculpates the Russians. the Russians are already trying to nuke the West? Has the attempt succeeded or failed? where did the first nuclear explosion take place? Is English your first language?
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  6033.  @Mygg_Jeager  yes, always ban free speech whenever free speech is against what we believe in.
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  6034.  @thilakhari  what percentage, exactly, of civilian deaths in Ukraine were from dumb missiles, and what percentage from current Russian mentality? what are the numbers? oh, so many people demanding to nuke the West is the same as Russia trying to attack the West with nukes? Maybe work on your English. There is a massive difference between Russia trying to nuke the West and protests in favor of attacking the West. certainly the West seems to be inviting a nuclear attack with the way it keeps escalating the conflict instead of trying to attain a peaceful settlement.
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  6035.  @thilakhari  right, so you have no numbers, you just made it up, a total invention! what an imagination you have! is it only Russian soldiers that won't hesitate to kill civilians because of their mentality, or do you think Ukrainian soldiers won't hesitate to kill civilians because of their mentality too? Does Russia have a monopoly of such a mentality? Are you familiar with the peace talks with Russia at Yalta, at Potsdam, at Reykjavik? It is only in the last few years that the West has decided it is better to fight Russia than to live peacefully with Russia.
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  6036.  @Mygg_Jeager  shelling an apartment block where enemy troops are located is neither terrorism nor genocide. so get your terms and definitions straight. If it is, then terrorism and genocide have been committed by NATO repeatedly over the decades. You don't have the right to spout, publicly, lies, so careful how you tread with your false accusations.
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  6037.  @Mygg_Jeager  I guess when you live in a fantasy world and are totally brainwashed you would actually believe Russians consider "babies in cribs" as "enemy soldiers". Hope you wake up to reality one day. When was the last time you were in Russia? Ukraine? Crimea? pray, tell.
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  6038.  @Mygg_Jeager  if no one is buying my words of truth, why even bother to respond? methinks thou doth protest too much. Given I am well right of center, unlikely I'm a Bolshevik! What you call "Bolshevik nonsense" is common sense. when was the last time you were in Ukraine?
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  6039.  @thilakhari  not everything, but their targets are based on intel, not random attacks. wise up.
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  6040.  @Noel-ji8nm  oh yeah, that's right, all those Gazans are delighted to be at the mercy of the IDF now, just what they planned for.
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  6041. asinine, corrupt Democrats doing all in their power to boost Trump's popularity. if Trump is sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt of court, he's won the election.
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  6042. If Burns, Sullivan and Biden were innocent of the Nordstream accusations, they would be incensed and threatening legal accusation over such slander. Their silence is confirmation they did it.
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  6043. Confirmation that Ukraine most definitely shares EU values, recruiting officers doing just as well from bribery as the Qatargate EU criminals. Why is Brussels hesitating to embrace corrupt Ukraine into the corrupt EU gang?
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  6044. "without evidence" only "without evidence" to biased networks like DW. to those who are impartial, caught heading towards the Ukrainian border is evidence, as is the fact that at least one of them had served in the Ukrainian army.
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  6045. of course you are, because you believe the nonsense narrative of Western MSM
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  6046.  @TheAArmstrong  sounds just like Michigan!
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  6047. in what sense is the election in Russia not legitimate? in the counting procedure? reveal all.
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  6048. "with the support of the free world"..yeah, mate, we are so free, our autocrats won't even allow us to get a glimpse of the Russian perspective! RT banned from broadcasting in Europe, that's how free we are!
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  6049. "the people who suffer from diet related disease are not responsible for it" oh yes they are. until this Marxist idealogue accepts the notion of personal responsibility, he represents no solution.
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  6050.  @apoplast3885  you wouldn't be able to spot a "russian bot" if a russian bot came sprinting up to you, slapped you in the face and shrieked "i'm a russian bot", BTW, were the emergency services ever able to extract your member from so deep inside the rectum of Denis Nikitin?
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  6051.  @apoplast3885  so, what are you saying? a Russian bot nailed it on the head with amazing insight?
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  6052. When Germany wakes up to the fact that the real enemy is the one that committed environmental terrorism on the Nordstream pipeline, then there will be progress in Germany.
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  6053. I'm confused. last i heard, Russia was running out of weapons and morale of Russian soldiers was low. now, she says, it's Banderaland soldiers lacking in morale and munitions. what changed?
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  6054. or even buffoons
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  6055. oh Lord, now we have a "journalist" doubting which questions are appropriate for which minister! What a dope he is.
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  6056.  @ohdearism  and not for the first time in your life, your wild guess was totally wrong. oh dear.
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  6057. what a surprise, someone named "Karim Khan" says Israel committed war crimes. ignorant fool doesn't even know where Rafah is.
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  6058. So the message is that even though Ukraine can't win, UK is doing a marvelous job training thousands of cannon fodder to be thrown into the Russian meatgrinder in a war that is now unwinnable. How magnanimous and caring of the UK.
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  6059.  @IMAS7X  There was nothing in the agreement that mentioned a ceasefire. There was nothing in the agreement that mentioned no missile attacks on cities. There was only an agreement to cease shelling/missiles WHEN GRAIN SHIPS ARE IN PORT IN TRANSIT (you clearly need to read the agreement). The international joke is the West. The West tried to isolate Russia and failed. The whole globe, minus the West, is more than happy to trade with Russia and support Russia. The world sees that Western sanctions that are to blame. The West is the sick joke, hence BRICS is the future and G7 a bunch of bloated buffoons who are like clowns for the rest of the world to laugh at.
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  6060. These days it is much more important to join a protest and virtue signal rather than learn all about the subject matter. It's a lot easier, too.
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  6061. the time to consider the costs of hosting thousands of migrants is BEFORE you declare yourself a Sanctuary City, not AFTER.
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  6062. and yet climate change is the biggest threat to the planet.
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  6063.  @Chulito_con_frito  so what? even though the circumstances are different, it's always useful to put such things into perspective.
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  6064.  @samhavoc1066  just gives you a different perspective, a look at the big picture.
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  6065.  @DarkTempler1  China and India
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  6066.  @paulgibbon5991  1. "whataboutism" pre-dates any Soviet propaganda. it's been around for all time. 2. "whereby", not "whereas".
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  6067. you should have spent the last few days with the parents of the thousands of massacred and mutilated Ukrainian cannon fodder. would have given you a true picture of the misery of most Ukrainians.
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  6068. hordes of uninvited illegals coming ashore in wave after wave from the super safe country of France is indeed an invasion. anyone who calls it by any other name is being dishonest.
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  6069. no surprise that the snowflake generation see no point in fighting for their country. what would surprise me is if they had anything against those fighting to destroy their country.
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  6070.  @cann0708  Aslin, Urey and Pinner might dispute the "for no losses" bit
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  6071. Moldova already looking for scapegoats to explain why it is bankrupt and unable to secure reliable, affordable energy. should have sided with Russia.
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  6072. sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Russia has won. It's objectives have been met for the most part. If your definition of a Ukraine "win" is no Russian forces in Ukraine, ain't going to happen, Get real
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  6073. If successive governments hadn't thought it was a really good idea to import so many intolerant immigrants then we wouldn't have this problem.
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  6074. curious that NATO's objective now is not for Ukraine to win, but just to have some more territory under its control so that it will have more leverage at the negotiating table. my, how expectations have sunk. absurd assumption that Russia, with its nukes, would consider negotiating even in a worse case scenario.
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  6075. Inna looks delighted that Ukraine's real president finally got to Kiev. Good for Russians to see that the enemy is indeed NATO, not just Ukraine.
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  6076. it's funny they haven't figured out that the mug shot will gain Trump yet more votes and put him in prime position to win. these are the same people that said Hillary was 100% sure to win the 2016 election.
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  6077. yet another criminal who was expelled from France, except he decided to stay and no one forced his expulsion, so Libya Islam United 1 France 0
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  6078. Welcome to Western lies and propaganda
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  6079. No, honey, it shows that even when a demented renegade tries to seize power with his own private army, Putin can still solve the issue AND continue massacring the Ukronazia/NATO alliance. If only Zelensky had accepted Lukashenko's offer to mediate a deal last year. Putin just went up in most of the world's esteem. Grasp reality.
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  6080. so what? what's your point?
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  6081. "blatant attacks on civilians" spot the "expert" that never read the Amnesty International report that proved Ukraine hides troops and weaponry in residential areas.
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  6082. "Many wives would like their husbands to come back" What? You don't think ALL wives want their husbands to come back? What kind of brainless reporting is this?
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  6083. only a fool would dismiss the bizarre coincidence that covid appeared in the very same city where the lab that experimented on it is located.
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  6084. More talk of Russia not having enough equipment. Didn't we hear all this nonsense and propaganda back in March? Let me guess, the next topic will be "lack of morale in Russian forces"...gotta keep resurrecting those stale and failed lies. By the way, did you all hear about that MASSIVE weapons and ammo package agreed by the EU this week? On its way to Ukraine NOW? Did you hear about that? No? Neither did I.
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  6085. "If Putin succeeds"...blusters Bojo. Putin already succeeded in Syria, and in Chechnya, and in South Ossetia, and in Abkazia, and in Transnistra. On those occasions, I don't recall this panicked hand-wringing and pleading "if Putin succeeds". Why not? Because it's all Russophobic bullshit and the West will see FAR more of its citizens murdered and brutally attacked by the boats of migrants it lets in, not from any Russian soldiers.
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  6086. excellent point....we negotiated with the IRA, but with DPR we decide Aslin and Pinner can just die.
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  6087. all power to the rioters tonight. the more mayhem and disorder created, the more pressure on 2 tier Keir to listen and negotiate.
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  6088. as always, failed parasites just blame others
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  6089. Nah, the Donbass ethnic Russians were abandoned by Ukraine in 2014. It's Russia doing the liberating and the Azov Nazis doing the capturing
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  6090. The guest is wrong. BBC reporters DO wake up and think "how can I stick it to Israel today?"
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  6091.  @rhiannonmitchell2133  presumably when they pay Paul they are contributing to the economy of wherever they spend their legally acquired money. If any laws have been broken, take them to court or vote for a party that would change the law. No one is blaming any immigrants. we are blaming governments that let illegal immigrants in.
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  6092.  @michaelgoode9555  care to point out just one of the "lies"?
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  6093.  @takers786  real money? so the fake money goes to Ukraine? The truth is EVERYTHING you mention is wrong! If politicians are earning money illegally, take them to court or sack them at the next election. Wish we could take Ukraine to court or sack it!
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  6094.  @PeterPete  name me anywhere that is different from that
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  6095.  @bens1972  like what? name a specifically Brexit event that has hindered business.
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  6096. and now, the truth. there are no territorial gains, and Ukraine/NATO has sustained horrendous losses in men and weaponry. this guy Ledwidge is a liar and propagandist. Ukraine/NATO has not even broken through the Russian forward positions, and nothing has got anywhere near the first line of Russian defences. There is overwhelming video evidence showing Leopards and Bradleys destroyed. the offensive is a total failure.
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  6097. oh dear, honey....this is NOT a strategic retreat! It WOULD have been a strategic retreat had this happened 3 weeks ago. Thousands of Ukrainian troops are killed, captured or trapped now, BECAUSE they LOST and because they did NOT retreat strategically! Get real and smell the coffee....this is a DISASTER for Ukraine and no extra weapons will change anything! Maybe repeat the lie of "Ghost pf Kiev" to convince your audience that Ukraine is winning!
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  6098. just so amusing to see Ukraine and the West clutching at straws to delude themselves that this can be won. weapons weapons weapons! Russia has won and has no need to negotiate. In its own good time, Russia will assume control of the Donbass and demilitarize the Ukraine and the West, then dictate surrender terms. Just revenge for 8 years of butchery against ethnic Russians in Donbass. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  6099.  @DiamondBack75  some of us have known Paris for 40 years. we see and feel the difference. Arriving at Gare du Nord feels like being dumped in Dakar, though a lot less friendly than Dakar.
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  6100. this is what you deserve if you applaud lockdowns, applaud Green energy, applaud sanctions on Russia, applaud unlimited aid to Ukraine, applaud expansion of the welfare state. time to pay the bill.
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  6101.  @leswalker4282  race is only one factor in this anger and fury. most of the anger is directed at Muslims and illegals
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  6102. France 24 still deluded enough to assume Russians are firing missiles at Russian forces in a Russian held power plant. France 24 probably still thinks Ghost of Kiev is real.
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  6103.  @maatwarrior340  exactly. NATO should have joined Russia in denouncing the 2014 coup and supporting Crimean and Donbass self-determination.
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  6104. shows exactly why homophobia exists. homophobia was created by those who whine about it.
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  6105. just so funny to listen to these fools. Britain is broke, surviving on printing money and loans. Turns out Russia is rich, exporting commodities that the world needs and will pay big cash for. drivel about increasing defence spending is just posturing. Britain can't and won't. Russia has won, Iran and China are laughing.
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  6106. can't be true, because the government has plenty of cash for Ukraine and can afford extra high energy costs due to sanctions on Russia.
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  6107.  @RobLocksley  these days, no such journalist exists, so you have to get a taste of all sources and make your best judgement
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  6108.  @TheJrr71  He lost because the judge decided he had lost without hearing any testimony. On how many previous occasions have such charges of inflating property values been brought before a NY court, would you say? Who is the victim of Trump's "crimes" and will they testify? There is no fraud when a disclaimer about assessed property value is on Page One! The folks that laugh are ignorant cretins that can't see a broken justice system when it stares them in the face.
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  6109.  @superevil4ever322  the more the corrupt judge decides to fine Trump, the more cash Trump will raise from his massive following and the more he will rise in the polls. The dumb Democrats have not figured out that this is all working in Trump's favor, no matter what the judge's decisions are.
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  6110.  @TheJrr71  Of course all of the valuations were produced in the defence's documentation. And the judge, before hearing a single word in court, decided he knew best what the true value of Trump's holdings were. Totally corrupt. Gonna answer my simple questions I asked you, or gonna duck them? Cue crickets
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  6111.  @grayisgood  no one is below the law, apart from Trump. No other case of fraud based on property evaluations and asset evaluations has ever been taken to court in NY. Please, the authorities would take no one else to court over this, except Trump. we are not seeing cowardice from the "authorities", but bias and vindictiveness.
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  6112.  @frederickschneider3165  America needs no help from Trump regarding burning itself down. Biden has managed to promote that destruction all on his own, while figuring out what day of the week it is. Trump is right to call this corrupt biased judge out. Trump, not the judge, will get the masses behind him, because the masses see how broken and biased the US justice system is. Trump is playing his cards right. The judge is not and is lost on this one.
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  6113.  @MaiZonnies  the judge has already ruled that Trump is guilty without hearing a word of testimony! Welcome to justice NY style. Give me Russian justice any day. And how would you define "accurate information" when it comes to property evaluations? I say my apartment is worth $100,000. Now, you be the judge, is my estimate accurate?
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  6114.  @dougaltolan3017  why do you call it fraud? who, exactly, is the victim of this "fraud" when it is the duty of every individual or corporation to independently verify ANY valuation of property? Fraud? You must be joking. The issue is scale? really? So, fraud is allowed. what amount of fraud represents the red line and makes acceptable fraud suddenly unacceptable fraud? what's the number? and why is it only Trump that has crossed that red line in the history of NY property valuation fraud cases?
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  6115.  @512Squared  Maybe I don't know the law. maybe I do. I certainly know justice, and this case ain't justice. Trump exposed NO bank to any risk whatsoever. On the contrary. Trump insisted on Page One, through his disclaimer, that the bank must conduct their own evaluation to be satisfied of his claim. This is common sense and it is how business is done all over the world every day. If I claim my apartment is worth $100,000 and you agree to buy it without doing your own appraisal, that's not fraud. That would be stupidity on your part. you say "misreport the value of a property". Please, define exactly what is the value of a property. You tell me, what is the value of my apartment?
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  6116.  @TheJrr71  You simply do not understand what the defence submitted. Let me repeat. The defence submitted financial records. Those financial records were the evidence of Trump's business dealings. Whether fraud was committed or not is NOT based on a set of financial figures. Fraud is committed when a certain party claims to have lost money due to illegal practices and ALL evidence, verbal and written, is weighed up in a court of law to determine the truth. Now, for the THIRD time of asking, how about you answer some of my most basic questions. Who is the party that suffered horrendous loss from Trump's fraud? Why did they bring this case to court and how much loss are they claiming? Do you believe every single person who ever submitted two differing property evaluations for 2 different purposes has committed fraud and should be in court for such? .On how many previous occasions have property evaluation fraud cases been brought to a NY court, and were all the previous occasions brought by a DA who vowed to "get Trump"? Now, answers please.
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  6117.  @TheJrr71  reading the summary judgement would not answer my questions, and reading statute 63 12 would fail to answer my questions. and you know this. Where have I come by all these "fairy tale legal fantasies?" you ask. oh, probably the 40 odd years I have spent writing about legal cases! Let me repeat....if you can't answer my most basic of questions, it's you who is ignorant of what fraud is, not me. bye bye.
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  6118.  @alexwyatt2911  sure it can. you see what your bank does if you start using a counterfeit debit card.
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  6119.  @garyharrington3240  I certainly do, and a lot better than you apparently don't!
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  6120.  @garyharrington3240  in NY, a bench trial would be where a corrupt, left-wing judge gets to do all in his power to hamper the election campaign of a presidential candidate by adjudicating a fraud case where no fraud was committed in the style of a buffoon and absolute ignoramus, right?
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  6121.  @xxxyz1004  It may not work out well for Trump, personally, though it may. It will work out well for Trump's supporters and the majority of Americans, who are finally starting to realize that their "justice" system has become so corrupted. Radical change is on the horizon.
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  6122.  @magni5648  you know it's a legitimate business organization when no one, not the the lenders, nor the insurers, not the bankers, bring a case to court. ONLY a bent AG who got elected on a promise to "Get Trump" is whining about this business that has brought employment and income to New Yorkers like no one else. Get real.
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  6123. Between them, Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Johnson and Zelensky), managed to ensure hundreds of thousands of deaths and 2 years of misery aplenty for millions of people. War crimes tribunal for both of them.
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  6124. Russia weaponized food? Who put sanctions on Russia prohibiting export of Russian and Belarussian grain and fertilizers before the grain shipping agreement? Yep, the West, indifferent to how many Africans might starve as a consequence.
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  6125.  @Klegiou  so if all this is confirmed by Hamas, are you saying Hamas were so dumb they fell into a very clever Israeli trap that would lead to the genocide of Gazans and of Hamas? Those Israelis are so clever, and Hamas so dumb, eh?
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  6126.  @SadaK-tr6dm  we might believe you when you quote, word for word, the text of the Egyptian warning. cue crickets
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  6127. interesting that so many Western leaders think Russia has the might to invade other European countries, but that Russia doesn't have the might to win in Ukraine. As Biden said, "Russia has already lost this war", and yet, at the same time, Russia must be stopped before it invades yet more countries.
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  6128.  @yurichtube1162  you don't think Western leaders will blame the whole failure on faulty intelligence, some CIA guy gets fired, and then we all move on?
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  6129. so of the 3 men interviewed, not one of them said he was fleeing the mobilization order! absolutely fake news.
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  6130.  @petertwiss4215  I would if the West hadn't prohibited such free speech. Luckily, when I was in a free country, Mexico, a few months ago, I did get to see some RT coverage of Azov Nazis hiding in a kindergarten, but Amnesty International confirmed all such "fake news" as real news recently, right?
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  6131.  @petertwiss4215  I did, and they said Ghost of Kiev was total fiction. Were they right?
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  6132.  @jacqdanieles  the voice of truth, trying to let the supporters of the Azov Nazis know how things really are.
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  6133.  ƲԼƬƦƛ ƔƖƠԼЄƬ  right, so when the source is Ukrainian government and Ministry of Defense delivers that source's "information" we can call that "independent". Got it.
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  6134.  @petertwiss4215  RT reporting the Nordstream 1 is closed down again. Would that information be true or not? Yes or no question
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  6135.  @petertwiss4215  my point is that if you believe Nordstream 1 is closed again, and RT is announcing that Nordstream 1 is closed again, then you agree that RT is broadcasting accurate information. So why distrust RT as a broadcaster?
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  6136.  @petertwiss4215  it's a price worth paying? Not for the old folks who will freeze to death! Not for the businesses that go bankrupt! Not for the people like me who support Russia. Oh, you mean it is a price worth paying for YOU and the elite who can ride these financial crises no problem! I get it, it is a small price for Peter, therefore we should all suffer happily. How totally insular of you to think that Europe's payments to Russia fund the war! There is another continent on the globe called Asia, and in Asia there are two countries that are massive, and they are both more than happy to buy Russian energy. Just because Europe stops buying Russian energy just means Asia buys more, so the war funding happens anyway, just Europe freezes and goes bankrupt. well done! great win for Europe! Russia is coping superbly. The third world states will be in Europe, with rampant inflation, bankruptcies, blackouts and NO END IN SIGHT! what makes you think it can get better? This could be for a decade thanks to your russophobic arrogance. Renewable technology nowhere near ready to replace Russia's energy exports. Suicide.
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  6137.  @lawrencekling8598  do you assume the majority of Russian voters want Putin out?
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  6138.  @lawrencekling8598  I Know! How about lots of sanctions against Russia, you know, isolate the country, and send loads of weapons to Ukraine! That would surely work, right?
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  6139.  @saba1030  Many people are huge fans of Peter the Great. He was the Russian who preached learning from European inventions and technologies! Yes, Peter the Great, like all leaders of his day, waged war. What is wrong with identifying with Peter the Great over other warmongers of their day, like George Washington?
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  6140.  @solconcordia4315  so your answer to the Budapest Memorandum question about point 6, and what is the difference between a memorandum and a treaty is........Otto von Bismarck says Russians can't be trusted! I think we see the infantile level of thought at play here.
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  6141.  @saba1030  only a "hint" to Western countries in your mind. To my mind it is 100% clear he is celebrating the achievements of a truly enlightened leader. sounds like you are paranoid. talking about what nobody wants these days, do people want power hungry autocrats like Poroshenko and Zelensky to shell the Donbass incessantly to compel the Ukrainians there to remain part of the Kiev autocracy? Or do you think people want deals like the Minsk Agreements to be implemented in peace and cooperation?
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  6142.  @Mr7ich7  deporting Russians wouldn't remove the bigotry, discrimination and hatred that caused the issues in the first place.
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  6143. Unless Liz tells us what exactly Kwazi did that was so wrong, we have to assume he was sacked for implementing her policies. She's useless.
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  6144. Ukronazi/NATO talk of a counter offensive is just that, talk. If Ukronazi/NATO can't even defend a city against a bunch of convicts, they can't succeed with a counter offensive. it's just bla bla bla trying to keep the West supplying arms in this futile war.
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  6145. this is absolutely wonderful news! the more that minorities become victims of these ludicrous hate speech laws, the faster the world will realize what a load of nonsense hate speech laws are. repeal all hate speech laws and get a thicker skin.
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  6146.  @catparka7698  really? so with all his access to information, expertise and fellow-decision makers, he figured out that Western sanctions, aimed at starving Russia of revenues from energy exports and thus rendering Russia too poor to conduct war in Ukraine, would in fact lead to Russia exporting less energy, but earning HIGHER revenues?! He understood all that, is what you are saying? So, I guess he knew all this but agreed with it, because he wants Russia to win and EU to run out of energy? Come on! Wake up! The EU leaders have no common sense! I do. Do you?
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  6147.  @snowdolphvov4193  brave person who asserts "we will have no energy issues". companies who see profits turning to losses will disagree with you
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  6148. by what measure does this dope think the Kursk offensive is a "success"? maybe the kill rate against Ukrainian cannon fodder is lightly less on the Kursk front than in Chasov Yar?
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  6149. and now the truth. the Ukrainian people are starting to get fed up of the endless massacre of Ukrainian men and boys and are starting to turn against Zelensky. Ukrainian neutrality and Donbass to become part of Russia now seem like a good idea to many of them, as the cemeteries are over-flowing.
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  6150. 4 villages AND A PIG FARM! After a whole week of futile fighting, thousands of ukronazi cannon fodder dead, Leopards and Bradleys destroyed aplenty, and, now the bad news, Russia stepped back from the 4 villages and pig farm because of bad weather. once the weather clears up the Russians will be back to using their drones and artillery to recapture the 4 villages, oh, and the pig farm. Meanwhile, all those Russians on the first line of fortifications are twiddling their thumbs, waiting.
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  6151.  @christophercook723  Funny. Let me re-write your pidgin English message. "Is "nope", and with a lower case "n", a long form of "no"? Do try to write (not "Write") English and not phonetic noises. I follow the lead set by e. e. cummings. live with it. arabic has no need of capital letters, so why should English?
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  6152.  @donnacollins1356  what are the numbers? Dead Ukrainians v dead Wagners/Russians? what are the totals? Ukraine recruiting 16 year olds and pensioners tells me the death tolls are MUCH higher on Ukraine's side.
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  6153. Orban doing what Biden and UN Sec General should have been doing since 2014.
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  6154. so the result of the Biden/Schultz chat in DC was to pump out the fiction that Ukrainians and Russians (but NOT Zelensky, oh no, the Golden Boy must remain innocent in the narrative) were the evil ecological warriors. hey, most of the sheep will probably swallow that one!
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  6155. yes, interesting, Mali joins the pro Russia camp, Burkina Faso and Niger also rejecting French presence and turning to Russia. More and more evidence the Global South rejects the West and looks to BRICS as the future. RIP NATO and the West.
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  6156. it would indeed be a tragedy...Putin replaced by a hawk like Medvedev or Lavrov? declaration of war and maybe a nuke or two.
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  6157.  @darbas57  it is indeed a subsidy....propping up to avoid bankruptcy.
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  6158.  @netiturtle  all the rules will be ignored for Ukraine. it will just be waived into the EU, no questions asked, though that assumes Russia won't win, but Russia will win, and may just allow a tiny rump Ukraine state into the EU.
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  6159.  @Zyzyx442  EU farmers want cheaper food, but it's the EU lawmakers that insist on tariffs, because they know that EU labour costs are much higher than non EU competitors'. EU farmers are fine with lower tariffs or no tariffs IF all the rules and regulations on their production is scrapped. Tariffs are only supported as a means of restricting competition DUE TO THE INSANE RED TAPE EMANATING FROM BRUSSELS. Brussels has to decide if the EU is a protectionist system, or a free trade system. it can't apply free trade doctrines to Ukraine, but protectionist doctrines to others. Won' t work, hence the protests.
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  6160.  @Zyzyx442  Ukraine's future will be decided by Russia, so we can be pretty sure that EU and NATO membership ain't gonna happen.
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  6161. People are much more tribal than we like to think. Right or wrong, black women are seen in a more negative light with every racist and asinine comment Abbott makes. So, what Hester said is true.
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  6162. yet more confirmation that Putin is on the right course, the only leader to see the ECHR is a load of nonsense
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  6163.  @run2cat4run  let's just check the scorecard over the last 20 years: Muslims and immigrants killed by Far Right = 0 white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+
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  6164.  @LoremIpsum1970  true. there are examples where integration is not needed, eg. the Amish, who contribute to society and offend no one. the problem, in particular, is with Islam where Sharia Law is contradicted by laws of the country. when the 2 are mutually exclusive, something has to give
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  6165. I know! check out the number of people imprisoned for election fraud in the last US presidential election! and then you have decision makers like Ursula Van der Lyinagain who received ZERO votes from the citizenry to become EU Commissioner!
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  6166. what persecution is happening in France that migrants need asylum from?
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  6167.  @SpectreAtTheFeast-sx8gq  yeah. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King beached many a court order too terrible criminals that they were
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  6168. NATO is showing how weak it is, not how strong it is, as it did in its chaotic panic in exiting Kabul, chased out by the goat herders, the Taliban. Failing to provide Ukraine with an air defence system that actually works is an embarrassment. Running out of ammo in under a year is useless. Iran and N Korea are more reliable allies than the likes of UK, with its 14 Challenger 2 tanks. The world is laughing at NATO, again, and it will only get worse for NATO.
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  6169.  @bone3594  US ain't got any more significant weapons to give. all used up. game over.
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  6170. @Rich Sz exactly so. the notion of "supporting Ukraine" is really "using Ukraine to weaken Russia for as long as possible"
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  6171.  @APW554  freedom to do what? destroy Ukraine in a futile effort to weaken Russia? Milley says 100,000 Ukrainian troops dead so far. How many cents a day did their lives cost?
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  6172. "Ukrainians see things very differently"....well, not the Ukrainians who support Russia!
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  6173. not only are the Spanish Police not interested in the 2 black lads from Luton, neither are the UK Police! No questioning on their return to the UK! Fair assumption they are undercover cops, or informants.
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  6174. Greens minister Baerbock promising fossil fueled generators? what happened to the environmental alternative? why should bloody Ukraine be allowed generators and we have to put up with bloody windmills that aren't turning right now?
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  6175. I agree with her that the nation needs an honest conversation about race. so far, the nation has had a 24/7 dishonest lecture about race, exclusively anti white and pro black.
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  6176. not by the millions of Ukrainians who now realize NATO can do absolutely nothing to dislodge Russia from their country.
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  6177.  @scratchy996  but win
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  6178.  @gargoyle7863  no, USA just kills all such people by way of collateral damage, same as Russia
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  6179.  @forthewin84  brainwashed
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  6180.  @regu6582  mano a mano, every time, and I mean every time, Russian forces and Ukrainian forces battle street by street, Russia wins. Mariupol, Soledar, Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Lyzichansk, now Bakhmut, when both sides decide to slug it out, Russia wins. the Taliban humiliated NATO in 2021 in Kabul. NATO troops, with all of their diversity and inclusivity training, wouldn't last 5 minutes up against Russians, Chechens, DPR, LPR, Wagners. NATO has no balls for a real fight, just talk about supplying others and moving imaginary arrows in direction of desired but unattainable advances.
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  6181.  @elbibwen3019  exactly. one thing we have learned from this conflict is that so many media sites lie and so many people, especially in the West, believe every word they are told. As you say, when challenged to find the exact words, date, place, you just meet silence.
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  6182.  @jooseppib1082  really? on what date? his exact words? got a link or some magic words I can google to pull that up?
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  6183. it adds up perfectly! follow the gorge path to Playa de Masca and you come to a stretch of coast known for people smugglers and drug smugglers! Jay had to get off the island. my bet is he is safe and hidden in Morocco.
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  6184.  @JerryNeusbaum  no one said that Trump was the president, genius.
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  6185.  @JerryNeusbaum  "genius" is spelt "g e n i u s", genius!
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  6186. BRICS slowly becoming a military alliance. Hopefully, Mexico will join soon and nukes placed all along the Rio Grande pointing at US cities. Then we'll see if USA is fine with sovereign countries making sovereign decisions on security and defence.
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  6187.  @briancarno8837  exactly. may happen at some point that Russia allows such a cauldron to form so that it can wipe out an exposed advance Ukrainian force.
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  6188.  @JL-tm3rc  yep. you don't hear Western media go on about low Russian morale and high Ukrainian morale much anymore. New Ukrainian recruits sent to the counter offensive don't imagine a glorious march to the Sea of Azov I'm guessing.
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  6189.  @MrRoyalbeers  a level of thinking beyond your ability, maybe. not referring to victory or defeat. referring to the fruitless search for something that doesn't exist. Ukraine looking for a Russian weak spot is like searching for WMDs in Iraq. a never ending search, because what is being sought does not exist. capisce?
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  6190.  @shaunvduke  the comment is aging very nicely, given that there is no weak spot.
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  6191.  @MrRoyalbeers  on the contrary. every time the Ukronazis throw weaponry and bodies at the Russians, the Ukronazis suffer horrendous losses, hence Time Magazine just published a piece saying a Plan B is needed.
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  6192.  @MrRoyalbeers  clearly you know nothing about Nazism. Denis Nikitin was expelled from Russia for his Nazi activity. He was welcomed and embraced by Ukraine and with his fellow Nazis led the attack on Belgorod. ONLY in Ukraine is an avowed Nazi battalion, the Azovs, incorporated into the national defence force. Let me guess, you have bever been to Ukraine and met and mingled with the nazi underworld there? Google "Reuters 2018 Ukraine nazi problem" and read the article and tell me what you think
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  6193. Ukraine started this war with tanks galore. they got destroyed by Russia. Ukraine claims it acquired loads or Russian tanks abandoned in Kharkov. I guess they got destroyed by Russia. ex Warsaw pact countries already gave their Soviet era tanks to Ukraine, and they got destroyed by Russia. Now, Zaluzhny says he needs 300 more tanks. why would anyone think this next batch of tanks won't get destroyed by Russia?
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  6194. "according to US |Intelligence" would that be the same US intelligence that said it would take the Taliban 90 days to reach Kabul?
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  6195. Hottest recorded temperature in Portugal was in the 1930's. 100 years later with tons of CO2 in the atmosphere, summer temps in Portugal are lower. More evidence that as you add CO2, temperatures go down. Fires happen every summer, and even more so as arson becomes more popular.
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  6196.  @tubecated_development  but of course, after the raw data has been "adjusted" and the numbers manipulated. hence, "hide the decline" from Climategate, remember? now, for the sake of argument, let's take that 2003 number as the previous high. explain why, for 20 years after that 2003 high, with ever more CO2 in the atmosphere, the record was NOT broken year after year after year.
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  6197. no. the ukronazis have only shown they are more than happy to allow their cannon fodder to be massacred in a futile war. Russia has won.
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  6198.  @2msvalkyrie529  not for the first time in is life, the commander in chief has really f**ked up
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  6199. All of this must be fake news, because that wise leader Biden said last July, Russia has already lost this war.
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  6200.  @hermiemostert5190  "little"? how much will it cost per taxpayer? "temporary"? how long will it last? The West chucked away the goodwill when it refused to talk about possible Ukrainian neutrality. Bet they wish they had chatted with Putin about the pros and cons of Ukrainian NATO membership now.
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  6201. "ammunition is in short supply" why? NATO can't produce enough, or NATO doesn't want to hand it over? either way, how about you do some real investigative journalism to inform your viewers as to "why?"
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  6202. not only are Leopard 2's in action, there is now plenty of video evidence of them being destroyed by Russia. German taxpayers kissing bye bye to their hard earn salaries. and, no, Ukraine is NOT probing any Russian defences. Ukraine is desperately trying to break through Russia's forward positions! And failing! Russia's first line of defences are way back and have not had to deal with one single Ukrainian tank since the offensive began on Sunday. A thoroughly miserable and pathetic start for Ukraine. time to talk peace.
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  6203.  @VINLAND_777  anything signed in 1970 was signed by Leonid Brezhnev, a Ukrainian! So this particular FAIL you have listed is Ukraine's doing, right?
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  6204. Clause 6 of the Budapest Memorandum. "Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments." Biden refused to consult with Putin on commitments in December 2021, when requested by Putin, thus rendering the Memo (which is a memo, not a treaty) null and void. Shame. Consultation could have avoided a war, but then again, could well be NATO wanted a war.
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  6205. Russia has enormous stockpiles, plus North Korea and Iran on its side. NATO has nothing more to give.
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  6206. Russia can't wait to get to work on these tin can coffins. let the games begin.
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  6207.  @burns281981  because the alternative is total destruction
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  6208. no wonder NATO had such a humiliating, chaotic exit from Kabul in 2021. with nothing but lies and propaganda filling the troops' heads, they actually think they are on top of the situation. the reality is a shock when it shows up. Russia is winning and the Ukronazi losses are horrendous.
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  6209. Zaluzhny listed all that he needed for a successful counteroffensive, and got it all. Ukraine and NATO's big mistake was to think the Russian withdrawals from Kiev, Kherson and Kharkov were due to Ukrainian successes. They weren't.
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  6210.  @scottstephens4732  oh yes, the smuggling gangs are doing nothing wrong at all. The smuggling gangs are just travel agents, setting up the transport to get their willing customers to land legally in Dover where none of them will get arrested and all will be processed as asylum seekers according to the law. the smuggling gangs are entrepreneurs that should be applauded. the criminals are those in Westminster who allow this mass invasion and refuse to change the laws so that all those coming from an EU country should be deemed illegal entrants and not asylum seekers. All those already in France should apply for UK asylum at the British Embassy in Paris.
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  6211. the Russians will have that railway, which goes all the way to Moscow, up and running in no time.
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  6212.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  8 million Ukrainian refugees would disagree with you. 250,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers would disagree with you. millions of Russian speakers finally liberated from the tyranny of Kiev would disagree with you. learn the facts, you dope.
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  6213.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  sounds like you assume I am Russian? oh dear, yet another assumption you got terribly wrong (not for the first time in your life). have a habit of making false assumptions? If Putin falls, do you assume an anti war leader takes over? do you assume a hawk, like Medvedev, doesn't become leader? tell me what you assume.
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  6214.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  Medvedev is the one saying Russia will have to go right up to the Polish border and not stop at the Dnipr. Looks like you haven't followed Medvedev's transition into a hawk of late. given NATO can't even get out of Kabul without looking like a bunch of panicked schoolgirls, and given NATO can't even provide Ukraine with what it needs, little chance NATO could even eat up Liechtenstein, let alone the RF. but thanks for the humor. you guys love to delude yourselves with the grandeur that NATO and the West can actually do something. it gonna be much fun when Putin passes the surrender document to puppet Zelensky to sign for the West to watch in horror.
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  6215.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  no it won't. Ukronazi/|NATO is out of shells
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  6216.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  what makes you think the Russians wanted to conquer a village? while Zelensky was serving up the cannon fodder to be massacred on a silver platter, demilitarization didn't require anywhere be conquered.
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  6217.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  Russians must be hitting something. the hospitals in Ukraine are full.
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  6218.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  demilitarizing obviously means taking some losses, but at the end of the process (again, revisit Chechnya, Syria, Georgia) the enemy is unable to fight: no men, no weapons, no ammo. That demilitarization is moving forward, this time in Ukraine, quite well, on balance. NATO generals know this. their leaders just can't allow that reality to be broadcast.
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  6219.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  amusement is the first stage of denial. i know, it is tough to grasp reality after being fed nonsense by the MSM. I bet you really thought those sanctions were going to work a year ago, eh?
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  6220.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  what's truly hilarious is the West assumed Russian revenues from energy exports would collapse, and they increased! The West assumed Russia would be isolated, yet the opposite happened! OPEC sided with Russia to keep supply and prices as Russia wanted, just funny to see bumbling Joe Biden be greeted in Riyadh with a smirk and disdain. All the other sanctioned nations have joined Russia in getting revenge on the West. Venezuela, Iran, North Korea all lined up to give the West a damn good kicking. I love it. Arrogant West going down the drain. Keep dreaming. New World Order is here! Dedolarization rolling on apace.
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  6221. notice how the BBC insist "many people want acknowledgement that there is a problem with racism in the Police" and yet BBC refuse to mention the millions upon millions of French voices that want acknowledgement that immigration is the problem.
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  6222. this guy has just swallowed so much Ukrainian propaganda he might as well be reporting for Ukrainskaya Pravda. And now, the truth.....there is ZERO evidence that Ukraine has managed to shoot down any Kinzhals, and the reason we have heard so very little about himars lately is that the Russians have succeeded in jamming their communications systems and can shoot them down if and when they are launched. Storm Shadows have done next to nothing so far, and would be par for the course if Russia is able to shoot them down anyway.
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  6223. The referendums will have much greater credibility than the coup of 2014 when the West backed the ousting of democratically elected President Yanukovich.
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  6224. "they would like to get to Kherson in the south"...erm, the Russians have occupied Kherson since MARCH! and this blithering idiot is trumpeted as some kind of expert? No wonder the West is clueless in Ukraine with "experts" like tis fool.
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  6225. words and symbolism. reality on the ground is Russia is winning. Piers has no idea what he is talking about. Putin has never shown any interest in invading places other than those that target Russian speakers and discriminates against ethnic Russians.
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  6226. Nick, never the quickest lad in the class, slowly realizing that Russia is NOT running out of weapons. it's the West that is running out of any fighting capacity.
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  6227. The Far Right did not even stand in the last Dutch elections. Fascism is outlawed in the Netherlands. A right of center party, that wants to reduce immigration, won the Dutch elections. to France 24, anyone right of Marx and Lenin is "Far Right".
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  6228. a pathetic attempt to paper over the cracks of the inevitable EU divides. only Orban will come out of all this in good shape.
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  6229. Crump says the aim will be for Ukraine "to do something there by September" (would "something" include "fail to advance," Justin?). Sergiy Khlan on Ukrainian tv has slightly higher expectations than Crump. Khlan said Ukraine will recapture Kherson by September. Day 15 of the counteroffensive. ZERO towns/villages captured. 15 days gone.25 to go. hmmmmm
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  6230.  @arfast-xolotl  Cars should be banned. They pollute and are dangerous. The state should control car events, private car ownership should not be allowed nor anyone allowed to drive any.
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  6231.  @arfast-xolotl  and because they cause so many deaths and so much harm, they should be banned from public use, just like fireworks should be banned, agreed? oh, and trucks and all transportation, way too dangerous, agreed?
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  6232. "there's a huge interest in such a platform" there's also a huge interest in having the tax-payer cough up for a lovely long weekend in Prague for the lucky delegates. Moldova hasn't got enough cash to pay for winter energy supplies, but Moldova has enough cash to go to a swanky meeting to explain that it doesn't have enough cash to pay for its winter energy bills.
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  6233. Follow the money. Are these scientists funded by institutions who want CONFIRMATION of climate change, or REFUTATIONS of climate change? If greenhouse gasses continually increase, why is it that average temperatures do NOT increase year by year, but fluctuate? 40 years ago these climate alarmists told us the Bahamas and Maldives would be under water by now. In fact, both countries have invested in massive beachfront resorts. The business world KNOWS it's bullshit.
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  6234. I wonder if Jonathan Freedland is open to believing that the ethnic Russians of Donbass were butchered en masse by Ukrainian Nazis over the last 8 years, or is he in complete denial of such realities?
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  6235. difference is, Ukraine is being corrupt with the money sent by taxpayers from US, France, Hungary etc
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  6236. next we'll be told that Trump operatives planted these documents
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  6237. male pub banter should be allowed, freedom of speech. the audience can decide. after all, Channel 4 thought it was fine to have a transvestite playing the piano with his penis.
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  6238. weapons supply down to a trickle. either NATO weapons stocks down to very low levels (Russia having destroyed so much) OR NATO now unwilling to keep fueling a futile, losing war. Take your pick.
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  6239.  @Joekd6.1  and Ukraine already sold one of those 12 himars to Russia! Talk about corrupt country. and 2 have been destroyed by Russia, Russia says.
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  6240.  @a5cent  your words totally contradict US government officials who have admitted that once weapons arrive in Ukraine, there is basically no way of knowing what happens to them. I choose to believe, on this occasion, what US officials confess over your :"we have a good understanding of what happens to western weapons".
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  6241.  @a5cent  you have no idea how much equipment has been destroyed by the Russians. None. But amusing to think you somehow have an omniscience the rest of the globe lacks.
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  6242.  @a5cent  when you say the West has very little to give, that was exactly what I was implying, so...now you agree with me! Am guessing Reading Comprehension wasn't your thing in school? English your third or fourth language maybe?
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  6243.  @JM-yy9td  yes yes, we get it, that you are able to parrot the phrase "you are wrong"...so, second time of asking, tell us the truth. I say NATO either cannot or will not keep up the supply wanted by Ukraine, and you say I'm wrong because........?
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  6244.  @paulstewart4195  exactly..after getting used to destroying the puny forces of the likes of Libya and Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO/USA forgot Russia is not the same league.
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  6245.  @abatesnz  so, to your mind, the slow down in weaponry to Ukraine is NOT because NATO can't supply more, but because NATO leaders say they will supply more, but don't WANT to send more. Right? Well, result is the same, Russia wins.
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  6246.  @Pemmont107  what kind of percentage of all this "help" will end up destroyed or in Russian hands, do you think?
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  6247.  @Pemmont107  so, give a number. 10%? when can we expect to see the grand counter offensive that will roll back the Russian occupation would you guess? August?
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  6248.  @Pemmont107  do you think Russia managed to destroy a high percentage of the weaponry Ukraine had at the beginning of the conflict?
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  6249. one of the many nasty consequences of printing loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay home, sit on their arses and do no work. government brought all this on themselves. oh, we have enough billions to give to the lost war in Ukraine, but nothing to keep commuters moving. Bullshit Bojo
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  6250.  @damianeadie510  teaching in Ukraine, where I saw the truth of what was happening there. what were you doing in life before you could locate Donbass on a map, 2 weeks ago?
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  6251.  @jon9625  if you have the means and you are a Zelensky stooge, makes a lot more sense than blaming the Russians with 100% certitude, yep.
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  6252.  @damianeadie510  just curious. when did you learn about the Nazis Stefan Bandera and Denis Nikitin? Any chance those two would be embraced and celebrated in any other Western country? hmmm?
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  6253.  @RaRa-eu9mw  the list of Russia's objectives are much closer to being realized than Ukraine's list. check both list carefully.
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  6254.  @briggs982  no objections to anything you say here. sure, he wanted a blow out, sure he wanted to rave and take drugs, but not sure it makes sense to discount the possibility that Jay, through Lucy, also got involved in the drugs business, given he was involved in the drugs business back home. apprentice bricklayers can't be rolling in dosh to feed some cocaine binges, right?
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  6255.  @Warwck24  the heart of the problem is their is no incentive for Tenerife police to open a can of worms of teenage drug dealing, corruption, violence and thefts. there is no real investigation. i know politics somewhat in the Canaries, and that airbnb owner is part of the PSOE elite that benefits from the drug trade.
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  6256.  @billybobdog3815  yeah, who knows. i have no tarot cards but my gut instinct tells me all these people know each other and are part of the same outfit and decided to either do away with Jay or keep him til a ransom can be handed over
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  6257.  @Chris-g9i  Jay would be found if only one of the gang were enticed into singing.
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  6258. you can't make this stuff up! Armenia sees how NATO has totally failed in bringing victory to Ukraine, and says "yes, that's the type of security we want" Armenia already lost a massive chunk of its territory to Azerbaijan by spurning Russia. Looks like Yerevan wants to complete its suicide mission and jump into bed with loser NATO.
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  6259. In July, Biden said that Russia had already lost this war. So, why would any more aid be needed?
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  6260. Oh, you KNOW the climate scientists will make sure Sardinia breaks the record! As we speak they are setting up their thermometers right under where the planes take off at the airport there, and the computer programs have been fed with all the "adjustments" necessary to "fairly" compare with temperatures in the past. The record will happen, as sure as Climategate happened and "hide the decline" exposed the true agenda here.
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  6261.  @monjaspoerl4439  I think you will find that Russians are worried and frustrated. people like Medvedev keep exhorting Russia to seize all of Ukraine, but as I pointed out, Russian advances in all areas are painfully slow and plodding. Yes, wars are complicated, but this one is very hard to gauge as no firm numbers are available on losses of either side.
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  6262. "insure that it is properly taxed elsewhere" as if you have the one and only proper definition of "proper taxation". why do you assume the rate of taxation you assume to be "proper" is correct, while the number assumed by others must necessarily be wrong?
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  6263. do you all remember Charles making statements about the "criminality and aggression" of the BLM riots? no, neither do I. Not my king. His Wokeness is a loser.
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  6264. Integration is of no importance whatsoever. The Amish never integrated into USA, nor did the Mennonites into Paraguay. Low numbers of immigration and immigrants that are respectful of host country laws and traditions are all that is needed.
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  6265. "it's evident that some got through" is this fool for real? They ALL got through! A missile doesn't evaporate! if it is intercepted, it goes off target, but it still falls to earth, so each end every missile fired "gets through". this dunce is becoming more and more idiotic as his dream of ukronazi victory evaporates.
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  6266. sanctions hurt Russia so badly that the IMF predicts growth in The Russian economy this year and recession in the UK
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  6267.  @jeffthompson8551  why do all morons have the first name Jeff and all imbeciles have the last name Thompson?
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  6268. Good to see the solidarity of the world's sanctioned nations uniting with such determination to kick the imperialist West in the teeth. Iran, N Korea, Venezuela, all doing whatever they can to help Russia. China will too, if push comes to shove. The West has truly isolated itself.
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  6269.  @Gopferteckel  you don't have to criticize someone to be able to do better than them! I have great faith that you would have understood the follies and ruinous policies of communism much better than Gorbachov ever did.
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  6270. oh, please, the public in NATO countries are as soft as a pillow. A few images of NATO lads riddled with bullets, and lying legless on a battlefield would result in pleas for peace within hours. Russia has a tolerance for suffering that the West abandoned decades ago.
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  6271. the "Far Right" that votes Labour, Lib Dem, and Tory. Nice try by the far Left BBC to tar those who want to end illegal immigration with the "far right" brush, but failed. the game is up, BBC. we who love the UK don't love it under waves of illegal immigration, and if that is racist then most of the country, according to the polls on this subject, are racist.
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  6272.  @jdocean1  and what makes you 100% sure what my name is or isn't, Adolf?
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  6273.  @WHS_reviews  given the aim, over a year ago, of the sanctions was to cripple the Russian economy to the point that Russia could not finance its war, safe to say, dear Adolf, that the sanctions have failed.
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  6274.  @nenasiek  so is the West. it is the only way Western governments can survive.
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  6275. this is the kind of crap that happens in third world countries with no rule of law like UK
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  6276. China knows it is next on USA's hit list, so it won't let Russia lose. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan ensured that China will back Russia if and when needed. Well done, Nancy.
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  6277. they are only asylum seekers when they cross into the first safe territory. when they arrive in Turkey they are safe from any political persecution, so from that point on, what are they seeking asylum from? What makes Greece so unsafe they must desperately seek protection in North Macedonia? They are not asylum seekers. They are illegal immigrants.
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  6278.  @alexpp219  while fools like you were focused on Kiev, Russia stole Kherson and Zaporozhe with no opposition. it's called a distraction, not that you would ever understand such things. careful of pickpockets when you are out in public.
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  6279.  @Vatnik_tschistilka  so why were 16 and 17 year old recently forbidden from leaving Ukraine?
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  6280. "dribbled to the Ukrainians" ask yourself "why?" either NATO is unwilling or unable to arm Ukraine to defeat Russia. you choose which one.
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  6281.  @Vatnik_tschistilka  of course you don't even know that's the case. you follow just Western media, right? the usual ignorance about reality on the ground, par for the course. so are you sure the idea is just to give the 16 yr olds basic training? you are 100% sure Zelensky has no plans whatsoever to allow 16 yr olds onto the front lines. all just for training, right? Ukraine is till winning, right?
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  6282.  @philipmain5701  1. cite evidence that proves Western weapons are out performing Russian weapons. 2. explain why a "willingness to resist" should be rewarded by restricting arms that the Ukrainians keep begging for. 3. the most recent opinion polls show a majority in the US now do NOT want to see more weapons sent o Ukraine, and a majority of voters in Germany want no more weapons sent to Ukraine. Now, you tell me which Western country has opinion polls showing overwhelming support for more and more weapons being sent to Ukraine.
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  6283.  @philipmain5701  really curious about this superior Western intelligence gathering capability. is it the same superior Western intelligence gathering capability that concluded the Taliban would need 90 days to get to Kabul, when it turned out it took just 90 hours? The same superior Western intelligence gathering capability that couldn't figure out if the Russians mined all the fields that the counter offensive would fail and men and weaponry would be blown up en masse?
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  6284.  @philipmain5701  how is Western intelligence doing on solving the Nordstream mystery? expecting some answers by Christmas next year are we? you are such an uninformed clown.
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  6285.  @jamesstreet228  oh dear, James, looks like you swallowed Western lies hook line and sinker! I mean, go ahead, tell me which words to google to find the Putin speech where he stated "winning in 3 weeks"! the weird thing is, the West can't decide which lie to stick with! we hear "3 days", we hear "10 days" and now your version, "3 weeks"! which lie should we go with, do you think?
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  6286. "join the dots" that's the problem. all the dots that are joined are those that fit the climate change narrative. the dots that they refuse to join point in the opposite direction.
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  6287. Simply astounding that the US President is on vacation, again, while American hostages have no hope that Biden is going to do something, diplomatically or militarily, to free them. No doubt Biden is more concerned with a real threat facing the hostages; climate change
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  6288. Himars news has gone quiet the last day or two. maybe because Russia destroyed two of them and BOUGHT another one from corrupt Ukrainian officers?
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  6289.  @bonnie7898  did you figure out who the Allies were in WW2 yet?
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  6290. so sad to see yet another inept and deluded European government blame Russia for all its ills and pretend that everything would be fine if the EU could determine everything. Pathetic and ignorant leaders taking Moldova down the wrong path.
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  6291. why do you think NATO is going bankrupt trying to help Ukraine? Because NATO feels guilty about convincing Ukraine to abandon its nukes. Ukraine made a bad mistake, listening to the lying West. Putin wouldn't have attacked had Ukraine implemented the Minsk accords. Another bad mistake. Now it is pay back time
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  6292. because Hungary was accepted into both EU and NATO. now, how about you start listening to a full member of the EU and NATO such as Hungary, as opposed to applying your intolerant cancel culture?
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  6293.  @garethrasmussen6186  and who, exactly, has the power to decide who was accepted, and who now is not accepted? you? me? the unelected Commissioner of the EU? who has that power to decide acceptance or rejection?
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  6294. it's not a "fall from grace" to have ceased to be anything in the "Conservative" Party, given that the Tories are no longer Conservative in any way. what's alarming is that it has taken Lee Anderson so long to grasp that he does not belong.
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  6295. yeah, of course, only those on the "hard right" (BBC's version of saying "non Socialists") are fed up of fuelling an insane and senseless war.
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  6296.  @AB-sr9mc  either you fund it or Putin's many allies fund his liberation of ethnic Russians, either way, Putin is fine. So, comes down to do you want to hurt yourselves or not?
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  6297.  @ElRabito  and there I was thinking you might have a coherent point to make! yet again, el Rabito is reduced to emojis.
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  6298.  @quettagladiator5272  just check any media! the facts don't lie! Russian inflation going down. the ruble strong. revenues from energy exports increasing. not Russians shivering indoors this winter or flocking to food banks..that would be the West, as seen on Western media. Learn the truth and stop swallowing the lies of Western media hook line and sinker
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  6299.  @youareliedtobythemedia  so if Russia is destined to collapse next year, you admit that the shock and awe sanctions of the West have failed, that the ruble turning to rubble was a pipe dream, for 2022?
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  6300.  @youareliedtobythemedia  really. you can't buy things with rubles? how do you think Russia is buying everything it needs? you live in the old world where the dollar is king. things have changed. the strength of your currency is indeed a measure of how your economy is doing, because a strong national currency reflects demand for that currency, in other words, the products exported by said economy. that is why the euro has fallen badly...EU trade deficit has ballooned. learn the basics.
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  6301.  @youareliedtobythemedia  is the value of the dollar totally artificial?
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  6302.  @youareliedtobythemedia  GDP is the proper measurement for how an economy is doing. ok, let's examine this. so, if GDP increases, does that mean an economy is necessarily doing better?
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  6303.  @youareliedtobythemedia  so if currency can be manipulated, why did Biden say "we will reduce the ruble to rubble"? Does Biden know nothing about how currency works?
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  6304. fascinated by this line about separating kids from their families. what law in the USA forces children to remain in the USA when their parents are in Mexico?
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  6305. the warmongers running the US must be furious that the truth (a death toll of 7:1 in favor of Russia) has been unleashed on the ukronazi supporters
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  6306. so, which one is lying? the NATO commander who said 98% of promised weaponry is in Ukraine, or Zelensky, who says so much more weaponry is not there yet? Or maybe both are right, and the corrupt oligarchs have sold 30% of NATO weaponry to various bad actors around the globe?
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  6307. so very richly deserved. France has asked for this. Apart from the 7% who voted for Zemmour, the rest of the country gave the thumbs up for more immigration so that yet more Nahels can come and destroy a neighborhood near you. Maybe France's civil war between the multiculturalists and the traditionalists will alert the rest of Europe to end immigration asap. Probably not.
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  6308.  @liamjeffries9125  an old Leeds away strip from a couple of years back makes much more sense! why would a gypsy family shell out for an Inter Milan replica shirt when the old Leeds away strip would be found in any old dustbin!
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  6309. police lost all support from Middle England after Rotherham rape gangs. No decent person respects the police at all.
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  6310.  @TtowneMs1013  exactly so.
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  6311. just hilarious how failed mind-readers, like this idiot Clarke, keep telling us what Putin thinks and how badly things are going for Russia, while it is Russia that is advancing towards its objectives, not Ukraine.
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  6312. this is just hilarious! as if banning a non-existent organization will do anything to dissuade British patriots that their country is getting massacred, one by one, by manic immigrant killers. let's check the scorecard. - Muslims killed by "far right" Brits in last 20 years = 0, white Brits killed by Muslims, 100+?
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  6313. the attack on the Southport mosque wasn't about this last massacre of innocent white people, but was venting rage against the last 20 massacres that did involve Muslims.
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  6314. Makes sense that the country of Al Shabab and female genital mutilation stands with Ukraine.
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  6315. yet more evidence that the Ukrainian counter offensive is a total failure. a futile distraction, trying to disable a bridge instead of figuring out how to make the counter offensive actually advance.
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  6316. So, Piers admits he was a "journalistic failure" but resorts to pointing the finger at another "journalistic failure". not much of a rebuttal.
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  6317. As Biden said, Russia already lost this war, so I guess these massive strikes on energy facilities is just a last gasp before Russia surrenders.
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  6318. the usual BS about Russian education being inferior. it's the Western education that will be filling the young kids' minds with garbage like the idea that a man can become a woman, electric tanks work just as well as conventional ones, and that Russia is running out of missiles.
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  6319. i mean, yeah, during the Blair years, when we were still in the EU, there was no immigration at all from Pakistan, India, Nigeria, etc. Must be a Brexit phenomenon.
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  6320. "he started this war" yet another dumb TV moron who has no idea about the 2014 Anti Constitutional coup in Kiev. if Putin started this war, then Churchill started WW2.
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  6321. at what point do you think dumbo Connelly will realize that the point of Russia's missile attacks is to deplete Ukraine's anti-air missile capability. "things not going well for Russia on the battlefield" says Nick, obviously unaware of the kill rate in Russia's favor, and the fact that Bakhmut has fallen to a bunch of demoralized convicts fighting with spades. Jeeez, lying charlatan.
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  6322. @Craig Steddy given the 5 objectives Putin announced at the beginning, the fall of Bakhmut is not high priority.
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  6323. @Craig Steddy slowly but surely, you are learning! what sense would it be to get just 40,000 troops bogged down in a city of 3 million? makes no sense, and isn't how Russia fought in Chechnya, Georgia or Syria! What would be the point of taking Kiev anyway? Taking Kiev wouldn't liberate the ethnic Russians in Donbass, would it?
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  6324. @Craig Steddy do you think Putin thought he would achieve his objectives in Syria in 3 days? in Chechnya in 3 days?
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  6325. if you are inviting all of Ukraine to live in your house, nothing to stop you inviting every single one of them. If you are inviting all of Ukraine to live in others' houses, who gave you that right?
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  6326. ooops. yep, duuh me, now I get it.
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  6327. just wonderful to see a phoney Socialist caught out as being a Capitalist shark, ripping off the taxpayer with lies and disdain. she has all the qualifications to replace Slippery Starmer.
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  6328. oh boy, he's really struggling here. "the right conditions" can only help a fire spread, whether those "right conditions" are linked to any climate change or not. Nature can only CAUSE a fire by lightning strike or volcanic eruption. Neither happened in Greece. So the fires were started by human delinquents. Eradicate human delinquents and the wildfire problem is eradicated.
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  6329.  @ellemarr7234  what else would you expect from someone pro Russian and passionately so?
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  6330. All the best to you, Russia. The only country in Europe to stand up to the Azov Nazi bullies and mass murdering nationalists so beloved by Zelensky
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  6331.  @hellgates_javed6451  Russia gave plenty of fight and wiped out thousands of hapless cannon fodder in Kherson.
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  6332.  @_Twink  it is totally futile. Russia is winning on all fronts. now, interesting you are prepared to speak for all taxpayers in all Western countries. define "anytime soon". at what point of Ukraine getting nowhere near Crimea nor ousting Russia from Donbass do you think the taxpayers of, say, Germany start demanding peace talks and no more massacres and no more weapons sent to Kiev?
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  6333.  @_Twink  Belgorod is "in revolt"? what, the people of Belgorod are rising up to overthrow Putin? what world do you live in?
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  6334.  @_Twink  as suspected, your reading comprehension skills are awful. there is NOTHING in the PBS article that mentions any recapturing of West Bakhmut. On the contrary, one Western official spoke of the difficulty of Russia holding control of Bakhmut, which means Russia is in control of Bakhmut. the only mention of "west" is a propagandist from the Ukraine government CLAIMING there is fighting on the Western fringes of Bakhmut. Even that lying pawn says nothing about anything being recaptured! you are a useless reader. no wonder you are a deluded sheep.
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  6335.  @_Twink  updates today from the massive Ukrainian offensive and recapturing of Bakhmut?:)
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  6336. Well done, Ukraine. Another failure of a military attack that pushes Russia to protect its ships and halt grain shipments. The way the puppet dwarf Zelensky ruins his country, and now the world, is just unbelievable.
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  6337. The Donbass Russians know what it is like to endure EIGHT YEARS OF WAR. Does your heart go out to them?
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  6338.  @AJ-Lohinska  well, yeah, I would say the graves of children killed by missiles is irrefutable evidence, but are you seriously telling me the ICC has NO records of children killed and buried in Donbass? You want me to give the name of the child and where he/she is buried and the name of the grieving mother? I mean what evidence does the ICC need from me on the rise of Nazis in Ukraine? it's on youtube stsrt with, documentaries by BBC and DW. Not sure me talking about Ruslan who I met in a bar, with his swastika tattooes, who boasted his sole aim was to eliminate by force all non Ukrainian speaking residents of Ukraine is going to get the ICC very far. I myself was told to stop using Russian in my classroom as the language of instruction. The ICC wants to know that? But what happened to me was by law, it was Ukrainian law, pure discriminatory law, what is there to investigate?
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  6339.  @AJ-Lohinska  I have NO idea what your point is here! Language teachers use, in the classroom, WHICHEVER lingua franca best helps students learn. I have taught all over the world. Ukraine was the ONLY place that I was instructed NOT to use Russian, ANY other language was acceptable, but by law, instruction could not be given in Russian. Only the Russian language was discriminated against, even though I and all the students speak it! That's Ukraine for you, a stinking corrupt pit of Russophobia. Let it rot in pease.
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  6340.  @AJ-Lohinska  there is plenty of evidence. people like you choose to deny it. A person's word is evidence, hence in court you listen to individuals' accounts and judge the evidence presented based on the credibility of the witness. I have heard many many convincing accounts, seen first hand the effects of Russophobia, I know it is real. The tragedy is the supporters of Nazis, like you, choose to ignore it. Very sad.
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  6341. energy price caps will keep demand high, so supply will run low, so rationing (power cuts) will have to happen.
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  6342. Great to see all those Western taxpayers' hard earned money going up in flames as Russia demilitarizes NATO. Please, NATO citizens, keep working hard and sending weaponry so that Putin's boys can destroy it all. it's such fun!
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  6343. stabbing after stabbing after stabbing is done either by someone from the religion of peace, or from Africa, and yet it's only EDL members who are angry enough to protest and riot? GBNews joins the list of media lying to us.
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  6344.  @eunicecardozosilva3876  You must be brainwashed because you have no idea of the truth. Russians never tell the truth? So, when Putin says the Ghost of Kiev is fiction, not real, you believe Ghost of Kiev was a real pilot?
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  6345.  @felixsseverin6895  tell me about your firsthand experiences while you lived and worked in Ukraine
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  6346.  @Spitfire_Cowboy  you discount the basic fact that the majority of Russian people and Duma members fully back Putin and the war. If you want to replace Putin with someone as unpopular as Navalny, dream on. Ain't gonna happen. On the other hand, maybe time to take bets on the next leader in the West to fall? Biden about to get hammered in the Mid-terms, Johnson and Truss gone, Draghi stepped down, Macron a lame duck, Scholz looking shaky...regime change gonna keep happening in the frustrated West, not Russia. Only Orban and Vucic look safe, and both back Russia, of course.
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  6347.  @hgv1947  that dam has been repeatedly hit for months on end.
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  6348. So, we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden wanted a Ukrainian prosecutor that WOULD look into Burisma's dealings and maybe find his son and Devon Archer and others guilty of corruption? really?
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  6349.  @oscare.quiros6349  what makes RT's reporting different from BBC reporting? Putin has the majority of his citizens behind him. Biden doesn't. So it is fair to say "Russia's perspective" but it is more accurate to NOT say "USA" or "Western perspective" but "Biden's perspective", "Macron's perspective" etc. I guess you fully back Biden's perspective?
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  6350.  @gillesgenete9598  bravo
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  6351.  @Victor.aventure  c'est simple. on reçoit pas de balle si on décide de coopérer avec la police. même beaucoup d'idiots comprennent ça
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  6352.  @bertrandrussell894  which you don't deny
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  6353.  @marwa6672  does the video show what led up to the video?
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  6354. Western stance has become a sick joke. Air raid alerts did NOT go off, all targets were hit, we can assume Ukraine has no effective air defence system and NATO is powerless to solve this, Russians are not running out of missiles, a bunch of convicts and mercenaries just defeated NATO trained, armed and advised battalions in Soledar, 49% of Germans now say they DON'T want tanks sent to Ukraine, and the UK plays its trump card to turn this around.....12 tanks! hard to keep a straight face.
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  6355. voilà l'arrogance du monde académique, les experts qui ne sont pas experts
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  6356. Britanistan is a lost cause. The Muslim mob rules. Fear of rioting Muslims is greater than desire to retain freedom of expression. Native Brits have become cowards.
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  6357.  @not.likely  why are you so sure they didn't try to knock it out completely?
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  6358.  @not.likely  that's what they all say!
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  6359.  @nsevv  how do you think Crimea survived for 4 years with no Kerch Bridge at all?
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  6360.  @SNOWDONTRYFAN  you make me smile. ONLY lying fool propagandists in the West ever mentioned "3 x day" operation, but it is so cute you parrot it like some good little performing brainwashed sheep. Ukraine still winning most magnificently, right? (nod your head obediently now)
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  6361. If the Ukraine counter offensive is going so well, why would more weapons be needed? Ukraine soon to recapture all the Russian-held territory, surely? Ghost of Kiev will win through, surely? Yes, certainly it is a war crime to attack civilian infrastructure such as the Crimean Bridge. Fingers crossed Zelensky will end up in court one day.
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  6362. the war will only end with Russia re-writing the Ukrainian constitution that ensures Ukraine will be a neutral state and never join NATO. Western dolts assume they will have some kind of say in Ukraine's future once Russia has won.
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  6363. so, how to explain the fact that those of Chinese and Indian heritage are the most qualified and biggest earners not only in the UK, but all over the world? weird kind of discrimination that sees white people promoting Chinese and Indians to greater success than native white people! Consider the possibility it is cultural or genetic, not about skin colour.
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  6364. "right weapons to Ukraine" won't help Ukraine given the lack of manpower available now that mountains of dead soldiers are littering Donbass. Just like Ghost of Kiev was a lie, and heroic fight to the last Ukrainian on Snake Island was a lie, so "give us loads of great weapons and we'll win" is a lie, Russian exhaustion is a lie (unlike the Ukrainians, Russians have the manpower to rotate troops in and out) and Russian morale is high. It's not Putin that was just kicked out of his job..it was Johnson. Western public are wising up to the idiocy of backing a loser in a futile, expensive war.
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  6365. nah, Russia doesn't have problems like Germany has, and Putin is overwhelmingly popular, unlike the leaders of the West. You got it all backwards.
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  6366.  @jonybe5854  not sure you know the definition of a "terrorist state"
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  6367.  @jonybe5854  do you assume Russia has a monopoly on war crimes? yes or no?
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  6368. peaceful protest achieves nothing. blockade the ports, general strike, blockade asylum hotels, whatever it takes.
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  6369.  @karlvonbahnhof6594  not really. Hitler had no nukes
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  6370.  @carsonboardman7073  then go ahead and volunteer and push Russia out of Ukraine
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  6371.  @thanhloitran276  is the death of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians temporary?
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  6372.  @thetruthhurts7675  so how did Crimea survive from 2014 to 2022 with no water or food?
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  6373.  @weichentechnikk8083  agreed. but I didn't say that Hungary does contribute more than it gets back. I asked what is the point (for any country) to stay in the EU IF (cue the conditional) it contributes more than it gets back. EU is a great deal for the net recipients. it is an absolutely rotten deal for the taxpayers that are net contributors.
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  6374.  @i.k.8868  I don't. Why do you think I do? Read what I said again very carefully.
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  6375. just such a wonderful feeling that the UK doesn't have to bow to the Brussels diktat about motorway tolls. Spain, how does it feel to be bossed around by the Brussels bureaucrats and be forced to pay tolls no matter what your own elected government in Madrid want?
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  6376. "our justice system is still the greatest in the world" like he has studied the justice system in the 200 or so countries of the planet. what makes him think the Icelandic or Japanese system is so awful?
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  6377. from the people who brought you "Ghost of Kiev is real", now Soledar is still under Ukrainian control.
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  6378. Thanks to the West's failure to work with Russia on its security concerns, Russia will enhance both Iran and N Korea as nuclear powers and may well encourage both of them to have fun antagonizing the West. Increasingly, it's the West that is becoming isolated and spurned.
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  6379. too late. Russia has won. .the wake up call came a decade ago, and was ignored...now reap what you sowed.
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  6380. just wait til this pipeline is completed. Putin will discover ethnic Russians in Azerbaijan have been discriminated against and launch a special military operation, declared "successful" when the Azeri pipes have been turned off. EU walking into another Russian trap.
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  6381.  @Bob-il7to  c'est bien possible le contraire, vu que Biden ne sait pas écrire son nom.
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  6382. Typical Bolt bullshit. There is no counteroffensive. Nearly TWO weeks ago Zelensky lied and said "step by step we are advancing on Kherson" . All lies. Keane can't name one single settlement captured by Ukraine. Keane is a fool, still deluded into thinking Russia tried to take Kiev. He probably thinks Ghost of Kiev will win the day. Bolt is clueless too, gullible in the extreme.
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  6383. " a ceasefire would benefit Israel" what, just like the ceasefire in operation the day before October 7th?
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  6384. More lies. No investigations have been opened into what happened. Just the announcement that there are investigations.
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  6385. at some point, the relentless printing of money causing higher and higher inflation, along with nightmare energy prices or even rationing, with Russia gaining more and more territory is going to lead Western populations to tell their leaders "enough, it's over, Putin has his prize, now take care of OUR needs"..might happen sooner than we think.
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  6386.  @lawrencepryor1309  time to consider if "Putin's propaganda line" and the truth can be one and the same thing on this occasion.
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  6387. nope, i refuse to be told to not speculate. it is not spreading misinformation if you state your opinion. my guess is he's an immigrant, Muslim, but he's not black from the video. my guess his last name is not Smith or Jones based on current trends.
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  6388. imposing a utilities cap just means the government pays the balance of the bill, which means governments will have to raise taxes to pay their share, or print money, causing more inflation, so the people will end up paying the full bill anyway. What fools our leaders were to reject Russian energy.
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  6389.  @sluxi  and always the same Adolf lovers who have nothing to counter the argument. yawn.
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  6390.  @sluxi  ah, so now a lie, as defined by you, is an assumption that I make, and which any fair-minded person would make, that saying anything pro-Russian in Kherson is as dangerous as saying anything pro Ukrainian in Mariupol. In other words, perfect freedom of speech against the current occupants of Kherson is allowed and encouraged, but perfect freedom of speech against the current occupants of Mariupol is a crime. You reveal not only your love for the Ukronazis and their love of Bandera, but how deluded and brain washed you have become. I hope you rediscover the notion of nuance at some point in the future.
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  6391.  @sluxi  my comment was about how stupid and biased the Western media are, postulating that speaking out about Russian occupation in Mariupol is somehow unique only to Russian occupied zones, when we all know that Ukrainians would NEVER tolerate pro Russian talk in the zones they control. So, no, I didn't move any goalposts. Kherson is currently occupied by Ukrainian forces, unless you are saying they have been so shelled to pieces by the Russians that the Ukronazis no longer occupy Kherson! ha ha, I am having a good laugh at "internationally recognized!"...as if most of the planet cares about who wins in Ukraine! BTW, how many countries in the world recognize Northern Cyprus?
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  6392.  @sluxi  I'm saying that your beloved "internationally recognized" status is meaningless. Northern Cyprus is recognized by only ONE country, but functions perfectly well. oh, no one is doubting that there are a few senile types speaking in a pro Russian manner in Ukrainian controlled zones (though I challenge you to find me one). my point is that they take great risks in doing so and that it is a dangerous thing to do and that there are negative consequences to doing so, just as is the case for a pro Ukrainian sentiment view spouted to a journalist in Mariupol. Exactly the same. If you think the Ukronazis are walking around Kherson encouraging people to speak their minds against Zelesnky, you are naive and deluded.
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  6393. "we need to get behind the police" what, the same police that gave the green light for 1400 white girls to be raped by Pakistani gangs? That police?
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  6394.  @garbancitolentejas486  yep, that surveillance system that works perfectly 24/7 along the entire coast of the island. that's why the authorities catch every single migrant that arrives there, always. my sources tell me differently!
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  6395.  @garbancitolentejas486  when you say "get off", you mean not possible for a boat to anchor off shore, two men to come ashore by dinghy, two men to go out to the boat by the same dinghy, and leave? that's not possible? and if all that was observed, would we know about it at this stage?
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  6396.  @garbancitolentejas486  two sources. one, my Spanish student who has sailed a lot around the Canaries, in particular Gomera and Tenerife. She says that boats come and go all the time and that it is impossible to monitor the multiple sailings 24/7. two, a guy who posted online about how he has lived in Los Gigantes for a long time and that Playa de Masca is well known for drug and people smuggling as the beach is accessible only from the sea and a precipitous footpath. and your source on "they catch 100%"? do you know the Tenerife coast well?
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  6397.  @garbancitolentejas486  really? what prevents 2 middle aged men coordinating a plan? and who says the 2 middle aged men planned anything? maybe the 2 middle aged men executed the plan and some genius did all the planning? what prevents an escape plan from being pre meditated? how can we be sure the 2 "strangers" were total strangers? just bizarre reasoning to say 2 middle age men are incapable of planning! do you think 2 middle aged women could coordinate an escape plan?
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  6398.  @garbancitolentejas486  1. you have no idea how much money Jay might have owed or what trouble he may have gotten into. you have no idea if his life was threatened, and you have no idea how many people disappear and then emerge in another country. Of all the least complicated exits you could arrange, Tenerife to Morocco would be one of the easiest.
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  6399.  @garbancitolentejas486  2. plenty of working class lads who become drug dealers have the cash, connections and allies to arrange a quick exit from one country to another. it's not as complicated as you think. Hundreds of illegal immigrants arrive in the UK EVERY DAY! you think an illiterate teenager from Somalia is too dumb to get into another country illegally? it happens every day. One phone call from Jay, or his drug boss, could have set up a boat to get him away.
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  6400.  @garbancitolentejas486  3. Jay may well need to get out of Tenerife because the men he owes money to have caught up with him there. Maybe the money Jay owes wasn't owed when he was in UK. maybe Jay messed up on a deal in Tenerife and now owes a few thousand. Who knows? But if Jay got mixed up in some biggish deal and screwed it up, he could be faced with getting to safety somewhere else, or having to be ransomed, or having to find some other way to pay his debt. what makes no sense is that Jay went 40 kms to stay with 2 strangers just because it seemed like a fun thing to do.
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  6401.  @garbancitolentejas486  ok, then apply Ockham's Razor. answer your own questions. who are the 2 middle aged men, why did they contact jay and why did Jay go home with them? you scorn my explanation. where's your explanation, Ockham?
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  6402.  @garbancitolentejas486  so, given you have zero answers, no answer at all, how about you STFU and stop scorning those of us that are coming up with at least some explanation, eh?
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  6403.  @garbancitolentejas486  I already told you, entertain the possibility that the 2 men had arranged Jay's exit off the island, and they instructed him where to walk and where to find the path to get down to Playa de Marcas to find the awaiting boat. now, if you don't like my explanation, fine, but at least I have an explanation. you don't.
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  6404. "no excuse for the violence" 1400 white girls attacked by Pakistani rape gangs is more than an adequate "excuse".
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  6405.  @MAXlMUS  just giving you the truth
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  6406.  @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq  so what? as I said, the heart of Ukraine's problem is that it's only meaningful identity is as something non Russian, and it is really struggling to prove that. Whether Ukraine predates Moscow or not is irrelevant to establishing national identity. why do you think Stefan Bandera is a Ukrainian national hero?
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  6407. the whole premise of the argument is bogus. there is no such thing as "inflated value", let alone "over inflated value". the value of something is what the highest bidder is prepared to pay. no one knows that amount until the point of sale. that's why there is always a to and fro between parties trying to ESTIMATE a value. it's impossible to inflate an unknown.
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  6408. the anti-immigrant nationalists are busy during the working week to pay the sickness benefits for the Far Left shirkers, so no surprise what happened mid week. Let's see what happens on Saturday.
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  6409.  @q3eq3eq65  Crimea had autonomous statement within Ukraine and the Crimean Parliament was 100% legal. Learn some facts. Go to Wikipedia, read point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum, then get back to me and tell me which side disregarded point 6.
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  6410. At 5:47, par for the course that BBC is embedded with the Nazi Aidar Battalion, proud to show off its Nazi motifs, yes, the same battalion named by Amnesty International for perpetuating war crimes and human rights abuses since 2014. BBC never met a Ukrainian NAZI outfit it didn't support.
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  6411. For the sake of argument - Maybe we wouldn't have these problems if Ukraine had implemented the Minsk accords and stopped 8 years of shelling Donbass
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  6412.  @tord008  PROVISO SIX OF THE BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM: Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments. REPEATEDLY Russia requested consultations from ALL parties concerned post 2014 coup d'etat in Ukraine. ALL requests for consultations were REJECTED by the WEST. THEREFORE THE BUSAPEST MEMORANDUM WAS RENDERED NULL AND VOID BY THE WEST'S REFUSAL TO ABIDE BY THE AGREEMENT AND CONSULT. GET IT?
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  6413.  @tord008  PROVISO ONE OF THE BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM: Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders The West, by FULLY backing the illegal coup d'etat led by the Azov Nazis and Nationalist Oligarchs. who removed legitimate president Yanukovich from power, FAILED to RESPECT UKRAINIAN SOVEREIGNTY. By treating Ukraine like El Salvador, and DIRECTLY INTERFERING IN ITS SOVEREIGNTY, The West rendered the Budapest Memorandum NULL AND VOID. Get it? Russia was RIGHT to follow the West's lead and accept the Budapest Memorandum as just a scrap of paper and move on to settle the Ukraine question by other means (which became the Minsk accords). the accords which both Poroshenko and Zelensky CHOSE not to implement. Bet they wished they had now.
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  6414.  @tord008  Of course Ukraine, as an independent country, can and should choose its liaisons without any interference from any aggressor. And it did. But it must also be prepared to face the consequences of any neighboring country that feels threatened by such liaisons, as it has. Similarly, Crimea, historically part of Russia with a majority of Russian speakers who refuse to accept the 2014 Maidan coup d'etat, can and should choose its liaisons without any interference from any aggressor (Ukraine). agreed? Scotland can choose to be free from the UK. Cataluna can choose to be free from Spain. Kosovo can choose to be free from Serbia. All of these countries can and should choose their liaisons without any interference from any aggressor.
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  6415.  @tord008  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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  6416.  @b-man784  some people feel threatened by a spider, it's an irrational fear! sounds like that is what you have. And I agree, you don't have the right to punch me in the throat. what's your point?
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  6417.  @b-man784  Ukraine has no right to limit the use of Russian language nor to force the Donbass to be part of Ukraine
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  6418. at least a used tea bag has a certain value, as opposed to your ad hominem attack.
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  6419.  @maryhirtle-fh1og  On the contrary, the fact that I can articulate exactly why she is right, while you are incapable of articulating why she is wrong, says a lot about you, and none of it is good. but I'll give you a chance. She is right that USA, with its 30 trillion dollar debt, should not be considering borrowing even more from China to give to Ukraine in what is now a losing war effort. your turn. tell me why she, and I, are so dreadfully wrong.
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  6420. what, like coffins and arsenic?
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  6421. @de caesaris December 2021, Putin requested talks with Biden on Russia's security regarding events in Ukraine. As per Point 6, Biden should have agreed to such talks. Biden refused, thus the Budapest Memo was made null and void. Regarding the democratic vote of the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol to separate from Kiev, no consultation request was made by the West. Sanctions were imposed instead, the usual authoritarian approach of the bullying West. Got it?
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  6422. this problem will continue as long as fools think housing is some kind of obligation on the state.
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  6423.  @shanon72327  why? why is speculating with houses so wrong? or is all speculating (buying low with the hope of selling high) wrong?
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  6424.  Abbey Dunne  it's rent controls that are causing the problem! give landlords the freedom to charge market prices and de-regulate the business and the market will solve the problem
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  6425.  @onlyfacts3178  the problem here is the government imposition of nonsense rules on capitalism
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  6426.  @ubcphysicsyangbo  why is speculating (buying low in the expectation of selling high) wrong? a market trader who buys a chicken for 3 euros, speculating he can roast it and sell it for 8 euros at the market is doing something wrong?
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  6427. where did this phrase "unfunded tax cuts" come from? why would a tax cut ever be "funded" when the theory is tax cuts mean an increase in government revenues?
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  6428. you will find the Russians get even more behind Putin when they see drone attacks on Moscow. Zelensky is desperate.
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  6429.  @vincenzomiceli  and that is why the West is so wary of escalation.....they know what real war with Russia could be like.
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  6430. so, an admission that we have given up stopping the flood of migrants arriving. the only hope is once on British soil, we can deport them. ain't gonna happen. The Tories have betrayed the values of their voters.
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  6431. if Russia unleashed its nuclear arsenal on Ukraine, it could conquer Ukraine in 2 hours.
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  6432. it's not that the rest of the world sees the West as "weak". it's that the rest of the world sees the West as hopelessly wrong and arrogant.
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  6433. import the 3rd world, import the 3rd world's problems.
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  6434.  @terrencekane8203  Primaries are not head to head contests, so are meaningless
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  6435.  @BrancoG-c6g  d'évènements climatiques qui se multiplient? comme, par exemple......? tu es certain? ou tu simplement répètes les mensonges des médias?
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  6436.  @renaud3832  ah, oui, les analphabètes scientifiques...ceux qui disaient il y a 30 ans qu' aujourd'hui les Maldives et les Bahamas seraient sous les vagues.
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  6437.  @svtcollege8607  L'IPCC n'est pas climatosceptique mais, par example, constate que le nombre d' ouragans diminue au lieu d'augmenter. Quand penses-tu que les Maldives seront sous les vagues? Je me rappelle quand les "experts" disaient que l'ère glaciaire reviendrait
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  6438. le 17 avril plus froid ici, alors, c'est encore plus de réchauffement climatique
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  6439.  @svtcollege8607  il dit pas que tout le reste augmente. il explique les impacts de tels augmentations. c'est hypothetique, un avertissement. parlons des canicules. tu est 100% certain qu'il y a plus de canicules, globalement, comparé aux années '30 et que tout ça est causé par nous?
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  6440.  @svtcollege8607  désolé, mais c'est clair que tous les mots que tu m'as envoyés sont hypothétiques. c'est curieux que tu peux pas répondre à la question ou on voit plus des canicules comparé avec les années 30. la réponse....il n'y en a pas. il y a moins de CO2 dans l'atmosphère aujourd'hui en comparaison avec l'époque des dinosaurs, ou peut etre les dinosaurs contaminaient la terre avec toute leur pollution?
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  6441.  @svtcollege8607  à voir si tu comprends le sujet: dis moi 3 bénéfices au monde à cause de plus de CO2 dans l'atmosphère.
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  6442.  @svtcollege8607  très, très curieux que tu réfuses de répondre à mes quéstions faciles! 3 bénéfices de plus de CO2 dans l'atmosphère? tu sais que le pourcentage de ventes de la glace augmente en même temps que le nombre d'attaques des requins aux gens dans l'eau. tu penses que l'un cause l'autre?
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  6443.  @svtcollege8607  1. déjà le planete est plus vert, fertile et productif à cause de plus de CO2. 2. moins de personnes mortes (le froid cause plus de personnes à mourir que la chaleur, même en Afrique) 3. plus de plantes = plus d'oxigène
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  6444.  @svtcollege8607  oui, c'est clair que le planete bénéfice de plus de CO2. il n'y a pas de changement brutal de climat, et c'est juste l'hystérie des imbéciles qui causent nos problèmes de panique au sujet du climat.
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  6445.  @svtcollege8607  nous avons déjà vu que le planète est plus vert et plus fertile avec plus d'alimentation qu'il y 50 ans. la population du planète voit une espérance de vie et une qualité de vie jamais vu avant, la pauvreté se diminue mais il y a quelques imbéciles qui ignorent les faits et ils adorent dire les mensonges de l'etat de la Terre. C'est vraiment bizarre.
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  6446. honey, "holding that ground" assumes Russia would want that ground! The whole point of the Russian retreat was to focus more manpower on Donbass! Kharkov oblast, in particular Izyum, forms no part of Putin's 5 aims and Izyum became a liability as soon as it was obvious Russia could not advance through Sherwood Forest! Come on ladies, start thinking!
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  6447.  @JazzJaRa  "should"........so you admit you live in a theoretical world devoid of reality.
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  6448.  @AekoldHelbrass  both Russia's peace and Ukraine's peace. just like the end of WW2 was the Allies' peace and Germany's peace.
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  6449.  @Popslolli  better than being annihilated
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  6450.  @werewolffox8918  compared to the West, you bet
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  6451.  @renemagritte8237  Given that Britain had not been invaded in the summer of 1940, unlike Ukraine in 2022, it would be much easier for Britain to reject any peace overtures. USA offered peace to Japan before the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Did Hirohito do the right thing in rejecting the peace offer?
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  6452.  @renemagritte8237  No, Putin was not and is not the aggressor. The first missiles were launched by the Azov battalion on the ethnic Russians of Donbass in 2014. Putin is finishing this war, not starting it. Zelensky's plan does not reflect the reality on the ground. Ukraine has a choice of getting annihilated, or negotiating with Putin. Sadly, this is the s**t that happens when you believe the promises of NATO to deliver victory.
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  6453.  @harold-i7r  Putin has won. Look at his 5 objectives as stated at the time of the invasion and see the state of things today.
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  6454.  @JazzJaRa  ok, so Russia "must" leave Ukrainian territory. Only 2 problems. 1. The people in that "Ukrainian territory" consider it now part of Russia! They voted to separate from Kiev in 2014! 2. Russia is winning the conflict. so, how do you convert your "must" into reality? How do you convince the ethnic Russians that they must return to be Ukrainians? How do you turn the conflict around and defeat the world's largest nuclear power?
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  6455.  @rmdomainer9042  No one is defending Russia's human rights here. we are considering the empty claims made by Kiev and the fools who believe Kiev that they, the Ukrainians, never use human shields. it was debunked and explains so much. it also means Putin's words about not targeting civilian areas rings of truth more than Zelinsky's lies about Russia's "indiscriminate shelling". Turns out Russia was discriminately shelling Ukrainian forces hiding in residential areas.
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  6456. Mike Martin looks exactly as his narrative stands, in total ruins. the poor guy looks awful. just so absurd how he trumpets 80% of Ukrainian heavy weaponry still exists as we enter WEEK SEVEN of a counter offensive that STILL is bogged down in the security zone, going nowhere.
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  6457. listen mate, it's not "probably"...just have the balls to say it! Russia now exports less energy but brings in more revenue! EU leaders don't understand basic demand and supply. too many years being indoctrinated with woke ideals and not economic reality.
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  6458. So when Hitler's Nazis marched into the Rhineland pre WW2 the Nazis were "liberating" the Rhineland, agreed?
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  6459. totally uninformed analysis. Russian troops would be much more likely to attack on the frozen terrain in winter. Also, Ukraine has NOT been careful about its losses in these offensives. Plenty of reports say the kill ratio is around 5 to 1, 5 Ukrainians killed for every 1 Russian. If Russia is waiting through the winter and not planning a massive attack it would be to see the West dissolve economically and thence "give me more billions, now" Zelensky thrown under the bus
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  6460.  @cristiangaban960  keep fantasizing. how is Bakhmut going for the ukronazis?
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  6461.  @aormonde  like the sanctions on Russia, eh? crumbling every day!:)
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  6462.  @fradiavolo9293  yep, General Milley and Sean Bell are now both on record as describing Russia both as a superpower, and as a poorly trained, poorly led losing force! In the minds of Western "experts", this all makes sense.
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  6463.  @carsonboardman7073  How will Ukraine reaching the Sea of Azov give Ukraine any access to Crimea? Won't happen. the "splitting in half" idea is just a fantasy. after one week of thousands of dead cannon fodder and hundreds of vehicles destroyed, Ukraine hasn't even secured one pig farm. pathetic.
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  6464. "elections designed for Putin to win" and yet, we are never told exactly how this design works, at what point the fraud happens. oh, yeah, opposition candidates are exiled or imprisoned. i guess they mean like Oswald Moseley was? who knows?
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  6465. "that's no excuse for the behaviour we are now seeing" yes, it is! when people are getting stabbed repeatedly and there is no indication any thing meaningful is being done to stop it, such behaviour is fully justified. the shameful behaviour is from those who think all of this mayhem should be protested only peacefully.
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  6466.  @torehaaland6921  you would have no idea who is responsible, but it is very telling in your brainwashed sheep mind you jump to a conclusion with no evidence at all.
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  6467.  @sergeyb8  i give you the facts, but understand your need to deny them to defend your warped narrative
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  6468.  @dazmavlad  now you want me to do your homework for you? just do some research on who has tried to attack that dam since day one of the conflict!
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  6469.  @andrasnemeth8333  not magically collapsed, but gave way under the strain. only a fool would assume that constant shelling would lead to know significant weakening of the structure. if there was an explosion, safe to assume those who masterminded Nordstream repeated their feat at Kakhova. Thank You USA!
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  6470.  @andrasnemeth8333  steel hardened concrete is used in many structures, structures that totally collapse after being hit by just one or two missiles. your faith in the indestructability of dams is misplaced.
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  6471.  @andrasnemeth8333  that the houses on top survived intact is neither evidence of an explosion nor of a collapse due to wear and tear from repeated missile attacks. you seem very confused. no one is saying that the dam collapsed due to a missile attack. the claim is that after months of missile attacks the entire structure was weakened. let me introduce you to the notion of "cracks". cracks are lines of splinter and weakness that can appear a long way from where an actual hit occurred! these structures built during the Cold War were never designed to withstand repeated attacks by the extremely powerful missiles of today. But to start off with, read about how "cracks" affect structures.
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  6472.  @andrasnemeth8333  and you wouldn't be the first "expert" to be so vain and boastful of their qualifications to be proven wrong and humiliated. The first weakness in your presentation of your argument is you lack logic and you are full of bias. ANYONE who at this stage presumes to know who was responsible is an absolute fool, and that would include you. "the whole structure was made to be indestructible from the outside". so was the Titanic. you have too much faith in your theories and so little understanding of how the real world works. stick to your books. your writing and thinking are pitiful.
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  6473.  @andrasnemeth8333  so the nuclear weapons of today are less powerful than the ones dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? do you want to rethink and rewrite your absurd claim?
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  6474.  @andrasnemeth8333  in December, the Ukrainian general who spoke about aiming himars missiles at the dam's floodgates mentions a way of causing this flood that would NOT involve tons of TNT, correct? where there is a dam there are flood gates, agreed?
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  6475.  @11cookeaw14  sure it has. which media do you watch or follow? let me guess, none that are banned in the West? explains everything.
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  6476.  @11cookeaw14  tell me, was Ghost of Kiev real? yes or no? (it's just a test to see if you can discern real news from fake news)
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  6477.  @11cookeaw14  let me guess, you are 100% convinced that Russia blew up its own gas pipelines, that Russia shelled its own nuclear power station and that now Russia has blown up its own dam? and this makes sense to you?
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  6478.  @11cookeaw14  sure, both sides lie in war, no surprise there, that is why I am fascinated when someone like is you is 100% sure of anything. what was said about satanism that was a lie? I never heard that one.
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  6479.  RedHeadNINTY9T9  i think the illegal immigrants would manage to get funds to try maybe one more crossing attempt, just buy a dinghy and outboard motor. i think the point is that after a few days of boats being turned back and all valuables being seized, the flow would stop. it's worth a try.
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  6480.  RedHeadNINTY9T9  interesting to know how Pas de Calais looks like these days. sounds awful. I worked for two summers close to Calais, in a place called Guines, years ago as a student and loved it. Not much to love about it now, it seems. Stay safe getting to and from there!
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  6481.  @kustje  Macron told me, and the rest of the world, that France receives payments from the UK to assist with patrolling the Channel beaches, so you are calling Macron a liar? People are not free to go where they want in Europe. Remember the covid restrictions? Any country can close its borders whenever it chooses to. France is doing everything right. Getting paid and allowing migrants to get out of France. Nothing wrong with that. The problem isn't Brexit. The problem is a government in Westminster that is spineless.
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  6482.  @fredstables-co4ox  the money is in the pockets of the French police, obviously. the receipts? with the French Treasury. Next question?
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  6483. "when order is restored, we're going to have to look at causes" why is it impossible to look at root causes while the riots are happening? and what makes you assume order will be restored? white working class far outnumber police.
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  6484. and we are supposed to believe that it is the Russians who were plotting to oust their leader? Not only are the sanctions back-firing, but now the plan for regime change in Russia is back-firing.
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  6485. the usual BBC one-sided, hypocritical shit. Narrative - "Russia bad, Ukraine good", therefore NO coverage of Donbass victims of such weapons, assumption = only Russia has a monopoly on such weapons. Totally infantile approach to reporting, so now we understand why RT had to be banned......not for disseminating disinformation, but for broadcasting information.
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  6486.  @marcellusaurelius7516  exactly. Netherlands HAD very low addiction problems, now it HAS very high addiction problems. Legalization means more users and more problems.
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  6487. Legalization just means more users and more problems.
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  6488.  @wilhelmu  the vast culture of which the likes of you are ignorant
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  6489. can't wait for the bright lights in this meeting to announce how the energy crisis will be tackled
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  6490.  @Diana1000Smiles  right now, for Europe, seems like there is no hope. There is no one saying that renewables can generate the energy levels needed to sustain current European lifestyles as things stand. The Prague crowd might get applause for denying this fact with fantastical speeches about Green energy, but it will solve nothing.
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  6491.  @stc3145  or the best option, buying the abundant energy available on the world markets
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  6492.  @stc3145  that's the choice. either deal with the "evil dictators" of the world, be they the leaders of Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, or suffer a horrendous drop of living standards indefinitely. Looks like we will find out how far this experiment will go this winter and beyond.
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  6493. Musk is such a great champion of free speech. About time that someone told the corrupt. bullying Brazilian elite that they don't set the rules.
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  6494. "strategically important town of Lyman". not true, of no strategic importance whatsoever. "part of a counter offensive in the east"..not true. the Kharkov counter offensive was a month ago. This was an all-out assault to grab a deserted town, 6000 Ukrainians against 500 Russians. In the real counter offensive, in Kherson, Ukraine has failed. "dozens were killed by Russian shelling"...no evidence of that, though Ukraine has a record of attacking civilians abandoning bankrupt Ukraine to move to Russia.
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  6495.  @Chegbeg  in touch with reality. where have you been? care to question me on anything specific? cue crickets.
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  6496.  @albertmaziarz6739 what does that mean in English?
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  6497.  @DuckSith  that's right, they always go to the most tightly controlled border area to increase the chance of being arrested!
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  6498.  @Acheron666  thanks for the ridiculous conspiracy theory. gratefully rejected. keep ignoring the facts...it serves your purpose well.
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  6499. "2014, when Russia invaded Crimea" let's skip the bit about the Crimean Parliament voting unanimously to separate from Kiev and to request annexation by Russia, you know, that dose of democracy that is an inconvenient truth in this loony narrative.
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  6500. Sunak just determined to spend UK taxpayer money on weapons that Russia will take great joy in destroying.
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  6501. Europe slowly waking up and understanding that Islam and immigration are the enemy. UK better remain dictatorial and refuse Geert entry again, otherwise Geert will be elected PM of UK too.
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  6502. Israel cannot possibly prevent any border crossing between Egypt and Gaza from being opened. It is Egypt that for a long time has refused to open this border. BOTH Egypt and Israel want no Gazans on their land, so stop pointing the finger at just Israel. Hamas also wants no border to be opened.
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  6503. when you figure out how Spain has massaged its employment statistics, the same way the UK did, then you will understand how these numbers do not reflect reality.
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  6504. yep, the "journalist" got in too deep sniffing around Russia's arms producing city, and became a "spy" as defined by Russian law. Oh well, next time, don't go sniffing around Russia, mate.
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  6505. There's a country called Russia that has abundant, cheap energy available, including gas and oil. Anyone ever thought of asking Russia for a deal?
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  6506. they are not working together. they are pretending to work together.
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  6507. Given the Police have lost all control, let's cut to the chase and let the Muslims and their Leftie allies fight it out with the supporters of traditional Britain, and see where the chip lies after.
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  6508.  @ThatCanadianBrother  believe me, anyone asking a total stranger online how they identify is an absolute bigot! has nothing to do with you how anyone identifies, bigot.
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  6509.  @Jahanamseh  who is "you guys" and why the assumption that "you guys" are not travelling?
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  6510. Yes, Kiev is the spiritual home of the Orthodox faith, yes, Ukraine is fundamentally part of Russia, yes, most Russians believe that, and yes, Russia will prevail. are these fools only NOW understanding the determination of Russians to see this resolved once and for all?
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  6511. Labour MP Josh Fenton Glynn retweeted the misinformation from Hope Not Hate that the Far Right had conducted acid attacks on Muslim women in Middlesboro. When do we see Josh in court, Keir Stalin?
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  6512. We'll take Sir Geoffrey Nice seriously when he makes exactly the same case against NATO targeting civilian infrastructure in Serbia and US targeting civilian infrastructure in Iraq. Until then, Sir Geoffrey, STFU
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  6513. @Null Pointer because Biden refused to address Putin's concerns at a negotiating table.
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  6514. whatever you think about the French electorate, they are VERY politically aware. When they hear Macron say that he was voted into office because his pension reforms were popular, but the reality was that the reforms had to be rammed through by decree, the French don't take that s**t. Even his one-time supporters want a replacement, sooner rather than later.
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  6515.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I didn't compare you to a dog. I merely pointed out that the "qualification" of being Russian (like my dog) and living in Russia (as my dog does) doesn't equate to knowing anything at all about Russia! And clearly, that applies to you! Live in Russia, is Russian, yet has no clue about Russia. Congratulations! 12 years old are you? You refused to answer my question. where do you think I live? what nationality do you presume I am? What experience do you presume I have regarding living in Russia? and why do you presume so much, dear child?
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  6516.  @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2  The dumb one is the the one who gets it wrong. you are wrong that those who were in the Soviet sphere have an easier access to immigrate to Russia. You are so dumb, you don't mean what you say, and don't say what you mean. I wisely pointed out that 3 ex Soviet republics have virtually no relationship with Russia at all, so the common denominator is nothing to do with being an ex Soviet republic. Learn to express yourself accurately instead of revealing yourself to be an absolute jackass.
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  6517.  @mrdanieldavis  exactly so. that is why Russia has plenty of immigrant labour and has plenty of access to immigrant labour for future growth. it is nonsense to say Russia is a difficult place to immigrate to for work. Alex needs to learn some basics.
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  6518.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Not only do I understand exactly what migration and immigration are, I also understand how and why the two overlap and have become one and the same. One certainly does immigrate for work. Not only work, but one emigrates and immigrates for a whole host of reasons. Given the ease of global travel these days, in many many cases, migration has become immigration and vice versa. Alexander straighten Alex out when he correctly pointed out that the Turkish gastarbeiter in Germany became immigrants, and not just guest workers. The lines have become blurred. You live in a different era. You and Alex are wrong. Get updated on reality as it is today. Migration = immigration = emigration, fluidity of movement is here to stay.
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  6519.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  yet again, you show yourself unwilling or incapable of answering my very simple questions. which one is it? unwilling or incapable? where do you presume I live? what do you presume my nationality is? what do you presume my experience of living and working in Russia might be? you assume so much, yet reveal nothing! let's see if you have the guts to answer. cue crickets.
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  6520.  @Happy.Soi6  no, he is ignorant of that, because he listens to and believes only Western media. That is why RT was banned, not for spreading misinformation, but for spreading information.
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  6521.  @jasonharryphotog  The Donbass Russians say exactly this, every day!
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  6522.  @jf7243  talking about the LPR and DPR militias? I agree.
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  6523.  @Lady.MD67  watch what again? if you give me the link to what you watched specifically, that might help!
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  6524.  @internetw4nk3r74  when Westerners are losing a conflict, they LOVE to speculate about the weakness of the opposition, the only comfort they get from seeing a map that increasingly gets more and more Russian controlled.
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  6525. Zelensky doing all he possibly can to keep shoving as many Ukrainian men into the Russian meatgrinder day by day. And, in fact, Robotyne is still not entirely in Ukronazian hands, after 3 months of trying! Send more Javelins! Recruit the 16 yr olds! Cluster bombs will solve the problem! The West's desperation is comical.
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  6526.  @Pifagorass  Russians don't care about messaging. Russians care about eliminating the enemy, and that project is going well. Keep focused on messaging please. it helps the Russian side.
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  6527.  @Pifagorass  2nd largest military in the world decided to do a LOT more than occupy Donetsk! Read the list of Putin's 5 objectives! Russia takes years to achieve its objectives, but it succeeds (Chechnya, Syria, Georgia). unlike USA, 20 years in Afghanistan and then surrender to the Taliban.
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  6528. Dream on. Putin didn't flee and the small column of protesters were allowed to proceed on their demonstration of complaint. This strengthens Putin and Russia. If only Zelensky was bright enough to accept Lukashenko's offer of mediation last year. The demilitarization of the Ukronazia/NATO alliance continues. Week 4 of the counter offensive, 10,000 dead, 4 villages and a pig farm captured so far, lol.
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  6529. hilarious that she calls it a "refugee camp". how can Palestinians be "refugees" in their own country? what are they seeking refuge from? Hamas?
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  6530. No, mate, it is NOT the duty of Scotland and Wales to "step up and do more", and it is this wayward thinking of yours which will lose you your seat at the next election. It is the duty of THE WHOLE OF THE UK to stop accepting any more migrants and to insist they all be taken back to the remarkably safe and secure country of France.
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  6531. just wonderful to see this invasion of illegal economic immigrants and jihadists welcomed with open arms by the "fascist" Meloni.
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  6532.  @al85v  so the trick is to attract the foreign workers you want, and refuse entry to those you don't want. EU freedom of movement doesn't achieve that.
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  6533.  @wutheringheights739  doesn't matter whether they do or not. what matters is that an independent country gets to choose who enters and who doesn't. and EU freedom of movement laws fail to filter the foreign workers you want from the ones you don't want.
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  6534.  @al85v  you make my point for me
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  6535.  @wutheringheights739  but the Albanian wave has only just begun
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  6536. no one supports the Rwanda policy because it is stupid. The Lefties want the illegal immigrants to stay and the rest want the boats towed back to France.
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  6537. interesting that Zelensky advocated stripping USA of its UN powers given its invasions and warring in various parts of the world of late.
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  6538. conspicuous by its absence, any evidence to say that the reports of 48 black beaches in Spain are incorrect! useful information this, if you are planning your family holidays.
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  6539. Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005. Hamas is the occupier of Gaza now.
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  6540.  @Bambam17893  bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet?
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  6541. The only people who ever mentioned "easy victory" were from the deluded West. Russia never mentioned any time parameters, just 5 objectives, which they are close to attaining. Only 15% of Russia's million man army are in Ukraine. Imagine how bad things would get if Russia actually declared war!
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  6542. well done! you are able to read Putin's mind! Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia has no timeline for war, "Fortress Bakhmut" has been seized by a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels, and NATO trained and armed battalions have been wiped out! Bring on the ukronazi counter offensive! let's finish this off.
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  6543.  @magomedov9443  well said. these deluded fools have to keep pretending they know what Putin thinks, because the reality of what has happened is too shocking for them.
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  6544.  @tylerelissa6377  "military analysts have estimated" = a bunch of ignorant fools came up with an absurd assumption to please their Western sheep audience. do these analysts know what a cauldron is? what a fixing operation is? what words would I google to find that Soloviev quote? and it's curious that on this one issue, you take what Russian media says seriously! Regular watcher of Russian media are you?
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  6545. looks like the revolution is just around the corner, and that might be something to champion.
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  6546. 1) you have no idea what the Russian casualties are, because apart from a small number of people in the Kremlin, no one does. 2) The big question before was whether the Ukrainians could fight their way forward, not occupy territory vacated by a Russian withdrawal! Obviously the true test came in Kherson, where thousands of Azov Nazis ended up in the Russian meatgrinder for zero gains!
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  6547. obviously Russia is responsible, just as it was for shelling the nuclear power plant it occupies, and the Nordstream pipeline it built, and the Kerch Bridge it constructed, and for Dugina's assassination, all done by Russia, we can be sure.
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  6548. "growing concerns" from whom? i don't know one single person concerned about hot weather for the summer olympics!
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  6549.  @sasa1982uk  yep, we can agree on that, a longish, uncensored, free-wheeling exchange of views to see where they both stand. We might see Clarke temper his speculative statements somewhat
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  6550. methinks thou doth protest too much. the more you keep yelling "sham" the more I think you just can't accept most ethnic Russians want to be part of Russia.
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  6551.  @TimMountjoy-zy2fd  you need to look at your numbers again. several questions. let's start with the fact that Russia has more than 3 times the population of Ukraine. so how does that massive Russian population mean BOTH sides have a decade of males left? Do you assume that Ukrainian males are being killed, captured and crippled at the same rate as Russian males? Do you assume all 250,000 males that come of age would choose to join the cannon fodder rather than hide or flee?
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  6552.  @VictoriaSombria-wv9hj  depends for what values you would be fighting.
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  6553. David Kurten, the Police no longer charge and prosecute shoplifters, thieves and looters. UK is just like USA.
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  6554.  @mirandahotspring4019  so bang goes Biden's promise of "whatever it takes". Now, when it takes expensive, complicated, high maintenance tanks, "whatever it takes" is shelved.
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  6555.  @hurri7720  but every need to point out that the West's "rules based order" is a load of hypocritical bs, given the West's frequent violation of sovereignty of other nations
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  6556.  @Mikkeyboyy  that's why I have a feeling Russian wouldn't mind an array of Western tanks flowing into Ukraine. Capture one of each make and with some reverse engineering and these "oh so superior" Western tanks will no longer have any superiority.
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  6557.  @jaabaadaabaaadoo  how could you possibly know?
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  6558. yet more confirmation that the EU is out of ideas and desperate to come up with something, anything. like the sanctions on Russia, this idea will backfire and Europeans will end up paying a lot more for oil.
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  6559. spot on with so many answers. she got a few wrong, but overall, it made sense.
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  6560. the evidence and testimony are irrelevant. the only hope is that there is at least one brave jury member that refuses to vote for conviction, as the judge and most of the jury will want Trump convicted whatever.
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  6561. yep, that smirk fits perfectly with someone who cares nothing for her country's 10 million refugees, totally bankrupt country and massacre of its armed forces. she will be smirking right up til Putin dictates peace terms when the last Ukrainian cannon fodder has been dismembered by a land mine.
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  6562.  @sarahann530  can't have your cake and eat it. either don't antagonize Putin and have cheap energy that fuels a growing economy, or sanction Russia and watch Russia's economy grow and UK sink.
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  6563. This Russian attack WAS retaliation! Retaliation for the murders of civilians in the market in Donetsk by Ukrainian forces recently! Let me guess, the censorship of news now in place in the West means you never hear of Ukrainian atrocities?
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  6564. post Rotherham, the Police are seen as the enemy by most of Middle England. They betrayed us. Looks like vigilantism is the only option left.
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  6565.  @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage  how many beds are you personally offering? I am more than happy to put you in contact with agencies looking to find hosts.
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  6566. "PLANNED counter offensive"? It already happened! This is Day 12 of it! The Ukronazis crossed the Ingolets river and were pushed back with heavy losses! It's happened and you missed it! A WEEK ago Zelensky lied and said "step by step we are advancing toward Kherson". You missed that lie too? It's over! PLANNED? where do you get your news from?
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  6567. no such thing as "people smugglers" it is entirely legal to arrive irregularly into the UK and thence claim asylum, so the "people smugglers" are just travel agents for those who want to claim asylum. if any of this were illegal, the migrants would be arrested in Dover.
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  6568. clamp down on what? dumb women? the sorority decided a long time ago to accept anyone who identifies as a woman in its ranks! if these gals ain't bright enough to read the small print, clamping down on irresponsibility and whining is needed.
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  6569.  SharkAttack  oh yes, formally in NATO, just working on the inside to nullify NATO's policies. Hungary is also in the EU. How is that relationship going?
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  6570. almost as bad as the guy in Latvia jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag, or people cancelled for saying "white lives matter". Russia catching up with the West.
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  6571. Britainistan surrendered to Islam a long time ago. Maybe you missed what happened in Rotherham and Rochdale?
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  6572. Russia still running out of missiles then, just as we were told 15 months ago. The Russian forces in the Kupyansk are doing really well, armed with just shovels. Hey, when will BBC Verify take a look at that BBC report "Russian soldiers armed with just shovels on the front lines"? hmm, never?
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  6573.  @bg1616  as long as Russia is exporting fossil fuels and getting MORE revenue for exporting less, it is very very happy, and the Western sanctions are failing.
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  6574.  @bg1616  but if the end is more than a decade away, who cares?
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  6575. Adam Boulton, who was delighted to work for the channel that looked at Brexit voters with the words "I've never seen so many white people"
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  6576. hundreds of cannon fodder massacred every day, one year into the conflict, and only now does NATO MEET to DISCUSS placing ORDERS for more weapons and ammo. Un f***ing believable.
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  6577. yet again, fools who build their houses too close to forests get caught out.
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  6578. governments have no money. they either take money from taxpayers or borrow (to be repaid by tax payers in the future). so all the energy bills will be met by German workers, the taxpayers. Yes, Germany can print more money (that didn't work out too well in Weimar) but printing money = inflation = screwing the people even more. Sanctions on Russia were a huge mistake. time to pay for the mistake.
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  6579. "Ukraine training 28,000 folks"! FOLKS? oh boy, see the lengths this propagandist has to go to avoid saying "teenagers and pensioners". I mean he doesn't want to lie and say "fighting age men" so he has to settle for "folks". unbelievable.
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  6580. Russia never walked away from a grain deal. The grain deal expired and the West refused to connect Russia's agrobank to SWIFT. End of story.
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  6581. what the hell is he droning on about.....positive discrimination? There is no such thing. Discrimination is a negative phenomenon, whomever you discriminate against.
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  6582. As Honest Joe Biden said, his son never broke the law, and Joe never talked to Hunter about his business dealings. 10% for the big guy.
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  6583.  @The-Contractor  and given the audience is so gullible and unquestioning, those who present a realistic version of what is actually happening are accused of propaganda. truly Orwellian
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  6584.  @Vestu  1) Being the invader or the invaded is of no relevance. What is relevant is that when it comes to surviving winter, Russia is supreme at managing its resources while at the same time depriving the enemy of theirs. Zelensky is begging the West to win this by winter, because he knows Ukraine will be out of fuel, cash, and men. Russia is rotating men in and out, is producing ammo in vast quantities and denying the same opportunity to the enemy. General Winter is Russia's friend because the Russians know how to inflict more pain on the enemy in winter than the enemy can inflict on Russia. 2) Stop parroting the nonsense of the MSM liars you watch. Russia conspicuously avoided a march into the capital! Why would such a small force want to get bogged down in a street fight in the capital? Makes no sense. It's called a fixing operation. So much energy, manpower and attention is focused on the capital, the enemy are disabled from fighting in areas that matter. While you were celebrating a Russian "failure" in Kiev, Russia was rolling into and all over, unopposed, in Kherson, Melitopol, Zaporozhe, and up to Mariupol. Took your eye off the ball! Cheering on Ghost of Kiev and Snake Island, forgot to do something about that massive land bridge created between Mother Russia and Crimea! OOps!
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  6585.  @Vestu  yep. you would be terribly wrong to assume that! I am a passionate advocate for the liberation and freedom of the Donbass. I balance out the coverage I receive as best I can, so BBC, DW, Times Radio to get the Ukrainian side, then RT, Alex Christoforou, the Duran, TASS, Telesur, Hindustan Times to get a more pro Russian stance. More importantly I get first hand reports from my Ukrainian students who I teach on line every other day. My own experiences living in Ukraine in 2018 showed me the extent to which Nazi ideology had gripped the male youth of the country and my time there showed me the absurd lengths of Russophobia reached by Ukraine. I have also traveled to Crimea and feel somewhat their issues. I don't have a tv either but MSM is accessible on line, obviously! Would I be wrong to assume that you have never been to Ukraine and that you have zero first hand experience of Ukraine?
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  6586.  @Vestu  From what I saw in Ukraine and what I hear about in Ukraine from my students, there is nothing "hilarious" about denazification. It is essential. Maybe you would LIKE an Adolf Hitler Street running through Helsinki? Shocking as this may be to you, most Ukrainians do NOT want a Stephan Bandera Street...and neither should you! Russia and its allies have done an excellent job of killing, crippling and capturing the Azov Nazis, their influence is minimal now. That is something, if you are anti fascist, you should support. Pretending Nazism is not a problem isn't the right moral stance!
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  6587.  @Vestu  it was also true, in 1933, that "there were some worrying albeit tiny demographics of young men steering towards some far-right ideologies and that needed to be stopped" in Germany in 1933. See how it grew? See how it led to horror? Russia and its allies want an end to this Nazi activity. Which other European country do you know has embraced and admitted into its national defense force swastika-tattooed fascists sporting Nazi icons and emblems like the Wolfsengel? "They are what they are" shrugged Zelensky in his interview with Bret Bayer. "They are what they are"? Can you imagine the Finnish president saying "they are what they are" to armed Nazis recruited into Finland's defense force? Get real. Western media acknowledges ONLY there was a problem 6 years ago, but somehow now there isn't! Like all these Nazis got counselling and became Liberal Democrats? Deluded nonsense. the West just follows the childish mantra "Russia bad, Ukraine good" and therefore has to do the most remarkable mental gymnastics, as you do, to justify the Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass for 8 years and then concluding that Russia was never provoked! Just infantile nonsense. Putin got this right.
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  6588.  @Vestu  Keep in mind Putin's brother starved to death during the siege of Leningrad. When Putin sees swastika tattooed azovs shelling Donbass for 8 years, i think it is fair to say he feels provoked, agreed?
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  6589.  @Vestu  If you watch RT, you will see the reaction of the Donbass Russian speakers, their absolute joy, at seeing Russian soldiers enter their bombed out towns.."eight years we have waited for you" says a babushka in tears. OK, so you would say they are all actors, the soldiers, the babushka, the family weeping, ALL acting. But maybe you should think, you know, this is the other side of the coin our media deny us. impossible to see such reactions in Western media. You should treat yourself to both sides of the story. Which books should I read professor? asked the naive student "the ones they prevent you from reading and the ones they burn" said the professor. The West banned RT not because of its misinformation, but because of the information it shows the West doesn't want you to see. How many Finnish media show a pro Russian angle to all this?
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  6590. Germany hitting new lows. Can't figure out who blew up their pipeline, can't organize a proper welcome for the foreign minister, no wonder people are laughing at such a shambolic performance.
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  6591. why is promoting hate bad? in WW2, people hated Nazi Germany. Was it wrong to promote hate against Nazi Germany? the cretins in government need to learn that hate can be justified.
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  6592.  @anglaiseurophoning8998  and you think Orban, among all the EU leaders, has a monopoly on his desire to enrich himself and his buddies?
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  6593. She voted for these policies, so look in the mirror honey, if you want to blame someone.
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  6594. stop the fighting and then talk peace? Nah, Russia fell for that old chestnut back with the Minsk Agreements. this time Putin may talk peace but only WHILE his war machine continues to demilitarize (wipe out the troops and weapons) Ukraine. Once bitten, twice shy.
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  6595. "anti Muslim sentiment"....well, I wonder why that would be? who would ever have anything negative to say about Muslims? religion of peace. how bizarre!
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  6596. Spanish and UK police thoroughly useless. into week 3 and 50% of the men Jay spent his final hours with are still totally unknown! back in the day, Qasim and Brad would have had their b***s in an ever tightening vice and would be singing like birds by Day 2.
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  6597. curious to learn that Israel is way behind the rest of the West in cancel culture.
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  6598.  @blindatadas7763  for getting the perspective of the Donbass ethnic Russians, you bet (given that their perspective is totally ignored by Western biased media). what have you seen on RT that was worse than Western media coverage?
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  6599.  @blindatadas7763  if you want to see the horrors of Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk City, watch RT. It's news that is ignored by the West. But if it you see it, you'll understand why DPR and LPR want liberation from Ukraine
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  6600.    would that include the 50,000 troops recently on show in the Vostok military display? were you counting each ground force troop personally as they entered Ukraine, or are you relying on a "source" for this info?
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  6601.  @trumpisgoingtoprison177  oh, the corpse of Biden may well be inaugurated again, but like last time, he won't have been elected president.
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  6602.  @trumpisgoingtoprison177  oh, you may be right about that. no one doubts the corrupt justice system will find a way to get Trump in jail. but Trump will also be president, and that is where you will stop laughing.
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  6603.  hjccquit  how is the current vice president, the border czar, that genius Kamala Harris, doing finding out the root causes of mass illegal immigration to the US? Has her approval rating gone over 30% yet?
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  6604.  @trumpisgoingtoprison177  begging Trump's lawyers to "control their client" = referee begging players to abide by the rules. THAT'S YOUR JOB, "JUDGE"
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  6605.  @trumpisgoingtoprison177  and people like you said that about him getting elected in 2016. Given all 91 charges are fabricated nonsense, there is a chance Trump will beat them all. Apart from the Georgia case, Trump will also be able to pardon himself as president, though everyone knows the laughable legal system in the banana republic of USA (there is no longer a justice system, just a bent legal system) will do all in its power to imprison Trump...it's their only way to stop his message getting to the voters.
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  6606.  @MYTHOUGHTS46  you must have a mind before you can learn the difference between "loose" and "lose", genius.
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  6607.  @audreyelmaleh9973  that's because polls are rigged to favor the Left, so you can be sure if polls show Trump ahead, he is in fact way ahead.
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  6608.  @Moe-Larry-Curly-Shemp  choosing to charge people based on their politics, not on their behaviors. or, you really believe Trump is the only person in the history of NY state to have evaluated his properties to an amount different than the evaluations made by some other person?
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  6609. Putin doesn't want a ceasefire. Putin wants to show the world that Ukraine is the party rejecting the offer of peace. and he has succeeded.
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  6610. first anniversary of Ukronazis and corrupt Western media crying out for the prosecution of war crimes against only Russia, but none against Ukraine.
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  6611. nothing to see here, diversity is our strength, don't look back in anger, let's have a candle lit vigil, yawn.
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  6612. why the assumption that the Russians are trying to encircle Bakhmut? The cauldron they already have is working just fine.
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  6613.  @debrabosch5540  how can I stay in Russia when I am not in Russia? economy turns to trash? you been hoping for that for 9 months, and the reverse has happened! No one gonna get cold in Russia this winter. no one gonna suffer fuel poverty this winter. Russia trading with the whole world, apart from a few chihuahua places in the West. Get real. Slava Rossiyi and defeat to the Azov Nazis and their supporters (you) hmm Bosch, German name, no surprise the Azov Nazis are close to your heart
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  6614.  @danieldickson8591  just like production of missiles, weapons and other ammo, now we have the hopeful wish that the Russian economy is about to collapse. dream on. So, you are 100% sure Putin will declare a full state of war in the next 2 months? How much money are you going to put on that?
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  6615.  @danieldickson8591  1) Because Donbass is their ancestral home. They wanted liberation from Ukrainian aggression, not to run away. 2) They never spoke up before 2014 because they were not oppressed before 2014. 3) Overt rebellion only appeared after Azov Nazis started shelling Donbass when Donbass declared itself independent, as Donbass wanted nothing to do with the Maidan coup, rightfully so. 4) Kazakstan has wisely decided to treat ethnic Russians with equality before the law. One of my Russian speaking students recently enrolled in a Kazak university and all her courses will be in Russian, and Russian is recognized alongside Kazak as an official language, See what Ukraine should have done to avoid all this crap?
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  6616.  @danieldickson8591  Is government support running out for Western economies now too? Or is the West doing exceptionally well and enjoying every minute of its recession and fuel poverty?:)
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  6617.  @danieldickson8591  tell me what you felt when the Crimean parliament voted to break from Ukraine and join Russia following the coup in 2014.
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  6618.  @danieldickson8591  in Canada, French Canadians (a minority in the country but a majority in their state) are allowed to be educated in French and government business is conducted in French. I approve of this. Do you? In Donbass, Russian speakers (a minority in the country but an overwhelming majority in the region) are compelled to receive ALL education in a foreign language to them, Ukrainian. Russian speaking teachers MUST give all instruction in Ukrainian, to Russian speaking children. I disapprove of this language tyranny. Do you?
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  6619. spare us the lectures on "civil society"...you mean like France, where you get beheaded if you show an image of Muhammed in a classroom?
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  6620. 2014 to 2018 the ferry system worked more than adequately, just as supplies are flowing into Kherson despite the bridge damage over the Dnipro. Clarke needs to figure out just how the Russians can operate ferries so devastatingly efficiently
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  6621. it's not Walgreens disturbing the neighborhood, it's the neighborhood that has disturbed Walgreens. Adios, barrio
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  6622. Imagine that, abolishing borders means higher crime levels as gangs can come and go as they wish. no one could ever have foreseen that.
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  6623.  @naughtiusmaximus830  yep, the entire world sees that Israel destroys terrorists and those that support terrorism. so many world leaders are jealous they have no b***s to do the same thing.
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  6624.  @bunsw2070  no, the case was not built on evidence. the case was built on a naive, retarded view of how and why Israel has been forced to act in order to survive next to Muslim extremists dedicated to its destruction.
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  6625.  @bunsw2070  which jibby jabby would that be?
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  6626.  @Grace-bk4tq  so what's your point? that 15 of 17 judges have no clue what's going on in Israel and Gaza? looks like we agree.
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  6627.  @dr.embersfield1551  you got it right. Judges in their ivory tower in the Hague have no clue. Those of us who know Israel and Gaza know a lot better. At least the judges called on Hamas to release the hostages immediately, as that is a war crime, though the likes of you wouldn't have heard that part of their declaration.
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  6628.  @dr.embersfield1551  the ICJ said nothing on such Palestinian hostages, which is not surprising, as there are none! Unless, in your world, convicted Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails are now considered "hostages"
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  6629.  @dr.embersfield1551  I'm sure you are protesting outside the Egyptian embassy every day, yelling and demanding that Cairo open the border at Rafah and help the dear, loving Palestinians in Gaza, right?
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  6630.  @dr.embersfield1551  I sent 2 answers. looks like youtube is blocking my responses. answer one was asking what Palestinian hostages? the ones in Israeli jails convicted of terrorist attacks? the second answer was wondering if you protest every day outside the Egyptian embassy to call for Egypt to open their border and release the Gazan Palestinian "hostages".
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  6631.  @dr.embersfield1551  not at all. Palestinians convicted in a court of law are prisoners. Israelis taken against their will and held for ransom are hostages. The problem here is, you don't know the definitions of basic words! Similarly, Israelis convicted in a court of law are prisoners. Palestinians kidnapped and held for ransom are hostages. Really, it's not that difficult to figure out!
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  6632.  @MrWeedWacky  The Surovikin Line is the first line of defence! At the moment, ALL the fighting is in the security zone! The Surovikin Line is where you will find rows of deep trenches, dragons teeth, pill boxes, barbed wires, tank traps, the real deal! ALL the fighting up to now is happening amidst minefields, no one is anywhere near the Surovikin Line, where thousands upon thousands of Russian forces are patiently waiting for their turn to destroy NATO/Ukronazia.
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  6633.  @moffig1  keep hoping, because it ain't gonna happen!
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  6634.  @Chaldon-hl6yk  and Staromaiorske is not even controlled by Ukraine.
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  6635.  @chidera66  just giving you the truth. quite funny that you have no idea what the Surovikin Line is!
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  6636.  @chidera66  what's really funny is that when NATO promised Zelensky that NATO would defeat Russia, Zelensky actually believed that! I guess Zelensky never saw the debacle of NATO trying to flee Kabul Airport with the goat herders, the Taliban, kicking NATO butts!
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  6637. So, Finland and Sweden joining didn't add years more weapons supplies available to Ukraine? Bloody waste of time letting those 2 piss-poor nancies join the club then
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  6638.  @cm7352  Israeli settlers would turn Timbuktu into a productive, desert oasis. Arab Palestinian settlers would turn Timbuktu into a terrorist hellhole.
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  6639.  @qrsx66  Be aware that when the Zionist movement started, Jews PURCHASED lands in Palestine. There was no Jewish invasion. Now, if you want to wring your hands about the foolish, greedy Turkish and Arab landowners who sold their patches of desert to Jewish purchasers, then do so, but don't blab lies about "stolen land". Learn some basic facts.
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  6640.  @qrsx66  again, you don't know the history. no lands were invaded. the lands were purchased. learn the difference. And yes, the Arab and Turkish landowners had every right to sell such land. The moral question you need to consider is if the land sales were right, not the identity who settled such purchased land. The Arab houses on offer are not those stolen from anyone. It may be an Arab style house, it may be previously occupied by Arabs, it may even have been on Arab soil before one of the 3 wars, winner takes all in war. send me the link to the article you read and I'll enlighten you on the most likely explanation. Ah, so now the truth is out! You do NOT always back the weak! When the weak are the Klan, you do NOT back them! Only when "the weak" happen to be a group you perceive as weak, and whom you support, do you back them! Fascinating prejudice you have there!
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  6641. Lloyd Austin, the epitome of what goes wrong with diversity hires and affirmative action.
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  6642. Le Pen will flip flop on immigration as she did on an EU referendum for France. Only Zemmour would deliver on ending immigration and starting the repatriation process. Not Le Pen.
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  6643. Biden already told us back in July that Russia has already lost this war. So, BBC must be lying about this Russian offensive. Or Biden lied. Or both BBC and Biden lie quite regularly.
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  6644. i think you are right. no offense, but most native Brits preferred their homeland as it was before the masses of immigrants arrived. Many other European natives feel the same, by the way. I would prefer Albufeira without all the Brits there.
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  6645.  @degenerates1971  so, able to use Snapchat but useless at navigating Apple maps?
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  6646. Congrats to the Wagner Group. Bakhmut was a tough nut, but the Wagner mercs will take it, and without the mobilized Russian forces. A tremendous achievement. Slava Rossiyi.....demilitarization and denazification of shithole Ukraine moving on apace.
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  6647. imagine that! try to isolate Russia and the result is an alliance of the world's sanctioned nations to up the threats against the West. should have backed Russia, not Ukraine.
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  6648. yet more evidence why Britain is just Britain and not Great Britain. A pathetic shell of a place.
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  6649.  @harold9394  that is what is to be decided, doofy. when the president tells Bannon's lawyer that executive privilege means Bannon doesn't have to respond to such a subpoena, as Holder was told by Obama's council, then Bannon can claim innocence. Read the legal precedents carefully. Supreme Court will decide.
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  6650.  @archeretta  well, let's see what the Supreme Court rules, and if the justices there just give a load of yadda yadda, those civics class skippers that they are.
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  6651.  @archeretta  subpoenas are an interesting phenomenon. given you never skipped civics class, you'll know the answer to this one. did anyone ever refuse to appear after a subpoena was issued and he/she avoided going to jail for such a refusal to appear? cue crickets.
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  6652. but at least NATO remains united in watching Ukraine slide to defeat and absolute ruin. must stay united.
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  6653. only flabbergasting to someone who knows nothing about how Putin and many others now view how decadent and failed the West has become
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  6654. so the EU importing uranium from Russia means the EU is aligned with Ukraine, but South Africa exporting arms to Russia means South Africa is not unaligned. Got it.
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  6655. everyone who applauded lockdowns, sanctions on Russia and sending billions to Ukraine, this is what you deserve, enjoy the misery.
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  6656.  @HallOween-sx5jt  fire away. what did Tommy Robinson get wrong?
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  6657.  @HallOween-sx5jt  keen on trans bs? Tommy said a man can become a woman? wow, I never knew! you live and learn. i have no idea what an identitarian is. if it means for example, a Hungarian who identifies as a Hungarian, rather than a European, well then, I guess I'm an "identitarian" too!
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  6658.  @HallOween-sx5jt  just read the Wikipedia entry on "Identitarianism" and it seems a sound philosophy and makes sense to me, so, another point in favor of Tommy! what could you possibly have against identitarianism? sounds like it realizes the obvious....homogeneous societies work better, right?
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  6659.  @HallOween-sx5jt  oh, now you describe Identitarianism and I understand it. In the previous post you were talking about "whiteness" and "100% white societies". So, let's recap. Tommy Robinson was wrong to be an Identitarian because you define identitarians as those whose focus is on melanin levels. I'm not convinced. My reading of identitarian thought is that it is far more closely connected with, well, identity, all that you describe as "identifying as part of a nation's culture and history" and NOT about skin tone! I never heard Tommy Robinson say anything racist. On the contrary, his famous "what race is Islam?" question summed up his distancing himself from questions of race.
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  6660.  @HallOween-sx5jt  I never heard Tommy Robinson obsess on colour, so, can't agree with you there. Too much homogeneity is detrimental? So, Japan, Poland, Belarus and South Korea have suffered specifically because of their excess of homogeneity? Wow. That one would be a tough one to prove! Not sure that states "pick" a religion. Some states expel religions they don't like, but that is invariably Muslims kicking out infidels these days. I don't see 100% Muslim countries as being particularly stable, do you? where we agree is that an acceptance of the host state's history and culture is essential. Too many immigrants in Europe have come to replicate their home country in Europe, not to respect the ways of the host. Therein lies the danger. But I don't see where Tommy Robinson was wrong in anything he said, and Nigel Farage was VERY slow on picking up on the true cause of malaise in the UK. Nigel was too focused on the EU, and not on the waves of immigration.
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  6661.  @HallOween-sx5jt  The prejudice would appear to be all on your side. Compare British culture with Japan's? How much knife crime happens in Tokyo compared to London? How many terrorist attacks has Poland suffered in the last decade compared to UK?
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  6662.  @HallOween-sx5jt  Fascinating to be lectured on Belarus, given I have a degree in Russian and have been to Belarus several times. Have you? What constraints do you think there are in Minsk for women to walk home at night? How many Pakistani rape gangs operate in Belarus? How many people have been cancelled in Belarus for saying a man can't become a woman? How many people have been debanked a la Farage in Belarus for their racist beliefs? How many people in Belarus would be in hiding for having shown their school class a depiction of Mohammed? You think a society's lack of constraints = a better society? Certainly there appear to be no constraints these days, in the UK, to spray painting statues of the likes of Churchill. If that is your idea of how terrible constraints are, we have very different views on what stable and orderly society's are. I can tell you, if I had to choose today between living in Belarus or the UK, having experienced both, Belarus wins hands down. At least Belarus feels like Belarus and looks like Belarus and sounds like Belarus, and not Baghdad.
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  6663.  @HallOween-sx5jt  Constraints? "we've come to check your thinking" said the police officer to Harry Miller. That was in Britain, not Belarus! Just yesterday, a Scottish man was ARRESTED for sharing his disgust of Palestinian flags flying all along his street. Constraints? you need to get real and understand the horrendous constraints now imposed on the UK compared to a relatively free Belarus. Things have changed. You seem to be stuck in some Soviet bygone era.
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  6664.  @HallOween-sx5jt  Again, you presume to know so much about me, when you are ignorant of such things. Reveals so much about you, and now I see why you got it all wrong about Tommy Robinson. You don't know what you know and what you don't know.
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  6665.  @HallOween-sx5jt  I left the UK a long time ago and did emigrate. I recommend you do the same. I wouldn't recommend Belarus for you, though as I explained, it has a lot more freedoms these days than does the UK, and the right kind of constraints. Belarus would be a better bet than the UK, but not the best bet in the world. not sure what experience you have in living in other countries, so hard to know which choice would suit you best.
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  6666. only a fool would have trusted NATO to deliver victory, and that fool was Zelensky. Zelensky should have asked the Taliban how effective NATO was as a force. After 2 months of massive losses, not one single Ukrainian fighter has made it to the first line of Russian defences, and NATO is so low on weapons it resorts to sending cluster munitions. Russia has won.
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  6667.  @sylviagoodman6008  Republicans are out for revenge, so they will drag everything they can to the Supreme Court and use the Conservative majority there in their favor, and target as many Dems as possible in Republican leaning jurisdictions to get them in jail. two can play at this game, and after Nov 5th it will be a bunch of Dem crooks hailed off to jail, fingers crossed.
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  6668. yes, this guy is right, the very fact that Putin said "father" instead of "grandfather" proves that Putin knows nothing about Russian history at all, and that Putin must be a full on propagandist. meanwhile, Putin is right. Ukraine is not a real country; it is like Cataluña, part of a larger, well-established country, fighting a futile struggle for recognition and identity.
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  6669. the West is looking for an off ramp to minimize its humiliation. Russia has won, just a question of how long it will take the Western leaders to realize this.
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  6670.  @Franchesko653  wait til Putin's successor wants real war!
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  6671.  @Franchesko653  let's have a bet! tell me by what date Putin is out of power!
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  6672.  @Franchesko653  ok, Feb 14. if by midnight GMT on Feb 14 2024 Putin is still in power, how much money do you agree to give me?
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  6673.  @diepiepiewda  looks like you are still in denial. now NATO can't even supply Ukraine with ammunition! it's over.
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  6674.  @Valle95  we are referring to Russian speakers in Latvia. There was substantial freedom of movement for Russian speakers to relocate to Latvia, and indeed for Latvians to relocate to other parts of the USSR. Soviet deportations and restrictions on travel outside the USSR would be an entirely different subject, obviously.
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  6675.  @whitelutik  in some cases, yes. but it also meant the ability to move to other parts of the USSR, hence Ukrainians can be found in places like Kazakhstan and Latvians in Russia.
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  6676.  @juliec5309  they can. or they can choose to stay in their homes and fight for their rights. Putin has made it clear, he will intervene to assist Russian speakers be treated fairly and equally in whichever ex Soviet country they may be. And he is right to so do. If the West truly believed in freedom of speech, language rights and human rights, it would support Putin.
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  6677.  @boynamesue7720  correct. so what is your point? the present generation of Russian speakers in the Baltics must be punished for using their native language due to the influx of Russian speakers in the 1940's?
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  6678.  @staris12  deportations would be a whole different subject from the freedom of movement afforded to other Soviet citizens regarding re-locating to another Soviet republic for work reasons. If you think the sins of the USSR should now justify compelling native speaking Russians in Latvia to be second class citizens, just say it, say you want revenge on the descendants of those who may have done your ancestors great harm. Why don't we punish all the young Japanese in this world for what their ancestors did in WW2?
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  6679.  @ramadankadriu5336  freedom of movement of workers in the USSR, to relocate to one of the other Soviet republics, has nothing to do with Kaliningrad. Nor with the Kirill Islands. Latvia is in NATO. And NATO is so demilitarized and effete, ready for the Russian speakers of Latvia to bring their part of Latvia into the Russian Federation, if they so wish.
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  6680.  @staris12  1) "asked" to learn a language and compelled to learn a language are two different things. If there is any compulsion, then we have a problem. 2) what does "integrate" mean? what would a Russian speaking Latvian HAVE to do to become integrated into "Latvian" society? Sing folksongs in Latvian and pretend he/she loves being Latvian and not Russian? 3) Why should a Russian speaking Latvian have to be able to speak a sentence in Latvian? A French speaking Canadian does not have to ever be able to speak a sentence in English, if he/she doesn't wish to. it's called "freedom" 4) Yes, the reforms (forced language learning) worked quite well (achieved the goals you so desired). It is an absolute disgrace that you feel compelling any citizens to learn and speak a second language is desirable. Forced integration will not work. My time in Daugavpils showed me Latvia is sitting on a time bomb. it would be wise to allow freedom of expression for the Russian speaking minority. otherwise, like South Ossetia, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Ukraine, you are playing with fire.
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  6681.  @staris12  There is nothing wrong with Russian speaking Latvians not being able to buy bread in Latvian. Why are you so hateful and Russophobic to fellow citizens who speak a different language? It is a kind of racism that is fascistic. There are plenty of Bengalis in England who can't buy bread in English. So what? if you compel them to, you will be stripping them of their freedom of speech.
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  6682.  @staris12  to be honest, given your racist/fascistic attitude to your Russian speakers in Latvia, I understand 100% why they feel alienated and closer to Russia. If most of Latvia is like you, the sooner Putin does what is needed to liberate the Russian speakers of Latvia, the better.
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  6683.  @staris12  France has no need to be concerned about French speaking Canadians, for the simple reason that French speaking Canadians have equal rights with English speakers. French speaking Canadians can go through life unable to buy bread in English and are still accepted as equals, unlike the situation in Latvia. Canada is enlightened about language rights. Latvia is fascistic about language rights.
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  6684.  @staris12  oh, so supporting Russia threatens your "security" and must be prohibited. Again, the Fascistic Republic of Latvia at work. At least you confessed that Latvia has indeed banned freedom of speech. Latvian security is at FAR greater risk with these new restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of expression than if you had respected the rights of everyone. Latvia has made an enormous mistake by throwing freedom out the window, You criticize Russia for such measures, then copy Russia by denying free speech. Unbelievable.
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  6685.  @staris12  forcing Latvian children to learn Russian is as abhorrent as forcing Russian speaking children to learn Latvian. Let the free market decide, as in Kazakhstan. If parents choose a Russian speaking education system, fine. If parents choose a Latvian speaking system, fine. Kazakhs and Russians live together pretty well in KZ. Why can KZ make it work but Ukraine and Latvia can't or won't?
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  6686.  @staris12  Most neighbors dislike Russia? Not true. Let's go through the list of Russia's neighbors. N Korea, an ally. China, on friendly terms. Kazakhstan, on friendly terms. Azerbaijan, on friendly terms. Armenia, on friendly terms. Georgia, tolerates Russia. DPR and LPR, allied with Russia and then became Russian. Ukraine, at war with Russia, but was close to Russia 1991 to 2014 (the year of the coup), Belarus, ally of Russia, the chihuahua Baltics. their Russian speaking population feel much closer to Russia now they have seen the fascistic attitude of the non Russian speaking population. on balance, Russia is pretty much liked. Deal with it, fascist boy.
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  6687.  @staris12  so, this is where the discussion ends. you have proven to me the two things I suspected. 1) Latvia has abandoned freedom of speech and freedom of expression. 2) Latvia has a fascistic, Ukrainian style of disdain for its Russian speakers that will only lead to more and more conflict in the future. Slava Rossiyi and fingers crossed NATO comes to your rescue...but don't count on it.
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  6688.  @itheuserfirst3186  Fine, if you want to limit "racism" to skin color, no problem, the result is the same, horrific discrimination based on ethnicity, and it is to the shame of Latvia that it celebrates treating its Russian speakers as second class citizens. Latvia needs to follow the Kazakhstan model, not the Ukrainian model.
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  6689.  @itheuserfirst3186  intolerance is indeed often born from being aggressed. now you know why the Donbass ethnic Russians, after 9 years of aggression from the Azov Ukronazis, is determined to separate from Kiev. Russian military interventions since the founding of the RF have been totally justified, because each intervention has been to restore the rights of the aggressed Russian speakers of Chechnya, Georgia, Transnistria and now Ukraine. RF's neightbors will stop seeing Russian intervention when the neighbors of Russia that insist on aggressiing Russian speakers decide to stop. Latvia may well get the Putin treatment. Latvia deserves it. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan will never be invaded while they, correctly, respect the rights of Russian speakers. Got it?
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  6690.  @wiktorpoliszczuk1372  HIMARS yet another wonder weapon that fails to stop the Ukronazis getting massacred and losing more ground.
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  6691.  @indieanna4380  on the contrary, you will see a certain amount of re-russification, as in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The Baltics will have the choice of a certain amount of re-russification or the Ukraine treatment.
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  6692. How desperate does the Ukronazia/NATO side have to be to get Prigozhin to lead a coup? Maybe the great counter offensive will gain 100 meters during this mutiny?
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  6693. "the initial shutting down had to happen" except we have the black swan in the room. Sweden. No shut down of schools, at any point, now has the lowest excess deaths in Europe.
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  6694.  @bendenisereedy7865  of course I could, but unlike Coutts, I don't think it is good business etiquette to do so.
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  6695.  @andrew30m  what exactly was the lie?
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  6696. @@sock2206 so explain, what part of the story could well be a lie? You think Farage still has his Coutts account?
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  6697. @@sock2206 would seem like your post is pivotal on Farage lying. How good is your record when it comes to veracity?
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  6698.  @alfsmith4936  1. why do you assume Farage is not telling the truth? sounds like someone gaslit you against Farage. 2. we all know what COUTTS say is the reason for cancelling the account. we don't know the real reason. Are you 100% sure it is Coutts policy to never forestall this scenario with a letter stating EITHER add more funds, OR be prepared for the account to be cancelled? 3. Farage says he was only offered a normal account with the parent bank FIVE MINUTES BEFORE GOING ON AIR TO BROADCAST THE STORY! why are you 100% sure this is NOT the case? 4. Why would the parent bank refuse a business account for Farage? 5. do you think the many other people who have been summarily cancelled by their banks are also lying? the only person making a fool of themselves with their anti Farage bombast would be you!
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  6699.  @andrew30m  You have no idea what Coutts asked Farage. Farage says he was told the account will be closed for "commercial reasons". ONLY in an interview subsequently, with the ever dishonest BBC, did Coutts explain the reason for the bank account cancellation, and the issue with lack of funds. Not exactly ethical to talk about a customer's financial status, but par for the course for Coutts. Farage says he was only offered the NatWest personal account 5 minutes before going on air with the story! Panic offer from Coutts to avoid the publicity! Farage still cannot open a business account with NatWest. Why?
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  6700.  @andrew30m  presumably you think all the others who have come forward with cases of their bank accounts being closed are liars too?
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  6701.  @alfsmith4936  was I also gaslit by the vicar who was cancelled by the Yorkshire Building Society? gaslit by the Triggernometry duo who had their account cancelled? gaslit by Alexandra Tolstoy and her case of the cancelled bank account? gaslit by Toby Young and his tale of being axed by Paypal? Am I gaslit by all of these "liars"? Or maybe you have been gaslit by those brainwashing you into thinking "nothing to see here"?
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  6702.  @andrew30m  you presume to know so much about me! what makes you 100% sure I am a supporter of Farage's political views? and what political party are you 100% sure Farage "dumped me on"? you know so much about me, Andrew! Do I know equal amounts about you?
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  6703.  @niallrussell7184  are such accounts legal, yes or no?
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  6704.  @niallrussell7184  Farage is highlighting nothing like that at all! All Farage has said is that he has been denied a business account, a legal business account, by 9 different banks! If such accounts are some sort of embarrassment to the banks, the banks should stop offering them! It's really not that complicated. The embarrassment here is not the nature of the business account. The embarrassment is that banks have been found out for being discriminatory in who they welcome and who they don't.
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  6705.  @bendenisereedy7865  so if the onshore account will be just for beer and ciggies, why would anyone deny him an account? you make no sense.
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  6706.  @bendenisereedy7865  when did Farage say he was skint?
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  6707.  @cabbagepatch8947  oh, and for sure we will hear of every place in Oz with above average temps, and guaranteed no mention of anywhere experiencing cooler weather. guaranteed.
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  6708.  @jadoei13  sadly, you are wrong. hurricanes are a lot less frequent and cause a lot less damage today than periods in the past, same with tornados and typhoons, there are more trees in the world, fewer forest fires, the increase in CO2 has greened the Earth significantly and increased crop yields markedly. what evidence do you have that "climate change" is making anything worse? things look a lot better if you look at the facts, not what the media rams down your throat.
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  6709.  @Baxwell.  anyone who actually believes the data coming from grifters in the "climate science" business are fools. Post Climategate and "hide the decline" we can see it is the agenda, not true data, that rules supreme. right, so the current heatwave MUST be climate change, even though similar heatwaves happen every summer! but the cold spell in UK is just weather, because it doesn't fit the narrative! Tell me, given that the 1930's in USA was by far the hottest decade on record there, how can a cooling trend since then be just "weather"?
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  6710.  @chrisd5964  of course temperatures are lower in winter! we are not debating that! we are saying if current winter temperatures are LOWER than normal winter temperatures in Australia, why do you categorize that, automatically, as weather, but a heatwave in Europe, that happens every summer, must be "climate change"? makes no sense, unless you have bought into the narrative of the Climategate charlatans who strived to "hide the decline". remember? Before commenting, try learning what you are commenting about. Fools like you thought, 25 years ago, that Bahamas and Maldives would be under water by now. what went wrong? they are both absolutely fine!
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  6711.  @cabbagepatch8947  yep, in summer. it's called "summer," when heatwaves happen!
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  6712.  @chrisd5964  now, here's a very simple question for you. if human produced CO2 in the atmosphere, which increases year upon year, is the cause of global warming, why does the global average temperature NOT get broken year upon year upon year? The hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe should be last year. but it isn't. why not?
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  6713.  @Proud_Bhoys  so true. the enemy is setting fire to France and the army do nothing.
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  6714. maybe if Biden actually did his job, namely explain the end game for Project Ukraine and establish rigid accounting procedures for every dime spent on arming and funding Ukraine, then maybe Speaker Johnson would be convinced that aiding Ukraine would be a good thing. the ball is in Biden's court.
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  6715. just like Mariupol, fight to the last man in order to weaken Russia. Zelensky is no Churchill.
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  6716. Peterson is just brilliant. He throws back the accepted narrative with a Luddite pleasure that is just a joy to behold.
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  6717. notice that the West has no interest in war crimes committed in this conflict. Only war crimes committed by RUSSIA should be prosecuted. and justice is blind?
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  6718. MTG hits the nail on the head. Ukraune being sacrificed for no reason
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  6719. The Ministry of Truth strikes again. Time to start confronting his accusers
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  6720. pas d'influence russe. c'est une copie des lois americains qui exigent que les paiements reçus de l'étranger soient déclarés
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  6721.  @Djamonja  what convinces you that Russian losses in Soledar were more than Ukrainian losses?
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  6722.  @supertuscans9512  only a few people in the Kremlin know the Russian death toll. That wouldn't include you, so you can discard your faux crystal ball. what tells you all you need to know is that Ukraine closed its borders for all men that meet the mobilization criteria from Day One! Now you tell me, which side is more desperate to replenish its losses?
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  6723.  @Djamonja  so if losses are equal, and Russia takes Soledar, what convinces you Crimea will eventually take Crimea?
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  6724. currently, in "civilized, democratic countries" like the UK, 3,500 people are arrested every year for words they write on social media. compared to only 400 in Russia. in "civilized, democratic countries" teachers are fired, or beheaded, for showing a picture of Mohammed in school, but not in Russia. in "civilized, democratic countries" you get canceled if you state "if you have a penis, then you are a man", but not in Russia. your former "civilized, democratic countries" have already collapsed, doubtful there is enough energy to survive winter. Russia is warm and toasty. Get real.
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  6725.  @chathamdogend4461  Russia has an air force of about 1000 planes, and the most effective air defence system known. How many F16's with their rookie pilots are on the way? What American arms are going to reverse this situation where javelins, himars, storm shadows, atacams, challengers, patriots have all failed? you need to grasp reality and understand the Western media have totally misled you. did you also believe the sanctions would cripple the Russian economy?
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  6726.  @icu17siberia  sounds like you have seen nothing at all, learned nothing at all, and know nothing at all. but let's debate. what's your point?
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  6727. with all the rules, regulations and restrictions placed on landlords by the government, who the hell would rent a place out to anyone these days?
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  6728.  @ynwa3476  nonsense. if you don't rent the property you don't have to reside there. you can sell it. given the population explosion in the UK there is more incentive to sell property, given there is plenty of demand, than rent it. things will get a lot worse until the rental business is deregulated.
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  6729. "there are more droughts and wildfires". but, there aren't. educate yourself before spouting lies.
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  6730. which means every single Ukrainian soldier massacred. nice of you to speak on behalf of all all Ukrainian mothers that SO want their sons sent to the Russian meatgrinder
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  6731. Orban is the only honest European leader, apart from Fico, who sees that Ukraine has lost and that it is madness to keep fighting and losing a protracted ground war against Russia. The EU and USA hate straight talk like Orban's...they prefer to live in a land of delusion.
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  6732.  @multipl3  Putin has stated he has no interest in that part of Ukraine. Why would Putin be concerned about a part of the world that has no connection to Russia's interests apart from the red line of not being part of NATO?
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  6733.  @andrewwarren4206  it might be basic math, but its working with the wrong numbers, fanboy
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  6734.  @timotheusvanesch3959  because Orban doesn't follow the EU narrative. Announce a popular policy like not allowing the LGBTQ agenda to be propagated in schools, and the woke EU goes into meltdown and targets the likes of Hungary.
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  6735. at some point the penny will drop that Spanish Police conducted no investigation at all, only a search for Jay. The 2 mystery men were deemed "irrelevant" regarding the search for Jay. Now the search produced nothing, the Police, 2 weeks late, have switched to a criminal investigation, and the mystery men are 100% relevant. Keystone Cops 0 Internet Sleuths 1.
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  6736. hopefully it is, so that it has a chance to survive and have a peace agreement.
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  6737.  @londoncalling1757  great, more stuff for Russia to destroy, demilitarization of the West moving forward at a cracking pace.
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  6738. "Islamists threats are taken extremely seriously" no, they're not. if they were, France would have ceased the endless mass immigration and deported the illegals by the thousands. The Islamist threats are just accepted and France bows down in submission.
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  6739. Yep, when Russia dictates terms of surrender and Ukraine becomes a demilitarized, rump state that is landlocked, and Zelensky is living in his Miami mansion, could be Kim that becomes the next puppet president of "Ukraine."
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  6740. the problem isn't private companies. there are 2 problems. 1. the idiots in government who can't create a contract that holds water companies responsible for their failings, and 2. imbeciles who assume a nationalized industry would necessarily do a better job.
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  6741.  @patarciepaul  it's the profit element that motivates people to do a good job and satisfy the client. without the profit element, no service needs to be provided at all.
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  6742.  @patarciepaul  you seem to think that profit just happens. it doesn't. Profit only occurs when good service has been established. Profit depends on good service to customers. you can't separate the two. Profit cannot be prioritized over good service, because profit only occurs following good service. you are putting the cart before the horse! Yes, staff can just be compensated by wages for "providing" a service, as they were in the USSR, but then the "provision" of service becomes appalling, because the worker gets the salary for showing up to work and providing the absolute minimum of service...no need to win over the good wishes of any customer. As the workers in the USSR used to say "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work"
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  6743.  @patarciepaul  whether you are talking about essential services or non essential services, the result is the same. remove the profit element and you will see horrific declines in service. Hence people hate going to the Post Office but much prefer using DHL, Amazon, FedEx etc. It also explains why there are so many taxpayers who were already compelled to pay for the NHS, but STILL spend even more money on a private health plan, because the "essential" service provided by the state is so awful! "Staff can be fired if they do not perform". why? why would anyone be bothered to fire someone if they fail to perform? if there is no profit element, there is no reason for a worker to be fired. Older people like me remember how nationalized industries worked in the UK before privatization. They were much worse than you see today! The problem is not the profit motive. The problem is government incompetence. Government employees are so useless they have given water utility contracts to entities that can pollute the country with no serious consequence. Whichever government employee drew up that contract is to blame, not the profit motive,
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  6744.  @patarciepaul  have you ever lived in a country where the health care system is in private hands? Can you make a fair comparison?
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  6745. perfect way to unite Russians against its neighbors, and perfect portrayal that states like Georgia and the EU believe in russophobia and reject inclusion.
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  6746. I stopped listening to this liar when he said we were told we would still have all the benefits of EU membership after Brexit. On the contrary, there were many Brexiteers that confessed we might initially, lose out, economically.
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  6747.  @DarkRoomAmbience  and now the truth. 1) Russia never tried to capture Kiev. are you crazy? street fighting in a city of 3 million people? so, no, javs didn't prevent anything in Kiev. however, pinning down masses of Ukrainian forces around Kiev and around Kharkov DID enable Russia to seize its land corridor from Crimea to Russia. 2) how many Russian ammo dumps and soldiers were destroyed by himars? try to give a number not quoted from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. 3) if all this weaponry "changed the game", how come Russia took Mariupol, Lysychansk, Severdonestsk, Popasnaya, and, with a bunch of convicts and mercenaries, Soledar? Looks like the game changer was arming Russian convicts! Hope that cleared things up for you, whatever your real name is
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  6748.  @polarstorm5986  K12002010 offered a detailed and reasoned argument somewhat superior to yours, I must say!
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  6749. Gorbachov was a fool who had no clue how to handle the realities of the USSR's demise and disintegration. He's only popular in the West because played right into the West's hands.
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  6750.  @Diggnuts  Report them for what crime exactly? Typical of the "run to daddy for help" weaklings. Can't debate the issues. only capable of looking up a "joined" date. Truly pathetic.
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  6751. All of these concerns should have been mentioned to Nancy Pelosi before she visited Taiwan. Too late now. Biden blundered, yet again.
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  6752. it's never too late to let Russia destroy NATO's metal coffins. The demilitarization of NATO is moving on apace.
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  6753. oh yeah, they'll have their hands out for every last euro you are forced to pay them, and the gypsies and mafia gangs will be ready to pour into your neighborhood as fast as lightning. enjoy every second of it.
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  6754. the bridge has been repaired, but will probably be destroyed soon
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  6755. The scam has nothing to do with France. If the UK government is so stupid to send loads of cash to a country who has no motive to keep migrants in its country, then the scam is perpetrated by the UK government on the UK taxpayer. The French are just happy to receive the proceeds of the Tory scam.
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  6756. obstruction of justice if they refuse to answer questions in a murder inquiry.
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  6757. not intentionally, no, but then again, there is ZERO evidence that the shopping mall shell was intended for the shopping mall.
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  6758.  @bonnie7898  you missed the news, twice. BOTH POROSHENKO AND MERKEL have confessed that Minsk was never going to be implemented, NOT because of anything Putin said, but solely due to the fact that Minsk was just a mechanism to buy time, to re-arm Ukraine and build up the economy. Check out Merkel's comments in Die Zeit. Now, if Putin has said, SUBSEQUENT to the confessions from Poroshenko and Merkel, that he is not bound by Minsk, that would make sense. So, give me the date and source of Putin's FIRST claim that he is not bound by Minsk, and we can take it from there.
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  6759. yet more overwhelming evidence that Russia is running out of weapons and that the sanctions are working so very well.
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  6760.  @bayafrica5909  How many Germans and Japanese today wish their countries had surrendered to the Allies a lot earlier, do you think?
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  6761.  @gosolvideos  so true
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  6762. Shock and awe sanctions, they will cripple the Russian economy and halt funding the Russian war effort. The Ruble will become the Rubble, disaffected Russians will demand regime change, the sanctions will bring about a change in policy and attitude in Russia. hmmm. how is it going so far, after package 7 has been completed? Putin is still there. Johnson isn't. Draghi isn't. Euro has crashed. Ruble hasn't. Prices have started to fall in Russia. Still rising inexorably in the West. But Ukraine is winning, right?
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  6763. Totally explains why David Lammy wore black trainers to meet Biden - had to ensure he distanced himself from the dressed to the nines scandal Starmer was creating
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  6764. Ukraine started the war with its attacks on the Donbass Russians. Putin is fighting back. He is a hero.
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  6765. 3 days notice? How many days notice was given before the 2014 coup d'etat, Gulliver? Was the 2014 coup d'etat a "sham" or was that all perfectly legit? This "rules based system" of the West is sure hard to understand!
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  6766.  @johannjimenez2850  nah, it's just your last name that is banned on YT
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  6767. Ukrainians need to understand their problems are in the White House and not with Russia. USA and NATO promised support they can't sustain, so now Ukraine will be defeated by Russia and totally destroyed.
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  6768. "the war in Ukraine is what ignited the surge in gas prices". No, stop lying. it was the West's decision to sanction Russia and opt for more expensive gas suppliers. Be honest.
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  6769. yet another fool who blames Putin for the energy crisis. Western sanctions, and Western sanctions only, created the energy debacle. Those nations still trading openly and favorably with Russia have no such issues, at all. The elephant in the room, Dolan.
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  6770. he's a useless flop, in denial of the obvious, that the West is impotent.
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  6771. Tommy Robinson and his supporters would do a much better job at protecting national monuments than the Police do, so, what's the problem?
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  6772. so, Tommy Robinson says that Islamization is rife in the prison system, and this little treasure says that's not true. who to believe?
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  6773. well done, mind reader. your testimony on body language and facial expression has convinced the world that Africa loves the West and hates Russia, as exemplified by recent events in Niger.
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  6774. Definitely the last link to that world where British values meant something. Charles is a woke fool who symbolizes the banal superficiality of modern Britain.
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  6775. The Czech man was released yesterday! He's been remanded on bail, but clearly they don't have the evidence to charge him with anything.
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  6776. how can you be priced out of your own city? in a free market, there would just be a rising demand for low cost housing, to be matched by a rise in supply for.....oh, wait, government rules and regulations make the supply of low cost housing an impossibility, got it, right.
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  6777. but Ukraine is winning, right? And Ghost of Kiev is real, right? And precious Snake Island is still Ukrainian, right?
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  6778.  @takeitasacompliment.  Russia is wasting no one's money, but even if it is wasting any money, it's not yours, so stop whining. Ukraine started the war with the shelling of the Donbass. Russia will be bankrupt? oh, not that tired old song from 11 months ago that the "sanctions are working". look at reality. BTW, Ukraine IS bankrupt, already! Just as it did in Chechnya, Georgia, and Syria, Russia will prevail. and by exactly the same methods.you'll see:)
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  6779. Time to move to Russia. MUCH safer there.
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  6780.  @bravoisteal  Kishinyov, Kiev, Leningrad, Bechuanaland, Zaire, some of us choose to use the names we always used, and feel no need to feel compelled to change to some new variant. deal with it.
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  6781.  @jeckjeck3119  yeah, Russia the sole power to export its influence abroad.
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  6782.  @jeckjeck3119  does the current US occupation of NE Syria count as stealing other people's lands? Crimean Parliament voted 78-0 for separation from Kiev, so in what way did Russia steal land there? or are parliamentary votes a form of barbarism in your book?
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  6783.  @jeckjeck3119  Crimean parliament had no guns to their heads, the vote happened before any Russian troops landed in Crimea, so try another lie on someone who believes you.
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  6784.  @jeckjeck3119  Voters in Kherson and Zaporozhe had no guns to their heads and could vote and fold up the ballot, no problem, as international observers testified. you need to stop regurgitating the lies of the Western media. Russian troops entered Crimea NOT on day one, but immediately after the Crimean Parliament (it's called democracy) voted 78-0 for separation from Kiev. learn the basics.
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  6785.  @jeckjeck3119  of course there were international observers. several people from a whole host of countries, including Brazil, Germany and USA, observed the voting. again, stop believing the lies you are fed. when Putin said "those are my soldiers" what were his exact words in Russian and to whom does "those" refer? if you give me a source for that quote, I'll tell you what it means.
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  6786. Yorkshire IS a Middle Eastern country! Look around and see if you can tell the difference between Baghdad and Dewsbury!
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  6787. so, she starts out with a lie, "apartment block targeted by the Russians". RT coverage simply cannot be worse than this.
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  6788. Zelensky walked into a trap. From this point on Ukraine will be seen by many key players as the side that rejected an offer of peace. China and India will move closer to Russia now, as will many others worldwide.
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  6789. Last July Biden said Russia had already lost this war. So, I guess the 60 billion dollars is to organize a massive celebration party?
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  6790. and people wonder why Putin thinks he can take on the West and win.
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  6791.  @jon1065  so Nazis running Holocaust death camps in 1930's Germany, that should have been "an internally handled problem"?
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  6792.  @jon1065  to my knowledge, Nazis are not allowed to join the armed forces in Russia. In Ukraine, the Nazis ARE the armed forces, whole battalions of swastika tattooed Nationalists, armed, trained and paid by the state, Right Sector, Tormado, Aidar, Azov. These Nazis backed by corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs led the 2014 coup, Get a sense of proportion! Ukraine boasts streets named after arch Nazi Stefan Bandera. Any streets in Moscow named after Adolf Hitler?
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  6793.  @lsd8497  LSD, yet another spineless coward who hides his/her identity behind letters, ashamed to reveal their true name to the world, and number 21 of the Azov Nazi cheerleaders to accuse me, falsely, but too damn yellow to contact me to establish who I am. YELLOW
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  6794.  @wom_Bat  Catalans are just confused Spaniards such a quip fills you with horror and angst?
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  6795.  @BaljitSingh-ej8de  Let's see what the world press decide to release about the activities of the knifeman before the attack. It's always possible he was inspired by Italian catholic jihadists, but you and i know the most likely source of his inspiration.
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  6796.  @BaljitSingh-ej8de  let's hear what your bet is for the stabbing of the priest at church service in Sydney just a few hours ago. Yet another Italian Catholic would you guess?
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  6797. Josh Fenton Glynn , Labour MP, shared an inaccurate tweet with the misinformation that a Muslim woman had been acid attacked by the Far Right in Middlesboro. When will we see him in court?
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  6798.  @prody666  that's right, they might. we might get 2 million uninvited migrants flooding in through Rumania, as opposed to the one million welcomed by Merkel.
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  6799.  Moddafkr  excellent job, Romania. If only the rest of Europe would do the same. .
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  6800.  @SmilingNinja  chyewdesno, kak vsyegda, i kak dyela s vami?
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  6801.  @SmilingNinja  just an experiment to see if you read transliterated Russian..maybe you do after you have taken your medication?
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  6802.  @moffig1  apart from all the Ukrainian cannon fodder that so recently surrendered to the Russians.
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  6803.  @SmilingNinja  and which language's grammar have you mastered, apart from English?
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  6804. "the authorities do little about it" why should they? you chose to live there.
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  6805. "47 shot down"...so, Rob Parsons believes every word uttered by the Ukrainian authorities! oh, sweet innocent child. Maybe he would like to buy a used car from a Ukrainian Lada dealer.
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  6806.  @cgallegos2106  let's not forget the Ukrainian cluster munitions that have been used time and time again over the last 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling the Donbass
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  6807. we heard the same nonsense back in March! oh, you forgot to mention the sagging morale of Russian troops! Better repeat that false assumption too! Meanwhile, in the real world, 85% of Russia's million man army is not even IN Ukraine. The West might be a little shocked to see what happens IF Russia decides to declare war.
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  6808. Ukraine has lost. Poroshenko should have implemented Minsk 1 and Minsk 2. Now the price must be paid. It's like a chess game after the first few moves. We can see which side will win, just not sure how long it will take.
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  6809. so funny how this parrot of the Ukraine war effort now actually believes his own propaganda! He even assumes he knows why the UK defense minister has flown to DC, like he was briefed on the matter. total charlatan who wouldn't know objective reporting if it came up to him and slapped him in the face. Hey, Clarkey, Ghost of Kiev still real?
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  6810. UK voters, this is what you voted for, a government that accepts mass immigration of the types that love to do this. And you will get 5 more years of this, guaranteed, but a lot worse. Either leave the stinking, sinking ship that is UK, or get ready, for it will get far far worse.
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  6811. only when those schools and hospitals are housing Ukrainian soldiers and weaponry, as Amnesty International proved.
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  6812. So expert Cross describes at length how irrational Putin is, and then gives a wonderful example of how Putin, most rationally, is limiting energy supplies to Europe and thus getting more and more Germans to plead with their government to negotiate with Russia! This is the level of contradiction and imbecility we now have in the West that we call "experts"!
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  6813. the reality is the government have no idea if they believe in green policies or not. spouting out eco friendly garbage at COP is their policy, while opening coal mines is also their policy. useless bunch of hypocrites.
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  6814. just lobby your political representative to urge peace talks and to stop funding the war.
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  6815. @rory kinahan BTW, why is the Budapest Memorandum called a "Memorandum", and not a "treaty" or an "agreement"?
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  6816. The Houthis are allowing all Russian ships through. It's Western ships that are the target. Welcome to the world of unforeseen consequences of sanctions against Russia.
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  6817.  @PTParatrooper  why not?
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  6818.  @ohmybrowncow  then actually disprove or rebut what he says!
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  6819.  @PTParatrooper  really? what exactly does the rule say? or rules. how many rules are there?
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  6820.  @teggsy2165  well, how foolish of Times Radio to assume Putin had no friends to help him out, eh? I guess Times Radio believed their own narrative about Russia being isolated.
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  6821. So which is it? Carlson said he "hates Trump with a passion" and yet Fox is a network devoted to placating Trump voters! let that contradiction sink in.
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  6822.  @eddie0lutetia  remember, in March 2022 Zelensky was all in favor of negotiations, hence the Istanbul talks. so don't pretend it's Zelensky who won't negotiate. try looking at who is pulling his strings.
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  6823.  @User-jr7vf  sadly, Zeleinsky was told by his paymasters not to negotiate. his paymasters assured him that Russia would be defeated. His paymasters got it wrong. Russia is winning. now, Zelinsky is begging for help just to survive. he won't survive. NATO will ditch Ukraine and Zelinsky just as they dropped Ghazi and Afghanistan. the usual USA cut and run.
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  6824.  @leonardireland7362  Not true. Anyone can claim asylum, with or without documents. You may be right that the claim for asylum will be rejected without documents, but making the claim itself requires no documents, hence none of them is arrested in Dover, and all of them are accommodated until the asylum case is decided.
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  6825.  @davidpryle3935  a wise government would just announce to the world that it has been decided to enforce maritime law first, and due to security threats, asylum can only be claimed abroad and zero arrivals that avoid an official port of entry will be tolerated.
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  6826. Time for Israel to take the gloves off and fight fire with fire. No one should blame Israel if they decided to wipe out the entire Gaza Strip, buenas noches Hamas and all your voters.
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  6827.  @Jc-ms5vv  it's the climate alarmists that are in denial. they are blind to the reality of every day weather. here where I am, today, we are currently 22C BELOW the record high, very close to a record LOW temperature! don't let reality get in the way of a crisis you just want to happen, dreamer.
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  6828.  @Jc-ms5vv  curious you choose not to contest the facts
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  6829.  @Jc-ms5vv  there is no endless amount of evidence! not one single "scientist" has any evidence of climate change due to human activity! The scientists who actually understand climate and the atmosphere would be Willie Soon, Patrick Moore, Judith Curry, John Christy, William Happer, Richard Lindzen, Tony Hadler, and when you read what these guys have to say, you see there is no crisis. I have absolutely no fear of extinction at all. I am old enough to remember the "experts" predicting another ice age and old enough to remember Al Gore saying Arctic ice would disappear. If John Kerry believed his own words on climate change, he would travel the world in planes, would he?
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  6830.  @Jc-ms5vv  here is the reality. extreme weather is on the decline. these days there are fewer hurricanes, fewer tornados, fewer cyclones, fewer typhoons, fewer floods, a LOT fewer deaths due to extreme weather, fewer forest fires. now you know the truth, what is it that you fear, exactly?
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  6831.  @Jc-ms5vv  the truth hurts, eh? when you have time, google the ten hottest temperatures recorded in Spain, and check out the dates! it's cooling!
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  6832.  @Jc-ms5vv  except that it is not happening anywhere on the globe! There are 192 odd countries on this planet. name me ONE that has seen its highest temperature recorded this year! where I am in France we were 1C away from the LOWEST recorded July temperature two days ago! FACTS! you have swallowed hook, line and sinker a load of media bs.
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  6833.  @Jc-ms5vv  you will be able to see my face when this happens, because it is a dream of yours, not based on reality, so just keep on dreaming. have you always been a hand-wringing bedwetter?
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  6834. The EU is such a joke. So, now it's time to worry about importing terrorism, but under Merkel the importation of a million unvetted migrants was cause for celebration. Got it.
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  6835.  @pepitagimenez8790  "no necesitamos"... como parte de la UE, España no tiene ninguna opción hoy día, todas las reglas de inmigracion vienen de Bruselas, ni tiene España ninguna independencia.
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  6836.  @pepitagimenez8790  así es, en la UE, hay que aceptar todos los ciudadanos de la UE como residentes o como turistas 365 días del año, sin remedio, pues que disfruteis toda esta mierda regalada de las oficinas en Bruselas:)
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  6837. there we go again. disinformation. "the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine". the war is not causing any energy shortages or price rises. It's the sanctions against Russia that are responsible. Self-inflicted wounds.
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  6838. After idiot Ben Wallace said that Russia has insufficient missiles to keep attacking the Ukraine power grid, Russia is just enjoying proving him wrong whenever it wants.
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  6839. more than compensates for the 110,000 troops dead in the Russian meatgrinder.
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  6840. Time to fight fire with fire? Israel to massacre as many Palestinian innocents as possible?
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  6841. aha! "there are many many impacts on the temperature and on climate" right, so unless you can quantify, precisely, every single one of those impacts, what is the point in pretending that we can be sure the CO2 thermostat is going to make a significant difference? Just a handful of those many other impacts might turn out to be the ones that truly determine our climate.
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  6842.  @MrKakibuy  a tiny section of the whole front every day x 4 months of conflict x 100s of Ukrainian forces massacred, crippled or captured every day = Russia win
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  6843.  @lauriepaterson9096  this all makes perfect sense. Western media hiding the reality of this disaster from the public.
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  6844.  @macmcleod1188  and amazingly, pro Russian info and a 2 year old account does nothing to preclude the truth from being expressed! counter the message with facts and insights, if you can.... a bit pathetic to respond to a posting by running to see how old the account is!
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  6845.  @macmcleod1188  the assumption that Russia is being "bled" has been NATO's trump card since day one. only problem is.....no evidence at all that Russia is being bled!
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  6846.  @zollen123  They did. Minsk accords. Ukraine refused to implement them. Hence Putin said he was forced to intervene militarily
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  6847.  @divadjens4278  Most Russians know some Donbass refugees that relocated to Russia over the last 8 years. So most Russians know that it's not about them, the Russians, but about the rights of Russian speakers in Donbass. Unlike the West, Russia is not quite so "what's in it for me?"
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  6848.  @Torric25  re read Putin's 5 objectives. territory is not mentioned. Demilitarizing Ukraine is. if thousands of experienced Ukrainian troops have been massacred, job done. gaining half of New Jersey as well, sweet little bonus.
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  6849.  @ibpsupplyman  Capturing EVERY city and village in Ukraine not one of Putin's aims, so calm down. Once Ukraine has been demilitarized (the vast majority of its fighting men massacred), job done. The puppet regime installed by Moscow will then take care of the cities and villages in their beloved, destroyed Ukraine.
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  6850.  @blacklion8208  "against the will of the people?"Yanukovich was democratically elected! Tell us, exactly what percentage of the Ukrainian people wanted him to sign up to closer ties with the EU? In a democracy, you vote OUT a leader if he acts against the will of the people...you don't pay Azov Nazis to terrorize the parliament into ousting the guy. That NATO backed this coup is disgraceful.
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  6851.  Jockbigcox  I'm betting its the LPR, DPR and Chechens. LPR and DPR fighting for their homelands. Chechens are ruthless and fiercely proud of their Russian ties. 18 year old cannon fodder recruits from Lvov do NOT sense that they are fighting for their homeland!
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  6852.  @MrKakibuy  more territory, maybe, but it's massacred Ukrainian soldiers that counts, not territory, as per Putin's 5 objectives.
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  6853.  @MrKakibuy  Not true. It took USA a month and a half to take full control of Fallujah! Shock and awe, air attacks that let the enemy disappear into the desert only to regroup and infiltrate the urban areas is NOT a victory. USA learned the hard way, Russia knows, victory is eliminating all the forces, one by one, street by street, takes time!
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  6854.  @MrKakibuy  Fallujah took USA a month and a half to fully capture. Get real!
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  6855.  @macmcleod1188  Russia has no need nor desire to enter Kiev, and never did. Russia is not losing its young men at anything LIKE the rate Ukraine is, LPR and DPR militias and Chechens doing most of the heavy lifting. Russia's economy is resilient..they sell commodities the world desperately needs....the West on the other hand, destined to see 30% inflation and pensioners dying of the cold this winter. Russia won
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  6856.  @Lowezar  just ask any refugee from Donbass...they will tell you the value of liberty for their homelands.
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  6857.  @Timurlane100  Really Smart person: but Russia lost MILLIONS in World War 2, and is immensely proud of its victory. to Russia, massive losses comes with fighting to be free of Nazis.
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  6858.  @Torric25  how would you have any clue what Russia's losses are? Reveal your source! or crystal ball. wishful thinking. Russia is a remarkably resilient nation and will recover..the West on the other hand, in the death throes of losing its hegemony and is going down the tubes...BRICS is the new world order. Putin dead in 2 or 3 years? to be replaced by a hard liner like Lavrov or Medvedev? Remember Obama's "Bashar al Assad's days are numbered"? Obama gone, Bashar al Assad still in power. 3 years time. Putin or his like minded successor in power, Brian Valentine gone!
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  6859.  @blacklion8208  hard to say. Not sure Medvedev and Lavrov see things so differently than Putin does. who knows?
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  6860.  @Lowezar  I'm sure you, like me, get to hear a lot of stories, I get it. What most people don't get, because ALL they hear is "Russia bad, Ukraine good" is that MANY Ukrainians have fled since 2014, and MANY are NOT pro Zelensky, and MANY are pro Putin. It's the great untold story in the West.
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  6861.  @macmcleod1188  more advanced weapons? which power has tried and tested hypersonic weapons..NATO or Russia? 60 year old tanks and bolt action rifles are just fine for the role of occupying territory and keeping law and order. Sneer away..it's Russia that has won. just a matter of time....before you grasp reality.
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  6862.  @divadjens4278  Of course the Ukrainians who fled west have rights. The right to live in the DPR or LPR, or in whatever is left of Ukraine at the end of the conflict. Given the billions the West has poured into Ukraine, I'm sure the West would be more than happy to resettle the minority of Ukrainians who could not stomach life in a Russian speaking zone. Resettlement of populations following such conflicts is common. Let them have the choice of where to live. Russia never "took" Crimea. Ukraine abandoned Crimea when a democratically elected president was overthrown and Azov Nazis forced him out of the country. Crimea refused to be part of this illegal coup d'etat, rightly so. Crimea voted to become part of Russia subsequently, for the very good reason that Crimea is Russian. Ever been to Crimea, have you? In the 19th century, when Britain and France fought in the Crimean War, did Britain and France fight against Russia, or against Ukraine?
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  6863.  @PalleRasmussen  my comment is spot on, oh ye who has a monopoly on understanding war, LOL..conspicuous by its absence is ANY refutation of what I said with counter information. the usual bluster from keyboard warriors in mom's basement. ok, Napoloen, you know everything. we all listen to you and you alone. happy now:)
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  6864.  @PalleRasmussen  who wants to be taken seriously? I give you the benefit of my deep personal knowledge and experience, someone who speaks fluent Russian and who has spent considerable time in Ukraine and take it or leave it! If you want to make a point, make it, seriously or otherwise. How many Donbass Ukrainians you ever spoken to, in Russian or Ukrainian?
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  6865. Obviously the Italian police are turning a blind eye! They want the migrants to get into France!
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  6866. Duda is such a clown. The rest of NATO would not support him, and a Russian nuclear attack on Warsaw would be met by embarrassed silence in the rest of NATO.
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  6867. It's not that the ammo "isn't getting through"....NATO DOESN'T HAVE IT! Russia has demilitarized both Ukraine and NATO...whatever weapons will dribble into Ukraine over the next few months will just be destroyed or captured. Wake up! Russia has won!
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  6868. the fear of being beheaded by the Muslim mob trumps intellectual honesty. simple as that. if/when academia rediscovers its backbone, this nonsense will stop.
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  6869.  @nessuno6110  I have not noticed any supermarkets saying "card payments only on Sundays" but I will check it out this Sunday and let you know. Certainly my nearest Hyper Casino has a skeleton staff on Sunday and certain things are not for sale, by card or cash, and could be that scanning items and payment by card is the only means possible on a Sunday. Like in the train station, if the sales office is closed, a machine will sell a ticket. but using card only. By what you say, Austria is the place to champion, but still, compared to UK, it is comforting to know that in French law businesses must accept cash. We'll see how this plays out.
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  6870. Wagners are winning with every Ukrainian they chew up in their meatgrinder
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  6871. @Coma White their meatgrinder IS Bakhmut! With artillery shells raining down constantly and Zelensky replacing Ukrainian corpses with fresh troops, it is WW1 stuff, no advance needed while the enemy keeps placing live bodies within missile range. The primary aim for the Wagners is to demilitarize Ukraine. They are doing that. With Ukrainian cannon fodder all killed, maybe in summer of next year, Russia will take whatever territory it wants.
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  6872. there's nothing "green" about China using so much more fossil fuels to mine all the materials needed for the solar panels and windmills and fossil fuels in the production of all this infrastructure, and the disaster that is trying to recycle all this unrecyclable material. it's just shipping fossil fuel consumption from the West to China and the Congo.
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  6873.  @ttoleafoa70  yep. no coincidence that so much progress has been made across the planet the more that cheap reliable energy has been available to everyone. and on balance, global warming and more CO2 is a good thing.
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  6874.  @ttoleafoa70  1. renewable energy is a lot more expensive to produce and distribute. the only way to make renewable energy LOOK cheaper is to subsidize it. Remove green energy taxes and government subsidies and the true cost is astronomical. 2. you sound young, naive and uneducated. 3. by all VALID scientific accounts (Moore, Curry, Lindsen, Happer, Koons) more global warming and more CO2 has helped, and is helping, the greening of the planet, fertility and food production. quick test to see if you have a balanced perspective. name 3 benefits of global warming.
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  6875. turns out it was a Ukrainian missile, so now time to take Ukrainian defence minister Reznikov to court for war crimes.
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  6876. Vivek is such a prattling little boy, spouting nonsense about ending Russia's alliance with China, like he has any sway over what Moscow and Beijing decide.
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  6877. Times Radio still living in the fantasy land of Ukraine winning. Totally oblivious to the reality of the destruction of Ukraine that Russia is wreaking on a daily basis.
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  6878. yep, Shoigu is decorated, because unlike Grant Shapps and Ben Wallace, Shoigu has a bloody clue what he's doing.
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  6879.  @daverobinson6110  but not before you, dear Dave
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  6880. As expected, mostly white "traditional France" football fans are ready to confront the Islamic immigrants and make this a race-based civil war. Zemmour warned of this. may as well let it happen and see who wins and take things from there.
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  6881.  @TDM1165  ah, good old Marxist class warfare! but, of course. in the real world, it's clear Farage gets the big picture
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  6882.  @PassiveAgressive319  no one asked for any comments on how dull and humourless your pathetic life is.
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  6883. and now the truth - the counter offensive is an absolute disaster. Thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder massacred, Western weapons destroyed aplenty, Russian mines and attack helicopters are doing the lethal job asked of them. As we enter the THIRD week of the counter offensive, not one single Ukrainian is anywhere near the FIRST line of Russian defences! These are just the forward groups of Russians in the security zone that are wiping out NATO's trainees. Looks like an extra NATO course on Diversity and Inclusion was needed for Ukraine to break through.
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  6884. yawn, more about Bakhmut, so when will MSM turn to the perilous position of Avdiivka?
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  6885. the problem with relaxing the sanctions is that, unless Russia agrees to restore trading arrangements with the West, it will change nothing. The realization that this is the collapse that has been on the cards for a long time is beginning to dawn on the masses
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  6886.  @luminousfractal420  Putin is breaking the back of the West. How do electricity prices look for this winter in the West? How are NATO's inventories looking?:)
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  6887. German hesitancy? what about Polish hesitancy? why is Poland holding back from declaring war and sending all its young men into the Bakhmut meatgrinder? why the wait?
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  6888. God bless Donbass! Standing up for human rights of ethnic Russians in the fight over good and evil will not be forgotten!
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  6889. AfD is only "far right" compared to the far left views of woke Marxist propagandists like Channel 4. German towns and cities have become dystopian, migrant filled sh**holes. the only surprise is that it has taken real Germans this long to wake up to the fact.
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  6890.  @speedoman_1413  It's your side, the Azov Nazis, Right Sector, Aidar, Tornado, that support the swastika tattooes. You probably would support them opening up a work camp or two for ethnic Russians, right?
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  6891. i might be tempted to think you had a valid point, but without mention of Chinese, Arabs, and a whole host of other corrupt groups methinks you are discriminating and hopelessly biased.
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  6892.  @routiesero5632  I certainly DO deny these "basic observations". it is absolute nonsense to say "they get worse every year". you tell me where you are, and I will tell you of a year way in the past when summer was hotter. just give me your location.
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  6893.  @amandabotha1431  how convenient! looks like you omitted a key detail! do some homework. The Crimean parliament in Simferopol, following the 2014 coup in Kiev, VOTED to separate from Kiev (it's called "democracy"). Now then, your homework assignment is to find out by how many votes did the Crimean parliament decide to separate from Kiev? Do some research. Russian troops captured nothing in Crimea because they were invited in. How many times have you been to Crimea?
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  6894.  @amandabotha1431  one more homework assignment for you. explain why what happened at the Union House in Odessa enraged ethnic Russians world wide. start googling
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  6895.  @Ikkeligeglad  exactly. Ukraine is not interested in going to a court to prosecute anyone who commits war crimes, but only Russians who commit war crimes. Now we see why the Donbass wanted to leave the "democratic" Ukraine.
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  6896.  @Ikkeligeglad  right, so you have confessed that NATO is NOT a purely defensive organization. Whenever NATO assesses that "ethnic cleansing" and "attempted genocide" is occurring anywhere in the world, then that place is fair game to be totally destroyed. Life and death comes down to an official in Brussels saying, "yep, looks like genocide to me, let the bombing start" No wonder Putin wants NATO as far away as possible. And to Libya. why did NATO bomb that country to pieces?
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  6897. and Ukraine held responsible for Bucha, where Russian collaborators were killed and dumped in the streets.
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  6898.  @Ikkeligeglad  deep inside your warped mind
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  6899.  @peterpain6625  War crimes committed by Bush, Obama and Biden in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Serbia have to go to the Hague first. Then Zelensky. Putin is WAY down the list!
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  6900.  @heyidiots.  Azov Nazi lover...just loves his swastika tattoo across his chest
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  6901. what's shocking is the bubble you live in, thinking your quality of life is superior, thinking GDP actually means something, thinking you have freedom of speech. you are blind to the restrictions under which you live.
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  6902. this is hilarious! "freedom of speech"! go announce to your co workers in the woke West that you believe homosexuality should be a subject banned from the classroom and see how free your speech is then! Talk about living in a bubble. You are most definitely in one and have no clue.
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  6903.  @Qqqq-l1b  tochno
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  6904.  @mark-x8w8r  the |Russians sacrificed far more than the other Allies in WW2. it was very much a total Russian victory on the eastern front. The Russian are rightfully proud of their victory in WW2, and will be so in Ukraine.
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  6905.  @mjor6406  i hear plenty of Canadians beg to differ with you! they can't afford to live there, immigration and wokery is out of control, all they can think of doing is getting the hell out of Canadistan.
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  6906.  @mjor6406  it's not just new immigrants leaving. it's a lot of true blooded Canadians who are absolutely fed up with the woke world of cretins like Trudeau and the sky-high cost of living and the fact that parts of Toronto look like Hong Kong or Kingston, Jamaica. 2nd best country in the world? nah, believe me, the second best country doesn't freeze the bank accounts of protesting truckers by executive decree. Canada ain't even in the top twenty these days. not sure I have a country these days. UK nationality, resident in France, but digital nomad currently in Colombia but looking forward to heading back to Portugal. going by freedom of speech and traditional values and cost of living, I would say anywhere in Eastern Europe tops the West with many Latin American countries close behind. depends what your priorities are. to me, true freedom starts with being allowed to say that a man cannot become a woman and that immigration should be ended, without being censored, cancelled or admonished.
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  6907. as far as safe, heterogeneous places with a true identity, maybe Poland, Japan, Korea, Iceland, Hungary?
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  6908. Must be the Russians that blew up Nordstream then, even though Biden promised he would do so.
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  6909. all those who applauded lockdowns, all those who embrace Green energy, all those who applauded sanctions against Russia, all those who applauded billions of pounds to support Ukraine.... you've got what you deserve. happy now?
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  6910.  @darrinatorrr  right, but once the claim is denied, the claimant is still on UK soil and is hardly ever found, handcuffed, escorted and flown out. Just doesn't happen. even to rapists and gangsters.
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  6911.  @youuuuuuuuuuutube  according to....?
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  6912. The elephant in the room that gets ignored by both host and commentator - masses of Donbass Russians don't want to be evacuated because, surprise surprise, they want to be liberated and live under the Russian flag. Hence the scenes of pure joy in Lysychansk when babushka after babushka hugged LPR and Russian soldiers on being liberated and wept "we have waited 8 years for you to come, thank you". Not shown on MSM of course, that would go against the enforced narrative of "Russia bad, Ukraine good".
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  6913. "organized this scheme to disclose these payments" this guy is clueless. he fails to explain where the crime is, because there is no crime. it is 100% legal to pay hush money, it happens every day, and the money you pay the lawyer to take care of it is a "legal expense" as noted in Trump's ledgers. There is no crime, just a witch hunt in a futile attempt to get Trump off the campaign trail.
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  6914. all power to the Far Right Thugs, because after 30 years of Far Left Thuggery, the balance needs to be restored. Muslims and Immigrants who have massacred white Brits in the last 20 years = 100+ Far Right Thugs who have massacred Muslims and Immigrants in the last 20 years = 0 Time for that to be addressed.
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  6915.  @Virtualcults  glad to see you are incapable of challenging anything I said. keep blundering through your world of delusion.
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  6916. If ever you go to Daugavpils you will see how the city is perfectly integrated into Latvian society. What the intolerant, nationalist bigots in Riga want to do is punish the descendants of Russian speakers from Stalin's time for the "sins" of their fathers. Copybook of Kiev's approach....now, how did that all end up? Better and more just to take the Kazakh approach to Russian speakers, if you value inclusivity and harmony.
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  6917.  @rafflesmaos  "you were a colonized country and now you are independent. you have a choice. either live in peace and harmony with the descendants of the colonizers, who are your fellow citizens, or alienate them by refusing to recognize their native language as an official language of your country. choose wisely and choose based on inclusivity and tolerance"
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  6918. simple answer....knowing Ukraine would LOVE to destroy Potemkin's remains, just remove them and deny Ukraine the pleasure. Grasping at straws to suggest removing Potemkin = preparation for withdrawal. Civilian evacuations have now ended. More Russian troops pouring into Kherson, get ready for the big offensive on Odessa
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  6919. Sweden has imported the poison that will kill Sweden.
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  6920. Good for Total. The sooner Russia wins the better.
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  6921. China's alliance with Russia is "alarming"? why? surely it is to be expected and it is what the West wanted? If Nancy Pelosi flies to Taiwan, what the hell does the West expect other than closer ties between Russia and China? The West has caused its own "alarm".
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  6922. Stingers = gamechanger! NOT! Javelins = gamechanger! NOT! HIMARS - gamechanger! NOT! Patriots = gamechanger! NOT! Peace talks = gamechanger! Yep, all we are saying, is give peace a chance.
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  6923.  @nobodyisbest  or indeed nukes on New York and London
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  6924.  @tomhenry897  Russians doing amazingly well, then, to have killed 100,000 Ukrainian troops (according to General Milley) with just artillery! powerless NATO....Russians reduced to just artillery and drones, and they STILL have a kill rate of 8:1 over Ukraine! Time for NATO to re-eveluate rather than in panic just patriots and have fingers crossed!
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  6925.  @tomhenry897  Zelensky just announced that Russia is preparing for a major new offensive. according to you, that is not possible, as Russia has no air force, no tanks, no ammo dumps, no bridges. so, which one is lying? Zelensky (again)? or you (again)?
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  6926.  @tomhenry897  2 Tupelov bombers led the strikes on Ukraine's power grid, again. Ukraine in darkness and freezing cold. so only an Air Force of two planes needed for Russia to reduce Ukraine to paralysis! Read it and weep.
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  6927.  @bmwman1981  in Ukraine, traitor to Ukraine = Russian speaker who demands Russian be of equal standing with Ukrainian in his homeland
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  6928.  @alexforrest2563  Is Kosovo sovereign Serbian territory? Is Scotland sovereign British territory?
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  6929. yep, sounds fair to me. for years ethnic Russian children have had Ukrainian nationalism rammed down their throats, it is long overdue that ethnic Russian children follow a Russian curriculum. already Russian occupation is bringing justice (and a strong ruble as opposed to the collapsed hrivne and euro).
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  6930. After exhaustive interviews with the convicts and mercenaries, Milley can announce morale among the Russians is very low. Of course, among the Ukrainian cannon fodder, about to be kicked out of a city they have sacrificed thousands of lives for, morale is absolutely sky high. Got it.
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  6931. anyone who fears being nuked to death
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  6932.  @lucylovic  what is so complicated in stopping smugglers bringing people across the Med?
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  6933. No, the lab leak theory was NOT dismissed by mainstream scientists. The lab leak theory was dismissed by scientists who feared they would lose their jobs if they dissented from the approved narrative. Get it right.
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  6934.  @rooster1012  and what do those large commercial companies do with all those homes? keep them empty ?
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  6935.  @AnyoneCanSee  good to know Edinburgh has no housing crisis anymore, plenty of affordable rents for all those who want them.
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  6936.  @Ian-pm8ll  you confirmed what I said! Reuters said..."the cash was sent, but bondholders did not receive" This is not a default! As I explained, Western governments are preventing, through sanctions, people like bondholders from trading with Russia. As I explained, these sanctions HURT WESTERN BONDHOLDERS, NOT RUSSIA. You have proven my point...the sanctions are not hurting Russia, but these Western bondholders, denied by their own governments from collecting Russian funds, ARE hurt! Get it now?
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  6937.  @Ian-pm8ll  what is curious here is why you dismissed the words "Russia rejected claims..." and you fully accepted Biden's claims? Why?
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  6938. Both things are true. Farage is repeating Putin's words, Putin's talking points. And NATO provoked the Ukraine war. Where Farage is wrong is saying that Putin is to blame
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  6939. Never got jabbed, never got tested, never accepted any of the bs and propaganda. Luckily I work online, so had the luxury of traveling, between April 2020 and March 2022, from Gibraltar to UK to Serbia to Kosovo to Turkey to UK to Gibraltar to France to Mexico to Colombia to Dominican Republic to Costa Rica to Switzerland and to France. Never had a sniffle, never felt better. to everyone who got jabbed, thanks for getting out of my way as i lived a normal, busy, healthy life
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  6940. lmao...burst out laughing at the line about "clamping down on sanctions-busting countries/companies" Now well into year THREE of the conflict, and only NOW is the West trying to figure out how to implement the sanctions so that they might actually work? such a clown show, and this guy says it all with a serious tone!
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  6941.  @nicocrestmere9688  363 air raids over Berlin in WW2. Go to Wikipedia and take a look at the photos. Loads or rubble is what I see.
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  6942.  @bonnie7898  when do you think EU sanctions package number 15 will be announced, you know, the one that brings Russia to its knees? Remember when you said that egg prices were rising in Russia, a sure sign of imminent economic collapse. Are those egg prices still rising?:)
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  6943.  @bonnie7898  If only NATO had reliable allies such as Iran and North Korea. Instead NATO got the remarkably effete, ineffective and spineless Sweden and Finland!
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  6944.  @nicocrestmere9688  they don't, at the time. after the war, when numbers are released and verified, then we have an idea. during the conflict, only approximations can be made by observing obituaries and visiting cemeteries, which BBCMediazona has done, and the indications there are that Ukraine has much, much heavier casualties.
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  6945.  @bonnie7898  It's not about towns, is it? A war of attrition is about reducing the enemy to total destruction. As Putin stated, demiliarization (all fighting age men dead), denazification (the Azovs and Banderites dead and never to be in power again), and no NATO for Ukraine. So far, Russia is making MUCH better headway in its aims than Ukraine is in its. Or do you think Crimea will be in Zelensky's hands next week?
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  6946.  @bonnie7898  I don't. I have no idea how many casualties Russia has suffered. It's not me stating the exact numbers of Russian or Ukrainian casualties. It's the Russophobes that keep throwing numbers out there. What I am saying is that based on what the Ukrainian soldiers are reporting, Ukrainian casualties must be much, much higher than Russia's.
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  6947.  @bonnie7898  when exactly do you expect the Russian economy to collapse such that Russia will no longer be able to finance its war in Ukraine? 2035 maybe?
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  6948.  @bonnie7898  You described the methods of a war of attrition and I described its results in the case of the Ukraine war. You are right, wearing down the enemy's ability to fight and its will to fight. So far, Putin's 5 goals are within sight. None of Zelensky's are at all, unless you swallowed the Kool-aid and thought that denying the Ukrainian people heat and power this winter was one of Zelensky's aims. When do you expect to see Ukrainian troops marching into Crimea?:)
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  6949. the Ukrainian fear is that in the West "we will want to spend all our money on ourselves". who is "we" and why do you think "we" have any money left to spend on anything? Totally out of touch with economic reality
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  6950. Right now, Macron would probably welcome Russia flattening New Caledonia. For that reason, Putin should flatten Tahiti
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  6951. I very much doubt it.
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  6952. so you don't deny that immigrants are a drain on the nation's finances. interesting.
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  6953.  @snc8537  thanks for the usual reply from someone so ignorant they can't rebut with any coherent counter.
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  6954.  @HawthornSpindle  i guess you would apply the same logic to e e cummings
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  6955.  @UndertakerFromWWE  Zelensky certainly did make Putin invade....just ask all the Donbass ethnic Russians shelled by Zelensky's beloved Azov Nazi battalion
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  6956.  @Szakats19  so what? what's your point?
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  6957.  @michaelhughes6634  "Ukraine wanted to be closer to the West" it would seem not. Yanukovich was elected president on a platform of keeping Ukraine neutral. Yanukovich was ousted by a bunch of neo Nazi bullies, supported by the West, in an effort to force Ukraine to become part of the West. Learn the basics.
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  6958.  @Szakats19  again, so what? Some Donbass Cossacks joined the Nazis. Back in the here and now, the vast majority of Donbass ethnic Russians want to separate from Kiev. That's the point, and the reason the West should back their bid to separate from the Nazi bullies in Kiev.
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  6959. he's useless and a hopeless liar. "Russia is on the back foot, Russia is running out of missiles" month after month after month. deluded fool.
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  6960. I think we all know why BBC and MediaZona refused to conduct an investigation into total Ukrainian dead the way they did regarding total Russian dead. Mustn't alarm the world with really bad news from the Ukrainian side.
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  6961. ha ha, and all these boasts that NATO has 2 new members, when NATO has no new members, and lost 2. Both Turkey and Hungary are fine working with and trading with Russia. The splits in NATO more than obvious.
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  6962. Petit à petit les Russes tuent tous les soldats ukrainniens. Projet "Demilitarization" progresse très bien pour Putin.
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  6963. DPR reports over 250 civilians killed in Ukrainian army’s bombardments since escalation - World - TASS Any chance, BBC, you might one day mention the children massacred by Zelensky's shelling of Donetsk civilian areas?
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  6964. So, Sweden and Finland just can't wait to join NATO on bombing raids that massacre innocents in Serbia and Libya. Speaks volumes for their values.
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  6965. Poor Zelensky still doesn't get it. NATO promised Ukraine that NATO would "support" Ukraine all the way to victory. But NATO made a promise it cannot fulfill. NATO underestimated Russia's capacity to survive sanctions and isolation and to fight a prolonged ground war. Result = Ukraine will be destroyed and NATO demilitarized and humiliated. All richly deserved.
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  6966.  @jacqdanieles  Namur is in Belgium, as always
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  6967. if he's that daft to blame social media, and that daft to have done nothing for years to end Muslim immigration, then it's good he's stepping down. he's part of the problem.
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  6968. so burning the quran is a far right activity, not an expression of freedom of speech. the Left would never burn any books, yeah, right.
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  6969. curious that France 24 has absolutely no interest in investigating where General Zaluzhny is.
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  6970. appeasement isn't the same as negotiating a peaceful end to conflict. the alternative is the total destruction of Ukraine, like THAT works!
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  6971. All those who voted Democrat are getting exactly what they deserve. And they will vote Democrat again and get more random killings. Some people are just slow learners. A little bit of Darwinism at play here.
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  6972. isn't it time to bring back those "experts" that said months ago Russia was running out of weapons and that the sanctions will force Russia to abandon its war efforts? oh, please, Times Radio, bring back Lord Dannatt and ask him about his comments about Putin's hands turning black with all the injections in his hands that Putin needs. we miss your imbecilic, deluded Russophobe experts.
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  6973. 1. Sunak said he would stop the boats, not slightly reduce the numbers of boats. 2. Reverse the law, and allow in ONLY asylum seekers that applied from abroad and were granted asylum abroad.
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  6974.  @martynblackburn9632  nice of you to call the Labour Party "knuckledraggers"
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  6975. If SWIFT and insurance policies are the new "game changers" of the West to bring Russia to its knees, then we can safely say that Russia has won, Can't wait to see what counter sanctions Russia will declare on the West in winter. Get ready for a bitterly cold miserable expensive winter Westies....Slava Rossiyi...Z
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  6976. the usual deluded ramblings from this old fool. imagine getting excited about 3 helicopters on their way to Ukraine. hilarious to see how NATO has absolutely no answer to Russia's use of drones and missiles to destroy Ukraine. NATO as powerless as when they saw the Taliban stroll into Kabul and kick them out last year. Slava Rossiyi.
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  6977. That grieving mother might actually get to regret her vote for Hamas one day.
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  6978.  @jammaj6895  ukronazi imbecile spotted!
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  6979. too late for dialog now. why would Russia trust the West after Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 were never implemented? Besides, Russia is winning...best to just kill as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible and then dictate surrender terms. The West is doing all that it can to ensure this happens.
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  6980. not one single person crossing the Channel is coming to the UK in fear for their lives or from persecution. France is as safe a country as any. Therefore, none of them is a genuine refugee and none can explain what it is about France that they need asylum from.
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  6981. On the contrary, Lord Smugface, much of the globe sees Russia's invasion as FULLY justified, given the thousands who were massacred in Donbass over the last 8 years while the West did NOTHING to implement the Minsk Accords. Only those ignorant of the West's role in provoking Russia see the invasion as unjustified. Those of us who have lived in Ukraine understand the invasion VERY clearly.
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  6982. UK has failed despite Brexit, not because of it. True Brexit was never implemented.
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  6983.  @Sajuuk  of course, given you are unable to counter the truth, you have to censor dissenting voices. shows why you support the Azov Nazis, right?
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  6984. "they are not commenting at all on the progress".....uh, that might mean because there is no progress, buddy.
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  6985.  @captainchaoscow  I don't trust any numbers explicitly. I certainly distrust media claims when they mention "heavy losses" for one side, but then silence on the other side. to me, if General Milley admits 100,000 casualties on the Ukrainian side, I would have no reason to disbelieve him. he has access to such info. he has no access to info on Russian losses, so I would not believe any claims he makes about Russian losses. Ukraine admits it is out fired by 6:1 on artillery shells, so 6 out of 7 shells fired in this war are raining down on Ukrainian troops. Makes me think, most probably, the kill rate is in Russia's favor.
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  6986.  @captainchaoscow  Ukrainian surrender is the solution, the sooner the better.
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  6987.  @hotsky83  Bandera also led a pogrom in Lvov that resulted in the murder of 4000 Jews in 1941, hence he is a Nazi condemned by Poland, jewish groups, human rights groups, and the EU, but Nazi groups, and you, are fine with that. speaks volumes
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  6988. One big problem is people like Kisin using this made-up word "Islamism" when they just mean "Islam". The heart and soul of Islam is extremist, so using the word "Islamism" is just tautology.
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  6989. Of what benefit is it to the US taxpayer, who pays Biden's salary, that Biden chats about the weather to someone in China? Did Biden chat about the weather on the phone to any of his constituents who pay his salary?
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  6990. to be expected, a Greens minister propounding the policy that will do most harm to the environment. par for the course.
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  6991.  @susannahreynolds5337  typical female response from you. of course it was not her fault, but she made the awful mistake of under estimating how dangerous it is to walk on the streets of UK towns and cities these days. 1400 white girls across the country made the same mistake when they got targeted by Pakistani r*p* gangs. today, in the UK, be on the street = heightened risk of attack
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  6992.  @susannahreynolds5337  typical female response. not her fault, but still dumb to assume nothing will happen while walking down the street in Cardiff.
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  6993.  @dianneatfeld687  true, but "should not" = ideal world. sadly, that's not reality.
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  6994. @@JohndoeUK1234 indeed I do. I also understand how medical care should be paid for. do you?
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  6995. @@JohndoeUK1234 that's right. the free-loaders get all their medical treatment for free. so, hey, when someone else is paying, why bother being responsible in any way for one's own health? goes to explain, partly, why the UK is such an obese and out of shape nation.
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  6996. @@JohndoeUK1234 and remember, the UK is 2 trillion in debt now, so a chunk of the NHS costs are paid by loans, paid by foreign investors, to be repaid in the future, plus interest, by the younger generation that will be the net contributors, but not the free loaders, of course. why bother to strive to better yourself, really?
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  6997.  @dexine4723  the costs of even a simple operation are only so high when someone else is paying (socialized medicine). when the individual pays, in a competitive market, such costs come crashing down. just as you insure your property and your travels, you can also, individually, ensure your health. Medical bills wouldn't be such a cause of bankruptcy in the US if you got the government well and truly out of the medical business. Again, the big drain on the NHS you mentioned, agency medical staff, disappears in the private system. Have you ever experienced medical care in a country where medical care is a private concern?
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  6998. Nothing "far right" about wanting severe restrictions on immigration and no more Muslims. That's common sense. It's far left to disagree with such sentiments.
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  6999. "highly choreographed affair".....not quite as choreographed as Zelensky's Vogue photo shoot, but more choreographed than the 70,000 protesters in Prague last week to protest the sanctions against Russia, right?
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  7000. given that Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is, it will be fun to see him take on Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer under oath.
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  7001. oh boy, 400 dead and a heap of armoury destroyed just in a "probing attack"? not a good day at the office for the ukronazis. "bring on the offensive, this is fun! we can hear the Russians saying.
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  7002. it's true. the group responsible was a pro Ukrainian group. It's called USA.
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  7003. meanwhile, the most sanctioned country in the history of the world, Russia, is forecast to see 0.7% growth this coming year. Scholz, you are an absolute genius.
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  7004.  @blazzz13  not illegal to not be a saint though, or is it?
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  7005. Zelensky is asking for all the weaponry he had on Day One of the invasion...all the weaponry that was destroyed by Russia. The factors that won't change the equation are that Russia has more troops on hand in Russia (million man army) and Russia produces more ammo than NATO CAN produce. Russia has planned for this. NATO has no plan. It's over.
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  7006. When will the EU wake up and realize that a 14th packet of sanctions will turn all this around?
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  7007.  @bogeyonanostrilhair9568  Long term? So the sanctions will start to seriously hurt Russia once Ukraine is a nation of 10 million refugees, with every man riddled with Russian bullets, with no Black Sea coast, a landlocked, destroyed, poverty stricken rump of its former self...THAT's when the sanctions kick in? Brilliant..can't wait!
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  7008.  @justsain3236  because jihad is allowed
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  7009.  @ValAllOver  there is almost no creativity in Islam and not much of a work ethic or entrepreneurial spirit. that's why nearly everything was invented in China and Europe, the spirit of enquiry in Islam is close to zero.
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  7010. @@Ketchuporkatsup wave hello or wave goodbye?
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  7011.  @salemaw  if it's the fruits of colonialism, why no Asians involved? Asia was colonized, but no Asians riot.
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  7012.  @salemaw  so, all those teenage Arabs rioting and looting, with their free education thanks to French taxpayers, and their free housing thanks to French taxpayers, and their free health care thanks to French taxpayers, and their welfare cash in their pockets thanks to French taxpayers, what horrific memories of colonialism do they have exactly?
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  7013. 85% of his military isn't even IN Ukraine! Just an expeditionary force with the LPR and DPR and Chechens, outnumbered by Ukrainians but gradually achieving the 5 objectives (plus successfully demilitarizing NATO). Russia is winning and would do so against NATO easily. NATO citizens would sue for peace at the first sight of a few Aslins and Pinners swinging from a noose, a few bodybags of NATO lads returned home limbless and riddled with bullets.
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  7014. Citizenship means you get all sorts of handouts and freebies thanks to the German taxpayer. It's a great deal. Being German is an entirely different question. These days, being German means losing your identity and being forced to accept hordes of immigrants all grasping at becoming citizens.
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  7015. to be fair, sanctions on Venezuela have hurt the economy there too, just another factor to add to the misery that Socialism brought.
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  7016. of course, Ben Hodges and not Douglas MacGregor is the guest. wouldn't want an alternative perspective on this channel.
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  7017. "the key witnesses are back in England" not if they have any sense! The key witnesses are probably en route to Paraguay or Bolivia.
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  7018. "bogus theories" honey, you wouldn't know a bogus theory from the truth if Jay's life depended on it. stop lecturing us on stuff about which you are totally clueless.
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  7019. pathetic would be imbeciles who believed in Ghost of Kiev
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  7020. There is no such thing as a "Ukraine Expert"
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  7021. seems absurd, this premise that the Spanish Police would want to investigate crimes that will reflect badly on Tenerife and the corrupt Police there. why do the media think the Guardia Civil spent 2 weeks looking for a body, and zero time on unravelling the crimes behind the disappearance?
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  7022. "No one expected to see a shooting war in Ukraine"...correction, none of the dopey, ill-informed Western leaders expected to see a shooting war in Ukraine. Russia did. Just as it did in Chechnya, Syria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The West misjudged the nature of the conflict, and now must pay the price.
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  7023. more lies. As Stalin said "quantity is a quality in itself". and these reservists are experienced fighters from the Syrian and Chechnya campaigns, not much training needed, ready to go.
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  7024. right, so the same arm-twisting and hectoring from the West that alienated most of the world when we were talking about isolating Russia is gonna happen again this time trying to force a Russian price cap on the likes of China, India and Brazil. Got it. And EU leaders expect this move will endear them to the world?
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  7025. "When Israel made a peace treaty with Egypt" It started with Egypt recognizing the state of Israel. Peace doesn't pop up out of nowhere, you fool.
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  7026. I find it remarkable that someone would find it remarkable that Russia is prepared to liberate ethnic Russians from a pro Nazi regime in Kiev.
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  7027.  @heathermccall8015  Putin's plan, same as his plan in Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Chechnya. Establish peace, security and equal rights for ethnic Russians wherever they may be. And Putin will prevail. You should be backing Putin, instead of the UkroNazis.
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  7028.  @colby25  so what was it about Putin's unfriendly and uncivilized attitude that forced the defensive alliance, NATO, to bomb the living s**t out of Libya?
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  7029.  @alanbellas513  there was no Jewish regime in Warsaw. try again. if you want to look at a predator, look at USA invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, with its military bases all over the globe. Putin is showing the world that USA no longer calls the shots on what a "rules based order" is, and most of the globe is fine with Putin's challenge.
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  7030.  @alanbellas513  I'm not the one arguing about borders and their sanctity! I'm fine with "might is right" and its consequences. You are the one hypocritically wringing your hands about Ukraine's borders! You are the one so deeply offended by Russia invading Ukraine, not me! So, just listen to your own words and accept that Russia does not accept the sovereignty of Ukraine's borders. Job done.
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  7031.  @alanbellas513  more lies from you. if Russia's annexing Ukraine means Ukraine is ineligible to join NATO, why was NATO membership even an issue? why even the application? why the Western leaders talking about Ukraine's sovereign right to join NATO? sounds like you need to complain to NATO leaders that they are ignorant of their own laws! No one cares about Finland. It has no oppressed Russian speaking minority and is a full on limp, wuss nation that wouldn't last 10 seconds in any real conflict. Putin has never denied Ukraine's right to exist. Again, more lies. Putin has said, and many Russians agree, that Ukraine is not a real country, just artificially created, with no unique identity, just like Belgium, or Catalonia. and I agree. doesn't mean I want to wipe Belgium off the map.
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  7032.  @colby25  Putin recognizes the Ukrainian right to exist as an independent country. The only question is what its borders should be and what to do with the ethnic Russians that, rightfully, since the 2014 coup, have expressed their desire to remain in a society that treats their language and culture equally and fairly, as was promised in 1991.
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  7033.  @alanbellas513  some of us know what we are talking about
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  7034.  @sssnake1654  that's for Russia to decide, not you. there was no threat to USA's national security interest when Cuba agreed to host Soviet missiles in the 1960's. not my opinion that matters. up to USA to decide. be consistent.
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  7035.  @davidaponte7521  well said, and these Ukronazi lovers still blabber incoherently about "unprovoked attack". never been a clearer example of provocation, ever.
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  7036.  @heathermccall8015  the West does have designs on Russia. Lloyd Austin..."the aim is to weaken Russia". the need for nukes is not up to you. it is up to each individual nation. yes, given that the West's blundering policies have pushed the sanctioned nations into an alliance, Russia is now probably trading Iranian drones for nuclear technology. Congratulations to all those in the West who thought sanctions on Russia were such a brilliant idea! In the 1960's the Russian Federation did not exist. You are confusing it with the USSR (led by a Ukrainian, Leonid Brezhnev). Do your history books tell you anything truthful?
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  7037.  @alanbellas513  1) given that Zelensky talks so much about joining NATO, and NATO leaders talk so much about Ukraine being admitted, it would seem that the ignorant one here is you. 2) Any nation that holds up Bandera as a national hero clearly has nazism in its DNA. It's so shocking that until 5 minutes ago, the US senate refused to send arms to the Azov Battalion. All that changed when Ukraine suddenly became the West's cause celebre. hypocrites. 3) what's dumb is people who support French Canadians' language rights but also feel it is right to compel Russian speakers in Ukraine to be ukrainianized. now, again, hypocritical and dumb. shame on you, Bandera lovers.
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  7038.  @alanbellas513  it's no fool's errand to shine the light of truth on snivelling hypocrites. it's fun. so, Alan, try again. did USA "pull a Hitler" when it invaded Iraq? simple question, Alan. the truth is you and I both see what looks like abuse on the street, and you proclaim immediately that the abuse was unprovoked. I'm the one that says "how would you know?" Russia and much of the globe have had enough of the hypocritical West giving lectures on "the rules based order" we are saying "stfu and get out of our lives". got the message?
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  7039.  @heathermccall8015  stop playing mind reader and put the crystal ball down. you have no idea what Putin wants and doesn't want. you are being pathetic. if Putin wanted all of Ukraine so badly, why did he do nothing but cooperate with Ukraine quite willingly right up to the 2014 coup?
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  7040.  @oggamer735  the point is that as the conflict escalates, the temptation to use nukes, on both sides, increases. Russia requested a conference on security issues in December 2021. it was rejected by Biden. now we see the results. next time, just sit down and discuss.
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  7041.  @colby25  1) The UN did notice the Azov shelling. that is why the UN fully endorsed the Minsk Agreements, which Ukraine then refused to implement. 2) the UN "monitors" were the corrupt UNHCR, kicked out of Donbass for reporting DPR positions to Ukrainian forces. 3) Their was no Nazi style ethnic cleansing, but strange you would mention it. Is Nazi style ethnic cleansing what you would describe the Azov Nazi shelling of Donbass? I wouldn't. 4) long gone era? 1941? so you wouldn't judge anyone by their describing Hitler as a hero? you would just accept it as normal, as Hitler was from a "long gone era"! Unbelievable. I see why you truly are a Nazi lover. 5) I agree about invading a country for no good reason. like, USA invading Iraq for weapons of mass destruction that never existed. but in the case of Donbass, Russia had very good reasons. 6) The Nazi nationalism is in Ukraine. shame on you for supporting the only army in the world that admitted into its ranks an openly Nazi regiment, embraced them, supported them, still loves them. The swastika tattooed Azov Nazis are your side. you are a disgrace and deserve to rot in hell with them.
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  7042.  @alanbellas513  Putin is 100% right. 1) Ukraine is not a real country. Like Belgium, artificial, like Catalonia. 2) Yes, liberating the ethnic Russians was always a desire after the 2014 coup. a desire that became a reality and will be completed. wouldn't have needed intervention had Minsk Agreements been implemented, because Putin had agreed to compromise with autonomy for Donbass. 3) Azov is now a Russian sea. worth bragging about. 4) Putin is indeed a modern Peter the Great. Putin has the backbone to stand up to the bullying and arrogance of the West. No lies there, anywhere. The fact remains, Putin was willing to talk. Biden, the bumbling cretin, missed his chance to keep peace in Ukraine. Biden is 100% at fault. stop believing your own propaganda and learn at least some basic facts.
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  7043.  @randallturner9094  it is because Putin listened to all the American rationalizations for invading several countries that Putin decided he would copy the "rules based order" of the West and do the same. Why complain at someone copying YOUR system? what was USA's tired excuse for invading Iraq? weapons of mass destruction? At least Hitler really did have German speaking people in Czechoslovakia he could pretend to protect. USA had to make up stories about non existent weapons! yep, i believe there is a chance Putin will invade Latvia, because those Einsteins in Riga thought it was a brilliant idea to do what the Romanians, Georgians, Chechens and Ukrainians did, namely derussify the country and discriminate against ethnic Russians. so, let's get this done, let the missiles fly and see where the chips lie when London, New York, Berlin, LA are all turned to glass. why not?
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  7044.  @tomspencer1364  none of them have to be ruled by a murderous autocrat. all that is asked is that the Russian speaking minorities there are treated fairly and have equal rights. like Kazakstan, Armenia and Azerbaijan. the ones that have a sense of justice get on fine with Russia.
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  7045.  @johnroche7541  Ukraine had no nuclear arsenal to give up. The nuclear arsenal you are referring to was a Soviet one. The Soviet Union collapsed. The question was what to do with Soviet nukes on Ukrainian soil post Ukrainian independence.
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  7046.  @johnroche7541  Russia also objected to the Baltics becoming part of NATO. Russia has been consistent in its arguments. The difference is not the argument, but the ability to act. Russia is much stronger now and can resist NATO expansion with force. Under Yeltsin, Russia was too chaotic and weak. Remember USA set the precedent by refusing sovereign Cuba the right to have Soviet missiles on Cuban soil. Russia playing the same game with Ukraine.
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  7047.  @johnroche7541  applying the same logic, when Putin has demilitarized NATO, I fully expect him to invade the Russian speaking borderlands of Latvia, and with complete victory in Ukraine I expect him to open the surrender negotiations with the demand that NATO retreat from the Baltics.
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  7048.  @johnroche7541  NATO expanded eastwards, contrary to what James Baker promised. Instead of disbanding when the Warsaw pact disbanded, NATO decided to expand, and now has brought about the ruin of Ukraine and of NATO. the weak Eastern European states were fooled into think USA could be their great protector.
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  7049.  @johnroche7541  love this line about Zelensky and his Jewish heritage. Zelensky is a puppet! The oligarchs and Azovs control Zelensky. The heritage of the puppet is of no relevance!
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  7050.  @alanbellas513  some countries have a much higher degree of artificiality than others. those which have been a nation state for longer, unified by a common language, history and culture are less artificial than others. Ukraine is way way down in the table of "genuine" countries. and this is the heart of its problem. as it tries to find an identity, the only identity it can settle on is of being NOT Russian, hence the manic derussification and discrimination. doesn't fool anyone.
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  7051.  @alanbellas513  Biden had the golden opportunity to discuss Russia's security concerns, and he refused. Big mistake. Trump would have talked. Obama would have talked, Clinton would have talked. Bush would have talked. But Biden, up to his neck in corruption through Hunter's dealings in Ukraine, couldn't talk, wouldn't talk. Now NATO and Ukraine pays the price of the bumbling, incoherent shell of a human known as Biden. 10% for the big guy....says it all.
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  7052.  @ryandavis7593  I love posting comments in favour of Putin and Russia. I have lived and worked in Ukraine and fervently believe in Russia's cause in Ukraine. so, what's your problem? can't take a contrary opinion? waaaah!
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  7053.  @alanbellas513  yep, the Bidens got too deep into the corruption of Ukraine, and when in December 2021 Putin requested security talks, as per point 6 of the Budapest Memo, Biden was compromised and couldn't negotiate. Very sad for Ukraine and the world. Biden proved the Budapest Memorandum meant nothing to him. not that Biden is cognizant enough to understand the complexities of ethnic Russians in ex Soviet countries anyway.
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  7054.  @alanbellas513  yep, and Hitler reasoned right. Most Austrians had no problem with Anschluss. Ukrainians are fighting for a variety of reasons. Some Ukrainians are fighting to be a part of Russia as their homeland abandoned them after the 2014 coup. Some Ukrainians are fighting because they fear refusing to fight. And yes, some Ukrainians are fighting to keep Bandera as a national hero, to keep their Azov Nazis armed and in power and to reject all Russian speakers. in the end, that is what they will have. a reduced Ukraine, nationalist in the extreme, Ukrainian speaking only, landlocked, bankrupt and abandoned by the West. Well done Zelenski. job well done. the man who promised to bring "peace to the Donbass". what a sick joke.
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  7055.  @alanbellas513  do you think the French speaking Canadians should be compelled to use English and English only at all levels of education and for government in Quebec to function in English only, no French allowed? yes or no?
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  7056.  @tomspencer1364  in 1938 and 1939 Hitler used multiple excuses and reasons for his invasions, from Lebensraum to destiny of the master race. Putin has been 100% consistent and right. Putin will intervene wherever he can restore the rights of abused ethnic Russians and wherever Russia's security is threatened. and Putin has a backbone and won't back down. No one in Putin's circle wants to seize Ukraine. An incessant gue'rilla war with Ukrainians that hate Russians on NATO's border is not what Russia wants. Re read Putin's 5 objectives. Spreading misery and terror is the speciality of NATO....Afghanistan, Iraq (twice), Syria, Libya, Serbia, it never ends, and now the rest of the world is fed up of Western terror, lies, hypocrisy and bullying, the Global South is happy to work with and trade with Putin. Game set and match Russia. Now, to the lying butchers of the West, Go ***k yourselves, we've had enough of your murderous ways.
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  7057.  @johnroche7541  No, the Ukrainians could not have kept those nukes. Russia would never have agreed to it, and Russia was and still is the big boy on the block. get real. it's like saying "Mexico could have nukes along the Rio Grande if it so chose". No. not gonna happen.
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  7058.  @johnroche7541  I do not deny there are football fans with swastikas tattooed on them. Read again what I said. There may well be Klan members in the US armed services. But NO ONE is WELCOMED into the Russian armed forces as a self confessed Fascist. There is no Hitlerstrasse in Berlin. There is no Via Mussolini in Rome. But almost every Ukrainian city has its Bandera Ulitsa. again, open your eyes to the difference. It is accepted in Ukraine, it is embraced in Ukraine, it is no embarrassment! You are willfully blind to the reality.
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  7059.  @johnroche7541  Putin's invasion has not resuscitated NATO. NATO is a pathetic paper tiger that has cut back on defence spending so badly it is a farce. It's operation to evacuate Kabul was a pathetic failure. US intelligence said the Taliban needed 90 days to take Kabul. It needed 90 hours. Absolute joke, The world knows NATO is useless, and the current bluster is just funny. junk tanks creaking out of mothballs. US unable or unwilling to send anything that can prevent Russia destroying Ukraine's power grid any day it wants to. Useless. Resuscitated? ok, resuscitated from Kabul useless to Ukraine zombie. Putin will win, NATO will be demilitarized and the world will howl with laughter.
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  7060.  @johnroche7541  so give me the numbers. you assume Russia has had significant losses. Give me your numbers. How many Russians dead so far? and what source do you use for your numbers? No one weeps for all the convicts dead, nor the mercenaries. DPR, LPR, Chechens have done most of the front line heavy lifting. You might be very disappointed when you learn actual Russian losses, that matter, are very low. and now NATO/Ukraine has 380,000 Russian reservists poised on the border, many with combat experience in Syria, morale high, the convicts routed the NATO trained and armed Ukrainians in Soledar, but yet, let me guess, you are sure Ukraine will win, right?
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  7061.  @johnroche7541  If you had read Putin's 5 objectives you would know how foolish your talk of Russia taking over Ukraine is! Russia has no intention of taking over Ukraine. Tell you what, when you have studied the 5 point plan of the invasion, then we can talk. otherwise it makes no sense.
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  7062.  @tomspencer1364  not much chance of me being drafted as a British citizen living in Spain! Putin is remarkably popular and is in power because he has stabilized Russia's economy and has proven he will defend the rights of ethnic Russians wherever they may be. Unlike Zelensky, Putin has opposition parties and voices to deal with every day. Putin has more respect worldwide than any other leader. Look at how Lavrov is greeted around the globe. Biden and Blinken are just laughed at.
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  7063.  @tomspencer1364  and let me guess. you believe Russia blew up its own pipeline. Russia fires missiles at its own occupied nuclear power plants. yep? this makes sense to you?
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  7064.  @bonnie7898  They? plural? it's "on" the subject, or "about" the subject, not "in" the subject! contact me for help with basic English. I'll wait.
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  7065.  @bonnie7898  Right. It might not be a perfect world, but it is reality. Russia is the big boy and has nukes and tells others nearby what to do. Just like USA is the big boy and USA can tell little Cuba "no nukes for you, no missiles for you". Putin doesn't care about Finland because Finland has no ethnic Russian population to bully and abuse. I told you. Putin is the defender of ethnic Russians, be they in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Chechnya, Ukraine. Sweden and Finland can do what they want. No one cares.
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  7066.  @bonnie7898  are you 100% convinced that Russia blew up its own pipeline?
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  7067.  @bonnie7898  just answered that one. Finland has no ethnic Russian minority, so in the big scheme of things, Finland is way down on the Putin "to do" list.
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  7068.  @bonnie7898  that said, I feel pretty sure that Putin will make sure the Finns know that Helsinki is in the crosshairs of a range of nukes on the Russo-Finnish border and that, like the rest of the EU, there will be no further co-operation. Any privileges that neutrality had are out the window. Not a big deal for Russia, but could be a big deal for Finland if it joins NATO just before NATO's ultimate defeat and humiliation in Ukraine.
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  7069.  @alanbellas513  talk about naive, let me guess, you are quite sure that Russia blew up its own Nordstream pipelines, right?
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  7070.  @tomspencer1364  ever been to Ukraine, Tom?
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  7071.  @sssnake1654  and there's nothing in writing to say Ukraine would not and will not ever have any nukes. Such is the distrust Russia now has for the West, such a written agreement would be worthless anyway. comparing apples with apples.....USA refused to allow Soviet missiles in Cuba because that was considered a threat to US security. Russia refused to allow Ukraine to become a member of the ever expanding and hostile NATO, because that was considered a threat to Russian security. Simple as that. For the US to say "our perception of our security needs is correct, but Russia's perception of Russia's security needs is wrong" doesn't wash with the vast majority of the planet, and rightfully so.
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  7072.  @heathermccall8015  fully expecting nukes in Poland any day now, judging by the way NATO wants to escalate this
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  7073.  @alanbellas513  any regime that recognizes Stefan Bandera as a national hero and welcomes into its national defence force a pro Nazi battalion is, believe me, pro nazi. ever listened to those Azov guys talk to each other, have you, Alan? what kind of things do they say to each other, do you think? Had you been with me in Bar Karabas, Vinnytsia, you would be a little more reflective on what you assert here.
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  7074.  @colby25  in the real world, it is not about rights, but about what the big boys allow. that's just how it is. why not Iran? why not North Korea? if you defend Ukraine's right to have nuclear weapons, are you equally enthusiastic for Afghanistan, N Korea and Iran to have the same right?
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  7075.  @MrCancer66  after the farce of the Minsk Agreements, Russia has no faith in the West's stipulations. that game is over.
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  7076.  @davidaponte7521  the West's whole gamble on Ukraine was that Russia's economy would collapse and that Russia would become isolated. Neither happened, and now the West is desperate to figure out how to deal with its calamitous failure.
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  7077.  @alanbellas513  you wish. EU trade with Russia dramatically increased in 2022. EU will still import Russian oil, just will pay much higher prices for it and use a tanker flying an Indian flag. EU is a sick joke. Saudis already buying Russian oil and exporting it as Saudi oil at marked up prices
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  7078.  @randallturner9094  false choice. the option to sit and discuss Russian security issues was rejected by Biden in December 2021. Huge mistake, obviously.
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  7079.  @laolao1466  because Russia is the big boy on the block, it is a nuclear power, it exports what the world needs: food, energy, precious metals. like USA and China, it calls the shots. sorry the world isn't the ideal you desire, but Russia is a power you have to work with, otherwise you end up with what we have in Ukraine. Get real.
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  7080.  @nenadmitrovic3469  well said. you remember right.
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  7081.  @alanbellas513  what right does NATO, a supposedly "defensive" alliance, have to bomb Libya? Sounds like your argument is NATO must obey any order that emanates from the UN! What kind of bs is that? NATO SHOULD have said "we are a defensive alliance and not one single NATO member is threatened by Libya". But NATO is a gutless bunch of cowards, so no surprise it took its bullying ways to destroy Libya. par for the course.
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  7082.  Powerage Scott  yet another cretin who can't distinguish the Russian Federation from the Soviet Union. It was a Ukrainian, Brezhnev, that led the USSR when it committed its acts of aggression in the seventies and eighties.
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  7083.  @heathermccall8015  I will repeat, do you see any treaty that declares that nuclear weapons can never be stationed in Poland, Latvia or any other NATO country that is near Russia?
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  7084.  @heathermccall8015  Putin does not want and has never says he wants to conquer Ukraine. put the crystal ball down, stop pretending you know Putin's mind and just read the 5 objectives he issued.
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  7085.  @alanbellas513  on the contrary, as Putin said, he was left with no choice. the West refused to implement Minsk, the West refused to comply with the Budapest Memo point 6, regarding conferences on security concerns, the West refused to push Zelensky to deliver his "peace in the Donbass" promise. Putin was left with no other option. Next time, USA, elect a f***ing president wise enough to sit down at a negotiating table!
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  7086.  @ryandavis7593  a "peaceful" neighbor that employs a Nazi battalion to shell the Donbass for 8 years. get real.
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  7087.  @gordon4385  Ukraine had no nukes, all nukes were property of the USSR. Ukraine agreed NOT to claim possession of such ex Soviet nukes, and in return, Russia agreed, as the principle successor to the Soviet military system, NOT to press its claim either.
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  7088.  @vit8250  what can USA do that Russia can't?
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  7089.  @alanbellas513  ethnic Russians were and still are a massive majority in Donbass, if ethnic Russian is defined by first language and ancestry.
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  7090.  @alanbellas513  so, Kosovo, a cause for which NATO is prepared to fight for. why? why attack sovereign Serbia? Russia saw what happened in Kosovo and copied, exactly, NATO's playbook. you should feel flattered
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  7091.  @bonnie7898  you know nothing about Putin. Before this war, which started in 2014, Putin was able to work with anyone on the planet, and did so. He still does, apart from the arrogant West, that refused to talk about Russia' s security concerns. Huge mistake, and now the West is paying for it. Bye bye petrodollars
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  7092.  @bonnie7898  you DEFINITELY need to do some reading, and by that I mean quality reading, not the wikipedia junk you flee to every time you require background basics
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  7093.  @heathermccall8015  there is no need for a lot of things in life, but crazy people do such s**t anyway. agreed, there is no need for nukes in Poland. but more importantly, Russia doesn't trust the West to abide by that sentiment. actually, there are plenty of treaties about nuclear proliferation. so, first, educate yourself about the word "proliferation", then grasp the notion of "non-proliferation", and then research treaties of nuclear non-proliferation. that would be a start.
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  7094.  @alanbellas513  can't have your cake and eat it, mate. either NATO is a defensive alliance, or it isn't. NO NATO member state was being defended when NATO attacked Libya and Serbia, so quit this lie and facade of being a "defensive" alliance. The world has wised up to this rank hypocrisy and bullying and shame on you for pretending it is acceptable. it isn't. Get it right. We are equating Kosovo with Donbass, you dope. NATO says supporting separatists in Kosovo by attacking sovereign Serbia is fine. So, Russia says supporting separatists in Donbass by attacking Ukraine in fine. What is wrong with that? Regarding your claim of the UN Security Council giving the thumbs up for NATO to attack Serbia, what was the voting on that? Russia agreed? China agreed?
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  7095.  @alanbellas513  NATO did not have the backing of the UN Security Council to use force in Yugoslavia. Look it up. But, Alan, par for the course you would have to invent lies to justify NATO mass murder.
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  7096.  @heathermccall8015  you are such a joker. pro humanity, but acting as cheerleader for the Azov Nazis and supporting war. there is no benefit to putting nukes in Ukraine. that's why I back Putin's desire to keep Ukraine out of NATO and have neutrality written into Ukraine's constitution. For a man who has "ambitions of world domination" Putin was certainly lazy for decades when he did nothing! I mean, does a man with ambitions of world domination wage war in Georgia and settles for the autonomy of just two tiny corners of that country? you make no sense. Lavrov is a genius compared to the dopes the West parades around. Lavrov, in Africa, is welcomed with smiles, hugs, warm hand shakes. Blinken gets blank stares. Biden is just a bumbling cretin who is despised across the globe, and rightfully so. IMF predicts modest growth for the Russian economy this year. No need for Russian bankers to worry too much. Dedolarization is moving ahead nicely. Russia has survived the sanctions well and is far from isolated. Mission Failed by the West. Wake up and smell the coffee. it's over. Russia won.
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  7097.  @alanbellas513  just trying to understand the international rules based order touted so often by Blinken and Biden. what do the rules say about invading a sovereign state, unauthorized by the UN, to search for weapons of mass destruction that don't exist? could you quote me the rule on that one?
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  7098.  @alanbellas513  you start to make my point for me! NATO would earn far more respect if it didn't try to define itself and if it didn't ever describe itself as a "defensive" alliance. at least then its interventions wouldn't stink to high heaven of rank hypocrisy. ah, so now more word games begin! when you say NATO doesn't absorb the victims of its attacks into NATO territory, therefore such attacks are really "defensive", you make an absolute fool of yourself (not for the first time). No one believes this bs. an attack is an attack. Bombing Serbian infrastructure is NOT in anyway defensive, so quit the word games and grasp the horrific hypocritical reality of the bs you promote. Russia never absorbed any part of Syria, so by your latest definition, Russian intervention in Syria was 100% defensive, right? I am 100% fine with NATO intervening wherever it wants to, and enduring the consequences. My objection is the hypocrisy of fools like you pretending NATO intervention is defensive, lying about it being backed by the UNSC and then wringing your hands in fake angst when Russia does EXACTLY the same. just be consistent instead of having to lie to justify your side's double standards.
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  7099.  @alanbellas513  I am calling you a dope and a liar, because NATO NEVER was backed by a UNSC resolution to use force in Kosovo. If you are 100% sure that use of force was authorized by the UNSC, quote the resolution. go ahead. don't make the mistake of citing a resolution regarding NATO's presence in Kosovo AFTER the fighting. Cite the resolution regarding use of force. Off you go.
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  7100.  @alanbellas513  try again. NATO in Kosovo is not what we are debating. we are debating NATO using force in Kosovo. re do the homework, please.
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  7101.  @MrCancer66  and now the truth. After DPR declared independence, it was Kiev that started attacking Donetsk. The Ukrainian troops were in such desperate straits at Dobaltsevo that the West grovelled to the DPR and Russia for a ceasefire and thence Minsk Agreements. These, it turned out, as per confessions from Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel, were just agreements signed with the intention of playing for time. there never was an aim to implement Minsk from the side of the French, Germans and Ukrainians. You are right, that game is over, Russia will not trust signatures by the West and Ukraine in the future. No rewards for Western and Ukrainian crimes moving forward. Let's hope Zelensky keeps serving up Ukrainian cannon fodder at a steady rate so that demilitarization is attained sooner rather than later.
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  7102.  @MrCancer66  have you always been a big cheerleader for the Azov Battalion and the idea of compelling Russian speakers to use only Ukrainian in education and government?
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  7103.  @chaoscorsair  tell me what I distorted, in detail, then let the debate begin. go ahead.
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  7104.  @bonnie7898  "intervened in 2011 at the request of Libyan officials" tell me Bonnie, is this how your perfect world works? a few officials request NATO bomb the living s**t out of a sovereign country and you are the number one cheerleader for such murder and massacre? all on the request of "officials"? You make Putin look like a cautious timid lamb.
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  7105.  @randallturner9094  so, Randall, what right did Italy have to request administration of a no-fly zone over another sovereign country? and follow up question, please list the NATO countries that were part of the "coalition" that "targeted ground units" (bombed the s**t out of Libya) ....hint, just to help you with your homework, make sure you include both France and UK in your list.
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  7106.  @tomspencer1364  and in reply I will state two facts of which you are plainly ignorant. 1) Putin did not start this war. This war started in 2014 when Ukraine started shelling the DPR following the DPR's declaration of independence. 2) the violent aggression started from the Azov Nazi battalion worshipped by the naive likes of you. Any country that has Stefan Bandera as a national hero cannot be in the right.
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  7107.  @johnroche7541  would that be the same Merkel who confessed the Minsk Agreements were just a way to buy time, that she signed them without ever believing in them? The same Merkel who thought it was such a wonderful idea to admit a million economic refugees into Europe, no questions asked, that Merkel?
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  7108.  @alanbellas513  one hell of a precision guided missile that hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade!
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  7109.  @johnroche7541  The moment NATO accepts the application from a former Warsaw pact country, then NATO has expanded eastward, and James Baker was aware of this reality when he promised Gorbachov that NATO would not expand one inch to the East. I mean we can all play word games. Henceforth we can all say Soviet missiles were never moved towards Cuba, rather Cuba just applied to a protector who had missiles and Cuba moved eastwards.
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  7110.  @alanbellas513  how would you define "ethnic Russian"? The vast majority of Donbass was Russian speaking, about 25 % had a Russian passport and almost all had ancestors from Russia.
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  7111.  @sssnake1654  the parents of the children buried in the Alley of Angels, murdered by the Azov Nazis, would disagree with you and say there was a good reason for Russia to intervene.
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  7112.  @margraveofgadsden8997  so by your theory, if Russia is under no added threat by Ukraine having nukes, you are absolutely convinced that if Cuba or Mexico decided to have Russian nukes installed, all aimed at US cities, Joe Biden would happily give the thumbs up to such an idea and say "it's fine, these nukes represent no extra threat to US security"....you sure? yet a Chinese weather balloon, wow, that really IS a big threat and must be destroyed!
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  7113.  @alanbellas513  ex means former, not non-existent. Liz Truss is an ex Prime Minister. But she still exists. Let me know when you have time to learn some language skills. Nothing in Ukraine, after the collapse of the USSR, could be claimed to be de facto Ukrainian. It was all up for negotiations. Hence Russia secured military bases in Crimea. If your father dies and your father's car is in your garage, this may surprise you, but you do not automatically inherit that car by rights.
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  7114.  @heathermccall8015  Nope. 1) Ukraine recognizes Crimea as part of Russia. 2) DPR and LPR recognized as independent states (obviously their status changed since Feb 2022) 3) the demilitarization of Ukraine 4) the denazification of Ukraine 5) Ukraine has it written into its constitution that it will be a neutral country. now, we can argue about what those 5 points look like in practice, but look carefully....where do you see the objective of "taking over Ukraine"? On the contrary, Ukraine as a neutral state makes it clear Putin is fine with Ukraine remaining independent. Neutral, but independent.
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  7115.  @alanbellas513  so, clarifying the international rules based order....invading a sovereign country is acceptable. violating the territorial integrity of a country is acceptable. destroying the infrastructure of said invaded sovereign country is acceptable. collateral damage (deaths of countless innocent civilians) is acceptable. all of this is fine, and well practiced by USA and NATO. The ONLY rule of the international rules based system that Russia has violated in Ukraine is the annexation part, right? all the rest of it is fine and acceptable to the West, in principle, agreed? just clearing up the rules. ok? the only and big stumbling block is the annexation question, right?
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  7116.  @alanbellas513  you said that the UNSC authorized NATO's use of force in the Kosovo conflict. I said you were wrong, and to find proof, and not to confuse UN resolutions for NATO's presence in Kosovo with UN authorizing NATO use of force in Kosovo. Looks like your answer is "unfortunately, Russia is a permanent member of the security council". is that your way of admitting the UNSC never did authorize NATO use of force in the Kosovo conflict?
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  7117.  @alanbellas513  FINALLY! an admission that NATO attacked Serbia with NO authority to do so! And Russia, seeing that, did exactly the same to Ukraine a year ago. So NOW you see why the world hears Western moaning of "unprovoked attack" and breaks the "international rules based order" and just looks at USA and NATO and says "you disgusting hypocrites. shut up"
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  7118.  @randallturner9094  projection galore here. the West has alienated the BRICS group beyond repair. The Taliban showed what a bunch of useless goons NATO are in 2021. Putin has calculated very carefully how he will achieve his objectives. It is the West, totally reliant on crippling Russia through sanctions, that has failed miserably. Now, when Russia has achieved her objectives, the fun part. all the finger pointing and recriminations that will flow in the West. who gets to string Zelensky up do you think? The Wagner convicts or the 16 year old cannon fodder from Lvov that refuses to fight? Who gets to Zelensky's bunker first?
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  7119.  @alanbellas513  we were always debating the international rules based order. what exactly makes the NATO attack on sovereign Serbia such a great idea, and what exactly makes Russian intervention in Ukraine so abhorrent. Your job was to explain why the first was to be applauded, and the second to be denounced and opposed, so that the whole world can clearly understand why US invasions are always great, but this Russian invasion is obviously horrific. so far, i don't see that you have succeeded.
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  7120.  @alanbellas513  some would argue that NATO in effect did annex Kosovo. Are NATO troops still occupying Kosovo, yes or no?
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  7121.  @randallturner9094  you used the phrase "at the behest of", which means "asked, ordered, requested to do". check it in a dictionary. looks like I do indeed understand English. Randall, take a quick look in the mirror....and now you see the one who ain't too sure what "at the behest" means! So, Randall, both France and UK, 2 NATO countries, bombed Libya. In my book, that is NATO bombing a sovereign country, unprovoked, wouldn't you agree? Maybe, Randall, all of Africa, and Latin America, and the Middle East and most of Asia sees NATO and USA as hypocrites, invading , bombing, attacking, then whining about Russia being the one breaking the "rules based order"? now do you see why Russia is not isolated but gaining support as quickly as the West loses support? Let's try the question again, dictionary in hand this time, Randall. What right did Italy have to request/ask for/order any clearing of air space over sovereign Libya?
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  7122.  @margraveofgadsden8997  is that rambling twaddle your answer? Let's try again, and this time, try to answer the question. If you are right, that Ukraine having nukes does nothing to threaten Russia's security, then conversely, Cuba and Mexico having nukes would do nothing to threaten US security, agreed? So, in that case, Biden would be absolutely fine with Cuba and Mexico hosting nukes all aimed at US cities, right? or.....do you think Biden might object in the strongest possible terms, a la Putin? try and answer the question this time, nice though the lecture on ancient Muscovy and Prigozhin the fascist was.
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  7123.  @alanbellas513  and I am chuckling that you connected something that is "ex" (former) to "no longer exists". The Latin "ex", "out of" appears as a prefix in many English words and has evolved to take on many senses of "out of", but only a clown like you, Alan, would connect the notion of "former" with "no longer exists". As I said, when you want to learn about use of language, contact me. You would learn a lot. My ex students (they still exist) from Ukraine could explain a lot to you too.
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  7124.  @alanbellas513  Russia inherited no right to dictate to others who inherited what, at all. But the reality of the world is that Russia is the big boy on the block, so nothing gonna happen, buster, without the agreement of the big boy. it's called reality. have to negotiate with the big boy. But the larger point is that something on your territory/property does not belong to you by right if you just claim it from a previous owner, so let's quit all this "Ukraine gave up ITS nukes". No, it didn't. Ukraine never had any.
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  7125.  @alanbellas513  Point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum. Read it, then tell me which side refused to implement it.
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  7126.  @alanbellas513  "such bad language skills" or "such a bad language skills"? As I said, Alan "Lebenraum, oops" Bellas, my Ukrainian students could teach you a lot about language skills.
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  7127.  @alanbellas513  as always, Alan, you pivot to start to make my point for me. Yes, as I said, "ex" and "former" are synonyms. We agree. But "ex" and "former" are not connected with "not existing". Simple question. UK is an ex EU member, agreed? Does that mean the EU no longer exists? yes or no? Even ESL students can figure this one out, dear Alan
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  7128.  @alanbellas513  as expected, you are totally incapable of explaining what exactly Russia has done that goes against the West's much vaunted "international rules based order". what you succeeded in doing was equating NATO's actions in Kosovo with Russia's actions in Ukraine. BOTH were totally unauthorized by a UNSC resolution, BOTH were done to support a separatist cause, BOTH brushed aside the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a UN member, BOTH saw the destruction of civilian infrastructure with collateral damage aplenty, BOTH resulted in troops on the ground, a de facto occupation/annexation. The very fact you fail to delineate any key differences and the very fact that you bluster by saying "Oh, Serbia, that was such a long time ago" means you have no case, and the world sees that NATO is a stinking hypocrite and its rules and words are garbage. QED old boy, now you understand why the likes of me see no difference in Putin's actions and NATO's actions.
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  7129.  @sssnake1654  on the contrary. the first firing of missiles came from the Azov Nazi battalion that you so love, firing on the newly independent DPR, in 2014. That was the start. Ukraine refused to implement the Minsk Agreements which would have brought peace. The deaths of those children are 100% due to Azov Nazi aggression that you support. The blood is on your hands. BTW, are all separatists "traitors"? Those who campaign for Scottish independence, are they "traitors" in your book?
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  7130.  @randallturner9094  who the hell asked Italy to "administrate" anything? Ah, so no culpability can be laid at NATO's feet for 2 of its members deciding to bomb the s**t out of Libya. I see how it works. Just operate outside of the NATO umbrella, and the bombing of a sovereign country suddenly becomes totally acceptable? I think you now see why most of the world views NATO, ooops, sorry, the individual members of NATO, to be such weasels, hypocrites and bullies.
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  7131.  @tomspencer1364  on the contrary, those with no brain are those who can't see how Putin has galvanized a global movement against the West's incessant bullying, lecturing and hectoring. With victory, as happened in Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Syria and now Ukraine, Putin will see his popularity increase and his stature, globally, enhanced. Only the brain-dead are blind to that. It will be fun to see all the recriminations in the West once Putin declares victory.
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  7132.  @randallturner9094  "NATO didn’t drop a single bomb on Libya, liar. They didn’t get involved with anything but administrating the no-fly zone, at Italy’s behest," your original post, above. "Italy didn't request administration of a no-fly zone"....your follow up post. and there is no contradiction at all in your two statements!? and you think it's me that is confused by English?
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  7133.  @alanbellas513  just a suggestion... "chuckling TO myself" would be better English, and "bragging", not "braging". plus, "in regard to that what is says" is awful English. As I say, let me know if you feel you need help with English. Is English your second language?
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  7134.  @alanbellas513  as I said, you are not bright enough to see that an "ex" anything means that existence hasn't, somehow, just vanished. You need help. You make basic mistakes. You should be appreciative that you are being corrected. So, to recap, the EU still exists, even though the UK is an ex member of the EU. In the case of the USSR, both Russia and Ukraine became ex members of the USSR, so any Soviet property that ended up within Ukraine was not property of Ukraine at all. It was to be decided, by consultation, what to do with said property. There was nothing for Ukraine to "give up". End of discussion.
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  7135.  @alanbellas513  so, given that ONLY annexation is a violation of the West's "rules based order", given what you said about Kosovo, did you cheer with enthusiasm as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine? I mean I guess you cheered when US tanks rolled into Iraq? only at the moment that Russia mentioned "annexation" did you say to yourself, "wait a minute, suddenly this breaks the international rules based order!" right?
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  7136.  @alanbellas513  you mean "try a little harder" or "do a little better". ok, let me try again. when you saw Russian tanks roll into Ukraine you thought, "Russia bad, USA good, therefore THIS invasion must be ALL bad, but US and NATO invasions must be all good, nuance does not exist in this world". did I get it right this time?
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  7137.  @bonnie7898  I don't think the fate of the Russian ethnic minority in Ukraine is an existential threat to the RF.
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  7138.  @bonnie7898  are you sure? or are you lying? googling "UN Resolution 173" brings up a load of stuff about the admittance of Burundi as a member.
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  7139.  @randallturner9094  it changes nothing at all. I return to the question you absolutely refuse to answer. what right does Italy have to request ANYONE to administer ANYTHING outside of Italy? Libya was bombed by NATO members, UK and France, and as such, most of the world is disgusted by these same countries wringing their hands over the death and destruction happening in Ukraine. The hypocrisy is sickening.
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  7140.  @bonnie7898  The reason you keep having to correct yourself, Bonnie, is that my understanding is spot on! I lived and worked in Ukraine in 2018. I still work with Ukrainian and Russian students. I have insights you lack and I have an understanding you will never grasp. As a Russian speaker I have seen, first hand, into the souls of the Azov Nazis. Bar Karabas, Vinnytsia, was full of them. But you weren't there. You know nothing.
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  7141.  @randallturner9094  the problem, Randall, is that I read every word very carefully, and because you are a poor writer it takes several posts for you to say anything with any clarity. so, now you have switched from Libya to Syria. or are you so ignorant you think those two places are one and the same?
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  7142.  @bonnie7898  There is something wrong with Ukrainians demanding that ONLY Ukrainian be the country's official language, just as there would be something wrong with the Canadians demanding that ONLY English be their country's official language. 17% of the population are NOT demanding SPECIAL treatment. They are demanding the EQUAL treatment they once had in Ukraine. And right minded people support them. When Germany was full of Nazis the Allies made it their business to destroy them. rightfully so. Russia is right to eliminate the Ukrainian nazis. i know you absolutely adore the Azovs and you probably have your own picture of Bandera and a swastika tattoo, but most of us despise such things.
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  7143.  @bonnie7898  have you figured out which NATO member country was being defended by the defensive alliance, NATO, when NATO took command of the Libyan fiasco? was it Denmark?
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  7144.  @bonnie7898  anyone who sees an injustice, and anyone who is begged by the victims of said injustice to intervene to restore their rights, has a duty to intervene. we could apply your inhumane argument to any conflict. Just because a small percentage of Germans were rounded up into concentration camps, what business did the Allies have to get involved at all? It's a nonsense argument. it would be inhumane NOT to get involved. You back the US invasion of Iraq to remove the "brutal dictator" Saddam Hussein. what right had USA to get involved in Iraq at all?
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  7145.  @bonnie7898  only 5% of Swiss citizens speak Italian as a first language. But the Italian speakers are almost all in the one canton of Ticino. In Ticino, Italian is used in schools, in business, in government, in broadcasting. do you believe those Italian speakers should be stripped of their rights and compelled to use German (the language of the VAST majority in Switzerland)? yes or no?
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  7146.  @randallturner9094  how can Russia be hypocritical for NOT blocking a resolution for military intervention? Russia believes in military intervention as a general rule. As you do. You obviously didn't notice, it's the pro Ukronazis, like you, that are the hypocrites, wringing their hands at Russia's military intervention, whining about "sovereign Ukraine", "territorial integrity", "unprovoked aggression", "rules based order" yet, clapping and cheering when USA and NATO ignore sovereignty, territorial integrity, unprovoked aggression and a rules based order with regularity and with aplomb. 100% hypocrisy on your side, and the world sees it and is disgusted.
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  7147.  @aleksanderfradkin7955  bla bla bla, heard this nonsense for one year now.
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  7148.  @Solbm27  clearly Russia is a superpower. Russia has reduced NATO to a paper tiger (actually the Taliban showed that in 2021), Russia has caused astronomical price rises in the West (you never heard of the Putin price hike?), Russia has influenced US elections, Russia hacks into cyber systems at ease. Russia exports what the world needs, energy, precious metals, food. This conflict has shown that Russia is THE superpower. Big wake up call for the complacent and arrogant West.
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  7149.  @Solbm27  absolutely! If French speakers are stripped of their freedom of speech, France has every right to intervene. Given that USA gave itself the right to attack sovereign Serbia over separatist rights in Kosovo, Russia is just following the West's "rules based order", so gtfoh with this hypocrisy and double standards, just be consistent.
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  7150.  @alanbellas513  and now the truth, dear Alan 1. Russia is following the "rules based order" of the West. Everything Russia has done or does, the west has already done or worse. 2. Chechnya wanted to separate from the RF? Really? cite the reliable opinion poll showing Chechens' wishes at that time. 3. Yes, Putin killed many in the Chechnya campaign. it's called war. The West has killed many more in its wars all across the globe over the last few decades. Russia is just following the "rules based order". 4. "Ukraine decided to go for the EU"? Really? Cite the referendum totals that showed a vote in favor of Ukraine wishing to become closer to the EU. 5. "expending" the borders? or "extending" the borders? or "expanding" the borders? looks like your English is still poor. 6. Maybe after you have improved your English you should gtfoh with your lies and garbage. you're pathetic.
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  7151.  @alanbellas513  Yes, I will keep proofreading your English, and keep correcting your appalling reading comprehension skills. When you step into the ring with me, dear Alan, be prepared for an absolute hammering. The truth is that Putin is, indeed, copying what USA did in Kosovo. USA chose to support separatists, intervene militarily and thence occupy Kosovo. Russia is doing the same in Donbass. No, I am not denying that the first Chechnya War was about Chechnya attempting to gain its independence. I never denied such. What I denied was your absurd claim that Chechnya WANTED independence. Completely different. A minority that CLAIMED to represent the Chechen people decided to launch a jihad, in effect, to break away from Russia, but I asked you to cite evidence that this warmongering, breakaway, radical group represented the majority. You have failed, yet again, to prove your point. Regarding Ukraine, some Ukrainians wanted to move the country towards the EU, some towards Russia. Regardless, in democracies, a pro Russian president would be removed at the ballot box, not by a Nazi inspired coup. Will correct all your English errors in the next post, so you can avoid getting hammered every time you enter the ring with me.
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  7152.  @alanbellas513  you are starting to get it! YES! Putin felt it was totally within the "international rules based order" to bomb a separatist insurrection in Chechnya, because Putin had seen the West do exactly the same on numerous occasions! And Putin was right. Again, your reading comprehension skills are lacking. Did you complete high school? I never said that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if it were not for Kosovo. What I said was that Putin could see from the NATO intervention in Kosovo that doing the same in Donbass would be just the same, thus only a stinking hypocrite could ever complain that Russia was acting outside the "international rules based order". And, again, Putin was right. Only stinking hypocrites wring their hands and cry "Kosovo was such a virtuous intervention, but Donbass is so awful". And you, sir, would be one of those stinking hypocrites. Wringing your hands over Yemen, are you? Of course not. unless the conflict includes Russia, you couldn't give a monkey's backside who gets massacared.
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  7153.  @alanbellas513  it is not an English language boxing ring that I was referring to. It was a debate boxing ring. step in the ring with me and make sure your spelling and grammar are beyond 7th grade level (you really struggle there), make sure you argue with logic, reason, facts and evidence (you fail there), and make sure you can answer a question (you fail there), or prepare to get hammered every time. and you are getting hammered, every time. and, yes, it does bother you. otherwise why keep mentioning it? next tip...learn how to use the term "sic". or do you want me to explain it to you, 7th grader?
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  7154.  @alanbellas513  Alan, what would be your suggestion to NATO right now to turn this debacle around? (try to answer with less than one embarrassing or grammatical error per line):)
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  7155.  @alanbellas513  once again, you are struggling with reading comprehension and logic. I will try to explain, yet again. YES, I am saying that Putin is following the international rules based order of the West. What NATO did in Kosovo, Russia is doing in Donbass. However, that does NOT imply that otherwise Putin would not be doing what he is doing! You are confusing justification for what Putin is doing with the cause of Putin's actions. Putin is not invading Ukraine BECAUSE of Kosovo. He is invading Ukraine because it is the right thing to do! His justification for claiming he is following the all-important "rules based order" is to point to Kosovo. And Putin is right! Anyone who whines about "rules based order" only has to look at Kosovo and see, in fact, Putin is doing what NATO did. So, if you want to whine about Putin, whine about USA and NATO in equal measure, but you are a stinking hypocrite, so you refuse to do that. This is the morally bankrupt position such Russophobia and bias lands you in, you goon!
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  7156.  @alanbellas513  Language reflects one's clarity of thought. Your poor language skills reflect your poor thought processes. If you get basic spelling and grammar wrong, what hope is there for you to understand the complexities of Ukraine and Russia?
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  7157.  @alanbellas513  Tell me, dear Alan, if Putin wanted to take over more and more territory, just to re-create the USSR or Imperial Russia, why in Georgia did he stop once he had liberated the Russian speaking areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia? In Moldova, why did Putin stop once he had liberated Transnistria? (where the Russian speakers live). Why not continue with his glorious conquests and overrun ALL of Moldova, ALL of Georgia? Why stop with just the Russian speaking areas? And how many countries has Putin invaded that had NO Russian speakers to liberate?
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  7158.  @alanbellas513  No one single country annexed Kosovo, but a group of countries called NATO did. Simple question for you, Alan. Whose troops currently occupy Kosovo? Occupation = annexation. Pure hypocrisy. You applaud NATO's annexation of Kosovo, you cry crocodile tears over the annexation of Crimea. Your double standards reveal so much about your whining, hypocritical brainwashed biases.
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  7159.  @alanbellas513  Have a look at the countries that REFUSED to condemn Russia! China and India (that's a third of the world's people!), plus Bangladesh, Pakistan and many other massive countries. Most of the world, in terms of population, live in countries happy to work and trade with Russia. Even NATO has two member states happy to work with and trade with Russia! That would be Turkey and Hungary! Not every country is led by snivelling hypocrites like you!
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  7160.  @alanbellas513  "the guy sending his own fellow countrymen to their deaths" = Zelensky! again, don't be a hypocrite and just be consistent! It takes 2 to tango! Zelensky is doing EXACTLY what you accuse Putin of doing!
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  7161.  @alanbellas513  your problem, Alan, is that you swallowed Western lies hook, line and sinker, and now when confronted with Russian perspectives, you can't handle it! You resort to your beloved buzzwords, injected into your brain by Western propaganda.....you throw out "Russian propaganda", "lies" and anything to deflect from the truth. Putin's actions in Ukraine are justified. You just never took the time to study all the background.
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  7162.  @alanbellas513  do some more research, dear Alan. ALL the Black Sea coastal oblasts are majority Russian speaking! Odessa, Mykolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhe, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkov and Dnipro, all of it Russian speaking majority. Putin never tried to "take" Kiev. Why would he? Do some research on what a "fixing operation" is. Keep enemy troops pinned down in one area while your main body of troops seize territory in another area (in this case, the land bridge from Kherson to Rostov). Alan, you MUST do some research and learn more! You have been content to just regurgitate mainstream Western media. Do you EVER try to get the other perspective? Just to repeat, Putin has been in power for decades and has NEVER seized territory other than Russian speaking areas that were embroiled in wars against nationalist governments discriminating against ethnic Russians. NEVER! (Unlike USA and NATO, who attack whomever they want for whatever reason). The record is there for all to see.
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  7163.  @alanbellas513  So, let's end the conversation there. If you don't even know the oblasts in Ukraine where Russian speakers form the majority, it is time for you to step out of the ring, do some more research and learning, and then try again in the ring when you know something. Hasta luego.
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  7164.  @alanbellas513  there is no false equivalency at all. I base all I say on what you say! so, you need to choose your words more carefully. you said Putin was guilty of sending so many of his fellow countrymen into war to die. Zelensky is doing EXACTLY the same thing! There is no false equivalency! So, now you need to backpedal and re-state what you actually mean! See why clear thinking is important?
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  7165.  @alanbellas513  Yes, Putin ordered his troops to fight in Ukraine. And yes, Zelensky ordered his troops to fight defending Ukraine. Zelensky foolishly opted to allow millions of innocent Ukrainians to suffer and die rather than negotiate peace. that is where we are.
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  7166.  @alanbellas513  Stop lying, you pathetic brainwashed liar. Ukraine's right to exist has never been denied. On the contrary, Putin has recognized Ukraine's right to exist. It is just a question of deciding where Ukraine's borders will be. You really need to read the 5 objectives of Russia in this conflict. and stop lying
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  7167.  @alanbellas513  so, time to correct one of your many lies. according to Wikipedia, here are the Ukrainian oblasts with a majority of Russophones: Crimea, 97% Dnipro, 72% Donetsk, 93% Lugansk, 89% Zaporozhe, 81% Odesa, 85% Kharkov, 74% Mykolaev, 66% As I TRUTHFULLY said before YOU LIED in your counter, Putin has never invaded and occupied and annexed ANY territory that was not majority Russophone. so, in future, stfu about your lying nonsense about "oh, Putin, such a threat to his neighbors and to the west" Learn some basic truths before entering the ring, cretin.
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  7168.  @alanbellas513  no one is saying "where Russian is spoken, that's Russia". Hence there is no need for Russia to intervene in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Khirghizia, Tazjikistan, Azarbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and the Baltics. Those countries afford equal rights, though Latvia recently has been going down the Zelensky path of discrimination against Russian speakers. The point is, where there are Russian speakers and ethnic Russians WHO ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BASED ON THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, that is where you can expect Putin to intervene, AND ONLY THERE! If you weren't such a brainwashed, rabid russophobe you would support him and wake up to reality. But then again, maybe you believe in rabid discrimination
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  7169.  @alanbellas513  yes, it was a statement of fact you made. Putin is throwing lives into war. Just as mine was a statement of fact. Zelensky is throwing lives into war. They both are? So, what's your point? They are both warmongers?
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  7170.  @alanbellas513  The concept I adopt, and you should too if you were honest, is that wherever Russian language is spoken by a considerable number, those people should be afforded equal rights to use Russian in education, courts and government". If that principle were adhered to, as it is in Kazakhstan and so many other ex Soviet republics, the world would have no problems with Putin. But people like you, who favor discrimination against Russian speakers, prefer war, clearly.
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  7171.  @alanbellas513  as said on many occasions now, there is no need to liberate any Russian speakers, or ethnic Russians, when their rights are protected, as in most ex Soviet republics. In Ukraine, where most people are Russophones, it is pure discrimination to refuse to recognize Russian as an official language. In Switzerland, only 4% of the population speak Italian as a native language, but it is an official language of Switzerland. Had Ukraine adopted the Swiss approach there would have been no problems with Putin. The reality completely destroys the Putin haters, like you.
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  7172.  @alanbellas513  so, here are some facts we have established. Putin has been in power for decades, but never once invaded, or even threatened to invade, any of his neighboring countries, with the exception of those that clearly, for whatever reason, thought it was a really good idea to discriminate against their Russophone citizens. Unlike USA and NATO, that feel free to invade any country they so desire. I think we can see why most of the world is slowly but surely coming closer to Russia and China, and moving away from the West.
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  7173.  @alanbellas513  and just to keep you informed of how Putin gets on with his neighbors, following the Russian border from east to west: N Korea - ally China - close friend Mongolia - ally Kazakhstan - close friend Azerbaijan - close friend Armenia - close friend Georgia - they tolerate each other, full diplomatic relations Ukraine - at war, following the Kiev refusal to implement Minsk Agreements Belarus - ally Baltic Chihuahua states - close to war, based on their policies of discrimination against Russophones and their support for the Azov Nazi tyranny in power in Kiev. there you go. Most of Russia's allies are more than fine with Putin, as is most of the world. look in the mirror to see what went wrong with the West's relationship with Putin and the Russians
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  7174.  @alanbellas513  you hit the nail on the head! All those countries who choose to discriminate against Russophones, they are inviting a Russian military intervention, which would be deserved. Adopt the Swiss, Canadian, Belgian, Kazakh, Welsh approach to minority language rights, and problems with Putin disappear. The evidence is clear.
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  7175.  @alanbellas513  No, the ultranationalist concept is "even though these Russian speaking communities have existed within our borders for decades, let's discriminate against them and ban their language in education and government and the legal system" it is the ultranationalist concept that is the cause of the problem. Russia's intervention is the response.
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  7176.  @alanbellas513  So what should the Swiss do with their 4% Italian speaking population? Compel them all to be educated in Swiss German? Why shouldn't Kiev's approach be applied to Switzerland?
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  7177.  @alanbellas513  the ones who chose war are those who refused to talk peace in December 2021 (USA) and those who broke off peace talks in Istanbul in March, 2022 (USA). Putin has offered the peace option several times, rejected by your side every time.
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  7178.  @alanbellas513  and who are the ones who decide that Ukrainian is the only official language in "their" country? Who is "they"?
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  7179.  @alanbellas513  the ones who prefer the war are those who start it by shelling the people of the Donbass. or by declaring a "shock and awe" attack on Iraq!
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  7180.  @alanbellas513  False equivalence = ideas and logic I don't like, in Alan's world. Look, EVERY leader, whether he be invading or defending, has a CHOICE. Peace or war. Zelensky had that CHOICE. Either talk PEACE, or FIGHT. Zelensky CHOSE to fight. No false equivalency, just FACTS you can't handle. But why start in the middle of the book? Why not start at the beginning? Why not start with Kiev's decision to start war by shelling the Donbass? 2014.
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  7181.  @alanbellas513  The duty of the commander in chief is NOT to fight! The duty of the commander in chief is to carefully weigh up all options and make a decision based on the welfare of the majority of his citizens. That decision might be war, or peace talks, or outright surrender. But warmongers like you would not recognize any option that did not include death and destruction, I guess.
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  7182.  @alanbellas513  Was Putin the bloody aggressor when the Azov Battalion started shelling Donetsk?
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  7183. only the ignorant and the insane would ever think that engaging Russia in a ground war can turn out positively. it can't. NATO arrogantly told Zelensky that NATO support would ensure Russia's defeat. NATO under-estimated Russia, surprise surprise. But given that the aim is to weaken Russia, not help Ukraine at all, NATO will get out of this ok, just demilitarized. Printing loads of money will solve that problem over time.
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  7184. oh well, if Lord Owen says that, then I feel much better there can't possibly be a nuclear attack on the cards.
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  7185. Russia only attacks those who mistreat their Russian-speaking populations. Moldova, Chechnya (twice), Georgia and now Ukraine found out the hard way. Very simple. Estonia has nothing to fear, if it gives equal rights to its Russian speakers. If it tries to impose Estonian nationalism on the Russians of Narna, for example, then expect the Moldova/Georgia/Chechnya/Ukraine treatment. Seems fair to me.
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  7186. "All people are born equal" about time this fool started understanding genetics.
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  7187.  @psmorgan2542  it's not his war. but given that the majority that fled those regions fled to Russia, do you think those absentee votes would have swung the vote to the "remain in Ukraine" side?
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  7188.  @psmorgan2542  have you been to that part of Ukraine?
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  7189.  @ramadankadriu5336  he is in Russia. you missed the news, the borders changed:)
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  7190.  @zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920  Paul Gibbon thinks the 300 tanks Zaluzhny is begging for are to fight a war with, not sell to ISIS! some sweet innocent children trust anyone!
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  7191.  @bonnie7898  so now you are the self-appointed spokesperson for all of Australia? or did your "we stand with Ukraine" refer to only the deluded, brainwashed imbeciles who know nothing about Ukraine? As I correctly said, voting is compulsory in Australia (so the freedom to choose not to vote, a basic freedom, does not exist there). How would you know what constitutes "affordable" to your fellow citizens? Again, your selfish and objective judgement on what constitutes "affordable" is gladly rejected. Real democracies do not fine people for choosing not to vote. Still waiting for your answer on which NATO member country was being defended by the NATO bombing of Serbia. Was it Portugal?
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  7192.  @bonnie7898  oh, i bet those scrutineers do indeed "make sure all is done properly". i bet the whole voting process goes entirely how the "scrutineers" want it to go. They have scrutineers in North Korean elections too.
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  7193.  @psmorgan2542  the entire country was not being invaded. evacuations to safe Ukrainian zones were in force and in some areas compulsory. even those who did flee to Russia but wanted to be in a Ukrainian safe zone or even another European country were free to go there. just so hard for you to understand that ethnic Russians and Russian speakers don't want to be part of Ukraine, right? Do you have the same blind spot for Scots who just don't want to be part of the UK or Kosovars who just don't want to be part of Serbia? Or is it uniquely Russian speaking separatists that get special disdainful and dismissive treatment from you?
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  7194.  @bonnie7898  more lies from Down Under, the country where voting is compulsory and where "scrutinizers" make sure everything goes as planned. Not true that armed men "watched what you wrote". More lies. No one who believes it is democratic to compel its citizens to vote has any notion of what true democracy is. The Russian referendums in the occupied zones of Ukraine showed Australia what real democracy looks like.
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  7195.  @bonnie7898  hundreds of thousands of Brazilians across the country demanding Lula be removed from power. shouldn't we be supporting this popular uprising? specify why supporting the mob in Kiev was an excellent idea, but supporting the mob in Brasilia so awful.
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  7196. "everyone here wants to end this war" not true. the aim, according to Lloyd Austin, is to "weaken Russia". a LOT more fighting and dying has to happen for Russia to be truly weakened! Keep on fighting, Ukraine. NATO needs SOMEONE to die for their "weaken Russia" aims!
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  7197. as usual, the biggest load of cobblers from an absolute ignoramus. this alarmist fool was probably clutching his pearls 30 years ago when we were told the Maldives would be underwater by today, that hurricanes would have flattened the Bahamas etc. The reality is, banks are still investing in beachside properties in those countries, and are, and will be, raking in the profits. just play safe, mate, and move your rear end to the summit of Ben Nevis and live happy ever after.
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  7198. Sums up confused Western media...an expert who says none of it makes sense! Look, a loose cannon who just survived 9 months in Bakhmut has done whatever it takes to get his brave fighters better contracts and a better deal! Simple as that! Putin has waived charges against him and given Prigozhin's fighters some concessions. it's now back to killing the Ukronazis. so what?
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  7199. Meloni est menteuse. Elle a promis un blocus de pour stopper l'immigration, et ella n'a fait rien, rien du tout.
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  7200. just consider not living close to forests, as people did in the past.
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  7201. Worst case scenario for Russia, Ukraine actually makes it to the Dnipr River. So what? How would that change the completion of the 5 objectives Putin listed?
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  7202. Bremmer is talking about a brain drain from Russia. Germany is contemplating pensioners freezing to death this winter. But the sanctions are working, right?
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  7203.  @grimreaperbadboy  as I said, Russia has not pulled out of any agreement. DW is wrong.
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  7204. curious, he said all that about 100% sure Ukraine can hold the line JUST like 100 others said in his position before Mariupol fell, before Severodonetsk fell, before Lysychansk fell. Must be some kind of routine Ukrainians go through before the next major city falls.
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  7205.  @InterviewsWithTheAncients  the same was said about Javelins months ago, but they made no difference. 6 months of training? cannon fodder ready to be chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder, keep serving them up. Russian morale collapsed in March, we were told, the lies and propaganda are more than stale. Tell us more what the soldiers were told, please. present at all these briefings, were you? or just parroting what the media want the sheeple to believe? Control of cities is not one of the 5 objectives. Re read the 5 objectives as stated back in February. Only the deluded think Russia has lost this. Those who see the big picture see the West is ready to cut and run. Bring on winter.
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  7206. hey, Katy Adler, when you gonna report on the concerns of the French families who are sick and tired of the immigrant gangs and hoodlums wrecking their country?
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  7207. oh yes, so compassionate a leader, to let tens of thousands of your young men get massacred for no reason, and bankrupt your country and create 7 million refugees. such a compassionate guy.
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  7208.  @ericantonissen2192  so long to get to this point? massacring 250,000 ukronazis takes time! i think the massacre has gone quite quickly! no evidence that large recruitment = huge losses. no evidence the convicts and mercenaries are largely untrained. seems like you are using the same data agency as Gulliver! Wishful Thinking!
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  7209.  @ericantonissen2192  the only thing that makes a difference to how I think would be reliable, solid evidence. Just making up numbers and hoping they are right is absurd nonsense. the kill rate is very important, but not one single analyst supporting the ukronazis can show that Russia is suffering huge losses.
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  7210. anyone that blames our economic malaise on "Putin's war of aggression" has absolutely no idea of economic reality. she is useless and the investors, rightfully, smell a disaster approaching in UK
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  7211. Only total fools would believe Ukraine + NATO could defeat Russia + Allies. The only hope for Ukraine/NATO would have been the collapse of the Russian economy. The reverse happened, so this one is over. The only question is how and when Russia will win, but whichever route it takes, Russia will win.
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  7212.  @zoranbeader6441  Allies on the battlefield = Chechens, Wagner Group, Syrians, DPR and LPR. Allies on the economic front = all the world, apart from the Western bubble. the West doesn't need Zimbabwe to make it surrender and beg for mercy. just needs a bunch of goat-herders called the Taliban, as shown by NATO's pathetic fiasco of a retreat from Kabul last year. Oh wait, NATO did drone an innocent Afghan family to death, so I guess that was a glorious victory in Western eyes, right?
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  7213. just so funny this dolt's long list of "IF's". After three and a half months of failed offensive and massive losses, Chip is STILL blabbing on about "well, IF they get to Tokmak, and then IF they have fire control..." And Chip, what "IF" Crimea is eventually cut off? Russia needed no land bridge or sea connection to Syria, and yet Russia prevailed there and reduced the US forces to illegally occupy just the eastern third of Syria!
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  7214.  @lawrencekling8598  yes, true, but I'm not convinced Jinping is chomping at the bit for any confrontation. patiently waiting for Taiwan to become more and more dependent, economically, on China and to become part of China's orbit. we'll see
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  7215.  @AwardQueue  China wants to appear neutral and keep out of the Ukraine conflict, but behind the scenes China knows it may need Russia's support in a future crisis over Taiwan. so, quietly, China is indeed supporting Russia
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  7216. this right Charly advocated the compelled vaccination of the whole country. should be ashamed of himself.
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  7217. Ingram couldn't remember the lie he told last time. Today it is "Putin's 10 day special military operation" and last time it was "Putin's 3 day operation". Let's see what this charlatan of a propagandist spews out next time.
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  7218. just as soon as Zelensky sells his overseas properties, agreed?
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  7219. the plea deals are excellent news for Trump. his co-defendants get a slap on the wrist, they take the rap and testify Trump was no conspirator. Willis is getting further away from her objective, not closer.
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  7220.  @blackjesus804  not true. they agreed to "testify honestly" and that's it. what they say when they are on the stand will be entirely up to them. you'll see.
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  7221.  @owenb8636  makes no sense. Russian men have the freedom to leave because there are a lot of them?
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  7222.  @allahjohnson9654  plenty of Russian men safely in exile in Kazakstan and Georgia and Turkey, no bullets in the head. Only fleeing Ukrainians get that treatment. If only you knew the true tyranny that is Ukraine today.
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  7223.  @zytoses9223  no, the men leaving the country rather than be conscripted is a freedom accepted in Russia but denied in Ukraine. In fact, even fighting age women are now no longer allowed to leave Ukraine. Both sides, Russia and Ukraine, are threatening to and actually putting bullets into the heads of deserters on the battlefield, you will find.
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  7224.  @seanpittaway5341  we all know the REASON they left, you tool! The point is that in Russia, they are ALLOWED to leave! They have that FREEDOM! In Ukraine, on the contrary, such a CHOICE does not exist! The tyranny of Ukraine is that men, and now women, are COMPELLED BY LAW to stay and be conscripted into the next unit of cannon fodder to bite the dust at the hands of the Chechens and Wagners! Jesus, learn some basics! you plank!
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  7225.  @eugenecrabs8622  and someone here has actually experienced it, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine in 2018. Tell me about your personal experiences working in Ukraine under the Poroshenko then Zelensky dictatorship.
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  7226.  @eugenecrabs8622  oh, so YOU are the authority on what is and what is not a dictatorship! well let's start with today and we can work back to my year in Ukraine. Today in the Ukrainian parliament no opposition parties are allowed, there is total state control of the media and the population of fighting age are prohibited from leaving the country. Just last week churches were raided, priests arrested and one denomination of the Orthodox church closed down (so bang goes freedom of religion). go ahead oh wise one. Give it a name.
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  7227.  @eugenecrabs8622  just curious, professor, would your middle name be "BadCaseof"?
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  7228.  @eugenecrabs8622  "what do you expect under the full scale aggression? when the matters are about life or death of the state and the nation" the exact words Kim Jong Un would use to justify his dictatorship.
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  7229.  @asifdil9998  so true. the West is backing the wrong side.
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  7230.  @eugenecrabs8622  I am challenging your logic, your assumptions and your hypocrisy. you really have failed, totally, to justify supporting Ukraine. It is a total nonsense that Ukraine is some kind of democracy. It is not, and democratic institutions have been trampled on in a way that WW2 Britain would never have DREAMED of doing. EVERY word you used to justify abandoning democracy in Ukraine would be used by Kim Jong Un for the dictatorship currently in North Korea, so either you need to re-think, or use different words. The problem is, you can't. you foolishly bought into this nonsense about Ukraine being some kind of democracy, now you are stuck with it. The sooner Ukraine is crushed the better. * years of shelling the Donbass deserves a Russian intervention and justice, finally, is being done.
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  7231.  @R18Y  oh, just LOOK at the horrendous choices Ukraine made before the invasion! 1) admitting and welcoming a Nazi battalion into its national defense force 2) outlawing Russian, the native language of 40% of its population, in education and government 3) refusing to implement the Minsk Agreements 4) shelling the Donbass for 8 years ..you can see, Ukraine made horrendous choices BEFORE the invasion, choices that CAUSED the invasion! Get a grip of reality!
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  7232. Ukraine started this war, in 2014, shelling the Donbass. Russia is going to end the war.
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  7233.  @soulfuII  no evidence that Prigozhin was killed by anyone connected to the Russian government, but don't let lack of evidence stop you from creating your own truth. Tell me, do you believe everything that Prigozhin ever said? yes or no?
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  7234.  @draganf.3928  why do you assume the aim was to take Bakhmut?
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  7235. we've been hearing these predictions of Russian collapse since March! Let me guess, their morale is also very low and Ghost of Kiev is real?
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  7236.  @alvaro701  to my mind, no one has compiled any accurate readings with a moralometer in this conflict. The Russian side have said from day one that Ukrainian cannon fodder morale is VERY low, and has been for a long time. The Ukrainian side say the same about the Russians. No one knows where the truth lies.
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  7237.  @GebJg  walk around some of the immigrant infested areas of Berlin and see that you already are the Africa of Europe.
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  7238.  @obienugreat4590  explain how. how will Germany overcome its economic crisis, married to expensive Green policies and turned its back on its cheap energy supplier. how is that a recipe for success?
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  7239.  @obienugreat4590  it's true. look around some of the immigrant infested areas of German cities....doesn't look anything like Europe.
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  7240.  @cinpeace353  one of the reasons Africa is growing is because all the immigrants it shipped to Europe are now sending their European welfare payments back to Africa, at the expense of the indigenous Europeans,,,great business model! Also, China and Russia are investing in Africa, not Europe.
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  7241.  @obienugreat4590  you are deluded. there is no German industrial boss celebrating cheaper energy prices today compared to before the sanctions on Russia. None. replacing cheap gas with more expensive alternatives is economic suicide. enjoy the decline.
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  7242.  @obienugreat4590  ANY shrinking economy, when you have a growing population and inflation, is an absolute disaster! yes, that is a rapid decline over such a short period of time. Russia's 3% growth is a remarkable success compared to Germany's decline. Germany backed the wrong horse.
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  7243.  @obienugreat4590  If Germany is such a success story, why the debate to release the self-imposed limits on Government debt?
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  7244.  @obienugreat4590  do you know how many small businesses go bankrupt or go into debt with a 0.3% shrink in the economy?
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  7245.  @obienugreat4590  the person who has no clue is you. it's no boast to say inflation is back to what it was in the covid years, just 3 years ago. why isn't it back to what it was 20 years ago? too much government spending. as you said, the budget the German government has is not enough....which means more borrowing just to stay in the same place. it's a massive problem. Russia has reliable and stable markets in Asia. Germany doesn't, and Germany has found its exports aren't so well thought of as before. it's a massive problem. as the percentage of world trade from BRICS increases, and the percentage of world trade from the EU falls, Germany is the loser. you have no clue what the long term consequences of German decline are. the Green energy commitment, the ridiculous sanctions imposed on Russia, the massive increase in defence spending needed now that Russia hates you, all terrible for the economy. it's amazing you are so happy and proud of a shrinking German economy. wake up and grasp just how bad things are and will be.
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  7246.  @Cryosxify  just waiting for Macron to announce that no more uranium will be imported from Russia and Kazakhstan. yeah, right.
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  7247. countries don't trade with each other. companies trade with each other. it is indeed illegitimate for any government to compel a business to cease trading with another business. that's dictatorship. welcome to the dictatorship of the West
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  7248. I feel sorry for cretins like you that don't realize what she says is, for the most part, so very true.
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  7249.  @sallychristeon2840  sure, if laughing at the truth makes you feel good.
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  7250.  @tanjiro2507  so what is your point? Putin and Lukashenko also elected by their people. so what?
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  7251. great to hear some good honest male pub banter on the tv again. it's so welcome. given men and women are now equal, women won't mind hearing what men don't mind hearing. it's all good fun, just like the transvestite playing the piano with his penis on Channel 4. welcome to the UK in 2023.
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  7252. par for the course, Rosenberg accepts the fake IS claim for responsibility, dismisses the fact one of the attackers was in the Ukrainian army, and that the attackers were headed towards Ukraine.
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  7253. Rafe, there is no such thing as "Fundamentalist Islam". It's just "Islam". Mohammed was a slave trader, paedophile (Aisha was only 9 when Mohammed started doing her) and mass murderer. Following the example of Mohammed makes you a Muslim, nothing "fundamentalist" about it.
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  7254. I feel sorry for Sunak. it must be agony, crossing off the days until you hear your party came fifth in the General Election.
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  7255.  @AnnHoyle-h1f  fools like you would even defend the Devil if He decided to conduct his hell and fury from a wheelchair.
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  7256.  @achiefpatrick8815  religion has everything to do with it. read the quran and find out what many Muslims believe should happen to kufr.
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  7257.  @archivalhorror  it's not a murder unless you know the perpetrators planned the attack. at least learn the basics of the law before making a fool of yourself in public.
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  7258.  @melaniebaynes2730  learn the basics, you fool. unless the attack was planned, it's not murder. are you always this clueless?
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  7259.  @jamesjackson2647  check the morality of the disabled man first before lecturing the world on how to judge morality.
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  7260.  @tedcrilly46  translation = so yes, we will buy Russian energy through third parties and blindly hope Russia one day will be forced to pay it back. Not much of a strategy there, really. More likely third parties will charge the West exhorbitant prices and Russia will be demanding reparations from Zelensky. Hell, Zelensky might even have to sell off his mansion in Miami and villa in Tuscany!
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  7261.  @tedcrilly46  the sanctions are irrelevant now, because Russia has no interest in trade with the weasel EU sanctions or no sanctions. BRICS is the future. . Keep begging Qatar and co for your energy needs for the indefinite future:) ...in the end, you will all be envious of Hungary and the approach it took. It's only september, but judging by the 70,000 angry masses in Prague last weekend, EU ain't gonna last long on the present track!
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  7262.  @tedcrilly46  Russia and EU can no longer be friends, and Russia doesn't want to be friends after all this. Russia doesn't trust the West and is happy to work with the rest of the world. "more money" is always the solution for the greedy capitalist West. Putin values the rights of ethnic Russians over more money., thanks.
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  7263.  @tedcrilly46  yes, lots of gas producers out there, but none seem to be able or willing to raise output. OPEC just announced a cut back in production, Germany already went begging to Canada, USA, Qatar and Nigeria and came back empty-handed, Venezuela and Iran on Russia's side, so you tell me and Germany, which gas producer has been overlooked to replace Russian gas?
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  7264.  @tedcrilly46  you are way behind the times! Norway can't increase production, it's at max! Spain begged Algeria MONTHS ago, maxed out! Azerbaijan, yep, remember von der Leyen smiling after concluding that treaty, but it is a pitifully small addition, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are sticking with Russia, there will be very little cooperation there. reserves are plentiful, but not enough infrastructure to get it all out and into households. Russia doesn't want to be a trade partner with Europe, apart from Serbia, Belarus and Hungary. Europe is not trustworthy, BRICS is the future, Europe needs Russia MUCH more than other way round. Get ready for blackouts and lots of frozen to death old people! You deserve it!
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  7265.  @tedcrilly46  you seem to forget that money is not the key here. Money is merely the means for exchanging goods and services. If you got no goods and services, money is worthless. you can have all the money in the world, but if you have a shortage of energy, you screwed. so now i see why you don't get it. you think money will help. it won't. without energy and world trade (two thirds of the world supports Russia, NOT the West), you going downhill. The last US weapons package was procurements! (have to be ordered and manufactured!). NATO at the bottom of the barrel! Russia won:) Next time don't pick a fight with someone who has less money than you, but more commodities:) and more guts
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  7266.  @tedcrilly46  the only hope for Europe, in the short term (next few years), to replace Russian energy is to buy Russian energy from third countries (China, India) and pretend it is not Russian energy. But obviously the fools in Europe will just be paying a lot more for the same thing and will still be fueling the Russian war effort.
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  7267.  @tedcrilly46  clutching at straws. think about it, no replacement for Russian energy = energy shortage
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  7268.  @peterbarber7603  not possible where I live!
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  7269.  @tedcrilly46  Scholz called Putin again today. Macron called Putin again today. Putin never calls any European leader. It's the European leaders who keep calling Putin. why? they must need something! Putin doesn't. Think about it.
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  7270.  @tedcrilly46  once again, the fuel reserves Europe has are insufficient, hence Nordstream 2 was built and hence Habeck's panic to get gas from Qatar, Nigeria, Canada or USA (all failed). think about it. If reserves were sufficient Habeck wouldn't be warning Germans of power cuts
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  7271.  @tedcrilly46  and no doubt Putin replied that Bakhmut is now surrounded and the Chechens are back to shove a few more hundreds of Azov Nazis into that most efficient meat grinder. Time is on Russia's side now.
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  7272.  @tedcrilly46  Putin also recommended that both Macron and Scholtz follow the Military Summary Channel where they will learn that Kriviy Rok is now out of power, water, communications, that the dam was attacked, and flood waters have trapped the Ukrainians in the bridgehead on the Ingulets river, Russia can attack anywhere in Ukraine it wants. Kherson offensive is now the Kherson graveyard, read the WP article on the disaster for Ukraine there
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  7273.  @markanthony3275  believe me, I don't need anyone to show me the way! It is with great pleasure that I clear out of the shithole that Europe has become, every winter! would love it if I didn't have obligations that forced me to return, but especially this winter i;ll LOVE being out of woke europe
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  7274. she is the best example of the horrible reality of where diversity, equity and inclusion leads us.
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  7275. if you want to know how Ukraine will end up, just see what has happened in Syria. Russia wins.
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  7276. only fools went to Afghanistan to fight so that the Taliban could take back control. NATO came to USA's help because without USA there would be no NATO.
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  7277.  @HuskyOwner-bl1jf  how do you define what commitments a NATO member has, beyond paying its way?
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  7278. who says he missed a bus?
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  7279.  @troublej1035  by keeping the supply of primary resources that Russia needs flowing into Russia. Lithium, for example.The West wanted to isolate Russia, and Africa's 54 nations have told the West "no".
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  7280.  @mlsarchitect  Russia had no colonial history in Africa and was not engaged in any slave trade in Africa. From that starting point, Africa has warmed to Russia over the decades, and moved away from the West.
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  7281.  @monumentaltravel3745  what was secret about Russia's relationship with African countries?
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  7282.  @bonnie7898  I support everything Russia does to make sure ethnic Russians are treated fairly and equally, just as ethnic Russians are treated fairly and equally in many countries, like Kazakstan. You, however, champion the side that favors derussification and discrimination against Russian speaking communities. Shame on you. There are many imperialist regimes on this planet. Look at how many military bases the USA has around the world and you will see who is culprit number one. Make that make sense.
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  7283. "I find it strange that the police become the target of this hatred" typical middle class elitist who has already forgotten about Rotherham's Pakistani rape gangs and the green light they were given by West Yorkshire Police.
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  7284.  @rustyschackleford5800  you are confusing Churchill, and Roosevelt with Putin.
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  7285.  @nonegone7170  because the quality of the leader of a country is not the sole factor in determining the best place to live, obviously, child.
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  7286.  @Aaron-rx6ez  Putin sends them to fight because they, the armed forces, have sworn to defend such rights. Both parties are fulfilling their duties. The West has no leader that would even contemplate fighting for the freedom of their peoples. The West only has the guts to pay Ukraine to fight Russia in the forlorn hope of weakening Moscow's growing popularity around the world. Roll on multipolarism and dedollarization.
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  7287. bulls**t. Fauci will never mention a particular study that backs up his claim. he just waffles and skirts the issue. It's not just the Cochran Report. The Danish and Vietnamese studies say the same thing. masks don't work. period. how can they? the virus is tiny and the holes in the masks comparatively massive.
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  7288. while Extinction Rebellion are cheering the microscopic reduction in CO2 emissions from 20 mph zones, China has built another coal fired power plant and is laughing at Western naivety. Climate alarmists have no concept of what the word "global" means.
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  7289. sanctions on Russia means China now has the cheapest, most reliable energy and can destroy all its competition in all fields from now on.
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  7290. yeah, the Police should ignore all the conspiracy theories, because with zero evidence that Jay ever left the road and entered the wilderness, the Police have spent 12 fruitless days of intense searching and found not a sausage. maybe had the Police followed up on some of the logic offered by the internet sleuths they would have solved the mystery and found Jay. today's conspiracy theory is tomorrow's truth, e.g. the virus came from a lab.
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  7291.  @brondahawkins9264  agreed
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  7292.  @RaRa-eu9mw  talking about Wagner bases in Belarus is not talking about the counter offensive!
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  7293.  @RaRa-eu9mw  we must be watching 2 different videos. The one I watched is 2 mins 20 long, starts with pay rise for Russian soldiers, ends with news about Wagner barracks in Belarus
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  7294. what's shocking is so many suckers falling for the global warming myth.
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  7295.  @Dorr234  even in Hawaii there are arsonists
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  7296.  @Dorr234  either arson or human negligence. In nature, such fires can only occur through volcanic eruptions or lightning strikes. any reports of those two in the area? on the other hand, Portuguese authorities are looking for over 600 people in connection with these fires! Probably arson, don't you think?
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  7297.  @Dorr234  hurricanes don't cause fires! for a fire, you need a spark! I repeat, in nature, only volcanic activity or a lightning bolt can possibly cause a fire, and those two are VERY rare! otherwise, humans started the fire. find out why more and more arsonists are active and you will discover why we have more wild fires.
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  7298.  @djrnfjgjfas  100% sure?
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  7299. you are deluded. the first photos of Swedish and Finnish lads massacred and coming home in body-bags would shock Europe so deeply the continent would go back to discussing if a man can become a woman or how many windmills to build this year and other vital questions. In a few weeks we will see the first NATO mercenaries swinging from a rope or shot by firing squad.....the squeamish, spineless masses of Europe can't take real war. Russia has won.
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  7300. this dopey fool has no clue what she's talking about. even Zelensky admits that Putin is an elected leader, not a dictator, and USA has no duty whatsoever to involve itself in futile wars. Putin is one of the best world leaders, and this poor honey is so clueless about Russia and Ukraine, she's swimming in her own blissful ignorance
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  7301. "Ukraine's a sovereign nation, it can do what it likes" yep, and it did. and now we see the results. because Russia, too, is a sovereign nation, with nukes, and it has decided to do what it likes.
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  7302.  @davebarton6824  I'm not in the US and am not American, dum***s!
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  7303. amazing how the establishment do all in their power to hide a black on Indian race murder.
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  7304. of the 12 ships in the Ukrainian fleet that they had at the start of the conflict, how many are afloat now?
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  7305.  @MrOptimusheath  why not talk a bit about Snake Island if we are going to celebrate Ukraine's most recent and most devastation victories?
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  7306. The whole finger print idea arose AFTER Brexit, so only Nostradamus would have thought of writing it on the big red bus.
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  7307. Welcome to the world of mindless EU intransigence. Confirms the wisdom of Brexit. If Brussels thinks finger-printing Brits is a priority over tackling mass immigration from Africa, then it confirms it was a good idea to leave the corrupt protectionist mafia in Brussels.
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  7308.  @curiousnomadic  Has nothing to do with 9/11 and nothing to do with reciprocity. If reciprocity was the key, entry requirements for EU citizens to the UK would be the same as entry requirements for UK citizens to the EU. But they are not. It is EU intransigence, which prefers to hurt EU citizens rather than come up with a realistic agreement with the UK. Hence individual EU states are now amending some rules imposed on UK visitors.
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  7309.  @mstrmren  Right, but the UK would have done so on the assumption that such rules would not necessarily apply to any member state that had chosen to withdraw from the EU. It is absurd to consider all non EU countries as one and the same, 3rd country status. There are nuances that apply in so many cases.
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  7310.  @mstrmren  ok, looks like reading comprehension is not your thing, or maybe English is not your first language. I mentioned only "3rd country status", and nothing about "3rd world country". try reading carefully and educating yourself before making a fool of yourself.
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  7311.  @curiousnomadic  you have no clue. the original post is about the UK being treated like "every other non member country", which makes no sense as not all 3rd countries are treated the same anyway. This discussion has nothing to do with USA, and nothing to do with reciprocity. educate yourself.
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  7312. why is speed crucial? Russia is on "the back foot", right? The sanctions are working, right? Russia is isolated, right? Russia is running out of missiles, and is poorly led, with poor equipment, and low morale, right? or....were we lied to for 11 months?
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  7313. might as well cut to the chase and fight this issue out: gimmegrants, the far Left and the wokerati against the indigenous Brits. the losers get to live in Scotland and a massive wall is built to separate the two groups.
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  7314. As usual, Jim the charlatan is cherry picking his data. The Canary Islands saw its hottest October NIGHT the other week, but NOT its hottest October temperature, so, as always, he spouts this "record temperatures" nonsense based on the particular data he wants to trumpet.
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  7315.  @michals6672  the predictable reaction of a coward who can''t counter the argument, only the date of an account. yawn!
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  7316.  @Lenser  given I'm in France, not really. Concerned your grandmother will freeze to death this winter when the full boomerang effects of self-harming Western sanctions kick in in a few months?
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  7317.  @danieljames2015  5 rubes which are worth a lot more than they did back in February, thanks to the West having no clue how sanctions work.
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  7318.  @danieljames2015  a rolling rock that gathers speed? the point of the sanctions was to effect regime change in Russia or a crippling of the economy that would rapidly change Russian behavior, "shock and awe" sanctions as the West declared. so, with the "rolling rock" theory, are you quite sure the full effects of sanctions will kick in BEFORE Russia has declared victory in Ukraine? 100% sure?
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  7319.  @danieljames2015  you might want to consider the most basic of economic laws..supply and demand! The value of the ruble has gone up because of demand, mainly from the West because payments for energy now must be made in rubles. Same reason the Euro is hitting record lows...Putin has turned the tables. As SWIFT is circumvented and petrodollars ditched, currencies like the ruble will be in even greater demand.
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  7320.  @danieljames2015  or, dear Daniel, you can give me your email address, and we can identify EACH OTHER, let's see who you are too. 5 minutes on Zoom to prove who we are? why not?
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  7321.  @danieljames2015  when imbecile Biden at the State of the Union address was trumpeting the collapse of the ruble, you should have been right by him whispering "stop crowing...the sanctions are a rolling rock, and the West will have to endure record inflation, an energy crisis, and massive unpopularity around the globe for a long time before these sanctions even have a chance of kicking in"...yes, you should have been there with your words of wisdom.
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  7322.  @danieljames2015  Putin will keep all that he wants, and you are deluded if you think otherwise. 7th package of sanctions "and they haven't really started yet" shows how the West is betting on a measure that doesn't work. Russia has been under sanctions since 2014, and only grown in strength.
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  7323.  @danieljames2015  Learn some basic economics....GDP is not the most important factor in world power and influence. Russia exports commodities the world needs to survive. Italy doesn't. Russia exports coal, oil and gas. Italy doesn't. Russia exports basic foodstuffs around the globe, Italy doesn't. Russia is a nuclear power, Italy isn't. Russia developed the first covid vaccine, Italy didn't. Russia is self sufficient in food. Italy isn't. Russia has a million man army. Italy doesn't. The world listens when Russia speaks. The world couldn't give a monkey's backside what Italy says or does. Learn some basic facts.
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  7324.  @joesmoker3378  Let's crush the corrupt Western "rules based order"..Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  7325.  @danieljames2015  oh Jesus. the whole POINT of being forced to create a GAZPROM account IN RUBLES was for Western energy companies to have to pay in RUBLES, NOT in dollars or euros! The demand for rubles OBVIOUSLY goes up when accounts previously settled in dollars/euros are now settled in rubles. you clearly know nothing. With rising energy prices, Russia obviously gets more rubles flowing into its bank accounts. No wonder the West can't figure this out. beyond the comprehension of the brainwashed and deluded
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  7326.  @danieljames2015  The Iranian drones are going to be useful to win the war. Again, linking the purchasing of drones to a weakened economy just shows how confused you are. You think Ukraine obtaining Turkish drones is a sign of how weak the Ukrainian economy is? drone purchase = weak economy? infantile analysis
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  7327.  @danieljames2015  keep in mind it is only Western speculation and gossip that ASSUMES Putin is going to Iran for drones. He is attending the Astana Conference, many issues will be discussed there..drones may or may not come up as a topic.
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  7328.  @Lenser  not if it is one of the two himars already destroyed by Russia, or the one sold by the Ukrainians TO Russia, no.
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  7329.  @danieljames2015  yes, despite the West's pathetic attempts to isolate Russia, China and India and most of the world in fact are loyal friends of Russia, or at least willing to help Russia. China may well want to help with more than drones if it means destroying the much-hated Western hegemony. All power to the Chinese. They are playing their cards a LOT better than the West.
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  7330.  @danieljames2015  Hey, "Daniel"..did you see the BBC report about the kindergarten shelled by Ukrainian forces in Gorlovka yesterday? No? Neither did I. weird!
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  7331.  @danieljames2015  as I say, the coward here is "daniel" given EVERY opportunity to prove his accusations are true, and too yellow to do it. What's up? scared you got something terribly wrong?
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  7332.  @danieljames2015  as I say, the only coward here, revealed for his false accusations is Daniel James. Scared of being revealed as a lying fake? what are you so scared of? You accuse me of using a fake account/id, I ask you to contact me so i can prove you wrong, and you avoid contact? what are you scared of?
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  7333.  @danieljames2015  revealing the truth to the brainwashed, deluded Western public is never soul destroying. Hard work, yes, but not soul destroying. It's always much harder to convince a fool ha has been fooled than to fool someone, but there we go. In Mexico the reading public were so much more aware of the truth regarding Ukraine than here in France/the West, but the narrative is slowly changing and gradually people are realizing the total folly of thinking Russia could be defeated in a ground war or through sanctions.
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  7334.  @danieljames2015  Still refusing to accept my offer to prove you right regarding my identity? so weird you have nothing to say about such an easy process to prove you are 100% right. are you a shy little thing? afraid of contact with real people?
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  7335.  @danieljames2015  I mentioned Mexico in the context of the reading public being informed about the Ukraine conflict. Reading Comprehension not your thing, Daniel? Not connected with the drone argument at all. I spent most of winter in Mexico, so can speak about how the public there view events in Ukraine QUITE differently from in the West, in general.
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  7336.  @danieljames2015  "3 day" operation was yet another fabrication of the West. Russia has a list of 5 objectives, and no timeline. Not one of the 5 objectives mentions annexing Ukraine or "surging west" so I would guess that is not going to happen. That said, most of Europe is close to being economically captive to Russia ....my guess is Russia is calculating when its energy revenue is sufficient from non European sources for it to turn off the taps completely. It's Germany wringing its hands worrying if Nordstream 1 will come back on line, not Russia worrying about when it is back up and running. I suppose on the economic front, Putin will be able to declare victory when the first German pensioners freeze to death this winter and Scholtz is ousted, as Johnson has been.
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  7337.  @danieljames2015  then there is the question of whether Russia will declare war, or not. or use nukes. obviously if Putin goes nuclear, the war ends very quickly. Given 80% of Russian troops are not in Ukraine, Putin may decide to declare war to speed things up, but I doubt it. My gut feeling is he has his eye on the 5 objectives, and as he ticks them off he will content himself with an early winter victory...but who knows? all i know is that when someone falsely accuses me of being someone I am not, they have a problem with dealing with reality. that's all i know..."Daniel".
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  7338.  @danieljames2015  Russia denied it had intentions of invading Ukraine until it found evidence of Ukraine amassing troops to invade Donbass. After that moment it didn't deny anything.
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  7339.  @danieljames2015  Russia NEVER declared ANYWHERE would fall in 3 days. you are now confusing the Western lies and propaganda you hear with the truth.
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  7340.  @danieljames2015  no special forces ever tried to capture Zelensky..more lies you swallowed. The airports were attacked, of course, hence Ukraine has no air force today.
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  7341.  @danieljames2015  a far weaker army in the Donbass? Initially, Ukraine had greater numbers there. then it reached parity, now Russia has a slight advantage in numbers. Keep in mind this is just a Special Expeditionary Force with the Chechens, DPR militia and LPR cossacks doin the heavy lifting. 80% of Russia's forces are not in Ukraine!
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  7342.  @danieljames2015  Russia has air superiority but has always preferred ground operations and air defense systems, common to all Russian campaigns
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  7343.  @danieljames2015  Ukraine doesn't have a navy because the Ukrainians decided it was a really good idea to scuttle their flagship! One way of avoiding a fight at sea! one ship, the Slavyansk? was destroyed by Russia, and 12 other vessels captured in Berdyansk. All this happened when you were obssessing about the "Battle of Kiev" and ""Ghost of Kiev":) ..took your eye off the ball!
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  7344.  @danieljames2015  Russia has never described the Ukrainian army as a "walkover"...yet again, that would be something you picked up from a propaganda broadcast. Snake Island is of only media hype importance. Russia doesn't need it, Ukraine does, as it has no other "victory" to shout about.
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  7345.  @danieljames2015  it's not MY bull about the 5 aims. that is what Putin announced. you should study them carefully. The greatest failure of this whole affair was the West trying to isolate Russia. Turns out the West has become isolated! Latin America, Africa, Asia, BRICS, have all told the West where to go, and are more than happy to cooperate with Russia. On this one, game set and match to Russia.
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  7346.  @danieljames2015  you are in fantasy land if you think China has any thoughts about Amur or Sakhalin. MUCH more likely is that Taiwan, after Ukraine and Afghanistan, will be the next excruciating humiliation for NATO. Read it and weep, BRICS teaching the West what the new world order is, and the West is in its death throes trying to cope with the new reality. truth hurts, right, coward? save your useless euros/pounds/dollars coward, BRICS taking over:)
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  7347.  @leemiguel3437  BREAKING NEWS, COWARD. Draghi has been toppled! The Zelensky curse continues! 2 down, 3 to go! of Zelensky's 5 big supporters (Biden, Johnson, Macron, Scholtz and Draghi) who will be next to be ousted? I'm guessing when the first German pensioners freeze to death in November Scholtz will go, what do you think? Maybe Biden next? Forced to step aside after disastrous mid terms? Supporting Zelensky is the kiss of death...and the sanctions were supposed to remove....Putin? ha ha ha
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  7348.  @danieljames2015  BREAKING NEWS, COWARD. Draghi has been toppled! The Zelensky curse continues! 2 down, 3 to go! of Zelensky's 5 big supporters (Biden, Johnson, Macron, Scholtz and Draghi) who will be next to be ousted? I'm guessing when the first German pensioners freeze to death in November Scholtz will go, what do you think? Maybe Biden next? Forced to step aside after disastrous mid terms? Supporting Zelensky is the kiss of death...and the sanctions were supposed to remove....Putin? ha ha ha
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  7349.  @darthvodder7426  how could anyone be light-hearted with war raging?
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  7350. funny how those supply chain problems affect Cuba, but not neighboring Bahamas.
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  7351. "specious charges"? Griner PLEADED GUILTY! Zero respect for liar Pompeo. Ditch the lying fool.
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  7352.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  the leader of the Wagners says many things, and he absolutely LOVES to shout about any deficiencies coming from Moscow. At least we get to hear about his complaints, as opposed to the total silence we get from what the Ukrainian generals really think!
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  7353.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  rate of fire on the front has decreased from 7 to 1 ratio in Russia's favor, to 4 to 1 in Russia's favor. And this represents a huge victory in your deluded NATO/Ukronazi mind?:) how desperate are you|?
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  7354.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  why the assumption the Wagners want to take the town? massacring the starving uktonazi cannon fodder as it limps along the one dirt road left open to them will be like shooting fish in a barrel. what a brilliant win this is for Zelensky!
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  7355.  @CryptoRoast_0  who says they want to take Bakhmut? with hundreds of ukronazis dying every day there, the victory is seeing the ukronazi death toll sky rocket. roll on the next conscription of teenage boys and girls to take an early dirt nap!
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  7356.  @CryptoRoast_0  wishful thinking. no evidence at all that Russian losses are enormous. it's the Russian decisions to vacate Kharkov and Kherson that enabled them to have the man power and weaponry to massacre so many Ukronazis in Donbass, and now with 300,000 trained reservists in the wings.
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  7357.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  the humiliation is all on NATO and its puppet state Ukraine. sanctions failed, isolation failed, and now war is failing. most of the world is absolutely fine with Russia and has only disdain for the West
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  7358.  @UnfollowYourDreams  and your most reliable source for these numbers of Russian losses? let me guess, CNN? the channel that is still trying to prove Russian collusion?
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  7359.  @thatlittlevoice6354  so suddenly you DO believe everything that the Wagners claim?
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  7360.  @jamesdoe3713  the only narrative they have that brings hope is "Russia is running out of men and weapons". the reality of the situation is too shocking for them, so they desperately cling to the fiction of "Russia is running out of men and weapons"
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  7361.  @CryptoRoast_0  confirmed by BBC/Medusa, who tried to prove some other astronomically high number, but couldn't, so had to agree with a number close to that offered by the Russian Defence Ministry a while back. what's your reliable source?
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  7362.  @CryptoRoast_0  the winner of this war will not be the side that holds the most territory, but the side that doesn't run out of men, weapons and ammo and which achieves its objectives. Russia is much closer to that point than Ukraine/NATO
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  7363.  @UnfollowYourDreams  no one really cares if convicts, mercenaries and Syrians die. Russia is just fighting very clever, instead of allowing all its Russian nationals get wiped out. Ukraine just wishes it could do the same.
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  7364.  @CryptoRoast_0  link to what? now you want me to do your homework for you? you can google, can't you?
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  7365.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  no nerves hit, just always a pleasure to straighten out your deluded mind
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  7366.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  conspicuous by its absence, little boy, is anything that refutes what I said with evidence! you got nothing!
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  7367.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  just curious, do you still revere Stefan Bandera as a national hero of Ukraine?
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  7368.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  what do you think the map proves?
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  7369.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  just so funny you think that a dictator from Georgia that led the Soviet Union could possibly be an official national hero of the Russian Federation. Boy, are you dumb. I guess they changed the name of Stalingrad to Volgagrad in honour of , uh, national hero, Stalin, right? so very very dumb.
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  7370. "Kherson will be captured by Ukraine by September" we were told by Khlan. I guess everything is in full swing, with 12 days to go, zero towns captured, Ghost of Kiev ready to win the day.
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  7371.  @Wolfways  looks like you are confused what "exaggeration" means. "exaggeration" = stating that something is better or worse than it really is. science is stating what is true. it is the opposite of exaggeration. the only thing he could have said to convince his audience that science is still based on facts is "there is no exaggeration out there". I am not aware of scientists exaggerating anything in the 1850's. On the contrary, Faraday and co. seemed to be determined to discover universal truths, and most of them were not paid.
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  7372. Total puppet. He was the face who could satisfy the aims of the Azov Nazis and the oligarchs. Ukraine is directed by USA and with a few strings pulled by UK. If Zelensky was leading the country, what stopped him fulfilling his election promise of "peace in the Donbass"?
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  7373.  @kirkpatrick7475  exactly. Russia doesn't announce what its war plans are, so no one knows what to expect. Only the West has announced that Russia is planning a major offensive. Russia has announced nothing. Ukraine should follow the same policy, but sadly, Ukraine has to do what it is told by NATO, who's aim is to weaken Russia to the death of the last Ukrainian.
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  7374. It was absolutely great to hear Fox speak about a particular woman in the same crass way we hear so many women talk about men and particular men. Thanks, Laurence! More of such speech is needed to provoke the Wokerati into explaining, exactly, what kind of speech is permitted from women about men, and vice versa. Otherwise, by talking sweetly all the time, the rules will never be established. It was good to see the nation calling for the BBC to be shut down after Jo Brand's comments about battery acid on Nigel Farage. Oh, wait.
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  7375. burning dead and decaying trees is good for the environment. always has been.
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  7376.  @starlightHT  if the Portuguese forests are well managed, then, yes, focus should be put on what people are doing in these forests in summer.
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  7377.  @starlightHT  I'm in France, on the Mediterranean, 30 kms from Spanish border. we have 2 out of the 3. human stupidity, and 6 months without rain. there have been one or two local, small fires, nothing dramatic at all. Temperatures normal to on the cool side. one night we got close to hitting a record low, about 2 weeks ago.
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  7378. a token gesture the West refused to do.
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  7379.  @sacredk1  There is NOTHING that prevents Meloni from ordering the Italian navy from blockading migrant arrivals! NOTHING! She chooses not to do what she promised to do! And there is nothing that says Italy will be denied EU funds if she blocks the migrants! Quit making excuses for her! When did you hear Meloni say "I'm sorry, dear voters, I can't do what I promised because Brussels will make Italy bankrupt if I do"?
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  7380.  @marcorioti6932  Meloni hasn't even tried to set up the blockade she promised, and she has the support of Salvini and had the support of Berlusconi. she has turned out to be a wet rag of a leader. useless.
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  7381. @@ChiefHandler444 Orban? Trump? MBS?
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  7382. Well, fancy that, another sovereign nation sanctioned by the West has joined forces with the most recent sanctioned nation by the West, and together they are getting their revenge. Russia will develop Iran's nuclear program and in return will get the drones it wants to win its war. But sanctions do work, right?
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  7383. The post Rotherham Sharia Police of Britainistan are just enforcing the rules of the Caliphate. They enforce the laws of the government elected by the British voters. It is all perfectly correct.
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  7384. Hey, do you all remember the German chancellor calling the US president and demanding no more attacks on Iraqi infrastructure, and again demanding no more attacks on Serbian infrastructure, and that hour long call to plead with NATO to stop attacks on Libyan infrastructure? Hmm, no, neither do I. German hypocrisy at its best.
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  7385. only a truly racist and discriminatory society would recognize some groups as "protected" and others not. bye bye equality before the law in Britainistan
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  7386. "3 year visas, not thinking for a second they would need that amount of time" well, how dumb are the Ukrainians? just google how long Russia took to eliminate the enemy in Chechnya and again in Syria. 3 years is nothing to Russia when it is on one of its demilitarization campaigns.
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  7387. as always, concealing the truth has much worse repercussions than everyone knowing the truth in the first place.
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  7388. notice with biased Western media we always get told about horrendous Russian losses (which they have no numbers on) but NEVER about horrendous Ukrainian losses (which the West does have numbers on). RT is more fair and balanced.
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  7389. significant improvement on when he called reporter Steve Doocey "stupid son of a b***h".
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  7390.  @esseiyoha3658  it is not you that decides the return policy. you are not the shop owner, and the owner has every right to refuse the return of a sold item. It is the customer's duty to ask what the return policy is BEFORE purchasing anything. learn the basics, you fool. Hungary and Poland want people to come to their countries, but not those who have a record of not abiding by national laws (Muslims) and embracing the local culture.
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  7391.  @johndasilva2686  you are asking the wrong person! Ask various US presidents if it was a crime to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria etc The colonization of Africa was, on balance, a good thing. Hitler killing the jews was a terrible thing. Next question?
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  7392.  @johndasilva2686  some invasions are justified, some are not. homework: name 2 invasions in world history you consider justified, and 2 that were clearly unjustified and explain why.
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  7393. a war crime according to whom? you misunderstand logic if you think I said anything regarding war criminals. Are you saying ANY election in ANY country is now to be considered invalid if said country had a history of deporting people? So, no government in Uganda has been a valid government since the deportation of the Ugandan Asians in the 1970's right? you are in a small minority if you think that.
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  7394.  @SajjadKhan-cl3yf  war criminals is not part of the discussion of whether or not elections and parliamentary votes are legitimate or not! but seeing as you are obsessed with the question, yes, of course war criminals should be prosecuted. oh, so you have NO problem with elections if it is just a MINORITY that is deported. I see. 49% of a country is deported, no problem, all elections from that point on are legitimate. 51% of a country is deported, and from that day on not one single election in the country is legitimate, ever again. I get it now.
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  7395. the usual baseless assumption that the aim is to capture Bakhmut. when will these dopes realize what "demilitarization of Ukraine" means?
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  7396. one day, even the dumb leaders of the West will understand that sanctions don't work in a global economy.
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  7397.  @annnee6818  Not sure what makes you think 90% of Afghans miss the US presence. There is a good chance that at least 20% of Afghans are jihadists who believe the infidel has no right to even set foot in Afghanistan. The comparison is a simple one. The West promised the Afghans we would be there to support them no matter what, and then when it was obvious the Taliban could not be destroyed, the West gave up. Same is happening in Ukraine.
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  7398.  @julianalaveraz  Zelensky is already recruiting teenage boys. once they are all wiped out by the Wagners, Zelensky will be pushing the Ukrainian women to the front lines, so you better move quick if you want to grab a Ukrainian woman that is still alive!
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  7399.  @putinmustenduplikegaddafi2236  "Today, America affirms its full commitment to a future of progress and stability for the Afghan people." George W Bush stop being a lazy hypocrite and just look into the panoply of statements from Western leaders regarding "commitment" to Afghanistan.
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  7400.  @julianalaveraz  if it means not fighting the Wagner convicts and mercenaries, the Ukrainian widows would probably pay you a lot more then 5 or ten dollars to get out of that! You could get rich AND lucky!
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  7401.  @ramadankadriu5336  how little you know about Russia. when was the last time you went to Russia and spoke to Russians?
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  7402.  @thebomber7641  have done. point 6 caught my eye. which side disregarded point 6 do you think?
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  7403. Lindsey Graham is clueless about the severe limitations of US arms production.
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  7404. what about arrest warrants for those who supply both sides with the vehicles that transported the weapons to commit the crimes against humanity?
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  7405. Ukraine gonna need that million man army to keep an eye on the Belarus border PLUS the whole of Russian occupied lands in Ukraine.Lukashenko only needs to keep moving tanks around on the border to fix thousands of Ukrainian forces right there.
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  7406. in IQ? no, many are well below 80 IQ
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  7407. just hilarious that a country with out-of-control crime, rampant corruption and unable to provide its citizens with reliable electricity thinks it can spot genocide when it sees it.
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  7408. fascinating how desperate the MSM lies and propaganda now becoming. Russians attacking with spades. well, I guess if the sheep lapped up "Ghost of Kiev" and "importance of Snake Island" why not blabber on about Russians fighting with spades?
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  7409. quite the opposite. the West's "shock and awe" sanctions have brought more pain to the West than to Russia, while uniting the Russians behind Putin. Let's wait until winter, when half of Europe will have rolling blackouts and old people freezing to death
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  7410.  @AndyHOTlife  not me. why would it make sense to deport anyone, given the expense? how about labour camps for those found guilty, so the criminals can pay for their own deportation? we can have them all ride stationary bikes 24/7 to generate electricity when the wind doesn't blow.
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  7411. "they use Russian language in their households" = they are obliged not to use Russian in public life. therein lies the problem.
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  7412.  @crocolagerfelden6142  1) Latvia, where a man was jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag. Freedom of expression repressed in Latvia. 2) The number of Latvian speakers in Russia can be counted on one hand. The number of Russian speakers in Latvia is about 25% of the total population. Less than 25% of Canadians speak French as their mother tongue, but French is accepted as an official language of Canada. So, do you recommend Canada rescind all rights to its French speakers to use French in education and government? If you did, you would see riots and revolution in Canada. 3) Russians are happy to use English when travelling abroad, which they still do. Russian speakers are not happy to be forbidden from using their mother tongue in communities where they form the majority, and neither would you be. Get real.
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  7413. Mike Martin, the pro Ukraine propagandist, "forgot" to mention the 3rd possible reason for Putin's statement, namely, the missile strikes had disabled Ukrainian infrastructure to the point where Russia no longer feels the imminent threat of the much -vaunted Zaporozhe counter offensive.
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  7414. what's surprising is that people find this surprising. colleges are breeding grounds for rampant hate.
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  7415. and the whole planet lived happily ever after. the end.
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  7416. how long do you think it will take Russia to destroy the 500 Armoured vehicles and 300 tanks?
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  7417. so Julia is all in favor of Ukrainians deciding their future, but not the Russian speakers of Ukraine. The Donbass Ukrainians must be forced to follow Kiev's commands. Nope!
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  7418. Yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons. And only a matter of days now before the sanctions have an effect and Russia becomes truly crippled.
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  7419.  @seamus_rainheart  makes a change from the deluded imbeciles that parrot the lies and propaganda of Western media, right?
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  7420.  @BurntheKremlin966  as I said, Russia will destroy any nation that refuses to respect the human rights of ethnic Russians. Learn the lesson or be doomed. Take it or leave it.
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  7421.  @jascu4251  "subjugated" meaning the 5 objectives of the invasion have been met according to Putin? Maybe in one year, if the West keeps throwing money at Ukraine. Of the ex Soviet republics, only the Baltic 3 have been tempted to enforce nationalism over their ethnic Russians, but obviously they are now paying attention and may well behave more decently. I guess on my list would be Latvia....banning ethnic Russians, indeed anyone, from commemorating the Soviet troops memorial is asking for the Ukraine treatment.
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  7422.  @astralxing988  so all those Russian speakers in Transnistria who broke away from Moldova, those are not ethnic Russians? All those Russian passport holders who speak Russian and declared their independence from Ukraine, the people of the LPR and DPR, they are not ethnic Russians? you clearly know nothing. Abkhazia? South Ossetia? Do you need to look those places up on a map and see if ethnic Russians live there? so ignorant..typical of the deluded brainwashed West
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  7423.  @1conkers1  i certainly did. did you pay attention?
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  7424.  @Cujo_Ate_My_Credit_Card  in the meantime, care to counter what I state with truth? or, are you only good for snide comments that avoid the issues?
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  7425.  @DarkRoomAmbience  ok, so if you reject the term "ethnic Russian", let us go with the rather long-winded definition of "those who speak Russian as a first language and identify with their Russian inheritance rather than that of the Lithuanian/Estonian/Latvian/Georgian/Moldovan/Ukrainian languages and culture imposed upon them"....such people will always have their Russian language, customs and culture protected by Russia, while Putin is in power, and that is a good thing. The West ignoring such rights is a bad thing, and it's what led us to this point. happy now?
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  7426.  @zameisie7016  only in the bubble of the deluded West. The rest of the world gets it.
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  7427. @M A war crimes committed by Ukrainians in the Donbass for 8 years should be punished, agreed? or not?
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  7428.  @jascu4251  I don't think Latvia has committed anywhere near the abuse against ethnic Russians that Ukraine has, so I can't imagine Putin has Latvia on his radar, can you? I mean it took Putin 8 years to decide on military intervention in Ukraine, so Latvia can breathe free for a while, methinks. Problem is, if Putin is replaced by a more hawkish leader, war might be declared on Ukraine and that action might spill over into the Baltics. Georgia has been dealt with (Abkhazia and South Ossetia have effectively broken away). Finland, Romania and Poland don't have ethnic Russians in any significant numbers, so not an issue. I mean if they want to pick a fight and poke the bear on some other issue, who knows?
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  7429.  @igorole  that's right, hide from the troubling message that counters your deluded mindset..the only way for you to be smugly confident you are right:)
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  7430.  @BurntheKremlin966  agreed...there is plenty of room for the definition and application of human rights. But for sure, when the Donbass Russian speakers have been abused the way Ukraine has done for 8 years, (UN estimates 14,000 dead) it's time to stand up for their rights, agreed?
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  7431. Boris Johnson was also overwhelmingly elected. and your point is, I guess, boy how the voting public can get things horrendously wrong?
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  7432. @M A agreed, ALL war crimes should be punished. But given the deliberate, protracted and murderous butchery by Ukrainian forces on the people of the Donbass, it is perfectly legitimate for Russia to declare war on Ukraine as a last resort. Had Ukraine genuinely tried to implement the Minsk Accords, none of this would have happened, agreed? The West backed the wrong horse, then brainwashed its people with lies and propaganda. The fault lies with Ukraine and the West
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  7433.  @jascu4251  Can't imagine any more targets after this horror show. If the West had genuine leadership they would already be round a table with Putin negotiating transfer of ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians to areas of a redrawn map acceptable to each side...but NATO decided to fight to the last Ukrainian. very, very sad.
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  7434.  @VINLAND_777  as I said, it's your country, do with your Russians what you want
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  7435.  @VINLAND_777  I told no lie. The UN report mentions an estimated 14,000 deaths, from what I remember. However, let us assume I am wrong, and it is 14,000 casualties. How many civilians would have to be killed by Ukrainian troops for it to count as a "provocation" in your book? 100? 1000? 10,000? Or maybe no number is too high to be called a "provocation", after all, if they are Separatists refusing to accept that Kiev has the right to ignore the Minsk Accords, they just deserve to die? What if Catalan separatists "tried to label some of Spain's territory as their own independent piece of land" would you give the thumbs up to Madrid to launch missiles into Barcelona for 8 years? Why not?
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  7436.  @jascu4251  I think millions of Ukrainians have fled their homeland out of fear, and are refugees, That is different from a population swap. The Ukrainians who are currently in Russian occupied territory should have the right to relocate to a part of Ukraine still run by Kiev, and vice versa, the Russian speakers who prefer to be part of LPR, DPR or Russian occupied territory should have the right to relocate...split Ukraine just as India had a Hindu/Muslim population exchange when Pakistan was created.
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  7437.  @VINLAND_777  First of all, how about YOU answer the questions! Let me repeat the questions. 1) How many "casualties" from Ukrainian shelling in the Donbass over an 8 year period would constitute a "provocation" to Russia. Just give a number! 2) Yes, or no....were Poroshenko and Zelensky 100% right to ignore the agreements signed in the Minsk Accords? I say they were WRONG, and refusal to implement said accords was a MAJOR provocation. and you say refusal to implement was NO provocation? 3) If Catalan separatists were shelled by Spain over an 8 year period, would that constitute some kind of provocation? Yes or No? answers pleaee
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  7438.  @jascu4251  I am simply saying that instead of war, all parties should be negotiating a re-settlement scheme, whereby Russian speaking Ukrainians can opt to be in currently occupied Russian territory, or Russia itself, and Ukrainians who want to remain under Kiev's rule can be moved to a Ukrainian controlled area. I wasn't aware that Ukrainians weren't allowed to move to Russia. Are you sure? I mean over the last 8 years masses of Donbass Ukrainian citizens have become refugees in Russia. Are you saying non Donbass Ukrainians were banned from moving to Russia? Well, maybe, I don't know. I'm guessing Russia naively assumed the Minsk accords would be implemented in Ukraine? And they wren't.
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  7439.  @VINLAND_777  I interact with all points. You will notice I address all of your points. However, consistent with someone very unsure of their arguments, you refuse to answer my very simple questions, cowering behind your pointing finger of "you're interrogating me". So, before I address your points, let me repeat my questions for the 3rd time! And it's 3 strikes and you're out! If you refuse to answer these oh so basic questions, you have proven you have no argument, in my book. What about my invitation to Zoom with a live Ukrainian who can describe to you the situation there? Yes? 1) the Minsk Accords, signed by Ukraine, and France and Germany. Poroshenko admitted on Ukrainian radio recently that there was never any intention to implement them, because Ukraine could use that stalling time to build up its military and economy. I say this refusal to implement such an accord is a provocation. and you? no provocation, no poking the Russian bear there? 2) "I don't talk about Spain here"....a ha, so you are entirely confident to label the Donbass separatists as fully deserving of a good shelling, but no other separatists would deserve such butchery? So which separatist groups DO deserve a good shelling? Do the Scots? do the Catalans? do the Kurds? Explain. The Donbass separatists deserve all they got, according to you, no provocation there. Simple question, which other Separatists in the world deserve the same treatment? You are a man of the world. No need to hide behind "I don't speak of Spain or the rest of the world here"..illuminate us. Which other Separatists deserve 8 years of butchery? 3) What's your number? My number is ONE. If ONE Donbass civilian is a "casualty" of Ukrainian shelling, that constitutes a provocation, in my book. What is your number? VERY simple question.
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  7440. now, how about you get a Donbass Ukrainian perspective? I have a few Ukrainian students who would LOVE to share with you via Zoom their experiences? Ready to listen to the other side? yes?
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  7441.  @VINLAND_777  So, THREE strikes and you are out, simply because you can't answer and won't answer. SO, let me answer for you. 1) Yes, it obviously WAS a horrendous provocation for Ukraine to sign the Minsk accords and then deliberately refuse to implement them. 2) YES, it is absurdly hypocritical to accept shelling and massacre of Donbass separatists but to insist on peaceful diplomacy with ALL other separatist groups in the world, and yes, this is a provocation and 3) Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" rings true with the Donbass separatists, and we should all respect that. Interrogation over, my cowardly imbecilic deluded interlocutor. Let me know any time you want to Zoom to hear first hand how the Donbass Russian speakers have been treated by the Azov Nazis...in the meantime, please pass on the message to your Ukrainian friends "hey....should have honored the Minsk accords, don't you think?" SLAVA ROSSIYI z
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  7442.  @VINLAND_777  If your Ukrainian refugees are fully in support of Poroshenko refusing to honor the Minsk accords, I want nothing to do with them (and neither should you). If your Ukrainian refugees cheered when democracy died in Ukraine when Yanukovich was ousted by the Azov Nazis and Ukrainian oligarchy, I want nothing to do with them (and neither should you). If your Ukrainian refugees shouted with glee when they heard of the Union House massacre in Odessa, I want nothing to do with them (and neither should you). If your Ukrainian refugees believe Stefan Bandera is a name that should be honored on street signs in Ukraine, I want nothing to do with them (and neither should you). If your Ukrainian refugees absolutely LOVE the idea of Russian speakers in Ukraine being banned from speaking Russian on the airwaves, in schools, in public places, then I want nothing to do with them (and neither should you). If your Ukrainian refugees blame Russia for their plight, when Poroshenko and Zelensky have conspired to destroy their own country, then I want nothing to do with them (and neither should you). Wake up and understand why Ukraine has brought EVERYTHING upon itself. SLAVA ROSSIYI Z
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  7443. MARCH 26! "The Ukrainians are confident of retaking Kherson" AUGUST 6TH "The Ukrainians are confident of retaking Kherson". ME EVERY DAY "I'm really confident of winning the lottery".
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  7444. 9th package of sanctions = the first 8 failed.
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  7445. "I haven't been housed" 1. the sense of entitlement. 2. Awful reporting. Dig deeper, and ask what happened when she explained her situation to the local council.
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  7446.  @briangriffiths937  ah, so you are claiming the IMF figures are all wrong? Tell me, are the IMF figures all wrong for every country? Have the IMF figures always been wrong? Do you have faith in any economic data released by any organization? 3 simple questions for you.
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  7447.  @danielbailey5849  Ukraine has tried for over 10 years to reclaim its territory, and failed. Time to surrender.
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  7448.  @briangriffiths937  do you believe the figures that say Germany currently has ZERO growth? yes or no?
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  7449.  @alhambrabiker1476  well done! you heard "Russia was taking Kiev in 3 days" from General Milley, not from any Russian source. Russia doesn't announce time plans for war. Learn some basic facts, Einstein. From Hostomel |Airport, Russian troops went to Kherson and Zaporozhe, where they occupied vast swathes of Ukraine, unopposed, remember?
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  7450.  @Mmurtazaliev  NATO and Ukraine now realize that. But too late. Ukraine and NATO placed all their bets on a Russian defeat, and Ukraine and NATO lost the bet.
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  7451.  @Someone-tn8ur  ethnic Russians in Ukraine have been fighting for their lives since 2014, you dope.
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  7452.  @janitorizamped  Russia has overwhelming global support. No one outside NATO cares about Ukraine.
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  7453.  @tonydfixertonydfixer9113  and yet USA strategic oil reserve is at a record low, so more production hasn't helped.
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  7454.  @mattilahde5220  F16's with no pilots and no airfields ain't much help.
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  7455.  @ConstantChaos1  but you will end up paying more for gas, and therefore more for everything, and Ukraine will still lose. happy?
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  7456.  @soutien6703  quel gouvernement ne pense pas de l'argent? les américains sont pas uniques.
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  7457.  @briangriffiths937  ain't gonna happen. there is no aid that can turn this conflict around. NATO has played all its trump cards, and lost. so, make your choice. Ukraine loses because it runs out of men, runs out of funds, runs out of weapons, or runs out of ammo. which one? Russia has plenty of all 4.
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  7458.  @geofflepper3207  European gas prices are higher because of the taxes placed on gas, taxes that then contribute to European government spending. a rise in gas prices hurts all economies, no matter what the level is today.
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  7459.  @Mike-gc9ih  what makes you sure that Ukraine's neigbors have more to send?
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  7460. The EU will ruin you, not help you. Backing the wrong horse
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  7461.  @rahul-io9kk  me personally?
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  7462.  @rahul-io9kk  I totally agree. Europe has continued as if it has some sort of influence, but it really doesn't. In fact, the BRICS and OPEC countries detest being lectured to by Europe and often act against Europe's wishes. The world has changed.
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  7463. you're wrong. he's totally incompetent. he thinks Russia can be defeated in a ground war!
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  7464.  @jannarkiewicz633  most definitely
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  7465.  @FishandHunt  the masses of Ukrainian fodder being mown down by the convicts and drunken mercenaries would disagree with you. If Russia already lost, why the panic in Ukraine for more ammo, tanks, jets?
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  7466.  @FishandHunt  and, despite this long list of failures, with low morale, poor equipment, poor leadership, a bunch of convicts and drunken mercenaries routed Ukraine's NATO trained and NATO equipped battalions in Soledar and are doing the same now in Bakhmut. you tell me, which side failed in Soledar and which side is now failing in Bakhmut, Marynka, Krasny Lyman, Kupinsk? which side failed in Mariupol, in Popasnyaya, in Lysychansk, in Severodonetsk, in fact every time the two sides go toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins. it's Russia 5 NATO/Ukraine 0 NATO is pathetic. "we never expected such a long war at this level at this intensity". of course not, NATO, because you are arrogant and don't do your homework. Chechnya and Syria took years, as will Ukraine. But Russia eliminates its enemies, unlike USA, that waits 20 years in Afghanistan before leaving like panicked school girls and hands everything over to the taliban. pathetic.
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  7467.  @FishandHunt  who said it was a 10 day military operation?
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  7468.  @FishandHunt  Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov, Izyum, Kherson, no street by street fighting. Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov was a fixing operation, keep Ukrainian troops in place while the land corridor in the south was seized, unopposed. it worked a treat. Izyum and Kherson no street by street fighting, Russia had stretched itself too thin and wisely withdrew to await more frontline troops (which it now has, 380,000 more). massive casualties? give me the numbers and your sources. Milley said 100,000 Ukrainian dead months ago. what say you?
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  7469. @Chris Viking well-qualified and wise are two very different things
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  7470.  @FishandHunt  in boxing, do you know what rope a dope is?
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  7471. if competence is measured by how much a minister depletes the capability of his nation's defence force, and by how he prolongs a futile war and thus maximizes the death and misery in a proxy war, then yes, Wallace is highly competent.
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  7472.  @skyleeramsey2727  8 million refugees, bankrupt, begging, no reliable power grid, pushed back on all fronts, if that is what Ukraine winning look likes, I would hate to see what defeat looks like for Ukraine!
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  7473. and of course the BBC repeats, parrot-like, the totally unfounded Ukrainian military line about Russia suffering much heavier casualties than Ukraine. yawn. BBC, Ukraine or Russia, which one is desperately trying to recruit 500,000 more fighters to replace the 500,000 already killed, crippled or captured?
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  7474. it's only mid December. Real winter is January and February, and March and April can be freezing in Kiev. I guess NATO air defenses will arrive in May or so.
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  7475. I'd like to think that the public would never accept such draconian diktats ever again, but I'm not sure. The West seems supine by nature these days.
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  7476. Ukraine and its allies will do anything to force Germany to stop importing Russian gas.
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  7477. this repeated claim after every Ukrainian loss or offensive, "well, the Russians lost more fighters than we did", wearing a bit thin. never any evidence, just hearsay. If Russia is NOT losing as many fighters as Ukraine, Zelensky is in enormous trouble.
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  7478. Maz obviously didn't hear about the protests in Odesa about the power outages. well, he probably did, but his producer told him to STFU about any news that might actually inform the West of reality on the ground.
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  7479.  @MrBarefoot09  totally true, denier. learn some history. U.S. targeted infrastructure in Iraq too. you should be delighted that Russia is finally copying the West's "rules-based order".
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  7480. "not being used for the purpose for which it was built" i had no idea that buildings were built for any purpose other than to be sold for a profit.
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  7481. number 3. he walked down to Playa de Masca where people and drug smugglers operate, and had arranged a boat to get him to Morocco, where he is fine and waiting for the gofundme to peak.
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  7482.  @mikeh2613  deal
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  7483.  @scooby1992  then let's hear the Police say that, that there is no proof of any foul play, and declare to what extent they have investigated, but for no one to know their names or faces or backgrounds is absurd. one brief interview? come on! Spanish Police were so focused on a manhunt, they skipped the investigation part,
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  7484. Ukraine/NATO now turning to the "hope and pray" strategy, just wishing Russia runs low on men and weapons so it can't advance any more. this is how desperate Ukraine/NATO has become. pathetic. in which year were we told Abrams tanks would arrive?
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  7485.  @kukulroukul4698  Ukraine and NATO are fighting the same enemy! FACT! Obviously they are not on the same page! NATO doesn't care if every Ukrainian dies!
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  7486.  @kukulroukul4698  NATO is supplying ALL the weapons to the Ukronazis. FACT!
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  7487.  @kukulroukul4698  NATO is helping Ukronazis with extensive TRAINING. FACT!
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  7488.  @kukulroukul4698  NATO is helping Ukronazis with INTELLIGENCE and ADVICE. FACT!
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  7489. yes, we must support terrorism whenever it is against Russia, or anyone we don't like, andwho cares about innocent people dying?
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  7490. @Pho-King Soup Hi Adolf. if you want to put your money where your mouth is, let's bet! I establish my Western nationality for you, and you pay me $1000 when you are proved wrong, ok? or are you all mouth no substance? yep, let's give Ukraine EVERYTHING NATO has, and Russia will be happy to destroy it all. Ukraine liberated nothing. it was given to Ukraine. Only a few people in the Kremlin know the Russian death toll. you don't. in a war of attrition, numbers killed is all important. territory lost or won is of little importance. learn what a war of attrition is and you will start to understand.
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  7491. @Pho-King Soup it's important for you to know when you are wrong. it's very important for you to know when you post something about another individual that is a lie. if you are wrong about my nationality, then what else are you wrong about? i am quite happy to prove my nationality to you, to prove I am not pretending to be Western. all we have to do is to arrange a Zoom call and I'll show you my id, ok? so, again, are you willing to put your money where your mouth is, or are you a snivelling coward who, when challenged, just backs down and crawls back under a rock? are you a man, or a mouse? let's find out! up for it? quick Zoom meeting?
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  7492. @Pho-King Soup oh, so now your assumption has changed from "Russian" to "right wing loon". my, how quickly your stance changes! 12 years old are you? Russia is fighting a war of attrition, which means preserving its forces for the long haul. Giving up territory is what happens when you want to preserve forces, and it is what Ukraine should be doing now in Bakhmut. yep, the big offensive never happened. and Russia has not lost anything of importance. there have been two battles so far, battles meaning where both sides go toe to toe, street by street, Mariupol and Soledar/Bakhmut, and Russia is about to go 2-0 up. The nazis, by the way, are those who were admitted with open arms in to the Ukrainian defence force, the Azov Nazis, the ones you support. Got a picture of Bandera by your bedside, do you?
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  7493. @Pho-King Soup when do de do our Zoom call to prove I am Western and you are a lying coward?
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  7494. @Pho-King Soup you should care that 1) you got a basic fact about my nationality so hideously wrong. ignorance and broadcasting your ignorance is not something to be proud of 2) you are a total coward. when asked to prove what you stated, you collapsed, and stepped back. pathetic. 3) if you figured me out so incorrectly, what else in your life have you got so badly wrong? methinks that list is a long one. bye bye liar. bye bye loser. go learn something truthful.
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  7495. @Pho-King Soup once again, you are wrong. I am a semi retired Brit, currently in Spain, work part time as a teacher on line, some of my students are Ukrainian, I used to live and work in Ukraine, my passion is for the rights of the Russian speaking population in that country, I don't need any income, I write because I love it, and I get a perverse pleasure from seeing ignorant fools like you get so much so badly wrong. always happy to connect on Zoom to prove you 100% wrong, but cowards like you are too weak to do that, I find. Keep making false assumptions if you want to remain the epitome of imbecility.
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  7496. @Pho-King Soup the problem is, you are wrong about almost everything! you need to re think life because you have no idea how to figure out the truth! why assume I am Russian when you could just ask? learn to ask the right questions and you could learn so much. have you ever been to Ukraine?
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  7497. @Pho-King Soup you show me one thing i have been wrong about. factually that is.
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  7498. @Pho-King Soup so you have not been in Ukraine since the 2014 coup? makes sense. i can tell you, everything changed!
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  7499. @Pho-King Soup so had you seen the Azov Nazi guys in Vinnitsya, where I worked in 2018, you would have quite a different opinion, right?
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  7500. @Pho-King Soup How you fell for the lies from Kiev, I have no idea. so you are fine with Zelensky limiting broadcasts in Russian and compelling Russian speakers to be educated exclusively in Ukrainian? That is a fair and inclusive, non-discriminatory way to run a country, right?
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  7501. @Pho-King Soup I am not freezing in Spain, not at all, and neither is the Ukrainian lady living on the first floor. so what is your point? if you lie right next to an elephant, all the elephant has to do is roll over, and you die. Cuba has to be very careful with the elephant right next to it, USA. and even when it is careful, Cuba gets told by USA what missiles it can or cannot have on its soil. Ukraine forgot that it has the Russian elephant right next to it, and if the elephant decides to roll over, it dies. The elephant rolled over, and Ukraine is dying, and NATO got no strength to move that elephant away.
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  7502. @Pho-King Soup did you get this upset when NATO bombed the sh*t out of the sovereign state of Libya? or was that massacre one you that cheered on?
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  7503. @Pho-King Soup so, yes, confirmation, you have not been in Ukraine since the 2014 coup. Much of Ukrainian male youth did become Nazi or Nazi sympathizers. That is not propaganda. Check, on youtube, the BBC and DW documentaries about this. keep in mind, a fact, US Senate refused to send any aid that could end up with the Azov Battalion due to concerns Azov was Nazi. Fact. interesting you dismiss everything as "flat earth stuff and stupid" but you cannot articulate any specific point that is "flat earth stuff and stupid". so, again, specific questions. do you agree with making Stephan Bandera a national hero. yes or no question.
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  7504. @Pho-King Soup oh, but there is a MASSIVE difference! The Azov Nazis were welcomed into the Ukrainian national defence force with open arms, recognized as part of the nation's very fabric! makes sense, any country with Bandera as a national hero would embrace Nazis in national uniform. The Wagners are a private group, not Russian national defence force. ONLY Ukraine, apart from Nazi Germany, has welcomed confessed Nazis in to their national defence force. ONLY Ukraine. and you support them! Got your own swastika tattoo somewhere on you?
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  7505. @Pho-King Soup so has Canada also admitted a Nazi battalion into its ranks? Trudeau had a meltdown at the sight of a Confederate flag at the truckers' protest! Zelensky cheers on the torchlight parades of Nazi groups and all their Nazi insignia! Quite a difference!
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  7506. @Pho-King Soup percentage of Nazi youth. how would you know? when was the last time you read a poll on Nazi youth in the countries of the world? you are making false assumptions. Anyone who had been in Ukraine post 2014 (so that excludes you) would see this with their own eyes.
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  7507. @Pho-King Soup Georgia and Moldova..Russia is doing NOTHING to Georgia and Moldova! The ethnic Russians of Georgia revolted and broke away, and now peace reigns in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Georgia. the ethnic Russians of Transnistria got wind of plans in Kishinyov to make Romanian the language of instruction in all schools, and they too broke away. Now, Transnistria lives in peace, Moldova lives in peace, and a Russian peace keeping force keeps it that way. It is Russia that is maintaining peace in Moldova! Not creating problems! Learn the truth for once!
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  7508. @Pho-King Soup Putin has been in power for decades and has never once threatened Poland nor Romania nor the chihuahua states (the Baltics). I would say that yes, Latvia in particular, might see Russian intervention. Simply because in Latvia the Russian speaking community are being discriminated against and just as in Ukraine, are slowly seeing their culture vilified and eradicated by Riga. So, given that Putin defends the rights of any ethnic Russians wherever they may be, Latvia may get a visit from Putin. Then again, Latvia might learn its lesson and return to treating ethnic Russians and Russian speakers fairly.
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  7509. @Pho-King Soup conspicuous by its absence is ANY mention of ANYTHING that you consider as propaganda! So, give me just ONE thing that you consider Putin propaganda, and I will either agree with you, or explain why it is a statement of truth.
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  7510. @Pho-King Soup The EU, and Poland in particular, have condemned Ukraine for naming Stefan Bandera as a national hero. Do you agree with the EU and Poland on this issue, or do you agree with the Zelensky government?
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  7511. @Pho-King Soup if it is Russian propaganda that people are freezing cold in the West, then it is also Western propaganda! There are non stop stories about people in the UK unable to pay energy bills, turning the heating off and going to "warm shelters" and yes, more people are dying of the cold this year than before, so that isn't Russian propaganda, it's just repeating Western propaganda! And there is an element of truth to it, so it's not even propaganda, really!
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  7512. @Pho-King Soup so when Bandera led a pogrom in Lvov and killed 4000 Jews, that act doesn't disqualify him from being a national hero of Ukraine in 2023? Looks like you back the Zelensky government on this one, and you consider Jewish groups, human rights groups and the EU wrong. enough said, speaks volumes. Funny when you are confronted by facts, your first reaction is always to shout "propaganda". i have a load more facts and questions for you, Nazi lover, so let's proceed.
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  7513. @Pho-King Soup by the way, notice how any alternative view to yours is automatically labelled "propaganda". On the question of Bandera as a national hero, I am on the side of the EU! So, if I swallowed a load of Russian propaganda, so did the EU, right? or maybe it's just you and the Azov Nazis that consider Bandera a national hero? Keep good company, don't you?
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  7514. @Pho-King Soup "it's for an imperialistic desire to reconstitute the long dead Russian empire" what does "it" refer to here? please send me any link to any Russian media source that states "it" (whatever "it" is) is for an imperialistic desire to reconstitute the long dead Russian empire. keep in mind, that may well be the independent thought of the broadcaster. Unlike in Ukraine, there is a degree of independent thought allowed to be broadcast in Russia.
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  7515. @Pho-King Soup calling for Ukraine to no longer exist is a LONG way from saying "the aim is to recreate the old Russian empire at its fullest extent". I see no reason why Ukraine should exist, no more than I see why Quebec should be separate from Canada, or Catalonia separate from Spain. But that's not the same as calling for a revival of an empire. But even IF some believe in reviving an empire...so what? that is their view! Some believe in EU expansion. Some believe in NATO expansion. that is their view. Some believe in an Islamic caliphate, some believe in US occupation of Syria. that is a view! Poland always calls for Putin to be overthrown, as did Biden, so no surprise some in Russia are calling for regime change in Poland. Curiously, in Kazakstan, where Russian speakers are afforded equal rights with Kazak speakers, no such calls exist! nor for Belarus! nor for Armenia! Funny how the call for Russian intervention is just into the countries where Russian speakers are discriminated against? hmmm. moral of the story..treat your Russian speakers fairly, and you get excellent relations with Moscow! surprise surprise.
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  7516. @Pho-King Soup honestly, I think you are really confused what propaganda is! it seems like to you, Russian propaganda is anything said that you disagree with! If I say I believe Russia has a stronger historical claim over Ukraine than Canada has over Quebec, for some odd reason you would dismiss my view as "Russian propaganda", right?
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  7517.  @Cavc8g  nah, just a load of bla bla bla. if there is no referee and no one can agree on what things deserve protection, it comes down to who wants to fight to have their way. law of the jungle.
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  7518. poor Jazmine, yet another victim of the old "pump and dump" move, daddy done a runner, left her skint with the wee babby. oh dear. she won't be making that mistake again, or will she?
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  7519. time to put the ball in NATO's court......Russian blockade of all Lithuania's ports....will NATO start firing missiles? WW3 here we go, if NATO has a backbone (NOT!)
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  7520. you clearly don't understand Putin or Russia. Russia intervenes militarily to defend the human rights of ANY ethnic Russians,..just ask Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia and now Ukraine. If NATO respects the human rights of ethnic Russians, it has nothing to fear. period. Ukraine joining NATO after Russia destroys Ukraine is like closing the door after the horse has bolted.
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  7521. nationalization won't mean regulation of cost to the public. it will just transfer the cost from your energy bill to prices of goods and services that will become hyper inflated.
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  7522. clever move from Putin. From now on the world will see Ukraine is the party that rejected peace. China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc will draw closer to the Russian position. Zelensky, not for the first time, out of his depth on the global stage.
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  7523.  @timg1246  Agreed. There may be an exchange of gunfire, but I doubt it. Once the French are told that any boats carrying illegal migrants will be turned back and returned to France, just as would happen at an airport when someone is refused entry, then I think you will see France crackdown on its side. At the moment, France is happy for all its migrants to go to the UK because none of them are ever returned to France.
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  7524. nothing to do with climate change, have they caught any of the arsonists yet?
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  7525.  @WHS_reviews  how about you address the points that I raise rather than calling me names and questioning my identity? oh, i forgot, because you can't.
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  7526. ​ @Luredreier  1) "legal for Russia"....since when did Putin care so much about legalities? 2) USA attacked Afghanistan because Kabul was hosting and training Al Qaeda. Just as UK is hosting and training the Ukronazis. the precedent has already been set for the "legal" attacking of a host country to enemy fighters! 3) NATO is a defensive alliance? which NATO member country was being defended when NATO planes attacked Serbia and Libya?
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  7527. you bet he will, because he knows India and China will be the middlemen that sell the Russian oil on to the West for the most astronomical mark up you can imagine.
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  7528.  @unwarym1190  USSR citizens were only called "Russians" by the ignorant. How can a Soviet citizen from Uzbekistan be called a Russian? Or a Soviet citizen from Ukraine be called a Russian? They were indeed Soviets.
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  7529.  @diomuda7903  You agree with me. It was called USSR, comprised of 15 different "republics". The capital of the USSR was called Moscow, you are correct again! Moscow was the capital of all the Soviet citizens. I don't have to guess that. I know it! Any more questions?
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  7530.  @woodsmaneh952  I'll help you out here. There was no leading republic in the USSR. All 15 were of equal standing. The RSFSR was the largest of those republics, just like Alaska is the largest state in USA. So, what's your point? That Alaska and not USA invaded Iraq and Afghanistan?
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  7531.  @woodsmaneh952  talking of leading the USSR, it was a person who led the USSR, not a particular republic, so perhaps you would consider the Georgian, Stalin, as leader of USSR. or maybe Kruschov, from Ukraine? Nice try tho
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  7532.  @woodsmaneh952  Correction: it was Brezhnev who was the Soviet leader and from Ukraine. Kruschov was Ukrainian in that he lived and worked in the Donbass but was actually born about 10kms from Ukraine. Still, both were Soviet leaders with a much stronger connection to Ukraine than to any of the other 15 Soviet republics.
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  7533.  @TheInfidel_SlavaUA  same would go for England in relation to British history, so what's your point? Which country went to recapture the Falkland Islands? England or Great Britain?
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  7534.  @diomuda7903  The official language of Australia is English. Does that mean that England is Australia? Of course not. The official language of USSR was Russian. Does that mean that Russia was USSR? Of course not
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  7535.  @0816M3RC  the official language of the UK is English. the people of the UK are mostly English and the capital of the UK is the same as the capital of England. So, in other words, the UK is led by England. No, only a fool would say that. The UK is led by Parliament with a Prime Minister as the head of the government and a monarch, a British monarch, as head of state. you are getting confused by the word "lead".
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  7536.  @0816M3RC  it makes perfect sense, because as with the USA, the USSR had no dominant state government (all 15 republics of the USSR were equally subsumed under the power of the Soviet government), As with USA, in the USSR all 15 republics were equal under the federal government (equally as insignificant, as all power rested with the Soviets, the Politburo, the apparatchiks). The capital of the USSR wasn't even a state NOR a district! Just a city! so what's your point?
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  7537.  @0816M3RC  No. Great Britain went on the Falklands mission. Not one single person in the UK would have said that England went on that mission. Just try going into any pub in Scotland or Wales and shout out "Rngland leads the UK" and see who agrees with you. You have no idea what the word "lead" means in a political context, and you need to do some more learning. Russia is responsible for any war crimes committed by Russia. USSR is responsible for any war crimes committed by USSR. Even a child could understand such a concept and yet you fail to. You are simply a deluded ignorant russophobe. Hope you get a sense of decency one day. good bye.
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  7538.  @0816M3RC  try "capital" instead of "capitol" once you have learnt the difference you might be qualified to talk about such matters
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  7539. the business leader's main point was the abolition of VAT refunds, a decision that has nothing to do with Brexit. tacked on the end was the idea that the bureaucracy of trading with the EU is a drag on sales. yep, but that would be the fault of the corrupt protectionist cartel in Brussels, because Brexiteers, by nature, are free traders. the world needs to pile pressure on Brussels to open up its markets, not on the rest of the world to happily comply with the cartel's absurd dictats.
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  7540.  @judymckee5992  yeah, I saw a report on how the River Prut is really low at the moment and badly guarded, a number of Ukrainian men have escaped Ukraine getting into Romania. It's the getting out of Ukraine that is so important, not which neighboring country is the best choice to enter. Sadly, looks like Gonzalo went the legal route and got stopped.
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  7541.  @judymckee5992  if he got caught, there would be the silence that we have now. if he were allowed out of Ukraine, surely he would have updated the world immediately. you can't surrender to Hungarian authorities if you are denied exit from Ukraine, obviously. Looks like poor Gonzalo was arrested on the Ukrainian side of the border.
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  7542.  @judymckee5992  i fear so. we would have heard something by now. there is just the slim chance that Gonzalo got into Hungary, surrendered himself and requested asylum, and was thence told not to communicate a thing until Budapest had announced something, but i think that is so unlikely:(
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  7543. there is no such thing as an impartial judgement. but certainly more and more judges in the UK are not even trying to be impartial and are openly declaring their partiality.
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  7544. yes, victory to the Azov Nazis and their valiant efforts to wipe out ethnic Russians
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  7545.  @jamesgreen1116  too old, besides, it is much more enjoyable to let dopes like you know the truth and to see your hysterical reaction. Russia is winning and NATO is powerless. learn the truth.
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  7546.  @sergeyb8  fact is Russia defines winning as securing Donbass and Crimea. the evidence that Russia is gaining territory again is the map....ever heard of Soledar, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut? 300,000 reservists trained up and ready for action. need more evidence? Ukraine now conscripting teenagers and pensioners. need more evidence? fact: Ukraine considers winning as recapturing Crimea and all of Donbass. Ain't gonna happen, you dope. learn the truth.
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  7547.  @sergeyb8  not the size of the place that is important. you like facts...here is the fact of importance. Russia is gaining territory. Ukraine is losing it. Ukraine is NATO trained and NATO armed. Russia is using convicts and mercenaries! Ukraine keeps begging for ammo. NATO can only promise it, but can't supply it. the facts. now if you think those facts point towards a Ukronazi win, you are the dumbest fool that walked this planet. learn the facts and grasp reality
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  7548. over a third of Germans already against the war and against sending more weapons to Ukraine. Pro Russia demonstrations in Bulgaria over the weekend, and anti NATO/peace demonstrations in Slovakia, the cracks are showing, give it a few more months and Europe will be falling apart.
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  7549.  @sergeyb8  not true. a year ago you read the sanctions would work, Russia would become isolated and that NATO would send no offensive weapons. Now the reality is hitting home, it looks bleak for the West and a bloody disaster for the Ukronazis. wake up!
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  7550.  @sergeyb8  "initiated the biggest arms shipment". yeah, right. that's why Zelensky does nothing but beg beg beg for more ammo and weapons, non stop, every day! The West's promises don't match what is happening on the ground.
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  7551.  @sergeyb8  the complaints about weapons was not that there weren't enough of them, but that the supply wasn't getting them into Bakhmut quick enough. that was days ago! Problem resolved and the convicts and mercenaries are back to firing 4 times as many shells on the NATO trained and NATO armed Ukronazi cannon fodder as they run for their sad lives with their tales between their legs. enjoy every minute of it, Bandera lover!
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  7552.  @sergeyb8  remember the aim of the sanctions was to remove Putin and to disable Russia's ability to wage war. Neither has been achieved. Therefore, the sanctions have failed. Just hilarious you suddenly believe the words of a Russian oligarch about Russian fiscal policy. Does this Russian oligarch also have more insight into the Russian economy than the IMF, that predicts modest growth for the Russian economy in the next year?
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  7553.  @sergeyb8  come on, Sergey, keep firing back. so far you have been given a right spanking with your nutty delusions on the Ukraine situation. This is fun, schooling a brainwashed MSM dope. keep going, please!
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  7554. what you say we need and what we can do are 2 different things. Much easier to work with Putin to resolve outstanding issues (but that requires Western leaders who can actually listen to Putin and see where compromise might exist)
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  7555.  @DreadX10  seeing the wreckage is proof of the medium you are watching making sure you see ONLY what they want you to see.
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  7556. post war prosperity happened despite Keynesian principles, not because of them.
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  7557. Given that 40% of Ukrainians want Russia to win, Zelensky is going to have to press for a LOT of treason trials before he loses the war.
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  7558. laughable that these commentators think Russia has any interest in any negotiations. Russia, rightly, has no trust in the West after the last 8 years of massacres in Donbass. Oh, don't get me wrong, Russia will sit down and "negotiate", for the sake of good optics and to keep China and India on board, but it won't really negotiate. It's winning....no need to negotiate. Ukraine missed its opportunity to get a deal back in March, when the puppet Zelensky got his orders from Johnson and Biden to keep fighting til the whole country was dead.
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  7559.  @lamestreammedia3154  he is not on trial in the Supreme Court case! So he can't be found not guilty! The court case is to decide if Trump is immune from being tried!
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  7560.  @bernardwylie9760  so curious you can't even name the crime Trump is alleged to have committed! Go ahead, tell the world what the crime was! Cue crickets! Newsflash...this was all settled 8 years ago! The Electoral Commission found no violation, Bragg's predecessor declined to press any charges, it was all settled.
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  7561.  @RunOfTheHind  par for the course...you are totally unable to explain what law he broke, and in panic run to the lame "read the indictments" whimper. When you get your brain cells in gear, announce to the world exactly what crime was committed.
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  7562.  @RunOfTheHind  indictments are just accusations. you could be indicted for bribery and corruption. so what? doesn't mean you broke any laws at all. so, just tell us, what law did Trump break?
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  7563.  @RunOfTheHind  we are all waiting for you to explain what Trump did wrong. your silence is deafening.
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  7564.  @RunOfTheHind  you wouldn't need immunity. you are not the president. you are not making life and death decisions, like Obama droning to death innocent civilians in Afghanistan. That said, you probably wouldn't be well up for going to court if you couldn't afford the legal fees and had to face a corrupt kangaroo court.
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  7565.  @RunOfTheHind  BTW, if you were working in a capacity that involved human life or death, or even grave consequences related to your decision making, I would be campaigning for your immunity from prosecution, even if you were foolish enough to think a court would exonerate you.
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  7566.  @RunOfTheHind  While presidential immunity has always been a given in certain circumstances, the boundaries of a president acting in a purely personal capacity, as opposed to in a purely administrative capacity, have NEVER been drawn, hence the relentless to and frow now happening in the Supreme Court. If things were oh so cut and dry as you claim, there would be no debate. So, the question of where, exactly, the president is personally liable, or immune, from executive decisions, needs to be made, and it will likely take a while. You have zero evidence that Trump was trying to hold on to power for himself over challenging the results of what looked like a sham election, because Trump's motives would be in Trump's mind. Not yours. "for reasons to be established" tells the story.....you have no idea of motive and no evidence of crime. As Einstein said, "if you can't explain it, you don't understand it", so your ceaselessly whimpering about "it's all in the indictment" is like a school kid asked to explain his homework whining on about "it's all in my notebook". Pathetic, truly pathetic.
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  7567. "life and death decisions for the betterment of the country" like Biden giving the green light for that innocent Afghan family to be droned to death as US forces chaotically pulled out of Kabul, you mean that kind of decision that was oh so much for the betterment of the country. Give us a break.
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  7568.  @RunOfTheHind  Funny how challenging a presidential election result all the way to the Supreme Court is fine with you when Al Gore is fighting to gain power for himself, and purely for himself, but not when Donald Trump is doing exactly the same thing to remain in power! Would you be able to pronounce the sentence, "look at what a terrible hypocrite I am"?
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  7569. so they had to film a mother greeting her son, as there was no one hugging and kissing any unrelated "Ukrainian liberators", in contrast to Severodonetsk, where Russian troops were hugged and kissed by totally unrelated babushka's to the words of "we have waited 8 years for you". Pretty clear which narrative is the more convincing.
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  7570. he has to keep saying "umm" while he thinks of the next lie to pedal
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  7571.  @CorporalCookie  you'll find a few million others see through his stalling and prevaricating
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  7572. Russian MoD just copy the Ukrainian MoD
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  7573. a healthier access to media showing the Russian perspective would benefit the sheeple of the West too.
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  7574. "normal people will never do that. they're just terrorists" "it's genocide of the nation" so, no one indicating it is Russia's fault. interesting.
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  7575.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  I have concluded that, one week into this offensive, there is not one single settlement that Ukraine has captured, and the forward Russian positions have held firm! Zelensky is silent because he can declare no success! If you were unbiased, you would conclude the same thing I have! Shoigu doesn't need any advice. BTW, where is Zaluzhny? who is leading the Ukrainian offensive?
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  7576.  @memofromessex  dream on. the Ukronazis are getting massacred, Russian forward positions are holding, looking doubtful any Ukronazis will even make it to the FIRST Russian line of defence!
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  7577.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  please explain the difference between a probing attack and an offensive. Zelensky says the offensive has started, 2 days ago.
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  7578.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  as expected, you can't answer the question. Both Shoigu and Prigozhin are doing their jobs well. Prigozhin's demoralized, poorly trained convicts, armed with shovels, beat NATO trained battalions in Bakhmut, now Shoigu's boys are destroying NATO's finest weaponry. watch it and wring your hands in angst.
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  7579.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  so Zelenski has been lying every day for months. nothing new there. just hilarious that he was finally forced to announce the offensive was happening because no one could tell if it was an offensive, given Russia's success.
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  7580.  @hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP  glad you confirm that we should not believe anything Zelensky says. I don't vote and am not Russian anyway. I would say someone a bit more hawkish, like Medvedev, would wrap this conflict up quicker than Putin's patient strategy, but Putin used the same tactics in Chechnya and Syria and prevailed there too.
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  7581. Ghost of Kiev will win the day, and Ukraine is winning, and Russia is running out of missiles and weapons, just like back in March, right? And soon the sanctions will really cripple Russia.
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  7582.  @dearmas9068  Not Russia that's begging and begging and begging for more weapons, so logic dictates your questions are best directed towards the Ukronazis you so love.
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  7583. Penny slowly dropping for Ben Hodges.......NATO promised Ukraine a victory that NATO can't deliver. oh dear. Cheer up, Ben. Maybe EU Sanctions Package number 15 will make all the difference and will cripple the Russian economy?
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  7584. USA and UK having to spend yet more taxpayers hard-earned money combatting the consequences of sanctions on Russia.
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  7585. Let's see how much resolve NATO has to keep backing Ukraine in a losing battle when CNN and co start showing captured mercenaries caged in DPR courtrooms and then swinging from a noose. Russia has won this. Just a matter of how long they take to finish the mission, and how many dead Ukrainian soldiers there will be at the point of surrender. Zelensky should have one eye on his Miami mansion already.
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  7586. Poor Ukrainian families? They voted for the lying clown who promised "to bring peace to the Donbass" and who then continued to allow the Azov Nazis to shell Donbass for 4 more years!
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  7587.  @niburu1508  name who? the law says owners of empty second/holiday homes are fully entitled to keep them that way and not be compelled to have Ukrainian parasites in them. If you want to have a Communist revolution and change that law, go ahead, otherwise open up your own home to as many hundreds of parasites as you want.
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  7588.  @niburu1508  China, Japan, Korea (both North and South), Russia...any country with no mass immigration has no, or hardly any, housing problem. you can't have mass immigration and no housing problem. it's not that the government WANTS refugees. It's that the government is unable or unwilling to tackle the problem. so, if you don't want refugees just come out and say it instead of deflecting to housing issues.
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  7589.  @niburu1508  listen, oh not so bright one, if you ask me where in the world there are no housing issues, guess what? I'm gonna tell you! Now, learn from my answer and don't ask such dumb questions again.
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  7590.  @zzmmz3789  correct, and not one single one of them asked anyone for help, shelter, handouts, and they showed overwhelming gratitude for any hospitality shown. Not one of them grumbled about being accommodated in a hotel because not one of them was accommodated in a hotel! See the difference?
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  7591.  @zzmmz3789  lies. you think all those Irish immigrants that landed in Boston went on a killing spree? let's get serious. you tell me anyone who was killed by immigrants on the American continent (apart from by the current wave of illegal immigrants flooding across the southern border) where the killing was totally unjustified.
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  7592.  @zzmmz3789  did they kill more than the indigenous people killed themselves through their constant inter-tribal battles? Did native Americans kill each other at a higher rate or lower rate than were killed by immigrants? hmmmm
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  7593.  @zzmmz3789  I have no problems with Mexicans coming to USA, if they have the right documentation to satisfy immigration requirements.
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  7594.  @zzmmz3789  so now our experts in history are "natives" in Canada and USA and no one else? In that case, as a native of Europe, I must be an expert in European history, so as an expert in European history I say no more immigrants from anywhere deserve to come to Europe. That ended that debate.
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  7595. "social conditioning"? when a soldier simply states he is going to fight for his Motherland? you think such "social conditioning" is unique to Russia?
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  7596.  @jacqdanieles  so what's your point? you don't think Ukrainian soldiers are socially conditioned in the same way?
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  7597.  @jacqdanieles  so you admit that some Ukrainian soldiers, as with some Russian soldiers, are fighting for their motherland because they have been called up to fight for their motherland and they do not question the wrongs or rights of such a call-up? Or is it ONLY Russian soldiers, no others in any other country, blindly fight for their country "wrong or right"? This is a uniquely Russian phenomenon?
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  7598.  @jacqdanieles  what about shelling innocent civilians in Belgorod and Donetsk, are Ukrainian soldiers indoctrinated to do that, or do they massacre civilians of their own free will? which one is it?
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  7599. 8 years of Azov Nazi scum shelling Donbass, killing thousands of civilians. Russian speakers want revenge. Just 7 years and 8 months more of Russian revenge for you to survive, dear Ukraine!
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  7600. oh yeah, besides the east, almost forgot about that part of the country! yet tomorrow you could be blacked out again, and nothing your beloved NATO can do about it.
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  7601.  @oleksii000  it's good for you to hear the truth sometimes
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  7602.  @oleksii000  yep, from me. your voice of truth. Ukraine will be totally destroyed and deserves it. Once you have figured that out you will understand the blunders the West has made.
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  7603.  @oleksii000  ready to meet you on Skype or Zoom whenever you have the guts to do so, and prove you wrong (not for the first time in your life)
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  7604.  @oleksii000  so you said you bet...so how much are you betting that I am Russian and that I have a Russian accent? Name the amount you are going to bet.....you sound so sure, so don't be shy to go high. then we will record the skype or zoom meeting and I can establish who I am and then proceed to collect what you owe me. which country do you live in?
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  7605.  @oleksii000  with zoom i don't even have to email you, i can just post the meeting link here. let me know the amount you are going to bet and let's get this done
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  7606.  @oleksii000  waiting for you to name the amount you want to bet. will record the meeting so all the evidence is there, and then will proceed to collect my winnings as per the contract (just stating here in the thread how much you are betting will constitute a contract). so, let's do it. how much you betting? 1000 euros maybe? You are 100% sure I am Russian and have a Russian accent right?
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  7607.  @bigzed7908  maybe, Big Zed, you would like to try your luck? friendly bet? "Oleksii" is 100% sure I am Russian and have a Russian accent. what about you? what chance do you think there is that I am a real Duncan?
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  7608.  @oleksii000  I don't report any comments! why would I? I am here to show you how wrong you can be, and to see if you are a coward or not. so, ready to bet and meet?
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  7609.  @oleksii000  of course I will show up! I am the one who knows who I am! Ready to prove you all you need to know to show you got this so badly wrong:)
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  7610.  @bigzed7908  "then", not "than"....a Russian bot has to teach you English!
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  7611.  @oleksii000  ah, so when it comes to money, then you are not so sure! why would that be? you said you bet.....were you lying? no idea what discord is, don't have telegram, but skype or zoom would work, but first let's settle on the amount you are betting. or are you too chicken to put your money where your mouth is. yellowbelly
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  7612.  @oleksii000  yes or no, 1000 euro bet. I prove via Zoom or Skype I am Duncan Smith, UK citizen, not Russian, no Russian accent, the meeting is recorded, and you promise to get 1000 euros to me. Deal?
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  7613.  @oleksii000  "45" would be the end of the handle. "smith" would be the middle part of the handle. "iand" would be the first part of the handle. put those three parts all together, no gaps, you got what you need to contact me on skype.
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  7614.  @bigzed7908  oh, and there I was thinking you might be keen to discover the truth of the accusations against me
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  7615.  @bigzed7908  if the favour of Mars = 250,000 killed and crippled ukronazis, yep, Ukraine has it!
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  7616.  @bigzed7908  which other nation, apart from Ukraine, would have Stefan Bandera as a national hero?
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  7617. But how can it be corruption? The EU is tripping over itself to admit Ukraine, now that corruption has been tackled! On a more serious note, you should see how great Mariupol now looks after Russian reconstruction. Wow! No wonder the Donbass Russians wanted so desperately, to break away from Kiev.
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  7618. next time, get a real military expert to comment. Get Brian Berletic on!
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  7619. just astounding that MSM have taken 3 years to see Biden's dementia when the honest masses spotted it from Day One. totally exemplifies why so many people despise and mistrust the partial dullards on channels like Sky
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  7620. yep, all 3 ft 8 of him
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  7621. are your prayers also for the nazis like Denis Nikitin who fights for Ukraine? What about Ruslan Onyshenko, do you pray for him?
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  7622. The day Nancy Pelosi thought it such a good idea to visit Taiwan was the moment that China started moving closer to Russia.
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  7623. AOC is right on this one (the exception that proves the rule). freedom of choice. if an individual wants to accept the risk of any negative consequences of using TikTok, that is the individual's right.
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  7624. doesn't explain why Lvov was attacked before
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  7625.  @sidpheasant7585  what stops Russia attacking Lvov every day?
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  7626.  @sidpheasant7585  as expected, no answer to "what stops Russia attacking Lvov every day?". what is not rational is your desire to make a statement and then refuse to explain it!
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  7627. accountable for what? Shell is no monopoly. it's just very well run.
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  7628.  @quarkybill  i ascribe to the "only a total fool thinks it's a good idea to rake on Russia in a land war" philosophy.
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  7629.  @jamesbass7981  so it's the EU Customs and Immigration that is to blame, bribed off by the big boys, yeah, right.
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  7630. Putin defends the rights of Russian speakers everywhere, rightfully so. He already guaranteed Transnistria's separation from the Russophobic bigots in Kishinyov, so job done. no need to bother with the cretins running the show in Moldova given that Transnistria is safe and independent.
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  7631. The government can't do anything to improve the economy except move out of the damn way and let business prosper. It's government intervention that stifles the economy.
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  7632. why not? Georgia, Chechnya and Moldova all settled on living with a victorious Russia on their territory...didn't work out so bad for them.
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  7633.  @PNH-sf4jz  at no cost at all! The Russian speakers of Moldova have Transnistria and Moldova can live with that. Ditto Georgia can live with the Russian speaking breakaways of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. For some of us, we don't see why Ukrainian nationalists DEMAND to have furious Russian speakers FORCED to be in Ukraine. Let Crimea and Donbass go. what's the problem? NATO was all for Kosovo breaking away from Serbia. Why is NATO refusing to strive for the same end for Donbass? Must be Russophobia yet again.
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  7634.  @timonsolus  just re read what you posted. Russian objective was to "control" the whole of Ukraine..ok, makes sense, yes, in that Russia would "control" that Ukraine is a neutral country, that neutrality is enshrined in its constitution, that it is a military weakling with no Nazis in its forces, that DPR and LPR are independent and Crimea part of Russia...if that is what you mean by "control" Ukraine, yes, agreed, that is what Putin wants and deserves. you should be backing him on those aims...or...you like the idea of Nazis obtaining nukes?
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  7635.  @timonsolus  I COMPLETELY agree. Putin has no right to dictate what should be in the constitution of independent and sovereign Ukraine. He only has the right to ask to discuss the matter (discussions rejected by NATO and Ukraine) and he only has the right to warn what the consequences might be (which he did, and now NATO and Ukraine see the consequences). In the 1960's the USA had no right to dictate whether Cuba should host Soviet missiles or not, but it did! So, I guess Putin was just copying the precedent set by JFK?
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  7636.  @timonsolus  AGREED again! Putin has absolutely NO right to say who should or should not be in NATO. Putin ONLY has the right to express the dangers of ever expanding NATO membership and how the Russian people would view such expansion as a threat and provocation. Given NATO revealed itself to be an aggressive, attacking organization, NOT defensive, in the cases of Libya and Serbia, Russia fears for its security. Putin only has the right to outline how Russia would act if NATO continues with such expansionist provocation...again, just as USA did in 1963 with the Cuba missile crisis.
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  7637.  @timonsolus  AGREED, any one can ask to join Nato, and anyone can be denied membership. AGREED, ONE option for Russia is to ask a NATO member state to object to a Ukrainian application. ANOTHER option is to insist that Ukrainian membership would be UNACCEPTABLE to Russia's security concerns, and that Ukraine would be subsequently demilitarized and rendered a weakling, puppet state. Personally, I think Russia should entertain BOTH options as it fights for recognition of its security concerns. I repeat, USA did EXACTLY this when USSR was sending missiles to Cuba in 1963..USA threatened military intervention. NEGOTIATIONS calmed things down. Shame NATO rejected negotiations this time as a way to de escalate matters.
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  7638.  @timonsolus  Putin's invasion came about after the West refused to talk about his concerns. Refused to talk about NATO expansion. Refused to talk about nukes in Ukraine. Refused to talk about Crimea. Refused to talk about Ukraine's refusal to implement Minsk accords. Refused to talk about the rights of Russian speakers in Donbass. Refused to talk about the Azov Nazis totally infiltrating Ukraine's defense forces. Refused to talk about ANYTHING! Now we see the results. Word of advice...if you feel you are dealing with a schoolyard bully, maybe, just maybe, try to catch him at a quiet moment, when the bully says he wants to talk, and talk....you may just find out exactly what he wants and why! worth a shot. Just bellowing out to the world "Russia bad, Ukraine good" doesn't usually help defuse the bully's grievances.
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  7639.  @timonsolus  NONE of the post 1991 expanded NATO members are "acceptable" to Russia, but Russia hasn't had the capability to respond with force until recently. The demise of NATO's abilities (last year's fiasco in Kabul revealed just how weak NATO is) and Russia's rise in confidence and military prowess (hypersonic weapons etc) has changed the equation. Kievan Rus is central to Russian history, the Crimean War is central to Russian history...the Baltic States are not viewed as part of Russia's intimate past. Obviously the abuse of Russian speakers has been much less in the Baltics than in Ukraine. There is a whole host of reasons why Russia chose Ukraine as its red line.
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  7640.  @timonsolus  "Putin wanted them to fail"...there you go again, playing the mind reader. If your reason for NATO's REFUSING to sit down and talk is that NATO could read Putin's mind and KNEW that there was ZERO possibility of forestalling an invasion, then that shows what a terrible mistake NATO made. Which ever way you spin it, NATO should have said "ok, let's talk about the post 1997 NATO members, maybe we can at least create some special status for them that might allay your concerns"...to just REFUSE to talk was the green light for Putin to give up on words and take to action.
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  7641.  @timonsolus  Also, keep in mind, many people don't understand why NATO exists at all. It was formed to stand against the Warsaw Pact in the Cold War. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact disappeared, so logically, NATO had no enemy to stand against. But NATO didn't want to abolish itself, so it turned Russia into the new enemy, though there were no grounds for that. Hence Russophobia started up, and we have had decades of non stop Russia bashing. makes little sense to the likes of Serbia and Hungary, but there we have it.
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  7642.  @timonsolus  exactly...Biden isn't prepared to play the geopolitical game on Putin's terms. So, it will be settled another way. Putin believes he can humiliate NATO to the point that globally NATO will lose all credibility after this Ukraine debacle, and that Biden's refusal to play the geopolitical game will backfire. I think Putin has calculated correctly. Putin wants BRICS, not the G7, to determine things. Putin wants an end to petrodollars, SWIFT banking system, "rules based order" as determined by the Collective West, and Putin wants a multipolar world. I agree with him, and so does most of the world, from what I see. So, the geo political game will be sorted out by other means, and I'm backing Russia to get most of what it wants. We'll see where the chips fall, but for certain, Ukraine will be destroyed as part of Lloyd Austin's aim of "weakening Russia", and that is a terrible shame.
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  7643.  @judyweeks1480  6000 nukes, same as USA
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  7644.  @bonnie7898  what if one is deployed on Lvov?
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  7645. @Newbuild Muse as long as it doesn't affect them too much, they don't care. elitist snobs
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  7646.  @PhageTheFinalCure  false choice. revoke the sanctions. meet with Putin, discuss what he wants and why. it's called acting like adults. it worked for the grain shipments agreement.
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  7647. deluded fool. like a little kid saying one day, he will fly like Superman. Of course no territory will be "ceded". it has been seized and occupied and will remain so. deal with reality!
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  7648. Wouldn't have swastika on display in public in Russia.
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  7649.  @trevorm1799  good point. CPS now works under Shariah Law, and the assumption is that female police officers must expect a man to "discipline" her.
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  7650. I guess there is a chance that McConnell agrees with Trump
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  7651. it's NATO expansion that caused all the Ukraine mess, and Biden's refusal to talk to Putin in December 2021.
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  7652. the problem idiots like Ingraham fail to address is that Russia STILL has higher outputs of weapons than NATO WILL have after ramping up! These fools were busy telling us Russia was reduced to fighting with shovels, that Russian morale was so low, that Russia was poorly led, that Russia was running out of manpower. They blabber on in a bubble of delusion. Even most of the dumb Western sheep have figured out our military "experts" are just charlatans parroting what their paymasters tell them to say. Let us have RT back to get a whiff of truth.
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  7653. The West is so desperate to pretend Ukraine is winning they have to simultaneously say that Russia is a massive threat to NATO, but also has been defeated by NATO. Putin knows there is absolute panic in the West as Ukraine slides into oblivion.
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  7654.  @andyb6866  let me guess, you didn't like the result of the Russian elections because the results reflected the opinion polls of organizations approved of by the West?
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  7655.  @ibelieveinaccuracy.fact-ch5942  just giving you a dose of the truth. looks like you are in great need of a few extra doses. still think Zelensky is the great Churchillian leader of our times?
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  7656.  @andyb6866  it is through dialogue with me that you will discover the truth. curious you are incapable of countering any points I make or answering any simple questions. want to try again? what made the candidates in Russia's election fake, or not genuine? cue crickets. your ignorance on these matters is astounding.
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  7657.  @andyb6866  tell me, before 2022, the US Senate banned any arms shipments to the Azov Battalion, because of their Nazi affiliations. After Russia's invasion, that ban was lifted. why?
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  7658. when will USA learn to respect international borders with independent sovereign nations, like Afghanistan? or Iraq? or Libya? or Serbia? Putin just following the playbook of USA and NATO
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  7659.  @anthonymorris2276  according to whom?
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  7660.  @anthonymorris2276  only a fool would assume that I have never heard of it. Logic dictates that you would keep your mind open to the possibility that I had heard of it in the absence of evidence to the contrary. For the slow of mind, let me repeat my question...according TO WHOM? ("academic discipline" is NOT a person). Ye Gods, 12 years old are you?
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  7661. how the he;; do you do a criminal background check on someone from Afghanistan?
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  7662. "Russia is strongly suspected"....only by the deluded West. Most people, when they heard Biden say an invasion by Russia would mean the US takes out Nordstream, believed Biden.
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  7663. wish we could deport illegal immigrants as easily as we deported Boris
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  7664. fantasy land. Ukraine and NATO have been demilitarized, it's over, Russia has won and deserves to win
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  7665. Zelensky increasingly making more outrageous demands? On the contrary, Zelensky is only asking for what NATO promised.......victory over Russia.
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  7666. The script of this report, as usual, written by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. Pure propaganda. Still waiting for a BBC interview with a determined DPR soldier on the love for his motherland in a struggle for freedom from Ukraine.
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  7667. any chance a clerical error could lead to BLM and Antifa all getting deported too?
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  7668. Remember, Boris Johnson has said both "Ukraine will win" and "Russia might win". With mental confusion like that, there is no hope for Ukraine
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  7669. oh, so now a fireman is also a climate scientist! ? well, unfortunately for him, he went to school on Fridays, so no chance he will graduate from the Greta Thunberg School of Climate Science with anything higher than a Masters.
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  7670.  @AA-vi1cc  ah, so someone who shares the same opinion as top climate scientists like Patrick Moore, Judith Curry, James Lindsen, William Happer, John Christy, is somehow a science "denier"? Now come on, if you know anything about science you will know there are debates within science and nothing is ever settled. let me guess.......you believe in less debate and more censorship when it comes to climate alarmism?
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  7671.  @philipkoene5345  The Fascists were SOCIALISTS! Far LEFT, but Nationalists. "National SOCIALIST WORKERS' PARTY"..what is "right" about Socialism?
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  7672.  @UnfollowYourDreams  So the homophobic, islamophobic, xenopobic government of North Korea is far left or far right?
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  7673.  @UnfollowYourDreams  by whose definition does the Left start where capitalism ends?
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  7674.  @UnfollowYourDreams  If King Charles has no political power, why does he speak at every climate emergency conference? Queen Elizabeth never did.
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  7675.  @UnfollowYourDreams  absolute nonsense. political power is the influence you have on decision makers at all levels of government, and by wading into a whole myriad of political issues, Charles has stepped WAY beyond simple "representation" and become THE political figure that has dragged the monarchy into politics. Politics in the Commonwealth IS altered by his opinions. You don't think the more woke nonsense Charles babbles on about the more the Caribbean nations want to detach themselves from any connection with the British government? Mention his name the next time you are in Nesbitt's in the Bahamas and see what people think of their political affiliation and connection with the UK! Charles has become the great deal breaker. He is steeped in politics, he has talked endlessly about it and his political influence has been extremely damaging
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  7676.  @UnfollowYourDreams  Is Cuba a hereditary monarchy?
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  7677.  @UnfollowYourDreams  which governments are far Left governments in the world at present?
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  7678.  @UnfollowYourDreams  did the people of Cuba vote for Miguel Diaz-Canel? Who was the opposition candidate?
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  7679.  @UnfollowYourDreams  Is Cuba ruled by a far Left government?
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  7680.  @UnfollowYourDreams  "the people there voted for Raul"....really? how many millions of votes did Raul get from the people?
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  7681.  @UnfollowYourDreams  No confusion here! Because I understand the full scope of words like "proposing" I can see that figures like Charles do indeed propose measures, laws, changes etc and that they use political influence to attain their aims. The confusion comes from those like you who are constrained by strict definitions and then fail to grasp reality, cloistered by narrow definitions that fail to reflect reality. You end up stating that "the people elected Raul!" Again, how many million people voted for Raul?
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  7682.  @UnfollowYourDreams  Had time to read the link I sent you? point two describes how Mussolini was a Socialist. Read it yet? You're welcome.
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  7683.  @UnfollowYourDreams  so spell out the difference exactly in the Socialist life of, for example, a teacher in Cuba with the Communist life of a teacher in China. the two systems would be immediately apparent because.......? Keep in mind the teacher in China can work for a private school in "Communist" China, the teacher in Cuba cannot work for a private school in "Socialist", only Left and not Far Left, Cuba! Such contradictions reveal the idiocy of your labeling system!
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  7684.  @UnfollowYourDreams  the problem here is I challenge YOUR notions of Left and Right. I don't declare to be instantly aware of all the nuances and differences. This debate started when I said Mussolini was a Socialist. True statement. You tried to correct me, but you are wrong, Mussolini was indeed a Socialist. Factually, you are wrong, and now I can see you have not examined the true nature of political labels. If China is "Far Left", why do the media never refer to China as a "Far Left" government. A phrase you never hear (probably because China embraced Capitalism a long time ago). You talk like someone from 50 years ago! The world has changed, old man/woman!
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  7685.  @UnfollowYourDreams  So China is "Far Left", but North Korea is not. Have I got that right? The driving force of the Chinese economy is Capitalism, but China is "Far Left". There is no Capitalism in North Korea, but North Korea most certainly does NOT belong in the "Far Left" camp, right?
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  7686.  @UnfollowYourDreams  remember, I'm still awaiting your answer on how many people in Cuba (not "Far Left" according to you) voted for Raul. You confidently asserted that the people elected him. How many people voted for Raul Castro? My Cuban friends are in hysterics at your assertion, we all want to hear how many voted for Raul Castro! What you waiting for, prof? Give us the numbers, pleeeeeease:)
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  7687.  @UnfollowYourDreams  Do you need some help? Diaz Canel got EXACTLY the same number of votes from the Cuban people (Cuba, "left" but not "far left") as Raul Castro did! It's a nice round number! Guess how many!
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  7688.  @UnfollowYourDreams  looks like you don't know anything! Capitalism is doing well in China. My online student is opening a fast-food restaurant in Nantong next week. Sounds like capitalism to me! you are so totally ignorant.
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  7689.  @UnfollowYourDreams  You are clueless. 7.4 million people voted in the elections in Cuba, "elections" where there is only one candidate per constituency, and only one party! Castro was nominated by the National Assembly, in the same way Kim Jong Un was nominated. Castro received ZERO votes from Cuban electors. And you call that "left", not "far left"! You are so unbelievably ignorant of the political world.
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  7690.  @UnfollowYourDreams  I don't need to read up on electoral law in Wikipedia. Unlike you, I know what I'm talking about. While you are on wikipedia, look up Mussolini and read about when he was a Socialist. ha ha ha, "the actual democracy happens where citizens elect the person they send to the National Assembly"...you are funny! when do you think the last time was that anyone opposing Socialism, or opposing the status quo, was "elected" by one of these kangaroo committees? the very fact you see this process as "democracy" shows how unworldly and ignorant you are. Ever been to Cuba and talked to Cubans have you? your ivory tower is a joke. Cuba = N Korea when it comes to political leadership. No one has the guts to stand against the ruling elite. No one. That ain't democracy, and you know it.
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  7691.  @UnfollowYourDreams  now you are reduced to trying to define capitalism by what it ISN"T! How about you define capitalism and then see if your definition matches what is happening these days in China...except you have no bloody clue what is happening in China, just as you have no bloody clue what happens in Cuba! Got to ask you, where do you live and where have you been on this planet?
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  7692.  @UnfollowYourDreams  read about Mussolini's years as a Socialist yet?
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  7693.  @UnfollowYourDreams  1) I am not the one specifying where in the world is Left or Far Left! That would be YOU! I asked YOU to give that info! My job is to point out you have no idea what you are talking about and to show how absurd YOUR categorization is...which I have done! 2) I asked you to point out what EXACTLY is communist about China, and what EXACTLY is Socialist about Cuba, and how such glaring differences would be apparent in the lives of the citizens of those two countries. You have failed to do that. 3) Capitalism is NOT just about ownership. Capitalism is also about operating a business privately WITH THE AIM OF MAKING A PROFIT! The Chinese government owns all the land, BUT, for a LONG TIME, CCP has been encouraging capitalism, encouraging entrepreneurs to open PRIVATE businesses and MAKE A PROFIT. just like my student opening up his restaurant soon. Like many others, he hopes to become a millionaire, and the Chinese government hope he does too! China, in more ways than Cuba, has become quite capitalist. But as someone ignorant of the reality of the world, you have no bloody clue.
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  7694. Why do you "heavily doubt" Azov Nazis are using human shields?
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  7695.  @achatcueilleur5746  no idea. you got me. sounds like a riddle. French Nazis would be friends of Pétain?
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  7696.  @alainlefebvre9860  I have no doubt at all, Alain, that you LOVE the mute feature. ALL cowards who cannot face up to the Russian perspective LOVE the mute feature...saves them from having to think at all.
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  7697.  @alainlefebvre9860  so you admit the Russians were firing discriminately!
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  7698.  @bck481  Amnesty International did
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  7699.  @mohairsam9705  well, as with nearly everything in your life, mohair, you thought wrong. a fact of life I'm sure you are totally used to by now.
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  7700.  @RavingFan  everything is so simple until it is shot down by Russia's air defense system
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  7701.  @RavingFan  lots of carnage on both sides, so the question is who can endure lots of carnage the longer. my money is on Russia.
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  7702.  @RavingFan  "keeps"? on the contrary. himars has hit ONE bridge! Ukraine claims himars hit another bridge, but didn't disable it! If himars was such a success we would have seen a Ukrainian counteroffensive and Russia would have stalled in Donbass. Nothing has changed, Ukraine keeps losing hundreds of troops every day and Russia keeps advancing. himars ain't making any difference, buddy, that's why Ukraine not being sent any more. Next wonder weapon to hit the propaganda headlines?
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  7703.  @RavingFan  if Russia had no defense against it the war would be over. Russia is still winning, so it must have some defense against it!
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  7704.  @RavingFan  then when do you expect to see Ukrainian forces in Kherson?
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  7705.  @RavingFan  or who runs out of fuel first, or who runs out of men first, or who runs out of cash donations from the west first. China and Russia both see the West as the enemy these days, so they will make sure Russia stays the course. the West might just freeze to death over the winter, let's see
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  7706.  @RavingFan  sounds like Russia will be in deep trouble soon! already in deep trouble! so when do you predict Ukrainian forces will march into Kherson?
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  7707.  @RavingFan  just 30 miles! wow! and when Russia is kicked out of Kherson, what then? Ukraine has no bridges to push on into the rest of Russian occupied territory, right? Ukrainian sitting ducks.
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  7708.  @RavingFan  so we can expect Ukrainian forces in Kherson in a few days? weeks?
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  7709.  @RavingFan  do you think some will starve to death? when do you think the Russian withdrawal will begin?
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  7710.  @RavingFan  starve means die of hunger. no supplies = no food. no food = starve. logic.
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  7711.  @RavingFan  Denys has no idea what he's talking about because Russia does not release casualty numbers, unlike Ukraine. Remember, Denys thought Ghost of Kiev was real and that Ukraine would launch a counter offensive toward Kherson! Denys lies as much as as Zelensky.
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  7712.  @RavingFan  if you are right, that supplies cannot reach Russian troops in Kherson, then Russian troops will die of starvation. my point is that, for now, there are no reports of Russian troops starving in Kherson, so maybe the pontoon bridges and ferry boats are working just fine?
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  7713.  @RavingFan  you are the one saying Russian troops are cut off from supplies, not me. follow your own logic. if Russian troops are cut off from supplies in Kherson, they will starve to death. if they are not cut off from supplies, they won't starve to death. or are you saying the Ukrainians have only managed to cut off MILITARY supplies to Kherson?
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  7714.  @RavingFan  it is not an estimate at all. an estimate is based on SOME evidence. there is NO evidence for Russian casualties, nor for DPR nor LPR nor Wagner nor Chechen casualties, hence the incredibly wide range of "estimates". it is the hardest thing to say...."we have no idea", but in the case of Russian casualties, we have no idea. The Ukrainians, however, tell us their casualties. That's the difference
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  7715.  @RavingFan  ok, so your point, FINALLY expressed more precisely, is that Russian troops will NOT run out of food supplies, but you are sure they will run out of ammo and munitions. so, the Russian troops in Kherson will be well fed sitting ducks. when do you estimate Ukraine will capture Kherson? Give us a date. My answer is never. and yours?
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  7716.  @RavingFan  you can't extrapolate from nothing! we have no info on russian dead, accept reality
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  7717.  @RavingFan  really? you been around all the battlefields counting russian corpses have you? no. no one has.
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  7718.  @RavingFan  then it sounds like you accept the distinct possibility this offensive on Kherson is all talk and no action, in perpetuity
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  7719.  @RavingFan  i think none of the bridges has been "removed". I think all three are intact, but to what extent they are functional, I have no idea. Western media has been shouting about Russia running out of ammo since March. I think it's a lie. Got a feeling the pontoon bridges and ferries are keeping things moving for Russia, and given that Ukraine has insufficient men for a counter offensive, Kherson will remain Russian and will have its referendum and will become part of the Russian Federation. But what do I know? I have only been right about everything in this conflict so far:)
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  7720.  @RavingFan  most likely. recent photographic evidence shows traffic moving freely over the dam. The West only has propaganda to push now. the truth shows Ukraine and NATO losing.
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  7721.  @RavingFan  Russia fights by attrition, so these slow incremental gains are to be expected. That is why Putin has never given any timeline for victory. As already mentioned, only a small clique in the Kremlin are privy to Russian losses on the battlefield. so you are wasting your time speculating.
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  7722.  @RavingFan  alexander mercouris reporting that photographic evidence makes it clear that both the road and rail link across the dam north of Kherson is fully operational. Russians in Kherson not cut off from supplies yet, I am guessing. what has happened to all those devastating himars attacks? nothing in the news of late! you don't think Ukraine is out of himars ammo, do you?
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  7723.  @RavingFan  i think yesterdays Russian advance towards Mykolaev answered the question as to whether Russia is able to keep supplying its troops or not. How is the great Ukrainian counter offensive going?
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  7724.  @RavingFan  western chips that Putin can obtain from China or any other of the very many neutral countries ready to stick it to the West.
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  7725.  @RavingFan  sanctions don't work. ask Venezuela and Iran. Russia has weathered the storm and will prevail.
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  7726.  @RavingFan  let's keep an eye on all the towns and settlements Ukraine captures. Beware the pockets! Russia and her allies very skilled at creating the pocket!
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  7727.  @RavingFan  is Ghost of Kiev performing well? and those heroes who surrendered on Snake Island?
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  7728.  @RavingFan  well then we can expect a rout of Russian forces very soon! I mean week after week we hear the Russian troops can't be supplied, that Russia is in big trouble, but Ukraine never advances! what do you think the problem is?
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  7729.  @RavingFan  i mean this must be very confusing for you. you told me weeks ago that supply lines were cut, himars destroyed the bridges, yet sat pics have shown no Russian movement to get out of Kherson? how to explain it?
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  7730.  @RavingFan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwDizPXHMiU Here, Brian explains what went so terribly wrong with the counter offensive, if you are interested.
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  7731.  @RavingFan  i guess when sat pics show Russians swimming across the Dniepr we'll know the collapse is complete
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  7732.  @RavingFan  then Zelensky must be lying again, because he said Kherson is no bluff, it is a counter offensive! which one of you should I believe? do you think Russia had been planning a withdrawal from Kharkov oblast beforehand? the withdrawal was remarkably ordered. Are you familiar with the Battle of the Bulge?
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  7733.  @RavingFan  was it worth the thousands of cannon fodder deaths?
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  7734.  @RavingFan  The Ardennes attack ultimately weakened Germany, so many losses, and it hastened their defeat. Ukraine just made the same mistake...expended so much manpower in a meaningless land grab, it just brought forward the moment when Ukraine will ultimately surrender.
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  7735.  @RavingFan  rope a dope, Battle of the Bulge, Kharkov = great way to wipe out your own troops for something that will not gain Ukraine anything in the big picture
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  7736. it's quite simple. change the law so that ONLY those with valid documentation that asylum has been granted may enter the UK. ALL asylum claims must be made outside the UK, either in a processing centre in Calais or at any British Embassy or online. then, any migrant caught trying to enter the UK with no valid asylum documentation can be returned immediately. France has admitted them and is obliged to take them back.
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  7737.  @jonasmlgaard-asmussen9844  1) Carlson quoted Victoria Nuland herself confessing to the presence of US sponsored bio labs in Ukraine! what better evidence do you want? 2) Ever heard of Malcolm Nance? American soldiers and British soldiers have already been killed or captured while fighting in Ukraine. Facts. Moreover, the Discord documents state there are American boots on the ground in Ukraine. Tucker is right. 3) letting someone have their say on a show is something called "free speech", maybe you have heard of it? it's part of democracy. Carlson should be applauded for letting ANYONE have their say. Your problem is you can't tell accurate reporting from the empty words of a bunch of duplicitous charlatans.
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  7738. conspicious by its absence, any mention of peaceniks in western Germany, as if they don't exist there. they do. and they are growing in number.
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  7739. "it's disgusting and it's wrong, but it's not up to us to make a judgement on it" so, if you have made no judgement, what leads you to conclude it's "disgusting" and "wrong"? this fool shows why the Tories are so hated.
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  7740.  @sallywilton2236  what, exactly, makes any invasion "legal" or "illegal"?
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  7741. Putin has EU by the balls, and he will love deciding when to squeeze, how hard to squeeze, and how often to squeeze. The point of the sanctions was to cripple the Russian economy. Opposite has happened.
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  7742. Battle of the Bulge all over again
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  7743.  @tingleblade4274  absolutely agree. MSM in the West absolutely refuses to look back to events in 2014 and ask "what could we have done differently to avoid this tragedy"
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  7744. yep, this makes sense. lying low and waiting.
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  7745. when you say "hiding out" you mean he found accommodation somewhere? another friend is hiding him? what do you think?
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  7746. Trump to win in November and Hunter Biden's judge to delay sentencing to January 31st 2025.
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  7747.  @leftbehind4030  Putin out just means Medvedev in, or Lavrov in, and those 2 favor declaring war!
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  7748.  @Andygb78  "call for peace"? Putin has no need to call for anything. When Putin has achieved the 5 objectives he listed at the beginning of the conflict, then he will declare the mission over. It really is that simple!
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  7749.  @ronagoodwell2709  How would you know what Russia was aiming for? If, as many claim, Russia fires missiles indiscriminately, then Russia is not looking for precision. If Russia is hitting military targets, it is hitting them with precision. Keep in mind, every Russian missile intercepted still has to fall somewhere. It is not a lack of "precision" when a missile that is intercepted falls somewhere unintended. Get real.
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  7750.  @Deutschland8894  so a city founded by Catherine the Great of Russia is not Russian?
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  7751.  @ronagoodwell2709  you can't have it both ways! EITHER you agree with Zelensky and the West, that the Russians fire missiles indiscriminately, OR Russians target their missiles, sometimes poorly. which one is it? It is not possible to fire BOTH indiscriminately AND target things AT THE SAME TIME. So, if your argument is that Russia does both, where is your evidence that Russia has poorer targeting than Ukraine? When you listened to the intercepted phone calls from Ukrainian forces, did they have the same kind of chatter about random firing? Let me guess, no desire to check on the Ukrainian missiles. "Ukraine good, Russia bad" is the narrative.
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  7752. there is a good chance that Russia will create a cauldron around Sloviansk, or even focus on other areas of Donetsk oblast.
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  7753.  @irenedavo3768  what does his passport have to do with anything?
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  7754.  @leightzmill  turn back the way you came. even Jay could figure out where he had just come from.
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  7755.  @fishyattacksAVFC  says who? why would you think that?
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  7756.  @pmin5554  the area he could be in, given he was on foot, is not that large at all. how many days did the Greeks take to find that other guy?
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  7757.  @ciararespect4296  a lot more likely than lying down and dying without trace in a national park.
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  7758.  @leightzmill  And Jay's body would have been found if it was 100 yards off the path, or off the road. But it isn't. Because Jay is not in that area. day light? it was day light when Jay was wandering around. yeah, it's easy to get lost, but in the Masca area you are always close to a road, a building, a human. it's not that remote at all.
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  7759.  @leightzmill  there is no evidence that Jay ever went into any wilderness! That's the problem! It's bloody hard to find a body that isn't there!
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  7760. "tackling illegal migration is a shared European challenge" so, if the migrants are arriving illegally, why are none of them arrested and thence deported on arrival in Dover?Those who act illegally don't usually get escorted to a 4 star hotel with full board provided! So, clearly it is not illegal, and the people "smugglers" are just providing a service much in demand, so why are you complaining?
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  7761. NATO is a sad joke. pledging old junk and pretending it can defeat Russia. The leaders know the truth but none of them has the balls to admit it's over.
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  7762. Gotta laugh at the naive and arrogant assumption from the minister that Central Asian countries would want to step away from supporting Russia and trading with Russia. Would never enter her tiny little mind that Central Asian countries support Russia and want Russia to win.
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  7763.  @siyacer  who is "we"?
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  7764.  @siyacer  oh, YOU are the spokesman for ALL Central Asians! How did you get chosen as the voice of all Central Asia?!
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  7765.  @siyacer  and now you make my point for me! Those who support Ukraine live in a dream world.
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  7766.  @siyacer  as expected, can't back up your assertions with any evidence
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  7767.  @siyacer  finally you start saying the truth. you start using the "I" instead of the "we". yes, "YOU" are Central Asian, and "YOU" don't want Russia to win, and yes, "YOU" are a ukronazi lover....luckily many other Central Asians disagree with you and see sense.
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  7768. the airbnb owner is one Roman Antonio Martín Canaves. Removed as mayor of El Tanque and banned from public life for 12 years, for corruption. Ramon has refused to answer his phone or respond to messages. Ramon is the brother of Ofelia, the only eye witness that says she saw Jay outside the airbnb. All these people are part of the same gang. Grill these people and get them singing and you will find Jay.
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  7769. oh wow! HUNDREDS of demonstrators? 70,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Prague the other weekend to protest the sanctions against Russia. I think we can see which way this war is going.
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  7770. "the Donetsk front is holding" says the comedian actor puppet president that promises Crimea will become Ukrainian again. He also got elected on the promise of "peace in the Donbass".
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  7771. Wow, Russia sure is busy with all its false flag operations! Destroyed its own Nordstream pipeline, shelled its own nuclear power station, now going to destroy its own dam and flood its own territory! At what point does the West start to question these absurd claims?
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  7772.  @True_Heretic  glad to see you are totally incapable of rebutting what I said. you must be......dumb?
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  7773. we are seeing the EU walk the sanctions back. MASSIVE win for Putin. the Odessa coast starts to be demined, Russian oil now allowed to be exported to third countries, Russian food and fertilizer allowed, in writing now, to be free of ALL sanctions. Lithuania now concedes and allows rail transport of all goods through Lithuania to Kaliningrad. AND Putin STILL has EU by the balls and will squeeze hard whenever he wants on gas supplies. Prices falling in Russia. ruble stable. MASSIVE wins for Putin
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  7774. No, it was NOT discovered that any of these bodies were killed during the Russian operation. In fact, the longer this goes on with no specific charges and no specific individuals accused, the more it looks like the Ukronazis did it. But of course the objective is NOT to investigate war crimes. The objective is to prosecute only war crimes committed by Russia.
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  7775. At the midway point. 19 days of the great offensive. No towns captured. 19 days left. and russophobes scoff at Russia's progress in Donbass?
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  7776.  @andrewbrock4636  there is a timeline because Serhiy Khlan set one! He told the world on Ukraine tv that "Kherson would DEFINITELY be captured by Ukraine by September". Remember? Or would you say this is yet another lie from the lips of a Ukrainian spokesman?
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  7777.  @andrewbrock4636  continue what? continue pretending there is a counter offensive? I mean, yeah, they can continue pretending forever....just looks a bit foolish to the world after a while, don't you think?.
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  7778. Russian morale is low, Russia is running out of weapons, Russia is poorly led, Russians are poorly equipped, Russia is isolated, Russia is crippled by the sanctions, Russia uses convicts on the front lines, but........Russia is winning. Oh, Gulliver, what happened? were you lying to us all this time?
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  7779. so the attack on the Officer Club, where there is a sculpture of a Mig jet outside, in Vinnytsa, during a meeting of arms suppliers and government officials, that is an indiscriminate attack on civilians!? BBC and its corrupt guests have become truly Orwellian in their lies and delusions. Officers' club house and HQ (appears to be Air Force related) hit in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. - YouTube
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  7780.  @themoderatescorner7643  Trump has been found guilty of nothing at all. Given Bragg is so inept he can't even hold violent offenders in custody on bail, what convinces you Bragg is, at the same time, so wonderfully competent he has a water-tight case against Trump?
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  7781. the BBC is so out of touch. update....morale in Ukraine is rock bottom. the vast majority just want an end to the war, even if that means handing over all the Russian speaking parts of the country to Russia. BBC just can't bring itself to tell the truth.
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  7782. hey, did you all hear today that Zelensky has agreed to sell all his foreign properties to help fund Ukraine's war effort and ease the burden on Western taxpayers? No, nor did I.
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  7783. Hunter Biden, "the most intelligent person I know" according to Joe Biden. Shows how few people sheltered Joe Biden has met.
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  7784.  @georgezee5173  they had plenty to work with, but first you have to open your eyes and then think. Ayub Abdul with his previous conviction for drugs, frequenting the festival but not going to the festival, renting an airbnb at the closest point to where drugs are offloaded on the coast, so many suspicious circumstances, and all cases start with suspicious circumstances, the evidence falls into place as you investigate. people are stopped, sniffed, questioned and searced at airports on suspicion of drug trafficking with officers having "nothing to work with" every day.
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  7785.  @georgezee5173  there in zero evidence that Jay walked "into the wilderness". a road is not a wilderness and a well marked hiking trail is not a wilderness. the landlady SAYS she saw Jay twice. no one knows, including the landlady, where Jay was intending to go. Jay never said. there has been no statement from any bar owner that they saw Jay buying cigarettes, and this is conspicuous by its absence. anyone who believes what the 2 British suspects say is a fool. Jay never said he was thirsty. listen again to Lucy's interview. Jay said "am desperate for a drink", a very different statement. the "hurt by a cactus" line was not initially mentioned, it was added later. no mention of the 2 British guys for a very good reason. Jay doesn't want Lucy and Brad to know all the details. the criminality of the case is right in front of your eyes, but if you choose not to look, you won't see it. at least stay faithful to the words that were actually said by the people involved. fabricating statements doesn't help your position at all.
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  7786.  @georgezee5173  when you are stopped at an airport and your luggage inspected, there are "no grounds" for such an inspection, but it is routine when there are any signs, at all, of unusual behavior, or even without unusual behavior. it is the questioning, sniffing and searching that subsequently leads to evidence of a crime.
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  7787. another mystery that points to police incompetence and/or corruption, is that the airbnb owner is the brother of Ofelia, who gave the dodgy eyewitness testimony. Roman Antonio Martin Canaves refuses to answer his phone or respond to any messages, according to Mailonline. He was mayor of El Tanque, but removed from office and banned from holding public office for corruption while in office. Call me crazy, but Roman is involved in the drugs business, which means Ofelia's testimony is unreliable.
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  7788.  @sollte1239  dream on
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  7789.  @amystern123  the Serbs were also told that over 50% of the electorate would need to vote for the result to be binding, which is why the boycott happened in the first place.
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  7790.  @besnikillyrian8520  yet you are incapable of rebutting the statement
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  7791.  @amystern123  strongly disagree. the Serbs of north Kosovo don't even recognize Kosovo as a state. The Serbs of north Kosovo consider themselves as part of Serbia. Makes no sense to participate in elections organized by a state you don't even recognize as existing. in fact, participating in such an election would signal you are part of that state. Bit like if a bitter enemy of yours took over your house and said "now, let's have an election to see who is boss of this house", your very participation would signal you accept the legitimacy of the vote.
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  7792.  @wamingo  Told by the very same authorities in Pristina that said autonomous Serb municipalities would be created for the ethnic Serbs of Kosovo, but which, of course was never implemented. If Blinken and the EU are telling their ally Kosovo to back down from installing Kosovar mayors in Serbian majority municipalities, you can be sure it is Kosovo at fault.
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  7793.  @wamingo  nope, just remember at the time that Pristina agreed to allowing ethnic Serb municipalities to be autonomous as long as the 50% vote threshold was met, but hey, if this issue is such that it places you firmly in the Kosovar camp of thinking it is a really good idea to impose a Kosovar mayor on a Serb community after receiving just 3% of the vote, go for it. Just don't expect said mayor to be alive for very long, obviously.
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  7794.  @jeremytine  of course they refused to participate in an election held by a state they don't recognize. And NATO won't enforce what the Kosovars promised, so NATO has no one but themselves to blame for their peace keepers getting beaten up by angry Serbs.
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  7795.  @jeremytine  "They" are making it NATO's problem. Even Blinken and the EU find themselves having to lean on Pristina to sort this out.
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  7796.  @jeremytine  the Kosovo time bomb has yet to explode. Be patient.
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  7797. even Fox duped into believing the fake ISIS claim of responsibility. sad.
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  7798. Anyone calling Tommy Robinson "far right" is just far left. the Sun should be ashamed of selling Britain out.
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  7799. There is NO evidence whatsoever that Ukraine air defenses are improving. On the contrary, every time Russia strikes the power grid Ukraine gets more extended periods with no power. Only a fool would believe Ukrainian sources about the rate of interception of these missiles.
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  7800. "what has surprised everyone is the role drones have played" No, Nick, it is only the imbeciles at NATO that never counted on the effects of drones. Russia had all its plans with drones from Iran a long long time ago when Russia realized that big arrow offensives are not worth it. NATO is the slowest kid in the class, not "everyone".
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  7801. Looks like if Biden steps aside, the Democrats have the 2024 Presidential election all wrapped up.
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  7802. the bridges over to Kherson have been destroyed months ago, and STILL Russia keeps supplies flowing and is now preparing to dig in for the winter, so we can quit blabbering about "well soon supplies will dwindle"
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  7803.  @x2lls  you obviously don't understand it is human beings employed to ensure the backup works. Incompetent employees = shaky backup.
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  7804. really promising? over 1000 men dead, weaponry destroyed, no territory gained, nothing has even got past these forward Russian positions! The Russians waiting at the FIRST defence lines have been twiddling their thumbs for a week!
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  7805. "nobody wants them near them" Gary Linekar does. Build a huge migrant centre next to his house in Richmond.
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  7806.  @mochtegerndane7097  definition of "defeat" varies in each individual case, and each individual conflict will see the sides involved fighting for different aims. BTW, you re confused between the USSR and the Russian Federation. It was the USSR, led by a warmonger Ukrainian, Brezhnev, that failed in Afghanistan, but don't let details bother you. Back to the point, Having seen how hapless NATO were at exiting Kabul in 2021, only a fool would have though a NATO supported Ukraine would be able to defeat the world's largest nuclear power, Russia.
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  7807.  @gizmo6746  you are ignorant. the people of the Donbass are free and have chosen to separate from Kiev and subsequently join Russia. Just as Crimea did. Reminder, in Crimea, The Crimean parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev in 2014. it is the Ukrainian parliament that has no opposition parties present. In the Duma, Putin has to deal with opposition parties all the time. you have zero idea about freedom in that part of the world. stop being a sheep and repeating the garbage you are fed by Western media. wise up.
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  7808.  @gizmo6746  at least now in Donbass ethnic Russians can celebrate their language and culture, not that such freedoms would be of much importance to dictator-lovers like you. fully on board with Bandera being a national hero of Ukraine are you? 4000 Jews massacred by him not worth lamenting?
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  7809.  @maxicolas  Ukraine is dumb, on a suicide mission
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  7810.  @hugoc2660  Both Russia and Ukraine operate through the oligarchy system. But there are 2 big differences. In Russia, Putin controls the oligarchs. In Ukraine, the oligarchs control puppet Zelensky. Putin takes none of my tax money. Zelensky begs and gets chunks of my tax money. Learn the differences.
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  7811.  @mochtegerndane7097  and you think patriotism, "my country wrong or right" trumps cost of living and health? you are a fool. don't confuse having no particular affiliation to any country with having no principles.
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  7812.  @hugoc2660  who cares? Russia's list of 5 objectives will be accomplished whoever is alive or dead in the leadership.
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  7813.  @hugoc2660  we will see what happens. don't assume anything for now, but most probably either Prigozhin will be captured and tried for treason, or an agreement will be made to accommodate Prigozhin's complaints. Prigozhin's own personal contract is up, and many Wagners are also anxious about their contract status. It is the downside of having a private army that has become so successful. Either way, Ukraine still gets hammered every day, so enjoy the sideshow while your fellow Nazi lovers get massacred.
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  7814.  @hugoc2660  everything is going according to Prigozhin's plan. give it 24 hours.
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  7815.  @WolfgangMahringer  Wolfgang.....nice name...of Germanic stock, presumably. it warms your heart to see Nazis on the march again?
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  7816.  @keithpalmer4547  keep losing russian? I can't help that! I don't use my russian much these days, so obviously I am losing it. My Russian was much better when I lived in Ukraine and chatted with Russian speaking Ukrainians. How's your Russian these days?
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  7817. This fool has taken his eye off the 5 objectives of the mission...Russia is close to attaining those 5 objectives. "Demilitarizing Ukraine" means killing more Ukrainian soldiers, which, thankfully Zelensky is aiding by refusing a strategic retreat and sacrificing hundreds of lives a day in Donbass. Avenging the 8 years of Donbass butchery is close at hand, and it is well deserved
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  7818. the only thing needed to bring immigration down is a backbone in the government.
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  7819. "I've subsequently become aware of more information..." = I'm so uneducated and ignorant that I didn't figure out that if this guy fought the Russians in WW2, that means he must be a Nazi. but neither did the rest of Parliament when they gave him a standing ovation, so, it's not so bad, we are all as dumb as each other.
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  7820. "How Russia is struggling"....6 million refugees, Ukraine or Russia? Bankrupt and dependent on Western aid in the billions. Ukraine of Russia? Pensioners going to freeze to death this winter..Ukraine and Germany, or Russia?
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  7821. Russia only fights for the rights and fair treatment of ethnic Russians. Hence Transnistria, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and now Ukraine. Treat Russians fairly, and you have no problems with Russia. Screw Russians over, like Ukraine tried to do, and you eat shit and die. Simple rule, really.
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  7822. two more chattering fools who don't understand that globalism means sanctions won't work against a big player like Russia. EU on sanctions package number 12? (the first 11 were so successful, right). Come on ukronazis, get on with the counter offensive so another 100,000 of your cannon fodder can be wiped out and this nonsense put to bed.
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  7823.  @АнастасияК-ь4р  правда, отношения с НАТО сейчас важнее будущего украинского народа
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  7824.  @Jack-e5t  it clearly does, in the case of Ukraine.
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  7825.  @Jack-e5t  a lot lot better than it is going for Ukraine, and the EU and NATO
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  7826.  @thianthiptopia2925  really
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  7827.  @tonupharry  will never happen. Russia has won
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  7828.  @Jack-e5t  the atms dispense plenty of money. the problem is the goods that money can buy are getting scarcer and cost a lot more.
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  7829.  @thianthiptopia2925  more important than the "right to decide" is the power to decide. USA has the power to decide how things go in Cuba and Venezuela, and the sovereign rights of those two countries cannot change that. they are not powerful. USA is. Same goes for Ukraine and Russia. Harsh realities of realpolitik.
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  7830. so, a contradiction here, he says "there was no value in this attack, for Ukraine" and yet, he says that the Russian security service should have prevented this! Russian security now expected to protect every single car in Russia from a Ukrainian terrorist attack?
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  7831. Mr Umm, umm is umm back a uum again. Is this the best orator they can dig up to present this propaganda? Counter offensive in Kharkov? I thought the Russians had been pushed back to the border north of Kharkov? Remember the photo of Ukrainians by the border post? Sounds like the Russians are happy to give some ground if it means another few thousand Azov Nazis end up in the meatgrinder.
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  7832. oh yes, when Sleepy Joe is talking about the country that he and his son milked for millions of dollars, and is still milking, he gets all pumped up. Ask him to point to Yemen on a map and talk about the death and destruction there, and he goes silent.
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  7833. yet another Welshman wielding a knife. the suspect is 100% Welsh, right?
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  7834. yeah, amazing isn't it, voters in a white majority country that see their country burned to the ground by Arabs and black people, then don't go and vote such people into power. really weird that.
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  7835. waiting for the bumbling idiot Clarke to assess the total catastrophe of a counter offensive to date. 7 abandoned villages and a pig farm re- captured, only 10,000 ukronazi cannon fodder dead, not one single ukronazi anywhere near the first line of Russian defences. at this rate, the ukronazis will reach the Sea of Azov in 16 years. problem is, there won't be any ukronazis of fighting age left.
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  7836. good idea for NATO to guard against Biden doing what he did to Nordstream, destroying valuable infrastructure.
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  7837.  @steveb951  Just a reminder of the scorecard, Steve. Over the last 20 years, Muslims and immigrants killed by the far Right = 0 White British killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+
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  7838.  @steveb951  Islam = Far Left. It's not the right that champions massive families living parasitically off the welfare state
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  7839.  @steveb951  massive families all funded by the welfare state..typical Far Left behaviour
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  7840.  @steveb951  look at the commonalities between the Quran and the Communist Manifesto
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  7841.  @unusedsub3003  glad to see you are incapable of rebutting the point made. In the Cayman Islands there is a village called Hell. How about you go to Hell?
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  7842.  @nikko7507  "I can't go back there, I can't go back there" Jay said to Lucy, so he was fearful of returning, therefore surely glad to get out of there. having a smoke can indicate stress as much as relaxing. it depends.
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  7843. Putin is no dictator. Unlike Zelensky, Putin faces opposition parties every day in the Duma. Putin is going to end the war in Ukraine that started with that unconstitutional coup in 2014. One of the best leaders of the world.
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  7844. they are on contracts, and it is extremely rare that Russian servicemen break their contracts.
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  7845.  @solconcordia4315  Correct. If the Russian state breaks the terms of the soldier's contract, the soldier can legally refuse to fight. Incorrect. It would be suicidal to sign to fight for the Ukrainians, and Russians know how evil Kiev has been in all this since 2014.
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  7846. always fair and balanced, the BBC will always broadcast what Ukraine claims, and refuse to broadcast what Russia claims. totally explains why people in the West believe Ukraine is winning.
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  7847. Armenia has decided to head down the same path taken by Ukraine....not a good idea. Fortunately, the Armenian people can see what a deluded traitor Pashinyan is. Blaming Russia won't work this time.
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  7848. KT is dumb. US can't manipulate the world oil price. OPEC can. Russia and OPEC are working hand in glove. Putin is several steps ahead of Biden. well, everyone including Mickey Mouse is.
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  7849. if you are morally outraged by the tax system, you still have to abide by it. if you are morally outraged by the right to buy system, you should obviously refuse to buy. why can this dope not see the difference?
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  7850.  @schloops8473  All the sources banned in the West. "Which sources should I consider valid, professor?" - "All the ones they ban you from seeing!" replied the sage.
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  7851. yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons. what did Ben Wallace say back in October? Russia only has enough missiles for 3 more attacks?
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  7852. as usual with western media, repeat the message of heavy Russian losses, but absolute silence on Ukrainian losses. why? hiding something?
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  7853. and all this because Ukraine remaining a neutral country and allowing the Donbass to join Russia was such an abhorrent idea.
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  7854. and if I have been there, and I compare it to where I live in the Pyrenees and tell you that for dogs to find a human body in the Masca Gorge or Barranco de Juan Lopez is a walk in the park compared to the Pyrenees, what would you say?
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  7855.  @stuartfaulkner  as I said, for dogs to locate a body at the bottom of a ravine is a piece of cake. it's what they are trained to do. you confuse locating a dead human with retrieving the body of a dead human. it's a cover up. if you tried tomorrow morning to disappear without trace in the Masca Gorge you couldn't do it, unless the Guardia Civil wanted to fail to find you.
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  7856.  @elizabethfermor344  Boris and Truss had failed on migration and were just as guilty of ruining UK'e energy policy and creating massive inflation
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  7857.  @jamesprice4647  conspicuous by its absence, any rebuttal. yawn.
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  7858.  @JJ-zg1hh  "without a trade agreement" = government interference. As I correctly stated, all that is needed for trade to flow is for governments to step out of the damn way. The WTO is yet another governmental institution that steps in to manipulate the free market. There are plenty of places that have nothing to do with the WTO, and they are thriving places. I used to live in one! Try to conceive of a world beyond the rules and regulations you seem so married to! The WTO exists to facilitate trade. Two consenting parties that find a way to trade without WTO interference should get the blessing of such an organization. That they don't tells you all you need to know about the WTO! True free trade would see no queues, no documentation needed, just businesses working with businesses, but the EU is a cartel, and so must institute protectionism that then ensures higher prices for its citizens. EU citizens will never get a good deal while the EU insists on its cartel practices, and the UK will never get a good deal with the EU while it is faced with working with a cartel. UK would be best served by resolutely seeking free trade, and free trade that is free from bureaucratic intervention, from any partner on the planet eager for the same thing.
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  7859.  @JJ-zg1hh  absolute nonsense. how the hell do you think the world survived, coped and prospered before government regulations on trade? Legal action? Are you serious? what the hell kind of legal action is going to happen to an importer who sells goods to satisfied customers? the only "legal action" would come from government busybodies frustrated that they are not getting a cut from the deal! As I said, there are places that are not part of the WTO! How do you think they survive? Believe it or not, they survive and there is no "legal action". My idea is the way it could be and should be. your way is how to think only within the box. grasp what genuine free trade is and you will grasp that it is a win-win.
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  7860.  @leonardwilby9427  good to hear. not sure you will ever convince these bed-wetters that constantly wring their hands about our "catastrophe" of losing frictionless trade with the single market, but they were so indoctrinated with the EU cartel protectionism nonsense that they just can't conceive of life free from Brussels diktats.
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  7861.  @dantownsend4246  "unfair" trading practises such as....? there is no "dumping" of goods. goods are bought and sold according to supply and demand. sounds like what you are saying is the industrious Chinese need to be prevented from selling huge amounts of their inexpensive products, that cost lot less than Western products, so that consumers are forced to pay a higher price. Trading blocks are just cartels that use protectionism and beggar-my-neighbor policies to keep their own inefficient businesses running.
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  7862. oh, right, so if a hospital has Ukraine military and weapons inside, then it MUST NOT be treated as a target, ever. we must always believe the Ukraine narrative. Ukraine good, Russia bad. always.
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  7863.  @tomasnozka1  Only a fool would have thought, back in 1989, that it would be wishful thinking that the Czech Republic would one day be in the EU. To those who were wise, back in 1989, it was quite clear that the entire Soviet system was collapsing and that Eastern Europe would soon be free to determine its own future, So sad that you were not one of the wise ones back in 1989.
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  7864.  @tomhenry897  160 k less than Ukrainians, so Putin's operation going well.
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  7865. just hilarious that Biden allows real national security threats to pour across the border every day, while wringing his hands about Russian satellites.
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  7866.  @stevenmartin8828  of course, Russia destroyed its own Nordstream pipelines, shelled the power plant it occupies, destroyed the dam it controls, all of this makes perfect sense to Western sheep fed MSM propaganda.
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  7867. eagerly awaiting Bill to announce he'll be voting for Trump, or at least refusing to vote for Biden
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  7868. Lavrov makes sense...with Ukraine in possession of longer ranged missile systems, makes sense to expand the buffer area in Ukraine to protect Mother Russia. On the subject of Kherson, note that the map never changes. Not one single village, town or settlement is ever mentioned as captured by Ukraine's counter offensive. Total myth. Glad he thanks Bojo.....am sure he will be thanking Truss soon, for more dead Ukrainians, more refugees and more suffering.
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  7869. "when are we going to wake up to this?" dunno love, were you there walking shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson and the EDL?
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  7870. at some point idiots like Keane will grasp that Russia's GDP growth is BECAUSE of the sanctions, not DESPITE the sanctions. at some point idiots like Keane will grasp that Navalny's demise was vengeance for Lira's demise.
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  7871. NATO withdrew from Afghanistan so gave the Taliban full control over all the women there, so the West already showed it doesn't care enough for women in Afghanistan. The West has pushed Iran into Russia's arms over the futile war in Ukraine, so the West has done all it can to abandon women's rights in Iran. so why, now, wring hands over women in Afghanistan and Iran? Too late. consequences.
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  7872. Hodges not bright enough to understand that the West CAN'T supply Ukraine with what it wants. It's not that it WON'T. The NATO cupboard is empty, yet this imbecile keeps talking about severing the land bridge. $110 billion led to a totally failed counter offensive, yet another $60 billion will lead to victory and a glorious march to Crimea. Lala land.
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  7873. "the police are trying to help people" well, the people are trying to help some people, like jihadists protesting in London and Pakistani rape gangs. doesn't look like the police are helping little white girls at a dance class very much.
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  7874. MUCH greater chance that Macron, Johnson, Biden, Scholz, Draghi will face regime change/waning of power and influence way before Putin does. Remember Obama's "Bashar al Assad's days in power are numbered?"
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  7875.  @sH-ed5yf  I expect them to admit that when Russians target residential areas they are targeting the places where Ukrainian forces are hiding. just the truth. don't you expect the truth?
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  7876.  @sluxi  it would be "have never heard" not "have never hear". don't leave illiterate comments here again.
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  7877. Only a coincidence that this version of events is announced the day after Scholz and Biden chat about things in DC. So, now we are supposed to believe that a rich Ukrainian dude hires a yacht and explosives in Poland and beats Joe Biden to do the deed that Joe Biden already promised he would do?
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  7878. she got it right. Screw Cop 26, as Greta said, it was all just bla bla, bla, let's burn coal like there is no tomorrow.
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  7879. peace in Ukraine would end up just perfectly for Europe. Russia's demands should have been met last year, Ukraine to be neutral, demilitarized, denazified, Crimea and Donbass to become part of Russia. Putin has been in power for decades and never once threatened any advance in Europe. All this panic about "Ukraine is just the beginning" is absolute nonsense.
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  7880.  @davidnoelfranks1124  and little zele may well have his wish come true:)
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  7881. So your Russia expert doesn't know the "justification" for Russia threatening limited energysupplies to Germany? Did your "expert" miss the 7 rounds of sanctions placed on Russia by the EU?
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  7882. Gave him 3 minutes to make his point, but all he did was say how great his company was and had been. yawn.
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  7883.  @kathy571  Yes, Zemmour is indeed an Algerian Jew, which shows you that he knows exactly wherein lies the problem with immigration. Culturally, he understands EXACTLY what drives this criminal behavior in the immigrant population. Jews, like the Chinese and Hindus, are remarkably law abiding immigrants. Muslims aren't.
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  7884. oh, the wonders of virtue signalling about the wonderful humanity of being a Sanctuary City.
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  7885. one thing we know, is that no Police officers will be taken off duty from monitoring hate speech on line.
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  7886. just google "Guardia civil conferencia de prensa" and see how often the Guardia Civil brief the press and public on their cases. it's lies to suggest they don't hold press conferences or release information. it was the Guardia Civil that announced Qassim, the conviced drug runner, was of "no relevance"
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  7887. the usual dumb russophobic nonsense
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  7888. how can lack of "integration" be blamed when so many immigrants refuse to be integrated. their aim is to replicate in Sweden the societies they left in Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
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  7889. Putin will be more tempted to "try again" if the West continues to break international law by seizing Russian assets and destroying Russian infrastructure such as Nordstream. The best the West can do to deter Putin is to behave in a civilized manner.
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  7890. the soundbite snippets are invaluable to gauge the delusion and lunacy forthcoming in the report.
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  7891.  @kevinb9830  given the amount of trouble Lucy is in, my guess would be to take the next flight to Paraguay and start looking for the most remote house in the country, probably a palace named "Casa Cocaina"
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  7892. down to 3 days. just curious why "expert" Crump has offered NO explanation as to why the Ukrainian offensive on Kherson never happened, and why "expert" Crump failed to see the Russian offensive on Nikolayev happening? Western media silent on this failure. why? referendums look set for Sept 11, and given a "yes" vote, that frees up Russia's contract soldiers to then be based in "Russia", freeing up the expeditionary force to march further into Ukraine. But Ukraine is winning, right?
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  7893. Every time the American trans fool makes an appearance, support for Russia around the world just sky-rockets.
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  7894. based on that clip, no normal restaurant should risk allowing vegans in.
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  7895.  @slavsh  I saw Bandera everywhere when I lived and worked in Ukraine and know how nazi and fascistic the Kiev government is. the only people who say that Russia is the agressor are those who are ignorant of what happened 2014 to 2022
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  7896.  @ddff3618  why would you assume that I have not moved to Russia? Why would you assume my support for Russia means that moving to Russia is a practical alternative to where I am now?
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  7897.  @THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of  you must be referring to the likes of Marion Jones, Ben Johnson, Marita Koch, Lance Armstrong, and all those biological males who now claim to be female athletes, right?
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  7898.  @ddff3618  i prefer to be in a country where thousands of people are arrested every year for online hate speech, so, Russia is clearly not for me. UK it is!
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  7899.  @leilagrant6701  well maybe Russia was just copying what USA has done, invading multiple countries repeatedly! Just a thought!! Some of us thought the rules based order applied to all countries, not just Russia!
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  7900. Putin will freeze people in Europe? Wait a minute. It's EUROPE that said it wants no more Russian energy! Oh, I see, European arrogance is such that it has the right to say "no more Russian energy AFTER the date WE set"? Give me a break, you fool
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  7901. how pathetic does this get? "talking about an effort to launch a counter-offensive" this "talk" has been going on since MARCH! FIVE days ago Zelensky lied that territory was being regained in Kherson oblast step by step! The map hasn't changed for FIVE months! The bumbling "expert" fails to mention Ukraine has already tried and COMPLETELY failed to destroy any infrastructure that would hamper the Russians. Would get a clearer picture if we listened to Radio Ukraine!
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  7902. come on NATO, give the Russian pilots much satisfaction, get your NATO pilots in the air and thence sent home in body bags, about time NATO started boosting military cemetery numbers, not just dear little Ukraine.
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  7903. another fool who misses the point. what good is a weapon without experienced trained crews? What good is a weapon with no ammo? What good is a weapon if it is not fully integrated into all the other systems that pinpoint, update and track enemy movements? HIMARS handled by a bunch of 18 year old recruits from Lvov ain't gonna frighten Russia. Besides, Ukraine had HIMARS and god knows what at the beginning of the war. Russia destroyed it all. Same thing about to happen.
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  7904.  @AlternativeBrew  ok, I stand corrected! trillions just sounds like an impossible amount to spend on one country! But in this case, USA was extra generous!
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  7905. well well well, the BBC calling out Saint Zelensky for his rush to judgment and finger pointing at Russia. Wonders never cease. Next we will be hearing the BBC say Russia did not blow up the Nordstream pipelines.
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  7906. The game is up. We all know it, apart from the Western media and the weak of mind. Even Western politicians know this is unwinnable for Ukraine, hence no more visits to Kiev to chat with Zelensky. Everything depended on the sanctions on Russia, to prevent Russian financing its war. The sanctions and isolation of Russia failed. Now we have seen a bunch of convicts and mercenaries defeat NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian battalions in Soledar, we know it's over.
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  7907. Ukrainian terrorists following up on the Dugin murder. The sooner Russia wins the better. Bit confused by this "Crimeans who support Russia" line. How can there be any? I thought it was "Russia bad, Ukraine good". She must have misspoken.
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  7908. Sanctions on Russia hurting the West so badly they have to crawl back to Maduro and beg for forgiveness.
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  7909. Putin won round one, hands down. let's see how the fight goes in winter
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  7910. "No way of solving it?" Pass a law that says all asylum claims must be made from outside the UK. Then anyone arriving in UK waters will be illegal and can be returned on the spot.
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  7911. men not shaking hands with women is quite normal in Muslim societies, and vice versa. The man has every right not to shake her hand, but in turn she should have refused to continue with the visit, as it is a sign of great disrespect to her.
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  7912.  @NYJGreatness  Russia already sorted out the discrimination against Russian speakers in Moldova and Georgia. Latvia might be next, but probably Latvia got the memo and now is careful how it treats its Russian speaking citizens.
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  7913. IF 60% of Russia's tanks are blown to pieces, and 90% of Ukraine's tanks are blown to pieces, guess what? It's a perfect time for Russia to go on an offensive! Russia's economy is remarkably resilient, because Russia exports what the world needs. EU is heading to North Korean standards. How many pensioners do you think will freeze to death this winter in Germany? Which country will have energy rationing first, Germany or Russia?
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  7914. yeah, that's right, the defensive alliance NATO should defend its member states by killing Serbs in Kosovo.
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  7915.  @awf6554  I am reporting what has already happened. that is called "history". it is not connected to engineering. Looks like reading comprehension is not your forte.
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  7916.  @emm_arr  it does nothing to hurt the Russian war effort. The land bridge/Novaya Rossiya is the supply route. How do you think Russia suppled Crimea for the 4 years before the bridge was built? no holiday in Ukraine this year. and you?
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  7917.  @ChrisVillagomez  is the bridge currently operational? do the ferries still operate? how many flights go from Russia to Crimea every day? how did Crimea and Russia cope for the 4 years when there was no bridge?
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  7918.  @awf6554  no need to inspect any bridges to see the history that whenever they are hit, they are up and running soon enough. it's called a "pattern". look up the word "pattern" some time. yep, BBC and Media Zona have released their well researched estimation on the number of Russian dead so far in this war (30,000). In a war of attrition, given the Ukraine number is so much higher, one can conclude that bombing bridges is not hurting Russia. On the contrary, it just wastes missiles that Ukraine is eternally begging for. Note that Western media have stopped shouting "Russia is running out of weapons"! it's because the Russian war effort is going well:) truth hurts, eh?
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  7919.  @dragani2330  gotta laugh at your assumption the West can keep up an indefinite flow of aid and weapons. like a magician pulling tanks and F16s out of a hat quicker than Russia can destroy them wake up. sanctions on Russia failed, isolating Russia failed. Russia is the master of long, steady wars of attrition. it's over. Ukraine is screwed.
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  7920.  @samipan3410  on its knees? ruble strong against all currencies, revenues from energy exports booming, prices now going down, .....ain't gonna be Russian pensioners freezing to death this winter! How's inflation and energy prices looking in the West:)
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  7921. Notice how he assumes the West's "drip-feeding of weapons" is by choice and not due to successful demilitarization of NATO by Russia.
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  7922.  @kirkpatrick7475  that's right, 18 year old kids, three months basic training, thrown into the meatgrinder of fanatical Chechens and 24/7 Russian artillery. Total myth that Ukraine has better equipment too. If it did, why does so much of it get destroyed and more and more needs to be begged from the West?
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  7923.  @iron_labrador  not quite, but let us assume you are right, and Lyman is encircled, what I said still holds, that if the Russians can punch through to Siversk, the Russians can in turn surround the Ukrainian forces to the south of Lyman. Keep in mind the rope-a-dope tactics. It may well be that the Russians made a bad mistake in not abandoning Lyman, but it could well be that the Russians are standing and fighting in Lyman for a reason. By the way, how is the massive Kherson counter offensive going?
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  7924. you seem to know Putin's mind quite perfectly...just like all the other deluded Western analysts. Reality, shock though this is to you, could well be the opposite of your assumptions.
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  7925. Given Ukrainian shells have been killing people in the DPR repeatedly recently, any retaliation from Russia is fully justified. Those of us who want ample revenge for the last 8 years of butchery in the Donbass hope the next shopping mall is absolutely packed with Russophobic Ukrainians.
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  7926. is every town recaptured by Ukraine "strategic"? Are there any of little or no importance at all?
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  7927. Just amazing how Russia is demilitarizing BOTH Ukraine AND the West.
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  7928.  @bonnie7898  so funny you think Ukraine still has the capacity to manufacture drones. it doesn't. you really need to watch some other media to get a grasp of reality. BTW, who were the 3 allies that met at Yalta to discuss the end of WW2?
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  7929.  @bonnie7898  that's right, the nation that keeps insisting Russia follow the "international rules based order" is the one sending cluster munitions, which over 100 countries have decided should never be used in combat. i guess "international rules based order" = whatever USA says is right. into month 3 of the great Spring counter offensive...how many villages/towns/cities has Ukraine recaptured|?
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  7930.  @bonnie7898  why should anyone listen to you? the one who didn't know that the USSR was one of the allies! Russia was ACCUSED of using cluster munitions in Ukraine. Russia denied it. Remember, don't believe everything your Western media tell you. Russia has now promised to use its massive stock of cluster munitions (much bigger that USA's) in retaliation Happy? Satisfied? which side are you on? The Western nations that say such munitions should be banned, or USA's side? Pray tell. Plenty to see here...namely the ONLY reason, as Biden confessed, cluster munitions are being sent to Ukraine is because the USA is so low on regular 155mm shells. Yes, confirmation that Russia is demilitarizing BOTH Ukraine and USA. Plenty to see here, read it and weep, Banderite.
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  7931. Muslims and immigrants imported into the UK by Tommy Robinson and Russian bots = 0 Muslims and immigrants imported by the government = millions. the blame should apportioned proportionately
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  7932. "The fight in Ukraine keeps Russia at bay"....no, Ben, Russia has UK in its crosshairs because of you, Liz Truss and Bojo aggressively doing all you can to weaken Russia.
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  7933. of course, given Ukraine "evacuated" everyone who wanted to be in Ukraine and not in Donbass, makes sense
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  7934. Bell is a useless analyst. Brian Berletic is so much better. No mention of Russian advances in Kupiansk and Svatove areas? No, of course not. keep the sheep ignorant.
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  7935. Putin has been in power since 2001. How many EU or NATO countries has he invaded since coming to power? Which country, USA or Russia, has military bases all over the globe threatening anyone who steps out of line?
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  7936.  @Dumka78  All those whose forefathers fought against the Nazis demand an apology from Ukronazia and its puppet leader, Zelenski, for so celebrating a nazi in the Canadian Parliament.
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  7937.  @yulgol7136  shot or shut?
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  7938. but half of Ukraine wants Russia to win. none of Afghanistan wanted USSR to win.
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  7939. oh boy, Ukraine dearly needs lots of symbolic victories while hundreds of its cannon fodder soldiers get massacred every day.
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  7940. NATO policy.....send weapons, watch them get destroyed by Russia. train soldiers, watch them get massacred by Russia. send money, watch it get stashed into the oligarchs' bank accounts. Recipe for such a wonderful success.
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  7941. "we all know we need to survive climate change" there you have this dope's agenda thrown at you full in the face. there is NOTHING that UK can do that can alter any climate change consequences, but this fool pretends there is.
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  7942. "Ukraine has struggled to mobilize more men" translation - "Russia has killed, crippled or captured so many Ukrainians that it is close to demilitarizing Ukraine"
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  7943. Could be that the Saudis will indeed release more oil onto the world market. The Saudis are now importing cheap Russian oil, so that the more expensive Saudi oil can be offered to desperate types like Biden and the EU...For the West, just a matter of printing more money to pay for it. What a useless bunch of leaders have landed on us.
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  7944. oh, Lord West, so suddenly the grain problem is indeed tied to Ukraine's refusal to demine its coast, not to a Russian blockade! Didn't take you long to change your narrative! and what about all those Russian subs....are they having to pull back, or are they happily stalking the waters ready to attack at any moment?...hmmm..did our "expert" forget about the subs? blithering idiot.
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  7945. telling that the words of a "care 4 Calais" goon are quoted ad nauseum, but not one single opinion from any of the protestors is broadcast.
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  7946. they are only "revenge attacks" for the likes of behind-the-curve dunces like Gulliver. Ukraine and Russia are both preparing for a Ukrainian offensive in the south, target Mariupol, so Russia needs to stall the massive troop and weapons movement by train, hence attacking the power stations and rail lines so that Ukraine can't use the infrastructure needed to regroup. Come on DW, think!
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  7947. oh. come on man, TWO months of a failed counteroffensive, and you want TWO MORE months of massacre and destruction of Ukraine BEFORE going to the Russians to beg for peace? makes no sense. time for Zelensky to be a big boy and call Putin..." yeah, I made a mistake, I thought NATO could deliver victory for me, I was wrong, so, what are your terms?"
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  7948. "despite its radical agenda" so, "radical" now means restricting mass immigration! these "reporters" are a joke.
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  7949. The Panama Papers made it quite clear that Zelensky had extensive holdings in UK and Italy that were unaccounted for. Any chance the grifter fraudster dwarf puppet might actually sell off his own assets to help his own country at some stage?
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  7950. so no more criticism of China, or anyone, from the hypocritical German Greens on who is causing CO2 emissions
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  7951.  @morphkogan8627  so, it's very interesting that the other two thirds of the German government are willing to import coal and create loads more emissions than Russian gas would create, yet the Greens are not in revolt over that. Confirmation that the Greens are only Greens when Russophobia isn't around.
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  7952. retaliation for 9 years of russophobia, derussification and fascist/nationalist policies imposed on ethnic Russians
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  7953.  @Lenser  I wonder how you survive in the blinkered world of assuming anyone pro Russian is in the pay of the Kremlin. you need to learn the basics.
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  7954.  @peabase  "robota" just means "work" and has no specific connection to serf labor. looks like you need to keep up with the truth.
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  7955. no one cares how many convicts and mercenaries are dying, but boy, the mothers of all that Ukrainian cannon fodder wiped out every day, how they must cry when they realize their sons died for a city "of no strategic value" that will be captured by the Russians.
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  7956. Their will to fight dropped through the floor after Mariupol. It's the will to fight of the DPR and LPR militias, along with the Chechens, that will win the day. Too late for more weapons and training. Ukraine already down to throwing in 18 year old reservists as cannon fodder. This will not end well.
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  7957. @@Karen66669 ah, of course, in the mind of a deluded simpleton, 12 month old account = Russian bot. welcome to the childish world of the Western MSM sheep.
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  7958.  @hilarycox6142  how about mountain rescue experts from Scotland or Snowdonia? no, right, more resources and expert help would only have hindered the remarkable progress the Guardia Civil made covering the 20 minute walking distance from the epicentre of the search over a full month of searching. stupid idea to accept help.
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  7959.  @burns281981  "becoming surrounded" would be accurate. with roads entering Bakhmut from the south, north and east all under Russian control, now, and fire control of much of the western road, we can safely say that Bakhmut is becoming surrounded. With the fall of Soledar to the Russians, with the fall of Opidnoye to the Russians, with the fall of Klyshcheevka to the Russians, we can say that Bakhmut is becoming surrounded. Ignore the facts on the ground if you so choose, but, sir, the bs is coming from you. Analyze the gradual progress of Russian forces and currently where the artillery strikes are compared to a few months ago and you will see that Bakhmut is becoming surrounded. I do not answer questions the premise of which I disagree. Just as you would not answer the question "are you still a retarded imbecile"?
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  7960. yeah, such an achievement of yours to drive those banking in places like Jersey to withdraw more funds and put them in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands. Really proud you diverted so much money from one corner of the globe to another? what a waste of time you are, you self-righteous prig.
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  7961. yeah, honey, we have also seen both Leopards and French tanks destroyed. countdown to the total destruction of the NATO tanks sent to Ukraine. NATO taxpayers, enjoy every second of your hard earned salaries going up in smoke.
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  7962. because he is charge
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  7963.  @KeiKAndLies  exactly so! if i am so bloody dumb NOT to include such an important clause in an agreement, I am inviting you to show me how dumb I am and teach me to tighten up what is IN the contract and what is CONSPICUOULY LACKING! you are so right. Ukraine should have insisted, NO ATTACKS within a certain range of Odessa city center....but then, Russia may not have signed!
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  7964.  @kibkim7629  better demine that coast quickly then!
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  7965.  @choosing.tangent  partly true
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  7966.  @KeiKAndLies  More to the point, if Ukraine wants to be guaranteed that no missiles hit Odessa, it needs to have that clause in the agreement, loud and clear. Failure to do has consequences, obviously. Same as any other contract. Ukraine was probably advised by the EU, hence the infantile wording and lack of clarity in the agreement?
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  7967.  @tarasmiuk4651  Odessa port was hit. Not necessarily the same thing
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  7968.  @meatrealwishes  Putin has shown the West time and time again how to defend the rights of Russian speakers. There is no embarrassment to that.
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  7969.  @TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar  There are SEVERAL ships already in port! TRAPPED in port because the Odessa coast is mined! They have been there since the conflict started! what are you smoking, lil genius?
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  7970.  @meatrealwishes  if you believe the Catalans and Scots have a right to a referendum on independence, why do you deny the Donbass natives the same right?
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  7971. Wonder weapons, all bullshit, big hoopla about Javelins, M777s, Caesars, Neptunes, drones, Himars. But Ukraine has not had a successful counteroffensive since 2014 in this conflict. Russia keeps plodding on, and Ukrainian cannon fodder being massacred every day in the hundreds. At what point does Zelensky conclude the West has no more weapons to send him, or the West has no more will to send any more weapons?
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  7972.  @on2thenextthing  completely agree. import the 3rd world, import their problems and attitudes
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  7973.  @tarik6990  How many times in main stream media do you hear the Greens referred to as the "far left"? How many times have you heard Queen Greta referred to as a "far left" activist? Never? All countries are very "specific". Japan has immigrants in such small numbers that it is not noticeable. Europe does not need immigration. Hungary is doing fine without immigrants, Europe did fine without immigrants before, The majority of Europeans when polled approve a reduction or cessation of immigration. The evidence is that diversity is not a strength, but on the contrary, breeds dissent, crime and violence...just look at Sweden.
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  7974.  @batrachian149  not sure what "you should an hero" means! sorry!
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  7975. oh yeah, such wonderful dividends as imposing fuel poverty, heat or eat, across communities all over Europe. quite an achievement.
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  7976. @Hadrian's Gall only in your fantasy world.
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  7977. Simply astounding how Britainistan's Sharia Police, post Rotherham and Rochdale, have effectively allowed Jew hate to become not only permitted, but everyday.
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  7978. Both trains and cars crossing the bridge. another terrorist failure by the dwarf comedian puppet and his Azov Nazis. Fingers crossed Putin will give the green light for revenge, an early Halloween nightmare for the Ukrainians
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  7979. As always, the West goes crawling and begging to Russia, this time Blinken to Lavrov. Russians have no need to crawl and beg to the West. Tells you which side is winning.
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  7980. this is very simple. EU needs to change its own rules if it wants to stop the import of refined oil from India. whining that the existing rule doesn't work for the EU is pathetic.
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  7981. the damage to Russia, internationally, is nothing compared to the damage done to the West. dedolarization rolls on apace. The Global South look on Russia as a sanctions-defying giant, and at the West as bullying colonial have-beens
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  7982.  @appletree6741  you wish! curious how when you are confronted with a message of truth you have to fly in panic to the account to see what information on the messenger you can wrongfully assume. focus on the message, not the messenger. Ukraine is losing very badly and NATO is out of ideas.
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  7983.  @appletree6741  big fan of Ukrainian heroes and nazis like Denis Nikitin and Bandera are you? or do you ignore those inconvenient truths?
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  7984. over regulation and mass immigration is the perfect recipe for a housing shortage.
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  7985. and given that domestically produced alternatives are unreliable and super costly, the consumer gets screwed. such great news.
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  7986. oh ,the pleasure of writing dismissive comments about Putin from a keyboard outside of Ukraine. such a lovely war.
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  7987.  Matias D.C  so true. King Horse Face and Elensky Coke Head are chatting about how their overseas properties have increased in value of late, I suspect
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  7988.  The Idiot  safeguarding Russia because Russia, strange as this may sound to you, doesn't want a pro Nazi and rabidly russophobic NATO weaponized country on its border. (just like USA insisted Cuba would not have Soviet missiles on Cuba's soil). liberating Donbass because the people of the Donbass will be finally free from the derussification and discrimination from Kiev. Russian will be the language and culture of the ethnic Russians of Donbass! the pure evil comes from the likes of you, aptly named the Idiot, who so desperately want pro Nazi tyranny compelled upon the good people of Crimea and Donbass. Pure evil. BTW, do you passionately believe that the French speakers of Canada should be stripped of their rights to use French in schools and in all branches of government? yes or no?
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  7989. @The Idiot talking of Nazi style ethnic cleansing, what do you think of the fact that Stefan Bandera is a national hero of Ukraine?
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  7990. Putin is the one laughing His convicts and drunken mercenaries are currently massacring Ukraine's finest, NATO trained and armed, all along the front lines. Demilitarization moving on apace.
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  7991. Manufacturing is learning to cope well....Russia can rely on China and sanction-busting nations to adapt further....Russia has reacted well to the sanctions and the ruble is strong. Just watch the West collapse on the boomerang effect of sanctions
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  7992. Orban, Sweden, now Italy, the masses in Europe are fed up of mass immigration. makes you wonder if Macron rigged the French presidential vote.
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  7993. "lack of unity of Russian forces" right, so NATO trained and armed and advised battalions just got massacred by a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels, we are told, all poorly supplied, poorly led, inexperienced dopes, and yet it's a lack of unity in Russia's defence force that will win the day for the ukronazi/NATO alliance. yep, right.
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  7994. talk of deportation - admission that boats will not be stopped
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  7995. nah, notice how the fool doesn't read the whole text. "severe consequences" are mentioned in the bit he skips. so, everything hangs on the word "severe". given that everyone was evacuated from this area months ago, can't really be described as "severe" consequences. But what the WW2 Dam Busters did, well, sounds like Clarke wants to charge the Dam Busters with being war criminals. interesting!
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  7996.  @owenthomas5103  really? so the Germans knew the dam was going to be attacked well in advance?
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  7997. well well well, those NATO weapons ending up in the hands of criminals, in the most corrupt country in Europe, who could have seen this coming?
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  7998. Might be a good idea for puppet Zelensky to stay in Holland. Forever.
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  7999. Don't believe a word of it! There is ZERO evidence of what losses Russia is suffering. ZERO!
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  8000.  @upnorth2421  1) My conversations with Donbass Russians (I speak Russian and worked in Ukraine...what about you?) tells me that the vast majority, since 2014, want nothing to do with Ukraine. 2) LPR and DPR militias are fighting heroically to be free, finally, of Azov Nazis shelling them. It is to your eternal shame that you are on the side of the Nazis.
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  8001.  @upnorth2421  it needs to be said again. The vast majority of Donbass Russian speakers want NOTHING to do with Ukraine. Spread whatever propaganda you want about Wagner group atrocities and all that bla bla bla, the truth is the vast majority of Donbass residents want union with Russia. Has been that way since 2014.
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  8002. the problem is you started moving the ball forward towards your own line, you dope!
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  8003. "Ukraine sustaining heavy casualties" = demilitarization of Ukraine = Putin achieving his objectives
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  8004. Given the way Islam and Hinduism look down on women, why the surprise that women aren't involved in the community leadership? Leicester is no longer part of England, just consider it Bombay
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  8005.  @cr4zyd4n666  no evidence Jay was ever in that wilderness they have been searching. none whatsoever. the phone ping was from the road. futile waste of time.
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  8006. what a surprise! Not many people coming forward to host! (now they know this war could go on for years).
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  8007. Hindu - "we can't eat beef, but you can" Jew - "we can't eat pork, but you can" Muslim - "we can't eat pork, and neither should anyone else" this is why it is a really bad idea to import Muslims.
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  8008.  @Victor-07-04  if you can investigate for yourselves in the West, what was the point of banning RT and Sputnik from the West? Does the "fair rule of law" include the extradition of Julian Assange for broadcasting the truth? Does standing up for freedom in Ukraine mean defending Zelensky's laws that banned use of Russian in all schools and universities, and in the media, and the decision to murder 14,000 people in Donbass over an 8 year period....that kind of freedom you mean?
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  8009. "I hate what's happening there" But I guess you loved it when the Azov Nazis were shelling the Donbass non stop for 8 years?
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  8010.  @troywright359  is murder always bad?
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  8011. it is your business if they are obese. you are paying for all the absurdly expensive medical treatment they will need.
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  8012. like saying it's time Cuba put out USA
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  8013.  @MikeMr2  Enoch Powell, Dennis Skinner, Ian Paisley.....they all have more virtue and heartfelt commitment than the present rabble even though long deceased
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  8014. so a deluded unknown pop star (outside Russia) thinks she has some special insight into the rights and wrongs of this conflict. She doesn't, so who cares? (apart from DW)? What is interesting is that she, and a group of city deputies, are free to speak out against Putin, whereas no one would be allowed to do this in autocratic Ukraine. So if the West wants to defend democracy, they should be helping Russia, not dictator Zelensky.
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  8015.  @garbancitolentejas486  If Jay's priority was to just get away from the airbnb, it wouldn't matter which direction the next bus was going in. all that would matter is how soon would it come.
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  8016. all part of the Western "rules based system"....it's bullshit and the world should let the West know we will no longer listen to them
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  8017. as usual, throw cash at the problem and that will make it go away. but it won't. the more the government spends and borrows, the higher inflation soars.
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  8018.  @tomk3732  34 days to go before the "inevitable capturing of Kherson". I'm guessing Ghost of Kiev will save the day
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  8019. Johnson is a traitor, and a disgrace. MTG is so right on stopping funding the Ukronazis in Kiev.
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  8020. "Ukrainians are fighting for their country"...what the hell do you think the Donbass militias are fighting for?
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  8021.  @insaneclownponies9599  start reading some real news, instead of lies! The Ukrainians have evacuated Kupiansk and surrounding areas because the Russians are poised to take it! Ukrainians have taken a few fields at the cost of 25,000 losses! In a war of attrition, that is a disaster. At this rate, Ukraine will reach the Sea of Azov, and cut the land bridge, in 16 years! Talking of 16, now 16 year olds are banned from leaving Ukraine. In a few weeks, masses of teenagers will be run through the Russian meatgrinder. Meanwhile, Ukraine is now begging Egypt for weapons! what do Russians have to show for their efforts? A totally demilitarized and humiliated West, reduced to sending cluster bombs because there are no more 155mm shells to be had! Low inflation and modest growth (oh, how the UK and Germany would LOVE to be in that position!) The demilitarization of NATO is a spectacular success for Putin.
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  8022.  @Ozninjaguy  Ah, another ignorant fool that can't distinguish between a Russian and a Brit and who is not ashamed of such ignorance.
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  8023. Predictable. Given the enormous success of sanctions on Russia, the West immediately rushed to repeat the same brilliant idea, namely sanctions, on Iran. Driving more and more of the world to back Russia, embrace dedolarization and spit on the West.
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  8024. "both sides suffering heavy losses" = Ukrainians getting wiped out with a death toll much higher than that suffered by Russia, so let's just say "both sides" are in the same dilemma.
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  8025. "Gender ideology and the LGBTQ lobby" are out. Given the people featured are not lobbying for anything and are not pushing gender ideology, they are fine. But it sounds like the kids have already been brainwashed, otherwise why would they fear a newly-elected government?
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  8026. par for the course that DW accepts the dodgy ISIS template for "claiming responsibility" as put out on Telegram.
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  8027. well well well, so it turns out the Russians were firing DISCRIMINATELY, trying to hit those Ukrainian forces ensconced among civilians, and not INDISCRIMINATELY, as we were told. All those buildings with "CHILDREN" written all over them now, it seems, could well have been hosting soldiers and weaponry. Russia was telling the truth, AI confirms, Zelensky and co were lying. Well, after Ghost of Kiev, we knew Zelensky was lying I guess.
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  8028. funny to think anyone puts any faith in what turncoat Erdogan thinks. Mike Martin looks worn out, trying to figure out how he will continue to spin the failed Ukrainian offensive as a magnificent triumph.
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  8029. Anyone who uses the word "Islamism" has capitulated to Islam. Islam itself is extremist, so fabricating a word like "Islamism" is just tautology.
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  8030.  @johncraig4820  What makes you think Russia has no air superiority over Ukraine?
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  8031.  @Roman-po8yc  certainly does. Russia has no idea what might happen if its air force flies over NATO territory in combat. But then again, it's not Russia that is looking to do that. It's NATO toying with the idea of entering the lion's den and seeing how its fighters would do in the air over Ukraine and over Russian controlled areas.
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  8032.  @johncraig4820  that may be so, but Russia chooses not to use air power, overall. air power doesn't demilitarize a country, as the U.S. has found out. air power just disperses the enemy into a cave for 20 years, thence to emerge victorious. Demilitarization is killing every enemy soldier and destroying all weapons. it takes years of massive artillery attacks and street fighting. but that is what Russia does...see Chechnya and Syria. NATO simply has no idea what it will find when it starts flying over Ukrainian or Russian controlled air space. None. NATO won't find the experience akin to Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria. Nothing NATO has tried so far has worked. F16's won't work either.
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  8033. when you are the best leader in the world, you get 88%. you sound jealous!
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  8034.  @Grimeyhoob  now there's a confession that there is a lot of jealousy in the West.
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  8035. And now, the truth. It is pure madness to engage Russia in a protracted land war. Russia will win. The counter offensive, after 18 days, has seen not one single Ukrainian fighter get anywhere near the FIRST line of Russian fortifications, where masses of Russians are twiddling their thumbs waiting for THEIR target practice. The forward positioned Russians have halted the Ukrainians in their tracks and inflicted MASSIVE casualties. It's over. Only those that care nothing for how many Ukrainian cannon fodder go to an early grave want this to continue.
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  8036. strongest in what way?
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  8037. talk about stupid questions, but then again, we are dealing with infantile minds at Sky. "Russia is attacking Lvov because Ukraine and Russia are at war and Russia has spotted some targets worth destroying in Lvov. Next question?"
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  8038. what's really silly is this fool pretending Russia attacks civilian targets. Russia attacks anywhere the Ukronazis, as proven by Amnesty International, hide weaponry and troops in civilian areas, and military and infrastructure targets. sure, intercepted missiles land on residential areas, but that is different from residential areas being targeted. he knows this, but is paid to lie.
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  8039. Peace (as defined as "the absence of conflict") will happen when Russia declares victory (the attainment of its 5 objectives).. Russia will then dictate terms. No reason for Russia to negotiate now (would have been better to continue talks in March). No "DURABLE" peace to be obtained says Hague, so its better to refuse a non-durable, short term peace, and see every Ukrainian die, and then let Putin dictate terms to us. Hmmmm, not very convincing. The West's goose is cooked. Russia won.
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  8040.  @godspharaoh987  no one who is white is ever hired as a diversity hire or due to affirmative action.
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  8041.  @ryanwalters6184  exactly. Galloway will shout anything that hurts the Jews and the Israelis. Galloway would never cry out "This is for the hostages" Only Gaza is important to Galloway. Not the horrendous deaths in Yemen, nor Sudan, nor Syria. Arab kids starving and dead bother Galloway not one bit. Nope. ONLY when the enemy is Israel is Galloway up and shouting. You nailed it!
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  8042.  @ryanwalters6184  20% of the Israeli population is Palestinian Arabs, the most prosperous and successful of all Arabs in the region. "This is for the Palestinian Arabs that have made such a success of life in Israel" is the Galloway cry you will never hear. I wonder why?
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  8043. I'm sure EU Sanctions Package number 14 will cripple the Russian economy soon, and that China and India will turn against Russia really soon. yeah, right.
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  8044.  @cobralord4279  if you google the BBC's "shovel bs" you will find the article, in case you missed it the first time. if you google the "3 days until Kiev falls" you will find no single Russian ever said such nonsense. difference between Western propaganda and the truth.
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  8045.  @flopoz2575  thanks for confirming that NATO is demilitarized. The reasons for NATO's inability or refusal to match Russia's production is irrelevant. The fact that Russia has demilitarized NATO is all that you need to know. Russia also has MASSIVE arms supplies on hand from allies like China, N Korea and Iran, you know, those sanctioned nations that NATO has driven into the arms of Russia? Let me know when you want to learn what a war of attrition is.
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  8046.  @flopoz2575  so answer the question why? if NATO has PLENTY of arms and ammo to send to Ukraine, why is it choosing to keep all this supply for itself? No one in the media ever explains this. Go ahead.
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  8047.  @flopoz2575  why do you think NATO refuses to explain to Zelensky why it is keeping the vast majority of its weaponry for itself? We hear nothing but Zelensky begging for more weapons. We hear nothing but urgent appeals from NATO leaders for more weapons to be sent to Ukraine. Yet, you say, the vast majority of NATO arms production stays in NATO, and won't go to Ukraine. Why does no one ever explain this to the confused masses and to Zelensky?
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  8048.  @flopoz2575  How do you think a NATO country like France would react if it were told that 40% of its economy had to be diverted to the arms industry? when you answer that question you will start to understand why and how Russia is demilitarizing NATO
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  8049.  @FunkySpaceLord  a convenient lie there, given that no one in the West can access RT News to confirm, but you know, give us the name of that RT News propagandist, and we can all start to google and find the truth, so, please, go ahead.
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  8050.  @flopoz2575  Curious where you get this 40% of GDP figure for Russia's military spending. 8% is what I read. If I am right, would you concede 8% is sustainable?
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  8051.  @flopoz2575  so, answer my question. if 40% of the entire Russian budget on defence spending is unsustainable, what is the % that is sustainable, and how do you calculate your number? you mention that Ukraine has a "lifeline from the West". For how much longer will that lifeline last? Will Trump keep this lifeline going? How long will EU citizens be happy for their taxes to keep going to corrupt Kiev? How sustainable is the lifeline to Kiev? Do you think Russia's military exports have dropped because Russia needs what it produces? Russia's increased spending on the military is not an investment, but USA spending on the military and giving it to Israel and Ukraine for free IS an investment? First time I heard the word "investment" defined as giving expensive stuff away for free! You are deluded.
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  8052.  @flopoz2575  so, with the mighty NATO supporting Ukraine, it's dear ally, when exactly will Ukraine be in control of Crimea? and if NATO is not demilitarized, why did NATO refuse to send Ukraine all that was needed for a successful counter-offensive?
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  8053.  @flopoz2575  as expected, totally incapable of answering basic questions. typical of the ignorant and brainwashed Zelensky bot. bye bye, dear child.
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  8054.  @bonnie7898  ah, the usual response from those so ignorant, they can't even answer basic questions. the "you oughtn't to be commenting" line reveals the most undemocratic desire to censor free speech, the usual Western values of intolerance on display.
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  8055.  @bonnie7898  truly fascinating how NATO cheerleaders, totally ignorant of China's military production, and Russia's military production, and USA's military production, blithely repeat the claim that USA has the world's biggest military. How would you know? You believe the words of the same people who said sanctions would cripple Russia within a matter of weeks? Thanks for the laugh.
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  8056.  @bonnie7898  as always, bonnie chooses to avoid answering the simple questions. let's try again. if NATO is not demilitarized, why is NATO refusing to supply Ukraine with what it needs? seems your answer is "NATO was incapable of supplying Ukraine's needs because it has been demilitarized (allowed their defence capabilities to run down over time)." so, again, why? given that this war has been going on since 2014, WHY did NATO allow its stocks to run down? cue crickets. why did Australia only approve air defence systems for Ukraine LAST WEEK? Ukraine needed this two years ago! fascinating the mental gymnastics you go through pretending NATO has plenty to supply. And now, the truth. Nearly everything NATO has sent to Ukraine has been destroyed, and NATO can't ramp up production to match Russia's output, and NATO can't ramp up production in the short term or medium term. That is why NATO is stuck. It is demilitarized and can only promise arms to Ukraine drop by drop, whereas Russia, China, N Korea and Iran have it all on hand right now. read it and weep, deluded fool.
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  8057.  @bonnie7898  Joe Biden himself said that cluster munitions had to be sent to Ukraine because US stocks of 155mm shells were at insufficient levels. Biden admitted that USA is becoming demilitarized. $55 billion in arms exports? tell me, dear child, how much does a Patriot battery air defence system cost, and how many of these systems has Russia already blown into tiny pieces? when you give the answers you will see that $55 billion ain't that much!
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  8058.  @bonnie7898  how are egg prices in Russia these days? that was your last piece of evidence that sanctions are REALLY hurting Russia! lol
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  8059.  @bonnie7898  "The US made a record $55 billion in arms exports last year" shows how the US arms industry is all about profit and nothing to do with output. hence, the shock experienced by NATO that Russia, Iran and N Korea are far out-producing NATO and at a fraction of the cost.
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  8060.  @bonnie7898  what's funny is you keep talking in terms of money, but not in terms of arms! you seem to think dollar bills can shoot down missiles! they can't! $61 billion can't buy weapons that don't exist! $61 billion has been set aside to replace the horrendous losses USA has suffered and to INVEST (way into the future) in weapons. There is precious little to send now, because NATO has been demilitarized. Only yesterday, Belgium announced 30 F16s for Ukraine, delivery to be completed in....2028! This is what demilitarization looks like! Why does Zelensky keep asking for more air defences? Because NATO is demilitarized. Why does Zelensky keep asking for more 155mm shells? because NATO is demilitarized. Why did Biden send cluster munitions? because NATO is demilitarized. stop talking about dollars, and start talking about weapons....and answer the question why Russia is out-firing Ukraine by 5 missiles to 1?
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  8061.  @bonnie7898  remember to update the world on the prices of eggs in Russia, as your campaign to convince no one that the sanctions are working starts to wither.
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  8062.  @bonnie7898  no twisting of the facts, just a clear explanation of what lies behind the facts that you don't comprehend. i mean, you probably bought the lie that 2 years ago, Russia was running out of weapons and that its soldiers were demoralized, right?
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  8063.  @sabtaingopinath9652  do you assume Muslims want to be integrated into Western society? Or do you believe most Muslims just want to replicate their home societies in the West?
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  8064.  @Kirillissimus  so why do the media insist on labeling those against illegal immigration as "far right" instead of "far left"?
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  8065. it's indicative of a shifting mood in the West.
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  8066. because Russia is winning. we knew that last July, when Biden announced that Russia had already lost this war.
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  8067. and now the truth.....Ukraine's offensive on Bakhmut has failed. Klysheevka was never taken, there is no Ukrainian force surrounding Bakhmut, and Russia had no time to build defences here! Total failure for Ukraine and NATO, with cannon fodder shoved into the Russian meatgrinder every day. Ukronazia and NATO have been demilitarized. Russia is winning handsomely.
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  8068.  @owenthomas5103  so telling that you can't refute anything stated. been brainwashed for a while, have you?
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  8069. Russian subs have every inch of the Black Sea under control. Ukraine knows this but lies about it every day.
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  8070.  @CT-vm4gf  as I said, only a fool would believe the honesty of scientists who are grifting from this hysteria. After "hide the decline" and Climategate, only an imbecile would believe these "experts" are truthful.
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  8071.  @CT-vm4gf  suckers like you probably believed, 25 years ago, all the predictions about the Maldives, Bahamas and Florida being under water by now.
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  8072. A meeting of arms suppliers with government officials in Vinnitsa PUT that city on the frontline. Vinnitsa WAS far from the frontline until Zelensky thought it was a really good idea to arrange a military meeting there.
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  8073.  @jeremytine  you have no idea how many troops have been lost on the Russian side, and neither does the FSB, because Russia has said nothing on Russian losses since September! but makes sense that a 7:1 kill rate in Russia's favor would be in line with the 7:1 rate of artillery shelling in Russia's favor.
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  8074. All Iran has to do to make USA stand down is block the Straits of Hormuz.
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  8075. so, your point is.........? Russia wants to destroy Ukraine's power supply but keep Zaporozhe online for its own needs. well, obviously. total waste of a report with no insights at all that explain anything new.
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  8076.  @George.Andrews.  I am giving you something the Western media deny you...the perspective of the people of the Donbass who have been so oppressed by the maniacs in Kiev. Been to Ukraine, have you? Learn the truth.
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  8077.  @DHITTZ03  never been more serious in my life. how about you rebut what I said with evidence.
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  8078.  @maximebegin1454  so was Einstein
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  8079.  @christianevanherck6023  All the evidence you need is to be found if you google "Language Policy in Ukraine" and read the Wikipedia article. Research the absolutely scathing report from the EU on language restrictions imposed in Ukraine. It is a veritable language apartheid system Kiev has imposed on the country. I myself was a victim of it when forbidden from using Russian in an English language class, even when all students agreed that Russian would be the best lingua franca for instruction. Needless to say, I don't comply with restrictions on freedom of speech, so I left Ukraine. What personal experience do you have of Russophobic language bullying in Ukraine? Please tell me. Oh, that's right, you prefer to take the word of the never biased "Ukrainian Institute" and strictly impartial France 24. Got it. You are so clueless.
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  8080.  @christianevanherck6023  just curious, in the 2022 poll, how many Ukrainians in the Russian occupied areas, including Crimea, were polled?
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  8081.  @christianevanherck6023  1. Russians are not interfering in any language rights. Russians fully accept Ukrainian as a state language in Ukraine. It's the Ukrainians that have done all they can to remove Russian as an official language. And that is wrong, full on apartheid. 2. There is zero "international obligation" to legislate on language policy. you are so full of bs. 3. It is pure apartheid to pass a law on THE state language when 40% of the population don't use Kiev's declared state language as their mother tongue. Try this nonsense in Quebec and see the riots you would get from the French speakers. 4. Thanks for repeating the details of the apartheid language laws of Ukraine. you made it abundantly clear how discriminatory and absurd such laws are. A Russian speaking patient dealing with a Russian speaking doctor must use Ukrainian! Pure fascism. 5. Thanks for pointing out the exceptions for special consideration. Please explain why Yiddish and Russian are not given the same exemption status as Tartar and Hungarian. I mean, we wouldn't want to conclude that Ukraine ian anti-semitic, russophobic fascist state, would we? so, please explain why Yiddish and Russian are denied the status of other languages. 6. You did a great job detailing why Russian speakers now hate Ukraine. Equal language rights = freedom of speech, and Ukraine has decided to deny Russian speakers freedom of speech. shame on you for supporting such fascism.
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  8082.  @christianevanherck6023  so curious you refuse to answer why Switzerland recognizes Italian as an official language of the country, and why Ukraine refuses to recognize Russian as an official language of Ukraine! Italian spoken by just 4% of Switzerland. Italian = an official language. Russian spoken by 40% of Ukraine. Russian refused recognition as an official language. Why? Which country is the more inclusive and tolerant, Switzerland or Ukraine?
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  8083.  @christianevanherck6023  who cares when someone joined anything? deal with the message, not the messenger, if you actually have a point.
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  8084.  @bonnie7898  Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq (twice), Libya, Serbia...how long a list would you like?
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  8085.  @christianevanherck6023  how could you be sure I refused to reply to Bonnie? I reply to everyone. Yet another absurd and ignorant assumption you have made. Par for the course.
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  8086.  @bonnie7898  AHH, so now we get to the truth! The definition of "starting a war" is firing the first shots! So, here is Bonnie's definition of the international rules based order: Any shots fired anywhere on the planet, for whatever reason, gives the USA the right to intervene and determine the "war". Got it. The usual nonsense from a war monger like you. In the case of the Eastern Caribbean States requesting US military intervention in Grenada, what compelled the USA to say "yes" rather than "no"? As usual, you leave out half the story. Cuba and Nicaragua requested no intervention in Grenada's affairs. Why would the ever peace loving USA ignore please for non intervention and choose to bring war to Grenada instead?
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  8087.  @bonnie7898  with total disrespect, it's a bit rich that someone who didn't know Russia was one of the allies in WW2 lectures someone else on reading up on matters! the geopolitics behind such conflicts are only "extremely complicated" to someone who has no bloody clue what they are talking about! For those of us who devote an enormous amount of time to learn about the world, these conflicts are not complicated at all! There are some salient interests and beliefs that shape all such events in the world. You just have to know how to interpret such things. Your ignorance and naivety about Ukraine is absolutely stunning. You have never listened to the Donbass or Crimean side to the argument, and you don't care to. You live in blissful ignorance.
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  8088.  @BoxcarWillie42  exactly so. and Putin is redrawing the map to reflect that reality. you should support his efforts to let the ethnic Russians of Mariupol etc be, finally, part of Russia.
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  8089.  @BoxcarWillie42  So did the Allies in Germany and Japan in WW2, so did the USA in Iraq, and Zelensky killed thousands of his own citizens from 2014 to today, it's called war, its called collateral damage, grasp reality and grow up, child. Not on anyone's payroll, but I worked for a while in Ukraine in 2018 and know what it's like there, and it's not as the Western media portray it. I'm definitely on Putin's side, and so should you be.
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  8090.  @putte2164  They have! and they have brought their ancestral homelands with them. check the map of the new ex Ukrainian territories incorporated into the RF.
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  8091. the root cause is mass immigration. grooming gangs will grow in number as immigration increases.
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  8092. Reporters who speak this way on RT are banned from being broadcast in Europe. It's not so-called disinformation that the West is worried about. It's information that they want to prevent from hitting the airwaves. This guy may well be kicked off Sky shortly.
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  8093.  @FullNelson007  the Germans were dead and defeated while Hitler was alive and well in his bunker! Sadly, snakes are not political movements. Castro gone, communism alive and well in Cuba. Snake theory didn't work there. Chavez gone, socialism alive and well in Venezuela under Maduro. Snake theory didn't work there. Likely Putin would be succeeded by Medvedev. who is more of a hawk. Remove Putin and get more war.
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  8094. Ukraine's pin prick attacks are pathetic. Zelensky is so dumb he still hasn't figured out that NATO is not providing him with what he needs because NATO doesn't have it. The coffers are empty. Russia has won.
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  8095. to be replaced by Medvedev, who will move from Special Operation to all out war. Happy now?
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  8096.  @MAXlMUS  that's right. and that is your best response, quoting an account opened date, to the arguments at hand? oh, you sweet pathetic child.
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  8097.  @h0mo3rectus69  i agree, but when the Russians saw Americans in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, well, Russia decided to just copy the West's "rules-based order". so, why aren't you applauding Russia for copying the USA's "rules-based order"?
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  8098.  @h0mo3rectus69  on the contrary, whataboutism reveals what an absolutely stinking hypocrite you are.
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  8099.  @h0mo3rectus69  certainly you go kill people after you see your neighbor do it, if your neighbor explained that such killing is the "rules-based system" and is the way to win respect in the neighborhood. of course you do.
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  8100.  @h0mo3rectus69  how about you address the point and explain why Russia should act any differently than the West has acted. And then explain why you seem to have special venom and hate for Russia but not for the West.
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  8101.  @h0mo3rectus69  not at all. i don't admit anything is wrong or right. you are the only one that has pointed out what is wrong, and you pointed out that it was Russia. I am challenging you to convince me that what Russia did is wrong but what the West did was right. and if you can't do that, I'm waiting for the post you write that admits Russia is only doing what the West has done since time immemorial and that both sides are terribly wrong, including Ukraine for shelling Donbass for 8 years. Me, I don't care what USA does in Iraq and I don't care what Russia does in Ukraine. I just care that so many stinking hypocrites think they have some moral superiority when criticize one side only.
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  8102.  @h0mo3rectus69  so, are we going to see you in print say Russia is merely copying the terrible wrongs committed by NATO over the last 5 decades, or not?
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  8103.  @h0mo3rectus69  yep. my Ukrainian students who described the shelling they witnessed for 8 years, yep, I have no reason to disbelieve them. I lived and worked in Ukraine in 2018. But, please, go ahead, tell me about your personal experiences living and working in Ukraine.
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  8104.  @h0mo3rectus69  how about you send me the link that "proves" fsb agents started the war. BTW, no one crossed the border into "east Ukraine". After 2014, when Ukraine abandoned the Donbass, the border was between Russia and the LPR
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  8105.  @h0mo3rectus69  if only it were that simple. Now that Ukraine has no opposition parties allowed in parliament, has Ukraine joined the "authoritarian" side?
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  8106.  @h0mo3rectus69  was Ukraine part of the "western democratic" world when it commanded its Russian speakers to be educated in Ukrainian only and to use Ukrainian only in government circles? Can you imagine how Catalans or Walloons would react if such "western democracy" was imposed on them?
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  8107.  @h0mo3rectus69  so who do you think is buried in those graves in the Alley of Angels?
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  8108.  @h0mo3rectus69  as always with the deluded Russophobic brainwashed masses, you refuse to start at the beginning. BEFORE Russia annexed Crimea, there was something called the 2014 coup, that ousted democratically elected President Yanukovich. How about YOU start at the beginning!?
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  8109.  @h0mo3rectus69  was Igor Girkin invited?
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  8110.  @h0mo3rectus69  curious and convenient how you skipped the part of the Crimean parliament voting for unity with Russia BEFORE annexation was announced! That little piece of democracy in action in Crimea can be just swept under the carpet, right?
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  8111.  @h0mo3rectus69  amazing how you are privy to all the communications between Putin and Girkin and LPR officials! yet no link or any actual evidence is provided! just send the relevant link, and I'll examine it. or...maybe you just believe every word announced by the Ukrainian side? for the third time of asking, what personal experience do you have of living and working in Ukraine?
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  8112.  @h0mo3rectus69  we are regularly told not to believe anything the Russians say, so why do you believe what Girkin says?
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  8113.  @h0mo3rectus69  and when Girkin was sent by Putin, following the 2014 coup that you conveniently ignore, what were Putin's specific orders to Girkin? what was the aim of Girkin's intervention, and why?
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  8114.  @h0mo3rectus69  you must have quite fascinating conversations with Putin to know all this! So does Putin think the likes of Estonia are a threat to himself and his regime? Have sleepless nights, does he, about how the Baltic states have Russian speakers and are becoming oh so wonderfully democratic and developed? I almost feel sorry for Putin, so worried about the chihuahua states showing his regime up as being so awful. In Latvia a man was jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag. is that the kind of democratic right Putin is so scared of?
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  8115.  @bonnie7898  currently? Syria
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  8116.  @bonnie7898  if we are going back to the colonial era, like, most of the globe? give me a few more parameters!
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  8117.  @bonnie7898  you asked me to name one country where the West has "taken territory". I answered "Syria", as the US currently occupies one third of Syria, in other words, the US has taken one third of Syria. To me, you explaining why the US has taken one third of Syria, or what it may or may not to with the third of Syria it has taken, is irrelevant. You asked the question, I gave you the answer. Maybe you needed to be a bit more specific and define "take".
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  8118.  @bonnie7898  you didn't say anything about the colonial era. I did. You asked to name any territory that the West "took". I said that if you include the colonial era, most of the planet. what exactly is your point? I can only guess you are saying it is fine for Russia to bomb like NATO, to invade like USA, to occupy like NATO and USA, the only thing Russia is doing wrong is "taking territory".
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  8119.  @bonnie7898  you see Bonnie, what you are trying to do, and you are failing to do it, is explain what exactly is the West's "rules-based order" that Russia is violating. Honest folk know the West has invaded, bombed, murdered far more then Russia has done, so it is pure hypocrisy to call out Russia for some kind of immoral conduct. On the contrary, you should be applauding Russia for copying the West's "rules-based order". Why don't you?
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  8120. ahhh, so now we understand where the "human waves" nonsense comes from! This sucker takes the word of the Ukrainian defenders as the truth! Totally explains it! Surprising no mention by the Ukrainian soldiers of how their battalions were thrown into the Russian meatgrinder with no regard for life! Wonder why the reporter never heard about that?
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  8121. only an ignoramus outfit like the Telegraph would believe this lot are anything connected to ISIS, and see the fake ISIS template for claiming responsibility and think it genuine.
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  8122. why assume Wagners want to encircle Bakhmut?
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  8123. yeah? in what ways have relations with the Arab League improved since the start of the war? Saudi Arabia buying Russian oil a big help to Ukraine, is it? OPEC agreeing to Russia's suggestions of ignoring the price cap a good example, yeah?
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  8124. "Ukraine desperate for modern machines".....really? but Russia is on the back foot! Russia is running out of missiles! Russia is poorly led and with low morale! Sanctions are crippling Russia and the people are about to oust Putin! Why would Ukraine be desperate for tanks when it is so close to winning?
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  8125. it's the woke women boxers' fault. if you step into the ring and agree to fight a man, you deserve everything you get.
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  8126.  @facty_kit1742  CIA director Burns warned years ago that NATO expanding to Ukraine was a red line for Russia, and that crossing that red line would be a disaster. Biden should have listened to Burns and told Zelensky "it's neutrality for Ukraine. Best stop provoking the Russian bear and live in peace with the Kremlin" Too late now.
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  8127.  @vanCaldenborgh  Finland is one of the effete, nancy, pacifist, do-nothing countries that are a threat to no one. Finland couldn't punch its way out of a wet paper bag if it had to. Finland has foolishly thrown away neutrality. what makes Russia "politically totally inferior"? your ignorance and russophobic prejudice?
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  8128.  @DonLuc23  what has what got to do with 2014? be specific
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  8129.  @SpecialMuppetOperation  just telling you how many people in Russia think, how the Russian leadership thinks, and how everyone around the globe that supports Russia thinks. With perspectives and opinions and insights, it's about interpretation, not documented evidence. The danger is when you dismiss it as "inconsequential". the truth is, you brushing such thoughts aside as "inconsequential" brought us this war. start putting yourself in other people's shoes. it would avert wars.
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  8130.  @SpecialMuppetOperation  you will find plenty of documents, statements, declarations detailing what Russia's security concerns are regarding NATO expansion. learn to google. Why don't you start with James Baker's promise in 1990, that with a unified Germany, NATO would not advance one inch further east? the first of many broken promises from the West. I have articulated to you what Russian people and Russian leaders and what supporters of Russia believe and hold dear to their hearts. They have had enough of Ukraine being used as a proxy to "weaken Russia" as Lloyd Austin put it. fine, take the opinions of millions of pro Russia supporters around the globe and call it "inconsequential". your dismissal of such a perspective will only make life worse for you. time to put yourself in the other side's shoes.
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  8131.  @itsJPhere  on the contrary, every single expansion of NATO eastwards was a security concern, given the unprovoked NATO attacks on both Libya and Serbia. NATO caused the whole conflict by provoking Russia repeatedly. You don't shell ethnic Russians in the Donbass and expect Putin to do nothing.
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  8132.  @itsJPhere  just curious, if the Russians and Chinese start to build some missile sights on Cuba and have a massive military base there to patrol the waters between Cuba and Florida, do you think the USA will be absolutely fine with that and praise the Cubans for exercising their sovereignty and territorial integrity to have their security guaranteed by a large Russian/Chinese presence? Yes?
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  8133. sorry, I was looking for a comparable list of Ukrainian losses to get an idea of who might be winning. Did you forget to post the Ukrainian losses?
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  8134. Zelensky spending as much time out of Ukraine as possible, hoping there will be a coup while he is out of the way.
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  8135. Can't wait to hear Biden or Sunak to talk for 4 hours and entertain dozens of questions, some from the foreign press. Obviously that can't happen. Putin is by far the most capable leader of the major powers. Biden the least capable, by a mile.
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  8136. Must just be coincidence there is a refugee centre in that town.
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  8137.  @Ingrid-wf4cl  wow! the problem is that bad in Germany! So, Islamic State has a base in every German town! Time to move to Russia where it is so much safer.
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  8138. the sanctioned nations (Iran, N Korea, Venezuela) all coming to Russia's aid and getting sweet revenge on the West. it's just beautiful to see.
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  8139. jamais, on droit présumer. alors, nos dirigeants vont faire quoi exactement?
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  8140. migrants are certainly a major factor in the rising costs and therefore the rising debts of the nation. slashing immigration would slash costs.
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  8141.  @moiseshuerta3984  100% agree. Time for Germany to bow out and figure out its absurdly high energy bills, not how to kill more people in eastern Europe.
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  8142. Like there aren't any problems in Germany Baerbock should be tackling.
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  8143.  @tomitiustritus6672  I would think, as Minister of the Exterior, she should be working 24/7 trying to find out where in the world she can visit to beg for energy supplies at a price Germany can afford.
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  8144. UK is already bankrupt, so it will make no difference, just more money to be printed at the Royal Mint.
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  8145.  @simonparfitt8  Increases in money printing, money supply and extra billions of spending on Ukraine is going to reduce the value of said money = inflation. Just like anyone with any common sense knows that paying millions of healthy workers to stay at home and do nothing is going to cause inflation. we can take Biden and Yellen as 2 who don't get basic economics ("this inflation is transitory") so sadly the people at the very top are part of the small group who don't understand the forces of inflation. too much money chasing too few goods.
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  8146. oh dear....so if it was once a good idea, but now isn't, let's hope those on these risky meds sue the "doctors" who prescribed them.
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  8147.  @tomhenry897  and Ukraine is totally incapable of repairing them?
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  8148. a hundred meters a day = Russia progressing, Ukraine in retreat, and NOT Russia "digging in for the winter". Get your story straight, propaganda man.
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  8149. this is what happens when 50 yr old white men were not welcome to work on this project.
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  8150. Ukraine and NATO thinking is just a joke. Russia has air superiority and is wiping out Ukrainian air defences and the cannon fodder Zelensky keeps serving up on a silver platter. Russia is making impressive progress towards its objectives with no big arrow offensive. Putin is smart.
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  8151.  @barrylane1055  it is called logic. you are supposed to counter it by pointing out what I said makes no sense. To me, Russia getting loads of cheap drones and missiles from Iran and N Korea in exchange for nuclear technology and nuclear supplies makes sense.
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  8152.  @barrylane1055  and I responded, that joining the dots is not an exercise that requires a source! half the chocolate cake is missing, crumbs lead to the bedroom of my nephew, there is a smear of chocolate around his mouth, I conclude that my nephew ate half the chocolate cake, now you tell me, what was my source?
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  8153. Zelensky visited Kharkov? Then the Zelensky curse will strike and Kharkov will fall. Everywhere Zelensky goes to boost Ukrainian morale, the place falls to the Russians. Bakhmut, Avdiivka, now Kharkov.
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  8154. so good to know that no Muslim gangs would ever do such a thing in Paris, ever.
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  8155. "damage to his reputation" bul***it If Trump is convicted, he wins the presidency, hands down.
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  8156. Musk not very quick to pick up on some very basic disasters happening at ground level in USA now for years.
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  8157. you thought wrongly. Like Zelensky, NATO fooled you into thinking NATO was in some way superior to Russia. oh well, looks like Ukraine is learning the hard way. Just don't ever trust NATO again.
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  8158. NATO has been exposed as a paper tiger and has been demilitarized by Russia, so, no, Europe is completely incapable of defending itself.
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  8159. give us your guess...when will Donbass be recovered?
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  8160. The cracks in NATO growing. The German public are split on this and commitment to Ukraine is waning. Russia has won.
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  8161.  @Joaquin546  just the truth. when half the German people disapprove of tanks being sent to Ukraine, the NATO project to give unlimited aid to Ukraine is over.
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  8162. putin is like a man who's just seen his wife, Donbass, attacked, standing over her shouting "watch me get revenge for this"
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  8163.  @anafreire1716  it's also what Churchill said.
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  8164.  @tafdiz  i guess you'll REALLY love USA when the last Ukrainian has been killed and USA moves on to destroy Taiwan next?
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  8165.  @seanocarraigh7064  indeed it is, among many other stresses.
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  8166.  @AA-vi1cc  yet still there is 9 times as much cold-related mortality in every continent in the world. so, a little more global warming would be welcome, agreed?
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  8167.  @chinavirus841  of course it is. no one in the world disputes that climates change and no one in the world has accused climate of faking the change. it's real.
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  8168.  @nsevv  the sanctions have been in effect for 15 months or so, and it is Biden saying cluster bombs have to be sent because regular shells are in such short supply. Not Putin. so, when do the sanctions take effect to the point where Putin has no more shells to send and Biden says "no need to send cluster bombs because we have so many of the shells Ukraine says it wants"? Only a fool would judge a war of attrition based on the amount of territory held. Russia is aiming to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, and has made fantastic progress on both fronts. NATO has precious little left to send to Ukraine that can make any difference to the impressive kill rate in Russia's favor. It takes time to kill every man of fighting age in a place like Ukraine, but thanks to Zelensky's desire to push more and more cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder, Russia is getting closer to its objectives every day, and rightfully so.
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  8169. Not much of an expert that says "nobody knows what victory means for Russia". Just read the list of 5 objectives as stated by Putin at the beginning, and check them off.
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  8170. bit too late to wring your hands about US citizens who chose to go to Russia. the time to do that was before they boarded the flight to Moscow, duh.
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  8171. it's such wonderful news that the US now has no deficit, and has a budget surplus that allows to fund wars overseas.
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  8172.  @diffrentperspective-z7t  what evidence is there that Russia did it? 8 years of Ukraine targeting ethnic Russians, and in this case Ukrainian citizens opting to migrate to Russia territory would be prime target for the Azov Nazis.. Fits the pattern.
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  8173. @Paul Denison The Moskva did a lot better than the Ukrainian flagship...which was scuttled in MARCH! Just how many subs does Ukraine have in the Black Sea? hmmmmm..it's a nice round number
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  8174.  @TheGero95  easy to hold out when you pour in cannon fodder 24/7. now the ukronazis have hundreds of thousands dead, cemeteries overflowing, and they STILL lost! that genius Zelensky should have listened to US advice to get out of Bakhmut, months ago.
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  8175. get up to date. the ukronazis are now getting massacred as they bolt to Chasov Yar with their tails between their legs.
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  8176.  @will-zj5gq  200,000? if you are going to make up numbers, go really high! Just say one million dead Russians!
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  8177.  @blakebutlin657  sources for what? be more specific. kill rate in Russia's favor?
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  8178.  @TheGero95  Russia didn't lose countless tanks and men. that was the ukronazis that got massacred in and around Kiev. Kiev was a cauldron and fixing operation. while the ukronazis were in panic and getting slaughtered around their capital, Russia had a free hand to take Zaporozhe and Kherson, unopposed, and create the land bridge to Crimea. Brilliant tactics by Moscow and worked well.
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  8179.  @TheGero95  just giving you the truth, and I understand, after swallowing hook, line and sinker all the garbage the Western media feed you, the truth comes as a shock.
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  8180.  @serebii666  Kherson was abandoned because supplying the west side of the Dnipr was a nightmare. Good decision, and thousands of ethnic Russians were evacuated out of ukronazi control. mission accomplished to a certain extent. Kharkov oblast was partly abandoned because the LPR forces manning the frontlines there were very low in number. Russia was way over-stretched there. again, good decision. the kind of good decision that the clown Zelensky SHOULD have made in Bakhmut, but Zelensky doesn't care about saving lives. Thousands of vehicles were not lost. again, your media lie to you! Ghost of Kiev, heroic defence of Snake Island etc .Mistakes are made in war, of course, but the truth remains that the Russians had no intention nor need of getting bogged down in Kiev. The objectives were to get Ukraine to the negotiating table, and that worked, and to fix Ukrainian forces and attention around Kiev so that the precious land bridge to Crimea could be established, unopposed, and that worked. live with it.
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  8181.  @chas721  and what is your source for this "fact"? when General Milley and Ursula Van der Leyen said months ago, 100,000 ukrainian dead, were they lying?
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  8182.  @chas721  when the BBC and Medusa did their investigation into Russian dead, what numbers did they come up with? let's talk facts.
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  8183.  @displaychicken  as i said, while all the focus was on Kiev, 20% of Ukrainian territory was lost to Russia and the main aim, of getting Ukraine to the negotiating table, was secured. On balance, a fine victory. Only the deluded sheep that follow Western media are still blind to reality...and that would include you.
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  8184. the rarity of the case should count neither in favor of Willis or against Willis. what should be taken into account is Willis's perjury. end of story.
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  8185. Cyprus decided to abandon its independence and join the corrupt, feckless EU. You now got what you said you wanted, freedom of movement for anyone to enter Cyprus! Enjoy!
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  8186. wait, why would anyone want to discourage asylum seekers when "diversity is our strength" and all of these poor people are "fleeing war and persecution"? makes no sense.
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  8187. Good to know the Greens' priorities. Sanctioning Russia, which is crippling the EU but doing nothing to change Russia's war policy, is more important than the environment.
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  8188. Russia will allow the tanks to enter Ukraine because Russia wants to destroy them all, as they destroyed all Ukraine's tanks at the start of this conflict. Russia will not allow them to cross the Dnipr. Get ready for a fleet of Ukrainian metal coffins to be in the news soon.
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  8189. there is some evidence that the Russian economy is thriving BECAUSE of the sanctions. Inward investment has ballooned in Russia, as Russian products are developed and Western brands now don't act as a drain on the Russian economy. Low inflation, low unemployment, and modest economic growth for Russia. Countries like UK and Germany would LOVE to be in that situation.
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  8190.  @enigma1000  the evidence of Russian investors now turning to Russian products. McDonalds now earns zero from Russia. The Russian replacement (Tochka?) earns money that stays in Russia, and doesn't flow out to USA. Simple logic. Inward investment has taken off in Russia. Western leaders don't understand basic economics. Nor do you, I would guess.
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  8191.  @XsiadzBiskup  yeah, life is pretty grim in some of those Silesian towns and villages, so half the young people there left to work as plumbers and in coffee shops in UK and Ireland. Nowadays, with PO having to host millions of Ukrainians, the poor of PO are even poorer. Desperate reality. see how you learn things about your own country every day!
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  8192. Britain no longer exists. you now live in Britainistan. Wake up. Did Rochdale and Rotherham teach you nothing?
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  8193.  @yaelhorowitz3183  add to that large minority all the mindless wokesters who support them, and you may well have a majority.
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  8194. Ukraine needs more tanks because Russia destroyed the massive number of tanks Ukraine started with, plus the ones Ukraine claims it captured from Russia during the Kharkov offensive, plus all the tanks supplied by ex Warsaw pact countries. so what makes anyone think Russia won't destroy any new tanks delivered? If Russia is eyeing the demilitarization of NATO, it may well be fine with a lot more tanks thrown into Ukraine, more metal coffins to destroy.
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  8195. so, a combat vet who supports Nazis like Denis Nikitin? wow!
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  8196. Thanks to energy companies doing what we need them to do, make and transport energy, these two well groomed buffoons, like the hypocritical West in general, can be pampered and smug and benefit from such an important supply, but also sit there and criticize it.
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  8197.  @Pyasa.shaitan  how is anyone exploiting Albania and destroying Albania's climate?
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  8198.  @omegaz3393  only in your small bubble of a world. Talk to the good folk of Tansnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, see what trust they have for Russian protection against anti Russophobic discrimination.
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  8199.  @alone-tt8dg6ic6f  absolutely...Von der Lying again acts as if she has no respect for all the citizens who never elected her into power.
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  8200.  @cherryfressh6188  1) Russia is building pontoon bridges, correct. so what? 2) Ukraine hit a dam, correct. The dam is undamaged and both the road and rail connection atop the dam are fine. 3) Himars already talking, but for the most part it is being silenced with most missiles shot down by the Russians, with only a few missiles penetrating the Russian air defenses. Himars will go totally silent when the ammo runs out! 4) ignore the "talk" of Russian losses, No one knows, so they just make up numbers. Unlike the UKrainians, the Russians don't release such numbers, we know 50,000 Ukrainians are dead, based on Ukrainian numbers. A few more thousand would help demilitarize Ukraine. 5) Russia was never in Afghanistan. Look up the difference between "USSR" and "Russia". 6) I have no doubt you hear about fighting in Kherson. No doubt you hear a lot, including voices in your head. Kherson recaptured by end of August? 33 days left to do it! Already 7 days have passed since you said the counter offensive "was in full swing"! LOL
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  8201.  @cherryfressh6188  another day gone, no Ukrainian counter offensive successes to report by MSM. What's your news? Ukrainian troops now within 5 kms of Kherson? 32 days to go. Remember Kuleba's statement "Kherson will be Ukrainian occupied, definitely. by September"...32days to go. 10 days of counter attack gone and so far, nothing to show for it. Still confident?
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  8202.  @cherryfressh6188  what's the latest on your end? Day 14 of the Great Counter Offensive. NO settlements at all captured by Ukraine. MSM not reporting ANYTHING on the counter offensive. In Donbass, HEAVY Ukrainian losses and Russia advancing west Of Donetsk What you hearing from your lying media? more deliveries pouring in?
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  8203. just so funny that the "far right", as always, are to be blamed by the BBC. it's not "far right" Republicans blocking anything! it's far left Biden that is refusing to do what is necessary. Biden has been asked to explain the plan for victory and to establish an accounting system for every cent sent to Ukraine. Biden has refused to comply with such reasonable requests, hence deadlock.
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  8204. "let's call it what it is" says the guy that uses a made-up word, "Islamism", instead of the correct word "Islam".
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  8205.  @NordieJ  no one is arguing that Islamism isn't a word. I'm saying it is a made-up word, it has no meaning. it is an artificial construct. if you are so confident in the validity of "Islamism", distinguish "Islamism" from Islam.
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  8206. the problem now is that Russia doesn't want or need to have customers in the West. Even if the West backtracks on sanctions, Russia would probably keep the taps shut and keep focused on Asian markets and the Global South. The West has cooked its goose.
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  8207. myth number 2 basically says that if you convince people to stay in their home country, we won't have a migration problem. agreed. let's impose horrific penalties on people trying to enter Europe illegally. that will stop illegal immigration.
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  8208. Alexander, you talk of "incremental gains" when you talk of Russia's plodding progress. But you dismiss Ukraine ripping through parts of Kherson and Luhansk as "insignificant". Russia is in retreat and it wasn't before. it needs to solve this, more urgently than you think.
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  8209. the French voted for more and more Muslim immigration, so the French richly deserve the consequences of more and more Muslim immigration.
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  8210. Absolutely criminal of Drakeford to be happy to sacrifice so many lives when he knows a 10 mph speed limit would further reduce the number of road deaths.
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  8211. Good question, given 80% of the globe is on Russia's side, and that NATO's weapons to Ukraine are being sold on the black market!
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  8212.  @vladimirkorobkin510  "Russia bad, Ukraine good" is always the narrative with DW. They will turn any story to make Russia look bad, or Ukraine look good. It is childish and pathetic.
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  8213.  @kubyoindiya3269  you are right, I think. Germany very aware it could be seen as violating the sanctions by creating just one exemption for itself, when others have abided strictly be EVERY sanction
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  8214.  @Eleftheria_i_thanatos  No contradiction. annexation of Ukraine has never been mentioned as an objective. Russia's capacity for producing weapons and ammo far outstrips NATO's...hence NATO's panicked commitments to up defense spending etc....caught with its pants down, again. always focus on the date an account was opened..always..that way you don't have to deal with the truth of the message.
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  8215.  @myfuzzyanimals67  sorry to break it to you, but Russia's GDP is more than adequate to do what I said it has done, namely, outstrip NATO in arms production and ammo. You see, Russia allocates resources carefully to win wars. Doesn't waste money on sensitivity training or diversity and inclusion programs, or electric tanks, like the woke, imbecilic NATO. Russia's measly 60 billion a year will be more than enough to win this..hey, when you have the determination of the DPR, LPR and Chechens on your side, anything and everything can happen. just watch!
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  8216.  @HughJaxident67  all the way to victory! ...Z....shiver and go bankrupt this winter, Ukrainian bot
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  8217.  @xo121w  as de Gaulle said, countries don't have friends, only interests. Russia feels it can say anything it wants to the West...after all, it was the West that promised "no further eastward expansion of NATO". one good lie deserves another.
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  8218.  @myfuzzyanimals67  chips and western components that are willingly provided by Russia's allies all over the world, from China to Mexico to UAE, the list is endless. Most of the world is as keen as Russia is to bust Western hegemony, and it's going to happen.
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  8219.  @dnmurphy48  how long will our leaders be in office? Macron a lame duck president, Biden with cataclysmically low approval ratings, Scholtz in a tottery coalition, Johnson's days are numbered, his cabinet now abandoning him....Putin will win and the Western leaders fall.
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  8220.  @thoso1973  4 months into this war, and millions of artillery shells in NATO/Finnish storage. Tells you everything you need to know about NATO...let me guess, USA and Finland are waiting to deliver millions of shells once all of Donetsk has fallen?
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  8221.  @leemiguel3437  of course my comments are all complete nonsense....to those brainwashed by the Western media. Only when you have been to Ukraine and seen the reality there and talked to Ukrainian students, as I do every day, THEN you start to grasp the truth.
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  8222. fascinating to see how Martin huffs and puffs his way through admitting that Russia is indeed having some success. His dream has shattered and his face tells the story. poor guy. and he so expected us all to believe that Russia was inept, useless, defeated.
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  8223.  @ruuuuudooooolph  reality check..it's my real name! unlike your absurd handle...i guess you are too embarrassed to use your real name!? or maybe you saw one that was bliiiiixxxxeennnnn, and felt the need to copy it.
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  8224.  @tissohann8457  as always, when in panic about how to respond, rush to point the finger at the messenger, and say nothing about the message. oh so childish.
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  8225.  @Joey-ct8bm  and also, not my real name! Okkum's razor.
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  8226.  @jeremytine  so what was the point in blowing it up if it was already shut down?
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  8227.  @abodabalo  that's why it was an enormous ecological disaster, because it was already shut down. and the Greens in Germany were FURIOUS over the ecological damage...NOT!
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  8228.  @flopoz2575  Honestly, who cares that Russia invaded Ukraine? They did a big favor to ethnic Russians the world over.
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  8229.  @jeremytine  except that Biden promised he would do it! pretty convincing evidence!
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  8230.  @terribrad24  what makes it Russian, Sherlock?
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  8231.  @paulgibbon5991  yeah, the pipeline that Biden promised he would blow up, that one!
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  8232.  @thegreatdane3627  Russia never cut any gas flow for political reasons! Germany said it wanted to transition away from Russian energy, so Russia helped deliver that wish as soon as possible!
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  8233. it will be a lot fairer than the 2014 coup against the democratically elected Yanukovich government, agreed?
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  8234.  @peterl3417  oh, please reveal all the sanctions imposed on Austria before the outbreak of WW2 hostilities! cue crickets. thanks for sharing your fairy tale wish list of "real change coming from the inside". how has that worked so far for Iran, Venezuela, N Korea, Cuba and Russia? So far, the West has a 100% record of perfect failure! Wake up and grasp how the real world works.
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  8235.  @inthendwealldie  neither of them is in severe need at all! It's NATO that can't figure out a way to turn things around!
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  8236.  @peterl3417  Iran, N Kores, Venezuela, Cuba, which of these sanctioned nations have changed course based on 50 years of "external pressure"?
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  8237.  @dannyarcher6370  NATO has already run out of tanks, otherwise we would be seeing loads of them arrive in Ukraine every day! the problem is, you have no idea what the current rate of tank production in Russia is, but it is so cute that you think you know. Russians are still fighting with just shovels in your world, right?
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  8238.  @peterl3417  go ahead, explain what extra pressure should be applied! Tell the world what exactly would be such a wonderful idea to destroy the sanctioned countries? I mean USA has applied pressure and managed to push the sanctioned nations into a lethal alliance, tell us all what extra pressure would break that alliance. we're all listening.
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  8239.  @peterl3417  no one asked you for a misguided lecture on what you think caused the collapse of the USSR. you were asked to explain exactly what further measures of external pressure would so effectively destroy the alliance of sanctioned nations we have today. go ahead. explain.
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  8240.  @Baphometh69  tell me more, regarding Tenerife. where would a shipment come from (Morocco?), and how is the stuff actually brought to land? the boat anchors or moors and the stuff is just walked off in a backpack?
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  8241. How does Lucy get around the 90 days max in Schengen rule? Does she have Spanish residency?
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  8242. Day 446 of this fool telling us that Russia is running out of missiles.
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  8243. "anti immigrant influencers" par for the course, Channel 4 refusing to distinguish between those opposed to immigration, and those opposed to mass illegal immigration and asylum seekers that enter Ireland from a perfectly safe country.
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  8244. "some MEPs had been given money" = Some MEPs showed how corrupt they are by accepting bribes. Qatargate 2.0 So glad for Brexit.
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  8245. The Islamists are just regular Muslims. Islam is an extremist religion, so all followers are "Islamists".
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  8246.  @ukrainewarroom  Tell me why the Azov Nazis were so reviled and distrusted by the West a few years ago, yet now are embraced as heroes.
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  8247. Smirnov is not pivotal at all. the bank records that show money flowing from overseas businesses to Hunter Biden and thence to Joe Biden through various shell companies would be pivotal.
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  8248. The German government does not want to deal with immigration issues. It wants to pretend to be seen to be concerned about immigration and to stop losing so many voters because of the immigration issue.
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  8249.  @AtheistEve  LOL. Hamas was not the aggressor with its Oct 7th attack and massacre? Ukraine was not the aggressor with its 8 years of shelling the citizens of Donetsk? Looks like the problem here is your upside down definition of "aggressor". Next you'll be saying that the Cubans were the aggressors at the Bay of Pigs!
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  8250.  @AtheistEve  when you say "states should stay within their own borders" does that mean the Allies were wrong, positively evil, to invade Germany in 1945?
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  8251.  @Igor100year_old  What i said was 100% true. Soviet missiles were not permitted to remain in Cuba, and that situation set the precedent that the Superpowers can decide the limits of military installations in neighbouring countries.
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  8252.  @a564-c3q  Again, you are blabbering on about concepts of which you have no grasp. So, once again, let me correct you, and yes, I have a degree in Russian and Russian Studies and know the history well. 1. You have no idea if the descendants of the founders of Kievan Rus are today in Ukraine, or Russia, or both, or neither. 2. Russia, like China, like Ireland, has existed forever. It is stupid to say that any one place existed before another. 3. "The people of Ukraine are closest to the roots" They are not. The people of Ukraine happen to live on the same land as the heart of Kievan Rus. So what? So do all the African students that went to Ukraine to study medicine. Does the fact that African students happen to be on the same land as Kievan Rus mean those African students are "closest to the roots"? You mistake geographical location for cultural lineage. Basic mistake. Are you 12 years old, by the way?
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  8253. "greater regulation of landlords" = making the housing crisis even worse.
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  8254. Russia 6 Ukraine 0 every time both sides decide to battle it out toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins. EVERY TIME! Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Soledar, Bakhmut. 2021, Taliban goat herders kick NATO's ass. 2023 Convicts and drunken mercenaries kick NATO's ass.
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  8255. and now, the truth. the counter offensive is an absolute disaster for Ukraine. Entering Week 3, not one single Ukrainian has even reached the FIRST line of Russian fortifications! It's just the forward troops of the Russians that are massacring a thousand Ukrainian cannon fodder a day. So far, Ukraine has liberated 0.00125% of Russian occupied Ukraine, at a cost of 8000 casualties and Western weaponry aplenty destroyed. Catastrophe, and NATO knows it. Russian helicopters and drones pick off the Ukrainians so easily. Suicide mission.
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  8256.  @loredanatagliaferri5339  yep, it's shocking when Western sheep actually hear the truth, right? very sobering, this massacre of Ukrainian cannon fodder.
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  8257.  @loredanatagliaferri5339  you do realize how the Pyatikhatka trap was set up, right?
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  8258. One big difference: Ukraine is running low on weapons and ammo because its allies are running low on weapons and ammo. Russia hasn't even turned to its Central Asian and Asian allies yet. One tacit nod from China to help with Russian chip production/imports and problem solved. But not for Ukraine.
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  8259. Western values: referenda = sham, but 2014 coup ousting democratically elected Ukrainian president = democracy
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  8260. conspiracy theory + 6 months = the surprising truth
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  8261. complete destruction of the infantile Western narrative "Russia bad, Ukraine good" , a balanced presentation of the Russian perspective. Wonder when Channel 4 will start asking the Ukrainian ambassador about Ukrainian shells killing civilians in Donetsk? Oh, I forgot, "Russia bad, Ukraine good", so no such interview will ever happen. Censored West
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  8262. so funny how the Moldovan government blames Russia for all the horrendous mistakes made in Kishinyov. The Moldovan poor care only about having enough affordable energy. The Moldovan elite care only about appearing to be pro EU, so if that means rejecting cheap Russian energy imports, then screw the Moldovan poor. Once NATO's disastrous intervention in Ukraine has ended, Moldova will suffer next from NATO meddling.
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  8263. "very healthy for Europe to diversify its energy supplies" = who cares how many pensioners freeze to death this winter in Europe? green energy is our God, for better or worse.
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  8264. there is no reason why Russia should believe that a Minsk 3 Agreement would be honored by Ukraine and the West. So, we can forget that one. Russia will keep battling away to liberate all Donetsk Oblast, then be defacto government of all its occupied territories. a stalemate on Russia's terms.
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  8265. Yet another corrupt Democratic gets caught. Now we understand why the Turkish consulate got the green light so quickly to be built. Hats off to Biden for getting back at the man who called Biden out on his deranged immigration policy.
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  8266.  @bck481  you have swallowed propaganda hook line and sinker, there is no movement on the frontlines. reality check..no Russians being kicked out of anywhere!
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  8267. @Alexius Rex when you are as brilliant I am you solve such "errors" with the greatest of ease, but, Alexius, you have to be brilliant.
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  8268.  @bck481  how would you know? you have no idea where i am. i may live just down the road from you!
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  8269.  @Hiznogood  so tell me, Sherlock, what the significance of a 2 month old account is? And, BTW, why do you hide behind this fake name :Hiznogood"? Why not use your real name, as I do?
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  8270.  @keithmorgan3295  I have a bloke?
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  8271.  @rustybroomhandle  stick to making baby foods, only qualified adults can sort out fact from fiction in this conflict
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  8272.  @thomascolbert2687  Been to Kiev quite a few times. Lived and worked in Ukraine. Thomas, your firsthand experiences of Ukraine are...?
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  8273.  @gdwnet  For Russian speakers it is Kiev, For Russian speakers it is Lvov. For Russian speakers it is Kharkov. Oh, I know you Azov Nazis like to insist on Ukrainian spellings, but for us, we don't give a monkey's backside. We love the Russian language.
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  8274.  @arctic_haze  exactly! the DPR and LPR militias are fighting for their homelands like tigers. The Ukrainians are fighting for US dollars that, as you say, are not even being paid on time. Ukrainian rations back to one potato a day.
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  8275.  @derekd1510  you are such a card, Derek. And does your mum even know who your dad is?
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  8276.  @cooldudecs  i don't think so. Kherson is not needed as part of the land bridge from Crimea to Russia, and Kherson can always be recaptured by Russia at a later time if it did happen to fall. give me a quick list of the settlements so far recaptured by Ukraine after this first week of the lethal counter offensive.
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  8277.  @razeezar  losing cause? How many Ukrainian refugees are there? How bankrupt is Ukraine? How many hundreds of Ukrainian cannon fodder get served into the Russian meatgrinder every day? How many countries refused to condemn Russia in the last UN vote and still favor trading with Russia? How many pensioners will freeze to death this winter in Ukraine and Germany and UK? How many Europeans will favor negotiations with Russia by Christmas? Losing? The evidence is very much against you:)....Enjoy winter and beyond, losers.
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  8278.  @arctic_haze  not aged well? 3000 Ukrainian troops eaten up in the Russian meatgrinder in Kherson and Ukraine pushed back to the start line! The Kherson offensive is over, already, after 5 months of planning? you think Kherson was a great Ukrainian success?
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  8279.  Orcs MustDie  arguing about the substance of a message beyond you? limited mental ability renders you useful only for cutting and pasting your usual "troll" comment?
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  8280. just so awful that Russia has a total monopoly on war crimes and that Ukraine has an unblemished record after all these months. in fact, it's a little hard to believe.
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  8281. without air cover, all tanks are sitting ducks, metal coffins. Russia has depleted Ukrainian air defences and will use air power to halt any Ukronazi counter offensive.
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  8282. then that would be by nuclear holocaust, because Russia, rightly so, is going to fight for the human rights of ethnic Russians, wherever they may be, be it Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia, and now Ukraine, and Russia will prevail. Ball in NATO's court. Back Russia to achieve equal treatment for ethnic Russians outside of Russia, or nuclear war.
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  8283. how about you name some of those Chinese companies
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  8284.  @kimsong4659  name of the company?
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  8285.  @kimsong4659  BASF is a German company! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is not a Chinese company!
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  8286.  @kimsong4659  it wouid seem that your point is that German companies are reluctant to break EU sanctions! Not really surprising! I thought, originally, that your point was that Chinese owned companies were reluctant to break EU sanctions!
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  8287. Saint Greta becomes relevant again. fingers crossed martyrdom crosses her mind.
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  8288. What's holding up the conviction of the Pakistani hate mob that attacked the Police at Manchester Airport?
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  8289. to think that the Speaker and everyone in that chamber were so dumb that when he announced the veteran had fought against Russia in WW2 they couldn't figure out the old bastard was a Nazi, is stunning. we would expect Zelenskiy to applaud, to keep him popular with the Azovs and oligarchs back home, but surprising to see the Canadian parliament applaud a nazi.
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  8290. such a hard ass they ran out of weapons and ammo, that hard.
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  8291.  @PNH-sf4jz  am I old? am I your friend?
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  8292.  @gameofender4463  who says Putin dismissed the idea of feeble UK "helping" Ukraine? Putin may have stayed up all night wringing his hands at the thought of all 14 Challenger tanks heading to Ukraine.
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  8293.  @gameofender4463  he did. he saw that Russia prevailed.
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  8294.  @PNH-sf4jz  you can elevate your toe all the way up to the height of a basin!?
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  8295.  @gameofender4463  if looking at a GDP number makes you think UK has a "larger" economy, go knock yourself out. Problem is, Russia produces the commodities the world needs. UK doesn't.
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  8296.  @gameofender4463  indeed Russia is prevailing. Have a really close look at how Russia won in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria, and you will see exactly the same pattern in Ukraine.
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  8297.  @aleksanderfradkin7955  "loses" or "losses"?
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  8298.  @gameofender4463  NATO out of ammo = Ukraine lost
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  8299.  @97henrik041  apart from those who see this war as futile
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  8300.  @silversurfer8278  spending on defence in UK = electric tanks project, diversity and inclusion training, recruitment conforming to equity policy. forget the production of munitions, let's focus on a woke image.
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  8301.  @silversurfer8278  much stronger economy? I guess Liz Truss resigned because of the strength of the UK economy!
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  8302.  @silversurfer8278  UK has a much stronger economy? IMF predicts Russian economy will see modest growth in the next year, UK economy will contract, and Russia is the most sanctioned country ever! How do you think this remarkably strong UK economy would do under the sanctions Russia is facing?
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  8303.  @gameofender4463  correct. NATO has no interest in invading Russia. NATO doesn't have the guts to try that. NATO only has the guts to pay someone else (Ukraine) to fight Russia in the hope of weakening Russia. Coward's fight.
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  8304.  @gameofender4463  Russia has no intention of "beating" or occupying Ukraine. Read the list of Russia's 5 objectives in Ukraine.
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  8305.  @gameofender4463  NATO has been arming and training Ukraine for NATO's proxy war for 8 years
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  8306.  @silversurfer8278  much larger as measured by what metric? if UK were under the sanctions Russia is under, would the UK survive?
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  8307.  @silversurfer8278  Could Russia also learn from the fact that neither of the last 2 UK PMs has been put into office by the British electorate? Who voted for Sunak as PM? Who voted for Truss as PM? Putin was elected into office. UK has a LOT to learn about democracy
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  8308.  @silversurfer8278  have a look at who has been fired for corruption in the Ukrainian government if you want to see corruption at work in a ministry of defence! In preparation for years of war against Russia in Ukraine, what measures has UK Ministry of Defence implemented to assure Ukraine will be victorious? 14 Challenger tanks is the best UK can offer? training cannon fodder to get wiped out by the Wagners in Bakhmut? pathetic little country.
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  8309.  @mduckernz  funny how these "separatist agitators" did nothing between 1991 and 2014, but only flew into action by complete coincidence after Ukraine threw democracy out the window with the 2014 coup d'etat in Kiev!
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  8310. Russians distrusting the BBC? well, who would believe that? Probably they had seen how BBC covered the Brexit vote and had heard an Emily Maitliss interview.
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  8311.  @putlerhuylo7608  Nye za shto
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  8312.  @laars0001  Of course you did. You believe in censorship and you hate free speech and you are an authoritarian. makes sense.
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  8313.  @laars0001  contact me for 1) Some English lessons (if you hydrate more frequently you can cry longer) and 2) some lessons on the reality of Ukraine. Been there and lived there have you?
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  8314. BBC Verify needs to verify BBC reporting. Ukraine has NOT made "modest gains" in its counter offensive. Ukraine has lost 70,000 more lives in the Russian meatgrinder. That's IMMODEST losses, on a massive scale.
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  8315. Ukrainian sources reporting that Ghost of Kiev is destroying Russian defenses
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  8316.  @anthonymorris2276  Anthony, back again for another spanking in the debate arena? ok. did you ever discover any evidence that I was unaware of what a tu quoque is, or are you still perfectly content to arrogantly assume what is in the head of your interlocutors?
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  8317. let those metal coffins roll into Ukraine!
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  8318. 9th wave of Russian missile strikes? But Russia was running out of missiles back in March! and superior Western air defenses are able and available to prevent this? hmmm, methinks we were lied to.
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  8319.  @NZobservatory  what makes you assume I am in Russia and not in the West? Let me guess...you are not too bright and assuming things incorrectly is routine for you?
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  8320.  @NZobservatory  and the funny thing is, if I offer you a $1000 bet to let you prove what you say is true, you will refuse, because you are a coward. so...want to bet $1000 that my name is NOT Duncan Smith and that I am NOT in the West right now? Gonna put your money where your mouth is, or going to slink back under the rock whence you came?:)
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  8321.  @NZobservatory  BTW, "Benmore Peak" hardly sounds like a real name! It could be, but it sounds like, of the two of us, you would be the one that decided to conceal your real name!
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  8322.  @NZobservatory  in that case, let's go ahead with the $1000 bet. up for it? this conversation is on public record. ready to send me $1000, or any sum you choose, if I can show you my passport name and location?
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  8323.  @NZobservatory  as I say, I am happy to let you prove your assumption right, or wrong. ready for a Zoom call so I can show you my name and location?
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  8324.  @NZobservatory  why don't you use your real name, like me? what have you got to hide or be ashamed of?
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  8325.  @NZobservatory  Benmore Peak Observatory in NZ?
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  8326.  @NZobservatory  says a liar who can't even summon up the bravery to use his/her real name, but hides behind the name of an observatory in NZ!
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  8327.  @NZobservatory  let me know if you want me to share with you the letter of complaint I wrote to Benmore Peak regarding your lies about me that you are posting.
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  8328.  @NZobservatory  still waiting for you to go ahead and accept the bet so you can collect $1000 if you are right, Mr or Ms Benmore. Cat got your tongue? don't be a coward, let's sort out if you are a liar or not.
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  8329. "occupied Ukrainian territories" = liberated Russian territories. those oblasts and Russia have been in the same country together for many more centuries than they have been separated.
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  8330.  @cobralord4279  the West has been saying that since March! Get real! Pretty obvious, unlike NATO, Russia can produce munitions at the rate it uses them, at least. Hoping Russia runs out of ammo is not much of a war winning strategy
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  8331. aid workers that are dressed identical to the Ukrainian armed forces. next time where a white coat with a big red cross on it, oh, sorry, there won't be a next time, will there?
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  8332. Britain's Shariah Police are doing a fine job of integrating into the Islamic community. By insisting on never enflaming community tensions the Police are saying their inaction over the Rotherham Muslim rape gangs was totally justified.
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  8333. Belarus is great if you can handle Russian, pretty miserable if not. it's that simple.
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  8334.  @stephenphillips1660  the justice system, it is clear to the sane of this world, is an absolute shambles in the USA. It's the justice system itself that is going to be judged harshly and will be under scrutiny. The Supreme Court will decide. And after November 5th, it is a whole string of Dems that will be in court, in front of Republican judges and juries, off to jail. enjoy every second of it.
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  8335.  @lukebandolino882  so imagine what a boost it will be when the regular Russian army is used to boost the already successful Wagner efforts!
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  8336. the West has tried nothing but economic pressure on Russia, and failed.
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  8337.  @Hoophey  always so amusing to see the Banderite sheep assume they know someone's nationality by checking a date of YT membership. Shows a lack of deductive powers typical of the Far Right. So, Hoophey, or should I say Adolf - what exactly made the invasion of Ukraine illegal? And what made the invasion of Afghanistan legal? And what made the Normandy landings legal?
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  8338.  @Hoophey  ah, the fascinating world of imbeciles who think the date a person joined YT confirms their nationality. truly fascinating. just curious...what makes the Russian invasion of Ukraine "illegal"?
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  8339. This definitely explains why so many in the West are convinced Russia has a monopoly on war crimes and that Ukraine is a sweet innocent lamb.
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  8340. just not as tragic as any other person who believes the same about their home country
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  8341.  @Mad_Dog_of_the_Regime  so true. in July, Biden pronounced that "Russia has lost this war". The people in Russia laughed. Dumb Americans believed their president.
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  8342. Russia destroyed loads of wonderful weaponry in the first days of the conflict. Russia will do the same again with any new shipments. Russia had the objective of demilitarizing Ukraine.....who would have guessed Russia would succeed in demilitarizing bloody NATO at the same time! Two birds with one stone. Marvellous! SLAVA ROSSIYI ..Z
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  8343. Between them, Russia, Ukraine and Germany are succeeding in demilitarizing Germany, and NATO, totally. Don't be surprised if Russia rolls into Latvia once it has won in Ukraine, as Article 5 will be of no value with no weapons on hand.
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  8344. No no, mate. the goal here is to show that woke obsessions like Gay rights need to take a backseat to keeping Germans warm in winter. your accusations of homophobia can take a rest. Work on your absurd Russophobia if you really want to be a reporter and not an activist.
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  8345. please stop using this fake word "Islamist". It means nothing. Freer was subject to threats from Muslims, not "Islamists".
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  8346. It wasn't Nigel Farage or Tommy Robinson who said it was a brilliant idea to import thousands and thousands of jihadists.
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  8347. Great to see that archetypal hypocritical toady Rosenberg taken down several pages by some simple, honest answers.
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  8348.  @RaRa-eu9mw  at the start of the invasion, the aim was to get the Ukrainians to the negotiating table. at the start of the invasion, there were single strikes on some nights, not intense waves of mass attacks using both drones and missiles. several weeks between waves? there was a wave 3 days ago, and today! that makes 2 days!
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  8349. " I don't recollect the answer to that" = I've forgotten how I was coached to reply to that question. shameful response.
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  8350. "still defending their positions"...well, yeah, they're surrounded, so both statements are true, Russia controls Soledar but fighting continues. All power to the drunken mercenaries and convicts as they tackle Ukraine's NATO trained flops at the next encounter.
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  8351. so funny, USA happy that NATO nations moving to 2% of GDP for defence spending, but Russia and its allies are still WAY out producing NATO, and will be for many years to come. Russia has won. Only the deluded are blind to the obvious.
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  8352.  @dibdab101  you should give the UK an exemption, as Portugal has done, to help the tourist economies of your countries, but then again, why would you want to help your fellow citizens? Makes much more sense to have fewer guests and lower incomes for your fellow citizens, right?
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  8353.  @stevejones2310  but not extreme enough
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  8354.  @dibdab101  allowing UK passport holders through e gates is an exemption. no other third country is allowed such access. listen properly and learn something. I live in Europe, so all this "if you want to come to Europe" is ignorant blabber. No one voted for any rules on third country status. as i explained, that is a Brussels decision. The EU clearly DOES want the UK to have a third country status, as it is the EU that has decided such! Brussels can change the UK status tomorrow, if it so desired! No one is crying. Just pointing out how the EU cartel prefers to punish Brits over help its own tourist industry, confirmation of the misplaced values of a corrupt and uncaring cartel.
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  8355.  @dibdab101  as I already explained twice, one good reason to give the UK special status would be to boost the incomes of the EU's ailing tourist sector. but clearly, boosting the EU's tourism income and helping the economy of the EU's citizens is much less preferable to Brussels than the pleasure of punishing Brits. speaks volumes for the attitudes of Brussels. The UK is different from the other 3rd nations because the UK was an EU member. It's like saying the person you are divorced from is no different from a total stranger. it's a nonsensical argument, and false. it's not a question of liking or not liking the rules. I live in France, so doesn't bother me at all. it's a question of what arrangement benefits the people of the EU the most, and what arrangement benefits the people of the UK the most. the current rules, as applied to UK citizens, does nothing to help EU citizens, and in fact, hurts many in the EU tourist sector. But Portugal has seen the light. others will follow.
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  8356.  @dibdab101  BTW, explaining the EU rules to me, Schengen etc, is a waste of time. I am fully aware of the rules. We are not debating what the current rules are. The debate is whether the current rules benefit EU citizens or whether a change to the rules would help EU citizens. Relaxing rules for Brits to enter and stay in the EU would, I am sure, benefit the EU. what makes you think the present rules bring maximum benefit to the EU citizenry?
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  8357.  @dibdab101  we already know what you think, and it is clear you don't care what EU policies would best benefit EU citizens. you care more about being bitter towards the UK. you are the epitome of bigoted and narrow-minded Brussels thinking. meanwhile, the clever Portuguese have figured out how to encourage some more tourist revenue to enter their country. I applaud them.
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  8358.  @dibdab101  keep in mind, when you say your business suffered from Brexit, what you mean is that your business suffered from the EU cartel rules, that discourage free trade and frictionless trade with non EU countries. Brexiteers are, by and large, free traders. there would be no trade barriers between the EU and UK if the EU gave up being a protectionist cartel determined to keep consumers within the EU paying top dollar.
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  8359.  @dibdab101  you don't understand trade! the EU is a protectionist cartel. it is EU laws, not brexit, that restricts your trade. it is brexit that revealed the truth. it is EU rules that hit you. look up "cartel" and "protectionism" to discover how the EU cripples free trade.
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  8360.  @elipa3  the EU should do this because it would help boost the EU tourist sector and aid relations with the UK. you would like to see both of those objectives, right?
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  8361.  @elipa3  on the contrary. leaving the EU gave the EU a wonderful opportunity to create a new status for the UK. But punishing the UK is seen as more important in Brussels than helping EU citizens.
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  8362.  @elipa3  on the contrary, any club with any sense that wanted to benefit its members would amend certain rules to benefit all those concerned. only a bitter and punitive dumb boss of the club would do as the EU did.
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  8363.  @elipa3  when my ex fitness club see me leaving a healthy tip any time I still want to use the club showers, they are most welcoming and find the arrangement good for both parties.
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  8364.  @elipa3  when my former partner is handsomely paid for such, she has no problem doing exactly that. remember, when you make it easier for tourists to enter your country, you make more money. imposing obstacles on British tourists is a money loser.
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  8365.  @elipa3  Portugal decided, wisely, it would minimize the process needed for Brits to enter the country. Allowing e gates access and a simple stamp in the passport has achieved that. only a bitter and nasty fool (you?) would object to such a measure that will help the Portuguese tourist industry.
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  8366. mass immigration, green energy policies, funding a futile war in Ukraine and kissing goodbye to cheap Russian energy has consigned Germany to the dustbin of economic success, and the rest of the EU will follow. Draghi addressed none of the true causes. He hasn't got the cojones to do so.
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  8367.  @First-Last_name  the similarity is that both are reporting what they perceive as the truth. one is an enemy of the West, the other is a hero. it's called hypocrisy.
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  8368. as always, supply and demand. more immigration = more demand = higher rental prices. so either blame the immigration policy or blame the green movement that preaches restrictions on new construction.
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  8369.  @boredombusters4088  curious that the picture message has been seen by a total of, what, one person?
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  8370.  @JoaoSoares-rs6ec  so explain, why support the Ukrainian mob in overthrowing a democratically elected president but not support a Brazilian mob convinced their guy was ousted by electoral fraud.
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  8371.  @JoaoSoares-rs6ec  or even on a map
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  8372.  @Subject82  the people of Ukraine did NOT vote to join the EU. Learn the basics. so, the difference is, when the people are mad, we should support the uprising? who has the "madometer" to determine if it passes the threshold of backing an uprising?
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  8373. @serendipitous)) He promised nothing of the sort. But even if he did, would he be the first leader to make a promise to win an election and then not follow through? Zelensky promised to "bring peace to the Donbass". George Bush promised "no new taxes". Does Zelensky deserve ousting for breaking his promise?
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  8374.  @MsNorthernsoulboy  it's a possibility, and it would gain time as the kidnappers fled. who knew it would gain 17 days of time?
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  8375.  @abdirahmanahmadalifarah926  sanctions have a 100% record....of failure. failed to change the behavior of Cuba, of Venezuela, of Iran, of N Korea, and now of Russia. oh, but have alienated all the sanctioned countries and thus encouraged them to align, against the USA
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  8376.  @MashedUp43  so, Kevin, if you are so sure about what you say, how about you put your money where your mouth is? $1000 bet I am Duncan Smith, that is my name as per my passport and all other documents, and that I'm British. ready to prove yourself right? or wrong?
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  8377.  @MashedUp43  as expected, the coward who makes the accusation and then backs down immediately. true to form for the Azov Nazi lovers. pathetic. How's life these days in Kiev, "Kevin"? any lights on?:)
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  8378.  @MashedUp43  first of all accept the $1000 bet. put your money where your mouth is.
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  8379.  @MashedUp43  obviously sending credentials won't prove the person writing under the name of Duncan Smith is the person featured in the credentials. so, accept the bet, we can put your signature on a contract, all of this is in public, and then we can start the proof part, all nice and legal, so when we go to court it is all in writing.
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  8380.  @MashedUp43  GBP or USD, I am fine with either. So, we will go with GBP. So, you accept the bet/contract? If I can establish my identity as a British citizen - full name Ian Duncan Smith - you will pay me 1000 GBP, agreed?
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  8381.  @MashedUp43  I never said I would send you credentials. I would be happy to show you proof. so, when you are ready to accept the bet/contract, let's get the proof aspect out of the way, and then I can press for the cash as per the contract. agreed? a quick Zoom or Skype call, all recorded of course, would be adequate proof. ready?
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  8382.  @MashedUp43  I am no friend of yours, and it sounds like you are backing down. Come on. If what you said is the truth, you get 1000 pounds! If you lied about me, you pay. Want to go ahead? Or you backing down?
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  8383.  @Shabkaz  so why was any partition needed?
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  8384.  @Shabkaz  I mean the territorial integrity of India. why any necessity at all to partition anything from the territory of India? There was no partition as a British colony. Why should any Pakistani separatists have a say in the new borders?
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  8385.  @MashedUp43  come on, Kevin, from London. Don't you want to win your 1000 GBP off me? My wife is ready to film everything, we connect on Zoom or Skype, and if you are right, I am bluffing and can't prove anything, and you win, but if you lied and got it all wrong, and I am indeed British and can prove it, you agree to get the cash to me. you are/were 100% sure I am Russian and not Duncan Smith. Let's do this!
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  8386.  @Shabkaz  Donbass with its ethnic Russians has a MUCH stronger claim to be separate from Ukraine than Pakistan EVER had to be separate from India. And you are just a pure hypocrite. Ready to champion Pakistani separatism, but not that of ethnic Russians. What about Bangladesh? Disgusted that they are recognized as NOT being part of Pakistan anymore?
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  8387.  @MashedUp43  no wonder you got the whole Russia Ukraine conflict so wrong. you cannot even tell a Russian from a non- Russian. truly pathetic. learn your lesson and don't lie about other people in public, coward. now go back under your stone and try to learn some basics.
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  8388. Tim Cross has no bloody clue what he's talking about. There is no "pause" in the conflict. Ukraine is running out of troops and ammo and its stocks are depleted, Russia is grinding on with its war of attrition in Donbass and winning. Tim Cross is the slowest kid in the class. ONLY now has he given up saying "Ukraine is winning"...let us see how long he takes to say "Ukraine is losing". And like he has a "moraleometer" to measure the morale of Ukrainian forces and, let's say, Chechen forces. Given all the recent desertions by Ukrainian soldiers, morale must be low on The Ukronazi side.
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  8389. "an expert on far right politics", what, like, she wrote the biography of Mussolini?
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  8390.  @chrissmith6954  I certainly hope so. my fear is that the combined forces of the Sharia Police of Britanistan and too many Lefty loon supporters and young indoctrinated wokerati and media buffoons are now too numerous to not prevail. God help us.....off to Paraguay to build a Traditional Britain community in some remote spot or other.
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  8391. still wouldn't work. not enough of a deterrent and they still have to be fed. the only solution is to tow them all back to France and strip them of their valuables (otherwise they just try to come again). After a week, no more migrant boats would appear. France admitted them, France must be responsible for them.
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  8392. PM for a day? Let's start with memo to Border Force and the Royal Navy. From this moment on, any illegal vessels spotted in UK waters in the Channel are to be forcibly stopped and towed back to France. All illegals on board will be finger printed and photographed and assessed a cash fine, at the point of a gun, of 1000 pounds. Strip searches for payment of said fine and/or any valuable to be done.
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  8393. the vast majority of the world doesn't care a monkey's backside about what Russia is doing. and there are many who want Russia to win. Only the Western bubble cheers on Ukraine.
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  8394. only a deluded few think Ukraine can win this. the sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, javelins and himars failed, the real game changer was letting the convicts join the Wagner gang and wipe out thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder in Bakhmut and Soledar. Who will get to Zelensky first and string him up? The Wagners, the Chechens, or Ukraine's own devastated and miserable recruits?
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  8395. Russia just copying what USA did in Ukraine in 2014. Remember Victoria Nuland handing out cookies to those leading the coup?
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  8396. Not the job of the UN to take sides, but to seek a peaceful solution. The toothless tiger can pontificate all it wants, it won't achieve anything by condemning a massive chunk of its members for failing to vote the "right" way.
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  8397.  @utlord  yep, apart from the 7% who voted for Zemmour, the only candidate to embrace ending immigration. the voters gave the thumbs up for more and more Nahels to terrorize France.
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  8398.  @donut2111  fascinating you use the US as your example. we can already see the results of this "let carjackers go ahead and keep carjacking" policy. Crime has risen to horrific levels in the US, and violent crimes like car jacking have grown enormously, so, great, less car chases, more devastating crime. Look, this is quite simple. Extremely harsh jail terms for those who fail to comply with Police AND repeat the message over and over again, ALWAYS COMPLY WITH THE POLICE WHEN STOPPED, FULLY. If political leaders did this, instead of instantly blaming the Police, we would be in a better place. The problem in the US is that prosecutors have given up prosecuting and sentencing is light or non existent. You know, in countries where people comply with the Police, this problem doesn't exist. Tell me, why do you think this kind of thing never happens in Japan? Why?
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  8399.  @krissy-jw8kj  even left leaning Quinnipiac has Trump now leading in PA
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  8400.  @chrisgronskei5416  check out what the polls said Biden would win by in WI in 2020 and then check out how much Biden actually won by. That gives you an idea of how much the Trump vote is under counted in polls
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  8401. Given that Ellwood is part of the government that is responsible for importing such hoodlums, about time that he experienced the consequences of his policies.
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  8402. This will be over by winter, and Russia will have won. If not, the last people on this earth to fear handling winter would be the Russians
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  8403.  @justintimefortea7655  three strikes and you are out. last chance. simple question. why should someone else pay for your dog? twice you have refused to address the question. try again. am beginning to see why you and your family were so incapable you ended up in poverty.
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  8404.  @brianmcintyre14  I didn't claim that anyone struggling is a parasite. A parasite is a being that lives off another being, and can't survive independently. All those who take more from government revenues than they contribute are parasites. That is now most people in the UK, and the number is ever increasing. I didn't even say it is a bad thing. I am just speaking the truth. People with their hands out expecting others to pay for their survival are parasites. The truth hurts, but is the truth.
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  8405.  @reevs2153  UK never used to have a minimum wage at all and never had the kind of problems that we see today. rent is high because government keeps intervening in the free market, and because massive increases in population (the immigration crisis) means demand outstrips supply. the government needs tax revenues to increase. not taxes. the two are not the same.
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  8406.  @boota1979  agreed, having a minimum wage is a crime. with no rent controls and a free market, growing population = greater demand = higher rents. not that difficult to figure out
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  8407.  @Saidifect  even though Zelensky is a puppet, he tries to think independently, he's just not good at it! imagine thinking that the same NATO that couldn't even retreat from Afghanistan in good order would be able to help Ukraine defeat Russia in a ground war? Poor fool. well, at least he has milked the West royally while keeping his overseas properties! not such a fool after all! remind me again, how did Zelensky's name appear in the Panama Papers?
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  8408.  @Saidifect  Zelensky is the only one who has bankrupted his country, keeps begging ceaselessly for more cash, yet appeared in the Panama Papers as phenomenally rich from sources totally unaccounted for. he is truly unique in that regard. No need to target Putin's wealth because Putin is not taking any of my tax contributions, but Zelensky is. Putin is not begging my elected leaders for anything. Zelesnky is begging my elected leaders for everything. at my age, fighting for Russia would not be a positive thing for Russia, but yes, a second home in Russia and to live among Russians is VERY appealing these days. definitely. i believe in Russia one can say "white lives matter" and not be canceled, right?
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  8409. Says so much that without any evidence, a so-called scientist names who was responsible for the attack on the policewoman. Safe to assume he examines climate change with no concern for evidence and bases everything on his naive preconceptions.
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  8410. Laughable he claims that Russians got slaughtered every time the two armies engage in combat. There have only been two battle so far, Mariupol (won by Russia) and Bakhmut (slowly being won by Russia).
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  8411. Sanctions failed. isolating Russia failed. protecting Ukrainian air space failed. supplying Ukraine with arms has failed. just funny how the deluded West things more failures will lead to success.
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  8412.  @FRANKIECULLEN-r3g  sure, a safe route for those approved, and remaining abroad for those not approved, and returned abroad for those breaking immigration law. the problem is, at the moment, it is perfectly legal to arrive in the UK by any means and claim asylum, hence no one is arrested on entering UK waters or at Dover.
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  8413.  @FRANKIECULLEN-r3g  anyone trying to enter a country with insufficient documentation can be detained and returned. it happens at Heathrow Airport every single day and the airlines get fined for transporting such people. has nothing to do with the Dublin Accord. Learn some basics, pathetic remoaner.
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  8414.  @queenbee4618  are you assuming Slater's priority was to catch the bus and nothing else? I'm thinking he had 2 priorities. Firstly, complete the drug deal, secondly, catch the bus. he already knew where the bus leaves from, but just wanted confirmation of at what time, so that priority number one could be wrapped up in good time.
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  8415.  @Basauri.48970  no, i don't think he would have mentioned the details of a drug deal to Lucy or anyone. it's all speculation, but i think it's possible that his body is nowhere near there because he got in a car and was driven off somewhere. who knows? and maybe we will never know.
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  8416. Erdogan has lost so much respect and support from all sides for his constant shift in position. He deserves to be trusted by nobody and to be shunned by all. Blundering old goat.
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  8417. what about the heat records in the 1930's, you know, the decade the climate scientists ignore?
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  8418.  @tubecated_development  I always reply to whatever pops up under my Notifications, but not all replies appear under "Notifications". Surely you have noticed that? Also, don't discount the fact I may have sent a reply that you never saw, or which you never received.
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  8419. @michael-muller Thank you, USA
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  8420.  @tubecated_development  and you complain to me about not replying!
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  8421.  @tubecated_development  tell me what I am supposed to respond to! I commented that the climate alarmists go out of their way to leave out 1930's data, and I don't see anyone replying to me with a rebuttal!
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  8422. @Mr. Burns conspicuous by its absence, anything of substance that refutes what I said about the derussification of Latvia
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  8423.  @planderlinde1969  not at all. Russia has no timelines in war, never did and doesn't today. but curious that you swallowed the Western MSM lie about "3 days to win" (or "10 days to win" according to some other myth makers in the West). do you believe every thing you hear, or do you check to see if there is a real source, some kind of Kremlin announcement?
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  8424. If you possibly can, get out of Britain. it is spiralling out of control, best leave the cesspit to the woke police and migrant gangs.
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  8425. Islam is incompatible with British values. period. In a democracy, voters decide who represents them and those representatives pass laws. Religion determines nothing. In Islam, religion determines all laws, there are no representatives outside of Islamic law. Yes, some lukewarm Muslims can abide by certain British values, but no real Muslim will, for example, ever accept or abide by gay marriage.
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  8426.  @machdaddy6451  so? what's your point? the commentator said "Ukraine is an independent country". He is wrong. You say "Ukraine WAS not totally dependent on anyone". You are right. If the game is just switch "is" for "was" to make it sound better, fine, play linguistic games. Ukraine is NOW totally dependent on handouts and has lost all independence.
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  8427. He will do nothing to stem the horrific debt the nation faces. He was fool enough to applaud lockdowns, a big cause of raising national debt, so he will have no clue how to reduce the debt so that investors have more confidence. Economic meltdown will happen with or without Hunt. The UK's grave was dug months ago.
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  8428. more lies from DW. Russia didn't weaponize winter. Russia depleted Ukraine's stocks of missiles by attacking infrastructure. It does this throughout the year, no more and no less in winter.
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  8429. trust a deluded Communist to blame enterprising entrepreneurs for a housing crisis brought about by mass immigration.
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  8430. If Jack truly wanted to be helpful and truthful, he would reveal his source and disavow such a charlatan forever more. The fact he refuses to do so, shows he isn't truly sorry for anything.
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  8431. how do you "prepare human reserves"? you mean train 16 year old boys from Lviv to become cannon fodder to the relentless Chechens and LPR militias?
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  8432.  @Hedgewisekat  makes perfect sense to go off with strangers when drugs and big money are involved
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  8433. Von der Lyingagain clearly doesn't know the difference between appeasement and talking peace. if sanctions are here to stay, Russia will end up determining who in Europe is employed, who is unemployed, who freezes to death and who survives.
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  8434. of course! what he and his lads achieved in Bakhmut is just astounding! Armed with just shovels, a bunch of demoralized convicts took on NATO trained, advised and armed Ukrainian battalions and not only beat them, but massacred them. The horrerndous Bakhmut losses help explain why Ukraine is failing in the counter offensive. The Wagners are heroes, deservedly so.
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  8435. ils ont peur. la démocratie mène a une victoire absolue de la Droite.
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  8436. "continue to see it through"..."continue to stand with Ukraine"...note the absence of "win" or "victory". he knows the game is up. Ukraine can't win.
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  8437. for the freedom from Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass for 8 years.
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  8438. except that most of the world is absolutely fine trading with and working with Russia
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  8439. Interesting he mentioned the Geneva Convention and war crimes where infrastructure is targeted. When do you think Wallace will take NATO to court for doing exactly that in Serbia and the USA to court for doing exactly that in Iraq?
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  8440. Just hilarious that Bimbo Belinda thinks any Muslims would protest what Hamas did. Jihad against the kufr is a tenet of Islam, for every Muslim, so honey, please, stop trying to pretend there are some Muslims who are upset about what Hamas do and did.
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  8441. one year is nothing for Russia. Check out how many years Russia took to grind down and eliminate the enemy in Chechnya and then Syria. The Russians are thorough. Ukraine close to collapse. Not many more teenagers and pensioners can be recruited.
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  8442. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SotBuojZ39g
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  8443. Did Ukraine also use any prisoners in its forces?
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  8444. Astounding lies from Poroshenko. Putin never mentioned any timeline for occupying anywhere in Ukraine. Putin announced the objectives of the operation, and Russia is now very close to achieving all those objectives. Game over
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  8445. Unless this factory boss opposed lockdowns, Green energy policies, sanctions against Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine, she got what she deserved.
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  8446. but I thought we were told to assume Russians always lie? Now we are supposed to believe a Russian war criminal? make your mind up!
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  8447.  @kw8757  given the Ukrainian Nazi scum have horribly underestimated the help NATO can provide, we can be sure they have horribly overestimated what damage their lucky strike did on this occasion. Slava Donbasu.
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  8448.  @JTMaster  how would you know that what Girkin lets out is the truth?
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  8449.  @heybabycometobutthead  no, we're saying there is a chance he would not report said information accurately
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  8450.  @JTMaster  so the new rule is we don't dismiss Russian sources as liars at all, we can assume they are telling the truth IF they highlight when the Russian military has f**ked up, right? I would be careful with that. There are many hawks who believe Putin is going too soft on Ukraine and want war declared. Exaggerating the deaths in a missile attack is one way to push Putin for revenge on a big scale. There are a million and one reasons to doubt anyone affirming the numbers in war.
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  8451.  @heybabycometobutthead  there is nothing to misunderstand. agree totally. but let's return to my point. why believe Gerkin's numbers rather some other person's?
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  8452.  @heybabycometobutthead  so we can assume Girkin's numbers are accurate because he wants to stop the humiliating defeat of his nation's army? surely if he wants to stop the humiliating defeat of his nation's army he would announce grossly inflated numbers to encourage outrage in the population to demand the changes he seeks? your argument makes no sense to me. I see no reason to trust Girkin over anyone else.
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  8453.  @heybabycometobutthead  No idea, and don't care. he would not be a source I would put any faith in.
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  8454.  @heybabycometobutthead  oh, yes, sorry, if your point is that Girkin's number could well end up closer to the truth than the Kremlin's official figure, yeah, you may well be right. I would be sceptical about any info at this stage, but may be 250 odd is the number.
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  8455. "there's no indication that the battle could be over soon" - Ukrainian offensive stalled, Russia gathering forces, Ukraine forces to be wiped out in the near future, but hey, Ghost of Kiev will save the day.
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  8456.  @stephennewton2777  why not?
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  8457.  @joman563  I teach Ukrainians for a living. I'm a Russian speaker, in 2018 worked in Ukraine. And you?
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  8458.  @normanstevens4924  Oh, I understand that weakening Russia and watching Ukraine get destroyed is the point of the exercise. However, I think there is a different way. Putin has been leader for decades. He has showed no signs at all of wanting to take over the former Warsaw Pact countries. None at all. Putin has showed determination to support Russian speakers in their struggle for equal rights, be it in Transnistria, Georgia, Chechnya, and now Ukraine. How about we sit down with Putin and find out where he thinks the West could do better about protecting the rights of Russian speakers? just to find out his perspective? Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in particular should chat about their Russian minorities with Putin.
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  8459.  @stagg2158  After how the West has reacted with hysterical Russophobia, I'm pretty sure Putin doesn't care too much about having a relationship with the West any more. The best we can hope for is peaceful coexistence, with Russia aligning with BRICS and the rest of the world apart from the Collective West, and the West licking its wounds and looking ever more inward as BRICS lead the globe towards multi polarism. I don't see Putin wanting to change borders. I see him wanting Russian speakers to be treated fairly, be it in the Donbass or Transnistria or wherever. And we should respect that.
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  8460.  @vandazetzakrzewska3704  Red Sea?
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  8461.  @ukpaullouis2708  I'm sure Russia and China are saying the same thing, about being careful who they do business with, like...anyone but the West!
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  8462.  @sylviahutchison5203  sadly, Zelensky is a Western-backed dictator. Opposition parties banned, leader of the opposition under house arrest. The Ukrainian people have been left powerless.
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  8463.  @billahler7728  twice invaded its neighbor? we may have different definitions here. what two invasions are you referring to? Seems to me you have been brainwashed by Western media! What evidence do you have that "Russia tried to take the whole country"? Putin has only ever listed 5 objectives to this invasion and he is striving to attain those 5 objectives. Conspicuous by its absence on the list of objectives is regime change in Kiev and annexation of Ukraine! Maybe you have some other list, issued not by Putin but by Sky News? There IS an end to "this"...it is the total destruction of Ukraine, total humiliation of the West/NATO and the rest of the world ready to work with BRICS and shun the G7 where possible. There would be a different end if the West listened to Putin and talked about what he would accept as final outcome in Ukraine.....though at the moment Putin has no real need to negotiate anything. That opportunity was thrown away by Johnson and Zelensky back in March.
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  8464.  @camillep9346  referring to Zelensky in the Donbass?
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  8465.  @VicMansaMusa  My fear for Ukraine is that the time to negotiate was February and March...not sure Russia needs to negotiate anything right now.
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  8466.  @joman563  Russia ain't the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan ain't Ukraine. Putin's Russia will absolutely destroy Ukraine and bleed NATO dry. Sure, Russia will suffer too (Russians are used to hardships) but will emerge victorious. The inept deluded "leadership" of the West SEVERELY underestimated 3 things 1) Global support for Russia 2) Russia's resilient commodity based economy 3) Russia's capacity to produce weapons and ammo at a rate that supersedes the West. Just a question of when Russia announces "gane over" and the incriminations and finger-pointing begin in the West. At least Zelensky has a mansion in Miami he can escape to.
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  8467.  @camillep9346  depends on how you transliterate the Cyrillic script. the final "s" is a fairly long soft "s", in Russian anyway. I don't speak Ukrainian, so no idea how they say it or write it.
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  8468.  @sorinancuta3934  not true, that is just the Russophobic Western mantra.
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  8469.  @ukpaullouis2708  so...the Jewish holocaust survivors were never "liberated" by the Allies? The people of the Donbass would say that post 2014 and the coup that removed the democratically elected Yanukovich, that Ukraine was an invading force on Donbass territory In a broader sense, once the Donbass Russian speakers are "liberated" from the dictatorial laws of Zelensky that prohibit Russian in the media, education and other public places, they certainly feel they have some basic freedoms back....and if we in the West are TRULY concerned by human rights, we should back them! Agreed?
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  8470.  @patrickkelly6691  zelenskyarselicker
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  8471. @16vjtdalfa so true
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  8472.  @Me-yq1fl  Poroshenko started the war in 2014. Putin recognizes Ukraine and always has, though like me, he questions weather it is truly a separate entity from Russia. What you accept and what you agree with can be two different things.
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  8473.  @Me-yq1fl  The difference is that Putin controls his Russian oligarchs. They get nowhere without Putin's approval. Reverse in Ukraine. The oligarchs control wee little puppet dwarf comedian Zelensky. Without oligarch support, Zelensky is just a funny guy on tv.
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  8474.  @Me-yq1fl  Zelensky was also elected to bring peace to the Donbass. LOL
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  8475.  @markalexander832  ok, so let's talk some specifics. this chat might get somewhere. We will take this one step at a time. I accept Ukrainian independence (debatable where Ukraine's borders should begin and end) but I don't agree it should be an independent country.. Accepting something and agreeing with it are two different things, sometimes. Why do you believe Ukraine should be an independent country, and where should its borders be exactly? This answer will be fascinating! Mark, are you a Russian speaker?
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  8476.  @markalexander832  we all dance to someone's tune, Mark every one of us. My contention is that those who dance to Putin's tune are a lot better off than those dancing to Zelensky's tune. A lot.
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  8477.  @markkearns7113  fine, then my contention is those that tolerate Putin's rule are better off than those who tolerate Zelensky's rule. by a long way.
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  8478.  @richardivonen3564  you time or your time? delegate or dedicate? Most of my time I dedicate to teaching English, Russian, Spanish and French, In my spare time I illuminate the thoroughly pig ignorant, like you
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  8479.  @markalexander832  I am a native English speaker! Russian is a language I graduated in and which I acquired while studying at Pyatigorsk in the Caucasus. To the point, if you are not a Russian speaker, how did you understand the opinions of the Russian speakers you met? I am fascinated. Do you respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all the nations of the world?
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  8480.  @jounisuninen  of course he would! every leader LOVES the luxury of dictating "better relations", from Biden to Zelensky to Putin. Every one of them. Preparing for new invasions is what every responsible leader should be doing at all times...NATO, caught with its pants down, now boosting spending on the military because it completely neglected planning both offensive and defensive operations. You are 100% right and I agree with you.
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  8481. doubt that will happen, but even if it does, a couple of nukes on Lvov or Vinnitsa would end this.
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  8482.  @joefreeman9733  you obviously know nothing about Russia. Tell me, Putin has been in power for 2 decades or so. when exactly did you start wringing your hands in fear over Putin's Russia? 20 years ago? or just when mainstream media brainwashed you with so much Russophobia you had to become a Russophobic bigot? Putin is such a monster that the EU decided to be totally dependent on him for energy supplies...and that makes sense to you? you have become deluded. I am more than happy with Putin's explanations for each and every one of his military interventions. You satisfied, for example, with USA invasion of Iraq to find WMDs that never existed? Maybe it's the monster known as NATO you should be scared of.
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  8483.  @MikeAngel06  1900? The Americans are NOW in Syria, occupying part of it! Did you miss World Wars 1 and 2? Did you miss the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq? Russia is merely copying the invasion strategy of USA and NATO.
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  8484.  @MikeAngel06  There is ZERO evidence that Russia wants to "swallow" Ukraine! Advanced stages of Russophobia on display! Sounds like occupying Ukraine for twenty years and dictating policy there (as the USA did in Afghanistan) would be absolutely fine with you, as such a situation would NOT fall into the "previous global order" you detest so much. So why not be honest and say "20 years of Russia occupying Ukraine is fine by me"?
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  8485.  @MikeAngel06  so what is the acceptable time limit of occupation? you are absolutely fine with the current world order of USA occupying Afghanistan for 20 years. If Russia occupied Ukraine for thirty years, would that also be fine, or is 30 years akin to that detestable old world order of "might makes right"? what is the time limit between "acceptable occupation" and "swallowing" a country?
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  8486.  @MikeAngel06  You got it the wrong way round. Since when was Crimea Ukrainian territory? It's Russian! When Britain fought the Crimean War, was Britain fighting against Russia, or Ukraine? The answer is Russia. Odessa was founded by Catherine the Great of Russia, or Catherine the Great of Ukraine? Any Russian-speaking area of Ukraine that Russia "takes" is reclaiming what was rightfully Russian and which STILL wishes to be free from Ukraine. Russia restored the rights of Russian speakers in Georgia, in Chechnya, in Moldova...you weren't wringing your hands when you heard Russian peace keepers would be in Transnistria, and wailing about this "Russia changing the world forever" nonsense, right? As I say, the lying media has given you advanced Russophobia, and the only cure is to get a second opinion!
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  8487.  @MikeAngel06  so what is the evidence Russia is annexing all of Ukraine? Russia never annexed all of Georgia. The evidence there is that the Russian speaking areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia would have autonomy. they have that, Georgia and the autonomous areas live in peace. Moldova wasn't annexed, but Transnistria was granted autonomy. ALL the evidence, historically, is that Russia will protect the rights of the Russian speaking minorities, as they should. There is no evidence of annexation. You have only assumed this, fed lies and conspiracies by western media. So by your definition, a sham referendum is one where there are no UN/international observers, right? So, Brexit was a sham referendum, right? oh, wait, so, explain the difference again...sham referendum = not observed by UN/international observers (like Brexit), approved referendum = any referendum the result Mikeangelo likes? Try again. this definition not quite working is it?
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  8488.  @MikeAngel06  Ukraine annexed Crimea in 1991 when Ukraine became independent. It should have agreed terms for Crimea to join the Russian Federation, given the majority of Crimeans were Russian. Instead Ukraine annexed Crimea. Thankfully, Crimea is now liberated and back where it belongs. Been to Crimea have you? What, culturally, is the most Ukrainian feature you have experienced while in Crimea?
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  8489.  @MikeAngel06  which parts of your "rules based order" system allows Ukraine to sign the Minsk accords and then refuse to implement them?
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  8490.  @MikeAngel06  Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. This part of the Budapest Memorandum was CLEARLY violated by USA when USA backed the illegal, anti democratic coup of 2014. USA refused to recognize Ukraine's sovereignty and Victoria Nuland played MORE than an active role in deciding Ukraine's replacement government once Yanokovich was overthrown. From this point on, Russia realized that the Budapest Memorandum was worth NOTHING in the eyes of the West.
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  8491.  @MikeAngel06  Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments. Questions arose, for Russia, regarding the commitments to the Memorandum. Putin requested talks on Ukraine. The West refused. Yet again, the West disregarded, totally, the contents of the Budapest Memorandum. Now we see the consequences. If you want to follow the Budapest Memorandum, do so, otherwise expect Russia to do what it need to do to restore justice. It's that simple, but I guess your cherished "rules based system" means Russia never gets to interpret the rules, only the West? Hence the globe backs Russia, by and large, because it has zero faith in the West being judge and jury over the rules. Budapest Memorandum is a PERFECT example of this.
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  8492.  @jakerolfe7689  Not true. What we see today are the results of an insane EU policy based on Russophobia and ignorance. BTW, when Germany signed the Minsk accords and then REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING to implement them, how do you think that represented "building better relations" with Russia? It destroyed them! What we see today is a Germany in collapse because it understands NOTHING about the vagaries of Green energy, it understands nothing about how sanctions work, or don't work, and because it has blindly followed the US lead. HAD Germany tried to work with Russia and understand Russia, it would be in MUCH better shape today than it is. Total disaster for Germany.
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  8493.  @dorotazapolnik234  Utopia is indeed just a dream. Zelensky now knows that as his Utopian vision of a Donbass shelled into submission has disappeared and he has bankrupted and ruined his own country. you are so right.
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  8494.  @dorotazapolnik234  the West tried what exactly?
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  8495.  @dorotazapolnik234  This may come as nasty shock to you, but it is entirely possible to have a rich, fulfilling and productive life with no villa on the French Riviera, with an education that is not Western based, with means of transport other than a Mercedes or Volvo, and without expensive English lessons! Your "fantasy" world seems a bit weird!
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  8496.  @dorotazapolnik234  I understand that you struggle with English and that it is not your first language, but maybe try and get a native speaker to help you write your questions, as they make no sense.
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  8497.  @dorotazapolnik234  I ventured an answer to the ones I thought I could decipher, and thought that in fact, any answer you get would show you the Russian perspective on events there in Ukraine, because I am guessing you only ever hear a Ukrainian perspective, right? Ever watch RT, the Duran, Military Summary Channel, Hindustan Times?
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  8498.  @dorotazapolnik234  I don't think whether propaganda is out-dated or modern has anything to do with it. Propaganda is propaganda! The style of it is irrelevant! Given that propaganda exists in every country, what do you do to combat Western propaganda?
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  8499.  @dorotazapolnik234  Only a total fool would disregard the Russian perspective, but your words are interesting, because they reveal the arrogant, disdainful superior attitude in the West that has alienated most of the globe from the West and has led the West into thinking only one perspective can have value, hence China, India and the global south have rejected such arrogance from the West.
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  8500.  @dorotazapolnik234  so where is there objectivity? My argument is that there is none, so you have to expose yourself to both sides of the argument and weigh up what sounds most convincing. which pro Russian sides do you expose yourself to so that you can fairly evaluate both sides?
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  8501.  @dorotazapolnik234  absolute nonsense! propaganda is used for domestic political gains EVERYWHERE, not just the West! Propaganda is used to cover up political agendas EVERYWHERE, not just the West! When you mention "free access to information" as a feature of autocratic regimes, would you therefore consider the EU's banning of RT as an autocratic regime denying free access to information to its citizens? why not? you actually seem horribly confused on the most basic of definitions and concepts, but it does explain why you are hopelessly brainwashed.
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  8502.  @dorotazapolnik234  your definition of democracy and mine would be very different, I fear. But your statement about "opinions about the West" coming from places like India, China and the Middle East as "irrelevant" reveal you to be the arrogant, intolerant, bigoted, dismissive Western fool that so drives the globe to hate the West. As such, your deluded notions of what opinions are of value and what opinions must be ignored explains why you grasp nothing of the current situation, and obviously, I have no time to converse with bigots, so bye bye
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  8503.  @trotgun1563  if it's out of the question, then the alternative is to watch Ukraine get totally destroyed (I assume that is NOT out of the question) or wait until the "authoritarian" government dictate terms of surrender to Ukraine. You live in a world where you assume what you want is attainable. it isn't. get real. every day you fail to grasp reality, thousands of Ukrainians die.
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  8504.  @sababugs1125  Russia fights to win, not to let the enemy disappear into caves and later return to claim victory, as in US style in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Russia knows it takes time to kill all the fighting age men of the enemy. a long time and attrition is needed. Baghdad was never "taken". just occupied. learn the difference between Russian battle aims and NATO battle aims and you will see why Russia will win this.
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  8505.  @APW554  you are deluded and ill-informed. The vast majority of the planet doesn't care what happens in Ukraine and are not really pro or anti Russian. Most of the planet wants Russian energy, grain, fertlizers and precious metals to keep flowing and are happy to trade with Russia. BRICS are determined to keep helping Russia. It is only the deluded Western bubble that is against Russia, and even that is starting to crumble. latest poll in Germany says 30% of Germans now wish their government to push Ukraine to peace talks with Russia. Once that number is over 50%, this war is over.
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  8506. Le Pen is not far right. DW is far left.
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  8507.  @kierenmoore3236  so if greenhouse gasses continually increase, and never decrease, and greenhouse gasses drive climate change and global warming, how is it possible that 2020 and 2021 were not as hot as 2019?
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  8508. love it, got to be the chant of summer 2024, "Allah, Allah, who the f is Allah?"
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  8509. Looks like one Socialist party will replace another Socialist party in the next General Election.
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  8510. "stand with Israel", let me guess, for "as long as it takes"? if you hadn't been so obsessed with the futile losing conflict in Ukraine, if you'd kept your eyes on Hamas, maybe this wouldn't have happened, you doddery old dope.
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  8511.  @reecom9884  some people believe anything and most people are useless at interpreting some basic statements.
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  8512.  @thegoat11111  quite the opposite. Zelensky had to ban opposition parties in parliament and establish state control of Ukrainian media, he is so scared of the truth getting to the people. Ukrainian troops get attacked with missiles while in barracks all the time, but the media refuses to cover such stories for fear of the truth demoralizing Ukrainian people.
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  8513. people are dying and hospitals are overfilled in the UK too. So, what's your point?
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  8514.  @repairman2be250  great, so we both agree that both China and the UK have hospitals full with lots of people dying.
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  8515.  @repairman2be250  fine. live deluded, whatever
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  8516.  @unclejoeoakland  and I'll wager a dozen funerals for the dozen F16 pilots are not far behind. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it. Russian air defences ain't like Iraq's or Afghanistan's! Get ready to enter the ring with the big boys. Get those NATO body bags ready.
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  8517.  @username-t1x  those hundreds of Ukrainian cannon fodder that will get massacred today might disagree with you.
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  8518.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  that's right, a semi retired British language teacher currently in Spain works for Putin. You are so deluded.
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  8519.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  just shows how wrong you are. you assumed I am some kind of employee of the Kremlin, and got that wrong. now you assume I suffer from cognitive dissonance, and got that wrong. chances are, you have not lived and worked in Ukraine, as I have, and got it all wrong about what is happening in Ukraine.
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  8520.  @MrDosonhai  prevail means to win militarily and impose conditions upon the defeated.
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  8521.  @viveviveka2651  am always happy to be corrected. you tell me the military conflict that Putin lost.
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  8522.  @username-t1x  to whom? to those dying on the front lines every day?
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  8523.  @cameron6770  it was Putin who gave Biden permission to do so!
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  8524.  @viveviveka2651  not only do I believe the US and allies have failed to ramp up production, I believe the US and allies are incapable of ramping up production. there is no on/off switch for complex devices like missiles. it will take years of planning, ordering, training, a whole new infrastructure needs to be established.
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  8525. If the West has billions to spend on weapons for Ukraine, it can always scrap sending weapons and spend the money on the refugees, given that Russia has won anyway.
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  8526.  @leemiguel3437  the ubiquitous coward appears from under his rock again
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  8527.  @leemiguel3437  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87imtAWIMQ&t=683s and here is the link to a MUCH more credible report
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  8528.  @leemiguel3437  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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  8529.  @boota1979  yep, Kabul was a wake up call for NATO competence, and Ukraine is a wake up call for NATO capabilities. Some very tough lessons to be learnt by the smug Western leaders who thought NATO was such a feared force.
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  8530. there's a war going on, Ukraine shells the Donbass daily, many voters don't want to leave the house. you are allowed to fold the ballot and no one will see. let me guess...your idea of democracy is backing the 2014 coup that ousted a democratically elected president?
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  8531.  @TomGodson95  Ukraine should have recognized the independence of the DPR and LPR, or at the very least abided by the resolutions for autonomy of the Donbass, as Ukraine had agreed to do in the Minsk accords, then Kiev would not have had any shells fired at them. Kiev brought all of this on themselves. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.
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  8532.  @TomGodson95  why start in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning? In 2014 there was an anti-constitutional coup that pushed the LPR and DPR to declare independence. Grasp reality before you start blabbering on about shells flying into Ukraine.
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  8533. apart from those who support Islam
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  8534.  @soldiers23  i wonder whose army will try to enforce that one.
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  8535.  @gongagong  16 is only FOUR degrees higher than the JANUARY average high in Perpignan! God knows how we can turn up the CO2 enough to give you guys a decent summer there!
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  8536.  @rostik1685  neither does it hold up a mirror to show the world the status of freedom of expression in Muslim infested places like Sweden. only doing such things as Quran burning in public do we see the horrific level of intolerance we have imported into our continent.
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  8537. Western aid, weapons and ammo are drying up because more and more people in the West are fed up of bailing out Ukraine, and because the West is bankrupt and out of weapons.
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  8538. Germany, if this is a big deal, drop the sanctions, open up Nordstream 2, or give the Russians the written exemption statement they demand. otherwise quit whining and keep suffering with your cold showers and energy rationing.
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  8539. Surprising as it may sound, there isn't a whole lot of enthusiasm among Ukrainian cannon fodder from Lvov to be issued a rifle on Friday and told to go fight it out with the Chechens on Saturday.
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  8540. 50% of Ukraine will be in Russian hands, Ukrainian refugees will number 10 million, all the Ukrainian men will be dead, crippled or captured, and STILL the deluded Western keyboard warriors will be talking of the ever-inept Russia and how Russians don't want to fight. Western media done a fine job of twisting the truth right up to the last Ukrainian corpse.
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  8541. You can discount the comments of ANYONE who starts, in reference to Putin, by saying "he never expected/he didn't expect" etc. Such fools are pretending to be mind readers and are thus total charlatans. Focus on the stated objectives of Russia, not what you think Putin "expected", and then comment on the success or failures of said objectives. So far, Russia is largely succeeding in its objectives.
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  8542. so, let me get this right. Western sanctions were supposed to hit Russia in the pocket and effect policy change there. Reality is, Western sanctions have hit the West in the pocket and are effecting policy change in the West. Russia has the EU by the balls, and will squeeze hard, as often and when it chooses. Germany, you screwed yourselves, and your Green Party is now firing up coal fired power stations and turning to nuclear. Just a laughable mess. When do you think the first German pensioners will be found frozen to death in their apartments? December? November?
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  8543. you think the WH doesn't already know that? when will the penny drop that NATO is incapable of ramping up production to the levels needed to match Russia? oh, let me guess, you always assumed NATO was superior in this regard to Russia?
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  8544. "needs to be a deluge" deluded thinking, like "needs to be peace on Earth" fantasy talk.
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  8545. the whole story is so fascinating, particularly why the Spanish Police insist on no investigation and no Press Conference, and the media refuse to dive into the key questions.
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  8546.  @Present771  well, for those of us fascinated by human behaviour, decision making, logic or lack of logic, how to prioritize time, energy and resources, filtering through the truth from the lies from the fiction to the falsehoods, this is fascinating. for you, you can go back to playing with yourself, no problem.
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  8547. the problem here is that Tate has hit upon a kernel of truth, that there are some women who dress and act provocatively, and then play the victim when it all goes wrong. for that observation to warrant being banned from being said is a rejection of free speech, and she knows it.
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  8548. "This is only happening because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine" No. This is only happening because the West decided not to implement the Minsk Agreements and to provoke Russia by insisting NATO would continue to expand, yet again, up to Russia's borders. NATO crossed Russia's red line. Enjoy the consequences.
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  8549. this guy is such a joker. there is no evidence whatsoever that the sanctions have limited Russia in any way from producing its advanced weapons. on the contrary, Ukraine admitted only a few days ago that its air defence systems have not managed to shoot down even one Russian cruise missile. Russia is out producing NATO with ease.
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  8550. best leader in the world, by far. Putin is demilitarizing the West, the Russian military is bigger and better than ever, the Russian economy moving along nicely.
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  8551. Mogadishu must be a lot safer than this mayhem. London is lost.
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  8552. Anyone who can board a plane should get out of Britain. it's unsafe, lost its identity, lost its values, lost its freedoms, lost its character, run by Socialist imbeciles, plodding remorselessly to becoming a dystopian wilderness. Go anywhere that has retained its culture and traditions with pride.
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  8553. Ukraine had PLENTY of Western systems at the beginning of the invasion! They were all destroyed! The latest batch of weapons dribbling in will also be all destroyed. Russian air defense systems work....Russia has won, and moreover, Russia produces more ammo than NATO can produce..it's over. Unless you have an accurate death count of Ukrainian soldiers, you have no idea to what degree the Russians have succeeded or not. Reports of untrained reservists now thrown into the conflict, by Ukraine, tells us Russia has won.
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  8554. but Russia will run out of missiles soon, and Ghost of Kiev is real, and Ukraine's capture of Snake Island is of great significance, and Western media is full of BS
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  8555.  @timq8470  they would stop coming because instead of being escorted into Dover and accommodated, they would be returned to France immediately for attempting to enter the country illegally. The law should also require Border Force to remove all valuables from such offenders, as a form of fine for breaking the law, just as airlines are fined for flying people with insufficient documentation into a country. at the moment, entering UK waters to claim asylum is legal. so, just make it illegal.
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  8556.  @timq8470  how many people do you know who pay for a flight to, say, Australia, get denied entry into Australia, are sent back home, and then immediately try to do the same again and buy another ticket to enter Australia?
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  8557.  @timq8470  not sure it is easy to just vanish in the middle of the English Channel. Sure, some make it across all 26 miles undetected, but very few. and not sure the small numbers flown to Rwanda will be a deterrent. The chances are still excellent that an asylum seeker will get to stay in the UK. the only solution is to make it compulsory that asylum claims be made abroad and enforcement of that rule. nothing else will work.
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  8558.  @timq8470  of course asylum seekers keep trying to enter the UK! it makes sense! 1. there is no consequence to failing to enter 2. if they succeed in entering, it will be legal and they will be accommodated. if they are stripped of valuables on being apprehended, and know that what they are doing is illegal, it will all stop! it's really not that difficult! addressing why they come is irrelevant, like trying to find out why your house keeps getting burgled. Most underlying causes you can't solve, but you can make the act of burglary one hell of a punishable crime. what do you mean by this "not hand themselves over"? are you worried that boats full of illegals apprehended mid Channel are going to fight Border Force?
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  8559. The Wagner Group indeed wants to help all those migrants and Soros funded "migrants welcome" groups in Europe...what's your problem with that? Not racist, are you? Better the Wagner Group get the migrants over to Europe than the traffickers, no?
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  8560.  @matthewb.7172  Ukraine never repelled a main attack on Kiev because there was never a main attack on Kiev. Russia knows not to get bogged down in street to street fighting, hence there was a cauldron set up around Kiev and Kharkov.....and while the cauldron was set Ukraine lost 20% of its land mass in the south of the country! Western media, NOT the Russians, did indeed predict the fall of Kiev within days.....which shows how ignorant the western media are..you make my point for me!
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  8561.  Marie Lucas  What I said is true...Western media has lied to us, portraying Russia as destined to lose, and Ukraine as brave victors. The opposite is the truth....just take a look at how close Russia is to achieving its objectives
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  8562.  @jasft9746  orders on paper that were never broadcast to the world, because they could not be verified.
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  8563.  @jasft9746  1. No, there are not more Russian soldiers in Ukraine than Ukrainian soldiers. Russia has a one million man army, about 200, 000 are in Ukraine. Ukraine has slightly more men fighting in Ukraine. Russia took 4 months to inch its way to its objectives, which is excellent progress. There is no timeline for Russia. Russia will complete its 5 objectives in its own time, not on your schedule. Russia is close to demilitarizing Ukraine (and the West too, an added bonus). Russia is close to denazifying Ukraine....soon the DPR will have thousands of the Azov battalion and Aidar group swinging from ropes, job done. Ukraine has already agreed to remaining neutral and dropping the NATO idea...Russia will enforce that by adding it into the Ukrainian constitution when Russia dictates terms to end the conflict. Crimea will remain part of Russia. The DPR and LPR will be independent and finally free from Ukrainian bullying and butchery. The 5 objectives are close to being fulfilled. Happy now?:)
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  8564. what's laughable is a useless, inept country that, even though it is an island, can't stop hundreds of illegal immigrants waltzing into the country every dau year after year, thinks it has some means to help another country defeat Russia in a ground war.
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  8565.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  it is EXACTLY the same right. That's the problem. The gay lobby want EXTRA rights, not equality or the same rights. No one wants to force a man to marry woman. we just want to offer that as an option, as it has been since the dawn of time. The Biblical definition is the traditional definition, it is accepted by almost all the world, always has been, and is correct. you are part of a small, whining minority that just can't accept the valid views and norms of the world. You are, in effect, xenophobic, hating the ways of foreigners and others, and definitely you are islamophobic, hateful of the teachings of Islam.
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  8566.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  1) they can be with whom they want to be. they just can't call it "marriage" don't you get it? 2) I don't want to force anyone to marry anyone else. don't you get it? 3) heterosexuals marry for all kinds of reasons. don't you get it? 4) no one has the right to marry whomever they want. you cannot marry a child, you cannot marry your brother, you cannot marry your dog or cat, so there are many restrictions on marriage, nothing to do with fascism, and it is right that two people of the same sex can't marry. 95% of the world agrees, You are just a total bigot and islamophobe! How DARE you say that the teachings of Allah are wrong! Islamophobe! bigot! don't you get it?
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  8567.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  it is indeed equal. you don't get it. any man is allowed to marry any woman (apart from immediate family relation). it is that simple and it applies to every man and every woman, that is just, fair and equal. 95% of the world is fine with this, and until very recently almost 100% of the world was fine with this! That you are so bigoted and islamophobic to say the word of Allah is all wrong just shows how intolerant and hateful you are. why can't you just respect the rights and beliefs of others? bigot.
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  8568.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  your intolerance and bigotry is astounding. you are Islamophobic and xenophobic. consenting adults just means they both agree. it doesn't mean they have the right to anything. you dismiss the beliefs and convictions of 95% of the globe as if our beliefs and convictions mean nothing. you are hateful and see no further than your own selfish wants. enough, bigot, good bye and good riddance.
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  8569.  @danielj8085  that would be a question for any gay man that married a woman. The point is not why he would, simply that he has the right to, just like any other man, and therefore he has equal rights.
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  8570. I mean, given the UK is so far ahead of the rest of the world in maths and language abilities, why not give the rest of the planet a chance to catch up while our genius kids get groomed for tranny exploitation? what could possibly go wrong?
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  8571. walking down the street in any town in the UK has been a worrying experience for a long time. this dunce is way behind the times.
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  8572.  @willowhero  your smoking weed every day (not "everyday", learn the difference) would account for your inability to rebut.
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  8573. yeah, just like the people of Nazi Germany decided who should rule Germany.
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  8574. just like the people of Haiti decided who would rule Haiti. Look at Haiti now. Both Haiti and Gaza are crying out for a severe dose of colonialism.
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  8575.  @SiobhanIreland  so, where you and I differ is the following: 1. "occupation". there is no occupation. Given that Palestine has never existed and Palestinians have never had a state, there can't be an occupation of a mythical place! Bit like saying "Shangrila is occupied", "El Dorado is occupied". 2. Israel is fighting terrorists, like Hamas. The Arab Palestinians who chose to be Israeli citizens fight alongside Israel to eliminate terrorists. 3. Which Palestinians are treated like animals? you mean the Arab Palestinian that now sits on Israel's supreme court? or the Palestinians who strap on a bomb to their kid and tell the kid to blow himself up at a bus stop in Jerusalem? Open a history book, dude.
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  8576.  @SiobhanIreland  so, if "resistance under occupation is legal resistance", you would be fine with indigenous Irish people taking the lives of any migrants in Ireland, as so many native Irish people see vast swathes of their towns and cities now occupied. right?
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  8577.  @SiobhanIreland  as I said, and as you fail to grasp, there is no occupation and there is no oppression. If you say "Palestine" is being occupied, then define Palestine! Where is it? Where are the borders of this mythical "Palestine"? you boast of your reading history books, tell me where exactly Palestine is. Is Amman in Palestine, yes or no? who exactly is being "oppressed"? are the 21% of Israelis who are Arab Palestinians being oppressed? yes or no? and if they are being oppressed, how do they get to have elected representatives in the Knesset? simple questions for you.
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  8578.  @SiobhanIreland  oh, it is EXACTLY the scenario you described! You claimed that one should fight against occupation. Now you are asked to define "occupation". Many, many Irish people feel vast swathes of their island are now occupied by immigrants. The schools, hospitals, streets are occupied by hordes of immigrants. these immigrants, these occupiers, should expect resistance, even attacks, right? if not, then distinguish between which kinds of occupation must be resisted, and which not. Would you support the Catalans in violently attacking Spanish people for "occupying" Cataluña? yes, or no? Let's see how much history you know.
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  8579.  @SiobhanIreland  tell me, did the 21% of Israel that is Arab Palestinian and who are Israeli citizens, make a terrible mistake? did they choose "oppression" over the wonderful freedom enjoyed by Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria?
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  8580.  @SiobhanIreland  currently US forces occupy a massive chunk of Syria, uninvited. Are you protesting every day outside the US Embassy because you are so outraged about such oppression and occupation? Or is it only Jews you want to protest against for "occupation" and "oppression"?
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  8581.  @SiobhanIreland  if Israel is an oppressive occupier, why did the UN ever admit such an illegal occupier into its club? Is USA an illegal occupier too, having occupied and oppressed Native Americans?
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  8582.  @SiobhanIreland  I don't think Americans assume everyone on in the internet is American, but that question would be better asked of an American. Looks like your assumptions about me are as off as your assumptions about the history of Israel. Curious you refuse to answer the question about why so many readily accept US occupation of Syria, but have a meltdown over a perceived occupation of Palestine. Just all about Jew hatred I guess, right?
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  8583.  @SiobhanIreland  The UN doesn't recognize illegal settlements. The UN accepts illegal settlements when it can do nothing about it. So, Israel has a right to exist, but not in the area where it occupies Palestine? So, where is Palestine? So many simple questions you refuse to tackle! Is Amman in Palestine?
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  8584.  @zepher664  the very fact you have to ask the question means you have no clue, just basing everything on your usual errant supposition and confused mindreading. yawn.
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  8585. The question DW never answers. Is NATO unable to deliver the weaponry Kiev needs, or is NATO unwilling?
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  8586. Given 40% of Ukrainians want Russia to win, Zelensky is going to by mighty busy getting all "traitors" into court.
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  8587. his accomplishments? bankrupting his country, creating 9 million refugees, 300,000 dead cannon fodder, and all this because he insists the Russian speakers of the Donbass MUST speak Ukrainian in schools and government offices! oh, such a hero.
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  8588.  @planetguam8475  just like Putin wanted to erase Georgia? No. Putin just wants the rights of ethnic Russians respected. You should wish for the same thing.
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  8589. Fools of Ukraine. Anyone who thinks it is a really good idea to fight Russia in a ground war is idiotic.
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  8590. plenty of money for Green policies, plenty of money for Ukraine, plenty of money for mass immigration, plenty of money for covering the costs of lockdowns, plenty of money to borrow from China, just no money for indigenous Brits.
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  8591. no, Nick, the Ukrainian economy is not functioning. Ukraine survives on handouts from the West. it has become a begging, parasitic nation.
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  8592. everything he said was the truth. the stupidity is all from the West who have no clue what is happening there
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  8593. wrong on so many fronts. Putin has to contend with opposition parties in the Duma every day. if you want to contrast Kazakhstan's opposition party with a country that has no opposition parties, compare it to Ukraine.
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  8594. this reporter is a useless propagandist. Modi basically told Zelensky to find a peaceful solution and start negotiating. Zelensky isn't used to being told that his approach is wrong, but he was told so this time. Shame that Lula didn't give Zelensky an earful too.
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  8595. Only 7% of voters chose Zemmour, and his platform of ending immigration, in the last presidential election. how many would vote for Zemmour if the election were today? still probably not enough to change anything. so, looks like France needs a lot more rioting and looting to convince the French how to tackle the problem.
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  8596. Russia's taking of Soledar is not important symbolically or strategically. it is important because it shatters the myth of Russia struggling. let this sink in.....a bunch of mercenaries and convicts just routed Ukraine's finest. Trained by NATO, armed by NATO, advised by NATO, Defeated by a force low on morale, running out of weapons, incompetent and desperate, we were told. Soledar is important because it shows the Western media as deluded lying scum that can't report the truth. that's why it is important.
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  8597. bla bla bla. the himars are making no difference. Russian ammo supplies, unlike NATO's, are plentiful. There is no Russian slowdown. Did you think there was a slowdown when USA took a month and a half to take full control of Fallujah? Russia is massacring vast numbers of Ukronazis and steadily breaking down the Ukronazi defenses built up over 8 years. It's Zelensky, not Putin, eager to finish this by winter.
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  8598.  @andyp5104  so many himars missiles were intercepted or missed, do you think the Ukronazis have any more to fire?
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  8599.  @nickjohnson811  dream on. This is day 12 of the counter offensive! ZERO towns/villages taken so far!
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  8600.  @doverlaw7173  yep "unconfirmed" and "allegation" says it all, we are well and truly in the fog of war. the Ghost of Kiev thing was finally cleared up, right?
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  8601.  @thejollygreendragon8394  Bad news for you. Your media and info has lied you. Of course the vast majority of himars are intercepted. otherwise after hundreds or even thousands of perfect himars strikes Russia would be out of this war! you do know that Ukraine has had plenty of himars already destroyed by Russia at the beginning of this campaign, right? and since corrupt Ukrainian generals sold a himars to Russia, Russia is getting better and better at defending against it. Hence no reports lately of devastation caused by himars. None. NATO got all excited about Javelins, Caesars, Neptunes, now himars. Look at the map. Russia grinding on remorselessly in Donbass, and no counter offensive from Ukraine. It's over. you and the Azov Nazis you support lost, thankfully.
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  8602. Day 16 of the counteroffensive. NO settlements captured by Ukraine yet! When do you expect Kherson to fall?
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  8603.  @alainlefebvre9860  and maybe come September Ukraine will still have enough cannon fodder alive to benefit from Lend Lease. But maybe not.
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  8604.  @gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554  liberated from Ukrainian control by Russia, agreed, like Pesky and Soladar. Any Russian controlled towns liberated by Ukraine? Got any names?
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  8605.  @gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554  Not my 3 day war. not Putin's 3 day war. Not Russia's 3 day war. None of us EVER mentioned any timeline on this war! So who, do you think, declared this a "3 day war"? think back! where did you hear about a "3 day war"? Lying Western media maybe?:) you bought it hook, line and sinker! you probably believed the Ghost of Kiev lies too? right? poor deluded Gearr
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  8606.  @gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554  again, only in your childish dreams. Most Russians are mature enough to separate fact from fiction pretty readily. Gearr still learning!:)
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  8607.  @gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554  Got that list of towns captured by Ukraine of late? still waiting! or is that another Western lie you swallowed hook, line and sinker? How are things going for Ukraine in Pesky?
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  8608.  @gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554  as expected, you are totally incapable of naming a SINGLE settlement captured by Ukraine in this 16 day old Great Counteroffensive! Instead you want to change the subject. ok, i'll answer any question you ask me, unlike the other way round. I'm not in a tank because I am not a mercenary and I have no idea how to operate a tank. Mr Javelin is not mentioned by the MSM these days because it turned out Mr Javelin is ineffective. Putin is not worth fighting for, but his ideals are. I am willing to give what I can to support the Donbass Russians in their quest for liberation from Ukraine. And so should you, but I guess the Azov Nazis have won your heart, right?
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  8609.  @richardivonen3564  which supposition?
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  8610.  @gintasvilkelis2544  can't have it both ways! EITHER the himars missiles are being intercepted, OR this "high precision" weapon keeps missing! there is NOTHING in the media about successful himars strikes on ANYTHING of late apart from one bridge in Kherson! Since then nothing! why are himars missiles not raining down and hitting all bridges in Kherson 24/7? hmmmm, tough to answer that one. Also, consider the possibility that Oleg Zhdanov has no bloody idea what he is talking about. Did Oleg Zhdanov think Ghost of Kiev was real?
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  8611. anyone with any degree of intelligence would wait to see Zelensky sell his multiple overseas properties to "invest" in his war before adding a dime to the pot.
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  8612.  @diamonds7504  The mother has NOT called for forgiveness! Waving to crowds on top of a bus is NOT a grieving mother. get real. BOTH the conflict in Ukraine AND immigration/riots should be of concern. It makes no sense to CHOOSE one over the other. It is possible to tell Ukraine to start peace talks with Russia AND end immigration to France. it's called multi tasking, we all do it all the time.
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  8613. yet more evidence that integration and assimilation is working well in the UK. Police and social workers are adhering closely to Sharia Law and have represented the word of the Prophet quite thoroughly.
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  8614. "their vaccine isn't as good".....right, as opposed to ours that proved to be ineffective at stopping transmission. you can't make this stuff up.
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  8615.  @toma9976  GDP is irrelevant. only fools look at GDP and think it has a bearing. the sanctioned nations are LOVING their revenge on the West! Yep, they will reliably do all they can to help Russia. Ukraine's "allies", however, are ready to jump ship, fed up of this losing effort.
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  8616.  @noobian458  or using the biggest stockpile they have on hand. we wouldn't know. could well be Russia is holding back on a load of stuff for when NATO jumps in and chooses to have hundreds of body bags flown back to DC and London.
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  8617.  @Abulb99  maybe because not so many attacks needed to keep Ukraine in the dark and miserable.
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  8618.  @Dweller415  maybe so. what's your point?
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  8619.  @YossiCohen10421  apparently Russia was importing washing machines from the UAE by the hundreds just to get those chips, until the UAE said that they were happy just to sell the chips if that was a better idea.
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  8620.  @user-mf9wg6jq5f  deeper pockets don't make the drones Russia is using and deeper pockets can't stop the drones Russia is using. Deeper pockets can't protect Ukraine from ballistic missiles. Deeper pockets can't prevent N Korea working 24/7 to provide Russia with all it needs. Deeper pockets can't sway the 49% of Germans that now say they do NOT want tanks sent to Ukraine. Deeper pockets may, for the time being, keep Ukraine from collapsing. But the taxpayers of these deeper pockets have been told that Ukraine will win, will take back Crimea, and to suddenly be told "stop, the aim is no longer Crimea, the aim is now just to prevent a collapse of Ukraine", hmmm. not sure that will fly.
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  8621.  @nicke0b  surprising that these spies never reported to Western media, back in March, that no way Russia gonna run out of missiles! or, if these spies did report that, funny the media decided that info was fake news.
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  8622.  @yorkiemike  China has already got involved. China has told the West it will NOT isolate Russia, but on the contrary, it will increase trade and cooperation with Russia. It would certainly be tempting for China to trade missiles for Russian oil, especially if Nancy Pelosi decides to push China closer to Russia with another visit to Taiwan. we'll see.
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  8623.  @stonem0013  that's right! because NATO, despite all its apparent wealth, has neglected to build up its armaments, and the manufacture of such armaments takes time, planning and a complete shift in spending priorities, which, no matter how deep your pockets, is an unsurmountable obstacle. The rich boys messed up!
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  8624.  @lochnessmonster5149  The necessity to hit key targets in Ukraine has dropped exponentially each month.
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  8625. just a question of which comes first for Ukraine. 1. runs out of fighting aged men 2. runs out of weaponry. 3. runs out of ammo 4. runs out of US Congressional support voting for unlimited aid. Place your bets.
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  8626. does her "no military solution" also apply to the Ukraine conflict?
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  8627. and that is the problem. Russia has warned it will ALWAYS intervene to protect the rights of Russian speaking minorities. Moldova believed Russia meant the opposite, now Transnistria exists. Georgia believed Russia meant the opposite, now Abkhazia and South Ossetia exist. Chechnya believed the opposite, now Chechnya is firmly back under Russian control. now Ukraine didn't believe Putin's warning, and Ukraine will lose. Maybe listen to and believe Russia..it will bring peace.
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  8628.  @johnord684  no bot here. on the other hand, John, you are 100% coward. because I'll bet you $1000 I can prove your accusation of "bot" is false, yet you won't accept the bet. you will run scared and go back and hide under your rock. Won't you?
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  8629.  @sergeyb8  only undiscovered by the ignorant, hateful russophobic supporters of the Azov Nazis. to the civilized world, the Donbass fighters are freedom fighters who deserve independence.
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  8630.  @PLTommia  It is true that the Donbass fighters speak Russian, as Russian is their native language (Ukrainian is a foreign language to them), It is false that Donbass fighters came from Russia. The vast majority are brave Donbass lads, born in Donbass, raised in Donbass, and fighting for Donbass. They do have Russian weapons. The majority of Donbass voters want to be rid of Ukraine forever. Time for you to stop believing the lying Western propaganda and learn the truth. Ever been to Ukraine have you?
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  8631.  @ChicoTheMan69  we've been hearing that bullshit since April! Western propaganda has you believing in nonsense. How's Ghost of Kiev doing these days?
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  8632.  @evansbwalya7243  I'm hoping Ukraine is overcome too
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  8633.  @rikhughes6452  oh, Rik. stop being a coward and just put your money where your mouth is! $1000 bet that I am no bot, that Duncan Smith is indeed my name, that I am not Russian, PLEASE let me give you a chance to prove you right! You up for the $1000 bet? or, like the Azov Nazis you support, are you yellow and gonna hide under your stone and never get back to me? Are you a man, or a mouse?
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  8634. 1) ludicrous definition of "expansion"...by this metric the EU never expanded, USA never expanded, UN never expanded, because voluntary joining together = growing in size, but not expanding! 2) Monroe Doctrine makes it VERY clear USA views interference in affairs of the Americas as a threat to USA, and won't be tolerated. JFK's stance on Cuban missiles matches Putin's response to NATO expansion, a refusal to accept enemy military interference on the doorstep. 3) Putin has NOT tried to take over Ukraine and did not try to take Kiev, so after that lie, time to stop watching such crap.
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  8635. and that reason would be economic, not cultural.
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  8636.  @ImDirteDan  Was USA defending its homeland when it entered "an offensive war assaulting a different independent country" in Iraq? and in Afghanistan? and in Syria? and in....how long a list do you want? try to make sense next time, russophobe.
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  8637.  @ImDirteDan  The Russian speakers of the New Russia territories are doing what Zelensky ordered them to do. He commanded them to become Ukrainianized, or leave the country. They have left the country, and brought their ancestral homelands with them. Job done. Slava Rossiyi, Slava Donbasu
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  8638.  @aristophanesghost3839  Russians have been there forever. Simple question for you. In the Crimean War, did Britain fight against Russia, or against Ukraine?
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  8639.  @aristophanesghost3839  Given that the Soviets included Ukrainians, are you saying Ukrainians massacred Ukrainians?
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  8640. Sweden proving to NATO that Sweden does indeed have the incompetence needed to be accepted as a full NATO member.
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  8641. Lyman, so strategically important that Mateus blabs on for 2 minutes on its symbolic importance and then mentions its strategic importance with "it opens the way to Severodonetsk". it doesn't. you have Russian troops between Lyman and Severodonetsk, just as you did before Lyman fell.
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  8642.  Merril R  That is true. Many Russian propagandists got this one wrong. similarly with the "advances" in Bakhmut
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  8643.  @donmountford797  absolute nonsense! You are just parroting the media you watch! Let's talk specifics. Please list all Russian occupied towns and cities that no longer have access to use of railways as a result of Lyman's capture. Go ahead.
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  8644.  @donmountford797  looking at maps currently? you mean you lectured me on how strategic Lyman is as a railway hub for Russian supplies without looking at a map? You must work for Western media! Besides, you failed to answer the question. Now you have a rail map in front of you, list ALL the towns and cities in the Russian occupied zones that now have NO ACCESS to a rail line because of the fall of Lyman. I'll wait for your list, with my map in front of me.
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  8645.  @donmountford797  all of that report sounds correct to me. so what's your point? Lyman is indeed a key railway hub in Ukraine. However, given that in the present circumstances it is the end station of the Russian occupied zone, it is of NO STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE! it's capture, as far as Russian supplies goes, means NOTHING! Once Donbass is reunited as one entity, Lyman will return to being a key railway hub. This isn't that difficult to grasp, I promise!
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  8646.  @donmountford797  The Russians falsely claimed that when they captured Lyman back in May that it would open up the way to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. It didn't. Curiously, of course, back in May, Western media said nothing about how "significant" Lyman was/is. Only now! Both sides are bullshitting about Lyman's significance.
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  8647.  @donmountford797  possibly. it would also mean that Russian supply lines are now in trouble, because a town BETWEEN Lyman and Lysychansk is taken. The window of opportunity for Ukraine to make further territorial gains is closing as October advances, so it makes sense they throw everything possible at the Donbass front now. It will be interesting how Russia responds once the 4 new territories are officially part of Russia
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  8648.  @donmountford797  obviously am not sure what is going on exactly, but it looks like Russia is content to try to minimize territorial losses until the weather changes, but then what? seems bit too nonchalant or half-hearted and will be really unpopular in Russia this slow retreat. Got a feeling there is serious dissent about what to do in the Russian military leadership. all seems a bit rudderless at the moment.
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  8649.  @devanman7920  "it's as bad both sides" means it can't be 90/10! "as bad" means "equally". looks like your English isn't great. Maybe it's not your first language? or maybe you are just dumb and incapable of saying what you mean?
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  8650.  @stopitnow7762  not sure why you would connect my words with anything to do with torture, so let me just repeat my mantra, which you would do well to take on board. Never expect mercy from anyone.
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  8651.  @annapodpora5493  Putin doesn't need to beg! China knows it is next on NATO's kill list, so China is more than happy to supply what is needed to ensure Russia doesn't lose! New World Order, Anna, get used to it!
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  8652. Poland is leading the way with its commitment to destroying Ukraine. Absolute useless people and country and Poland should be ashamed. No guts to actually fight, just provide weapons to the country that ends up dead and defeated.
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  8653. Western tanks are badly needed? Stop lying! Russian morale is low, Russia is running out of weaponry and ammo and soldiers, Russia is poorly equipped and poorly led, Russia relies on convicts to fight the front lines, Russia is about to collapse under the economic sanctions, Russia is isolated, Russians are about to overthrow Putin! That's what you said!
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  8654. 12 days to go, "Kherson will definitely be captured by Ukraine by September" we were told by Khlan. and the West believed every word of it, and still thinks Ghost of Kiev was real. Slava Rossiyi
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  8655. fascinating to see how DW fumbles and stutters its way through admitting that Ukraine is toast and that the West got it all wrong. But fun.
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  8656. Disagree, Douglas. British people should have to put up with all of this, as it is the British people who voted into power those that allowed masses of muslo-fascist Jew haters into the country. The British people got what they voted for, time to enjoy the fruits of their ignorance. Britain is a lost cause. All that is left is to watch it slide into the caliphate.
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  8657. MORE lies from France 24. It is a LIE that 5 people died "as a direct result of the protest". That is NOT what the autopsies said. Stop lying.
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  8658. Hungary. Problem is, EU hates Hungary for finding a solution.
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  8659. just means more people will be killed and Russia will still win.
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  8660. it needs hundreds of tanks, tank commanders, tank trained crews, support crews, tank repair facilities, mobile maintenance crews, the list is endless. it won't work. The West is about to humiliate itself and, yet again, promise something that will fail.
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  8661. What is absurd is the number of fools who think a protracted war with Russia is a really good idea, along with Zelensky thinking NATO could actually deliver victory for him. Not one single Western leader had a clue how resilient and strong Russia is, economically and militarily.
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  8662. NATO is operating as ineptly against Russia as it did against the Taliban. it is a disaster and everyone can see it.
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  8663. Another German warmonger advocating more and more massacres over peace negotiations. Scholz is such a pathetic joke.
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  8664. All those Green policies adopted in the West = boost the Chinese economy, ruin the Western economies. enjoy every second of your demise, Western woke fools.
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  8665. exactly what you hear from most Westerners regarding Russia
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  8666. oh, so suddenly, the professor is extolling the virtues of Russian forces, holding strong, competently using their technological equipment. my my my, whatever happened to his assertions about poor leadership, low morale and poorly supplied? clearly the old fool knows nothing. his paymaster wants him to keep spinning Ukraine's absolute failure of an offensive into something positive, but puppet Clarke is struggling to do so these days.
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  8667.  @terrance2228  the vast amount of evidence will therefore bring the Pentagon and UN and other austere bodies to vehemently denounce Russia for this, which they have not done yet. I know the kangaroo court is convinced by the "vast amount of evidence" before it, but others with a functioning brain are not. Could well be that the Pentagon knows those himars missile remains shown by Russia are genuine.
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  8668.  @miceatah9359  who said that I don't speak a single word of Russian? Seems like you are making up stuff and lying (makes sense, as you support the Azov Nazis I would imagine)
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  8669.  @miceatah9359  I mean rather than speculate and lie about me, you could always contact me and find out the truth, if the truth is something you seek.
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  8670. those shock and awe sanctions on Russia really working so well.
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  8671. Just as he did in Mariupol. Zelensky has blundered and will consign thousands more Ukronazi cannon fodder to an early dirt nap. Churchill, he is not.
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  8672.  @c.m.9369  and when all the ukronazis are dead and crippled and their ammo is run out, when the country has no power grid and the West has nothing more to give in support, what will be the worth of the bit of Kherson and Kharkov gained 6 months ago?
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  8673.  @c.m.9369  it's not really the bit of land gained that's important. it's the score. Russia 6 Ukraine 0. Every time the two sides go toe to toe, street by street, the Ukronazis lose appallingly. NATO trained and NATO armed lose EVERY time to the convicts and mercenaries! Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Mariupol, Lyzychansk, Soledar, Bakhmut...Russia wins every time. THAT is what is driving powerless NATO crazy, the score, 6-0.
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  8674. so the Tbilisi mob have secured less transparency for funding in their country. The US has won its fight for secret infiltration there. But the mob won't stop until they have achieved the wonderful destruction of their own country as the nationalists in Ukraine did
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  8675. so, turns out globe trotting and adventure travel makes you dumber and dumber. mind you, these two started from a very low point anyway.
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  8676. hardly. Putin is rubbing his hands with glee knowing that Biden is the bearer of bad news..."only enough ammo to keep you going to June, so win soon, or bye bye baby"
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  8677. None of them are coming from Albania, or Iraq or Syria. They are all coming from France, so none of them are seeking asylum, because they already have asylum from the horrors of their home countries in France.
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  8678. there is nothing that NATO can send that will change the outcome. As long as Russia is killing Ukrainians at a higher rate, or even at the same rate, as its own losses, it will prevail with its greater manpower. simple math. at least the "Russia is running out of weapons" chant has died down, along with "Russian morale is so low".
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  8679. As usual, Fareed is showing the world just how dumb he is. Stalemate = Russia has won. Crimea, Donbass, + added bonus territories Zaporizhe and Kherson become Russian, no NATO membership for Ukraine and a totally bankrupt and demilitarized Ukraine. Stalemate = Russia has won. Fareed too ignorant to grasp that whatever the West tries to do to harm Russia will just backfire on the West.
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  8680. There are two lawyers on the jury. If they are not 100% partisan Trump haters, they may well see that Costello was right to scorn the judge and that the judge has been way too lenient with the prosecution.
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  8681. There is already a 2 state solution. Palestine has been split into 2 states, 80% has become Jordan, 20% Israel. "Palestinians" who find themselves outside of Jordan need to go to Jordan. It's simple.
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  8682.  @gintasvilkelis2544  No they are not. How many Russian speaking schools and classes are there in Lithuania for the Russian speaking population?
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  8683.  @ВикторияКузьмина-м6з  There are rumors from very reliable sources that Zelensky could be overthrown by his own military because he keeps throwing them to slaughter and they know they can't win. They know they will all end up dead if this keeps going.
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  8684. Clarke is an absolute fool who knows nothing about how Russians fight. Clarke has clearly not studied how Russia operated in Chechnya and Syria and he has no clue how Putin has so methodically taken steps to achieve the 5 Russian objectives in Ukraine. Listening to Clarke you understand why the NATO retreat from Kabul was so calamitous....no idea how the enemy operates.
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  8685. Britain's white working class is still the majority in this country. If the white working class unite for a cause, nothing will stop them. nothing. that's why Starmer is sh**ing himself.
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  8686. what a fool Clarke is. Mistakes are made in war, by both sides, but in general the war is on track for Russia, just as it was in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. Russia takes years to accomplish its objectives, doesn't work on a Western timeline, and yes, Russia is much stronger than the West assumed.
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  8687.  @BobHoopClassic  given the "10 day operation" is a line made up by Western media, no surprise it turned out to be nonsense. just like "Ghost of Kiev"
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  8688.  @piccadelly9360  I wish someone would liberate me from the woke dictatorship of the West.
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  8689. billions of dollars for a futile war in Ukraine, none for disaster in OH
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  8690. how about you identify the real problem? EU laws. EU law allows freedom of movement, so Germans, Swedes and Dutch can buy whatever property they want and live wherever they want, so the locals get priced out. End freedom of movement and you solved your problem.
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  8691.  @georgezee5173  the paranoid conspirator would be the fool who learns Qassim was sentenced to 9 years in jail for drugs offences, and then concludes "nothing to see here, of no relevance". keep conspiring to hide the truth!
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  8692.  @courtneysquill8843  at this point, given that the Guardia Civil lied about calling off the search, anything is possible.
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  8693.  @Mortthemoose  they failed miserably and lied to the world repeatedly. if the Guardia Civil on Tenerife are heroes to you, you have very low standards.
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  8694.  @georgezee5173  even Dutch people can train dogs to find people in any terrain, impossible though that is for racists like you to grasp
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  8695.  @chunis  no one said the Dutch team found anything! you need to improve your reading comprehension skills. what makes you 100% sure I know nothing about police investigations in Spain? where do you assume I live? let me ask you, do you know how the Mossos d'Esquadra work? "they wanted them to relax"...who is them? but glad you admit the Guardia Civil are prepared to lie. how many other lies have they told to date?
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  8696.  @chunis  what makes you assume I am in the UK? want me to repeat, word for word, the Guardia civil announcement that the search for Jay's body was called off weeks ago?
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  8697.  @chunis  google "suspenden la búsqueda de Jay Slater", read in Spanish the articles you find, double check what "suspender" means in a dictionary, educate yourself to the truth, not what you want the truth to be. there was no "regular search" according to the Guardia Civil, unless they lied.
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  8698.  @courtneysquill8843  if it was death by overdose, how would it benefit the Guardia Civil to hide that fact?
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  8699.  @chunis  well, maybe you should care about where I live before making foolish assumptions. assuming I don't know anything about the mossos d'esquadra and the guardia civil was a foolish assumption of yours. so, if you understand the verb "suspender" you will understand that the Guardia Civil never mentioned ANYTHING about scaling down the search. SUSPENDIERON LA BUSQUEDA. so, don't try to lie, like the Spanish Guardia Civil. Be honest and say the Guardia Civil LIED! My only question to you is, how many other lies have they told?
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  8700.  @usul573  They were stopped in Bryansk, en route to Ukraine. The debunkers are just liars.
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  8701.  @Юрий-т7ф9п  where is Balarus? could it be anywhere near Belarus? do you have a clue where anywhere is in the world? given you know all the details, what is the name of the town where they were stopped, and why did they choose Belarus as their destination? cue crickets.
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  8702.  @usul573  what, suddenly you believe Lukashenko? when did you start believing in the words of the Belarussian dictator? but go ahead, tell the world what Lukashenko confirmed.
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  8703.  @usul573  as expected, you can't quote Lukashenko's words, nor even tell me what to google to find this fictitious debunking. nice try, but you have revealed yourself as a pathetic liar. what makes you think Lukashenko has any idea who planned this attack?
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  8704.  @BethayaFKL8  Read Lukashenko's words very carefully. Lukashenko said that he sealed the Belarus border, so that the terrorists could NOT enter Belarus, in case the terrorists had plans to enter Belarus before entering Ukraine. Lukashenko would have no idea where the terrorists would be heading, would he? the terrorists were stopped at Bryansk, directly en route to Ukraine.
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  8705.  @usul573  if you really thinks that Lukashenko's statement that he sealed the Belarus border = the terrorists were heading to Belarus, then it looks like reading comprehension is not your thing. think, for once in your life. how would Lukashenko have any clue where the terrorists were trying to get to?
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  8706.  @BethayaFKL8  the road blockade set up by Lukashenko, would that be in Belarus or in Russia? think carefully before you answer.
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  8707.  @usul573  "falsely blame Ukraine" as if you have any clue who ordered this attack. Ukraine already confessed, just today, to the previous terrorist attacks on Russians in Russia, yet you disregard this. why?
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  8708.  @BethayaFKL8  His exact words would be in Russian, so, no, these are not his exact words, but the words a reporter has decided to publish. think for one minute. how would the the 4 terrorists, driving at full speed to get out of Russia, realize that there was no chance to enter Belarus? How would they know that? "they took a turn"....where did they take a turn? did Lukashenko have a drone and spot where this white Renault "took a turn"? just think before you write bs.
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  8709.  @BethayaFKL8  in Russian, do you know how "ooznat'" can be translated as "realize" and "know"? what Russian words were used for "take a turn"? maybe "napravlyaytsa"? (head towards"...we have all mistranslated "turn towards/take a turn" with "head towards" right? are you a Russian speaker? could well be a more accurate translation would have been "the terrorists knew they could not enter Belarus. They continued directly towards Ukraine" I see nothing in Lukashenko's words that claims the terrorists had Belarus as a first choice of destination.
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  8710.  @BethayaFKL8  the whole of this article is about how secure the Belarus border was made when the terrorists were known to be heading towards Bryansk. At no point in the article does Lukashenko claim that Ukraine was not the chosen destination of the terrorists. try again.
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  8711.  @usul573  homework assignment: google "Vasily Malyuk" and see his confession that Ukraine killed civilians Kiva, Tatarsky, Prilepin, Gorenko, Kornet. Ukraine repeatedly conducts terrorist attacks on Russian civilians. Malyuk is telling the truth. you are the liar.
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  8712.  @BethayaFKL8  the idea that Lukashenko gives a monkey's backside about one line mistranslated or what Western MSM says is laughable! Both he and Putin stopped caring about what the West thinks a long time ago. 1. this "blockade" that the terrorists must have seen, was the blockade in Russia or Belarus? I already asked you this, but you refuse to answer, it seems. think carefully before you answer. 2. you are the one who abides by Lukashenko's words as translated into English. He never said they "turned back", he said "they took a turn". when exiting a highway, when do you ever NOT take a turn? it's impossible to go eternally in a straight line, especially when your destination (Ukraine border at the closest point) would require a "turn" from the E101 at Bryansk (which was where they were arrested). there is nothing in what Lukashenko said that contradicts the idea that Ukraine was the destination of the terrorists. nothing. read it again and look at the map of the Bryansk area. what makes you 100% sure that the terrorists hadn't considered getting into Ukraine via Belarus anyway?
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  8713.  @BethayaFKL8  If crossing into Belarus before entering Ukraine was the intention of the terrorists, it would make sense for 2 reasons. Can you think of those 2 reasons? if crossing into Belarus to hide in Belarus was the intention, it makes no sense, unless you can explain why Belarus would be a better option than Ukraine.
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  8714.  @BethayaFKL8  one of my students is a Ukrainian living in Spain. A few months ago his grandparents returned to Dnipro after living a while in Spain. They did so because they figured their chances of survival were good. Actual Ukrainians disagree with you!
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  8715.  @BethayaFKL8  so, if the terrorists thought that Belarus was such a good idea, why not take the shortest route from Moscow via Smolensk? Taking the E101 to Bryansk is not the direct way to go to Belarus! It IS the direct route to Ukraine. Look at a map!
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  8716.  @BethayaFKL8  As I already pointed out, if Ukraine was unsafe, why do all Western leaders go there? Ukraine is only terribly unsafe where the fighting is happening. Outside of the war zone, you are much more likely to be the victim of violent crime in any Western city. Lvov is MUCH safer than London. You are just ignorant. Just because a country is at war doesn't make the whole country unsafe. When Britain was at war with Germany in WW2, were the Scottish Highland unsafe?
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  8717.  @BethayaFKL8  Haiti is not at war with anyone. Is Haiti safe? where did you get the notion that the whole of a country at war must be unsafe? where did you get the notion that a nation not at war must be perfectly safe. Russia is at war. Is Vladivostok unsafe?
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  8718.  @BethayaFKL8  if you are an enemy of Russia, Ukraine is much safer than Belarus, yes. by far. obviously.
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  8719.  @BethayaFKL8  curious you are unable to answer any of my simple questions. there are only Russian soldiers in 20% of Ukraine. in 80% of Ukraine, there are no Russian soldiers, obviously. do i think the terrorists would try to enter the 80% where there are no Russian soldiers? absolutely yes. only a fool would think otherwise.
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  8720.  @bordeaux1337  certainly does. but unless -5.6% = regime change or radical change in war policy, it doesn't matter. sanctions failed.
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  8721.  @bordeaux1337  it does not make it more difficult to the point of having to change policy or remove Putin. Nowhere near. Fascinated by the assumption that you think Russia is buying missiles. why do you Russia is buying missiles and not trading missiles for nuclear technology? talking of murdering innocent people, how many innocent people were murdered by Azov shelling, 2014 to 2022?
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  8722. and God keep the Russian speaking separatists safe too? or do they deserve to die?
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  8723. I'm sure all those Canadian truckers might disagree with you
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  8724. yep, keep allowing your cannon fodder boys be massacred in the Russian meatgrinder. this is what victory is all about.
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  8725. so if Ukrainian soldiers are documented as tying up Ukrainian looters to a pole, it seems entirely credible that Ukrainian soldiers would execute Ukrainian informants and arrange the corpses on the streets of, say, Bucha, and then blame the Russians?
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  8726. it's all bluff. the judicial system doesn't have the capacity to handle mass arrests. if the rioters really commit to this enterprise in numbers, the Police will not be able to cope and the rioters will hold sway. Fingers crossed.
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  8727. Anyone sending weapons to be used against Russia is Russia's enemy. So, yes, NATO was founded to be the enemy of the Warsaw Pact and now that the Warsaw Pact has disappeared, rather than become unemployed, NATO has decided to become the enemy of Russia.
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  8728. the NATO plan to use Ukraine, right down to the last Ukrainian soldier, in order to weaken Russia is not looking great now. We all heard the lies about low Russian morale, Russia running out of weapons, sanctions hurting Russia.....Soledar shows that Russia ain't that weak after all. Still, as long as no NATO lads get killed but all of Ukraine is destroyed, it's worth it.
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  8729. Exactly why Russia and its allies are using violence to remove the enemy from Donbass.
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  8730.  @futonclutch5040  keep in mind, in 2014, a legitimately elected president of Ukraine was ousted in an illegal coup d'etat (if you want to talk of legalities). As lovers of democratic rights, Crimea and Donbass refused to recognize the newly installed puppet regime (backed by Azov Nazis, oligarchs and the West). As you would have done. It is Ukraine who threw democracy out of the window and Crimea and Donbass which opted to stick with the values and the ideals that had been overthrown. They deserve our support.
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  8731.  @futonclutch5040  Just curious, when you saw the Union House massacre of Odessa, did you feel joy? Did you think those poor people inside deserved it?
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  8732.  @futonclutch5040  so you fully understand the desire for Russian speakers to be free from Ukrainian rule then? The Union House massacre would have convinced you that Ukrainian nationalists are an evil bunch, right?
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  8733.  @futonclutch5040  curious you never gave an answer. says a lot.
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  8734.  @futonclutch5040  I will take your refusal to answer to mean that such horrors failed to convince you that the Donbass Russian speakers have been in any way provoked. As I say, it explains a lot why you choose to support the Azov Nazis in this struggle. Funny how the Azov lovers always fail to come up with an answer to that one, pivoting and wringing their hands at a question that gets to the heart of where their true allegiance lies. Thanks for confirming what I thought. again.
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  8735. Let's try another one, see if we get an answer from you this time. If all the students in a class in Barcelona were Spanish speakers, as were you, their teacher, and a law was passed that only Catalan could be used in that classroom, would you completely agree with such a discriminatory law, or would you object strongly?
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  8736. just two more for you to figure out in your poor russophobic mind. When Britain fought the Crimean War, did it fight against Ukraine? or against Russia? Was Odessa founded by Catherine the Great of Ukraine, or Catherine the Great of Russia?
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  8737.  @futonclutch5040  you miss the point (not for the first time). Odessa is a city founded by Russia, immersed in Russian culture, dominated by Russian speakers. When Russian speakers were rounded up and burnt to death in the Union House by Ukrainian nationalists, NORMAL people (not you, obviously) felt outraged and COMPLETELY understood the demands from ethnic Russians to live apart from such monsters as the Ukronazis. In 1684, had a group of Dutch speakers been rounded up in a building in New York and been burnt to death by British Nationalists, presumably you would have supported the British nationalists ' oh, too bad Dutchies, you LOST your country, it is ours now, conform or die! This is what you expect of the Russian speakers in Ukraine, conform or suffer, possibly die. Shame on you. deep deep shame.
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  8738.  @futonclutch5040  what is truly laughable is the fact that NATO member Turkey is playing ball with Russia and along with Hungary seems absolutely fine with Putin overall. Such a solidarity in NATO these days! Two members happy to be neutral and trade with Russia
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  8739.  @DarkRoomAmbience  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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  8740. so funny how the West has totally misjudged the nature of this conflict. No artillery to give Ukraine, no air defence system that keep the power grid up and running, junk tanks that will get destroyed with no air cover. it's over. now to see all the recriminations and finger-pointing that will follow in the West.
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  8741. "of no military value" so Zelensky reveals how ignorant he is, or how much of a liar he is, because the flooding of the Ingulets was the aim so that Ukraine's pontoon bridges to its bridgehead in Andreyvka would be swept away.
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  8742. no such thing as "extreme Islamist ideology" it's all part of regular Islam, as exemplified by the barbaric behavior of the prophet Mohammed.
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  8743. so, Kemp confirms that the Russians control all of Bakhmut. the flanks of the city are not Bakhmut.
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  8744. just hilarious how the woke reporter assumes a conviction for crimes against humanity = guilty of crimes against humanity.
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  8745. Putin saw very clearly what was at stake and what he could do. Putin has played his cards extremely well so far
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  8746. especially in Ukraine
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  8747.  @MerryXmasMfkrs  According to Article 108 of the Ukrainian Constitution, which of the 4 categories applied to the removal of Yanukovich?
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  8748.  @MerryXmasMfkrs  Next question? As expected, you refuse to answer the first question! Let's try again. The Ukrainian constitution, Article 108, lists 4 conditions under which a president may cease to exercise power. Which one applied to Yanukovich?
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  8749.  @MerryXmasMfkrs  Finally, an admission that not one single condition of Article 108 applies to Yanukovich. There is no mention that any president ceases to exercise power due to leaving the country. None whatsoever. Impeachment, including an impeachment vote and a court order, could have been followed, but it was not. Thanks for admitting this was a coup. Now then, turns out I was not misinformed, but that you were uninformed. Suggestion: read the Ukrainian constitution before you make a fool of yourself again.
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  8750.  @MerryXmasMfkrs  I wouldn't say it was cowardly to leave the country after your car was shot at and your party political office attacked and burned to the ground by a rabid bunch of fascists. just curious. Was Navalny a coward when he left Russia? Was de Gaulle a coward when he left France?
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  8751.  @rashollamanhollaman8101  Napoleon never brought unity to France? Eisenhower never brought unity to USA? de Gaulle never brought unity to France?
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  8752. BBC told us Russia was running out of ammunition. lie. BBC told us Ukraine was on the front foot. lie. BBC told us Russian morale was low. lie. one day soon we will get the truth, this is over, Russia has won. the sanctions failed and Russia can keep this up forever. Ukraine can't. The west can't.
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  8753. FINALLY, the BBC addresses its remit to broadcast in a neutral manner. Such a pleasure to see Lineker kicked off the team. Alan Smith will be smiling.
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  8754. the sides are shaping up nicely, BRICS plus the marginalized, sanctioned countries against the West and its puppets. Given NATO is close to being demilitarized, my money is on the BRICS group. steady decline in store for the dedollarized, indebted isolated West.
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  8755.  @Anashadk  PBS?
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  8756.  @zedeyejoe  PBS? tell me what to google so i can read it for myself
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  8757. @Molek ukronazi losses in Bakhmut 50,000 a good day at the office for the convicts
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  8758.  @zedeyejoe  any updates on the Ukrainian offensive in Bakhmut?:) major Russian losses to report? any videos of Ukraine forces marauding through Bakhmut?:)
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  8759.  @zedeyejoe  oh I found it all right! I found the PBS article that stated quite clearly there were Ukrainian forces fighting ON THE FRINGES of Western Bakhmut. It made ZERO mention of any recapture of ANY of Bakhmut. So, my question to you. Are you incredibly dumb at reading comprehension, or do you assume I am?
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  8760.  @zedeyejoe  Hey, Justin, did you hear today that the Ukronazis had taken ALL of Western Bakhmut? ALL OF IT! No, neither did I!
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  8761.  @zedeyejoe  well if you are deluded enough to think that the Ukrainian forces are in Bakhmut, you are certainly deluded enough to think that Ukraine can win this conflict. No surprise there. Seeing as you have your finger on the pulse of the battlefield, give us your expert opinion. when exactly will Ukraine be cleared of Russian occupiers? Give us a date.
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  8762.  @zedeyejoe  so you avoided the question. when will this glorious Ukrainian advance result in Russia being removed from Ukrainian territory? give us a date. lots of photos and video evidence of Ukrainians in Bakhmut, yeah?:) poor deluded sheep.
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  8763. so now that UK is fine with Ukraine attacking Russia, just a matter of time before Russia fully supports any Islamic group looking to wreak havoc with attacks on London.
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  8764.  @hermanvonshaft4662  just saying, Russia now happy to supply ISIS with whatever it wants or needs whenever it wants to hit UK hard again. Shemima Begim and co being trained on long range missiles.
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  8765. Richard Kemp, like all the deluded British military "leaders", is a total ignoramus and a fool. It is suicide to engage Russia in a land war and sanctions war. Just a question of time before they all slink away with their tails between their legs when Russia achieves its 5 objectives.
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  8766. Russia will be prepared to sit down and talk about any peace proposal, but will also insist on a continuation of the fighting while the talking happens.
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  8767.  @mlo886  you send them back to the last country that accepted them. That would be France.
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  8768.  @mlo886  you send them back to France, the last country that admitted them
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  8769.  @suminshizzles6951  no evidence that more are entering through Northern Ireland, as a % of asylum seekers in total, today compared to a year ago. anecdotal evidence of liars from Morocco and Jordan isn't exactly evidence. And even if there is an increase of asylum seekers entering from Northern Ireland, it doesn't stop the boats. It just means more boats come now that Ireland is a more appealing option than the UK. sorry to burst your bubble!
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  8770.  @will123134  change the law. outlaw applying for asylum within the UK. compel asylum claims to be made from outside the UK. then Border Force can escort migrants found in UK waters back to France, or arrest them, instead of escorting them into Dover.
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  8771.  @lestrem11  Ireland agrees with my analysis, it's the Irish government that pretends to disagree, as the Irish government are frantically looking for a scapegoat.
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  8772.  @mlo886  they all come from France, so they are returned to France. France admitted them, France takes them back.
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  8773.  @suminshizzles6951  there is no evidence it is working. maybe a tiny fraction have ventured into Ireland, but we can only say the Rwanda plan is "working" when the boats stop crossing the Channel.
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  8774. no, honey, it doesn't sound good that USA is spending so much on futile "green" energy. sounds like stupidity. go ahead, EU, and whine to the WTO. why not try the usual failed approach of sanctions?
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  8775. exactly the same as the 9/11 attacks, then.
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  8776. you have no idea what you are talking about. been out with your clipboard and running up and down the line of combat adding up every fighter that surrenders on both sides, yeah?
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  8777.  @Callsign_Spartacus_37Fox  You make my point for me. Thanks. Like all wannabe heroes, you think your personal experience is somehow reflected on all sides of the conflict all along the frontline. You have absolutely no idea what is happening in the big picture, and it is laughable you think you would have. If only your statements were educated, as opposed to blabber and drivel.
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  8778. integration is not the problem. it's the lack of respect for the laws and traditions of the home country that is to blame. importing immigrants from violent backgrounds never works.
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  8779.  @Silent_Steel  indeed there were bogus reports of such mobile cremation trucks. there were also reports of the Ghost of Kiev. Remember that one? Recently we had reports that Russian missiles, not Ukrainian missiles, hit Poland! Does Ukraine love being truthful especially if it makes them look weak? which country, Russia or Ukraine, has a monopoly on the truth in this war?
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  8780. It's Ukraine that will be paying reparations. Eight years of shelling Donbass. Massive bill Ukraine will have to pay.
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  8781. what's the point in testifying when the democrat judge and democrat jury already decided Trump is guilty? waste of time.
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  8782.  @MikeW165  it's the judge that is biased. look at who his family donates to and who his daughter campaigns for. a conflicted, biased judge. FACTS! any jury in Manhattan is going to be pro Democrat. FACT. Looks like you need to learn the facts.
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  8783.  @MikeW165  If Judge Cannon has a son or daughter that is an activist and campaigner for the Republican party, and Judge Cannon has donated to or has a spouse that has donated to the Republican party then, yes, clearly, such a judge is conflicted and cannot possibly be impartial in handling a case involving Trump, nor indeed any political figure of high standing. Judges must be seen to be above party politics. Period. Same goes for Judge MacAfee in the Fani Willis hearing in Atlanta. At least in FL you will get a jury that is pretty evenly split in its political leanings.
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  8784.  @MikeW165  Also, keep in mind, there is, as yet, no trial in FL.
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  8785.  @MikeW165  yeah, the crime is naming a legal expense as a legal expense while your last name is Trump. It's a serious crime in NY, but nowhere else.
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  8786.  @MikeW165  yeah, no one else has ever been prosecuted for this, but suddenly in election year, the case is brought to court. nothing political at all. then again, maybe it took 10 years for Cohen to get his story straight.
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  8787.  @MikeW165  99% of the time there is no need to set any political bias aside, because the vast majority of cases do not involve politics or politicians. the job of a judge is to be referee. but in the very few cases where a judge has clearly a political bias that would impact his/her ability to be a fair referee, that judge needs to step aside. Merchan should have recused himself. anyone who doesn't see that is just happy with prejudice and corruption to permeate the court.
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  8788.  @MikeW165  a gag order on the defendant but on no one else involved in the trial is such a horrendous violation of impartiality and legal ethics that it should mean disbarment of this activist judge, and you know it.
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  8789.  @MikeW165  clearly you have a problem with reading comprehension. As I said, if a judge has donated to anyone involved in a trial, that judge should recuse herself/himself, and failing to do that, be removed. It is impossible to seem to be fair if you have donated to a party involved in the case. MacAfee in Atlanta is a case in point.
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  8790.  @MikeW165  The difference is that Cannon may yet be removed before any trial, we have not gotten to that point yet.
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  8791.  @MikeW165  just because something has never happened before doesn't mean it must be right or acceptable. it's about time the US legal system woke up and saw how disgustingly unfair trials and hearings can be when a conflicted judge is involved. For political figures in a trial, a judge who has refused to donate to anyone would be the only way to be seen to be impartial. period.
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  8792.  @MikeW165  when you pay a lawyer to arrange an NDA, it is 100% a legal expense. it's done all the time. all the other people who have arranged an NDA, how do they account for it? and why have none of them been taken to court?
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  8793.  @MikeW165  a gag order on the defendant but on no one else is political bias.
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  8794.  @MikeW165  the judge is conflicted by his family's close affiliations with the Democrat party, and gagging a defendant is such a horrendous violation of the First Amendment that Judge Merchan needs to be removed, and go back to law school.
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  8795.  @MikeW165  she hasn't recused herself because she doesn't have to, but she should, if she wants the world to perceive the proceedings as fair. I have made this point three times now, but you seem confused. Are you 12 years old?
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  8796.  @MikeW165  false. lawyers and their legal fees can be charged via a retainer fee, or per case on a one off basis. If you really believe that all NDAs are handled by lawyers on a retainer fee, and not one single NDA has ever happened as a one off case, handled by a lawyer NOT on a retainer, then you have no clue how the legal world works. whenever you pay a lawyer a fee, it is a legal expense, period.
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  8797.  @MikeW165  the problem is I do know how the law works. Go ahead. Quote the law that says an NDA is only a legal expense when paid to a lawyer held on a retainer. Then list all the other people who paid a lawyer to arrange an NDA who ended up in court because the lawyer they used wasn't on a retainer. cue crickets.
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  8798.  @MikeW165  and now the truth. when you pay a lawyer to arrange a Non Disclosure Agreement, that is a legal fee and can, and should, be recorded as a legal fee. But go ahead, quote the law word for word.
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  8799.  @MikeW165  You are not the brightest, are you. Neither Merchan nor Cannon have to recuse themselves because the law doesn't demand that of them. But both should, so that the appearance of impartiality is maintained. Got it?
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  8800.  @MikeW165  you just proved your stupidity! Cannon gets to donate without recusal and that is wrong. Merchan gets to donate without recusal and that is wrong. MacAfee gets to donate without recusal and that is wrong. How many more times do I have to spell it out?
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  8801.  @MikeW165  Totally agree, and in both cases justice is not served. The trial in motion right now is the one in NY, and it is clear the judge is conflicted. IF the FL case comes to trial, and Judge Cannon is in charge, all the Dems will be saying how conflicted and biased she is. And I dare say you will be one of them.
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  8802.  @MikeW165  agreed, and that is where the law must be changed.
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  8803.  @mikew764  and given that the Non Disclosure Agreement is handled in its entirety by a lawyer, paying that lawyer for all costs involved is indeed a legal fee. Tell me, when you pay a doctor to treat you, would that be a medical fee?
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  8804.  @mikew764  the gag order would be on someone else because a witness attacking the defendant is equally offensive as the defendant attacking a witness. to gag only one party when two or more are attacking each other is bias and unconstitutional.
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  8805.  @mikew764  any payment to your lawyer for arranging a legal contract is a legal expense. but just for fun, let's play your game. if Trump had written "payment of hush money" in his accounts, instead of "legal expense", why would that be a crime? Paying hush money is legal. So, you are saying that paying hush money is legal, and recording it as hush money is absolutely fine, but recording it as a legal expense is a crime and should be liable for jail time. yeah?
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  8806.  @mikew764  do you think every person that ever paid hush money recorded such a payment as hush money? yes or no?
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  8807.  @mikew764  the judge is not conflicted because i say he is. the judge is conflicted because he clearly has shown political bias against Trump.
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  8808.  @mikew764  when a person is being paid to create a legal contract, it is a legal fee. the word "reimbursement" is irrelevant. reimbursement just means that the legal contract was handled by a lawyer who was subsequently paid for doing so. If my wife goes to the pharmacy and buys my medicine, and then I reimburse my wife, that is a medical expense.
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  8809.  @mikew764  it's not about the hush money at all. if it were about the hush money. Bragg wouldn't insist that the crime was election interference. checkmate. remember, Bragg's argument is that the term "legal expense" is to mask another crime, and he claims that other crime is to interfere in an election! Unlike you, Bragg has no problem with hush money being paid, he knows it happens all the time. it's not about the hush money itself. Take your L and move on!
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  8810.  @mikew764  there is definitely an ethical reason for Merchan to recuse himself. I would imagine that there is a legal reason too, but I don't know the wording of NY law that covers circumstances for recusal.
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  8811.  @mikew764  The Constitution does not distinguish between a defendant and a witness when it comes to freedom of speech, and you know it. There is nothing in law that says ONLY a defendant should be gagged when witness and defendant are verbally attacking each other. Common decency would allow the defendant to verbally attack a witness in equal measure as the witness attacks the defendant. The fact that such fairness and common decency has been shoved aside by the judge shows how biased he is. Now, given you are unable to quote NY law that states how the recording of NDAs must be made, I'll assume you have no idea what the law says. checkmate.
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  8812.  @mikew764  who says the check was written for any hush money? does the check say "for hush money"? surely the check just states an amount to be paid.
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  8813.  @mikew764  when you are paying a lawyer, it's a legal expense, just as it's a medical expense when you pay a doctor. not that hard a concept to grasp.
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  8814.  @mikew764  then quote the law! quote word for word the statute! cue crickets.
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  8815.  @mikew764  so, who's the victim in this crime of writing the words "legal expense" instead of "hush money"?
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  8816.  @mikew764  the problem is I know exactly what the word reimbursement means. when my wife goes to the pharmacy and I reimburse her for buying my medication, that is a medical expense. the act of reimbursing does not alter the nature of the expense, and THAT is what you have no idea of.
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  8817.  @mikew764  i already said that the ethical reason for recusal is the affiliations he and his family have with the Democrat party. I already said that the ethical reasons for Cannon to recuse herself would be the same, close affiliation to the Republican party. you clearly have very low reading comprehension skills.
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  8818.  @mikew764  only if the next judge had the same affiliations demonstrated. this is the nature of having judges linked to political parties. it makes trials featuring political defendants a nonsense. the american system doesn't work when the defendant is a political leader.
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  8819.  @mikew764  the problem is that Trump is being held accountable for something that is not a crime, and that is what you can't handle.
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  8820.  @mikew764  on the contrary, courts have long determined equality before the law, and defendants can exercise free speech rights to the same extent as anyone else.
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  8821.  @mikew764  a witness is in a position to intimidate a defendant just as much as a defendant is in a position to intimidate a witness. failure to grasp that reality speaks volumes for your lack of understanding
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  8822.  @mikew764  go ahead. quote the words in the contract that prove any given individual check was specifically for hush money and quote the words of NY law that state only lawyers on retainers can be paid as a legal expense. why so shy to state the law?
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  8823.  @mikew764  every time I post I show you have no idea what this case is about. when put on the spot you can't quote the law concerned and you can't identify the crime apart from "he wrote "legal expense" instead of "hush money"...oooooh. such a crime!
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  8824.  @mikew764  in other words, there is no victim. thanks for confessing that. yep, if i drive 60 mph in a 50 mph zone and there is no victim, that is such a crime a trial and jail time should result. welcome to N Korea. no victim, so, off to jail. Biden's USA, but not for much longer.
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  8825.  @mikew764  who said that a crime requires a victim? i merely asked you who the victim was. again, poor reading comprehension skills, but still, good to see you confess this trial involves no victim at all. seems to be a feature of all the cases against Trump. no one is ever a victim...hmmm
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  8826.  @mikew764  in the real world, prosecutors pick and choose which cases to prosecute based on severity of the crime and chances of success. this case has zero on the severity of the crime index, and only ranks high on the likelihood of conviction because we have a Democrat judge and a Democrat jury.
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  8827.  @acdc123456781  yep, certainly sounds like a problem to me!
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  8828.  @mikew764  on the contrary, the problem for you is that I know exactly what "reimbursement" means, and I can see it is irrelevant in this case. If my wife goes to the pharmacy to buy my medicine, and I reimburse her for the costs, that cost is still medical expenses. what you don't get is the nature of the cost doesn't change when reimbursement is involved. keep learning, you will grow up one day, child
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  8829.  @acdc123456781  MikeW keeps drawing a blank when asked the other times a case like this has been prosecuted. For good reason
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  8830.  @mikew764  curious how the only "crimes" crooked Biden can pin on Trump are victimless crimes. curious how in NY criminals are released from custody all the time, but writing the words "legal expense" means long expensive trial and jail time. explains why NY has become such a sh**hole
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  8831.  @mikew764  so, here are just a few of the unanswered questions you have chosen not to tackle. 1. why does Merchan allow the witnesses to say whatever they wish about the defendant, but gags the defendant so that nothing can be said about the witnesses? 2. why did Bragg initially refuse to take up this case? what changed? 3. why would writing "legal expense" be a crime for Trump, but not for any other person who had an NDA arranged and listed it as "legal expense"? 4. Name one other person indicted and charged with the same "crime". How about you tackle those 4 first?
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  8832.  @mikew764  here's a simple question for you. If you pay your friend to pay his friend to fix your car, is it a crime to list that as an "automotive expense"? yes or no?
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  8833.  @MikeW165  you are the one that is clueless. it is past the statute of limitations. that is why Bragg had to claim, falsely, that the accounting misdemeanour was done to conceal a further crime, and thus he raised the charge to that of a felony. Of course, when asked what the concealed crime was, he said "I don't have to state that". Par for the course in the banana republic of New York. in NY, the current legal system (there is no justice system in NY) is such that Democrat prosecutors work with Democrat judges and Democrat juries to put whomever they want behind bars, and release whomever they want.
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  8834.  @MikeW165  all of the bias is on your side. read again what I said about Judge Cannon. And read what I said, not what you wanted me to say.
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  8835.  @mikew764  why shouldn't there be a gag order on the witnesses when only the witnesses are attacking the defendant?
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  8836.  @mikew764  STILL waiting for you to quote the statute that clearly says ONLY when a lawyer is on a retainer can his services be listed as a "legal expense". you do have the wording of the statute in front of you, right?
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  8837.  @mikew764  the supporting evidence would be the activities of Merchan's daughter, as repeatedly stated.
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  8838.  @mikew764  lawyers do FAR more than legal representation. among other things, lawyers draw up contracts, and paying a lawyer to draw up a contract is what happened in Trump's case, 100% legal expense.
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  8839.  @mikew764  what don't you understand about paying a lawyer to fix false claims made about you is 100% legal expense?
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  8840.  @mikew764  if I pay you not to talk about me, AND WE HAVE SIGNED A LEGAL DOCUMENT TO TESTIFY TO SUCH A LEGAL AGREEMENT, then guess what, Einstein? The paying of the hush money is all part of a LEGAL AGREEMENT, and therefore is a LEGAL EXPENSE!
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  8841.  @mikew764  at the precise moment my wife has drawn up a legal document stipulating the conditions under which payments will be made, then it becomes a legal expense. you are wilfully confusing a hush money payment with the LEGAL process of establishing a contract for both parties to respect an NDA. The moment both parties sign that LEGAL document, it all becomes a legal expense. Capisce? one is a payment outside of a legal framework, the other is all within a legal framework. Trump's case is the second one, all legal, a legal expense.
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  8842.  @mikew764  only when you pay hush money that is not part of a legal arrangement.
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  8843.  @mikew764  the word is "recused", not "refused". As we say in French, "tu n'as pas inventé l'eau chaude"!
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  8844.  @mikew764  the problem is how a prosecutor decides which cases to pursue and which cases not to pursue. Only a rabid, partisan, biased, vindictive prosecutor would have chosen to pursue Trump's case, not a good prosecutor.
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  8845.  @mikew764  anyone with political views is linked to a political party. and whatever bias and political leaning is in the judge's head is a BIG problem when a presidential candidate and former president is the defendant. It's a massive problem.
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  8846.  @mikew764  donating obviously links you to a political party. a donation is an overt statement of your support for one party over another.
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  8847.  @mikew764  because now the Democrats have hijacked the legal system
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  8848.  @mikew764  it's not a crime, the world knows it, and you will be the one coping when Joe and Hunter are on trial for real crimes, Hunter in June!
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  8849.  @mikew764  You need to join my class on reading comprehension. I never said that I have no idea what New York law says. Re read exactly what I said. On the other hand, the silence is deafening when I ask you to cite the statute, word for word, that covers Trump's supposed crime!
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  8850.  @mikew764  no one is disputing that hush money was paid to women. but payment of hush money is 100% legal, and Trump is not charged with making hush money payments. try again.
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  8851.  @mikew764  Cohen (at least spell his name correctly, Einstein) indeed arranged hush money payments, and for his legal services in drawing up the arrangement he was paid legal expenses
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  8852.  @mikew764  projection
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  8853.  @mikew764  and neither does it make you below the law
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  8854.  @mikew764  the problem is taxpayers in NY should never have to cough up for a politically motivated trial where there is no crime.
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  8855.  @mikew764  on the contrary, the severity of a crime is often what decides if it goes to trial or not.
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  8856.  @mikew764  and you are doing all you can to put Trump below the law, so that he is in court when no one else would ever be subjected to such biased nonsense.
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  8857.  @mikew764  Trump being prosecuted in NY state is like Malcolm X being prosecuted in Jackson, MS 60 years ago.
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  8858.  @mikew764  because the case against them is so weak.
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  8859.  @mikew764  he may well be the first to be on trial for falsifying business records when he so clearly never falsified any business records.
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  8860.  @mikew764  having great fun hammering you with logic and truth. are you ready to quote the NY statutes that confirm what Trump did is a crime? off you go, start writing, the world is waiting, Einstein.
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  8861.  @mikew764  hush money payments are legal expenses when drawn up as part of a legal agreement.
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  8862.  @mikew764  still waiting for you to cite the legal statute
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  8863.  @mikew764  still waiting for you to cite the statute Trump violated
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  8864.  @mikew764  still waiting for you to quote the legal statute Trump violated. If any prosecutor would take this case, why did Bragg refuse to take it first time around?
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  8865.  @mikew764  still waiting for you to cite the statute Trump so clearly violated
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  8866.  @mikew764  Improve your reading skills to see what I actually said about NY law. still waiting for you to cite the relevant statutes.
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  8867.  @mikew764  projection. the bias is all on your end, and it's vindictive and ugly. still waiting for you to quote the statute Trump violated
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  8868.  @mikew764  he can't be acquitted with a biased judge and jury, that's the problem, Einstein, has nothing to do with the case.
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  8869. One down, four to go....bye bye Johnson. Biden, Macron, Draghi, Scholtz a LOT more unpopular in their countries than Putin is in Russia. Only a total fool, like Wallace, thinks the Western masses are fully on board with the futile throwing of billions of dollars/pounds we don't have, at a war effort destined to fail. If Johnson's successor "backs" Zelensky to the same degree, UK economy suffers even more and yet another leadership battle will ensue.
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  8870. If Jesus was violent enough to overturn the tables of legitimate money changers, then we can be sure Jesus would be doing a while lot worse to those who had entered the country illegally and who refused to pay Caesar what was owed to Caesar.
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  8871. The Far Right died in 1945. The people you call "far right" are only "far right" from your Marxist perspective. The Right have gained such popularity because the far Left has ruined the Western world and turned into a dystopian horror.
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  8872. "if he gets the help he needs, he will win this war" but in July, Biden said that Russia had already lost this war. someone is lying.
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  8873. so, Germany ditches cheap gas from one state sponsor of terrorism for expensive gas from another state sponsor of terrorism. Green party politics at work.
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  8874.  @eugeniorami8783  well said. notice that these anti fossil fuel people never point to companies that have bigger profit margins and cry. their only target is fossil fuel companies.
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  8875.  @liberalduh9807  climates are always changing. if our climate is currently going through a warming trend, then that's fine, on the whole. The extra CO2 is greening the planet nicely.
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  8876.  @liberalduh9807  Climates have always been changing. Mankind adapts. Stop whining and deal with real planetary problems.
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  8877. oh boy, if this was a "big challenge" to Putin, then Putin is the safest leader in the world! Within 24 hours. the West and Putin saw there is NO popular movement to depose Putin, that he's put his loose cannon of a commander in exile, that the Wagners are offered new and improved contracts to return to the front, and all was resolved peacefully through a mediator, and BRICS and OPEC now respect Putin even more. By far the best leader in the world. The West too dumb to grasp the truth.
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  8878. "Marseille has a different demographic" = Marseille is full of Africans and Arabs.
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  8879. yay, until the very last of your soldiers is dead and buried, and all the women and children are refugees...yay, we support Ukraine!
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  8880. even dopey fools like Zelensky and Klitschko are slowly realizing that Russia can totally destroy Ukraine slowly and painfully if they don't come to the negotiating table, cap in hand. NATO totally powerless to prevent this. Already protests in Odessa about the power cuts, and it's still November. Still, Snake Island was a significant victory, right?
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  8881. What a fool Josh Howie is, thinking it's the "Islamic Fundamentalists" that are rabidly anti LGBTQ. It's all Muslims! You can't be Muslim and tolerate LGBTQ! It's as simple as that. Grasp reality, dude!
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  8882. At least the Russians have a list of cities they have captured, as opposed to the 5 abandoned villages and a pig farm the ukronazis have captured at the cost of 10,000 dead cannon fodder, now in week 4 of the "great" counter offensive.
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  8883.  @upvotecomment2110  the destroyed dam has nothing to do with Ukraine's failed counter offensive. No air support and Russian superiority on the battlefield do.
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  8884.  @badmonkey2222  of course you were there to take the photo of Putin jumping on the plane, we trust your reporting.
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  8885. Such a futile effort, it's the Battle of the Bulge all over again. 1st Ukraine botched the Kherson offensive, no gains for 3000 dead cannon fodder 2nd Ukraine failed to engage Russia in combat while taking more heavy losses, manpower that denies Ukraine future reserves 3ed Ukraine has failed to address the reasons why it can't defeat Russia when in combat. If anything, this hastens Ukraine's demise.
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  8886. Post Climategate and "hide the decline", no sane person believes any climate scientists and their data.
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  8887. "IF we live frugally, IF we have a mild winter"...excuse me, were the sanctions on Russia aimed at producing such "if we live frugally" statements? don't remember anyone in the West promising us this reality 6 months ago. and the same people who got us into this mess are supposed to know how to get us out of it? really?
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  8888. and NATO has absolutely no answer to Russia's attacks. Zelensky prefers to see the destruction of his country rather than negotiate a peace.
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  8889. absolute fool to think NATO will have anything substantial to offer if and when Russia goes for the big offensive. NATO can't even provide an air defense system to protect the Ukraine power grid 2 months into Russia's infrastructure attacks.
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  8890. Just Stop Oil are doing a really good job of alienating the public to their cause. More and more people now are fed up of spoilt brats crying about a fake climate crisis.
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  8891. "Russia has a lot of money pumped into their military industrial complex" and yet the sanctions were supposed to deny Russia the ability to finance its war. oh dear......time for the EU to impose Sanctions Package number 15 to reverse that!
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  8892. mass immigration, inflation following lockdowns, green energy policy, unlimited aid to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, soft on crime policies.
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  8893. bla bla bla, they will make no difference. The kill rate is 8:1 in Russia's favor and in a war of attrition, 50 Bradleys will make zero difference.
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  8894.  @djdillinger9631  just going by the reports I read, as you are, but given Ukraine admits that it is outgunned by 6:1, makes sense the kill rate is heavily in Russia's favor.
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  8895.  @Gloria-ro4vn  had the president retained the "remain in Mexico" policy, these illegals wouldn't even be in the country, so, yeah, it does matter who the president is.
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  8896. "when you lockdown, you have to compensate people".....there we have it. Rees Mogg never shouted "we must copy Sweden", he just went along with a policy that was destined to bring economic ruin. there is absolutely no point in Rees Mogg trying to figure out how to get out of this crisis. He is one of those who put us in it. He is the problem, not the solution.
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  8897. Putin studied the West's "rules based system" as applied to Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia and Libya, and decided to copy it. so, what's the problem?
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  8898.  @schroedingers_atze  a "weapon against you?" they are desperate human beings and Putin is merely helping them get to the safe spot they so desperately need, just like those generous NGOs in the Mediterranean. Either Finland welcomes asylum seekers, or it doesn't. Stop playing games, and decide, yes or no.
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  8899.  @miljdollarboy82  the border is not closed. by law Finland must keep one border crossing open, and so all the aspiring asylum seekers will flood to the one crossing forced to remain open by international law.
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  8900.  @kkiuoi  it is irrelevant what you would want to do. it is only relevant what EU laws compel you to do. Until you grasp that fact, your blabber is of no importance.
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  8901.  @kkiuoi  sadly, you have been misinformed. By law, Finland must maintain one border open to Russia for processing any asylum claims.
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  8902.  @kkiuoi  It's an EU rule that, for humanitarian purposes, including for asylum seekers, at least one land border must be kept open to non EU countries. Finland is most definitely an EU country. So, by law, that Finland agreed to, it MUST keep at least one land border open to Russia, and that is what has happened. you are not the brightest, are you?
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  8903. fingers crossed the nation that has a fascist mass murderer as a national hero triumphs over a small Russian speaking region that wants no part of fascist bullying, right?
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  8904. Ask the Taliban! They showed up at Kabul Airport with sandals, goats and a few rifles and managed to create mass panic and hysteria among NATO forces!
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  8905.  @thelastofthehitachi972  oh boy, you really need to pay attention! as announced by Putin (you must have been asleep at the time or checking out everyone's account created date!) 1). Ukraine to be demilitarized 2) Ukraine to be denazified 3) Donbass to be liberated 4) Crimea to be recognized as part of Russia 5) Ukraine to be a neutral state and never to be in NATO any other homework you need help with, Rip Van Winkle?
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  8906. Given the difficult terrain, it's really surprising that no help was offered from some other police force
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  8907. so, when the ex Warsaw Pact countries sent their tanks ages ago, those tanks were defensive tanks, but now we are sending offensive tanks?
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  8908.  @manas2656  ohhh, I see, so old tanks = defensive weapon, but new tanks = offensive weapon! fascinating. at what age does a tank transition from offensive to defensive weapon?
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  8909.  @manas2656  Will Ukraine still have an edge when Russia decides to take down the entire Ukrainian power grid and pour 380,000 troops over the border from Belarus and seal the NATO/Ukraine border, while destroying all bridges over the Dnipr?
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  8910. it's called collateral damage. it happens in war. not EVERY missile is going to hit the engine repair plant across the street. but in the era of "Russia good, Ukraine bad" NOTHING can be mentioned of Ukrainian shells killing residents in the DPR. ONLY victims of Russian shelling can be mentioned, and with as much blame and hysteria as possible. Orwellian media.
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  8911. the Russian economy is only the size of Italy's if you go by GDP. if you go by the important data, it will give you a much more accurate picture.
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  8912.  @polaris7122  given the winners in this election were DNV (Did Not Vote) with 40%, absolutely smashing Labour and Conservatives, there is great scope there for Reform and Greens to challenge big time in 5 years time. we'll see.
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  8913. because you ignore the facts on the ground and rely ONLY on pro Ukrainian news sources
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  8914.  @FandersonUfo  Zelensky dies of stress one day, but his ghost returns to Odessa. Zelensky's ghost enters an Odessa bar and asks for a beer. He asks the barman how the war turned out. The barman proudly says "we won". Zelensky smiles with pride and asks how much the beer costs. "30 rubles" the reply. Coming to a Ukraine near you, the Russian speakers revenge:)
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  8915.  @rimbusjift7575  363 obviously the % increase in Ukrainian parliamentarians' salary since the Rada's coffers are awash with Western cash. 185% rise in MPs salary last year (courtesy of Biden's NATO aid package) and just recently they voted themselves a 363% pay increase, thanks to Western tax payers.
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  8916. GBNews talking such rot here. Multi culruralism is just fine and no integration is necessary. Look at the Amish and Mennonites. All that his needed is limited numbers of immigrants, respect for the host country's laws, and to be productive rather than a parasite on the nation. With those 3 in place, everything works just fine.
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  8917. so Eammon doesn't want to focus on the fact that fortress Bakhmut has fallen and the Wagners are rampant. what is much more important is to keep focused on any splits in opinions within Russia's armed forces. GBNews no more insightful on this topic than the other MSM garbage.
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  8918.  @nahkoratan9673  so all weapons sent so far successfully avoided escalating the war? really? this makes sense to you? and what does NATO fear would happen if the war escalated? Does NATO think Russia won't escalate the war if it starts to get pushed back into Crimea and Donbass? reveal the game plan. then again, could be that NATO has precious little to send.
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  8919. disagree on the Bojo issue. His demented lockdown decisions ruined the lives of so many, every single hypocritical transgression Bojo made should be heaped on the fool so that he can never again put the nation is such a calamitous position. charge him up to the hilt.
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  8920. Vigilantism and Neighbourhood Watch gangs will keep the public safer than depending on the Police.
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  8921. 350,000 Russian reservists trained and ready, 100,000 dead Ukrainians to date, one more mega blitz on Ukraine's power grid and in we go lads. Moral of the story: Honor what you sign. Refusing to implement the Minsk Agreements was a BIG mistake.
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  8922.  @fabiomartin6063  shelling Donbass is what has got us to this point, and shelling Donbass will keep the conflict going.
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  8923. Finnish soldiers just rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of being bullied by USA to give their lives in the next US-led blunder, into Taiwan maybe, or Syria, if that kicks off again.
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  8924.  @mv_5878  and look where that got Germany!? BOOM, Biden fulfils his promise to blow up Nordstream. Finland just can't WAIT to get involved in all USA's proxy wars. neutrality thrown out the window in order to help provoke Russia or China into another conflict. NATO is a curse on the planet.
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  8925.  @fabik805  "too", not "to", dear Adolf, you faithful Ukronazi bot
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  8926.  @anssiluomaranta34  why would you assume I do posts for any kind of payment or reward?
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  8927.  @anssiluomaranta34  have you always backed the nazis in Ukraine? or maybe you just swallowed, hook, line and sinker the lies of Western media?
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  8928. Investors don't see how the numbers add up. It's as simple as that. Liz isn't brave enough to announce drastic spending reductions.
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  8929. commodity prices have risen, period. if commodity prices had not risen in certain currencies, you don't think everyone would rush to buy energy in those certain currencies? when gazprom converts dollars and euros to rubles to complete the gas purchase from the EU, do you see those transactions as raising demand for rubles, yes or no?
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  8930.  @balaclavabob001  lol cope comment from a blinkered fool following the Western narrative that no one who actually lived and worked in Ukraine could possibly be pro Russian. sigh.
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  8931. Sounds like the NAACP should be charged with terrorism, as it was the NAACP that instilled the feeling of terror in her, not Florida.
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  8932. EVEN Dannatt's advice to Zelensky's advisors is nonsense! "we are going into a stalemate situation". Just NOT true! Russia is STILL advancing in Donbass...yes, as Denis Pushilin described it, it is like drilling through concrete, but acre by acre Russia is advancing AND massacring hundreds of Ukrainian cannon fodder quicker than they can be replaced. The Kherson offensive was a total myth. It's Russia now creeping toward Nykolaev, and creeping back toward Kharkov. This AIN"T a stalemate, it's Russian progress. Only Putin is being honest to Zelensky when he says "Russia will win, totally"
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  8933. it's German and British pensioners who will freeze to death this winter, not Russians. Putin isn't ranting and raving about the sanctions. He's ranting and raving about the lies and hypocrisy coming from the two-faced West. And he's right. Strange business model to declare your desire to stop business with Russia, and then to complain when Russia complies with your wish!
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  8934. no control over fossil fuel prices? check out the VERY attractive fossil fuel prices in countries that never sanctioned Russia!
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  8935. translation...the government is having to buy its own debt because no one else will touch it, in an attempt to make it seem as if the market is running just fine, but investors know it isn't, so more doom and gloom ahead.
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  8936. :"letting its profits go up in smoke". obviously this fool hasn't read that Russia is making MORE money from energy sales, yet selling LESS, as world prices sky rocket. Like the millionaire fruit salesman who can afford to throw away excess apples because the few he sold raked in plenty of profit. Times Radio once again the deluded drummer detached from reality.
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  8937.  @zoeherriot  tell me ANY ONE of the conditions of safe passage that prevents grain leaving Ukraine.
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  8938.  @zoeherriot  also, whatever the conditions of safe passage, the mines have to be cleared by Ukraine for this to work, so we return to the reason for no grain shipments is sea mines, not a blockade.
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  8939.  @zoeherriot  so, again Ukraine should be honest and tell the starving Africans that grain cannot leave Ukraine ports because the conditions demanded by Russia for shipment are unacceptable. Ukraine should point out EXACTLY which conditions are unacceptable, instead of hiding behind the "blockade blockade" lie day in day out. Just be honest! Tell the world "we cannot accept Russian conditions for grain shipments". Dilemma explained.
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  8940.  @zoeherriot  if it's an offer that would keep people from starving, it's a serious offer.
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  8941.  @zoeherriot  the ship full of "stolen" Ukrainian grain recently inspected by Turkey was allowed to continue, so yet another lie from Ukraine about "stolen" grain. you really do buy every one of their absurd claims, don't you? Paid good hryvne are you for every word you write here? Even if the grain comes from Russian occupied land, it is now Russian, not UKrainian..that is the point of occupation. you take control. So, Ukraine allows children to starve in Africa because it refuses to demine its ports and because it refuses to push the West to remove sanctions. Again, just be honest! Say to starving Africans that keeping our ports mined and weakening the Russian economy is more important to us, Just be honest!
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  8942.  @zoeherriot you must have missed the news, mate! The sanctions are NOT working! There is ZERO evidence that funding for Russia's war effort has been affected by the sanctions AT ALL. On the contrary, there is plenty of evidence that Russian production of weapons and ammo is full steam ahead, 24/7. There IS evidence that the boomerang effect of the sanctions is limiting what NATO can provide....so maybe relief of the sanctions would actually BOOST what NATO can give Ukraine! It's not hard mate! Grain shipments ain't happening because 1) Ukraine refuses to demine its coast and 2) it mistakenly thinks that sanctions on Russia are helping Ukraine's war effort, thus Ukraine refuses to agree to simple terms that would help save starving Africans. As I said, nothing to do with a bloody blockade. Total fake news, as always, from the West. Rest of the world sees it, hence the massive global support for Russia.
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  8943.  @leemiguel3437  listen to ANYONE who offers an informed but different perspective! ALWAYS! Although Lee Miguel LOVES censorship (how else can he get his views enforced on everyone?) there are some of us who believe in free speech still.
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  8944. "just say "gay" and you'll stay" advise many of these crooked immigration lawyers. I don't believe the 1% number, but ever if it's true, that's still 10,000 of the last 1 million immigrants that came to the UK, so we can deport 10,000 immediately if the "I'm gay" line doesn't cut it.
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  8945. Reform will fail because Richard Tice has no clue how to attract the masses. pushing the jab and backing aid to Ukraine means Tice is no rebel of the Right. He's just a ponce.
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  8946. Keane clearly has no idea what Russian casualty numbers look like and clearly has no grasp of what a war of attrition is. pathetic that Fox considers him some kind of expert. Keane is way out of his depth on this topic.
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  8947. Fingers crossed the Scottish police are so inundated with hate speech allegations that they no longer have any time to act as security at the Scottish Parliament so that SMPs have to deal with real in your face hate from the masses.
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  8948. self-fulfilling prophecy.....the more the shout of "Far Right terrorism" is banded around, the more Far Right terrorism you are going to get.
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  8949. dummy missiles draining NATO weaponry to zero. Senate dullards happy to throw taxpayer money at Ukraine to keep the losing game going
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  8950. Ukraine will not surrender, agreed. Instead, it will fight until their last soldier is dead, until Zelensky flies to his mansion in Miami, until Russia dictates Ukraine's future, until Ukraine ceases to exist as a state. Some chess games, you can see who will win after the first ten moves. You don't know how long the win will take, or exactly how it will happen, but you know who will win. Russia will win. NATO cannot produce the ammunition needed for Ukraine to resist. it's over.
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  8951. Funny how Western liars can't get their propaganda straight. Some say "10 day military operation" and others "3 day". Putin has no time line. anyone who paid attention to Chechnya or Syria would know that.
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  8952. Crime rates have rocketed while the numbers of crimes reported may well have gone down. stop reporting crime and dystopia, magically, becomes Utopia.
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  8953. must be all the fault of racist Republicans who refuse to spend money on integrating these poor people.
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  8954. Yet more confirmation Britain is going down the tubes. True British culture will be extinguished but in the hearts of the older generation and those who live in exile, those who choose to escape the mayhem of cultural destruction happening within Britain.
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  8955. so, given NATO is powerless to prevent such attacks, the choice is let Russia's missiles hit the target, or intercept the missile and watch it hit an apartment building instead. and this will happen indefinitely. make your mind up time!
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  8956.  @marilenaganea6578  NATO can't save Ukraine, so Ukraine either watches Russian missiles hit their targets, or Ukraine watches diverted missiles hit civilian spaces.
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  8957.  @marilenaganea6578  Ukraine is way beyond the point where it can be saved. 8 million refugees, more than that internally displaced, bankrupt, begging, no reliable power grid, now no air defences, Russia has survived the sanctions formidably and has support from all over the globe, not just China, India, Brazil, OPEC and Africa, it's over. You will know that Zelensky is serious about committing himself to a Ukrainian victory when he has sold his villa in Italy and his mansion in Miami, but he won't. Nothing to stop you sending every last penny you have to Zelensky, but please, don't be a sucker, this one is over.
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  8958.  @marilenaganea6578  London only recovered after masses of aid from USA, and AFTER the war was over. If you want to send aid to Ukraine after the war is over, why not? you are wasting your money sending it money now, so it can buy weapons that will kill more people and/or get destroyed by Russia. Madness. Russia is not trying to force anyone to bow down to occupiers! Russia is giving the Russian speaking Ukrainians the choice of living in Russia or Ukraine. Those who want to stay with Ukraine can, no problem. The borders will be re-drawn and Ukraine can be Ukraine and the Russian speaking areas that choose Russia will become Russia. makes sense. This happened with Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, and they now live in peace. Ditto Transnistria. You should be backing Russia, not the party that wants to keep suppressing the ethnic Russians!
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  8959.  @marilenaganea6578  during the 8 years the Azov Nazis were shelling the Donbass, did you care about saving those poor people? or did you hope they would all be murdered so Ukraine could force those 2 oblasts to be ukrainianized forever?
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  8960.  @marilenaganea6578  international borders are a thing and DPR and LPR had all the rights to try to protect themselves against Ukrainian shelling and occupation. There was no invasion of Donbass in 2014. in 2014 there was a coup in Kiev and Ukraine threw democracy out the window, so Crimea voted to become part of Russia and Donbass declared independence as the DPR and LPR. learn the facts. No one can reverse what Stalin, the mad Georgian, did. What we can do is let the Russian speakers decide their future, and the Ukrainian speakers decide their future. Forcing the Russian speakers to give up their rights won't work. Didn't work in Chechnya, didn't work in Transnistria, didn't work in Georgia, not going to work in Ukraine. Grow up and back human rights rather than Nazi nationalism
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  8961.  @marilenaganea6578  you are ignorant. The Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 for separation from Ukraine immediately after the coup, and voted for union with Russia. Google it. The Guardian article covers it best. but you don't care for the truth, you just want to believe that killing ethnic Russians is a really good idea to force them to conform. you are wrong and you are scum.
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  8962.  @marilenaganea6578  if you know nothing about the Crimean parliamentary vote (it's called democracy, something Ukrainians don't understand) then you will know nothing about the coup. if you just want to kill ethnic Russians because they wish to be liberated from Ukrainian nationalism, that's your problem. Putin is right to defend their rights and their homeland. Slava Rossiyi
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  8963.  @anjafark  1) plenty of sources say some NATO troops are indeed operating in Ukraine. I put as much credibility in those claims as I do yours. 2) The war is needed, to liberate ethnic Russians and to establish Ukraine as a neutral country. 3) Ukraine has no capacity to bomb Moscow. 4) what is a "defensive" weapon? Himars? like the one used to attack Russian forces in Makeeva? 5) Brutally invaded by Russia after 8 brutal years of brutal Azov Nazi shelling of Donbass. 6) NATO has shown up with money, with weapons, with advisors and trainers, NATO is just too cowardly to actually fight, but then again, after the debacle in Kabul, who would blame limp NATO from cowering while Ukraine dies?
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  8964.  @dylanduffy1995  USSR was 15 republics, one of which was Russia, under a Communist regime. Russian Federation ONE non Communist republic. One hell of a difference.
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  8965.  @edwardvalivonis23  it was Ukrainian, surprise surprise, who was the Alpha Dog who thought it was a fantastic idea to invade Afghanistan, Leonid Brezhnev
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  8966.  @edwardvalivonis23  and US got 13 of their own killed as the sandal wearing goat herders (they only delivered pizza as a night job) kicked their butts and grabbed their abandoned weaponry.
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  8967.  @wakwakungo9693  The only difference is the NAME? So, Kazakstan was part of the USSR AND is part of the Russian Federation? If the only difference is the name, then you make Putin's point! Ukraine and Russia are one and the same thing! Only a different NAME! Get the necessary facts, ignoramus.
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  8968.  @dylanduffy1995  the centre of the UK is England. Does that mean England is the same thing as Scotland? Oh boy, if you can't grasp the ENORMOUS difference between USSR and Russian Federation, we really have to start with the basics!
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  8969.  @kristoffermangila  so, they are ignorant
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  8970.  @wakwakungo9693  London is the capital of England and the capital of the UK. Moscow was the capital of RSFSR and of the USSR. So what? England is not the UK and Russia was not USSR. Learn the basics.
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  8971.  @inquisitvem6723  Putin BLAMES the Soviets for creating so many territorial disputes in Ukraine. He most certainly is NOT a Soviet guy!
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  8972.  @anjafark  it certainly has, we agree. On the other hand, NATO is totally unprepared for such a war of attrition, and that will make all the difference.
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  8973.  @edwardvalivonis23  those weapons were abandoned to anyone as the NATO forces ran like screaming schoolgirls to get out of there as soon as possible. 90 days US intelligence said it would take the taliban to take Kabul. it was 90 hours. Anyone who believes anything US intelligence says is a fool.
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  8974.  @kristoffermangila  sure, if you are talking about the USSR. the Russian Federation under Putin is a different beast, so I question the validity of speculating on Russian policy over old Soviet policy.
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  8975.  @anjafark  1) international law? means nothing, because all hinges on the word "defence", and both parties involved will claim "defence". 2) so being attacked is the only criterium for justifying invading another country? better tell that to USA regarding Iraq and Afghanistan! You see, Russia was just copying USA, following the "rules-based international order". you should be applauding Russia. 3) Russia has been right to invade from day one. 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling was MORE than an attack on ethnic Russians, it was a horrific provocation that has finally been tackled. Absolute no reason to back the aggressors, Ukraine, and it is to your shame that you are backing the Nazis in this conflict. Have a picture of Bandera in your bedroom, do you?
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  8976.  @wakwakungo9693  they do not resemble each other at all. but focus on my point. I will restate. Just because Moscow was capital of both Russia and USSR doesn't mean USSR and Russia were the same thing. Just as London is capital of England and UK, but that doesn't mean England is the same thing as the UK. sorry this concept is so difficult for you to grasp!
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  8977.  @wakwakungo9693  as already explained, Moscow was the capital of both USSR and Russia, but that does not mean the USSR and Russia are the same thing! Two cars parked in the same garage are still two different cars, you dope!
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  8978.  @wakwakungo9693  exactly right. The West tried and failed to isolate Russia, not thinking, in their typical Western arrogance, that the BRICS nations would work together! Big Mistake! Now the West has to confront Russia + China + India + Brazil + South Africa, and the rest of the planet that are happy to follow BRICS. Disaster for the West.
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  8979.  @wakwakungo9693  tell you what, once you have written your question in coherent and comprehensible English, then I'll answer you.
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  8980.  @robshepherd3782  october 2024 is my guess. Russia like to do a thorough job and there are still a lot of Ukronazis to wipe out.
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  8981.  @inquisitvem6723  there is no evidence at all that Putin wants the former USSR republics "back again". On the contrary, Putin has been in power for decades and has made no move on the likes of the Baltics. Latvia is definitely in Putin's sights now, and deserves to be, , because like Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, good old Latvia has thought it is a really good idea to discriminate against its ethnic Russian population.
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  8982.  @anjafark  lawful in what way? state the laws in the constitution of the Russian Federation that assumes Russia is in some legal way a "successor" to the USSR
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  8983.  @anjafark  "Absolute no reason to invade a souveign neighbourcountry but landgrab and russio-nationalist imperialism." switch "russo" for "Americo" and bingo, you have justification for Russia's invasion.
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  8984.  @inquisitvem6723  1) Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia to protect the Sudeten Germans. Don't think you'll find the Polish invasion was anything to do with a German minority. 2) Did Hitler invade Poland after your supposed ethnic Germans there had been shelled for 8 years by the Polish nationalists? and after the Minsk Agreements had not been implemented? and after German had been banned as a language of instruction in schools and in the workplace? and after a declaration of independence by these supposed German speaking areas? no? then the two situations are clearly different! Learn the basics, you bigot
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  8985.  @inquisitvem6723  what is your evidence that Putin "wants the way it used to be pre 1990"? Putin has been in power for decades. To date, how many invasions of the Baltic States has Putin launched?
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  8986.  @inquisitvem6723  So, simultaneously, Russia is too weak and pathetic to win in Ukraine, AND is dedicated to expanding the conflict into many other countries? clearly you are confused, so time to choose your narrative and stick with it.
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  8987.  @inquisitvem6723  thanks for the lecture on Putin's mind as the Berlin Wall came down. Your qualification as amateur psychologist noted, and rejected. back to the day job for you, Russophobe
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  8988.  @anjafark  there is no legal relevant information, you are full of bs, so, please, stop making stuff up
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  8989.  @anjafark  no one is switching anything. one is only pointing out that given the number of sovereign territories attacked, bombed, invaded and occupied by USA and NATO over the last few decades, only fools would be outraged over what Russia is now doing, and the wise would see that Russia is just following the "rules-based international order" as set by the West. Stop being hypocritical. Just condemn the West for leading by terrible example.
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  8990.  @anjafark  reminder: you pointed out that NATO was a defensive military alliance. I asked you which NATO member country was being "defended" when NATO bombed the living sh*t out of Serbia and Libya. still awaiting your answer.
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  8991.  @anjafark  you have not. maybe you answered in a dream world. 3rd time of asking. if NATO is a defensive alliance, which NATO member country was being "defended" when NATO bombed the living hell out of both Libya and Serbia?
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  8992.  @anjafark  if NATO is a defensive alliance, which NATO countries are being "defended" by aiding non member Ukraine in its battle with non member Russia?
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  8993. @UC6K6xdkM1DgXEK49VqoLZNw you have chosen NOT to answer. Instead, you have presented very weak arguments for NATO intervention, and by the way, your very use of the word "intervention" proves this was not about defence. So, conspicuous by its absence, is the name of the NATO country being defended when NATO attacked Serbia and Libya. Try again. If NATO is a defensive alliance, what the hell is NATO doing bombing places that are NOT attacking NATO?
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  8994. @UC6K6xdkM1DgXEK49VqoLZNw what gives NATO the right to attack Serbia over what was happening in Kosovo, that doesn't give Russia the right to attack Ukraine over what was happening in Donbass? Let me guess.....YOUR definition of "genocide" is the basis of the West's "rules-based international order"
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  8995.  @anjafark  and by the way, there is nothing controversial about NATO's attack on Serbia. The only thing controversial is how you can call NATO a defensive alliance and then praise NATO for attacking a country that was not attacking any NATO member. By contradicting its very raison d'etre, NATO proved it cares nothing about defense but just attacks whomever it doesn't like. Typical Western double standards, and that is why so much of the globe is cheering Putin on for standing up to this rank hypocrisy. The West fools no one, just its own brainwashed, deluded, hypocritical cheerleaders.,
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  8996.  @anjafark  it is ok to support a country to defend itself. great, so when Russia supports the DPR and LPR defend itself, Russia is conforming to international law. Glad we cleared that one up.
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  8997.  @anjafark  "bombing a country to ashes" is NOT ok. thanks for establishing what NATO did to Libya and Serbia is, once again, breaking international law. also, what the Allies did to Nazi Germany would be breaking international law. and what USA did in Iraq and Afghanistan was breaking international law. you have cleared so much up
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  8998.  @anjafark  "terrorizing its population" is against international law. so every Ukrainian missile that lands in Donetsk City is breaking international law. you have done such a fine job spelling out how the West and Ukraine is fully committed to breaking international law.
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  8999.  @anjafark  thanks so much with your help on basic international law. you very clearly showed how the West and NATO have completely disregarded international law and violated it repeatedly over the decades. Thanks again
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  9000.  @anjafark  DPR and LPR are the two countries attacked by Ukraine, which therefore means Russia had every right, by international law, to come to their defence. very simple case, as you outlined.
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  9001.  @anjafark  "Russia had not been attacked" USA had not been attacked when it sent troops to occupy Syria. NATO had not been attacked when it bombed Libya. as you pointed out, international law does not hinge on whether a country was attacked or not.
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  9002.  @anjafark  Lloyd Austin, "the aim is to weaken Russia" whether the aim is to conquer or weaken Russia, Russia has shown it ain't gonna play that game and is successfully weakening NATO before our very eyes, and much deserved it is too. Slava Rossiyi.
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  9003.  @anjafark  so, tell me again, which NATO country was being defended by the defensive alliance NATO when NATO bombed to ashes Libya and Serbia? Poland? Portugal?
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  9004.  @anjafark  anyone in any doubt about how Ukraine will end up, just look at what happened to Syria. it will take time, but Russia will prevail.
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  9005.  @anjafark  France has not been attacked. France attacks Libya. UK has not been attacked. UK attacks Serbia. USA has not been attacked. USA attacks Iraq. Russia has not been attacked. Russia attacks Ukraine. Explain exactly why 3 of these conform perfectly to international law, but one is a horrific violation of international law.
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  9006.  @traceymitchell6619  Couldn't Brad have called Jay before Jay called Lucy?
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  9007.  @andersondasilva1334  interesting thought. so, do you think Jay left the Airbnb carrying the drugs to be couriered to the UK? do you think Jay was heading to the next town to a house where said drugs were? Jay left of his own volition, it seems, so the deal was struck and the men left the next day. did the 2 men come specifically to set up this deal? their very short stay there is mystifying.
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  9008.  @andersondasilva1334  this makes sense, yes, the 2 strangers were not total strangers. makes sense a solution to the problem was Jay acts as a mule when going back to the UK. so, the 2 guys, do we know if they were already on Tenerife or if they flew out to set up this deal? Their stay in the airbnb was very short. my initial thought was the GoFundMe was to get the payment needed to get Jay off the island immediately, as the Moroccan drugs mafia were on to him, and Masca is the ideal point to walk down to Masca Beach where much drug smuggling and people smuggling happens. all to be revealed.
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  9009.  @janicemartin-x3v  haven't seen any evidence or rationale for this expensive watch idea. who first introduced the story about an expensive watch?
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  9010.  @andersondasilva1334  but on your theory that Jay was to be a courier on his flight back to the UK, did the 2 guys give him the drugs he was to carry back to the UK? did Jay leave the airbnb with the packet he was supposed to take back to the UK? or was Jay to pick up the packet later from someone else? was Jay stumbling around the wilderness with a pack of cocaine on him?
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  9011. Fingers crossed the Supreme Court decides there is absolutely no presidential immunity, that Trump wins his cases and then Biden is imprisoned for all the crimes he has committed.
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  9012. imagine that! soaring crime rates linked to immigrants and boatloads of Africans illegally entering Spain has meant that the Spanish want no more of this! who would believe it?
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  9013. "we have to make sure we have the right people charged with the right crimes! a D.A. who is clueless about the law. you only need probable cause to arrest someone and hold them as charged. A court then decides if the right people were charged with the right crimes.
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  9014.  @iratespartan13  yes, based on the evidence to date, the Wagners and Chechens are competent attackers. Let's look at the evidence. Mariupol, Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Lyzychansk, Soledar, Bakhmut. Russia 6 Ukronazis 0. they fought and beat, every time, the best Ukraine/NATO had to offer. it is absurd to think that Ukraine now has SUPERIOR forces on the battlefield. It is logical to assume that it is the newbies, the forced conscripts that are being shoved into the Russian meatgrinder. MONTHS ago both Milley and Von der Leyen confessed to 100,000 ukronazis dead. no one has been able to establish comparable numbers on the Russian side, despite trying. BBC and Medusa both failed. Logically, with shells and missiles raining down at a 7:1 rate in favor of Russia, kill rate will be heavily in Russia's favor, as stated in the leaked Discord dox. the great prize isn't Bakhmut. The great prize is a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels, poorly led and poorly supplied, kicked the ass of NATO trained and NATO armed Ukrainian battalions. hence, the panic in NATO and desperation to turn to air power. None of this is surprising given the fiasco of a NATO performance in fleeing Kabul in 2021. Grasp reality.
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  9015.  @philliptemple9841  there is barely any evidence, hence the Pentagon will not confirm anything. Only a fool would think that a barely audible phone conversation issued by the Ukrainian Security Service constitutes proof. You wouldn't be that foolish, would you? UN and Red Cross will investigate but probably the fog of war will lead to no definite conclusions, like the Russian missile strike on the Officer's Club in Vinnitsa. Always possible the Officers' Club of Vinnitsa was NOT a legit military target, right?
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  9016.  @bvaradinov  Is it common for Bulgarians to falsely accuse strangers of being a different nationality and of making up their name? Or just a feature of your character. Mr. Artist?
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  9017.  @ehayes7849  youtube i think. the link was forwarded to me
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  9018.  @MightyRude  obviously! the fake phone conversation will be based on the "evidence" and the "evidence" will reflect the "phone conversation". this is how lies and propaganda works.
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  9019.  @bvaradinov  @Christiane Vanherck while you're at it, could you also report your friend Borislav Varadinov for misinformation. He posted that I was Russian, and that is not true. 100% misinformation. Your friend Borislav also said Duncan was not my real name. Misinformation. Not true. a lie. would you report him too?
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  9020. Crime is going way up. Crime as reported by the Police is decreasing, because the Police aren't policing any more. Everyone but the government ministers understands the discrepancy here.
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  9021. on the contrary, Putin is not only solidifying, OPEC and BRICS as global forces against the West, he is now bringing together, very impressively, the sanctioned nations (Venezuela, Cuba, N Korea, Iran etc). it's now the deluded Western bubble that is isolated.
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  9022. scraping the bottom of the barrel is when Nuland goes to Niger and is told to f**k off and when Biden goes to Saudi and is laughed at.
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  9023. there is no unity within NATO. there is only a facade of unity that fools take as something of substance. the truth is that NATO has no clue how to solve the problem of Russia winning in Ukraine.
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  9024. so now Zelensky, predicting "prolonged drone attacks", is calling all those Western "experts" who say Russia is running out of weapons all liars! Looks like the Ukrainian side should make their minds up.
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  9025. and to think, ALL the West had to do was honor their commitment to connect the Russian agrobank to SWIFT
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  9026. Islamic Republic of Britanistan. Islamic law implemented more rigorously than Afghanistan
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  9027. serves the Irish government well to blame immigration issues on UK, and serves Sunak well to accept the blame and trumpet how it's all down to his policies.
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  9028. "which clearly was what Putin was banking on" never trust a confident mind-reader who spouts absolute nonsense. This fool doesn't even know what Article 5 says, let alone the thoughts of Putin. A true ignoramus.
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  9029. methinks thou doth protest too much. the more you say what Tucker said was a lie, the more I think Tucker has hit upon certain truths.
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  9030. Vladimir Putin - "We are ready for peace talks, but, first, don't you guys need a power grid in order for the Zoom call to work?"
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  9031. bit mystified why the MP is sad and shocked. She has done nothing to stop the importing of migrants, so surely this was to be expected.
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  9032. Poroshenko, he who admitted the Minsk Agreements were all about buying time for Ukraine to develop its economy and arm itself to the teeth. War criminal.
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  9033. USA churns out 250 patriot missiles a year, last night Ukraine fired off 30 of them. how does this fool think the West is going to continue supplying Ukraine with enough weapons to win? deluded fool.
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  9034. Imane was not "born a woman" Imane was born a man. Unfortunately, Imane was mistakenly registered as a female.
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  9035. why a couple of years? why not a couple of weeks?
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  9036. If an Islamist is an extremist, then what kind of beliefs are "extreme"? Would the belief that any Muslim who leaves the faith should be killed (apostasy) count as extreme? Would the belief that gay marriage should carry the punishment of imprisonment be an extreme belief? The majority of British Muslims believe in both examples above, so the majority of British Muslims are Islamists?
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  9037. The testimony and evidence is all irrelevant. If the jury want to convict Trump, they will, end of story.
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  9038. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szZJem5fVQw
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  9039.  @123CantCatchMe  But in Russia's case we have seen Russia's consumption rate RISE to its rising production rate! Russia never attempted to destroy Russia's power grid. how old are you? How could Russia fail to take Kiev when Russia never attempted to take Kiev? you are as ignorant as Petraeus. Only fools believed Russia to do better than it has, because those of us who know how Russia fights predicted it would take years of plodding fighting by attrition to achieve its goals. you should listen to those who know something, then you wouldn't expect things that make no sense, kiddo.
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  9040.  @Sin3xtreme  yep, and he'll keep talking about this failed summer offensive and keep pretending it is successful, because NATO is out of hope and options.
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  9041. typical of the Ukrainian war effort, slick little videos seen as a priority over doing what is needed to save the country.
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  9042. Week 4 of the catastrophic counter offensive suicide mission, ever more Ukronazi cannon fodder corpses mounting up, so time for the BBC to report on where Putin might be.
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  9043. at some point the West will figure out that Ukraine, no matter how much Western aid it receives, cannot defeat Russia. The resources that Russia can bring to this conflict are enormous. Given the economic war has been won by Russia, and the sanctions are now ruining the West, just a matter of time before Russia prevails. The West, sadly, has started to believe their own propaganda.
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  9044. same the world over
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  9045. now he knows what it has been like in Donbass for the last 8 years.
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  9046. Ukraine keep attacking with what? where will it get the manpower needed?
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  9047.  @rageagaintstheNWO  remember, it's "let's keep fighting, down to the last Ukrainian". kumar will be 100% supporting, from the sidelines.
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  9048.  @skyteam1199  no one in the west really cares about Palestine. only those attacked by Russia are really deserving of sympathy in Europe these days.
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  9049.  @kevinwarburton2938  get back on your medz. which side employed the Azov Nazis to shell the Donbass for 8 years and thus DESERVES to be invaded? Learn some facts.
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  9050.  @Thetequilashooter1  never been more serious in my life. after 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling the Donbass, Ukraine's ethnic Russians need to be liberated from Ukraine. What problem do you have with that?
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  9051.  @anonimusxd8336  on the contrary, Duncan Smith is a real live person who is proud to use his real name. On the other hand, "anonimus XD" = Azov Nazi supporter too embarrassed to use his/her/its real name
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  9052. you mean like California. where far more people are now fleeing the state than are moving into the state?
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  9053. slowly the penny is dropping, there is no investigation, the police want no lurid revelations of Moroccan run teenage drug gangs and thefts and violence, Jay's disappearance is no big deal
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  9054. Deluded. Equating Ukraine with "freedom and democracy" shows you have no clue how things are in Ukraine. Ever been there, have you? The dwarf puppet comedian Zelensky brought all this mess on himself. Russia has won.
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  9055.  @TheInfamousMrFox  so the NATO trained Ukrainians who used NATO tactics in Soledar, and got routed by a bunch of poorly armed convicts, how many deaths did they suffer? I mean I guess you were there with your clipboard, counting, right?
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  9056.  @TheInfamousMrFox  120,000 Ukrainian dead so far. NATO discipline keeping Ukrainian forces alive working well, is it?
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  9057.  @orvarino  actually, conspicuous by its absence, are videos showing more abandoned Russian military equipment over abandoned Ukrainian equipment. which media sites are you following? For every moaning Russian soldier on video there is a moaning Ukrainian conscript on video (Russia hasn't conscripted anyone yet, learn the difference between contracted soldier, reservist and conscript). USSR is not Russian Federation. again, learn the difference. So, you tell me, what are the numbers? How many Ukrainian dead so far, and how many Russian? based on what sources?
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  9058.  @TheInfamousMrFox  so without any numbers on hand, you are 100% sure the Ukrainians withdrew in good order! Let that sink in! And did the Russians also withdraw in good order from Kherson? what evidence do you have that Russians attacked in human waves? The answer is none. so, stop repeating the garbage biased media reports you have swallowed hook, line and sinker and look at the facts on the ground.
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  9059.  @TheInfamousMrFox  I am not claiming anything. I am just repeating the numbers as admitted by General Milley, Ursula Van der Leyen, and the UFA in the first months of the war, plus what observers have reported seeing in Ukrainian hospitals. Russia doesn't release such figures, so there are no confirmed casualties on the Russian side. Keep in mind the Russians haven't really thrown themselves into this conflict yet. The Wagner convicts and mercenaries, Chechens, DPR and LPR militias have done much of the front line fighting and heavy lifting so far. Hence the BBC survey into Russian losses found so few. Learn the truth.
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  9060.  @muckle8  never easy to predict these things, but I have a feeling Ukraine will get long range missiles and, in desperation, target civilians in a Russian town, at which point, yes, Kiev will be flattened and serious surrender talks will happen.
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  9061.  @orvarino  talking of tooth to tail ratios, do you have any specific numbers on, say, NATO staff employed on recruiting high school dropouts in the USA compared to similar recruitment drives in Russia? Does Russia employ as many personnel on designing and implementing equity and diversity courses, or ordering pilot suits for pregnant pilots? would be interested in what numbers you have for NATO's tail in those areas compared to Russia's.
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  9062. "urged people to stop" what, so that our kids should end up like your kid?
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  9063.  @MLVL312  Are you suggesting that Neo Nazism can't exist when the president is Jewish? Did racism exist in USA when Obama was president? is something clicking in your head now?
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  9064.  @MLVL312  My experience of living in Ukraine in 2018 was that neo Nazism was a fearfully powerful force that was attracting MANY young men to its ranks, and that many of the oligarchs embraced the movement. Zelensky is a puppet...and Zelensky, with his Russophobia, was the perfect tool for the Ukrainian nationalists to push their agenda. They were all good bedfellows..Zelensky could tolerate the swastikas and the Azov lads could tolerate Zelensky's Jewish heritage.....just as long as they could all spit on and shell to bits the Donbass Russians together
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  9065. even harder for the Donbass Russians, stuck in a war zone for 8 years, just want to be free from Ukraine.
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  9066. such a strange argument that they have traveled to so many places, and this never happened before. yeah, and you can play Russian roulette several times and not shoot yourself, but....
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  9067.  @klausschumacher7126  sadly, Germany stopped deciding for itself a long time ago. Germany is now dictated to by EU policies and NATO bully boys.
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  9068. yep, after 8 years of the Azov Nazis shelling Donbass, surprise surprise, many people are prepared to wait and be liberated by the the Russians, who they support
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  9069. Gulliver believes everything he is told by Ukrainian propagandists, and is gleefully unaware of the massive successes Russia has had over the last 2 weeks. Pyatikhatka was a Russian trap, more Ukrainian cannon fodder massacred, but don't let that bother you, Gullible Gulliver.
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  9070. totally agree. the Ukrainians voted for this fake, this puppet, this actor, this criminal tool of the oligarchs. They got what they deserved.
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  9071. "Tommy Robinson, not a particularly hygienic fellow" ah, I see, so marches and speeches are ONLY granted to the hygienic likes of BLM, and Hamas supporters. Got it.
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  9072. and then wrapped up a very nice little deal to buy cheap Russian oil and re-export it to dumb Europeans at an inflated price.
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  9073. as Jordan says, the facts point to Biden corruption. shell companies, millions of dollars flowing into Biden accounts for services so far unexplained, Hunter the coke head on a Ukrainian energy company board, many things Dems ignore or fail to explain.
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  9074. "they are losing so many men" how many, compared to Ukraine? crickets.
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  9075.  @3cosmo  except it's not true that everyone wants Hungary out, and even if it were true, the EU has rules on membership and the process of leaving the EU. Speaks volumes that the rule of law means nothing to you.
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  9076.  @victory-ukraine  yawn. Glory to Donbass
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  9077. no wonder you are surprised at the "push back of Russia from the outskirts of Kiev" as that was the lie you were told by Western media. when you learn the truth, you will not be surprised at the horrendous death toll Ukraine is face with.
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  9078. wouldn't last a week? after EIGHT years of intensive Western aid, training and defense building? you speak very poorly of NATO!
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  9079.  @northwestcoast  In which case it would be called "Greater Britain". Know your language and know your history. The myth of the "Great" in "Great Britain" having any connection with Breizh was debunked a long time ago.
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  9080.  @tazeemiqbal7929  nice attempt to get the attention off your compatriots. Iqbal. most of the thugs I saw in the street were Pakistanis or Bangladeshis.
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  9081. so the counter offensive that isn't happening is important, but the offensive that actually is happening in Donbass is really not so important. this is the ridiculous mental gymnastics that have to be made now to believe Ukraine is winning.
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  9082. how on earth would this fool have ANY idea of what Russian expectations were regarding the conflict with Ukraine? Crystal ball imbecile
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  9083. fake spat. Triggernometry must be short on real material to talk about.
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  9084. The law has nothing to do with Russia. It is based on USA's FARA legislation. There is no controversy to the law. It just insists that any organization that receives more than 20% of its income from abroad must declare the source. it is about transparency. no surprise Western NGO's want to squelch this. as usual, GB News has no clue about this.
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  9085.  @MosmMAli  both child and evil reckless parasite criminal now dead. both.
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  9086. well, well, well, finally the lass from London confesses that dimwits like me were right from day one, that Russia will have enough international support and has a strong enough economy to ride out the pathetic sanctions imposed upon it. if only DW had listened to some wise people on this subject from the beginning.
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  9087. Given that "diversity is our strength", a total mystery that neither Ireland nor UK wants as many migrants as possible.
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  9088. People like Whitty and the male contributor, whoever he is, confine their thinking to just death from covid and are incapable of considering all deaths from all causes. None of them seem concerned that excess deaths are now through the roof. if it isn't a death from covid or with covid, it just doesn't count. extraordinary.
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  9089.  @borderlanduk3885  if GB was not an aggressor it shouldn't have been fighting a war in Germany in WW2.
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  9090.  @Joey-ct8bm  should have thought all this through before inviting every tom, dick and harry into the corrupt gang known as the EU. too late now. Orban is having fun lecturing Brussels and doing what he wants.
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  9091. well, we tried an academically challenged woman as the ideal minority to lead the government. Next up, a brown skinned retard of Indian descent?
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  9092.  @billmorrison9068  Russia is winning! Russia is much closer to its stated objectives than Ukraine is, and Russia is using convicts and Chechens!
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  9093. everyone knows Ukraine cannot win this conflict. everyone. some are now hoping some kind of stalemate will prevent Russia from winning.. others see that Russia will win but hope that some kind of concession can be wrung from Putin so that a CLAIM of stalemate can be made by the crooked press and political leadership.
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  9094. The iron curtain is between the deluded arrogant West and the rest of the world. Russia, wisely, focused on BRICS, Latin America, India and China. now. With defeat in the Ukraine, on the back of its panicked pussified exit from Kabul when a bunch of goat herders strolled into town, will ensure NATO loses ALL credibility. Russia has won.
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  9095. If? If?
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  9096. Good to see a democratic parliament debating the pros and cons of the nation's leadership. Lesson to the West, it's happening in Russia's parliament, not in Ukraine's! Is the West really fighting for democratic values? or just to weaken Russia, as Lloyd Austin confessed?
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  9097. at least Lavrov doesn't try to convince us that Ghost of Kiev is real!
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  9098.  @volairn70  which, I would suggest, shows your gullible nature more than anything, but go ahead, give me the least believable Lavrov quote and we can discuss.
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  9099.  @PurelyLuke  all sound true to me, assuming the second one was said before the massive Ukrainian troop movements toward Donbass in February. which one is untrue to you? In particular, why do you disagree with the third one? you think issuing ultimatums is the right way to talk to other countries?
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  9100.  @volairn70  presumably said before the mass movement of Ukrainian troops towards Donbass. News Flash....things change on the ground! policies are changed! Chamberlain.."we have peace in our time"....didn't make Chamberlain a liar. that is what he sincerely believed at the time he said it. Like Serghiy Khlan.."Kherson will be liberated by September".
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  9101. How could UK have any planes available for deportations? We already gave everything we have to the futile war in Ukraine.
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  9102.  @maureenwagg5305  so "treason" is acting on behalf of the side you don't like? USA is not at war with anyone.
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  9103.  @luisttriolet8876  she needs to be the voice of all of us who realize that USA is backing the nazis, and therefore the wrong horse.
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  9104.  @easyenetwork2023  yeah, diversity, when it's diversity of opinion, is such a horror for bigots like you, right?
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  9105.  @billbernhard3582  no one should collaborate with bad ideas, you dunce
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  9106.  @JasonDeline  1. There is no evidence that the American people want this bill to pass. On the contrary, as MTG pointed out, there are polls that show the majority of Americans want the Ukraine money spent on USA, not on Ukraine, crazy as that sounds to you. 2. Any speaker that brings a bill to the floor that helps fund the ukronazis in Kiev and adds to the US debt should indeed be publicly shamed. Again, MTG is doing the right thing. I guess you are one of the Banderites who celebrates the 4000 Jews massacred in Lvov in 1942? 3. Her opinion has NOT overturned a vote, you dunce. Her opinion is that such a dope of a speaker like Johnson should not be speaker. Against other people voicing their opinions, are you?
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  9107.  @JasonDeline  publicly attacking a bill that will help impoverish American people while funding a futile war is what all political leaders should be doing. MTG is right. Her opinion isn't overturning anything...it's an opinion!
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  9108. Glad to see this nice balance report showed some Russian Americans voicing their concerns over the limitless spending on weapons to wipe out their cousins
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  9109.  @__Wanderer  Just one problem. NATO achieves overwhelming air power against enemies that have little or no air defence systems and little or no air force. Russia's layered air defence systems is nothing like what Iraq or the Taliban offered. So, before you start sending NATO planes and/or pilots up in the air, get those body bags ready and be prepared for some horrendous casualties. just what the soft, blubbery weepy NATO citizens can't stand...dead pilots sent home to be buried.
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  9110. Russia has demilitarized NATO. NATO will be completely humiliated and exposed as useless in this conflict
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  9111.  @flroy8712  Congratulations, Adolf, you have earned yet another trip up Bandera's back passage. enjoy the dark side.
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  9112. plenty of energy for winter in Russia. how about we ask them to pipe some over to us in Europe? oh wait, we already told them we want to end business with them....ok, so, we'll just freeze to death.
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  9113. Navalny is in jail, but alive. Gonzalo Lira was imprisoned in Ukraine and is now dead. Yes, Nigel, plenty of interesting questions were not asked.
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  9114. Clarke is so full of bullshit. Russia has plenty of supply lines that come in from the east and south. Russia has not even been pushed out of Kharkov oblast, as it still occupies everything between the the Oskult River and Lugansk. Can't even pronounce "Lyman" properly! Come on, jackass, do your homework!
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  9115. right, going to stand with Ukraine just like they stood with Afghanistan ...until they got booted out
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  9116. who is buying this "Green hydrogen" nonsense? you know, during these meetings, German officials are asking "how about just loads of coal for regular burning like, China style, in the next few weeks?"
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  9117.  @mmeijer635  also explains why so many dumb Westerners who have never been to Russia simply assume that things are worse in Russia
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  9118.  @halley4032  100% agreed. I was hoping that the barrister would explain the reasoning behind why an individual act is considered less of a violation than as part of a group. why is acting as a loan wolf more excusable?
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  9119. and freedom and independence for Lugansk and Donetsk, agreed?
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  9120. Neutrality, a la Finland (previously) and Austria, is the best route to avoid antagonizing Russia. Joining a russophobic, russo-provoking alliance against Russia is the worst step possible.
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  9121. China realizes its on NATO's hit list, so is just supporting the side that can defeat NATO and humiliate USA. Nothing more, nothing less. Nancy's visit to Taiwan sealed China's feelings on supporting Russia or not.
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  9122. we have been told non stop by CNN and other propagandists that Jan 6 was an insurrection. Tucker now shows us video that the opposite was true. CNN has been caught lying, painting a picture that was a lie, so deal with it.
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  9123. there is no counter offensive plan. just talk of one, and the possibility of a brief suicide mission that will wipe out thousands more Ukrainian teenage cannon fodder. Russia has won.
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  9124. wonderful news, and if this is as a result of climate change, let's keep pumping out CO2 to keep those winter temps high
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  9125.  @franckr6159  never been more serious in my life. I like warm/hot weather. sorry if you liike it cold! More people die of the cold than the heat, so warmer winters saves lives
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  9126.  @franckr6159  as I said, more people die every year from the cold than from the heat. every year, any year, you choose the year. so, yes, on balance, I would be happy with a hotter summer and a hotter winter, if that is what climate change means, it would help everyone, on balance. Are you that cruel that you care nothing for the old folk and homeless who die in the winter?
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  9127.  @franckr6159  so, Frank, do you think that the people who do live in 45 degrees summers spend their summers wringing their hands in grief and cursing this kind of temperature? People who live in Oman, UAE, Saudi, for example?
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  9128.  @franckr6159  1) No one said that global warming was the ideal solution to homelessness. Governments of all types have sought to remedy homelessness since time immemorial, and failed. My statement of fact was that fewer people die in winter when winter temperatures are higher, and conspicuous by its absence is any counter evidence you have!
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  9129.  @franckr6159  1) Europe and USA will not look like Oman because Europe and USA will still have plenty of rainfall! Though much of USA DID look like Oman (the dustbowl) in the 1930's when, we are told, there was no global warming! 2) 55 is unliveable? what do you think people do in Oman when it hits 50? They stop work, by law, and the Indians and Pakistanis start playing cricket! 3) your assumption of droughts is nonsense. increased CO2 is GREENING the planet. study some satellite photos. 4) yes, we can adapt, humans have always adapted and even your apocalyptic nonsense would be survivable. stop wetting the bed. 5) get a sense of perspective. some of us have been lectured to about the destruction of the globe due to the ozone layer, acid rain, rising oceans (the maldives are still there, as are the Bahamas, nothing has been washed away). it is all nonsense. here is a test to see if you have a balanced view. Name one, just one benefit of an increase in global temperatures.
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  9130.  @franckr6159  so now you are on my side and you admit that warmer winters is "one tiny positive point"? Yet, when we are talking about life and death, and the many people who die in winter compared to summer, I happen to think life and death are serious. so, yes, i am serious. aren't you? looks like you revealed yourself as irrational and brain-washed, and when asked to mention one advantage of global warming, you either couldn't or wouldn't. which one was it? I can help you if you need. I have a list of positives about global warming.
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  9131.  @franckr6159  the example of saving lives is ridiculous? shows the callous approach of the global warming bedwetters right there! so negatives "largely" (but not totally) outweigh the positives? great. so, tell me another of the positives to global warming.
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  9132.  @franckr6159  climate change will not lead to droughts. again, you are ignorant. USA, Australia, plenty of places have had MUCH more severe droughts than we have seen in the most recent decades. If climate change causes droughts, explain the dustbowl of the 1930's when there was no climate change!
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  9133.  @franckr6159  you do know that far fewer people die these days from extreme weather than in the past, right? in terms of life and death (something not particularly important to you, from what I see), extreme weather these days causes a much smaller death toll.
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  9134.  @franckr6159  you see, Franck, my brain is untainted by alarmist propaganda. i look at facts only and logic, not lies and hysteria. Try to free your brain of such nonsense and try to grasp reality. The Maldives are not sinking, extra CO2 is greening the planet and adding to crop yields, warmer winters is a benefit, extreme weather has lower death tolls today, polar bears are thriving. you just need to search for the truth, not the diktats of extremists.
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  9135.  @franckr6159  no problem, if you promise to do the same. you write down all the disasters you predict, and let's see your grandkids have a jolly good laugh in 50 years. why not? by the way, some people are already having a jolly good laugh at the predictions from 50 years ago! "children will not experience snow again", "Florida will be under water", "polar bears will be extinct", "deserts will be growing" (they are not!) If more severe droughts existed before GW, as they did, then you need to explain why droughts are caused by GW, and you can't, because your arguments defy logic and are based on hysteria and panic. There is no evidence that the deaths you predict will actually happen. none. it is all speculation that we have heard for decades, and it is nonsense. on the other hand, i tell you a fact, that more people die from cold in winter compared to heat in summer, and you just dismiss it as if lives mean nothing. now then, let's see you answer this one. what exactly is the relationship between human CO2 emissions and global warming? if human CO2 emissions increase by 10%, by how much does the average temperature of the planet increase? we know that CO2 boosts crop yields, which is why we should want more CO2 in the atmosphere, but tell me exactly by how much global temperatures go up per one % increase in human CO2 emission. because if you can't answer that, you can't be sure extra CO2 is a bad thing.
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  9136.  @franckr6159  yep, as you said, negatives largely outweigh positives. but what you say is irrelevant. it's what you can prove or confirm with evidence that is key, and you can't do that, just bed wetting panic from someone deluded by fake scientists. we'll know John Kerry is serious about global warming and climate change when he stops using a private jet, and we'll know Al Gore is serious about all this bs when his mansion is the house in TN that uses the least electricity, not the most. We'll know Obama believes in rising oceans when he buys a mansion inland and not on the beach.
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  9137.  @franckr6159  so if droughts existed before GW, explain how GW can be the sole cause of droughts.
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  9138. karma. such a pleasure to see the Irish, who insisted on having no border across their island after Brexit, now reap the consequences of having no border across the island. returning any migrants back to the UK obviously won't work. the migrants will just walk across that open border again!
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  9139. She, herself, is naive. The fight IS against Muslims. Muslims believe a man who was a mass-murderer and a slave trader and a paedophile was the most perfect man ever. Therein lies the battle that has to be fought.
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  9140. @jupiter7627 No one is saying she isn't fighting against the evil that is Islam. But it is clear, if she thinks Muslims aren't the problem, and that it is just a radical fringe that is the problem, that she has WAY under-estimated how serious the threat is. She needs to wake up to the true nature of the beast.
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  9141. @jupiter7627 Keep in mind Mohammed massacred thousands of Jews and Infidels and preached jihad. Muslims, all Muslims, consider the prophet Mohammed the most perfect man. Let that sink in for a minute.
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  9142. "when will it end?" tomorrow, if your dwarf puppet clown president surrenders.
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  9143. Obviously Macron DOESN'T want the court to bring justice. Macron wants the police officer found guilty, whatever the circumstances of the incident. Typical Macron appeasement blabber, s++t scared of the coming intifadah of Moslem bullies in France.
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  9144.  @davewoodward1155  you reckon only the rich spend their money only on self interest? Newsflash...the whole world spends on self interest. The rich have a lot more to give to charity, and so do. you should bow down and worship the philanthropy of the rich. the poverty of Victorian England was slightly more bearable than the poverty of pre Victorian England...it was a great stepping stone to the middle class affluence we see today. of course, a small number of aristocrats inherit their fortunes. The vast majority of the wealthy made their money by having great entrepreneurial ideas and working hard. no surprise you are jealous of such people. Roads, schools, hospitals all existed before taxes, and such things exist where taxes are minimal. you have no clue how the world works.
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  9145. wait, hordes of the locals are WELCOMING and CHEERING the Russians? I thought we were told "Ukraine good, Russia bad" So, remind me again, why is the West supporting Ukraine?
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  9146. exactly what the Russian speakers of Donbass believe in relation to Zelensky
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  9147. "Bakhmut is of little strategic value to Moscow" says the BBC "Bakhmut is of great strategic value" said Zelensky. you choose! which of the two weasels is lying?
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  9148. just hilarious that this gal thinks continued European support would make some kind of difference if US support falters. someone needs to show her the stats on Russian arms and ammo manufacturing, bolstered by Iran and N Korea, compared to the trickle that pussy-footing, limp European countries produce. Belgium and Finland are going to save the day for the Kiev corrupt oligarchy? yeah, right.
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  9149. so when it comes to an actual election, the pro Russian candidate won, even though he is a criminal, but in the rigged opinion polls we see a pro EU majority. Got it. Lots of spanking new EU flags on display there! wonder which EU slush fund provided all the funding for these beautiful flags to be handed out?
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  9150. poor naive child. in order for Russia to receive the same revenues from oil sales, all OPEC+ has to do is to make sure the market price for oil stays high. So the loser is the purchaser (Western countries).
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  9151.  @mazenkaiser7234  when you say "under the tutelage of Putin", how do you imagine the tutelage went exactly? Yanukovich "hey, Vlad, I got some Azov Nazis rioting and threatening to overthrow me, the democratically elected president" Putin "I wouldn't put up with that, shoot a few of the buggers" do you think it went like that?
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  9152. but not in Transnistria
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  9153.  @PerryPerfectPerson  curious the statute specifically fails to say "out of state"
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  9154.  @PerryPerfectPerson  what is really curious is that semi colon. what follows the semi colon is related to what precedes the semi colon, otherwise it would be a period. so everything you quoted is based on the condition of "going into hiding". really badly written, if that is exactly as it is written. doesn't cover Trump's circumstances.
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  9155. Gulliver off on his hobby horse talking about the abandoned Zaporozhe offensive, like he so wants it to happen but can't bring himself to admit the whole idea was ditched months ago.
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  9156. 100% bs. Germany never wanted to get involved in this war but was bullied into it by its so-called partners. Germany's multi billion euro pipeline investment was destroyed by its own "ally" and Germany was too weak to even raise an objection. Germany is a supine puppy that has no backbone. it deserves the descent into mayhem and failure that awaits it. Slava Rossiyi.
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  9157. one of those rare conferences where the party becomes a lot less popular during and after the conference. useless bunch of wets.
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  9158. Cannon fodder for the Chechens....a desperate, pure panic NATO measure to stall the inevitable Russian win, by allowing as many young men as possible get riddled with Russian bullets in the hope a Russian victory might come in November, rather than October. Cynical.
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  9159. Russia has elections and Putin has to confront political opposition in the Duma daily. Ukraine has canceled elections and the Rada has no opposition parties. Learn the truth.
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  9160. wow, in less than a year Russia has demilitarized both Ukraine and NATO, bankrupted Ukraine, and found that convicts and mercenaries can beat the Ukronazis on the front lines. Great year for Russia.
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  9161. Just a reminder of the scorecard so far, over the last 20 years: Muslims and Immigrants killed by Far Right = 0 White Brits killed by Muslims and Immigrants = 100+
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  9162.  @rollerrollerichson6258  First, UK should re-open its processing center in Calais. Second, the UK needs to open no other processing centers at all. Applications can be made at the nearest UK embassy in whichever country the applicant lives, and processed in the UK. Third, those granted asylum already have safe routes. They are called flights, trains, ferries. You know, the same safe routes you use when you travel? Fourth, the UK needs no agreement with France whatsoever. Those asylum seekers granted asylum from France will be allowed to leave France. Believe me, France has no wish to keep them! Those granted asylum from other countries will have no need to go through France, as their asylum has been granted, so they may enter the UK directly. Fifth, the UK is allowed to do whatever the UK Parliament in Westminster has passed into law. It is up to other countries and institutions to debate and protest what decisions they don't like. Westminster decides UK policy, not other places. got it?
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  9163.  @craighart9278  1. asylum claims can be made online or at the nearest British embassy. 2. asylum will be granted or denied irrespective of where the asylum claim is made outside of the UK. 3. asylum would be granted if there is evidence of persecution and if there would be strong reasons why the UK would be the host country rather than the nearest safe country. 4. vetting would be done in the UK. there is no need for overseas asylum centres. 5. the applicant stays wherever the applicant chooses to stay in his/her place of application. if they say they feel in danger, join the club, every day I go out at night I feel in danger. 6. responsibility for vetting is that of the Home Office. next question?
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  9164.  @craighart9278  absolutely anyone can apply. of course. just as anyone can apply for a visitor visa right now.
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  9165.  @craighart9278  the Home Office is responsible for processing the claim and vetting the applicant. The Home Office is not responsible for the applicant, obviously.
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  9166. just hysterical how Parsons has to spin a rising Russian GDP, Russia winning in Ukraine, and a booming defence industry as some really bad news for Putin. you know this dolt wants Trump to win, otherwise Parsons won't have an obvious Western leader to blame for Russia's total victory.
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  9167. The corrupt judge is being shown up for the incompetent biased buffoon that he is. Given the biased judge already decided Trump's guilt before a word was spoken in court, Trump has very little to lose, but the judge does, and the judge is now exposed as inept and driven by politics. Trump will get yet another boost in the polls, and the judge will be shunned by 50% of the nation forevermore. Go Trump!
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  9168. Little Boy Trudeau way out of his depth again. Yet more reasons for BRICS to despise the deluded arrogant Western bubble fools
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  9169. oh, yet another game changer weapon that will turn the tide? Geez, when will you learn? remember when it all started? send more javelins, send more stingers? the chant changes every month, but to no effect. Russia is winning,
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  9170.  @sintasirait835  I think you will find that the anger is a genuine expression of outrage that Armenians are being stabbed in the back and abandoned by fellow Armenians, all for the deluded idea that some kind of rapprochement with the West will bring any tangible benefits!
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  9171.  @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044  1. "just so he could".....Armenia's withdrawal from NK does nothing to enable, or disable, Russia's invasion of Ukraine! Not connected. 2. There is no hypocrisy because the causes of both situations are totally different. 3. Armenia has not been "condemned" for anything by Russia. To repeat, Putin has rightly asked, "how can Russia expect to be peacekeepers in an area that ARMENIA itself has recognized as Azerbaijan"? 4. Sounds like you are a fan of Russian military intervention, saying that Russia should have used military force to stop a blockade, yet you wring your hands over Russian military force used in Ukraine. What a hypocrite you are.
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  9172.  @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044  1. Russian peacekeepers are peacekeepers, not interventionists. Again, if you are advocating a Russian military intervention in Armenia because an agreement was broken, presumably you have no problem with Russia intervening in Ukraine because an agreement (the Minsk Accords) was broken there. Stop being hypocritical. 2. Putin is 100% right. When the leader of Armenia recognizes Azerbaijan's right to NK, what's the point in Russian peacekeepers even being there? The Armenian leader himself has handed over NK to the Azeris with his own words! Grasp reality!
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  9173. The agreement allows for missile strikes on the town and missiles intercepted that end up falling on the port are not taken as intended for the port. the agreement is alive and well. sounds like your support for it has disappeared.
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  9174. yep, now it's gone viral, the family won't touch the gofundme
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  9175.  @leebryantravels  watch more what?
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  9176.  @FontaineDerby  still no evidence that the "drug deal went south" theory is implausible. still no evidence the "he got lost in the wilderness and died of thirst" theory is likely still no evidence that Slater isn't alive and well in Morocco. yawn.......is it fun being a parrot and squawking "still no evidence" at any theory presented?
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  9177. of course Ukraine is winning! Russia has been running out of weapons and ammo since March! and Ukraine has Snake Island and Ghost of Kiev! Ukraine is so close to victory now! That's why all those millions of refugees have started to return! well, maybe not.
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  9178. "Moscow has become an international pariah", well, except for China, a pretty big country, oh and India, another big country, oh and Mexico and Brazil, 2 other big countries, and the rest of Latin America, and Africa, and Asia and....in fact, Moscow has become only a pariah to the deluded, smug, ignorant Western bubble of nations. The usual lies flowing from the disinformation hacks of the BBC....such a bunch of shits, aren't they?
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  9179. I mean we are assuming our outstandingly wise leadership in the West has prepared for a nuclear scenario and Putin launching a few little nukes into Ukraine, right? Such a possibility was well discussed and a response was all planned out a long time ago, obviously. or, maybe not? maybe debates about if a man can become a woman and other more important topics were prioritized in the West over nuclear armageddon?
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  9180. so, EU, what's holding you back from the threatened "price cap"? surely another rift with China, India and the rest of the world would be of no concern to you, given your arrogance and delusion?
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  9181. yes, under the phony "rules based system" pushed by the West i am sure the puppets of an international court would give the green light for assets owned by Russians to be stolen. those of us disdainful of "Western values" could quite imagine such a corrupt scenario. Just be prepared for the rest of the world to henceforth be shy to invest in ANYTHING in the West ever again! Would not help in the long run.
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  9182. they clearly have no shame, and will walk away from this horror show and then create another proxy war somewhere just as soon as possible.
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  9183. this fool epitomizes the idiots that don't understand this conflict. Ukraine never "took" Kherson or Kharkov last year. They were given it. When Russia decides territory is worth fighting over, it wins every time. until this dunce grasps the difference between withdrawal and defeat, he 'll keep thinking Ukraine has a chance.
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  9184. what did she say that was uninformed?
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  9185.  @Susweca5569  as expected, unable to rebut anything she said. par for the course for anti Trumpers, unable to debate, only barely capable of ad hominem attacks.
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  9186.  @leemiguel3437  yeah, because Dunc has lived in UKraine and experienced the Zelensky dictatorship first hand. and what about you, Lee Miguel, tell us all about the discrimination you suffered while teaching in Ukraine. You have been there, right?
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  9187.  @leemiguel3437  I'm certainly more reliable than the drivel reported here! Truth is, Ukraine now boxed in a corner of having to beg for money to survive, but the West will only back Ukraine if it believes Ukraine can win, hence the unceasing TALK of a counteroffensive destined to never happen, or fail, Reality hurts all the Zelensky trolls, but so be it.
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  9188. "we are treating our minorities with respect........by compelling them to ditch their native language and forcing them to use the language we proclaim as the one and only language allowed"
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  9189. Looks like Russia, on balance, is more than coping very well. Ukraine on the other hand............
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  9190. why?
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  9191.  @kevinmathis1278  ignorant
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  9192.  @Commander_ZiN  how long a list do you want? let's start with acting on the most important issues
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  9193.  @Commander_ZiN  i am not against the people meeting to talk in Prague, if you or they pay for it. I just don't see any chance that the world will be improved at all by such a meeting, and given the results in Europe of countless such meetings, I think there is a fair chance more horrendous decisions will come from this talking shop.
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  9194. @Mystery Rosebud the problem is the fools talking away there have no idea what is the greater good. Sanctions against Russia case in point.
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  9195.  @Sweet-Rat-Milk  agreed. a nation where voting is compulsory is no democracy
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  9196.  @tonylupone1157  save the tax-payers' hard earned money and reduce my carbon footprint by meeting anyone with any bright new idea by Zoom. I don't have time. unlike these bods, for endless claptrap. Would send out a questionnaire asking all of them to list the pros and cons of sanctions. just to get a feel for how much pain some Europeans want to go through this winter and beyond.
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  9197. Welby is the Devil, trying to turn as many people as possible away from Christianity, and he is doing a great job.
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  9198. Russia is just copying the USA's "rules based international order" as seen in Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria etc etc. Russia sees that the West is happy to break the UN Charter repeatedly, so Russia has decided to join the party.
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  9199. and Ukraine's "all drones were shot down" = no drones were shot down. Neither side has a monopoly on the truth.
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  9200.  @toddforbes2079  what makes 400-600 an estimate that is "best"? how would you have any idea of the true Russian death toll?
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  9201.  @Jetwinner02  Both General Milley and Ursula Van der Leyan gave the number of 100,000 dead Ukrainians a long time ago. The "proof" is the words coming from YOUR side!
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  9202.  @toddforbes2079  so suddenly we are to believe pro Russian bloggers on Telegram? Five minutes ago I was told everything the Russians say is a lie! make your mind up! Which side has suffered more casualties in strikes on ammo dumps and troops' barracks? Russia or Ukraine? Give us your sources as you do your calculations to discover which side is the more incompetent.
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  9203.  @toddforbes2079  pro Ukrainian General Milley said a long time ago that Ukraine had suffered 100,000 dead. Believe him? or is he lying?
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  9204.  @toddforbes2079  again, where does your "almost 100,000" Russian dead come from? sources? are you SURE it is "almost" 100,000? Sure it is not "over" 100,000?
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  9205.  @ЭЮЯ-о3к  yes, I agree. that is what I said. no?
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  9206.  @ЭЮЯ-о3к  this is the interesting thing. to know about the number of dead Ukrainians, the Ukrainian side give us the facts. Milley, Van der Leyen, etc. But no one knows the Russian death toll because no one in the Kremlin gives out the numbers.
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  9207.  @evgeniybastrykov  what makes you think Russian media lie more than Western media?
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  9208.  @evgeniybastrykov  I guess reading comprehension is not your forte. Try again. I asked you why you believe Western media more than you believe Russian media. I didn't ask you what "all sources" say on this one incident. So, try again. why do you believe Western media over Russian media?
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  9209. they are not lost. they are dead. they were stupid enough to go into a war zone.
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  9210.  @bonnie7898  I am always happy to compare specifics. However, I find you ignore valid comparisons because you have swallowed the "USA/West good, Russia bad" nonsense. So, let us compare specifics. Simple question. Has Russia invaded the entire country of Ukraine? Has Russia attacked specific hostile elements within Ukrainian society more or less than USA did in Iraq? Give evidence. In Ukraine, does Russia have support of a proportion of the population? more or less than the USA had in Iraq? Give evidence. Don't be dumb, and you will come to the conclusion that Russia is doing, in Ukraine, exactly what USA has done in many parts of the world. But it's good to know you are always, throughout history, meandering around various battlefields with your clipboard, registering who is backing an invasion and who is against it.
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  9211.  @Mohammad-bb1sw  most definitely
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  9212. yeah, that's right, two black teenage boys walk into a store, and two retired Chinese ladies, you treat them equally, you would be a fool to keep an eye more on the 2 black lads, because all the statistics show that old Chinese ladies shoplift just as much as black male teenagers.
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  9213. BOTH PRESENTER AND GUEST TOTALLY CLUELESS. Putin has WON MASSIVELY! In the agreement, Russia and Belarus have written guarantees no sanctions will apply to export of food products and fertilizers (an EU retreat). Russia is now guaranteed that oil exports to third countries are not subject to sanctions (so now EU can buy Russian oil from India and avoid its own sanctions!) An EU retreat. Putin demanded Ukrainian mines be removed...that process has now started. Putin demanded that ONLY the port area is excluded from missile attack (NOT the town) ONLY when grain shipments are in transit. MASSIVE win for Putin, and these two are ignorant. They must just watch MSM in their own tiny bubble.
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  9214. la comparación con no saber frances es absurdo. no saber francés en Francia te causará muchos problemas. no saber catalaán en Barcelona, pues, todo el mundo habla castellano perfectamente, pues, ningún problema.
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  9215.  @kathic6402  the only people that said that Russia was going to win in two weeks were the lying Western media that felt they had to create such a narrative. no one in the Kremlin ever mentioned a timeline. Russia doesn't work on timelines. The battle of Kiev? There was no Battle of Kiev. And because you can't figure that one out, you thought a counter offensive would work against Russia. You got it all wrong.
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  9216.  @kathic6402  been out with your clipboard tallying Russian deaths have you? or just making up numbers, like NATO and Ukrainian propagandists do? Check out BBC/MediaZona numbers if you want an idea of the truth.
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  9217. When the Police are the ones who enabled Pakistani rape gangs to run riot and ruin the lives of white girls, we should not be shocked that Islamic terrorist groups get full support of the police for protesting in the streets.
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  9218. it is both possible to be under investigation and to have evidence of who is guilty. those two are not mutually exclusive.
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  9219. oh, PLEASE let Poland enter this conflict. no one deserves a load of body bags heading back home more than Warsaw.
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  9220. "What's going on?" Our government thought it was a really good idea to import 3rd world people and 3rd world problems. And such a government will get re-elected into power on 2024.
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  9221. NATO is safe. Even with its Russophobic hysteria, Russia has no great interest in warring with NATO. Russia will defend ethnic Russians and attack ANY power that mistreats ethnic Russians/Russian speakers, hence Moldova lost Transnistria, Chechnya got destroyed, twice, Georgia got flattened and now Abkazia and South Ossetia are independent of Georgia. Ukraine and NATO should have handled Donbass with kid gloves, well, too late now. Don't mistreat yr Russian population and you will be just fine with Russia.
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  9222.  @avet4521  maybe, maybe not
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  9223.  @avet4521  Munda faciem tuam meretricem, tuus pater pulmentum fecit, cum eum sugere complesti!"
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  9224. If France has enough dough to impose sanctions on Russia and send indefinite aid to Ukraine, it has enough to pay pensions at the age it always has.
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  9225.  @harryjones5478  has nothing to do with Trump. He has enough on his plate.
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  9226.  @makark6115  ya nadyeyus'!
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  9227. "desperate situation for Russian troops" as per General Milley and Ursula VD Lying, 100,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers. doesn't get more desperate than that.
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  9228. As usual, Cross has it all backwards. YES, this offensive is for purely political reasons. Zelensky and NATO don't care that thousands of Ukrainian teenage cannon fodder will be shoved into the Russian meatgrinder. But this is NOT about taking Kherson or showing Ukraine can win. It is about doing SOMETHING, ANYTHING to distract from the fact that Ukraine is powerless to retake anything in Donbass, and to create a bit of theater to keep money pouring in from the West. Desperate stuff.
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  9229.  @skitpare2627  why would you think I need any explanation from some YT crap on Donbass and Crimea? Why would you assume whoever produced "Russia's Ghost Army in Ukraine" shouldn't listen to me?
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  9230.  @stc3145  but not as many times as Zelensky, and right now it is Putin's pride in those poor abused ethnic Russians of the Donbass that has put Putin on the side of justice in this conflict, agreed? 8 years of Nazi shelling deserved this response. agreed?
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  9231.  @hans895  oh, Hans, German name, right? So, you probably back the Azov Nazi battalion and share their love of extreme nationalism, russophobia and swastika tattoos, right?
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  9232.  @hans895  I teach history. looks like you need to learn some from me. 100% agree with Ukraine's language laws, do you? the laws that prohibit Russian speakers living in a Russian speaking majority area of Ukraine from having an education in Russian, you love that discrimination, do you?
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  9233.  @hans895  really great idea of Zelensky to embrace and welcome the Azov Nazi battalion into Ukraine's national defense force, do you think? which other countries should similarly welcome Nazis into the national defense force? NATO maybe? Germany?
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  9234.  @DarthFurball  whatever you say, Nazi lover. Totally agree with Zelensky's decision to embrace and welcome the Azov Nazis into the Ukrainian National Defense Force, do you? Which other countries should follow Ukraine's lead on accepting extreme nationalists into their ranks would you say?
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  9235.  @brentwood1334  judging by the way Jesus violently overturned the tables of the perfectly legal money-changers, I would guess Jesus would be on Putin's side, trying to rid Ukraine of its corrupt oligarchs.
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  9236.  @fv5855  1) Demilitarization is about killing as many Ukrainian troops as possible, not about territory. The kill rate is close to 5:1 in Russia's favor. keep laughing. the mothers of those massacred Ukrainian cannon fodder don't find it quite as funny as you do. 2) Only fools who know nothing about the world think that "the entire world is laughing at Putin". If you had traveled to some places that see Putin as a hero, from Mexico to Iran, from Venezuela to Serbia, from China to South Africa, you would learn something. but you live in your deluded bubble and remain ignorant of the "entire world". 3) Ukraine is an Empire of Corruption, Propaganda, Liars and now Losers. Learn some facts.
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  9237.  @fv5855  God is laughing at the arrogant West, imposing sanctions on Russia only for Russia to get richer and the West to go bankrupt. God loves a good laugh at stupid arrogant fools like the current Western leaders.
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  9238.  @stc3145  It is you who are defending the Fascist Zelensky, the man who thought it was a really good idea to admit and welcome the Azov Nazi battalion into the Ukrainian Defense Force.. Which other countries, dear Adolf, would you love to see incorporate confessed Nazis into their armed forces?
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  9239.  @fv5855  How is USA's military intervention in Syria going? Did USA manage to oust Assad, or did the Russians win that war of attrition too?:)
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  9240.  @hans895  My history is solid. So, let's tackle the points you raise. 1) why, in a Russian speaking area like Donbass, should it be illegal to have newspaper articles in Russian only? No such rules exist in Quebec, Belgium, Cataluna, so why have such diktats in Ukraine? 2) Why, in a Russian speaking area, should any patient ever be greeted first in Ukrainian? In Vancouver, Canada, an English speaking area, are patients first greeted in French? it is nationalism from Kiev gone mad, and it has started a war 3) Who, apart from a dictator, thinks he has the right to demand what percentage of books have to be in a particular language? True freedom is the right to choose which books in which language you sell. Thanks so much for highlighting the absurd nationalist and russophobic policies of Zelensky and the Azov Nazis. You have made it VERY clear why the Russian speakers feel liberated from Zelenky's tyranny. And you, you rabid lover of crushing human rights and freedom of speech, support him! Shame on you.
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  9241.  @stc3145  you need to learn the truth. Ukraine is a tyranny ruled by an oligarchy supported by extreme nationalists and Nazis that have a Jewish puppet comedian leader implement their policies for them. It is a country that ousted a democratically elected president and has shelled its own citizens in the Donbass for 8 years. The Russophobic, nationalistic, hero worship of Bandera, a Nazi collaborator, is a disgusting stain on the map of Europe, and the fact you support such evil shows how low you have sunk. The Azov Nazis don't represent the whole country, but when I lived and worked in Ukraine, it was obvious they control enough minds to influence policy. Tell me about your time spent living and working in Ukraine. Learn some maths yourself.
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  9242.  Hernando Cortez  sadly. here in the West where censorship limits what news we can access, most people don't know about the Ukrainian shelling of civilians in Donetsk.
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  9243.  Hernando Cortez  you are probably right, but it is worth letting them know some of us have insights they are too blind to ever see. and hey, one of the sheep might see the light, one day
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  9244.  @stc3145  i am well aware of who lies and who doesn't, and believe me, Putin has no monopoly on lies. so, if nobody here cares, why do I get so many angry and panicked replies that do nothing but shout, curse and abuse, but never discuss the issues? even you are completely incapable of answering my basic questions! care to try again? do you think ALL countries should copy Ukraine and accept Nazi battalions into their national defense forces?
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  9245.  @stc3145  when you say the "few Nazis who might be in Azov"...so you admit that there are Nazis in Azov and that they have been welcomed into the Ukraine defense force? What percent would you say is a "few"? give me a number.
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  9246.  @hans895  1) what I am saying is true. Read carefully every word, and you will learn. 2) Yes, every nation has the right to make its own laws, like Nazi Germany legalizing death camps for Jews. But every nation has the right to overturn those laws when they are blatantly unjust. And it is Russia that is overturning the blatant injustices of Nationalist Ukraine today. 3) I never mentioned any rules in Quebec, so now you are imagining things, in your panic and delusion. I would imagine that you left Quebec because, like Ukraine, the absurd language laws were so freedom-destroying that you had to flee. well, now you know what the Donbass Russian speakers feel like. you should be supporting them, if you had a bloody clue.
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  9247.  @hans895  how about you answer just one of my very simple questions? why, in an area like Donbass where 90 % of the population are native Russian speakers, should a bookseller be compelled to sell 50% of his books in Ukrainian? why force that rule?
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  9248.  @hans895  as regards moving back to the Motherland, well that is what the ethnic Russians did. in Kherson, Zaporozhe, Donetsk and Lugansk, they have voted to return to Russia, and brought their ancestral lands with them:) justice served. no more having to sell 50% of your books in a language no one speaks or cares to speak. now THAT is freedom!
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  9249.  @bonnie7898  So Catalan speakers live in Spain and the official language is Spanish, then you believe the education system should be all in Spanish! Funny, but a LOT of people in Barcelona and all over the region of Cataluna would HATE you for insisting on that, and the European Union would call you insensitive and bigoted and urge you to be inclusive and respect the rights of Catalan speakers! So WHY do you insist on Russian speakers in Ukraine being denied the rights that Catalan speakers have in Spain, that French speakers have in Belgium and that Welsh speakers have in Wales?
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  9250.  @bonnie7898  So let me get this right. In the Donbass, where 90% of the population speak Russian as a native language, it is now a "special right" to be granted permission to be educated in your native language, and where it is ok to be FORCED to be educated in a language that only 10% of the region actually uses? This makes sense to you? Sorry, for those of us who believe in freedom of speech and equality, when 90% of a region speak a common language, it is only fair they have the right to use that language when and how they choose. Only a nationalistic bigot would oppose such a notion, but I now see why the West has no clue what this fight is all about.
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  9251.  @hans895  In that Stefan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator who was responsible for the murder of 4,000 Jews in Lvov, is now considered a national hero in Ukraine, Ukraine is indeed similar to Nazi Germany. In that Zelensky banned all opposition parties from the Rada, Ukraine is like Nazi Germany. In that men of fighting age cannot leave Ukraine, Ukraine is like Nazi Germany. In that Russian speakers must not speak Russian in public, like Yiddish was banned by Nazi Germany, Ukraine is like Nazi Germany. In that Nazis are welcomed into the armed forces, Ukraine is like Nazi Germany. You are ignorant and should learn some facts.
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  9252.  @hans895  1) Ukraine and Russia are so closely bound, it is only Ukraine if you wish to separate the two, but those of us who see it as one place would argue that Ukraine is not really a separate country, just like Catalonia is not really a separate country from Spain. 2) It doesn't matter whether it is "my place" or not. wherever there is injustice in this world, it is our place to point it out. It is unjust to admit Nazis into the national defense force. It is unjust to prohibit the Russian language in any way. It is unjust to oust a democratically elected president. It is unjust to ignore Russia's security concerns when it comes to the relentless expansion of NATO. Putin is NOT the criminal. 3) Look in the mirror to see the criminal. you will see, in the mirror, a person who today SUPPORTS language discrimination in Ukraine, who SUPPORTS Nazis in the armed forces, who SUPPORTS no opposition parties in parliament, who SUPPORTS Bandera as a national hero, who SUPPORTS banning all men from leaving the country. Look in the mirror. THERE you see the criminal. Not Putin. hans is the criminal
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  9253.  @stc3145  what do you mean "should"? USA DID in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in Syria! NATO bombed countless thousands in Libya and in Serbia! SHOULD? it happens all the time! Wake up!
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  9254.  @stc3145  misinformation? giving you a dose of the truth! and in your panic, you can't argue with any sense! If Europe wants nothing to do with Russia, why does it keep buying Russian energy and paying for it in rubles?
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  9255.  @stc3145  I don't expect many to believe me, because unlike me so few people have lived and worked in Ukraine and know anything about the place. With Western governments banning all Russian media, the other perspective doesn't reach the West, so, no, with no freedom of media I don't expect the brainwashed and deluded to believe me. but at least they can be exposed to the truth.
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  9256.  @stc3145  hmmm, a country without free speech. you mean like the free speech they have in Latvia, where a man who trampled on the Ukrainian flag was jailed? where free speech in the West means you draw a picture of Mohammed and get beheaded. That kind of free speech you mean? you are such a joke.
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  9257.  @stc3145  which country has opposition members of parliament, Ukraine or Russia? hmm, Putin has to answer to the Communists and other opposition parties. Zelensky? Nope, no opposition there! Free speech. ha. Ukraine has none, but Russia does. you are just full of misinformation and lies. learn the truth for once.
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  9258.  @victory-ukraine  8 years of Azov Nazi shelling the Donbass = Ukraine is the aggressor. Slava Rossiyi!
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  9259.  @derekd1510  thanks for the lecture on the evils of the Soviet Union. all irrelevant, as it has nothing to do with the Russian Federation as formed in 1991, and in fact, you agree with Putin that the Bolsheviks are to blame for the mess in Ukraine today. Answer just two questions...who founded the city of Odessa? In the Crimean War, did Britain and France fight against Ukraine or Russia? Once you have answered those two questions you will see that the Black Sea coast of "Ukraine" is indeed ancestrally Russian. Ukrainian land, my A**! Learn some basic and RELEVANT history!
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  9260.  @hans895  Ah, so we have agreement! A declared national hero of Ukraine was a Fascist and anti Semite! Ukrainians name a university in Lvov after a Fascist and anti - Semite, the EU has a real problem with that, Jewish groups have a MASSIVE problem with that, oh. but virtuous Hans says "oh, that was all in the past"! Oh, you total hypocrite! Yes, Zelensky has indeed taken reality (that Fascist sentiment is massive in Ukraine) "into account" (shrugs it off as nothing) and like you, is absolutely fine with a policy of Ukrainian tax payers paying Azov Nazis to fight for Ukraine. My God, you are as fascist as they are by supporting them. Thank God we have Putin to call you stinking hypocrites out. If you had any common sense, you would back the ethnic Russians in their struggle against this Fascism, but you reveal your true colors when you try to brush it under the carpet. Pure hypocrisy. Got an Azov Nazi swastika tattoo yourself have you, Hans? despicable.
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  9261.  @derekd1510  Sorry, you mention Stalin. was he Russian? what about the beast who led the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Leonid Brezhnev...was he Russian or Ukrainian?
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  9262.  @hans895  why am I not surprised that someone whose hometown is Munich has absolutely no problem with a national defense force admitting swastika tattooed Nazis into their ranks? why am I not surprised that your first reaction to the name Bandera is "oh, there's no evidence he organized a pogrom that killed 4,000 Jews"?...old habits die hard in the Fatherland, right?
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  9263.  @hans895  so Bandera deserved to be killed, and Bandera deserves to be a national hero of Ukraine? this is the horrendous contradiction that you fascists have created for yourselves by admitting that Ukraine has a horrendous problem with fascism, but you still love and support Ukraine nonetheless. My God, what gullible fools you are
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  9264.  @hans895  if you support the Ukraine armed forces, you support the Azov Nazis who are part of that criminal force. Shame on you. If you support Ukraine, then you support a country that made, by your own admission, a fascist and anti-semite, a national hero. typical Munich boy aren't you?
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  9265.  @hans895  yes, there are fascists in America. and there are fascists in Russia, but in NEITHER RUSSIA NOR AMERICA DOES THE GOVERNMENT WELCOME WITH OPEN ARMS A WHOLE BATTALION OF FASCISTS INTO ITS STATE DEFENSE FORCE! But Ukraine does, and you 100% support accepting a Nazi battalion into the national defense force. You are a fascist sympathizer and you should be ashamed of how you support such cruel racist thugs. Munich boy. Big fan of the bierhall putsch, eh?
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  9266.  @hans895  "bombing another nation under the pretense of law and order"....if that is what Russia is doing, then Russia is just copying the West. NATO did the same to Libya, and to Serbia. USA did the same to Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria. Russia is just following the "rules-based system" of the West. You just can't accept that now Russia is doing what the West has done repeatedly. Sniveling hypocrites, all of you, no wonder the Global South has had enough of the lying hypocritical two-faced West. Slava Rossiyi, na vsegda.
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  9267.  @hans895  your rage is due to the fact I have exposed you and your ilk as being hypocrites who are fascist supporters and who are russophobic haters who know nothing about the reality of Ukraine. You love Ukraine, you love Bandera, you love fascists. it's as easy as that. keep looking in the mirror, Munich boy, to see the true evil of why Ukraine is in the mess it is in. You support a corrupt fascist tyranny. well done.
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  9268.  @hans895  I have lived and worked in Ukraine and I speak Russian. I know what I saw and experienced and you know nothing. while you bleat on about Zelensky being a Jew and having Israeli support, you know nothing about the Jewish groups in Ukraine who denounce the Bandera hero worship and hate what the puppet Zelensky has done to their homeland. you believe the propaganda from the West, you call me a liar, yet can't point to one single lie told. pathetic
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  9269.  @hans895  you live in a total fantasy. no one, not even the retarded puppet Zelensky believes that Russia will be ousted from Donbass and Crimea. Zelensky had a chance to implement Minsk 2, and he failed. Time to pay the price for siding with corrupt oligarchs and extreme nationalists. The spirit of Donbass will prevail, and fools like you will see what idiocy you have been led to believe. Now go get another swastika tattooed on your chest, Azov style, Munich boy.
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  9270.  @hans895  why do you think US Congress, until this year, prohibited any arms going to the Azov Battalion?
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  9271.  @hans895  you are too dumb to realize I am not Russian. oh boy, yet another crass and yet basic assumption that Munich boy got wrong wrong wrong.
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  9272.  @hans895  so when the "defensive" organisation, NATO, bombed the hell out of sovereign Serbia, violating Serbia's territorial integrity, which NATO member state was NATO defending?
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  9273.  @bonnie7898  right, so in the West's "rules- based system" the invasion of a sovereign country and disrespecting territorial integrity ARE allowed in cases where "committing genocide" is declared (by the West). You have carved out an exception to the rule. Therefore, all of this nonsense about Russia violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity was hypocritical BS, it just comes down to the definition of "committing genocide". Who is the referee of what "committing genocide" is? you? Biden? Putin? Zelensky's Nazi troops? The Azov Nazis shelling Donbass for 8 years NOT "committing genocide", Serbia fighting separatists in Kosovo = genocide! Now we see why so much of the world has rejected the West's rules based system...because it is a system full of ambiguity, double standards and hypocrisy, but thanks for proving that. If you were consistent, you would at least say Serbia's sovereignty is as precious as Ukraine's. But you didn't, because you are a hypocrite.
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  9274.  @bonnie7898  at least we agree that ANYONE saying "NATO is a defensive alliance" is "simplifying its role" (lying), and that would include its own general secretary. No NATO member country was being defended when Libya and Serbia were attacked, so again, let's stop with the West's BS, and be honest. NATO is a military alliance that, whenever it so decides, will bomb the hell out of any country it deems bad, a threat, or just anti West. thanks for clarifying that and pointing out, again, how hypocritical the West is on such matters.
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  9275.  @bonnie7898  so you don't understand how Switzerland. could have a "harmonious society" if all 3 language groups there insist on education being allowed in the community's native language? you don't see how Ticino's Italian speakers can live in a 100% Italian speaking society, and the Francophones can live in a 100% French speaking society, and the German speakers can live in a 100% German speaking society, and yet all 3 groups live harmoniously in one country, Switzerland. you don't understand how that is possible? If you DID understand how it was possible, and it is the reality, then you would understand why the Russian speakers of Ukraine just want the same rights as, say, the French speaking Swiss. Too much to ask for? Ukraine supporters shout "YES, TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR, SHUT UP AND CONFORM TO UKRAINIANIZATION"..."No, language rights are very important" shout Putin's supporters. which one are you?
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  9276.  @bonnie7898  so when Russia vetoes any UN resolution = thumbs up for intervention anyway. when USA vetoes any UN resolution = thumbs up for intervention anyway? hmmm, this Western rules-based system is really hard to figure out, because US often vetoes resolutions and nothing happens! Please explain the rules.
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  9277.  @bonnie7898  Both Ukraine and Kazakstan have about 40% of their citizens as native Russian speakers. Kazakstan affords equal language rights to both Kazak and Russian speakers. Russian speakers can be educated in Russian right through the whole education system. Ukraine had the same system until the 2014 nationalist coup. Now all education is in Ukrainian, and Russian is banned from schools. which of the two systems do you find more inclusive, more respectful, more considerate and more conducive to harmony? What would happen in Canada, do you think, if French was banned from all schools?
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  9278.  @derekd1510  1) regarding Putin's and the Russian Federation's intervention in Ukraine now, Soviet history is irrelevant. You willfully confuse Russian Federation history with the USSR's history. But you are a fool if you think the two are related. They are not. Learn the difference between the RF and the USSR.
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  9279.  @derekd1510  2) Soviet transgressions are not Russian transgressions. Again, separate the two. Stalin led the USSR. Stalin did not lead Russia. Stalin was not Russian. Stalin was Georgian. Learn some basic facts instead of muddling it all together and pointing a finger and bleating "Russian oppression". your approach is childish, ignorant nonsense.
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  9280.  @derekd1510  3) any ethnic cleansing was a Soviet policy. Not Russian. Yet again, learn the truth. Even then, the current inhabitants of southern Ukraine do NOT deserve to be discriminated against because through an accident of birth they happen to be descendants of a Russian settler implanted there by a despot decades or centuries ago!
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  9281.  @derekd1510  4) So, let me answer the question you refuse to answer (talk about obfuscation). Britain and France fought the Crimean War against RUSSIA! The blood that was spilt there was Russian blood, and NOWHERE will you find historians refer to the struggle Britain and France had with UKRAINIANS! Nowhere! Again, learn some basics.
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  9282.  @derekd1510  5) settlement of an area is not the same as the founding of a city. Try again. But let's go with your argument that Odessa was founded by the Greeks, who were succeeded by the Lithuanians. In that case, Ukraine has absolutely NO rightful claim over Odessa! Can't have your cake and eat it! If Odessa ain't Russian due to it being originally settled by Greeks and then Lithuanians, then it ain't Ukrainian either, is it? Odessa was founded by the Russians, it is a Russian speaking city and it rightfully belongs to Russia. not Ukraine. If Odessa is Greek because Greeks first settled there, then London is a Roman city, and Brits have no right to claim London at all. Your reasoning is so absurd and twisted, you sound pathetically infantile.
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  9283.  @derekd1510  6) "Russia has always practiced imperialist tyranny" no more or less than Britain, France, Spain, Japan, China, USA, Germany the list is endless. Again, grow up, bleating "Russian oppression, but only Russian oppression, can't see any other power acting in the same way" is just silly.
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  9284.  @derekd1510  "freedom and democracy are coming to Eastern Europe"...oh, you mean like the 2014 coup that was backed by the West, oligarchs and Azov Nazis that removed a democratically elected president, that kind of democracy? or maybe you mean the kind of freedom that prohibits Russian speaking communities in Ukraine from having an education in Russian, that kind of freedom? Or a Rada where Zelensky bans all opposition parties, that kind of democracy? ha, you are pathetically deluded by your own propaganda. When, in Latvia, a man is jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag, you can be sure freedom and democracy are a LONG way from Eastern Europe!
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  9285.  @derekd1510  "the rest of modern society has evolved beyond such brutality"....it's in the West where teachers get beheaded for showing a picture of Mohammed, not in Russia. It's the West that invaded and massacred civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. It's the West that bombed living hell out of sovereign nations Libya and Serbia. Brutality and Injustice ARE the modus operandi of the West! You are deluded by your own lies and propaganda, but as the world realigns against the West, you will slowly understand how the majority of the globe feel. Slava Rossiyi....enjoy your rampant inflation, energy rationing and imminent defeat.
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  9286.  @derekd1510  Kazakstan has a sizeable Russian speaking minority. All are allowed to be educated in Russian. Ukraine has a sizeable Russian speaking minority. NONE are allowed to be educated in Russian. Which of these two approaches is the most inclusive, humane and just approach?
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  9287.  @derekd1510  Genocide and population transfers are the direct reason for ethnic Europeans living in USA and Canada today. So what's your point?
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  9288.  @derekd1510  Putin has been in power for decades. Why has he waited til now to "commit genocide" on Ukraine? Just woke up one morning in Feb and said "hey, let's emulate Stalin and do some genocide in Ukraine"? you are hilarious.
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  9289.  @derekd1510  Genocide is admitting Azov Nazis into your national defense force and encouraging them to shell civilians in Donbass. THAT is genocide! Support Azov Nazis massacring ethnic Russians, do you? Big fan of Ukrainian national hero, Bandera, leader of a pogrom that killed 4,000 Jews are you? Got your own swastika tattoed on you, have you? your type makes the civilized world sick.
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  9290.  @derekd1510  had you been with me in Bar Karabas in Vinnitsya in 2018 you would have heard the Azov Nazi boys do little but use slurs against the Russians. Lived and worked in Ukraine, have you? Speak Russian or Ukrainian do you?
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  9291.  @derekd1510  saying "khokhol" is not QUITE so discriminatory as the Ukrainian government preventing Russian speakers from using their own language at school and university, is it?
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  9292.  @derekd1510  what do you think would happen in Quebec if the Canadian government announced that only English was the official language and that all education was to be in English, not French? That all Quebec bookstores would be compelled, by law, to send equal numbers of English and French language books?
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  9293.  @derekd1510  Did Putin intervene militarily in Syria with intentions of committing genocide? Is the Russian peace-keeping force in Moldova there to commit genocide? How do you judge when Putin intervenes militarily whether it is to commit genocide, and when not?
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  9294.  @derekd1510  do you think Russians have a monopoly on committing war crimes, or do you think Ukrainians do too?
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  9295.  @derekd1510  The problem for you is that I know the truth and can see the lies you swallow hook line and sinker. In 2014 there was no decision to join the EU. Nations can't decide to join the EU. They can only apply for, first, candidate status. As always, you have it backwards. The democratically elected president refused to sign an agreement with the EU. That democratic refusal set off the Azov Nazis and their oligarch paymasters to instigate a protest movement that, backed by the West, convinced the corrupt Rada members to vote against Yanukovich who, after threats, was ousted and fled the country. Nice democracy you are backing there! Go read the truth about the Maidan coup. It is one of the most shameful chapters of the West's anti-democratic abuses you will come across.
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  9296.  @derekd1510  "false propaganda"? please define what is "true propaganda"! Conspicuous by its absence is ANY proof you have to counter my claims! A lie is something that a person KNOWS to be untrue the moment they say it, Please, do tell, what have I said that I KNOW to be untrue? Your refusal to answer my very simple questions speaks volumes! Which approach, dear Derek, is more inclusive and harmonious, the Kazak approach of allowing education to Russian speakers to be in Russian, or the Ukrainian approach of compelling Russian speakers to go through their whole education with Ukrainian only? answers, please:) you hypocrite.
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  9297.  @derekd1510  French speakers are a minority in Belgium. Presumably, as you one hundred per cent support the Ukrainian government's decision to compel Russian speakers to be educated in Ukrainian, you would want all the French speakers in Belgium to be compelled to be taught in Dutch, right? You would support that, right? Or are you just a Russophobe that wants discrimination against Russian speakers only?
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  9298.  @derekd1510  Which other countries would you love to see admit Nazis into the ranks of its national defense force? Germany, again?
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  9299.  @derekd1510  why do you think the US Senate insisted that any military aid to Ukraine NEVER end up in the hands of the Azov Battalion? Oh yes, they repealed that doctrine this year....what changed do you think? The Azov Nazis had counselling and have seen the light?:) you hypocrites and russophobes make me smile. You probably think sanctions work too.
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  9300. Biden said the ruble would become the rubble. Today, the ruble is THE major currency that has gained value against the dollar! The euro, the pound, the yen, have all fallen horribly in value. Why? Russia is so isolated, yet is raking in more money by selling less energy! oh boy, you guys got all this so horribly wrong, didn't you?
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  9301.  @derekd1510  you are someone completely deluded by the biased media you follow and by erroneous preconceptions you have about what is happening in Ukraine. You are Russophobic and irrational, the kind of person who sees a missile land in Poland, and if it is fired by Russia you shout "genocide, indiscriminate, terrorism" yet if the missile is fired by Ukrainians you shout "accident, still Russia's fault". You are the very epitome of Orwell's "four legs good, two legs bad". You are blind to the hypocrisy and deceit pf the West and when challenged on simple issues and on simple questions, like language rights in Ukraine, you refuse to answer, because you have no answer. you are, in short, pathetic.
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  9302.  @derekd1510  Kazak approach to education in Russian, or Ukrainian approach?
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  9303.  @derekd1510  from the Russian perspective, the war is indeed being fought because of rampant Nazi influence in Ukraine and because of Russophobic legislation that prohibits Russian speakers from being educated in Russian. Ethnic Russians ARE being prohibited from speaking Russian in many situations and are compelled to use Ukrainian in many situations. You are ignorant of the reality and need to google "language policy in Ukraine".
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  9304.  @derekd1510  Ethnic Russians are not being put in concentration camps (which is some kind of proof that the Zelensky government is democratic and fair?) but they have been shelled by their fellow citizens for the last 8 years. Learn some basics
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  9305.  @derekd1510  Learning Russian in school is a lot easier in America where a tiny percent of the population is Russian speaking, compared to Ukraine, where 40% of the whole country is Russian speaking! Let that sink in! You refuse to answer the question about how the Kazaks treat their ethnic Russians, you refuse to answer what would happen if the French speakers of Canada were prohibited from use of French in schools, you refuse to consider why EU has language laws in place to protect minorities, you ONLY target Russian speakers in Ukraine for discrimination, and it reveals your NAZI sympathies with the Azovs. it is disgusting. Zelensky lovers like you who have proven you fully endorse the Nazi agenda are the scum of the earth. Slava Rossiyi.
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  9306.  @derekd1510  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Ec7LHp5Zg learn about Donetsk
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  9307.  @darrellcrook6334  the very same evidence that clearly shows something to you may well be evidence that is unconvincing and inconclusive to me. it's all down to interpretation. to me, there can't possibly be any genocide in Gaza, because the evidence shows the population is not decreasing.
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  9308.  @darrellcrook6334  1. Israelis are Palestinians too. Have they been displaced? Have the 20% of Israel that are Arabs, have they been displaced? 2. When you mention the "ancestral homeland of the Palestinian people", please define where that homeland is, its borders, where does it extend to? Is your definition of Palestine the borders of the Palestinian Mandate? 3. Yes, many Palestinians need to be "cleansed" because thy are filthy, stinking and need a good wash. they also need to be cleansed of the horrific beliefs of radical Islam. If only such cleansing were easily done.
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  9309.  @Zockopa  and now, the truth. World Population Review lists the population of Gaza in 2014 as 600,000. In 2024 it is listed as 800,000. so, your definition of Israeli genocide over decades is when the population INCREASES by 33% over the last decade? Are you 5 years old?
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  9310.  @Zockopa  I have quoted my source (World Population Review). Now, you announce to the world your source as evidence that Israel has been committing a decades long genocide against Gaza. cue crickets.
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  9311.  @ccahill2322  looks like you have no idea what genocide is. genocide is quite different from mass murder. genocide includes the aim, the objective, of wiping out a whole ethnic/cultural/social group of people, i.e, as Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews. If the aim of a local, serial murderer is to wipe out, remove from the planet, all children, then we can certainly say the murderer failed if substantial numbers of children remain after his attempts. by the way, claiming there was "no crime" is obviously completely different from claiming "there was no genocide". you need to get educated. let's turn it around. If Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, did USA commit genocide when bombing Japan to end WW2?
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  9312.  @Vile_Entity_3545  well said. the Jew haters have to keep throwing the word "genocide" at Israel because they love to ignore what the West has done, and they love to think evil emanates from Jerusalem and no where else.
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  9313.  @AmranSidek  "genocide" has nothing to do with family members losing their lives. Genocide is the elimination of an entire ethnic group. I may lose my entire family to a terrorist attack, but that doesn't mean my family was the victim of genocide. you cannot have an ethnic group whose population is increasing, as is the the case with Gaza, and a genocide being committed against them. you have no idea what a genocide is. go back to the dictionary.
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  9314.  @stivsterzigler2677  that's right, because the sanctions on Russia really destroyed Russia and boosted the West's economies, right? Let's just sanction China and watch the same thing happen again! Oh boy, the West is going to get so rich from all these sanctions we impose!
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  9315.  @Intervent89  honoring Bandera is just the tip of the iceberg. embracing Nazis and arming them to invade Russia, as in the Denis Nikitin group, deserves all out war, sure. just a shame the West has decided to back the Nazis in this conflict. the war started in 2014. the Azov Nazi battalion was the first to launch rockets, into the newly declared independent DPR. Russia started nothing.
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  9316.  @GeoffDay-t4g  reading comments doesn't put anyone in touch. understanding the issues does. duh!
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  9317. given the offensive is an abject failure, obviously the answer is "not at all"
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  9318. "for whatever reason, it's deadlocked" no, it's deadlocked because the Republicans have asked Biden to explain his plan for victory in Ukraine, and to establish accounting procedures to track every penny spent on Ukraine. Biden has refused to comply with these 2 simple requests. So, it's Biden who is to blame.
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  9319. For 3 months the Ukrainians have been attempting, and failing. to lead a counter offensive in Kherson. Pathetic how Western media keeps pushing this tired narrative. How about telling us about Ghost of Kiev again?
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  9320. "Kiev is the financial capital"....no, Washington DC is now the financial capital. Ukraine is bankrupt. Government and military salaries paid by US taxpayers. Wake up, dude.
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  9321. Russians have a lot more freedom than people in the West. What is pitiful is your ignorance of what is happening in Russia.
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  9322. Ukrainian supported Tadjiks or Kazakhs, judging by their Russian language.
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  9323. remember the days of "send more javelins"? now NATO is down to cluster bombs. Give it 2 more months and the latest panic cry will be "send Kiev some nukes".
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  9324. the only problem is that China's coal fuelled power plants used to make solar panels, windmills and batteries cause more CO2 emissions than if we just stuck with fossil fuels and nuclear.
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  9325. after 6 months, no evidence whatsoever that any dent has been made in Russia's war machine. Russia's revenue from energy sales have increased dramatically as world prices have sky rocketed. Russia is in the driving seat. The West is staring at a winter of horrors.
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  9326. "The Russian army never seems to be running out of ammunition" WRONG! In October last year, Ben Wallace said that Russia was DEFINITELY running out of weapons and ammo, that was LAST YEAR! DW a bit slow to report the truth as told us by venerable experts like Ben Wallace.
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  9327. "respite for a few days" when will the West realize the pattern here is for Russia to wait for the repairs to take place, and then destroy the substations all over again, let the repairs be made, then destroy them all again. meanwhile the 320,000 mobilized reservists are getting trained and prepped to liberate the remainder of Donbass. should have implemented the Minsk agreements.
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  9328. Just as the Nazis liberated the Rhineland in 1938?
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  9329. "brutal dictator in Europe" tell me, David Cameron, how many people voted for you to represent them? like Rishi Sunak, not one single citizen voted for you to be in your position! Talk about dictatorship! Putin, on the other hand, was elected into power, so stands head and shoulders above you as a democratically elected representative.
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  9330.  @mickeyknoxnbk219  fantastic to know that any foul play has been eliminated in this case. phew!
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  9331. Why would Russia be interested in peace talks when it is winning and idiots like this guy prefer a vanquished, destroyed Ukraine as a result rather than a deal with the Russians?
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  9332. just look up the words "full mobilization of forces"..if you educate yourself you don't have to wait for explanations from others
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  9333. I bet Ukraine would love to have the nukes N Korea has!
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  9334. that's just the way the cookie crumbles, for Pig Face Nuland.
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  9335. "in the absence of God, we get to make up any rules we want" yeah, but, in the presence of God, we also get to make up any rules we want and just claim they are God's rules. there is no difference. men make up rules in either scenario.
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  9336.  @maxthea9994  who is "they"? where, in your deluded little mind, do you think I am?
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  9337.  @lepustimidus7016  i was being sarcastic! Russia has elections too, though in the case of Russia there is no need to call them "elections" as they are, in fact, real elections!
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  9338.  @wackadakka3134  why are you so ashamed of your real name "wacka"? some of us use our real name because we have nothing to hide!
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  9339.  @UserUser-ww2nj  at least those wise Hungarians would vote for ending sanctions
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  9340.  @UserUser-ww2nj  do you think views might start to change when granma is found frozen to death in her apartment on Christmas Day? Nah, probably not.
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  9341.  @UserUser-ww2nj  so how do you explain the wave of stabbing victims in London recently? the street battles in Leicester? the shocking crime stats in USA? The election of the Right in Sweden who campaigned against the gang violence transforming Sweden into a ghetto? Take care of each other? yeah, sure, with grenades, guns knives and machetes! You are much safer in Russia than in any Western city.
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  9342.  @Zero-hs5tx  ah, yes, EU "democracy"...you mean having unelected people like Ursula Van der Leyen lecture 5 times elected Victor Orban about "democracy"! EU "democracy" that ignored the Danish referendum and Irish referendum and forced both countries to vote again! EU "democracy" that backs the 2014 coup in Ukraine, but condemns referenda in Ukraine! I think we all get what EU "democracy" is all about, thanks.
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  9343.  @calisto2735  let me know if ever you have something insightful to say
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  9344. so sad to hear that you got married to a church. at least you got out of it relatively early.
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  9345.  @theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796  is the wikipedia article on the centuries of wars between France and England/Gt Britain as insightful on the war.conflict between those two countries?
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  9346.  @theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796  "Russia" didn't put anyone in the USSR. Try the Bolsheviks.
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  9347.  @theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796  So "close" neighbors like France and Italy working under the same Schengen and EU rules is "good" shared history/values, but anything of shared value/history with Russia is just all bad, right? Russophobia in the extreme. Read some history.
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  9348.  @theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796  your point was about the HISTORICAL connections between countries, HENCE your reference to CENTURIES of Russian wars/conflicts. NOW you have been called out on it, you pivot in panic to the PRESENT. What did Napoleon do to Italy? Call THAT genocide would you? Your pathetic attempt to paint Russia as a singularly genocidal rampaging warrior FAILS if you just study a little history of the world. WISE UP and be honest! Russia is the rule in its relations with neighboring peoples, NOT the exception you so want it to be.
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  9349. intercepted missile lands on a Ukrainian supermarket, the deluded West shrieks "terrorism, genocide, indiscriminate" intercepted missile lands on a Polish farm, kills two people, the deluded West immediately shouts "must be an accident, nothing to worry about here". the world sees the West's hypocrisy and bias.
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  9350. Gulliver is such a shill and a liar. Notice how he has to preface "Russian invasion" with "full-scale". Before it was "unprovoked". His handlers will almost certainly prod him to say "illegal, unprovoked and full-scale" soon.
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  9351. it's a war of attrition. nothing that happens in Kursk will change the course of the war. Ukraine will run out of men and weapons first. but then again, maybe EU sanction package number 15 will turn things around?
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  9352. collecting votes to be handed in is called "ballot harvesting". happens in every US presidential election, e.g. old folks homes, open to abuse of course, but Russia, again, is just copying the West's "rules based system".
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  9353. by definition, if a 7th package of sanctions is being prepared, the first 6 didn't work. If whatever appears in the 7th package is going to work, why was it not included in the first package? EU is getting desperate with its lies about the failing Russian economy as a way to deflect from the disasters hitting the European economies. You know when Germany is forced to nationalize its energy companies that it has failed to deal with the crisis
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  9354. MASSIVE MASSIVE WIN FOR PUTIN! All along, Putin has argued for the demining of Ukrainian ports..these agreements are the first steps to that end. Putin has insisted there was never any Russian blockade..he was proven right. All along Putin insisted on clear stipulation that Russian food products and fertilizers and those of Belarus be sanctions exempt, and HE NOW HAS THAT! Putin insisted it was Western sanctions causing the food export problem, the Global South agreed and pressured the West, and again, the West capitulated. On top of all that, the agreements confirm Russian oil can be exported to third countries without limits, so the West can now buy Russian oil from middlemen, like Saudi Arabia or India, no problem, The West can avoid its own sanctions. Beginning of the end, the West in full retreat, Putin on the way to complete victory.
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  9355. Notice how Benjamin focuses solely on deaths from/with covid and ignores deaths linked to consequences of lockdown. Benjamin certainly won't want to see Sweden's low excess deaths totals today compared to its European neighbors. Benjamin, like the NHS, focused on covid and covid only, not the nation's health.
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  9356. What's disgusting and destructive is what the government and authorities have done to Irish life, culture, identity and security. This riot was to send a message to the dopes in charge of Ireland. END IMMIGRATION!
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  9357.  @mariarucci78  Ukraine losers
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  9358. the "criminal" gangs are doing nothing criminal at all. they are just helping asylum claimants get to where they choose to be to make a legal asylum claim. All perfectly legit.
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  9359.  @ram.4658  if Pakistan demanded the whole of Kashmir, would India fight, or hand Kashmir over peacefully?
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  9360. The race war is brewing. Time to leave the UK or decide to stay and be prepared for the most awful dystopia the UK has ever seen.
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  9361.  @viniciovaldez8159  oh yes, when your industry relies almost totally on energy from one country, that place has become an ally (in the sense of working together for a common goal). Now we see the results of Germany switching from ally to enemy of Russia. Ally used mainly in the economic sense of course.
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  9362.  @dirkgonthier101  not true. The West and NATO are so hypocritical and confused, even they don't understand who is their friend and who is their enemy these days! Turkey....happy to trade with Russia, happy to welcome Russian tourists, happy to develop energy deals with Russia...Turkey, friend or enemy of NATO? your answer please.
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  9363.  @viniciovaldez8159  I am actually NOT aware of any specific Russian policy that Germany objected to, pre Maidan. To me, if you agree to invest in a pipeline with a trading partner to the tune of God knows how many billions, namely Nordstream 2, you are pretty much allies.
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  9364.  @dirkgonthier101  your comments prove my point! To you, Turkey "isn't even a functional democracy anymore" and yet the EU welcomes Turkey as a candidate country. The West is confused who its enemy is and who its friend is. Do you think Cyprus views Turkey as an enemy or a friend? Do you think those millions of Germans with Turkish roots view Turkey as an enemy or a friend? The West has lost its way and no longer knows who is a friend and who is an enemy. you are equally confused!
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  9365.  @dirkgonthier101  The West preaches inclusivity and tolerance. Ukraine preaches intolerance and exclusivity, as Russian speakers must be excluded from the education system in Ukraine, unless they get educated in a foreign language (Ukrainian). The West, you would guess, would support the Russian position and back the Russian speaking communities to be allowed education in their native language...as the Catalans are allowed in Spain, but NO! The confused EU sides with Ukraine! Now, that, to me, shows that the EU has muddled up who is the enemy and who is the ally!
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  9366.  @warb635  Lukashenko and the elections have nothing to do with it. the Belarussians by nature feel very close to the Russians and were horrified, as most of the sane world was, at the rabid nationalism and russophobia that gripped Ukraine post Maidan. The vast majority of Belarussians support Russia and Putin, I suspect a small majority of Belarussians would oppose joining in the war. depends on the role Belarus would be expected to play
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  9367. then that means the total destruction of Ukraine and all its soldiers massacred. Enjoy your defeat.
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  9368. because you are both deluded
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  9369.  @misterae6430  just keep your hands off another country's sovereignty. Bush, Obama and USA have done nothing but lying and molesting other countries. Perhaps you forget that Libya, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan have paid that price years ago?? Why trust freaking maniacs like Bush, Obama, Biden?
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  9370.  @mathewreiter8914  What was wrong with Cuba becoming a missile base for Soviet nukes in 1960's? Cuba is an internationally recognized country. Answer that question and you will understand why Russia acted as it did.
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  9371.  @georgeodhiambo598  Ukraine didn't become a NATO member because Russia invaded! Russia achieved its security concerns by force, because the West refused to talk about Russia's red lines. what's your point?
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  9372.  @edwardvalivonis23  since when was shelling the poor people of the DPR and LPR for 8 years "defending itself"? Have an Azov Nazi tattoo across your forehead, do you?
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  9373.  @jry0511  indeed Russia is the one who invaded. 8 years of the Azov Nazi battalion shelling the Donbass made the invasion just and right. Do you consider ALL invasions wrong? or do you cherry pick the ones you like?
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  9374.  @MAXlMUS  as always, when incapable of rebutting any valid point, just point to some meaningless detail about the messenger.
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  9375. Nigel, if only you had the b***s and common sense to be hand in glove with Tommy Robinson, you would have a much better understanding of what has gone wrong with this country. you never say what Tommy has said that is wrong, and that speaks volumes for your ignorance.
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  9376.  @Dw91-k8n  nonsense. parliamentary privilege. Farage doesn't support Tommy because Farage still doesn't grasp the Islamic threat at hand.
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  9377.  @Dw91-k8n  All Farage needs to do is come out and challenge anyone to point out anything Tommy said that is untrue. Farage has been so weak on this issue.
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  9378.  @thegreatdane3627  of course. when war is not declared and no war mobilization has taken place, it's not a war. not the brightest at learning definitions, are you?
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  9379.  @whitelutik  have done that several times, and nothing happened. on the other hand, try saying "white lives matter" in the UK and see what happens to you.
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  9380.  @arthurvyater656  it's called a probationary jail sentence. in a free country the court would say "you are welcome to trample on any flag you choose at any time". bye bye freedom of expression in Latvia.
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  9381.  @whitelutik  so your defence of Latvia as a free country is to point to Russia and say "look, Russia is not free"! speaks volumes.
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  9382.  @arthurvyater656  so what happens if he tramples on the Ukrainian flag again?
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  9383.  @janisduncitis8533  exactly so. in police states like Latvia, expressing such opinions gets you arrested.
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  9384.  @anthonyhulse1248  yeah? you were right there on the spot when such people were arrested? or you saw Western media reports of this? which one?
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  9385. yeah, Patrick, how would you feel if you went to a country where churches were banned? like Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia? you would get out of there quickly, right? maybe banning mosques would relieve us of our mass immigration and terrorism problems?
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  9386.  @semausmack7482  kindness? what kindness is Germany showing the world right now? no need to worry about Germany. it has been captured by the Greta Thunbergs of this world who see the biggest sin in the world as being someone who drives a car. How are NATO's electric tanks coming along? Do German soldiers still parade with brooms, as Van der Leyen proposed when she was German defence minister? Germany is a joke. happily handing over the electric car market to China while Germany sinks into recession.
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  9387.  @semausmack7482  you can judge Germany's weakness by Scholz's reaction when Biden announced in 2022 that USA would find a way to destroy the Nordstream pipelines if Russia invaded Ukraine. There was no reaction. Germany is USA's poodle.
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  9388.  @TheNoobPube  is that supposed to be a question?
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  9389. the absurd assumption you make is that Russian losses are higher than Ukrainian losses. if reports of a kill rate of 8:1 in Russia's favor are true, demilitarization of Ukraine is happening as long as Zelensky keeps throwing cannon fodder at the Wagner meatgrinder. Taking Bakhmut might be an added bonus, but a kill rate of 8:1 month after month would be a great result for Putin in itself. Milley said Ukraine has lost 100,000 men. Van der Layen the same thing. how many of that 100,000 were wiped out in the futile defense of Bakhmut?
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  9390. Into the THIRD week of Ukraine's 3 day sprint to the Sea of Azov, thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder massacred, a veritable graveyard of destroyed Western weapons piling up, yet NATO is celebrating the capture of Pyatikhayka (Five Houses) in what was a brilliantly executed Russian trap. This is a catastrophic suicide mission for Ukraine, deep shame that NATO is cheering it on.
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  9391.  @Joaquin546  Russia feels absolutely fine with it, for the simple reason that Russia is out-producing NATO in tanks, shells, missiles and all weaponry. That's why Russia is winning. Russia kills more Ukrainians than Ukrainians kill Russians. Russia destroys more Ukrainian weaponry than Ukraine destroys Russian weaponry. Russia out-produces NATO. Russia is winning and is demilitarizing both Ukraine and NATO. Still, got any more cluster bombs to send over?
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  9392.  @CandleWisp  to finally put an end to the horrendous injustices that have happened in Ukraine since 2014. Whether it be Transnistria, Abkazia, South Ossetia or Ukraine, Putin will not tolerate extreme nationalism against ethnic Russians, and he is right to take a stand. Why do you want the Banderites to win?
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  9393. there's only one problem with the fact that 95% of climate scientists agree with the climate activist. it's that the 5% who disagree with him that are right.
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  9394. oh come on, it's ALL about race! As Thomas Sowell said, the one thing the Asians can do to stop being despised by the black community is to stop being successful. Looting is a black thing. Get real.
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  9395. It's Biden who is refusing to budge, not the Republicans
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  9396. Given that Disinformation + 6 months = the surprising truth, Moldova needs to start listening to the realities as expressed by the pro Russia faction, not the lies of the EU.
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  9397.  @bluecardholder  they don't need to...the police come knocking on your door when you don't vote in Oz. In Russia, you are free to choose to vote, or not. Russia has real electoral freedom. Oz doesn't.
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  9398.  @viperabyss  compulsory voting means you have no freedom to refuse to vote. That in itself is undemocratic, and the Western world should condemn such autocracy. Australia should be ashamed of such nonsense. In Russia one can refuse to vote and there are no consequences. That is called freedom, and it would give you a clue as to why so many want to be liberated from Ukrainian despotism. Learn some facts
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  9399.  @viperabyss  so as long as your life is spared, compulsory voting is an absolutely wonderful idea, right?
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  9400.  @dannyarcher6370  either way it is the ethnic Russians declaring, AGAIN, they want to be part of Russia, a point the West just refuses to accept.
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  9401.  @viperabyss  what happens in Australia if you cannot or will not pay the fine? imprisonment?
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  9402.  @viperabyss  in that both are a denial of a basic democratic right, YES! The difference is that no one is forced to vote at gunpoint in Russia, but people ARE punished for refusing to vote in Australia. I know which one is MUCH more democratic when it comes to voting rights, and so do you...you are just too embarrassed to accept it! Western hypocrisy!
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  9403. it's too late. March was when negotiations should have happened, but Ukraine pulled out. Now it is up to Russia when it declares victory and dictates terms.
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  9404. "There is a global change element" yeah, it accounts for 1% of any change. so, what's your point, Jim?
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  9405. Russia was provoked beyond belief, and it is just a reminder that every wonder weapon that the West supplies to Ukraine just ends up destroyed. The deep thought is that Western taxpayers are throwing their hard-earned money out the window. A thought that our own leaders in the West shy away from.
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  9406.  @kagefisk  Russia has EVERY right to invade ANY country that treats ethnic Russians unjustly. Russia was right to wage war against Chechnya, in Georgia over the Ossetians and Abkhazians, in Transnistra and now in Ukraine. This is why Putin is such a hero. He actually stands up for ethnic Russians that are discriminated against. Such a shame Western leaders don't have a backbone like Putin.
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  9407. Don't worry, their voices will prevail until the last Ukrainian man is a bullet riddled corpse and the last Ukrainian woman is yet another refugee dragging the kids somewhere through Europe.
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  9408. "building momentum to a more effective offensive in that area"....Lies, lies lies. It's all talk. No offensive. Hey, Justin, read out that long list of villages, settlements and towns captured so far by this offensive! oh, what? there IS no list? hmmm
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  9409. As Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out, the US no longer has anyone who knows how to negotiate. The very notion of diplomacy has been abandoned and there is no one capable of listening to Russia, as opposed to lecturing Russia.
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  9410.  @DSan-kl2yc  not true. just google "language policy in Ukraine". in high schools, in communities such as Donbass, where up to 90% of the people speak Russian as their first language, where Russian is the language of the teachers, are COMPELLED to give all education in Ukrainian. COMPELLED. you are ignorant and need to do more research. or talk to someone like me who actually experienced this ban on use of Russian in the classroom in Ukraine.
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  9411.  @DSan-kl2yc  talking of being "better off"...do you think a young girl is more likely to be attacked and raped in Malmo, Sweden, or in a city of comparable size in Russia? Do you think you are more likely to be stabbed on the street or in a school in London, or on the street or in a school in Moscow? curious to know how you define "better off"
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  9412.  @DSan-kl2yc  oh, economically, money money money, just look at GDP per capita and THAT tells you how well off people are, right? Finland, so wealthy, but with the highest suicide rate. oh boy, you really are superficial! More protected freedoms in the EU compared to Russia? really? name me one. Very few people from Russia want to move to the EU? Have you ever lived through a typical Russian winter? why do you think Edward Snowden and Tara Reade moved to Russia?
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  9413.  @DSan-kl2yc  so your point is that when you look at GDP per capita, most EU residents are richer than most Russians, right? so what? my neighbor is much richer than I am. So what?
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  9414.  @oleksii000  looks like you are ignorant of the feelings of Russian speakers in Transnistria, right?
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  9415.  @gregmchale5011  how many millions of Ukrainians live in Russia, and how many of them are Ukrainian first language speakers? Give us the stats. also, just one name of a Ukrainian book store in Russia that was compelled to close by law. do you know the name of the law or when it was introduced, this law that closed book stores and churches?
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  9416.  @gregmchale5011  I would imagine, due to the war, that no one speaking Ukrainian in Russia would be very welcome, given that Ukrainian speakers can and do speak Russian too (unlike the other way around).
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  9417.  @gregmchale5011  A good 30% of the Ukrainian population speak Russian as a first language. What percentage of the Russian population speak Ukrainian as a first language, would you guess?
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  9418.  @natopor  clearly you live in the world of ancient stereotypes and media manipulation when it comes to your image of Russia. Before I give you my list, tell me, when was the last time you were in Russia?
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  9419.  @Moody-Case  will be a pleasure to wait
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  9420. As far as I can see, what he said is true. Islam will take over. Maybe he is a bit off there, because there is plenty of evidence that Islam has already taken over. And many Western girls are lunatics, though not all. Looks like he didn't say "all". Yep, I agree mate, you spoke truthfully from what I see.
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  9421. so exports of goods used by the Russian military have NOT been sanctioned for these last 7 months? Remind me again, is the aim of the West to help or hinder the Russian military?
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  9422. because the work Jordan does shining a light on the lies and hypocrisy of the Democrats is worth WAY more than any passing of yet another useless bill into the mountain of pointless laws the nation already has
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  9423. hilarious to see people shocked a ceasefire was not respected when Ukraine rejected the ceasefire!
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  9424. the face of America is a bumbling buffoon. no one takes America seriously, and no one has any reason to take America seriously.
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  9425. just hilarious that reporters like this dope take Ukrainian claims at face value and ignore the evidence. yeah, right, 6 out of 6, perfect interceptions of kinzhals, yet we have the video evidence of one slamming into one patriot system and destroying it. if BBC are going to report based on Ukrainian claims, why are we not hearing about Ghost of Kiev and the great significance of Snake Island still?
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  9426. Good move by Putin. Will galvanise even more support back home.
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  9427. when the ammo runs out for Ukraine (maybe May, June) Russia takes what it wants and does what it wants. Should have implemented the Minsk Agreements.
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  9428. Signs of desperation......now that it is clear Russia will not be defeated on the battle field, and that the sanctions have failed, time to clutch at straws and speculate about an overthrow of Putin. Even Times Radio, at some point, will grasp that the game is up. Putin has won.
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  9429.  @andysk5438  Vot? Iz Banderitski yabloko vanture indemsky?
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  9430.  @andysk5438  Lol Translate into Italian! "Ahem", Stefan Bandera iz ze rotundo rotunda buttholski of ze East
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  9431.  @Faby-tp7hz  exactly so. i wonder how many Ukrainians would agree now to a deal that hands everywhere east of the Dnipr to Russia and rump Ukraine being a neutral state forever outside the EU and NATO? Might be a close referendum that one.
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  9432.  @andysk5438  da da, konyeshno, nu, vot problema kogda ochen trydno razgovarivat svobodna, ponimayesh?
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  9433.  @madigorfkgoogle9349  not true. Fico is advocating peace talks, negotiations, period. grasp reality.
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  9434.  @anthonymullen6300  peace with all 15 ex Soviet states, correct.
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  9435.  @madigorfkgoogle9349  1. you don't need to talk to any of the fighting sides to be anti war. I have not talked to either of the fighting sides, but I am anti war. 2. yes, Fico is against prolonging the war by continuing to arm Ukraine. He is sensible. 3. Fico does not support the war effort against Ukraine. He supports ending the war. 4. Fico doesn't control everything his friends do. 5. Fico may well be a Populist liar and may well have signed something that contradicts what he said. Every politician has done the same. so, what's your point?
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  9436. strange that "has not been verified by the BBC" NEVER applies to Ukrainian claims about locations Russia targets with its missiles.
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  9437. you got to love the naive assumption that even if the West supplies Ukraine with all it wants, Russia won't destroy it all, as has happened so far.
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  9438.  @mustykingvids  yeah, because no white migrants ever come to UK from places like Poland or Lithuania, ever!
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  9439. there's nothing silly in showing your disgust at a book by burning it! it's called freedom of expression! everyone should do it to let the Islamic world know there is no way to silence our disgust with Islam!
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  9440.  @basiltozer9078  demilitarization (complete destruction of Ukraine's army) is one of Putin's 5 aims, so, yeah, no reason for Putin to negotiate until Ukraine is completely obliterated.
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  9441.  @aluimmumitat  safe storage. distance Kherson to Odessa beyond range of himars?
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  9442. really bizarre that only Russian soldiers are pleading like this, no Ukrainians doing this kind of thing at all!
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  9443. This fool clearly knows very little about feelings in Russia. Putin has overwhelming support, simply because he has stood up for ethnic Russians in Donbass. For EIGHT years Russia has welcomed refugees from Donbass, and unlike the West, Russians are well aware of the horror stories recounted by these butchered ethnic Russians of the Donbass. This is revenge, and it is justified. Just a shame the West has chosen to remain ignorant of the truth.
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  9444. Sergei has seen enough of how the West defines and interprets "international law" after viewing the horror created by NATO attacks in Libya, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan. It's now a multi polar world........"international law" is no longer defined and interpreted by the West. Get used to it.
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  9445. it is totally misogynist to refer to a rapist as a "person" and refuse to refer to a rapist as a man. i will file my online hate speech accusation to Edinburgh Police Station on the day the Anti Misogyny Bill becomes law to see if we can get this guy behind bars.
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  9446.  @DaTrueSavage951  Learn the basics, Ukrainian grain exports are a small fraction of Russian grain exports. Africa is much more dependent on Russia than it is Ukraine. Russia controls the Black Sea, so it is up to Ukraine to plead its case to Russia and Turkey. The world needs Russian grain and Russian fertilizers, this is why the West exempted grain and fertilizer exports from the sanctions list, eventually. Nothing to do with the battlefield.
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  9447.  @kristofferlaw6991  that's right. and your point is...?
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  9448.  @ebhole  Yes, Africa depends more on China, but of the two, Russia and Ukraine, Africa depends more on Russia.
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  9449.  @kristofferlaw6991  yeah? what makes it fake? something tells me you are no expert on distinguishing the real deal from a fake!
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  9450.  @nationp7137  you are now the spokesman for all of Africa? How very modest and unassuming of you!
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  9451.  @ebiekem  exactly so! The African Union was NOT impressed that Europe accounted for most of the grain shipments allowed out of the Black Sea. Once again, Europe using Africa for its own needs as much as possible.
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  9452.  @kristofferlaw6991  why is a pre 2022 account of special status? who exactly is "you guys"? looks like you are lost in a world of conspiracy and nonsense. but then again, it is a way to avoid answering the opposition, censorship and account dates rather than confronting the debate. What says a lot about how the war is going is the dictator Zelensky's decree that no Ukrainian man of fighting age, and now women of fighting age, is allowed to leave Ukraine. oh so democratic! at least for now Russian men have the freedom to leave their homeland. Ukrainian men can only look on in envy.
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  9453. plus the railroad that goes all the way to Moscow, via Krasny Lyman, once that town is recaptured.
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  9454.  @Omega0850  you tell me how the Kiev to Przemsyl train I caught in 2018 goes to Moscow.
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  9455.  @donemigholzjr.7344  yes, all those concentration camps in Nazi Germany were created so that Germany could get more oil.
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  9456.  @donemigholzjr.7344  when was the oil discovered off Vietnam?
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  9457.  @donemigholzjr.7344  Vietnam is the third biggest oil producer on the planet. educate me. which countries are 1, 2, and 4?
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  9458. Explain again, the 7 (SEVEN!) packages of sanctions were meant to change Russian policies and attitudes, or ruin the EU economy and livelihoods? I'm confused.
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  9459. Biden will soon be happy to throw Zelensky under the bus, now that it is clear massive arms shipments to Ukraine do not mean a successful Ukrainian counter-attack. Biden, Macron and Scholz, once Ukraine is pushed out of the DPR, will inform Zelensky that he either negotiates a surrender with Russia, or he loses their support. The usual cut and run approach of USA/Nato that we have seen in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan etc.
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  9460.  @riwen0851  mais non, je t'ai posé une question, mon cher idiot. j'attends ta réponse. why do you assume France is not my country?
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  9461.  @riwen0851  alors, en France un "raciste" est quelq'un qui parle d'un certain breed of dog or cat.
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  9462.  @blablablabla1111111  strange kind of racism! Chinese are not treated badly and they do very well! Hindus are not treated badly, and they do very well! So strange that the only ones not treated very well are the ones who love to be aggressive, break the law, drive off when the Police have stopped them. strange that. when was the last time you heard of a Chinese or Vietnamese person shouting "Allahu Akbar" and cutting someone's head off? Doesn't happen often, does it? yes, i wonder why so many Europeans are not big fans of the Arab migrants. Maybe Nahel could tell us? oh, maybe not, he's dead.
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  9463.  @ABO-Destiny  East Asian and South Asian people do much better than white Europeans and white Americans these days. Asians have the best exam results, the most stable families, the least number of people in prison, the highest incomes, the best productivity at work, the best work ethic. strange how all those factors don't seem so important to so many of the Muslim, Arab and North African immigrants. obeying the call to prayer and copying Mohammed's jihad seem to be more important, to many of them. living a life of crime is also important to many of them, a lot more than in the Asian community.
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  9464.  @blablablabla1111111  funny thing is, I have had my way of thinking all my life, and there were hardly any riots like this 40 years ago. Maybe it's not my thinking that affects the mayhem and rioting. maybe its the rapid increase in degenerate and criminal immigrants?
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  9465.  @arkrules8557  bla bla bla, whether you choose the word "race" or "ethnicity", it's the same thing, Europeans fed up and sick to death of waves of 3rd world immigrants bringing violence, disorder and mayhem to our streets. mass immigration is destroying the continent, apart from Poland, Hungary and a few other eastern European hold-outs.
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  9466.  @launcherx2044  why would you assume I'm French? such a wild supposition shows you have zero logic and are totally unqualified to comment on "false equivalence". the fact remains, the majority of Europeans are sick to death of waves of 3rd world immigrants causing mayhem, disorder and crime across the continent. it's not Ukrainian refugees taking a knife, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and beheading an innocent passer-by, is it?
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  9467. Russia's Wagner mercenaries and its Chechen street fighters would absolutely crush NATO troops. NATO has done a great job of designing rainbow motifs, focusing on diversity and equity, offering sensitivity training. Meanwhile, Russia has built up weapons and ammo stocks to win any war. Only 15% of its troops are in Ukraine right now. Imagine if Russia declared war on Ukraine!
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  9468. hilarious that the focus is on "marginal Tory seats". memo to Sunak...your marginal seats are already sunk without trace! start moving the migrants out of constituencies with a 20,000 Tory majority or higher, to have some chance of being the second largest party in the next Parliament.
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  9469. Help me out here. It is perfectly legal to arrive in the UK by any means and thence claim asylum. That's why none of the migrant arrivals in Dover are ever arrested. They haven't broken the law. So how is it illegal for anyone to assist migrants do something that is perfectly legal?
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  9470.  @sammiller6631  Russia's might
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  9471.  @YuliyaLify  a lot more than those who never lived and worked in Ukraine during the Poroshenko years. what's your experience of living and working in Ukraine?
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  9472. looks a lot more like an election than the one not happening in Ukraine.
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  9473. Taiwan scenario most likely. A sliver of Ukraine will be allowed to be separate from New Rossiya Ukraine, Russia will control the rest, and no agreements will be signed by either side.
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  9474. the rioters are well aware of the scorecard. Let's check the scorecard. Over the last 20 years.... Muslims and immigrants killed by the Far Right = 0 white British killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+ white British injured/escaped death from Muslims and immigrants = thousands.
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  9475. yet more evidence that the UK is no longer a real country, but a woke talking shop for income redistribution to politically correct groups
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  9476.  @hape3862  Regarding Putin's "already lost" claim you made, which of his 5 objectives aren't going to happen do you think?
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  9477. Putin aim 2 ....demilitarize Ukraine. yes, a few more thousand Ukrainian troops have still to be killed, but thanks to Zelensky ordering his cannon fodder to fight for every inch, and an estimated kill ratio of 5:1 in favor of Russia, demilitarization is on track. Nearly everything Ukraine started the war with, weapon wise, has been destroyed, and as a bonus, most of what NATO has sent has been destroyed, hence the permanent begging for "more weapons" from Ukraine every day. Demilitarization of Ukraine AND NATO close at hand. Biden is now down to ORDERING manufacture of weapons, existing stocks close to zero.
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  9478.  @hape3862  i can understand your shock at reading the truth. for someone who had no idea what Putin's aims are, I recommend you do some learning before you worry about my mental health. you are clearly ignorant, so get learning asap.
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  9479.  @hape3862  keep in mind that most of the world is either on Russia's side, or tacitly supports Russia. Mexico, Central America, all of South America. all of Africa, Middle East, most of Asia including the giants, India, China, Pakistan, Turkey. all happy and willing to trade and work with Russia. Even in Europe, Hungary and Serbia are fine with Russia's stance. The deluded West has managed to turn the rest of the world against it. The Global South is racing ahead with dedolarization, ignoring G7 pressure to isolate Russia, ready and willing to buy Russian energy aplenty, even Saudi Arabia and OPEC happy to assist Russia by reducing production. Only the deluded, like yourself, see Russia as isolated. the opposite has happened. it will just take the slow learners, like you, a while to see it.
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  9480. "it would be the end of international law as we know it" well, if that international law is one that allows unprovoked NATO bombing of Libya and Serbia, that would be a good thing. time to support Putin's efforts to demilitarize the NATO puppet state of Ukronazia
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  9481. This fool knows nothing about Russia, clearly. Once Donbass is captured, Russia will dictate surrender terms, or keep pressing on until it chooses to halt and declare its objectives attained.
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  9482.  @davewhite3629  there are 3 people that can explain all this, but we have heard from only one of them. 1. Ayub Abdul, one of the airbnb occupants. 2. Ayub Abdul's friend, the other occupant, whose name is STILL unrevealed. 3. Roman Antonio Martin Canaves, the airbnb owner and brother of Ofelia, who runs it. Roman knows everything but won't answer his phone or return messages. He was mayor of El Tanque but banned from public office for 12 years due to corruption. he's in this up to his neck, and yes, his sister's testimony is unreliable.
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  9483.  @Raihaan-xm5gn  I never mentioned any rules, only that if you want your house purchase to be a PRIVATE transaction, cash or barter is the only way. Reading comprehension not your forte, it would seem.
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  9484.  @Raihaan-xm5gn  no, if I had meant in the private sector, I would have said in the private sector. please, live happily indoors, but just be aware if you are not using cash, there is a record of where, when, how much and what you purchased that, at some point, you may not want Big Brother to use.
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  9485. It's NATO that has had its guts ripped out! All NATO members are looking at their dwindling weapons stocks and have come to the gut-ripping realization that.......they can't produce the weapons and ammo needed to turn this conflict around! Gut ripping results of decades of underspending on the military and focusing on electric tanks, diversity and inclusion and sensitivity training.
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  9486.  @williamwalker3837  It took USA a month and a half to take Fallujah. If Russia is fighting incompetently to take urban environments, then so did USA and every other power that has faced this problem. NATO revealed its total incompetence in Afghanistan last year, It is doing exactly the same now in Ukraine. Too much sensitivity training and recruitment focused on diversity and equity, while Russia trains to win wars.
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  9487.  @shadowbanned636  yet Russia is massacring NATO trained Ukrainians by the hundreds every single day, and advancing. For all your claims of Russian ineptitude, the sane of this world see that Russia is winning and will win.
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  9488. too true. Putin stands up for ethnic Russians EVERY time, in Transnistria, in Georgia, now in Ukraine. the West despises Putin because he has a backbone and fights for his people. Best leader in the world.
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  9489.  @hugomiller1025  as Orwell said, "if freedom means anything, it means saying things others don't want to hear", hence we are no longer free as the "Offence Police" now regulate speech. Revolution is on the horizon.
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  9490.  @zaidal-hindawi1784  and you think there's a difference in philosophy and policy between the BBC and C4? Oh boy, time to wise up and understand it's just 2 branches of the same religion and same God!
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  9491.  @zaidal-hindawi1784  sure, it was C4, true, whatever. C4, ITV, BBC, all the same thing, only GBNews has a slightly different angle, but where you see the impartiality of C4, I don't know. Remember John Snow's "I have never seen so many white people"?
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  9492. because its very high value was making Russian exports too expensive. The ruble is in good shape and exactly where Putin wants it. not the "rubble" that dimwit Biden boasted about
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  9493. curious that Lindsey Gayham has covered all of Russia with his clipboard adding up the percentage of Putin's army that has been destroyed. Meanwhile, in the real world, there is zero evidence that Putin has any design on any NATO country, or ever has had. Scaremongering is not going to work, Lindsey baby.
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  9494. hilarious to see the Green party government ministers absent from the scene. not really Green, are they?
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  9495.  @leighallen8319  why start in the middle of the story/analogy instead of the beginning? If a breakaway group of ethnic Latinos had been shelled mercilessly by US forces for EIGHT years simply because said ethnic Latinos had demanded equal rights to use their native language in public, I would expect Americans to START fighting ON THEIR BEHALF AND AGAINST THE MILITARY SHELLING THE LATINOS! I know I would, and hope you would too. Or maybe, just like the Azov Nazis, you would relish the total eradication of Spanish speaking Latinos and their foreign ways? Yep, probably.
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  9496.  @jetv1471  I am absolutely right, every single time:).....and having lived and worked in Ukraine I know why I'm right! Ever been to Russian speaking parts of Ukraine have you?
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  9497.  @whitelutik  possibly, no idea what a squartol is. if it means "peace", I guess so
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  9498.  @ZootyZoFo  Oh boy! Which lying media do you rely on for such nonsense!? But for the sake of argument, let's say you are right. Just how pathetic is the NATO/Ukraine alliance that, against old Russian men and cannon fodder, with mothballed tanks, NATO/Ukraine can only retreat in Donbass and suffer massive losses daily and can't even gain one inch of territory in Kherson? Says a lot about the weakness of Ukraine/NATO, right?
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  9499.  @whitelutik  Oh, squalor! got it. The last time I traveled through Grozny, Tiraspol, Abkhazia, Crimea and Vinnitsa, Ukraine, I wasn't really able to activate my "squalorometer" and measure the respective levels. What numbers do you have? I mean on the "peaceometer" Ukraine is registering VERY VERY LOW on the peaceometer.. On the corruptometer Ukraine is sky high, but the Russian speaking liberated territories are also fairly high. Give me your squalorometer readings. When I was last at Vinnitsa train station looking for a clean and functioning toilet my squalorometer was rock bottom, but I'll take a look et your numbers with interest.
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  9500.  @upnorth2421  You have no idea. Azov Nazis in league with the oligarchs overthrew the democratically elected government in Kiev 2014. When did the Wagner group overthrow a government in Moscow? Azov Nazis spent 8 years shelling fellow Ukrainian citizens. When did Wagner group spend 8 years shelling Russian citizens? Putin has decades of experience defending the rights of Russian speakers against the radical forces of nationalism, in Chechnya, in Georgia, in Moldova, now in Ukraine. If you could think independently and get your head out of Western propaganda you would support Putin..but you just can't think independently. I regularly watch BBC and RT to compare and contrast. when was the last time you did that?
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  9501.  @eckhardt76  1) is no more militant a nation than USA or China or NATO. Let's see how high USA measures on your magic militantometer after 20 years in Afghanistan! 2) You have NO idea what Putin wants. no more than Putin knows what you want, so quit the infantile mind-reading nonsense. 3) IF Ukraine WERE like Transnistra or Chechnya or Georgia it would be a LOT better off than it is now! Better to be under the will of Putin than the AzovNazi dictatorship of Zelensky. MUCH!
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  9502. "the Police will look at every single lead" no, not in Tenerife. get real.
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  9503. ooooh, so now the West has abandoned outright victory for Ukraine and will settle for "pushing the Russians back" before any peace talks. The cracks are appearing in the West. Bit strange, as we have heard nothing but "as long as it takes" and "Russia is on the back foot".
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  9504. Clarke is wrong again. The Africans are FULLY aware that the problem with the grain exports lies with the West, in that the West is not holding up its end of the bargain (allowing free flow of Russian and Belarussian grain and fertilizers). The Africans know that a peace deal would solve the problem of the West's intransigence on the grain issue, so the Africans are indeed pushing for a peace plan.
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  9505. those parents of massacred children in Donbass, victims of Azov Nazi shelling, are shedding no tears.
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  9506.  @Anvilman  then explain to the world what caused the most complex shift from "Russia is running out of ammo" to "Ukraine is out of ammo".
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  9507.  @Anvilman  and now the truth.......the West had no idea and still has no idea what Russian stocks were or are. Western media, month after month, gave us nonstop propaganda of how Russia was running out of ammo. Ben Wallace even said Russia would only be able to manage 3 or 4 massive missile assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure. Turns out Russia can launch such assaults whenever needed. BBC even made that infamously stupid comment about Wagners being so poorly armed they had to use shovels in face to face combat. NEVER did the media tell us that NATO was running out of anything! NEVER! ONLY a few weeks ago did Stoltenberg mention NATO stocks were critically low and then Biden confess that due to low stocks of 155mm shells, cluster munitions will have to be sent instead. The Western media are an absolute disgrace in their coverage of this war.
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  9508.  @Anvilman  Now then, you tell me, oh expert on Russian weaponry, which aspect of Russian weaponry is particularly lacking when compared with Western counterparts, and how you managed to so thoroughly compare the two. For example, when you compare Russia's air defence systems and NATO's, you explain your system of evaluation. hypersonic weapons....how do you conclude that NATO's hypersonic missiles are superior to Russia's:) go ahead. and to a larger point, how much weaponry, modern or ancient, does NATO have left these days?
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  9509.  @Anvilman  you say Ukraine has been hitting Russian logistics hard. according to whom? Any chance Russia has been hitting Ukrainian logistics even harder? when you criss cross the battlefields with your clipboard totting up the totals, who comes out on top?
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  9510.  @Anvilman  yes, in democracies, officers complaints can be plentiful in times of war. you won't hear the same from Ukrainian officers, because Ukraine ain't a democracy.
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  9511.  @Anvilman  as expected, you have no bloody clue what your talking about and when put on the spot you are incapable of making any valid comparisons between Russian and NATO weapons systems. Like SO many arrogant fools in the West, you assume Russia, for whatever reason, has been incapable of matching or superseding the West in its military production. You got it wrong. Like Biden, Johnson, Sunak, the whole lot of them, you terribly under-estimated Russia, and now that defeat is staring you in the face, you have no idea what to do. Time to throw Zelensky under the bus, right?
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  9512. makes you wonder how the Hungarians, Japanese and Taiwanese survive with little or no immigration. They must all be poverty stricken.
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  9513. which would be the winning playbook
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  9514. it's not Brexit that demands a veterinary certificate for cheese! it's the EU bully boy cartel that demands such red tape! but funny how UK exports to the EU jumped by over 50% this past year compared to the year before.
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  9515. Still waiting for the VP to present her great research project on the root causes of mass immigration into the US
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  9516. Dream on! Ukraine will be turned into a sheet of glass before your thought happens.
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  9517. easiest job in the world. answer nothing and indicate some other person who may or may not answer it.
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  9518.  @pessi6185  so true. no curiosity in the sheeple of the West to even peak at the alternative perspective
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  9519. excellent at pushing her country to total ruin
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  9520. MORE sanctions against the Wagner Group? Why would there still be sanctions yet to be placed on such an enemy?
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  9521. you are talking as if the president of Ukraine isn't a comic actor and puppet of the West, and that he actually cares about human life.
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  9522.  @petriko_  good idea. ukraine can take its azov nazis and be a tiny city state clinging to the Romanian border. sounds good to me.
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  9523. the banks won't change. a whole new bank, say BDB (Brexit Djokovic Bank) will have to be founded and take things from there.
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  9524. oh yeah, perfectly legitimate for parasite illegal immigrants to live off UK taxpayer money smoking and having nights out in the clubs, all fine, perfectly legitimate.
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  9525.  @bennymuller3379  what convinces you the kill rate is not heavily in Russia's favor?
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  9526.  @harmless6813  so when the Ukrainians admit that Russia is firing artillery at a 6:1 rate compared to Ukraine, you assume that does NOT translate into a higher kill rate?
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  9527.  @harmless6813  any Russian telegram channels affirm a high Russian kill rate, or you ignore those?
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  9528.  @harmless6813  Did General Milley get it spot on when he said 100,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers, or was Milley lying?
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  9529.  @harmless6813  same for the Ukrainians? or let me guess, in your fantasy world, the Ukrainians have a total monopoly on telling the truth in war?
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  9530.  @harmless6813  what, now I have to do your homework for you? ok, so if I provide what you would consider a reliable source, regarding General Milley's numbers, would you change your mind?
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  9531. Ursula Van der Leyen said the same thing. google that one too if you are in doubt
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  9532.  @daHumbleOne  and when that hungry person then reproduces and brings in two hungry children into the world, do you salute her for multiplying the problem?
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  9533. so, at Stalingrad, Germans froze to death, but Russians didn't. 2022, Russians freeze to death, but Ukrainians don't. Makes, uh, perfect sense, I guess.
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  9534.  @peterbarton9856  I'm on Russia's side, against the Azov Nazis that you so support and embrace as part of Ukraine's defense force. got a swastika tattoo have you?
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  9535. oh dear. if Marshall can't come out and enthusiastically champion Tommy Robinson, then the country is indeed dead and buried under Islam.
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  9536. ah...interesting, we now hear that "weak Russian targeting" is resulting in places like shopping malls being hit. So, can we now drop the whole "intentional targeting of civilians" and "war crimes" nonsense?
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  9537. Murphy is a condescending fool
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  9538. exactly! blowing up a bridge is much more important than ending a futile wat that is destroying Ukraine.
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  9539.  @donny1960  choosing not to vote is as important an option to exercise in democracy as is voting. it shows no candidate has met your requirements to hold office. grow up, child. what will make UK great again is when the electorate unite in their masses to elect a government that has a spine and stands up for the British people. wake up.
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  9540.  @donny1960  No one mentioned the good or the bad of a Labour win. You are confused, dear child. I repeat my point. A resounding Labour majority in Parliament will not mean Labour are very popular IF the turnout is very low. What I said is true. Furthermore, I asserted that it is a democratic right to refuse to vote when none of the candidates deserve your vote. Also true. So, sweet child, why you have veered off to "good luck with Labour", heaven knows! Maybe improve your reading comprehension skills?
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  9541.  @stc3145  you mean the one who is so popular with the Azov Nazis in Ukraine?
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  9542. love this claim that climate change is responsible for "some floods". so, logically, climate change has no connection at all to some floods. how do the "scientists" draw the red line between a flood caused by climate change and a flood caused by non-climate change factors. this is no longer science.
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  9543. yet again, the polls got it wrong and the narrative was the left of center candidate was heading for victory. when do we see pollsters ditching their socialist bias and do their job right?
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  9544.  @tin-n-tan  when I look around my house, almost EVERYTHING comes from Russian products! Russian energy (coal, gas, oil) is used in the manufacture of EVERYTHING! Russia exports what the world needs....energy, food, fertilizers, precious metals....that is why the sanctions have failed. Russia always has a market for its products. Grasp reality.
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  9545.  @tin-n-tan  just keep in mind the war started with Azov Battalion shells fired on Donbass towns in 2014. celebrate your side starting the war by getting another swastika tattoo! why not, ukronazi lover.
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  9546.  @realnapster1522  exactly so. it is taking some people a long time to understand this idea that sanctions can be circumvented
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  9547.  @RodneyWolfram  in some cases the Ukrainians are blowing up their own apartment buildings, because every intercepted Russian missile heading towards its target has to fall somewhere. plus, as Amnesty International showed, when Ukraine hides troops and weapons in residential areas, military target = civilian target. Some idgits, dear Rodney, just don't get it!
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  9548.  @bonnie7898  Therein lies the problem with failed US and NATO tactics. Yes, the Taliban were "beaten back". They were not wiped out. Russia wipes out the opposition, slowly, painstakingly, street by street, whereas US/NATO uses crushing air power, but groups like the Taliban just hide in caves and then re-emerge to claim victory later. hence 20 years of occupation, but the Taliban won. The Taliban are Afghans. Check their passports. The Afghans have no real interest in fighting the Taliban. The Afghans have an interest in being paid to fight whoever the US/NATO suckers pay them to fight. The US/NATO panicked exit from Kabul was totally predictable and tells you all you need to know about useless NATO/US operations. total amateurs. Call in Russia next time you want the job done properly.
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  9549. Macron got money to send to Ukraine to further the war, Macron got money to fund pensions.
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  9550.  @michaeldunham3385  The Baltic states are playing with fire. Had they taken the Kazakhstan approach of embracing their ethnic Russians and allowing them equal rights, everything would be fine. But in a manic nationalistic fervor to combat Russification from decades past, the Baltics are going down the same disastrous path as Ukraine nationalists chose, so we should expect the same results. Putin will defend the rights of ethnic Russians wherever they are...Transnistria, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, Donbass, and next on the list it seems, Latvia. There are some slow learners in the Baltics.
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  9551.  @michaeldunham3385  still waiting for your answer as to why you assumed I had never spent 5 minutes in Russia and why such an assumption is of any relevance to the debate. but if travel experience is of importance to you, have you spent 5 minutes in the Russian speaking parts of Latvia?
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  9552.  @ezj2117  just like Spanish speakers in Cataluña can just move back to their country if they don't like the Catalans' rules, right?
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  9553.  @helloworld7818  "they invade, not defend" would describe USA. you got the wrong country. Russia is indeed the biggest country in the world, but there are ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in many small countries, where Russian language rights are suppressed, hence the need for Russia to stop the bullying of places like Kiev, Riga and Chisinau, and to defend the rights of Russian speakers in such countries. not that difficult to understand, if you try.
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  9554.  @arfast-xolotl  having problems dealing with the truth eh? censoring me won't change the truth. Russia has won, NATO/Ukronazia has lost. Deal with it.
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  9555.  @minaolenella869  1. The banning of Russian has indeed happened in some key areas. For example, in education, high school classes must be conducted in Ukrainian, and not in Russian. Learn the facts. I myself was prohibited from using Russian as the lingua franca in my classes. 2. Tell me which words to google to read about the "native people" who committed self-immolation over language suppression. 3. Tatar, a native language in Tatarstan, is just one example where a native language has equal standing with Russian. Learn the facts. 4. The Komi men would be tempted to fight for Russia given that the pay is very good compared to what they could earn at home. Those are market forces at work, not targeting a native population. Learn the difference. 5. Wanting Russia to win and supporting Russia's objectives is not an endorsement of genocide. Learn the difference. Let me guess. You are 12 years old?
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  9556.  @minaolenella869  let me make this easy for you. in Ukraine, are there any limits at all on broadcasting (radio, tv) in Russian? Yes, or no?
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  9557.  @minaolenella869  Google "Language Policy in Ukraine" and read the Wikipedia article. Focus on the many areas where only Ukrainian may be used, and where, ipso facto, Russian is prohibited. Read the bit where Ukraine had to amend this law only recently, to comply with EU directives, and boy, you know something is wrong when the EU tells you your laws don't respect human rights!
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  9558.  @mrqrow2520  That's the stupidest thing I ever heard! It's like saying, "in a hypothetical situation where USA successfully invades Mexico, there wouldn't be 2 official languages. There would be only English." and your point is.....? Tell me, what horrific cataclysm would befall Latvia if it had, as it used to have, Russian and Latvian as official languages? Explain why Kazakhstan has made a huge mistake in ensuring that both Russian and Kazakh are official languages.
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  9559.  @thorstenvogt6561  "requiring people to speak Latvian is not restricting the use of Russian" welcome to the contradictory nonsense of the deluded russophobe. If I compel you to do one thing and one thing alone, I am necessarily prohibiting you from doing any alternative. Learn some basic logic
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  9560.  @mrqrow2520  ok, so let me give you another analogy if, on the technicality of there being no official language in the USA, you don't get my point. If, hypothetically speaking, Spain invaded Portugal, then Spanish would replace Portuguese as Portugal's official language. So, what's your point? That an invading power gets to determine language policy over the land it conquers? so what? Russia never occupied Latvia. Latvia became a part of the USSR, one republic of which was the RFSFR, so, learn some basic history. Just embarrassing you can't distinguish between USSR and Russia. Yes, we all know that Latvian was chosen as the one and only official language of Latvia. Hence, 25% of the Latvian population were alienated by the Riga government at the stroke of a nationalist pen. Tell me, what would be the disaster that would befall Latvia if Russian were recognized, again, as an official language?
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  9561.  @mrqrow2520  just curious, have you ever been to Daugavpils?
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  9562.  @thorstenvogt6561  can't have it both ways. for example, if it is required to use Latvian in a court of law, then it is, ipso facto, prohibited from using Russian in a court of law. what part of such logic do you fail to grasp? No one is denying that people can still speak Russian. The point made is that by restricting the use of Russian in certain public spaces and in certain circumstances, the result is an alienation of 25% of the population, as happened in Ukraine, and the results are not good. Tell me what dire straits would result from allowing Russian to be an official language of Latvia, apart from the fact some rabid, nationalistic Latvian russophobes would cry?
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  9563.  @mrqrow2520  Switzerland has only 4% of its population as Italian speakers, yet Italian is an official language of Switzerland. What dreadful mistake is Switzerland making by allowing Italian as an official language of Switzerland?
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  9564.  @thorstenvogt6561  1. Having to use the officially declared "national language" in official proceedings, even when every single person involved in the official proceedings speaks a language other than the "national language", is NOT an entirely common thing. A court case in Daugavpils, in which judge, jury, and all assembled are Russian speakers, but every word of the proceedings must happen in what is a foreign language for them, is totally absurd. You try telling French Canadians to have every word of a court proceeding in Montreal in English and see how long it takes for a revolution to break out. 2. Russian is an official language of Kazakhstan and is used on an equal basis with Kazakh. Russia has never made any claim that Kazakhstan is not a real country, so bang goes your theory on that one. You speak utter nonsense. On the contrary, where Russian is recognized as a lingua franca, in places like Uzbekistan, the relations between Uzbeks and Russians is very good. It's only the rabid nationalistic Russophobes of ex Soviet republics in Europe that are getting themselves in a mess because of their hatred of things Russian. 3. How can the Baltics possibly "avoid" having a Russian speaking minority? Sounds like you are advocating genocide. Legislating against use of language only antagonizes the minority speakers. Latvia seems determined to go the same way as Ukraine. If it had any sense, it would go the way of Kazakhstan.
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  9565.  @thorstenvogt6561  ah, I see, so IF Italy was an expansionist aggressor which likes to invade its neighbors, it would be an excellent idea for Switzerland to restrict the use of Italian in Switzerland, thus antagonizing its expansionist, aggressive neighbor, right? Call me crazy, but I would think that it would be better NOT to antagonize the aggressive neighbor and ensure equal language rights for all Swiss citizens. Apart from anything else, it would be the moral and inclusive thing to do. I guess you are not an Italianophobe as much as you are a Russophobe
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  9566.  @thorstenvogt6561  So, in your opinion, the best thing Kazakhstan could do tomorrow would be to rescind the constitutional rights of Russian speakers in Kazakhstan, and declare Kazakh as the one and only official state language, and announce that henceforth, all Russian speakers will be compelled to have education exclusively in Kazakh. This would be an excellent idea in your book, yeah?
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  9567.  @thorstenvogt6561  So when Italy actually WAS an aggressive, expansionist neighbor of Switzerland, during the Mussolini years, Switzerland decided to outlaw the Italian language and remove it as an official language of Switzerland, right?
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  9568.  @thorstenvogt6561  No one asked you whether language rights in Kazakhstan were up to the Kazakh people, or not. You are dodging the question. We both agree such decisions are up to the elected representatives of the people. you were asked why you think the Kazakh government chose to respect the rights of Russian speakers, given that it must be such a foolish decision, based on your support for Ukraine and Latvia to promote only one national, official language. Where have the Kazakhs gone wrong in recognizing Russian as an official language?
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  9569.  @thorstenvogt6561  "Threat of violence by their previous Russian overlords / colonizers, as Ukraine is suffering, should not be a factor in that decision." Yet, you just said that it's a really good idea for Switzerland to retain Italian as an official language, because Italy is not, at the moment, an aggressive, expansionist country. So, in the case of Switzerland, the low threat level of the neighboring state is the reason why Italian should be an official language, but in the case of Kazakhstan, the threat level should play absolutely no part in decisions on the country's official languages? and this all makes perfect sense to you?
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  9570.  @thorstenvogt6561  Putin has been in power for decades. Please list all the threats Putin has made since his first day in office to: 1. Lithuania 2. Estonia 3. Latvia 4. Belarus 5. Moldova 6. Kazakhstan 7. Turkmenistan 8. Armenia 9. Azerbaijan. 10. Uzbekistan 11. Khirgizia 12. Tadjikistan if you think Russia is such a threat to all these ex Soviet republics, your list is going to be enormous! The common denominator in ALL the cases of Russian interventions in ex Soviet republics, which is basically Georgia and Ukraine, has been based on discriminatory treatment of ethnic Russians. Cut out the russophobic treatment of Russian speakers, and Russia has no problem with you. But the West is very slow to learn this basic rule. and you are too
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  9571.  @Apple-International  neekagda
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  9572.  @thorstenvogt6561  just curious, do you think both Switzerland and Latvia have little devices called "threatometers" which are deployed along their borders? When the threatometer goes over a certain %, say, up to 51%, then Bern will announce "that's it, remove Italian as an official language, we see the threatometer has gone above 50". Similarly, the Latvians checked their threatometer device on independence day, saw that it was already above 50, and therefore found it imperative to have only Latvian as an official language. Is that what happened?
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  9573.  @thorstenvogt6561  just curious, can you think of anywhere else in the world where a minority language needs to have limits placed on its use purely because there is a high threat level from a neighboring state? Or is it just Russian that, of all the languages on the planet, deserves this treatment? At any time in history was there a minority language that was suppressed purely due to the threat level of a neighboring bully? Maybe Basque? Franco feared the French Basques might overthrow his government?:)
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  9574.  @thorstenvogt6561  The problem with your thinking is you have everything backwards. You have put the cart before the horse. You believe Russian language and culture must be targeted outside of Russia because Russia is an expansionist, aggressive state. The truth is, Russia appears to be expansionist and aggressive to people like you, because Putin vows to defend the rights of any Russian speaking communities on the planet. Stop targeting Russian language and culture, and what you perceive as Russian expansionism and aggression disappear. Russia has ONLY intervened in places where ethnic Russians were stripped of certain language rights. That is the common denominator in Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine and Transnistria.
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  9575.  @ОльгаБоголепова-щ2л  that's because Russian is a global language. Latvian is not. Much more beneficial, globally speaking, for Latvian speakers to learn Russian than vice versa.
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  9576.  @ОльгаБоголепова-щ2л  tochno, nye ponimayut nichego o russkhix lyudyey
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  9577.  @jipleyYT  and Latvia is part of the EU. If Wales is duty bound to bow to any policy issued by Westminster (which in education, it is NOT) why would Latvia not be bound to any education policy issued by Brussels? Keep in mind, the EU was scathing in its attacks on Ukraine's language policy.
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  9578.  @jipleyYT  Got it, so it is totally unimportant what human rights and free speech rights might be violated in any language policy, it is only important who is legislating such policy. makes sense.
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  9579.  @jipleyYT  simple question for you. in the French speaking part of Switzerland, do you think French speakers should have to pass a German language exam to remain as citizens of Switzerland?
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  9580. BBC way behind the curve. The Anti Western block was formed a long time ago. The Western bubble has managed to isolate itself, while the rest of the world is happy to work and trade with BRICS and move away from the hypocritical West steadily and irreversibly. Dedolarization in full swing.
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  9581. wow! SIX%! you are helping THAT much to save the planet!? How will you recycle the panels etc when they are used up and need replacing? or will you just dump them in a landfill? You must be delighted at the Uighur slave labor that goes into making your green energy system. How much carbon emission goes into the production of your panels etc? Are you SURE you are a net reducer of carbon emissions, or could you be a net contributor of carbon emissions? Given that CO2 is helping to green the planet, why does reducing CO2 and therefore crop yields make any sense?
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  9582. yes. the arrogant West always assumed it would have air superiority. suddenly the West faces the humiliation of Iranian drones attacking its NATO ally and NATO can't defend against it. With Venezuela and Iran backing Russia, and North Korea ready to help Russia, suddenly looks like the sanctioned nations are getting their revenge. Good for them.
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  9583. Integration has worked perfectly in the UK. The Police have proven since the horrors of Rotherham, that they are totally integrated into Sharia Law.
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  9584.  @jga6147  of course he is. but Trump is not in court here. he is talking to the Press. in the courtroom it is the Prosecution that must prove their case. outside the court it is Trump who must do what the media refuses to do......explain the case.
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  9585. just like Greta Thunberg's and Zelensky's
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  9586. the fact these climate alarmists can never point out any pluses to global warming (and there are many) shows how blind to reason they are. brainwashed and deluded.
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  9587.  @igorderka4960  well said. The West tells us that the Wagners are just demoralized convicts with poor training, poor supplies, poor leadership, yet they keep defeating NATO trained and armed battalions! At what point does NATO start to think that Kabul 2021 was, in fact, an accurate reflection of how utterly s**t NATO is?
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  9588. just laughable that this fool of an "expert" calls the rest of the world ignoring the sanctions on Russia a "loophole". No, you dope, it's not a loophole. it's plain old ignoring the wishes of the arrogant, hypocritical West!
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  9589. and the Greens are perfectly happy to endorse a policy that raises energy prices astronomically to poor German consumers, while boosting the carbon footprint of transporting LNG around the globe. I think we can see they are not really Green at all, just hypocrites and charlatans.
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  9590. "no one would have expected Ukraine to have defended its territory for so long" WHAT? Most deluded Westerners expected Ukraine to WIN! This expert ain't much of an expert!
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  9591. bienvenue en l'UE, ou tout le monde a le droit de voyager ou ils voudraient et rester pour toujours.
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  9592.  @andybeckett4340  Ever been to Crimea? It's the least Ukrainian place you can imagine, close to 100% Russian, Russian speaking, ethnic Russians, the crime was to have incorporated Crimea into Ukraine in the first place.
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  9593. "yes, I have to speak to the candidates for PM to guarantee all UK tax payers continue to be forced to throw billions of pounds at a futile war which we are destined to lose, it's so important that UK ensures our destruction and pays for it"
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  9594. Tice is being disingenuous. He KNOWS that anything "free at the point of service/demand" means there is no competition. Anyone who charges at the point of service has no hope of competing. Tice needs to step up and say NHS needs to be privatized and to compete, same as BBC.
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  9595.  @enriquelaroche5370 When General Winter enters the conflict on Russia's side, it's over. Russia wins
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  9596. Dream on! For the last decade NATO has been focused on whether a man can become a woman, whether enough diversity and equity permeate the ranks, whether the rainbow motif looks appealing. Meanwhile, Russia has built up stocks and a war machine that would crush NATO. The first NATO troops filmed coming home riddled with bullets in body bags, NATO citizens sue for peace. Russia has won.
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  9597. advice to Biden. you don't reach out to China by angrily shouting during the State of the Union address "which world leader would want to switch with Xi Zhin Ping?"
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  9598.  @stephenroldan5107  how easily you assume the wrong things. quite happy to prove my identity to you, if you are brave enough to bet? $1000 bet that I am indeed Duncan Smith? or are you a coward and scared to be proven wrong, yet again? yep, Venezuela, US went begging for a deal over relaxing sanctions, and Maduro told Biden where to go. Venezuela now dictating US oil prices!
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  9599. at some point the dunces at the BBC will figure out that the Russian economy is growing BECAUSE of the sanctions, NOT despite sanctions.
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  9600. absolutely love hearing this imbecile babble his deluded, biased nonsense. got to chuckle at his assumption that the Wagner's priority was to take Bakhmut.I guess the concept of a war of attrition is beyond him. Week 4 of the great counter offensive, and still only 4 villages a pig farm recaptured, at the cost of 10,000 cannon fodder. things going really well for Ukronazia/NATO.
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  9601.  @joseph3036  obviously not. they don't have to study anything at all. they can join forces with human trafficking gangs and illegally enter whatever country in Europe they choose.
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  9602. an absolute waste of time reporting on this. any one with common sense can tell you sanctions don't work, and this is a prime example of how sanctions on Russia = plan B, switch "Russian" oil for "Greek" oil in international waters. The real story would be if this were NOT happening! The islanders should be campaigning for no sanctions on Russia so that these dangerous cargo transfers need not happen.
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  9603. so, who do we believe, Rob Parsons who says Bakhmut is of no strategic importance, or Zelensky, who says it is? which one is lying to us?
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  9604.  @yuraf261  let me present you with the opportunity to examine the evidence yourself. google "Ukraine Reuters 2018 Nazi problem" and "Newsnight Ukraine fascist problem" and look really close at the Azov insignia and see the Nazi SS wolfsangel and black sun? remember, no other Ukraine regiment would shell its own citizens in the Donbass, but the Azov Nazis were joyous to do so, for 8 years. Were you in Bar Karabas, Vinnytsia to overhear a bunch of russophobic nazis talking about gypsy beatings? I was. you are ignorant and refuse to learn the truth. No doubt, like the Canadian Parliament, you gave a nice round of applause to that Waffen SS Ukrainian nazi cheered on by Zelensky and Trudeau the other day.
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  9605. Never the fastest learner in the class, Estonia has decided a policy of russophobia and derussification will never result in the same mess that it did in Ukraine. Yet another rejection of the EU values of inclusion and tolerance. Prepare for the Putin treatment, Tallinn, you deserve it.
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  9606. Glory and victory to Russia and her Allies - Slava Rossiyi
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  9607. who is "we"? I support Russia and the Donbass, not Ukraine. YOU can give your last penny to Zelensky, and maybe he could sell his mansion in Miami, but why force others into poverty to support the Azov Nazis?
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  9608. he's an ignorant fool. wise up.
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  9609.  @Hikikomori-g9u  exactly so. The West has done all in its power to convince its dumb masses that the West is backing a winner in the NATO/Ukraine alliance, but the truth is that only a fool engages Russia in a protracted ground war. Zelensky was a fool for believing NATO promises of victory, and the Telegraph is a blundering biased media outlet that now has to switch from being a Kiev cheerleader to explain what went so dreadfully wrong for the West, again.
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  9610.  @davidnoelfranks1124  absolutely, Merkel and Hollande are shameless charlatans. despicable.
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  9611.  @Light_Is_Rotten  it's Zelensky the dictator, raiding churches and monasteries, banning opposition parties in parliament, forbidding Ukrainian men to leave the country. Russia, compared to Ukraine, is a haven of democracy.
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  9612. curious about this mindless repetition of "unprovoked" attack. UN says 14,000 people died in Donbass over the last 8 years. Both Poroshenko and Zelensky, with Western backing, absolutely refused to enforce the Minsk accords. Exactly how many Donbass Russian speakers have to be murdered before this counts as a "provoked" attack? Give me the number, please.
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  9613. get ready to get out on the street. NATO only cares to weaken Russia by allowing Ukraine to fight to the last man. problem is, Russia is getting stronger, not weaker, so Ukraine will be totally destroyed and NATO will just ignore this defeat and move on to the next victim country, probably Taiwan
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  9614.  @lesterquintrell4844  well said. so many of us in the West are sick of this hypocrisy, NATO bombing sovereign Serbia = good, Russia bombing sovereign Ukraine = bad. it's infantile, and must stop. most of the world is fine with Russia liberating ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Only the West cries crocodile tears
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  9615.  @Archiesquaddy  winter doesn't come every year with missiles raining down on you, no job, no income, no electricity, no water, just empty words of support from keyboard know-alls like Pepperami, warm and toasty in his/her secure space.
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  9616.  @dorotazapolnik234  absolute nonsense. Western propaganda. check out the exchange rate of the ruble.....it's strong, meaning demand for Russian goods is high. Learn some basics
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  9617.  @starlightbarking9495  and you are saying that would necessarily be a bad thing?
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  9618. very generous of you to describe Useless as a "half-wit". i think a much smaller fraction would be more accurate.
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  9619. Any poll taken in the Democrat bastions of a city like Des Moines will get what ever fake lead you want to give Harris.
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  9620. but what is so confusing is that so many Americans STILL insist that USA is the best place on earth!?
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  9621. how would you know? Brainwashed by Western media, you can't distinguish fact from fiction. Tell us ONE lie he said and give evidence you KNOW it was a lie! You can't.
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  9622. @phoebecaulfield4062 only a fool would assume she knows the experience level of a total stranger.
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  9623. then get ready to be eaten alive, Ukraine, if you are convinced there really is zero hope of a negotiated settlement. after 8 years of shelling the Donbass, you richly deserve it.
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  9624.  @TootsyBootsy  which of those stand as opposition parties?
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  9625.  @Error_404_Account_Deleted  why tax dollars? why not make it voluntary to test the real support for Ukraine? You and your friends can give every penny you own to Zelensky, what is stopping you? and Zelensky could sell all his overseas property, nothing stopping him. but the point is he won't, and you won't, because it is other people's money you want to spend, not your own.
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  9626.  @TootsyBootsy  tell you what, let's make this simple. direct me to the last speech in the Rada that was critical of Zelensky's handling of the war, or any Ukrainian report in the press that was critical of Zelensky.
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  9627.  @TootsyBootsy  no goalposts being moved. If not one single member of the Rada has mentioned one criticism of Zelensky's handling of the crisis, then Ukraine = N Korea. Roosevelt, Churchill both had plenty of critics in WW2. Even one of their great allies, de Gaulle, criticized their decisions. if a united homefront means no free press, then that is exactly what a dictatorship is. Looking forward to you producing a Ukrainian report on how foolish it was for Ukraine to walk away from the Istanbul peace talks. Plenty of Russian reports called Putin out for the retreat from Kherson. How many reports called out Zelensky for the loss of anything?
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  9628.  @TootsyBootsy  sure, I will check it out. presumably it dates from AFTER all opposition parties were removed from the Rada? can you name any US stateman who have been critical of Zelensky? has ANY leader of ANY ally of Ukraine been critical in ANY way of Zelensky? never. the censorship is amazing.
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  9629.  @TootsyBootsy  from wikipedia On 20 March 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a ban on 11 political parties for ties with Russia: Opposition Platform — For Life, Party of Shariy, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Leftists, Derzhava, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists Party
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  9630.  @TootsyBootsy  so when Wikipedia says that 11 political parties were banned in March in 2022 by Zelensky, is that true?
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  9631.  @chas721  what, all 3 of them that are still operational?:) enjoy another 100,000 cannon fodder shoved into the meatgrinder and the finger-pointing when Zelensky is ousted by his own military.
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  9632.  @mirandahotspring4019  8:1 kill rate in Russia's favor says the Azov Nazis you support are losing badly
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  9633.  @miguellopez3392  amazing you have to refer back several months to trumpet the sinking of one Russian vessel! Speaks volumes for the lack of success since then. How many refugees have had to get the hell out of Ukraine with their tails between their Nazi legs? Up to 8 million is it?
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  9634.  @mirandahotspring4019  a democracy where all opposition parties are banned from parliament and there is 100% government control of the media
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  9635.  @miguellopez3392  I am ignoring nothing. you will find both sides lie in a war. are you surprised by that? why would you think Ukraine has a monopoly on telling the truth?
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  9636.  @mirandahotspring4019  no one knows Russia's death toll. However, both General Milley and Ursula Van der Leyen are on record as saying Ukraine has 100,000 dead. The Institute for the Study of War is Victoria Nuland's propaganda group and their "statistics" are fabrications. The Ukrainians admit that 6:1 is the ratio of artillery shells fired in Russia's favor. The BBC, much to their disappointment, tried to ascertain Russian dead by counting soldiers' graves and got a really low number. The only people who mention a 3 day Special Military operation are ignorant fools who swallow hook line and sinker Western propaganda. No one in the Kremlin ever mentions a timeplan, as Russia doesn't follow one. As in Chechnya and Syria, this will take years, but it will be completed and all 5 objectives will be attained. Now then, dream on, honey, because the truth is not going to be nice for you.
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  9637.  @mirandahotspring4019  investments often go terribly wrong. NATO and others who "invested" in the Ukraine proxy war will get a higher return from whatever the gave to Sam Bankman Fried.
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  9638.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  Reading comprehension not your forte, eh Jerry? As I said, I am just giving you the numbers YOUR side have given! 100,000 dead Ukrainian troops as per General Milley and Ursula Van der Layen, so your argument is with them. Artillery firing rate of 6:1 in Russia's favor, as per Ukrainian soldiers. 300 tanks needed for Ukraine to advance, as per General Zaluzhny. I work with Ukrainians, and no, 40 million of them are not prepared to fight with spears. Stop believing your own propaganda and get real. Learn the basics, Adolf.
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  9639.  @mirandahotspring4019  as I say, I am just giving you the numbers as announced from YOUR side and correcting the wayward thoughts of a Western media warped mind you have. Russian TV was banned in the "democratic" West, remember?
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  9640.  @miguellopez3392  and I'm pointing out no one has a monopoly on the truth, and no, I don't blindly trust Russian sources, so we both agree that the Ukrainian claims of 400 dead in the Makeevka strike could well be an inflated figure and is not to be believed at face value, right? Looks like you have swung round to the doubters' side!
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  9641.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  and Zelensky could sue for peace and disband his Azov nazis that you support, and a lot more Ukrainian lives would be saved.
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  9642.  @СергейСемёнов-м2г  a "bot" is the name given to you and me by the supporters of the Azov Nazis when they have no argument against you but have to insult you somehow
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  9643.  @alexjr.salindato3403  would that include Ukrainian national hero, Stefan Bandera, the Nazi collaborator who organized the massacre of 4000 Jews in Lvov in 1941? That kind of hero you mean?
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  9644.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  and if there were just 2 Ukrainians who didn't hate Russia, exercise your mind and contemplate why that would be.
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  9645.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  as i said, dear Jerry, "my BS numbers" are not mine, but come from YOUR side, so it is Genaral Milley and Ursula van der Leyan and General Zaluzhny you are calling BS on! if it is only a "tiny sliver of Ukraine" that Russia has captured, why go to war over it?
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  9646.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  ever heard of Ruslan Onyshenko? google the name. The "Ukies" recruited prisoners too, of course they did, it's just that your biased Western media won't report such facts. The Ukies have won? Bankrupt and begging, 8 million refugees, no reliable power grid, dwindling support from NATO, boy, if this is "winning" would hate to see what losing is!
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  9647.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  remember, Jerry, Russia enlisted 300,000 reservists, out of contract vets that have experience in places like Syria. Ukraine is recruiting anyone with the legs and two arms! scraping the barrel? get real.
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  9648.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  just curious, Jerry. have you ever been to Crimea? ever been to Ukraine even?
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  9649.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  obviously not at gunpoint, as many Russian men fled Russia (legally allowed in Russia, but not in the Zelensky tyranny). The Wagners are assigned to demilitarize the Ukrainians, which means kill as many as possible. No territorial gains needed while Zelensky keeps serving up cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder. Milley admitted 100,000 Ukrainians dead, so time for you to congratulate the Wagners! Ukrainians are "increasingly well-armed" yet are begging for 300 more tanks, urgently! and this makes sense to you? Jerry, take a second and question your Western media for just a second.
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  9650.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  let's hear your prediction, dear Jerry. Ukraine will "liberate" Crimea when exactly? I predict Putin will declare his 5 aims completed in October of 2024.
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  9651.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  go back 8 years and learn the facts, Jerry. The 2014 coup started everything, that would be about 8 years before you could even find Donbass on a map. "pussy drones" (thanks to Russia's fellow-sanctioned ally, Iran) has taken down Ukraine's power grid, and "pussy NATO" has no answer. Go home, Adolf, and do some research on Stefan Bandera
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  9652.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  talking of fascists, are you proud of Ukraine for being the only defence force to admit and embrace a Nazi battalion into its midst?
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  9653.  @miguellopez3392  try what again, Miguel? I am asking why anyone believes the same people who brought you "Ghost of Kiev" when it comes to accurate numbers? I am pointing out that neither side has a monopoly on the truth in war. I am suggesting that Russia may well be hitting Ukrainian army barracks regularly, but that Western media don't report such. So, tell me, Miguel, what should I try again?
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  9654.  @miguellopez3392  BTW, Miguel, "more possible" is not correct English (nor is "más posible" en castellano). Something is either possible or not. There are no degrees of "possible". "likely" would be a better word to use.
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  9655. sanctions on Russia and isolating Russia has worked so well that Russia can now afford to increase its spending on the military, dramatically, but the West can't. NATO sure know how to alter the balance of power against it
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  9656. "the bank must make sure the customer is not against government policy" oh dear. this doddery old fool must think the subject matter is banking in China!
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  9657.  @9UaYXxB  Ukraine blames Russia and Russia blames Ukraine, and as you say "you/we have no evidence". So my question is why does Western MSM, e.g. BBC, decide to run with the headline "Russia shells nuclear power plant"? Evidence that the journalistic guideline is firmly "Russia bad, Ukraine good", which is absurd. It is absurd to think "it serves Russia's purpose to shell its own troops ". Pure nonsense. The power most responsible for absolutely destroying European security would be NATO, with its relentless expansion and refusal to engage with Russia on security matters. Russia has run nuclear power plants for decades. it has no need for any international body to lecture Russia on security. Again, your assumption that some Western backed international body can hector and lecture others on what's best exemplifies why most of the world has turned against the West and backs Russia. Read it and weep.
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  9658.  @Ashen0ne.3  Brexit was supposed to allow control of UK borders to UK authorities, and to put an end to freedom of movement to the UK from the EU. supposed to.
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  9659.  @WiredCountDuckula  oh, please do! I would love to hear your explanation of international law!
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  9660. it could well be that he finds the mention of slavery uncomfortable because his African ancestors did such a wonderful job of enslaving their fellow Africans and then selling them to the highest bidder.
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  9661.  @KaloyanKasabov  totally agree. as the G7 stagnates with low or no growth, BRICS has become the beacon of growth and development. China will be encouraged to see how Russia has shown the West that the West needs Russian products FAR MORE than Russian needs the West's. Like Russia, bith Brazil and South Africa have enormous mineral wealth and natural resources. G7 countries mistakenly think that higher GDP = greater importance/wealth. BRICS exports things the world truly needs. G7 doesn't much.
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  9662. the protests are peaceful just as long as there are no Jews around.
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  9663. so the Russians will exhaust themselves on the battlefield, but the Ukrainians won't, even though the Russians are rotating fresh and rested soldiers, and Ukraine isn't.
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  9664. no, the whole country is not in shock. it's now what we expect, and as usual, it will be all forgotten after the obligatory candle lit vigil and chorus of "don't look back in anger". the UK had its chance to vote BNP, but instead chose parties that welcomed any immigrant, time to reap what you sow.
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  9665. 1930's Far Right - Aryan supremacists who called for genocide and death camps for non Aryans 2020's Far Right - Indigenous people who demand their government keep their repeated promises of reduced immigration numbers.
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  9666. Only a fool would fight Russia in a protracted land war. And the dwarf puppet Zelensky was fool enough to believe NATO could deliver victory. But, overall, the NATO plan to use Ukraine to the last man in order to weaken Russia has made some progress. Not too many more thousand Ukrainian cannon fodder left before this is all over.
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  9667. hilarious that these clowns think the leader of the Conservative party is the problem, not the fact that the Conservative party is no longer Conservative.
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  9668. Safety and security on the streets so much better in places like Russia.
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  9669. talk about projection! this fool of a propagandist thinks we don't see the truth! it's Ukraine that threw in battalion after battalion in a futile attempt to defend a worthless place! it's the Ukronazis who suffered a kill rate so heavily against them. it's Zelensky who refused to take the sound NATO advice of withdrawing and defending further west. this is a disaster for Ukraine, and the morale of Russia is sky high. meanwhile, where is Zaluzhny? in a coma in a hospital in Kiev? who is leading this Ukrainian shambles?
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  9670. why not 10%?
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  9671. "high energy costs" oh, it was such a great idea to tell Russia you never wanted it's cheap, reliable energy ever again. and what a moment of glory to watch the U.S. blow up Nordstream! surely energy demand will collapse and everything will return to normal this winter!
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  9672. This is the number one reason why I will never return to USA. Much better value in Europe. Much. Apart from anything else, it seems like the definition of "excellent service" in USA is being interrupted every 5 minutes by your new best friend the waiter/waitress who insists on asking if everything is fine. Everything would be fine if you didn't keep coming over here to ask if everything is fine!
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  9673.  @saba1030  I gave up on "my" government a long time ago. they are clueless and helped create this disaster. Only Orban, Vucic and Putin grasp the reality of Europe.
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  9674. then talk to one of the Donbass refugees who saw their family murdered by Nazi Azov Ukrainians for the crime of insisting they speak their native language, Russian. Then you might understand...though I doubt it
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  9675. And apparently Zelensky is describing the situation in Soledar as "difficult"
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  9676. ZERO asylum seekers arrived in Ireland via its airports. A passenger is denied boarding if they have insufficient documentation to enter the country. 13,000 tourists or students entered Ireland via airports and then, subsequently, claimed asylum.
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  9677.  @FUTURAPTER  so they can all be sent home, because they need no asylum
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  9678.  @FUTURAPTER  looks like reading comprehension is not your forte! So, for your slow mind, I'll repeat what I said. Zero asylum seekers arrived in Ireland via its airports. it is impossible to board a flight to Ireland by stating you have no documentation to enter Ireland and that you will claim asylum on arrival. The airline will deny you boarding. The Irish state cannot check any information about them, because there is nothing to check! They have no documentation at the point they claim asylum! Hence, so many rapists, thieves, killers are allowed to enter and hence the alarming rise in such crime in Ireland.
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  9679.  @FUTURAPTER  when was the last time you tried to board a flight with no documentation?
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  9680.  @FUTURAPTER  so, as I said, zero people arrive by plane in Ireland as asylum seekers! you arrived in Ireland as a tourist! then you decided to change from being a tourist to asylum seeker! which country are you from that has a war that so threatened you? why didn't you stay and fight? "some people really lost their passport"...don't lie! they get on the plane with their passport, they arrive at Immigration with no passport! where do you think they lost their passport between the plane and the passport control?
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  9681.  @FUTURAPTER  you need to read more carefully. EVERYTHING I said was about people arriving in Ireland via ITS AIRPORTS! No one mentioned anything about those that arrived by boats! why do you keep changing the point made?
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  9682.  @FUTURAPTER  The UN is not authorized to offer any invitation to Ireland, nor any visa for Ireland! so, stop lying. what EXACTLY does an asylum seeker get when they write to the UN in their country? it's NOT a visa for Ireland, and it's not an invitation to Ireland!
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  9683.  @FUTURAPTER  I agree with you on what has happened in Ukraine. Kiev has brought so much of this disaster on itself, and was foolish to think NATO can bring victory. Right, so you entered Ireland as a tourist, and then claimed asylum. That is quite normal. You did not enter with zero documentation and then claim asylum.
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  9684.  @FUTURAPTER  it is zero! there is not one person who arrives at Dublin Airport as an asylum seeker! They all arrive at the airport as a tourist or on business, that is how they were allowed to board the flight! you are not allowed to board a flight to Dublin with zero documentation!
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  9685.  @FUTURAPTER  people throw their passports away because then they cannot be identified. That way the thieves, rapists, jihadists, murderers can all enter. Also, the lack of passport means the Irish authorities can't see if they come from a country at war, or at peace. many countries have "bad problems" there, but why would you assume the Irish want those people to be in Ireland? Why invite yourself to someone else's house when you have no idea if they want you or not? do you have no consideration at all for the person forced to feed you and house you? why did you choose Ireland and not Poland? Did you feel the Irish want you more than the Polish do?
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  9686.  @FUTURAPTER  Ethiopia has some really bad problems at the moment. Do you think 100 million Ethiopians should be welcomed into Ireland?
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  9687.  @FUTURAPTER  ok, let's say 20% of Ethiopians want to go to Ireland, that would be 20 million Ethiopians choosing to enter Ireland, just as you chose to do. would that be an excellent idea? Ireland offering protection to 20 million Ethiopians? yes or no?
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  9688.  @FUTURAPTER  so you are 100% sure that 100,000 Africans arriving in Ireland every year would be a good thing for Ireland. What about 1 million Africans entering Ireland every year? Would that be a lot better for Ireland than only 100,000 a year?
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  9689.  @FUTURAPTER  what makes you think the majority of Irish people want 100,000 Africans coming to their island every year? Do you care what Irish people want for their country?
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  9690.  @FUTURAPTER  when you say it will be "fine" for these countries to keep accepting immigrants, will it be "fine" for all the women raped by the immigrants, the man knifed by the immigrants, the children, like the ones in Southport, murdered by the immigrants? will everything be just fine for these victims?
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  9691.  @FUTURAPTER  we are not talking about how many people would WANT to come to Ireland. You said immigration would be good for Ireland. So, my question for you, how many would be the PERFECT number for Ireland? If the Irish people could choose the perfect number of immigrants to come to Ireland every year, what would that ideal number be? one million a year? ten million a year?
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  9692.  @FUTURAPTER  the housing problem in Ireland is primarily because of migrants. The population of Ireland has increased because of migrants like you, and more people looking for housing means higher prices for rent. the government does not set the price for rental accommodation. private house owners decide that. fewer immigrants mean lower rental prices.
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  9693.  @FUTURAPTER  you don't understand how rental accommodation works. the government does not decide any rental pricing in Ireland. It's private landlords that do that, and most private landlords don't want migrants in their houses, so they put their prices up high. fewer migrants mean lower rental prices for all. why didn't you go to Poland to hide?
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  9694.  @HermesTTT  yes they are in emergency life and death situations
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  9695.  @HermesTTT  what does a life taken in self defence have to do with anything? oh dear, are you assuming the police officer shot Nahel in self defence?
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  9696.  @HermesTTT  ah, so now you change your stance! interesting. you have switched from "self-defence" to "safeguard the life of an other". do you always have to keep moving the goalposts in your arguments? You are lost on this one. When, in the flash of an eye, a police officer has to decide whether to pull the trigger or not, that police officer is indeed taking on the role of judge, jury and executioner, because an instant verdict has to be reached in the officer's mind, and in place of a judge, jury and executioner on the spot of the attempted arrest, the police officer performs the role of precisely the judge, jury and executioner. now, let me guess, time for you to move some goalposts again!
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  9697.  @HermesTTT  the police have to act as judge, jury and executioner and have to fulfil the roles of judge, jury and executioner at the moment of pulling the trigger or not. it's that simple, as it seems you are too.
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  9698.  @HermesTTT  well of course! the prosecutor is the person whose job it is to convince the court that the law was broken by the accused! the prosecutor is bound to say that! and the officer's lawyer states that the law was followed to the letter. so, what's your point?
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  9699.  @HermesTTT  until all the evidence is presented, it is neither a clear cut case of a justified killing, nor of an unjustified killing. hence, the stupidity of Macron to immediately describe the officer's actions as "inexcusable". I'm in France and just listened to the officer's lawyer present a lot of background to the incident. I can only tell you, from what I have seen and heard, this one was justified. you would be amazed how many in France are saying that the problem is Nahel and his community, not the Police. The civil war between the multiculturalists and the traditionalist will keep burning for a while yet.
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  9700. these are illegal immigrants and should be pushed back immediately. Asylum seekers are those trying to escape persecution at home. These illegal immigrants face no persecution in Turkey, and are not at home in Turkey. Therefore, drop this nonsense about them seeking asylum. they have it, in Turkey. end of story.
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  9701. this is the s**t that happens when you choose not to hire white 50 year old males.
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  9702. @mauritsvanoranje6725 it speaks volumes for the stupidity of Western leaders
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  9703.  @AGAMetah  it's the "civilised" world that has managed to destroy Ukraine. Once the destruction is complete, the "civilised" world will move on to the next victim, probably Taiwan.
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  9704.  @remcogreve7982  It was Ukrainians who murdered collaborators in Bucha. You didn't figure that out? Fighting to the end is stupidity. Just sue for peace and finish this suicide mission. Putin is popular and his government is stable. stop deluding yourself there is instability in Russia.
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  9705.  @ErikPedersen-yf1vu  giving you the truth and a perspective Western MSM denies you. you need the Russian perspective, otherwise you are just brainwashed.
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  9706.  @theshimario253  on the contrary, i try very hard to listen to all perspectives to try to at least approach the truth. something most people in the West have no interest in. as long as they can get their fill of russophobia, they are happy. deluded, but happy.
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  9707.  @boozolini4465  clearly reading comprehension is not your forte. i never said Mongolia was a CIS country. read my words again. carefully. Armenia is not moving towards the EU. Armenia is carefully balancing its interests with Russia and those with the West. Kazakhstan has a large ethnic population and, unlike Ukraine, wisely decided to treat Russian speakers fairly and with equality. Russian speakers in Kazakhstan can opt for their entire education to be in Russian and not Kazakh. If only Ukraine had had the same wisdom to do that. The CIS group is flourishing and Russia doesn't need the West. wise up!
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  9708.  @boozolini4465  teaching. I still have Ukrainian online students. One of my students, when I was in Ukraine, got recruited and killed on the Donetsk frontline. I need no lectures from the likes of you on what has been happening over the last 9 years in Donbass.
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  9709.  @boozolini4465  Moldova is a parasitic nation that wants handouts from the EU, so good riddance. I'm sure the EU will enjoy every minute of the thieving gypsies and mafia types that Moldova will soon export to the EU. Armenia, whether CIS or not, will remain close to Russia. The ties are very deep there. Kazakhstan has not abandoned Cyrillic script. You are ignorant. I have 2 Kazakh online students, Russian speakers, both have had every single aspect of their lives conducted in Russian, all education, everything. Kazakhstan has succeeded in striking a happy medium between Kazakhs and ethnic Russians.
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  9710.  @maryanchabursky9148  Like Romanian criminality, Moldovan criminality is no imaginary construct. If you live in the EU, it will be coming to your neighborhood soon. Just look at Tottenham these days.
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  9711.  @bonnie7898  when you have figured out who the Allies were in WW2, then I might consider what I post and don't post, yet it changes nothing because what I post is the truth or perspectives based on my experience living in Ukraine, speaking to my Ukrainian students and my reading on the subject.
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  9712.  @Mr.Byrnes  what is pathetic is you can't even read how old my account is correctly! 8 years old, are you? dunce!
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  9713.  @Mr.Byrnes  so, once you have corrected yourself on how old my account is, like that means anything, how about you rebut what I said with some evidence, like a grown up?
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  9714.  @JohnStegmeier  it depends, doesn't it? if such families honor Bandera as a national hero and cheered at the Union House massacre, then they had it coming, agreed?
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  9715. Cut out the word "Islamism" . It's Islam that is extreme. death penalty for apostasy, homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, yes, hundreds of thousands of extremists were allowed to enter Britain, and now the government of Britainistan is scratching its head and asking maybe the far right is an extreme threat? you can't make this stuff up.
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  9716. the real danger here is the Western media automatically discount ANY Ukrainian involvement without knowing ANY of the details of who ordered this attack. methinks thou doth protest too much. had MSM kept an open mind, their reporting might have some authority.
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  9717. VOX is the last hope for Spain, but it's probably too late as Spanish cities descend into the migrant filled, crime ridden dystopia of so many other Western European cities. Only Eastern Europe has retained its identity and is still European in spirit and appearance.
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  9718. controversy at home = trip to Kiev to hide from the bad news plus a message to Zelensky that NATO is close to tapped out, and so Ukraine will just have to deal with Russia on its own now.
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  9719. most people do.....sad that Zelensky and NATO prefer a losing war and more deaths to a peace settlement, but then again, the West's refusal to implement Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 tells us all we need to know about the West's attitude to ethnic Russians being murdered.
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  9720. Yet again, Mercouris is hopelessly wrong. No one panicked about Galloway winning. Galloway has been an MP for 3 different constituencies before, yawn, so what? it was the threats of violence, the death threats, the corruption and blatant abuse of the postal votes that was so alarming. Rochdale was not a democratic vote. Grasp reality, Mercouris, and stop blabbering nonsense.
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  9721. Comer has stated multiple times that the Bidens have received 20 million dollars via shell companies, and not one single person has denied that. The only response ANYONE has given is "there is no evidence". Curiouser and curiouser.
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  9722. Putin is loving this power he has over Germany, having grabbed Germany by the balls, Putin can now squeeze as hard and as regularly as he wants. And Scholz is totally powerless. whining about Russian retaliation, whining about not fulfilling contracts, begging for LNG from countries that can't provide it, keep building windmills Germany, and hope oma and opa don't freeze to death before Christmas!
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  9723. great point. the West's "rules-based order" is now being copied by Russia. Strange the West is not happy about that!
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  9724.  @bramposthumus9300  plenty. let's probe your real politics. which member country was NATO defending (it claims to be a defensive alliance) when it bombed the s**t out of Libya?
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  9725.  @bramposthumus9300  The Russians have already used hypersonic weapons in war. When exactly do you think NATO will have caught up and have such technology on hand to use?
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  9726.  @lo3161  you have obviously not heard of the Alley of Angels
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  9727. ninth package of sanctions = 8 failed packages to date. Powerless EU fumbling for anything that might seem like they are doing something. Now the EU thinks it is a really good idea to discriminate against Russian language speakers. such an inclusive and tolerant policy.
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  9728. As usual, nothing to indicate the true levels of dead cannon fodder on the Ukrainian side. Until Western media tell the truth on the kill rate that is heavily in Russia's favor, the Western sheep will keep thinking winning and losing territory means something.
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  9729. "we just gotta give them more artillery"......yep, but with no surge capacity to suddenly produce more, you can't do it! Russia has munitions factories cranking this stuff out faster than NATO would be able to in 2 years even if NATO decided to invest in such production. China, N Korea, Iran, already on board to keep Russia supplied ad infinitum. NATO has lost.
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  9730. welcome to NATO!
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  9731.  @not.likely  then correct it. what is inaccurate with the statement that NATO has no problem with escalating the conflict because no NATO lads get massacred, just Ukrainian cannon fodder?
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  9732.  @not.likely  then correct it. what is demonstrably wrong and impossible about what I said.
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  9733. at some point the imbeciles who believe in Globalism will realize that sanctions don't work in a Global economy. USA could sanction the whole planet, such sanctions wouldn't halt trade and business. Circumventions would be put in place and the sanctioning country would lose out. Sanctions have failed miserably and will continue to fail miserably. China and India laughing all the way to the bank.
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  9734. From what the fisherman said, it's the corrupt Cameroon government that is to blame, not China. This is the s**t that happens when you ditch colonialism.
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  9735. Russia stopped intervening in Moldova once Transnistria was established. Russia stopped attacking Georgia once Abkhazia and South Ossetia were established. Russia stopped attacking Chechnya once Chechnya, as part of the Russian Federation, was established. In fact, the track record of Russia is that once it's objectives are met in the Russian speaking areas of hostile neighbors, it DOES stop attacking! Same will happen in Ukraine. calm down and negotiate.
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  9736.  @swirvinbirds1971  obviously...that's war. you stop once you got what you want, or you stop because you are destroyed and can't fight on, or you stop because the cost of continuing is too great..so you negotiate an end to retain your gains. Russia, I believe, wants to fight until it has got what it wants.
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  9737.  @swirvinbirds1971  of course it does! the longer the conflict, the higher the costs, the more you demand from the vanquished. You can't possibly expect the original list of 5 objectives to be the same now! Ukraine should have continued negotiating in March. It's now JULY! and obviously the demands will be even greater come October! It doesn't really matter because Ukraine and the West seem to have accepted that every Ukrainian woman and child may end up as a refugee, and every Ukrainian man dead or crippled, so that's where we are. Just don't mess with Russia would be the moral of the story...find a way to coexist.
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  9738.  @swirvinbirds1971  If GDP counted for something, the USA's chaotic, humiliating, disaster of a panicked exit from Afghanistan wouldn't have happened when a bunch of goat herders called Taliban strolled into town! Absolutely laughable you think GDP has a connection to military prowess! Russia exports the commodities the world needs, hence sanctions don't work with Russia, and the Russian military is well supplied. USA doesn't even have tried and tested hypersonic weapons! WAY behind the curve. Soviet era equipment, i.e. old tanks, is fine for the purposes of occupying territory. Russia is winning and NATO is running out of weapons...the inept Russians have beaten the even more inept West. No one is hiding behind any name. I'm a British citizen, Duncan Smith is my name, quite happy to prove that to you if you really desire to be proven wrong and eat humble pie. Swirvin Birds, on the other hand, hints at a total coward embarrassed to go by a real name. A coward who would be ideal to fight for NATO, I would guess.
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  9739.  @Blanka1100  we certainly have seen that with the Zelensky dictatorship.
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  9740.  @Blanka1100  No, Putin is not my idea of a democratic leader. I would put Putin on a par with Zelensky as far as his "democratic" credentials go. I don't particularly trust Putin, no, but then again, I don't trust anyone. However, in the case of intervening in Ukraine to protect the rights of the Russian speakers there, I believe Putin has calculated correctly and is in the right...and instead of blindly following the Western narrative of "Russia bad, Ukraine good", you should consider, just maybe, that Russia was provoked and that the West is wrong to back Zelensky, given that Zelensky refused to implement the Minsk Accords.
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  9741. This is such sweet revenge for 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling Donbass. Poroshenko boasted "our children are in school and their children are in basements". now it is reversed. Just 7 more years and two months to put up with this, Ukraine. enjoy every minute of it.
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  9742.  @Joe-cb6ex  not at all. global economies are the same as any other economy in that they are driven by supply and demand, period. governments intervene to influence the effects of this supply and demand (tariffs, quotas etc) but these are measures that aim to tinker with the drivers of any economy, supply and demand. such tinkering also fuels black markets, which satisfy supply and demand below the radar, e.g. Russian oil going to India, being blended, and then sold to Europe as it was before the sanctions.
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  9743.  @cabinessenceking  if only you knew how mistaken you are (not for the first time in your life, either)
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  9744.  @dominicmacinnes6451  nothing that can replace tourism. those who want to limit tourism are basically voting to have a lower standard of living, which is fine, if that is what they prefer.
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  9745.  @psibug565  you would be surprised how people live in countries where governments don't have a monopoly on water supply! often, they are much better off! the government has no duty to intervene with rules and regulations, but to govern only as directed by the electorate.
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  9746.  @ciro_costa  never happened. but quite happy for you to cite an example of economic growth that you mistakenly believe happened exclusively due to government interference. go ahead!
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  9747.  @Patrick-y4d1z  you get inequalities under any system. the world ain't fair and equal. end of story. supermonopolies only happen when governments interfere to stifle competition. American health care is the prime example of government interference in the market place. as a general rule of economics, do as little as possible to interfere with the free market. the consequences are not great.
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  9748.  @Joe-cb6ex  the demand for every example you mentioned here already exists, and the government only tinkers with the price mechanism in its mindless obsession interference. sure, that interference can make the difference between profit and loss, but it doesn't change the market as such. jet fuel, meat industry, dairy industry, all driven by supply and demand, and the price you pay is reflective more of that supply and demand than government interference. just a joke you mention FDR "investing" billions in housing! where do you think FDR got his funds for "investing"? taxes and loans! taxes stolen from the American people and loans that individuals can get as well as government!
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  9749.  @ciro_costa  OHH! Now I get it! So your examples of countries that made major economic strides forward through government planning are those where private industry was prohibited! USSR and China! Not exactly a fair comparison between what the free market can achieve compared to government command! US during the New Deal was a free market economy, with government (tax payer) intervention that would have recovered even quicker had government allowed the markets to dictate things. Marshall Plan recovery was all based on free market. US taxpayers were compelled to kick start post WW2 recovery, but essentially that is US profits from WW2 being diverted to stimulate a free market in Europe and Japan that needs a catalyst. Mercedes and Toyota did so well because of the free market and the ingenuity and hard work of the people, not government interference.
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  9750.  @ciro_costa  On the other hand, Venezuela and Cuba have economies that have done brilliantly since massive government intervention has directed everything , right?:)
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  9751.  @ciro_costa  I'm curious what you know about Cuba. Are you under the impression that the US embargo on Cuba means that no money can be sent from Cuban Americans in the USA to family back in Cuba?
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  9752.  @ciro_costa  "not doing well before Chavez" you have to be kidding! Venezuela was known as the wealthiest country in Latin America and I can assure you, life in Caracas was head and shoulders above its neighbouring capitals! Latin Americans looked to emigrate TO Venezuela! Now nearly every Venezuelan would choose to get out of Venezuela. Have you actually spoken to any Venezuelan exiles in places like Bogotá or Medellín?
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  9753.  @ciro_costa  "Bangladesh is doing terribly"...compared to what or when? Compared to how it was, Bangladesh is doing much better! Compared to socialist hell holes like Cuba, Bangladesh is doing fine! what are you comparing Bangladesh to?
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  9754.  @ciro_costa  ah, I see, so the only reason a young teacher or nurse in Cuba can earn enough money to survive is to be a prostitute is solely due to the relationship Cuba had with the USSR 4 decades ago! Got it! How, exactly, was Cuba's relationship with the USSR back in the 60's, 70's and 80's different from, say, Poland's? and now, the questions you chose not to answer. what does Cuba produce that it could sell to the world if the US embargo were dropped? second chance to answer. How does Bahamas GDP compare to Cuba's? Make a proper comparison with another country because you cannot find the literacy rate of the Bahamas? can you find the GDP of Bahamas? life expectancy of Bahamas? Have you been to both Bahamas and Cuba? Do teachers in the Bahamas have to sell their bodies to foreigners because they only earn 25 dollars a month? they do in Cuba! such a wonderful democracy they have in Cuba.
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  9755.  @ciro_costa  looks like you are reading absolute nonsense. Singapore is a tiny island. with tiny island natural resources, same as Bermuda, much much smaller than Cuba. So how does your reading explain that some tiny islands with no resources are fantastically wealthy while Cuba is not, or are you willing to concede that GDP per capita is due to other factors and not the size of a place or its natural resources?
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  9756.  @ciro_costa  "all global trade goes through the US" no, it doesn't, as Russia has proven since 2022, where Russia has become the most sanctioned country in the world, but which has a growing economy. you really need to answer my points head on. do you believe the US embargo means Cuban Americans cannot send money home to Cuba? it's a yes or no question!
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  9757.  @ciro_costa  what's truly fascinating about Cuba, is that in the areas where certain levels of privatization have been allowed to take place (restaurants, transport, hard currency stores), business is booming! the US embargo, remarkably, has not prevented stunning growth in the part of the Cuban economy that allows private enterprise! Same with medical care. Some hospitals in Cuba are allowed to take private patients from Bahamas and other Caribbean countries, and they do very well! I mean keep blaming the USSR and the US embargo if it makes you feel better, but it is nothing to do with reality of the modern world!
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  9758.  @ciro_costa  "ships that trade with Cuba" for the third time of asking, what do you think Cuba produces that could fill one ship that the world would like to buy? rotting sugar cane? poor quality cigars long surpassed in quality by the Dominican Republic?
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  9759.  @ciro_costa  in the wonderfully democratic Cuba, what happens to anyone who, heaven forbid, believes the government is not best serving the needs of the people and decide to demonstrate in the streets? Do such dissenters get treated "democratically", or are they ruthlessly suppressed?
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  9760.  @ciro_costa  "the wealth never reached the actual population" shock news for you, the wealthy and the middle class are part of the actual population, you know! and they grew in number and there was a trickle down effect pre Chavez. Those of us who went to Caracas in the 80's remember seeing how even the poor of the city seemed slightly better off than in other countries. the signs of desperation were much less. Pre Chavez, there was no migrant wave to get out of Venezuela. There is now! let's take an average worker, let's say a construction worker. in which country do you think a construction worker has the greatest opportunity to succeed and flourish? a. Bahamas, b. Cuba, c. Venezuela?
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  9761.  @ciro_costa  and boy, all that wealth reaching the common people led to a mass exodus of Venezuela by the common people! and this makes sense to you? do you think Bahamian teachers earn 25 dollars a month and work at night as a prostitute? or does that just happen in "democratic" Cuba?
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  9762.  @ciro_costa  I'm still really intrigued by this theory you have that small island nations with no resources are destined to be poor! Your excuse making for Cuba seems to look pathetic when you consider Singapore, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Malta, Maldives, the list is endless!
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  9763. right, so it's not really about a proposed foreign agents' law, but about forcing EU and US policies on the elected government, ie. US/EU meddling 2.0, following the Maidan interference. Got it.
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  9764. this wet, blithering fake Tory is why no one wants to vote them back into power.
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  9765. Oh, the 16 months old "Russia is running out of weapons/ammo" line still being sung by deluded fools in the West! What next? "the sanctions are working really well"? "The oil price cap will ruin the Russian economy"? "Russia can't take Bakhmut, it's convicts armed with shovels are so poorly led"?
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  9766.  @nomadicjack  original post said "ministers" obviously opposition members in the Duma are going to protest Putin's actions. That is what happens in a democracy. Couldn't happen in Ukraine of course because all opposition in Ukraine is banned!
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  9767.  @valevisa8429  it's not me that said Russia is a democracy. The post said Duma deputies had written protest letters decrying Putin's leadership. I said that that is what happens in democracies...it's called freedom of speech (currently such a protest would not be possible in Ukraine), so my conclusion is that, at least in the matter of free speech against the leader, Russia is MORE of a democracy than Ukraine. How could one conclude otherwise? Unless you are living in another universe.
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  9768.  @wom_Bat  sounds like what happens in a vibrant democracy where freedom of speech is tolerated......couldn't happen in Ukraine!
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  9769.  @jeckjeck3119  what does any of the above have to do with a group of Russian political leaders exercising their democratic right to express their opposition to Russia's leader? Again, I merely point out that the same could not happen in Ukraine, agreed?
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  9770.  @jeckjeck3119  pointing out incidents that you claim show Russia is far from a democracy does nothing to challenge the fact that freedom of speech in Russia seems alive and well in the case of these Duma deputies protesting Putin's leadership. You don't seem particularly willing to explain why, if Ukraine is a democracy, such written and spoken opposition to Zelensky's leadership is completely banned!
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  9771.  @valevisa8429  Calling a special military operation a "war" is not a crime in my book, and it is not the freedom of speech one would associate with a democracy. But, again, you refuse to address my point! I never said that Russia was a perfect democracy. I said that a group of Duma deputies proclaiming their opposition to Putin IS an example of the kind of freedom of speech that DOES happen in a democracy, and that all those who think Ukraine is a democracy NEVER address the FACT that such a declaration of opposition to Zelensky would not even be possible, given that Zelensky has, most undemocratically, banned all opposition parties. You can ignore the elephant in the room if you wish, but the fact remains....there are elements of democracy that exist in Russia that are totally banned in Ukraine.
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  9772.  @valevisa8429  what about the man in Latvia jailed for stomping on a Ukrainian flag? Given you LOVE pointing to undemocratic court sentences, how about you condemn the "democracy" of EU member, Latvia?
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  9773. the time to grumble about Qatari intolerance was years ago. Now the decision is to go and play football and shut up, or not go. Once the decision is made to participate, it is clear financial gain and popularity trump moral outrage, so any huffing puffing now is just nonsense
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  9774.  @ingai4420  the world saw NATO in Kabul in 2021 when the sandal wearing goat herders, the Taliban, killed 13, seized millions of dollars worth of NATO equipment, and kicked NATO out of the airport with NATO in absolute panic! NATO is a paper tiger. how is NATO's electric tanks project going?:)
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  9775.  @jamesm875  so dumb, can't even figure out I'm not Russian!
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  9776.  @KittenBowl1  the truth has never been a popularity contest. how popular was Galileo when he said the sun, not the earth, is the centre of our solar system?
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  9777.  @AB-sr9mc  you wish. counter anything I say, but your wish for censorship won't work. get a clue!
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  9778.  @jamesm875  dumb, maybe, but true and to the point. would you call yourself a troll, "James"?
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  9779.  @WHS_reviews  semi retired old British guys living in France like me don't need any rubles for speaking our mind. However, NATO trolls need some pennies these days, given the rampant inflation they face and the fuel poverty hitting their sinking ship of an economy.
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  9780.  @isthatyougordon7719  Duncan, king of Scotland, in Macbeth, just hilarious to some.
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  9781.  @gluteusmaximus1657  Both Russian trolls and the Brothers Grimm are indeed experts at teaching the world important moral lessons, so, yes, agreed
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  9782.  @tellyboy17  higher cost to Russia, or higher cost to Ukraine? that's the important question.
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  9783.  @bolobalaman  and some people with a typical Western name are actually from the West! Any chance you want to bet on my nationality so I can take some money off you? or, are you not brave enough to put your money where your mouth is, "Music"?
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  9784.  @balung  come to Spain and I'll treat you! why not? even online via Zoom, it would be fun.
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  9785. @Mr_Biz don't challenge the West's narrative with simple math! Russia, with 30 million men it can mobilize tomorrow if needed, compared to Ukraine's 300,000, such things must be ignored or censored!
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  9786.  @bolobalaman  anything is possible, but being forced on to the next train from Spain to Ukraine is as unlikely as you ever being able to figure out the nationality and location of someone!
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  9787.  @tellyboy17  what makes you so sure the losses are unsustainable for Russia, but not for Ukraine?
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  9788.  @tellyboy17  is it always true in warfare that the defenders have much lower losses than the attackers?:)
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  9789.  @tellyboy17  so when Ukraine was the attacker in Kharkov and Kherson, did Ukraine have much higher losses than Russia?
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  9790.  mark Mierzejewski  Let this sink in....a bunch of mercenaries and convicts just took control of a city defended by Ukraine's finest, NATO trained and armed! Let this sink in...in 2021 a bunch of sandal wearing goat herders strolled into Kabul, killed 13 US soldiers, seized all the weaponry abandoned by NATO, and kicked NATO out of Afghanistan in absolute panic and mayhem. Let this sink in....Russia has hypersonic missiles and its finest weaponry it hasn't even turned to yet, in case its needed against NATO, Then again, all Russia needs to do is call on the Taliban to win the day, if needed.
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  9791. @mark Mierzejewski no, i never mentioned that this war as the same as anything! read my words again. What I expected was that, after 20 years, the US would have eliminated the enemy. They failed to do that. Or, alternatively, admit after one year that they were incapable of eliminating the enemy and left. yep, let it sink in! a bunch or mercs and convicts just defeated Ukraine's finest, NATO trained, NATO armed, NATO financed! Mercs and Convicts 1, Ukraine and NATO 0! Let that sink in! You deluded, brainwashed Western dopes have no clue about Russia and how Russia operates. but you are learning, slowly. see you in Bakhmut!
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  9792.  @bolobalaman  How's life in Kiev, "Music"? Had any electricity in the last week?:)
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  9793. @mark Mierzejewski let this sink in...in a war of attrition, preserving your resources is all important. how sure are you that Ukraine has access to enough resources to win, given Ukraine is bankrupt and begging?
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  9794.  @tellyboy17  you didn't answer the question. let's try again. yes or no. does the attacker always lose more than the defenders? it's a yes or no answer!
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  9795.  @ingai4420  after 20 years of achieving nothing, the USA was kicked out, lost 13 of its own, and showed what a disorganized bunch of fools they are. leaving millions of dollars worth of equipment to the taliban is incompetence and negligence in the extreme. total loss. US Intelligence, "it will take the Taliban 90 days to take Kabul" reality = 90 hours! you have a bunch of fools in charge of NATO and it shows. No one is saying afghanistan is a nice place or that afghanistan won. the world saw how useless and pathetic NATO is at doing something simple like a withdrawal.
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  9796.  @carolwilliams8511  it's because we think Russia is doing so great that we DON'T volunteer for the army! Why try to fix something that is working, you dope?
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  9797. this guy is head and shoulders above the rest of the field, and they know it. it's getting to the point where Lefty media and neo con candidates fear him engaging in debate with them.
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  9798. Janet Yellen (she is always right) said inflation was just transitory, so I don't believe there is still any inflation around. must be imaginary
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  9799. Only when sanctions on Russia are lifted will fuel prices stop rising at quite the same rate (they won't come down, but start to stabilize)
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  9800. Russian jets? But, Russia has no control of the skies, we were told! All those tanks pouring in from NATO and there are Russian jets over them?
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  9801. nope, if the dead guy was a mercenary, no Geneva Convention protections exist. too bad.
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  9802.  @BunFight  I take it you're aware, Bunfight, that other European nations are foolish enough to take in an even breathtakingly higher number of asylum seekers compared to the UK? apart from the ones that are proud of their identity and don't want Muslim gangs causing mayhem, like Hungary, and Poland, and Slovakia, and Serbia and many more in fact.
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  9803.  @polythenewrappedme6102  France never had to keep their exit shut. Brexit or no Brexit, France wants these illegal immigrant parasites to get into the UK, so Brexit made no difference whatsoever.
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  9804.  @susancurtis1651  France is part of Schengen, so France is no longer able to control its borders. That's why France is delighted to get paid to pretend to be concerned but in reality keep the hordes of migrants moving in the direction of Dover. Nothing will change until UK decides to tow boats back and dump the migrants back in France.
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  9805.  @polythenewrappedme6102  the size of the French navy is irrelevant. the french have no guts for any kind of confrontation. they can't even control their rioting, looting teenagers.
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  9806. I fear you are wrong. I fear the 4 dimwits you listed genuinely think Ukraine is winning most handsomely!
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  9807.  @TheBarnestah  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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  9808.  @GlanderBrondurg  1) I don't recall Germany and France wringing their hands over failing to implement the Minsk accords due to "Russian agents" being present in the DPR and LPR. I DO recall Poroshenko explaining that Minsk accords bought Ukraine 8 years to militarize and develop the economy. THERE WAS ZERO EFFORT BY THE WEST/UKRONAZIS TO IMPLEMENT MINSK AND ZERO EFFORT TO EXPLORE AUTONOMY OR ELECTIONS. THEY MAXIMIZED THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO SHELL THE DONBASS TO BITS AND YOU KNOW IT. 2) Surprising as this may sound to you, when ethnic Russians are being shelled day in and day out for 8 years, Russian guerrilla groups may well feel the slightest inkling to go and help their cousins and brethren! 3) As Putin said, given the West refused to address Russia's concerns at the negotiating table, as required by the Budapest Memorandum, Russia had to resort to other means. That is the West's fault again. 4) Russia is NOT reclaiming a "role as a superpower". It already was one. Look at its military arsenal, look at its influence around the world, look at its exports and how dependent so much of the globe is on them. USA and the West SERIOUSLY miscalculated how the US had slipped in world influence and how much China and Russia had risen. This mess is happening because the West is in absolute panic at how its unipolar world is crumbling. The only question is how many innocent people will end up dying due to this refusal by the West to treat Russia's concerns with respect and fairness. That simple.
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  9809.  @ashyfernandez  keep laughing at all those dead Ukrainians at NATO's behest.
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  9810.  @sababugs1125  but someone can't be killed twice. what is the kill rate?
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  9811.  @victory-ukraine  you need help? but we are told Ukraine is advancing, that Russia is running out of weapons, that Putin is about to be overthrown. no, you don't need any help, just keep winning with all those weapons you seized from Russia in your glorious victories in Kharkov and Kherson.
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  9812.  @henrikbergman4055  so, Henrik, given you are 100% sure I am a "russian bot", as opposed to an old British guy semi retired in Spain with a passion for commenting on the injustices of this conflict in Ukraine, where I used to work. how about you put your money where your mouth is and bet a $1000 you are right, and that I am lying?
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  9813.  @theTeknoViking  if only you did know!
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  9814.  @theTeknoViking  and Russian Tornados destroy ammo dumps, weapons and soldiers every day.
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  9815.  @theTeknoViking  no, what's funny is imbeciles backing Ukraine can't figure out the reality of what's going on.
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  9816.  @theTeknoViking  and Ghost of Kiev is confirmed to be a real pilot
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  9817.  @mattslowikowski3530  needs to stop Russia? so how is Ukraine going to recapture Crimea by stopping Russia where Russian forces are now?
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  9818.  @mattslowikowski3530  yeah, always wise to see how mission creep led the US to being kicked out of Vietnam by the Vietcong, with loads of young Americans flying back on a one way ticket in a bodybag. And Biden thinks US and NATO interference in Ukraine would work out differently. Can't wait for Poland to send in some troops to see how hot the Russian shells feels when its shrapnel burns through your body parts.
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  9819.  @theTeknoViking  if only it were that easy! what if your neighbor deserves to be attacked?
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  9820.  @bramposthumus9300  happy to answer any question, "Bram Posthumus", just fire away
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  9821.  @henrikbergman4055  I gave your comment a thumbs up, just because I like to read the words of deluded imbeciles who can't distinguish a Russian bot from a real Western person who calls out deluded bs wherever it appears:|)
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  9822.  @markojuric4954  yep, she said it, but then her tweet was immediately taken down when her handlers pointed out that a truth like that was not part of the Western narrative, so it was the usual "pretend it never happened, pretend we never said that" moment for the EU censors.
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  9823. looks like Russia is still running out of ammo and weapons
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  9824.  @bluedragontoybash2463  ha ha, brilliant, that one is the real punchline!:)
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  9825. karma
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  9826.  @TheRealBlueValhalla  source for what?
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  9827.  @oleksii000  no one said Ukraine was committing genocide in Donbass. Read what I said carefully instead of imagining what I said. Neither Serbia nor Ukraine committed genocide. NATO intervened against Serbia to support separatists in Kosovo. Russia intervened against Ukraine to support separatists in Donbass. Either condemn both interventions, or neither. just don't be a hypocrite.
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  9828.  @oleksii000  i called you a hypocrite because you back NATO intervention in Kosovo but not the Russian intervention in Ukraine. I'm no hypocrite because I don't care who invades whom. simple as that.
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  9829.  @bonnie7898  There was no genocide attempted in Donbass. Indiscriminate shelling of civilians doesn't clear the bar of genocide. It's still enough for Russia to intervene, but not genocide. Now, as to Serbia, let's see if you can produce evidence of a "systematic attempt to eradicate". systematic would mean a modus operandi, a pattern of behavior that was ordered from above. any government decree from Belgrade mentioning "genocide"? how about the names of a few villages where this happened? If I gave you the names of a few villages where the Kosovars did the same to Serb families, would you be convinced that Kosovo was committing genocide against the Kosovo Serbs? But, for the sake of argument, let us assume you are right, that Serbia had committed genocide. Then your argument becomes this: that whenever a military power is convinced genocide is happening, said military power has the right to invade, bomb, kill, murder, occupy, destroy wherever it wants, in the name of ending the genocide. sovereignty, territorial integrity, targeting infrastructure, collateral damage, all is acceptable. it all comes down to the definition and interpretation of "genocide". in that case, please, never ever again criticize Russia for invading sovereign territory, nor for waging war in such places. Just restrict your criticism to Russia's wayward interpretation of "genocide", because everything else is acceptable in your playbook.
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  9830.  @bonnie7898  I do plenty of reading and thinking. Moreover, I have been to these places and talked to people there. September and October 2021 spent in Albania and Kosovo. I have insights you don't have. The situations in Kosovo and Donbass are indeed comparable. In Kosovo, a separatist group was supported by murderous intervention by NATO, which is STILL the occupying force there (NATO, a "defensive alliance" you laughingly refer to). In Donbass, a separatist group was supported by murderous intervention by Russia, which is still the occupying force there. These are facts. No matter how you perform your mental gymnastics by defending one occupation as "preventing genocide", but not the other, shows how absurd your stance is...and we haven't even started on Iraq and Afghanistan! Russia is merely copying the playbook of NATO and USA. Now is not the time to hypocritically wring your hands about Russia's actions. Should have done that every time USA did exactly the same thing.
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  9831.  @bonnie7898  In Switzerland, only 4% of the population speak Italian as a native language. Almost all these Italian speakers are in just one canton, Ticino. Switzerland recognizes Italian as an official state language. Please explain why Switzerland has made a terrible mistake and should insist that those Italian speakers use Swiss German in all educational and government and legal spheres.
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  9832. "Western intelligence says Russia is behind these protests" sure, just like Western intelligence said the Taliban would need 90 days to get to Kabul and that the Wagners were a demoralized force supplied with just shovels in Bakhmut. Could be the masses are furious Chisinau chose to cut itself off from Russian gas and now people are going hungry and are poorer. might be a reason.
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  9833. problem is, we have a black swan out there, ...Sweden. Why the rush to the first lockdown when Sweden was doing just fine with no lockdown?
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  9834.  @chrisward9774  except that Zelensky is NOT the leader of anything. He is the puppet of the oligarchs, the Azovs and the corrupt Western elite. Learn the difference between "leader" and "puppet". Zelensky is the perfect puppet, ideal for Vogue photo shoots etc. He ain't no leader.
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  9835.  @chrisward9774  Remember, Zelensky the puppet was about to sign an agreement with Russia in Istanbul, when one of his handlers, Boris Johnson, flew hastily to Kiev to tell Zelensky, the puppet, not to sign anything.
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  9836.  @chrisward9774  In Russia, Putin controls the oligarchs. In Ukraine, the oligarchs control Zelensky. Learn the difference, for better or worse.
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  9837.  @scaleyback217  1) so for the crime of having a native language the same as those who sinned in the past, means there must be severe limits placed on such a native language today? Not in the enlightened world. only in your barbaric world of discrimination and russophobia
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  9838.  @scaleyback217  2) "Ukrainian government FAVOURED the Ukrainian language". If it were just a question of "favouring": a language, we would not have this war right now. Learn the difference between "favouring" a language and outright compelling 40% of the country to drop its native language in public and be FORCED to adopt a foreign language in public. If this were the case in ANY other part of the world, you would be on the other side, but your Russophobia knows no bounds to the extent you will deny the freedom of speech and human rights of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
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  9839.  @scaleyback217  Imagine an English speaking community in Gwent, 90% English speaking, no real knowledge of Welsh. You would approve of legislation that demanded all those English speakers use exclusively Welsh throughout their education, and that ALL government business be conducted in Welsh? Really?
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  9840.  @scaleyback217  Would you back Spain insisting on only Spanish be used in official circles and in schools in Cataluna? or would you support the Catalans in having the freedom to use their native language where and when they liked?
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  9841. @S-D we are a small band, but we pay attention, unlike the sheep:)
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  9842.  @humanonearth1  targeting civilians is never legitimate. if that happens, you will find neither side in a conflict has a monopoly on such behavior. Do you assume the Azov Battalion are better or worse than the Donbass militia in such regard?
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  9843.  @humanonearth1  it is not a question of a language being "elevated enough". it is about the freedom to be allowed to use your native language as you wish, and as you have always been allowed to do before tyranny took over, Learn the difference.
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  9844.  @humanonearth1  the Soviet way has nothing to do with the Russian way under Putin. The Russian Federation is not the USSR, learn some basic facts.
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  9845.  @humanonearth1  Putin and his government have a fine record in defending the rights of ethnic Russians, be it in Chechnya, Georgia, Transnistria or Ukraine, and it is good to see a government defend the rights of its people. If only the West had a few more defenders of their people's rights. Putin, Orban and Vucic lead the way. Learn the truth. so gtfo and grow the F up, deluded sheep of Western lies.
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  9846.  @humanonearth1  and so you should. you will learn a lot by reading the Russian perspective instead of swallowing all the nonsense from the West
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  9847.  @humanonearth1  let me guess, you started your account 8 years ago you were so disgusted by the Azov Battalion shelling civilians in Donbass? oh, I forgot, that horrendous war crime is acceptable to you, right?
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  9848.  @humanonearth1  just out of curiosity, what was your first reaction when you heard that the Ukrainian government had decided to welcome the Azov Nazis into the national defense force? Did you celebrate wildly and get your own swastika tattoo?
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  9849.  @humanonearth1  just one more question, for now. Were you overjoyed to hear that Ruslan Onyshenko had been released from jail to fight for Ukraine? And the Ukrainian attack on the kindergarten in Gorlovka, did that turn your stomach? or make you feel proud?
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  9850. It's only the West talking non stop about "Ukraine fatigue"
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  9851. More lies from Mathias. The evidence of the Tochka U missile that hit Kramatorsk is that it was a Ukrainian missile. Forced evacuations have only JUST begun, so, Mathias, the Amnesty report is TRUE, not enough HAS BEEN DONE in the past to evacuate people (hence Zelensky is only NOW doing what is needed to save lives).
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  9852. wishful thinking. combat flying is a whole lot more than just flying. Russian pilots have years of experience, combat experience, are chomping at the bit to take on NATO in the air. Bring it on and get your body bags ready.
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  9853.  @everready800  exactly. the idea that, somehow, Russia is going to be defeated in a ground war and then choose the option of admitting defeat over using a nuke or two to achieve victory via that route is bonkers. Russia has all the cards needed to play the winning hand.
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  9854. "a campaign is gathering pace to retake Kherson".....so why have the media gone silent on what went terribly wrong one month later? it's Russia advancing toward Nilolayev. and the "experts" are silent!
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  9855. Just curious. What would the youth crime statistics look like if all the crimes involving migrant and offspring of migrant perpetrators were removed from the list?
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  9856. not many white working class girls to rape in Rwanda.....I'm guessing Youtube will give me a week's ban this time.
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  9857. No one is saying that Ukraine should be expected to bring its forces and weapons out into the open. What we are saying is just be honest, and say civilian deaths occur because Russia targets forces and weapons that are concealed in cities, so obviously there will be collateral damage. Just be honest and say the price of civilian deaths is a price worth paying for the hope that forces and weapons, hidden in residential areas, survive and avoid obliteration by Russia.
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  9858. Remember the BBC mantra..."Ukraine good, Russia bad"...so, shopping mall shelled = terrorism, intentional targeting of civilians, outrage...same day. 6 year old girl killed in residential area of Makeyrevsk, Donetsk by Ukrainian shell, errrr. don't report that!
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  9859. the rise in shop lifting has nothing to do with tough economic times. how much shop lifting was there during the Great Depression? it's because there is no deterrent. slap on the wrist encourages shop lifting.
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  9860. voila le pouvoir d'OTAN, 7 mois pour préparer les défences aerieenes de la capitale....
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  9861. well, she got the idea of the benevolent dictator for a day right. the only question is, would 24 hours be enough time to reverse all the Biden/Harris destructive madness USA currently suffers from?
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  9862. MTG is 100% right. Impoverishing Americans in order to fund nazis in Kiev is an absolute disgrace. Whyever did the Senate reverse its decision to NOT ever fund the Azov Battalion?
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  9863. no grain deal was cancelled by Russia last month. the grain deal expired. more lies from Sky.
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  9864.  @Maggie2323  Putin stands up for Russians and Russian speakers every time, and single-handedly he has led the world into a multipolar place. Listen to Putin speeches....he is a master thinker. Recently Putin held a 3 and half hour Q and A session with critical journalists. Western leaders can't do that, and Biden wouldn't last 2 minutes.
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  9865. as opposed to Boris Johnson/Liz Truss/Rishi Sunak/the next loser
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  9866. @Brian Waas how are NATO's tests with hypersonic weapons going?
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  9867. @Brian Waas Brian said back in March that Russia was running out of weapons, and that Ghost of Kiev was real.
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  9868.  @zytoses9223  thanks for your assessment of NATO. what about Russia?
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  9869.  @svenvdw4894  no timelines for Russia, ever. Only the West creates timelines for Russia and then pretends someone in the Kremlin announced such!
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  9870. @Brian Waas i would have no idea how to hack anything. and why would you conclude that Russia is short on weapons? Western media has been saying such since March, but I see no evidence of it. What evidence do you see that, for example, Russian artillery strikes are way down on April's totals?
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  9871. "still in the early days of the offensive" honey, we're in the middle of week FOUR! 10,000 dead Ukrainians. At the current rate of advance it will take 16 years to reach the Sea of Azov. Not one single Ukrainian fighter has reached even the FIRST line of Russian defence! How about you offer some honest reporting for once?
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  9872. Russia fights wars of attrition. The West has a limited attention span. Russia will therefore win.
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  9873. Mike Martin still pushing for all of Ukraine to be destroyed and to let Russia maximize the number of Ukrainian soldiers it can kill. a real evil piece of work is he.
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  9874. right, so he's going to New York. No fighting on the frontline for him. just like Zelensky pleading for more aid, but no news on Zelensky selling his Miami mansion. i think we see the pattern here.
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  9875.  @unworthy42  remember, Western media say Putin is dying of cancer. at his age, not much use on the frontline. Zelensky has used his comedic ability to show how laughable it is to pose for Vogue on the same day hundreds of Ukrainian cannon fodder were wiped out. Quite a joker he is. As the phrase goes, he who laughs last...
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  9876.  @eyemc2450  he is way too healthy for the West, and unlike Western leaders, has planned well for this conflict
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  9877. the 70,000 massacred Ukrainian troops might disagree with you
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  9878. The Russian withdrawal began on Sept 2. this is no heroic victory because there was no battle, even though thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder got massacred, as in Kherson, Battle of the Bulge, futile last throw of the dice
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  9879.  @anthonychin1873  I repeat it so the likes of you can get a perspective that the media you swallow, hook line and sinker, can be countered, for once, with the truth of a situation
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  9880.  @antirashists  am sure you will be smiling and laughing all through your freezing winter with inflation, recession, unemployment and pensioners freezing to death....tell me again, the sanctions were supposed to achieve what exactly? ha ha
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  9881.  @antirashists  you are missing the point. the high inflation in Russia is now GOING DOWN, the economy is recovering. the high inflation in the West is GOING UP! Do you get the point? Russia heading in the right direction, the West heading in the wrong direction. The sanctions are working? the aim of the sanctions was to cripple the Russian economy so that Russia could not afford to wage war? You see Russia continuing to wage war, or you see Russia putting an end to all this? I mean maybe you are blind and think the sanctions have really effected a change of attitude in Moscow. if anything, the hawks in Moscow want MORE war, a declaration of war, double the soldiers and unleash the massive stockpiles of weapons Russia has built up. Too much time swallowing Western propaganda has blinded you to the reality. Russia is winning, convincingly. Ukraine is bankrupt, supported only by US aid.....you think US aid will continue forever?. already weapons are being supplied in only a trickle and has to be ordered! NATO is tapped out!
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  9882.  @anthonychin1873  I'm in touch with a good many Russians and Ukrainians, and I think my grasp of reality in Russia is pretty damn accurate, but hey, if you want to believe the side that said Ghost of Kiev was real, go ahead.
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  9883.  @anthonychin1873  if the sanctions intended to cause massive inflation and an energy crisis in the West, plus rising profits for Russia's energy exports, then I guess they are working just fine! The ruble is strong because most of the world is happy to trade with Russia, and European gas companies have to pay in rubles, ha ha. Your nonsense about "oh, the ruble will collapse when the Russians can no longer manipulate the market" is pathetic whining and whistling in the wind. To any neutral observer one can see the sanctions have failed, the West is in panic over recession and a miserable winter, Russia is doing just fine, and it's German pensioners that will freeze to death on Christmas Day, not Russians. Have a very, merry Christmas and New Year, lol.
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  9884.  @anthonychin1873  what makes you think Russia can't get spare parts from any third country? Just like Europe is now buying Russian oil via India. Sanctions don't work...just ask Venezuela, Iran and Cuba
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  9885.  @antirashists  the problem is, Wolfgang, that you can't distinguish between propaganda and the truth, hence your confusion and hence the absurd support you give the Azov Nazis in their efforts to commit genocide in Donbass
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  9886.  @anthonychin1873  grasping at straws is when Habeck goes begging Qatar, Nigeria, USA and Canada for LNG contracts and comes back empty handed! you are right, inflation is not new. recession is not new. a cold winter is not new. But what is new is a cold winter that is accompanied by rampant inflation and recession due to the West's sanctions on a country that it is trying to cripple! This is unique! Ask yourself, when the sanctions were introduced, who among the Western leaders told us that a result of the sanctions would be a strong ruble, and weakened euro, that Russia's war effort would continue unabated, that Russia would not be isolated but keep trading with three quarters of the world profitably, and that inflation and recession would hit the West? Who announced all that in March? uhhh, no one, because they were too damn dumb to realize Russia is strong enough to survive sanctions, and the West is not strong enough to survive with no Russian energy. The sanctions are a miserable failure for the West. only a fool would be blind to that reality.
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  9887.  @anthonychin1873  if "no spare parts" is the crowning achievement of all the Western sanctions, I think we can say the sanctions have failed! What makes you think China doesn't supply Russia with all the spare parts it needs? You see. Western arrogance assumed Russia would be isolated. On the contrary, Russia has plenty of trading partners that will break the sanctions with joy. BIG miscalculation, and now the West is looking isolated as fewer and fewer countries want any sanctions on Russia.
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  9888. it is curious how such violence is so much more prevalent in black communities the world over. i wonder why.
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  9889.  @stevenmoore3480  compare the renovated Mariupol under Russia today with the absolute dump of a s**thole as it was under Zelensky.
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  9890.  @Swish-x7b  par for the course, a fool who is incapable of dealing with facts. how many millions of Ukrainian refugees are there now? How is the Ukrainian economy doing? bankrupt, or extra bankrupt?:) EU Sanctions package number 15 ready yet? Himars and Atacms allowing Ukraine to march into Crimea next week? look in the mirror to see the CUX
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  9891.  @DecievedREALITY999  If I'm Russian then you are the Pope. Grasp reality that there are plenty of Westerners that fully support Putin and Russia. The updated Freedom Index Score has Russia way ahead of the UK. Online crime convictions in the UK just dropped UK down to one position below Venezuela! Get real!
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  9892.  @mikemike9604  In Russia, you are free from getting stabbed by an African or Muslim immigrant. not in the UK. In Russia you are free to say anything you wish against Islam and can even burn a Quran if you want with no repercussions. Blasphemy laws dressed up as anti Islamophobia laws now operate in the UK. Women in Russia are free to walk down the street without getting their bag stolen and then raped by Pakistani rape gangs. Russia is SOOOOO free compared to Britanistan. You know it too, it's just it makes you cry to admit it. Russia also has plenty of prison space too, so hardened criminals are locked up, not released to attack the public as they are in the UK.
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  9893.  @mikemike9604  In Russia you can shout out "who the f**k is Allah?" on any street corner all day and night if you wish. please, go and try that anywhere in the UK and see what happens to you.
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  9894.  @DecievedREALITY999  If I am Russian, then you are the Pope. In the latest Freedom Index Score you will find the UK below Somalia and Venezuela! Russia is way above the UK!
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  9895.  @Swish-x7b  Not only can I say "I hate Putin, Biden, Macron and Starmer" but where I am I can stand on the street corner and shout all day and night "Mohammed was a murderer, who the f**k is Allah?" No pivots! ...go for it...c'mon baby, shout out anti Islam chants! Those Birmingham lads will carve you up in an instant:)
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  9896.  @Swish-x7b  Just curious, where you live, can you go to work and tell all your colleagues that a person with XY chromosomes is 100% male and can never, ever be a woman? can you put such biological reality in writing, share it with all workmates and suffer no consequences? hmmm
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  9897.  @DecievedREALITY999  If I'm Russian then you must be the Pope!
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  9898.  @DecievedREALITY999  the bad news is in the Freedom Index released today, UK is on a pathetic 9 out of 100! The UK score dropped on the news that a man was jailed in the UK for shouting at a police dog and for shouting "anti establishment rhetoric". would never happen in Russia!
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  9899.  @DecievedREALITY999  Zelensky did NOT change any laws, he just ignored existing ones and is now a leader with no mandate!
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  9900.  @DecievedREALITY999  Unless you understand Portuguese, French or Italian you won't get much out of my experimental videos or understand what is experimental about them. Anything is strange to those who understand little.
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  9901.  @DecievedREALITY999  We must be looking at different charts. How are the relative freedoms evaluated in the chart you are looking at?
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  9902.  @DecievedREALITY999  why are you blabbing on about a nonsensical chart that is 100% subjective and means absolutely nothing?
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  9903.  @propterhawk4256  thanks for proving that you know nothing about Russia, but you have swallowed hook, line and sinker the nonsense that Western MSM feeds you on a daily basis!
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  9904.  @DecievedREALITY999  the problem is that the chart I am looking at puts special emphasis on the freedom to say "who the f**k is Allah?" does that freedom exist in the UK?
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  9905.  @DecievedREALITY999  what value does the chart's authors give to being free from Pakistani rape gangs? did that feature in the calculations?
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  9906.  @DecievedREALITY999  would i be right in saying these several indexes you mention are conceived by those in Western countries?
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  9907.  @DecievedREALITY999  help me out. where on the chart would i find Ukrainian pensioners compelled to be shoved into the Russian meatgrinder in Chasov Yar? Are their freedoms registering very high up the chart?
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  9908.  @DecievedREALITY999  Again, help me out. I'm looking at this chart really carefully...where do I find some reference to the freedom of a teacher to show a picture of Mohammed to his class without being forced into hiding forevermore as a consequence? were on the chart would i find that, please?
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  9909.  @DecievedREALITY999  on the contrary, you have foolishly taken conjecture and bias as some kind of fact, and that's pathetic! there is no such thing as "freedom data". just a bunch of academics playing around with subjective notions. it's all childish. my "rants" are real world examples of freedoms or lack of freedoms that show you what nonsense such charts are. I discredit what is pure tripe, and a "freedom index" is as laughable as a "happiness index". but it is a chuckle to see a dope like you puts some store in it. happy reading. let me know when you want to learn something about the real world.
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  9910.  @DecievedREALITY999  where on the index does it evaluate the freedom to be able to watch television without having to be forced to purchase a licence? hmmm
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  9911.  @DecievedREALITY999  help me out with this freedom data thing, please. where do i find the score for Ukrainian women living in the UK with her kids while her husband is in the operating theatre having the remainder of his legs removed after being forced to fight on the Pokrovsk front? where do i find that data please? remember, I'm Russian, not British, so i don't know how to read these charts so well. please help me oh Mr wise Western dude!
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  9912.  @Swish-x7b  Not only can I repeat "I hate Putin, Biden, Macron and Starmer", I live in a place where my daughter never has to worry about Pakistani rape gangs! How are the white working class girl victims doing these days in places like Rotherham and Telford?
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  9913.  @DecievedREALITY999  the woman in the UK that was arrested for praying silently while standing in the street...where did that data get registered in this Freedom Index?
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  9914. Travel back to Orwell's 1984 and you will find a woman arrested in the UK for silently praying while standing in the street!
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  9915.  @DecievedREALITY999  under the UK's new laws on misogyny, do I have my full freedoms guaranteed if I say "stupid b***h!"? or would i be arrested for terrorism? and where does that figure in to the Freedom Index? We Russians are not so sure about how these new laws oh so increase freedom in the UK. I'm sure you can explain it!
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  9916.  @Swish-x7b  Despite being the world's most sanctioned country, the Russian economy is growing, unlike the stagnant ones of the West, and Putin is just waiting for EU Sanctions package 15 to see how that one fails. So, no, Russian pharmacies are full of anything you want. How's the stabbing rate in the UK these days? any more riots of late due to yet more immigrants killing you natives?
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  9917. poor deluded Ukrainian soldier repeating misinformation about Bakhmut's significance as a a high ground bulwark and major transportation hub. He never got the memo from Zelensky's Ministry of Truth that the narrative switched to "Bakhmut is of no significance". oops!
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  9918. only a fool like Chip would assume how long Putin thought this conflict would take. Quit playing amateur psychologist, Chip. Learn something about the 8 years of shelling endured by the Donbass at the hands of the Azov Nazis if you want to get SOME kind of insight into Putin's mind.
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  9919.  @paulgibbon5991  giving you the truth to help your poor little confused mind figure things out
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  9920.  @sarkis951  the usual defense of the deluded Azov Nazi supporters, suppression of the truth and the only tool available to prevent honesty on the internet, censorship. Luckily this is not Ukraine, and free speech is still allowed, Nazi lover
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  9921.  @stephenhill545  what leads you to assume there are any attackers exposed to machine gun fire? sounds like you are reporting from the frontlines there!:) Ukrainians themselves are reporting that Russian artillery comes in at a rate of 9 to 1.
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  9922.  @thegreatdane3627  the answer is they wouldn't need anything more at all. Maybe the English word "need" is one you don't quite understand?
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  9923.  @thegreatdane3627  How many millions will be without power and water in Ukraine after the next wave of Russian attacks that NATO can't stop, do you think? Just copying the West's "rules based order", as was done in Iraq and Serbia
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  9924.  @thegreatdane3627  which sanctions package will bring Russia to its knees? 9? 12? 15? what's your number?:)
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  9925.  @richardploss4494  who is "we"? not a problem. if "you" prefer the total destruction of the country you claim to support, that's "your" choice. There is always the hope it will teach "you" a lesson.
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  9926.  @richardploss4494  would the attempted blowing up of the Crimea Bridge qualify as "terrorism"? Russia is just copying the West's "rules based order"
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  9927.  @richardploss4494  you know the West is losing when it dreams up an energy price cap that no one outside the West will follow! Get ready for your bills to go even higher very soon:)
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  9928.  @richardploss4494  oh, and YOU backed the discrimination of forcing Russian speakers in 90% Russian speaking communities to be compelled to be educated in a foreign language. YOU backed all that abuse of human rights. Now you have what you deserve.
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  9929.  @richardploss4494  just remember. EVERY attack by Russia that you describe as "terrorism" is just Russia copying what USA and NATO have done in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Serbia, in Libya, and so on. Russia is just following, exactly, the "rules based order" of the West. You should be overjoyed! Unless, that is, you are a terrible hypocrite!? Please explain, what is Russia doing that the West never did?
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  9930. such a pleasure to watch the fake unity disintegrate when things get tribal on essentials like energy. but, of course, our wise leaders knew this would happen when they imposed sanctions, right?
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  9931. it's not complicated. how many far right white attackers have killed Muslims in the last 20 years. how many Muslims or sub Saharan immigrants, or sons of immigrants, have killed white people in the last 20 years?
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  9932.  @thegreatdane3627  by that rule, you should go by thegreatdane
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  9933.  @maximusvaliant8597  let's see you put your money where your mouth is! $1000 bet that my real name is Duncan Smith. are you a coward, and will back down? or you ready to bet?
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  9934.  @ericconnor8419  you live in the past. the two most powerful countries by far, these days, are Russia and China. the Western powers have so reduced themselves to insignificance that the vast majority of the globe laughs at them. Biden is a senile incoherent babbling fool. MBS just recently sneered at him and then called Putin to chat about it all. ALL those nations who abstained on a vote regarding the invasion basically said they don't care, but later proved they are more than happy to trade and work with Russia. BRICS is the world power, not G7. Your definition of dictatorship and mine may well be VERY different.
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  9935. This is why so much of the world views UK and the West in general as a sinking ship full of decadence and decay
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  9936. "Putin showing his weakness" - hmmm, and Ukraine, bankrupt and begging, 8 million refugees, 100,000 cannon fodder dead, shelling Donetsk city is a sign of great strength?
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  9937. this is very simple. if Green energy is such a good idea, why does it need subsidizing? In the free market, if green energy were such an economic success story, entrepreneurs would be pushing each other aside to develop the product. But they are not. without taxpayer money, no one will touch green energy with a barge pole. it's toxic and it's a loser.
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  9938. and no one in the deluded West is even considering the possibility that Russia launches an offensive first. How many thousands of troops are still amassed along the Belarus border?
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  9939.  @Fomites  My Chinese students tell me so. why would you doubt my word?
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  9940.  @Sunstrider1992  I wouldn't be surprised! Better get into my bunker, now.
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  9941.  @chucknade4507  I would imagine so
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  9942.  @Fomites  so you wanted to know how I knew that quite a few Chinese support Russia, but you took it at face value that the "I live in China. Quite a few Chinese are horrified by what Russia is doing", the original post by Christopher Davies, was entirely correct? Did you ask him how he knew his "fact"? Or did you assume someone actually living in China had some extra authority to state such things? I have no problem with language. I have big problems with bias and how people try to hide it (which is exactly what you did).
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  9943. One massive complaint is that the German government has enough cash and largesse to keep Ukraine fighting a futile war, yet doesn't haven't enough to retain a subsidy that helps its own farmers. Most of Germany agrees. Bye bye, Pirate Schultz.
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  9944. "scripted semi-politics" at least Putin is one step ahead of Biden. Biden can't even answer scripted questions without stumbling and bumbling into incoherence.
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  9945. supply and demand. parasites living on handouts not really tempted to work in childcare, loads of immigrants with kids that claim childcare.
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  9946.  @mazharul  the tax and benefits system basically rewards the parasites that contribute nothing and take everything while punishing those that work and produce. you can't have a welfare state where most people are taking and not contributing. so, basically, in the past, more people contributed to the pot while providing for their families, whereas today hardly anyone can contribute to the pot and provide for their own family....both parents have to work to provide for the masses of parasites that contribute nothing.
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  9947.  @annaredding  disposable income is something you can't just "increase". that is like waving a magic wand and making people richer. "large scale redistribution" is just Robin Hood, steal from the rich and give to the poor, Socialist countries like Cuba and Venezuela and USSR tried that, it doesn't work. you kill the goose that lays the golden egg. there is no remedy to our present situation, because the damage is done. you can't pay the whole nation to stay at home and not work, and then avoid rampant inflation and debt and poverty. too late. the only thing government can do to help is slash spending. unlimited aid to Ukraine is a drain, housing illegal immigrants in hotels is a drain, sanctions on Russia is a drain, increased defense spending is a drain, the NHS is a massive drain, subsidizing green energy is a drain. if you don't want to slash government spending, then accept living with things as they are. taxing the rich will drive the rich away and actually reduce government revenues. you want the rich to stay and continue to invest in the country, not to walk away from the country.
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  9948.  @mazharul  agreed, this inflation is not driven by wages. it is driven by printing money, soaring debt, and sky rocketing energy costs (sanctions on Russia). agreed, migration and cheap labour keep wages low. eliminate immigration and you would be on the way to seeing wages increase. eliminate green energy and sanctions on Russia and you would see wages increase. it is not Capitalism that is failing, it is the government's meddling in the free market that is failing. the best thing government can do to stimulate the economy is get out of the damn way and let business thrive. keep in mind that when you work, you pay taxes. if taxes can be slashed, that increases your pay packet. taxes are too high because government spending is too high.
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  9949.  @sarahmc8309  the choice is ever expanding government spending and welfare state and handouts galore. which means workers can afford very little, OR the very limited government spending of the past, lower taxes and more in the pay packet. Can't have both.
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  9950.  @glendaadams1481  Put yourself in Donbass's place. If you were attacked by a strong bully (Ukraine) for no reason and they were murdering your family and ripping apart your home, wouldn’t you want someone to help? Russia came to help. Yes, if I were Zelensky, I would want someone to help, but if that someone had a debt of 30 trillion, I would never expect them to help me with a situation I created for myself. In December 2021, Putin requested a summit with Biden over Russia's security concerns. Biden said "no". Trump would have said "yes". therein lies the difference.
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  9951.  @pauloicto8252  so you tell me, who is paying all Ukrainian government salaries and pensions? why was Reznikov fired?
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  9952.  @luminousfractal420  as I pointed out, if shelling will decrease only because the RUSSIANS are further away, it implies Ukraine wasn't doing any shelling previously.
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  9953. so the EU lied when it said Ukrainian grain could transit Europe en route to feed starving Africans. the truth was the EU saw a way to piss off its own farmers and allow cheap Ukrainian grain to flood the EU market.
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  9954.  @Vanderearden  one further question. how many police states have you lived in? I'm curious how you make a valid comparison between the pros and cons of living in a police state on a personal level.
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  9955.  @Vanderearden  "but of course, you wouldn't call America a police state" you have no idea how I would describe America. None whatsoever.
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  9956.  @Vanderearden  question. is a compliant society necessarily one that has been successfully indoctrinated one? give a few examples. would you describe Islam as a successfully indoctrinated society that is a compliant one? As an individual, if I comply with something, like paying my taxes, is it possible that I do so because I agree it is a good thing to do, or do I pay my taxes because I have been successfully indoctrinated to do so?
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  9957. Britainistan is such a disgusting, horrible place. Those in power took so little time to reduce the country to part of the Pakistani caliphate.
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  9958.  @harryseldom6472  RIP Adolf, enjoy your new "I love the Azov Nazis" tattooed across your forehead
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  9959.  @Christopher.W  everything I said is accurate. what you have been told by your sources is inaccurate and misleading! Tough to hear the truth, right?
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  9960.  @Christopher.W  you dispute that in Russia men are free to leave the country? Then how to account for the hundreds of news reports that show Russian men leaving the country!? You are ignorant
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  9961. no, its 217,000. both of us can make up numbers and broadcast fiction
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  9962.  @st-ex8506  so, what's your source, specifically, on Russia's losses? Let me guess, Ursula Von der Leyen? (she said 100,000 Ukrainian dead). General Milley (he said 100,000 Ukrainian dead).
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  9963.  @st-ex8506  Fascinated by your confidence in your data. How many of the 17,000 were Chechens? How many were LPR? How many were DPR? Can show share the link so I can see the exact figures, please?
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  9964.  @st-ex8506  1) "trying very hard" and "succeeding in" are 2 very different things! 2) name just ONE of these "open source" intelligence groups...conspicuous by its absence is your refusal so far to do so. 3) Any chance "their"numbers are closer to UAF numbers because their source is UAF info? 4. bringing material from deep storage may have nothing to do with death tolls on the frontline. 5. as a former military intelligence officer, did you question the CIA's assessment that Kabul would not fall for 90 days (it fell after 90 hours) or did you stay silent and accept their absurd nonsense? 6. Glad you don't pretend to know the truth, because you don't. Only a select few in the Kremlin do, so best STFU if you don't know the truth, rather than brag about your 22 years of service. just some advice for you. 7. Shoigu is privy to info you aren't. Speaks volumes you don't know the truth but are so willing to dismiss the numbers of someone who may well know the truth.
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  9965.  @visalakshimahadevan612  could be! no one knows for sure, it will be fascinating to see the totals when the war is over. I just have a feeling the Russian numbers will be quite low and the Ukrainian numbers astronomically high.
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  9966.  @st-ex8506  still waiting for your precise breakdown of the Chechen, LPR numbers etc. and your source. as an ex intelligence officer, what is the reason you would give for NATO's refusal to supply Ukraine with all that Ukraine demands to achieve victory?
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  9967.  @st-ex8506  after 22 years of service, you need a lesson in basic comprehension skills. I never said I believe anything Shoigu said. why would I? I said only a fool would dismiss his numbers, given that said fool admitted he doesn't know the truth! Keep an open mind! Looks like you are the one brainwashed. And STILL you refuse to name the source! STRONG smell of bs coming from your direction, sir.
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  9968.  @st-ex8506  and you are right. i am incredible. i slice through the bs so quickly and seemingly effortlessly. as soon as someone touts specific numbers, ask for the source, when the answer is the vague "various open sources" press the BS alarm immediately!
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  9969. No, Chip, no Ukrainians have penetrated even the FIRST of the the THREE Surovikin Lines! Robotyne is well north of the FIRST Surovikin line, and that village, after THREE MONTHS of fighting is STILL being contested with Russian artillery raining shells down from the surrounding heights on Ukrainian cannon fodder. It's a massacre! Verbovyne is behind the FIRST Surovikin line, and Ukrainian forces have stalled on the approaches to that line! Reality check!
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  9970. inspecting imports from EU is as stupid as EU inspecting imports from UK. No checks and controls were needed pre Brexit, and none are needed now. bureaucracy gone mad.
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  9971. perfectly credible. Russia planned for this conflict. NATO didn't.
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  9972. bla bla bla. russian morale has been so low for a year, yet convicts armed with only shovels keep gaining ground in Bakhmut against NATO trained and armed ukronazis,
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  9973.  @stephenodhiambo7556  so smart she can't see that Russia has won
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  9974.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  everything and everyone has a very uncertain future. that's the very nature of "future". How did Crimea survive as part of Russia before the Kerch Bridge, I wonder? hmmm
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  9975.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  since 2014, Crimea has been part of Russia. in 2014, the Kerch Bridge did not exist. So how did Crimea survive quite well with no great problems for so long as part of Russia but not connected to Russia by bridge? the answer has nothing to do with any leasing of Sevastopol pre 2014!
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  9976. Most "3rd world" countries wouldn't tolerate this bias and shambles. This is 4th world or even underworld stuff.
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  9977. 8 years of Azov Nazi scum shelling Donbass, killing thousands of civilians. Russian speakers want revenge and will get it. Ukraine, just 7 years and 8 months more for you to endure! Any regrets that Poroshenko and Zelensky refused to implement the Minsk Accords?
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  9978. Zelensky helping the Russians enormously by sacrificing thousands of Ukronazi cannon fodder for an unimportant city. Churchill, he is not
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  9979.  @Tobez1  Russian soldiers have been attacking Belgorod from the beginning?
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  9980.  @brothermitchlove1  exactly, amazing how the Zelensky bots are surprised Russia put up with ethnic Russians being shelled for 8 years and finally decide to dish it out to places like Kharkhov.
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  9981.  @profefabianaaguero8464  pues, profe, no respondió a la pregunta. Repito la pregunta, profe. Ha vivido en Ucrania?
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  9982.  @profefabianaaguero8464  profe, profe, no contestó usted, sí o no, ha vivido en Ucrania? Ha hablado cara a cara con un miembro del Azov Battalion?
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  9983.  @alilashari8128  for a minute I thought you might have written a coherent thought! But no, it was the usual infantile emoji, of course.
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  9984.  @alilashari8128  oh, ok, well, i guess we shouldn't laugh too much, because when you gotta go pee and you are holding it because shells are exploding all around you, that's a tight spot! I guess i would use my coffee mug and skip drinking coffee for a while!
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  9985.  @electronspark6740  good to see you admit that Russian speaking Ukrainians are indeed treated like second class citizens in Kiev. Now you understand their separation from Kiev in 2014 and their determination to be in Russia henceforth. spoken like a true DPR patriot! thanks you sir. so, i guess you trashed that portrait of Bandera you used to have by your bedside?
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  9986.  @buddy1155  not with Ukrainian troops looking over her shoulder 24/7. get real. she is held hostage.
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  9987.  @buddy1155  it can be both. Ukrainians want her away, but in Ukrainian controlled territory. given she chooses not to relocate within Ukrainian controlled territory, the troops are watching her 24/7, a hostage, under suspicion of being pro Russian. grasp reality.
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  9988.  @paulgilbert9346  and plenty don't. the problem is the ones like Zelensky, who do, have decided to compel the ones that don't to follow their orders and diktats, and the free spirit of the Russian speakers who refuse to conform has led to this war. better to just respect the wishes of the other side. let them take their Donbass and become part of Russia. what's the big deal?
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  9989.  @electronspark6740  "even if" concedes the possibility. i confirm that possibility is reality. you are learning.
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  9990.  @gilh3947  i am teaching you the reality of Ukraine. keep reading and thinking
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  9991. More lies from DW. Not one single temperature record has been set this summer anywhere in the Mediterranean.
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  9992. Bout is an arms dealer. US government is an arms dealer. why is one called a criminal and the other not?
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  9993.  @NemeanLion-  not today, no
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  9994.  @paulgibbon5991  at my age I would be too old even for the current Ukronazi recruitment drive! Would you be prepared to fight in Bakhmut, Paul? or just something you are happy to fund so that others can do the dying?
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  9995. i wonder how these 2 dolts think other countries function without a constitution?
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  9996. But Sunak has the cunning plan of ruining the UK economy to the point that the migrants will choose Belgium or Luxemburg instead of UK.
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  9997. and the elephant in the room that these talking heads are too scared to mention...it's black youth culture. No Chinese, Sikhs or Jews involved. it's a black thing.
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  9998. So, the EU values are to prevent Israel from destroying Hamas. Totally explains the Brexit referendum result.
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  9999. Let's see if the Labour councillor is in court tomorrow and behind bars on Sunday. Something tells me, like the Manchester Airport incident, nothing will happen and all will go quiet for a long time. 2 Tier Keir.
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  10000. Given the vast majority know nothing about Mordaunt, she has an excellent chance of winning
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  10001. the 32 countries that abstained represent over half the world's people, so most people don't care what happens in Ukraine. Let that reality sink in.
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  10002. yep, simply stunning that so called detectives are just parroting the words of Liar Lucy and Babbling Brad and taking all of it as Gospel! no wonder the Police are so disrespected these days.
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  10003.  @SamMaigwa  there is a later bus, check the Titsa bus 365 and 366 schedules. also, why assume Jay wanted to return to the hotel?
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  10004.  @angelinavisions8795  to pay for the boat that got him off the island to a safe house. Jay got word the Moroccan mafia were on his heels.
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  10005. yet again, Ukraine diverts the world's attention away from its failures on the battlefield. It had to orchestrate a pathetic invasion of Russian territory to deflect away from the disaster of Bakhmut, and now the breaching of the dam to deflect attention away from its totatlly failed spring/summer offensive.
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  10006. there are no more missiles to be given. NATO has sent all it can, and Russia has destroyed it.
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  10007. Islamohobic bigot! BBC Verify needs to investigate this reporter! There are no wars in Egypt, Guinea or Ivory Coast and the only persecution comes from Islamic authorities against non Muslims and women. So, she is blaming Islam for the mass illegal immigration! What a bigot!
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  10008. almost as poetic as UkroNazis killed in a maternity hospital
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  10009.  @theboredkid3620  were you disappointed by the low death count of ethnic Russians after the Union House massacre?
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  10010.  @darkzangetzu005  honest people use their real name when posting. Zelensky bots that go by "Hellpup" are just too embarrassed to reveal their real identity. I'm no bot, but you sure are ashamed to go by your real name!
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  10011.  @coolfed8688  no need to do that. the idiotic statement we are all replying to was that "Putin does the exact opposite of what he says". Only one case of where Putin did what he said he would do refutes the dumb statement. Putin said he would hold referenda in the Russian occupied zones. He did that. QED. Similarly, if you think Biden does the exact opposite of what he says, Biden says he would take down the Nordstream pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine. And that's what he did. agreed?
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  10012.  @coolfed8688  Putin said the ruble would recover and the Russian economy would survive the sanctions. He got that right, and more. As I said, you need to listen to Putin more, and very carefully. He's a clear-thinking leader.
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  10013.  @maninredhelm  Really? Are you confusing the USSR with the Russian Federation? How about you give me the words to google so that I can find evidence of the Russian Federation deporting non Russians from Kaliningrad and the Kuril Islands.
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  10014.  @eksiarvamus  oh yes they do, russophobe. These Russian speakers have been there for generations and they aren't moving just to please your bigotted and fascist dreams. Learn to afford them equal rights, or get deservedly crushed. Not a difficult choice.
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  10015.  @nbgoodiscore1303  of course Romanian speakers don't appreciate having Russian speakers in "their" own country! We know that! We know Moldovan Romanian speakers are russophobic intolerant bigots that are nationalists and fascists! of course. the original Russian speakers of Moldova settled there generations ago, under the USSR. they are there to stay. no big deal if you give them equal rights.
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  10016.  @SerBallister  shame. if you had paid attention to what I said you would understood that the "international rules based order" the West keeps trumpeting is absolute hypocritical bs.
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  10017.  @SerBallister  of course it's a valid argument! It shows perfectly why what the West says on the "international rules based order" is a crock of s**t! you are being educated. how many times you have heard such valid points, and the source of such valid points, is irrelevant. The point is, slowly but surely, even for the dimmest student, you are starting to understand the Russian perspective, and seeing why it is valid. supporting Kosovar separatists = good supporting Donbass separatists = good.
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  10018.  @MG-hk8ny  truly, bigots in love with each other
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  10019.  @torehaaland6921  You need to improve your reading comprehension skills. I never claimed that Russians have been forbidden to use Russian. Now, when you improve your reading skills we can discuss EXACTLY what Russian speakers have been forbidden to do in Ukraine. Until you read better, and learn the truth, this debate can go no further. read carefully, dunce!
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  10020.  @FranFerioli  Nah, French speakers in Canada can move back to France if they wish. Without French tanks there's nothing else they can do. Nah, Italian speakers in Switzerland can move to Italy if they wish. Without tanks there's nothing else they can do. Nah, English speakers in Wales can move to England if they wish. Without tanks there's nothing else they can do.
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  10021.  @lovyrituraj  yep, and those Russian speaking Latvians are not given equal language rights as Latvian speakers, same russophobic problems Ukraine has, so fingers crossed Putin delivers some justice to the Latvian Russian speakers at some point.
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  10022.  @AvaT42  just like Quebec is a region occupied by France
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  10023.  @pintiliecatalin  of course none of the situations I presented are even remotely similar to what is happening in Ukraine! That is my point! France is NOT attacking Canada, BECAUSE FRENCH SPEAKERS IN CANADA HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS. Italy is NOT attacking Switzerland BECAUSE ITALIAN SPEAKERS IN SWITZERLANDHAVE EQUAL RIGHTS! But Russia IS attacking Ukraine BECAUSE THE UKRONAZIS IN KIEV STRIPPED THE RUSSIAN SPEAKERS OF THEIR EQUAL RIGHTS until you understand this bigotted, russophonic dictatorship in Kiev, you will understand nothing of this conflict. you are ignorant.
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  10024.  @stevemcgowen  the people who win write the laws. it is as simple as that. Kosovo is a break away region of Serbia, and now writes its own laws, because it won. if Brighton Beach defeats the USA in battle, or if the USA declines to fight to enforce US laws in Brighton Beach, then yes, the break away region of Brighton Beach no longer has to live by US laws. In fact, Brighton Beach is an excellent example. The level of illegal employment there, illegals working for cash and refusing to obey the US laws on employment, effectively means the Russian speakers of Brighton Beach DON'T live by US employment laws any longer. What 3rd world school failed to teach you this?
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  10025.  @sergeyb8  that's because there was no annexation of Transnistria..
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  10026.  @daenerysmax6267  thanks, you make my point for me. in a fair and just society, the official languages in Moldova should be Romanian AND Russian. Just as in Canada, where French speakers are a minority, but the official languages are English AND French. you are starting to grasp the problem.
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  10027.  @gazpachopolice7211  no one is forcing anyone to speak Russian, you dunce. it is the right to have Russian as an official language, as it used to be, that Putin is supporting. and so should you.
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  10028.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  only to those countries close to Russia that think it a really good idea to strip Russian speakers of their full rights to use their native language. Neighboring countries like Kazakhstan, that retained Russian as an official language, have excellent relations with Russia.
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  10029.  @pintiliecatalin  You are either ignorant or misinformed! Here are a series of yes/no questions for you to answer. let's see how you do on the test. 1. Have the Moldovan authorities ever proposed a law to compel education in all of Moldova to be in Rumanian? yes/no 2. Have human rights groups ever expressed concern over Ukraine's strict language laws? yes/no (recommended reading Wikipedia, "language policy in Ukraine" 3. a high school in Donbass, where 90% of the community speak Russian as a first language, where the teachers speak Russian as a first language, where the students speak Russian as a first language, would be compelled to give educational instruction in Ukrainian? yes/no once you have answered the questions we will see how informed you are, or how deluded you are. Good luck.
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  10030.  @mimisor66  the youth of many poor regions are leaving in droves. so, what's your point? That Transnistria is no different in that regard to the rest of the world? Yes, Transnistria wants autonomy. makes perfect sense. what doesn't makes sense is the West preaching "freedom and democracy" and then refusing such autonomy.
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  10031.  @gazpachopolice7211  The Russian Federation didn't exist in 1989, you dope. It was the USSR. But out of curiosity, let's see which warmonger led the USSR to misery in Kabul in the 1980's...ah yes, Leonid Brezhnev, a Ukrainian. makes sense.
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  10032.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  yep, the same Kazakhstan that invited Russian troops to restore order recently, the same Kazakhstan that respects Russian speakers on a par with Kazakh speakers. has excellent relations with Russia. Ukraine should have learned.
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  10033.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  "Nobody stops them from speaking Russian" so Russian speaking high schoolers in a 90% Russian speaking part of Ukraine have the right to be taught in Russian by their Russian speaking teachers? before you make a fool of yourself and answer, read very carefully "Language Policy of Ukraine" in Wikipedia. You are woefully ignorant. I myself was forbidden from using Russian in class. No lectures need from you, thank you.
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  10034.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  and yes they DO have the right to demand that Russian be a state language, as it was in the past! And Kiev has the right to refuse such a request, with the consequence that a war that destroys Ukraine will be the way to solve this issue. This is where we are with the language issue.
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  10035.  @pintiliecatalin  proper channels like the Minsk Agreements, wherein Ukraine promised autonomy and elections in Donbass and then refused to act on such promises? you mean proper channels like that? you are hilarious. so, yes, once central government has refused autonomy the legal route, freedom fighters have every right to wage war for their dream. happens all the time. No one is ignoring Gagauzia. All power to them! What relevance does the Gagauzia situation have to anything we are talking about?
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  10036.  @pintiliecatalin  how are you doing on the Test I sent you? just 3 questions, yes/no. will only take you 2 seconds to do.
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  10037.  @pintiliecatalin  again, you are ignorant. BOTH Lugansk AND Donetsk are majority ethnic Russians and majority Russian native speakers. About 30% are Russian by nationality regarding the passport they hold.
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  10038.  @pintiliecatalin  yes, sometimes autonomy can be achieved the legal route. sometimes it can't, what's your point?
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  10039.  @pintiliecatalin  this war is ALL to do with minority rights. If Putin were interested in a land grab, why did he take 30 years to grab land? Why, once Putin had achieved minority rights in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, did he not go for a "land grab" and take over all of Georgia? you are ignorant .
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  10040.  @pintiliecatalin  @pintilie catalin You are either ignorant or misinformed! Here are a series of yes/no questions for you to answer. let's see how you do on the test. 1. Have the Moldovan authorities ever proposed a law to compel education in all of Moldova to be in Rumanian? yes/no 2. Have human rights groups ever expressed concern over Ukraine's strict language laws? yes/no (recommended reading Wikipedia, "language policy in Ukraine" 3. a high school in Donbass, where 90% of the community speak Russian as a first language, where the teachers speak Russian as a first language, where the students speak Russian as a first language, would be compelled to give educational instruction in Ukrainian? yes/no once you have answered the questions we will see how informed you are, or how deluded you are. Good luck.
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  10041.  @jantake  keep dreaming. Putin's is popularity is much higher than anyone in the West. Macron lost his majority in parliament, bye bye Johnson, bye bye Truss, bye bye Draghi, bye bye Marin, one by one they are all falling by the way-side. what do you think will happen to the Ukrainian soldiers who committed war crimes? made national heroes, like Bandera?
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  10042.  @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462  exactly! the West is prepared to support separatist movements ONLY when said separatist movements embrace "Western values"
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  10043.  @Noideaforhandle-m7h  thanks for what? policies that have made Moldovans poorer and with even higher energy costs?
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  10044. Either accept the Dublin Convention, or change it. Typical EU chaos that sees so many member states refusing to abide by the Dublin Convention, and so many other states accepting such lawlessness.
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  10045. way too late to whine about Muslims taking over in positions of power. had the likes of Farage and co embraced the words of Enoch Powell, Nick Griffin and Tommy Robinson, we wouldn't be in this mess.
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  10046. There is NO blockade of grain. Ukraine refuses to demine its ports, because it is scared shitless Russia will attack a demined coast. No insurance available for ships sailing through a war zone. NATO KNOWS there is no Russian blockade, but loves to spread the lie. Better focus on getting grain out by land...Ukraine will not demine its coast, period, therefore there will be no grain shipments, blockade or no blockade.
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  10047. Ofelia never said anything about a bus back to Los Cristianos. Because there isn't one. The Titsa 355 goes to Santiago del Teide. She told Jay the time of the next bus. Amazing how much these dozy reporters start to fabricate.
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  10048. "continue to work to bring the hostages home"......by doing all that you can to prevent Israel from defeating Hamas.
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  10049. so, the Labour MP who retweeted the misinformation about minorities being attacked with acid in Middlesboro, when does he get to go to court and be sentenced?
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  10050.  @goobler1883  I think "word" is the word you meant to use!:)
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  10051.  @KingDomsKingdom85  you give your own input when you show the destruction of Bakhmut but not Donetsk City!
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  10052.  @thebunkerparodie6368  not compared to how much Westerners believe in Western propaganda. Russia has no monopoly on propaganda, for sure.
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  10053. The ruble doing extremely well against all currencies, especially the US dollar. the pound and euro absolutely collapsing. prices now falling in Russia. remind me, the sanctions were supposed to cripple the economy of which country?
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  10054. it's the parasites ruining the economy.
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  10055. so, your point is that both Hilberg and Finkelstein are charlatans?
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  10056. we'll take Meloni's words seriously when she starts getting upset about what is happening in Yemen and Burma
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  10057. instead of throwing billions on building weapons that Russia will destroy, how about you spend some time talking to Putin to see whether Ukraine neutrality might actually be an acceptable idea, that denazifying Ukraine of Azov and Aidar and Right Sector might actually be a good idea, that independence for LPR and DPR might actually be a good idea? Bloody useless leaders, love virtue-signalling and leading us to ruin.
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  10058.  @unidentified7164  so inaccessible that it became accessible today
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  10059.  @rosiepayne7712  if only another Police force had volunteered their services!
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  10060. @JaxtheDoggo if you can remove a body from there, you can place a body there. and btw, do we have photos of the precise spot where the remains were found? uh, no.
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  10061.  @j.b.2263  "suspender" means to call a halt to, to end something. The Guardia Civil announced "la suspensión de la búsqueda", so, if they carried on searching on any scale, they lied. how many other lies have they told in this case, do you think?
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  10062.  @linmorell1813  when you have access to the internet and the exact words of the lying Guardia Civil, the distance is of no importance. The internet never forgets, so when we go back and read the words "la suspensión de la búsqueda" we know, from our armchair, that the Guardia Civil lied.
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  10063. you would find overwhelming support for Putin, but then you would just accuse yourself of staging a "sham" referendum
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  10064. absolute joke for Macron to be trying to help the Ukrainian people with aid. The best thing to do is to urge Zelensky to surrender. Iranian drones cannot be defeated by NATO air defense systems, so it's over. freeze to death or surrender. NATO promised victory but has delivered defeat. Afghanistan all over again.
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  10065. Germany promising a lot, but actual supplies down to a dribble.
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  10066.  @barrybrodin7085  you clearly don't know Russia and how Russia fights wars. Russia takes years to eliminate its enemies....Chechnya, Syria,....but Russia prevails.
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  10067.  @matthewhuszarik4173  you need to stop believing the Western propaganda. Russia is obliterating the ukronazis, and demilitarizing NATO as a bonus. The kill rate is massively in Russia's favor. The NATO wonder-weapons keep failing miserably.
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  10068.  @michaeljohnston980  great description of Zelensky's position. thanks.
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  10069.  @Ese_osa  yep, seems fair to me. Russia supplies the air craft carrier, Russia trains the Taliban pilots, Los Angeles wakes up to a massive missile attack at 5 a.m. seems like that fits the International Rules based Order the West loves to preach.
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  10070.  @1domcouk  no. NATO says it is trying to avoid a third world war. NATO's actions keep pushing us towards a third world war.
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  10071.  @thuncerd1087  just like Afghanistan was a crater when NATO was there for 20 years? Why send men? Because your weapons are not achieving victory and now Russia is out producing and supplying NATO. NATO is in an ebbarrassing fix, repeat of Kabul 2021.
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  10072.  @Pilky-Bs2Mc  I would have no idea if there are NATO boots on the ground or not. If and when there are, get those body bags ready.
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  10073.  @markalexander832  in Mermansk or Murmansk? sure, and not only is the Kuznetsov barely afloat, but Bakhmut is still held by Ukraine and Russia is running out of weapons, right Markie? oh, and sanctions have crippled the Russian economy, agreed?:)
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  10074.  @markalexander832  curious you don't consider the larger point that, logically, if the UK provides everything needed for an enemy of Russia to attack Russia, why Russia shouldn't then follow this International Rules Based Order and provide an enemy of the UK with everything needed to attack the UK?
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  10075.  @thuncerd1087  good to know you are fully distracted by the side show! keep focused on the Shoigu and Prigozhin spat, because seeing how the counter offensive is failing is such terrible news for you.
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  10076.  @majowassen3021  so what kind of proof would please your Majesty? you want to look at stamps in my passport for 2018? How do you suggest I prove that I taught at the ASAP school in Vinnytsia for 3 months in 2018?
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  10077.  @majowassen3021  and what you call the "minions of Russia" are Ukrainian citizens who were fine with life up to 2014, when the coup ousted their democratically elected president and they chose to separate from the ever nationalistic government in Kiev. why is the truth so hard for you to accept? just google "reuters ukraine 2018 nazi problem" and see for yourself.
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  10078.  @bonnie7898  1. the invasion of Ukraine is fully justified due to Ukraine's refusal to implement the Minsk Agreements. The Donbass had declared independence and that separation from Kiev needed to be enforced. just like YOU support military intervention when the USA and NATO do it, some of us support it when Russia does it. 2. leaving Ukraine to sort it out = letting Ukraine compel the Russian speakers to be second class citizens in their own country. ain't gonna happen. thankfully, Putin defends the rights of ethnic Russians everywhere. 3.Putin is right. Ukraine isn't a real state. the very name of the country tells you that. it is the "kray", the borderland of Russia. Was the Crimean War fought against Ukraine, or against Russia? 4. Yes, am absolutely certain Putin has no intention to absorb Ukraine into Russia. why would he? He never annexed Moldova, just liberated the Russian speakers there and allowed them to form Transnistria. He never annexed Georgia, just liberated Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Tbilisi's control. All the evidence shows that Putin wants freedom for oppressed Russian speakers, nothing more, nothing less. 5. Putin insists that Ukraine remain neutral. Putin knows that NATO is not defensive, as evidenced by NATO troops attacking Libya, Serbia, occupying Afghanistan. Just as no US president would accept Mexico or Cuba to become part of an anti US military alliance, so Putin is insisting that Ukraine remain neutral. and he is right to so insist. only deluded Western fools think war with Russia is a really good idea just so that Ukraine can be part of NATO.
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  10079.  @jturtle5318  which invasions in world history would you say were justified? surely you are not saying ALL invasions are evil and wrong? are you?
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  10080.  @majowassen3021  yes, for 3 months in 2018, I was. enough time to see the truth. and you? where were you?
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  10081. If Trump were in power there would have been no invasion simply because Trump would have agreed to Putin's request for direct talks on Russia's security concerns. Biden had a video conference with Putin, fell asleep, and gave the green light to Putin.
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  10082.  @Mr.Clownensky  NATO was so scared of the goat-herding sandal clad Taliban it had to flee in panic from Kabul like a bunch of panicked school girls. Against Russia, NATO has given away all its weaponry, trained ukronazi recruits, and STILL sees its Ukro lads massacred by demoralized convicts with shovels!
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  10083.  @Oneandbeast  who is "we"? Are you a Congressman? Wait to see when it is clear Russia cannot be defeated. Both Trump and RFK jr. said the Ukraine war ends the day they take power. Your only hope is Biden, the senile fool who knows neither what day it is nor where he is.
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  10084.  @КристинаЙорданова-р8л  still giving the truth of the situation in Ukraine that your poor, brainwashed, deluded mind can't handle. The counter offensive going exactly as you expected, yeah?
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  10085.  @billgussy6099  yep, they realized that after the licking they got from the Taliban in 2021, NATO really needs Sweden and Finland to make all the difference and put NATO on the right course.
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  10086.  @gicacraioveanu8258  sadly, you are deluded. Russia has not asked for negotiations, and it only "grabbed by surprise" territory to dullards like you. To those of us who know Russia, thee was no surprise to the land it grabbed, and in war, there are no cheats, just winners and losers
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  10087. "are being asked to make compulsory reductions"....sums up EU thinking in a nutshell.
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  10088. Any day now the sanctions against Russia will kick in and Putin's regime will crumble.
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  10089.  @albiepalbie5040  the criminal past explains the likelihood this disappearance is a crime, not an accident, Einstein.
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  10090.  @michelesanpietro3013  but highly likely his disappearance is to do with the latest crime he is involved with, right?
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  10091.  @userxyz64  the Police have to enforce the law and protect the innocent citizen. that means searching for a violent thug and wasting precious time and resources should NOT be their priority.
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  10092.  @userxyz64  of course. when you don't have resources to protect everyone equally, you have to pick and choose (discriminate). you do it every day in the choices you make. prioritizing is discriminating.
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  10093. Immigration WON'T be an issue in the next election simply because all major parties lack the will to tackle it.
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  10094. I got out of the UK 20 years ago and no regrets. The last "Conservative" government was a high tax Socialist outfit in disguise. For me, being as nomadic as possible, but based in France has worked well.
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  10095. "They're used for ammunition"? what the hell is that supposed to mean? pathetic response.
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  10096. it's an absolute pleasure to watch the Zelensky Ukronazi shills, DW, flounder around in search for an explanation as to why Russia is surviving in such great shape compared to the ever sinking Western economies. Two years into this conflict and DW STILL can't find an expert to explain it all.
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  10097.  @bigeasy9259  yep, it could be my fault, but I wouldn't know how you came to that conclusion
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  10098.  @merlebarney  keep living the deluded nonsense of the West! It's not the Russians who are now compelling teenage boys and pensioners to get chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder. 4 months of counter offensive, 0.08% of Russian occupied territory "liberated", 50,000 ukronazis dead in the last 4 months. those grocery carts tanks doing one hell of a job for Putin, eh?
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  10099.  @marions7423  shelling was mutual, but the shelling was started by the Azov Nazi battalion, you know, the guys you support, with their Nazi black sun insignia and wolfsangel motif. Thousands have died as a result of the shelling started by the nazis you support. Mariupol is being re built by the Russians and is looking great. you need to get some updates from media other than Western media, as they refuse to cover such news. There was no conflict in the Donbass until the anti constitutional coup of 2014 that you support, nazi lover.
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  10100.  @brianshockledge3241  tell me how you felt when you googled "2018 Reuters Ukraine Nazi problem" and then read the report. Then I'll tell you why I left Ukraine in 2018, ok? No lectures needed from anyone who wasn't actually in Ukraine during the height of the Nazi recruitment drives.
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  10101.  @marions7423  You are so ignorant. As a Waffen SS member he took an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler! Let that sink in. The Waffen SS killed, raped, tortured en masse Jews, Poles, Gypsies, whoever they were told to, and they did it with relish! They were the guards of concentration camps. For you to defend such a person speaks volumes EITHER for the racist hatred in you, OR your ignorance on such matters. No wonder you applaud such people. After all, they did what you would love to do, Adolf.
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  10102.  @matthewsill748  1. It IS about the language you speak. You know nothing. You tell a Québecquois "it's not about the language you speak" and see what happens to you. My God you are dumb. Russian speakers in Ukraine have a distinct culture and perspective, I know. I used to teach them. You didn't. 2. Agreed, taking land from a country that isn't yours by force is terrible, and when the Donbass declared independence and became the DPR and LPR it was a crime for the bully Ukrainians and their Nazi militias to force their fellow citizens with repeated shelling to do as commanded. No way. Big cousin Russia stepped in and finally stopped the Kiev bullying, but fools like you still support the Kiev nazis. you dolt. 3. Yes, Ukraine is right next door to the DPR and LPR, so all those Ukrainians who preferred to be under the Nazi dominated Kiev regime, and live happily ever after with their russophobia and nazi politics, they can just piss off and good riddance. 4. Google "Reuters 2018 Ukraine Nazi Problem" read the article and learn something. You are such a brainwashed dullard. You know nothing.
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  10103.  @matthewsill748  Wrong! The answer is "NO"! No Scottish person living in Scotland, roots in Scotland, wants to stay in Scotland should ever have to "piss off" to a neighboring country! The new government in Edinburgh would be obliged to accommodate such citizens as fully as possible and to respect their views, perspectives and desires. What we call autonomy. THIS is the right answer, THIS is what the UN and all parties concerned agreed to do concerning the Donbass ethnic Russians THIS is what should have happened. Instead, fools like you backed the Azov Nazis who chose to compel their fellow citizens to surrender to the extreme nationalism of Kiev with shells and mortar attacks ad nauseum. and you STILL back these monsters. Shame on you. No wonder the Canadian Parliament applauded a real live nazi. The Canadian parliament shares your views.
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  10104.  @matthewsill748  oh, so "having its own mayor" means that it is not a part of Spain? are you 12 years old? Every town and city in Spain has its own bloody mayor! So, what, every town in Spain is NOT a part of Spain? ok, now i see why you support the Nazis in Kiev. You are unbelievably dumb. the conversation ends there. if "having your own mayor" means you are not part of a country, then I can't help you. when you have educated yourself, come back and debate the case. Jesus, you are truly pathetic.
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  10105.  @vincentadams4223  support for joining Russia was a LOT less than 25%! That's because the vast majority wanted to remain in Ukraine with their rights protected. When the Russian speakers lost their language rights and after the 2014 anti constitutional coup, guess what, the DPR and LPR came into being because of MASSIVE popular support, NOT to join Russia, but to be independent. ONLY when the Azov nazis, the guys you support, thought it was a really good idea to start shelling their fellow citizens did the Donbass feel they HAD to join Russia. Since then, every vote has gone in favor of being part of Russia.
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  10106.  @vincentadams4223  The whole of Crimea has invariably favored joining Russia. US pollsters discovered that only 15% of Crimeans said they felt "Ukrainian" before the 2014 coup. Given the Russian military presence in Crimea over the centuries, this is not surprising. I've been to Crimea 3 times, and I can assure you, there is not a least Ukrainian place in the world! Keep in mind, the British fought the Crimean War against....no, not the Ukrainians, but against the Russians! After the 2014 coup, the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev. Google "Guardian Simferopol Crimea parliament vote" it's called democracy...something the West has lost sight of.
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  10107.  @vincentadams4223  Prigozhin is right. There was no ethnic cleansing. The aim of the Azov Nazis was not to eradicate and eliminate all of the Donbass Russian speakers. The aim was to compel them to remain slaves to Kiev and endure yet more derussification and eradication of their culture.
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  10108.  @vincentadams4223  "these numbers are not from the beginning of the conflict"... when is the beginning of the conflict? 2014 or 2022? What is your source for your numbers?
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  10109.  @vincentadams4223  "Azov did not fire the first shots" Azov Nazis fired the first shells onto the Donbass Russians. Why would a newly declared independent country start shelling its much bigger, more powerful neighbor? A newly independent country looks for recognition only. It got Azov nazis, those who you support, with their Nazi black sun and Wolfsengel insignia, trying to force the separatists to conform to Kiev;s bullying demands. Learn the truth, nazi lover.
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  10110.  @vincentadams4223  your reading comprehension skills are appalling. Who claimed that using Russian was made illegal? Severe restrictions were placed on the use of Russian. Answer me two simple questions, and then the debate can continue. What was the enormous benefit to removing Russian as an official language in Ukraine? What were the disadvantages of such an imposition of language restrictions?
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  10111.  @vincentadams4223  "another democratic, pro-Western, post-Soviet country that's doing significantly better than Russia would delegitimize Putin's authoritarian power grip forever. " so explain why Putin's authoritarian power grip wasn't delegitimized after years of Estonia, Latvia and Estonia being members of both the EU and NATO. What horrendous acts of violence and vengeance did Putin commit to those 3 ex Soviet countries? Boy, you are so ignorant. You know nothing about Russia at all.
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  10112.  @vincentadams4223  What problems did Russia have supplying Crimea before the Kerch Bridge was built? NONE! With no land bridge, with no Kerch Bridge, with only ferries and airports, Russia and Crimea were just fine for 4 years before the Kerch was completed. Russia has waged a war of attrition in Syria with all supplies coming in by air! Your ignorance of both Russia and Ukraine is staggering. Tell me, when was the last time you spent some time in either Crimea or Ukraine?
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  10113.  @matthewsill748  of course Putin invaded Ukraine. We all know that. The question is, was the invasion justified? Clearly, the answer is "yes". After 8 years of the Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass, the Putin invasion is 100% justified. Would you say the US invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, France (1944) were all justified?
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  10114.  @matthewsill748  No, not "ok, you just have our land", but "ok, you just have YOUR land". Given that the Maidan mob had thrown democracy and constitutionality out the window, the correct thing would have been to say "no problem, Donetsk and Lugansk can separate and continue as democracies". You are starting to get it!
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  10115.  @matthewsill748  Russia is not claiming any land just because some people there speak Russian! There are Russian speakers in Estonia, in Latvia, in Lithuania, in Belarus, in Kazakstan, in Uzbekistan, in Kirghizia, in Tadjikistan, and Putin has never shown any desire to invade such places. However, in places where Russian speakers and ethnic Russians are not afforded equal rights, Putin will intervene and restore those rights, as he did in Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and in Transnistria. It's about human rights and equality. Discriminate against Russians and Putin will deal with you. Suggestion: respect the rights of your ethnic Russian population, don't f**k about with their language rights, allow them to celebrate their Russian culture to the full, and there will be no problems. If only Zelenski had been wise and done the right thing and respected his ethnic Russians, right?
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  10116.  @matthewsill748  of course you did, because you are ignorant and say stupid s**t like "Barcelona is not part of Spain because it has its own mayor". You are dumb. Yes, one day, when you learn something, you will learn about human rights in both Ukraine and in Russia. until then, keep enjoying pissing yourself!
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  10117.  @AntonGermanReal  the truth hurts, eh?
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  10118.  @AntonGermanReal  the absence of any rebuttal from you speaks volumes, loser.
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  10119. outgunned 4 to 1 by the Russians, but the Ukronazis are killing way more Russians than the Ukronazis are losing on the battlefield, Nick keeps telling us. yeah, right, you liar, Connolly.
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  10120. some of us remember boasting to the world that London was the safest city in the world. that was before mass immigration. must be just a coincidence. cities in Poland and Russia are still very safe. homogeneous populations.
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  10121.  @ianashton1593  yours is quite the typical story, from what i gather. there is absolutely no incentive, in the UK, for anyone to become a landlord. until that core issue is addressed, and landlords have good reasons to take the risks they do, no amount of good will is going to solve the problem. many more people will be on the streets, and will be completely ignorant of why they face such hardships.
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  10122.  @ianashton1593  absolutely heart-breaking, the time and effort put into the whole enterprise and then for animals to wreck a place. your info makes it clear why so few landlords want to continue. and the nation wonders why so many properties are vacant or used for just short term holiday stays. trash tenants have caused the problem to get beyond repair.
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  10123. on the contrary. the public was told that it is Russia taking massive losses. the leaked report mentioned a kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor. so, our leaders and media have been lying. the public has been told that Russia is running out of weapons and ammo, has been told that lie for a year. the leaked dox reveal it is NATO that cannot keep up with Russian arms production and NATO had to go to South Korea to beg for shells. that ain't no "situation report". that is news of desperation that, again, Western leaders conceal and the media refuses to report. fantastic news that the leaked dox revealed the truth.....Russia is winning and NATO/Ukraine can't keep up.
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  10124.  @solconcordia4315  1) if you think the USA and UK doing all they can to weaken Russia has anything to do with the Budapest Memorandum, you are sadly mistaken 2) a Memorandum is not a treaty. keep that in mind the next time you write a memo to yourself. IF the Budapest Memorandum has the force of a treaty. which side would you say broke point 6 of the Memorandum? 3) the recent document leaks make it clear that the kill rate is 7:1 in Russia's favor. it's your heroes, the Ukronazi lovers of Bandera, that are getting ground into mince. Slava Rossiyi.
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  10125.  @solconcordia4315  oh dear. you have failed to keep up with the news. One of the revelations of the leaked documents was the NATO presence in Ukraine. Real boots on the ground. NATO weapons, NATO advisors, NATO satellite and spying technology, only the willfully blind fail to see NATO's footprint all over Ukraine. Has been that way since 2014. Wise up.
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  10126.  @solconcordia4315  of course you don't see the relevance. as you confessed, the news reports that you consume, don't tell you the truth. would Russian air force targeting strikes in Bakhmut and Avdiivka be reminiscent of WW1 type warfare?
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  10127.  @solconcordia4315  the people who say USA lost in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the length of time spent there have no clue what they are talking about. USA lost there because they failed to eliminate the enemy. In fact, USA never even identified the enemy. I have no problem with USA having overseas bases, if national governments want that. Similarly, I have no problem with China or Russia having the same, if other countries want that. I would agree that the Wagner Group needs to honor contracts. I thought the new recruit drive in Russian prisons was because the 6 month contracts were now expiring. But I really don't know. Wouldn't surprise me if there was some serious arm-twisting going on with the Wagner convicts. It's war.
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  10128.  @deker0954  in your dreams. the Ukronazis getting massacred by the Wagners in Bakhmut know the truth.
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  10129. So funny that EU advocates are now crying that foreigners can live where they want, buy whatever accommodations they want, stay as long as they like, welcome to EU Freedom of Movement! Oh, but now you have lost "your" town, "your" housing, "your" beaches! Welcome to the EU!
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  10130.  @JamaicanToast  so, what's your point?
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  10131. another masterstroke from Putin. Putin announcing a starting point for negotiations keeps all Russia's allies on board and on Putin's side, and NATO's rejection of it turns most of the planet against corrupt Kiev and war-mongering NATO.
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  10132.  @philster6383  Z is the sign of victory in Ukraine and the explanation of why dumb Westerners now have to pay so much for energy and a higher cost of living
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  10133.  @maryanchabursky9148  Lugansk, Donetsk and Crimea are NOT part of Ukraine. They LEFT! Accept reality. After the anti-constitutional coup in 2014, the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev! It's called democracy! Lugansk and Donetsk declared independence and became the LPR and DPR respectively. Learn some basic facts! US funded opinion polls in Crimea showed only FIFTEEN per cent of the people in Crimea considered themselves Ukrainian before 2014! You have so much to learn about this.
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  10134.  @maryanchabursky9148  Tell me, what were the amazing benefits to the brilliant idea of the Ukrainian government to remove Russian as an official language of Ukraine? And the disadvantages?
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  10135.  @maryanchabursky9148  Love the Canadian Maple Leaf on your icon there. Particularly proud that the Canadian parliament all stood to applaud a real Waffen SS Ukrainian Nazi, are you? Made your racist, fascist heart glow with pride, I have no doubt. For 8 years did you cheer every time the Azov nazi battalion launched shells onto their fellow Ukrainian citizens in Donetsk? Gave you a great feeling, yeah?
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  10136.  @maryanchabursky9148  1. The legitimacy is in the referenda, again, a notion of democracy that escapes you. Donetsk and Lugansk voted to separate from Kiev. Accept reality. 2. You avoid the inconvenient truth of the Crimean Parliament voting for separation from Kiev. Educate yourself. Google "Guardian Crimean Parliament Simferopol vote", read the article, and then tell me why you are sure it is all lies. 3. True of false? In the Ukrainian constitution an impeached president has the right to hearings, and to due legal process, his day in court, yes or no? When exactly were the hearings on Yanukovich's crimes? 4. The same polls you refer to were taken BEFORE the anti-constitutional coup. Before 2014, there was hardly any desire for separation. After the coup, the desire to separate from the nazi regime in Kiev sky-rocketed, obviously. no doubt you loved every minute of the round of applause given to one of your Banderite heroes, Waffen SS monster in the Canadian parliament, right? you have so much to learn.
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  10137.  @maryanchabursky9148  curious you chose not to reply to my observation about Zelensky applauding with all his might the Ukrainian Waffen SS hero acclaimed by the Canadian Parliament. a wonderful moment for you, was it? Do you fully support that Bandera is a national hero of Ukraine? the 4,000 Jews he massacred in Lvov ranks as a massive achievement in Ukrainian history, yeah?
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  10138.  @maryanchabursky9148  I blame Nazi Germany for all the war crimes that Nazi Germany committed against Ukrainian Jews, and I blame Ukrainian Nazis for joining Nazi Germany in its effort to eliminate the Jews. What is astounding is that you can't, or won't, do the same! Ukrainian national hero, Stefan Bandera, led a pogrom in Lvov in 1941 that killed 4,000 Jews. The 98 year old Ukrainian Nazi recently applauded by you and Zelensky, the Waffen SS monster who swore allegiance to Adolf Hitler, is a person YOU SUPPORT! and the very fact you support such people explains why so many Russian speakers want no part of the nazi russophobic hellhole that Kiev has become. All your other arguments have been dealt with and answered. Did you look up the Wikipedia article on Language Policy in Ukraine to see how the EU absolutely lambasted Ukraine for its discriminatory behavior towards Russian speakers? you and your fellow Ukrainian nazis are an absolute disgrace, and after the horrendous display of nazi worship seen in Ottawa, no wonder most of the world backs Russia.
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  10139. exactly....while the West was debating if a man can become a woman and designing rainbow motifs for its armies, Russia was mass manufacturing munitions for its pay back of 8 years of Ukrainian massacres in Donbass. Slava Rossiyi
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  10140. "Jay asked what time the bus was coming" which bus, the one to Santiago or the one to the north? "he was going in the wrong direction" how would she know which direction he wanted to go in?
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  10141. not really
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  10142. No, honey, the "far right" has not increased in popularity. those "right of center" have gained in popularity, and the far Left (people like you lot at DW) have lost popularity.
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  10143. so, if only SOME groups are protected, Scotland has abandoned the notion of equality before the law. Russia sounds more free.
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  10144. this wet lettuce leaf of an MP has no idea how to solve the immigration problem, and offers absolutely no solutions at all. useless waste of space.
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  10145.  @stephennewton2777  we might pay attention to you when you have commented on the rights and wrongs of Gonzalo Lira being detained for his comments.
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  10146.  @paulgibbon5991  at my age, living in France, no one is going to draft me, Adolf. what's it like living up Bandera's back passage 24/7?
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  10147.  @WHS_reviews  talking about facts, Gonzalo Lira, and MSM in the West ignoring the other side of the story. How many opposition parties are allowed in the Ukrainian Parliament these days?
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  10148.  @stephennewton2777  remember, Russia only invaded Ukraine after Ukraine invaded the DPR and LPR.
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  10149.  @JamesC785  what makes you think Russia cares to discuss anything about sanctions? It's German pensioners who will be freezing to death this winter, not Russians. It's British workers who will be going bankrupt or jobless or both with rampant inflation and energy bills, not Russians.
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  10150. it's a real mystery, what Biden has done with his homework. Congress asked to see the president's plan for victory in Ukraine, given that 110 billion dollars has achieved nothing, and yet Biden either refuses to hand in his homework, or he hasn't done it! If Biden refused to do his homework, then why?
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  10151. the arrogant West thought it could cripple the Russian economy. it failed. and worse, the sheep no longer believe fools like Ben Wallace who said "Russia is running out of weapons". It's over. Russia won.
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  10152.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  the big embarrassment is fools like you that can't face the truth
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  10153. capitalism is working just fine. wasn't capitalism that shut down the economy with endless lockdowns.
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  10154.  @ulrichturke8964  1) Ukraine has to keep begging for weapons and money because it has intermittent support, not constant support, and it is support that is fading with time. 2) there are no heavy weapons to be delivered. NATO is basically tapped out. 3) No evidence that Russia is running out of weapons (yawn, we have been hearing this since March) 4) Russia has teamed up with fellow-sanctioned nations N Korea and Iran, oh and boy doesn't revenge on the West feel so sweet for those guys! 5) Ukraine will lose. just like Syria and Afghanistan, the west will be humiliated.
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  10155. we could always put boots on the ground in Ukraine, that would significantly reduce the amount needed to pay our armed forces.
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  10156. Day 10 of the great counter offensive. Here's the list of places captured so far by Ukraine:..........hmmmm "Kherson will DEFINITELY be in Ukrainian hands by September" Kulaba said. 32 days to go. no advance yet. hmmmm
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  10157. he is a total buffoon that understands nothing in this conflict. so far, the spring offensive has been a total disaster for Ukraine/NATO and the loss of men and weaponry an embarrassment in the extreme.
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  10158.  @hoolio5659  not true. the sanctions were implemented to cripple the Russian economy to the point that Russia would be unable to finance a war. not to inhibit it, but to crush it, hence the pathetic Biden boast of "the ruble has become rubble" and the desperate arm twisting by the West of China and India to stop trading with Russia. it all failed.
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  10159.  @BojanPeric-kq9et  sanctions announced by "a group of countries" are international sanctions, you dope. look up the word "international" and find out what it means!
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  10160.  @Ryanowning  BRICS is a LOT more than a trading bloc! you must have missed the news about BRICS military exercises and talks to establish a BRICS currency.
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  10161.  @sunnyboner676  exactly. only the very out-of-touch elite "leaders" imagine sanctions against Russia do anything but hurt those imposing the sanctions.
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  10162.  @famousmwofficial8046  correct, though some would say the Russian economy is expanding BECAUSE of sanctions, as inward investment in Russian firms goes up, while Russians spend no more money on Starbucks and McDonalds etc.
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  10163.  @BojanPeric-kq9et  so, you are struggling with the correct English terms, which is understandable, as English is not your first language. instead of "international" you mean "pan national". yes, I have heard of the UN. It is an international organization. South Africa doesn't need to follow EU or US sanctions, but whether South Africa SHOULD follow such sanctions is another question. South Africa has to weigh up the consequences of NOT following such sanctions. The EU and US are bully boys that LOVE to threaten sanctions and measures against those who do not comply with their edicts. Good luck improving your English comprehension skills and your understanding of how the world works.
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  10164.  @McbrideStudios  sanctions certainly work on ruining the economies of those who impose them! Look at the recession hit countries of the West, compared to the expected growth of the economy of Russia! the aim of the sanctions was to so cripple the economy of Russia that Russia would be unable to pursue war against Ukraine. Has that happened, yes or no?
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  10165.  @teehasheestower  not entirely true. the EU can commit all its troops to the battlefield to join the Ukrainians shoulder to shoulder, but the EU prefers the Ukrainians do all the dying while the EU promises to deliver weapons and funds, and then fails to do so in the quantity necessary to win. Some of us believe the EU economies are so fragile that they can't even enforce their own sanctions, and have no interest in enforcing their own sanctions, hence Russian oil goes to India, gets blended with oil from non sanctioned countries, gets imported to EU as non Russian oil, and everyone is happy!
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  10166.  @teehasheestower  the EU as an entity having no standing army doesn't prevent EU nations agreeing with each other to send their national forces into Ukraine. Stop hiding behind excuses for why the EU nations have all refused to help their dear Ukrainian brothers actually fight this conflict.
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  10167.  @VVayVVard  how would you enforce limiting trade with anyone given globalism means goods and services flow pretty much unrestricted from place to place? let's say you know the UAE is acting as an "intermediary", so you restrict trade with the UAE. what stops the UAE using an intermediary? the logical conclusion to all this is all trade with all nations ceases! it's bonkers.
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  10168.  @VVayVVard  what a company is allowed to do, and what a company can in fact do to skirt these absurd restrictions are 2 completely different matters. you are fixated on written words, laws, but the point is that with globalism, none of these laws or restrictions can be policed, at all. let's take any example. let's say my company is banned from exporting to Russia, but not to Hungary. how you gonna ban my product going to Hungary and thence on to Russia?
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  10169.  @teehasheestower  ok, sure, then the EU cannot send military forces into Ukraine, but any and all individual EU nations can. so, I'll rephrase my point. EU nations on an individual basis can send their forces into Ukraine at any time, or EU nations can form a military alliance with each other to form a force to fight alongside Ukrainians, but they can't and won't, because they have no guts to die alongside Ukrainians, just the wish to be seen to be virtuous and supportive with billions of EU taxpayers' money.
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  10170.  @BojanPeric-kq9et  "inter" comes from Latin, and simple means "among" or "between", so, for example, France v Spain is an international football match, as it is between 2 nations. so, the term "inter" requires just TWO participants minimum. TWO is not the same concept as ALL, is it, child?
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  10171.  @VVayVVard  just laughable that you think such laws can be enforced and can't be circumvented. you clearly have learned nothing from the last two years. keep living in dreamland.
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  10172.  @VVayVVard  there is no company that is restricted from sending more than X units of their product outside the country. if there is, name the company! there are only restrictions on sending more than X units, or any units, to sanctioned countries. try again.
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  10173.  @VVayVVard  there is no confusion on my part. you keep talking about "restricting trade" and I keep telling you that restricting trade by decree doesn't work! only a confused person would talk about laws to restrict exports! such laws don't exist! ONLY laws banning exports to sanctioned countries, but such laws are always circumvented! why do you think Russian oil continues to pour into the EU despite the sanctions?
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  10174.  @VVayVVard  this is quite simple. there are no laws, past or present, that can impose effective sanctions on a place like Russia. the laws are just words. the laws are not policed, implemented or monitored, and they are circumvented with ease. once you have grasped this very simple notion you will understand why the Russian economy is doing so well BECAUSE of the sanctions, and why Europe is in such bad shape.
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  10175.  @VVayVVard  not for the first time in your life, you are making wrong assumptions! par for the course. yes, I joined in 2022, my full name is Ian Duncan Smith, I am a UK citizen currently in Portugal, no idea what an avatar is, but fascinating you deduce so much, incorrectly. Back to the issues in hand. This debate was all about the effectiveness of sanctions. on a country like Russia, sanctions don't work, and, on the contrary, they lead to a boost in the economy of the sanctioned country, a decline in the economies of those imposing sanctions, and the sanctions are easily circumvented....Russian oil pouring into the EU all the evidence you need. Happy reading ITAR or whatever gets you going.
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  10176. Gulliver, Russia gave up on Izyum as a staging ground for any advances MONTHS ago! ALL Russia's focus has been on Donetsk and Bakhmut. Izyum became a useless liability ever since Russia got stalled in Sherwood Forest, hence Russia wasn't committed to keeping Izyum. Why do you think Russia withdrew? The urgent need for Russia is to win the Donetsk, and Izyum was no help in that aim. Come on, keep up to date!
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  10177.  @WolfgangMahringer  Wolfgang, nice Teutonic, Aryan name. sporting a freshly inked swastika tattooed on our chest are we, beneath the words "Ein Reich, Ein Folk, Ein Azov"?
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  10178.  @woolyimage  my Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh students pay me on time and in full, so not much chance of that happening. On the other hand, what chance a crumb of common sense enters your gray matter?
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  10179.  @Cola_Dulz  Russia would use a nuke or two and end the whole futile thing
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  10180.  @Cola_Dulz  the West has done nothing BUT force its taxpayers to hand over weapons to Ukraine, which Russia then destroys. futile. Only Russia can win this fight.
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  10181. she fails to identify a single idea or policy that she would characterize as "far right". it's just a label that the Left have to use to demonize non Socialists.
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  10182. All the assumptions were wrong. immigrants boost the economy, immigrants integrate well, diversity is a strength, Islam is a religion of peace, all wrong! re-think these absurd assumptions and we'll make progress.
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  10183. ah, so his point is that everyone in Sunderland is only motivated by what happens in Sunderland, and concern for how the rest of the country is going is of zero concern to anyone from Sunderland! 3 girls murdered in Stockport by an African immigrant = no reason for anyone in Sunderland to be concerned!
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  10184. slowly the penny is dropping. searching a wilderness where Jay never went is not a great idea. solving the crimes committed will lead to Jay, dead or alive. "conspiracy" + time = the truth.
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  10185. Putin wins because of planning. For decades NATO was focused on diversity and inclusion in the ranks, sensitivity training and nonsense that doesn't win wars. Russia was focused on superb air defenses, massive weapon and ammo production....all of a sudden NATO is scratching its head at how to confront Russia. Too late. You reaped what your smug, arrogant lack of a real commitment have wrought. Russia wins, and deserves to, NATO, very soon, will be devoid of credibility and will be the laughing stock of the neutral, observing world.
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  10186. Yet it was Zelensky pleading with the West to finish this by winter! Zelensky knows General Winter will kill off Ukraine, not Russia.
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  10187.  @fv5855  almost as humiliating as Biden going to the Saudis to beg, again, for oil! at least Putin has China on board
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  10188.  @guillaumebarbier-pestourie18  and the reliable source for your 30,000 dead would be? Let me guess, UK MOD? Zelensky's Minsistry of Propaganda? Diary of Ghost of Kiev?
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  10189.  @hgf334  "Ukraine morgues are overflowing with dead Russians" Time to throw 1000 dead Russians out of the morgue! 1000 dead Ukrainian troops in todays shelling north of Kherson...Russia achieving some BIG numbers today! Get those ladies and 16 year old conscripts into the front line to face the Chechens, NOW!
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  10190.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  Ukraine lost any right to territorial waters after 2014 illegal coup. Russian subs and Black Sea Fleet control every inch of the Black Sea and has every right to do so.
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  10191.  @j7bsecond540  the 2014 coup was a democratic vote?! ok, i guess North Korea is run according to democratic voting too! Russia has the same right to control the Black Sea as Turkey has to control passage through the Bosphorous and USA, by invoking the Monroe Doctrine, to control the Gulf of Mexico. You might not like reality, but there it is, keep weeping about such an injustice all you want, doesn't change the way of the world.
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  10192.  @user-ru7mm8pn2l  "crude speeches and tacky rallies" implies he was really quite busy, and indeed he was. you don't get to the top by being lazy. learn some history and basic life facts.
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  10193.  @user-ru7mm8pn2l  that's why his opponents lost and Hitler won. they dismissed him as what you described him as. big mistake.
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  10194.  @user-ru7mm8pn2l  and his aide also said that Hitler worked incredibly late into the night. nice try. another late riser who worked remarkably hard was Rene Descartes. Hard work is evaluated by intensity of thought and action, not just what time you get up, duh!
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  10195.  @erjonandreanikolli4903  the devil himself works hard. "hard-working" is no qualification to be allowed access to any country
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  10196.  @robmckrill3134  given how the ruble is so strong against Western currencies (remember Biden's deluded "make the ruble rubble" nonsense?) any rubles per post would be fine, just don't bother with the fading, inflated currencies of the West! How are sanctions going, do you think? a tenth package needed to REALLY cripple the Russian economy? ha ha
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  10197. come on NATO, let's see your pilots and your fighter jets in action. why should Ukrainians be the only ones dying in your proxy war? a few body bags of pilots being shipped back to the West would certainly bring peace to the region, right?
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  10198. the knowledge that Russia will win.
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  10199. why this dunce of a reporter repeats Ukrainian propaganda as if it is the truth is a mystery. his job should be to question what Kiev announces, not blindly accept it as truth. pathetic.
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  10200. Hey, Lord Smugface. Lysychansk is NO defensive position..Russia already in the suburbs there and Ukrainian forces trapped. Russian "exhaustion" has been predicted since March, along with low Russian morale and no more ammo. Now for THE TRUTH...Russia outproduces NATO in ammo, so will prevail. Russia has a million man army, so 4/5ths of its fighting men aren't even involved. Lord Smugface is deluded and clearly knows NOTHING about Russia. Russia has won.
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  10201. well, imagine that. ethnic Russians that voted to separate from Kiev wanting to live under the Russian flag! who would believe it?
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  10202. the usual blinkered assumption that Russian losses are heavier than Ukrainian losses, with no evidence. Western press getting more and more desperate to tell its audience to not believe their eyes or be fooled by common sense. In the next report we'll be told that Ghost of Kiev has re-emerged and that Snake Island is of great significance and that NATO's chaotic exit from Kabul was all planned that way.
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  10203.  @JeffreyGoddin  her first answer was to talk about WHERE the fighting is happening! If someone asks me how my work is going and I answer "it's happening in all 3 rooms of my apartment" then I am not answering the question! Talk about "logical fallacies"! Now, I will go back and listen for the specific words ""slowly but as expected at this stage"
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  10204.  @JeffreyGoddin  she says "doing slow progress" NOT in answer to the first question! I repeat, Mr Logical Fallacy, when asked how the counter offensive is going she answers with WHERE it is happening! ONLY when pressed on if Ukraine should have waited does she blabber on about "doing slow progress". No, Mr Logical Fallacy, she does NOT answer the questions well, She obfuscates and avoids, but hey, if you come at such interviews with your conclusion already in mind, I would guess her answers are absolutely stellar, right?
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  10205. Farage is a TOTAL hypocrite on this issue. Farage labelled Tommy Robinson as "far right", "racist" and "extremist" because Farage was blind to the consequences of mass Muslim immigration, so don't be fooled by Farage now. He had a chance to back Tommy Robinson, and showed his true colours by refusing to do so.
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  10206.  @Joaquin546  indeed it does
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  10207.  @96Champ994  This person's hair tells you it's all about grabbing attention, thus one should be doubtful about the sincerity of the opinion voiced.
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  10208.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  i don't have a bike
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  10209.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  some of us understand the situation with NATO. others just blabber what they hear in Western media.
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  10210.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  I'm deadly serious. I just don't understand the dumb analogy, and suspect you don't either. if you want to make a point that doesn't depend on analogies about bikes, get serious, and make your point in plain English.
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  10211.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  Just a suggestion. Write plain English. Nope. gear shifts change no "rules" at all. Gear shifts just make it easier to propel the bike. If you want to use a gear shift analogy and connect it to NATO rules, you would have to say "changing the NATO rules would be like introducing a whole new gear shift device which no rider had previously agreed upon". No wonder the analogy was incomprehensible. It didn't make any sense!
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  10212.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  I know very well how a bicycle works. What is at fault here is your confusion with a gear shift being some kind of "rule". With clarity and accuracy of expression, I can understand any comment made regarding how NATO works. The problem here is you tried to make your own analogy, but the analogy doesn't work. Stick to plain English, or pick an analogy that works in context.
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  10213.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  "went", not "whent" Einstein. The reasoning is flawed, exactly as I pointed it out. I'll point it out again. Gear shifts change the values of an equation. Gear shifts don't change any "rules" at all. As I said, a change of rules, as regards gear shifts, would imply a whole new way the gear shift system works, or functions, not just changing from one gear to another within the established system. So, yes, gear shifts change the values in a given equation, but they certainly don't change any rules of the universe. I am not arguing about the nature of mathematics and physics. certain rules apply to both disciplines. what I am saying is that to equate gear shifts with a rule, as it applies to NATO, is dumb and misplaced.
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  10214.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  and now to the primary reason why your analogy is a failed one. a gear shift does not involve any consensus of group members (human beings) to agree to any change in rules. A gear shift is purely a mechanical and physical change. if you want to draw an analogy based on the rules of NATO membership, you would have to come up with something involving agreements, debate, directives, and place the analogy in the world of social interaction, like deciding to admit girls into the boy scouts and expel boys who don't want girls in the boy scouts (which, given the total pussification of woke, pansy countries like Sweden and Finland, would be the better analogy). Keep learning and writing better.
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  10215.  @monumentaltravel3745  right, because Russia is much more powerful. so, what's your point?
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  10216.  @monumentaltravel3745  ah, so one side bombing a city is criminal, the other side doing exactly the same thing is just fine. we see Western hypocrisy perfectly.
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  10217.  @bonnie7898  there was no mistake. the report was accurate. any retraction from a pressurized woke boss is meaningless. everyone knows military units are best hidden in residential areas. your best course of defending the Ukrainians for doing this is to admit it, and explain it is justified, otherwise the Russians would find them much more easily in open spaces.
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  10218. Draghi is a fool and charlatan. Europe is doomed even it follows Draghi's nonsensical recommendations. Kissing goodbye to cheap energy from Russia and importing masses of immigrants has finished Europe off.
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  10219.  @grimaffiliations3671  more spending just creates more inflation. we just went through that. slash spending and slash debt payments. the only way.
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  10220.  @hydromic2518  inflation has nothing to do with productivity. inflation is governments pumping too much money into the economy.
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  10221.  @grimaffiliations3671  demand fell amidst belt-tightening.
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  10222.  @bt3743  "we" the citizens have been doing austerity. our governments haven't. pensions can't be funded, but there's billions of euros available for a futile war in Ukraine
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  10223. Islam rules Britainistan, we saw that a long time ago in Rochdale and Rotherham. way too late to bleat on about not tolerating Islamic bullies.
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  10224. given that her philosophy has put everyone in this terrible mess, why would we think she has any idea how to get out of this mess? if this is all part of a war against Russia, why does she think it will be energy rationing just for winter? this is now an indefinite war and indefinite rationing of energy. what a disaster. something she tells me she won't be shivering in two sweaters this Christmas.
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  10225. "2 tiered policing happened, possibly for good reasons" there, in a nutshell, why the masses despise the Uniparty and the far Left for championing discrimination in policing policies.
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  10226.  @dungnguyen-vx2sc  they were a pretty stinky foul smelling bunch even BEFORE the hot water rationing. Everyone hold your noses as you fly over Berlin!
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  10227. No one cares about this dullard one way or another. We do care that Putin is getting the job done, and that he restores justice to Ukraine. Slowly but surely.
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  10228. But Ukraine is still winning, right? Russian morale is still low and Russia is crippled by the sanctions and is internationally completely isolated, right? So, the war is going very well, right?
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  10229.  @commiemeth  ask yourself this question. If NATO has everything Ukraine needs, why is it refusing to send such?
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  10230. military setbacks? the kill rate in Bakhmut is 8:1 in favor of the Russians! if that is a setback, God knows what a Russian victory looks like! Got a feeling the Ukrainian boasts about how many Russian missiles are intercepted is BS. Looks like nearly all targets get hit. Could well be the Ukraine air defense system is piss poor and NATO got nothing to improve it. Ukraine/NATO 0 Russia/Iran 2.
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  10231. only a fool would assume that the Guardia Civil would have any inclination to open up an investigation that reveals lurid details of teenage drug dealing, corruption at high levels, police corruption, violence and theft. a forensic search on Day SIXTEEN and no press conference tells me they don't.
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  10232. just like USA's second invasion of Iraq
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  10233. who's "we"? how do you know which businesses will go bankrupt if they have to use less energy for production?
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  10234.  @Spectre11B  yep, when ethnic Russians are attacked, be it in Chechnya, Abkhazia, Transnistria, or Donbass, Putin comes to their defence. NATO and Ukraine called Putin's bluff with the ethnic Russians of the Donbass, and Putin did what he did in Chechnya, Abkazia, Transnistria......and now all the Banderites act surprised. Shouldn't have crossed Putin's red line!
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  10235.  @jessefisher1809  you need to see how Mariupol looks today! The Russians have rebuilt it, it looks fantastic, so much better than the dumps in poverty-stricken and bankrupt Ukraine.
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  10236.  @АртемАртем-л4э  yep, funny how when you get someone to explain the rules of this "rules based world order" they can't do it without revealing how USA and NATO repeatedly violate their own rules. I thought the rules based order said that if you back a separation movement, like Kosovo, it was fine to bomb the other side (Serbia). But it turns out if you back a separation movement fighting for independence from Ukraine, you CAN'T bomb Ukraine! Confusing rules, eh?
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  10237.  @Spectre11B  big mistake, eh? USA interfering in a domestic issue by arming one side! asking for trouble.
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  10238.  @Spectre11B  "their only motivation was to enforce peace negotiations signed by both sides". EXACTLY the same motivation as Putin's in intervening in the Donbass conflict; to enforce the peace negotiations signed by both parties in the Minsk Accords. 100% same motivation. but one is part of the world rules based order, and one is a violation of the world rules based order. now we can see why most of the world just laughs at lectures from the West on what is in the rules and what isn't.
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  10239.  @АртемАртем-л4э  precisely. those who put any stock in UN votes and bla bla bla have no clue how the real world operates.
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  10240.  @Melrose51653  do your homework. Angels Alley, etc
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  10241.  @olivesama  If you want to base what the world feels based on opinion polls, you will find the vast majority of the planet either has no idea what is happening in Ukraine or Russia, don't know where those places are, or more likely, don't care. So for Western leaders to try to convince most global leaders to isolate Russia is a waste of time, because global leaders know that what Russia does holds no great interest for their people. Opinion polls of the world population would be 90% "don't care". But how the world trades with Russia DOES tell you what global leaders think, and on behalf of their massive populations, global leaders of the most populous countries have decided to stick with Russia. As a Nigerian, you will know that Africa cares about Russian exports of grain, seeds, energy, and cares very little about who rules the Donbass. Wisely, Nigeria is going to pay attention to what OPEC and BRICS says and does, and pay little attention to what Macron says. Hence the moves recently to expel France and USA from the Sahel, and the embrace of Russian and Chinese influence. Before you prattle on about your nationality and what lectures you do or don't need, keep your mind open as to what my nationality might be. Though something tells me only your nationality and identity are of any importance to you.
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  10242.  @olivesama  just out of interest, list all the African countries that have decided to impose strict sanctions on Russia.
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  10243.  @Spectre11B  sounds like USA in Afghanistan, ..oh wait
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  10244. your turn. enlighten me. here are the really big countries in the world. now you tell me what the citizens in these countries think about the Ukraine conflict, how much they care about it, and what their leaders should do about Russia: China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico. are these countries protesting and demanding their leaders declare sanctions on Russia and isolate Russia? You see mass demonstrations in Lagos every day crying out for Nigerian aid to be sent to Kiev in vast quantities?
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  10245.  @olivesama  doesn't matter if there is any difference between "trading with" and "approving of". in the real world, actions speak louder than words, and everyone is still trading with Russia and working with Russia. Quite why you think there is mass global disapproval of Russia is mind-blowing. There isn't. The Global majority is sick and tired of lecturing, Western colonialists demanding this and that be done against Russia. The ordinary people simply don't care, they want Russia to continue exporting its much needed commodities. period. grasp reality and get your head out of the bla bla bla of UN debates and conferences. The reality on the ground is that Russia has plenty of friends, and the close ones, like China, India, Iran, N Korea, Venezuela and OPEC are determined to see Russia keep functioning as normal. wake up.
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  10246.  @olivesama  that seems to imply you think Africans associate Russia with "imperialism carried out by white countries", when the reality is the countries now fighting Russia are the colonial powers (Britain, France, Germany, Belgium) that would be the targets of African disdain. When the leaders of Russia's enemies visit Africa, they are hosted very coldly these days. Macron is spurned by the leaders of ex French West Africa. In contrast, Sergey Lavrov is greeted with hugs and smiles. African leaders know that Russia never sent a colonial force to Africa. African leaders know that Western European powers did. Mainstream African thought, and yes, you certainly seem to need a lecture on this, is more in favor of Russia than it is of the West. And that is a big reason why Russia is not disapproved of, by and large, in Africa.
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  10247.  @Spectre11B  2500 Americans didn't just leave. take a look at the total mayhem NATO forces instigated on that calamitous exit. it tells you so much about the state of US and NATO forces. No wonder they haven't got the guts to actually fight alongside the Ukrainians.
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  10248.  @lpell2510  for 10 years, those who were targetted by the Azovs were ethnic Russians, Ukrainian citizens, so you fully support Ukrainian citizens shelling fellow Ukrainian citizens with the intention of killing them or fleeing to Russia?
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  10249.  @bonnie7898  1. The Ukrainian parliament has no right to "vote a president out". Have a good read of the Ukrainian constitution and see where a court of law must decide on the act of removing a president. 2. "Only the president was changed"....sounds like the definition of a coup to me. 3. The Crimean referendum was called by officials who had no power to do so under the UKRAINIAN constitution. Crimea, by a unanimous vote in the Crimean Parliament (it's called "democracy") already voted to separate from Kiev, therefore Ukrainian law no longer applied. 3. Most Crimeans did support annexation, and if you google pre 2022 opinion polls, even those conducted by Western approved organizations, you will see a massive majority of Crimeans considered themselves Russian, and only about 20% as Ukrainian. Those of us who have actually been to Crimea know that it is the least Ukrainian place on the planet! But, you would have no idea. Curious you quote Igor Girken. Yes or no question. do you believe everything Gurken has ever said? you are totally clueless
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  10250.  @Rigobert-Wupperschnitzl  there is no such thing as free grain, and if the grain is Ukrainian, then Russia can't send it. Russia can only send what Russia has.
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  10251.  @olivesama  just curious, do you look for "empirical data" for every statement? If not, which ones do you take at face value, and for which ones do you need empirical data to confirm an assertion? If I say that a man cannot become a woman, would you need data on that? If I say that a dog has 4 legs, would you need data on that? If I say Chinese students, as a group, do way better than African students on college entrance exams, would you need data on that?
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  10252.  @bonnie7898  when did you start believing every word uttered by Putin and Girken? How do you pick and choose which of their statements you believe and which you disbelieve?
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  10253.  @SeymourCr  sounds like most of UK these days
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  10254.  @АртемАртем-л4э  they don't dare. they have to live in the false narrative of the West being superior to Russia in every way, otherwise they would have to admit they were lied to.
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  10255.  @olivesama  so, the empirical data means bang goes the idea that XX and XY chromosomes define one's sex! all those experts that worked on that "theory" have sure been made to look foolish!
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  10256.  @andylane247  like all those unreported rapes of kids in the Muslim communities.
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  10257.  @andylane247  those Romans certainly knew how to prevent the call of "Allahu Akhbar" ringing out from Muslim murderers.
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  10258. There is no Far Right. Those are just words to scare the masses that the bogeyman is coming, so, better get behind mass immigration because it is a good thing.
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  10259.  @petergoodwin7038  they are not leaving their children and wives in a "war zone". I was using "war zone" sarcastically. they are leaving their wives and children in places with no war at all, like Senegal and Gambia. Sources on number of men? use your eyes! look at the composition of the hordes that are descending on Europe. you need me to do your homework for you? look at the video of all the men forcing their way over the fences between Melilla and Morocco! How many women to you count? How many men? Look at the boatloads coming ashore in Kent. How many women do you see?
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  10260.  @johncollins2037  they don't, unless there is some info in a data base as the documents are scanned. so what's your point?
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  10261.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  exactly. so what's your point? I would fully support any nation to turn way anyone arriving at the border with no or incorrect documentation. why don't you?
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  10262.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  absolute nonsense. the only demographic problem in European countries is too many immigrants. the economies of Europe don't need more immigrants. the economies of Europe need less regulation and for governments to stop meddling, step aside, and let capitalists take care of it. work visas can be issued if needed for specialist positions, otherwise, immigrants are not needed. case in point...need more nurses? then train people to be nurses instead of importing them!
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  10263.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  do you think Japan will be in total demographic disarray and economic depression due to a lack of immigrants? no? why not? please explain.
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  10264.  @donquijotedelamancha3529  indeed, so how about, from the comfort of your sofa, you stop commenting on anyone else's life for the rest of your life?
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  10265. makes sense. lots of other people who lose their family in a fatal accident then go and stab their solicitor. not really abnormal at all.
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  10266. bunch of rich, idle kids and deluded old guffs pretending to make a difference to the world. when private jets are banned we'll know some of the elite are serious about climate change.
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  10267.  @starlightbarking9495  I don't. explain.
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  10268. 2 himars destroyed by Russia and one himars sold to Russia by corrupt Ukrainian officers (who'd have guessed, in a corrupt cesspit like Ukraine?)....wonder what the next wonder weapon hyped out of all proportion will be?
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  10269.  @chrisparker007  exactly what the good folk of the Donbass say about Zelensky. good to know you are on their side.
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  10270.  @TheMuzikall  of course...maps show you the overview. the frontline doesn't!
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  10271. it will be stopped when the immigration problem is solved
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  10272. so if 85% of the voters want a more pro Western government, that's what they will get in the next elections, or......will the US, Maidan style, overthrow the present government because no one can wait for elections.
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  10273. Fascinating to see the Telegraph, once a Conservative outlet, calling patriots "far right" and calling the far left "anti fascists".
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  10274.  @MrKakibuy  absolutely NOT! Trying to take Kiev would have been an enormous blunder! Pinning down Ukrainian forces and leading the West to panic over Kiev, and Kharkov, while the whole of the South was occupied virtually unopposed, was a masterstroke.
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  10275.  @bryandimery6509  EXACTLY! So many sheeple bought this "failure to take Kiev" nonsense that they still think Ghost of Kiev was real, and that Snake Island has some relevance.
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  10276.  @MrKakibuy  A masterstroke that led to the creation of the land bridge from Crimea to Mother Russia, with every opportunity now to connect to Transnistra and leave Ukraine landlocked.
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  10277.  @MrKakibuy  after 7 months? the war is 6 months old!
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  10278.  @MrKakibuy  the map barely changed? try telling that to the 20% of Ukrainians now in Russian controlled territory!
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  10279.  @MrKakibuy  Russia can't push forward? So, how was Pesky captured last week? By retreating?
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  10280.  @MrKakibuy  Russia will emerge victorious, just as it did in Transnistra, just as it did in Chechnya. just as it did in Abkhazia, just as it did in South Ossetia, just as it did in Syria. And NATO will sulk home with it's backside kicked and totally humiliated, just as it did last year from Kabul.
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  10281.  @edwardbernthal160  The Russians made a mistake thinking it was of importance, but really not sure they lost many troops and hardware, and neither are you, More likely the Ukrainians lost a lot more in their futile attempts to storm the island. Read the truth from the wise one.
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  10282.  @MrKakibuy  yep, every opportunity. it's a phrase meaning looking forward, there are potential opportunities. Given himars has failed in recent weeks, given Europe no longer supplying arms and ammo, given Ukrainian soldiers are dying faster than being replaced, Russia will soon have the opportunity to connect Kherson with Transnistra to make Ukraine landlocked. No need or desire, for now, to take Odessa, nor Kharkov. Pinning down Ukrainian troops there is all that is needed, the usual fixing the opposition and setting up a cauldron. worked a treat in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Chechnya, Syria, and will work a treat in Ukraine. patience.
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  10283.  @basserphil  yeah? how soon? wanna bet?
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  10284. offer her yours then
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  10285. that's the point! The West is reduced to optics, superficial nonsense that achieves nothing, because the West can't change anything of substance any longer, hence the frustration of the West to see its power and influence go down the drain.
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  10286.  @silviadunderdale9400  on the contrary, i awaken the deluded and the dreamers with the truth. take note of what i say and you will understand the world a lot better.
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  10287.  @rememberalamo7994  and all of Latin America, all of Africa, almost all of Asia, just they think it is easier to keep working and trading with Russia but placate the West with a meaningless vote at the UN.
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  10288.  @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756  the terrorist state would be the one that blew up Nordstream...USA
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  10289.  @tin-n-tan  barely affected any Western country in any way? it's plunged millions into fuel poverty, ramped up inflation and left the West with no weapons! the Russian losses in this war are not hundreds of thousands, so quit the babyish exaggeration games and get real. demilitarization of Ukraine is the aim, and that is being achieved.
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  10290.  @tin-n-tan  so if USA has more weapons than the rest of the world has sand, why does Ukraine keep begging for more, and USA refuses to send more? Why are all those artillery shells the USA has, you claim, not in the hands of the Ukrainians?
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  10291.  @tin-n-tan  which is a lot more than NATO can provide at the moment!
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  10292.  @wordscapes5690  the usual failed response...sanctions....the West is left with absolutely no other way to persuade anyone. it's pathetic.
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  10293.  @CaptainChaooooos  same was said about Assad
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  10294.  @luisekjeldsen1515  so it took the dopey US TWENTY YEARS to figure out the Afghans were not willing to fight for their freedom? Wow, talk about slow learners! Russia was never in Afghanistan. Learn the difference between the USSR (led by a warmongering Ukrainian, Brezhnev, surprise surprise) and Russian Federation. you are human in the West? I am in the West and have always been, 100% Westerner, and I disagree. I would say we in the West are subhuman when it comes to war. NATO bombing Libya and Serbia was "human"? you stinking hypocrite. learn the basics.
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  10295.  @puraLusa  Chechnya is solved. no fighting, Russia in control, full rights for Russian speakers restored. job done. learn the basics. Syria, Assad still in power, Russia wiped out the opposition, even Turkey now leaving, USA left occupying one third but concedes it can't remove Assad. Obama said "Assad's days are numbered" Obama, another fool who discounted Russian strength. you are both clueless.
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  10296.  @puraLusa  keep up with the news. Turkey has agreed to withdraw from its area of occupation and will work with Assad. The whole aim of USA was to overthrow Assad. It failed. Russia intervened and through a war of attrition wore down all resistance and demilitarized the US allies. It's over, Assad and Russia won, learn the basics.
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  10297.  @luisekjeldsen1515  only an ignorant child sees no difference between USSR and Russia. USSR comprised of 15 republics, including Ukraine! If Russia is the same as USSR, then Ukraine is part of Russia! You now agree with Putin, you dope! So NATO is allowed to bomb sovereign countries when Luise Kjelsen decides it is to prevent mass slaughter of civilians, but Russia is not allowed to bomb sovereign Ukraine when Duncan Smith says it is to prevent mass slaughter of Donbass civilians. welcome to the pathetic, childish, hypocritical world of "rules-based order of the West" Nope, I am happy where I am in Spain and will stay here. better you go live in Kiev and enjoy that wonderful beacon of democracy that worships Nazis. Go get another swastika tattooed on your fecally encrusted buttocks for good measure.
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  10298.  @trishawilson1436  Trisha, honey, learn the difference between the USSR and Russia and then get back to me. If it was Russia that fought a war in Afghanistan, not USSR, explain how a Ukrainian, Brezhnev, led Russia to war in Afghanistan. you poor uneducated innocent child.
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  10299.  @bonnie7898  "the withdrawal was voluntary"...which withdrawals are not voluntary? Here is the problem with the Western style of fighting. "The Taliban had been beaten back...the Taliban re-emerged" 20 years US and NATO were in Afghanistan. All Taliban had to do was wait to claim victory. When Russia demilitarizes an enemy, it does all in its power to kill every single enemy combatant. it takes time, it means casualties, but it achieves victories. US and NATO have shown they don't have that patience, determination or commitment. just "beating back" an enemy just achieves an indefinite stalemate. This is why Russia will win in Ukraine, and the west will lose interest and move on to some other victim country when Ukraine is totally destroyed
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  10300.  @bonnie7898  I do. still waiting for your answer...a one word answer will suffice. which NATO member country was being "defended" by the defensive alliance NATO when NATO bombed Serbia for 78 consecutive nights? Portugal, maybe? Poland?
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  10301.  @bonnie7898  that's right, not yet certain. there is a chance the NATO trained and armed fine Ukrainian battalions might still defeat the incompetent mercenaries and convicts! LOL
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  10302.  @bonnie7898  bla bla bla. just a list of excuses for Western failure. you have no clue. The West, as it always does, assumed air superiority and superior weapons would win the day, and it didn't. the Taliban hid, the Taliban still plotted terror, the Taliban still had loyal followers, the Taliban bided its time and then took over. Total Western failure. Not sure if the height of Western failure was the intelligence that "Taliban would need 90 days to take Kabul", or the droning of an innocent Afghan family to death just before US flew out of Kabul. which one, for you, was the crowning achievement of the West's presence in Afghanistan? If you want to defeat an enemy, commit all your forces to do so. If you don't want to defeat an enemy, get the hell out and stop farting around for 20 years. it's that simple, as the west is learning again in Syria and now Ukraine.
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  10303.  @bonnie7898  still waiting for your one word answer on which NATO country was being defended by the defensive organization, NATO, when NATO bombed Serbia for 78 nights straight. Netherlands, maybe?
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  10304.  @bonnie7898  could I suggest a course in logic and reading comprehension for you! you say NATO is a defensive alliance. it isn't. i never asked you for a diatribe defending NATO actions in Serbia. I asked you to explain, very simply, which NATO country was being defended by the NATO bombing of Serbia? or of Libya? Now, the answer is going to be the NAME of a country! try again!
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  10305. the search has been called off, hours ago, get up to date, please!
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  10306. Always fascinating to check in on the parallel universe of Times Radio occasionally, especially when prize idiots like this goon Chip is blabbering on. Three and half months of a failed counter offensive, 70,000 more cannon fodder churned up in the Russian meatgrinder, and the deluded West still talks of "cutting off Ukraine". just hilarious.
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  10307. Hey, Duda, nothing stopping you sending all your Polish soldiers into Ukraine to help. why wait for NATO? just enter the conflict as Poland, not NATO. what you scared of?
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  10308. curious that a democratically elected leader is described as a "nightmare" for Brussels. I guess that means the EU really hates democratic votes.
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  10309. Fauci talks as if the "tsunami of patients" included 7 yr old healthy kids! It never did, anywhere!
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  10310.  @jeanlevieux9140  alors, le père n'est pas musulman s'il contredit les mots de Mohammed sur le mariage. je pensais que vous parliez d'un vrai musulman, pas quelqu'un juste d'un milieu islamique. Voilà la différence. Et les jeunes et le père, qu'est ce qu'ils ont dit au sujet de l'apostasie quand vous avez parlé avec eux de ça?
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  10311. exactly.....if DPR, LPR and Russia kill all the Ukrainian troops in one mass battle in Severodonetsk, no more territory needs to be taken for complete victory. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  10312.  @oisin3495  Aim 1 - recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, will be so when Ukraine surrenders, Aim 2 - Ukraine a neutral country written into its constitution, which Ukraine came close to accepting in Istanbul when it was obvious NATO never really wanted Ukraine as a member. Aim 3 - liberation of LPR and DPR. Luhansk, job done. Donetsk. in progress but Ukraine has shown it is unable to halt Russia's incremental advances there, and now the Chechens are back in action, we can expect Bakhmut to fall soon. Aim 4. Denazification of Ukraine, done, the Azov Nazis got killed crippled or captured in Mariupol, job done Aim 5 - demilitarization of Ukraine, Ukraine now down to teenage cannon fodder which is being thrown into the Russian meatgrinder and chewed up in their thousands every day. Unreported by the West, but the horrendous losses of men and equipment spells the end for Ukraine. As a bonus, Russia has demilitarized NATO! USA now down to PROCUREMENTS! (ordering the manufacture of weapons and ammo!), reached the bottom of the barrel! Putin may well declare war to get the 5 aims wrapped up before winter, but he may just wait patiently and smile as Europe shivers and freezes all winter. i think i would wait it out and watch the fun. and you?
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  10313.  @paulgibbon5991  and yet Paul, the eternal coward, will never put his money where his mouth is and wager that Duncan Smith is a bot. you up for it? $1000 bet that I am no bot? or, are you 100% coward? Like the Azov Nazis you so love
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  10314. we need another pandemic to teach the fatties how weak they are and how much they cost society with the endless medical attention they require.
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  10315. On the contrary, honey, Putin's allies will be impressed that he dealt with the demented Prigozhin while continuing his most magnificent annihilation of Ukronazis in the so-called offensive. Putin comes out of it stronger.
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  10316.  @walkonhotcoals1277  Lukashenko as a mediator was a great idea. it's called pragmatism....a concept alien to Western leaders at the moment who can only think of escalation until the last Ukrainian dies. If Russia is a joke, the joke is annihilating the great Ukronazia/NATO counter offensive after just 21 days! Keep laughing at that joke!
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  10317.  @walkonhotcoals1277  If only Zelensky had the sense to call on Lukashenko, or ANY mediator, to intervene and save his country. Nah, better to fight on until the country is totally destroyed.
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  10318.  @walkonhotcoals1277  better to be given the choice, but of course NATO is insisting that every Ukrainian be dead. Welcome to the dictatorship of the West. No peace negotiations, just death. Enjoy every minute of it.
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  10319.  @thegreatdane3627  remember, little chihuahua, 19 degrees is just an estimate for now. If Germany has a sub tropcal winter, could go up to 20! If a long, freezing spell sets in, could go down to.....hmm, cold enough for the old and needy to freeze to death. am sure the funds you have will be donated for their burials.
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  10320.  @thegreatdane3627  not for the first time, you are wrong. Europe has continued to fund the enemy by buying enormous amounts of Russian energy all through this conflict. How do you think your gas storage got full? Moreover, your dumb leaders were forced to pay in rubles, so the ruble strengthened, and the euro sank. Russian revenues from energy have increased, as European actions raised the price of energy worldwide. A total failure for Europe. Of course, the energy companies will be fine, but the poor and needy will get totally screwed. you'll see, but nice enough to know you can afford 19 degrees forever more. at least you will be fine, don't worry about those in a worse position:) "fuel poverty" was an unknown phrase in the UK until this year. Now everyone knows it, and many are suffering from it. the policies you support are absolutely crushing the poor in Europe. Happy?
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  10321.  @thegreatdane3627  when you say Europe will be just fine, do you think Europe will buy up much of the world's LNG at prices way beyond the price of Russian gas, and will also outbid countries like Bangladesh, who will then be left without their usual LNG. Screw the poor of the world, but Europe will be just fine:)
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  10322.  @thegreatdane3627  I'm guessing your lack of concern for the poor in Bangladesh is matched by Zelensky's lack of concern for his own people, right? Zelensky hasn't sold his Miami mansion, nor his villa in Tuscany, so clearly he himself is not willing to contribute financially. Now I see why he is a man after your own heart! Screw the unfortunate people, just make sure I'm fine!
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  10323.  @ericambler486  what the eyewitnesses said and his own snapchat from Masca don't disprove that a 3rd party abducted him for whatever drug-related reason.
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  10324. oh honey, you need to talk to some Ukrainians NOT vetted by your media bosses some day. You would be amazed how many Ukrainians would JUMP at the chance of a settlement that let the Donbass Russian speakers be independent. you have no idea how diverse are the opinions of Ukrainians on what they would agree to in order to end this conflict.
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  10325. not as expensive as addressing global warming with pointless and ineffective green policies.
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  10326.  @tubecated_development  truth hurts, eh? curious you are unable to point out anything idiotic about the comment:)
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  10327. while Britainistan has a Sharia Police, nothing will change and Islamic rule will be achieved, sooner rather than later.
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  10328. Do the Ukrainians still claim Mariupol is in their control? Let me guess. Severodonetsk is still "contested"?
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  10329. Finland is a nation of limp effete nancies and could do nothing against Russia
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  10330. Bit confusing why any aid is needed. Back in July, Biden told the world that Russia had already lost this war. I guess an extra 60 billion is needed to put the icing on the cake of Ukraine's magnificent victory.
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  10331. " we need to have a dialog with the Chinese" tells you all you need to know. Talking to the Chinese is the policy that reduces global CO2 emissions. Really?
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  10332. no, we don't.
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  10333. Russia's "eyes in the sky" spotted the hotel where NATO mercenaries were based, and bizarrely, the civilians thought it was a really good idea to enjoy the pizzeria next to the hotel with all the NATO mercenaries, hence all the English being spoken in the social media posts from people on the scene. Colin Freeman , @colinfreeman99 even says how lucky he was to escape the attack. I mean I guess Colin could be a tourist. possible. appalling stupidity to hang out in a war zone with a group of mercenaries. Kramatorsk civilians not the brightest!
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  10334. the problem is, the "compelling message from Biden" she's talking about can't be delivered by Biden, even by teleprompter..he'd mess it up.
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  10335. no, sir, it does not seem extraordinary at all. it is all perfectly comprehensible. only to dopes like you, ignorant of the horrors of mass immigration, would something like this seem "extraordinary".
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  10336. we already did, and Russia destroyed it. Russia has demilitarized both Ukraine and NATO. There is precious little left to give, and what will be given will be destroyed. ALL NATO credibility gone, Russia wins
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  10337.  @FishandHunt  And so formidable is the Russian military, Russia has a pool of excellent officer replacements far greater than USA has had in totality since WW2!
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  10338.  @FishandHunt  what's the average age and combat experience of Ukrainian officers these days? 22 years old and 3 weeks experience?
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  10339.  @eng3d  good point. it's not how supplies and logistics actually work that counts, it's the perception and image of how the sheep think it works that matters.
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  10340.  @FishandHunt  you know things are going well for Ukraine when, entering WEEK EIGHT of the massive counter offensive, the totality of recaptured territory is 5 villages and a pig farm, at the expense of 20% of all weaponry sent from the West plus 26,000 dead cannon fodder! To the Sea of Azov, here we go! NOT!
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  10341.  @FishandHunt  better change the boss when the situation demands it than Kiev's brilliant tactic of keeping with the same fool who keeps racking up the dead Ukrainians by the thousands every week
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  10342.  @FishandHunt  shows you how brilliant Putin is, he can survive an armed mutiny AND keep massacring the ukronazi cannon fodder on a daily basis, no problem. Best world leader by far.
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  10343. Compare that to Putin's free-flowing 4 hr Q and A sessions. Shows you why Russia is absolutely creaming NATO
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  10344.  @Flashman57  je vais essayer ça ce soir..a voir les résultats! chin chin!
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  10345. Woke climate alarmist and immigrant embracing Boris was no Conservative. Only Farage can save Britain
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  10346. BBC Verify needed to check on the BBC. This video says the woman "crossed Russian lines" The written text on BBC website says she escaped Ocheretyne as the Russians approached. BBC is lying.
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  10347. Any updates on the innocent civilians murdered by Zelensky's terrorist attack on the bridge? Oh, I forgot, your paymasters ignore that side of the story. Carry on, what, oh yeah. evil Russia decided to retaliate, got it.
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  10348. slowly but surely, Zelensky is understanding that the West's promise to deliver victory is an empty promise and that the West can do nothing to prevent Russia from winning. the only question remaining is how Ukraine will lose it all. 1. run out of fighting men..2. run out of weapons...3. run out of ammo...4. run out of funds voted by US Congress. Place your bets, which one comes first and condemns Ukraine to oblivion.
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  10349. Snake Island sums up this conflict in general. The West celebrates the colorful language of its defenders, the t shirts, the symbolism. Russia is focused on wiping out as many Ukrainians as possible who futilely keep trying to take the island.
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  10350. The Russians are masters at undercutting the competition and at evading regulations. Plenty of countries will be offered Russian energy at competitive prices and yes, Russia will find a way to ship its oil without Western sanctions on shipping and insurance being a factor. Greece ready to temporarily reflag its ships to Indian registry if needed.
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  10351. "Russia's stockpiles will run out in months" what, like in 48 months?
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  10352. the problem is that these migrants can only claim asylum in the UK, so every arrival who steps foot on UK soil and says "I claim asylum" is 100% legal, hence not one of them is ever arrested. a policy reversal, demanding any asylum claim be made outside the UK, at a British embassy, would end all this immediately. makes you wonder why the government refuses to change the rules.
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  10353. oh, come on! it's social Darwinism at work. anyone dumb enough to go into debt while striving towards a useless qualification, or one that leads to a profession that pays too little, has only himself/herself to blame. if there are enough suckers falling for this, good luck to the loan sharks. they are helping sift out the wise from the cretinous.
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  10354. Russia invaded Ukraine after 8 years of Ukraine shelling the good people of the Donbass. The West should have supported Putin and not the extreme Nationalists in Kiev and the Azov Nazi backers.
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  10355. Western media hoping speculation like "disunity" will distract from the shocking reality that a bunch of mercenaries and convicts, low on morale and weapons, we were told, just defeated Ukraine's NATO trained battalions in Soledar.
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  10356.  @gvidon300  I'm not Russian, so it's not "my" MOD! But, yes, despite being told repeatedly by some infantile Ukraine supporters that "everything Russia claims is a lie", I do believe the Russian MOD on this one. Problem is, for Western media, if you keep stressing that Russia is so desperate that it must use convicts and mercenaries, then you just made it tough to explain to your audience how such a desperate situation resulted in Russia defeating those oh so well trained, NATO trained, Ukrainian battalions. can't have your cake and eat it.
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  10357.  @gvidon300  the big problem here, for the West, is that there have only been two battles so far, battles as defined by both sides go toe to toe, street by street, to see which side endures and prevails. Mariupol and Bakhmut/Soledar. It is about to be 2-0 to Russia, despite the "gamechangers" (stingers, javelins, M777s, himars etc). But the West insists Ukraine is winning. Anyone with any sense would at least start to question that narrative.
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  10358. What will be VERY interesting is to see how many more Russian prisoners Ukraine has to exchange. We know thousands of Ukrainians are captive in LPR, DPR or Russia.....maybe Ukraine just handed over ALL the Russians they have?
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  10359. simply astounding that those who could leave the UK and start again abroad are refusing to do so. massive mistake.
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  10360.  @Fractal369  Spain has always been mostly desert. It has changed very little over the decades. The evidence is against you. In general, higher levels of COs have started to green the planet. Satellite imagery shows vast areas of Western Australia and the Sahel are greening, and that is wonderful news. Despite the fact that the planet's population has sky rocketed, weather-related famines have all but disappeared, and there has never been less poverty in the world and more food production, all of this happening as the planet warms. if you can name me one country suffering from greater malnutrition now than before the industrial revolution, go ahead. The real climate expert on this is William Happer, and like him, I think it important we keep adding some more CO2 to the atmosphere, as on balance, it benefits the planet.
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  10361. Jim Dale needs to ask himself what percentage of scientists agreed with Galileo when he first posited that the Earth is not the centre of the solar system. Assuming the 3% must be wrong means he's no scientist, just a propagandist.
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  10362. "we couldn't have anticipated this reaction" shows just how out of touch such elite ignorant numpties like this cretinous Police chief are.
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  10363. ANOTHER massive missile strike from the Russians? Back in October, that court jester, Ben Wallace, said that Russia had maybe enough missiles for three more such attacks. In May, there are about 3 such attacks a week! At what point do Western media start asking how imbeciles like Wallace have got things so horrendously wrong?
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  10364. probably a non British home
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  10365.  @marjorielemons7551  feral describes behaviour and upbringing. don't you have access to a dictionary?
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  10366.  @marjorielemons7551  oh, ok.
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  10367. "spring counter offensive against Russia" it's May 21st! when do we start to say "summer counter offensive"?
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  10368.  @nuvidas  I wish I were not compelled to pay for it. BBC definitely a waste of money.
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  10369.  @YelizC  he has maintained good relations with Russia, boosted tourism numbers and remained firm that Sweden needs to deport those who he calls terrorists. it is called having a backbone, something Western leaders have lost.
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  10370. it's really not that complex. Stop importing Muslim immigrants, deport the ones that have a criminal record or are parasites on the state, and things will improve dramatically.
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  10371. given the limp way Germany reacted to the Cologne New Year rapes and assaults, my bet is Scholz is fine with doing business with a nation that treats women as chattel and is fine with jihad and child brides.
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  10372. "called her male friend in New York, so it was bedtime for him" bed time, what, let's say midnight? 6 hour time difference. So, this all happened at 6 a.m in Cannes? Doesn't seem right.
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  10373. Scholz knows that the game is up and that Ukraine cannot win. But Scholz has no balls to say that.
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  10374. Finally, USA catching up with Russia on how to hold legitimate elections.
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  10375. By what percentage have arrivals in UK waters from France dropped since the Albania deal?
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  10376. Macron has no idea how to control the rioting Muslim immigrants in his own cities, let alone how to stop the West from collapsing.
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  10377. Georgians truly embracing EU values, demanding less transparency and more corruption. Happy to head down the Maidan route, which worked out so well for Ukraine.
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  10378. that's why we see all those democrat billionaires giving away their wealth readily to the needy. not.
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  10379.  @David-ry9ly  Russia, unlike Ukraine, has reliable allies that out produce NATO. Game over for NATO. Beaten by N korea and Iran!
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  10380. "Energy crisis triggered by Russia cutting supplies"....the same old lie. Try the truth. "Energy crisis triggered by the West announcing they want to end all business with Russia".
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  10381. hilarious, Canada, as an example of successful immigration. crime has risen in Canada as immigration has risen
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  10382. notice how anything announced by the Russian side "cannot be independently verified" but any info coming from the Ukrainian side is re-broadcast as fact.
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  10383.  @deanmoxom1330  what about in a fair fight?
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  10384. it's over. Russia will attain its objectives and then dictate surrender terms, no negotiations needed. The only mystery that remains is how the West will handle all the finger-pointing and recriminations after.
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  10385. so, according to Scholz, acting morally is contingent on what the "partners" do. "I'll help that victim of assault only if someone else joins me in helping". Nonsense. Scholz has been told by his top military that Ukraine can't win, so Scholz is playing for time, looking for an off ramp.
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  10386. given all the sanctions piled on Russia, no one needs any lectures on blackmail from Poroshenko or any Western leader
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  10387. "Ukraine was not attacking Russia".....but for 8 years Ukraine, with its Azov Nazi battalion, was attacking ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in the Donbass.
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  10388.  @JoeMcnally-nf1yr  i never made a mistake with a machete in my hand
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  10389.  @Existence-zy4gb  20% of Ukraine is now Russia, and Russia controls what happens in the rest of Ukraine. You missed the news over the last 2 years!
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  10390.  @anthonychin1873  true, Izium was not well protected. Also, would be interesting to know to what degree Lyman is a victory, i.e. how much cannon fodder did Ukraine throw into the meatgrinder? Glad you find it comical. Adolf.
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  10391.  @anthonychin1873  it is quite common for people who don't grasp a certain reality to react with laughter, so no surprise you find my words comical. if you want to point out any inaccuracies in what I say, please do...but then again, that would demand understanding of what is happening in Ukraine.
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  10392.  @verdebusterAP  ok, now the truth, in Boxing analogies. Russia has gone into this fight with NATO/Ukraine with flexibility and caution. NATO/Ukraine was distracted in round one with some big Russian punches that took away 20% of NATO/Ukraine's energy, and NATO/Ukraine was just relieved to get through the round, battered and bruised. From round two on Russia kept gradually wearing NATO/Ukraine down while minimizing expending energy, knowing that such tactics worked well in the last bout against Syria. Here in Round 8, despite a lot of shouting from NATO/Ukraine that a massive counter attack would happen, it hasn't. How Russia will decide to win the last 4 rounds is still up for debate, but it doesn't rely on some magic energy bar supplied by the corner, it has all the tools at its disposal to win. it is just a matter of when the NATO/Ukraine corner throws the towel in. In the previous round NATO/Ukraine threw all punches they could muster and landed one, that grazed the temple. Exhausted NATO/Ukraine now just begging for a miracle to survive the next 4 rounds....but even then the judges' decision will go against them.
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  10393.  @usul573  when losses are low, Zelensky and co are happy to trumpet their losses. they announce losses regularly. it's Russia that doesn't mention losses.
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  10394.  @ssglbc1875  could well have been a turkey shoot for Russian forces in retreat and for Russia's long range artillery. Gotta a feeling Ukrainian losses have been massive in all offensives.
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  10395.  @jjoejones1  it is certainly hard work to try and make deluded fools who gobble up Western media reports to see the real big picture, but it's my passion to shine the light of truth on the situation in Ukraine. I have fond memories of the place, and some shocking ones too.
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  10396.  @calisto2735  there was no running. the retreat started days before any Ukrainians started moving through Kharkov oblast. I can't help you if you can't grasp the notion of inflicting horrendous losses on an advancing army while withdrawing. Probably it is one of many concepts you are incapable of grasping.
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  10397.  @jjoejones1  conspicuous by its absence, any explanation of why the Syrian analogy is a bad one.
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  10398.  @jjoejones1  If you want a Western source on Ukraine's horrendous losses in these offensives, read what the WP said on the Kherson offensive
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  10399.  @jjoejones1  I provided you with logic. There's a paucity of facts available to the public in war. Neither you nor I have any idea of the death count on either side. What you and I do have are Ukrainian pronouncements on the their death counts, off and on, throughout this conflict. The Ukrainian claims of death counts can be as high as a thousand a week (when they are desperate for more handouts from the West), and as "low" as about a hundred a week, when they want to convince the world things are going well. Lately, there has been a notable silence from Ukraine on its death counts from its counter offensives. Logic dictates that means its high. Washington Post and New York Times, both rabid supporters of the Ukraine cause, have printed articles on the startlingly high Ukrainian death count. On the other hand, talking of paucity, you have offered NOTHING at all to refute my logic. But, go ahead, where is my analysis wrong? am in no hurry
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  10400. stop blaming the Home Office. This "Conservative" government can pass the required legislation to end it all tomorrow. First, they have to find a spine.
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  10401.  @DRKrust492  not for the first time in your life, you are completely wrong.
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  10402. the usual focus on the wrong thing. tow the boats back to France and there won't be any trafficking gangs.
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  10403.  @filipe5722  Unchallenged? Putin's power is challenged every day in the Duma, where opposition parties are allowed, unlike in Ukraine! It's not a rebellion when no one in the streets support it! Oh, i'm sure you wouldn't be surprised by anything, given how gullible and ignorant you are.
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  10404.  @jakel8627  why do you take a dose of the truth to be nonsense? (answer: you are one of the sheep whose brain has been conditioned by Western media)
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  10405.  @wokeaf1337  I am well aware of what "you" saw in the West. I live in the West and see the same media. But unlike you, I contrast Western media with independent media, and think about the differences. Putin didn't need Shoigu or Gerasimov. Wisely, Putin stepped out of the conflict and let Lukashenko solve this one. Job done. Start grasping reality, not the s**t you gobble up from Western MSM every day.
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  10406. "German authorities at least possess two pictures of two of the six suspects! but the two passports are forged! and so the pure bs goes on and on.
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  10407.  @TheValeyard92  could be
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  10408.  @Kellycreator  and just like grandma, he has that blanket hanging down perfectly and straight, right down to his shoes, legs not crossed, again, all perfectly in order. must be a younger generation thing. Qassim said "his blanket". Do you think Jay brought his own blanket with him that night?
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  10409.  @JD-rt5sd  Russia is just copying the "rules based international order" much vaunted by the West, and doing what USA does on a regular basis, invading other countries.
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  10410.  @__Aurora__  slava Banderi i slava fashisti
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  10411.  @JD-rt5sd  of course, simply not possible for anyone with the last name of Smith to be a UK citizen that used to work in Ukraine and understand why the Donbass separated from Kiev.
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  10412. it's astounding that there are still 6 people who think Jay's body is located in a wilderness he never entered! solve the crime and you will find the body
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  10413. Given the judge, and his wife, were dumb enough to donate to Willis's election campaign, one should assume the judge is also dumb enough to see no reason for disqualifying Willis and Wade.
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  10414.  @Ginko713  luckily, McDonald's has salads too:) they made it easy for me
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  10415.  @Ginko713  Given I'm not of a younger age, and taking a moral stand in favor of those who back Israel is much more important to me, McDonalds it is:)
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  10416.  @timoakley277  the rules were always there, but only a fool would assume the same rules would necessarily be in place post Brexit. the debate is not about the rules in place. the debate is which rules would best serve the people of Europe.
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  10417.  @avakholwadia1420  i never said "most Europeans are punishing the UK". read carefully what I said. maybe your English is not so good. commiserations for living in Belgium. i live in France. no one is talking about the Brits here either. so what? we are debating which EU rule changes would most benefit EU citizens.
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  10418.  @avakholwadia1420  i commiserate with you for living in Belgium because of all the EU countries, Belgium is one of the most miserable, divided, identity deficient armpits of a country. totally agree with you on the benefits you mentioned of freedom of movement in the EU. freedom of movement also meant gangs of Rumanian and Bulgarian mafia crooks took over many districts of London. Freedom of movement is both good and bad. oh, SUCH a stressful process to get a passport for travel. so sorry you had to endure such pain. yes, brexit has impacted Brits with holiday homes (you are now making my point for me, that it would be an enormous benefit to the EU and the UK for the EU to relax travel restrictions on Brits entering the EU). this debate that you jumped into was about exempting Brits from 3rd nation status when entering the EU. what harm would such an exemption cause to the citizens of the EU?
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  10419.  @kentak5748  everyone should be required to show a passport to enter another country. passports are much harder to counterfeit than national i.d. cards.
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  10420.  @angelobucciarelli4848  exactly! you will have more space, lots and lots of empty space, and indefinitely more empty space that will break the hearts and budgets of those who once thrived on UK tourist revenues. of course, your fellow EU citizens getting poorer doesn't bother you at all. you are happy and selfish. the EU is the least independent space on this planet. it is just a vassal state of the USA, as the Nordstream attack showed.
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  10421.  @timoakley277  the debate is about what rule changes would benefit EU citizens from more tourism from the UK. no one is blaming anyone for anything! i mean, if you are determined to blame someone for something, why not blame Brussels for making the EU a protectionist cartel that keeps prices high so that its consumers can't enjoy lower prices?
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  10422. privatise the whole system
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  10423.  @personalcheeses8073  the Police never thought of that. they won't even contemplate any investigation that will reveal the drug and gang problem on Tenerife.
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  10424. she made the terrible mistake of trusting the police and thinking they were there to support her. i hope she never, ever even thinks of considering the police as on her side ever again. harsh lesson, but you would have thought after Rotherham and Telford, etc, everyone would know the Police are 2 tiered and anti white.
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  10425.  @1ndragunawan  No faulty assumptions here! 1) UN membership is totally irrelevant to the process of claiming and establishing independence. Was UN membership needed for USA to declare its independence from Great Britain? 2) Catalonia is NOT part of Spain if you are a Catalonian separatist! Kosovo is NOT part of Serbia if you are a Kosovar Separatist Northern Cyprus is NOT part of Republic of Cyprus if you are a Turkish Cypriot. It all depends on your philosophical stance. 3) Separatists CAN and DO declare their independence at ANY time. A declaration of independence is not necessarily connected with the might of the so called "sovereign" country.4) DPR and LPR need no peace treaty to become independent and liberated from Ukraine. Again, look at Northern Cyprus. 5) That's how the REAL world works. Learn something!
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  10426.  @1ndragunawan  I guess English is your second language and Reading Comprehension is not your forte. You said "KOSOVO IS NOT A UN MEMBER". I. correctly, pointed out that being a UN member has NOTHING to do with claims for independence. You are woefully ignorant, so you need to learn more and pay attention. Again, in the context of claiming independence, you said "KOSOVO IS NOT A UN MEMBER". The history of the world is replete with independence claims that had or have NOTHING to do with the UN. Learn better English, read more carefully, think more logically.
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  10427. @HAMBORGIR8 some of the Spanish Press (e.g. UCO Digital) are reporting that the investigation is now focusing on Santa Cruz. The theory, rather than evidence, I would guess, is that Jay is too recognizable wandering around rural Tenerife, but in the big city, no one will even look at him. my own theory is that whoever he owes money to has him in Santa Cruz, but now the whole thing has gone viral they have no idea what to do with him!
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  10428. @HAMBORGIR8 just reporting what I read in UCO Digital, that investigations have switched to the main city, which makes sense, as no one in Santa Cruz would even look at Jay Slater, let alone recognize him
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  10429.  @adrianh332  exactly how many Russians died in the Soledar offensive compared to Ukrainian losses?
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  10430.  @takeitasacompliment.  I believe General Milley's and Ursula Van der Leyen's total of 100,000 Ukrainian dead from a few months ago. Roughly ties in with the numbers Ukraine were admitting to when they gave monthly totals back in the summer. With a 6:1 artillery firing rate in favor of the Russians (as admitted by the Ukrainians) it would make sense the Russian kill rate is much higher than Ukraine's. No one knows Russia's numbers apart from a select few in the Kremlin, so no point guessing. Russia has 3 times the population of Ukraine, so logically, it has 3 times the manpower to call on.
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  10431. @UCCvQi_ga7FDdXggGSa3EcWA the blubbery woke West is powerless. can't even provide an air defence system for Ukraine. not a question of "letting" Russia win, the West can't do anything about it. The West doesn't care how many men Ukraine loses. that's what happens when you have a society of apathetic individuals who choose not to be political. Ukraine already mobilized its convicts (google "Ruslan Onyshenko") and college students. The end is nigh for Ukraine and the West. Soledar just a taste of things to come.
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  10432.  @lauravilsone5554  French speaking Canadians can go through their whole life and are never compelled to speak English (the language of 80% of Canada). Russian speaking Ukrainians are now compelled to speak and use Ukrainian in education, in government spheres and in the legal system. Russian speakers are discriminated against, by law, in their homeland, where French speakers are NOT, in Canada, in Belgium, or in Switzerland. Now, if you are too dumb to see the difference, I can't help you.
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  10433.  @lauravilsone5554  I didn't say you were embarrassing me. I am not the type to feel embarrassed. I said ridicule me. so now I understand your position. IF a state is a federated state, then it is absolutely fine to allow citizens to be educated in their native language, but if the state is NOT a federated state, then citizens fully deserve to be compelled to be educated in the one official language of the state, even in communities where second language speakers form the majority. Belgium is not a federated state. So you urge Brussels to compel all French speakers in Wallonia to be educated in Flemish, right?
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  10434. what about Catalonia. Catalonia is but a region of Spain. In Catalonia, you would urge Madrid to compel all Catalan speakers to be educated in Spanish and in Spanish only, correct?
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  10435.  @push4300  it's totally crazy and discriminatory. it really is like some English speaking Canadian official showing up at a French speaking school in Montreal and telling all staff and kids that, as from tomorrow, every word spoken in the classroom must be English. Yet this is the policy the West and Kiev think is inclusive, fair and democratic.
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  10436. can't have both, hundreds of hotels occupied by illegal immigrants or hundreds of hotels occupied by Britain's homeless. but looks like the government have made their decision which group is the more deserving.
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  10437.  @Aklith  share with the world the numbers you have. total number of innocent civilians killed by Russia compared to total killed by Ukraine, over the last 8 years, and then explain why those numbers are relevant to any argument.
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  10438. just love this tactic of assuming what the Russian objective is, then laughing at the fact the fictitious objective was never met. it keeps the West amused, while it loses the conflict
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  10439.  @Aklith  wow, you have been busy over the last decade, covering so much ground in Ukraine and Russia with your clipboard and abacus! Good job adding up! so refreshing to see data that comes from original research and not from dubious, biased sources:)
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  10440.  @Aklith  the number might also be lower if the Ukrainians hadn't, as Amnesty International pointed out, placed weaponry and soldiers in civilian residential areas.
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  10441.  @Aklith  that number would be a lot lower if Kiev had agreed to DPR and LPR independence back in 2014, rather than cheering the Azov battalion for shelling Donetsk.
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  10442.  @Aklith  now I'm curious. do you accept all UN data as 100% accurate? If so, why?
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  10443.  @Aklith  tell the world what the word "Ukraine" means and then explain why it is wholly separate from Russia.
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  10444. two months in, 30,000 dead Ukrainian cannon fodder, 20% of Ukronazi weaponry destroyed, a handful of villages captured, total disaster for NATO/Ukronazia, and you know it.
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  10445.  @murrayflewelling1258  just hilarious how you believe your own propaganda. check out the BBC/Mediazone report on which side is suffering heavier losses. the only breakthrough is where Russian forces have collapsed the Ukrainian defences in the Svatove and Kupiansk areas. its the Russian offensive that is gaining steam. you are deluded.
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  10446. he's there because if he refused to go there he would have actually committed a crime.
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  10447.  @poutine57  we all know that. the point that the objective and sane world is making is that given there is zero evidence Trump falsified any business records, why SHOULD he be there?
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  10448.  @poutine57  we all know why he is there. anyone sane is asking, given there is zero evidence a crime was committed, why he SHOULD be there.
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  10449. The US arms evil despots who massacre innocents (Zelensky), so why is this Bout guy any different?
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  10450. Well, imagine that! USA tries to isolate Russia, so Russia joins forces with the other sanctioned nations, and suddenly the West is under serious threat. Thanks to the Uniparty for backing Ukraine when a deal with Russia was the way forward.
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  10451. which one is lying? you decide! the military expert that says Bakhmut is of no strategic significance, or Zelensky, who said Bakhmut was of strategic significance.
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  10452. "activists entered the offices of several senators" so, we have another insurrection? must be Trump's doing.
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  10453.  @dimwitsixtytwelve  the list is endless..why not start doing some homework and googling "children killed by Ukrainian shelling in Donbass?" But then again, why would you destroy your deluded world of "Russia bad, Ukraine good"? Do you really think Russia has a total monopoly on war crimes in this conflict?
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  10454.  @williaml.baptiste3597  wow! Never did I expect such a well-worded and articulate riposte from such a bastion of intellectual genius as you!
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  10455.  @hunterphung3638  Would that be the same OSCE kicked out of Donbass for passing on information to Ukrainian forces? That same biased OSCE?
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  10456.  @hunterphung3638  No one needs to ask anyone who commits atrocities in any war. The answer is always the same. BOTH sides do. Only do the deluded brainwashed infantile public of the West think that Russia has a monopoly on war crimes. The rest of the world knows both sides commit atrocities. You would know that too, if you had any common sense.
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  10457.  @joeyoung4959  Native Americans?
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  10458.  @joeyoung4959  including Mexican Americans?
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  10459. Qassim is in Barking, Jonny Vegas is in Malta.
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  10460.  @stonedoliveees  yep, generally the corruption and ease of doing business is greater on small islands.
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  10461. 20 mph speed limits is absolutely criminal and murderous. Far fewer people would die on our roads if the limit was 10 mph. Heartless fools like Drakeford have blood on their hands.
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  10462.  @TheLowerIntestine  agreed. got a feeling Putin is very wary of a full scale invasion and prefers the long game of attrition. time will tell
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  10463. import the 3rd world, import the 3rd world's problems, become a 3rd world country.
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  10464. every one of these people got what they deserved, if they cheered lockdowns, if they cheer mass illegal immigration, if they cheer unlimited aid to Ukraine, if they cheer sanctions on Russia, exactly the consequences of what they championed.
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  10465. the "strong message" of sending ONE battery of Patriots is that NATO is scraping the bottom of the barrel and Russia has won!
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  10466. the beginning of the end for Zelensky. UN and Turkey going to tell Zelensky to sue for peace and settle for a declawed rump neutral state.
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  10467.  @renemagritte8237  so can Zelensky...."surrender"
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  10468. ah, what a wonderful Conservative government, choosing to enter a recession while hosting illegal immigrants in hotels. Fascinating country, 3 Socialist parties, but nothing right of centre.
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  10469.  @michaelathanasiou2030  The Rwanda policy is a waste of time and doomed to fail. Why are we figuring out a way to remove illegal immigrants from the country when illegal immigrants need to be stopped from entering in the first place? Sure, expel the ones already here, but the only way to stop people entering the country is to intercept the boats and tow them back to France.
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  10470.  @timonsolus  no one is claiming that Russia has defeated NATO. The claim is that Russia has demilitarized NATO, meaning stripped NATO of its combat ability by draining NATO of essential weaponry and ammo. Biden was reduced to sending cluster munitions because, as he admitted, the supply of 155 mm shells was gone. NATO's cupboard is bare. Russia has won.
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  10471.  @thegreatdane3627  ha ha, oh how we all remember those Kremlin leaders repeating "for as long as it takes" and voting for billions of dollars of aid to Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. No, Great Dane, the level of Russian support for Iraq was MINIMAL compared to how the US has committed itself to Ukraine. You are not making any sense, and you know it.
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  10472.  @thegreatdane3627  given how NATO has been left weapon depleted and ammo depleted, Russia can claim to have demilitarized NATO. Take that as a victory over NATO if you wish, but to take it as a glorious victory for NATO/Ukraine over Russia is just laughable.
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  10473.  @jooseppib1082  NATO would be a pushover. NATO countries are so woke and soft, at the first sight of body bags being buried, NATO would sue for peace immediately. That's why NATO can no longer fight a war. it can only supply, and not for very long, proxies to do the actual dying.
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  10474. I don't really get this "until proven guilty" bit. if you genuinely believe in free speech, even if found guilty, a person should have the right to broadcast to anyone willing to listen.
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  10475. the only horse that makes any sense
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  10476. "corruption at all levels" when do you think there will be an investigation into how Zelensky's name appeared in the Panama Papers and how a mediocre actor turned president managed to acquire the extensive property holdings in various countries that he has? maybe that investigation will happen on the same day the Nordstream terrorist attack will be investigated?
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  10477. how can it be genocide when the population of Gaza keeps increasing?
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  10478. poor dolt, never read the Amnesty International report that explained Ukraine was using residential areas to conceal troops and weaponry. Ukraine decided to make military targets civilian targets, and for that, it's Ukraine that is committing war crimes
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  10479.  @ettoreatalan8303  No they won't. the sanctions system is dead. EU now working on sanctions package number nine, because packages 1 to 8 failed. secondary sanctions will be ignored. The world no longer fears being bullied by the West's only weapon....sanctions. The West has sanctioned itself into a corner and is suffering terribly.
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  10480.  @ettoreatalan8303  and of what importance is GDP in this conflict? The West focused a lot on GDP when it assumed Russia's economy would crumble, and the West got it wrong. Now, let me give you your shot! Of what relevance is GDP in this conflict?
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  10481.  @ettoreatalan8303  remember, the aims of the sanctions were to foment regime change (hasn't happened) and to deny Russia the funding it needs to wage war (hasn't happened). so, in what world does the West think the sanctions have worked so magnificently? and if the sanctions are working so well, why is sanctions package number NINE now being cobbled together with great urgency?
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  10482.  @ettoreatalan8303  a war does indeed cost a lot of money. but what makes you think the Russian war chest is shrinking? Are you making that most basic of blunders and thinking a shrinking GDP = less money being devoted to the war effort? I mean Russia COULD do what the WEST does, just print a lot more money and boost its GDP, right? Russia sells to the world what the world needs, food and energy. while global energy and food prices are rising, as they are, Russia is earning enough to keep the war going. In March we were told Russia is on the ropes. It's the West on the ropes. So, ignore GDP and focus on what it takes to win a war.
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  10483. sounds like the biased and one-sided media coverage of the Turkish elections in favor of Erdogan matched that of the BBC leading up to the Brexit referendum, in favor of Remain.
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  10484. If the Ukrainians targeted the market in Donetsk intentionally, then so did the Russians with the shopping centre in Kremenchuk. If the Russians targeted a military site and not a shopping centre, then so did the Ukrainians in Donetsk. The difference? Only Russian strikes against civilians gets coverage and hysterical condemnation. Orwellian "Russia bad, Ukraine good",,,infantile media coverage.
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  10485.  sexyandiknowit45  absolutely! there are some who deserve no respect at all (imbeciles who comment nonsensically online) and there are some who deserve no respect at all but to whom it is best to show some respect and cooperation (the Police) if you want to prosper in life and, in traffic stops, live happily ever after. respect is not earned and given equally to all people. capisce?
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  10486.  sexyandiknowit45  in fact, in a traffic stop, you don't even have to "respect and cooperate" to come out just fine. you only have to pretend to respect and to cooperate. Had Nahel been taught this by his useless mother or inept authorities, he would be alive today.
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  10487.  sexyandiknowit45  nothing hypocritical about what I said. Hypocrisy is when you preach something but do the opposite. you tell me, what have I preached but then done the opposite?
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  10488.  sexyandiknowit45  as expected, having corrected you on what hypocrisy is, you then fail to give one example of how I am a hypocrite! Par for the course with dunces in this world. if the pedo is a psychpath, he won't think "this is wrong". but most pedos would certainly think "this is wrong" but would not care sufficiently to change their behavior. next question?
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  10489.  @lindenbutters9396  oh, believe me, with repeat criminals and hoodlums like Nahel, I am truly unfeeling. His mother didn't seem to be grieving when she went on top of a bus to wave to crowds and enjoy her 5 minutes of fame. Neither you nor I know what is in his mother's heart, but I see no evidence of grieving. none at all. "tripping up on life's highway" is NOT what happened. when the police officer says "take your hands off the steering wheel and exit the car", then deciding to accelerate away is far from "tripping up on life's highway". those who respect the laws of society don't do that. that's why Chinese immigrants don't do this kind of thing. Muslims do all the time. I am delighted that Nahel will no longer terrorize the neighborhood. shame on you for feeling otherwise. you have absolutely no heart for Nahel's victims in Nanterre.
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  10490. and I can't believe that so many people in the West now see theft as a really good idea to show the world what the international rules based system really means.
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  10491. NATO is prolonging the war. Ukraine would have been wiped out by now without massive NATO support. Zelensky is getting desperate. Begging for participation in a waste-of-time summit? Russia is laughing.
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  10492. Thank you for what? more poverty and misery for EU citizens with more deaths of Ukrainian cannon fodder against Russia? you are so cruel
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  10493. "it was meant to be a lightning military operation" ONLY Western propagandists like this lying fool set a timeline. Russia never did. Try again, liar.
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  10494. it's Zelensky who is the problem. His russophobic program of Ukrainianization led his country into a war he cannot win. With Zelensky gone, peace has a chance of being restored.
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  10495. how dumb us this b***h? "other cities in Russia"...Baikonur is in Kazakhstan! You got the wrong country! Russia is recruiting mercenaries. So what? What do you think the Mozart Group was?
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  10496. and like Attenborough, is a liar, a phoney and a charlatan
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  10497.  @imcdim  agreed, he is a total charlatan and propagandist and has no idea of how the Donbass has suffered under Ukronazi terror
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  10498. Poland is no friend of Ukraine. Ask any Pole what they think of Stefan Bandera. Poland is doing all that it can to prolong the war and let Ukraine get destroyed, and will then waltz in and reclaim Galicia for itself. Ukraine and Poland see they have a common enemy, but that doesn't make them friends.
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  10499.  @Batmax192  doing all that you can to prolong a war and maximize suffering in Ukraine is not "help". your drug dealer who supplies you with all the drugs you need is not "helping" you.
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  10500.  @Frank-xn8bs  Ukrainians, by and large, are not bothered by 4000 Jews being killed in Lvov in 1941.
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  10501.  @gattetta  ah yes, occitan, you hear everyone speaking occitan all over Cataluña, every day!
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  10502.  @gattetta  that may be true, but I bet that one Aranese speaks a language other than Aranese, right?
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  10503. what a load of waffle. Russia has 5 objectives, is close to achieving those, and so has no reason whatsoever to stop fighting for those. this goes on until Russia has attained its 5 objectives and NATO has no capacity to avoid that.
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  10504. when was Ukraine outmanned? 80% of Russia's forces are in Russia, not Ukraine. The forces in Ukraine are evenly matched and always have been.
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  10505.  Simon Paterson  you may not have seen such things but I doubt very much you were looking for such things. Have you seen what Amnesty International saw, Ukrainians using human shields? Ukrainians have not touched Moscow? The family of Darya Dugin would call you out as a callous liar.
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  10506.  @eyemc2450  but yes. get the facts
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  10507.  Tommy De Villiers  truth hurts, right? Ukrainian and Russian forces in Ukraine about the same,
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  10508.  Simon Paterson  oh, apart from the 8 years of incessant shelling by the Azov Nazis in the Donbass, the whole provocation that caused the conflict, let's just ignore that inconvenient truth.
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  10509.  Simon Paterson  Amnesty International only became a "disgrace" to you and the Azov Nazis you support when they revealed the truth, that Ukraine uses human shields. You are backing the wrong horse. The Donbass deserves its independence but you just LOVE to see those ethnic Russians massacred. Rub your hands with glee did you when you saw the Union House massacre?
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  10510.  Simon Paterson  they became the best army in the world. Only 20% of their ground forces needed in a military operation to defeat NATO/Ukraine and to completely demilitarize the West. Outstanding job. Enjoy paying your mega expensive energy bills this winter!
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  10511.  Tommy De Villiers  a dose of the truth really hurts those sheeple like you brainwashed by the lying Western media, right? Hey, maybe Ghost of Kiev will win the day for you and the Azov Nazis?
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  10512.  Simon Paterson  Given the Ukraine has failed to mount a counter offensive in the last 8 years of this conflict, I would say that even with all NATO's help, that Ukraine has been subdued. But to answer your question, given the absolutely pathetic performance of NATO to evacuate Kabul last year when a bunch of sandal wearing goat herders called the Taliban strolled into town, I would say toothless and gutless USA, with its babbling demented incoherent commander in chief, would last but a few weeks. The American masses, obese, blubbery, woke, would be totally unable to stomach the photos of hundreds and hundreds of young men shipped home in bodybags, and just as the Vietnam protests ended in defeat for USA, then protests against huge American losses would lead to peace with Russia and yet another US defeat. Given the US is now recruiting ANYONE willing to join, such is their desperation to attract people to the military, safe to say Russia would crush USA.
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  10513.  Simon Paterson  oh, I know YOU don't, because you are selfish and unthinking about those who are elderly and will die this coming winter, unable to pay their bills and unable to keep warm enough to survive, extra jumper or not. Only the truly selfish are happy to endure a harsh winter (and why assume it is only this coming winter?) and only the uncaring fail to consider all the businesses that will collapse because energy bills can't be paid. Bring on Recession, say the affluent jumper wearers. Totally selfish and deluded. All this just to prevent Donbass becoming independent.
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  10514.  Simon Paterson  with all these weapons, why not send them to Ukraine so that a counter offensive can be launched? Either you don't have them, or you don't want to send them. Which one is it? Given the latest Biden aid package is weapons PROCUREMENT (meaning they have to be ordered and built) the evidence points to the fact that the mighty USA and NATO are out of weapons! In just 6 months! Russia is still massacring hundreds upon hundreds of Ukrainian cannon fodder every day, Russia is STILL launching 60,000 missiles a day, Russia is still advancing in Donbass and toward Nykolaev, the great Ukraine counter offensive never happened, all the evidence points to total NATO/Ukraine defeat. Hard to accept that our "leaders" and "experts" got outfoxed by Putin, right?
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  10515.  Simon Paterson  what have we got? The most determined force you ever saw ready to do what it takes to free the Donbass of Azov Nazis. Victory will be for Russia and her allies. Brace yourself for yet another humiliation for NATO as the lights go off this winter.
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  10516. So no hydraulic accident anywhere in the Russian Federation can ever be investigated?
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  10517. it is irresponsible NOT to call this an invasion by illegal criminal immigrants. Calling it in any other way is to be disingenuous and to hide from the truth. Uninvited hordes illegally entering = invasion. Braverman and all those in government should insist on use of the word "invasion", not shy from it.
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  10518.  @mydogeatspuke  how anyone thinks of business and economics fascinates me! you included! big property investment companies must be pretty sure they could attract enough customers to buy their "gentrified" developments, so, again, the question, what is wrong with that? the buyers are happy, the investors are happy, the new properties turn a s**thole into somewhere more attractive, right?
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  10519.  @charlotteinnocent8752  not sure, these days, that so many jobs do have to be in the area for renters to live there. so many people work from home, many are retired or semi retired. you got the enormous number of disabled and the unemployable. thousands of migrants every few days arriving.
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  10520. well, if you are not sure if it is the counter offensive, that means either the counter offensive is failing, or your expectations of what Ukraine can do as a counter offensive are incredibly low. speaks volumes.
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  10521. Only took Western media 2 and a half years to start saying what the rest of us were saying in 2022. Oh, but wait, Russia is still running out of weapons, with low morale, and the sanctions will kick in soon and cripple Putin's economy, right?:)
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  10522. Russia taking "short cuts on training". Right, Lord Dannatt, so while NATO focuses on equity and diversity in the ranks, sensitivity training and rainbow motifs, Russia is training to actually win wars, develop hypersonic weapons, yet is taking "short cuts on training"...maybe time for NATO to copy such "short cuts". blithering imbecile.
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  10523. wait wait wait...so the Ukrainians will CONTINUE to export via the Danube River, into the Black Sea, where Russian subs and Black Sea Fleet control everything, where up to now there has not been one single assault from Russia, and nothing blockaded! Proof that Odessa's sea mines are the problem, NOT a Russian blockade. Gulliver let the truth slip out!
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  10524. No serious analyst thinks Ukraine will win this war. It's just a question of how and when the Western leaders, and therefore Western media, will admit that it failed and that Ukraine is defeated.
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  10525. agreed...such a pleasure to see the Donbass slap the Ukrainian bully repeatedly in the mouth..SLAVA ROSSIYI..Z
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  10526. "taxi drivers scared to work" well, finally, they get to know what a white girl in Rotherham has felt for many years now.
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  10527. Farage confesses Western media just pump out propaganda when Farage confesses "Putin looks and sounds much better than we thought" Speak for yourself, Nigel. Some of us aren't duped by Western media lies.
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  10528.  @M_O_G  Russia has more freedoms than the "democratic" West.
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  10529.  @betsm5842  looks like you need to start at the beginning and read Putin's 5 aims of the operation, instead of making up what you think Putin's aims were.
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  10530.  @betsm5842  the "lowest of the low" is how the global majority view the West now.
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  10531.  @CandleWisp  ah, so the great Ukrainian spring counter offensive happened in autumn of 2022!
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  10532.  @thatonelocalauthority2809  "partially" NATO supplied? Ukraine is bankrupt with no weapons manufacturing capability. Who else is supplying Ukraine? Why is NATO waiting to "get serious" and what differences will we see when NATO does "get serious"? More cluster bombs?
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  10533.  @thatonelocalauthority2809  Ukraine just "got serious"! No male 16 years old or above can leave Ukraine. Conscription of teenage boys. That's "getting serious", agreed?
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  10534. It's just the Uniparty splitting hairs among themselves. Where's the major party that says "net zero is bs and we want nothing to do with it"?
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  10535. "respect the sovereignty of all nations".....so, Jake, was the sovereignty of Irak, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia all respected by USA and NATO? The answer is "no". So, stop being a weasel and a hypocrite.
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  10536. so we can expect Reznikov to be charged with war crimes.
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  10537. they are officially Russian, but they are the dumb ones. the clever ones agreed to be evacuated.
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  10538. keep in mind folks, that NATO never anticipated nor planned for being in this position. But Russia did. remember senile Biden boasting how the ruble would become rubble and the Russian economy would collapse and Putin would become a pariah? Von der Leyen saying "the Russian economy is in tatters, in tatters, I tell you" reality check: it's Germany in recession, not Russia. it's NATO incapable of providing Ukraine's troops with what it needs, not Russia incapable of supplying Russian troops with what they need. it's Ukraine forcing teenagers and pensioners to enlist, not Russia.
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  10539. so, if the 53 million is all going straight back into the local economy and it is a win win, why only 53 million being dished out? why not 153 million? makes no cents/sense.
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  10540. clearly, she never read the Amnesty International report that stated quite plainly that Ukraine uses civilian buildings as bases for troops and weapons. only a biased fool would assume Russia blew up a church for the fun of blowing up a church. imbecilic analysis.
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  10541.  @myboysd5772  the problem is, Helsinki hasn't figured out who the real bully in all this is. Think Nordstream and Biden's promise to blow it up no matter what the world thinks.
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  10542. Biden living proof that the number of times you get covid tallies with the number of boosters you had.
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  10543. yep, the apartment block destroyed was done so by one of your own missiles, honey, so time to take your own defence minister, Reznikov, to court for war crimes.
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  10544. what's the problem if it ends up as Putin spouting propaganda? surely the problem couldn't be that the Western sheep are so dumb they wouldn't be able to distinguish Russian propaganda and the Russian perspective?
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  10545. oh, now he is quoting US intelligence! Chip, would that be the same US intelligence that estimated Kabul might fall after 90 days? (it took 90 hours!) please, give up on paying attention to them. they just prepare reports that they know Biden will want to hear. The truth went out the window a long time ago.
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  10546. add in the 5% more actual votes that Trump gets above what the polls always say, and Trump wins
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  10547. there is nothing more to send. NATO stocks are empty and Russia makes more weapons and ammo every day than NATO. Let reality sink in.
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  10548.  @paulhargreaves1497  and this type of attack leaves you limp, flaccid, lifeless, totally unable to penetrate your inflatable Bandera love doll.
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  10549.  @paulhargreaves1497  but don't fret about your limpness ....i am sure when Ghost of Kiev reappears little percy down there will pop back up into some form of semi-rigidity for at least a few seconds
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  10550. @Null Pointer because Ukraine's has reduced by 95%. no, seriously, so when you see massive attacks on Kiev become once every two days over the last month, as opposed to once every two weeks before that, your logical conclusion is that Russia is running out of weapons and has been for over a year? really?
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  10551.  @bhuddy1832  the usual retort of a dunce who can't answer the question
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  10552.  @bhuddy1832  yes, when I look to see if Putin's words makes sense, it does work
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  10553.  @bhuddy1832  been a massive fan of Putin since he restored equal rights to Russians in Chechnya. He doesn't put up with the kind of s**t we see in the West. No problem in Russia if you want to shout out that a man can never become a woman, of that white lives matter. Best leader in the world, by far.
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  10554. @Null Pointer absolute nonsense. by that measure, vice versa, any increase in intensity is an indicator of increased supply. therefore, given that massive attacks now happen every two nights instead of every two weeks, those munitions factories in Russia are cranking out the ammo 48 hours a day, right? you are such a clown. ever considered that the amount of shells and missiles might match a particular objective at any particular time?
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  10555.  @AngelaH2222  so, you tell me, what ideology of the EDL is "far right"? cue crickets. Tommy is the classic Labour voter who realized that supporting mass immigration hurts working class people. let me ask you, do you support jihad? Muslims do. Do you want more jihadists moving into your neighbourhood?
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  10556.  @AngelaH2222  what EDL ideology is "far right"?
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  10557. "investing the Russian money" = stealing the Russian money. EU pirates. Russia will just milk Ukraine, once it is conquered, and win back every stolen dollar. Ukrainian grain = Russian grain .
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  10558. the problem is, it's not deemed to be "illegal migration". The West now accepts the invaders as asylum seekers, none is arrested, and all are allowed to stay and be processed. What is confusing is that given the authorities accept that this is all legal, why do they vilify the people "smugglers" instead of applauding them for providing a much needed service to those in need? Makes no sense.
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  10559.  @karllansche9843  1) Stop assuming things of which you have no idea. You don't know me, so you would have no idea where I have lived and not lived, be it on the banks of the Danube or not. Stick to what you know. 2) I made NO comments on cost of transport or size of cargo, None. Irrelevant to my message. 3) My point was that ships are coming in and out of Izmael and there is NO Russian blockade to prevent these ships, therefore it is FALSE to say that the Russian blockade is preventing grain shipments. I guess reading comprehension is not your forte.
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  10560. Only 3 of the world's 20 most populous countries support Ukraine. Putin cementing that awesome alliance against the West with aplomb.
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  10561. Warmongers Biden and Zelensky have lost, peace hawk Trump will triumph.
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  10562.  @akselmani  and regarding the ferquency of the attacks, would you say the frequency has been a lot higher in the last month compared to any other time during the war?
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  10563.  @akselmani  what do you think the role of the filler drones is?
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  10564.  @DarkRoomAmbience  it's not the hitting of the apartment building or school that brings joy. it's the hitting of the ukronazi troops and weapons hidden in those places that brings joy. whenever Russia locates the ukronazis using human shields and destroys said ukronazis, it's a good moment. if you weren't such an extreme nationalist and Bandera lover, you would be on Russia's side too, but I guess your russophobia just LOVES the idea that ethnic Russians might one day have to live under Ukrainian nazi rule again. as for territory, what is heartening is to see how convicts, low on morale and poorly led and armed with just shovels, we are told, can so convincingly wipe out so many NATO trained and armed battalions. Slava Rossiyi...teaching the dumb arrogant West a priceless lesson, every day.
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  10565.  @513morris  why would Russia want to take Kiev? Not part of the list of 5 objectives.
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  10566.  @NZobservatory  and occasionally those who are so stuffed up Bandera's rectum that they see no sunlight at all but live and breathe the living stench of Ukrainian nazi ideology, they go by the name of a NZ observatory!
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  10567.  @olafsigursons  don't recall anyone saying "wait for winter", though wouldn't surprise me if Wallace said that in anticipation of the sanctions on Russia actually starting to have the desired effect, lol
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  10568.  @biloki3079  i guess when the message is so disturbingly accurate, one is forced to investigate the messenger, just to see if there is some accusation that can be made to distract from the message. pro ukronazi playbook, page 1
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  10569.  @NZobservatory  Ben Wallace's comments ALWAYS help Russian morale, of course.
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  10570.  @biloki3079  i take great joy in ripping to shreds the absurd narrative of sheep like you, fed Western propaganda to the point you want a russophobic corrupt nazi infested s**thole called Ukraine to be free to compel its ethnic Russian speakers to be second class citizens. Luckily, Putin doesn't put up with such bs and will win. you are backing the wrong horse.
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  10571.  @chrissmith7669  as expected, no sources whatsoever for your assumptions. all fabricated. there are any number of reasons why troops aplenty and armor aplenty would be sent in and around Kiev at the start of a military campaign. par for the course you are not bright enough to figure out what a fixing operation is. nothing has been sent towards Odessa and no annihilation took lace, so, again, ditch whatever lying media you are following. what words should I google to see a photo of these documents abandoned by the Russians that spell out their objectives? let me have a good look at them to make sure they are genuine, where can i look at them? in Russian, do you remember word for word what they say? hmmmm wise up, dope. Russia is much closer to the 5 objectives listed by Putin than Ukraine is to the fantasy scenario it longs for.
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  10572.  @akselmani  I already know what roles drones play. Like a good lawyer, I never ask a question the answer to which I don't know! I am testing the other side, to see what their answer is! maybe you should think really really hard as to the purpose of such questioning?
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  10573.  @akselmani  why would you think I am a lawyer? bizarre thing to suggest. reading comprehension not your forte, obviously.
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  10574.  @akselmani  if you are an astronaut, God have mercy on the scientists who train you....about as relevant as your comment to me about being a lawyer!
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  10575.  @akselmani  did you ever answer my question as to whether the Russian missile attacks have been more frequent this past month?
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  10576.  @chrissmith7669  come on Chris "I deal in facts" Smith, what do I google to read the facts, the evidence, that a written document, verified and broadcast, shows 100% sure that Russia was on a timeline to achieve its 5 objectives? awaiting the "facts"
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  10577. An absolute fool. Like Zelensky, he has misread EVERYTHING. MISREAD the determination and endurance of Russia and her allies, MISREAD how sanctions would fail, MISREAD how NATO is a toothless tiger that is now out of munitions and ammo, MISREAD the finances (Ukraine now bankrupt and begging for survival) MISREAD the passion and acumen of the Donbass in their struggle to be free of Ukraine. COMPLETELY MISREAD everything. This is what happens when you elect a boxer as mayor and a comedian as president. Fools.
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  10578. day 11, no trace of Jay. Guardia Civil should have dealt with it as a crime, not a disappearance. internet sleuths 1, Experts 0
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  10579. Ukraine seems perfectly aligned to EU values. The bribes pocketed by Ukraine's recruiters pretty much matches the bribes pocketed by the Brussels Qatargate criminals. Why is the EU hesitating to embrace a corrupt country that would be a perfect partner for the EU corrupt cartel?
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  10580. bla bla bla, more empty words to the cannon fodder massacred on the front lines. the only message of any importance is the one that made Zelensky's heart sink..."NATO is out of ammo, so win the war by June or you're on your own"
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  10581. Everyone supports Net Zero. No one supports the consequences of Net Zero.
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  10582. "keep things dark"...yeah, because in the dark Russia has no idea where Kharkov is
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  10583. "Russia economically isolated".......except all of Latin America is still trading with Russia, and so is all of Africa, and oh, all of Middle East, and all of Asia, actually , all of the world in fact. Russian gas STILL flowing into Europe, and Russian oil too (just coming via third countries). Totally ignorant "expert" yet again lying.
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  10584. any point in reporting on civilians murdered in Donbass by Azov Nazi Ukrainians? Nah, It's Sky News Australia, no balanced reporting wanted here!
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  10585. Day 494 of idiots like Ingram saying "Russia is running out of weapons" and WEEK FIVE of the great counter offensive that is still stuck in the security zone, miles away from Russian defence lines, with 8 villages and a pig farm the territory captured with only 10,000 cannon fodder lost. NATO's promise to supply whatever is needed to defeat Russia looks like an empty promise now, and Zelensky knows it.
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  10586. patience...demilitarization means killing or crippling every fighting age man. that takes time, but it's happening.
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  10587.  @fgregerfeaxcwfeffece  ah, the old Western fabrication of the "3 days SMO", though some of the brainwashed say "7 days" and some say "10 days", depending on which lying Western media source they have swallowed hook, line and sinker! Demilitarization = killing every fighting age man. it takes time, even when a willing dolt like Zelensky keeps serving up his cannon fodder on a platter. Patience. Just like Syria and Chechnya, wars of attrition take time.
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  10588.  @brianconnelly7823  only in your dreams. Tell me, which EU sanctions package succeeded in destroying the Russian economy? number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 0r 12? :)
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  10589.  @dpelpal  the vast majority of the world is more than happy to support Russia, work with Russia and trade with Russia. it's the West that has failed and is the laughing stock.
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  10590.  @jojolafrite90  best leader in the world by far. even Zelensky confesses the guy get re elected on a wave of popular Russian support.
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  10591. "hold Bakhmut for as long as we can" = we are getting ready to withdraw. but what happened? Russia was low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led, just convicts and mercenaries thrown onto the front line. hmmm. or maybe media like DW just lied to us.
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  10592. There is nothing more to give. All been sent and destroyed. The West can't announce that, but it's basically true. Weapons now have to be ordered and manufactured. Russia has won.
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  10593. a gold mine that will yield thousands more killed, captured or crippled Ukrainian cannon fodder. enjoy the gold mine that is the Russian meatgrinder.
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  10594.  @user-mq7vf9me3y  of the ones already on the battlefield, about half. Do you want to include the one that was sold by corrupt Ukrainian officers to the Russians?
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  10595.  @inamorta47-playertwist  you would have no idea how many himars are currently in Ukraine. None. let me guess, your source is Ukrainskaya Pravda?
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  10596.  @inamorta47-playertwist  you missed the news! the US itself admitted it has no way of tracking any weaponry once it ends up in Ukraine!
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  10597.  @inamorta47-playertwist  they said it by opening their mouths and saying those words! And, unbelievably, some fools actually believed them! That would include you, right?
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  10598.  @inamorta47-playertwist  How many himars are provided and how many himars arrive onto the battlefield and survive are two different things. These are difficult concepts for the small-minded, I accept that! How old are you?
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  10599.  @brandenburg2388  yeah, I guess Hungary figured out that billions can be sent to non members like ultra corrupt Ukraine, so no problem sending even more to those who are already members and far less corrupt.
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  10600. having heard Fani pull the race card in church, to thunderous applause, and having seen the color of skin of his opponent in the upcoming Fulton County elections, the judge decided to do what he could to avoid being the next white target of Fani's race card playing skills. he may have succeeded. i hope he hasn't.
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  10601. if only Douglas Murray supported Russia he would be the perfect PM for the UK.
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  10602.  @absalomdraconis  except the UN, which estimates 14,000 deaths. Have a chat with a few Donbass refugees some time, as I did when in Ukraine. You would learn the truth.
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  10603.  @alvanrigby6361  After 3 months living in Ukraine in 2018 I saw the truth. No fees changed hands. What about you? you a paid stooge of Zelensky, or just brainwashed by Western MSM?
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  10604.  @kibaetienne2171  Most of the world? Except China, and India, and Brazil, and all Latin America, all Africa, all Asia...your "rest of the world" is your deluded Western bubble
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  10605.  @ArchOfficial  then every account would be highly suspicious, on any given date. ..bot or no, it's the message that is important, not its origin.
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  10606.  icky Vicky   look into the eyes of an ethnic Russian mother whose child was murdered by Azov Nazis in Donbass, and say "propaganda" to her.
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  10607.  @absalomdraconis  Most of the world is on Russia's side. Most of the world knows that Russia ALWAYS stands up for the rights of ethnic Russians, be it in Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia or now Ukraine. Most of the world knows that NATO, that wonderful "defensive" alliance, was defending no member nation when it destroyed Libya. NATO hypocrisy does not go unnoticed by the rest of the world. BTW, how many died in Donbass as a result of Ukrainian military attacking its own citizens? UN says 14,000...what is your number? your source?
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  10608. and now the reality check for Zelensky...the masses, the people, the voting public are turning against their Ukraine-supporting leaders. Johnson is gone. Macron a lame duck. Biden will be wiped out in November's mid terms. Scholtz's coalition will crumble when the first German pensioners freeze to death in winter. Majority of German voters polled recently already say repairing Germany's economy more important than continued support of Ukraine's military. It's over. Putin wins.
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  10609. Had Kishinyov ruled out the Romanianization of Moldova from day one, it wouldn't have had any problems with Transnistria
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  10610.  @Player-re9mo  Moscow? the city of Moscow is now responsible for everything? Not Leningrad, not Stalingrad, just Moscow takes all the blame? that's comical.
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  10611. What an achievement! A German government including the Greens has found a way to raise the cost of gas to German consumers while boosting the carbon emissions in bringing such gas across the oceans! More good government like this and we will soon be championing old coal power stations back in use with plenty of nuclear too! you can't make this s**t up!
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  10612. Schengen died with Covid. Schengen today just means an arrangement by which national borders can be immediately re-imposed whenever a state wants to do so and for whatever reason.
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  10613. a two week hiatus from firing missiles = Russia running out of missiles firing old missiles = Russia running out of missiles firing new missiles = Russia running out of missiles firing a variety of missiles = Russia running out of missiles repeating that Russia is running out of missiles in March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December and now January = Russia running out of missiles the only thing that doesn't = Russia running out of missiles is the bloody obvious reality that Russia keeps firing loads and loads of missiles.
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  10614. ridiculous question, given that UK makes no difference to global emissions. the question should be "what should you do to get China and India to get to net zero?" given that Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan already prompted China to say it won't cooperate with Western climate goals, maybe his best answer is "beg Biden to write a letter of apology to Xi zhin Ping for Nancy's stupidity"
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  10615. "Rock solid support for Israel" If the doddery old fool, Biden, had paid more attention to Israel and not be transfixed by his obsession with the futile war in Ukraine, this wouldn't have happened.
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  10616. "none of these targets help further Putin's military ambitions in the region" hello! troops and supplies moved across the country by an electrified train network that suddenly stops working DOESN'T help the Russians? And this fool is supposed to be an analyst? At least he is something anal!
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  10617. "look like feral animals"....an insult to animals. look like black youth to me.
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  10618.  @falloutking2819  supplies running quite smoothly for Russia. all rail and road links from Russia through the corridor to Kherson and Crimea just great. It's the Ukrainian forces surviving on a potato a day, not the Russians! I guess you get your news updates from lying Western media?
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  10619.  @swirvinbirds1971  so why doesn't it?
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  10620.  @ashleylittle6776  lunny bin or lunie bin? care to state what I said that you can prove incorrect?
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  10621.  @fv5855  And now the truth. 1) There was no 3 day operation. Russia never announced a timeline. 3 day operation was a fiction created by the Western media (and swallowed by deluded sheeple like you). 2) Russia never failed to take Kiev because it never tried to take Kiev. Again, deluded brainwashed sheeple like you bought the lies of Western media. Why would such a small Russian expeditionary force try to engage in street fighting in a capital city? 3) You have NO idea of how many Russian soldiers are dead. None. So quit parroting others' speculative numbers. 4) What Russia "controls" is of no relevance. You need to watch other media. Then you will learn the 5 objectives of Putin. When you have read the 5 objectives of Putin you will see Russia is close to obtaining these objectives. 5) The Russian army is the best, not the second best. Russia is wiping out Ukraine's soldiers and weapons, and NATO's weapons. Thoroughness and remorseless advance is what Russia is showing the world, and that is why most of the world backs Putin and Russia, and why most of the world refuses to isolate Russia as the whining, panicky West demanded. It's over. Russia won. NATO, yet again, the laughing stock of the world ...and you thought NATO was a shambles leaving Kabul!
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  10622.  @JohnCorrUK  so how is it that Russia keeps advancing, that there is no Ukrainian counter offensive, and that 80% of Russia's forces are in Russia, not Ukraine! Putin's expeditionary force has killed, crippled or captured the Azov Nazis you support, and you are the only one still talking "javlins"..give me a break! Watch some different media that tells you reality, not Zelensky fiction!
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  10623.  @jacqdanieles  coward, when will you grow a pair and prove you have a spine?
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  10624.  @lorenzcassidy3960  Given 40% of Ukrainians want Russia to win, it should be fairly easy!
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  10625.  @Kodakcompactdisc  to any fool who has bought the Western propaganda and lies, sure delusional. to anyone who actually knows Ukraine, spot on!
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  10626.  @ashleylittle6776  "practically all of it is incorrect" means some small part was correct! What did I get right? But, yes, agreed, why spend time with someone who has lived and worked in Ukraine, knows Russian fluently, can relate the history of this conflict from my own life, and who has Ukrainian students that hear every day from family there? Why engage with someone like that when you can just absorb the lies of the media every day, and remain totally ignorant?
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  10627.  @Mattsavage69  i would imagine so. i can't think of any other reason why they would be of no interest, either to Spanish or UK Police, released after a short interview and no attempt to explain who they were. also quite possible they were undercover working on some more extensive investigation but got involved with the Jay situation and messed up when they let him wander away, who knows?
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  10628.  @lisapinfold506  i live by the coast so i'm going to start checking what has washed up overnight from now on. i could do with a new Rolex.
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  10629. an absolute disgrace. either a moronic judge or a cowardly judge. the cell phone evidence proved the relationship was romantic before Wade's appointment. therefore, there was a clear conflict of interest. fingers crossed the GA senate or Jim Jordan can tie Willis up in legal knots that lead to her well-deserved, ultimate demise.
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  10630. love the sarcasm
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  10631. NATO would never send in its own troops with no air cover, but insists that Ukraine does exactly that. It's called "proxy war", and Zelensky is the dumb one who believed NATO could deliver victory.
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  10632. Printing money for energy price caps and sending ever more billions to Ukraine will REALLY help! Until the sanctions are rolled back and full relations with Russia restored, things will only get worse.
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  10633. looking forward to BBC Verify lucidly distinguish "massacre" from "genocide".
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  10634. Absolutely love it! Democrat voters getting EXACTLY what they deserve. Just a shame it doesn't happen every night to ensure even the dumbest Democrat wakes up. Come on Meatball, let's see Part Two of Philadelphia Freedom.
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  10635. misinformation + 6 months = the surprising truth
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  10636.  @Napoleonwilson1973  and why it takes more than 24 hours to get a thumbs up or a thumbs down is another horrendous failure of the system.
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  10637.  @antonitaylor2229  my objection was to anyone who thinks they should be GIVEN anything, so my words were directed to whomever used the word "given". I can understand you didn't "want" to turn to social housing, and I can understand you didn't "want" to turn to foster care for your sister, but sometimes in life we have to settle for things we don't want to do. The planners didn't screw you over. You were just naive and ignorant of the system and how it works, or doesn't work. Hopefully, now, you have learned that UK has no interest in allowing new buildings be put up. The UK has rules and regulations about everything from Green policies to banking restrictions. It's a bureaucratic nightmare. Had you been resident in a go-ahead free market place like Paraguay, you would have been fine, but not the UK. With a million immigrants a year entering the country, no way you are going to get any special treatment. The agenda is to get a roof over the immigrants' heads, not transfer you anywhere while you were offered social housing and foster care. at the end of the day, you made life decisions that were really bad for your plans to still live in the UK. No one compelled you to be in charge of 5 kids, so you can look back on those decisions and reflect. it would be good to know why your request was denied, or why it took so long, but in the UK, such things are normal, not abnormal. best of luck to you, but there was nothing in your story that was unusual for UK in 2024, totally expected, and you can expect things to get a lot lot worse. Every immigrant housed in the UK will put you down lower on the list of priorities regarding building, planning, and accommodating.
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  10638. so then just keep on fighting til every Ukrainian man is dead, crippled or captured, and every Ukrainian woman and child is a refugee. Moldova, Georgia and Chechnya ended up with deals with Russia, and life rebounded. Ukraine will to...unless Ukraine takes your advice.
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  10639.  @KohtehYT  NATO already admitted they said this. NATO's defense is that "although it was SAID, it was never written down in a formal agreement, thus SAYING no NATO expansion eastward counts for nothing".
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  10640.  @KohtehYT  I certainly do...Grozny is a lot safer than Chicago, and has plenty of energy and heating during winter, unlike Germany!
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  10641. infantile, still talking about what Ukraine "wants". ask Zelensky's forced cannon fodder recruits on the front lines if they would be fine with letting the Russian speaking oblasts join Russia.
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  10642. this guy is deluded. If the West had any air defenses against this then such defenses would be up and running now, or even 2 months ago when this started. NATO always assumes it has air superiority, this time it doesn't, and Iranian drones can't be combatted effectively. Russia has Ukraine by the short and curlies and NATO is powerless to help.
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  10643. I'm baffled why anyone is baffled that Spanish police don't want to investigate this case. Why would the Spanish police want to open a can of worms? UK police seem equally reluctant to get any answers, but then again, UK police are extremely busy monitoring online hate speech.
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  10644. the way to stop the war is to back Putin.
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  10645. Cyril is clueless. You could tell by his face when Putin gave him the truth about the Istanbul peace agreement that he was ignorant of the reality.
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  10646. Tweedledum and Tweedledee these two. Neutral nations now see Ukraine as the party that rejected a peace offer, so China and India even more on Russia's side now. Russia is not "on the back foot", check out what is happening in Soledar and Bakhmut. NATO is unable to send what Ukraine needs. The drip drip of scraping the barrel weapons shows that Putin is close to demilitarizing NATO. These 2 have no clue.
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  10647. I dispute it. 2 soft, pansy countries like Sweden and Finland joining a failed s**t show like NATO will change nothing. Sweden and Finland can't even win the battle against their own violent immigrants.
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  10648. no, Mark, this episode only plays into the hands of your critics if you wring your hands at some male pub banter and fret about who it will upset. a pathetic reaction from GB News. Just stand up and say it was only part one of GB News' reply to Channel 4 featuring a transvestite playing a piano with his penis. More heterosexual banter designed to provoke the woke, please, not less of it.
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  10649. just hilarious this fool equates small businesses doing less business with Europe (compared to when, exactly, he refuses to say) with a negative effect of Brexit. the assumption is no other factors could possible have played any part whatsoever.
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  10650. @Jonah Whale nothing to do with covid then?
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  10651. @Jonah Whale when you read the Guardian article covering this story we see that goods exported from UK to EU are now higher than any year since 1997. looks like, ON BALANCE, Brexit is working!
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  10652. @Jonah Whale not at all. I am suggesting there are many other factors in play. unlike you, I don't see one cause of a downturn in business, especially when others have flourished at the same time.
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  10653. @Jonah Whale right, so it is not Brexit itself that is harming exports to the EU, but the size of business that is the problem. If only the small businesses could band together, somehow, to achieve those record sales to the EU that the big boys are securing! well, the article mentioned that the idea of forming a bigger conglomerate to handle such paperwork is indeed happening! so a solution is on the horizon! teething problems. remember, it is the protectionist corrupt cartel called the EU that insists on all this bureaucratic nonsense. Brexiteers are by and large free traders and anti red tape. Ditch it all, I say, let businesses and consumers decide market values. Now then, while weighing up the drop from 15 bn to 8 bn (there you go again, just looking at the money value and not the number of transactions) also tell me the numbers for trade from non EU countries. fair and balanced now.
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  10654. @Jonah Whale I know a lot about business. More importantly, I can see that reading comprehension is not your forte, nor indeed understanding in general. without looking at the books and talking to the directors, I wouldn't dare, unlike you, to point the finger of blame on just one cause. But, for the sake of argument, let us assume you are 100% right and that Brexit is 100% the sole cause of such a downturn in fortunes. does that mean that, in the big picture, Brexit is a bad thing? just baffling how you, and the Guardian, will concede that UK trade with the EU is ever growing, yet say Brexit is such a terrible thing. at least entertain the idea that some small businesses have suffered, others have not, and yet others have flourished. And when the big picture has been contemplated, look at the corrupt, protectionist cartel that is the cause of your misfortune and try to apportion some blame to the warped Brussels view of doing business, rather than the free market Brexiteers. then you might grasp reality.
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  10655. simply shameful that BBC saw how Biden was suffering from dementia for years but decided to say nothing
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  10656. "this was a victimless crime" yet to explain what the "crime" was or what the danger to the public Trump's actions posed.
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  10657. Looks almost as bad as what happened in Western Europe during the anti vax mandate demonstrations
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  10658.  @howareyou857  of course, but you have to open your eyes and actually examine evidence and dig deep to solve mysteries like this.
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  10659.  @howareyou857  before Jack the Ripper was investigated, there was no evidence Jack was involved in any criminal activity. To see evidence, you have to look at it. Curious you have faith in the conclusions of a police force that decided it was a really good idea to wait until Day 16 to do a forensic search of the airbnb! What do you reckon? The phone records will be checked on Day 52?
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  10660. start by asking why it is that they despise you, and listen very carefully
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  10661.  @socialmediaisterrible  I totally agree. It works both ways. I would love to hear Starmer's answer to the question "what is it about those who demand a drastic reduction in immigration that leads you to despise them?"
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  10662. if the West provoked the war, then how could Putin be to blame? this is the oddity about Farage's comment. at least, finally, the narrative is being challenged and at some point the penny will drop that we should be backing Russia
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  10663. "the horrible far-right going to the Cenotaph to protect it" if the country had listened to the "horrible far-right" we wouldn't have any problems with violent mobs of raging Muslims today. Tommy Robinson and Enoch Powell proved 100% right.
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  10664. "the mobilization smacks of failure"...so why does the EU need to issue another set of sanctions? If Russia is failing, let Russia fail. did mobilization in Ukraine also mean Ukraine was failing?
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  10665. they must be stopped from entering the country in the first place. once they are here, we are stuck with them.
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  10666.  @jeremytine  when was the last time you were in either Russia or Ukraine? why choose GDP as a measure of economic strength?
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  10667.  @jeremytine  of course it is a common metric for economists, and GDP is verifiable. but a common metric to show what, exactly? you see, Italy has a higher GDP than Russia, but Italy could not sustain the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia if they were imposed on Italy, and Italy could not wage a war the way Russia is doing, so of what value is a GDP number in our discussion?
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  10668.  @jeremytine  and you were trying to show that GDP is some kind of reliable metric to show that Western banking is in better shape than Russian banking, but GDP is related to a nation's output, not a company's profitability, so you got it all wrong to start with. No Russian banks have failed recently, as opposed to those like Credit Suisse in the West. But if you do want to talk about nations and GDP, my point that GDP does NOT measure the true state of a nation's economy is true. the true measure is whether a nation exports what the world needs, and Russia is in such a strong position because it exports what the world needs, oil, gas, coal, wheat, fertilizers, uranium, precious metals. so when Russia barks, the world listens. when Italy barks, no one hives a s**t. ditch the GDP argument, it's worthless.
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  10669.  @jeremytine  mismanagement in Western banking is just the tip of the iceberg. the general malaise in Western banking is because limitless credit and cheap money have run their course and hard times are starting to hit. GDP is a useless measure to evaluate how a nation is performing. as i showed you, a nation's exports are the true measure of its importance and global influence, not GDP. this is why fools like you thought that sanctions would work. they would against places like Italy. not Russia. thanks for admitting that Sberbank makes a profit! the aim of the sanctions was to cripple Russia, not to reduce Russian profits! ouch! just out of interest, which package of EU sanctions hurt Russia the most, do you think? number 3? package number 8? ouch. inflation rate declining in Russia. not so in the West. ouch
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  10670. If Nigel named the 7 banks that refused his business and started a campaign of popular protest against them, a nationwide boycott, this would end tomorrow. Banks need to be hit in the pocket. Name and shame and have a media blitz to highlight this woke nonsense.
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  10671. just absurd that Murray uses this meaningless word "Islamist". he too is bowing down to political correctness. the word is "Islamic" or "Muslim".
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  10672. Not true. The mistake made by the West is we had too many foolish, ignorant leaders who had no idea how to deal with Russia
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  10673. Russians destroy their own pipelines, shell their own nuclear power stations, and now mine their own dam. Zelensky's "the dog ate my homework" routine getting a little stale.
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  10674. they made the mistake of listening to Liz Truss.
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  10675.  @AK-tx1vg  you have NO obligation AT ALL to "support him in this endeavor". You have an obligation only to speak your mind and be honest.
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  10676. great to hear Sunak promise to keep sending UK taxpayers' money to corrupt Kiev ad infinitum in this futile effort to defeat Russia. when Sunak liquidates his own assets and sends every penny to Zelensky, I might start to believe he's genuine about it.
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  10677.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  Russian rules would be much more beneficial to much more ordinary people, unless you love it that your children are being taught that a man can become a woman and that white babies are born racist.
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  10678. so the convicts and drunken mercenaries, their morale so low, are beating back the NATO equipped and trained Ukrainians. hmmm, i guess when Russia runs out of weapons, as we were told back in April, this will be won by Ukraine.
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  10679. Carlson did not say that the mob were "meek and mild and sightseers". Carlson said that they were MORE that way than the violent, armed insurrectionists that the government narrative asserted. get it right! it's called "nuance".
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  10680.  @mariabarco7226  so if Spain had zero tourism, the locals would be absolutely fine with that?
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  10681.  @davidparvez4972  UK was a net contributor to the UK.
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  10682.  @mariabarco7226  no one said that Spain is going to have zero tourists. Spain has handed all its powers over to the EU, so it is irrelevant what Spain NEEDS!. Brussels has decided that any EU citizen can go to Spain for as long as they wish and live there if they want. At least 30,000 migrants must be accepted by Spain too. The locals have no say in anything.
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  10683.  @davidparvez4972  so if the UK cut trade ties with its own clients, how is it that goods and services still flow between the UK and EU?
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  10684.  @davidparvez4972  thanks for admitting that you were wrong, that the UK never cut any trade ties, but decided to negotiate a deal that maintained trade ties with the EU but made the UK master of how it trades with the rest of the planet. next question?
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  10685.  @davidparvez4972  your point was that the UK had cut itself off from trade with its biggest customer. You lied. Now you want to argue about the popularity of Brexit. you need to decide what, exactly, your focus is.
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  10686. "originally from Cardiff" so, a manic Plaid Cymru supporter?
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  10687. possibly the worst informed "expert" out there. the Russians have been using air strikes for a long time, in Bakhmut and Avdiivka. it is clear that Russia has depleted Ukrainian air defences substantially. the offensive started 6 days ago. Sky News just reluctant to say that after 6 days, Ukraine/NATO have totally failed.
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  10688. "one of the most prominent Muslim voices on television" curious.....Democracy Now chooses to divide presenters based on their religion for some odd, discriminatory reason. I wonder who the most prominent Buddhist voice on television is?
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  10689. Time for Israel to take the gloves off and fight fire with fire: wipe out life in Gaza.
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  10690. "Taliban will take Kabul in 90 days" was a pretty big failure of Western intelligence. what we are being told about the Russian economy comes a close second.
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  10691. failed the interview. next candidate?
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  10692. they are
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  10693.  @calisto2735  "astronomical" means people who previously could afford to pay their energy bills but who now have fallen into fuel poverty and can't afford it. congratulations to you. your income has increased to a degree that matches the increase in your bills. spare a thought for those poorer than you whose lives have changed to an astronomical extent. or, maybe not, maybe just remain smug, wealthy and condescending.
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  10694. @Alleswirdgut1 he's in Morocco, don't worry. the boat sailed from Buenavista del Norte, hence he walked in the opposite direction from the bus stop. he'll lay low in Morocco until it all dies down and the gofundme has reached 50,000 or so.
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  10695. @Alleswirdgut1 he arranged it. an elaborate plan. spend the night in Masca with two "strangers", an accomplice drives him to the coast, he is taken to Morocco and waits for the gofundme to keep going up:) Slater messed up slightly because he was seen waiting at the bus stop, so asked about bus times, but never intended taking a bus anywhere. as he headed out of the village in the "wrong direction", the car arrived and picked him up, next stop, Morocco:)
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  10696. yep, most of the world doesn't care about Russia or Ukraine, but of the population that does care, the vast majority are backing Russia and really want the West to be humiliated.
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  10697.  @bonnie7898  only 145? wow! I would have thought that 193 countries out of 193 would have voted against the war. who are the warmongers that believe war is better than negotiated settlement?
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  10698.  @boink800  and just as you are unable to figure out who is right and wrong in this war, you are also unable to figure out that I use my real name (unlike you). For those of us who have lived and worked in Ukraine (have you?) we can see the truth of all this.
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  10699.  @natalieturko4808  Both sides are killing innocent civilians..it's called war. Ukraine started it with the Azov Nazis shelling Donbass for 8 years. crying about things then, for 8 years, were you? no genocide is being committed by either side. both sides are responsible for destroying Ukraine. it's called war. Putin is showing that Africa would MUCH prefer to be wooed by Russia than by the ever colonialist and hypocritical West.
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  10700.  @jonye7511  stable in their efforts to oppose the West, and advanced enough to send weapons that wipe out Ukrainians. Like you, the West dismisses such places as irrelevant, but then pays the price for such arrogant dismissal.
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  10701.  @CountScarlioni  the safest vote at UN level is to abstain, as abstentions keep relations open with all parties. Given the arm twisting and veiled threats from the West at UN level, it is amazing more African countries didn't vote as ordered to by the West. And BTW, condemning annexations doesn't mean a condemnation of invasion.
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  10702.  @jonye7511  hosting millions of Ukrainian refugees in perpetuity, sky rocketing energy prices, massive debts accrued with limitless "aid" to Ukraine, the humiliation of bragging about destroying Russia only to see Russia triumph, the list is endless.
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  10703.  @CountScarlioni  the reality is no one cares how Antigua and Barbuda or Eritrea votes at the UN. it is meaningless. Israel gets voted against overwhelmingly all the time, often with just the US as a supporter. so what? it changes nothing. African countries know that their vote is only symbolic. while France is kicked out of Mali and Burkina Faso and replaced by a Russian/Wagner military presence, that speaks volumes, not votes at a meaningless UN debating chamber. Love your naivety about no behind the scene arm-twisting though! Great to see South Africa conduct military drills with Russia recently! Definitely a sign things are changing. Russia has the key friends abroad it needs, and the West doesn't. Biden goes begging the Saudis and OPEC, but gets rebuffed. China and India stand alongside Russia quite happily. But, hey, if you want to celebrate Antigua and Barbuda voted against Russia, go ahead, have a big party over it. Russia will still win because the west failed to isolate Russia.
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  10704.  @CountScarlioni  about 30% of the world lives in China and India, so as long as Russia has at least one of those to trade with, the West has a massive problem. How St. Lucia votes at the UN doesn't mean a whole lot!
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  10705.  @CountScarlioni  Think you will find Russia wants China and India as business partners, not friends, and that is working fine. Russian profits from energy exports increased last year. Working closely with OPEC, Russia can give sweet discounts to China and India, and make sure the global market price is kept high enough to bring the rubles flowing home. it's the west that has lost out in all this, and remember, EU can still import Russian oil if it is blended with non Russian oil. IMF predicts modest growth for Russian economy in 2023. I think we can conclude the sanctions have failed, well, succeeded in driving up energy costs in the west, but failed to cripple Russia.
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  10706.  @CountScarlioni  falls in energy prices don't do a lot of harm to Russia. it's a very simple game. if prices fall, more energy is produced and sold and revenue is stabilized. it doesn't have a massive effect. Beg to differ on the "success story"!, TEN packets of sanctions announced, 1 year into this, the ruble is strong (not "rubble" as predicted by Biden) and modest growth forecast (as opposed to recession for the UK). Compared to the predictions of the West on how Russia, it's economy and banking system, would be crippled, THIS IS SUCCESS! You may need to explain how the sanctions are a ligature to Biden and the EU. They certainly didn't expect to see Russian rate of inflation coming down, denial of SWIFT having no great effect, and energy revenues increasing. I mean, if they did, they didn't announce to the Western public "hey folks, in one year, expect the sanctions to have produced really no significant effect, except on us" Nah, wishful thinking on your part. Word on the street is that all those chips and components are produced to high enough quality at home, or imported from friendly nations like UAE. Got a feeling the mass buying up of washing machines is bs, but hey, if it's true, seems to be working for Russia! The West completely misjudged this. If they are going for the ligature effect, it's a big gamble. Russia may have won before the ligature has crippled Russia and the West's pissed off citizenry will be furious with the dopey leaders we have.
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  10707.  @CountScarlioni  any chance there will be a sanctions ligature effect on the West? no more cheap Russian energy = persistently high energy prices in Europe = stagflation and deindustrialization and gradual worsening of cost of living crisis?
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  10708.  @CountScarlioni  one thing we have learnt is that looking at GDP is totally misleading. you are making the same mistake as Western leaders. Italy and Russia have about the same GDP. If Italy disappeared tomorrow, the world would hardly notice. If Russia disappeared tomorrow, the world would be in chaos. Its production of commodities that matter. Russia produces what the world truly needs: energy, food, fertilizers, precious metals. Italy doesn't. Forget GDP and look at commodity production, then you will get an idea of who is important.
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  10709. Germany has survived the winter in that it hasn't had energy blackouts. it managed to top up gas reserves while Nordstream was working! USA and Norway have put an end to that! Let's see how they keep reserves topped up for next winter and how much it will cost! German industry is in bad shape. EU suffered its biggest trade deficit last year. it is unsustainable. you may be fine, but many in EU are going to experience poverty and stagnant wages and a cost of living crisis for a long time.
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  10710.  @CountScarlioni  you might be from a place that is not dependent on Russian energy, but you are from a place where global energy prices affect your life! The cost of everything is affected by global energy costs, not just YOUR home energy sources! everything. Europe has not proved that it doesn't need Russian energy. Let me introduce you to the energy ligature effect. it is a gradual strangulation of the Western economy as its products become uncompetitive due to higher production costs due to more expensive and unreliable energy. Slow process, but gradually Europe loses markets as other countries who can use cheap Russian energy produce cheaper goods than Europe. No one in Germany is saying that imported LNG will be cheaper than Russian gas! As for the nuclear program. from where will EU import its uranium? If Russia and Kazakhstan agree on a precious metal cartel? Keep in mind, Russia hasn't even responded with any sanctions of its own yet. The best is yet to come.
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  10711.  @1maico1  why not mention the shift in voting when a second resolution was passed on Ukraine's Independence day? and note, one third of the world lives in India and China, neither of which condemned Russia
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  10712.  @donnacollins1356  sure, Crimea will fall to the Ukronazis in just a few weeks.
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  10713.  @jonye7511  the dictator is Zelensky. no opposition parties tolerated in the Rada, state control of the media.
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  10714.  @jonye7511  so Western charities do what they do on condition that recipient countries back Ukraine?
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  10715.  @jonye7511  there are many corners of the globe on a downward trajectory, including the West. the point is, Russia is acquiring cooperation where the West is losing it. The West considers SA a "key friend" when it goes begging for coal imports! BRICS is becoming a LOT more that an economic block. The West has blundered into creating the beginnings of a military alliance against it which it will regret.
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  10716.  @jonye7511  exactly. Russia and China have won in Africa, the colonial game is up for the West. Russia is not isolated, the sanctions against Russia failed, the West misjudged, totally, the nature of this conflict. Enjoy the finger-pointing and recriminations to follow. should be fun.
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  10717.  @jonye7511  the very fact you concede there are countries beholden to Russia shows Russia is not isolated and is no pariah. The West has failed.
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  10718. well well well, look at what can happen when you actually sit down and negotiate with the Russians.
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  10719. It's possible that Zelensky is so dumb he hasn't considered how he gets out of Ukraine when his own troops turn on him. Something tells me it has crossed his mind, and he will indeed get out, leaving Zaluzhny as the fall guy who gets strung up.
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  10720.  @jujutrini8412  on the contrary. i believe the North Koreans call themselves "democratic" because they perceive themselves as democratic. i'm also able to point out what makes them undemocratic. Likewise, BNSM call themselves Socialist because they perceive themselves as Socialist. Now, you go ahead, you point out what precise policies the BNSM have that are NOT Socialist. Let me guess..you are one of those who doesn't understand how Fascism has its routes in Socialism, that leaders like Mussolini were not really Socialist, right?
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  10721. bit rich, Zelenski, the man who dictated to Ukraine's Russian speakers that only Ukrainian could be used in schools and in government business, now whining about the dictator who came to defend his Russian speaking cousins.
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  10722.  @jonathanbelanger6574  was, but no longer is. so you freely admit that, in the name of inclusion and equal rights, the enlightened government of Zelensky compelled Russian speakers in Russian speaking majority communities with Russian speaking teachers to be educated from middle school up in Ukrainian! Tell me. in the name of fairness and equality and diversity and freedom of speech, should we encourage Justin Trudeau to compel French speaking Canadians to be educated exclusively in English from Middle School up? yes or no?
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  10723. Keep in mind that 85% of Russia's million man army is not even IN Ukraine! Imagine what would happen if war was declared by Russia. So far, an expeditionary force is achieving Russian aims gradually, steadily and effectively. NATO will be totally discredited and the shame of Afghanistan will be replaced by the howls of derisive laughter from China, India and rest of world.
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  10724. here we go again, assuming a full course of vaccine means a person can't have or spread covid. Europe has learned nothing from the covid experience.
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  10725.  @swirvinbirds1971  if you are talking about me, I'm happy in France for the summer, Mexico for the winter. I have no connection to Russia apart from I have a degree in the language and studied at a Russian university, and used to teach in Ukraine. if you are talking about the Donbass people, they have no need to move to Russia..they are liberated, or about to be.
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  10726. Russia using Ukraine's playbook. Get as much aid as possible from allies, deny deny deny, keep the media in the dark. seems to be working well for Russia.
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  10727.  @nicgb098  we hear what all the time? what is "it"?
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  10728.  @ryanhall9877  Ukraine has, until recently, been disclosing its losses. the higher the number the more it felt it would add to the billions of dollars heading its way. Milley and Van Der Leyen both said Ukraine had suffered over 100,000 dead. were they both just guessing?
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  10729.  @machevellian79  so you assume, without any good reason
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  10730.  @CrazyShores  based on what sources?
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  10731.  @nicgb098  I see the estimates but also see there is no science behind estimates of Russian losses, dips**t. US knows Ukraine estimates for Ukraine losses, US and Ukraine are on the same side! No one but a small number in the Kremlin know the number of Russian losses! No one. Western estimates of Russian losses are just guesses, the hope strategy, guessing a high number in hope. BBC and other teams who have trolled through hospital records and burial records keep coming up with low Russian death tolls, so they don't announce those findings. Keep in mind, no one cares if convicts and mercenaries die, so high death tolls among the Wagners don't really bother anyone. Only a fool would believe Western estimates on Russian losses. That would include you, dips**t.
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  10732.  @bonnie7898  Russian MOD has given a number, quite a while ago, 14,000 dead. BBC and Medusa tried to investigate all death records, burials, scoured public records in Russia hoping to get an accurate but high number, of course. BBC and Medusa couldn't find anything much above.....14,000! So they gave up. 14,000 is too low a number for the West to even contemplate! You mention Western Intelligence. Is that the same Western Intelligence that estimated the Taliban would take 90 days to get to Kabul? (it took 90 hours). Only a fool would believe a word of such Western Intelligence. I have no need nor desire to know what the Russian death toll is. But then again, I am not the one convinced the Russian death toll is such that Ukraine will suddenly start winning.
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  10733.  @Mygg_Jeager  truth hurts?
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  10734.  @kkivela  so did USA suffer greater losses in Iraq?
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  10735.  @nicgb098  not true. Ukraine has regularly announced its dead during this past year. It has been a number that varies, but goes up the more Ukraine wants more aid. Milley and co know the death count for Ukraine. they have no idea what it is for Russia.
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  10736.  @kkivela  was Fallujah positional warfare?
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  10737.  @kkivela  so when Ukraine was doing all the attacking and Russia was doing all the defending in the positional warfare in Kherson and Kharkov, should we assume the losses of the attacker, Ukraine, were horrendous and much higher than Russia's?
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  10738.  @kkivela  probably higher, but not definitely higher, so the "positional warfare" rule you cited is not hard and fast. Time is a factor it seems. What about if the attacking force fires off 6 to 7 times as much artillery? could that be a factor that changes the equation? hmmm
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  10739.  @ryuuguu01  when you say the US Air Force is bigger than Russia's and China's combined, are you including all NATO's training teams, that are making sure NATO crews all have diversity and inclusiveness training, and those making the pilot suits for pregnant women?
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  10740.  @taylorlatch2635  when talking about economic might, GDP is a useless measurement. That's why people can't understand why Russia has survived the sanctions so robustly, whereas somewhere like Italy would have collapsed in a week, though both Russia and Italy have comparable GDPs. Things like government spending are reflected in GDP, so, print more money, spend it all, and watch your GDP go up, but it doesn't reflect a robust economy. you have to look at debt levels, and most critically, commodity exports. Russia exports what all the world needs: energy, precious metals, grains, food. Russia will always have markets available and guaranteed income. Italy sells Armani bags and holidays for pensioners. Africa doesn't need what Italy produces. Africa needs what Russia produces. Sanctions on Russia won't work. They would work most effectively on any European country.
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  10741.  @scottwebb4722  makes sense.
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  10742. there are no such trenches, minefields, loads of Russian soldiers in the border area held by Ukraine, where Ukraine crossed the border the other day.
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  10743.  @apex9806  clearly. glad you can figure these simple concepts out.
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  10744. Trump to be cleared on appeal. Hunter Biden to be jailed once found guilty of tax violations in September. Joe Biden to be convicted on multiple corruption charges just a few months after losing in November.
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  10745.  @TheManOnTheRail  and the wise people that live in sugar cane areas don't live anywhere near the fields that are burned.
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  10746.  @Election-sv6ok  please explain how setting fire to a piece of land incentivizes a rich property owner to then acquire the land? wouldn't it be easier to invest in land that has not been burnt to a cinder?
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  10747.  @soundscape26  WHAT? Now I have to do your homework for you? WOW! ok, let me take you through it step by step. Have you ever heard of Google? try typing in "arsonists investigated in Portugal" and tell me what you find. I'll wait for your homework assignment.
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  10748.  @DavidHuston  I mean, you could bother to google "arsonists investigated in Portugal" and check out the details. nah, on second thoughts, better you remain ignorant, but happy, in your comfy little bubble, sweet child.
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  10749.  @serebii666  simple question for you. according to the contractual obligations of Russia's oil and gas exports to Germany, how and in what form was Germany to pay?
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  10750.  @serebii666  and the second part of the question? by what means were payments supposed to be made? cash in suitcases?
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  10751.  @serebii666  oh, believe me, some of us are educated on this topic, before you go jumping on your high horse of moral and academic superiority. now, you mentioned "unprecedented maintenance". first, describe exactly what the precedented maintenance was.
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  10752.  @serebii666  curious you mention "EU has paid for something Russia has not delivered". can you think of anything that Russia had paid for but that, suddenly, went undelivered? oh, something like, maybe, banking services in the EU? Or did Russia pay for its accounts to be frozen in the EU, and the EU was just delivering on a service already paid for?
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  10753.  @serebii666  you must admit, it is a curious business model, to tell your number one supplier that you no longer want to do business with said supplier, but that you also demand the right to determine exactly when said business relationship ends.
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  10754.  @serebii666  no, i asked you to explain the precedented maintenance. what was the normal maintenance schedule? you trumpeted yourself as the one that knows all this stuff, so presumably, before you wrote "unprecedented maintenance" you knew exactly what the Nordstream precedented maintenance was. Suddenly, you seem quite ignorant! Suddenly your argument is the academically vacuous "Russia is to blame, Russia is to blame". interesting. Now, the compressors that were sent to Siemens in Canada, was there anything in the existing contracts that the Canadians broke there, yes or no? Believe me, "expert", your grilling has only just begun, because you absolutely stink of being a propagandist and not an expert, but go ahead, keep educating me. answer the questions, please, oh expert on contracts.
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  10755. Ukraine had fighter planes, weapons, missiles, ammo aplenty at the start of the war. Russia destroyed it all. Wallace seems to think supplying the same stuff again will bring a different result. it won't. it will all get destroyed. Russia is successfully demilitarizing NATO, and deservedly so.
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  10756. just so funny to see Ukrainians celebrate getting in line to be admitted to the EU in a decade or so, while hundreds of its troops are massacred every day and it is a nation of 6 million refugees....talk about re arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
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  10757. Latvia better start treating its ethnic Russian population fairly and equally or his country, deservedly, will be next on Putin's list.
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  10758. 9 months of non-stop dismissal of the ineffective and inefficient Russian military. no mention of Ukrainian failings. Looks like Zelensky is writing the script for Sky News these days.
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  10759.  @Daniel-uc9ll  truth hurts, eh? how does it feel to have been so fooled by your beloved, lying Western media? at some point even the extremely dumb will realize the stupidity in challenging Russia to a protracted ground war.
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  10760. Austin is way too young to fight for Ukraine. Take a look at the veterans the Ukrainians are shovelling on to the frontlines these days.
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  10761.  @anthonymorris2276  you make my point for me. thank you. there is no blockade. there is a coastline that has been mined by Ukraine, and Ukraine refuses to demine this coastline because it does not trust Russia, so let's all be honest and say that grain shipments won't happen, not because of a blockade, but because Ukraine won't demine its coast (for the reasons you stated).
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  10762.  @leemiguel3437  except you cared enough to reply, so at least your eyes are getting some exposure to the other perspective......something you don't get from Western media:)...glad to know you are reading the truth and paying attention. I'll keep posting
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  10763.  @anthonymorris2276  laughable...an "independent sovereign state" that relies totally on the West to survive, whose leader is a dwarf puppet controlled by the Azov fascists and the Ukrainian oligarchs, a "responsible" government that signed the Minsk accords and then refused to implement them (oh, so very responsible) and which then is so responsible it shells its own citizens in the Donbass for 8 years and can't understand how it provoked Russia! So responsible it bans opposition parties and anti government media, and bans Russian language in education....just so "responsible"....know anything about Ukraine do you? Ever been there? Lived there? I have. The truth would shock you...but you don't care about the truth, you only care about your misinformed deluded narrative.
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  10764.  @anthonymorris2276  Oh, you missed something in Step One.....Russia's agreement was based on a reciprocal recognition from Ukraine for equal rights for Russian speakers within the borders of Ukraine! Study the full text carefully! I guess after 8 years of Azov Nazis murdering thousands of civilians in the Donbass, Step One became null and void?
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  10765.  @bcanuck  obviously NOT! Had the West listened to Russia and sat down and talked about Ukraine's NATO bid, and ALL related concerns, this disaster could have been avoided. The West's REFUSAL to listen and talk brought this action from Russia. One problem was Biden is too senile and incoherent to communicate with anyone let alone Putin.
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  10766. in that case the Ukrainians are doing miserably. time to surrender if they want to preserve their heritage.
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  10767.  @kralikkral5560  and now the truth. only a small number of people in the Kremlin know the total of Russian losses, so put your crystal ball down and stop dreaming up numbers. if you think Ukraine has lost only 75,000, then either you or General Milley is lying. Milley said months ago that Ukrainian dead numbered more than 100,000...so which of you is lying? oh yes, always "in a few weeks"....more ammo, not now, in a few weeks. more tanks, not now, in a few weeks. more trained staff, not now, in a few weeks. yep, we get the picture. nothing we can do now, but always the help will come "in a few weeks". my God, if this is NATO at its best, no wonder the Taliban defeated NATO in Kabul on 2021.
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  10768.  @kirkpatrick7475  ah yes, the good old "Russian bot" reply when the evidence destroys the Ukrainian claims! Plenty of children have been killed in Donbass under Ukrainian shells, that much is true, though Western MSM refuse to cover such atrocities. wonder why? Hey, did you see the sculpture of the Mig jet, yes? no?
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  10769.  @jacqdanieles  Ukraine propaganda troll, but to the matter in hand, did you spot the Mig jet sculpture outside the Officers Club building that the Russians legitimately targeted? yes or no?
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  10770.  @jacqdanieles  I taught English in Vinnitsya in 2018. I know the building. and yes, wreaths are openly laid wherever tragedies occur, including at the base of a Mig jet sculpture outside the Garrison Officers Building. Keep in mind that it may well be that at least sometimes, Zakharova tells the truth. Ukrainians don't have a monopoly on the truth, shock though that is to you.
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  10771.  @jacqdanieles  do you want me to send evidence of the airbnb i stayed when there? what more do you need, just let me know. actually, it's NOT where I thought it was...it is much closer to the bus station than I imagined. still. Officer's House/Club it is, it was hosting a meeting. Russian intel got their target. as always, collateral damage, but hey, USA/NATO know all about that from operations in Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other places, right?
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  10772. California voted overwhelmingly for Biden, so California got what it wanted. Enjoy every minute of it.
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  10773. "this is clearly terrorism"...exactly what the Donbass ethnic Russians said for 8 years under attack by the Azov Nazi shelling
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  10774. "migrant hotels" she makes it sounds like the migrants own the hotels, or have paid for their rooms there.
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  10775. yep. that's right. it's called "reality"
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  10776. What would Turkey's "inspecting the grain" do? Turkish grain inspectors can tell from the grain if it's a stolen good?
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  10777.  @frederikpedersen689  just to highlight your lies, you tell me the precise words that "debunk" the horrific murders of innocent civilians in Donbass, quote word for word the UN High Commissioner, and I will prove to the world the total liar that you are. go ahead. give me the words.
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  10778.  @frederikpedersen689  learn to read English and learn the meaning of genocide as opposed to murder or massacre.
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  10779. there is plenty of evidence, honey, that support in the West is slipping. 30% of Germans now say their government should push Kiev to peace talks, and that number is growing. Don't assume the words of Western leaders reflect the reality on the ground in their countries.
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  10780. typical Western media..."Russia is running out of weapons", "Russian morale is so low", " Russia is on the back foot"...then suddenly, "oh, Russia has advanced and gained a victory".....and then a quick pivot to ten (yes, all 10 that Britain still has) tanks going to Ukraine. pathetic reporting. there have only been 2 battles in this conflict so far, battles where both sides stand and go toe to toe, street by street. Mariupol and now Bakhmut/Soledar. it is about to be 2-0 to Russia.
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  10781. The sooner a whole range of Russian weapons are shipped to Cuba the better. It would put some pressure on Biden to take a few steps back.
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  10782. most of the world couldn't care a monkey's backside about the outcome of the war or the details.
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  10783. Given the kill rate of 5:1 in Russia's favor, and the lack of weaponry the West can now send, it's definitely going Russia's way.
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  10784. 9th package of sanctions = the other 8 failed. pathetic EU finding out it is only capable of hurting itself more than it can hurt Russia. no doubt the 20th package will be announced when Ukraine reaches 200,000 dead soldiers and no power stations functioning come February.
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  10785. Curious no one ever specifies which ideas or policies are "far right". we never get the definition.
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  10786. yes, when annexation is complete, any attack on the newly annexed territories - attack on Russia. the gloves are off, Ukraine get ready for no power, no water, no internet, no future, no help. Zelensky, start up the engines for your flight to your mansion in Miami.
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  10787. keep in mind Putin hasn't brought sanctions against the West, to talk about. Patience. You may find out what escalation means soon.
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  10788.  @NothingIsKnown00  yep, could be. let's see how France does without uranium.
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  10789. there is no ongoing investigation, and to top it off, the search has been called off today. the Police want nothing to do with exploring the drug underworld of Tenerife. they never have.
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  10790. it's over. if Germany now is divided over sending tanks to Ukraine, the splits in the West are obvious. sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, sending aid and weapons failed, Russia has 380,000 reservists poised on the border and can destroy Ukraine's power grid any day it wishes. Russia won, so now the West has to find an off ramp that minimizes humiliation.
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  10791.  @murphy7801  it's called collateral damage. same as the children killed in Donbass by Ukrainian shells.
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  10792. "the market needs to work better for everyone" just get government out of regulating the market, and it will work fine. it's simple. landlord presents a contract, tenant reads contract, and either signs or walks away. with mass immigration, you will find demand for housing rises, thus rental costs rise. end immigration if you don't like rising rents.
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  10793.  @TopsayMusic  it is not the Police's job to avoid riots on the streets. It is the Police's job to enforce the law and protect the public from hoodlum criminals like Nahel. Job done. If the degenerate ungrateful masses from North Africa with their criminal supporters then decide to riot and loot, that is the failure of the political system. things like this don't happen in places like Japan or Hungary, where scum immigrants have never been imported.
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  10794.  @feralLove  you poor ignorant fool. "vigilante minded folks" are people who seek to administer justice where local law enforcement either won't or can't do their job. it's not a bad thing. what is really bad is people like you who weep over the death of a criminal car jacker and joy rider, your concerns for the innocent public who are victims of this parasite hoodlum are non existent. you are disgusting. shame on you. "Dehumanizing the victim" = telling the truth you don't want to hear about this delinquent reprobate. Most of the world is happy he will no longer terrorize the neighborhood. Good riddance, Nahel, honest, law abiding folk don't miss you one little bit. Al hamdu lilah.
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  10795.  @Xanaduum  you've been watching too many movies. how many cops in this world wake up with the thought, "can't wait to spend the rest of my life in jail, today's the day I kill some random person"?
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  10796.  @Xanaduum  strange thing is, there are no killer cops in the Chinese and Asian immigrant areas. they only appear in the Arab and black areas? why would that be?
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  10797. and so is NATO's GDP to debt ratio. more importantly, Russia exports what the world needs. Russia is king of the commodities markets. NATO isn't. hence the sanctions are failing. learn some basic economics.
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  10798.  @idawulan6789  and still not enough to match the wonderful alliance of BRICS and the sanctioned nations! OPEC, Iran, N Korea and BRICS giving the West an absolute hammering! Keep focused on your GDP figures...they mean nothing!
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  10799.  @randar1969  now look at the GDP to debt ratios, the true barometer, coupled with commodity exports, and then you might understand why Russia is king of this situation.
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  10800.  @kevinkingmaker7395  right, but GDP is no measure of economic strength. GDP just records how much money is floating around the system. keep printing money and your GDP goes up!
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  10801.  @Srw-em6iq  dollars are meaningless if there are no weapons to buy with all those dollars. now look at the capacity NATO has to produce weapons for a war of attrition compared to Russia. ahhh, NOW we see the problem!
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  10802.  @marcwareham9351  YEP, economics specialist, slowly you are learning. massive government and private debt levels, massive inflation, increased government spending, all ADDS to GDP, but weakens the economy and output. Keep trading with Rio Tinto but NEVER advise anyone on macro economics, your ignorance is astounding.
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  10803.  @cnccarving  Russia keeps destroying the weapons sent to Ukraine. GDP is meaningless if all that money is thrown out the window. Western media refuses to report on the destruction Russia has wrought on arms supplied to Ukraine. just too embarrassing to tell the Western taxpayers that Russia destroyed their hard earned money with just a few missiles.
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  10804.  @jasperchance3382  it's fun watching what is happening! I can't wait for NATO to put boots on the ground and pilots in the air! after Kabul 2021, Putin just needs to call in the Taliban and another NATO fiasco will entertain us for a few days:)
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  10805.  @marcwareham9351  I always make fun of those who brag about their "specialist subject" and how successful they are in business! as a vain peacock, you were just too tempting a target. Curious you refused to answer the question about why you have such faith in the accuracy of the 47% number! If I were going to war, unlike you, I would pay ZERO attention to the GDP number. I would be curious to know the GDP to debt ratio, and the exports of the enemy (it seems you would be happy to go to war based on just GDP, fool). now, in a war situation, "ceteris paribus" is a fantasy, because THERE ARE ALWAYS MANY OTHER FACTORS IN PLAY. as a "specialist in economics" you will understand that "ceteris paribus" is useful in theory, but when all things are NOT equal and cannot be equal, it is pointless plugging that into any real life equation! need any more lectures on economics, Mr Specialist?
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  10806.  @marcwareham9351  most of Russia's equipment not from the USSR, but is hi-tech weaponry that the West is struggling to match, like hypersonic missiles, Mr Specialist.
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  10807.  @Srw-em6iq  when? when exactly will Russia pay a price? when Crimea become Ukrainian? up for a bet?
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  10808.  @firstnamerequiredlastnameo3473  but Marc told me he is a "specialist"...you don't think your accurate summary of the uselessness of GDP stats in war capabilities will impress Marc, the Specialist, do you?
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  10809.  @shaddapforever  the gear of NATO has been destroyed by Russia's multiple missile strikes.
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  10810.  @shaddapforever  what makes you assume that "taking the city" was a priority?
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  10811.  @shaddapforever  Ukraine is bankrupt and can only wage war with NATO support, so, no, it is not up to Ukraine when to start diplomacy. it is up to the NATO taxpayers to decide when they have had enough of throwing their hard earned salaries out the window in the name of a futile war.
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  10812.  @marcwareham9351  oh dear, our specialist is reduced to emojis?
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  10813.  @rogerthornhill1491  sadly, many Western leaders seem to have no idea how to AVOID provoking a total war. that is the problem. Western leaders are, by and large, idealists who can't see the reality of what Russia can and could do if provoked.
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  10814.  @rogerthornhill1491  of course nuclear weapons are a major factor in determining the victor in a war, but I am talking about a conventional war. oil and gas are only available elsewhere in limited quantities. Take Russia out of the global energy markets, and energy prices soar, as we have seen. what does Italy produce which, if removed from the global market, would cause consternation in world markets? olive oil? designer clothes? economic management of course is a major factor. you are now arguing my point. that GDP is just a number. debt levels, government interference in the market, government inability to plan (we see how the West has done all it can to reduce production of weapons and ammo for a protracted ground war, and now can't magically ramp up production, whereas Russia planned for this war for 8 years). planning is key.
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  10815. so funny that the dippy blonde 12 year old puts faith in any estimates of Russian casualties. she also isn't bright enough to know that Russia was never in Afghanistan. maybe she needs to learn that Brezhnev was Ukrainian.
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  10816. so, he wasn't JUST a taxi driver......Sky News adhering religiously to the "Ukraine good, Russia bad" script they have been charged to report.
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  10817. Best world leader, Putin can fend off a coup at the same time he defeats NATO/Ukronazia on the battlefield. Big joke that this dunce refers to "Ukraine's reserves" ready for the counter offensive. what the hell does he think has been happening for the last 3 weeks? Probing attacks that lose 500 Ukrainian cannon fodder a day.
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  10818. BRICS replacing US as leader of trade and development in the world, thank God
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  10819. Immigration is a massive problem if you want to retain your identity and if you import the wrong kind of immigrants.
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  10820.  @hape3862  "people come here to build a new life, to start a family. where is the problem?" "those who commit crimes can be deported anyway". The problem is that some come to commit crime and don't care at all about building a new life or creating a family. Rape, theft and living on handouts might be a way of "building a new life", but it ain't much fun for the host civilians.
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  10821. No, we don't all condemn that! all power to the rioters this evening. the more chaos and mayhem created, the greater the chance Keir Starmer will be toppled. The nation is at the point where whatever it takes to end immigration is the way forward.
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  10822. what is truly "extreme" is the horrendous levels of immigration all over Europe, and its pernicious effects. best of luck to any party that will campaign for an end to immigration.
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  10823. Their happiness over reclaiming Pavlovka is so heartfelt. I feel so happy for them.
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  10824. NATO is a major force, if you consider sensitivity training and electric tanks as paramount to military force. Russia has totally demilitarized the paper tiger that is NATO. The Taliban showed what a pathetic outfit NATO is in 2021. Russia must surely be tempted to roll into the Baltics because NATO is so weak, it is likely that invoking Article 5 will result in no serious opposition.
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  10825. "some still identify with the Russians DESPITE the war" NO! some identify with the Russians because they are ethnic Russians and they want to be separate from Kiev! DW has no clue what motivates the Donbass Russians to reject Ukrainian authorities. totally bloody ignorant DW
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  10826. @de caesaris they have moved back to Russia! And brought their ancestral homeland, Donbass, with them! what is it about a separatist movement that you don't get? did you kick up this much fuss about Kosovo separatists demanding separation from Serbia?
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  10827.  @jailbreak852  like the child in the story of the Emperor's New Clothes
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  10828. Germany's problems have ZERO to do with the war in Ukraine. It's all connected to the sanctions that Germany thinks is such a wonderful idea to impose.
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  10829. "widespread backing from fighters on the ground" like soldiers are going to report to BBC that they hate Zelensky for sacrificing them in the Bakhmut massacre
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  10830.  @Tiglath-PileserXIX  so true, but unfortunately for France, France admitted them and the French authorities show no interest in expelling them.....much easier to take UK cash and let them cross the Channel.
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  10831. typical EU bigots, discriminate against China when we were all told we must live with covid.
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  10832. Zelensky is the tyrant. Putin, not Zelensky, just held elections
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  10833.  @rogerwilco5918  not allowed to move the goalposts. you said "feel free to prove ANY part of that nonsense is truth". so, I get to choose which part to establish as "truth", as you offered me ANY part. so, either learn what the word "ANY" means, or proceed with what you asked me to do. Western media have reported that the Wagners have been using released convicts. true, or false?
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  10834.  @RussiasSufferingInUkraine  if those aren't Ukraine's finest, that would mean you know where Ukraine's finest are, and can prove it. so, go ahead.
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  10835.  @briansweetman1732  the cover up would never have happened in a private system. the private system, unlike a nationalized system, can only exist by delivering quality service, and murdering babies doesn't form a part of "quality service". what stupid, poorly thought out bs you write.
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  10836. @@JoeKelly-co8td pretty hard not to hear about 7 murdered babies, get real! Nope, the private system relies on satisfied customers. The NHS relies on government handouts. the private system has measures in place to prevent such horrors. The NHS hires anyone and everyone and cares nothing about the consequences, after all, what alternatives to UK patients have? it's a monopoly. welcome to the horrors of Socialism.
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  10837.  @Msboochie2  just tell me what to google to find articles on US private hospitals or clinics where a nurse or doctor has murdered patients. thanks.
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  10838.  @Msboochie2  it's when the bottom line is money (profit comes from having a satisfied client base, and murdering patients doesn't usually get you a satisfied client base) not following the orders of a government monopoly (nationalized, socialized medicine) that gets good results and happy customers.
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  10839.  @nadia0701  looks like Trump is fine then, as there is no charge and no conviction against him for insurrection, which means, if he did "engage in insurrection", why has the legal system refused to charge him? Now, Biden on the other hand, needs to be removed from the ballot. Biden has indeed "given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof" by profiting, personally, from business dealings with China, an enemy of USA. Agreed?
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  10840.  @sgramstrup  sounds like you are agreeing with me, except that you seem to think that the first of Surovikin's defence lines is NOT a few kms from Verbove. What map are you using to see where the Surovikin line, or lines, are?
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  10841. have you yet to figure out that NATO is incapable of "upping the arms" and too cowardly to put feet on the ground?
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  10842. looking GREAT for the DPR and LPR militias then!
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  10843.  @lovelybitofbugle219  territory is not the objective. killing as many Ukrainian troops is..and Russia doing that job pretty well.
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  10844.  @samorpeterenpretene9184  if the West distrusts Russian answers and Russian statements, why would the West believe Russia's "no nukes to be used in Ukraine" line? Presumably the West fully expects a cornered Putin to turn Ukraine into a sheet of glass when this fabled counter offensive kicks in.
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  10845. would love to know how Police interpret what a "hate crime" is and isn't
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  10846.  @dorianissock732  1. If an immigrant is willing to integrate, then no "employed workforce" is needed at all! It's not such a monumental task you know! It just takes willingness and consideration on the part of the newcomer! 2. what makes you assume any Muslim immigrant is willing to integrate rather than replicate their home society in the new country? Why would a Muslim who believes that homosexuality is a sin suddenly countenance Gay Pride marches on arrival at Heathrow? You sound clueless about the realities of the world.
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  10847.  @dorianissock732  yep, in reply to your demand that the taxpayer fund a workforce to effect the integration of new arrivals, whether they like it or not, I said that before that happens, a whole load of immigrants need to be denied entry, because they represent no discernible benefit to the host country. I never said I was the one that decides who gets to stay. I said that masses of those who are here presently don't deserve to be here and should be kicked out. That's my opinion, not me stating that I should be the one to decide. Reading comprehension is not your forte, is it?
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  10848.  @dorianissock732  ah, I see, so when you said "it's in a country's interests to engage in integration efforts" you meant on a purely voluntary basis and with no cost whatsoever to the taxpayer. Good luck with that. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Still, no, if you choose to live in France, it is entirely up to you to fit in. end of story. as I suspect, you will have problems fitting into French society. already, in your arrogance, you seem to think you know how French officials should deal with migrants. Be prepared for a rough ride as you lecture the French on what their government should do with migrants! No idea where in France you are, but you wouldn't survive long where I am with an attitude like that!
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  10849. lucky they never found the loaded hunting rifle he forgot about in the checked in luggage. very lucky it was Turks and Caicos, and not Mexico, Dominican Republic or Jamaica.
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  10850.  @peabase  except Russia's armed forces are not permanently degraded, and NATO's cupboard is empty. Think again.
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  10851.  @johnadam2885  easy peasy target for Russia, so, please, yes, go ahead, make Moscow's day!
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  10852.  @entropy5431  not exactly, as the trees were planted to absorb CO2, now that said trees have been chopped down and can absorb no CO2, we are back to the excess carbon emissions of before! i actually think more CO2 is, on balance, a good thing, so i am not really against the idea, just the hypocrisy that loony Greens practise
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  10853.  @thegreatdane3627  still, you cut down trees that would have been helping the planet absorb more CO2, so bang go your Green credentials.
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  10854.  @gigachadsitler  and could be that Indian diesel comes from Russia
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  10855.  @JM-zg2jg  so, it doesn't matter how much we chop down or how much we plant? just as i thought, a scam, all this nonsense about "save the planet and plant a tree"
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  10856.  @thegreatdane3627  sure, if you favor fossil fuels and don't care about green energy.
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  10857.  @thegreatdane3627  time to help those low income folks and import cheap Russian gas
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  10858.  @mikafiltenborg7572  Putin really doesn't care, in case you haven't noticed
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  10859.  @entropy5431  so you cut down trees that can still absorb CO2 and replace them with other trees that also absorb CO2. you think this results in a net gain of trees to offset rises in CO2 levels?
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  10860.  @MotoRide.  the idea was to plant vast forests to offset rising CO2 emissions, not to plant vast forests and then chop them down so that rising CO2 emissions can't be offset. with rising populations, mass immigration, pressure to build new houses and roads, not sure where any new forests would go anyway. better to just import cheap Russian gas
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  10861.  @puraLusa  record trade deficit of 163 billion euros for the EU says you are wrong, Europe is in big trouble
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  10862.  @puraLusa  Putin doesn't care, he has plenty of reliable customers elsewhere
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  10863.  @puraLusa  163 billion euro EU trade deficit, never been that level, totally unsustainable
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  10864.  @entropy5431  ok, give me the definition of carbon neutral and I'll then show you why chopping down trees doesn't help get us to carbon neutral
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  10865.  @entropy5431  ok, you clarified that, so makes sense now
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  10866. take a look at a satellite map of Hispaniola and you can see the devastation wrought by a nation that chops down trees for fuel. The bare patch is Haiti. Right next to it, the extraordinarily green area, is Dominican Republic, where fossil fuels rule.
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  10867.  @siralexis6590  seeking solutions and finding good solutions to problems you yourselves created are two different situations. sadly, as you said, Europe is only at the stage of seeking solutions to self-inflicted problems, and the solutions, like using coal fired power stations, shows how desperate Europe is. Net zero? right, good joke.
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  10868.  @siralexis6590  meanwhile, in the real world..1) if the EU isn't interested in financing Russia, why did imports from Russia grow so much in 2022 compared to 2021? you lie. 2) your country has deluded itself into thinking Russia is an enemy. 3) Germany is dumb, it was warned by Trump, but did nothing, and now Germany is using coal fired power stations while it preaches about how Green it is! Dumb. 4) glad you have a variety of energy sources = glad you will be poorer and pay so much more for everything. 5) Russia is doing great right now. Ruble strong, exports up, most of the world in support of Russia. Learn the truth
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  10869.  @siralexis6590  which is fine, Russia has plenty of business that is reliable, and a lot that is with Europe, though it is unreliable. renewable energy is a lot more expensive, so get ready to be poorer. you deserve it.
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  10870.  @siralexis6590  there is no such thing as "green development" as "green" energy is more harmful to the planet than it is beneficial. Russia has not lost any customers that can't be replaced, which is why Europe's aim to cripple the Russian economy has failed, miserably. sorry to burst your bubble, but all Western technology is available to Russia. Sanctions don't work. Most of the technology needed comes from China and Russia itself, and the technology that originates in the West enters Russia via 3rd countries, like Turkey or UAE. Sanctions failed old boy, but sanctions are crippling the West big time. Learn the truth.
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  10871.  @siralexis6590  shooting yourself in the foot is when you end up with rampant inflation, a massive energy crisis and fuel poverty, no sign of getting out of it and a record trade deficit. That's what Europe did. Russia is doing just fine. No one in Russia talks about lowering the thermostat!
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  10872.  @puraLusa  only 15 trillion of which is money printed by the central bank!
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  10873.  @thegreatdane3627  no, they can just be closed down due to absurdly high running costs
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  10874.  @puraLusa  is government spending included in GDP, yes or no? simple question.
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  10875.  @thegreatdane3627  are profits up or down? let's keep an eye on 2023. doesn't make sense that energy costs shoot up but businesses don't notice any negative effect.
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  10876.  @thegreatdane3627  I would expect employment to go up as part of the covid recovery. I would be surprised if employment went up past pre covid levels given the energy costs to everyone. we will see.
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  10877.  @diamonds7504  if your point is that not all criminals are Arabs and Muslims, congratulations, well spotted. However, Connor Chapman is a native criminal, and given there are many more like him, why does it make sense to import more of such types from overseas to add to the problem?
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  10878.  @diamonds7504  Muslims, Arabs and Albanians are WAY over represented in the UK prison system. Pakistani Muslims are WAY over represented as gang rapists. Way UNDER represented in UK prisons are Chinese, Hindus and Sikhs. IF the UK is going to keep importing foreigners, makes way more sense to ban the Muslims, Arabs and Albanians, and encourage more Chinese, Hindus and Sikhs. If Racism is a problem in Europe, it is a weird kind of racism whereby Chinese, Vietnamese and Indians end up earning more than native whites!
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  10879. more missile attacks? yet more evidence that Russia is running out of missiles. no casualties? yet more evidence that Russia is indiscriminately targeting civilians.
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  10880.  @s6edge706  Maybe humus did, but not Hamas.
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  10881.  @Bufflah  it's always Hamas this and Hamas that because Hamas are the bastard bunch of intolerant Muslim terrorists that do nothing but ruin the lives of Gazans and do all in their power to destroy Israel. That's why Egypt closed the border with Gaza, but keeps its border open with Israel. Israel defends the rights of its citizens to live in peace. You are the one in denial. Israel is fighting back and you should support such a fight back.
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  10882.  @marcellogenesi6390  Quite the reverse. Once Hamas recognizes the right of Israel to exist, then the borders of Israel can be agreed upon. Until then, there is no agreement on where Israel begins and ends, hence West Bank settlements will continue until the world and Israel have delineated the borders. Given that Israel conquered and occupied all of the West Bank in the last war waged against their Arab neighbors, seems a bit hopeful to think Israel will just give it all back. Get real.
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  10883.  @seantoner7392  Do some homework. Research the number of times Israel has offered a 2 state solution, and notice how it has always been the Palestinian Arabs who reject it. Keep in mind that all those born in Israel are Palestinians too. Why not enlighten the world and define what the borders of Palestine are in your mind?
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  10884.  @seantoner7392  what was illegal about the '56 invasion? Please cite the law that was broken.
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  10885.  @seantoner7392  as expected, you failed to quote the law that was broken, because there is no such law. An "article" of the UN has no legal force anywhere in the world. Try again. But just to have a little fun with you, was the US invasion of Iraq also illegal? And curious that you answer the question "what are the borders of Palestine?" by stating how much land you would have given Palestine! That's like being asked "what are the borders of Finland?" and answering, "I would give 70% of Finland to the Finns". Try again. where exactly is Palestine? Maybe start your answer by explaining the borders of the Palestinian Mandate as awarded by the League of Nations to Britain, 80% of which is now occupied by Jordan (10% MORE than you think the Palestinian Arabs deserve, so Israel is dues a whole chunk of Jordan back, by your calculations). I would define the borders of Israel as those in place the day Israel was admitted into the UN, but would also fully back Israel's claim to any land conquered by Israel in subsequent wars. Obviously, Israel is not the whole of the Palestinian Mandate, as that would include all of Jordan, and the idea was to create a Jewish homeland and one for the Palestinian Arabs. Interesting you say that if Sinai is included as part of Israel, then '56 was perfectly legal. In that case, let's include Sinai. In war, winner takes all.
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  10886.  @seantoner7392  In the UN penal code, how many years in jail, or how much of a fine does Israel have to pay for breaking the UN law on invasions?:)
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  10887. just laughable this idea that Russia has taken any territory from Ukraine. the DPR and LPR broke from Kiev in 2014! It is Ukraine that is the bully, trying to force the pro Russian areas to submit to Kiev's will. NATO/Ukraine will fail in their bullying.
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  10888. nothing can be done. The Police are pansies and can't do anything. mob rule in Britain is now the rule. anarchy is here to stay.
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  10889. "believed to be organised by the EDL" oh, so it's fine to speculate about who organised the protests, but any speculation about the nationality of the knifeman is to be condemned?
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  10890. yeah, the same guy that said Russia was shelling the nuclear power plant that it was occupying, the same guy that said Russia blew up its own pipeline, the same guy that that says Bakhmut is of no strategic value (even though Zelensky says Bakhmut is of great strategic value). Clarke is a total liar, propagandist and charlatan.
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  10891. Orban and Fico, the only 2 European leaders humane enough to seek peace.
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  10892. like London, Paris now reaping the benefits of diversity and immigration. interesting BBC describes the suspect as "Caucasian looking". when was the last time we heard a suspect described as "black looking" or "negro looking".
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  10893.  @Omega0850  just curious, who is the judge of when a case has been made clear? would that be you? or me?
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  10894.  @andrewc662  so what? every nut and bolt is tracked from Airbus to India, and from India to Russia. what happens next?
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  10895.  @andrewc662  curious that your response shows how the West keeps having to rely on sanctions. The only solution = sanction the rest of the world. only problem is, the world is a lot more united against Western bullying and sanctions now. They won't work (just like futile Western attempts at price caps).
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  10896. Battle of the Bulge, a last roll of the dice. The Kherson offensive is a great success, but no one lists the places recaptured. Russians unable to supply their forces in Kherson, but no one numbers how many troops Russia has had to withdraw from Kherson.
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  10897. The Axis of Evil that the US now faces is basically the whole world minus other deluded Western countries that thought it was a really good idea to fund a war against Russia. Had Biden been neutral in the Ukraine civil war, he wouldn't now be in this pickle.
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  10898. some people are enjoying every single second of Sanctuary Cities having to deal with this s**t. you welcomed them in, you live with the consequences.
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  10899. damn frustrating case this. BRAD - just go back to the airbnb JAY - I can't BRAD - Why not? JAY - oh, I gotta go, call coming in. LUCY - just walk back to the airbnb JAY - I can't go back there, I can't go back there LUCY - why not JAY - my charge is down to 1% and.....click
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  10900. dream on. Putin is the more popular in his country than any Western leader is in his/hers.
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  10901.  @jim2376  and the "stolen Ukrainian grain" that was inspected by Turkey, and then released because the accusation was, of course, totally bogus, is on tis way to its destination. more progress...it's the Ukrainian mines that are the problem, not Russia, clearly.
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  10902. And after more than 2 months of this, NATO's pathetic response is the pledge of ONE Patriot battery?! safe to conclude NATO has lost, no credible response to Russian drones and missiles, so Russia doesn't need to launch a major offensive, but keep hitting the power grid and artillery to neutralize Ukraine and wait it out.
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  10903. "Islamist radicals" implies the majority of Muslims back the head teacher. They don't.
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  10904. The question that is begged is, given the thousands of ethnic Russians massacred by Zelensky and his Nazis over the last 8 years in Donbass, how willing are the Russians to get their full revenge? Based on my conversations with ethnic Russians in Ukraine, I would say....they'll fight to the bitter end to see Zelenski and his Russophobe goons dead and buried. And they are right to do so. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  10905. "stability in our communities" = sitting back and waiting for the next knife attack and next Pakistani rape gang scandal. Nah, better to have the revolution now rather than later.
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  10906. fingers crossed Russia will respond to Germany's heavy weapons sent to attack Russia with heavy weapons, some nice big missiles, sent to attack Berlin. Baerbock said "we are at war with Russia", so let Russia and Germany fight it out and see what remains after.
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  10907.  @hittitecharioteer  my assertion is 100% correct. it is your reading comprehension skills that are ludicrously inadequate. I said..."IN A FREE MARKET". Your argument is that the UK and Ireland is NOT a free market. So, we don't disagree. Let us assume you are correct in your conclusions about the UK and Irish markets.. What is the solution? Obviously assessing fines hasn't worked. As you said, price fixing has been going on for decades. There's your evidence that imposing fines has failed. I repeat. There is no such thing as "price gouging". Consumers will simply NOT pay for items if they feel they are being gouged. They will purchase the minimum required and turn their back on the market. We are not seeing this happen. If supermarkets are complying with the law and charging high prices, all power to them. If you are unhappy with them for doing so and you are sure they are acting illegally, bring your legal case against them and win in court, wise guy.
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  10908. MBS is smirking because he has all the power. Biden needs Saudi help MUCH more than the Saudis need any US help. It's called being in the driver's seat, and Biden is strapped into his child's seat for the long ride.
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  10909. On the plus side, didn't Hilary have biggish leads in the polls that never materialized? On the down side, won't take much electoral fraud to swing things Harris's way on election night in a tight race.
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  10910. War crimes are committed by both sides in war, always. Simply infantile to think Russia would have a monopoly on war crimes, but infantile fits the sheeple's narrative of "Russia bad, Ukraine good".
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  10911. These guys are so off on their Middle East analysis. The escalation they keep predicting hasn't happened, bar a few Houthi attacks, the Israelis are methodically and incrementally eliminating Hamas, and the world is now used to it, there is virtually no shouting about it now, and this is all quite sustainable. Why these two have gotten all this wrong is a mystery to them, but they made one really bad blunder when they weighed up what is happening there.......and they have still to figure out what they got so badly wrong!
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  10912. Hey, did you all hear over the past week the repeated calls from Biden, Schumer, Pelosi et al for Egypt to open the border at Rafah to let the Gazans have shelter? No, that's strange, neither did I.
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  10913. "helped drive the Russians out of Kiev" ignorant and lying Nick Connelly highlights the problem. Western propagandists never grasped that Russia was never driven out of anywhere. Kiev, Kherson, Kharkov, Russia withdrew without contesting those areas. But NATO/Ukronazia arrogantly assumed Russia was somehow defeated in battle. Not true. Misguided in this way, they thought a counter offensive against Russia would work like before. BIG DIFFERENCE! This time Russia is going to contest the Ukronazis. And look at the result! Ukraine can't advance. oh dear!
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  10914. the girls gave up on the idea that an offer would be made. safest end to a female encounter in Brazil
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  10915. is the Kenyan refugee camp whence she came still accepting applicants?
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  10916. drug deal gone bad? nothing can be pinned on the two lads that hosted Slater overnight, so they had to be released, but there's a good chance they are behind the murder.
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  10917.  @brandonarmienti7734  no Russian bot here. a real live non Russian individual, so quit lying about me. stick with the truth. Putin never started the 2014 crisis. It was the West that backed the coup against the democratically elected President Yanukovich, so check Obama's and Biden's hands for all the blood.
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  10918.  @kermitthethinker1465  unlike you, who hides behind the name of a muppet, I use my real name. what are you hiding? Afraid your one friend will disown you when he discovers what lies you write? Beyond that, you are a coward and you have no guts to put your money where your mouth is. $1000 bet I can prove to you my identity is real and that I am no no bot. accept the bet? or are you 100% yellow?
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  10919.  @hornstein12  there was never a plan to "take Kiev". 40,000 troops to battle it out street by street in a city of 3 million? Makes no sense. Russians create cauldrons. Kiev was never going to be assaulted. Learn how Russia fights instead of repeating Western media blabber.
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  10920.  @thegreatdane3627  and now the truth..the Russians don't have to capture anywhere. the Russians just need to wait until the last Ukrainian has been killed, or the last Ukrainian missile fired, or the last US military aid package is voted down by Congress. And if you doubt Russia's patience to wait it out, re read the history of Russia.
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  10921.  @jiminverness  Jim, which word in the statement did you not understand? Putin's plan was to resolve all issues at the negotiating table once the land bridge to Crimea was secured, which it was pretty early on. And Putin succeeded. In Istanbul we saw Ukraine just about to sign an agreement on outstanding issues. NATO then told puppet Zelensky not to sign (remember, as Lloyd Austin said, "the aim is to weaken Russia") and NATO promised it would support Ukraine all the way to victory, "as long as it takes". now then, what do you not understand?
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  10922.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  yep, this is the best USA can do. cluster bombs because USA is incapable of supplying regular shells. we now understand why USA was kicked out of Kabul so easily by the sandal wearing Taliban. The US military is pathetic and its commander in chief useless.
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  10923.  @jiminverness  and to think, Jim, all this because Kiev and Washington just could not stand the idea of the Donbass ethnic Russians separating from Kiev! How much easier all of this would have been had Poroshenko said "fine, be independent or join Russia, we are fine without you".
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  10924.  @jiminverness  No one in Ukraine has ever voted to leave the Russian Federation because no one in Ukraine has ever lived in the Russian Federation! Oh dear, looks like you are confused between the difference between the USSR and the Russian Federation!
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  10925.  @jiminverness  let me introduce you to the notion of democracy. at the time of the coup in Kiev in 2014, the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev. The vast majority of Crimeans are Russians and pro Russians. Ever been there, have you? Crimea was only part of Ukraine since Krushchov's days because he decided to transfer it from the RSFSR to Ukraine, though it was all USSR back then and it made no political difference.
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  10926.  @jiminverness  now then, Putin has been in power for decades. If capturing all of Ukraine is some Putin imperial dream, why has he done NOTHING to bring that dream to fruition for all the years he was in power before 2022? Why wait so long? And if recreating some sort of Imperialist Russia is a Putin objective, why reclaim ONLY South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, and not the whole of Georgia? Why only have Russian troops in Transnistria and NOT take over all of Moldova? At some point you will understand that Putin's desire is to protect the rights of Russian speakers and ethnic Russians, not to recreate any empire, but it is so cute you parrot the baseless nonsense the western press shove down your throat every day!
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  10927.  @jiminverness  just curious. would you say to French speaking Canadians that if they are unhappy with things in Quebec, they should just move to France? Or to French speaking Belgians, if they feel unhappy, just get out of Belgium and go to France? and to Catalans, if you don't like how Madrid treats you, screw your independence, just get out and go to the French side of Cataluna? try expressing those sentiments in Barcelona and see if you survive the day.
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  10928.  @jiminverness  hey, Jim, when do you expect the ruble to become rubble and for Russia to be incapable of waging war in Ukraine? Biden first mentioned the imminent demise of Russian a year and a half ago! when will it actually happen?:)
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  10929.  @bonnie7898  exactly so. when you talk to students about their fears of being forced into the Azov battalion and dispatched to the front in a war they don't support, it changes your perspective. spouting your ignorance from Down Under about who the Allies were, and getting it so horribly wrong, shows you know nothing. You're probably the fascist type that insists Aborigines, when they form the majority of a school community, must never use their native language in the classroom.
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  10930.  @andrewoliver8930  not sure "certain fraudsters" are named as one of the protected groups! and judged by the hate speech directed to royalty these days, don't think they are listed either, apart from Meghan, who because of her skin colour is protected 100%.
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  10931. nearly all those who wanted to fight for Ukraine are already killed, crippled or captured. the "recruits" now are sh**ing themselves at the thought of being sent to Chasov Yar with precious little training and weaponry. wonderful to see how the West has totally underestimated Russia, not that NATO will learn anything from this debacle.
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  10932. all of which was said back in March. keep parroting the NATO lies while the Ukrainian cannon fodder corpses pile up and inch by inch the map shows more Russian occupation.
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  10933. but it doesn't, though it might soon
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  10934. very well, then let's keep pushing as much Ukrainian cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder as possible.
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  10935. Let's see Starmer have him arrested immediately and in court tomorrow and behind bars tomorrow night. or will we see more 2 Tier policing?
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  10936. the UK Police are probably glad the Teno wilderness cut out the middleman in administering justice to Jay. the 2 black lads from Luton are surely undercover cops or informants. why else would they be dismissed as "of no importance"?
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  10937. Russia has grabbed the EU by the balls. EU needs Russia MUCH more than Russia needs EU. Scholtz government will fall when the first German pensioners are found frozen to death in their apartments come December.
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  10938. Africans that died from British aggression were treated worse than Africans that died from the aggression of rival African tribes? In what way were the British worse than the African murderers already at large in Africa?
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  10939.  @natalias50  you don't "support" Ukraine by referring to it as a drowning man and warning the world that a "drowning man can bring you down with him". Ignore Duda's words if you want, the rest of the world has seen how things really are between the two countries. There are even some Poles who remember who the guards were at the concentration camps and detention centers! Banderite Ukrainians! Some habits die hard.
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  10940. and now the truth. Ukraine is NOT winning slowly. not winning at all. No military analyst that can see reality will say that Ukraine can dislodge Russia from its occupied territories. The "offensive" has already stalled, Ukraine is going nowhere. Chip is just happy to say what his paymasters want him to say, but it is all nonsense. what is not nonsense is the thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder being served up into the Russian meatgrinder. Chip rather keen to stay silent on "progress" on that front.
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  10941. Ardern has made NZ a pathetic backwater of woke pussies. Just see how the All Blacks were steam-rollered on home soil by bloody Ireland.
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  10942. look at the ukronazi lover looking at the "bots"
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  10943. oh, yes, of course, valuable, reliable information about other defence forces can only come by recruiting Abdul and Mohammed into our ranks. that makes so much sense.
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  10944.  @rogergoodman8665  The US has nothing to give! As Biden confessed, the US is reduced to using cluster munitions as the ammo Ukronazia needs is out of stock! The US is so pathetic it couldn't even exit Kabul Airport in good order when a bunch of sandal wearing goat herders showed up! We all know the real reason the US won't supply any air power....the embarrassment of seeing the useless US fighter jets downed en masse by the Russians would be just too much of a s**t show for the Pentagon to bear.
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  10945.  @rogergoodman8665  Those Warthog crews might JUST be ready to enter the war after one more course on diversity, equity and inclusion, after one more training session on sensitivity and once General Milley has finished his reading material on White Rage!
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  10946. @@CarperSmithy your "facts" are suppositions. As I said, study the BBC/Mediazone report. it's Ukraine running out of burial spaces in cemeteries as cannon fodder corpses are pouring in, not Russia.
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  10947.  @alvaro701  the truth hurts, eh? happy for you to challenge me on any details, if you know anything.
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  10948.  @bonnie7898  I would never expect a total ignoramus that doesn't know who the Allies were in WW2 to understand the contents of a web site. Also, you clearly don't understand that the Russians never invaded Afghanistan. It was a Ukrainian warmonger called Leonid Brezhnev that led the USSR into Afghanistan. So it is not possible to compare Russian losses in Afghanistan with Russian losses in Ukraine. You are so ignorant, child.
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  10949.  @T5Zplayer  not true. the first missiles fired came from the Azov Ukronazis onto Donbass. The bully here is Kiev, and Russia is defending the rights of the Donbass and Crimea to be free of Kiev's tyranny. Just like NATO intervened to free Kosovo.
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  10950.  @T5Zplayer  absolutely untrue, you have been brainwashed. the operations conducted in Ukraine to remove any democratic element came from USA. Remember Biden saying the prosecutor general of Ukraine had to be removed or no US aid would flow? Remember Nuland handing out cookies during the 2014 coup? Please, don't give me this nonsense about Russian meddling. As for "USSR plans", wise up, Putin BLAMES the USSR for creating the mess of Russian speakers left stranded in ex Soviet republics. Putin is no fan of the USSR. ok, if ethnic Russians are Putin's stooges, does that mean the Kosovar separatists are NATO's/Tirane's stooges? Let me repeat. The violence started with the Azov Nazis shelling Donbass. Deny the truth as much as you want, Kiev is the murdering bully here. try to see behind the lies of Western MSM.
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  10951.  @T5Zplayer  was it a democratic element that saw elected president Yanukovich removed in a coup in 2014? democracy Ukrainian style at work then, eh?
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  10952.  @T5Zplayer  ok, "Andy", let's get down to the facts. 1. Name the court date and place of Yanukovich's convictions. 2. what was illegal about Yanukovich's presidential veto of the deal to bring Ukraine into closer alignment with the EU? 3. exactly how many of "the people" objected to Yanukovich's anti EU move, and how many supported it? Give reference to an opinion poll of Ukrainian voters at the time. 4. Who was convicted of murdering protestors on the street? 5. Putin is more popular with his own people than any Western leader is with his/hers. You are deluded if you think otherwise. Now, if you can't give specific answers to the above, STFU and learn the truth.
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  10953.  @T5Zplayer  in a real democracy, presidents are removed at the ballot box, not by a mob backed by oligarchs who engineer a US backed coup. Russian Federation had no problem with Ukraine until the coup of 2014. Putin has been around for decades. Where was Putin's big "USSR" plan before the 2014 coup threw democracy out the window in Ukraine?
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  10954.  @T5Zplayer  as I said, if you are incapable of answering my very basic questions of you, STFU, you dope. Georgia - Abkazia and South Ossetia liberated from repressive Russophobic legislation, both areas now at peace and delighted to be free of Tbilisi. Chechnya - jihadists who tried to install an Islamic autocracy and, again, deny basic rights to ethnic Russians, defeated. Murdering civilians in Syria? more or less than USA have murdered in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Serbia, Vietnam, Panama, etc etc? and what is your country exactly? let's get to the truth here.
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  10955. "people avoided getting NHS treatment"? what? people were REFUSED NHS treatment! Of course the rise in death rates is lockdown related. the sane of this world could see all this coming. sadly, our leaders were not sane.
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  10956. absolutely fascinating how this charlatan and propagandist has painted the Wagner victory in Bakhmut as "not painting a pretty picture" for Russia. next we'll be told that a bankrupt Ukraine with 8 million refugees and cannon fodder dying in their thousands every day is also a terrible defeat for Russia.
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  10957.  @Fenristhegreat  Kemi is also in the Conservative party and therefore unelectable.
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  10958. The West should have tried to get Russia as an ally, not an enemy.
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  10959. "the only serious candidate" = there were other candidates, but the BBC doesn't take Communism or Nationalism as serious, so we can dismiss those 2 candidates as comic. If only BBC offered serious reporting
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  10960. "NATO is a defensive organization" which NATO member was being defended when NATO planes attacked Libya and Serbia? this guy is either ignorant or a pure propagandist. RT is less biased.
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  10961. if Harris is going to focus on price gouging, then that means government control of prices. welcome to North Korea or Cuba.
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  10962. you are dreaming. any sensible person can see France is one of the least safe countries in Europe. immigrants rioting, thieving, stabbing, killing happens every day in France. France is a cesspit of failed immigration.
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  10963.  @chriIIe  do you believe all races are the same? surely not. you wouldn't be so crazy as to say that Asians are superior to blacks in athletics, would you?
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  10964.  @chriIIe  The evidence is against you. Whatever the academic field you choose, Chinese score higher than whites who score higher than Africans. Period. It is the reverse order for athletic ability. Europeans do know they are, as a group, better in terms of technical ability than Africans because, as a group, they are. Europeans believe jobs should go to Europeans in Europe because they are the indigenous people, just as Nigerians believe jobs should go to Nigerians in Nigeria over non indigenous folk. It's not a complicated thing to figure out. I have never heard any individual argue "they can work harder" because they have no basis of comparison. As a group, we can certainly say that Asians work harder than any other group, so, no surprise Asians score best in academics and are the biggest earners. Certainly "I'm one of you, so you should help me first" is a common sentiment the world over. We are still more tribal than we realize, but that tribal affiliation is not unique to whites or Europeans at all.
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  10965. Gotta love the way France 24 conflates anti immigration parties with the notion of a total ban on all immigrants! Reality check, France 24, it's just the masses of economic migrants that most of Europe wants to ban. A limited number of qualified immigrants will always be welcome. It's called a "common sense" policy, as opposed to the open door policy of the Globalists.
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  10966. Liz Truss will just print more money to pay for everyone's energy bills and hope the masses don't realize 50% inflation is connected to government throwing cash at a problem.
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  10967. Hodges is equally dumb and sorely ignorant regarding Russian capabilities. Anyone who thinks Russia can be defeated in a protracted ground war is remarkably stupid.
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  10968. who in their right mind would want to go to a 3rd world sh**hole like Paris? I mean, if you want to exit Gare du Nord and feel like you are in the worst district of Dakar, go ahead, just don't think you'll get out of the city with your virtue intact if you go to a kebab cafe to get some food.
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  10969. It's not Putin that is breaking, or not breaking, any alliance. Putin is winning, so no need to do anything but keep winning. It's the voters of the West who might break the alliance, depending on how irate they get when energy runs out or inflation impoverishes the masses. Alternatively, Russia may just win with the alliance intact in defeat..then we have the fun of watching all the finger-pointing.
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  10970.  @dennistofvesson6351  it's over. Russia did exactly the same as in Chechnya and Syria. Grinding down the enemy, war of attrition, overwhelming artillery, the Russia playbook, it's over, no more fighting age men left in Ukraine.
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  10971.  @oldskoolrools1353  on the contrary, correcting the wayward thoughts of the sheep of this world is invaluable. MDR
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  10972.  @oldskoolrools1353  as opposed to your most healthy interest in mischaracterizing people and assuming, erroneously, so much about them.
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  10973. a tax that the smoker chooses to pay, rather than opt out of.
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  10974.  @TheytellToomanylies  I mean what I say. It's an indirect tax, so a smoker has the choice of paying the tax on cigarettes, or refusing to buy cigarettes and thus not paying the tax. it's not like income tax where you are compelled to pay, or go to jail! just stop smoking and then stop whining about tax on cigarettes!
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  10975.  @TheytellToomanylies  if you mean you chose not to buy the cigarettes, well done, good decision.
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  10976.  @alexedwards6509  it's both. it's a punishment to those stupid enough to smoke, and the tax revenue can help off set the costs of this insane habit.
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  10977.  @TheytellToomanylies  you weren't sold anything. you were stupid enough to buy into something that harms you and others. take some responsibility and own up to your own stupidity and pay up for your own stupidity.
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  10978.  @j.burgess4459  looks like you are totally missing the point. no one is obliging any smoker to pay a tax on cigarettes. make the right choice to stop buying the cigarettes, and no tax on cigarettes leave's the person's pocket! it's a voluntary transaction. you buy the cigarettes, you pay the tax. simple as that. opt out of smoking and hey, no more cigarette tax to pay. getting "soaked a second time" is because they choose to get soaked a second time. just say "no".
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  10979.  @TheytellToomanylies  I was 15 years old and everything I looked at had cigarette brands plastered all over them. But at 15 I was also wise enough to comprehend that smoke entering the lungs is a really bad idea. Sorry you were too dumb to figure that out and that subsequently you have insufficient will power to change things. Either way, I don't deserve to pay for your cancer treatment, and you don't deserve to pay for any medical costs caused by any moment of idiocy I have.
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  10980.  @j.burgess4459  right, and I am saying of course smokers should fund their care if they get smoking related illness, because they caused their own illness. personal responsibility. the argument that smokers don't deserve to fund their own smoking related treatments because they already paid taxes on the cigarettes they bought is nonsense. they volunteered to pay such taxes, just as I volunteer to pay the taxes on an airline ticket I choose to buy. if smokers object to the taxes on cigarettes, do us all a favour and stop smoking.
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  10981.  @dylanmurphy9389  Obviously there is no way to pay for cigarettes without paying the tax. but everyone still has the option of paying the cigarette tax. don't buy cigarettes, and you won't pay the tax on cigarettes. unlike income tax, indirect taxes can be reduced to zero if you don't purchase the good on which the tax is levied.
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  10982. @@SpookyDjinn happy for you to present an alternative view. go ahead.
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  10983. @@SpookyDjinn don't usually = sometimes do, so, go ahead.
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  10984. why bring Kamala Harris into the discussion?
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  10985. Yet more evidence that it is the West that has become isolated, not Russia. Most of the world is more than happy to work and trade with Russia. Most of the world despises the West over the hypocrisy of its stance over Ukraine.
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  10986.  @duhni4551  but it does if it is symptomatic of attitudes in the Global South in general, which I believe it is. Most Western sheep would be dumbfounded by the sight of Africans waving Russian flags and trying to burn down the French embassy based on all the russophobic reports we get from Western media. an eyeopener.
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  10987. "nowhere is safe from Russian attacks" = Ukraine military still infesting residential areas with their troops and weapons
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  10988.  @saba1030  had a good look at how everyone is surviving in the EU have you? what makes you the expert ?
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  10989.  @saba1030  the UK is an absolute disaster, but things in the EU are going downhill fast too. EU had a record trade deficit with the rest of the world this year, and that will impact EU citizens soon.
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  10990. so what are the Ukrainians doing in Avdiivka and Kupinsk?
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  10991.  @ironknee6879  really? where is Ukraine "inching forward" from positions as they were 3 months ago? the map shows no Ukrainian advances. the map shows multiple towns, settlements and fortifications now under Russian control.
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  10992. on the contrary, she is so deluded that she actually thinks that it is a fantastic idea to engage Russia in a protracted ground war.
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  10993. what makes you think the Ukrainian army is any different?
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  10994.  @nenukrc  overwhelming videos from the front actually show masses of dead bodies being blown to bits and then added up on a tally list? please, reveal your source, I missed those videos!:)
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  10995. Pure lies. There is independent monitoring of the referenda. 1000 monitors. German observer, Stafan Schaller, said it looked transparent and fair. At least his lordship got one thing right. These referenda will be called "sham" by the West. In other words, the vast majority of the world will be fine with these votes, only the deluded Western bubble will be wringing its hands over this democratic in action.
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  10996. If Germany has enough money to allow USA to destroy its infrastructure like Nordstream and to keep throwing endless heaps of cash at the futile war in Ukraine, then it certainly doesn't need to import any labour.
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  10997.  @jeremytine  by what measure? Russia is a lot closer to achieving its objectives in Ukraine than Ukraine is. Germany in recession, Russian economy growing, and with a rate of inflation Western countries would die for. Learn the basics, you dunce.
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  10998. the free press of the West that never covers pro Russian rallies in Europe and never interviews a pro Russian Ukrainian in exile in Russia. never. oh so free and unbiased.
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  10999.  @Sileff  for victory, for ensuring the human rights of ethnic Russians everywhere, for making sure the Russian speakers of Ukraine get to live separate from the nazi Kiev regime, as they chose to do in 2014.
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  11000.  @bonnie7898  yeah, that's right, no business of the Allies invading Germany just because there was a nazi regime committing genocide within the boundaries of Germany. the territorial sovereignty of Germany should have been recognized.
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  11001.  @bonnie7898  Racism didn't disappear in USA when Obama was president. Nazi beliefs didn't disappear from Ukraine when Zelensky became president. Learn the basics.
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  11002.  @bonnie7898  it wasn't any business of Ukraine's to force the DPR and LPR back under Kiev's control in 2014. Kiev needed to keep its nose out of the separation of the ethnic Russians from the corrupt control of Kiev. the azov nazis fired the first missiles. have a picture of Bandera, your hero, tattooed across your buttocks, do you, you disgusting warmonger.
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  11003.  @bonnie7898  just make the slightest effort to question your own assumptions. google "Reuters 2018 Ukraine Nazi" and read the report you find, then get back to me detailing why the report must be totally fake.
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  11004.  @bonnie7898  "It's Putin who puts it about on state media that there are nazis in Ukraine" so, Putin runs Reuters, does he? did you even bother googling "2018 Reuters nazi ukraine" and read the article? no, of course not, the truth must be ignored, right? was it Putin who filmed the BBC Newsnight report on Nazis in power in Ukraine? And Putin who ensured the US senate shipped no arms to the Azov Battalion due to their Nazi affiliation? Putin did all that, did he? you are so ignorant. Zelensky is a puppet and does what he is told. it is irrelevant what he tolerates or does not tolerate. his masters pull his strings. you think he got all his mansions and wealth from being a comedian turned politician. you are so naive.
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  11005.  @bonnie7898  so let me educate you, ignorant child. WW2 was most certainly about eradicating nazis inside Germany, among other things. why do you think the Allies invaded Germany and liberated the Holocaust prisoners? "The Allies didn't invade Germany. Russia did" so many errors here. Russia was the USSR, and yes, USSR was one of the Allies. Jeez. And yes the Allies invaded Germany, USSR from the East and Western Allies from the West. If the Allies never invaded Germany, how did the Americans liberate the prisoners in Dachau? you are so ignorant it is astounding. i suggest you start reading some history.
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  11006.  Orcs MustDie  more importantly, the brainwashed got exposed to the truth, and that is always worth a celebration, be it in the high value ruble or the crashed, value-losing euro:)
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  11007.  @hithere3035  exactly so
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  11008.  @VTh-f5x  They already do flood Spain with refugees. you must have missed the news over the last decade.
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  11009.  @MrGieltedze  doing so well in the NL, that farmers hate your corrupt leader, Wilders won a plurality of the vote, so happy in the NL that Van Gogh got stabbed to death in the street and Hirsi Ali had to flee the country due to Muslim death threats. sounds like absolute paradise. but keep looking at your inflated, meaningless gdp figures and pat yourself on the bat that NL is pure paradise. Believe me, NL is one of the last places on the planet I would ever dream of living in.
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  11010.  @MrGieltedze  the fact that Bashar al Assad can walk around Damascus with no bodyguard, and mingle with the people, but that Geert Wilders is under 24/7 police protection tells you all you need to know about how much of a s**thole NL has become. enjoy every penny of your inflated gdp as Netherlandistan marches towards sharia.
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  11011.  @MrGieltedze  what percentage of NL GDP is attributable to, and ONLY attributable to, being a member of the EU? By exactly how much would NL GDP fall if NL left the EU? What makes you 100% sure that it is absolutely impossible for NL GDP to rise as a consequence of leaving the EU?
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  11012.  @MrGieltedze  yeah, you know so much about the importance of exports that your deluded government want Green policies that will destroy NL agricultural exports! Get a clue! if GDP per capita were such a marvellous feature of any country, we would all be flocking to live in Qatar! Get a perspective beyond money, money money, you capitalist shark! interesting that you only believe in "solidarity and peace and good relationships" with your DIRECT neighbors. What prevents NL believing in such virtues with the whole planet? why discriminate?
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  11013.  @AdeboFunkyVoodoo  Gib has a population of 30,000. UK has a population of 67 million. surprising as this might sound to you, it was the effects that Brexit would have on the 67 million that dominated my thoughts come the referendum. I really don't have any current concerns about the Gib/Spain issue. there are trade-offs to be considered, but as the Chief Minister has already argued, no agreement might be the best way forward.
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  11014.  @AdeboFunkyVoodoo  every decision you make in a life is a trade off. someone benefits and someone loses out. same with voting. that's life. most people vote solely for their own best interests. a smaller number vote according to what they feel the majority would benefit from. no one votes for what a minority would benefit from. I voted for what I considered was to the benefit of the majority. and when YOU vote, you are no different. sounds like you need to grow up and realize what the real world is all about.
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  11015. excellent news, Zelensky is forcing his cannon fodder to be wiped out by overwhelming Russian artillery. With a kill rate of 8:1 in Russia's favor, this is the demilitarization Putin promised. good to know some there have sense and understand it's better to wait for Russian liberation than be evacuated to be stranded in Ukraine forever.
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  11016. only some people do. others deserve exactly what they get. everyone who applauded lockdowns deserves poverty now. how can you pay a whole nation of healthy workers to stay home month after month and then not have to pay the bill?
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  11017.  @jordangann7438  certainly is! assume nothing, believe no one, check everything, follow all leads.
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  11018.  @johnnyjohnson2268  it's about 4.5 kms on a footpath, there is no road. the hike is described as tough, but it's not if you are just going one way down to the cove. it's because there is no road access, no cameras, no buildings, that smuggling of all types happens there. some reports of a Belgian registered boat, the Maruba?, was off the coast there, lingering, going nowhere. maybe Jay refused to courier drugs for the Luton lads and walked out, or maybe agreed, got the backpack on and found the trail down. where his phone pinged is further along the road than the trail, but he may have got there and double backed realizing he's gone too far. dunno. just seems bizarre coincidence that the Luton lads chose a remote location like Masca, spent most of their time indoors, drove down to the festival in the evenings and, i believe, have stayed in that same villa before. it all fits together somehow!
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  11019. "we could liberate our territories faster"......sorry to tell you mate, you are going backwards, and it's Russia that is on the front foot, you haven't liberated anything for 5 months.
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  11020. Given the thousands of Donbass civilians killed by Ukrainian shelling over the last 8 years, the shopping mall attack, assuming it was intentional, is sweet revenge. All of you wringing your hands over the shopping mall attack, were you wringing your hands just the other day when Donestsk civilians were wiped out by Ukrainian shells in the market in Donetsk? No? of course not, hypocritical deluded brainwashed souls that you are.
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  11021. who cares? weapons for more killing in Ukraine and hosting illegal immigrants in 4 star hotels are this government's priority.
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  11022. oh look, the same headline as 6 months ago, and of course, Russia is running out of weapons, Ukraine is winning, and the West has plenty of weapons on hand to enhance supply to Kiev. Morale is still low in the Russian military, even among the convicts that keep defeating the high morale Ukrainians!
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  11023. The same woman was in tears of joy when she said the same thing to Russian soldiers back in March. Got to keep on good terms with both sides, unless you want to be part of another Bucha.
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  11024. why the assumption that Russia is trying to capture Bakhmut?
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  11025. testimony and evidence is irrelevant. if the jury wants to convict Trump, they will, end of story.
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  11026. So Biden convinced Lula to vote at the UN for a meaningless resolution, but failed to convince Lula to sell any weapons for the NATO war effort! Big win for Russia!
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  11027. just hilarious that there are so many fools who think it is a really good idea for NATO/Ukraine to fight a war of attrition with Russia. Slowly, they are learning the truth. also funny that the counter offensive has "slowed". No, it has stopped. and it never really moved forward. Russia is demilitarizing both NATO and Ukraine. "More cluster bombs" do i hear Biden say?
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  11028. Only 3% of Ukrainian grain exports ended up in Africa. Russia has offered to replace this 3% for free, so Ingram can quit wringing his hands in grief for the world's starving and go back to cheerleading for the Banderite Fascists he loves so much.
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  11029. she is a powerless idealist who counts for nothing. her wishes amount to the same as any other naive daydreamer that wants "peace" without spelling out a credible path to such ends. Part of her big problem is calling on Putin, but not Zelensky, to end the war.
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  11030. Did Russia invade Georgia, or Georgia attack Russia? Check out the Guardian article that puts the blame squarely on Tbilisi's shoulders
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  11031. @Bad TikToks read the Guardian article from 2009, written by Ian Traynor, that describes the EU conclusion that Georgia launched an indiscriminate attack on South Ossetia that started the war. learn some facts.
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  11032. @Bad TikToks Youtube will often block links, so google the info i gave you. Ian Traynor, Guardian 2009, Russia Georgia war
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  11033.  @ProxiProtogen  that's right. amazing as it sounds, indiscriminate artillery strikes will be answered by an invasion by Russia, as the Kiev regime learned, much to their cost. So, we can agree that Russia invaded Georgia because Georgia attacked South Ossetia first. Funny how the EU put the blame squarely on Tbilisi in this case, but excuses Kiev, totally, in the Ukraine case. hmmm
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  11034.  @ProxiProtogen  South Odessa? Try South Ossetia. Read it carefully. "the war started with a massive Georgian artillery attack" the report said. And "the report" is the EU report. "EU investigation says Tbilisi launched indiscriminate assault on South Ossetia" says the by line. learn where Odessa and South Ossetia are and learn to read.
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  11035.  @zenon7094  what makes you think Russians have to put refrigerator microchips in their rockets? and assuming that is the case, boy, do those refrigerator microchips work just a treat when a whole battery of Patriots is destroyed!
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  11036.  @First-Last_name  Spain invaded Mexico and forced Spanish on the people. What do you think? Time for all Spanish speakers to pass an exam in the native language, Mayan?
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  11037.  @heyguyswhatshappening6210  Danish isn't the native language of Greenland. Danish was imposed on the Greenlanders when they were occupied by Denmark. So, what do you propose? All native Danish speakers in Greenland must now take an exam in Inuit to be accepted in Greenlander society? A collective punishment to correct the sins of Erik the Red? How very tolerant and inclusive of you.
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  11038.  @karliskokorevics6902  At least Latvia has proven how the EU values of inclusivity, tolerance and equal rights are a sham, and don't apply to targeted groups like Russian speakers. Tell me, what exactly would be the most horrific consequences of allowing Russian speakers EXACTLY the same language rights as Latvian speakers?
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  11039. it is normal in the UK. look at all the Urdu speakers in Pakistani communities in the UK.
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  11040.  @First-Last_name  tell me, what would be the most horrendous consequences to Latvia if Latvia recognized Russian as an equal and official language, just as French is so recognized in Canada?
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  11041.  @vladyslavr5286  it's the law that is the problem. why remove Russian as an official language when 24% speak it as their native tongue? I guess you would approve of French speakers in Canada being forced to go through the same language exam in English in Canada?
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  11042.  @rockyjohnson9243  if i were Latvian in the Russian speaking part of Latvia, I would expect to use Russian. What arrogance to impose your language on Russian speakers that were born and raised in Latvia.
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  11043.  @romeob.8369  Great example. We can imagine the apoplexy in Brussels if Luxemburg declared all non Luxemburgish speakers must pass a test in Luxemburgish to retain their citizenship of the country.
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  11044.  @colinhubble6667  Russian speakers in Latvia are not "guests". They are Latvians, born and bred.
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  11045.  @sergeyb8  from a global perspective, it is useless, whereas Russian is useful. harsh reality.
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  11046.  @regu6582  and can you imagine the outcry worldwide if Ottawa tried to impose an English language exam on the Quebecois? Only when the victims are Russian speakers does the world cheer intolerance and bigotry.
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  11047.  @karliskokorevics6902  who was the bigot that removed Russian as an official language of Latvia in the first place, post Soviet collapse?
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  11048.  @karliskokorevics6902  an "illegal" occupation that was recognized by the whole world, and the UN. Grow up, child.
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  11049.  @JohnHollyoak-vx6pn  Can you imagine somewhere like Cyprus imposing a Greek language test on all those who were residents of Cyprus? Brits and others would revolt, and rightfully so.
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  11050.  @GunKermit  1. it's not the level of a language test that is of any importance. it's the notion that a Latvian citizen born and bred should be subject to any language test at all, as that is a discriminatory attack on freedom of speech. 2. There is nothing embarrassing about not passing a language test in a foreign language. Get real. 3. Thanks for reading the minds of the Russian diaspora for me. That's quite a talent you have. On the other hand, I have a talent for reading the minds of Latvian speakers, and the reason they want a Latvian language test is because they are nationalist bigots who love to be russophobic and just want revenge for years of Soviet occupation. Cope!
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  11051.  @GunKermit  no doubt you would support all Spanish speakers in Cataluña having to take an A1 test in Catalan, and all French speakers in Canada to have their Canadian citizenship revoked unless they passed an A1 test in English, or, let me guess, your language bigotry only extends to Russian speaking minorities?
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  11052.  @JoseXFZ  exactly. if Latvians are so upset about their own citizens speaking Russian, not Latvian, maybe the Latvians can tell Biden and the Americans how Spanish speaking Americans should be given language exams in English, and then kicked out when they fail.
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  11053.  @louky264  so, are you saying that ALL minority speakers in any country that have decades to learn the declared "official language" should be denied citizenship if they fail a language exam? all those "old, complacent" Turks in Germany should be subjected to the Latvian treatment? yes, or no?
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  11054.  @erglis1145  what about the French speakers in Switzerland? Are they compelled to pass an exam in Schwizerdeutsch to remain as citizens of Switzerland? yes or no? French speakers living in the UK. Are they compelled to pass an exam in English to remain as residents of the UK? yes or no?
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  11055.  @erglis1145  yes, Switzerland is a different subject that you refuse to discuss, because it reveals your hypocrisy. so, let's try again. Italian speakers represent only 4% of the Swiss population, but their language is recognized as an official language and they have no need to take a language exam to retain Swiss citizenship. so, you tell me, which country has got this right? Switzerland, or Latvia? Or, let me guess, you are so Russophobic that ONLY when we talk about native Russian speakers does your bigotry get exposed? and as to French people in the UK not bothering anyone, what has the Russian speaking lady in Latvia done that bothers anyone?
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  11056.  @erglis1145  just curious, does your bigotry extend to demanding the 20% of Canadians who are francophones should take an English language exam in order to retain their Canadian citizenship?
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  11057.  @erglis1145  of course. you don't think colonialism was all about Europeans going to the New World to absorb and use the native indigenous languages of the Americas, do you? Did the Spanish go to Peru and learn Aymará? No, of course not. The Spanish imposed Spanish on the natives. again, sounds like your bigotry is only extended to the past when Russian speakers are involved, but not to other Europeans that did EXACTLY the same thing. shame on you for such selective bigotry.
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  11058.  @erglis1145  let us assume the Russian speakers were the only ones in the whole history of the world to be "shipped to somewhere to degrade the language", absurd as this scenario might be. Does a decision made by Stalin mean that the only way justice can be served today is for innocent descendants of such a political decision, who were born and raised in Latvia, must now pay for the sins of Stalin by having their citizenship of the only country they have ever known, be dependent on passing a language exam? That's justice in your bigoted book, right?
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  11059.  @iljastalberg5610  exactly so. it's only Russophobes and bigots that think it's fine for citizens to be forced to take a language exam to retain citizenship in Latvia and other countries with a Russian speaking minority. they don't believe the same thing should happen to minority language speakers in Canada, Switzerland, South Africa or anywhere else, it's just the Russian speakers they want to punish.
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  11060.  @victoriagraves9680  maybe people went to the useless countries back in the days when they were useful?
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  11061.  @gytisgytis5547  other way round, buddy! as Putin showed in Grozny, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and now Ukraine, any blocking of Russian language rights and lovely Russia moves on you! Get ready for the Grozny/S Ossetia/ Abkazia/Ukraine treatment in your beloved bigoted, russophobic Latvia some time soon, and enjoy every iskander minute of it:)
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  11062.  @gytisgytis5547  you clearly have not learned from post WW2 history, that Russian speakers move nowhere, they stay where they are, and Russia moves in to protect their language rights. Looks like Riga really wants the Kiev treatment! to be administered with pleasure.
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  11063.  @gytisgytis5547  just a matter of time before Daugavpils becomes Mariupol, NATO troll. grasp reality.
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  11064.  @gytisgytis5547  if you really think that the likes of France and Italy are going to do anything to rescue Chihuahua Latvia when the T62s start rolling towards Daugavpils, then you are as deluded as Zelensky regarding NATO solidarity. Wake up!
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  11065.  @surge79uwf  apart from all those French Canadians who voted for separation from Canada over the decades! but let's play your game. if the Québecquois are so loyal to Canada, why do they choose to disrespect the vast majority of fellow Canadians by insisting on using French and not English? What device do you use to measure loyalty to a country/nation rather than loyalty to an ethnic group?
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  11066. as a UK national who spends winters in France or Spain, paying rents and just about every other charge in cash is no problem. just mention that choice up front and both parties are usually fine with the deal.
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  11067. If Russia loses Crimea or loses his supply lines to Crimea, get ready for nukes to be fired on Ukraine. The West needs to be careful what it wishes for in this war.
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  11068.  @sogerc1  curious you are incapable of rebutting anything I said.
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  11069.  @SmilingNinja  you see nothing. Helen Keller could see more than you do.
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  11070.  @TakZ000  so the job was to waste billions of dollars on Afghanistan and then hand it back to the Taliban? As I said, NATO is toast. Diverse people = hired by quota and DEI programs, the slowest in the class but hired in order to complete woke targets. NATO is toast.
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  11071.  @Chambers36TheEnter  what, now I have to do your homework for you? Google the Oxford languages definition of "to be toast". Don't be so lazy!
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  11072. not this fool again! the prime idiot that said the Russian forces were "lucky" to cross the Siversky Donetsk River. For 3 months he's been rambling non stop about the great Ukrainian counter offensive to take Kherson. Deluded imbecile. Just curious, the NATO you keep talking up, is it the same NATO that fled like panicked screaming schoolgirls when a bunch of goat herders strolled into Kabul last year? That same NATO?
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  11073.  @emma9348  nope, it is common propaganda that Putin broke the Minsk Agreements. If you check the reality, you will see statements from Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel all confessing the Minsk Agreements were aimed at buying time for Ukraine. There was never an appetite on the West's side to implement the Minsk Agreements. All documented. Donbass and Crimea are Russian. not because Putin stole them, but because post Maidan the majority of citizens there wanted separation from Ukraine and because the West is now impotent to do anything about it. Emma, have you ever been to Crimea?
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  11074.  @fishlivesmatter  western media claimed Ghost of Kiev was real and that Snake Island was a significant gain for Ukraine.
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  11075.  @mikeglenn5212  lost so many front line guys? why the hell do you think the convicts, Wagners, Chechens, DPR and LPR are doing so much front line heavy lifting? Putin is keeping SO MANY reserves in hand! you got it all backwards! The Russian elite forces are poised for when the NATO cannon fodder walk in!
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  11076.  @ShadowPhoenixMaximus  yes, Russia can, unlike NATO with Ukraine
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  11077.  @mikeglenn5212  you have no idea how many Russia has lost in this conflict, so put the crystal ball down and quit the bs. we saw NATO's and US's ineptitude in Kabul in 2021, humiliated by the taliban. Russia has won.
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  11078.  @mikeglenn5212  stop swallowing Ukrainian propaganda hook, line and sinker. you probably thought Ghost of Kiev was real! Russia's elite was not wiped out anywhere. Russia has not been "playing around", but it has assumed, wrongly, that Zelensky would sit down and negotiate a solution, which was about to happen in Istanbul before Biden and Johnson promised NATO would ensure total Ukrainian victory....ha ha! Both sides have emptied the prisons (google "Ruslan Onyshenko"), but clearly Russia's convicts have done much better than Ukraine's! Russia doesn't win with any "grand moment". Russia wins by years of attrition. Study the Chechen and Syrian conflicts again. You need to do more homework.
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  11079.  @mikeglenn5212  bla bla bla. the usual ignorance and arrogance from the West. The panicked, chaotic, humiliating exit from Kabul showed how a bunch of goat herders could make NATO look like shrieking schoolgirls. a pathetic display. Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are not Russia. This time NATO is up against a real fighting force. Yes, USA spends ten times as much as Russia does...on electric tank projects, diversity and inclusion training, pilot jump suits for pregnant mothers, recruitment programs to attract recruits other than morons and high school dropouts to serve the country! waste of money does not equal better military! Ukraine started with a massive armada of tanks. they got destroyed. Ukraine claims it captured loads of Russian tanks. got destroyed. Only a fool would think the next flow of tanks won't get destroyed! Tell me, Mike, which bridges over the Dnipro do you think will be the crossing points for all these tanks?
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  11080.  @mikeglenn5212  again, Mike, you need to stop just swallowing all the fake news thrown your way. tell me why you think the West has ANY idea what Russian losses are? what's the source of these estimates? Ukraine admits it is being outgunned at least 6 to 1 on the artillery front, Ukraine admits that 75% of its casualties are from artillery, but somehow your math calculates that Russia is losing loads more lives? Really ? Keep in mind a lot of the front line heavy lifting is being done by the convicts, mercenaries, Chechens, DPR and LPR. No one cares much about the death toll of the first 3 of these groups. One year of attritional warfare is nothing for Russia. Again, study Chechnya, Syria and see the results. Give it a few more years and, as in Chechnya and Syria, Russia will have eliminated its enemies....not like the 20 years of occupying Afghanistan just to see the Taliban emerge victorious, eh?
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  11081. wild prediction here - there will be plenty of evidence that Ukrainians tried to kidnap and assassinate Zelensky, and none that they acted on behalf of the Kremlin.
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  11082. so ironic that the most repulsive person in the world, fat face Piers, calls Lawrence Fox "repulsive". GB News should be praised for bringing back some male pub banter onto the airwaves. Nothing wrong with it at all. it's free speech and we need more of it. those that can't handle it, leave the room.
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  11083. Hitler kept the Germans united in the beginning
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  11084. if bankrupting the country, killing off the nation's men, and creating 8 million refugees constitutes an amazing job, then yep, agreed.
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  11085. because utilities are not subject to free market competition. they are regulated by the government.
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  11086. so sad that so many in the West fail to grasp what "demilitarization" means and what a "war of attrition" is. this infantile focus on which village has been captured after 3 months of failure, is pathetic. here's the choice: 1. Ukraine runs out of manpower, 2) Ukraine runs out of weaponry, 3) Ukraine runs out of ammo, 4) Ukraine runs out of US funding. now, which one will be the one that loses the war for Ukraine? the choice is that simple.
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  11087. Germany enjoying its wonderful diversity as much as Southport is.
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  11088. Moldova has peace with a "criminal like this" although it lost Transnistria. Georgia has peace with a "criminal like this" even though it lost South Ossetia and Abkhazia. What makes you think Ukraine is any different?
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  11089.  @KohtehYT  ah, then you and I see things very differently. Ukraine has limited means to fight back and certainly not enough to defeat Russia. The most powerful country in all of humankind is China, and it is tacitly supporting Russia. The spent force known as USA is in the death throes of losing hegemony in its own backyard. The humiliating flee from Kabul showed the world the depths to which USA had sunk. New World Order, baby. BRICS leading the way, thankfully.
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  11090.  @Blanka1100  assuming you are right, a short run peace is still better than total destruction. short term peace solves more than total destruction. I lived in in Ukraine and talk daily to my Ukrainian students..I need no lectures from you on Ukrainian spirit. As someone who is a Russian speaker and is familiar with Russia, Ukraine and its neighbors, you might want to actually listen to what my impressions are rather than trying to educate me.
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  11091.  @hermiemostert5190  meanwhile, in the real world, Russia continues to protect the rights of Russian speakers everywhere and when left to do as it pleases, Russia establishes strong relations with all those who treat it fairly. Simple formula.
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  11092. well, imagine that, uninvited illegal immigrants being pushed back. wonder how many European citizens support pushing way uninvited illegal invaders?
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  11093.  @mikeycraig8970  will just get destroyed by Russia, like all the planes, weapons, ammo Ukraine had at the beginning of the conflict. Russia has eyes in the sky and they work just great.
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  11094.  @henryahmad1  what? S400 and S500? what's your point?
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  11095. so funny that the Guardia Civil say that "all hypotheses are on the table" and yet the media scorn theories that the Police have already said are "on the table"
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  11096.  @louiseosaur  exactly so. if they found him on Day 29, explain how the exact same treacherous terrain prevented this discovery on Days 1 thru 28.
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  11097.  @celiazsan5448  the comment is spot on. true professionals work in worse conditions than Tenerife and find people in chasms and gorges within hours. you couldn't even try to hide and not be found these days
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  11098.  @Julia-fo4tk  how many drones were used to find Lord Lucan?
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  11099.  @sheridanwhippey5983  exactly! having their cake and eating it. 1. we need no outside help at all. 2. we have thoroughly searched the ravines. 3. we lied to you about ending the search. 4. Oh look, we found Jay, just hours before the Dutch were to start their search!
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  11100.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  cadaver dogs will tell you, from above the ravine, up to about 600 ft, more with a favorable breeze, where the human body is located. no need to enter a ravine to search for any human. the dog will detect the human, then the team enter the ravine to retrieve the body. got it?
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  11101.  @celtictarotreadings333  ah, so they LIED to the public! Got it. How many other lies did they tell? Actually, they did call off the search. not one single person reported seeing any Guardia Civil activity once the search was called off. Not one.
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  11102.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  all such finger prints have to be matched to the person's actual fingers! otherwise Qassim, who may well have had his grubby hands all over Jay's shirt, will have left his prints on the shirt, while Jay, with his hands tied behind his back, never touched his own shirt!
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  11103.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  ok, look, in order to match finger prints, you have to take the actual finger prints, as in a print from a person's hand, and match it with a print that is left on some object. comparing a print on an object with another image of a print NOT from the original hand is just comparing two copies. it's like comparing 2 photocopies and convincing yourself that the original must be the same.
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  11104.  @i_kissed_a_pixie1537  keep in mind, locating a human is quite different from reaching or retrieving a human body. people keep on how the terrain hinders a search. it doesn't. given that dogs can smell where a human is located, from above the ravine, and given that drones can access almost anywhere these days, locating the body is not the horrendous challenge it once was. in fact, you couldn't disappear if you tried these days. the dogs will locate, and the humans will retrieve. that's IF procedures are followed correctly, which, in this case, they weren't, they were ignored. the question is, why?
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  11105.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  then it looks like you need to correct the OP, johnstuart
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  11106.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  well, Einstein, fingerprints obtained off the items belonging to Jay just prove that Jay touched his own items. the aim is to identify the body!
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  11107.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  not when used in connection with a search. "suspendimos la búsqueda" means calling off the search. even if it could mean "adjourn" it was still a lie, because the Guardia Civil now tell us they continued the search and nothing was adjourned!
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  11108.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  "they" said a lot of things, and some of what "they" said might be true, but a lot, like "Qassim is of no relevance" were lies.
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  11109.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  a body covered in water is a little trickier for a dog to find than a stinking, rotting corpse in the Tenerife sun, right?
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  11110.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  the whole discussion is about discovering the truth and speculating on what might make sense given there are so many lies and oddities we are getting from the authorities, along with the constant refusal to answer basic questions.
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  11111.  @louiseosaur  so true
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  11112.  @i_kissed_a_pixie1537  oh, i dunno, maybe because it was the "professionals" that told us that the virus came from a wet market, that the vaccine would stop the spread of the virus?
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  11113.  @sbaumgartner9848  that's why dogs are used to locate bodies.
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  11114.  @nenasiek  Putin is not receiving any money from Western taxpayers. I don't care what Putin does with the money in his pocket, because it didn't come from my taxes. But Zelensky, time to sell that villa in Italy before you put your hand out for my hard earned cash.
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  11115.  @DacianRider  ruzz bot / troll speaking the truth
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  11116.  @rollerrollerichson6258  the UK is allowed to refuse entry to anyone, absolutely anyone. ask Geert Wilders. the Uk is allowed to return anyone whence they came. ask anyone denied entry at a UK airport and flown back to where they came from.
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  11117.  @AlexGys9  how?
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  11118. yep, Trump warned Europe, Germany laughed at him. Karma for those who could see Europe's folly, this is Putin's win and he deserves it. Turn off the taps and let Germany's Greens explain to everyone why oma and opa just froze to death over Christmas.
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  11119. @TBT yes, I can appreciate that. I honestly don't know how I would cope if I had to stay in an English city all year. honestly. i would be both so angry and depressed. i hope things change, but i fear they won't and year by year, "white British" will become the minority in every town and city. then village. i wish you all the best of luck. at least you have a few people you can vent to if needed!
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  11120. yes, just like Israel is a small, weak state that still smashes the living daylights out of its massive ever popular neighbors
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  11121. Diversity is our strength, yet again
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  11122.  @dpelpal  ironic that Ukraine's best chance of a bomb landing on Russian soil comes from a Russian plane, not a Ukrainian one.
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  11123. negotiated settlement? what? while Ukraine/NATO is obviously winning so convincingly? makes no sense! Ukraine/NATO need to keep fighting until ALL Ukrainian men are dead, THEN negotiate from a position of strength.
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  11124. it's all bs. after Climategate, no one with any sense believes this nonsense. just follow the money and see how these climate alarmists get funded to spout such twaddle.
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  11125.  @Jc-ms5vv  oh, we KNOW lobbyists spend money to get their way. Nothing new there. It may for better, or worse. What was new with Climategate was so-called SCIENTISTS were conspicuously hiding the truth! Until dolts like you grasp the difference, you'll never see the scam in front of your eyes.
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  11126. Note how the Western public has no interest in prosecuting war crimes, only an interest in prosecuting war crimes against Russia. Any war crimes committed by Ukrainians, and only a fool would assume Russia has a monopoly on war crimes, must be ignored. The bias is absurd.
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  11127.  @jeysonlivington  what makes you assume I am Russian and what makes you assume I am a bot?
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  11128. just checking the score card over the last 20 years: Muslims and immigrants killed by the Far Right = 0 white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+ some people want that scorecard addressed.
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  11129. "why would they attack the Police?" oh, i dunno, maybe for giving the green light to Pakistani rape gangs? for arresting Tommy Robinson for having breakfast in London? For begging the Muslims just to put their weapons back inside the mosque? For running away during the Leeds riots? Honestly, mate, the list is endless!
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  11130.  @rogerjohnson2562  agreed. that is what Ukraine has been doing! Reservists with experience on the front line is good thinking.
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  11131.  @andrewhenderson9616  a "far less affluent country"...what, even with all the billions of dollars and pounds and euros handed over to Ukraine, it is still not affluent? what the hell is it doing with all the money? oh, I remember, Zelensky has a villa in Tuscany and a mansion in Miami! well, some Ukrainians are still affluent!
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  11132.  @americayeagermeister  the Arab Palestinians did. They gambled on defeating Israel in war and lost 3 times. They chose the route to poverty.
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  11133.  @mckauders1095  the brainwashed like Cerberus won't accept such figures, because it destroys the absurd narrative that Israel is an apartheid state. the fact that the most prosperous Arabs in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Israel are the ones in Israel just makes the likes of Cerberus cry.
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  11134.  @cerberus2654  The Gazans voted for Hamas. Hamas chose to spend its funds on weapons with which to attack Israel, not on water or electricity supply. Hamas attacked Israel, so, yes, the Gazan voters did choose to have no water, no electricity and provoke an invasion of their homeland. next time, don't vote for Hamas.
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  11135.  @nuqwestr  well said. Hamas lovers like the bigot Cerberus can't accept the truth. they just prefer to live in the fake news world of Israel as an apartheid state.
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  11136.  @americayeagermeister  if your point is that life is not fair, totally agree. but your grandparents' choices have consequences. welcome to the real world. deal with it.
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  11137.  @cerberus2654  difficult though it is for you to grasp, a Jewish homeland does NOT mean that non Jews are excluded, nor denied rights! Christians and Arab Muslims can live in the Jewish homeland with full rights. grasp reality. Israel IS a beacon of religious and ethnic freedom...ask the Christians and Muslims who live there! Amazing things happen when you accept Israel's right to exist. S**t happens when you decide to try and wipe Israel off the map!
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  11138.  @americayeagermeister  well, if you want to whine about "what is wrong" in the world, we all have a very long list that you can wring your hands over! My worldview is that the s**t that is happening to the people of Gaza is happening for some very good reasons, like voting in Hamas as the government of Gaza, and responsibility must be taken for such idiotic decisions before any whining "it's wrong, it's wrong" emanates from the dull minded like you.
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  11139. Europe will be raped, robbed and killed by Muslim hordes, not by any Russians. wake up.
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  11140. sorry mate, those of us who do pay attention see no threat to any country from Putin as long as said country doesn't try to massacre Russian speaking communities. The common denominator of Ukraine, Moldova, Chechnya and Georgia is mistreatment of Russian speaking minorities...nothing to do with "expansionist rhetoric"..load of twaddle, sir. Pay attention!
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  11141. "why the heart of Kiev?"...honey, you need to listen to Putin. He already told you. he's coming after the decision-making centers and the infrastructure IF Ukraine attacks civilians, which Ukraine has done. The attack on the Kerch Bridge was the invitation and Putin is replying to the invitation. Not complicated.
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  11142. Fry and facts are not close friends.
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  11143.  @claytonjordan8821  what makes you think Russia wanted to take Kiev? Let's be clear on what the 5 objectives were of this SMO as stated by Putin. Go ahead, list the 5 objectives.
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  11144.  @claytonjordan8821  you never answered my question. why not make the aid to Ukraine's war 20% of the US military budget?
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  11145.  @Bradgilliswhammyman  nothing like an in-depth analytical rebuttal.
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  11146.  @claytonjordan8821  oh you poor fool. so you take the news of the day, of a demented rebel, as some kind of harbinger of your senseless theorizing? no matter who leads Russia and its forces, Russia will prevail and Ukraine will lose, but I'll let you see what plays out to, yet again, be disappointed with the results of all this.
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  11147. last Ukrainian successful counter offensive was in 2014! If anyone can talk up a counteroffensive and fail to deliver, agreed, it's Ukraine!
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  11148. Only a fool leaves his/her job without securing another job offer, and only Germany is foolish enough to say bye bye to its gas supplier, Russia, without securing other sources of energy. So Dumb and Dumber, Scholtz and Haabeck, now have to go begging to Canada having failed with Gatar and Nigeria. Pathetic. Putin is laughing all the way to the bank.
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  11149. Is this deluded fool calling Ukraine a democracy? Surely democracy went out the window with the 2014 coup d'etat and the ousting of democratically elected President Yanukovich by the Azov Nazis and their oligarch backers?
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  11150. "Palestinians should have the same human rights as anyone in Israel" Those Palestinians who live in Israel do. Those Palestinians who elect Hamas don't. Hamas denies human rights, not Israel.
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  11151. no evidence at all that Jay ever entered that wilderness. 10 days of searching an area where Jay never was.
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  11152. invading a sovereign country based on a lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction seems to be just fine, yet invading a sovereign country because it is slaughtering ethnic Russians is a really bad thing.
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  11153. "it's really difficult to get a handle on the situation there" = I don't want to make a fool of myself, yet again, and say Russian morale is low and Russian leadership so incompetent that Ukraine will win.
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  11154. Guardia Civil lied. They announced the search "suspendido" (ended, over). they lied. how many other lies did they tell?
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  11155. So fat Serge has enough money to gorge himself and get a tattoo, but nothing to sort his life out.
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  11156.  @DarkRoomAmbience  clearly not! Attacks on Ukraine's power grid have been happening for 2 months! Either small arms aren't working sufficiently to keep the lights on, or the small arms and Gepards aren't being sent! Either there are not any more to send, or they don't work! Take your choice!
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  11157.  @daeraiobu  so true
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  11158. funny that no EU leaders ever dropped into Donbass to see the death and destruction there caused by Ukraine over the last 8 years. Slavia Rossiyi...this is payback time. eradicate the Nazi forces from Ukraine and stand up for the DPR and LPR. Thank you, Putin
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  11159. Russia already started paying. Seen the amazing reconstruction in Mariupol lately? of course not, because you only watch Western media. Russia will re-develop all that it occupies in Ukraine. The rump state left over will do business as usual, beg the West incessantly.
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  11160. it is a crazy assumption to think that raising taxes will increase government revenues from income tax! that ONLY happens if everyone agrees to pay the increased taxes. many don't. they may choose to work less and earn less, move their money around, leave the country, lie on their declaration forms.
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  11161. NOT MY KING.....who the hell is old sausage fingers to decide that the answer to mass immigration is to build more homes, rather than deport more immigrants?
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  11162.  @Maplelust  NATO boots on the ground = mass media coverage of thousands on NATO troops in bodybags. The West can't stomach real ground war, Russia style. NATO too busy on its equity and diversity plans to face death on the battlefield. Russia has won. Accept it.
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  11163.  @toma9976  there was no systematic extermination, just an unsystematic mass murder of many civilians, but I guess that is ok by the West.
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  11164.  @cskvision  when you suffer for two years, you have license to get your revenge. start questioning what evil forces started this with the 2 years of suffering inflicted on Donbass that you admit happened.
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  11165.  @hizzlemobizzle  Zelensky is a beggar. he has bankrupted his country, he survives on handouts. Iran is selling its drones to Russia. Money changing hands, No begging there. when you say "we" are giving it gladly, who exactly is "we"? And curious use of the word "giving"....meaning you are not selling, Zelensky is begging, not buying. The West will be bankrupt before Putin is out of what you call Ukraine. you'll see.
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  11166.  @irenezacharkiw9982 Clearly you are both ignorant of reality and deluded by western media. Time to learn something. Russian peacekeepers have been in Transnistria for a LONG time and have kept the peace. Present evidence to the contrary if you know so much about the subject.
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  11167. Given all the sympathetic interviews granted to Zelensky in the West, in the interests of fair coverage, about 10 more such soft interviews should be granted to Putin.
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  11168. "that the British upper crust holds on to" Bollox! I'm no upper crust, but a curious last name, different accent, different look will prompt me to ask about background, out of interest, and that ain't going to stop. Get used to it, thin-skinned bedwetters
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  11169. Did Zelensky also release CCTV footage of Donetsk citizens murdered by Ukrainian shelling last week? YES, you can see a missile hitting something, but you cannot see what it hits. so stop speculating. The missile disappears behind trees, and then there is an explosion. No wonder BBC was banned from Russia for lying.
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  11170. The Far Right do not exist. It's the bogeyman that is shouted out to scare people and distract from the failures of Westminster's immigration policies.
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  11171. if its British teachers and police officers saying Tate is saying some bad things, you can be sure Tate is getting a awful lot right and that it is not politically correct but bang on the money.
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  11172. oh dear! 2 years too late, the West is suddenly realizing that no matter how much cash and weaponry they send to corrupt Kiev, teenagers and pensioners ain't gonna win this war against Russia. at least Sunak will join Johnson, Macron, Trudeau, Biden, Scholtz etc at being under the table and away from all the finger pointing when Russia announces its terms of surrender to Kiev.
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  11173.  @sekseemarcuskidd  if by "he" you mean Biden, of course he will, but the bigger question is whether his handlers can pump him up with enough meds and Red Bull to avoid his descending into bumbling mutterings.
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  11174. just risible this guy talks of "NATO capabilities"....NATO countries are so soft, first images of NATO soldiers riddled with Russian bullets flying home for burial and NATO's will collapses. Let NATO do what it does best...design rainbow motifs and recruit on the basis of equity and inclusion, and let Russia do what it does best, winning wars.
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  11175. "a Latvian language test compulsory for some non-citizens to stay in the country" = let's single out the Russian speakers and apply this rule to them, but not to anyone else. Latvia and the EU, such an inclusive, tolerant, fair-minded place. Putin and the UN are right, this is pure discrimination and will only end in tears.
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  11176.  @karliskokorevics6902  yet more lies. not one single EU citizen needs to pass a single exam in Latvian to have full residency rights in Latvia. it's called freedom of movement.
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  11177.  @thepax2621  yeah, and all Spanish speakers could just learn Catalan since they live in CATALUNA and stop crying about it. And all English speakers could just learn Welsh since they live in Wales and stop crying about it. And........this nonsense goes on ad infinitum.
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  11178.  @thepax2621  do you think the Latvian speakers all learn Russian when they move to Daugavpils? Should the Latvian speakers be made to take an exam in Russian if they relocate to Daugavpils?
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  11179.  @thepax2621  why should they? because in Daugavpils they are in a Russian speaking community, where Latvian has never been the lingua franca, ever, and it is only respectful to learn the language of your neighbors and community in general. what part of that is so hard to grasp for you?
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  11180.  @thepax2621  tell me what absolutely dire consequences would ensue for Latvians if Russian was re-instated as an official language. What cataclysm would result for the country?
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  11181.  @thepax2621  We all know that the current nationalistic russophobic bigoted discriminatory regime in Riga has ditched Russian as an official language of Latvia. The question is whether that is morally right or not. Clearly, the answer is that it is not. It WOULD matter if a large community of Greek speakers had ALWAYS lived in Latvia, had once had Greek as an official language there, and were now being discriminated against by being compelled to learn a second language. well, at least to those of us who are inclusive it would matter. Denying the reality that Russian speakers will insist on equal language rights and will, just as the Crimeans and Donbass Russians did, fight for their rights, means you are deluded and will be scratching your head wondering why there is another war breaking out in Europe soon. Stop being such a bigot.
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  11182.  @thepax2621  If only 4% of Switzerland is Italian speaking, yet Italian is one of the country's official languages, why shouldn't Russian be an official language of Latvia, where 25% of the people are Russian speaking?
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  11183.  @thepax2621  Would you advise the Canadian government in Ottawa to remove French as an official language of Canada? Only 20% of Canadians speak French as a first language.
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  11184. la plupart des sources ukrainiennes a dit que le phantome de Kiev existe
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  11185. it's a totally stupid idea and it just prolongs the conflict and maximizes more deaths. The reason Ukraine needs more tanks so desperately is because Russia already destroyed the masses of tanks Ukraine started out with. Everything we send over there just gets destroyed. it's pathetic to see the West help Russia accomplish demilitarization of NATO so easily.
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  11186. yeah, gotta love that normalcy of an open border, rampant inflation, 30 trillion dollar debt, a president who can't articulate a sentence, who lies repeatedly and out of control crime. wonderful normalcy.
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  11187.  @ElNino-xm3ej  yep, if it is a scam, good luck and if the public are such suckers, such is life. got a feeling Slater might be alive and well, in Morocco, waiting for the Go Fund me to hit 60,000, or dead and buried because he got mixed up in a bad drug deal.
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  11188. and there I was thinking, FINALLY, a report of a dead child from Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk. But no, it's always 100% coverage of civilian deaths from Russian attacks, never vice versa. yet more shameful biased reporting. No wonder RT was banned from the West. Can't have any alternative narrative allowed anywhere near the sheeple.
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  11189. Poland being such a weasel. there is nothing at all to stop Poland practicing what it preaches and sending tanks and its men into battle, today. legalities and agreements meant nothing to Poland when it cancelled gas contracts and gas payments with Russia, so, go ahead, declare war on Russia as Poland, not NATO, and help all you can.
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  11190. "The Home Office will be finding them" How much you wanna bet, honey? The Home Office couldn't even find its own rear end if it's life depended on it.
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  11191.  @gregowski_pl  happy for you to point out what I said that is not factual...but that would demand of you some knowledge and certainty. hmmm, tough one for you.
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  11192.  @gregowski_pl  not even the mothers of the teenage Ukrainians sent to the Bakhmut front lines where life expectancy is now down to one day
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  11193.  @gregowski_pl  If you actually watched some Russian state television you would actually learn some truths, like the Ghost of Kiev was a lie! Why do you think Russian state tv has been banned from the West? Western sheep too incapable of distinguishing fact from opinion?
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  11194. "inflated expectations" = the West got it all wrong.
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  11195. "the operation could take months"...yeah, but the Ukrainian defense minister said Kherson city would be captured by end of August, definitely"......so, which one is lying? Ukrainian government or BBC? or both?
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  11196. why no one in the media explaining WHY the Ukraine counter offensive never even happened.
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  11197. EU has to keep paying Morocco to prevent floods of immigrants pouring over into Spain and Morocco has to keep paying the EU to keep the self-determination of Western Sahara off the agenda. Corruption at its worst.
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  11198. you obviously haven't heard about the strength of the ruble and the cooperation Russia is getting from the whole world, apart from the deluded West in their deluded bubble.
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  11199. Yet another hate crime, but this one won't be prosecuted as a hate crime. Yet again, white males are the victims of discrimination and hate.
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  11200. Sharia Law to be applied throughout the UK pretty soon.
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  11201.  @Teachersincharge  how long a list do you want? Pakistani rape gangs in cities across the land, Lee Rigby, the Batley school teacher, 30 years ago no one had heard of arranged marriages, female genital mutilation, halal meat, Gaza of more importance than potholes in the constituency. are you blind? or maybe you are 12 years old?
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  11202.  @Teachersincharge  Tell me, do Muslims pay stamp duty in the UK, or are they exempt as per Sharia Law?
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  11203.  @Teachersincharge  WRONG! Nothing to do with "within Muslim communities!" A Muslim individual is exempt paying UK Stamp Duty when buying a house. It is the only religion so treated. As a Christian individual, you must pay Stamp Duty and are not allowed access to the leasing arrangement in place for Muslims. The Blair government introduced this exemption and stated it was in recognition of Sharia Law. Learn the basics.
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  11204.  @Teachersincharge  How many more examples do you need? Sam Melia goes to prison for putting up stickers on a lamppost, stickers making derogatory comments about Jews. Muslims have called for Jihad on the streets of London, and not even questioned. Sharia is here. so sad you are blind to the obvious.
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  11205.  @Teachersincharge  as expected, you lied. par for the course. next time, don't assert that there are UK laws that apply uniquely to Christians and then fail to name one. it was a pleasure to give you an absolute spanking on this one. next topic?
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  11206. The very fact that this is a SEVENTH sanctions package tells you sanctions have failed. In which decade does the EU think sanctions against Venezuela and Iran will effect change? The whole idea was to deny Russia its funding for the war. Since EU sanctions, Russia's energy revenues have INCREASED while energy sold has DECREASED! EU committing suicide.
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  11207. there is no such thing as "political Islam". Islam is a belief system that covers EVERYTHING, from daily life to how a government operates.
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  11208. so, a Ukrainian victory is now "keep going for another year"! oh dear! what happened to "liberating Crimea by September?" Reality hitting home, eh, DW propagandists?
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  11209.  @RoninTF2011  the Kremlin (Kremlin is spelt with a "K", dopey) parrot is having a good laugh at the sudden pessimism hitting the West as the West's stocks of ammo disappear:) still, the sanctions are working just great, right?:) which sanctions package was most devastating to Russia, do you think? Package 4, or package 7 or package 9?:)
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  11210. yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons and that NATO's air defence systems work oh so well.
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  11211.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  yep, off and on, but interestingly, there are news service from around the world that entertain a Russian perspective at times, especially in Latin America. It's only the freedom-loving West that blocks pro Russian reporting.
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  11212. When NATO intervened in sovereign Serbia and violated its territorial integrity with bombing of Serbian infrastructure, NATO showed Russia how the "rules-based order" works, so now why is NATO surprised that Russia copied this formula in Ukraine?
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  11213. as long as "seizing" is used instead of the more accurate "stealing", plenty in the West will go along with this theft, and then be scratching their heads when global investors withdraw funds from Western markets.
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  11214. funny to see Sweden and Finland through away neutrality with such gay abandon. Most of the world, that is fine with Russia and respects neutrality, will see both Sweden and Finland now as Western stooges and in a very negative light. Kiss bye bye to a load of investment from a huge chunk of the world.
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  11215.  @iiilllii140  fascinating that you are so interested in the messenger and not the message. speaks volumes for your lack of argument.
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  11216. still waiting for Nick's in-depth investigation into Russian claims of Ukrainian brutality and torture. or are we to assume Russia has a 100% monopoly on war crimes?
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  11217. what is surprising is that so many people are surprised. have they not looked at or listened to Biden over the last 4 years?
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  11218. Poland didn't pay enough cash under the table, Qatargate style.
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  11219. they don't exist. it's all just NATO comfort talk, hoping the sheep still believe Ukronazia is winning.
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  11220.  @nigelmorley5414  the modus operandi that got the West into such a horrendous mess. When Russia said the sanctions won't work, you should have believed them. But hey, I guess a few German pensioners who freeze to death this winter, no big deal, just as long as we "stick it to putin", right?
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  11221.  @leemiguel3437  return of the coward! The man who is scared stiff to find out that Duncan Smith is really Duncan Smith! Got up enough courage to prove yourself right or wrong yet? or still hiding under a rock?
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  11222.  @Lilian-fh2ve  Lavrov has SO much more respect globally than ANYONE in the West. Lavrov tells it as it is. Biden can't even speak clearly these days!
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  11223.  @nigelmorley5414  Russia will stop, just like it stopped in Georgia, where Russian speakers now have autonomy. it stopped in Transnistria where Russian speakers now have autonomy. and it will stop in Ukraine, when Russian speakers have autonomy or independence. Only your Russophobia fears some effect on you. The West will have many more murders at the hands of Muslim immigrants that it would ever have from Russian soldiers.
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  11224.  @nigelmorley5414  sanctions didn't take long to work AGAINST the West! See how quickly the euro crashed! (and how quickly the ruble rose!). See how quickly the Germans panicked over energy supplies and announced coal and nuclear are back in action! See how quickly "putin's price hike" has affected energy costs in USA! Boomerang sanction effects happened pretty damn quick against the West.
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  11225.  @PedroFerreira-ze5yp  No plan? 6 million Ukrainian refugees. About 50,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers (by Ukraine's own figures) many more crippled and captured, sanctions hurting the West far more than Russia, Russia in control of 25% of Ukraine and growing, no counter offensive at all from Ukraine, NATO weapons held back, Ukraine bankrupt and begging for handouts every day, Russia able to launch missiles indiscriminately at any point in Ukraine it wishes. so...how is Ukraine's plan going?
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  11226.  @Ninjersey1  agreed, NaziNin
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  11227.  @glennsoucy4359  Socialism
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  11228.  @DjWellDressedMan  the problem is Cuba has no chicken from Brazil, from Spain, from anywhere! it has no money to buy chicken from abroad because it is a bankrupt socialist basket case, thanks, Fidel and Che.
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  11229.  @DjWellDressedMan  and the more foreign currency you bring into Cuba, the more prices shoot up in Cuba, more money chasing same amount of commodities available = inflation. your vacation helps ruin the lives of the ordinary Cubans. well done.
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  11230.  @Andrei-sg7lu  it's not the US that is suffering from the embargo is it, Einstein?
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  11231.  @TheMarcuslindberg  so airlines that fly to both Cuba and the US, like Bahamasair, are prohibited from doing so, but are allowed to do so?
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  11232.  @TheMarcuslindberg  I think you'll find Helms Burton is just not enforced. The vast majority of companies have no trade with Cuba because Cuba produces nothing of any significance at all. If Serbia imports some sugar from Cuba and exports some water pumps to USA, there is absolutely no one who cares.
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  11233. SUCH a pleasure to see the deluded Liberal MSM talk of Trump's momentous victory through tears and gnashing teeth!
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  11234. "they destroyed our country".....not yet, but soon. it's called revenge. any regrets at refusing to implement the Minsk Agreements, Poroshenko, Klitschko, Zelensky?
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  11235.  @syryder3236  some of this makes sense. if Jay had been stabbed in the leg he wouldn't have been able to do much rapid walking a few hours later. even with a bad cut would have been tough. better to wait for the bus. not convinced by the video....looks like all 3 people are wearing jalabas, somewhere like Tunisia?. the sound recording sounds convincing, the Lucy type voice. so, after the rave, Jay robs a guy, gets a rolex, but also gets stabbed/slashed, hobbles off to his Luton friends and says "i need to go with you guys to your villa" but 3 hours later Jay is out the door and up the road! hmmm
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  11236.  @syryder3236  all of that makes sense, but am wondering if Jay also stole a Rolex because he owed so much money?
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  11237.  @syryder3236  I don't recall Lucy saying she had a missed call from Jay. are you sure about that? anyway, help me with the timeline. Lucy says she drove over there and went looking for Jay, but she also set up the GoFundMe and reported Jay missing to the Police, so, she was busy! IF Lucy went straight over to the Masca area, and IF Jay was still on or just off that road, she would have seen him and found him. However, if the gangsters got the airbnb location from Lucy, or by any other means, then they would have seen and found Jay on the road or just off the road. Chances are someone found Jay and I refuse to believe that Jay just ended up stumbling through wilderness and dying in such a well concealed spot that no one, no dog, no drone, no helicopter can find him.
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  11238. correct, EU citizens will have to cough up even more money to keep bailing out another failed economy
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  11239. Russia is not that bothered by another NATO country on its border, as Finland has no policy of attacking ethnic Russians. Now that Helsinki has become in Russia's crosshairs, Finland should tread carefully. and no doubt the Finns will love to have some of its soldiers die in whatever the next US futile war might be.
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  11240. curious that now it is clear the Ukronazis are getting destroyed, France 24 forced to focus on Russian losses, with the never-changing assumption that Russian losses must be more than Ukronazi losses, and disputed between Prigozhin and the Kremlin.
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  11241. USSR is not Russian Federation
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  11242. just hilarious this dope thinks there is a refugee camp in Gaza.
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  11243. "all but one of Russia's drones was shot down" so, Channel 4 taking Ukrainian propaganda announcements and accepting it as fact. Explains why the deluded masses of the West have thought Ukraine is winning since Day One.
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  11244. curious. a real offensive is happening in Donbass, with Russia gaining ground. Not reported on. Another offensive is JUST BEING TALKED ABOUT and it's getting all the media attention. Conclusion? Ukraine is losing so badly focus has to be put on plans, not reality.
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  11245.  @ardjolamyftaraj691  when you get free taxi service to the UK, there really isn't much risk. Spent 3 months in Durres, Albania, and it seemed a lot better off than most of the world.
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  11246.  @katakisLives  what do you mean "if I were living there"? where? France? yes, I chose to live in France. what's your point? maybe your point is if i were living in Afghanistan, would I do whatever it took to live in the UK? Given the ineptitude of the present government, and the freebies handed out to all arrivals, of course I would! No one is blaming the migrants. 100% the fault of the UK government.
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  11247.  @katakisLives  who do you think you are kidding? there are plenty of people who live in France and don't speak any French, like all the Brits that moved to France, and all the Afghans that rioted in Paris yesterday! If not wanting to live under Taliban rule was the push factor, why don't they just walk across the border into Uzbekistan?
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  11248.  @katakisLives  so you are 100% convinced that most Afghans come to the UK and place UK laws above Sharia law? They don't ever come to the UK in the hopes of replicating Islamic law in the UK? Just not possible?
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  11249. cutting public spending doesn't harm the least well off, it hurts the least deserving
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  11250. @Don Doodat yep. who else does Kiev have left to recruit? you don't think Zelensky and the oligarchs are going to fight, do you?
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  11251. @Don Doodat given that children and pensioners contribute nothing to the pot, they are indeed the least deserving. why the hell should a hard working parent be forced to pay for the school lunch of someone else's kid whose parent is on the dole?
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  11252. Zelensky and his goons, with the billions of dollars they have amassed (according to the Panama Papers) will live happily ever after in Miami, but they are prepared to wait to see the death of the very last Ukrainian soldier.
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  11253.  @jjohn408  you forgot to mention this quote from Ha'aertz comes from "a columnist" cited by Vox, which described it as "reportedly said". no one has confirmed what this "one columnist" wrote. no one. so, try again.
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  11254.  @samjoshi1812  why?
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  11255.  @Rook.Kaiser  oh, so, yeah, everything published must be 100% true. got it.
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  11256. Germany has no justice minister. If such a person existed, we would be getting daily updates on the investigation into the Nordstream attack.
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  11257. It is absolutely blasphemous to mention Jesus could be God, so as Islamic tradition dictates, such blasphemy must not be tolerated. The Muslim mob did exactly what their religion demands of them, so any complainants against the Muslim mob are Islamophobic bigots.
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  11258. scrap the NHS. waste of money. cheaper per person to go private.
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  11259.  @michaelsterckx4120  nothing of the kind happens in USA. I have lived in both USA and UK. I have been treated by both systems and I know which one is better, even though the US system needs more privatisation, it is way ahead of the NHS.
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  11260.  @michaelsterckx4120  NHS can only work when you have relatively healthy population (Britain is to aging and obese to qualify) and contributors to the tax system far outweighing the parasites (mass immigration increases the demands made by the parasites), so it will fail.
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  11261.  @michaelsterckx4120  and remember, when "you" paid those healthcare claims, it wasn't "you" paying. If it had been "you" paying you could have gotten a much better deal!
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  11262.  @michaelsterckx4120  and that may well be true for every purchase in the capitalist system, but the truth remains, as a patient, I have experienced both the NHS and the US system, in both systems I personally paid nothing, but received MUCH better and more timely attention with the US system. So, from my perspective, the NHS is a failure, and given the amount that each man and woman pays for the NHS, on average, it looks like applying for a private plan would be much more sensitive. As I say, when the NHS has enough funds to employ diversity and equity officers, you know the system isn't working.
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  11263. the aim of the sanctions was to deny Putin the revenues needed to wage war, not to just weaken the Russian economy so that waging war is more difficult. the sanctions have failed. there is no hint of regime change in Moscow, the war of attrition is going Russia's way, and it is Ukraine/NATO now begging places like South Korea for artillery that will keep Ukraine in the conflict. Janet Yellen is the genius that said the inflation plaguing the West was just "transitory". she is either dumb or a liar.
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  11264. and some of us remember the laughter and smirking of the German delegation when Trump told Germany it was too dependent on Russian energy. Just hilarious that a Green minister is announcing super polluting coal fired power stations will now open up again in Germany.....at what point does Germany understand that the sanctions imposed on Russia are crippling Germany, not Russia.
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  11265. Time for Israel to fight fire with fire. Wipe out Gaza totally.
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  11266. the assimilation argument baffles me. there are plenty of examples of immigrants who choose not to assimilate, and thy are welcomed and they benefit the host country. the key issues for the host country are respect for the laws of the host country, and tolerance of the traditions of the host country, If the immigrants can abide by those two things, and not be parasites on the society, then they are welcome, no assimilation needed.
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  11267. he did tell the truth. his plan was to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table, in which he succeeded. NATO scuppered any agreement, telling its puppet Zelensky not to sign anything, because sanctions and battlefield losses would destroy Russia. Oh dear! NATO got it wrong. But, hey, it's only Ukrainian cannon fodder getting wiped out, no NATO lads dying....yet.
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  11268.  @Anji-h6l  obviously, yet the West was so dumb that they thought Russia wouldn't be able to rely on allies and smuggle things in 24/7? tells you how braindead our Western leaders are, right?
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  11269.  @Anji-h6l  so how pathetic are our Western leaders to fail to figure out that smuggling 24/7 and reliable allies would mean Russia survive quite nicely?
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  11270. "no one was prepared for these long artillery battles". the Russians were. NATO wasn't. If NATO had spent as much time and energy on producing artillery shells over the last year as it spent on shouting "Russia is running out of ammo" then NATO wouldn't be in this mess.
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  11271. yet Putin's poll numbers are magnificently high, while Biden is at an all time low, Johnson and Draghi out of power.
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  11272.  @titteryenot4524  because you are a disgusting bigot
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  11273.  @titteryenot4524  anyone who says they don't want to be a part of a homogenous group is just a disgusting bigot. learn some tolerance and love for all.
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  11274.  @goobin9125  the "Brexit knuckle draggers" will rightfully argue that while the Spanish authorities have no need to ease immigration restrictions on UK passport holders, such a relaxing of restrictions would help all parties concerned.
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  11275. evil is cheering Nazi collaborator and mass murderer, Stefan Bandera, as a national hero. Ukraine is a cesspit of evil, Nazi nationalism, Russophobia, corruption and hypocrisy. The sooner it surrenders the better. Slava Rossiyi
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  11276. "there was a nervousness about cutting Russian supplies off because of the impact it would have on the global economy" No, the West doesn't give a monkey's backside about the economy in places like Bangladesh or Guatemala. it's the impact on the economies of the West that were the concern, but imbeciles that they are, Western leaders cut off their supplies from Russia without having secured any reliable alternative. Pure folly.
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  11277.  @JoeyBlogs007  with the handful of planes Russia doesn't manage to destroy between now and then?
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  11278.  @JoeyBlogs007  a luxury one can afford when the enemy has little or no air defences to speak of. Russia ain't Iraq. Rookie pilots in their first combat mission against Russian air defences...get ready for a NATO/Ukraine s**t show.
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  11279.  @_Twink  you write as if you assume that taking Bakhmut was some kind of priority! Funny. West Bakhmut was retaken by the Ukronazis? yeah? when was the last video you saw of Ukrainians in Bakhmut? Russia never mentioned a winter offensive. Russia doesn't need an offensive. Russia is fighting a war of attrition. so cute you cough up Western lies and talking points with such conviction! Are you 12 years old?
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  11280.  @JoeyBlogs007  so, you assume the Ukrainians suffered fewer losses than the Russians during the Bakhmut campaign?
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  11281.  @scurra1163  cheerleading the Azov nazis is as low as it gets, no lectures needed from someone cheering on the Azov Nazi battalion. Big fan of Bandera yourself are you? Ukraine is receiving totally insufficient aid, you dope, hence it does nothing but beg, beg, beg. winners don't beg. Zhaluzny says he needs 300 tanks. no one in NATO got that in storage and ready to go, do they? Only a few people in the Kremlin know how many men Russia is losing, and one of them is not you, so stop pretending your crystal ball works. news for you. most of the planet doesn't care what happens in Ukraine, but they do care that Russian energy is still exported, they do care Russian grain is exported, they do care to work and trade with Russia. ONLY the deluded Western bubble talks of Russia as a pariah. Get out of the bubble and see the reality, just once! Russia is winning and everyone knows it. those in denial, like you, make up dumb stuff about sinking economy and heavy losses, ignoring the fact that Ukraine is bankrupt and begging. Take a dose of reality and regain your senses.
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  11282. @Jar of Mikeys you know nothing. Ukraine started this war with an amazing fleet of tanks, built up over 8 years as NATO prepared for this. Ukraine was awash with weapons. They all got destroyed. Any other tanks sent in to Ukraine will get destroyed. NATO the slowest kid in the class. they don't get it that Ukraine can't win this, and emptying the arms depots and sending everything available is just an invitation to Russia to reduce NATO to zero.
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  11283.  @albatros12  traitor to whom?
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  11284.  @ronaldcole7415  oh, so Ronald, suddenly you want to pivot from my explanation of what a war of attrition entails to ....rank? profession? authority? truly pathetic. let's see how an expert like you argues the points made, not rank etc. in my focus on a war of attrition so far, what did I say that is demonstrably incorrect? newsflash for you, smug Ronald. You have no monopoly on analyzing war. so get off your high horse, and debate the issues. no one is impressed with your claims of authority, prove your self by debating the matter, not preening yourself in a mirror. Ye Gods, now | see why the US has lost so badly in recent decades with types like you leading the way.
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  11285.  @ronaldcole7415  by the way, US Navy tactical officer and war historian, the word is "regale", not "regal". Consult me, please, for any other tips on improving your writing skills.
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  11286.  @ronaldcole7415  then, clearly, it will be easy for such an expert as yourself to tear apart my very uncredentialled analysis. So just read what I have posted so far, and correct me. By the way, what credentials did Einstein have when he started writing on relativity?
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  11287.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  unless the Ukrainians run out of men, and the front collapses.
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  11288.  @ИванМартыненко-и3б  Ronald doesn't have to do that, because Ronald knows far more than people like Ritter, as Ronald is a historian (even though he confuses "regale" with "regal") and as a retired officer has all the credentials to ignore uncredentialled people like Ritter and Douglas MacGregor.
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  11289.  @dutchdna  learn the difference between USSR and Russian Federation, then rejoin the debate. BTW, USSR at the time of the invasion of Afghanistan was led by a Ukrainian warmonger, Leonid Brezhnev, surprise surprise!
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  11290.  @trillmoney263  Ronald is a retired officer and historian, he doesn't need any input from you! What you said makes perfect sense, but given only Ronald has credentials to comment, you are wasting your breath!
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  11291.  @jrobertgrack9342  brilliantly said! reality.
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  11292.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  yet another Azov nazi lover account. Is throwing teenage cannon fodder up against the Chechens and Wagners your plan to win the war, Adolf?
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  11293.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  Nah, you failed. Nazi Germany was committing genocide on the Jewish people, not on a neighboring state. I mean if Nazi Germany was trying to eliminate every French person, they did a really rotten job! so, back to the drawing board with that dumb analogy! But it is curious that Ukraine is the only country to accept, willingly, happily and joyously, a Nazi battalion into its national defence force. at least the Russians pushed the Nazis into a private group and didn't welcome them as part of Russia's national force. By the way, which other country in the world do you think would recognize, as a national hero, a Nazi collaborator who led a pogrom that killed 4000 Jews? Agree with me, that only Ukraine would stoop so low? Projection, indeed. Go get another swastika tattoo, Adolf.
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  11294.  @davidsnedeker8098  one fact that really matters, dear 6th grader, is the difference between the USSR and the Russian Federation. Russian Federation has never been in Afghanistan! The USSR has, and when the USSR invaded Afghanistan, USSR was led by a war-mongering Ukrainian, surprise surprise, called Leonid Brezhnev! so, do your homework and get back to me when you have learnt the basics.
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  11295.  @davidsnedeker8098  just curious, this clash between Russian and American forces, did it happen before the US debacle of 2021's evacuation from Kabul, when the flip flop wearing goat herders called the Taliban waltzed into town, killed 13 American soldiers, seized all your abandoned weaponry and then kicked you out of the airport? or did it happen before US forces started hiring high school dropouts with the iq of moron level? or before equity and diversity classes became part of basic training? or before NATO embarked on its electric tanks project? hmmm
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  11296.  @davidsnedeker8098  when Douglas MacGregor says that the US has not the forces and preparation needed to engage Russia in a ground war, do you believe him, or do you think he has got it all wrong? and Brian Berletic? he is completely wrong too?
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  11297.  @ronaldcole7415  or rather, you assume I have none. at the moment, you are arguing from a position of total ignorance.
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  11298. The Taliban had big problems getting microchips last year. Take a look at the coverage of how the Taliban totally dominated the NATO fiasco of a withdrawal last year. Given NATO is a gutless group of imbeciles, Russia and its microchip problem won't be a determining factor in this conflict.
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  11299. there are no Western weapons. if there were, they would have been handed over a long time ago. when will you figure out, NATO has been demilitarized?
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  11300. "less than 3% have a criminal record" so, 97% are criminals but never get charged.
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  11301. absolutely despicable how the West is fine with sending such poorly trained recruits into the Russian meatgrinder. tell Zelensky to start negotiating yesterday.
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  11302. EU "loan" package to a bankrupt country = way for Ukraine to pay back by ceding territory to Poland, Hungary and Romania. Land for cash deal, funded by the EU taxpayers.
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  11303. "NEED to retreat"? ok, so everyone NEEDS to live in peace and harmony. Any other pie in the sky wishes you want to express?
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  11304. Brian Berletic is such a superior military analyst than this charlatan of a propagandist, Bell. Lie after lie after lie.
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  11305. Crimea was annexed legally, after a vote by the Cromean Parliament and a subsequent referendum. Shocking as this will be to CNN viewers, Crimea wanted no part of the illegal coup that happened in Kiev in 2014. We should be supporting Russia.
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  11306.  @koen8185  most of the world backs Russia. Only in the hysterical deluded West is Russophobia gripping the people, not in the real world.
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  11307.  @DemiB5030  that's right, encouraging the parasites to keep holding out their hand for more and more freebies really helps society
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  11308.  @mmeeozzzaaa3421  the elderly are the richest demographic in society. if the elderly have had 70 years to figure out how not to be a parasite on society, and have failed, a "free" meal ain't gonna help them figure things out.
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  11309. Putin NEVER stated he wanted "total takeover of Ukraine" so quit the lying. ONLY hysterical, deluded Russophobes came up with this myth of "total takeover of Ukraine". Look at Putin's list of stated objectives instead of making them up. Bloody useless lying "experts"!
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  11310. Oops! You got the wrong footage there! You were talking about Southend but showed somewhere like Nigeria or the Congo.
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  11311. There are no far right parties running. there are some right of center parties running. ONLY raving Marxists and Far Left loons like France 24 staff see right of center parties as "Far Right"
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  11312. post Rotherham, the Police are seen by Middle England as the enemy.
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  11313.  @TheKingofdans  Depends which verses you want to follow. Just as with the Bible, there are plenty of contradictions within Islam for what you said to be worth nothing. Islam is quite clear, AND Islam contradicts itself. Homosexuality is a crime and a sin and must be punished. In the UK, homosexuality is permitted, its legal, and even celebrated. Now, in the UK, the vast majority of Muslims believe homosexuality should be punished. so, what happened to your notion that UK Muslims must follow the laws of the host country? Muslims always default to the teachings of the Quran and the hadiths, and national laws take a back seat. Always.
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  11314.  @TheKingofdans  oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, I'll pay you to tell all the Muslims in the UK, that claim they are being oppressed, to just move. When can you start work and how much per hour would you charge? a bonus for every 1000 Muslims you convince to get out of Islamophobic and oppressive UK and go somewhere else. PLEASE!
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  11315.  @muddymaker3721  good point, and the Ukrainian girl will have lost her man in Bakhmut, or is about to lose him in Avdiivka, or he's hopping around on one leg, so, yeah, rich pickings there in Ireland.
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  11316.  @TheKingofdans  the difference between Christians and Muslims is that Christians don't behead people and yell "Allahu Akhbar" whenever they get offended by something. How many imams preach that homosexuality is just fine, as long as participation is not forced on anyone? How many imams preach that homosexuality is a sin before Allah and all transgressors must be punished? Do you think the Prophet himself was as tolerant as you? or was the illiterate slave-owner and mass murderer too busy banging his 9 yr old child bride, Aisha, to be too concerned with gays? Believe me, I have read the Quran and the hadiths, lived in a Muslim country, and I abhor Islam. it is barbaric, it is intolerant, it is superior, the way in which it talks about the kufr and women is deplorable. question you? why? taqqaya means you never give an honest answer.
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  11317.  @TheKingofdans  what percentage of Muslims in the UK think homosexuality should be made illegal? if you don't know, google the answer from authoritative polls, don't make up the answer or give your opinion. also, if Muslims follow the law of the land, why protest when someone draws a caricature of Mohammed? it's legal.
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  11318.  @TheKingofdans  as expected, you refuse to answer my questions. par for the course with a Muslim. so the Muslims who murdered Charlie Hebdo and his office workers in Paris, were they obeying the laws of France, and respecting the laws of France, when they attacked the cartoonists and murdered them in Paris?
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  11319.  @TheKingofdans  protesting is legal, threatening the teacher is not legal. what about the Pakistani rape gangs in Rotherham and many other cities. Following and respecting the UK laws on sex with minors were they, these law-abiding and honorable Pakistani muslims? or following the example of that most perfect man, the Prophet, who loved nothing than a good bang with his 9 year old child bride, Aisha?
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  11320.  @TheKingofdans  if you went to your local imam and announced you were going to marry your gay partner, and you would like the imam's blessing and approval, what, do you think, would be his response? or her response? equality exists in Islam, right, women can become imams, right?
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  11321. a true peace conference would discuss the Russian peace offer
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  11322. More and more people getting fed up of the billionaire listed in the Panama Papers traveling the world and lecturing everyone on what they must do to restore his dictatorship so that ethnic Russians, once again, can be compelled to be second class citizens in their homeland.
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  11323.  @tayler2396  what makes you assume that controling Bakhmut is the aim?
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  11324.  @diablosv36  no one is claiming there is NOT a big difference between running out of money and potentially risking inflation. On the contrary, a LOT more thought has to go into spending decisions when you have a hard limit! You got it backwards. Government spending does destroy economies. You never heard of the Weimar Republic? Austerity is like medicine. It hurts in the short term, but brings recovery long term. it's a wise trade off.
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  11325.  @diablosv36  the difference between you and me is you seem to think government can cause a whole bunch of unemployment. It can't. Market forces and trade create employment, and thus unemployment. Government can only interfere with the market and alter those market forces, slightly redirect of stifle those forces, not cause them. what on earth is "real capacity"? for that matter, please define "unreal capacity". You have forgotten what inflation is. Inflation is an increase in money supply. In Weimar, it became a vicious circle. More money had to be printed to keep paying all the bills until the system collapsed, but maybe that is what you mean by achieving "real capacity"? Austerity is medicine, not poison. "the money required to do things". Again, you are lost. Money is just a means to exchange goods and services. If the goods and services aren't there, no amount of money will create the goods and services. Austerity is just a reality check, your bank manager saying you reached the limit of your credit card, so given we don't want a Weimar, no more irresponsible spending, time to cut back.
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  11326.  @diablosv36  i just want to make sure you understand that inflation is not price rises. rising prices are the effects of inflation, what inflation causes. inflation is the governmental decision to increase money supply. agreed? "more money chasing same number of goods = inflation" is nonsense. inflation = more money, and when chasing same number of goods = rising prices. agreed?
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  11327.  @Youchubeswindon  "the government is the biggest customer" every penny the government spends comes from taxpayers, loans or the money printing machines. that's hardly the definition of a "customer". it's a mafia. no one ever suggested "shutting off spending". reducing spending is not the same as shutting off spending. Is English your second language? no economy based on the free market comes to a grinding halt. where there is supply and demand and no governmental interference you will have a functioning economy.
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  11328.  @Youchubeswindon  pure waffle. EVERYTHING is an emotional response to internal and external conditions! My crying when I stub my toe is an emotional response to internal and external conditions, but has nothing to do with economic matters! This really is a most basic point. Inflation is an increase in the money supply in excess of any increase in goods and services. Rising prices and rising wages are the EFFECTS of inflation. Prices RISE, INCREASE or GO UP, they don't inflate! "Inflation" describes an all round expansion and is the perfect word to describe added money supply. like air going into a balloon. Until you fully grasp exactly what inflation is you won't be able to figure anything out regarding economics.
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  11329.  @Youchubeswindon  take a really close look at the graphs that plot quantity of money per unit of output against the CPI. For EVERY country you will see the two lines track each other. As the money supply increases, so does the CPI, in perfect step. so, please, ditch this "inflation is an emotional response" foolishness. it's just baby talk. The latest round of inflation in the West is simply due to the increased money supply needed to pay people to stay at home and not work during Covid.
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  11330. "The Spanish Police have got to get this right" Too late! They already f***ed up big time. Refused help from Lancashire police, focused 100% on a missing person case, when everything cried out "foul play", combed through a gorge where there is zero evidence to say that Jay ever ventured down, and on Day 16 the big boss has the brilliant idea of doing a forensic search of the airbnb! Keystone Cops in charge. Police and Media 0, Internet sleuths 1
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  11331.  @PhilipMarcYT  true, but given we are on Day 17 and the Spanish Police have found ZERO, how would Lancashire Police helping the Spanish police have achieved a worse result?
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  11332. other way round (as usual, you got it all backwards) it's not Jersey et al creating legislation to undermine other jurisdictions. it's jurisdictions that have created punitive legislation on its taxpayers, like the UK, that leave places like Jersey with more attractive banking opportunities. Tax havens wouldn't exist if certain jurisdictions didn't create such punitive tax laws.
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  11333. and now the facts. 450 people were arrested in Russia last year for words they wrote on social media. over 3000 people were arrested in the UK last year for words they wrote on social media. No lectures needed from the West, thanks, on censorship. and that guy in Latvia, jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag, he is a little doubtful about what freedom of expression remains in the West.
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  11334.  @lydia2494  just someone who, unlike you, pays attention.
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  11335.  @lydia2494  why would you doubt me? do you assume only Russia arrests people for using the wrong words?
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  11336.  @lydia2494  tell you what, google "Konstantin Kisin, John Anderson interview" on youtube, and listen to the interview, then judge for yourself about free speech in Russia compared to the UK. fair enough?
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  11337.  @raymondbond2019  will believe you when I see you at Speaker's Corner announcing to the world that Mohammed was a rapist, pedophile and mass murderer.
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  11338. idiot reporter.....can't grasp the notion that EU membership is irrelevant to Putin, but Ukraine massacring ethnic Russians in Donbass for 8 years is a major provocation. profound ignorance. Slava Rossiyi Z
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  11339. more daydreams about a mythical offence on Crimea. It's pathetic. NATO can't even find more ammo for the Ukronazis, today.
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  11340. NOW the truth emerges! DW et al since April having been saying "The Russians are running out of weapons". Guess what? DW lied. It was the opposite, of course. So, let me help DW viewers here. A few more truths should be broadcast. Russian morale is NOT low. Ukrainian morale is. Russian forces are NOT badly equipped. Ukrainian forces are. Russia is NOT on the back foot. Ukraine is. Russia is NOT suffering massive losses. Ukraine is. The sanctions on Russia are NOT working. But Ukraine is bankrupt. Russia is NOT losing. Bur Ukraine is. Finally the truth.
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  11341. "this is our country" no. it isn't. the ethnic Russian majority chose to separate from Kiev after the 2014 coup and you need to respect that. ukronazi nationalist bast**d
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  11342.  @looper3117  the UN does not determine where a national boundary lies. if it did, why would the Catalans and Scots ever hold referendums on independence?
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  11343.  @looper3117  did you also say, in support of Syria, "it's their country, go ask the UN" when USA invaded and occupied Syria?
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  11344. "we don't understand why Scholz has a problem sending battle tanks from Germany" because, Einstein, so far Russia has destroyed nearly all weapons sent to Ukraine, hence Ukraine continually asks for more. Taking tax-payers' money and throwing it all away is generally not a good idea.
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  11345.  @aroundseasia  Ukraine ceased to exist as a sovereign state when it ousted its democratically elected president with Western support in 2014. Donbass citizens chose to break from Kiev and Donbass is now Russian. Azov Nazis had no right to shell anywhere in Donbass over the last 8 years. Russians are there by invitation of the free people of Donbass, and any plane that violates Donbass air space can be expected to be shot down. Very simple. Got it?
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  11346.  @ModernProspector  and now the facts. Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, Stefan Bandera, is a national hero in Ukraine. He is despised in Russia. Russians fought and triumphed over Nazi Germany. The swastika tattooed Azov Nazis were welcomed with open arms to join the Ukrainian defense force. they would never be admitted to any Russian unit, ever. Right Sektor, Tornado, Aydar are all Ukrainian Nazi groups. They are not allowed to exist in Russia. There you have the facts. If you remain unconvinced watch the BBC Newsnight special on Nazi forces in Ukraine. it's on youtube still. Got it? or you prefer to keep swallowing hook, line and sinker your deluded Western propaganda and lies?
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  11347.  @joh22293  1) to get Medvedchuk safe and out of Ukraine 2) to let Ukraine's cannon fodder know that if they surrender they will not swing from a rope and may well be exchanged 3) the Azov Nazi generals will be in Turkey, not Ukraine, til war's end, so it is still a form of denazifying Ukraine. Keep in mind, many Russians are VERY angry about this arrangement, but Putin also wants to keep India, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia on his side, so humanitarian gestures like this help in that effort. (even though I suspect Putin didn't want to do this swap)
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  11348.  @Watcher4111  desperate words from a deluded soul who has been brainwashed into thinking Russia can be defeated by the failing Ukraine/NATO fiasco. How are the sanctions working for you?
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  11349.  Russia is killing Ukrainians  everyone lies. but the West lies much more...Ghost of Kiev!
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  11350.  @tryingtocorrect  i think if 8 years and thousands of dead, massacred by Azov Nazis is a "small local conflict" then Russia's staging just 4 referenda in a tiny piece of occupied territory is also a small local matter. No need for NATO or EU or anyone to get involved in small ethnic Russian matters.
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  11351.  @tryingtocorrect  I give you nothing but facts. THOUSANDS died as a result of Azov Nazi shelling. You believe the word of an "official war inspector"? what was his name? why did he not include all the soldiers killed in this conflict? Are you even thinking? YOU GO AGAINST THE FACTS AND DENY THE TRUTH but that would be typical of a Nazi supporter. Denying the Nazi influence over Ukraine is confirmation you support bigotry, russophobia and hate. Thank God you lost the argument and the war. SLAVA ROSSIYI..you lost.
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  11352.  @joh22293  never saw any answer!
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  11353.  @bluecardholder  been to Ukraine, lived and worked there, in 2018, Not been to Donbass. Have a degree in Russian and speak it fluently. Currently have 2 Ukrainian online students, one Russian and one Kazak. so, let's hear your personal connection to Ukraine to see where you get your info from
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  11354.  @joh22293  search carefully, i answered your question about the release of Azov prisoners and then asked you to let me know how you get your firsthand info from Ukraine
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  11355.  @joh22293  1) to get Medvedchuk safe and out of Ukraine 2) to let Ukraine's cannon fodder know that if they surrender they will not swing from a rope and may well be exchanged 3) the Azov Nazi generals will be in Turkey, not Ukraine, til war's end, so it is still a form of denazifying Ukraine. Keep in mind, many Russians are VERY angry about this arrangement, but Putin also wants to keep India, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia on his side, so humanitarian gestures like this help in that effort. (even though I suspect Putin didn't want to do this swap)
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  11356.  @lfarrell6375  of course, someone who lived the truth of russophobia in Ukraine has to be laughed off. anything challenging your narrative of "Ukraine good, Russia bad" has to be dismissed, otherwise the house of cards of why this conflict is happening (Putin's aggression) just collapses. I was the teacher ordered not to use Russian as the class lingua franca, not you. i have that experience. not you. laugh on, fool.
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  11357.  @cuibono7774  but if you were prohibited from using German in public and told that Goebels had been declared a national hero? In Donbass, Russian speakers were told everything public must be in Ukrainian and that Stefan Bandera was now a national hero. The Azov Nazis were admitted into Ukraine's defense force...would you be a pacifist if Nazi groups were admitted into the German army? Maybe, maybe still not worth fighting about. not easy to imagine.
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  11358.  @caterine837  it is completely different from many countries! "there is ALWAYS ONE state language and everyone should use it" ok, what is the ONE state language of Belgium that EVERYONE should use? and what is the penalty for NOT using this ONE STATE language?
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  11359.  @caterine837  looks like you can't answer my very simple question about the "ONE" official language of Belgium! Want to try again? What is the one official language of Belgium?
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  11360.  @caterine837  not letting you escape from your most ignorant statement. you said quite clearly that countries always have one official language, and that everyone should use that official language. you clearly know nothing, but go ahead, show the world your wisdom. very simple question, third time of asking, what is the official language of Belgium that "everyone should use"?
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  11361.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Canada?
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  11362.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Switzerland?
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  11363.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Spain?
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  11364.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Wales? Welsh? All English speakers in Wales are compelled to have their entire education conducted in Welsh? No broadcasting of English allowed in Wales? The only language permitted in government entities would be Welsh, no English allowed? If such restrictions were implemented in Wales there would be a revolution. Now you understand why the Donbass revolted.
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  11365. It's evidence of 2 tier policing because he was arrested almost immediately, which proves the reason for his arrest was to prove there is no 2 tier policing, otherwise it would have taken weeks to happen.
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  11366. has nothing to do with "reluctance" and everything to do with NATO's inability to match Russian arms production.
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  11367. The DEI cheerleaders keep stressing that companies and teams should reflect the community they serve, so, yep, the German football team should be 90% white if you believe in DEI.
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  11368. still blaming Putin when it is the sanctions that created the spike in energy costs. Bojo too dumb to realize that the global energy prices we all have to pay are determined by global supply and demand, not by extracting more petroleum from the North Sea which, in global terms, is a drop in the ocean.
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  11369. cela peut arriver en France parce que la France a importé beaucoup de musulmans qui font ça
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  11370.  @younesshmd9852  biensur. c;est normale que les migrants musulmans de déclarent comme chrétien une fois en Europe! Comme ça c'est presqu' impossible être renvoyé chez eux, parce que comme "chrétien" ils risquent être le cible de persécution, c'est une tactique employée souvent.
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  11371.  @christinehomer2185  an 80 seat majority is a massive mandate
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  11372. "anti immigration rhetoric can rally stir up the population" wrong. it's waves and waves of mass illegal immigration that stirs up the population. get it right!
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  11373. still better than the West's backing a coup against the legally elected and democratic government of Yanukovich in 2014, right?
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  11374. His profession is comedian. That, and corruption, is how Zelensky has made his money, so, yes, it is his profession. OP asked "Who needs Comedy Central when you have Russia?", and there was NO mention of the fact that the fighting is NOT part of what is so funny. Russia is not a funny topic these days, unless you are heartless. And Russia threatening retaliation is only funny to those who have not been massacred by Russia's 2 and half years of retaliation for attacks on ethnic Russians in Donbass. Keep laughing, but I sincerely wish you would grow up and see the seriousness of all this, child.
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  11375.  @froodtube  Correction: all the killing started when the Azov Battalion, your friends with all the insignia modelled on the Austrian artist's uniforms, started shelling the Donbass after the Donbass announced its separation from Kiev.
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  11376.  @froodtube  The Ukrainians with Russian ethnicity have MASSIVE problems with Kiev's russophobic policies. you clearly know nothing about Ukraine.
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  11377.  @gazpachopolice7211  I know a lot about Ukraine and Russia. Do you, Mr Gazpacho Police?
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  11378.  @bonnie7898  a few questions (which you will refuse to answer). 1. Since when did you start believing every word of all former KGB agents? Or do you just cherry pick the words you want to believe? 2. which words would I google to find Girken's words you mentioned? 3. Yep, following the brilliant idea of the Azov battalion to shell its own citizens, Russia decided to help the ethnic Russians of the Donbass fight back. Sounds fair to me. what's wrong with that? Just implement Minsk 2 and the autonomy of the Donbass would have worked fine for all parties.
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  11379.  @bonnie7898  when you say he "started the war in Donbass", notice how you avoid mentioning who fired the first missiles! If taking control of government buildings is "starting a war" then sure, every country that ever fought for independence started a war, oh how shocking! but the first attacks using missiles, and on civilians? let's see you point the finger of blame at the Azov battalion, those devoted followers of the Austrian painter that you so admire.
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  11380.  @bonnie7898  my take on it is exactly as it happened. Not one single Ukrainian soldier died defending "his territory", for the simple reason that the Donbass was no longer Ukraine, but 2 independent republics that had broken away from Ukraine following the anti constitutional coup in Kiev. Learn the basics. I wish you would start to understand how this really started. You keep telling others to grow up, but your take on it is childish and simplistic in the extreme. meanwhile, you cheerlead for Zelensky every day that he shoves another thousand cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder. Shame on you.
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  11381.  @bonnie7898  what? the Allies fought against Germany in WW2. So, that means the Allies started a war? Since when did fighting, in any form (including self-defence) mean starting a war? This is Middle School writing! Re-phrase to say what you mean!
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  11382.  @MathyBoonen  also my favorite composer too, the Ritt der Valkuren is just the most amazing music. So, what's your point?
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  11383.  @bonnie7898  The first question is not rhetorical. it needs an answer. so, answer, please. and the honest answer will reveal so much about how you analyze info. ah, the Moscow Times, that impartial source that is printed, where, in Amsterdam? Let me check it out and get back to you on the inconsistencies.
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  11384.  @gazpachopolice7211  I have no reason to believe you or disbelieve you, Mr Gazpacho Police. Am I living where? in Russia? where are you living?
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  11385.  @gazpachopolice7211  Not obvious at all (and, BTW, "very obvious" makes no sense, as the word "obvious" is an absolute, something is either obvious or not, there are not degrees of being obvious!). Given I mentioned Macron in one reply, it could well have been you were asking about France. So, let's go with your answer. I'm a vagabond. I don't identify myself with any country. Great, did we conclude our brief chat?
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  11386.  @bonnie7898  would that be the same OHCHR kicked out of Donbass for revealing Russian positions to Ukrainian forces, that OHCHR?
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  11387.  @gazpachopolice7211  a maternity hospital that was a weapons dump and barracks for Ukrainian fighters.
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  11388.  @MathyBoonen  Funny how Bucha went all quiet! Looks like they couldn't find any evidence to prosecute any Russians! Maybe time to look into how the Ukrainians murdered so-called collaborators in Bucha!
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  11389.  @bonnie7898  I'm a teacher of many languages. I was not in Donbass for a few months. I was in Vinnytsia for 4 months in 2018. I left when I was told by the boss that Russian was not to be used in the classroom, even though all students had agreed it was good to use Russian as the lingua franca for ESL and Spanish classes. I heard a lot of Ukrainians give all kinds of accounts about what was happening in their country, and I heard both sides. I still have Ukrainian students on line, and quite a few are absolutely disgusted by what Zelensky has done. No narrative was swallowed. The facts and the background were checked VERY carefully. Narrative swallowing would be what you did.
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  11390.  @gazpachopolice7211  well, you might use "somewhat obvious" in an ironic way, like "slightly pregnant", but using "very obvious" in regular English composition would get you a half point deduction! Like saying "very full".....full is also an absolute, as something is either full, or not. it can't be "somewhat full" or "very full". I answered your question. I went with the same answer as you, a vagabond. Presently in France. What of it?
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  11391.  @MathyBoonen  and the Austrian man was a vegetarian, and so is my sister, so, that means she must be a fascist too! Mathy, your logic is so admirable!
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  11392.  @samdherring  where was the Allied shame when German civilians were dying in WW2?
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  11393.  @MathyBoonen  we all feel sorry for the poor Ukrainian civilians duped by Zelensky and NATO into thinking that Russia can be defeated in a protracted ground war. It can't, and that is the sad fact.
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  11394.  @gazpachopolice7211  Irony has many aspects, and one of them is saying something you believe to be true when, in fact, the opposite is true. Given that "very full" is a contradiction in terms, it is ironic that someone implying something is "full" is in fact saying that it isn't. Sarcasm is intentionally saying one thing to imply the opposite. No need to wonder about the accounts being sympathetic to Russia. There are many, many people in the English speaking world that are sympathetic to Russia. I know, hard to believe, given the drivel and lies you have heard, right?
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  11395.  @samdherring  his profession at the moment is illegitimate president. nothing in the Ukrainian constitution allows for a presidential election to be cancelled in the way it has been. Parliamentary elections, yes, but not presidential elections.
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  11396.  @bonnie7898  Oh, grow up. Multiple (not "multiply") people have refuted your arguments. They're all wrong and only you are right? It's not a popularity contest, you know. As Einstein said, even if one person has an argument against the accepted truth, it is worth exploring. the fact you must confront is the governments of 17 of the world's 20 most populous nations are either pro Russia or neutral, so looks like you are part of the tiny minority.
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  11397.  @bonnie7898  and yet again, completely wrong. Vinnytsia, not Donbass. for once, totally right, 100% passionate to correct the wayward, ukro-deluded thoughts that Russia is responsible for this mess in Ukraine. wrong again, 60 years old, grizzled and semi retired, far from naive, you only have to ask instead of aimlessly speculating, but it seems to be your way, aimlessly speculate when the answers are all at hand.
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  11398. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay
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  11399.  @mitjed  no reason to believe anything you read on the internet, but every reason to consider the other side of the argument, especially when you have the sense to see some credibility there. Tucker is no Putin fan, he just questions why the West blindly follows the autocrat Zelensky and Tucker doubts it is wise to send billions to such a corrupt regime. you should listen more attentively to what Tucker says. he makes sense. Zelensky does not.
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  11400.  @hardtackbeans9790  "probably"??? seems like you doubt your own words! why not say "definitely" and offer a $1000 bet? it would be a pleasure to post my evidence and take your money! up for it? or are you a total coward who will back down and crawl back under your stone?
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  11401.  @mitjed  ok Mr linguist, so you explain to me why you prefer the double "zh" when the place name is transliterated from the original Russian.
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  11402.  @AORD72  once again, you make the same mistake as EU leaders when they imposed sanctions on Russia, assuming Turkey will lose its EU markets without being able to replace those markets with others elsewhere. When will EU wake up to the fact that they are not indispensable? The future is BRICS, not G7, and Turkey is Russia's ally, not the EU or NATO's.
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  11403.  @francoislechanceux5818  Erdogan doesn't know the meaning of the word "never". Turkey's arming of Ukraine more than most countries of Western Europe doesn't take much, given the pathetic amount coughed up so far by Western Europe, As to recognition of Crimea, could well be tied to recognition of Northern Cyprus by Russia, a future tit for tat recognition could be on the cards. Erdogan has, keep in mind, encouraged Russia to Turkey flights for Russian tourists. $40 billion lost revenue for the EU from Russian tourists, a big chunk of that on its way to Turkey. No wonder the euro has crashed and the ruble so strong. Read it and weep, you EU losers!
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  11404.  @AORD72  thanks for the stats. what's your point?
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  11405. there was no agreement for a ceasefire, except in the port areas. but then again, if Ukrainian missiles intercept a Russian missile mid air, that intercepted missile must fall somewhere. Promises to ceasefire were kept in Transnistria, Chechnya and Georgia, and will be in Ukraine, once the 5 objectives have been attained.
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  11406.  @lg2058  preparing the sheep for the bad news that Russia has won.
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  11407. @@user-ph4xf4bk6n exactly so. Boris thought he knew more about NATO "strength" than Putin did. Boris got it all wrong, and now we have 2 years of war that Russia is winning. Thanks, Boris.
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  11408.  @bonnie7898  in fact, the big news from Russia is how well the economy is doing and how Russia far outproduces all of NATO in armaments and weaponry. what a blundering fool Boris Johnson was to tell Zelensky how Ukraine would achieve total victory against incompetent Russia, agreed?
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  11409.  @PWalnuts69  looks like reading comprehension is not your forte. no one said that the Spanish police are soft. The Spanish "justice" system is soft on crime. As I rightly said, if drunken, anti-social behavior was tackled as it is in Dubai or Singapore, then Spain wouldn't have these problems.
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  11410.  @PWalnuts69  careful with your God-like pronouncements on who has been where.
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  11411.  @PWalnuts69  I'm pointing out your useless reading comprehension skills, because your comment about the Spanish police had nothing to do with my observation that Spanish laws are so lax, drunken tourists can get away with mayhem, unlike in places like Dubai and Singapore. have trouble grasping basic concepts, do you, Nutsy?
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  11412. conspicuous by its absence, no mention of the HORRENDOUS losses Ukraine suffered in its repeated attempts to take the island! In the big picture, who has Snake Island makes no difference. Success will depend on which side can keep fresh troops on the battlefield and which side has the greater supply of weapons AND ammo....Russia wins on these fronts and will achieve its objectives. Probably when Russia dictates terms to end this conflict Ukraine will keep Snake Island...but not its Black Sea coast:)
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  11413.  @jamesferguson2353  if you call increasing your mental strength to raise your old mind to a new supreme level, "losing your mind", as in losing your old inferior mind then, yep. And as I said, Biden is still trying to find his mind, just any mind would do.
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  11414.  @samdherring  who broke point 5 of the Budapest Memorandum?
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  11415.  @samdherring  There was no Budapest Agreement. It was the Budapest Memorandum. Check a dictionary to see the difference between an agreement and a memorandum, and then tell me which side refused to follow point 5 of the Memorandum.
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  11416. If only Western leaders would also lose their minds if that means fighting for their citizens to be treated fairly.
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  11417.  @bonnie7898  Point 5 is about none of the signatories using nuclear weapons EXCEPT.....read the exceptions listed, and then you will see why Russia has the green light to use nukes. But you are right, it is Point 6, not Point 5, that USA broke. My bad. Biden, by refusing to consult Russia over its security concerns, broke the Budapest Memorandum.
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  11418.  @Earlbein  please, no need to keep talking about Biden.
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  11419.  @ZoragRingael  OH! I see! So ANYTHING reported on pro Russian sites = lies and fakes. you are 100% sure it cannot be true. On the other hand, ANYTHING reported on pro Ukrainian sites = true! Veritably "russia bad, Ukraine good". no wonder you are unable to get a balanced version of events there..you CHOOSE not to! infantile.
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  11420. yep ,great success the Kherson offensive, 3000 odd cannon fodder chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder, and no gains at all.
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  11421.  @baneofbanes  Have you been paying attention dude or have you only been watching Western propaganda like a sheep? Qive me a list of the settlements in Kherson gained by Ukraine in the current offensive
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  11422.  @baneofbanes  you are aware that Andreyka and the bridgehead over the Ingulets River was retaken by Russia, right?
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  11423. should work just fine in cloudy Germany. just a shame such technology won't be in place to save oma from freezing to death in Padderborn on Christmas Day.
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  11424.  @Nils.Minimalist  older people die of the cold every winter in Germany, and all over Europe. It's just a question of how many more will die of the cold this coming winter. Only a fool would look at the temperature on October 15th and smirk.
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  11425. still, it's a valid point, the refugees should go home.
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  11426.  @andrew30m  so not any international court then. the whole procedure was handled within the UK, agreed?
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  11427.  @andrew30m  bla bla bla. it's all nonsense. Russia pulled out of ECHR and 400 Russians were arrested last year for words they wrote on social media. UK is a member of ECHR and over 3000 people were arrested for words written on social media. Latvia recently imprisoned a man for trampling on the Ukrainian flag. ECHR is a toothless tiger that has no more insight into legal cases than any court in the UK. Fascist governments will happily just ignore such judgements. if the dunces at ECHR think that illegal immigration rules best serve the local communities upon which illegal immigrants are thrust, then they are ignorant of the reality on the ground. no one needs the ECHR. time to dump it.
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  11428. you know, when the offer is to train more Ukrainian troops, that NATO is running out of weapons and ammo
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  11429. Whereas the Duran has been spot on about the Ukraine conflict, it has gotten the Middle East situation completely wrong. We were told about impending, alarming escalation in the Middle East ad nauseum, and lo and behold, nothing has happened except the Houthi attacks. Hezbollah have not done anything of note, Iran has not intervened, the Arab world has protested but done nothing. Israel has a free hand in Gaza and will take its time to destroy Hamas. Mercouris goes blabbering on about "no evidence that Hamas has been destroyed" as if he's on the spot with a clipboard adding up those who have been killed or crippled, but the truth is that no one is going to stop Israel doing what it wants in Gaza.
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  11430. let's see if it doesn't "change anything". once annexation is complete, civilian infrastructure in Ukraine may well be kissed goodbye....won't change anything? bye bye internet, electricity, water
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  11431. it's not a rout when your troops fill a vacuum and don't have to battle for it. every time Ukraine fights face to face with Russia, Ukraine loses thousands of cannon fodder troops and gains no territory. Battle of the Bulge.....last roll of the dice that will weaken Ukraine
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  11432.  @anthonyhulse1248  what he said is absolute nonsense. "depriving" Ukrainians of the means to defend their country implies NATO actually HAS the means to supply Ukraine with weapons! It doesn't! Russia has demilitarized BOTH Ukraine and NATO. grasp reality!
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  11433. Jackson is as wrong about Hamas and Israel as he is so right about Ukraine and Russia. Sad to see he is only well informed on one of those two conflicts.
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  11434. Day 16, NO town captured in the Great Ukrainian Counter Offensive. 24 days to go.
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  11435. "speaks out racistly about Muslims" oh dear, Julia. you fell into the trap. As Tommy always asks, "what race is Islam?" answer, Julia?
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  11436. unlike Trump, Biden actually committed a crime, well, 3 in fact. hold on to your seats as Trump gets acquitted on appeal, and Joe Biden gets charged and found guilty next year for corruption.
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  11437. I just love how Ukrainian bots are so ignorant. Lack of that money will not hurt Russia much, because that money is being largely replaced by purchases by major powers like China and India. You missed the news! Meanwhile, there is no immediate solution to replacing Russian gas in Europe. happy freezing bankrupt Christmas!
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  11438. yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons and that the West has air defence systems to prevent this.
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  11439. just wait til early next year when Russia defeats Ukraine.
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  11440. and you are 100 times happier to cheer on the war when the aim is to weaken Russia, and the Ukrainians are the fools who will sacrifice themselves for that aim.
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  11441. why just approve your government supporting Ukraine? Why don't you cut out the middleman and just send every last penny you have to Zelensky?
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  11442.  @Alehinn  why would I be interested in your comment? No, I didn't read it. Let's read it now. Ah, as expected, it is just bs. Look, if you believe in Ukraine's cause, why insist that ALL taxpayers keeping giving away all their hard earned wages to support the futile war? If you REALLY wanted the Ukronazis to win, you would send them everything you have, even though Zelensky himself refuses to sell any of his properties to fund the war! Yep, stop being a hypocrite, stop demanding the sensible taxpayers get poor by funding the Ukronazis, and start doing the virtuous thing and confess you are a big admirer of Bandera and his nazi ideology and you will be sending your pay checks to Kiev. BTW, what is the total amount of dollars the US should send before the president says "enough is enough". 1 trillion? 2 trillion?
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  11443.  @johnmckinzie3925  when I hear Zelensky has sold all his properties to help fund his war, THEN I might think about chipping in a penny or two.
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  11444.  @Alehinn  it doesn't mean that they have to go fight over there, but if they choose not to, and they choose not to send any of their personal funds, and they just write words online, their support is vacuous, hypocritical paltry nonsense. it's actually a lack of support.
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  11445. "controlled retreats to avoid losing personnel".....so exactly how many Ukrainian soldiers were captured or killed in Severodonetsk and in Lysychansk, mate, in these "controlled retreats" (mass entrapments and surrenders)?
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  11446.  @jamesgreen1116  no one is arguing about who would be first minister at Stormont. The issue at hand was whether the Unionists or the Nationalists have a majority of voters behind them, and your point was NOT which party is the largest single party, but that the majority of voters in NI now want union with Dublin, and that is untrue. The majority of voters in NI still want union with London. stop pivoting from your erroneous first comment.
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  11447. fake news. BBC Verify need to look into this. 12 months ago we were told that Russia is running out of weapons and missiles, so this story must be fake.
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  11448.  @Nagroddy  not to me. if Ukraine had implemented the Minsk Accords it signed, this would not have happened.
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  11449.  @mortenrobinson5421  what about the 78-0 vote in 2014 in the Crimean Parliament for separation from Ukraine and for union with the Russian Federation? Forgot about that? And it was the USSR, led by a warmonger Ukrainian, Brezhnev, that invaded Afghanistan, not Russia!
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  11450.  @PaulBeet  procrastination? it's realization, that this war is unwinnable for Ukraine. EU slowly figuring out they need an off ramp, and reducing arms supplies to a trickle is just a way to play for time.
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  11451.  @HereWeAre__01  who was the main culprit of shelling the Donbass relentlessly for 8 years?
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  11452.  @timeames2509  according to which law?
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  11453.  @bonnie7898  so invading a sovereign country is just fine, as long as Bonnie characterizes the ruling regime as "brutal"? source and evidence of the poll that said 75% of Libyans approved the removal of Gaddafi AND all the deaths of Libyans who were victims of NATO's bombings? invading sovereign countries is ok IF, like Afghanistan, billions are spent on training and if the invasion is done "on behalf of the general population"? oooh, some gray areas in these very vague terms I would say. the West's "rules based order" looks pretty unclear to me
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  11454.  @timeames2509  didn't you say the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were legal? according to which law?
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  11455.  @timeames2509  so, back to your point, by which law was the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan legal?
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  11456.  @jeraldkozey6095  because NATO is powerless. NATO has no air defence system to prevent this. they just can't admit it.
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  11457.  @CatManOfTaste  how many civilians died in Crimea as a result of Putin's invasion? I forget, but I do remember the Crimean Parliament voted 78-0 for annexation.
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  11458.  @bonnie7898  so, supporting the separatists in Kosovo is good, because the International Court of Bonnie ruled Serbia's aims were for genocide of the Kosovars, but supporting the separatists in Donbass is bad, absolutely terrible, because the International Court of Bonnie ruled that Ukraine's aims were NOT genocide of the Donbass ethnic Russians. I guess we all understand the crystal clear "rules based order" of the West now.
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  11459.  @timeames2509  sending American troops to Ukraine would result in hundreds and then thousands of body bags of US soldiers flown back to DC. The blubbery, woke, masses would beg the president to sue for peace within days.
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  11460.  @timeames2509  "very good reason" doesn't pass the smell test. that's your opinion, not a legal case. UN Security Council approved both US invasions of Iraq, and the invasion of Afghanistan? you are sure of that?
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  11461.  @timeames2509  you are sure that China and Russia voted for the US invasion of Iraq? Are you sure that there was a vote on the invasion of Iraq?
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  11462.  @timeames2509  correct. Russia and China didn't vote for the US invasion of Afghanistan. So, when you said the Security Council voted for the invasion of Afghanistan you lied. right?
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  11463.  @timeames2509  except you just said the Security council never approved the US invasion of Afghanistan. so which is it?
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  11464.  @timeames2509  10% for the big guy
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  11465.  @bonnie7898  "well documented" = I haven't a clue what I am talking about, so I rely on the word of others. Islamic terrorism kills Westerners frequently. So why not invade, occupy and bomb all Islamic countries? where is the red line? Yes, if the Western world is to live by its values of non intervention in a sovereign country and respecting the territorial integrity of a sovereign country (the lecture we hear ALL the time about Russia's intervention in Ukraine) then the West should have let Serbia and Kosovo handle its own problems. Can't have your cake and eat it. either you believe military intervention is allowed, or you don't. which one is it? As a non Russian living in the West, I can assure you, Western media treats the sheep in the West as mushrooms.
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  11466.  @timeames2509  Americans are the terrorists. at least under Trump there was 4 years of not starting military conflict.
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  11467.  @timeames2509  i doubt it. which bridges over the Dnipr will the tanks be using, do you think?
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  11468.  @timeames2509  I would imagine Russia may well deploy a whole range of weapons to counter any tanks that cross into Ukraine. I would also imagine that Russia will do whatever it can to prevent said tanks reaching the front lines, just as they did with the ex Soviet tanks that already came and got destroyed. Nope, I know nothing about T14s
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  11469.  @timeames2509  what makes you think American air power would survive Russian air defences?
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  11470.  @timeames2509  So, like Napoleon and Hitler, you are sure Russia would lose
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  11471.  @timeames2509  what makes you think NATO planes would overcome Russian air defences? (second time of asking)
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  11472.  @timeames2509  "most" = no, not sure, could be that Russian air defences shoot a load down and, bingo, "hello body bags" is the headline on NBC News. One hell of a risk, and all to protect the Ukronazis and corrupt oligarchs of Kiev.
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  11473. why would the police be "disappointed and angry"? diversity is our strength, and post Rotherham and Telford, everyone has enormous respect for the police, especially since the attest of that disgraceful autistic girl for speech crime and telling the truth.
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  11474. "denying the people of the country relevant information that could have changed how they voted" what, you mean, like the Hunter Biden laptop information that, had it been revealed before election day, would have meant a Trump win? you mean that kind of election interference, Hilary?
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  11475. 55% of the forces they STARTED THIS WAR WITH. DPR started this war with very few troops, 8 years ago. MOD again lost in its own propaganda. Hey, MOD, was the Ghost of Kiev fake news?
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  11476. 1) how soon? predict Ukraine's first successful sustained counter offensive, oh history buff. (Ukraine's last successive counter offensive was in 2015). 2) Exactly when do you expect sanctions imposed on Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and now Russia to effect a change in policy? 3) Given that 80% of Russia's army is still in Russia, not in Ukraine, do you think Russia has a fair chance of retaining its occupied territories? 4) What chance Putin resorts to nukes to retain his territorial gains?
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  11477. XY = a male, so stop calling "he" a "she"
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  11478.  @fargotua13  not sure what you mean at all, but am pretty sure Pierre de Coubertin understood a man is a man and a woman is a woman
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  11479.  @MLVL312  No, Russia is isolated only from YOUR world, that tiny inward-looking bubble known to the rest of the globe as the deluded Collective West, Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Asia are fine with Russia, want to trade with Russia, even want to support Russia break sanctions and break the Western hegemony of petrodollars and SWIFT payments etc. Only your little bubble has tried, and miserably failed, to isolate Russia. Start listening to the REAL world out there!
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  11480.  @Peacefulnessxxx  oh, you know, in order to afford the carrots and bread, maybe ditch Netflix, smartphone, ciggies and booze, the usual luxuries that so many people consider necessities
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  11481. @@carlcollins6659 the government knows there is no cartel, otherwise they would have their lawyers jump on the case. if there IS a cartel, then yeah, get those evil businessmen into court.
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  11482.  @andrewoliver8930  but why would they try and compete with each other whilst they are doing well without competing? makes no sense.
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  11483. @@carlcollins6659 yeah, I don't disagree. it smells of collusion, given what WAS a cutthroat market to be in.
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  11484. so after 9 years of fighting Russia in Syria, ISIS finally realized an attack in Moscow would be a really good idea? nah, 9 years to figure that out makes no sense
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  11485.  @oasis67  So BOTH the Wrner group AND the Wagner group tried to take out Zelensky? Did each group know the other group were trying to do the same thing?
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  11486.  @oasis67  just makes it sound like you have no idea what your talking about, mis-writing like that. My guess is, indeed, that you have no idea what you are talking about. So, on to the one month old account. what does that tell you about a person? one month old account = ? let's hear your pearls of wisdom on the significance of one month old accounts. Try not so misspeak/miswrite now! Do you have a real name? Do you hide behind "oasis" because you are ashamed of your name? why not be honest and tell the world your real name?
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  11487. when we don't see a leopard tank or a challenger we must entertain the notion that Russia has destroyed them
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  11488. Mike Martin is just one of the many charlatans that has spent 2 years selling the lie that Ukraine is winning. Now that his pipe dream is going up in smoke, he is reduced to blabbing nonsense just to fill air time. really sad.
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  11489.  @andreimj  my comment was about the foolishness of posing as amateur psychologist and claiming to know what is in Putin's mind. not sure what your point is exactly!
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  11490. Got it. So, New York wants to continue to be a Sanctuary City just as long as tax payers from outside of New York are forced to continue funding its Sanctuary City status. I have a better idea. Stop being a Sanctuary City.
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  11491. close to 10 million Ukrainian refugees are never coming back to Ukraine.
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  11492. yawn, just another day in Londonistan
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  11493. media taking us to be fools. yeah, Russia LOVES attacking its own facilities, Nordstream, nuclear power plants. give me a break. This fool, Natasha, will be telling us next that Ghost of Kiev is still flying and is real.
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  11494.  @madness198648  totally agree. it just baffles me that our so-called leaders in the West are blind to this, or pretending to be blind to this.
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  11495. calling a woman a "ghoul" is typical of the misogyny of Fascist groups like the Young Turks. Disgraceful bigotry and hatred.
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  11496.  @edwardrichardson7076  YEP
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  11497.  @shuli6021  yes, you are right, mostly the US, G7, NATO, EU etc have backed themselves into a corner. some other developing countries are having to pick sides to some extent, and may find themselves a little trapped. like, "oh, you didn't vote for the anti Russian UN proposal, so, no more foreign aid for you, Mozambique", that kind of getting trapped in a corner.
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  11498. meanwhile, in the real world, there has been TALK of a counter offensive since March (such TALK increases the aid flowing into the pockets of Ukraine's oligarchs). It's bullshit. The last successful Ukrainian counter offensive was in 2015. Keane has NO idea of Russian weapons and ammo production, Keane has NO idea of Russian losses, Keane has NO idea of what the hell he is saying, but he can manage to parrot the mush pumped out by Western media. It's over. Russia won. NATO wrapping up another fiasco on the back of the Kabul disaster.
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  11499. only one eyewitness, an elderly lady who says she spoke to Jay at the bus stop and saw him when she drove past him, up the road, 15 minutes later. but be aware that the elderly lady looks and sounds like Joe Biden when trying to formulate her responses!
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  11500. are white British working class community leaders ever consulted on policing levels, ever? 2 tier Keir.
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  11501.  @madalinradion  3 brigades depleted, demoralized and desperate. hundreds of tanks, a few of which are in good repair, all held back because for the last 17 days any advance has been met by massacre and destruction from the Russians. wake up and grasp reality.
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  11502.  @dylanvogler2165  No one is crying, just pointing out that the bias of Western media means Ghost of Kiev is acceptable, ambiguous, and swallowed hook line and sinker by the sheeple like you, whereas Russian info is usually right on the money, hence the West has to ban RT, scared the truth might get out. That's all.
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  11503. there are no increasing temperatures. not one record has been broken this summer.
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  11504.  @24k__J  if only you would give me some facts! here is one for you. the highest temperature recorded in Greece is from 1977!
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  11505.  @Tom_McMurtry  nowhere on mainland Italy has seen any record high temperature this year, so things must be cooling.
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  11506.  @Funglutton  Other way round mate. it is clear that Climategate and "hide the decline" must be ignored in order for your narrow minded little echo chamber to function. Ever listened to Judith Curry, have you?
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  11507.  @rod9829  the scientists who say what I say are the leaders in their field and know what they are talking about. Judith Curry, William Happer, Richard Lindzen, Willie Soon, John Christy, Ian Plimer know a lot more than you and Greta Thunberg.
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  11508.  @thorn6809  the "nobody" is someone who is destroying Ukraine and massacring hundreds, sometimes thousands, of Ukrainian citizens every day. if that isn't a good reason to start negotiating, it just means the lives of Ukrainians mean nothing to Zelensky.
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  11509.  @niburu1508  truth hurts, eh?
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  11510.  @niburu1508  A rose is a rose by any other name
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  11511.  @bonnie7898  truth hurts, eh? the great counter offensive has failed and NATO is so low on weapons it must send cluster bombs. Nice little surprise gift for future generations of Ukrainian kids playing in the woods. no wonder the Taliban kicked NATO a*s so easily in Kabul, NATO has no bloody clue what it's doing.
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  11512.  @braxxian  what is really nice for Russia is that the absurdly small amounts of weaponry sent to Ukraine is sent in intervals so that plenty of time and attention can be fixed on destroying the latest weaponry arrivals and Russia is never overwhelmed by a wave of new supplies arriving.
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  11513. This fool hasn't even learned how to pronounce the key place names correctly. He's ignorant. Putin comes out so much stronger. Putin's allies, BRICS and OPEC, see how he resolved conflict calmly and peacefully, that there was no popular uprising to overthrow Putin, that Lukashenko acted as an effective negotiator (if only Zelensky had accepted Lukashenko as moderator a year ago), and that the Wagners, with their new and improved contracts, are ready to massacre more Ukraine cannon fodder.
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  11514. fascinating that no crime was mentioned in the report. paying hush money is legal. paying a lawyer is indeed a legal expense. influencing an election is what every single presidential candidate does and hopes to do.
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  11515.  @pogo1140  why would the Russians pull back to avoid face to face fighting?
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  11516.  @druunderwood5602  nope, no idea what you did there
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  11517.  @druunderwood5602  tell you what, if you could write in English, I may have a chance of understanding you!
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  11518.  @pogo1140  the reason we have heard nothing for ages about any HIMARS success is because the Russians have figured out how to jam it, and intercept it. same as they are doing now with Storm Shadow. More javelins! that's what i say!
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  11519.  @takeitasacompliment.  everything the West assumes about Russian weaponry seems to underestimate, woefully, the quality of the stuff Russia is using! 30 Patriots fired off the other night, whole system destroyed by a kinzhal.
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  11520.  @seemopps  sounds really easy. does it assume air supremacy and the Russian air force do nothing? does it assume Russian air defence systems are all turned off? Does it assume enough ammo for intense 24/7 barrages for days on end?
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  11521. "Russian morale has not been good" You must be kidding! A bunch of poorly led convicts with shovels just defeated NATO trained, armed and advised battalions! "Fortress Bakhmut" that Zelensky said would be the turning point of the war, is lost! And it's Russian morale that is low? this joker is the best propagandist the BBC can find? oh dear.
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  11522.  @beaur252  so Germany is a war criminal? The German taxpayers who funded Nordstream are war criminals?
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  11523.  @andreasbpunkt  no idea, how is the weather where you are, stuffed way up inside Zelensky's rectum, Adolf?
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  11524.  @anickname202  hopefully hell swallows the Azov Nazi Ukrainians first
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  11525.  @ryaku5  Putin's dream is to restore the rights of Russian speakers, as he did in Chechnya, Georgia, Transnistria and now Ukraine. Get real.
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  11526.  @brianharris1813  "innocent Ukraine people". oxymoron
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  11527.  @anickname202  only recently. for 8 years it was the AzovNazis shelling Donbass, which you absolutely loved and cheered on every day, right?
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  11528.  @MrSilv55  we are on the same side, so no need for me to get what you are saying "into my dam head"
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  11529.  @ryaku5  so obvious, that not for the first time in your life, you got it completely wrong! But, let me give you a chance to take $1000 from me! A $1000 bet that I can prove I am not Russian! If I prove to you I am in fact British, you pay me $1000, agreed? you are 100% sure I am Russian, right?
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  11530.  @ryaku5  not when you accept my bet about my identity!
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  11531.  @ryaku5  you need to learn that there are plenty of Putin supporters who, like me, have no great affinity for Russia, we live in the West, we have been to Ukraine and seen the horror of it, and we have very good reasons for saying what we say based on our experiences there. Been to Crimea, have you? Been to Kiev, have you?
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  11532.  @ryaku5  if you haven't been to Ukraine and Crimea, and spoken to everyday people in their language, you will have no idea of the truth. the "news" stories you read and hear are just opinion pieces. to avoid more war you have to understand what it is that Putin is fighting and why. at the moment, you have no clue what drives Putin, and Russia, to intervene where they intervene. Right now, Latvia is the next country that is doing all it can to be invaded by Russia. and the West has no idea about that. that is the sad thing. Russian Federation always wins wars of attrition, so saying we must "stop" Putin is wishful thinking. if you don't know how to stop Putin, and clearly the West doesn't, then you have to prepare for failure.
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  11533.  @ryaku5  yeah, just like Chechnya
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  11534.  Alex Perez  learn what rope a dope is and watch the Rumble in the Jungle
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  11535.  Alex Perez  yeah, look at them, they just routed Ukraine's finest in Soledar
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  11536.  @ryaku5  Supplying Ukraine won't stop Putin. NATO has done nothing but supply Ukraine from day one, and Putin has continued killing the Ukronazi scum by the hundreds every day. How is NATO gonna supply Ukraine with more men once Putin has killed all the fighting age Ukrainian men? 1) why does Russia need more civilians? it already has 3 times as many civilians as Ukraine. 2) reclaim oil and gas fields? Ukraine has no oil/gas fields of note, nor does Chechnya, nor Transnistria, nor Abkhazia, nor South Ossetia. All the places Putin has intervened in have no gas/oil fields! All the places Putin has NOT attacked - Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, DO have plenty of oil and gas....but Putin has NOT attacked any of them! So, bang goes that theory, Einstein. 3) Putin doesn't want to "bring back" the USSR because, as Putin has pointed out, it was the USSR that created a lot of these problems, like awarding Crimea to Ukraine when most people in Crimea didn't want that. Putin is no supporter of the USSR. 4) Putin may well want Ukraine as a neutral country as a buffer zone against NATO, and this is a reasonable request. Bet the West wished they had sat down with Putin to discuss this in December when, as per point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum, Putin had requested consultations.
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  11537.  @ryaku5  the common denominator between Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Chechnya, Crimea and Donbass is not, sad to tell you, oil and gas! The common denominator is an ethnic Russian population that were targeted by nationalist governments and who appealed to Russia for help. Latvia is next. Latvia is so dumb it thinks excluding Russian speakers from government positions based on lack of fluency in Latvian is a really good idea. Latvia is a slow learner, and at some point Putin will give Latvia the intervention treatment, and rightfully so.
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  11538.  @ryaku5  Kazakstan enjoys very good relations with Russia. Russian speakers and ethnic Russians have equal rights with Kazaks in Kazakstan. Both Kazak and Russian are official languages. Would you agree with Kazakstan's approach, or would you advise Kazakstan to go the Ukraine route, and start introducing restrictions of the use of Russian in Kazakstan?
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  11539.  @ryaku5  i would say that Zelensky, as you pointed out, is someone you can't really negotiate with. However, Putin has been in power for decades, and if you see how BRICS leaders, OPEC leaders, African leaders, Latin American leaders all manage to meet successfully with Lavrov and Putin, it would seem that the problem of sitting down and talking with Putin is with bigots like you and Western leaders.
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  11540.  @ryaku5  so all nations that recognize Russian as an official language are Russian puppets? Is Switzerland a French puppet for recognizing French as an official language?
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  11541.  @ryaku5  and if Putin's aim is to re-create the USSR, why only place 2000 troops in Transnistria? why not press on and retake all of Moldova?
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  11542.  @ryaku5  Russian troops have been in Transnistria for years! why leave them there in Transnistria and make no move on Moldova for years? Why let the Wagners operate in Africa if the priority is recreate the USSR? Makes no sense! "Let's occupy this tiny sliver of land called Transnistria, and then do nothing, just look at Moldova year after year after year and wave to Moldova and keep the border open and generally accept Moldova" you have not thought this through. it is total nonsense. Russians are in Transnistria and not in the rest of Moldova because, as always, when the Moldovan government announced plans to derussify the country and have Romanian as the only official language, the ethnic Russians of Transnistria rebelled, rightfully so, and 2000 Russian peacekeepers made sure Moldova made no move to force Transnistria into anything it didn't want to do. end of story. you need to stop believing your own absurd russophobic lies and propaganda. Now, on to Abkhazia. why not occupy all of Georgia? why only occupy two tiny areas where Russian speakers are the majority?
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  11543.  @ryaku5  you do realize that Russian troops haven't really started throwing themselves into this conflict yet, right? LPR and DPR militias and Chechens have done much of the heavy lifting and front line duties, Wagners plus the convicts (the ones that destroyed Ukraine's finest in Soledar) have done much of the street fighting in Bakhmut area. Nearly all the real Russian forces have been held back for later. Russia takes years to eliminate its opponents, and holds back its main forces. As Putin said, "we haven't started yet". you are so naive.
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  11544.  @ryaku5  and Azerbaijan....lovely little weak oil-rich state, shares a common border with Russia, ex Soviet republic. Fits the perfect profile for Putin to invade and occupy according to your theory. But, surprise surprise, Putin has never even looked toward Azerbaijan as easy pickings! Why not? please explain.
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  11545.  @ryaku5  "phobia" today has two meanings, or is used in 2 different ways. "phobia" as in fear, and "phobia" as in hate. But putting that aside, tell me one single "lie" that I believe about Putin. And keep in mind, a belief is something I perceive to be true. For example, I perceive that Putin has done a great job at diversifying the Russian economy and developing Russia since the catastrophic years of Yeltsin. Opinion polls show Putin is very popular. If you deny this, you are not lying, you just don't share my opinions. it seems your absurd Putinphobia has led you to confuse opinions with "lies". you need to wise up.
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  11546.  @ryaku5  again, you need to step back from the nonsense and propaganda you swallow hook line and sinker. consider the facts. most of the Russian population, as revealed in opinion polls, approve of Putin. Ukraine is NOT getting ENOUGH reliable and powerful weapons. If they were, they wouldn't be panic begging for more! Russia not only has excellent quality weapons, in some areas it has superior weapons, like hypersonic weapons that the West hasn't even put into operation. Again, don't believe the nonsense you hear about Russian inferior weapons. Iran and N Korea are happy to sell their weapons at a great price, so Russia is more than happy to buy. Iranian drones have wreaked havoc on Ukraine. This is an achievement for Russia, not a weakness. Again, if we are to believe the lies from your side, Russia is weak, Russia is poor, Russian morale is low, Russia is poorly led, Russia is poorly equipped, yet a bunch of convicts and mercenaries just routed Ukraine's NATO trained and armed battalions in Soledar, Opidnoye and Klyshcheevka. Go figure! No doubt you also believe the sanctions are working and Russia is isolated! so naive, you poor sweet child
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  11547.  @ryaku5  third time of asking.... what did Russia think it would gain by deliberately downing a passenger jet en route from Malaysia to Amsterdam?
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  11548.  @ryaku5  Russia shot down a Malaysian Airlines flight in order to arrest an opponent of Putin? Are you sure? shooting down a passenger jet in order to arrest someone? any chance you are totally confused between the Ryanair flight diverted to Belarus and the Malaysian airlines flight blown out of the sky?
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  11549.  @ryaku5  an opinion poll is not a referendum, so again, you make no sense. opinion polls of voters in Russia show that Putin has overwhelming support. Deal with the reality. I watch CNN, Fox, DW and frequently comment on their awful news coverage. it's you that needs to start balancing your diet with some pro Russian channels. when you have figured out the difference between an opinion poll and a referendum, and the difference between the malaysian jet shot down and the jet diverted to Belarus, then we can proceed. Keep up with the homework, dear child.
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  11550.  @ryaku5  only a child would think that propaganda comes from only one side. one has to listen to both sides, weigh up the evidence and come to a logical conclusion. Russia on the back foot for months? ok, let's talk facts from the last two months. Territory - Russia has captured Soledar (with convicts and mercenaries), Marenka, Opidnoye. Klyshchevka, cut off most of Bakhmut, and is currently pushing north into Zaporozhe. Ukraine has captured nothing. oh, how the facts hurt. Deaths - The kill rate is estimated by most reliable sources to be 8:1 in Russia's favor, based on the Ukrainian deaths announced by general Milley and Ursula van der Leyen. Russia has 380,000 reservists poised on the Ukrainian border. Ukraine has teenagers and old men recruits thrown into the meatgrinder of bakhmut. reality is Russia has won. just a question of when Ukraine surrenders.
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  11551.  @ryaku5  yep, child, figure out what a referendum is, and an opinion poll, and come back to the debating chamber when you are educated. bye bye
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  11552.  @ryaku5  you don't believe anything against the narrative you have bought. and worse than that, you refuse to check out its veracity. you are a lost sheep. bye bye
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  11553. he is a hero. for nearly 15 months liars and propagandists have lied to us about Ukraine. the documents confirm that Russia is wiping out Ukrainian forces, with a kill rate of 7 to 1 in Russia's favor. Criminal accomplices like DW have refused to tell the truth and they are the criminals, not the lad who revealed the truth. Even now, DW refuses to comment on the horrendous truth.
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  11554. "Lyman sits astride the supply lines of the Russians"...translation, Russian supply lines coming from both Belgorod and Rostov are totally unaffected.
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  11555.  @Jbuwimana  as I just explained, they are not. no supplies originated in Lyman and Lyman would have been the end of the line. it changes nothing, and that's why the commentators can't detail what its strategic importance is.
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  11556.  Merril R  the facts are that Russia is winning the war. when you look at Putin's 5 aims at the start of the intervention, he is very close to achieving all 5. Ukraine is nowhere near getting out of this mess without horrendous losses on all fronts, economically, politically, militarily and most important of all, morally.
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  11557.  Merril R  strategic importance is sanctioning Russian energy exports so that Russia ends up exporting less but gaining hundreds of billions in extra revenue! The West has proved to be strategically inept and globally, the strategic importance of Russia trading so profitably around the world has consigned the West to a horrific defeat. This winter will be absolutely fascinating to watch
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  11558.  Merril R  All insurance for international shipping is NOT owned by the West, and even if it were, your assumption that non-Western countries can't arrange shipping insurance is false. There are so many loopholes, it is a joke. A UAE ship can get insurance to ship UAE oil, switch the oil with Russian oil in international waters, and the delivery goes ahead. This is happening as we speak off the coast of Greece. Greek ships bring in Russian oil to Europe no problem at all. It is why the brilliant idea of sanctioning shipping of Russian goods has not happened yet and will not happen. it won't work. it is another example of strategic unimportance and why the Russian economy is doing so much better than the West's economies. Remember when Biden called the Ruble the "rubble"? Ruble is now the world's best performing currency. Now THAT is of strategic importance!
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  11559.  Merril R  Western sanctions on Russian energy that create energy shortages, sky high prices and imminent rationing in the West (but not in Russia) is strategically important! The West has some awesome strategists at work! Makes you think they must be working for Russia!
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  11560.  Merril R  all my research is sound (unlike your reading comprehension skills and logic skills). Let's just analyze these 2 statements. 1) Russia could always not use insurance. 2) international shipping needed to transport Russian oil and goods need to be insured. Don't see any contradiction there? your confusion, delusion and contradictions highlight why the West has got itself in such a pickle. You think you know something about rules, but the realities of life contradict your assumptions. you make yourself sound foolish. Googled "ship insurance companies not in the West" have you?
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  11561.  @asmo1313  Kupiansk did nothing to affect Russian supply lines. take a look at something called a "map".
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  11562. If the Russians decide to take out all the bridges over the Dnipr these Bradleys gonna look so pretty 1000 kilometers from the battlefield
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  11563. there is no investigation. it was just a manhunt. Tenerife Police don't want a massive exposé of drug crimes etc on their island.
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  11564. the search is cancelled and the investigation continues, but it's pretty clear there is no real investigation. no key questions have been addressed at all.
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  11565. how do you know Russia will not stop with Ukraine? Why would Putin have any desire to invade another country?
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  11566.  @SmilingNinja  stop believing the lies of the Western media that have brainwashed you! Russian troops are being moved INTO Kherson and have stopped any Ukrainian offensive. It is Russian civilians being evacuated before the big battle,
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  11567.  @eedragonr6293  makes sense. hope it works.
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  11568. it's not just thugs attacking the police. in Rotherham, the police is the enemy, and ordinary outraged citizens are more than willing to stick it to the enemy that allowed 1400 white girls become victims of Pakistani rape gangs.
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  11569. got it. migrant numbers are going down ONLY when you look at a 12 month period, but when you look at the most recent 3 month period, the numbers are up. this kind of statistical dancing around is proof that the policy is a failure.
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  11570. What should be really concerning for Zelensky and his NATO handlers are that governments representing the vast majority of the planet's population either want Russia to win, or don't care who wins. With BRICS, OPEC and the sanctioned nations all openly backing Russia, looks like the West has become somewhat isolated, not Russia.
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  11571. I don't recall the BBC insisting that everything that happened in Bucha was merely allegations against Russia.
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  11572. Russia has taken 5% more territory.....yeah, and wiped out 50% of Ukraine's army.
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  11573. Get real. The West miscalculated completely. sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, NATO weapons are not superior, demoralized convicts keep defeating Ukronazi NATO trained battalions, NATO failed in supplying enough weapons. Reality is Ukraine/NATO can't win, so...option 1, lose 20% of territory but survive, or option 2, lose everything and get totally destroyed.
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  11574. when you import people from war-torn countries, you import their warring ways.
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  11575. bizarre she has never heard of the George Floyd case
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  11576. starts with a lie. Russia has not failed to make a payment. Russia made the payment. the bank failed to honor the payment.
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  11577. NBC working overtime figuring out ways to show Harris is still in this race.
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  11578. the elite must lie and fabricate because the ordinary man now has access to the same analysis and information as they do, and they can't handle losing control. Like the priests who lost all authority once the masses learned to read and had access to the Bible for themselves. It's a power struggle. Fauci can preach that the vaccine is safe and effective, we, the People, can instantly see plenty of evidence he's wrong. they hate that.
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  11579. Putin is defending the rights of ethnic Russians in Ukraine and the West should back him, instead of fighting him.
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  11580. if, by professional, you mean refusing to investigate the background to the disappearance and the futile search of an area Jay never entered, then sure.
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  11581.  @billneave5537  there is no evidence Jay went into the wilderness where they have searched fruitlessly for 2 weeks. there is no reason to think he went in that area. I am not saying that 100% sure Jay never went there, but I question why assume that he did when it seems so unlikely compared to other hypotheses. and 2 weeks of waste of time searching have proved me right. but, you tell me, why assume he went into this Teno wilderness?
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  11582.  @billneave5537  ok, let me address this with the way the French do it (I live in France at the foot of the Pyrenees). when someone goes missing, they are almost always found within hours, maybe a few days if the weather is bad. the bulk of the work is investigative, digging deep with background checks, talking to family, friends, knocking on doors. basic sleuthing. the actual search will reflect the results of the investigation to find out where a person might be AND WHY! In the Tenerife case, there is a manhunt based SOLELY on the area he was last known to be in! Nothing else. All the other factors that could explain where he was intending to go, why, who else was involved, totally ignored! The only reason they keep looking into the wilderness is because they didn't find him on the road or close to the road! There is no evidence Jay went into the wilderness! For 2 weeks the focus should have been what other factors could have led Jay to being taken somewhere else. But no, the whole exercise was to keep searching caves, ravines and places Jay never went to. Truly pathetic reasoning.
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  11583.  @lornamurdocheaton624  pretty sure. no arrests. no press conferences. no appeals to the public. no explanation why the 2 mystery men are "of no relevance", no help from outside admitted, 2 weeks of silence. all indications this was 100% manhunt, 0% investigation. but if you have mountains of evidence that rapid progress has been made to unlock the mysteries, go ahead!
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  11584. oh, my my, how we have gone from "Ukraine is winning" to "a stalemate with Russia". how long before the bleeding obvious, "Russia has won" seeps into the befuddled minds of the brainwashed sheeple?
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  11585. All these New York Democrats now getting treated just as they richly deserve. You voted to be a Sanctuary City, enjoy every minute of it.
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  11586. Rupa Huq needs a visit from the Police to "check her thinking"
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  11587. a very confused man. he says the Russians have stepped back, then says they have stopped advancing and dug in. if this expert does not know the difference between those two, then how in God's name would he have any clue what either side is really doing?
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  11588.  @sskunky6934  when the full retreat massacres a lot more Ukronazis than Russians lost, it is indeed a victory. are the cemeteries and weeping mothers a pleasure for you to watch in Ukraine? no one cares about what is in a parade on Victory Day compared with achieving the 5 goals in Ukraine, which Russia is close to achieving. Ukraine on the other hand, how much closer is it to Crimea compared with 6 months ago?
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  11589. "I think there would be broad support for extraordinary measures" I think you have no clue what you are talking about, your Lordship, because you are part of the problem...out of touch and clueless about what this is all about.
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  11590. Yet more evidence that Russia is running out of weapons and, as Biden said in July, that Russia has already lost this war.
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  11591.  @marksages1691  So all supplies coming from Belgorod can still be offloaded before the train gets to Liman, correct?:) and please tell, before Liman was captured, did the Ukrainians let Russian supplies go by rail through Ukrainian held territory to Donetsk city?,
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  11592.  @marksages1691  from Belgorod to where?
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  11593. human health.......9 times more people die from the cold than the heat, you dope, so on that score climate warming should be embraced
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  11594. "Can we call the Russians human after what they have done?" Can we call the Ukrainians human after applauding the Azov Nazi Battalion's shelling of Donbass for 8 years? Can we call NATO countries human for destroying the infrastructure of Iraq and Serbia?
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  11595.  @nicgb098  doesn't work well if you defend a place that is of no strategic value, lose thousands of your fighters and then say "this is now untenable, let's leave". that's just dumb.
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  11596.  @nicgb098  your assumption is that Russia had more losses in the Bakhmut campaign. Foolish assumption. What is so good about losing thousands of fighters over a 7 month period and then losing the city anyway? You gained some time for what? to import a handful of rust bucket tanks that will change nothing? Dying for the Ukronazis is not heroic. it is a senseless waste of life in a futile war. wise up.
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  11597.  @nicgb098  why would you say the Ukrainian general in charge of the Bakhmut campaign was fired the other day? What did he do wrong in your book?
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  11598.  @nicgb098  what would be the definition of "untenable"? at what point in this saga of Bakhmut did Bakhmut become "untenable"?
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  11599. when they took in thousands of refugees from Donbass who were escaping shelling by Azov Nazi Ukrainians over the last 8 years
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  11600. it's called Summer. Some summers are hot, with heat waves, some not so much. "hottest since 1981"....so, I guess there was more CO2 in the atmosphere in 1981 than now, if climate change is the explanation?
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  11601.  @norbertlipusz3892  now THAT is a fascinating moving of the goalposts! We have gone from "the sanctions will cripple the Russian economy to the point of Russia having to abandon the war" to "the fact Russia has to figure out ways to easily defeat the sanctions is a situation not optimal for Russia". Oh boy, that really is a lowering of aspirations, and we haven't even talked about how the sanctions have walloped the West!
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  11602.  @joe.oneill  IMF forecast for 2024. Russia, 3.5% growth, UK and Germany, 0% or recession. now, you tell me who is failing! grasp reality!
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  11603.  @johnproton259  the aim of the sanctions is to so cripple the Russian economy that Russia will be unable to wage war. the aim of the sanctions is not to place a debt on Russia that is a tiny fraction compared with what Western nations have to finance!
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  11604.  @johnproton259  so, when do you predict that Russia will abandon this war due to a crippled economy? 2030?
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  11605.  @norbertlipusz3892  1. no one claimed Orban was a financial genius. My claim was that Orban is astute enough to have figured out the sanctions on Russia have failed and that Russia will not lose this war. And Orban is right on both accounts, no matter the inflation rate in Hungary. 2. The opinions of different people are irrelevant. The only relevant opinions are of those who assured us that massive sanctions would cripple the Russian economy, the likes of Biden, Van der Leyen, Schultz, you know, our leaders. They got it awfully wrong, because they know nothing about Russia. 3. Now that Biden is talking about Russia keeping territory won in Ukraine, the goalposts are shifting. we have gone from "as long as it takes" to "as long as we can" to "it must end with a settlement that sees Russian win some territory". that's shifting the goalposts.
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  11606.  @sparky7915  Russia's 3.5% growth is better than UK's 0%, and the recession in Germany, so how does it all add up to lost revenue? Is Russia's deficit increasing at the same rate as the UK or USA? What exactly is Russia's debt limit? Worst case scenario, does Russia have any friends that will bail it out?:) Think China, India, OPEC etc.
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  11607.  @rmdomainer9042  hey, if you want to make up figures, so can I! LOL, yes.
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  11608.  @rmdomainer9042  3.5% growth reflects overall buoyancy of the economy. if it were all down to printing money, hyper-inflation would have hit Russia, and there is absolutely no sign of that. I know it is so hard for a fool to confess he was fooled, but you were fooled. you thought the Russian economy could be destroyed through sanctions, and that failed.
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  11609.  @rmdomainer9042  and what would be the "real" inflation rate in USA? in UK? in Lithuania? Do the Russians have a monopoly on massaging economic indicators?
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  11610.  @rmdomainer9042  as expected, incapable of answering a very simple question. tells me all I need to know!
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  11611.  @rmdomainer9042  when you point the finger at Russia and accuse Russia of massaging the numbers, but refuse to consider the notion that the West does the same, it certainly shows your bias and inability to look at the big picture. The real reason you refuse to answer an "off-topic" question is that you know it will reveal your whole argument to be bogus. 3-2.
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  11612. after his car accident, maybe best Zelensky stays in his bunker
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  11613. well said, but we have all told Hamas forever that the human shield argument doesn't work, and they just won't listen! How do you propose we make Hamas listen?
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  11614.  @ericbuck6034  and Jordan has occupied Jordan for 100 years. so what?
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  11615.  @ericbuck6034  remember, Israelis are just as much Palestinian as Arab Palestinians. The West Bank is Judaea and Samaria.
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  11616. Yep, TRUMP warned the Germans on over reliance on Russian energy imports. The Germans laughed at Trump, of course. Karma.
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  11617.  @ennediend2865  not true. Russia is not the one warning its people about energy rationing, and prices now falling in Russia. How's the inflation going in the West?
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  11618.  @butterflyKiss604  oh, of course Brits are allowed to go to Spain on holiday. I was just explaining why the locals in Spain will never have their beaches back and will always have hordes of drunken tourists there. EU freedom of movement allows all EU citizens to go where they want, for as long as they want.
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  11619. "Warsaw funded...." no, EU tax payers funded......thankfully UK got out of that corrupt cartel.
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  11620. so, the Ukronazis have thrown everything into gaining a few fields. meanwhile, the poorly led and demoralized convicts have taken 95% of Bakhmut, the Wagners go marching on.
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  11621. ambulances and generators = USA has no answer to Iranian drone attacks, so provides just a little help to deal with the consequences of successful drone attacks. Russia has won.
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  11622. Trump lost fair and square? No way! With all the anti-constitutional rule changes connected to voting procedures due to Covid, the 2020 Presidential election was anything BUT fair and square. In Georgia, how many ballots were deemed spoiled in 2020 compared to 2016?
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  11623. BBC tiptoeing around the facts that it's Green policies and the increase in costs due to sanctions on Russia that have made their lives so awful.
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  11624.  @mekalekaho  oh dear. you need to get better informed. Russia has 3 lines of defence, and here we are in week SEVEN of the great counter offensive, and not one single Ukrainian fighter is anywhere near the first line of defence! 26,000 ukronazis have died in the security zone! it's a total disaster! keep dreaming of "sudden and fatal".
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  11625. yes, it's the age of the suspects that is truly shocking. not shocking at all that an 80 year old is killed in a park, that's quite normal these days in the UK, but yes, the age of the suspects is the only thing that makes us all take a step back. Time to move to Russia.
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  11626.  @vme1111  when the aim is to massacre as much Ukrainian cannon fodder as possible in the Wagner meatgrinder, and when the kill rate is 8:1 in Russia's favor, safe to say this WILL change the outcome of the war. Ukraine is indeed focused on taking regions at a time. Big mistake, Ukraine should be focused on reducing its horrific death rate if it wants to win. Too much men? How many Russian deaths have you counted in your survey of the numbers?
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  11627. so now it is "extreme right" to demand no more immigration? China, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Belarus, North Korea...all countries that shun immigration and value a homogenous society, so I guess they are all extreme right?
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  11628.  @steve-real  i think you will find, at the rate Ukrainian troops are being killed, those boots and gloves won't be needed.
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  11629.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  hickory dickory dock!
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  11630.  @blancavelasco32  ¡eso es la verdad!..si crees lo que dice la Guardia Civil. Con todos sus perros, necesitaron 29 días para encontrar el cadáver.
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  11631.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  ¡no sabía que los hispanohablantes no sabían hacer búsquedas por intenet! con las palabras "4 policías detenidos Tenerife drogas" a ver la "prueba" que encuentres!:) creo que es un artículo de El Día hay muchos artículos sobre todo eso, pero prefieres ponerte ciega y no ver nada.
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  11632.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  no sabes nada de mí, y no tomando en cuenta tu nacionalismo y racismo, debo decirte que NADIE tiene monopolio en cuanto a la literatura española. la literatura me toca, no importa la fuente, enfócate en la corrupción de tu Guardia Civil y que no ataques a otros que te dicen la verdad.
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  11633.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  es una forma de racismo cuando insistes, a otra persona, a quien no conoces, que no tiene ningún derecho hablar de un escritor español. No tengo ninguna obsesión, pero cuando alguien ignora la corrupción e ineptitud de sus policías, hay que decir algo y explicar la evidencia de los múltiples errores que han cometido en el caso de Jay Slater.
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  11634.  @SandraGarcia-lj3bd  insulto solo a los que niegan la verdad.
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  11635.  @mariabarco7226  lo ignorante es la persona que no sabe leer bien.....palabra por palabra, analiza exactamente lo que dije.
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  11636.  @blancavelasco32  lo importante es explicar todo y no esconder nada, pero ya sabemos que la Guardia Civil son maestros de ocultar todos los detalles que podrían causar inconveniencias en su comunidad
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  11637.  @thornbird6768  it's the only explanation that makes any sense. In Tenerife heat, even a human with cotton wool stuffed up his nose could smell a 28 day rotting corpse from a mile away.
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  11638.  @B.003tv  i think the joke is all those gullible fools who find the Guardia Civil's explanations quite normal and acceptable! makes more sense that Jay's body was never there at all than all this nonsense about lying there rotting away for 30 odd days.
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  11639.  @SMOKUHHH  we don't know. it is hanging straight down like a curtain. blankets that are worn do not hang straight down.
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  11640. "Charles has worked so hard for unity within communities" So, how would Charles explain the 1400 of his white, female teenage subjects who were victims of the Pakistani rape gangs? how and why did the unity of community fail there? Let me guess, it was the fault of the Far Right?
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  11641. "undisclosed number" = embarrassingly small number
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  11642. oh, Day 12 of the massive counter offensive, and Gulliver is back to saying that it's NOT the counter offensive, just more "probing" attacks!? hysterical how the MSM narrative has to keep adapting to Ukrainian failures. 4 villages captured = massive success. No advances at all = "probing attacks". and now the truth....the counter offensive is a massive failure. Ukraine can get nowhere near even the first line of defence.
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  11643. Mike Martin has gotten everything wrong so far in his analysis. At some point, viewers will realize he is nothing more than a shill for the Azovs and Ukronazi authorities in Kiev.
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  11644.  Zack Fair  the fact remains after all your bla bla bla, that international recognition or international refusal to recognize, means nothing in the real world. Northern Cyprus lives on as part of Turkey, and the newly annexed parts of Russia will live on as part of Russia, despite the huffing and puffing of the West.
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  11645.  @FrankWinchester  there are no "4 Russian republics". There are the LPR and DPR, which have voted to annexed by Russia, and two occupied territories that have voted the same way. Yes, 100 countries recognize Kosovo, which means 100 don't. What's your point? Only one country recognizes Northern Cyprus (two less than recognized LPR and DPR), but you are not wringing your hands and crying over Northern Cyprus, are you? why not?
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  11646.  @FrankWinchester  why exactly is Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity of such importance to the West, when Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity was pushed aside when Kosovo, like Donbass, declared independence?
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  11647.  @FrankWinchester  I didn't even mention international law! you must be confusing me with someone else! I asked you a question. Maybe this time you will answer. I asked why the West is so upset about the violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity while the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia was violated by the West? Why the double standards?
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  11648.  @FrankWinchester  for the second time, you have refused to answer the question. I have no interest whatsoever in international law. Three strikes and you are out. Gonna answer the question this time? why all the Western hand-wringing over Ukraine's territorial integrity regarding Donbass and none over Serbia's territorial integrity regarding Kosovo?
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  11649.  @FrankWinchester  you are talking about things that have no bearing on reality. Northern Cyprus and Kosovo have no sovereign nation status at the UN. so what? what's your point? My point is that the reality on the ground is that if a country has ONE nation of some standing that recognizes it, then it exists and the world accepts its existence (even if it does not agree with its existence in theory). Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, Crimea, the new Russian territories will all go about their business and be who they claim to be just fine, because recognition by the West or by the toothless tiger, UN, determines NOTHING in the everyday lives of the people in these "unrecognized" places. you live in a detached world of bureaucratic principles that have no effect in the real world!
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  11650.  @FrankWinchester  you have corrected nothing. but let's make this easy for you, seeing as you are so attached to international law. what is stated in international law that allows NATO to attack Serbia and fight for Kosovo's secession from Serbia in violation of Serbia's territorial integrity, but also prohibits Russia from attacking Ukraine in support of Donbass's secession from Ukraine? spell it out. why is one a great idea, and the other a crime?
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  11651. Come on Frank, here is your chance to explain the West's "rules based system" to the globe's sceptics! According to International Law, what makes the NATO military intervention in Serbia to support Kosovo's claim to independence an example of RESPECTING Serbia's territorial integrity, while Russia's military intervention in Ukraine to support the Donbass's claim to independence an example of total violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity? Why is one 100% acceptable and to be applauded, in International Law, and the other a war crime?
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  11652.  @FrankWinchester  looks like you are incapable or unwilling to answer my question. cat got your tongue? all my claims are correct, so let's see you answer my question.
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  11653.  @FrankWinchester  you have corrected me on nothing, you just can't answer the question. pathetic.
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  11654.  @FrankWinchester  not at all. it doesn't matter how many nations recognize a breakaway country, as long as there is one supporting nation of some standing. so, to repeat, Northern Cyprus is only recognized by Turkey, and the fact that the rest of the globe has refused to recognize Northern Cyprus has made no difference at all to the lives of the people who live in Northern Cyprus. They have successfully broken away from the Republic of Cyprus and that's that. Life in Northern Cyprus would be no different if 10, 20, or 150 countries recognized Northern Cyprus.
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  11655.  @FrankWinchester  fifth time of asking. going to answer my question? the one that no one in the West can answer logically and completely? Go on, Frank, give it your best shot!
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  11656.  @FrankWinchester  time to grow up, Frank, and answer the question. your refusal to do so reveals how empty your arguments are. 7 years old are you?
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  11657.  @FrankWinchester  as I said before, your inability to answer my question speaks volumes. you have shown exactly why the world despises the "Rules Bases System" of the West, because when asked to explain a certain glaring contradiction, you can't even address the issue. anything else I can correct you on, kid?
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  11658.  @FrankWinchester  the only person publicly conceding anything is you. your refusal to address my question is publicly conceding you have no clue!
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  11659. "the mayor has not been entirely forthcoming" the mayor is best friends with the ex mayor who owns the airbnb! he and his chums will resist any investigation! penny slowly dropping with the dullard media that the Spanish Police have no interest in investigating crimes related to drugs and smuggling! wise up!
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  11660. cheaper energy, yet everyone's energy bills keep going up.
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  11661.  @scienceraven1200  yet no one in the world is using such an energy source, such a wonderful concept that everyone has rejected!
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  11662.  @peterbarton9856  scared of using your real name, Adolf?:)
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  11663. Cummings was right. Just a bunch of morons leading the country and creating a crisis when we could have just followed the Swedish approach.
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  11664. Jim's authority on the subject, as a meteorologist, counts for nothing if he is propagandist first, meteorologist second. Also, when was the last time Jim dismissed Greta's qualifications to say a word on climate change due to her ignorance on the subject?
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  11665. it is what the country deserves. it applauded lockdowns and sanctions on Russia and more state handouts. Now it's time to pay
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  11666. la France incapable d'organiser un bateau pour ramener les migrants ilégaux chez eux
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  11667. masks only made 2 differences. they emboldened the wearers to go out and spread the virus even more, and made leaders feel satisfied they had been seen by the electorate to do something about the virus.
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  11668.  @samueltrusik3251  EU is not funding Russia, so who cares how corrupt Russia is? EU IS funding both Ukraine and Hungary, and it is absurd to fund the more corrupt of the two but then to shout "corruption" at the less corrupt of the two. EU hypocrisy
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  11669.  @samueltrusik3251  tell me specifically what advances Ukraine has made against corruption, with evidence!
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  11670. not many Ukrainians smiling and taking selfies by the big commemorative billboard showing the Kerch Bridge terrorist attack now. slava rossiyi
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  11671. she's been through a few months of what the Donbass ethnic Russians have gone through for the last 8 years!
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  11672.  @Mwwwwwwwwe  exactly. and that is why it will get totally destroyed and every Ukrainian man of fighting age will get killed. should have implemented the Minsk Agreements.
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  11673.  @dpelpal  They did that before the Russians handed over Kharkov and Kherson in exchange for massacring thousands and thousands of cannon fodder advancing through open fields.
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  11674. so, after 13 packages of EU sanctions (I'm sure package 14 will be the one that actually works), the results are in: inward investment in Russia is up, Russian economy is growing faster than any G7 country, Russia has expanded trade with the rest of the world, China and Russia are now much closer allies than before. oh, and Russia is winning the war with Ukraine. Just how bright are our Western leaders?
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  11675. For the media, anyone NOT a Socialist or Liberal is now classified as "Far Right". We no longer pay attention to such propaganda. Orban and Meloni offer respect for traditional European values and will prevail.
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  11676. clearly not. that's why after 8 years of children being killed in Donbass by Ukrainian missiles, Russia now wants revenge.
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  11677. anyone in Britain with enough cash to get a one way ticket to Costa Rica and make a new start, but chooses not to, is making a massive mistake.
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  11678. so bad that Russia has captured most of Russian-speaking Ukraine, continues its remorseless massacre of Ukrainian cannon fodder every day, gains territory in the Donbass every day, oh, but wait, Khlan said Kherson would be in Ukrainian hands by September, so at least we have the mythical Ukrainian counter offensive to cheer about! Bring on Ghost of Kiev!
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  11679.  @downshift4503  No one is questioning to whom the money belongs once the taxes are paid. No one is questioning that government spends whatever amount it decides to spend. My point is that income from taxation IS spent by the government and IS a major factor in how much the government then decides to spend in total. To dismiss tax revenue as irrelevant to government budgets is just childish nonsense.
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  11680.  @downshift4503  "the process then repeats" so given the process is always repeating, what came first, the chicken or the egg? were taxes raised first, or government started spending from a treasury account first? back a few centuries, you will find tax raising came first, and spending followed, so, NO...FIRST come the tax revenues, and THEN budgets are decided upon based on borrowing requirements and borrowing conditions. You got it backwards. The government is ALWAYS spending taxpayers' money, as this taxpayers' money makes up a large chunk of what the government has in the pot to spend. it's not rocket science!
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  11681.  @downshift4503  Coins, in the first place, are precious metals that hold a certain value accepted by society as a whole, and this notion predates any formalized government! If your point is that it is a governmental authority that assumed the role of minting coins, then sure, yes, but those coins were of the value they contained, and governments always knew they needed tax payers contributions to buy the silver first that went into the coins. You seem to be ignorant that the government has no money! it only has what taxpayers give and what it can borrow. Which silver mine is going to hand over loads of silver to a government that can't pay for it? ain't gonna happen. it starts with the government first assessing taxes in the form of payments in anything that holds universal wealth, and with those initial tax payments, in whatever form, it can start to mint coins. Raising revenue/wealth through taxation comes first, minting second. it's always been that way. Post barter communities, the first step was for a central power to accumulate a stock of wealth from contributors before minting any coinage!
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  11682.  @downshift4503  if none of government spending is from taxation, then why bother taxing anything?
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  11683.  @downshift4503  ah ha, "initially because the government needs its population to provision it"....finally you admit that the tax payments come first! without such an initial provision, the government can't function. now, moving on to the absurd notion that the sole purpose of taxation is as a brake on inflation. what exactly is inflation? and when we see the definition of inflation, we will get to the heart of this nonsense.
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  11684.  @downshift4503  Governments have no money! Governments can only GET money from taxpayers or borrow from institutions, and from that point on we have the cycle of tax revenue coming in and government spending going out. oh dear oh dear oh dear. looks like you have no idea what inflation is! rising prices is an EFFECT of inflation! Tell you what, when you grasp the basic notion that inflation is an increase in the money supply into an economy, then the debate can continue, but describing the effects of inflation as the cause of inflation has shown you are not that bright, really. Because inflation is an increase in the money supply, taxation as a brake on inflation makes no sense, as taxation is transferring money, not creating it!
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  11685.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  looks like you and Samuelson have no idea what cause and effect is. rising prices is the effect. what causes prices to rise? increase in the money supply. Friedman got it right, you and Samuelson got it wrong.
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  11686.  @downshift4503  in this never ending cycle of taxation and spending, you have to go way back into the mists of time to see what came first. the first authorities that had power to tax and spend would have taxed first. the peasants had to contribute chickens, eggs, their labour to the baron BEFORE the baron would build better defences. Learn some history.
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  11687.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  what's hilarious about your useless definition is that it just describes the effects of inflation. you are looking at the symptoms, not the cause. if inflation were related to rising prices it would be called "arising". but inflation refers to the expansion of money supply, hence "inflation", a growth in all areas, not a linear up and down of prices! maybe English is not your first language?
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  11688.  @downshift4503  "it doesn't explain how you got money from the government that you need to pay tax" that's because taxation and spending predates money and government, Einstein. as already explained, the taxing/spending cycle started during the ages of barter.
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  11689.  @downshift4503  "it is not possible for you to create your own sterling, so how did you get them in order to pay the tax?" I don't need to create any sterling. there's so much of it floating around society going from one person to another every day! how did i get these pounds sterling from other people? they gave them to me. you really do ask some surprisingly childish questions!
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  11690.  @downshift4503  and pass the parcel is EXACTLY the nature of the economy, as goods and services are exchanged non stop in a never ending pass the parcel process! Slowly, you are getting it! If your point is that cash is, these days, originally minted by the government as opposed to individuals writing out IOU's, then sure, an IOU slip is now issued by a central bank, to be used by the public as needed, though individual IOU's are still valid. But that's only cash. Other transactions are just numbers passed around, like pass the parcel, a record of who owes whom a certain debt. Got it?
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  11691.  @downshift4503  what you call "money" ended up in the hands of citizens as a replacement for a bank deposit receipt. When a customer would deposit gold or silver in a bank, said customer would receive a deposit slip. those slips then acted as cash in transactions in the community. the only thing that changed was such deposit slips later became printed and issued by a central bank as opposed to a local bank, but no difference in the role of the bank deposit slip. it was, and is, a promise to pay the bearer a certain amount on demand. the deposit slip became accepted as a thing of value whether the individual had gold or silver to back it up or not, just because everyone in society accepted the bank deposit slip as having the worth it bore. you need to learn about the history of money, and do some homework. here, I'll give you some. research how tobacco was a form of money in Virginia during the colonial period.
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  11692.  @downshift4503  1. No, you aren't getting it, no matter how many times it's pointed out to you. 2. Chickens and eggs are NOT produced by the economy. Chicken and egg production is PART of the economy. 3. reserves and cash are "sourced" by all of us, not JUST the government. Look up the meaning of "source".
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  11693.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  of course there was an age of barter, and in some places, until relatively recently! Did David Graeber know that tobacco was used as a means of exchange in colonial Virginia?
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  11694.  @downshift4503  Taxing and spending, today, happen simultaneously and continuously. It is infantile to say that one comes first. Back in the mists of time, taxation would have come first. You can't spend what you don't have.
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  11695.  @downshift4503  Individual IOU's ARE cash, because they can be transferred from one individual to another, and the debt remains payable.
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  11696.  @downshift4503  tax can be paid in many forms, hence possessions like luxury yachts can be seized for tax payments because such things have a value that is universally acknowledged.
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  11697.  @downshift4503  not sure where your obsession with "creating" cash comes from. Individuals have access to cash because it freely circulates throughout the community. you talk as if the ONLY source of cash is waiting for the next batch of bills to be printed off at the mint! Economies still function when the cash creation stops. you will get deflation, as happened in the US Civil War when the North seized the printing presses of the South. The economy of the South did not come to a grinding halt!
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  11698.  @downshift4503  Dictionary definition: CASH = "money in coins or notes". That's it. NO MENTION OF GOVERNMENT. Get it? An IOU is a NOTE, therefore it is CASH. Got it?
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  11699.  @downshift4503  where is your homework on how tobacco was used as a means of exchange during the colonial period? you have so much to learn.
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  11700.  @downshift4503  Of course cash is created by the government, but cash is also in circulation outside of government control. so, what's your point?
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  11701.  @downshift4503  Cash does circulate without the need for creation. As I told you, when the South had its printing presses closed down, the economy continued with a period of deflation.
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  11702.  @downshift4503  Cash circulates without being created. But government only adds EXTRA cash into the system. The system functions fine when the government doesn't do so. Sure, over time cash will leave the economy, but cash will also enter the economy from other countries. Cash doesn't have to "get into the economy" when it has already been IN the economy for centuries!
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  11703.  @downshift4503  The problem is I do know what I am talking about, and it is fascinating that when your preconceived narrative is challenged, like blabbing nonsense about cash necessarily being tied to government, your argument just crumbles. Cash is indeed a private sector IOU. I go to my private bank and deposit cash, the next day I withdraw from the private bank and place that same cash in my private pocket. No government participation in that exercise. Just as if I gave you an IOU and you passed on that IOU to your friend, and then I repay your friend the amount stated, no government participation at all. You don't know what the hell you are talking about.
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  11704.  @downshift4503  NO! The government is continuously receiving taxes and spending money. Both processes happen at one and the same time. Money came into circulation in the first place as a replacement of personal IOUs, way way back.
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  11705.  @downshift4503  ALL notes that promise to pay the bearer the amount stated ARE cash! Not all notes, but IOUs as described above, Get it?
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  11706.  @downshift4503  Your tax doesn't mention a lot of things, but that doesn't mean a whole lot! The government will find many different ways of payment if you are in debt and cashless! You would be surprised how many governments around the world accept tax payments in many different forms. Ever been to Oman?
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  11707.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  so a Virginia planter when he swaps 20 pounds of tobacco for his horse to be shoed is indeed engaged in bartering because, as you said, different things are being swapped.
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  11708.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  barter - exchanging goods or services for other goods or services without using money
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  11709.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  barter is the exchange of a good OR service, that does not involve money, so you need to look at the dictionary definition and then you will see my example was a perfect example of barter.
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  11710.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  you need to read more history. barter was the basis of trade in many societies before money emerged.
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  11711.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  "money can be made of anything, it just has to be accepted by the ruling authority as a tax receipt" wrong way round. it just has to be accepted by the people. if it is accepted by the people, then it will work in all sectors of the economy, including the one sector known as the government.
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  11712.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  there are many people who, by law, are exempt paying taxes, they pay nothing in pounds and they don't go to prison. there are many who owe enormous amounts of taxes and they don't go to prison either, but they negotiate deals to resolve the situation, or just leave the country and don't pay a penny. life is so much more complicated and nuanced than you think.
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  11713.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  "you'll end up in prison" exactly how many prison cells in the UK are empty now and awaiting someone who is a year late on paying their taxes, do you think?
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  11714.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  the word is "jurisdiction". as pointed out, no, "they" (the citizens) are NOT. Many citizens pay no tax. so, it sounds like your argument is reduced to the notion that in the UK, the official currency is pounds, either Scottish or English, and those who do owe taxes must pay those taxes in Scottish or English pounds, and never in the history of tax disputes has any individual ever settled a tax dispute with payment in any other form, ever. well, fascinating. anything more to say for yourself?
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  11715.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  I never mentioned cigarettes. I mentioned tobacco. it was your inadequate powers of reason that assumed I referred to cigarettes, when it was tobacco leaves used as a means of exchange, but this is par for the course when it comes to the wild and inaccurate assumptions you make.
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  11716.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  no, you did not establish that what gives a currency any value is the legal requirement to pay tax in said currency. you fail to grasp that what gives any currency any value is that it is accepted as a means of payment within the community, within a certain society. The Zimbabwean dollar collapsed not because it was no longer accepted as the currency in which taxes were paid, but because the Zimbabwean people gave up on exchanging bits of paper with "10,000,000,000 Zimbabwean dollars" written on it, and started accepting only US dollars or South African rand. Currency is valid only when accepted as having a certain value by the people using it. Its validity has nothing to do with whether taxes can be paid in it. Learn the basics of economics!
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  11717.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  the "pedantic" point highlighted, 1. you didn't do your homework and research tobacco leaves as a method of payment in colonial Virginia, and 2. illuminated how easily you assume something that is inaccurate or untrue. your end of term report will reflect the slovenly way in which you approach important topics.
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  11718.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  "they can't pay tax in any other currencies as far as I'm aware, so they don't use these" come on, do some homework! take 5 seconds to research "legal tender in Zimbabwe" and read that the US dollar, British pound, South Africa rand and Botswana pula are all legal tender in Zimbabwe. And all this acceptance of a basket of currencies happened because the people accepted these currencies as having value and was NOTHING to do with a government tax collection decision! until you understand cause and effect you will not understand the basic error you are making. Tax receipts depend on what the citizens accept as having value. The citizens don't perceive a currency as having value because the tax authorities deem it to be so.
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  11719.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  what you call "nitpicking" is me calling out your slovenly way of dealing with the topic in hand. you need to research and read closely before you blab nonsense. it's not a case of "currencies acceptable by the Zimbabwean state" but currencies used by the people that the Zimbabwean state then is forced to accept otherwise the country goes broke! The mistake you are making is thinking the use of currency in society is determined by a central authority, whereas the truth is that the central authority will respond to the realities of currencies in circulation among the citizens when it comes to accepting tax payments. That's why possessions are a means of paying tax debts, even in the UK. For further insights into this topic, toss what Graebers has to say in the bin and observe the real world and learn some history. Your understanding of how the world works is sorely lacking.
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  11720.  @patrickokeeffe-i7i  back to the use of tobacco leaves as payment in colonial Virginia. tobacco leaves became an acceptable way of settling a debt NOT because the colonial government declared it so, according to their wishes, but because people were already using tobacco as a means of exchanging goods and services. according to you, spending comes first, and the authorities started by using tobacco as the form of payment for services. not so. other way round. Virginia authorities were forced to recognize tobacco as currency because the people were using tobacco as a currency. first came the taxation in the form of tobacco leaves, and thence spending in tobacco leaves, as a reaction to reality on the ground. your fallacious nonsense about authorities spending first and declaring what is the only accepted currency is backwards. economies work on a bottom up basis, not a top down basis. as in Zimbabwe. keep learning!
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  11721. Given the "Conservatives" are going to lose the next election any way, they might as well let the steel industry fold, natural evolution.
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  11722.  @nathansutphin6543  Not really bothered either way. I'm a big fan of holding hypocritical lying blowhards like Joe Biden to account, so that when he says he fully supports the law his son violated, we get to see just how much he now supports this law.
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  11723.  @jackt883  you clearly have no idea of the weaponry Russia uses these days. too much Western propaganda has deluded you.
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  11724.  @Craig121000  the market decides what is a "proper" wage. no interference needed.
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  11725.  @Craig121000  collapse is well on the way because the government keeps interfering in the market. let the market decide and things will be fine.
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  11726. @peterholden3672 no one is arguing that there is a "perfect" market. some of us believe that government interference in the market produces more, and more severe, problems than letting demand and supply decide the level of wages. it's government policy that has ruined the housing situation in the UK. Market forces would never have seen such a disaster as what we see today.
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  11727. @peterholden3672 you are confusing a perfect market with a market that produces perfect results as per your view of how society should be.
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  11728. @peterholden3672 ok, well, then let me explain. any free market is perfect in that the forces of supply and demand will arrive at a market price. once an outside force attempts to interfere and change that market price, you get a black market that develops, or a shortage. so, maybe what you are saying is that you prefer government interference that introduces a black market and/or shortages. some black markets work just fine, like French people leaving the EU to get cheap tobacco.
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  11729.  @stevezodiac491  Chamberlain and others were confused between a policy of appeasement and talking peace to end war.
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  11730. @peterholden3672 all you are saying is that life is not fair. but the closest universal law to perfection is that of supply and demand. things get really bad when you interfere with that. just look at the housing crisis.
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  11731. summer forest fires are a fact of life. always will be.
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  11732.  @acajoom  oh, you'd be surprised how often doing nothing is indeed the right response. I can tell you this much. A Spanish fireman lecturing me on what changes I need to make to my life for the sake of the planet has turned me from caring for what his objectives are, to letting the lecturing, condescending know-all just get on with it. when fools like that treat me with some respect instead of as a tabula rasa to be filled from his fountain of sage advice, then we might get somewhere.
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  11733.  @acajoom  just fed up of how MSM like DW turn EVERY single weather story into a lecture about what we MUST do to combat climate change. JUST for once it would have been nice to hear the fireman say something about being careful with the barbecue, or don't smoke in the forest, or ANYTHING but the predictable "it's all about climate change". when, actually, it isn't.
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  11734.  @INTJ791  what? farmers were "wrong"?
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  11735. EU in panic mode. get ready for the finger pointing, as Trump makes it clear he'll cease all support for Ukraine, and the EU will have to sort out which of them is to blame for Ukraine's inevitable defeat.
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  11736. the truth is the Ukrainians look like capturing Krasny Liman a lot quicker than the Russians could take Bakhmut. Alexander is glossing over a bad defeat for Russia here
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  11737. Trump doesn't grasp that Russia has won.
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  11738. what's the point in Ireland sending any migrants back to the UK when the migrants can walk back into Ireland over the open border the Irish insisted on post Brexit?
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  11739. nah, not buying this massive offensive talk. if there is no shortage of ammo, Russia will keep rotating troops in and out and keep demilitarizing Ukraine and NATO by destroying NATO weapons and letting the meatgrinder decimate Ukraine's poor cannon fodder. Death by a million cuts for Ukraine. No timeline for Russia, just like in Chechnya and Syria, eventually Donetsk oblast will be liberated, and it will be mission accomplished.
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  11740. Zelensky is just SO strong. Begging the West every day for handouts, cemeteries overflowing with dead cannon fodder, a counter offensive that has stalled well short of the FIRST line of Russian defences, a bankrupt country and 10 million refugees, such a strong position to be in.
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  11741. no, Nigel, Reform's problem is fools like Tice focusing on Ukraine and not UK, telling us we must all get jabbed when Tice is an ignoramus on medical matters.
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  11742. Finland delighted to see it will be bossed around by USA in all the future unjust wars the US starts around the globe. Next stop for Finnish troops, nice long dirt nap in Taiwan maybe. or maybe Syria, if that kicks off again.
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  11743.  @organicwest  only in your dream world is there any infighting to remove Putin. No Western leader has such good poll numbers as Putin, and who will replace him...a real hawk like Medvedev? am betting Ukrainian soldiers string up Zelensky in 2023.
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  11744.  @bravo060777  Get used to Putin...he'll be the survivor of all this mess.
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  11745.  @Hero4fun77  yep, the parasites of society do ok. it's the workers that get screwed
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  11746.  @johncater7861  The Russian people want Russia to win, and rightfully so.
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  11747.  @michaelweston1042  it's keeping NATO and its provocative expansion east that has caused all this conflict
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  11748.  @bravo060777  hahaha, another fool who is hopeless at distinguishing a bot from a non bot, and a Russian from a Brit. Pathetic. what is it like to live in the dim world of "joined after the war started = bot"?
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  11749.  @bravo060777  as I said, pathetically hopeless at recognizing the true from the false.
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  11750. France richly deserves this. thoroughly deserved. The voters had the chance to elect Zemmour, who would have ended immigration and started repatriations, but no, they chose Macron, who has no problem importing the 3rd world and thus 3rd world attitudes.
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  11751. Mike Martin is such a fool. why would Russia want to take Bakhmut? what a ridiculous assumption! Does he know what a cauldron is?
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  11752.  @harmless6813  Bakhmut has been a cauldron for quite some time, and Zelensky has obliged the Wagners by pouring in troops that then get trapped and massacred. same playbook as used in Syria, works a treat every time. learn the basics.
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  11753.  @VladPoutine-bq2sf  Vlad, ti tak rad, ili tak rada?
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  11754.  @VladPoutine-bq2sf  vsyo khorosho. vsyegda s oodyevolstviem soobshchatsa na ruskim yazikye:)
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  11755. "he knew if he properly accounted for that (the payments) they would become public" it was already public, EVERYONE knew Trump paid Stormy Daniels to stay silent, which is perfectly legal. this dope is full of bs
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  11756.  @cameron6770  you wouldn't know a russian troll if he stared you in the eyes and said "I'm a russian troll". your powers to distinguish truth from fiction are sorely lacking, dullard.
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  11757. so many Ukronazis ended up in the Russian meatgrinder that Bakhmut must be a considered a success. Let demilitarization of Ukronazia and NATO continue!
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  11758.  @tosa305  no, it's like the rapist USA preaching about a "rules-based order" and then crying "rape" when someone acts in exactly the same raping way. it's called hypocrisy
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  11759.  @joelpetersen2480  as i said, the facts speak for themselves. 1) Ukraine, the only country in the world that welcomed into its national defence force a Nazi battalion 2) US Congress refused to supply arms or aid to the Azov Nazis because of their Nazi stance (so your argument is with US Congress) 3) Ukraine, the only country to make a Nazi, Stefan Bandera, a national hero (responsible for the deaths of 4000 Jews in the pogrom of Lvov, 1941) 4) Russia is a country known for having sacrificed enormously to defeat Nazi Germany. The facts are against you. only the propaganda you swallowed is on your side. read it and weep, dupe.
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  11760.  @joelpetersen2480  you may well be right. they are called war crimes. but only a child would be so foolish to believe only one side commits such crimes. i would guess that the total list of war crimes breaks down about 50/50, each side culpable. what per cent of war crimes have been committed by Russia do you think? (cue the infantile answer...100)
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  11761.  @joelpetersen2480  I have certain inside knowledge I suspect you don't have, in that I lived and worked in Ukraine and still teach Ukrainian students. More importantly, I have common sense and I detect BS from a long way off. I suspect you don't sweet child. how's Ghost of Kiev doing these days?
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  11762.  @supertuscans9512  you would think the West would insist on Zelensky selling his villa in Italy before Western taxpayers cough up anything, but no.
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  11763.  @MLVL312  I really think most people are ignorant and/or deluded, brainwashed or just dumb. My comments are spot on because I actually know Ukraine.
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  11764.  @joelpetersen2480  but I'm someone that can spot your ignorance a mile away and smell your BS from over the ocean. you know nothing, you believe nonsense. Had you worked in Ukraine you would know the truth.
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  11765.  @MrThartofwar  exactly so, Man of the Year for putting his citizens in the line of fire quite needlessly
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  11766.  @MLVL312  I would say when you look at all the countries on the planet, it is clear the vast majority of them are more than happy to keep trading with Russia and working with Russia. The really big countries, like India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, are fine with Russia. Who cares if Antigua and Barbuda vote against Russia? They have no choice, as they are totally dependent on USA. The irony is that the West has isolated itself from the rest of the world in trying to force the world to isolate Russia! Massive fail!
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  11767.  @MLVL312  the important thing is I see your ignorance and your BS. you know nothing. couldn't even point to Donbass on a map 5 years ago. been to Crimea have you, ignorant child?
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  11768.  @bonnie7898  based on what polling numbers?
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  11769.  @MLVL312  I'm saying the reality on the ground doesn't match these meaningless, virtue-signalling UN votes. Time to do your research. The vote you cited is not the most recent. Check the more recent vote that happened on Ukraine's independence day, and get back to me with the LONG list of "abstained". when you have completed that homework, sweet child, we can continue the discussion. stop relying on old data. You can't be that stupid.
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  11770.  @MLVL312  because the vote you are citing is meaningless. the true measure of whether Russia is isolated from the world, or not, would be to see which countries are fully engaged in working with Russia, trading with Russia and have NOT joined a boycott of Russia. So, to prove you wrong, oh so educated one, let's take this step by step. Is China (one fifth of the world's population) still trading with Russia and working with Russia? Yes or no?
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  11771.  @MLVL312  Is Iran "with" Russia? To my mind, any country happy to sell kamikaze drones to Russia to help its war effort is "with" Russia. but you, oh educated one, say...?
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  11772. EIGHT YEARS of Azov Nazi scum shelling Donbass and murdering thousands of civilians. Russian speakers want revenge and will get it. Just 7 years and 8 months for you to endure, dear Ukraine. Keep crossing the days off your calendar! Any regrets that Poroshenko and Zelensky refused to implement the Minsk accords?
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  11773. grow up. there is no such thing as an "illegal war" or "legal war". just war that some will see as unjustified and others will see as justified.
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  11774.  @opensizhe  yeah. so it's like allowing your child to go to soccer practice, then refusing to renew the kids' bus pass, but insisting "you are still 100% allowed to go to soccer practice" as the kid looks at you in stunned amazement. actually, it's worse than that because the signed agreement was to connect the Russian agricultural bank to connect to SWIFT, so it's Minsk Agreement Part 3, the West signs but ignores the contract, again.
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  11775. Bit rich this, "you cannot trust Russia's word". Remember a presidential candidate called Zelensky who PROMISED he would bring peace to Donbass? Zelensky who REFUSED to honor the Minsk accords and went back on his word. And Ghost of Kiev, another lie. How do you know when a Ukrainian politician is lying? when their lips move.
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  11776. Hodges is an idiot, a charlatan and a propagandist. he has got everything wrong so far.
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  11777. "residential buildings".....that are hosting Ukrainian troops and weapons, as Amnesty International told us.
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  11778.  @fritzraake22  and how many times do I have to tell you that by assuming the Russian MOD are always wrong, you are just believing your own propaganda so that when "Fortress Bakhmut" is lost to a bunch of demoralized poorly trained convicts with shovels, you are left scratching your heads in total bewilderment?
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  11779.  @rogerthat4545  oh the himars were jammed a long time ago! you never figured out why we have heard ZERO about any successful himars strikes for months now?
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  11780.  @thegreatdane3627  and the same guys that are telling you that Bakhmut has fallen, as opposed to the Kiev guys insisting that Ukronazis are still battling away in Bakhmut. Yawn.
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  11781.  @rogerthat4545  curious you have to stretch all the way back to the Moskva to find an example of a Russian lie! That would be like me stretching all the way back to "the heroic defenders of Snake Island" (who surrendered) as my most recent example of Ukrainian lies and propaganda!
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  11782.  @thegreatdane3627  Have you seen any denial or alternative numbers from the Ukronazis?
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  11783.  @thegreatdane3627  not talking about that. sure, let's assume that your source is accurate and that Russian MOD claimed that specific high number. sounds like an absurd lie. (pssst, guess what, both sides lie sometimes and both sides tell the truth sometimes) I'm talking about the recent claim of 250 casualties on Day One. Did Ukraine deny it? what makes you 100% sure it is wrong? Now, to satisfy my curiosity, i'll google "9431 tanks" and see what pops up.
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  11784.  @thegreatdane3627  weird! when I google "9431 tanks in Ukraine" nothing pops up! how could that be? what do you suggest I google to check out your claim?
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  11785.  @thegreatdane3627  now, there are some references to ABOUT 10,000 ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES being destroyed in Ukraine. Could you be confused between a tank and an armoured fighting vehicle?
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  11786. well, well, well, 2 years into the conflict, and NATO has neither the will nor the means to counter those incompetent, blundering Russians with shovels! Of course, changing the commander will change all that.
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  11787. Melania may well be proud of the Donald despite the lies and innuendos of all those involved in the witch hunt
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  11788. as expected, she can't even say who is Far Right. What makes anyone who attacks a mosque "Far Right" rather than simply a person who detests Islam?
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  11789. any prayers for the children killed in Donbass by the Azov Nazi shelling over the last 8 years? Naaaah
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  11790. "why the border wasn't better defended" Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe. Some very slow thinkers are having a problem connecting these two.
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  11791. This is what Britainistan is. it's not news, it's normal. if only the likes of Farage had embraced Tommy Robinson a decade ago.
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  11792. Biden delighted that a court USA doesn't recognize has recognized that Putin committed a crime.
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  11793. only a deluded fool would see Ukraine winning this conflict
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  11794. so, yet another Zelensky lie. so easily going from "we only fight to defend Ukraine" to "now we will be attacking Russia". of course, the big Zelensky lie was his electoral promise to "bring peace to Donbass"...oh boy, was that a Pinocchio pledge. notice how no one visits Zelensky in Kiev any more. Zelensky, time to get you acquainted to the underside of this bus, and free Gonzalo Lira immediately.
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  11795. Odessa today, Vinnitsya tomorrow, Kiev on Thursday, and NATO powerless. At some point Zelensky will twig that NATO promised something they can't deliver, defeat of Russia. And then Zelensky will have his mansion in Miami and villa in Tuscany as nice alternatives to watching his country get destroyed. Just the ordinary Ukrainians will have their lives destroyed. I mean the sanctions might have some effect in a decade or two, one can hope
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  11796.  @45641560456405640563  so your argument is reduced "your comments are idiotic because your comments are idiotic". I'll take your use of "idiotic" as in the original Greek meaning of the word
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  11797.  @nami-3  why don't you ever like your own?
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  11798.  @nami-3  I understand perfectly why Putin invaded Ukraine. it's the reporter that was too dumb to understand such a basic thing
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  11799.  @nami-3  well, without you correcting my misunderstanding the conversation is pointless
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  11800.  @nami-3  as Einstein said, if you can't explain it, you don't understand it.
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  11801. "we live good relatively speaking"...is the "we" the rich of Lithuania and is it relative to the poor of your country who are getting absolutely crushed by inflation? sadly, I fear you don't know why this is all happening. you just think you do. like the 95% that were convinced the Earth was flat.
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  11802.  @hatge1803  Ukraine will definitely lose and the chihuahua states on the Baltic will be made to look like the fools they are.
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  11803.  @Hi_Its_Chris  Given that Germany and France have nothing with which to help guarantee the security in Europe, and given that Germany and France signed the Minsk Agreements and then did nothing to implement them, only a fool would look to Germany and France for anything connected with security.
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  11804. As usual, Sky News and Bell miss the point. Ukraine is now seen by the rest of the world as the side that rejected a peace offer. This solidifies Russia's support from China, India etc. With the kill rate at 8:1 in favor of the Wagners in and around Bakhmut, no gain in territory is needed to demilitarize Ukraine while Zelensky keeps serving up his cannon fodder to be made into mince meat.
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  11805. probably a trans kid was misgendered or something.
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  11806. Russia is succeeding in demilitarizing BOTH Ukraine and the West. The West seeks to "weaken Russia". The West is only succeeding in weakening the West. Russia has won, and deserves to win.
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  11807.  @Spitfire_Cowboy  I like your inability to deal with the message, and your focus on one detail about the messenger. Speaks volumes.
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  11808. It's not England or the UK saying that Ulster belongs to the UK, it's something called democracy, whereby the majority of Northern Irish voters want to remain part of the UK. Of course, democracy never stopped NATO destroying a country in the past, so wouldn't be a big surprise if NATO decided to arm nationalist extremists in the hope of creating another bloodbath in the world.
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  11809. Curious how all these attacks on residential homes in Kharkov bear a striking resemblance to all the attacks on residential homes in Belgorod. Must just be coincidence.
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  11810. and a nuke or two would be a special population eradication for the Ukroazis
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  11811. "energy supply crisis"? there's no energy supply crisis, honey. world energy supplies are just fine, all working normally. the crisis is the West choosing to cut itself off from this supply! Get it right!
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  11812. they did from day one, but see no need to investigate it all
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  11813.  @21m455  Jay got off the island. the Moroccan mafia were after him. the 2 lads from Luton staying in Masca got Jay off the island by taking him down to Masca Beach, where boats regularly come ashore unobserved for drug and people smuggling. in a week's time, Jay will emerge safe and sound from somewhere like Madeira or Ceuta.
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  11814. time for NATO to figure out how the hell the Taliban kicked their asses out of Kabul so easily
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  11815.  @Hero4fun77  whataboutism = highlighting hypocrisy. works every time
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  11816. so the West has a big problem with referenda, but no problem at all with the coup that ousted democratically elected President Yanukovich in 2014. West's "rules based system" at work, and gratefully rejected by most of the globe
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  11817. Once we get an apology from black African leaders for what their ancestors did in enslaving fellow Africans, then we can move forward with the debate. Until then, shut up, woman.
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  11818. why would the presenter assume there is no possibility that Ukraine is responsible for the power plant shelling? Russia has decades of managing nuclear power plants. this is just a distraction from the real news; Ukraine has totally failed to mount a counter attack, and there is no explanation forthcoming. ONLY British " military "experts" assumed Russia had assumed a quick win. There was never a timeline, and Russia is more than happy to demilitarize and weaken the West for months to come. The initiative is NOT with the Ukrainians. He is totally deluded, or more likely lying to please his paymaster.
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  11819.  @public.public  agreed, BBC reporter Adler is a liar
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  11820. she backed lockdowns, she backed more debt, she backed sanctions on Russia, she backed unlimited aid to Ukraine, she backed doing nothing about mass illegal immigration, she got the failure she deserved.
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  11821. Farage would have more credibility had he stood shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson when he had the chance.
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  11822.  @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage  why take "the rest"? makes no sense. not all of Ukraine belongs in Russia.
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  11823.  @oleksandrdemchyshyn2452  "dreamer"...same word used to describe the brave people of the Donbass when they announced they would separate from Kiev! Dreams come true, sometimes.
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  11824.  @bonnie7898  it is speculation, based on logic and an understanding of the events and background of the situation, that lead me to conclude that there is an excellent chance the ethnically Russian cities of Odessa and Kharkov will end up in Russian hands. Seems like you are having a tough time differentiating between speculation and fact, but that would be par for the course for your child's mind.
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  11825.  @preeyakumari-i2q  only Kiev's power supply and air defence system has fallen, but then again, Kiev is not Donbass, so why would it fall?
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  11826. citizens assembly = government with no elections
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  11827. baffles me why anyone with enough cash for a one way ticket to South America chooses to remain in the UK.
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  11828. The Socialists are an absolute disgrace. If Madrid can't even enforce its own laws against sedition or treason, how the hell can it ever eliminate bad tourist behaviour?
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  11829. smells fishy. was jussie smollett involved?
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  11830. Price cap on energy = jump in energy prices - benefits to Russia, more suffering in Europe. Our leaders are so dumb.
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  11831.  @joecater894  The West prefers to pulverize from the air, shock and awe. Different method of pulverization, same results.
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  11832. just too funny...the Green Party giving the thumbs up for coal plants to be refired up! ha ha. What a bunch of clowns in the German government.
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  11833. wonder if the old bird was asking "who attacked who first?" when Azov Nazi shells were raining down on the Donbass over the last eight years?
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  11834. Not my king. The monarch reigns, not rules, so Charles needs to get out of politics totally. No need to meet Ursula at all. with the NI protocol, let free trade reign from GB to Ireland. If EU and Dublin need to resurrect the NI border to protect the corrupt cartel, let them. their call.
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  11835.  @mikegoodie7905  The same applies in reverse. So, what it comes down to is, would Putin be prepared to gamble that the West's response to one nuclear device used on Ukraine would NOT be a nuclear device launched against Russia? Is Ukraine worth a nuclear holocaust in the eyes of the West? One hell of a gamble for the West to assume Putin is all bluff.
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  11836.  @thegreatdane3627  of course you would. I mean anything to escape reality.
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  11837.  @thegreatdane3627  Now deep into Week 4 of the great NATO/Ukronazia counter offensive. Have results so far surpassed your expectations?
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  11838.  @paulgibbon5991  just because you didn't hear from me doesn't mean I was quiet, Sherlock. besides, the mutiny was more something to observe and comment on later, if it had some determining effect on the war, which it doesn't.
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  11839.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  with the promise that we will continue to keep giving "as long as it takes". Ukraine's borders are much more important to the UK government than the UK's borders.
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  11840.  @rollerrollerichson6258  UK exports to EU growing year by year. try again.
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  11841.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  Of course the EU exports much more to the UK than vice versa! Look at the population of the EU compared to the UK! But what you say is evidence that Brexit is no barrier to trade, if so many EU exports are flowing into the UK. I count that as a success. But yes, year on year, UK exports to the EU are growing, you need to check the numbers. Brexit is not the culprit of UK's decline. It is the reasons I listed in the original post. Read it and weep.
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  11842.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  Learn the basics. Brexit is not a barrier to trade. Brexit is a barrier to trade with the EU only. With the rest of the world, breaking free from the corrupt protectionist cartel is a boost to trade. Now, let's talk specifics. What SPECIFICALLY is the situation that the car manufacturer is faced with that makes moving production to the EU a good idea? Of course, there will be some business that comes the UK's way post Brexit and some will leave. On balance, free trade with the rest of the globe is, and will be, an enormous boost to the UK, ceteris paribus. So, again, talk specifics. The ONS says exactly what regarding a. value of exports to EU b. value of exports to non EU c. value of exports globally only when all 3 are examined will you get a true idea of how Brexit is working regarding exports. And that is just exports. What convinces you that the ONS has a clue about anything? Educate yourself about free trade and the restrictions the EU cartel imposes on imports that deny its citizens better prices. Learn the basics.
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  11843.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  I'm educating you. giving you a right schooling. the fact you come up with no answers to some very basic questions says it all. Now, instead of looking at bogus ONS data, let's take a look at the real world. Look at the Gib/Spain border. Entering Spain, the EU customs inspectors go over every vehicle quite thoroughly to asses what duties have to be paid. Entering Gib, there are no such checks. Explain why.
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  11844.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  Just curious, when you add up all the costs of remaining in the EU, do you include the enormous costs of arresting, prosecuting and jailing all those who used freedom of movement laws to come to the UK from Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria etc to steal, sponge and victimize? Do the ONS figures reflect those costs of EU membership? what was the grand total of that cost? educate yourself.
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  11845.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  let's now consider bananas in Spain. We hear so much about the wonderful benefits of the single market, frictionless trade etc. But last winter, in the local supermarket in Barbate, Spain, I noticed that the local Spanish bananas were more expensive than BOTH the imported bananas from Costa Rica and Cameroon. All three, Spain, Costa Rica, Cameroon, of comparable quality. Why were the Spanish bananas more expensive? Don't go fumbling for ONS data in panic! Let's hear your economic reasoning arrive at the shocking conclusion, why!
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  11846.  @rollerrollerichson6258  completely agree. we agree that 4% less GDP is a disaster. we may well disagree what caused that and what to do about it.
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  11847.  @rollerrollerichson6258  as usual, the finger is pointed at the word "Brexit" without any explanation of how Brexit is the culprit. Try again. Looks like English is not your first language. Would it be easier if we switched to Spanish or French?
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  11848.  @rollerrollerichson6258  exactly. you need to identify the problems (there are many) and CORRECTLY identify them. Parroting "Brexit, Brexit" fails to do that. Circumstances are VERY different for each nation, even within certain regions, so, no, you can't simplify economics that way. once again, let's see if you can answer a simple question. Why, in Spanish supermarkets, are Costa Rican bananas cheaper than Spanish bananas?
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  11849. No, Doogie, it's not the stabbing that sparked all this. It's the fact that the stabbing was YET AGAIN, as part of a whole spate of violent attacks committed by an immigrants, who paid back the generosity of the host country with murder and bloodshed and horror. Get it right!
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  11850. what is inexplicable is the hesitation of chihuahua states like Poland and Estonia from sending their troops into Ukraine to fight for Ukraine. Turkey sent troops into Syria, Poland is free to do the same in Ukraine.
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  11851. Slava Rossiyi......only the deluded sheep who feed off MSM think Ukraine is winning this conflict.
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  11852. yes, it is up to Russia to tell Finland what to do and what not to do, and it is Finland's right to refuse and thus endure whatever consequences there may be. Just like it is USA's right to blow up Nordstream if it wants to, and Germany's right to pretend it has no idea who is guilty. welcome to the US bully house known as NATO!
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  11853.  @Dante_Roan3814  I was joking. I was just repeating what the Police announced about the Southport attacker, the son of African immigrants was described as "a Welshman, from Cardiff"
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  11854.  @Dante_Roan3814  no, jokes don't have to be in good taste, and "funny" is purely subjective. instead of wringing your hands about a comment you don't like, how about you just grow up?
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  11855. the flooding will wash away or disable the coastal mines Russia has placed on the Russian side of the Dnipr, therefore any Ukrainian amphibious landing has now been facilitated. Points to a Ukrainian attack. Especially as Ukraine has done this before further upstream earlier in the war.
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  11856. nope, wrong conclusion, BBC. it shows that groups like Patriotic Alternative has, in many ways, the same views as may voters of all political persuasions when it comes to ending illegal immigration.
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  11857.  @Poleeze1  what i said was quite different. "yet" means it is unknown if such upheavals will come in the future. "now on the way" is a confirmation that upheavals will happen and are just around the corner. I'm guessing English is not your first language. Look up the word "yet" in a dictionary.
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  11858. "I am confident the photo is of Jay" why?
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  11859. none are available. NATO is tapped out.
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  11860. Macron loses parliamentary support, Johnson has half his own party wanting him to resign, Scholtz looking shaky leading a fragile coalition, Biden looking at a wipe-out in the Mid Terms...remind me again, the sanctions were supposed to remove Putin from power, or remove the opponents of Putin from power?
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  11861. so what explains Zelensky's mental collapse?
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  11862.  @zippersocks  21 year old males are, in general, poor at risk assessment compared to other demographic groups. the question is, why was it considered vital to allow him access to such documents? he only broke the rules of a lying tyranny. if the Western taxpayer knew that Ukrainian troops were dying at seven times the rate of Russian troops, the whole futility of the war would be apparent. he did us all a great service.
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  11863. Alexander speaks so naively, as if it's the first time in UN/ICJ history that the whole globe piles in against USA and Israel. this is all par for the course! it's normal. have you guys not figured out why?
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  11864. excellent decision. all civilians who wanted evacuation have gone, focus can be placed on destroying Ukraine's infrastructure while saving Russian lives. makes sense.
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  11865.  @luvmywohdes1464  can't really call it a win, but it does avoid a massive loss of troops (something the UkroNazis haven't learned to do). much more effective to keep the Ukronazis shivering in the dark all winter, bankrupt and begging the poverty-stricken West for handouts.
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  11866.  @luvmywohdes1464  surrendering something voluntarily is not the same as losing something. if you think deserted, evacuated "key cities" are more important than thousands of soldiers' lives, your attitude explains why Ukraine is in the mess it is in. Kill rate of 5:1 in Russia's favor...I enjoy you dancing around it enough, ha ha
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  11867.  @luvmywohdes1464  No, I didn't admit that. I said IF it saves thousands of lives, it's a good idea, not that it would. Surovikin has done some calculations (unlike Zelensky who doesn't care how many lives are lost in futile offensives). And I agree with you, it doesn't sound like a win (but neither did the Ardennes offensive sound like a win to the Allies). You are dancing around the fact that the kill rate is heavily against Ukraine, and you are celebrating the fact that territory, that can always be retaken, has been gained at the expense of thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder lives. Heartless Azov Nazi supporter. Keep dancing.
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  11868. you know when you hear the oft chanted "unprovoked attack" that the speaker is an ignorant brainwashed sheep.
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  11869. Yet again, a European decision will depend entirely on the boss, USA, nodding its approval to poodle Europe.
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  11870. that's the right, the fascists are now the good guys
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  11871. Thank you to the "far right" leaders for doing what the gardai and press should be doing, informing us of the origin of the attacker. We all know the formula; the longer it takes for the authorities to reveal the nationality and origins of the attacker, the more likely it is to be an immigrant and Muslim at that. Shame on the gardai and press. No wonder the masses hate you so much.
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  11872. Day 20 of the counter offensive, and just 18 days left to complete it, but did you all hear about all the settlements captured today by Ukraine? No? Neither did I. what about you, Justin Crump, expert extraordinaire?
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  11873. would love to know the specific investments in the pension plan that lost 40% so quickly! Methinks the old codger sold his wife that cock and bull story when he had to pay off his lover.
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  11874.  @martinsolomon5500  exactly so. she thought she knew what she was talking about. she didn't, and never apologized, and therefore lost all credibility. there is no reason to assume she has figured out any other great topic of the day.
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  11875. yep, imagine a party that is against the murder of unborn children and against mass illegal immigration and pro straight white men having any chance of electoral success?! hard to believe.
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  11876. This guy is just a liar. Putin has never demanded that Ukraine relinquish its sovereignty. This imbecile is making it all up as he goes along.
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  11877.  @Djamonja  giving you the truth you so desperately need
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  11878.  @PJPsounds  game changer! not.
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  11879.  @banteo  absolutely fine, Stefan Bandero. Proud of the 4000 Jews you massacred in Lvov in 1941?
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  11880. Western media keeps boasting that NATO has expanded. It hasn't, yet. On the other hand, Turkey and Hungary are acting much like Russian allies. In many respects, NATO has shrunk.
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  11881. who is "we"? Nothing stopping you sending every penny to your name to Zelensky, so he can buy another mansion
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  11882. and yet Americans keep saying they are the best country in the world. deluded.
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  11883. the problem with equity is that the next step is to require of black students a much much lower standard to graduate from any college.
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  11884. Just laughable how there is no coverage on criminals like Onyshenko who were released to fight for Ukraine, but Clarke acts as if Russia has a monopoly on using criminals in war. childishly biased.
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  11885. the protests are about the elite getting all the assumptions wrong. immigration has NOT been an economic boon. all cultures are not equal. Islam is a threat.
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  11886. "needs to be" such a child shouting out his wish list. deal with reality.
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  11887.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  loads of countries need oil. when you need something, you ain't in a strong position to demand anything. you really haven't got a clue about basic economics, have you?
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  11888.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  just curious. which police force is going to enforce the "no insurance, no shipping" rule?
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  11889.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  I shed light where all around the Ionnanis mind is darkness and ignorance.
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  11890.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  try to educate yourself about the realities on the ground and how the Western media prevent you from learning about the full picture. If I asked you to give me details about the Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city over the last few days, you would have no idea of any details at all, would you?
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  11891. " no one replaced the stock" that's because the stock didn't disappear. people who bought their own council house decreased the number of people needing social housing by exactly the same amount as the social housing available.
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  11892. just like the Christmas shoppers in Donbass were hit every year for the last 8 years. Just 7 more years for Ukraine to put up with this s**t
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  11893. It's a massive Ponzi scheme. more and more new members (migrants) have to be added to the scheme to keep GDP rising, though GDP per capita keeps falling. and like a Ponzi scheme, with some money coming in, money can also be paid out, but the whole house of cards collapses when the new arrivals stop coming. Like all Ponzi schemes, UK government finances will collapse at some point and the consequences will be horrendous.
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  11894.  @ZoragRingael  given that TWO concerts are scheduled on the day, it would be the PERFECT place to use as a military base/store/hideout! Come on! Are you one of those that sees a building with the word "CHILDREN" painted on the roof and think it MUST be where there are children? How naive are you? The first thing that dies in war is the truth, on both sides! Wise up!
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  11895.  @ZoragRingael  it makes perfect sense! it means that it would be the LAST place suspected of being used by the military! you hide things in places that are NOT obvious. surely you know how to hide something, right?
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  11896.  @alvaro701  based on what evidence?
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  11897. These dopes have no clue. Surrounding Bakhmut would mean the capture or massacre of 20,000 Ukrainian troops, a major step forward in Russia's aim to dimilitarize (kill all its soldiers) Ukraine. it's that simple.
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  11898. just hilarious that our dullard Western leaders think sanctions can work in a globalized world. Then again, it's pious words and the narrative that matters, not whether the sanctions actually work. "Bring on EU Sanctions Package number 12!".....there. that sounds good, but achieves nothing but hurt in the EU.
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  11899. German leadership failed to notice the Real Face of Sanctions
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  11900. Farage's biggest mistake was not to have stood alongside Tommy Robinson and push for an end to immigration.
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  11901.  @millmoormichael6630  Russia exports oil to the world, Holland doesn't. Russia exports gas to the world. Holland doesn't. Russia exports coal to the world, Holland doesn't. Russia exports precious metals to the world, Holland doesn't. Russia exports wheat to the world, Holland doesn't. Russia exports commodities the world desperately needs, Holland doesn't. Size of GDP is not relevant. It's the importance of your exports that counts, and Russia is right up there with China and USA in that department. This is why Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Asia are fine with Russia and desperately want to continue trade and good relations with Russia. It's also why the above named continents/areas don't care a monkey's backside for Holland.
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  11902.  @claudiopereira9900  well said. Russia has won this "war" in that it is close to attaining, and will attain, its stated 5 objectives. Just a matter of time before the West comes to the painful realization it gambled everything and failed.
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  11903. just a bunch of disgruntled teenage Socialists putting up flyers who fancy blaming Brit visitors for their woes, rather than their own Socialist PM.
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  11904. anyone could be paid off
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  11905. Is this Matt Warman guy the winner of the wettest Tory in Westminster prize? where is the outrage that illegal economic immigrants are costing the UK taxpayers millions every day?
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  11906. Ukraine starting to buckle. Putin has no need to talk to anyone, but Zelensky knows his days are numbered.
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  11907. projection
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  11908.  @PeterSedesse  and USA invaded Afghanistan. the Allies invaded France in 1944. so what's your point? ALL invasions are bad?
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  11909.  @chairforceoneYT  imagine.
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  11910.  @RAL0981  a betting man are you? rather than bet, why not learn some basics?
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  11911.  @chairforceoneYT  i already did, but found just another brainless creature, a mosquito, there
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  11912. "pray he is still alive"? are you kidding? so many people are fine with the wilderness cutting out the middleman as far as justice is concerned
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  11913. Quite why Americans think it's fine to have a US force occupying part of Syria, but that Russia has no right to have forces in Ukraine, is baffling.
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  11914. sounds like the Police are going to be lenient! they deny there is no 2 Tier policing, so based on the fact the Pakistanis who violently attacked police officers at Manchester Airport have not been charged with anything, the "Far Right" rioters can expect to escape any charges.
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  11915. That's what really stressed people do, photo shoots for Vogue.
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  11916.  @frederikzinn6568  how many of these "war crimes" have gone to court? aren't you surprised how the whole Bucha thing went quiet? hey, you don't think they discovered it was Ukrainian troops who massacred "collaborators" after all, do you?
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  11917.  @frederikzinn6568  just curious, do you see anything similar in the Azov Battalion logo and that used by Germany's WW2 Storm Troopers?
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  11918.  @stephenhill545  the Ukrainian with an anglo-english name. How did you get that name?
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  11919.  @batman-cu1ep  all the Western leaders who blundered into this futile conflict are being held accountable. they are all being kicked out of office!
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  11920.  @angrydoggy9170  the Kremlin did invade Ukraine. so what? are you claiming every invasion in world history is wrong? Think Normandy. The Azov Battalion was responsible for starting the conflict, shelling their fellow citizens in Donetsk. tell me, when was the last time, exactly, all Ukrainians ever voted on joining Russia? you make up stuff! Yes, Russian troops have been active in Ukraine for a decade now. That's what happens when you target ethnic Russians. Putin doesn't put up with that c**p. if you think "independent" journalists are reporting from Kiev uncensored, then you are indeed a naive fool. wake up to reality!
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  11921.  @navarog378  yeah, that's right, and it is because Germany produces really good sausages and beer that the Allies invaded Germany in 1944.
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  11922.  @Pippie5555  not to pick a fight, but to challenge all the wayward thinking and uninformed bs on channels like this. not a question of liking or disliking, but of fascination with how easily the West has been duped into this futile conflict. Get a life, Zelensky lackey.
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  11923.  @Pippie5555  what is truly fascinating is how no one commenting on this channel can answer any very simple questions! here's your chance to prove that notion wrong! Stefan Bandera, national hero of Ukraine, killed exactly how many Jews? cue crickets.
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  11924.  @frederikzinn6568  "it is unknown whether Bandera has killed any Jews with intention" wow! 4000 Jews massacred in Lvov under Bandera's orders, but maybe it was all unintentional!? this is priceless stuff and the more you keep writing such tripe the more the world sees how extreme right you are! have a portrait of Goebbels in your house, do you? "we cannot blame Bandera for working with the Nazis" again, that says it all. Yes, we can blame ANYONE who thought it was a really good idea to swear allegiance to the nazis. you are disgusting. so tell me, if we can't blame Bandera for working for the Nazis, why were Zelensky and Trudeau so embarrassed about honoring that former Waffen SS officer last year in the Canadian Parliament? Why didn't Trudeau and Zelensky say "can't blame this guy for working with the Nazis"? oh boy, you are such an apologist for obvious wrongs and horrors. Definitely, your side is the one that approves of pogroms and mass murders.
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  11925.  @frederikzinn6568  when you saw the BBC Newsnight article on the Extreme Right in Ukraine, did you conclude there was no problem with the Extreme nationalist right in Ukraine? When you see the black sun and Wolfsangel motifs on Ukrainian uniforms, do you assume that has no connection with the Nazis? Why did the US Senate refuse funding, any funding, to the Azov Battalion? Come on, Goebbels, let the world read your answers.
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  11926.  @TreXsJournal-Coming-Soon  my own county's propaganda? do you know the difference between a country and a county? what's your problem with me worrying about the worst propaganda, wherever it may be found?
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  11927. and also the right to see every single able bodied man get killed or crippled by Russia
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  11928.  @6.5x55  hook, line and sinker....how you swallowed the lies of Western media. Ukraine still winning, right? Russia running out of weapons, right? More Javelins and Himars, right? Sanctions package number 12 will work, right?;) Russia is isolated, right|?
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  11929.  @mikeb5664  and tell me, how do you define "well documented". as "well documented" as the Covid vaccines will prevent you getting covid? or as "well-documented" that the virus came from a Chinese market? that kind of "well-documented"?
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  11930.  @natalieturko4808  a fact? and who exactly is counting all the dead Russians and Ukrainians? and why do you trust the numbers they announce? I think your definition of "fact" is very different from mine, and the rest of the world! Were the Azov nazis "dirty, unprincipled and desperate fighters" when they fired missiles into the DPR and LPR for 8 years?
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  11931.  @natalieturko4808  Looks like your reading comprehension skills are very very poor. I never spoke of "Ukraine's existence". I said the words "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian" didn't exist before the mid 19th century. and I am correct. I know my history. the land YOU call Ukraine has always existed. But the identity of "Ukrainian" is very, very recent. I repeat, the Crimean War was fought against Russia, not against Ukraine. Learn some basic history.
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  11932.  @natalieturko4808  I never mentioned Kiev. Kiev is irrelevant to the discussion of when and how Ukraine emerged as a nation. So, I guess "Kievan Rus" refers really to "Kievan-Ukraine". ha ha, you are a funny one.
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  11933.  @natalieturko4808  tell me what the name "Ukraine" means and how that name came about. let's see what you know.
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  11934.  @mikeb5664  Ethnic Russians have moved to Russia....and brought with them their ancestral homelands, Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhe and Kherson. So, what's your problem?
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  11935.  @victory-ukraine  you are not fighting for democracy. you are fighting for nazi-inspired pigs that took great delight in shelling the Donbass for 8 years. shame on you.
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  11936.  @mikeb5664  Glad you have no problem with the ethnic Russians of Ukraine joining Russia. We are a small minority in the West. The Russians sitting in trenches are waiting to make sure the Ukronazis die. Thankfully, they are doing a great job of demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine, agreed?
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  11937.  @mikeb5664  I mean, I am right, that you want no more Right Sektor, Tornado, Svoboda, Azov elements in the Kiev government and you want an end to the oligarchic authoritarianism of the Kiev regime, right? How did you feel when you read the Reuters article from 2018 on the rise of the nazis in Ukraine?
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  11938.  @mikeb5664  lost what? of its stated 5 objectives, which ones have failed?
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  11939.  @bonnie7898  I'm sure your funny little anecdote has as much veracity as your claim that the Allies never invaded Nazi Germany! But when you have learned what the word "Ukraine" means then you will understand that both statements are possible: that a map could have the word "Ukraine" on it but that such a word refers to no nation, no national identity, no people, nothing but the literal meaning of the words. Now, do your research and find out what "Ukraine" means.
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  11940.  @bonnie7898  let me repeat again. The Crimean War was fought against Russia, not against Ukraine. Let that sink in.
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  11941.  @bonnie7898  thank you for confirming what I said. It was Kievan RUS, never Kievan UKRAINE. Yes, Kiev is an old place. The very notion of a Ukrainian people, a Ukrainian state, a Ukrainian identity only emerges after the mid 19th century. I recommend you check out Ukraine's role in providing willing prison guards for Nazi concentration camps, a fascinating insight into how the Ukrainian mentality developed.
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  11942.  @bonnie7898  oh, I know you are QUITE comfortable with your knowledge, of everything. The problem is, in reality, you are ignorant and it's obvious. No, you flatly denied that the Allies ever invaded Germany, stating quite emphatically that it was Russia, not the Allies, that invaded Germany. You are a fool and an ignoramus. Learn the basics, and in particular, basic English grammar, then get back to me. You dolt!
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  11943.  @bonnie7898  you never answered the initial question. what makes the Allied invasion of Germany "legal" and the Russian invasion of Ukraine "illegal"?
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  11944.  @bonnie7898  tell me where you found the description of an "analogy" as something that usually contains the word "like"!
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  11945.  @bonnie7898  "My degree IS in English literature" My God, you should be ashamed to write such poor English and then claim you have a degree. Is everyone in Australia this dumb?
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  11946. yeah, right, and the Ghost of Kiev is still shooting down Russian jets, and Snake Island was a heroic victory for Ukraine. What other bullshit do you want us to believe? In the real world, Ukraine's refusal to implement the Minsk Accords means all your women and children have become refugees, your men are being killed en masse, and Russia is taking over, bit by bit. Ukraine is dead, and deserves it. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  11947. Given how Belarus has been treated by the West, it may as well throw in its lot with Russia. Way to go, NATO, another enemy created by your bigotry and russophobia
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  11948.  @eansmith4925  i guess the Turks had no evidence against the Russians and from now on will doubt the fake news coming from Ukraine and the West
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  11949.  @prujbonar6045  as i said, grain, or anything, can sail out of Mariupol, or from the Ukrainian held port of Ismael. Odessa is a port that, unlike Mariupol and Ismael, cannot ship out anything, because of the Ukrainian mines outside the port. Nothing to do with a Russian blockade.
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  11950. "direct assistance to Ukraine" means weapons that then provoke a Russian response that kills hundreds of Ukrainians every day. Nice "assistance"...like giving a box of matches to a child that thinks ihe/she can cook dinner.
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  11951. damn average day in Donbass be like respect to all my Donbass ppl
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  11952. really poor diction from that particular reporter, but to the main point, as long as there is a Wagner presence in Belarus, the Ukronazis will have to keep a substantial number of forces on the Belarus border, thus diluting the efforts that can be made on the eastern and southern frontlines.
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  11953.  @Krytern  how would I know? i take both perspectives into account and come to rational decisions. when was the least time you looked at the history of Ukraine from a Russian perspective?
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  11954.  @Krytern  My comments reflect making judgments after hearing both perspectives. I absorb pro Ukrainian channels like BBC, DW, France 24, with pro Russian channels like Hindustan Times, the Duran. when was the last time you listened intently to a pro Russian channel?
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  11955.  @Krytern  there are plenty of errors Russia has made, but those errors have not formed part of this conversation. I love to defend Russia's invasion and the actions that Putin has taken because having lived and worked in Ukraine, I know it is all justified. It is with passion that I support the DPR's and LPR's right to self determination. you, on the other hand, have decided to back the neo fascists in Kiev who want nothing more than to eliminate Russian language, culture and history from Ukraine, by deadly force, Shame on you for backing the wrong side.
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  11956. Just as USA had no right to decide what was going on in Cuba in JFK's day! Now you see how Russia is just following the USA "rules based" playbook.
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  11957.  @patricepicaud5490  c'est vrai, mais le résultat est plus ou moins pareille. Avec Cuba, les américains ont refusé de permettte aux cubains décider la politique militaire de Cuba. Comme j'ai dit, les russes juste ont copié les américains et les russes ont refusé de permettre aux ukrainiens décider le politique militaire de l'Ukraine.
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  11958. still waiting for the report on Ukraine's continued daily indiscriminate shelling of Donetsk city. oh wait, this is British media, where unbiased reporting is banned. Got it.
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  11959. Jacob is so lost on this one. Integration is irrelevant. All that is needed is for immigrants to be contributors and not parasites, and obey the law. That's it. The Amish have refused to integrate into US society for centuries, and they represent no problem at all.
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  11960. Lockdowns, green energy policies, massive government debt that keeps growing, sanctions on Russia, unlimited financing of Ukraine's futile war, out-of-control mass immigration = hello, stay as long as you like, rampant inflation.
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  11961.  @amckittrick7951  and therein lies the problem. if you are a group that is "forcing the issue", democracy has ceased. With democracy, you vote in representatives that decide these issues, and opposition to government policy is allowed through peaceful protest, but forcing your views to the extent of hurting the lives of others ain't democracy. the public road is open to the public, not to be blocked by a bunch of spoilt deluded brats. why aren't you angry?
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  11962.  @jorndeboer6608  or the Police, like the rest of society, have had enough of such childishness and are just arresting a lot more of the spoiled middle class uncaring brats.
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  11963. fingers crossed
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  11964. Given the proposed law is a copy of USA FARA law, what makes it pro Russian? Biased media never explains this
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  11965. NATO is pathetic. No wonder Russia fancies its chances against such an incompetent organization.
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  11966. hysterically funny that some deluded dopes in the West think that NATO could be any match for Russia. i mean, full steam ahead with more sensitivity training, diversity recruit drives and electric tanks, and see where it gets you. NATO has proven in Kabul and now in Ukraine that it is hopeless, arrogant, and now, demilitarized. Game, set and match to Russia.
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  11967.  @gege1103  really? when exactly?
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  11968.  mikekane2492  and the West should have backed Russia's invasion. is every invasion wrong, in your book?
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  11969.  @subject_7  fingers crossed that happens. USA needs to be taught a lesson in hypocrisy.
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  11970. France is such a chihuahua state in the world today any referendum in France would have no affect whatsoever on anyone.
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  11971. Finland: "we want to join NATO" Russia: "there will be consequences" Finland "of course, but who cares if some of our cannon fodder get massacred when the NATO Bully boy, USA, drags us into its next futile war? neutrality was boring...give some battlefield action and deaths to mourn!"
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  11972.  @Valokaari  except that all of Finland's discussion about joining NATO happened after the invasion. anyway, Russia is not bothered by a chihuahua pacifist bunch of effete nancy boys like Finland joining NATO. makes no difference. With friends like Hungary and Turkey already in NATO, Russia is doing just fine.
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  11973. yeah, kick Turkey out, and Hungary, and anyone that disagrees with the majority. that should really help unity.
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  11974. yep, those drug addict convicts fighting with shovels, whooping the asses of those NATO trained and armed Ukronazis. everything going so well for Ukraine right now.
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  11975. he is a "king" in title only. he is a useless waste of woke space that is clueless about the true values of his subjects.
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  11976. don't listen to this dope. anyone foolish enough to think tackling climate change should be any kind of priority needs their head examined.
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  11977. "The Ukrainians in some places in the south of the country are advancing"...NO, they are not, so stop lying! There has been non stop talk of Ukrainian advances in Kherson oblast since MARCH, but the map never changes, and no one ever names ONE SINGLE TOWN recaptured and secured by Ukraine in the south, EVER! Cheerlead for Zelensky if you wish, but stop the lies, uuurm
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  11978.  @fraydizs7302  nice virtue signalling and hypocritical hand wringing. and now, the truth. it's a numbers thing. hand out free food to starving kids today, expect twice as many starving kids to have their hands out in 20 years. where is the humanity in creating more starvation and poverty? the desperate situation in Haiti is the result of masses and masses of bad decisions by Haitians and the inhumane furthering of their desperate plight by more and more "charitable" handouts. you have no clue what the solution is. you have no clue what true humanity is. you are the sucker that keeps on giving, confused why such misplaced generosity causes more and more poverty in such places.
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  11979. Russia has won. We all knew that the second we heard Biden pronounce "Russia has already lost this war" back in July.
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  11980. " a surprise offensive near Kharkov" only a surprise offensive to the BBC and other media that slavishly repeat what they hear from Kiev.
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  11981. If only Sweden and Finland has been NATO members before! Would have totally avoided the chaotic fiasco of an exit from Afghanistan when a bunch of goat herders strolled into Kabul. Phew, with Sweden and Finland, NATO now clearly is a fighting force to be reckoned with....NOT
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  11982. All of them are deluded. Russia has won. the 5 objectives Russia announced are close to being achieved. Ukraine has no chance of achieving its objectives. nothing will change that.
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  11983. Did you all hear her recently demand AP courses on Jewish American History, and Irish American History? No? Neither did I.
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  11984. "isolated Russia"? you should see what percentage of the planet is delighted to work with Russia and trade with Russia and support Russia. It's the EU that is being isolated. The whole "obey our sanctions and price caps or we will punish you" approach of the West has, surprise surprise, pushed most of the globe to favour Russia
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  11985. shows just how seriously Western leaders take the news that another couple of hundred Ukrainian cannon fodder troops lost their lives needlessly today.
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  11986. "who better to answer that question?" almost anyone other than the failed dope, Petraeus. any fool who assumes Russia can be defeated in a protracted ground war understands nothing about this conflict, and that would include both Morgan and Patraeus.
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  11987. assimilation and integration are of no importance whatsoever. just keep immigrants out.
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  11988. Only problem is, Putin is INCREASING export revenues! Perfect boomerang effect! Higher global prices mean LESS can be exported for MORE revenue! Putin is grateful to the dumb West for boosting his energy industry while simultaneously making Europe more dependent.
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  11989. because Russia wants to save its hypersonic and nuclear weapons for when NATO intervenes with boots on the ground.
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  11990. no point Macron calling Putin if Macron has nothing new to say. Putin, you will notice, only takes calls. feels no need to make calls. yet we are told it is Russia that is losing.
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  11991. doesn't matter what Trump valued his properties at. it's up to the bankers to either scoff at the valuation and reject the loan request, or accept it. if this is illegal, half the population should be in jail for over-evaluation of anything they sold. this is the best case the DA could dig up? only a radical idiot Democrat judge would bother to hear it....but that's what we got.
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  11992. "the uh uh uh other reason that uh uh, Russia might be targeting uh these uh areas uh" Mateus hearing his paymaster in his ear say "don't mention Russian sympathizers communicating the "residential" bases of Ukrainian troops to Russian forces!
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  11993. what's with the permanent cough and raspy voice and slurred speech? is that all linked to dementia? or just other ailments that are taking this guy down?
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  11994. the sooner Scotland gets out of the UK and joins the EU the better. let the cesspit north of the border rot in hell.
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  11995.  @stephenl7048  I am moaning about the stupidity of people who think that the BBC describing MediaZona as "independent" is a true statement. Similarly, anyone who says "RT has no bias" is equally stupid. so, what are you moaning about?
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  11996.  @noelbartley1084  we do, but you don't listen. Russia has won.
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  11997.  @noelbartley1084  about 6 months ago, when the IMF predicted a year of modest growth for the Russian economy. it is clear that NATO cannot out produce Russian armaments, that Ukraine cannot win on the battlefield, and that Russia has basically achieved its 5 objectives.
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  11998. Ghost of Kiev and more javelins will win the day. Snake Island is still under Ukrainian control, right? and the Moskva was sunk, so that means Ukraine is still winning. Any day now, the Russians will run out of weapons and ammo, the Western experts say, so this will all work out soon enough. Those 14 Challenger tanks on the way will turn everything around, and I am sure those latest 16 year old recruits from Lvov will learn to fly F16s in the next few weeks, no problem.
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  11999.  @mirror5076  the truth hurts, eh? 9 years of revenge...no wonder Russia is not interested in anything but total annihilation of Ukraine after how the Donbass Russians were treated. Revenge is such a powerful motivator.
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  12000.  @kunik61  too late for that. Russia is doing the right thing.
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  12001. no need for wanting Boris to go farther..you yourself can volunteer and go and fight, or donate all your money to the Ukrainian cause. what's stopping you?
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  12002.  @chrisso871  oh, I know what Trump is accused of. but i have no idea what crime he is supposed to have committed. and for the second time, you have refused to even try to explain what crime he committed. your silence speaks volumes. what has been all over the news are the accusations. there has been no coverage of what crime he committed.....for very good reason! As Bragg confessed, "we don't have to name the crime that he concealed".
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  12003.  @AdrianneJH  talking about influencing an election, would you say Joe Biden did exactly that when he said Hunter's laptop from hell might have been Russian disinformation and pressured the media to not report on the laptop, knowing full well the laptop was genuine and would have lost Biden the election had it been reported on? Criminal charges due against Biden, right?
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  12004. yep, bankrupt and begging, destroyed, a nation of refugees and dead men, Ukraine really showing Russia how to win this war.
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  12005. this hesitation is despicable. why is Poland waiting to approve its armed forces entering Ukraine to fight side by side with their Ukrainian brothers?
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  12006. London and Birmingham are already lost, with less than 50% British white forming the populace. All other cities will follow and then the rest of the country. just a question of time. The caliphate of Britanistan is basically here. time for white British to relocate....Orania? Paraguay? Hungary?
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  12007.  @rgrn220  whatever "the system" is!? other way round, honey. The "child" failed the system. criminal record, no driving license, stolen car, driving recklessly and dangerously, refusing to cooperate with police, the "child" failed to comply with society's laws. bye bye Nahel, the world is so much better without you.
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  12008.  @apjbuilder  no, not billets, bullets.
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  12009.  @richardlloyd2589  Many more would apply, and hopefully they would all get denied and the process would take years. The point is that they wouldn't get to the UK. No one cares if more apply and get denied if it happens outside the country. It would be up to the UK electorate to decide if they want a government that allows more or less asylum claims to be granted. At the moment, no one decides how many boats arrive every day.
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  12010.  @richardlloyd2589  The number of applications would drop dramatically if 99.99% got rejected immediately.
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  12011.  @robertgannon-cx2mm  you seem confused, as you conclude exactly what I concluded. what you said initially is untrue. of course there are other legal means to come to the UK, be it by work visa, student visa, tourist visa, all those other legal means are why we have so much legal immigration. the only people who risk their lives to come to the UK are those who would not qualify for entry to the UK legally, or those who want the adventure. the risk is low. nearly all make it across and get hotel accommodation. i would definitely take the risk, the odds are excellent. for many of the men, it's a big adventure. they have loads of money to pay for their big adventure, so, yeah, why not try the crossing? something they love to post on instagram in many cases. my suggestion of applying for asylum from the UK embassy in Paris would work a treat. while in the safe country of France, there will be no persecution while their claim is processed, right?
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  12012.  @richardlloyd2589  totally agree with you. in the meantime, tell all migrants in Calais that asylum application can be made from the British embassy in Paris, and anyone trying to enter the UK with no valid documentation will be returned immediately to France and stripped of all their possessions as payment for the taxi service. job done.
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  12013.  @T0MT0Mmmmy  on the contrary, it would comply with international law that states that any claim can be made before entry to the host country. Do you want me to send you a list of countries that treat asylum claims based solely on applications made outside the host country?
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  12014. while there is a massive market for people smugglers, there will be people smugglers. Jonathan too dumb to understand how market forces work. Remove the market. make it unattractive for people to try and enter the country illegally. stripped of all possessions on being discovered in UK waters illegally, taken back to France. end of problem .
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  12015. It's just getting comical how the deluded West and deluded Ukrainians now have to spin every story to justify their absurd position. No ships can leave Ukrainian ports because the seas are mined! Period. Ukraine refuses to demine its seas, hence no shipping is possible. This is the shit that happens when you pick a fight with Russia. Should have implemented Minsk Accords.
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  12016. just hilarious he refers to excellent Ukrainian leadership! Where is Zaluzhny? Where is Sirsky? Still celebrating their glorious victory in Bakhmut, maybe?
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  12017. speaks volumes that Russia can spend 24 hours under serious threat of a coup and yet the Ukronazia/NATO alliance makes zero gains during its great counter offensive.
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  12018.  @77Zenin77  one can only imagine what the US war effort would be if news got out that military forces were 200 kms from DC in a coup attempt! Would make the pandemonium and panic of Kabul Airport seem like a tea party. Gotta respect that Russian determination, focus and dedication.
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  12019. there is a rush because the taxpayers of the West, rightfully so, are getting fed up of pouring their salaries into this futile war.
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  12020. Fingers crossed Putin wins so he can instil some kind of common sense to the West.
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  12021. Without knowing Ukrainian casualties, hard to know if this rope-a-dope by Russia might work out in the end
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  12022. dream on. with all their NATO training, weapons and intelligence, the hopeless ukronazis lose every time they have to fight street by street for anywhere! Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lyzychansk, Popasnaya, Soledar, now Bakhmut, and just fighting against demoralized convicts with shovels! it's an absolute calamity and disgrace for NATO.
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  12023. "something is very strange" how about you do your job and be an investigative reporter and inform us of all that is strange in the case?
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  12024.  Herk Poirot  AI certainly did. when AI stated, quite categorically, that the Ukronazis were using residential areas to house troops and conceal weaponry, that is using human shields. learn the basics.
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  12025. simply astounding, after "Hide the Decline" and Climategate, that she takes climate scientists seriously.
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  12026. "we gotta worry about it" yep, Russia is winning, and you have to worry about that. in the meantime. the rest of the world has to worry about the fact you are clearly unsure who Putin is and who Zelensky is.
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  12027. " I think Putin wants to......." the usual bs from dunces who have no evidence of such nonsense but whose narrative can only survive through fearmongering
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  12028.  @famnd460  yes, happens every day here!
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  12029.  @famnd460  where I am, like Israel, one is allowed to protest against the government. Arab countries are not democracies, and no such protests are permitted. Did you never notice that?
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  12030.  @rustshoo5068  no anti government protests are allowed in any Arab country. One big reason why Israel is an ally of the free world.
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  12031.  @startrain1  those that don't listen to their citizens don't get re-elected, yet another democratic feature that is absent in Arab countries.
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  12032.  @Rammbukk  posing just sends the message you are posing, that you have nothing of substance to do, hence the need to pose. Russia is laughing at such foolishness. and so are all the French in my town here in France.
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  12033.  @Rammbukk  oh, Macron had plenty of intent. what did I say that made toy think i believe Macron had no intent? looks like we are debating what the intent was, exactly, and how successful the result of this intent might be. fascinating to see that you think Macron's absurd photo conveys one message, and one message only! I would say the main message conveyed was "look at me, i can pretend to be a fighter, but in reality, i'm powerless"
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  12034.  @Rammbukk  not sure which pose of Putin you find so cringe, but let me know which photo and what message you are 100% sure the photo conveys.
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  12035.  @CuriousCrow-mp4cx  like a "trained economist" never got anything wrong, lol.
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  12036.  @TheAlchaemist  what it proves is there is a certain freedom of expression allowed within the Russian ranks. A Ukrainian saying this would disappear from view immediately. Yet more evidence that freedom and tolerance are alive in Russia but well and truly dead in Ukronazia. Still, good to see you confirm that the truth of any statement is not important. certainly explains what we hear from Western MSM.
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  12037.  @Vhvjdow0ajsbcdhcuei3o22-om4sm  perhaps, though it is also possible that directing his venom towards the generals, and not Putin, was his way of getting to Moscow unchallenged before he set in motion the coup against Putin.
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  12038.  @TheOneLichemperor  you clearly don't know Russia. tell me, what is your experience living and working in Russia? there is no unified front supporting Putin. there are many in Russia who think either the invasion should be called off, OR that the war of attrition should be a war of all out assault. Unlike Zelensky, Putin has to deal with opposition parties in the Duma every day. Unlike Zelensky, Putin has NOT called off elections for next year. The truth is of enormous value in Russia. Judging by Western MSM, the narrative is everything, the truth just a casualty.
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  12039.  @Idksomeboy  sadly, nearly all the sheep in the West are ignorant about the horrifying truth of post 2014 Ukraine. They just parrot what their lying media tell them from the last 2 years, and are unaware of BBC and Reuters reports from 2018 detailing the chronic Nazi problem in Ukraine.
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  12040.  @chaosXP3RT  so your logic is that Prigozhin is telling the truth because he NOW says the same thing as Western media! Fascinating. I'm guessing when Prigozhin announced the capture of Bakhmut, at that point, Prigozhin was lying!
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  12041.  @chaosXP3RT  Much more likely is that Prigozhin started to spout the West's talking points 5 minutes after he got confirmation from the Western powers that they would recognize him as the legitimate Russian president once his coup was successful.
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  12042.  @TheAlchaemist  no idea what you are on about. How's life deep up Bandera's rectum where you and your fellow fascists feel oh so schastliviy, Adolf?
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  12043.  @forkeke  obviously not! why would anyone exaggerate their own losses? makes no sense.
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  12044.  @zaklinakovace6792  quite possible the naive and ignorant West assumed the oppressed Russian people would rise up and join the coup en masse, instead of taking photos by tanks and waving Russian flags.
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  12045.  @forkeke  Right! it is reasonable to accept the claims of countries regarding their own losses to be AT LEAST the number admitted. How do you think Russia portrays itself? What crime has Russia admitted it didn't do? Obviously, Russia is not Prigozhin, no more than Ukraine is Zaluzhny.
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  12046.  @wishingwell1000  The Kremlin has always understood why SOME former Soviet republics wanted to join NATO, just as USA has always understood why Cuba and much of Latin America hates everything USA stands for.
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  12047.  @HaroldWorth  Nearly everyone in the West THINKS they know that Putin's words are deranged nonsense, but given that they don't listen to Putin's words, they have no idea. Those of us who pay close attention to what Putin says can see he has deep knowledge of history, economics and has great insights into what is happening in the world. Biden, on the other hand, ....what day is it?
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  12048.  @forkeke  I mean the children evacuated from the war started in 2014 by the Azov Nazi Battalion, when they thought it was a really good idea to start shelling the people of the Donbass following the declarations of independence for the DPR and LPR. "send them to a war zone" THEY ARE ALREADY IN A WAR ZONE! That's why they have to ne moved! Ukrainian forces move such kids to safer areas of Ukraine, and Russian forces move such kids to safety in Russia. But in your brainwashed mind, one is an example of kidnapping, and one is an example of heroic care for children!
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  12049.  @MrStringybark  sounds like, as with many imbeciles and lunatics, it's your everyday thoughts that are absurdities, and your dreams that reflect reality. Get some medical help.
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  12050.  @TJ20232  that's right. one of life's golden rules. always trust those that are planning a mutiny.
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  12051.  @MrStringybark  here's a surreal thought. Maybe Putin is right!? Maybe the best thing for Ukraine is neutrality, no Nazi party, reduced military, and Russian speakers given the right to join Russia? Just a thought, if peace and well-being are objectives.
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  12052.  @TJ20232  Will take your advice, Tom. It is so much easier just to trust who I'm told to, and it is fun to be on a bandwagon with other happy automatons, all this weighing up both sides of a conflict is really a bit silly! I'll go back to assuming the BBC have got the whole story covered most accurately:)
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  12053.  @MrStringybark  1. absolutely agree. when the opinion polls show a majority of Crimeans want to rejoin Ukraine, let's not back Putin. trouble is, there is no evidence any of the regions you mentioned are demanding separation from Moscow, sorry to burst your bubble. 2. Zelensky is a puppet. He heads no party that has any say. Zelensly's handlers are in USA, the Ukrainian oligarchs and the Azov Nazis. Zelensky's promise of "peace in the Donbass" (what a sick joke) convinced the USA, oligarchs and Nazis that he would best suit their aims. 3. It's called democracy. the votes already happened. the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 for separation from Kiev. Both DPR and LPR voted for independence and subsequently for joining Russia. Sorry the voting didn't go the way you liked. probably you favor the US style of voting where absentee ballots create golden opportunities for mass fraud?
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  12054. Putin and Lukashenko love playing with the naive, panicky West. If Ukraine have to keep an eye on Belarus, they might take their eye off the ball..Donbass.
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  12055. well, well, well, and we were all told that it was Putin who would face an attempt at regime change! Once again, it's the West that is close to disintegrating, not Russia.
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  12056.  @jaybelle1909  well said. more freedom in Russia these days.
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  12057.  @jaybelle1909  respect for Russia around the world has sky rocketed. the West, on the other hand, has confirmed itself to be a lecturing, hectoring bully that, finally, can be told to go ** itself.
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  12058. don't be fooled by all this blabber about tanks. tanks are being sent in panic because NATO can't match Russia's use and production of artillery shells, and Russia is winning the war of attrition. so, in desperation, NATO hopes to turn the whole conflict into a tank battle. it won't work. NATO will see most of its tanks become metal coffins, and the next escalation will be fighter jets and then boots on the ground. But Russia will still win.
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  12059. Braverman must go. she has failed. never once did i hear Braverman say "we must tow all the boats back to France whatever the consequences".
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  12060.  @mrpipspoppersv9093  Braverman doesn't need Rishi's permission to speak her mind. she has never said we need to tow the boats back with immediate effect. she should have. time to go.
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  12061. so, the customers of this great newspaper enterprise are...the government! nothing like taxpayers paying for newspapers made by the people who want more and more handouts from the taxpayers!
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  12062. Yet more evidence that this present "Conservative" government detests free speech and are part of cancel culture, not a solution to it.
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  12063. Reminder of the scorecard, over the last 20 years: Muslims and immigrants killed by Far Right = 0 white Brits killed by Muslims/Immigrants - 100+ no "stirring up" needed with that scorecard. "Riot is just the voice of the unheard" said MLK. I agree. Victory to the rioters.
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  12064. Looks like Luxemburg is just fine with importing the poor and homeless. Not sure what news this report is bringing us. more of the same EU foolishness.
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  12065. Poland doing everything possible to keep Ukraine fighting to the last Ukrainian, so that in the end, when Ukraine dissolves into ruins, Poland can acquire all Western Ukraine. Lvov will become Polish again. Unless, that is, Poland goes as far as handing over ALL its weapons, in which case there will be nothing to stop Russia strolling in, unopposed, from Kaliningrad. Duda playing with fire.
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  12066. Welcome to the NHS. Let's all applaud such a wonderful healthcare provider.
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  12067. oh, the old GDP argument again! yes, Spain has a similar GDP to Russia, bla bla bla. Problem is, Russian GDP is based on commodities, you know, the stuff the world needs! Russia is going to run out of weapons, of ammo, troops have low morale, we have heard this since March! Get real. Russia has won!
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  12068. imagine that, a journalist using video evidence to tell a different story from the official narrative is in legal trouble! USA 2023. Suddenly the values of Russia look much more democratic.
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  12069. "Soledar and Bakhmut are of no strategic significance" comforting news to the families of the thousands of young cannon fodder massacred by the Wagner convicts over the last 6 months. the young Ukrainian lads fought to the death over something "of no strategic significance." we can write that on their headstones.
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  12070. ahhhh, so reports of Ukrainians crossing the Dnipr into Russian held territory? so, there WAS a motive for Ukraine to destroy the dam!
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  12071. and now the truth....the morale of the Ukrainian cannon fodder is lower than Boris Johnson's credibility, that low
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  12072. @DolphinsWIthIgloos i disagree. i don't think saint zelensky or his successor will have to do any cleanup. with "Russia bad, Ukraine good" as the narrative of the West, Ukraine will be admitted no problem. just like Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest, a political decision, no questions asked. we'll see.
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  12073. All the sanctions imposed against Russia will just bring the Russian people together in a spirit of defiance of the West. This old fool has bought the foolish idea that sanctions against Russia make Russians angry with Putin. Not so. Russia has been under sanctions since 2014....anyone noticed any change of behavior?
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  12074. desperation of Russia? which one is bankrupt and begging, every day? which one has 8 million refugees? which one has no reliable power grid with winter kicking in? which one has 100,000 dead as admitted by General Milley? Not sure you understand what "desperation" means!
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  12075. Liar Clarke has been repeating Ukrainian propaganda about a counter offensive on Kherson for months, but the map never changes. He is so full of bs.
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  12076. GBNews was destined to succeed the day that pretentious tosser Andrew Neal jumped ship.
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  12077. Ukraine feels more supported than ever before.......by a bunch of countries that are still importing Russian energy as much as they want and by countries that can't match Russia's arms production. time for Zelensky and NATO to realize, Project Ukraine has failed.
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  12078. Once again, NATO trained and NATO armed battalions are defeated by convicts and mercenaries who are low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led, we are told. NATO Kabul 2021 debacle all over again.
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  12079. Looking back at Ukraine's pro-Nazi history, no surprise there...Long live Russia
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  12080. Thanks to Brexit, the UK isn't going through this turmoil. Just curious....do the EU farmers face massive increased costs due to the sanctions on Russia?
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  12081.  @BeachandHills-hb2pq  sanctions on Russia and Green policies really hurting the Welsh farmers too, though probably not quite as bad as the EU farmers. Many Welsh farmers sporting Ukrainian flags these days?
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  12082.  @BeachandHills-hb2pq  sounds like UK government on the same track as the EU imbeciles in Brussels.
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  12083. see all those demoralized Russians cheering on the Wagners in Rostov! Ready to get back to the front line with their shovels and continue demilitarizing the Ukronazia/NATO alliance. A beautiful sight. Slava Rossiyi.
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  12084.  @paulmatters2641  great idea! given the permanent rail strikes in the IK, no need of any tank engines there! so, yeah, how difficult can it be? learn which button is forward, which one is reverse (could be very useful, that one), and then operating a real tank should be a piece of cake.
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  12085.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  only to friends of Russia. to the enemies of Russia, its unavailable.
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  12086.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  who said they weren't buying Russian gas? Russian energy exports increased dramatically last year to Europe.
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  12087. time to ask Sunak, Truss and Starmer, at what point do we stop sending tax payers' money to Zelensky, or does Ukraine now represent a black hole of endless pounds in tax payer money to be given away, no matter the economic collapse at home?.
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  12088. Gullible Gulliver looking just amazed that Russia still has plenty of missiles. he bought his own propaganda that Russia was running out of weapons.
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  12089. Policing in Britain shows we are already part of the Caliphate. A strong contingent of Muslim MPs will make it official and the Islamic State of Greater Britainistan will soon be announced.
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  12090. what? an increase in Russian strikes? but...they are running out of ammo, you told us! the sanctions will cripple Russia, you told us! Ghost of Kiev was real, you told us! I'm beginning to think you don't know what you are talking about! Next you'll be saying that Russia is still gaining territory in Donbass!
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  12091. Soledar is yet to fall, the Ghost of Kiev is real, Snake Island is of great strategic importance, there was no damage done to Kiev's Patriot missile systems, and the ukronazis are still fighting in Bakhmut. At what point do the Western MSM start to doubt Kiev's word on anything?
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  12092. while there is demand for Russia's exports, there will be plenty of funding for Russia's wars, thankfully. the sooner Zelensky is out of power, the better
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  12093. you poor deluded soul. The alternatives to "Western hegemony and values" are so attractive these days that many in the West would LOVE to try somewhere like Brazil if only they could. Of the places I've lived in, my recommendation would be Mexico. The West is doomed. You know when a teacher gets beheaded for showing a picture of Mohammed that the West is doomed.
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  12094. "No sign that Russia wants to negotiate"..so I guess this fool missed the recent agreement between Russia and Ukraine to allow grain exports from Odessa.
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  12095.  Leidolfr  "she could have been 8" = she could have been 16
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  12096.  Leidolfr  Mohammed had sex with Aisha when she was 9? How old was Mary when she had sex with Joseph?
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  12097.  Leidolfr  12 is your "average" number, not mine. and no, it's not ok, hence Christianity no longer approves of or allows child brides, as opposed to Islam that, as I pointed out to you, remains unreformed, unrepentant and will be so forever more.
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  12098. US arms manufacturers rubbing their hands with glee and toasting Putin. "long war" music to their ears. gotta laugh at Ukraine keeping Russian missiles as evidence. Russia doing the same in Donbass. Both go to court against each other. Lawyers rubbing their hands with glee.
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  12099. CNN ignorance knows no bounds. Lugansk not included in the section of the map labelled as Russian-backed separatist controlled area of Donbass.
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  12100. The voters of Ireland have got exactly what they voted for.
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  12101. wow, so Hitchens says the Allied invasion of sovereign Germany in 1944 was a terrible mistake.
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  12102. And in the name of being fair and balanced, Quentin's next report will be about the people of the Donbass and their fight for independence and liberation...don't hold your breath
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  12103.  @Abulb99  well if there are Ukrainians in Donbass fighting against Russian occupiers, and those Ukrainians are in fear of death and torture, it must be the Ukrainian authorities that are threatening them with death and torture....otherwise they would exercise their option of leaving Donbass and living without fear of death and torture in that utopia known as Ukraine.
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  12104.  @Abulb99  genocide is the act of wiping out a whole ethnic group. If Russia wanted to commit genocide, believe me, the death toll of Ukrainian civilians would be 1000 times higher. You have no idea what genocide is
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  12105.  @Abulb99  what makes you think the pressure put on young men to enlist and fight for Ukraine is less than that put on young men in the DPR and LPR?
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  12106.  @Abulb99  their personal accounts? ah, so you have logged the enlistment history of EVERY SINGLE Ukrainian conscript, and EVERY SINGLE DPR and LPR conscript, and when you tabulate every single, individual story of these thousands of men, you see that Ukrainian enlistment is a lot more willing than in DPR and LPR, right? Funny, because the personal accounts I get from my Ukrainian students are quite the opposite! They talk about all they can do to AVOID the knock on the door from the recruitment officers! And have done for 8 years!
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  12107.  @Abulb99  you should at least consult some Russian sources to get a taste of the other perspective. Being closed minded is just the same as becoming brain washed. Take a good look at both sides of the coin.
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  12108.  @Abulb99  well of course it is! if you are listening to the accounts of people fleeing Donbass, they will be more likely to give you a pro Ukrainian perspective. You would have to balance that with the accounts of Russian speakers who remained in Donbass and who are delighted they are finally liberated from Ukrainian dictatorship and Azov Nazi shelling. Until you examine, extensively, both sides of the story, you are no authority at all, just a narrator of anecdotal information. what words have I said that are Russian propaganda rather than the other perspective that you refuse to listen to?
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  12109.  @Abulb99  as I said, are you sure, 100%, the scenes RT shows of Donbass Russian speakers embracing Russian soldiers is ALL fake. All actors. All scripted, Not possible it could be real.
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  12110.  @Abulb99  so, in brief, here is the situation, right? Russia - all conscripts are voluntary (or does your media and personal accounts tell you Russian conscripts are tortured and threatened with death to join?) DPR and LPR - All conscripts do so under threat of death and torture, None volunteer to remove Azov Nazis and liberate their homeland from Ukrainianization. Ukraine - every single conscript is 100% a volunteer. No pressure whatsoever. That is the truth as far as your sources report?
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  12111. The results of the poll are not shocking at all. For those of us who know Islam, it's exactly what you would expect, and it's exactly what Britainistan deserves. At the next election, yet another government will be elected by the British voters to import more and more Muslims. Get what you deserve.
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  12112.  @Hidinginthetreeline  Fani did everything wrong, including assuming she would get away with it.
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  12113.  @Hidinginthetreeline  the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming to everyone who is not blind, or, like you, willfully blind. a DA who refuses to account for every gift over $100 value is criminal, as is perjury. Fani will end up in serious trouble, as she now has to battle all the other bodies who smell corruption. Fani won't survive the GA senate investigation nor Jordan's congressional subpoenas. she trapped herself, but it's fun to watch her demise.
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  12114. and of course Russia has a monopoly on war crimes. Ukraine never did anything wrong, ever.
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  12115.  @rasselgaripov8727  Correct. I am an indifferent person. The West is indeed horribly guilty....Irak, Afghanistan, Syria, Serbia, Libya etc. Ukraine is horribly guilty, 8 years of shelling the Donbass. why so many people moaning that Russia suddenly has a monopoly on war crimes?
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  12116.  @criticaldan8579  lots of UkroNazi lovers here too
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  12117.  @eduardtarniceriu102  so you admit, there is no problem with Russia invading a sovereign country. your only problem is the annexation part.
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  12118.  @Ashley-Paucek  no, it doesn't. the ICC collects evidence of war crimes on the territory of Ukraine that it suspects were committed by Russia. The ICC kangaroo court won't touch any allegations against Ukraine.
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  12119.  @eduardtarniceriu102  so, because of the absurd and infantile generalization that Russians "always (there are never any exceptions) consider Ukrainians sub human" and because of the crimes of a dictator from Georgia, you have the attitude that it is a really good idea to support the Azov nazis attempts to massacre the Donbass folk over the last 8 years! Makes perfect sense!
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  12120.  @eduardtarniceriu102  the annexation is fine. only an ignoramus who has never been to these parts of Ukraine would think that the majority there want to remain part of Ukraine. I mean, you have been to both the Crimea and the Donbass, right?
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  12121.  @bonnie7898  hey Bonnie, which NATO member country was being defended when the defensive alliance, NATO, bombed Libya to sh*t? Fifth time of asking. still waiting for an answer. until you can answer the question, safe to assume the ignorance is on your part. ever been to Ukraine, Bonnie? or are you ignorant of what it is actually like there?
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  12122.  @MrSilv55  that is terrible news. yet another example of how Ukraine has become a Nazi dictatorship.
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  12123.  @evgeniybastrykov  they have, but they shot down the wrong helicopter
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  12124.  @LoveHammerMan  me? here in Spain, I'm harboring someone in Russia?
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  12125.  @LoveHammerMan  same reason as Ukraine drafted and used its cannon fodder. to win the war.
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  12126.  @LoveHammerMan  i would call that "8 years of Azov shelling the Donbass"
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  12127.  @LoveHammerMan  we want to join the US and NATO in the league of committing atrocities so this nonsense of the West's "rules based order" can be put aside forever. if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
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  12128.  @LoveHammerMan  the Azov Nazis killed anyone their shells could reach, children, families, anything and anyone. you do believe the Alley of Angels is real, right?
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  12129.  @LoveHammerMan  do you think the English speaking Canadians should start shelling the French speaking Canadians of Quebec because the Québecquois demand French as an equal and official language of Canada?
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  12130.  @LoveHammerMan  only in your twisted world of make-believe. but for the sake of argument, let's go with the scenario you just painted. when exactly did these "armed militants" start to arm themselves and why?
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  12131.  @LoveHammerMan  do you think Ukraine aimed for Poland when its missile killed two people there, or do you think it was an accident, a mistake? do you think the missile that hit the airliner was targeting an airliner, or was it an accident, a mistake?
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  12132.  @LoveHammerMan  you didn't answer my questions, so let's try again. did the ukrainian missile that killed two people in Poland target those two people, or was it an accident? seems like you are saying the Malaysian airliner was hit deliberately. so, tell me, what tremendous benefit did the Russians think they would gain by shooting down a passenger airline flying from Malaysia to Amsterdam?
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  12133.  @LoveHammerMan  similarly, had Ukraine recognized LPR and DPR independence, or even autonomy as Ukraine agreed to in the Minsk Agreements, no more fighting would have happened.
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  12134.  @LoveHammerMan  Have a look at point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum and read it very carefully. then get back to me and say which country refused to abide by point 6. When the Crimean Parliament met in Simferopol after the 2014 coup in Kiev, how many members voted in favor of separation from Ukraine? this is called democracy, so you may be unfamiliar with it, but get back to me with the vote totals from the Crimean Parliament (when no Russian troops were anywhere near Crimea). what made the referendum illegal? Catalans were told that their referendum was illegal too, but no one started shelling the Catalans. Please quote the specific law that bans a regional referendum following a coup that ousts a democratically elected president in Kiev. Oh yes, if democracy is thrown out the window by an Nazi inspired coup whereby the sitting president is ousted, and English speakers appeal for help from the Mother country, certainly UK is obliged to intervene and help. certainly. you never answered the question about why Russian speakers in the Donbass suddenly became militants, because they were not in 1991. what changed? anything to do with the coup and the language laws that outlawed Russian in the public sphere, a la Transnistria and Georgia? hmmm
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  12135.  @LoveHammerMan  why? why would anyone want to arm themselves in Donbass because of Russian annexation in Crimea? Surely everyone in Donbass was delighted to be forced to accept the coup in Kiev? Surely everyone who voted for Yanukovich was delighted he had been ousted? why would they arm themselves?
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  12136.  @LoveHammerMan  what do you make of Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko ALL stating that the Minsk Agreements were a means to win some time for Ukraine, to develop economically and to build up their military?
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  12137.  @LoveHammerMan  second time of asking. what enormous benefit did the Russians think they would gain from shooting down a passenger jet flying from Malaysia to Amsterdam?
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  12138.  @LoveHammerMan  if everyone was delighted with being under Ukrainian rule, why would anyone vote to become a puppet state of Russia?
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  12139.  @LoveHammerMan  third time of asking. what was the enormous benefit to Russia of firing a missile at a passenger jet?
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  12140.  @LoveHammerMan  intrigued as to why Azarov would create a Nazi militia group that was dedicated to ousting him! No mention of Azarov's connection with Azov Militia in Wikipedia. in what year did Azarov form the Neo nazi group dedicated to create a revolution against him?
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  12141.  @LoveHammerMan  Looks like you are lying (no surprise there). The Azov Regiment is not named after Azarov, nor was it founded by Azarov, according to Wikipedia. so, why the lies?
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  12142.  @BrokenBackMountains  given that no one knows the state of Russian losses, not possible to look it up! unlike you, I understand how attrition works. after 10 months of "Russia is running out of weapons" and "the sanctions are working" even a child can see the West has got it all wrong. Inflation low in Russia, IMF predicting modest growth for Russia, no banks are failing in Russia. Russia is winning. wake up to reality.
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  12143.  @BrokenBackMountains  indeed, the Americans ran, the Battle of the Bulge saw rapid German advances, but the result was enormous losses for Germany and the Allies regained all losses thereafter, and won. Russia is doing the same, having withdrawn in Kharkov and Kherson where Russia was outnumbered and over-stretched, Russia inflicted horrendous losses on the ukronazi cannon fodder and has now mobilized reservists to start advancing to achieve its 5 objectives. Ukraine, on the other hand, is bankrupt, begging and knows it will never get Crimea or Donbass back.
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  12144. Wagners withdrawing from Bakhmut? while the Ukronazis are surrounding the city and gaining ground in the city? hmmmm
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  12145.  @MrKhankab  the tide is turning. pro Russian comments flooding in these days as the truth of Zelensky's crimes and blunders are revealed
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  12146.  @sisqosylva  Russia and Ukraine were sitting and talking back in March, but Ukraine walked away when the puppet master, USA, promised Ukraine that Ukraine would win and sanctions would cripple Russia. ooops!
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  12147.  @SerenityMae11  the ignorant fools are those who only found out where Lugansk is five minutes ago. Those of us who have lived and worked in Ukraine can see the truth, and the truth is that USA and Ukraine have been provoking Russia for a decade and mistakenly thought they could defeat Putin. Big mistake, as Ukraine is finding out, the painful way. when you say "we will finish it" does the "it" mean Ukraine as a viable state? you certainly will.
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  12148.  @whitelutik  yep, just like the Allies in WW2, an awful lot of massacring and bombing had to happen before people's rights were returned to them. Germany and Japan understand the concept. You might too, one day, just not today.
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  12149.  @kaliyur9802  so the elections held in US occupied Iraq were illegal, agreed?
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  12150.  @kaliyur9802  was the Scottish referendum on independence held in the presence of occupation troops?
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  12151.  @kaliyur9802  on the contrary, I am more than happy to talk about Bucha. So far, looks like the evidence points to Ukrainians committing the war crimes there, though in all wars both sides commit war crimes. BTW, why are you avoiding talking about Bucha?
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  12152. are you 100% sure that Russians fired missiles at the power station the Russians themselves occupied? are you sure the Russians blew up their own Nordstream pipelines? what is the next Russian thing the Russians themselves will attack do you think, Einstein?
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  12153.  @kaliyur9802  interesting you mention Bucha. that subject has gone quiet. by now I would have imagined a mountain of photos, names, evidence, reliable testimony and a pending court case. what has happened? the silence is telling.
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  12154.  @iramehra2774  I certainly would and I would be really curious to discover the reasons why
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  12155.  @First-Last_name  40% Russian speakers refers to the whole of Ukraine. over 80% of Donbass is Russian speaking. Learn some basic facts. France doesn't need to invade Quebec, as the Québecquois have full and equal language rights to education in French and use of French in all situations. You make my point for me! If Kiev had adopted the Ottawa approach, none of this fighting would have happened!
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  12156.  @bonnie7898  the separatists started what? what is "it"? the separatists declared independence after the anti democratic 2014 Maidan coup, an anti democratic coup that YOU support! it was Kiev that decided to force the separatists to remain Ukrainian, against the majority wishes in Donbass. The fighting started because of Poroshenko. Ukraine has no right to compel separatists to remain Ukrainian, and these are separatists who choose to separate from Azov inspired tyranny from Kiev. when you say "restore order" you mean kill people in Donbass. You are wrong. Did Serbia have a right to "restore order" in Kosovo?
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  12157.  @bonnie7898  nothing wrong with that if you want to have a war. Most civilized countries have MORE than one official language when 40% of the population speak a different language. That is why sensible countries like Kazakstan recognize Russian as an official language alongside Kazakh, Canada recognizes French alongside English, Switzerland recognizes Italian (only 5% of the country speak Italian as a mother tongue!) as an official language. it's only tyrants and barbarians like you that feel the need to compel Russian speakers to use a foreign language. Your Russophobia knows no bounds
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  12158.  @bonnie7898  Ukraine doesn't have to give up any land at all. Ukraine only had to return to the laws it had in place in 1991, when it became independent. Had Ukraine allowed full and equal rights to the 17%, as it had in the past, instead of following the extreme nationalist policies of derussification and extreme ukrainianization, tyrannical and exclusive policies that you think are so wonderful, brilliant, inclusive and humane, then none of this would have happened. The 17%, and Putin, had no problem with Ukraine, 1991 to 2014. The coup changed everything. Shame on you for supporting the bullying and extremism that pushed the 17% to desperate acts to attain justice.
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  12159.  @bonnie7898  Some Ukrainians wanted to move closer to the West. Some Ukrainians wanted to move closer to Russia. In democracies, presidents are not removed by "popular uprisings". They are removed at the ballot box. Or, maybe you support the popular uprising that recently happened in Brazil? Donbass and Crimea are entitled to have governments that reflect the will of the people of Donbass and Crimea, and now they do. The will of Bonnie is irrelevant. it is the will of the Donbass and Crimea that is important.
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  12160.  @bonnie7898  My point is that the Allies had to kill millions and to destroy horribly in order to restore freedom to the people of Germany and Japan. Same is happening now. Russia has to kill and destroy in order to restore the freedoms of the ethnic Russians, and you should be supporting them.
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  12161.  @stevethewindsurfer8911  only a brainwashed fool would assume he/she has a "free media" Your media broadcasts the message of their paymasters. ain't free.
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  12162.  @DSan-kl2yc  which "gauge" are you referring to. be specific.
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  12163.  @DSan-kl2yc  who you talking about?
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  12164.  @DSan-kl2yc  there are many of them, and this is the s**t that happens in war, same happens on both sides. Ukraine should never have embarked on its nationalistic program of derussification.
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  12165.  @georgebouwari8922  their land is occupied bro and they have the right to defend themselves. Ukraine invaded their country (Donbass) and this is the bottom line.
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  12166.  @fordfokus9408  just surrender and bring peace back to the world. kiss goodbye to your Russian speaking areas, be a neutral country, ditch Bandera as a national hero, reduce your military to the size of Luxembourg's, and everyone will be able to live free from war. it worked out for Georgia and Chechnya. just do it.
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  12167.  @SerenityMae11  on the contrary, only a fool would believe Putin woke up one morning and said "you know, totally unprovoked, let's just invade Ukraine and see what happens"
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  12168.  @iramehra2774  I am sure the vast majority of Russians want nothing to do with Ukraine, and vice versa, so we will end up with Ukraine as a neutral country, disarmed, landlocked and with no need to talk to Russia ever again. problem solved..the hard way. Ukraine is bankrupt and destroyed, so it needs advice and will be told what to do, in the end. Biden is advising Ukraine to fight on, so I guess Biden should move to Russia.
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  12169.  @First-Last_name  the numbers depend on the definitions you use. number of Russian speakers may well be different from number of primarily Russian speakers or number of speakers of Russian as native tongue or number of exclusively Russian speakers. play with the numbers as you wish. Similarly, "Russian" can be defined variously as "identifies as Russian", "has Russian nationality", "ethnically Russian" "more Russian than Ukrainian". The point is, in Donbass, there are MANY more Russian speakers than Ukrainian speakers, and many more who identify as ethnically Russian than ethnically Ukrainian. take it or leave it.
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  12170.  @First-Last_name  No, I never heard that Yanukovich tried to ban the Ukrainian language in school. educate me. in the whole of Ukraine? just in the Donbass? On the surface, on this language issue, if you are right, it would seem Yanukovich was as dumb as Poroshenko and Zelensky. But two wrongs don't make a right.
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  12171.  @First-Last_name  No one is claiming anyone banned Russian. We are claiming that Russian was banned from use in schools anywhere in Ukraine from middle school level and up, and in all official and government business. and that is discrimination. needless and provocative too. So, a French speaker in Montreal has the right to have his/her entire education conducted in French, correct? A Russian speaker in Donbass, let's say Lugansk, where 90% of the community use Russian primarily, where 90% of the teachers use Russian primarily, MUST be educated in a foreign language, Ukrainian! And you claim the Russian speaker in Lugansk has the same language rights as the French speaker in Montreal? hmmm. you and I have VERY different definitions of "equal"
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  12172.  @First-Last_name  did you lie? the only reference I can find to Yanukovich and language laws is Yanukovich signed into law the right for Russian to be an official regional language in those regions where Russian is the language of the majority. makes sense to me. No mention of limiting Ukrainian, nor banning Ukrainian, nor banning Ukrainian in schools! did you lie?
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  12173.  @First-Last_name  I'll take that as a "yes". you invented the whole Yanokovich lie. sad state of affairs when you are reduced to that.
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  12174.  @_Twink  no one claims that Russians are the majority in Ukraine. no one claims that Russian is banned in Ukraine. Russian speakers are the overwhelming majority in Donbass, and Russian as a language is totally banned in all Ukrainian schools, even in majority Russian speaking areas, from middle school up, and Russian is totally banned in government transactions and business and severe limitations are placed on broadcasting in Russian. it is pure Russophobia and anyone with any sense of decency condemns it. but that would exclude you.
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  12175.  @First-Last_name  appeasement is very different from peace. Chamberlain confused the two, as have you. surrender brought peace and prosperity to both Germany and Japan. It will to Ukraine too. But first comes the surrender.
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  12176.  @stevethewindsurfer8911  sadly, you only think you gave free speech. All your media follow the narrative of the owner. In Russia you can say things and do things strictly forbidden or taboo in the West. In Russia you can say "white lives matter" with no repercussions. In Russia you can say "men can never become women" with no repercussions. In Russia you are 6 times less likely to be arrested for words written on social media than in the UK. You can use the word "war" in Russia, but you cannot broadcast the lie that Russia is at war or that Russia has declared war. If and when such a declaration of war is made, then repeating said declaration will be allowed, of course.
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  12177.  @First-Last_name  No sources then. pure lies. Yanukovich signed a law that recognized Russian as an official regional language in areas where Russian speakers were the majority. Nothing more and nothing less. There are strict limitations on media broadcasts in Russian in Ukraine, no one can be educated in Russian post elementary school, all government business must be conducted in Ukrainian. French is an official language of Canada, so you are just lying when saying Russian has similar status to French in Canada. If the limitations of use of Russian in Ukraine were replicated in Quebec regarding French, there would be a revolution, and it would be deserved.
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  12178.  @First-Last_name  and now to the evidence. Russia prevailed in Chechnya. Chechnya is now living in peace. Russia prevailed in Abkhazia. Abkhazia is now living in peace. Russia prevailed in South Ossetia. South Ossetia is now living in peace. Russia prevailed in Transnistria. Transnistria is now living in peace. Russia prevailed in Syria. Syria is now living in peace. Russia will prevail in Ukraine, and Ukraine will live in peace. Moral of the story: if you want to live in peace with Russia, just treat your ethnic Russians fairly. If you DON'T treat your ethnic Russians equally, prepare to be defeated in battle, but then you will live in peace. Not a difficult message to grasp, but the likes of Latvia are a bit slow to learn it.
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  12179.  @First-Last_name  it is irrelevant who was aggressor or who was not. the point is that once the losing side surrenders, it has an excellent opportunity to recover and prosper.
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  12180.  @First-Last_name  the problem here is that I know EXACTLY how language works in Canada, and it is embarrassing that you don't. One more time, and I notice you fail to counter me on this. In Montreal, a French speaker has EVERY right and expectation to receive full education in French and conduct ALL government business in French. There are NO restrictions on broadcasting in French as opposed to English. None. That is in STARK contrast to the limitations imposed on Russian speakers in Ukraine. You know it, but you just can't admit it. Shame on you.
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  12181.  @First-Last_name  name one of the 150 schools in Ukraine where Russian is the language of instruction. just one.
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  12182.  @First-Last_name  quit with the Yanukovich lie. you are embarrassing yourself. or name the year when Yanukovich made Russian the only official government language of Ukraine. go ahead.
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  12183.  @First-Last_name  how could I have sources for something that never happened? YOU are the one claiming Yanukovich made Russian the only official language of Ukraine! prove it. If you want my source proving Yanukovich signed a law making Russian an official language alongside Ukrainian in regions where Russian is the primary language, I can do so, just ask.
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  12184.  @First-Last_name  "While Ukrainian is the only state language, the bill would make Russian an official regional language in predominantly Russian-speaking areas in the industrialised east" taken from Kyiv Post, 2012.
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  12185.  @First-Last_name  Let me educate you on language status: Canada, only about 20% of the nation's population uses French as a first language, yet French is an official language of Canada, and where French speakers form the majority (mainly Quebec) French is the language of education, government and business. French is broadcast freely on the airwaves. Ukraine, about 40% of the nation's pre war population used Russian as a first language, but Russian is NOT an official language of Ukraine, and where Russian speakers form the majority (Kherson, Odessa, Kharkov, Zaporozhe, Donbass) Russian is BANNED in education post elementary level and banned from government business. Russian is severely limited in broadcasts on the airwaves. Study the difference, then you will understand at least one reason why this conflict is happening.
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  12186.  @Alexandra-dd1su  Bonnie doesn't care about the horrific results of such wars. Bonnie is just delighted that a "brutal dictator" was removed, and the consequences of such are irrelevant to her.
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  12187.  @_Twink  you are sadly misinformed. I mean if you can tell me the year of Yanukovich's law that restricted Ukrainian language, that would be great. That Yanukovich would make Ukrainian the only language of government communications makes no sense. That is the present Zelensky policy! The only schools in Ukraine that are allowed to teach primarily in Russian are primary schools. After that, all education must be in Ukrainian. English class can be conducted in English, as an exception, but no Russian class can be conducted in Russian. Blatant discrimination. Check out the whole load of restrictions on Russian in Ukraine when you read the Wikipedia article "Language Policy in Ukraine" I, myself, was ordered not to use Russian in my class as the Lingua franca for my students.
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  12188. so the city that legalizes drugs and paying for sex is annoyed it attracts drunken, bad behaviour. Got it. No doubt the Dutch are mystified that Saudi Arabia has no such problems.
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  12189. If Ireland is about to redesignate the UK as a safe country, it would be fascinating to know what has changed within the UK that Dublin now considers makes the UK safe, whereas last week it was dangerous.
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  12190. The 5 objectives of the Special Operation make no mention of territory, apart from liberating Donbass, and that will happen in good time. The main aim is to demilitarize Ukraine, which is happening, as hundreds if not thousands of Ukrainians are killed, captured or severely wounded every day. Once all Ukraine's men have been massacred, the territory will be gobbled up quite quickly:)....Slava Rossiyi...Z
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  12191. "rendering the conclusions we can count on" that's the problem. you can't count on conclusions made by "scientists" who are activists first, and fake scientists second.
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  12192.  @SuperCaelia  not so sure about that one. USSR was never a particularly competent, adept flexible machine in war or peace. Russia is a pretty efficient modern society. Hard to compare.
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  12193.  @mariusmihai1292  efficient enough to be an energy exporter. efficient enough to feed itself. efficient enough to develop the first covid vaccine. efficient enough to deal with being the most sanctioned nation in history. efficient enough to secure cooperation with the whole globe minus the deluded West. efficient enough to demilitarize the West.
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  12194.  @kirkpatrick7475  "it doesn't matter where they come from?" hmmm, try telling that to Aslin and Pinner! Their life is about to end PURELY based on where they come from!
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  12195.  @volo7877  Keep in mind it took the US a month and a half to fully capture Fallujah, against rag tag al Qaeda! Urban warfare is a slow grinding process, no matter who is fighting.
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  12196.  @darinmeritt3790  what is?
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  12197.  @darinmeritt3790  Naah, drumming home the truth that the MSM in the West refuse to acknowledge is the way to go.
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  12198.  @gio-ko7kf  No one knows how many troops Russia has lost, nor the DPR, nor the LPR, nor the Chechens, nor the Ukrainians. That would include YOU. You don't know either. We have an idea of the horrendous losses of the Ukrainians because they have told us, but their own figures vary enormously. So you can quit guessing.
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  12199.  @gio-ko7kf  I would expect Russian authorities to ban published lists of those dead in battle. Think you will find such a measure is not uniquely Russian, nor uniquely totalitarian.
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  12200. she's useless. couldn't answer the question. let me help her out. what changed? not one single company said they would invest in offshore wind projects because the return on such projects is a loser. so, panic in the government.
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  12201. Zelensky has to fire anyone who talks some sense that might contradict Zelensky's own words. Zelensky is a real purge machine compared to Putin. And now Biden has given the green light to Russia to let fly its massive stocks of cluster munitions all over Ukrainian cannon fodder. Oh boy, the NATO/Ukronazi side are slow learners in this conflict.
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  12202. more territory will change nothing, true. a demilitarized Ukraine and victory against NATO will change everything. The lights won't be going off in Russia this winter. are you sure Belgian grandmothers won't be found frozen to death this winter in Brussels?
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  12203. Right, so the route to victory is regime change (we just assume that Putin's successor will withdraw troops and NOT declare war on Ukraine) or Russia agreeing to hand over territory it gained since February! What world do these deluded imbeciles live in?
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  12204.  @f.a.1308  when the whole world is plagued by Muslim violence, you should very much care about a person's religion. No Buddhists or Hindus are terrorizing Europe.
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  12205.  @jasonnorth2728  exactly, the modern day Western imperialist cheers that the West is importing all the much needed professionals from hellholes like Syria to keep standards high in the West, and low elsewhere.
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  12206.  @f.a.1308  probably the Syrian nurse was a Christian, claiming asylum from the horrific treatment she received at the hands of Islamic warriors.
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  12207. Anyone who plays guitar in a bar in Kiev doesn't take the debacle of American foreign policy seriously. His answers showed that.
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  12208.  @stevenmartin8828  but the hypocrisy of spouting crap about a "rules based system" and "territorial integrity" and "respecting sovereignty" DO have relevance to the Ukraine conflict. In other words, pot calling the kettle black from the West
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  12209. SMO will obviously be old news come Wednesday
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  12210.  @yabutmaybenot.6433  if taking back Kharkov and Kherson was worth the thousands of cannon fodder lives, keep cheering, then cry when all that territory goes back to Russia in a few months' time. just a few more power plants to destroy.
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  12211.  @yabutmaybenot.6433  let's see you put your money where your mouth is! $1000 bet, this time next year, Lyman is back in Russian hands. come on, don't be a coward, step up to the plate.
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  12212. there is nothing "far right" about the AfD. it's DW that has become far left.
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  12213. just hands off Donbass and Crimea, you thieving crooks
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  12214.  @timeames2509  Russia has defeated both Ukraine and NATO. hold on tight for the new world order, as BRICS puts G7 into the dustbin of history. With a 5:1 kill rate, Ukraine has snuffed it
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  12215.  @xensonar9652  with so much world support, Russia is ready to totally destroy the West and have fun with it. The West, say hello to stagflation, energy rationing and dedolarization
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  12216.  @k8sl  if winning is defined as achieving the stated objectives at the start of the conflict, in what way is Russia not winning?
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  12217.  @casper6014  "things that are not important" you mean power supply is not important? you try surviving a Ukrainian winter with no power!
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  12218.  @ronblythe3428  a peace, or just peace?
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  12219.  @casper6014  and how would you be privy to know where Ukraine is locating its military, its decision makers and its production centers? How about you give one example of one place bombed where you are 100% sure there was no worthwhile target for the Russians
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  12220.  @casper6014  Amnesty International stated that Ukraine uses residential areas to place troops and weapons, so when Russia targets troops and weapons, civilians die. If Russia wanted to target civilians, most Ukrainians would have been wiped out months ago. Stop believing Western nonsense propaganda, and think.
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  12221.  @casper6014  in other words, you are unable to defend what you say. the usual cowardice of cut and run from the Azov Nazi supporters once their absurd twisted narrative is exposed. ok, bye bye yellowbelly.
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  12222.  @timeames2509  given the way the Taliban kicked US butt so severely in that shambles of an exit from Kabul, it looks like any bunch of goatherders are as powerful as USA today. Just look at the US commander in chief...barely able to remember what day of the week it is. USA, sad relic of a once great power. Biden begs the Saudis to raise production, a week later and OPEC announces reductions in oil production, USA, pathetic on the world stage RIP
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  12223.  @xensonar9652  care to point out what was said that was inaccurate?
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  12224.  @timeames2509  did USA want to leave billions of dollars worth of equipment behind too, and lose 13 lives, and drone an innocent Afghan family to death, all that USA really wanted to do? or were they basic errors committed by a useless disgraced force?
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  12225.  @timeames2509  The Soviets were indeed inept in Afghanistan , but Putin's Russia has nothing to do with Brezhnev's (a Ukrainian) USSR.
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  12226. lost the whole of Vietnam to the communists, but won the body count!? makes you wonder why USA doesn't declare war on Uganda...might win the body count there too!? but then again, Uganda could probably emulate the Taliban and make USA the laughing stock of the world. Has the commander in chief managed to find Ukraine on a map yet, do you think?
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  12227.  @timeames2509  believe me, you don't. the land of the obese and woke pansies stands no chance. the first body bags arriving across the Atlantic and USA sues for peace immediately. USA has never fought a real power since WW2, and can't handle it. USA can't even reach recruitment targets, even by accepting morons and criminals. Russia would absolutely massacre USA. With no air superiority, USA is clueless. Tested any hypersonic missiles yet? Russia already using them and using them successfully. dream on.
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  12228.  @xensonar9652  why what?
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  12229.  @timeames2509  how are US military training courses on diversity and equity going? electric tanks, coming along nicely? :)
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  12230.  @k8sl  beware the fools who use the word "obvious". More often than not, it is a sure sign they are most confused and unable to explain clearly. Russia, as per its stated objectives, is most definitely winning. Look at the crumbling West and you will see who is losing.
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  12231.  @timeames2509  in which of its 5 stated objectives is Russia losing?
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  12232.  @timeames2509  Russia never wanted to seize Kiev or Kharkov. why would they? Instead of repeating Western propaganda, why not refer to the 5 stated objectives given by Putin?
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  12233.  @timeames2509  Kherson, like Snake Island, is almost impossible to defend. It's not about territory. It's about the kill rate. Russia can keep shelling the Ukro Nazis in Kherson now and keep the kill rate at 6:1 in Russia's favor, That's a win, not a loss!
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  12234.  @timeames2509  Russian weapons can't match NATO weapons? Russia has hypersonic weapons it can deploy and has deployed. NATO? Still at the experimental stage, right? NATO has no answer to drones and missiles taking out facilities in Ukraine. Where are the wonderful aur defense systems that will stop Russia? they don't exist, that is why Ukrainians are being urged to get out of Ukraine for winter...NATO CAN"T protect them! You live in a deluded world. The Taliban showed the shortcomings of the paper tiger, NATO, get ready for yet another humiliation
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  12235.  @timeames2509  Putin doesn't want to take Ukraine. why would he? again, refer to the aims Putin has stated and repeated, rather than the lies and propaganda you have swallowed that create Putin's aims, not repeat them. The LAST thing Putin wants is to have to fight Ukrainians right up to NATO's border. Putin is concerned with the ethnic Russians of Ukraine.
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  12236.  @timeames2509  do you think Ukraine has failed in any way? bankrupt, begging the West for aid that is now down to a trickle, 8 million refugees, millions more internally displaced, thousands upon thousands of cannon fodder young men massacred, no reliable electricity for the winter, is this what wonderful success looks like?
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  12237.  @timeames2509  what makes you think Russia wants to "take Ukraine"? Is that what your lying media have told you? If the Taliban can send NATO packing out of Kabul in disgrace, anyone can. How are NATO's courses in equity and diversity going?
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  12238.  @timeames2509  Nope. what's your point?
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  12239.  @sirairili1570  keep in mind, for those of us who have lived and worked in Ukraine, those of us who have talked to Azov Nazii supporters and Donbass victims of russophobia, our reality is reality, and your fantasy world is pure fantasy. though, I shouldn't assume anything, so please tell, what would your personal experience be of living and working in Ukraine?
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  12240.  Norseman   Remember Biden begged the Saudis to increase oil production. MBS called Putin, and then agreed to decrease oil production. Everyone hates the West!
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  12241.  @wamingo  Most Russians view Ukraine as culturally and socially part of Russia, and are willing to fight to the death to keep NATO out of Ukraine.
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  12242.  @wamingo  40% of Ukraine is ethnic Russians. That 40% is worth fighting for, Russia would say. No one in NATO thinks it is worth fighting for...only pushing Ukrainians to fight to the last man is worth the effort for the West.
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  12243. @Paul Denison that's right, bankrupt and begging Ukraine, with its 7 million refugees and power and water cut off whenever Russia so chooses, has clearly won:)....believing your own propaganda:)
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  12244.  @neilbadger4262  Russia has no need to take back lands that are ethnically Russian. There is no need for that. Russia ONLY has need to liberate ethnic Russians who are denied their human rights, If Kaliningrad is presently populated by a majority who are ethnically German, and those ethnic Germans are denied the right to education in German and use of German in government circles, then yes, Russia should hand that land back to Germany. Putin has liberated the ethnic Russians of places that treated said Russian speakers as second class citizens. Do the ethnically Chinese of Mongolia form a majority in that region, do they speak Manadrin and are refused the right to use Mandarin in the public sphere and have no right to Mandarin in the education system? There are millions of ethnic Russians in Kazakstan. Those ethnic Russians have equal rights with Kazaks. Therefore, Putin has no desire whatsoever to "liberate" such ethnic Russians. They are liberated as they are, in a just and egalitarian Kazakstan. If only Ukraine had copied the Kazak model.
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  12245.  @1domcouk  with a kill rate of 5:1 they are doing just fine
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  12246.  @attsealevel  job done. The Ukrainians had to abandon the project and cover their tracks. no more dirty bomb ideas from the Ukrainians again.
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  12247.  @attsealevel  what is absurd is how the masses in the West have no idea why Russia views this issue as a red line.
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  12248.  @n1ghtlover899  and Ukraine is 12 feet deep into the Donbass war
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  12249.  @geoffreycodnett6570  what happened to the Ukrainian flagship?
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  12250.  @jessefisher1809  if Ukraine ends the war it has a great chance of surviving as a rump state
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  12251.  @audronelukauskiene8494  is Mexico part of the "civilized world"?
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  12252. "The small number of NATO troops in Ukraine are insignificant to make a difference" so, why are they there? just to get paid to be in the middle of a war and make no difference?
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  12253. so plenty of cash on hand to treat Wade to a luxury holiday in Belize, but no cash on hand to pay off any debts. i smell a rat.
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  12254. I'm guessing ear reduction surgery is not available in Jordan.
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  12255. "we'd see more evidence that some got through" not when Ukrainians are threatened with jail for posting videos of such attacks online this fool takes Ukraine's version as the truth. explains why he has got so much wrong to date.
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  12256. the chihuahua Baltic states are so pathetic. yapping away at Russia, defended only by an increasingly demilitarized, gutless and inept NATO, they have been shown up as parasitic appendages that need to pay their own way, or STFU.
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  12257. low birth rate, low immigration
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  12258. what surprised me the most was how the US committed an act of war and terrorism by sabotaging an ally's pipeline, and no one even had a word to say about it!
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  12259.  @MAXlMUS  Russia is indeed advancing in its relationships with China, as opposed to the West, which insists on doing all it can to alienate such places.
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  12260. it was great to see Russia show the West how real democracy works: secret ballot, paper ballots, in person voting, ids required, candidates representing diverse opinions, international observers. if only Rochdale or Detroit could get anywhere near attaining such rigorous standards. par for the course, this imbecile Parsons can't explain what was unfair about the Russian election. what a clown he is, just dumb.
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  12261. Look, NATO can't produce the amount of ammunition that Russia can. NATO can't even replace what Ukraine has lost since February. Deluded West..Russia has won.
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  12262. 2015? So, ISIS took 9 years to plan and execute this attack? NINE YEARS? grasp reality!
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  12263.  @SuperMookles  so Russia, the Kurds and USA are all one massive alliance against ISIS?
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  12264.  @TheTrojanHought  oh wow! FOUR Western cyclists! Did you mean 400? or maybe 40? or just 4? so that is the worst, massive attack of a very active ISIS in Tadjikistan? FOUR cyclists!? there are more active terrorists in London than this, if that is your clearest example of ISIS terrorism getting hyper active in Tadjikistan.
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  12265.  @TheTrojanHought  no goalposts being shifted. your one example confirmed my suspicion that ISIS is far from extremely active in Tadjikistan, and that such a narrative is out there just to distract from the obvious, that it was a Ukrainian attack on Moscow. Thanks.
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  12266.  @clairelivefreeordie2551  Kremlin called for "substantive consultations on sensitive European security issues" following the Putin Biden video summit on December 7th 2021. Google "Washington Post Biden threatens Putin with economic sanctions". it's common knowledge that Biden was much more interested in threats than debate, trotting out the usual line of "it's up to Ukraine which alliance they join" which, obviously, hasn't aged well.
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  12267.  @Abulb99  if you would bother to ask for my sources on any of my points, I would be glad to help you, but you prefer to live in your world of ignorance. What makes you think your sources are more reliable than my sources?
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  12268.  @Abulb99  ah, I see, so ALL sources consulted by you, given that they are non Russian, are absolutely 100% truthful. And all sources consulted by me, whatever they are, must be all 100% fake. I see the childish, naive world you live in. pathetic. Believe in Ghost of Kiev, do you?
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  12269.  @Abulb99  So when RT shows a video clip of a babushka weeping for joy and embracing a Russian soldier as the Russians and allies enter Lysychansk, you assume, 100% KNOW, that such a scene is fake, the weeping babushka is an actress, the Russian words "we have waited 8 years for this moment" is scripted, that the Russian soldiers are all actors, ALL totally fake, you are 100% sure, yes?
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  12270. of course, it's simply impossible to deal with covid AND immigration at the same time. no wonder this bunch of inept fools will be kicked out at the next election.
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  12271. EU doesn't understand basic math. Russia outproduces the West in weaponry and ammunition. at any time in the future, Russia will outproduce the West in weaponry and ammunition.
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  12272. completely misses the point that without electricity, the electrified train system that is used to transport troops and munitions cannot work, and thus the Ukrainian war effort becomes severely hampered. but there we go, her paymaster insists she mentions only Putin's evil desire to hurt Ukrainian civilians, so she has to tow the line.
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  12273. There is no exploitation of the video. Russia will just show that this is how seriously Western leaders REALLY take the Ukraine crisis
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  12274. Here's another baffling thing....Ukrainian missile strikes on residential buildings in Donetsk go unreported. Russian missile strikes on residential buildings bring people to hysteria and UN condemnation is demanded. Why? Is the narrative truly the infantile "Russia bad, Ukraine good". Also, is it not possible that a missile hitting a residential building could do so unintentionally? missile fragments intercepted or diverted by defense systems?
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  12275.  @keithmorgan3295  oh yes, that's right, I forgot that in Western media MH117 got non stop coverage for ages, and that the 8 years of Azov Nazis shelling civilians in Donbass got none. You are right, I stand corrected.
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  12276. servile Sunak is a waste of space. time for him to head back to USA and reactivate his Green Card status.
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  12277.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  proof of what? what do you mean by "that"? corruption in Tenerife's Guardia civil?
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  12278.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  proof of what exactly?
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  12279.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  1. I am holding up the Mossos d'Esquadra as a police organization NOT known for corruption and contrasting the way they work with that of the Guardia Civil. Yes, I have experience working with the Mossos d'Esquadra. 2. GREIM will take orders from whomever is the local force. Just as CRS will work under Spanish authority if joining a mission in Spain. 3. I'm not here to do your homework for you. if you are too lazy to search "cuatro policías detenidos en Tenerife" and start reading the reams written on corruption in Tenerife, then that's your problem. Yes, I have direct experience of corruption among the ranks of the Tenerife police, but I'm wasting my breath with you because you have settled on your narrative and won't be budged. mucha suerte con tu búsqueda para la verdad
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  12280.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  not here to do your homework for you. use a search engine and the words detenidos cuatro policias tenerife
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  12281.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  I replied to you twice on all these subjects, but YT is removing my comments
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  12282.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  tell me what kind of personal experience proof of corruption on Tenerife would satisfy you, given we are conversing via YT comments.
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  12283.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  if a newspaper article from El Día describing a police corruption court case in Santa Cruz is insufficient evidence, then it simply means you are deaf and blind to any evidence at all.
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  12284.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  my answers were removed by YT. Clearly your reading comprehension skills are lacking. I never said the Mossos d'Esquadra were in Tenerife. I said the Mossos d'Esquadra were an organization set up to replace the Guardia Civil and the Mossos have proved to be reliable and less corrupt.
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  12285.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  Any outside police force , whether it is CRS working in Spain, or a Guardia Civil team from mainland Spain going to Tenerife, will have to abide by the decisions made by the local force on the ground, so, yes, GREIM coming to Tenerife would follow the lead of Tenerife Guardia Civil.
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  12286.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  I already accepted Chris's offer, but would much prefer our debate happened online, livestream, so the public can witness every word of the debate. fair enough?
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  12287.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  and GREIM achieve so much more in the Pyrenees because they are under no orders form the corrupt Tenerife police when they are here in the Pyrenees.
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  12288.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  if I have seen something with my own eyes, how would that be factual proof? it would be just me saying what I claim to have seen with my own eyes. why would that satisfy your doubts?
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  12289.  @TraceyGillingham-t3u  not for the first time in your life, you are confused! you are confusing me with another commentator. I never said I work for POLSA or PoLSA. it was a guy called johnstewart that said that! your argument is with johnstewart, not me!
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  12290. killing hundreds more Ukrainian troops, excellent
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  12291.  @hithere3035  so the West is prepared to gamble on the views of two Russian officials in the Putin administration? Not much of a strategy to protect the citizens of the West, really.
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  12292. at 4:00, is that a security camera above the the number 53?
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  12293. Mike Freer, yet another whining Tory that, for year after year, did NOTHING to end Muslim immigration into the UK. you reap what you sow, mate,
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  12294. So, WW3 very close now. Ukraine sees Crimea as Ukrainian, so has no problem launching an attack there. Russia says Crimea is Russian, and any attack on Russia poses an existential threat, which permits the use of nuclear weapons. Himars attacks Sevastopol, nukes fall on Kiev, WW3 here we come:)
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  12295.  @emm_arr  too much of a coward to declare war and flatten Kiev with conventional weapons?
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  12296.  @emm_arr  my bet is he won't need to and Russia's expeditionary force will achieve its aims anyway, but given the West has already accused Putin of indiscriminate shelling and war crimes, well, nothing to lose, he'll prove them right with the total destruction of Kiev and Kharkov. at least it will end the conflict:)
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  12297.  @leemiguel3437  check out your own sanity first. probably you thought sanctions against Russia would affect Russia more negatively than Europe? insane.
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  12298.  @leemiguel3437  am not questioning who imposed the sanctions. questioning the sanity of those who approve of them. while checking out your mental health, see if there is a surgeon who can find you a backbone.
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  12299.  @leemiguel3437  I answer every question I see, no problem. re posit any question you feel like. you challenged me as to my identity, and then had no guts to prove your accusation. That, is 100% pure cowardice and it is despicable. Perfectly reflects your character. either put up or shut up, like a man. but you are a mouse, scared to death of the humiliation that goes with being proved wrong
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  12300.  @leemiguel3437  NO ONE thought Kiev could be steam rollered in 3 days. NO ONE. That's why the Russians never tried it, This "3 day victory" comes hand in hand with "Ghost of Kiev"...pure fantasy. a dream of the West. There is no timeline for Russia, and that is why you will find NO statement from Russia speculating on a time frame. Doesn't exist. This is the nonsense that comes from reading lying Western media. you starve yourself of the truth and get brainwashed. Try telesur if you understand Spanish
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  12301. and when repairs are eventually made, Russia will destroy it all again. The West has no answer. Time to negotiate a peace deal.
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  12302.  @Joelmonterrey  I have seen the map. have you? look at it again. see that vast swath of territory that now connects Kherson oblast to Mother Russia, the massive land bridge that protects Crimea and makes the Azov Sea totally Russian? ALL gained since a year ago. Keep in mind Putin only listed securing Crimea and Donbass as his aim! All the rest of that land bridge is a bonus! Russia will not lose. Russia has nukes, if necessary. a mushroom cloud over Kiev finishes this war in one day. learn the truth.
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  12303.  @Joelmonterrey  and now the truth. the non stop ammo is not showing up. EVERY day Ukrainian soldiers complain for every shell they fire, 6 or 7 rain down on them from the Russian side. it has been like that from day one. so, you'd better go to an ammo factory and help turn that fact around! sad reality is, the West has no surge capacity for such ammo. over decades, NATO reduced to a minimum its capacity to produce such ammo in any quantity, as it naively assumed that with sir supremacy, artillery would be of limited benefit. NATO is totally unprepared for a ground war like the Russians wage. Russia is beating the NATO/Ukronazi alliance, hence the panic in the West about what to do. very sad you have been misled by your corrupt and useless media. next you will tell me that Ghost of Kiev is real!
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  12304.  @Joelmonterrey  Kiev is the correct spelling in Russian, and the spelling the world used until 5 minutes ago. The Nazis are the ones in the Azov and other Ukrainian groups. Not according to me, according to Western press. Google the Reuters article from 2018 (the year I was living in Ukraine). Your argument is not with me, but with Reuters, BBC, the US Senate etc. the invading and stealing land would be what the Ukronazis are doing to the Donbass. You didn't notice that? Try to keep up with the truth, because so far you just keep regurgitating the lies of Western MSM. Let me guess, you believe in Ghost of Kiev and you believe Zelenski acquired all his overseas properties from his wage as president?
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  12305. This doddery old fool is just deluded. EVERY time he talks up the Kherson "offensive" and EVERY time the map is the same, and this bullshit has been going for THREE MONTHS! He might as well mention the Ghost of Kiev is back in action for the great counter offensive. Only a fool would think Ukraine could beat Russia, NATO aid or not, in a land war.
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  12306.  @davidmcgovery5352  no, this is not the West where you can just ban free speech. the truth hurts, eh?
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  12307.  @markolytviak1062  You are right! Confused Vitaly with Vladimir! Still, Vitaly should have learned from his brother's failure to dance with Fury that if you don't move smart against a bigger opponent, you don't win.
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  12308. so the West fully backed the 2014 coup that ousted the legitimate president of Ukraine, but calls this referendum a "sham"...tells you all you need to know about Western values.
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  12309. apart from the Ukrainians who want to be part of Russia, and their are millions of them. They support Putin, as you should do.
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  12310. bla bla bla. always the assumption that Ukraine has the men and weapons to move forward anywhere. Those of us who support Russia can't wait for the Ukronazis to come out of the trenches and into the meatgrinder, but Zelensky prefers his cannon fodder to stay put and be blown apart by artillery fire. oh well.
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  12311. "yet to establish a motive" read the Quran. there you have your motive.
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  12312. the problem isn't Brexit nor tax cuts. it's inflation and horrific debt levels, caused by lockdowns, Green energy, mass immigration, sanctions on Russia, unlimited aid to Ukraine, printing money.
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  12313. did you also convey the same message to all those ethnic Russians in the Donbass who were massacred or had to flee as refugees after 8 years of brutality from Ukraine's Nazi forces? Or, did you not really care about such mass murder then?
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  12314. curious about this notion that Ukraine military is NOT dominated by Nazis. A few years ago we had BBC and DW reporting on the infiltration and thence recruitment of Nazis into the Ukrainian army. The US senate even banned ANY weapons being directed toward the Azov boys, such was their concern. Today, with the infantile "Russia bad, Ukraine good" narrative, the Ukrainian Nazis are all assumed to be reformed characters! How and when did these once despicable Nazis have their epiphany? just curious. several sessions on a shrink's couch?
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  12315. BBC Verify need to investigate this newsreaders accusation that Russians "don't care" what they target. Let's do a fact check and talk to those who targeted the Ukrainian Secret Service building.
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  12316.  @FrankWinchester  of what relevance is the UN's opinion? you might as well quote the BRICS's opinion, the G20's opinion, Uncle Tom Cobbley's opinion. it means nothing. conspicuous by its absence is your opinion! have one do you? or you only follow the UN on every issue?
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  12317.  @heathermccall8015  whatever that means
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  12318.  @newwonderer  if you believe what the USA keeps shouting these days, about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity, then, yeah, you just watch it happen. or, are you saying there are times when respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty is a bad thing? which one is it? explain the International Rules Based Order the west loves to lecture everyone about.
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  12319.  @alexandrearaujo2877  your comment was nonsense, so I asked you a question, which you refused to answer.
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  12320.  @alexandrearaujo2877  Accepting the independence of a country and agreeing that it should be independent are 2 different things. In life, sometimes you accept things but don't agree with them. When Britain fought in the Crimean War, was it fighting against Ukraine? or against Russia?
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  12321.  @mathieusimoneau3358  what I am saying is that it is absurd for the West to keep shouting about how the International Rules Based Order means that territorial integrity and sovereignty MUST be respected in the case of Ukraine, but must also be totally disregarded in the cases of Serbia, Libya, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, Syria, Libya etc etc. The West's hypocrisy is embarrassing and explains why most of the world is backing Russia.
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  12322.  @alexandrearaujo2877  great, so if not one single NATO country was being defended by NATO's operation in Serbia, let's stop calling it a defensive alliance, and start calling it an "interfering wherever we want to" alliance, agreed?
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  12323.  @alexandrearaujo2877  Looks like you refused to answer the question. So. I'll answer it for you. The Crimean War was fought against Russia. Ukraine is not even mentioned on maps back then. It is evidence that Ukraine has no valid claim on Crimea bar the bizarre granting of Crimea to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Soviet leader Krushchov. Crimea is Russian and Ukraine is considered by most Russians as part of Russia.
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  12324.  @alexandrearaujo2877  Russia still does accept the independence of Ukraine. Russia just wants to redraw the borders. Exactly the same as NATO accepted the independence of Serbia, but wanted to redraw the borders.
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  12325.  @ADINOJ81  Russia had no say during the Soviet times. Foreign policy was a Soviet thing, not a Russian thing. get your facts straight.
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  12326. @ju doom what we agree with and what we accept are often 2 different things. Putin, like me, does not agree that Ukraine has a right to exist. Putin like me, accepts that it does exist and that it will exist. You have to pick your battles in life. No contradiction. Both Putin and I accept that Ukraine will exist and it will be independent. Both Putin and I believe that a new independent Ukraine should not and will not include the Russian speaking areas of Donbass and Crimea. Not that difficult to understand. Try a little harder. BTW, I also believe that the UK should exist and be independent, but the border redrawn so that Scotland is not part of such a UK.
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  12327.  @andrasnemeth8333  and, obviously, the strategically placed Ukrainian cameras caught absolutely no suspicious activity of any Russians diving down to plant the explosives. no actual evidence caught on camera, just the explosion, right?
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  12328. only took 9 years for Germany to realize that Merkel messed up big time.
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  12329. so if the convicts and drunken mercenaries, with low morale and poorly equipped, are advancing, what does that say for NATO's training and equipment of the brave, high morale Ukrainian battalions? Maybe a NATO refresher course on equity and diversity is needed for the Ukraine cannon fodder?
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  12330. how would anyone know that his last known location was that national park?
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  12331. a big, butch discus thrower wringing his meaty hands about being exposed to hot weather for the 30 seconds it takes him to perform? pull the other one.
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  12332. makes perfect sense given that Ukraine is led by a comedian puppet dwarf idiot.
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  12333. EU got itself in a real mess, because it can't decide if it's a globalist haven inviting cheap imports and labor from all over the planet, or a protectionist racket with a beggar-my-neighbor policy. and the goons in Brussels have no idea which way to turn. Thanks to Brexit, the UK decides its own fate.
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  12334. as opposed to the relentless propaganda of the Western media that claimed Ghost of Kiev was real!
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  12335. "mobilizing the youth vote with snappy videos" no, honey, it's the very real fear of being the next rape or knife victim of a criminal immigrant that is mobilizing the youth vote. try and escape from your far left bubble once in a while
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  12336. Slava Rossiyi....The objectives of the invasion are slowly but surely being reached. The Russophobic forces of butcher Zelinsky are being massacred day after day. Denazification and demilitarization almost complete. No need to negotiate...keep winning and long live the DPR and LPR
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  12337.  @patgentry7268  Telesur, RT, alex christoforou, military summary channel, Hindustan times
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  12338. she is just more honest than those in the West who like to think otherwise.
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  12339.  @SBCBears  so the kindergarten struck by the Ukronazis in Gorlovka recently is a military target? Donetsk market where people were killed by Ukronazi shelling was a military target? You need to start watching media that covers the other side, those Donbass civilians killed by Ukrainian shelling. You would learn a lot and start to question even more.
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  12340.  @christianevanherck6023  of course you are. that is what people do when confronted with irrefutable proof. they have to try and end the free speech of those who have discovered the truth. you could use your free speech and challenge what i said, rather than running to teacher to shut up the kid you don't like.
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  12341.  @christianevanherck6023  what exactly is misinformation? do tell.
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  12342.  @christianevanherck6023  while you're at it, could you also report your friend Borislav Varadinov for misinformation. He posted that I was Russian, and that is not true. 100% misinformation. Your friend Borislav also said Duncan was not my real name. Misinformation. Not true. a lie. would you report him too?
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  12343.  @SBCBears  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKOFTc0LV5w check out the petal mines Ukraine now bombarding Donetsk civilians with? they are illegal and NOT aimed at military targets.
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  12344.  @christianevanherck6023  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKOFTc0LV5w petal mines, illegal, fired all over Donetsk,
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  12345.  @christianevanherck6023  you mean like "Ghost of Kiev"..that would be misinformation, right? going to report the Ukrainian government to youtube?
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  12346.  @christianevanherck6023  Zelensky said "step by step our forces are advancing on Kherson". total misinformation, agreed? Report Zelensky to youtube.
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  12347.  @christianevanherck6023  remember what I said, that reporting others for "misinformation" is what happens when those who are presented with irrefutable proof can't take the truth. I didn't say it was the ONLY time weak-minded, censorship-loving individuals try to stifle others' free speech. It also happens when people just don't like what they hear.
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  12348.  @christianevanherck6023  irrefutable proof = Ghost of Kiev NEVER existed. Now admitted by ALL involved in the story. Yet that misinformation was WILLINGLY broadcast by Western media to all corners. Let me guess, you would have reported me for "misinformation" had I said on day one, Ghost of Kiev is pure fiction?
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  12349.  @christianevanherck6023  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlOpv70hTCg and now the Nazis you support are launching butterfly mines into Donetsk, yes, into civilian areas, so kids can get maimed for life. Misinformation? several sites have video of it. nice bunch of kid cripplers you support! Proud of the ukronazis are you?
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  12350.  @christianevanherck6023  "deliberately intended to deceive"...so who is the referee of the intention of any news or opinion posted/broadcast? Let me guess...YOU are the ref, YOU decide the intention of words written and spoken, YOU know the intention of every writer. Am i right? Only you know the intention, never me, right? Misinformation is deemed so by an authority figure who sees and understands all intentions, right? Sounds like dictatorship. is dictatorship!
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  12351. yeah, well, this is what happens when your government embraces Green policies, mass immigration, funding Ukraine ad infinitum and sanctioning Russia. welcome to what you voted for.
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  12352. just look at the glee on his face as he describes exactly how the EU plans to legalize the theft of another country's assets.
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  12353. yep, if Putin's grandchildren are as skilled at leading Russia as Putin is, the voters would certainly choose Putin's grandchildren. Zelensky's grandkids on the other hand, won't be very welcome in Ukraine once the surrender terms are signed.
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  12354.  @CanCJen  Russia is the one that has just had elections and has opposition parties in the Duma. Ukraine is the one that cancelled elections and has no opposition parties in the Rada. Russia is much more democratic than the Ukronazis in Kiev. Grasp reality. Proud that Bandera is a national hero of Ukraine are you? Proud of the 4000 Jews massacred by Bandera are you?
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  12355.  @RyanBrown-nx8dw  maybe I do
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  12356.  @emfletcher  the Ukrainians under the Zelensky Nazi regime certainly know all about it. seen the videos of Ukrainian lads trying to get out of the country?
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  12357. hilarious how Alexander has been predicting "escalation" for months, with Hezbollah becoming involved, and now, all of a sudden, he realizes there is no escalation, so reverts to the fascinating words "we have been told that Hezbollah would become involved". Boy, these dopes are so way out of their depths on understanding the Middle East. Stick to Ukraine, boys! You understand NOTHING about the Middle East and what shapes events there! Complete ignorance.
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  12358. forget the next term, Biden shouldn't remain in power next week! those who say Biden is fine are either deaf, blind or dishonest.
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  12359. So very important that the women and children asylum seekers and refugees understand how they are despised by so many of the native Irish, and for them to know why.
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  12360.  @martijnstam6186  There have never been plans to build military bases in Cuba but Cuba can be a member of the Warsaw Pact an still live happily next to USA if it had normal leadership.
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  12361. "Ukraine is desperate to show its Western backers...." = it is all about optics now, looking to be winning, who cares the cost in lives?
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  12362. totally explains why our intelligence services are so useless and pathetic.
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  12363. From the UK I hope we stand with the Donbass as long as it takes to defeat zelensky.
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  12364.  @NoName-hg6cc  EVERY price rise is EITHER excess demand OR lack of supply. With energy at the moment, it's lack of supply...why do you think Germany and Biden are going all over the world looking for extra supply?
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  12365. translation - "no, taking Kherson will be just an ambition and it is pure fantasy for Ukraine to be sure of taking all of Kherson by September"
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  12366. she really can't handle someone challenging her lies and propaganda so she has to make the interview all about her views and not Gorka's. As Gorka pointed out, how could the crime have been election interference when the legal payments were made after the election?
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  12367. something fishy with the results, given the poll numbers showing how unpopular Biden and Dem policies are. voter id obligatory and only voting allowed on election day might be the key.
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  12368.  @theoDSP  wishful thinking! IMF has reliable data. otherwise, every single world leader could just lie about their economies! could be the same with Germany, right? Germany could be -25%, right?
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  12369. Saudi Arabia, HOPING to double gas production by 2030! and this is Germany's best hope of surviving THIS winter? Habeck has so ruined his country, but then, as a Green, maybe he's fine with that
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  12370. UK Sharia Police imposing the Prophet's will on the citizenry, just as they allowed in Rochdale, Rotherham etc.
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  12371. flags don't belong in prayer rooms. end of story.
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  12372.  @Esperluet  moi, non. et vous? Military Summary Channel, oui
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  12373. the only threat to NATO from Russia is those NATO countries that fail to respect the human rights of ethnic Russians
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  12374.  @johnadam2885  spot on.
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  12375. this is what happens when the education system is taken over by mindless Leftists. Lost cause.
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  12376. "les poursuivre en justice"? pourquoi? évidemment c'est tout a fait légal arriver comme ça! aucum migrant était arrêté pour être arrivé illégalement!
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  12377. hopefully so. The ethnic Russians of the Donbass have been tortured for 8 years. Time for them to defeat Ukraine, and it will happen
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  12378. in other words, the poor have to pay a lot more to survive. sounds like a rich man's Utopia
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  12379. such an awful shame that laws in the West prohibit citizens from buying healthy food.
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  12380.  @debbilecornu8896  exactly. if the organizers specify who they want and who they don't want, and why, the public would have a better idea who to support. certainly turned me off supporting any anti-semitic marches if that's their game.
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  12381.  @Vykandar  the truth hurts, eh? Russia has demilitarized BOTH Ukraine and NATO..Biden admitted it himself "we are sending cluster munitions because we don't have more 155 mm shells left to send". Ukraine AND its backers are out of ammo. Deal with it.
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  12382. the brave folk of Donbass agree with you 100%, just got to kick out the Azov Nazis first, right?
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  12383. "decency" is the last bloody thing we need in government. we need a rough and tumble fighter that will get a proper Brexit done and end immigration immediately.
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  12384. Storm in a tea cup. All about getting the right contracts and deals for his Wagners. Lukashenko sorted it out. Now, let's get back to demilitarizing the hapless Nukronazia/NATO befuddled alliance.
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  12385.  LeonDegrelle.z  yep, and hugging more dictators will lead to even more of the planet lining up against the West. happy now?
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  12386.  genee1940  so, it's funny how with so many major parliaments under Jewish control, anti semitic crimes have shot up! How could that be?
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  12387.  @2Dracula2  So you don't deny that the NATO armed and trained battalions in Soledar were beaten by convicts and mercenaries? interesting. and in fact, it's Russia 5 Ukraine 0. EVERY TIME the two armies go toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins. EVERY TIME. Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Soledar and soon Bakhmut. Ukraine never wins. Russia withdraws forces from over-extended positions, rather than suffer huge losses..it's what the Pentagon is NOW urging Zelensky to do. You Ukronazi lovers are so funny. Can't even realize when things are going badly wrong. keep looking for more ammo in the empty NATO closets!
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  12388.  @moffig1  The EU and NATO have nothing more to give. Incompetent Russia has destroyed all that has been given so far. Grasp reality.
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  12389.  @ChessNoobX  exactly. worse case scenario for Russia is it launches a smallish nuke on Lvov as Ukrainian/NATO forces approach Crimea and says "let us know when you want to end this conflict"
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  12390. Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world. Europe is committing suicide by admitting these invaders.
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  12391. Vivek is such a clown. "I would require Russia to ......." USA is in no position to "require" anything of Russia. On the contrary. Russia is winning. Pretty soon, USA will be told by Russia what is required to end the total destruction and annihilation of Ukraine.
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  12392. If Trump is only up by 0.8% in AZ, why has Harris given up on campaigning there? She knows Trump will flip AZ and GA, so Harris is clinging on for dear life in the Rust Belt, but she'll lose all 3 states. WI, MI and PA will all revert to 2016 and go for Trump. If you want to make some money, go place a bet on Trump flipping VA too.
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  12393. When will BBC Verify verify their own report about Russian supplies being so limited the soldiers have to fight with shovels?
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  12394.  @torehaaland6921  and the funny thing is, I am happy to bet you $1000 that everything I said is true, but you are a coward, and you will run from the bet! Want me to prove I am not Russian, but British, that I have lived and worked in Ukraine? Ready to accept the $1000 bet? or are you going to go back to hiding under your stone, yellowbelly?
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  12395.  @cristinatomutza799  2018, teaching English and Spanish in Vinitsya. Still working with Ukrainian students online. And your experience in Ukraine?
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  12396.  @cristinatomutza799  not at all. I am asking those who keep talking about the "rules based system" the West is so proud of, why is the US invasion of a sovereign state like Iraq such a wonderfully acceptable idea, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine such a horror? your answer?
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  12397.  @cristinatomutza799  from my home
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  12398.  @J7463kl3  oh you poor. ignorant deluded fool. if only you knew the truth! wise up and realize the very limited freedoms both Ukraaine and the West really have
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  12399.  @J7463kl3  does "it" refer to Ukraine? so Russian speakers are free to choose to have their entire education in their native Russian language, just like French Canadians are free to choose to have their entire education in French?
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  12400.  @J7463kl3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJLo89vMQM given you live in a place that restricts videos like this, treat yourself to an interview with a Serbian volunteer with the Donbass militia.
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  12401.  @torehaaland6921  on the contrary, your ignorance knows no bounds. I have lived and worked in Ukraine; currently have two Ukrainian students I work with online. It is YOU who spouts the garbage you swallowed from lying MSM. Learn some facts.
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  12402.  @torehaaland6921  which do you prefer, the Kazak system of allowing all students to opt for education in Russian or Kazak, or the Ukraine system that demands ALL students, including native Russian speakers, to be compelled to study in Ukrainian their whole school and educational careers?
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  12403.  @torehaaland6921  the liar, or ignoramus, is you. you know nothing. No one said that Russian is forbidden in Ukraine. I pointed out the inconvenient truth that NO ONE in Ukraine can be educated in Russian, even if Russian is their native language and even if they live in a 90% Russian speaking area. Now, learn the truth and then answer the question. Is the Kazak approach more inclusive and respectful, or the Ukrainian discriminatory approach? answer please. Google language policy in Ukraine if you want to learn something.
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  12404.  @torehaaland6921  I am sure she did, all Russian speakers use Russian at school, talking to friends etc. How about in class? All teachers instructing in Russian? when was her last year of school in Ukraine? Was she in Donbass?
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  12405.  @torehaaland6921  Keep in mind I was ordered NOT to use Russian in my classes, even though it was the lingua franca. I have personal experience, in 2018, of being banned from using Russian in the classroom. I left the country because freedom of speech is important to me.
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  12406.  @torehaaland6921  Why, in Donbass, where there are communities where 90% of the people are Russian speakers, where the teachers are Russian speakers, where the students are Russian speakers, but as per Ukrainian law, ALL instruction must be given in Ukrainian, why do you support that? My Kazak students tell me that in Almaty all students have the choice between going to Kazak language schools or Russian language schools. Free to choose. Why do you feel the Kazak approach is wrong, and the Ukrainian one right?
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  12407.  @torehaaland6921  are you assuming I was a student and not the teacher?
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  12408.  @theloki72  if you give me the "actual argument" I would be more than happy to counter it! The problem is, the Azov Nazi supporters are incapable of presenting a coherent argument for Ukraine's post 2014 policies and behavior.
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  12409.  @torehaaland6921  not for the first time in your life, you are assuming the wrong thing. I have told you of my experiences in Ukraine. I have asked you some basic questions. You have, so far, refused to answer. Speaks volumes for the weakness of your argument.
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  12410.  @torehaaland6921  you have refused to answer my question about comparing Kazak education policies with Ukraine education policies. You have refused to answer when exactly your ex was a student in the Ukrainian education system. You have refused to answer which other nation forbids native speakers being educated in their own native language. My real name is Duncan Smith, now, if you want to bet $1000 that I am NOT Duncan Smith and that I am NOT British, then let's see you put your money where your mouth is! Want to bet?
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  12411.  @Jemimia  the ambassador is not my hero, but he has my respect for presenting a much more believable version of what is happening than the lies and propaganda we hear from the West. It is absurd to think an ambassador would be informed of military secrets in a plan for invasion, just as the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK would not be informed of a secret deployment of Ukrainian troops. Wise up!
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  12412. and I'm proud to see that Russia is destroying the Czech equipment the dumb Czech sheep citizens paid for from their hard earned salaries. Keep coughing up more and more money, Czechia, Russia LOVES to destroy your contributions to the futile war.
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  12413.  musthafapm6775  are you also proud to see the corpses of burnt Ukrainians inside the tanks?
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  12414.  @animec-dramaskpop6362  Let me repeat. Only a total fool assumes the lone voice in the wilderness is wrong, and the prevailing theory must be right. Perry was a spoilt brat, a fool and an ignoramus. With all the advantages in life he had, he made it just into his fifties. That is one hell of a failure. Truth hurts, right?
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  12415.  @animec-dramaskpop6362  not crazy at all, just giving you a dose of the truth, which you obviously can't stomach.
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  12416.  @fantasy9917  yeah, I know, we can't possibly allow free and independent sovereign nations gravitate towards China and Russia, they must all be stopped, by force, right?
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  12417.  @barrylane1055  no matter the cost to ourselves
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  12418.  @gregorydawson5126  any chance this could all end in an exchange of nukes?
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  12419. Given that genius of our age, Joe Biden, already announced that Russia has already lost this war, bit weird to ask the question if Ukraine has enough manpower to survive and win?
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  12420. it doesn't matter that the VP doesn't understand how inflation works, given that inflation is just transitory.
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  12421.  @MightBeSmart  we know the game. the offensive has only "started" when Ukraine meets with some success. when there is no success, we just keep repeating, "oh, the offensive has not started yet". we see 3000 ukronazis dead. Leopard 2's destroyed. Russian jets massacring ukronazi cannon fodder. listen, Adolf, the offensive has started and it is a disaster for Ukraine. grasp reality.
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  12422.  @thomasbaader6629  thanks for confirming that the West's priority was to stall, to gain time, and the whole facade of bringing lasting peace to Donbass was just a charade from Hollande and Merkel.
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  12423.  @netiturtle  By the way, this OSCE outfit, are they the same ones subsequently kicked out of the Donbass for revealing Russian positions to the Ukraine military?
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  12424. all the "people smugglers" and "smuggling gangs" should be applauded for providing a service that is legal and much in demand. Asylum can only be claimed from within the UK, no matter the means of entering the UK, hence no one is arrested on arrival in Dover, so, please, let's stop villifying the "smuggling gangs" because they are heroes. If asylum could only be claimed from outside the UK, it would be different.
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  12425.  @manuelrodriguez2637  Certainly Spanish school groups have to be scolded for their behavior in public, all the time.
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  12426.  @MephitisUK  mass brawls on a beach wouldn't make it as a news article, because stabbings, rapes beheadings are more the scene in the UK, and who goes to a beach in Britain beyond that one weekend in summer when it might be enjoyable?
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  12427.  @Threemore650  on every level. respect is earned, not dished out as a favor, to individuals and groups.
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  12428. Gulliver, MOST of the world is backing Russia or is neutral, so it is absurd to say "the world doesn't consider the 4 territories as Russian"...Gulliver fully ensconced in his Western bubble.
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  12429. "the air space is contested" right, so many Ukrainian jets flying over Bakhmut and Avdiivka, and no Russian jets at all! deluded Mike Martin living in his ivory tower, as always.
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  12430. she looks like she was dressed for the party in those video clips. got a bit more boisterous than she had planned for.
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  12431. you think "supporting" Ukraine is providing weapons so that more and more Ukrainian soldiers get massacred by Russia? With help like yours, who needs enemies?
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  12432. if there's enough evidence...problem is, accusations and propaganda don't count as evidence.
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  12433.  @stevedixon8567  yep, even for the deluded supporters of the ukronazis who want to punish russian speakers everywhere
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  12434.  @luisekjeldsen1515  yeah, just like it is clear that Ukraine keeps shooting its own soldiers in Bakhmut. so obvious.
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  12435. After seeing how the US managed the pull-out of Afghanistan, I am astounded that the US even managed how to figure out how to fly a drone.
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  12436. toxic masculinity, small man syndrome....sounds like the West now getting desperate as Russia is poised for complete victory and NATO to be shamed, humiliated for many a decade to come. I guess the West has to talk about something other than Russia's successes
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  12437.  @hanshansen3885  for some reason you are incapable of responding to my comment!
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  12438.  @hanshansen3885  good question to ask Egypt. Egypt has refused to allow in unlimited aid convoys across its Rafah border from day one of the conflict. so, how would Egypt answer that question?
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  12439.  @hanshansen3885  some of us remember the days following the Oct 7th horror when aid trucks were amassed at the Rafah crossing and Egypt forbade any crossings, of vehicles or people. Only under intense international pressure were limited amounts of food and aid allowed to enter, and very few people allowed to leave Gaza. so, the question for Egypt, why? answers, please? In Israel's case, why supply your enemy with what it needs so that the next attack on Israel can be carried out?
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  12440.  @hanshansen3885  so if Egypt is not preventing aid from entering Gaza, why is insufficient aid entering Gaza? maybe if Hamas had spent more of the massive international donations it receives on food and water, instead of missiles and tunnels, Gaza wouldn't be short of the necessities?
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  12441.  @hanshansen3885  and now, the uncomfortable truth. for months after Oct 7th, the IDF had ZERO control over the Rafah crossing. ZERO! The Rafah crossing was controlled by Hamas and Egypt, NOT ISRAEL. Egypt did not, initially, allow ANY aid to ENTER Gaza. The border was closed. so, until you answer the question why?, you will never grasp why Israel has no monopoly on aid entering Gaza.
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  12442.  @hanshansen3885  just curious....before Oct 7th, the Rafah crossing with Egypt was closed, on Egypt's side. In fact, Egypt has had that crossing with Gaza closed for years now. why? 2 years ago there would have been no urgent need for Gazans to flee to Egypt, would there? so why has Egypt been part of the arrangement to make Gaza an "open air prison" and to join forces with Israel in besieging Gaza?
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  12443.  @hanshansen3885  so, Arabs living in peace and prosperity on the Egyptian side of the border would simply be an awful thing in your book, but living on the Gaza side of the border with Hamas as their government, a life of misery and deprivation as Hamas pours every dollar it can into weapons and tunnels, that would be much more preferable, right?
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  12444.  @hanshansen3885  and now the truth. the border was closed BEFORE Oct 7th! You make it sound that the Gaza/Egypt border was closed due to Israeli air strikes! Hamas is a branch of Islamic Brotherhood, a terror group banned in Egypt. When will you learn that Hamas is as much an enemy of Egypt as it is of Israel? I repeat, Egypt has maintained a closed border with Gaza for YEARS! Humanitarian aid has been severely limited by Egypt because like Israel, and the rest of the sane world, Egypt ultimately wants Hamas destroyed, and that means Israel succeeding in its quest to eliminate Hamas and its supporters (keep in mind, 70% of Gazan voters voted for Hamas). The reason the US had to build a pier in Gaza for aid delivery was because Egypt SEVERELY LIMITS the aid crossing into Gaza. If Egypt had allowed full and 24/7 access to Gaza since Oct 7th, there would be no humanitarian crisis, but people like you can only blame Israel, and never any Arabs. Pathetic.
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  12445.  @hanshansen3885  Before October 7th no aid was needed via the Rafah crossing, and the Rafah crossing was closed. Egypt had that border closed for years, so, either you are a liar, or you are ignorant.
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  12446.  @hanshansen3885  here is a reality check for you. before Oct 7th, the Gaza border with Egypt was closed. before Oct 7th, the Gaza border with Israel was open and Gazans came and went to work in Israel every day. Egypt is the one to blame for the "open air prison" myth, if you want to blame someone other than Hamas. your lies are getting tiresome.
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  12447.  @hanshansen3885  You seem to mix things up, so I will make it perfectly clear. Before Oct 7 the situation concerning the Rafah crossing really didn't change much. Gazans were, with VERY few exceptions, banned from leaving Gaza and banned from entering Egypt.. However, before Oct 7 the situation concerning crossings into Israel didn't change much, with a free flow of Gazans entering Israel and returning to Gaza on a daily basis, along with whatever aid was needed. Now, you tell me, before Oct 7, which of the two, Israel or Egypt, most resembled the power that was besieging, or cutting off, Gaza? Only a liar or a fool will answer "Israel".
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  12448.  @hanshansen3885  Israel has created only peace and prosperity for the Arabs that accept the state of Israel. Israel has created many problems, deservedly so, for those who refuse to recognize Israel. It's very simple. Arabs can live and prosper, like the 21% of Israel that is Arab, IF Israel is accepted and recognized. Any misery experienced by Arabs in Gaza or the West Bank is all due to continually fighting, and losing to , Israel. There already is a 2 state solution. Jordan is 80% of the Palestinian Mandate, and Israel should be the remaining 20%. Learn some history.
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  12449.  @hanshansen3885  "Egypt is not to blame for the open air prison" when Egypt forbids any Gazans from crossing into Egypt, then Egypt is to blame for the Gazan "open air prison".
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  12450.  @hanshansen3885  these are very specific numbers. what words would i google to find your source? so if 19,608 Gazans were allowed to leave Gaza and enter Egypt in August 2023, why were none allowed to enter after Oct 7th? why were 600 Gazans a day allowed to enter Egypt in August, but zero in October? Makes no sense.
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  12451.  @hanshansen3885  do you spend as much time fighting for the rights of Yemenis caught up in a brutal war? If not, why not?
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  12452.  @hanshansen3885  curious you confess that the IDF are allowing aid, fuel and construction materials to flow from Israel into Egypt and thence to Gaza. Kind of disproves the whole genocide theory, agreed?
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  12453.  @hanshansen3885  a basic question for you. Where is Palestine? Exactly where are its borders, and explain how you arrived at your answer.
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  12454.  @hanshansen3885  now we see your logic. Israel allowed energy to flow into Gaza, Israel allowed food to flow into Gaza, Israel allowed 60,000 Gazans to cross the border daily to work and return home. And all this happened while Hamas fired rockets into Israel with the hope of killing civilians. Egypt, on the other hand, never got attacked by Gaza but kept its border with Gaza closed tight, hence Hamas had to dig tunnels into Egypt in order to operate. But Israel and Israel alone, is to blame for everything. Are you 5 years old?
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  12455.  @hanshansen3885  would you say the OCHA is neutral, pro Arab Palestinian, or pro Israeli?
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  12456.  @hanshansen3885  ah, I see, so children dying, massacres, Western weapons wiping out thousands of innocent civilians, that is not so important to you. when the two combatants do not share a claim to Western values, then such horrors and evil are of much less importance, right? But when a democracy like Israel is involved, then time to shine the spotlight on every civilian that dies, correct? got it. loud and clear. you must have been absolutely infuriated between 2014 and 2022 then, when Western backed Ukraine was firing missiles into the Donbass, right?
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  12457.  @hanshansen3885  oh, a word of advice, you need to be a about a LOT more than "facts, numbers and reality". you need to be about the SOURCES of your beloved "facts, numbers and reality" and always question if your "facts, numbers and reality" are genuine. Given what happened on Oct 7th, it is amazing Israel allows anything into Gaza. It should be a stipulation that Hamas release all hostages before ANYTHING be let into that hellhole of terrorism, Gaza. It's people like you that perpetuate the horrors of terrorism by supporting those against Israel. Tell me, the 21% of Arabs who live in Israel and are Israeli citizens, how do their lives compare to the other Arabs in the Middle East? Are Israeli Arabs desperate to leave and live in Lebanon, or Syria, or Jordan or Egypt? You like facts. Tell me, yes or no, is there a mass movement of Israeli Arabs to get out of Israel?
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  12458. After NATO's fiasco of an exit from Afghanistan, leaving behind billions of dollars worth of weapons in the hands of the Taliban, just absurd to think NATO could effectively take on a real military force like Russia. A hardened group of Chechens in street battles with wuss "troops" from some namby pamby Baltic republic for example?.....Russia wins.
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  12459.  @rickarnold6704  I am more qualified to talk about Russia and Ukraine as I know both places well. But don't take my word for it. Listen to what Biden and Zelensky say. Both of them are wringing their hands because NATO is out of weapons to give to Ukraine, plus Ukraine is bankrupt. Russia has won. Grasp reality.
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  12460. Any country that lies about the Ghost of Kiev is also going to lie about everything else, so why believe anything that comes out of Kiev?
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  12461.  @Lemingtona-x5g  I'm confused. Who are the illegal asylum seekers? None of them get arrested, so they must all be legal.
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  12462.  @gilly5094  exactly so. Got a feeling all the Afghans and Syrians keep their documents with them as it would help their claim. Got a feeling all the Pakistanis and Africans ditch theirs, as they are coming from safe countries not at war.
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  12463.  @Lemingtona-x5g  Africa is not even a country. It is a continent. To qualify for asylum, it is irrelevant how safe a place is. Chicago is unsafe, but no one entering the UK from Chicago would qualify for asylum. The home country has to be at war, or you have to be persecuted for your beliefs. now, you tell me, which countries in Africa are presently at war?
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  12464.  @rebekahthesaint6460  bla bla bla
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  12465.  @vfclists  arrest is not about being housed and fed. arrest is about losing your freedom and suffering imprisonment followed by deportation. it's the process that would stop migrant invasions. yes, i think imprisonment and thence deportation is a BIG problem for them! How many migrants should be accepted into Europe? what 's your limit? How many migrants have you offered to house in your residence?
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  12466.  @vfclists  when you are arrested, imprisoned, stripped of all your valuables and then returned to Africa, yes, that will stop any more wanting to invade Europe. you bet. the millions of parasites sitting at home on their unemployed obese backsides need to be in the fields doing the work. End the benefits system and get the millions of parasites to be contributors.
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  12467. 2 options: make concessions or have surrender terms dictated by Russia. Makes little difference...the price for Poroshenko and Zelensky refusing to implement the Minsk Accords is bye bye Ukraine. The 8 years of butchery in Donbass will be avenged, and it is deserved. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  12468. we still don't know if the perpetrator is Muslim or not.
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  12469. bla bla bla. time for Zelensky to surrender.
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  12470. nah, the ukronazis will be wiped out. it will just take Russia some time.
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  12471. how would you know what Russia is targeting in Ukraine? or are you so foolish as to assume that every missile that hits an object was targeted at said object?
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  12472. The point is that if emissions are to be tackled (I don't believe they should) then it would be more convincing if the private jet owners led by example rather than jetting into a conference on climate change. if the private jet owners won't lead by example, and others are forced to cutback, then, yep, let's ban them. It would be best for John Kerry to stay home and campaign by Zoom.
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  12473. absolutely nothing to stop you sending your very last penny to Saint Zelensky, as we all know he could really use your very last penny to refurbish his mansion in Miami.
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  12474.  @david-pb4bi  how ignorant are you? The EU allows freedom of movement. The French had no power to compel anyone to remain in France, and still don't. Only the UK has the authority to refuse entry, as France has no authority to prevent departure from France.
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  12475.  @stephenjon3502  "used incorrectly". in what way? what should have been done to use it "correctly"? the "upcoming" Dublin IV Agreement? so, in other words, from Brexit to today, staying in the EU would not have helped one bit in the fight against illegal immigration. you are talking about some vague time in the future! let's take your example. you are telling me that for every asylum seeker that goes from France to Belgium, France will have to pay 235,000 GBP? we are talking about a Schengen border, where there are no border controls! How the hell does Belgium prove any of its asylum seekers are coming from France, or Germany, or Netherland, or Luxemburg? Now that our laws are passed in Westminster, and not Brussels, we have the freedom to pass any law we want, thanks to the wise decisions of that 52%. People like you just loved being dictated to by Brussels. Stockholm syndrome.
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  12476.  @david-pb4bi if by "this" you mean mass migration, "this" has been a problem for decades! Brexit changed nothing. As the ineptness of our leaders in Westminster has increased, along with the means of many migrants to afford the journey, the numbers have risen. By what logic does the UK being a member of the EU deter a migrant in Calais from crossing to the UK?
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  12477.  @david-pb4bi  we agree that the EU now treats the UK as the enemy. glad you agree that all that patronising BS that comes out of Brussels about "our friends in the UK" is all yet another big lie. we disagree that when we were in the EU we had any say. but go ahead, tell me one piece of major EU legislation that was scrapped or significantly amended all due to UK objections?
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  12478.  @david-pb4bi  if "it" refers to mass migration, "it" has been happening for decades. significant increases occurred when the Schengen Zone became reality, due to no immigration checks across the whole continent of Europe.
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  12479.  @stephenjon3502  I tell those that ask that I go where I please, Stephen. Do you tell everyone you are a bigoted homebird, Stephen?
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  12480.  @stephenjon3502  yes, believe it or not, immigrants have every right to comment on asylum seekers, though I have met many a bigot like you that thinks comments on asylum seekers is the exclusive domain of just some privileged groups. next time you comment inanely about border controls within the EU, learn some basic facts.
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  12481.  @stephenjon3502  Yes, I have chosen to live abroad, but you talk as if FoM is some kind of unique benefit bestowed on the EU! I have lived in USA, Oman, Bahamas, Mexico, and availed myself of the FoM the world affords. It's not a uniquely EU thing. As I say, you are ignorant about the world and have Stockholm syndrome. You are a Little Europeaner, unable to view the opportunities outside of the EU. Yes, I want all asylum seekers to apply from their home country, which is the norm for most of the planet. Take a look at what happens to Haitians when they land in the Bahamas and claim "asylum". They are sent back to Haiti immediately. So, are the Bahamians bigoted for sharing my bigoted views? If the Bahamians are also bigots, sounds like you are making a racist accusation now, but par for the course for someone who is such a bigot like you.
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  12482.  @EdCalipel  England is only a horror if you are a white middle class taxpayer.
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  12483. only the ones that have no kids in them, but used by Ukrainian troops, to be knocked out one by one
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  12484. listen carefully to the stuttering, stammering, pausing and incoherent babble from both presenter and commentator. just can't bring themselves to state the obvious. Ukraine is sunk. it's over. Russia has won.
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  12485.  @Maplelust  how many Russians did you poll to discover this "truth"?
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  12486.  @catparka7698  am sure you are laughing uncontrollably at your beloved Azov Nazis killed, crippled and captured, and you are in hysterics at the thousands of young Ukrainian cannon fodder served up to the Russian meatgrinder during this "counter offensive", right. war is so funny to you.
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  12487.  @phpn99  oh but it does, in so many respects. let's talk specifics
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  12488.  @Decoy0527  bingo! well said!
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  12489. when it is obvious to the sheep that Ukraine can't win, the sheep will lose interest, you'll see.
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  12490. Some of us DO want Russia to prevail. Don't assume everyone wants the neo Nazis in Kiev to win!
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  12491. the laughing stock Russian military is winning!
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  12492. you can see how these three dopes have been totally captured. not one of them with the guts to stand up and say "words are not actions, this is all nonsense"
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  12493. "391 days of Russia running out of weapons. Ukraine is still winning" - the West's deluded media.
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  12494.  @gazza595  just like Sean, you are a total coward (like the Ukrainians "defending" Lysychansk)...you have no guts to prove your lying statements. Shame on you. You and Sean, let's Zoom and you will see I am who I say I am, cowards!
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  12495.  @sticky59  Putin's fate is sealed every day according to the deluded West. Truth is he keeps going from strength to strength, while the likes of Johnson, Draghi, Biden, Macron either get booted out of office or become sidelined and ridiculed.
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  12496.  @shadowbanned636  that's right, at gunpoint, herded into cattle wagons and ordered out of their homes and commanded to start new lives in far flung corners of Russian speaking zones totally hostile to them. A form of human trafficking. people picked at random to be dropped into an alien environment. The Russian speakers of the Donbass have only been forced to live there for the last 8 years, even the ones who have lived there for, well, forever! Flood after flood after flood of people at gunpoint. Almost unbelievable, some would say!
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  12497.  @Muzakman37  Really? How did the Kremlin "hunt around" for Donbass folk sympathetic to being absorbed into Russia? Did they go door to door and bribe people? Did they brainwash them in schools? Did they send out convincing text messages? Donbass separatists' pro Russian sympathies had NOTHING to do with the duly elected pro Russian president being ousted in a coup? NOTHING to do with EIGHT YEARS of Azov Nazis shelling to death civilians? NOTHING to do with Ukraine's refusal to implement the Minsk accords. NOTHING to do with restrictive discriminatory laws against the Russian language. Oh boy, you REALLY need to talk to some Donbass Russians! Really! Donbass calls for liberation from Ukraine are 20 times more "genuine" than anything I have seen in Catalonia or Scotland. WAY over half of Donbass would absolutely refuse to EVER have anything to do with Ukraine again. You simply do not understand the feelings there. Been to Ukraine have you?
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  12498.  @shadowbanned636  so if people migrate willingly, they are "implants"? To me, "implants" implies something other than "willing"? Trying to have your cake and eat it? These Russian implants/willing settlers, did they enter Donbass from Russia legally, or illegally?
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  12499.  @shadowbanned636  educate me. The Russian speakers of Crimea, did they flood in willingly from Russia? And the Russian speakers of Odessa, founded by Catherine the Great of Russia, did they flood in from Russia willingly? None of them native Russians in a city founded by a Russian empress?
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  12500.  @righthandstep5  so who would be the right comrade?
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  12501.  @shadowbanned636  Plenty of Russians living in New York. When did the Kremlin issue territorial claims on New York? Plenty of Russians living in Svalbard. When did the Kremlin make territorial claims on Norway? Plenty of Russians living in Cyprus. When did the Kremlin make territorial claims on Cyprus? Tell me, in the case of the Chinese, the names of just, say five Chinese politicians who have infiltrated the political scene there (in the name of Chinese nationalism). Honestly, this is ridiculous. You and I agree on one thing. If a sovereign nation wants to protect itself from Chinese or Russian settlers, then BAN them. It's that simple! Totally racist, but ban them Just say NO! Your whole 'russophobic/sinophobic delusion sounds very much like a conspiracy theory. The electors of such countries will surely vote for Russians and Chinese to be kicked out soon, right?
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  12502.  @shadowbanned636  "would have taken it" is totally in your imagination. you are not in the inner circle of the Kremlin! Russia has NEVER made ANY territorial claims on Cyprus and has NEVER mentioned any idea of "taking" Cyprus. Your Russophobia has driven you delusional and insane! "making quite a lot of noise" about something (noise in your head is a casual quiet quip in the heads of the sane) is hardly the same as a territorial claim and invasion! Yes, China has indeed expanded its territorial claims to the South China Sea...is that statement supposed to support your claim that Chinese colonies in Australia are taking over the land Down Under? you are paranoid
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  12503.  @shadowbanned636  paranoid but entertaining! Next time I am in Cyprus I'll take care to avoid the Russian militia preparing for a coup in Nicosia and Paphos!:)
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  12504.  @anthonyamaro1771  the vast majority of Americans may well be granted their wish if they keep provoking Russia. "they're", not "their" Russia crossed the line when they invaded a sovereign nation? So, Russia merely copied what USA did in Iraq (twice), Afghansistan, Syria, Panama, Grenada etc etc
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  12505. just astounding that a so-called expert on German politics and blabber on explaining the SfD's success without once mentioning the word "immigration". talk about living in an ivory tower.
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  12506. do you also support giving Lugansk and Donetsk all the military aid they need to defeat the Ukrainian aggressors over the last 8 years?
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  12507.  @Geranium2025  mob crime is indeed protest. it challenges the government to change its ways, or be forced out of office.
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  12508.  @smramos1979  if you are referring to Ulster, it certainly did work. What is the largest single party these days in Ulster?
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  12509.  @paulleach3612  but on the other hand, if you just prefer life in Ireland as it was before the migrant invasion, are patriotic and proud of Ireland, and would prefer your children not to be stabbed to death by Muslim maniacs, you are just one of the ordinary folk, nothing right or left about it.
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  12510.  @waninggibbous5985  SF isn't a real opposition party. on the key issues, SF is in lockstep with the Irish government.
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  12511.  @waninggibbous5985  "oppose them on nearly everything" like immigration policy? like EU membership? like trans rights? like law and order? like lowering taxes on individuals and corporations? like the proposed hate speech legislation? Nah, on the key issues, the ones that truly shape Ireland, SF are more of the same. wake up to reality and understand all 3 parties just squabble over fluff around the edges, like the Cons and Labour and Liberals in UK.
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  12512.  @waninggibbous5985  Hey, did you hear all those SF members shouting outrage that a Muslim immigrant had tried to murder Irish children and that the whole immigration policy of Ireland had to change? did you hear that? No, neither did I.
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  12513.  @waninggibbous5985  oh really? So let's hear it from the horse's mouth! 1. SF advocate withdrawing from the EU? 2. SF advocate the immediate cessation of all immigration to Ireland? 3. SF advocate slashing income taxes? 4. SF advocates zero hate speech legislation? yes or no on the above key issues.
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  12514.  @waninggibbous5985  looks like you are confusing "heavily criticized government policy" with "standing opposed to government policy". The first is aimed to appear as an alternative for the Irish voters. The second is to offer radical changes to the laws of the country. Ireland, like the UK and USA, is firmly in the grips of the Uniparty globalists. You have been distracted by fluff of political debate and are blind to what true opposition looks like.
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  12515.  @waninggibbous5985  oh, how ignorant you are! Real opposition parties would include the AfD in Germany, Vox in Spain, Reconquete in France, the recent winners in the Netherlands, the PVV, the Conservatives in Canada. Do you know much about world politics? The above mentioned parties have totally different philosophies to the ruling globalists. Completely different. SF is to the current Irish coalition government what Labour is to Tory in the UK. Again, criticizing the government is very different from offering a totally different vision of the country's future. Ireland is ruled by a globalist coalition and SF offer little that is radically different. conspicuous by its absence is ONE single SF policy you have mentioned that is in STARK contrast to what the Irish government currently offers!
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  12516. Such a democratic country, Ukraine, where the opposition leader is arrested and detained, the previous president is prevented from leaving the country, opposition parties have been banned, Nazis are allowed to be part of the nation's army, Russian speakers are banned from using their native language in public, news stations must broadcast in Ukrainian, and the list goes on. Turkey is a haven of democracy and freedom compared to Ukraine..but the West chooses to ignore reality.
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  12517. Import the 3rd world, import the 3rd world's conflicts. the poor Hindu family probably didn't know that GB has become the Caliphate of Britanistan and that the West Midlands Police are now enforcing Shariah Law.
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  12518. if everything is above board, why are 50% of the airbnb occupants insisting on remaining anonymous?
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  12519. @Клуб кастрированных собак as a ukronazi supporter, seems like a little booze might actually help you see things a bit more clearly! in your case, reality is an illusion caused by a deficiency of alcohol.
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  12520.  @russell6075  anyone coming to live in Europe uninvited will be seen, more and more, as the enemy
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  12521. "we"? you are speaking on behalf of the poor Moldovans who protest against the government because fuel poverty is so rampant now in Europe's poorest country?
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  12522.  @StreuB1  Does 82nd Airborne have any experience fighting a real army like Russia? Does 82nd Airborne have diversity and inclusion training? Does 82nd Airborne match the quality shown by US forces in Afghanistan last year, millions of dollars worth of weaponry abandoned, 13 servicemen dead, one innocent Afghan family droned to death as a revenge attack? Does the US commander in chief even know what day it is? The US is pathetic, and Moldova should be wary that the presence of 82nd Airborne means sweet FA
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  12523.  @StreuB1  the usual ignorant arrogance from the US. Did the Viet Cong turn out to be a joke too? The Taliban who put your 13 servicemen 6 ft under, they were a joke too?
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  12524.  @StreuB1  "Assad's days are numbered" said Obama. There are Russian troops in Syria supporting Assad. There are American troops in Syria opposing Assad. Guess what? Assad is still in power, US powerless to change anything.
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  12525.  @StreuB1  How many months did the US forces need to take Fallujah?
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  12526.  @Cookie-Dough-Dynamo  nah, been to Appalachia, about as interesting as watching paint dry there. yawn.
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  12527.  @DSan-kl2yc  No one is commenting on the US in Afghanistan. The topic in hand is the US EXIT from Afghanistan, where the total domination came from the sandal wearing goatherders who, we were told, would take 90 days to take Kabul (they took 90 hours, "total domination" by US intelligence there) and where in humiliating, disordered panic 13 US soldiers were killed, millions of dollars worth of equipment abandoned, oh, and an innocent Afghan family droned to death for good measure. Does the US commander in chief even know what day of the week it is?
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  12528. For the side that has been taking severely heavy losses and can't recruit any men for the last year, Ukraine seems to be doing surprisingly well. Something not going right for Russia since Wagner's demise.
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  12529. yep, Ukraine wants to lose a whole lot more cannon fodder and weaponry before it commits its really good fighters.
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  12530.  @loredanatagliaferri5339  the truth hurts, eh? Putin is demilitarizing the whole of NATO and ain't nothing the Western sucker taxpayers can do about it.
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  12531.  @stephensipe5405  Stephen, I do not know what country you come from, but freedom is priceless. Watch the movie Braveheart if you need a lesson in freedom's value. Young Ukrainians are dying by the bushel full. For what? Zelensky's ego? The Donbass soldiers to a man know why they risk their lives.
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  12532. Finally, the big showdown is going to happen. It's been brewing for years, so might as well sort things out now. The Muslims and their Lefty allies (which includes the Police) can mix it up with the British patriots and traditionalists and let's see where the chips lie after the battle.
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  12533. "Far Right" = anyone not Socialist
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  12534. "Ukraine is making incremental gains" "we are still in the preparation stage of this counter-offensive" :they are advancing slowly" Clearly unsure whether to stick with the truth, Ukraine (as it was doing since April) is planning a counter offensive, OR the lie (a counter-offensive has been launched). The poor propagandist just switches from one to the other in the hope he can appear to sound like a reporter.
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  12535.  @claudiomannoni5557  and Hungarian tax payers made sure they all spat in it. enjoy every mouthful.
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  12536.  @mikicerise6250  right
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  12537.  @definitely-not-daniel  no fairy dust. just the net contributors have to cough up more and more taxes to feed the parasitic eastern Europeans that forever have their hands stretched out. Netherlands, Germany, France, Scandinavia subsidizing the rest.
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  12538. the people who trashed the economy are those who applauded lockdowns, those who backed Green energy, those who back sending indefinite billions to Ukraine, those who cheer on sanctions against Russia, those who care nothing about illegal immigration, plenty of blame to go around.
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  12539. poor Mike, you can see the confidence he had in Ukraine dripping away day by day as reality catches up with him, no more scoffing at inept Russia, just a tired look in desperate hope Ukraine can delay the moment that Mike's foolish predictions of Ukrainian victory are brushed aside
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  12540.  @tw0million  amazing as it sounds for the illiterate UkroNazi supporters, many people in this world are literate
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  12541.  @tw0million  and one day you might have enough brain cells to figure out I am no Russian, I want the fascism I witnessed in Vinnitsya stamped out, and I ain't no bot, but the likes of you, with such diminished thinking powers, will never grasp such basics.
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  12542. when you see the teenage antics of the Finnish PM, you completely understand why Western leadership was so dumb as to think Russia would collapse under Western sanctions, and that Russia could be defeated in a ground war.
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  12543. So, Tucker would have told Hitler to do what he likes with all the Jews in Europe, because Tucker's kids are much more important than the ethnic cleansing of millions of people.
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  12544. blaming the wrong factor. try again and look at EU policies.
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  12545.  @sookie_the_fairy  please, quit the role of amateur psychologist and lecturing us on what Putin wants. on the subject of uniting, yes, let's unite to get Ukraine to surrender and then split the country so that the Russian speakers can become Russian and the UkroNazis can remain Ukrainian.
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  12546.  @johnriach8365  Duncan Smith is a semi retired British guy currently in Spain who used to work in Ukraine, and is telling ignoramuses like you the truth.
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  12547.  @dandansen571  who do you think will get to Zelensky first to string him up, the Wagner convicts, or Zelensky's own troops?
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  12548.  @donnypaul6262  Had the Ukrainians not contested the LPR and DPR declarations of independence, not a single shell would have been fired, ever.
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  12549.  @takeitasacompliment.  as expected, you have no source for your claim, "all over the internet" is a pathetic response. I replied that I trust no sources, I parse everything I read, but that my most trusted source would be my Ukrainian students. What they tell me, I find credible.
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  12550.  @takeitasacompliment.  when you say "cross border firing" which border are you referring to?
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  12551.  @johnriach8365  No idea the precise number, but I believe the Alley of Angels is real, I believe the shelling would have killed a number of people, and I have no reason to disbelieve my students that describe such horrors that they have experienced. So, let me repeat my question to you, "John", do you believe 0 children have been killed by Azov shelling?
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  12552.  @johnriach8365  Also, "John", do you support Kosovo independence?
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  12553.  @sookie_the_fairy  Don't count your chickens until they're hatched. Finland and Sweden, two wuss nations if there ever were, are still waiting on Turkey's vote. China and Iran are much better allies to have than anyone in NATO. you might want to rethink the capacity of NATO to do anything
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  12554.  @donnypaul6262  there is plenty that is possible, and with strong relations with most of the world, the future looks fine.
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  12555.  @donnypaul6262  and as I said, had the Allies not waged war against Germany, everything would have been peace and quiet. Reading Comprehension not your thing, eh?
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  12556.  @donnypaul6262  "turn their attention to India" sounds like a threat. India has had enough of the West's bullyboy tactics and is firmly on Russia's side. BRICS standing firm, G7 looking like a real fading wuss club.
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  12557.  @donnypaul6262  false choice. you live in the lala world of the West dictating to the likes of India. those imperialist days are over. the only weapon the west has are sanctions, and sancrtons hit the West more than any other place.
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  12558.  @donnypaul6262  North Korea has nukes..you will be looking at a N Korea mushroom cloud above your rather thick head!
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  12559.  @adrien5834  Live in your deluded world if you so choose, but DPR and LPR are now part of Russia, as is Crimea, everyone who is realistic agrees with this, and the issue has already been sorted out. Ukraine is incapable of preventing massive missile strikes anywhere over its territory. Ukraine is toast, and you know it.
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  12560.  @donnypaul6262  not really. just look at the big smiles and hearty handshakes Lavrov gets when meeting African leaders. Contrast that with the blank looks and distanced stares Blinken gets. Africa depends on Chinese development and Russian grains. the West will lose out.
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  12561.  @donnypaul6262  maybe you should stock up on dictionaries to find out what a vaccination is, and what a vacation is!
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  12562.  @johnriach8365  you have provided me with no evidence! a propaganda film clip is not evidence. On the other hand, you refuse to answer my questions. do you believe the number of children killed by Azov shelling is zero? yes or no?
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  12563.  @johnriach8365  I received only the propaganda piece about the girl killed in Ukraine that never existed (so we can take it the other 237 girls that were killd did exist, right?) Do you believe the Alley of Angels is real or fake?
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  12564.  @gilh3947  on the contrary, I admit to fully supporting the forces currently fighting the Ukraine fascists. Big supporter of Bandera are you? Why do you think Ukraine is the only country where a Nazi murderer is a national hero?
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  12565.  @takeitasacompliment.  you would be fascinated to hear what my Russian, Ukrainian and Kazak students say. Take it from me, they are all very doubtful of things as described by Western media.
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  12566.  @adrien5834  you may be right that the issue will never be "sorted out", a la Israel and Palestine, but just as Israel has prevailed and calls all the shots over Palestine, so Russia will prevail and call all the shots over Ukraine. Everyone can see this, just some are in denial and hope a miracle will happen. it won't. Just as in Chechnya and Syria, Russia will take years to grind the enemy down and eliminate every enemy fighter.
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  12567.  @adrien5834  Russia won't be defeated and the issue will fade into insignificance whether it is settled or not, just like Northern Cyprus. The Turks won in Cyprus and got their way, the Russians will win in Ukraine and get their way, and then the likes of you will move on to wring your hands and wet your beds over NATO's next victim country...maybe Taiwan.
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  12568.  @takeitasacompliment.  Alexander Mercouris, Alex Kristoforou, Brian Berletic, and for impressions of someone living in Kharkov, Gonzalo Lia, there are 4 recommendations I would make for you to get an alternative and insightful perspective on what is happening in Ukraine
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  12569.  @donnypaul6262  oh, but it DOES matter! If you are such an idiot that you can't distinguish between a "vaccination" and a "vacation", how the hell do you think anyone can take you seriously on matters regarding Ukraine and Russia? so bye bye dumbo, invest some time in a dictionary and maybe one day, though i doubt it, you might learn something about the world. Happy vaccinations you dope! Adiós!
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  12570.  @mariannabatz9733  And the people of the Donbass hope that Russia will continue to amass all the weapons needed to help kick out the Azov Nazi Ukrainian occupiers. Have a swastika tattoo across your chest, do you?
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  12571.  @takeitasacompliment.  they are indeed news sources, as they report on what is said about the war and they read commentaries. of course they are paid. you think BBC reporters are NOT paid? oh sweet innocent child! opinion based? they offer their insights, just as all other reporters do. curious you mention facts, because you seem devoid of them! when I challenge you on so-called facts, you wither away. Let's try one. Is it a fact that the Crimean Parliament voted 78-0 to separate from Ukraine? fact, or not?
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  12572.  @takeitasacompliment.  am willing for you to point out any fact, as stated by anyone I mentioned as a sound source, that is in fact false. go ahead. do you know what a normative statement is?
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  12573.  @takeitasacompliment.  how about this one. fact, or not? a recent poll in Germany showed that 49% of the respondents said they did NOT approve of German tanks being sent to Ukraine. True, or false? As reported by Alexander Mercouris. is he lying? or did he correctly report the poll's findings?
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  12574.  @adrien5834  you need to look at the facts instead of your propaganda. Russia is fighting just as it did in Chechnya and Syria and it is going to win in the same way. NATO, after a year of war, can't even provide an air defence system! NATO is a toothless tiger, as the Taliban showed in 2021. Russian exports are booming, the sanctions failed, Russia has most of the globe trading with it and working with it. ALL that Western leaders promised has failed. Those are the facts. You and your Azov nazis are losing and will lose.
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  12575.  @adrien5834  you give us the day when Ukraine finally invades Crimea. When? Give us your prediction.
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  12576.  @adrien5834  tell me just one of his lies! go ahead!
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  12577.  @johnriach8365  whenever you are ready to bet $1000 on my identity, let's do it. I am Duncan Smith, UK citizen, not Russian, and you say that I am not what I say I am, so....let's put some money on it, agreed? are you up for it? or, maybe, like so much in your life, do you now think you might have got this oh so wrong?
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  12578.  @takeitasacompliment.  the truth hurts, eh? unable to back up your absurd claims, eh? Russian propaganda = voices and opinions you disagree with reliable news source = broadcasters who confirm your biases simple as that.
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  12579.  @johnriach8365  Not surprisingly, you refuse to answer the question. Equally, 0 is exactly the number of children that would have been killed by Azov shelling had Kiev respected DPR and LPR independence. 2 questions for you. Did you support NATO's bombing of Serbia to assist the separatists in Kosovo? and why do you think the US senate, until recently, refused any aid going to the Azov battalion?
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  12580.  @johnriach8365  "John" (aka Adolf to his friends) substitute 237 for any number you choose, and answer the question, pretty please, gauleiter.
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  12581.  @johnriach8365  still too cowardly to bet on my name and nationality? only up for accusations and assumptions, no balls to actually prove yourself right?
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  12582.  @johnriach8365  propaganda is when you go to great pains to prove only one narrative can possibly be correct while painting the enemy as lying, deceitful, evil, conniving. this piece fits that exactly. nothing balanced about the reporting at all. As I pointed out, no mention of all the other cases where the evidence is conclusive that Azov shelling killed people. you can't get more one-sided than that report. obviously i have no idea about the particular girl mentioned. none. the first thing that dies in war is the truth. who knows? even today, Kiev refuses to acknowledge the fall of Soledar. and you even claim you know my name is not Duncan Smith and that I am Russian, but like all liars and propagandists, you choose not to put anything you say to the truth test. coward.
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  12583. "of course, sir, we just tell the media that Azov Nazis did it, and the mall was full of Donbass Russian speakers....then it won't even make it into any news reports"
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  12584. Trump was an excellent president. didn't start any wars and the economy boomed up until covid
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  12585. No it's not. Russia is destroying Ukraine and the West is only able to extend the agony and prolong the nightmare until Russia wins.
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  12586.  @secretname4190  Izyum and Kherson were not "lost". there was no battle (there has only been one battle so far, Mariupol, won by Russia). Izyum and Kherson were evacuated and then abandoned. Izyum, because of lack of men (soon to be rectified by the 380,000 reservists joining the war). Kherson was too difficult to supply, and it is a lot easier to massacre Ukrainian cannon fodder from the left bank of the Dnipro, so demilitarization can proceed apace. Russia is using flexible strategies, as it did in Chechnya and Syria, and it will prevail, after some time, just as it did in Chechnya and Syria.
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  12587.  @anthonymitchell8893  excellent point. the Germans hardly have an unblemished record for backing the forces of freedom and democracy in any major conflict.
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  12588. Given Qatargate and other cases, The EU lecturing Hungary on corruption is just a joke.
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  12589. what's crucial, if you care for Ukraine, is to tell them to sit down and negotiate peace terms, as they so wisely did back in March 2022.
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  12590.  @chriss521  what a naive idealist you are. "ensuring the aggressor is stopped"....you have had 18 months to do that. how's it going? "it's crucial to weaken Russia"...you have had 18 months to do that. how's it going? and now the true analogy. a neighbor enters your house, harms your children and causes destruction. the neighbor gives you a list of 5 things the neighbor demands of you, otherwise he will kill your children. what do you do? start negotiating, or try to overpower the neighbor? it's a big call, so be prepared for your whole family to be wiped out if you make the wrong call. good luck.
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  12591.  @Vatnik_tschistilka  dream on. typical arrogance and misplaced confidence that led the West into thinking it could exit Kabul with no big problems. A bunch of sandal-wearing goat herders demonstrated the true level of gutless incompetence in NATO. Only a superpower could survive as being the most sanctioned nation on the planet and still have economic growth 3% higher than recession hit Germany.
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  12592.  @bigblue6917  that's right. only took NATO a week or so to be totally humiliated in Kabul. not fair to expect Ukraine to be totally humiliated and defeated in such a short space of time.
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  12593.  @Kyk_cz  if the sanctions currently imposed on Russia had been imposed on USA, do you think Biden would still be in power? or even alive?
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  12594.  @martinwood3289  anyone with nuclear weapons is a superpower in that said nation can destroy any rival at any time. But Russia is a superpower in a much broader sense. It exports what the world so desperately needs, thus has a major influence on everyone's energy prices, who in the world gets fed, who gets uranium to run their nuclear power plants etc. Militarily, Russia's combat power is so strong that it can project power abroad in places like Syria, where it successfully defeated Western backed rebels. Sad really that there are so many fools in the West that never really grasped the nature of Russia's power. They think people in Niger are waving Russian flags, not French or USA flags, because the Russian presence in Africa is so insignificant.
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  12595.  @tonyking9235  you know when Biden is forced to send cluster munitions that the regular 155mm shells have run out in the West. Projection indeed.
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  12596.  @ahhmm5381  how fast is Ukraine gaining ground in the Kupiansk area?
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  12597.  @ahhmm5381  when BBC and Media Zona did their report on war dead in Russia, and came up with their final numbers, were you shocked, or not? Why do you think BBC and Media Zona absolutely refuse to compile a similar report for Ukraine?
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  12598.  @JK-br1mu  how much of their own territory are they taking on the Kupiansk front? and on the Bakhmut front? At the current rate of advance, when will Ukraine reach the Sea of Azov? When Ukrainian troops invade Crimea (the Russian Federation) what will happen when Russia responds with nuclear weapons, as it has promised to do? How many Ukrainians have reached the FIRST line of Russian defences known as the Surovikin Line? Given that Russia maintained supplies and logistics in Syria over many years, what makes you think reaching the Sea of Azov will hinder Russian supplies and logistics in Ukraine in any way?
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  12599.  @JK-br1mu  how many defensive belts are there?
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  12600.  @JK-br1mu  are those open fields mined?
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  12601.  @JK-br1mu  "once you break the defensive belt" why has it taken 3 months to fail to get to even the first defensive line? when do you predict the first Ukrainian fighters will get to the first defensive line? before, during or after the muddy season?
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  12602. "Russia fighting with 30 year old tanks" right, so, tanks that are about 30 years more modern than the Leopard ONEs that are on the way?
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  12603. G7 is a relic of the past, a dinosaur. Attention needs to be focused on BRICS, the group that determines by how much climate change targets are missed. Unless BRICS buys into renewables (and they don't and won't) the rest of the climate debate is just blah blah blah
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  12604.  @jarrettbobbett5230  Russia IS being supported, by like 50 different nations. & that support IS to help Russians defend themselves against Ukronazi aggression, that has been happening since 2014.
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  12605. Russia expects honesty. USA to admit it destroyed Nordstream and USA to admit it gave the green light for an assassination attempt in Moscow.
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  12606.  @bobbykiefer4306  most of the world doesn't care a monkey's backside for Ukraine or Russia, but there are a large number who laugh at all those who laugh at Putin and Russia.
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  12607.  @UTBLADES  Ukraine should step back from attacking the Russian occupied territories to save itself from total annihilation, if it had any sense.
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  12608.  @ronan5228  if the people in half my house and on my lawn want you to do that, sounds like an excellent idea.
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  12609.  @scooby1992  sure we have had! we certainly have had many parts of the globe with decades MUCH hotter than this! Take a look at USA in the 1930's. just curious. Post Climategate and "hide the decline", what convinces you the data is accurate and honest? And given that nine times more people die of the cold than the heat, why would you NOT want to see some warming?
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  12610.  @scooby1992  we could also ask some key questions, like why the assumption that CO2 is the main culprit? when was the last time you heard a scientific report on the contribution of other greenhouse gasses, like water vapor?
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  12611. Janet Yellen was the financial genius who assured us the rampant inflation was "transitional". I have more faith in what the Chinese say than anything the Biden admin says.
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  12612. Blinken gone to reinforce Biden's message from last July: Russia has already lost this war.
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  12613. Presumably geniuses like Rupert Jones could foresee all this happening. Why did he not warn the West that sanctions would do less harm to Russia than the West?
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  12614.  @ddoppster  yep, right, it's just SHORT term that the sanctions are crushing the West, and it's just SHORT term that Russia is riding the sanctions out fine, and the sanctions were ALWAYS meant to deny Russia revenues needed to wage war in the long term, and everything WILL turn out happily ever after, children.
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  12615.  @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191  no, WRONG, there is no such thing as "the climate scientists"...did Judith Curry, John Christy, Patrick Moore, Tony Hadler, Robert Lindsen, William Happer, Willie Soon, Ian Plimer mention ANYTHING about a climate emergency? uh, NO! The REAL climate scientists say there is no climate emergency. your behavior is laughable. i'll make sure i leave un extra big carbon footprint to make up for your pathetic contribution to "improving" the environment.
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  12616. Did anyone notice if Trudeau and Zelensky had invited another Waffen SS officer to make an honored appearance at the D Day celebrations?
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  12617. Day 19 of the Great Ukrainian Offensive on Kherson, No towns taken, 20 days to go....Ukraine is winning, right?
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  12618. sadly, Starmer is right. the migrants who claim asylum on arrival are not illegally entering the country. that is why they are never arrested. they are indeed legal and just arriving irregularly.
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  12619. rightfully so
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  12620. Russia is getting stronger by the day, the West is getting weaker by the day, Ukraine is getting destroyed by the day, but NATO doesn't really care, as long as words of support keep flowing.
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  12621. remember the misinformation "hide the decline" from Climategate? Only a fool would think people like Dale are honest.
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  12622. Erdogan hasn't figured out, yet, that siding with Russia will secure Turkey's future better than bending to the will of the West.
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  12623. and so the lies continue..."diverse organisations have better results" the propaganda and nonsense coming form the Woke Left knows no bounds.
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  12624. It's Germany that is refusing to open up Nordstream 2., not Russia
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  12625.  @dpelpal  yeah, those jokers armed with just spades, they keep on winning!
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  12626.  @michaelmullins3396  Clarke is so lucky he works with a media that never challenges his absurd assumptions. Clarke clearly knows nothing about Russia
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  12627. Latvia is doing it all it can to be invaded by Russia. Restricting Russian language broadcasts and banning freedom of speech for pro Russian views is certainly the road Ukrainian went down before ethnic Russians rebelled, so yes, Latvia should expect the same treatment and would totally deserve it. Just let Russian speakers have equal rights!
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  12628. Ukraine would have assumed that ALL the Western media would have blamed Russia for bombing the power plant, so why not attack the nuclear power plant if Russia will be blamed by the biased Western media? Since the AI report, Ukraine waking up to the fact that Ukraine gets no free pass any longer, so has to at least pretend to be a little more honest. The tide is turning against puppet Zelensky and NATO. Erdogan already positioning Turkey for close relations with Russia post NATO defeat.
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  12629.  @leemiguel3437  of course the brainwashed Ukronazi supporters can only conceive, in their tiny bubble world, of people supporting Putin either because they are paid to or because they are Russian. Beyond the comprehension of the coward Miguel world that people like me, having lived and worked in Ukraine, have seen the horrendous effects of Zelensky's rule and wish the Donbass all the best in their fight for independence. When you are driven by passion and firsthand experience of Ukraine, as I am, you do all you can to express that to the world. tell us all about your firsthand experiences of Ukraine!
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  12630. so with Russia able to call on 30 million men if needed, and Ukraine down to 300,000 according to some estimates, what are the chances of a Ukraine win?
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  12631.  @passbysimon3095  "able to call on" and "go to battle field" are two different things. your reading comprehension skills are a laughable joke.
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  12632.  @passbysimon3095  Russia so far has called on its reservists, ex military currently out of contract but who have been trained in the past for combat. and that's it. Ukraine? how many more teenagers do you think Ukraine has left to force into service?
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  12633.  @passbysimon3095  Both Ukraine and Russia have enlisted prisoners, so not sure what your point is on that. no one apart from Putin and a few close officials know exactly what role the reservists will play. some are already on the battle field. most are not.
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  12634.  @Bradgilliswhammyman  again, try to improve your reading comprehension skills. i already explained the difference between "is able to call on" and "put on the battlefield" Putin has a pool of 30 million men he CAN call on. That is a statement of fact. It is not the same statement as "Putin can put 30 million men onto the battlefield". Now, if you need a lesson in reading comprehension, I can give you that. In the meantime, your homework assignment is to delineate the difference in the two statements and to write out 100 times, "I must strive to interpret words and statements better". Off you go.
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  12635.  @fumurph  yeah, it's just funny when the appeal to ultimate authority and wisdom on any subject is "well, i live here". just so childish.
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  12636.  @patrickbright4264  i think your base numbers are all wrong, and that you have no clue what you are talking about. there are people who actually live there that can tell you the truth, ¡qué absurdo!
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  12637.  @TrollBot.  all the arrogance comes from fools who assume my nationality, and then get it wrong. Look in the mirror to see "arrogance". BTW, Argentinians are Americans.
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  12638.  @TrollBot.  as I said, arrogance is assuming something when you are totally ignorant. the wise would ask the question, "where are you from?" only the arrogant keep assuming and getting it wrong. I have not said that I am American. I have not said where I am from. I have only reminded you that anyone from anywhere between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego is an American, as America is all of North, Central and South America. I haven't answered your question because the premise of the question is false. Like me asking you have you stopped killing puppies?
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  12639. it won't. Russia will just step up its campaign of destruction that NATO has no answer to. it will just place yet more burdens on the EU taxpayers.
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  12640.  Lou Smith  Now is the time to get real and tell Ukraine to surrender, make peace and never trust NATO ever again.
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  12641.  @EspenFrafalne  as an honest person, I know if I were leader and my embattled country needed money, I would sell my property abroad and give the proceeds to my people. For "honest" Zelensky to be owner of two luxury properties, but continually beg for money is dishonest and scandalous. Zelensky is listed in the Panama Papers. He is corrupt and shameless, and the fact you support him speaks volumes for the very low moral values you have.
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  12642.  @alfonsosalazarestrada6091  the "much jealousy" one, no idea what you were saying in that message
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  12643.  @alfonsosalazarestrada6091  si te expresas mejor en castellano, puede ser una opción
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  12644.  @EspenFrafalne  as an honest person, I do see that the corrupt Ukrainian leadership post 2014 wants to be on the side of the West. As an honest person why don't you see that the 2014 coup was anti democratic?
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  12645.  @EspenFrafalne  Reality check. Ukraine is not s member of the EU. It has not joined the EU. It is a candidate country. Learn some basic facts, child.
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  12646.  @EspenFrafalne  Ukraine has begged to join NATO. NATO, if you are an honest person you would see this, has encouraged Ukraine to apply for NATO membership, but has also refused to admit Ukraine! Welcome to the duplicitous and hypocritical world of NATO! Now that Ukraine understands that NATO was bever serious about admitting Ukraine, it has given up on that idea and conceded as much in the Istanbul talks in March
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  12647.  @EspenFrafalne  The Ukrainian people know very little about Zelensky. How could they? Their parliament has no opposition party, the media is now all state media, in a tyranny like that, how can the people know much about anything? you live in a land of fantasy!
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  12648.  @EspenFrafalne  As a president his job is to ask for help. yes. as an honest person, his duty is to sell his luxury properties abroad and donate the proceeds to his war. it is called leading by example. ever heard of such a thing?
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  12649.  @EspenFrafalne  yes, Zelensky is begging. Zelensky has bankrupted his country, so now he has to beg his puppet masters for support. Zelensky was a total fool to believe NATO promises that Ukraine would emerge victorious. It won't. Only a total fool would see how Russia operated in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria and assume that Russia would be defeated in a ground war, Idiocy. Now Zelensky and the West are paying the price. The sad thing is that it is the Western taxpayers that are paying the ever increasing bill, while Zelesnky still kas his mansion in Miami and his villa in Tuscany. You are backing the wrong horse, and you should be ashamed.
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  12650.  @EspenFrafalne  at the time of the Maidan Coup, exactly how many of the Ukrainian people wanted to oust Yanukovich? What was the percentage, as per a reliable opinion poll? At the moment, polls show the majority of the British people want a general election and not two more years of Conservative government. Would that fact legitimize a coup and removal of the current government in the UK? yes or no.
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  12651.  @EspenFrafalne  protest is fine by me. People who say "respect the revolution" or "respect the people's will" deserve total disdain, and that would include you. Either you believe in democracy, or you do not. If you do, what happened to Yanukovich and democracy in Ukraine should be denounced by you, not championed. Make your mind up.
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  12652.  @EspenFrafalne  so what is the West's "rules-based order"? every time there are protests and skulls cracked in a foreign country, we, the West, have the duty to enter said country and overthrow the government? really? so how come we are so selective and we support mass protests in Kiev but not in Ottawa?
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  12653.  @EspenFrafalne  nice pivot, didn't work. how about you respond to my question, then I will be happy to deal with NATO membership. or maybe you just want to admit now, you have absolutely no idea the percentage of Ukrainian voters who approved of the ousting of Yanukovich?
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  12654.  @EspenFrafalne  i repeat, if you believe in democracy you would insist that Yanukovich should have been removed by the ballot box, and by the ballot box only. if you support a coup d'etat you then have to question your own belief in democracy and be honest and say seizing power is ok.
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  12655.  @EspenFrafalne  so, how do you decide which revolutionary movements to support and which ones to reject in favor of democracy?
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  12656.  @EspenFrafalne  elensky has banned all opposition parties from parliament and only state sanctioned media is allowed to broadcast. traits of a dictator to me. what do you think?
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  12657.  @EspenFrafalne  so, based on what you "believe" is 50% support to overthrow a government in a coup, going totally against the Ukrainian constitution, you are absolutely sure that it was right to support the aggrieved 50% and also it was right to compel areas like Donbass and Crimea to accept the new illegal government, or be shelled and attacked for disobeying the new undemocratic government in power, backed by 50% of the people. that is your position and that makes sense to you?
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  12658.  @EspenFrafalne  why not wait until the next Ukrainian presidential election to remove Yanukovich at the ballot box? you know, the usual democratic way?
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  12659.  @EspenFrafalne  I am pushing you to use your brain. you have not delineated when a revolution is justified and when it is not. You have labeled Yanukovich a dictator, but Yanukovich was democratically elected and presided over a country with opposition parties (those Parliamentarians who removed him). So, the confused one is you. you back the Orange Revolution based on the fact that 50% of the voters wanted it, you believe, based on Wikipedia! really?
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  12660.  @EspenFrafalne  NATO should have joined Russia in denouncing the 2014 coup and supporting both Donbass and Crimea self-determination. It's that simple.
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  12661.  @karenatha7890  if I were Zelinsky, having "promised peace in the Donbass", my shoes would have taken me straight to the Kremlin with the words "Mr. Putin, let's talk about how we get a resolution for the Ukrainians who voted for me and for the Donbass Russians and Crimeans who hate my guts".
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  12662.  @EspenFrafalne  I am happy to answer any question at all! Not a problem for me! I don't believe in the "legitimization" of any revolution. If a nation's population want a revolution, let them go ahead. If it has a negative effect on my people then I would have to consider the pros and cons of intervening in the revolution, but if it makes no difference to my people, who cares?
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  12663.  @EspenFrafalne  The BLM riots are an excellent example of why I believe the West has lost BOTH security and freedom. I no longer feel either safe or free in the cities of the West, and I no longer feel I have freedom of expression anywhere in the West, so I think somewhere like Russia or Mexico would be best for me when I am able to get out of Europe.
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  12664.  @EspenFrafalne  so my answer is hypocrisy free. i don't care about revolutions unless they directly affect me and my life. your answer puts you in a corner. some revolutions are worth supporting, you say, and some are not. but now, when you come to delineating which ones are worth supporting and which not, you get stuck in a corner. your moral compass goes all over the place. in the case of the coup in Ukraine you back it 100%, but your rather feeble explanation of "because 50% of the people did, according to Wikipedia, and because the democratically elected president had become a bit dictator like" seems a rather feeble rationale. my stance of "let the Ukrainians revolt, but also let the Donbass and Crimea separate" seems much more reasonable (and would have avoided this war).
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  12665.  @EspenFrafalne  I have no idea what systematic police brutality is. do you mean the kind of police brutality seen in Ukraine that meant pro Russia supporters get beaten and tortured?
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  12666.  @EspenFrafalne  Kosovo and Albania were split up? when? Kosovo was part of Serbia, but NATO thought it was a brilliant idea to attack the sovereign territory of Serbia and support the separatist claims of Kosovo. Do YOU support this NATO move? If so, explain why NATO attacking a sovereign state to support a separatist group is acceptable, but Russia doing the same in Ukraine is not. If you can't explain clearly, you are stuck in a corner again!
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  12667.  @EspenFrafalne  thanks for the lecture on the Kurds. now, to the point. do you support the Kurds' claim for their own state and why or why not? I don't care at all, means nothing to me, but you, you so passionately deny the right to Donbass and Crimea yet, I guess DO support the Kurds?
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  12668.  @EspenFrafalne  There was no reason for Yanukovich to separate the country because there was no call to separate the country. Under Yanukovich, no one was calling for any separation. Calls only came for separation, understandably, after the coup. I'm not complaining that Russia is losing all of Ukraine. Russia never had any of Ukraine! Russia doesn't want all of Ukraine, or even half of it. You are very confused. Read the 5 objectives of Putin again....the LAST thing Putin wants is to have to deal with Ukrainians who don't want to be part of the Russian Federation!
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  12669.  @EspenFrafalne  your moral compass is all wrong because you should be supporting the ethnic Russians who wanted no part of a coup that removed a democratically elected president. instead, you support the violence, murder and massacre of those separatists, over the last 8 years, and that speaks volumes for your heartless treatment of minorities.
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  12670.  @EspenFrafalne  again, "generally against splitting up countries based on conflicts." that is pretty vague! If Russia is to follow the West's "rules based order" you need to be a bit more specific than that! what about splitting up countries based on historical claims, not conflict. You dodged the Kurds question, claiming ignorance, so let's try these. Scotland, do you support that claim for separation? Catalonia? and the one you refuse to tackle...Kosovo? do the "troublemakers" in the Donbass include the children buried in the Alley of Angels? are "troublemakers" now defined as anyone ready to fight for democracy and oppose living under a regime in place because of a coup? and when you say "low numbers", what is that number? how many freedom fighters need to be killed before you think it is a claim for separation you would support? If I told you far fewer people died in Kosovo than in Donbass, would you accept that and conclude mostly "troublemakers" were stirring things up in Kosovo and that NATO, therefore, was wrong to attack sovereign Serbia and that NATO should be prosecuted for war crimes?
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  12671.  @tanjiro2507  of course he is. This is how tyrannies work. the charges are meaningless. Poroshenko was detained and questioned too, so in Ukraine, any ex leader faces such charges. Democracy went out the window in 2014 in Ukraine
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  12672.  @tanjiro2507  maybe so, but he was democratically elected and could have been democratically voted out of office for being a Putin puppet, but instead was illegally ousted, so bye bye Democracy in Ukraine.
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  12673.  @tanjiro2507  not true, it was a coup d'etat. Revolutions only occur where there is no democratic process available to remove a government in power. Ukraine could have removed Yanukovich at the next presidential election
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  12674. "cede more sovereignty to Brussels", yep, just like all the member states did during the Covid crisis when border controls went up all over the EU and it was each for himself. One crisis and unity vanishes with this bunch of dysfunctional hypocrites.
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  12675. the EU is going down the drain. Paris looks like the Congo, Stockholm the rape capital of Europe, plunging euro, cut itself off from its main source of energy, get out of it while you can.
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  12676. the search was called off, abandoned, "cancelado" hours ago, get up to date!
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  12677. you think some of them will still be alive?
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  12678.  @lowhealth525  what, even the 70,000 killed so far?
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  12679.  @ralphdavis9670  especially Ruslan Onyshenko
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  12680. where is the evidence that it will lead to more of the same? sounds like hysterical Russophobia to me. How you gonna beat Putin exactly? He has a lot of nukes and nothing NATO can do with conventional weapons has or will turn the tide.
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  12681.  Kimi Timoskainen  you don't see Ukrainian footage from the frontline that shows you how desperately bad things are there for Ukraine. And there is plenty of footage from the Russian side, but the West doesn't believe in freedom of speech, so there is a ban on Russian media showing that.
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  12682.  @cusimilooking4965  How many reports have you heard numbering the Ukrainian troops killed in any Russian precision missile strikes?
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  12683.  @davidrink1291  I did when I worked in Ukraine. Many held Russian democracy in high esteem compared to the tyranny of Ukraine
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  12684.  @richardkey1678  Latvia, where you get jailed for trampling on the Ukrainian flag
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  12685.  @richardkey1678  Ukraine, where a Russian speaking teacher must teach all his Russian speaking students in a 90% Russian speaking community all classes in a second language
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  12686.  Kimi Timoskainen  "somewhat cozy wartime homes" again, looks like you have swallowed Western media propaganda hook, line and sinker. trenches full of rotting corpses and ankle deep in snow and freezing water is not cozy. Get real. Ukrainian forces are billeted in buildings too and they get destroyed by precision Russian missile strikes. You just don't pay attention to the media that tells you the truth. you live in a fantasy world. both sides are making mistakes and getting hit, but the media you watch choose to focus only on one side.
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  12687.  Kimi Timoskainen  Dubrova. tell me what the Western media said about the recent Russian attack on Dubrova
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  12688. Britain has lived under Islamic law for some time. The fear of the Muslim mob is much greater than the desire to keep freedom of expression.
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  12689. "a small percentage of them were hooligans"...your own evidence stresses that violence was the exception!
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  12690. "bent on causing trouble" we have had THIRTY YEARS of politicians "bent on causing trouble" with their mass immigration policies, you plonker!
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  12691. This whole Furries thing, kinda explains USA's ever sinking ranking on international school tests
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  12692. "we have to see a Ukrainian counter offensive to push the Russians out" who is "we"? Western spectators too cowardly to get in the fight? or the mothers of the ukronazi cannon fodder getting slaughtered every day? who is "we"? exactly?
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  12693. I strongly suspect, when all this is over, there won't be a Ukraine, and there may not be an EU.
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  12694. another total fool who has deluded himself into thinking Russia is an inferior force to NATO. Russia has already demilitarized NATO
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  12695.  @bearnecessities9568  I'm surprised you can write a coherent sentence, as you clearly couldn't tell what the truth is even if it came up to your sad person and yelled "hey, you, brainwashed sheep, I'm here in front of you, the truth". Let me guess, 5 years ago you thought the Donbass was a type of fish found in a valley in Yorkshire?
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  12696. beauty treatments? her natural beauty shines through so radiantly
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  12697.  @JessicaFletcher-nn5ss  update, the mother announced today she is withdrawing cash from the fund. now who's lying?
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  12698. France rejected Zemmour and voted for more immigration, so now they have the consequences of their decision. enjoy every minute of it. only a fool would have expected something different.
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  12699. like Kamala Harris
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  12700. and when Ukraine resorts to the same actions, that shows Ukraine ISN"T desperate? Makes no sense.
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  12701.  @dirkdupont5004  everyone's export to everywhere fell! something called covid hit everyone's export economies, or was covid caused by Brexit too?
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  12702. you cut yourself from the bureaucracy that goes with the EU cartel and suddenly things like making, distributing and injecting life-saving vaccines become reality while the EU is still haggling over consensus for the contract for the vaccine.
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  12703.  @thesisLAx  exactly so. you hear these brainwashed remoaners go on about "small countries don't have the market share to establish great trade deals" and then you ask them to explain the phenomenal trade success of minnows like Singapore, Taiwan, Guyana, Bahamas and suddenly, oh, silence. as if ease of doing business and deregulation are factors they never even heard of.
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  12704.  @dirkdupont5004  one advantage of Brexit? the UK can now, if it so wants, demand a visa of the hordes of Bulgarian and Romanian crooks, thieves and drug dealers that used to flood in due to the EU "freedom of movement". it may be too late, but the UK now can determine who has what rights to enter the UK, and who doesn't. It was always absurd that Bulgarians and Romanians could just arrive in the UK with freedom of movement, but those culturally much closer to the British, say the Australians and Kiwis, had greater restrictions placed on their entry and right to work here. I mean I have a massive list of advantages if you want to educate yourself! Up for a week long reading list?
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  12705.  @sprre3899  don't ask specific questions like that! The rabid anti Brexit crowd can only deal with nebulous concepts, not hard data!
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  12706.  @dirkdupont5004  Has OBR looked at the figures for this year?
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  12707.  @maximusasauluk7359  not only did I see it, I saw through its fallacies. you clearly didn't.
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  12708.  @neom0nk  as he always did, Joe Smith is going to sell his milk to the highest bidder
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  12709.  @chaoscorsair  newsflash. UK trades with the rest of the world too, and newsflash two, UK did so before Brexit too!
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  12710.  @Phonehomefool  totally agree, but despite Brexit, not due to Brexit.
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  12711.  @yvonneplant9434  what hasn't happened?
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  12712.  @dirkdupont5004  correct, the EU has never stopped the UK from exporting to the rest of the world. The EU only ever dictated the rules under which the UK was compelled to export to the rest of the world. But now the UK is free:)
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  12713.  @guleiro  those in the UK who got injected with their life-saving covid vaccines while the EU was still haggling over contracts and delivery dates would disagree with you.
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  12714.  @usercoimbar  absolute nonsense! of the myriad of factors that go into the price of a good or commodity, transport costs are absolutely minimal. this is why China exports to the entire world, no matter where the orders come from. Decades ago, lamb and butter were imported from bloody New Zealand, but people weren't moaning at the prices of said products like they are today! Get real and learn the true costs of international goods.
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  12715.  @swift_learn  parasitic partners, but yes, still in the UK
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  12716.  @kimwit1307  so explain why in the first 5 months of 2022 UK exports to the EU increased by 58.8% compared to the same 5 months of the previous year?
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  12717.  @geofflepper3207  1) UK hasn't cut trade relations with anyone.2) distant countries are focused on trading with anyone who wants to buy their products. The EU has no hallowed status 3) young Brits are still connected to Europe and the rest of the world. Brexit didn't incarcerate young Brits! 4) Older Brits are not xenophobic. It's just that, funny as it sounds, given the choice of living in a neighborhood riven with Romanian drug gangs or living in a neighborhood free of Romanian drug gangs, they would prefer the latter. 5) the only poll that matters is the one that delivered Brexit (and we were all told before the vote that Remain was ahead and going to win). You will find that as the EU collapses, more and more countries will want to jump off the sinking EU ship.
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  12718.  @dirkdupont5004  in other words, the EU failed where UK succeeded, No excuses needed. just the facts. you asked for one benefit of Brexit, I gave you one....response to covid vaccinations.
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  12719.  @francinesicard464  I have no idea and I don't care. The UK is free to sign or not sign whatever it wants, with no permission needed from Brussels. That is what matters to me.
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  12720.  @dirkdupont5004  The EU is the cartel that has established trade barriers with its neighbors! Most Brexiteers are free marketeers, we want the EU barriers removed, not new British ones erected!
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  12721. @Pronto not for the first time in your life, Pronto, you got it all wrong. Showing the ignoramuses of this world their wayward thinking is pure pleasure for me. Slava Donbasu
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  12722.  @Mark1526374859  half full of them? maybe you are ill informed on what "half" means and what "full" means!
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  12723. @Pronto to be expected given India's massive population. and what about GDP per capita?:) Am guessing Qatar is still world number one (a small, non EU country)
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  12724. @Pronto "by every measure"..the funny thing is, you never actually cite any measure! I informed you that UK exports to the EU increased by 58% over Jan to May of this year compared to last year, and that the EU trade deficit is currently higher than it has ever been. TWO measures that are evidence of UK's success and EU's demise. you, on the other hand, offer nothing back!
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  12725. @Pronto and, BTW, I don't actually dispute that the UK economy is heading south. I dispute that the cause of the economic malaise in UK is connected with Brexit. Similarly, I don't think the EU's economy heading south is connected with Brexit.
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  12726. @Pronto yes, each country has to live with its choices, and while fools look at GDP as some kind of indicator of economic might, the wise look at exports and global demand for exports as a more accurate measure. Italy has a higher GDP than Russia, but no one cares a jot what Italy does on the world stage because Italian exports are of no great importance. Russia exports what all the world needs, and so the world does pay attention to what Russia does.
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  12727. EU restrictions on imports from outside the cartel certainly acts to cut the EU off from the world market, so I guess that is pure EU "genius"!
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  12728.  @alvaro701  there were no benefits from before
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  12729.  @dirkdupont5004  what is there to explain? The EU, by the grace of its amazing generosity and largesse, had not decided to limit such arms sales by means of some diktat from Brussels, though you and I know if the EU had decided to sanction the Saudis, the Uk would have had to obey. Thank God the UK got out of that dictatorship, right?
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  12730.  @usercoimbar  absolutely not true. the costs of production and the sales price reflect so much more than geography. your argument is a ceteris paribus one, but in producing and selling goods abroad, things are never ceteris paribus. if you were right, Chilean and Australian wines would never be on sale within the EU. but they are.
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  12731.  @dirkdupont5004  the head of the vaccination rollout got it wrong. the process of getting consensus and approval from 27 members, surprise surprise, takes longer than one independent government. spin it all you like, the EU bureaucracy was shown up for what it is, a fatal dagger in the heart when it comes to acting swiftly, decisively and efficiently.
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  12732.  @jaaksavat7916  I have, and for that reason it feels great that Britain is now united with the rest of the planet and not trapped in the corrupt cesspit bubble known as the EU.
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  12733.  @dirkdupont5004  an instant removal of all trade barriers would indeed be a disaster. that's why no one advocates for that. the free trade argument states that the fewer restrictions placed on trade, the better, for all parties. Free from Brussels' diktats, the UK is now in a position to gradually work on , step by step, reducing trade barriers between itself and all partners...bit like arms reductions, it's done step by step. The EU cartel never showed any willingness to open up for free trade with the rest of the planet. The UK now has the choice to do so, or not, depending on what policy Westminster (not Brussels) decides.
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  12734. @Pronto Not cherry picking any data, just giving you the relevant data. Here in Spain things won't kick off for a while, regarding any New Year celebrations, so I'm not missing out on anything. Besides, it's much more fun confronting your deluded mind and setting you straight.
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  12735.  @hrishikeshbasumatary4725  so that means BRICS is going to destroy the EU economy....do you know why? because 3 billion population is more than 400 million....
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  12736.  @bar10ml44  it's not
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  12737.  @usercoimbar  your simple logic ignores the fact that as younger people age they become for Conservative. Today's generation of Remoaners are tomorrow's generation of Brexiteers.
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  12738.  @usercoimbar  Chilean wines are a niche market in the EU only because they have to compete with EU wines that are free from tariffs. If the EU admitted Chile into its single market and customs union, chilean wines would cease to be niche and would compete on an equal footing. lower production costs would more than compensate for the transportation costs and Chilean wines would be cheaper than EU wines, but of course such a benefit to the EU consumer would never be allowed by Brussels
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  12739.  @usercoimbar  if the French "catch on" to how many other non EU countries make such excellent butter at a great price, then the French will have to abandon minimum wage and many workers rights that inflate the costs of French butter. ain't gonna happen, hence the EU has to keep better, cheaper butter out of the EU by its usual trick of tariffs and quotas.
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  12740.  @buk3695  everything is comparative
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  12741.  @bar10ml44  looks like you are confused between the net contribution the UK made to the EU and the costs of establishing trade deals with non EU countries.
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  12742.  @usercoimbar  given that labour costs are a major component of a good's selling price, do you really think that in a free market French butter could compete, in price, with, say, Russian butter?
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  12743.  @begood6011  agreed, it is. it is also true that access to the EU is not the same as frictionless trade within the EU, as paperwork is a cost and a burden, but in essence you are right.
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  12744.  @seanclark2085  brilliantly said. cultists indeed.
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  12745.  @dirkdupont5004  it is not that I know better, it is that the head of the vaccination rollout has to come up with explanations to satisfy his paymasters and to defend his/her colleagues. I don't. I can just say it as it is, the stark truth, with no consequences. The fact remains, typical EU bureaucracy and addiction to obtaining consensus caused deaths, where that didn't happen in the UK. If you are blind to the obvious, I can't help you.
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  12746.  @usercoimbar  No, I don't believe ALL young Remoaners will switch to being older Brexiteers, but ENOUGH will switch to make it a 50-50 contest. We were told on polling day that the opinion polls showed Remain would win, so, no, I don't believe the opinion polls reflect what would happen in a real referendum. I do suspect that the calamity that has happened in UK means the Remoaner-loving media would convince millions that Brexit is to blame, but whether that would mean enough of a swing to win a referendum, I'm not so sure. And yes, finally a point we can agree on, that the Overton Window keeps shifting to the Liberal side, so true Conservatism is dying fast. Explains why people like me feel more at home in Conservative societies like Mexico than in Western Europe. Maybe Serbia or Hungary would be best for me while in Europe.
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  12747.  @ggeric  has exported more what? Given that UK trade to the EU is up by 58.8% over the first 5 months of 2022 compared to 2021, could well be that UK is getting a better deal exporting to the EU than it can get exporting to the USA.
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  12748.  @kimwit1307  so it is the rebound after covid that led to the simultaneous boost in UK exports to the EU AND the dramatic rise in the EU's trade DEFICIT overall! Wow! Amazing how a rebound from covid can be both the cause of a boost in UK exports AND yet a collapse of EU exports! You don't think the rise in production costs in the EU due to the dumb decision to sanction Russia has anything to do with it? I don't dispute the UK's economic malaise and poor performance. I dispute the cause of it being Brexit. If Brexit were the main cause, we would expect to see a completely different economic picture in the EU. and we don't.
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  12749.  @seanclark2085  good point. persistently high unemployment and underemployment seems to be endemic in the EU south. Brexit Britain seems to be needing more workers month by month, yet the cultists still worship the God Brussels no matter how many university graduates in Spain end up serving cappucinos as a job, or living with granma decade after decade
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  12750.  @dirkdupont5004  when Ursula Van der Leyen is in her post because of the number of votes cast by the European electorate, and not because of a closed door session in Brussels, then we can talk about how democratic the EU is.
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  12751.  @dirkdupont5004  How do you explain that British citizens were being given the vaccine way before the first EU citizens? If greater bargaining power = better results, should have been the other way around! Bang goes that theory!
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  12752.  @dirkdupont5004  yep, and to you, despite my blood pressure sky rocketing higher than the national debt due to online tantrums with my foes, I can still summon up the spirit to wish you a great 2023. Predictions? another EU referendum? I couldn't handle it!
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  12753.  @jaaksavat7916  The Tories have no monopoly on corruption, believe me. You are right, the EU has set standards, and the EU has broken its own standards. What went wrong, do you think, with the EU's safeguard on corruption that led to Qatargate? Non EU countries also have health and safety standards. They are not unique to the EU, though I would say what is unique to the EU is how their standards strangle business, resulting in the high levels of unemployment you see in countries like Spain and Greece.
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  12754.  @jaaksavat7916  I didn't ask you WHEN Qatargate happened! I asked you to explain, given all the legislation you say the EU has against corruption, HOW it happened. I would put Marshall Aid and the collapse of Communism WAY above the EU as best things that ever happened in Europe! The Renaissance and Enlightenment would be up there too! Not only do I remember pre EU, I remember pre EEC and even pre Common Market! An economic union is not a bad thing. A protectionist cesspit of a corrupt cartel, which is what the EU is, is a very bad thing.
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  12755.  @haiderthahim3226  Yep, EU trade deficit was nil, and now it's 163 billion euros! a sinking ship! Yes, Brits had easy access to get jobs in the EU. But due to the fact the EU is a bullying cartel, the EU will no longer allow such easy access. Time they changed those discriminatory laws, wouldn't you say?
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  12756.  @kimwit1307  i know how membership of organizations work. often petty and often bullying. I am merely pointing out that it is an EU decision to restrict UK employment in the EU, not a British decision. This is how gangs work. No one is arguing that France is obligated to take any immigrants back. I am arguing that once illegal immigrants are on French soil, France is responsible for them. Simple as that. Yes, the UK economy is in an awful state. Has nothing to do with Brexit, just as the awful state of the EU economy has nothing to do with Brexit. But thankfully, UK exports to the EU are on a massive upswing, so we can all put to bed the myth that Brexit hurts trade to the EU.
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  12757.  @kimwit1307 "you are no longer part of the club" luckily, there are many other clubs on the planet that are thriving, unlike the EU, and even better news, many small countries thrive without being a member of any particular club!
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  12758.  @kimwit1307  you may well be right. and your point is....?
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  12759.  @markmoran916  indeed i do. and ipso facto, it is also the largest protectionist cartel in the world. you do realize that, right?
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  12760.  @cerosietebpositivo351  the major benefits of free trade are the consumers in UK AND Chile, and the UK AND California, genius. a cartel like the EU screws its consumers with tariffs, quotas and protectionism galore.
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  12761.  @kevinshanahan6064  and now the facts, Kevin, as opposed to your false assumptions. 1) UK exports to the EU INCREASED by over 50% in the first 5 months of 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021. UK trade with the EU is going up! 2) UK GDP has indeed crashed. So has the GDP of many EU countries, so can't blame Brexit there. 3) flipping burgers is a job. where I am in Andalucia, youth unemployment and under-employment is truly shockingly high. and Spain is powerless to devalue its currency, of course.
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  12762.  @pumpkinx9426  not at all. I am saying that before, as part of the corrupt and protectionist loving cartel called the EU, the UK was not free to establish trade deals of benefit to the UK.
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  12763.  @martinradcliffe4798  exactly, it's the corruption of the people we elected, not the people we never elected, that is the problem.
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  12764.  @jacquescousteau4592  exactly, or in other words, the UK DIDN'T lose any access or deals with other global markets, the UK only lost such access and deals as negotiated by the EU, but the UK is now free to renegotiate all such deals as it sees fit. It's called independence.
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  12765.  @bens1972  on the Northern Ireland issue, it is telling that the side insisting on customs controls and barriers to free trade is the EU. Brexiteers are, by and large, open to EU goods entering the UK free of customs and border controls. it is the EU cartel that can't bear the thought of EU consumers getting a better deal by having goods sold at lower prices coming in from UK.
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  12766.  @bens1972  you are aware that UK exports to the EU increased by over 50% over the first 6 months of 2022, right?
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  12767. @AXIOM mdr
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  12768.  @shgalagalaa  who says I think I am winning the argument, Mr. Crystal Ball? I reply to every message I receive, and I explain my position using common sense and from my own experiences. Deal with it. if you have a specific question, go for it.
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  12769.  @shgalagalaa  just about every economic theory can be reduced to supply and demand, based on the notion of scarcity. fire away if you have a question.
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  12770.  @shgalagalaa  I'm condescending (rather than condeceding) and aggressive because it's good for Remoaners to have the fight taken to them, instead of the other way round. Let's have a go at you here. who would you prefer to pass the laws under which you live? your elected representatives at Westminster, or unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, and why? off you go, either or answer, please.
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  12771.  @Mrdinomist  so if most of the UK products are used in Europe, that would indicate UK has NOT cut itself off from Europe, right?
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  12772.  @bens1972  First 5 months of 2022 saw a 58% increase in value of exports to the EU compared to the first 5 months of 2021. it means the cartel's red tape and paperwork are, slowly but surely, being overcome and that being out of the dreaded, restrictive customs union is not posing so much of a problem as the Remoaners had hoped for.
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  12773.  @bens1972  Do you think Qatargate is a totally shocking and exceptional example of EU corruption, or just tip of the iceberg?
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  12774.  @bens1972  in 2017 when horse meat with listeria was found on sale in Belgium, was that tainted meat that had evaded the EU strict rules on imported foodstuffs from dodgy places like the UK, or was it meat from the EU itself? hmmm
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  12775.  @patrickyore  and wine import has gotten much more expensive for EU than pre Brexit days too.
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  12776.  @Kevin-lf4xx  no idea, but given that prices in the shops in MANY EU countries are going up even more than in the UK, would seem the EU is having trade issues, or maybe rampant inflation is making any "trade issues" irrelevant.
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  12777.  @Kevin-lf4xx  in a way, "how are the trade deals going?" is like asking someone "how is living independently from your parents going?" maybe better than before, maybe worse than before, but the important change is the freedom to determine one's own future, and not be at the beck and call of the parents, in Brussels.
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  12778.  @Life_as_an_ant  yep, compared to a single country like China, the EU is just a small cartel. Brussels never stopped UK exports to the rest of the world, but obviously every single rule about UK imports was dictated to the UK from Brussels. The UK is finally free from such tyranny. bloody genius!:)
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  12779.  @Life_as_an_ant  by the way, just saw EU bananas (from the Canaries) 50 cents MORE expensive than bananas from the Ivory Coast in my local Mercadona! How can that be?
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  12780.  @l.h.9747  that's right. being in the EU just means you have to follow all EU rules and restrictions on trading with non EU countries, but the UK is no longer subject to such restrictions and rules. Freedom!
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  12781.  @bfc2155  UK pensioners were getting life-saving vaccines while the EU heads were still discussing contracts and consensus on future distribution. oh the benefits of relying on Brussels bureaucrats and 26 different opinions.
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  12782.  @jimmiller5600  Just about everything Boris promised has failed to happen. Explaining such failures is the interesting subject, not listing his failures.
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  12783.  @TheArneschwindt  I think whenever a country is vaccinating its people ahead of any other country it is a massive help! No surprise that UK had awful numbers of covid deaths. Have you seen the UK population of late? old and obese to a shocking degree. The numbers would have been even worse without the Brexit head start on vaccines. Pros and cons of Brexit will be seen later. For now I am happy all the bad decisions that affect the country will be made in Westminster and not Brussels. We'll see how things turn out! All the best to you.
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  12784.  @sawtooth808  yes, demented fools laugh in exactly the way you described
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  12785.  @karinaz8756  agreed. remember, the extra fees and mounds of paperwork are demanded by the EU, not the UK.
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  12786.  @basillah7650  exactly. the EU keeps boasting about what a big market it is. the truth is, the EU is shrinking in the global trade tables, whereas China, BRICS, the Americas are all soaring. EU = sinking ship.
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  12787.  @mt508  exactly. imagine how much more Germany could export to China if it were out of the EU, like, for example, Russia.
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  12788.  @roystonrichards1556  these Little Europeaners understand nothing about markets. They see all the goods flowing into the EU from China and assume China must be an EU member.
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  12789.  @joaquimbarbosa896  1) we had the market of the whole world open to us ONLY under the EU cartel's rules of trade! Now we are free of such restrictions! 2) Not FORCED to trade with European nations, just punished if anyone wanted to import from outside the EU free of tariffs 3) easier trade with geographically close countries is nothing compared to free trade with the whole world. 4) EU trade deals can be, and will be, replaced by trade deals specific to the UK's needs 5) Producers do not give priority to larger markets. Producers give priority to markets that generate the most profits. 6) investors invest in the UK for a whole host of reasons, including days of work lost to strikes and protests! Why would anyone invest in France right now? you simplify everything to nonsense arguments. At the end of the day, if the single market and trade with geographically close neighbors is so wonderful, why are the cheapest bananas in my nearest shop here in France from Ivory Coast, and not Spain. explain.
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  12790.  @thetruth9210  when?
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  12791.  @dregen8662  you got that right! if trading with the EU is such a money winner, explain why Costa Rica bananas are on sale for 99 cents a kilo in my local supermarket here in Portugal, but the Portuguese produced bananas are over 2 euros a kilo! one day you will learn what factors actually effect prices.
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  12792.  @dregen8662  if trading with the EU is such a wonderful thing, why do you think EU citizens leave the EU regularly to do their shopping? hmmm
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  12793.  @dregen8662  "the EU..who doesn't charge anything for trading" like saying a restaurant that doesn't include a service charge isn't charging you for the food.
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  12794.  @dregen8662  it has nothing to do with the quantity of bananas produced in the EU. it has a lot to do with the labour costs. so, you answered your own question. why would Brexiteers turn their backs on the EU's single market? because so many products can be obtained from around the world at much better prices. not difficult to understand, is it?
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  12795.  @dregen8662  keep in mind a lot of EU citizens hate the EU Single Market too. Just watch all the Spanish and French pour over the border from Andorra with their cars full of shopping, and the EU Customs officers desperately searching to try and deny EU citizens savings on key products. Such a wonderful economic paradise, the EU.
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  12796.  @dregen8662  as I said, celebrating at not having to pay a customs fee is like getting a massive restaurant bill, but celebrating not having to pay a service charge in a restaurant. the total you pay is all that matters. what % is a customs charge is irrelevant. at least with Brexit the UK is free to determine what customs duty is to be levied on imports from USA. such a freedom is denied EU member states....your dictators in Brussels command what you must pay.
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  12797. "ease community tensions" was what happened in Rotherham, Telford etc. enforcing Shariah Law to avoid race riots. Britanistan in 2023. Lost cause.
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  12798. right, so the 3000 Ukrainian lives served up into the Russian meatgrinder in Kherson, for no gains at all, that was just a "feint"? Well worth it?
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  12799.  @jacobbarnett2656  in that it cost 3000 lives, you bet!
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  12800. yeah, 20,000 dead cannon fodder, heaps of weaponry destroyed by Russia, not one single Ukrainian fighter anywhere near the first Russian defence line, but not disappointed only 8 villages and a pig farm captured after one whole month.
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  12801. @Stefan so far, there is no independent court that has convicted anyone of war crimes. Some of us believe in assuming innocence before a guilty verdict. Only a total fool would think that Russian forces have a total monopoly on war crimes in this conflict. The sensible in this world assume that both parties are guilty of war crimes. However, the deluded and brainwashed parrot Western media and point the finger exclusively at Russia. Pathetic.
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  12802. Something tells me that the well-fed, well coiffed pampered and comfortable Lord West won't HIMSELF be cutting back on energy he uses by 15%. It's just a wonderful idea for the plebs to be forced to do. No wonder the Global South hates the West for its sanctions and is backing Russia in this conflict.
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  12803. The European natives are fed up of mass immigration. More and more attacks will happen until immigration is halted.
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  12804. it's their job to charge as high a price as possible! if plenty of people were upset, things would change.
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  12805.  @andrewoliver8930  if they're all doing it, it shows the UK consumer has a lot of disposable income to keep shelling out on these higher prices.
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  12806. 20 years in prison for shoplifting will bring the stats down.
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  12807.  @sootuckchoong7077  yeah, Biden created all those Eritreans and Albanians, for sure!
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  12808. "the broader goal of ending this war" what a joker. Lloyd Austin told us, the aim is to weaken Russia. while Ukraine is happy to fight to the last Ukrainian, ending the war is of no interest to NATO. The only thing that matters is to weaken Russia. Weirdly, Russia is getting stronger as we do near an end to the war, so NATO will see both a stronger Russia AND the death of the last Ukrainian.
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  12809. so, the guy who can't remember how live ammunition got into his travel bag also can't imagine how he could end up in jail for wandering around town in a foreign country with ammunition on him. this is where a lack of imagination and a bad memory gets you. next time, vacation in a safe spot like Baltimore or Chicago.
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  12810. Strongly disagree with Calvin. It is vital we know where the lines are drawn and who is allowed to say what. Fox did a great thing, because he exposed that saying that he would never shag a woman like Evans is a statement worthy of canelation, but Jo Brand's "throw battery acid on Nigel Farage" is not. Until the public get a clear and definitive explanation of what the rules are, Fox and others need to keep talking, as they have done, to discover the truth. Let's define "hate speech" once and for all.
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  12811. Did Sky News use all its "disinformation tools" when it reported on the Ghost of Kiev?
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  12812. and of course it never happens the other way around
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  12813. why would we condemn him whatever comes out of the interview?
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  12814. I wonder why the civilians feel safer in the suburbs? You don't think the Ukronazis are occupying the high buildings in the centre of the town, as Amnesty International stated, hiding troops and weaponry in residential and business areas, do you? hmmm
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  12815. irrelevant info. assume that Russia is making/obtaining more per day than it fires.
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  12816. the intolerance, hate, violence and terrorism is coming from neither Left, nor Right. it's coming from Islam.
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  12817.  @UNITED8993  who cares?
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  12818.  @josea.alonso9783  no, es que vamos a España como si fuera nada más que otra colonia de Bruselas, lo que, de verdad, es el caso!
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  12819.  @josea.alonso9783  ningún país que sigue las leyes de Bruselas merece ningún respeto, por eso hay tantos visitantes que desprecian España, eso es la realidad.
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  12820.  @josea.alonso9783  muy buenas noticias que no vengas a Inglaterra, gracias, no queremos ver a tipos como tí. España es nada más que la perra de Bruselas, un país que no merece ningún respeto, pues España va a ver más y más mal comportamiento visto que tantos quieren sol y cerveza barata, y nada más de la mierda actual que está España.
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  12821. For many, Spain deserves no respect at all, it is just the b***h of Brussels, so hordes will go for the sun and cheap beer and treat Spain with the disdain it deserves. Wouldn't have happened under Franco.
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  12822. spirited but deluded nonsense reminiscent of Hitler's ramblings and ravings from his bunker. Meanwhile, Russia keeps winning its war of attrition and the West is powerless.
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  12823. No safety inspection needed. Russians and Ukrainians have been operating such plants for decades with no issue. Just need Ukraine to stop shelling it.
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  12824. MASSIVE MASSIVE WIN FOR PUTIN! All along, Putin has argued for the demining of Ukrainian ports..these agreements are the first steps to that end. Putin has insisted there was never any Russian blockade..he was proven right. All along Putin insisted on clear stipulation that Russian food products and fertilizers and those of Belarus be sanctions exempt, and HE NOW HAS THAT! Putin insisted it was Western sanctions causing the food export problem, the Global South agreed and pressured the West, and again, the West capitulated. On top of all that, the agreements confirm Russian oil can be exported to third countries without limits, so the West can now buy Russian oil from middlemen, like Saudi Arabia or India, no problem, The West can avoid its own sanctions. Beginning of the end, the West in full retreat, Putin on the way to complete victory
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  12825. pathetic propaganda. The Georgia legislation has nothing to do with Russia. it's a copy of USA's FARA laws. EU is just angry because such transparency would reveal all the EU money pumped into meddling NGO's in Georgia. where do you think all those bright new EU flags come from in the crowd?
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  12826. No evidence Russia ever wanted to take Kiev. No evidence Russia ever wanted to take Kharkov. Why would they? The aim was to kill as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible while THREATENING the 2 major cities (which the Russians did) while in the South, a land bridge was established between Crimea and the DPR. Stages 1 and 2 to Russia. In the Donbass, artillery was used to maximum effect to gradually destroy Ukrainian defenses. Stop focusing on territory...keep focused on how many Ukrainian troops are being killed, captured and severely wounded. Russia is winning, and will win. Only a fool would think otherwise.
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  12827. fingers crossed that Scottish Police are so inundated with hate crime reports that they have to abandon any security of SMPs and leave the First Minister exposed to the will of the baying mob.
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  12828. Chip Chapman is the fool who has insisted Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing. He is totally clueless and an abject fool.
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  12829.  @michaeldunham3385  Ukraine did...8 years of shelling in the Donbass
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  12830.  @courcheval  well said. NATO now dealing with a stronger foe, and any NATO credibility remaining post Afghanistan is about to disappear with Ukraine's defeat.
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  12831. Then every Ukrainian man of fighting age will die and the country become one of refugees and orphans. Another wonderful NATO success story.
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  12832. @Inginia Yes, the invasion of Ukraine is fully justified. The more ukronazis dead the better. NATO is most certainly to blame as it did NOTHING to discuss Russia's concerns over Donbass and many other issues. As Putin said, we were left with no other option. Bet the Ukrainians now wish they had continued talks in Istanbul in March, instead of following NATO's wish to fight til the last dead Ukrainian.
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  12833. @Inginia Given NATO/USA/EU/Ukraine refuse to negotiate on the independence of the DPR and LPR, what else can Russia do to liberate the ethnic Russians of the LPR and DPR?
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  12834.  @trebordraw  if you weren't in Ukraine over the last 8 years, here is a taste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY
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  12835.  @Dustpuuppy  does Scotland only exist in the warped mind of Sturgeon? Does Cataluna only exist in the warped mind of Puidgemont? Why negotiate with "terrorists"? you mean like UK did with IRA and USA did with Taliban? to secure peace rather than accept war. Grow up!
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  12836.  @Chuck_N0rris  Ukraine is clearly losing! the problem is NATO keeps telling Ukraine they are winning! Russia was not the party that left the negotiations in Istanbul. Putin won in Chechnya and did not destabilize Russia. Putin won in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and did not destabilize Russia. Putin won in Transnistra and did not destabilize Russia. Putin will win in Ukraine and will not destabilize Russia. He knows what he is doing and is doing it well.
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  12837.  @andykyriakides2144  totally agree. Zelensky figured out he fooled the West, so doesn't matter what happens in Ukraine, he will be venerated in the dopey West forever more, "Russia bad, Ukraine good".
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  12838.  @a0flj0  1) it wouldn't. It would only negotiate independence or autonomy with the separatists themselves. However, after 8 years of shelling its own citizens, Ukraine now has to deal with a power coming to the liberation of its ethnic cousins. So independence will be achieved by force, rather than through negotiations. 2) No need to look at it. Zelensky just needed to implement the Minsk accords, already agreed upon by all concerned. that simple.
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  12839.  @a0flj0  Ukraine's win will certainly take time! We are on Day 13 of the Great Counter Offensive and let's take a look at the list of settlements captured by Ukraine ...NOTHING! Yep, gonna take a LONG time at this rate! What did Zelensky beg the West? Win this by winter? LOL..
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  12840.  @a0flj0  Hasn't Israel discussed a two state solution (palestinian independence) with USA before?
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  12841.  @gintasvilkelis2544  agreed. it is one of many examples where a third party was involved in deciding the fates of these people, to bring such an example back to the point I was making.
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  12842. what's truly amazing, after the terrorist attack on the bridge, is Russia's restraint.
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  12843. all the wrong assumptions were made, such as "diversity is our strength", and "all cultures are of equal value". and these false assumptions are not the fault of Tommy Robinson or the Far Right! Kier only needs to look in the mirror to see who totally messed up.
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  12844.  @mascot4950  and there are other reports that say one whole patriot system was totally destroyed, one severely damaged, one lightly damaged. only a few people know the truth. what makes sense is that all 30 Patriot missiles were launched from the system totally destroyed in order to minimize the impact of 30 missiles going up in smoke on impact of the kinzhal, given that all components of the patriot system hit were in a residential area. yes, ukronazis using human shields again. no one knows what stocks Russia has. we only know Western "experts" have been saying for 12 months now that Russia is running out of weapons, while recent evidence suggests the opposite. certainly Russia is a LOT closer to achieving its objectives than Ukraine is.
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  12845.  @mascot4950  the videos taken of the attack show 30 patriot missiles fired (and those who filmed the attack have been arrested by the SBU, so Ukraine embracing the EU values of free speech and tolerance, obviously). 30 patriot missiles fired, 100,000 to 200,000 USD the cost of each missile? 250 total patriot missiles produced in any year! you talk about bang for their buck, are US taxpayers getting a great deal out of this? from the video it is pretty clear that the Russians launch a barrage of decoys, the ukronazis in panic fire off all 30 patriot missiles, this enables the Russians to pinpoint the patriot systems which, foolishly, are all located close to each other (in a residential zone) and boom, the kinzhal hits its target. watch the video and tell me I'm wrong.
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  12846.  @gulogulo7636  yep, all those thousands of Ukrainians applying for Russian passports, they must really fear Russian imperialism! All those overjoyed babushkas in the DPR and LPR embracing Russian soldiers when liberated, they must fear Russian imperialism. Do you think Europe should also be helping the Catalans overcome Spanish imperialism?
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  12847.  @dennisschwartzentruber3204  ah, the usual insightful and knowledgeable contribution from Dennis, that paradigm of geo political analysis that he is.
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  12848. AI is saying that RATHER fight in the open, Ukraine prefers to increase its odds of victory by concealing troops and weapons in residential areas, in full knowledge there will be collateral damage (civilians killed). Makes sense. It's a trade off. Just stop accusing Russia of "indiscriminate killing". If Russia detects Azov Nazis in a block of flats, impossible to ensure only said Azov Nazis will die when the missiles hit.
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  12849. also needs more men to fight. ready to go?
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  12850.  @chriscoates2399  and now for the truth...they (Ukraine) are so desperate for aid they are announcing ANYTHING that will get more handouts from the West. There is no counter offensive ready, there is no million man army (though Russia does have that, in Russia) there is no hope now. Anyone who thought Ukraine could defeat Russia in a ground war, with or without NATO's unlimited aid, was a fool. Putin saw NATO's absolute fiasco in Kabul last year, and calculated right. Russia has won. save your pennies for the freezing winter and asrronomical energy bills heading your way.
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  12851.  @raymondbullock4557  I'm not sure that's true. If you went by dinghy from Kent to Calais and landed on the beach and then claimed asylum, I think you would be processed as an asylum seeker (if you had no documentation). Bit of a moot point because no one does that and everyone who enters France does so from a Schengen country, so they all enter France legally.
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  12852. given the present UK government are a bunch of imbeciles, that ain't saying much!
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  12853. yep, Ukraine/NATO managed to resist "quite well" (don't tell that to the families of the 50,000 dead Ukrainian cannon fodder) Russia's Special Military Operation. Let's see how Ukraine/NATO manages all out war.
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  12854.  tartarov tarantin  what does all that mean in English? let me know if you need an English teacher to help you master the language.
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  12855. The fightback begins. UK Government won't do anything, so individuals and groups will.
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  12856. as always, the politicians' solution is to keep expanding the Ponzi scheme of adding more and more immigrants to the work pool, instead of privatizing pensions and slashing social programs.
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  12857.  @tommyhallum2054  oh, I see, so the absolute panic and fiasco of an exit from Afghanistan happened NOT because the commander in chief is a senile idiot, and NOT because NATO is a toothless tiger incapable of even structuring an orderly retreat, it all happened in such an embarrassing shambolic way because Afghanistan is not a NATO country!? Really? You are deluded. The Kabul cut and run was a perfect example of how shit NATO is as a force.
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  12858. @Tom Parker Russia is fighting a war of attrition as it always has done. succeeded in Syria, succeeded in Chechnya, succeeded in Georgia, will succeed in Ukraine. NATO has never fought a professional superpower like Russia. Given NATO's piss poor performance in Kabul, NATO would collapse against Russia. Russia's economy is NOTHING like Italy's. you are ignorant. How much oil, gas, coal, food, precious metals does Italy export? ZERO! Hence no one gives a shit about Italy. But Russian exports feed and power the world. hence the world listens when Russia speaks. Learn some basic economics.
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  12859. @Tom Parker you do know that 80% of Russia's million man army is not IN Ukraine, right? That the troops in Ukraine are an expeditionary force, you do know that, right?
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  12860.  @tommyhallum2054  so you think that poor Afghan family, ALL innocent, droned to death by US forces during the Kabul fiasco was an act of KINDNESS? You did EVERYTHING in your power to impose a way of life on people who by and large DON"T want it. Naive, ignorant, foolish, interfering, over and over again. Since its heroic victories in WW2 and Korea, the US has lost its way totally. Russia is the new hope.
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  12861.  @colby25  of course she did. But Michelle Obama hasn't the slightest clue what Islam is all about and Michelle Obama is never going to be under threat of beheading or rape. When she becomes an elected official, maybe it might be worth listening to her.
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  12862.  @colby25  Obama said the aim should be to contain ISIS. Trump said the aim should be to defeat ISIS. ISIS were defeated on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria NO THANKS to the weasel Obama. But Islam itself hasn't been tackled yet. That day will come though.
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  12863. as expected, DW turns a news story about fires in Spain to a condescending lecture to the audience about everything we must do to live better. yawn. what a bunch of charlatans and propagandists you are.
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  12864.  @wtl912  no one is saying Russian media tells the truth all the time. we are just saying we thought, here in the West, we were free to choose to watch Russian media and then decide what we thought was true and what was false. But that right has been denied us. the West has become Russia, even worse.
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  12865.  @wtl912  at least if you do have access to Russian media you can hear insightful questions about the Nordstream sabotage, which is not aired in the West. you can also see coverage of the anti NATO and anti war demonstrations happening across Europe, which Western MSM ignores and pretends isn't happening.
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  12866.  @joaovitorino662  there are many things I can do to evade the consequences of Western censorship. But the fact remains, the Western "democracies" have chosen censorship. Let that sink in.
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  12867.  @pansepot1490  but a Russian bot that speaks the truth and that annoys you.
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  12868.  @trumpforever6706  you can tell who are the sheep in the discussion when the limit of their "thinking" is "pro Russian view = Russian bot". the notion that we Westerners can see the hypocrisy in play is beyond their comprehension, what little they have.
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  12869.  @joaovitorino662  slavery was a restriction based on laws too, so what's your point?
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  12870.  @joaovitorino662  no one is asking you to explain any laws. I am just asking you why the West's decision to censor media broadcast from Russia is such a wonderfully democratic and freedom-respecting law. If I choose to watch RT on my tv, why should the government have the right to ban that choice?
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  12871.  @joaovitorino662  of the many countries you have lived and worked in, which country felt the most free and freedom loving?
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  12872.  @joaovitorino662  once again, you are suggesting a way of getting around a law put in place to censor what information I receive. Like telling people in China, "there is no censorship in China, just change your vpn". you miss the point.
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  12873.  @joaovitorino662  so explain how I used to be able to access the RT channel on my laptop in France, that I could access the RT channel on my laptop in Mexico, but then when returning to France, after the EU ban on RT broadcasts, I was unable to access the RT news service? when you say "it is not a priority"...not a priority for whom? It is a priority for RT to broadcast to the West, and it is my priority to receive that service. for whom is it not a priority?
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  12874.  @joaovitorino662  "EU court confirms ban on Russia Today" how about you google that and tell me if it is a ban, or just a lack of priority.
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  12875.  @IssyKew  "consumers don't care about price" there we go. supply and demand. if consumers don't really care about price, demand will remain high as profit margins are increased. when the market price hits a level where consumers start to care, the price will level off, or even fall as customer demand drops.
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  12876. two more years is about right. Chechnya, Syria, Russia takes its time but eliminates its enemies and achieves its objectives. Putin will succeed, NATO will fail, just as it did in Kabul, 2021.
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  12877. this is what happens when you accept mass immigration, print money as fast as you can, throw money at futile Green policies, sanction Russia and give unlimited aid to Ukraine. everyone who champions any one or more of the above issues, you got what you deserve.
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  12878. et voila, Meloni, la fasciste qui accepte tous les migrants comme Merkel a fait en 2015
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  12879. It would only be "double standard logic" if USA had attacked Pyongyang and Russia shouted "that's not fair". That hasn't happened. Russia is saying "USA supplied the missiles and satellite technology, so USA should expect to be targeted". and USA is more than welcome to do the same to N Korea, if USA wants a full scale nuclear war. Time to choose what you want, Biden.
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  12880. Zelensky bots just jealous that N Korea actually has missiles aplenty to support its ally, whereas NATO has been cleaned out.
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  12881.  @Omega0850  "only one side is so hypocritical to complain about it" yeah, like the West hasn't been whining and wringing its hands about China and Iran helping Russia.
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  12882.  @doerianed1786  a missile. so what's your point?
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  12883.  @bogdanmchugh6747  Oh, Bogbrain, please don't go! I was having such fun correcting both your English and your wayward thinking! Hey, Bogbrain, remember that Waffen SS veteran that got a standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament? Did you salute him and admire him, like Zelensky and Trudeau did, for vowing to serve the Austrian artist? Is Bandera your hero, as he is a hero for your beloved Ukraine? Please tell me, dear Bogbrain.
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  12884.  @TreesRgreen123  only takes 2 seconds for Zelensky to say "I surrender"
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  12885.  @DavidMcdonald-df8tb  because only certain people are Israeli citizens. or do you consider the Chinese as Netanyahu's people?
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  12886.  @TreesRgreen123  if someone invaded the UK or US, the first question to ask would be, "is the invasion justified?" the second question to ask would be "would surrender bring better or worse results than fighting to the death?". in the case of Zelensky and Ukraine, no one is under threat of rule by a different country. Go back and look at the terms that Zelensky was about to agree to, in Istanbul, before Boris Johnson intervened.
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  12887.  @TreesRgreen123  right now, if Putin invaded the UK and promised the end of woke policies in the UK and no more green policies, a lot of British people would start fighting on Putin's side. The world has changed.
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  12888. This is what happens when you sanction Russia. Enjoy every unforeseen consequence of such a daft decision, people in the West.
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  12889.  @cloudpoint0  17 still intact. not sure how the water drone experiment went a few days ago on that bridge in Odessa oblast, but it may be that those tanks will be sitting ducks on the western side of the Dnipro. when the Leopard 2's show up? you mean IF the Leopard 2's show up!
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  12890.  @dougcoombes8497  yeah, right, Ukraine's 16 yr old recruits and pensioners will push the Chechens and Russians back towards Melitopol. dream on. NATO can't even get ammo to the front lines! what is going to be used in this offensive? sling shots?
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  12891.  @pogo1140  what are the chances Russia will have destroyed that bridge in Kiev before the great unbeatable armada get there?
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  12892.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  better start building them now, along with all the ammo NATO hasn't got to keep Ukraine supplied!
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  12893.  @leighwang9747  look at the map. to get to the front lines the Dnipro River must be crossed, or Russia invaded!
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  12894.  @dougcoombes8497  too funny. "Russian losses in men and equipment is about 3 times that of Ukraine" source?
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  12895.  @dougcoombes8497  and now the harsh truth. 1) if |Ukraine has 7 million young fit men available, why was the 50 yr old cousin of one of my Ukrainian students forced to enlist? a man who can barely lift anything such are his back injuries. 2) Ukraine HAD a reserve of combat veterans. Most are now dead. 3) Adding brigades manned by 16 year olds and 50 year old invalids will not defeat the Chechens and Wagners. dream on. 4) Expansion of ammo stocks in NATO is NOT happening! NO orders have been received by contractors! NONE! Only now, 355 days after it was obvious, has the alarm been raised. Ukraine burns through ammo faster than NATO can produce it (the opposite of Russia). Too late to try to ramp up production to ever match Russia. 5) US making 3000 shells a day? Ukraine fires 5000 a day. Russia fires 50,000! you make my point for me!
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  12896.  @The-Real-Ando  Ukraine has attack points? what happens every time Ukraine attacks?
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  12897.  @cloudpoint0  so Russia is advancing, incrementally, on all fronts, yet is in its last death gasps? curious conclusion you make. my question wasn't how many bridges over the Dnipro are intact now, but congratulations on being able to count up to 17. my question was how many bridges WILL be STILL intact when the fearsome NATO Leopard ONEs roll up to the Dnipro? Do you assume all 17 will still be intact? why? Do you assume Russia has no capability to destroy bridges?
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  12898.  @cloudpoint0  how would you rate the damage done to the Zatoka Bridge by Russia's water drone?
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  12899.  @The-Real-Ando  to me, Ukraine was handed the territory. it didn't take anything! every time Ukraine and Russia fight toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins. every time. Russia needed more men to hold its extensive front line, and it now has those men, and more. yet you assume Ukraine, recruiting teenagers and pensioners, with NATO ammo running out, can mount an offensive? really? You are deluded. If Ukrainians were so motivated to fight, how come the convicts and drunken mercenaries defeated them in Soledar and are currently defeating them in Bakhmut? Motivation is VERY high in the Russian forces. VERY. Putin is very popular. don't be fooled. Russian capacity to produce armaments far exceeds NATO's. USA cannot produce in one day what Ukraine uses in one day. but Russia produces 8 times that! you really must do some more homework and start doubting the Western MSM. For ten months we have heard that Russia is running out of ammo. Suddenly, that lie has stopped, and the truth that NATO is out of munitions is being broadcast. get ready for a lot more harsh realities to be announced soon.
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  12900.  @The-Real-Ando  so, when do you predict this Ukrainian offensive will happen? let's mark our calendars!
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  12901.  @dougcoombes8497  once again, you are told the truth and you just can't handle it. running to the censor in as much mad panic as NATO troops trying to flee Kabul.
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  12902.  @dougcoombes8497  as I said, the cousin of my Ukrainian student, aged 50, so incapacitated he can barely lift anything of any weight, recruited and off for immediate training! The truth of Ukraine today is truly shocking and a disgrace. Those of us who have lived and worked in Ukraine are not surprised. Have you lived and worked in Ukraine, dear Doug?
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  12903.  @dougcoombes8497  there is no genocide in Ukraine. there is a war in Ukraine. learn the difference, you dope.
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  12904. notice how this puppet has to keep referring to the notes that he was told to memorize by his paymaster. Ukraine Ministry of Propaganda getting their money's worth from him.
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  12905. "Bakhmut seeing offensives by both sides"...really, Milley? which parts of Bakhmut or surrounding settlements have been taken by Ukraine in the last 3 months?
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  12906. Estonia is a pathetic chihuahua, yapping but powerless.
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  12907. of course you weren't expecting a Russian retreat! It's called flexible warfare! Russia kills 3000 of your comrades as it regroups to defend Donbass, the liberation of which is its aim, unlike Kharkov oblast. I guess this guy never heard of the Clausewitz principle.
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  12908.  @wegge2008  it certainly is! That's why RT had to be banned from the West. The deluded Western leaders couldn't face the possibility of a counter narrative questioning their propaganda. Western sheep might actually start to think.
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  12909. awful? just another day at the office for Muslim jihadists
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  12910. it's the EU that are the Fascists, insisting Georgia has to have ZERO transparency from NGO's or it ruins its right to join the EU. Truly a Brussels Fascist move. How about the EU respect the decisions of the democratically elected government of Georgia?
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  12911. makes perfect sense, 17 months after taking control of the ZNPP Russia now decides it is a really good idea to blow it up. Russian controlled, providing energy for Russia's new citizens, it would make perfect sense to destroy it now. Zelensky thinks the Western audience is dumb. And in most cases, he is right.
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  12912.  @andybassman104  not when the new members are nancy, pacifist, soft, cowardly, pansy useless countries like Finland and Sweden. Neither of those two could punch their way out of a wet paper bag! or, let me guess, you really think a Finnish and Swedish presence in Kabul would have deterred the Taliban from kicking NATO's a*s in 2021?
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  12913.  @E.Wolfdale  "poor isolated economy"...it's Germany in recession, not Russia! it's ONLY the Western bubble that has CLAIMED to isolate Russia (Russian products are STILL pouring into the West via third countries). you are deluded. Russia is stronger than ever. the ruble ain't rubble and Russia's trade is alive and well. dream on!
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  12914.  @andybassman104  given that Putin has totally demilitarized NATO to the point NATO can now send only cluster bombs, such is its shortage of real artillery shells, doesn't really matter how many broke, pansy, effete nations without weapons join NATO.
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  12915.  @thetombaxter  sadly, you are mistaken. 1. Putin controls his oligarchs. In Ukraine it is the other way around, and the oligarchs there control Zelensky. 2. Many of us that understand these matters were not surprised to see Prigozhin in open revolt. And neither were we surprised to see all of Russia remain loyal to Putin. 3. Japan and Australia "gearing up"? Gearing up for what? Neither has the capacity to match Russia in arms production or come anywhere near it! you make the same mistake as Western leaders...you woefully underestimate Russia's strength to endure.
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  12916.  @thetombaxter  "Assad must go" was the repeated cry of all the Western leaders, who have since gone, but Assad is still in power. "Putin is on the way out" shout all the Western leaders, who one by one get kicked out, Johnson, Truss, Marin, Draghi, soon Sanchez, Rutte, Macron with no parliamentary majority, Scholz in a shaky coalition, Biden with a year to go. Putin will survive, magnificently. The Prigozhin mutiny showed how solid support for Putin is, No one, all the way from Rostov to Voronezh, came out in support for Prigozhin. Same wouldn't happen if Biden or Macron were challenged! the deluded, like you, have to keep thinking regime change in Moscow is your only hope, as it is clear sanctions have failed and Russia is winning the war. Keep clutching at straws.
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  12917. Hey, Tom, when do you think the great NATO/Ukraine counter offensive will reach Crimea?
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  12918.  @thetombaxter  oh, clearly you are ignorant of the situation. let me set you straight. the aim is not to conquer Ukraine. why would Putin want to inherit places like Lvov where hatred of Russia is boundless? The aim is to complete the 5 objectives as set out at the start (you are aware of the 5 objectives, yeah?) Remember, before a Russian soldier had set foot in Crimea, the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol had voted 78-0 for separation from Kiev (it's something called a "democratic vote"...an alien concept to you if you are from certain parts of the West, maybe). So, annexing Crimea took no time because almost all of Crimea are ethnic Russians and cheered it on. Take a look at how long Russia took to eliminate the enemy in Syria. It takes years. Ukraine might take less time, but not a lot less, because Zelensky is more than happy to keep serving up the cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder, but still, to eliminate every single fighting age male does take time. end of 2024 is my prediction for the 5 objectives to be declared fulfilled, unless war is declared.
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  12919. this fool of a "detective" can't even connect the Tenerife drugs world with kidnapping, extortion, people smuggling, nope, it's all about Jay's misadventure, right? tells you all you need to know about the dullards that call themselves "Police" these days.
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  12920. if Yellen is too dumb to understand when inflation is not transitory, why would she have a clue what to advise Biden?
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  12921. Not true. NATO not prepared to die for this cause, only to provide the weapons for Ukrainian men to be massacred. Once the last Ukrainian has died, Russia will dictate the terms of surrender. End of story.
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  12922. quite agree. putting human lives in danger should mean a long prison sentence. therefore, given the importing of millions of manic Muslims has put human lives in danger, those responsible, Sunak and co, should be imprisoned.
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  12923. selfish Europeans turn their backs on Russian energy, buy up LNG and leave poor Asians in the dark. All part of the "rules based system".
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  12924. as a woman of color, how would you explain that the Asian immigrants ask for nothing, respect the law and cause no problems, while African immigrants, especially the Muslims, are ALWAYS the ones causing the mayhem and violence?
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  12925.  @thegreatdane3627  you sound as unconvincing as Biden, "the ruble is rubble" and all that nonsense. the ruble has not crashed, but of course, a lower ruble does mean great news for Russia's commodity exports. Russia has front ended much of its deficit, meaning the first few months of the year bore much of the burden. But I guess the West has no problems at all with budget deficits, right? How is the US national debt looking? UK? Russia has lower inflation than everywhere in the West, modest growth and inward investment has sky rocketed. If the sanctions were meant to cripple the Russian economy, this ain't working! What do you think, maybe a 12th EU sanctions package will do the job?:) you are so deluded. Cluster bombs now sent because the regular shells have been used up. Demilitarization of BOTH Ukraine and NATO progressing nicely.
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  12926.  @thegreatdane3627  remember the aim was to cripple the Russian economy to the point where it would find it impossible to wage war in Ukraine. When do you predict that point will be reached?:)
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  12927.  @Dontquoteme933  seems so
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  12928. it's simple; you can't be a Muslim AND believe in democracy. if the people vote to allow gay marriage, a true Muslim rejects such democracy and insists that Quranic teachings take precedent. therefore Muslims cannot possibly share British values.
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  12929. the only threat the warmongers have, sanctions. and they can't figure out why they don't work.
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  12930. @Broodje worst that's because Russia has no intention or need to conquer a country. stop believing Western propaganda
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  12931. @Broodje worst what? were you trying to write in English there? you believe what you like, mate. I'm here to tell you when you are believing in something that stinks of propaganda.
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  12932. @Broodje worst I'm sorry you are Ukrainian too. In full support of compelling all Russian speakers in your country to be educated exclusively in Ukrainian, are you?
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  12933.  @atticusfredericks6210  would love to see you argue with a Québecquois that English is the official language of Canada and that the French speakers should have no rights to use French in education or in government anywhere in Canada. You might not live to tell the world about the reaction you would get.
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  12934.  @atticusfredericks6210  Imagine a county in Wales where 90% of the inhabitants speak English and don't speak Welsh. Do you think it's right to tell that 90% English speaking county that all education and governmental procedures must be in Welsh and only in Welsh? Yes or no?
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  12935.  @danwillson4510  there's no loop hole because there isn't even a loop!
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  12936.  @dancahill9585  then you are all for peace talks but not for peace
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  12937.  @dancahill9585  you confuse appeasement with peace. two different things. How did total surrender turn out for Japan and Germany?
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  12938.  @dancahill9585  oh dear. someone has confused Stalin's Communist USSR with the Russian Federation! Dan, learn some basic history. But on the positive side, good to see you confess that total surrender can indeed bring many wonderful benefits. We both know that the West would poor money into the post war Ukraine, Marshall Aid style, to make the new Ukraine as happy as Poland.
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  12939. yet again, the lie about the Kremlin saying the SMO would take only two weeks, goes hand in hand with the lie that the Kremlin said the SMO would take 3 days and also it would take 10 days. Western media not sure which of the 3 lies to keep peddling.
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  12940. If it was Russia that did it, they will be disappointed so many Azovs survived. Maybe an outbreak of anthrax will happen next week. To be honest, I can't imagine many Russian taxpayers want their hard earned rubles going to feed Nazis anyway.
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  12941. "this is a massive development"...as big as Javelins? as big as M777s? as big as Himars? as big as Patriots? how many more wonder weapon game changers will be shipped to Ukraine, destroyed and the convicts keep wiping out Ukronazi cannon fodder every day before the West understands that Russia has won?
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  12942. it's called summer. nothing unusual. after Climategate and "hide the decline", no one sane believes the data issued by "scientists".
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  12943. Local people are fed up of idiots portraying Brits as lager louts when their income flows in from Brits that are not lager louts.
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  12944. yet another offspring of immigrants determined to wreak death and havoc on his host country. the rioters have spoken for so many of us.
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  12945. EU has freedom of movement, so the migrants will decide where they go, not Brussels.
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  12946. If Ukraine can't defeat a bunch of convicts in Bakhmut, it has no hope of a successful counter-offensive. therefore, all Ukraine can do is keep talking about a counter offensive, and this "leak" is just another deceptive ploy to make the world think a counter offensive is ready to go. it isn't.
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  12947. "unprovoked"? Right, banning Russian language and then shelling the Donbass for 8 years = unprovoked. This fool wouldn't know what the reality of "provocation" was even if it slapped his smug face and said "hey, look at me, my name is provocation".
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  12948. So let me translate Channel 4 spin...one mercenary and one adventurist do-gooder who thought it was a really good idea to illegally enter Russian occupied territory, are now going to join Aslin and Pinner swinging from a rope. Meanwhile, the woman who had no objections to them going there, Liz Truss, refuses to contact the DPR authorities to try and negotiate their release. Welcome to the mess UK has got itself into in Ukraine...and this is just the beginning.
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  12949.  @althepalno1164  nonsense. remove all the immigrants from the violent crime stats and you'll see that UK wouldn't need any mental health services at all to return to pre immigration levels of crime.
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  12950.  @ozymandias7940  NATO has very little firepower left! It's shipped LOADS of its existing weapons and ammo to Ukraine already, and over 4 months, Russia has destroyed it. why do you think the weapons supply is now down to a trickle?
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  12951.  @gikigill788  remarkable as this news is for you, Russia possesses weapons both conventional and nuclear that can wipe Berlin and London off the face of the Earth. No army and no air force needed. The more NATO escalates the conflict, the more likely it is that NATO will be attacked, obviously. Let me guess, you assumed Russia was running out of fuel, ooh, about 10 months ago?
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  12952.  @gikigill788  speaks volumes that you would count god as a factor in warfare
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  12953.  @gikigill788  Russia will "seize" to exist or "cease" to exist. Let me know if you want to learn correct English. Russia may well start the poker game with low stakes. you know, a conventional attack on, say, Tallinn, just to see if demilitarized NATO has the guts to retaliate. Given Russia's size, it will continue to exist, unlike the tiny countries of Europe. A wise person would assume that Russia is armed and ready for any kind of conflict.
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  12954.  @thomasherrin6798  NATO needs to tell Ukraine to talk peace, if it had any sense. NATO is close to being demilitarized, so Russia will feel, at some point, the temptation to launch something not too destructive on one of the chihuahua NATO states, just to see the extent to which Article 5 is invoked.
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  12955.  @shadowbanned636  so, if you are right, it begs the question, why does Ukraine have to keep begging for NATO's "deep reserves"? Why is NATO so unwilling to send some of its deep reserves?
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  12956.  @shadowbanned636  UK defence chiefs yesterday announced that if UK were at war with Russia its ammo would last one day! is this your definition of "deep reserves"?
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  12957.  @paulgibbon5991  i know of no botskis calling for negotiations. I only know it would be sensible for NATO to tell Ukraine to negotiate a peace deal.
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  12958.  @shadowbanned636  when you say the USA can "easily defeat Russia" how would the USA look after its victory in a nuclear exchange with Russia?
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  12959.  @shadowbanned636  why the need to buy time when NATO has "deep reserves"? makes no sense. and when the unavoidable NATO v Russia war happens, what chance it turns nuclear?
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  12960.  @shadowbanned636  if Ukraine is grinding Russian forces down, let's see the numbers you have. Ukraine, population 40 million or so, has suffered how many deaths? Russia, population 150 million or so, has suffered how many deaths?
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  12961.  @shadowbanned636  yep, direct attack on Riga. cruise missiles on Riga in retaliation for Latvian involvement in Ukraine and for discrimination against ethnic Russians in Latvia. Article 5 allows for many options, calling for a response that may (or may not) include a military response. Do you assume all NATO members would be on board, immediately, to fight against Russia? even Hungary? even Turkey? and what form would "total war" take? NATO planes shot down by Russia's superb air defence systems? Body bags of French and British troops flown home by the thousands, all over two missiles hitting Riga? really?
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  12962.  @mikemann2053  you can't even smell your own s**t when you have yet another rectal collapse
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  12963.  @u.p.1038  Russia doesn't need to pay salaries. it's convicts and drunken mercenaries are good enough to destroy NATO's finest trainees in Soledar and Bakhmut!
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  12964.  @floriangallus7760  yet it's Russia on the front foot. you missed the news from Soledar, Bakhmut and Svatove
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  12965.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  giving you the truth
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  12966.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  Russia is beating Ukraine + all of NATO. the funny thing is, the other sanctioned nations, like Iran and N Korea and Venezuela, are joining in and LOVING every minute of this revenge on the West.
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  12967.  @corneliusantonius3108  looks like you have lost the argument when you are forced to focus on the "joined date" rather than the message!
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  12968.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  how many old nukes needed to take out London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles?
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  12969.  @thomasherrin6798  only when you use the useless measurement of GDP. when you look at what Europe produces, I mean actual commodities the world needs (food, precious metals, energy) Russia is far stronger than Europe, and that is why the sanctions failed, Fools looked at GDP numbers, not production levels.
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  12970.  @johnnewman1819  when your caught in a Russian cauldron, your Leo 2 ain't going nowhere. Hand over the ransom.
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  12971.  @shadowbanned636  ditto USA
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  12972.  @u.p.1038  what makes you think the Wagners are trying to take Bakhmut? Which side is suffering heavier casualties? Which side is suffering the greatest emotional loss? Russia, kissing goodbye to its convicts and mercenaries, or Ukraine, kissing good bye to its teenage cannon fodder from Lvov?
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  12973. we have seen that Ukraine's and NATO's air defences can't prevent Russia taking down the nation's power grid. another NATO failure. only a fool would believe Ukraine's numbers on Russian missiles shot down.
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  12974. Britainistan's daughters were not gang raped by Putin's men. The real enemy is already within and claiming victory after victory.
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  12975. "heavy losses on both sides, but particularly the Russian side". wishful thinking. many sources saying the kill rate in Bakhmut is 8:1 in Russia's favor, and Ukrainians themselves admit the rate of shelling is 6:1 in Russia's favor. BBC, as usual, way off the truth.
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  12976. as usual, wrong way round. you are mixing up cause and effect. high interest rates act to reduce spending and therefore reduce the effects of inflation. fewer people want to, or can, pay more for mortgages etc. rents are sky rocketing because demand is sky rocketing, due to mass immigration. you are clueless about cause and effect.
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  12977. just so funny how the West's arrogant assumption that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy and isolate Russia. Russia has phenomenal support across the globe and it's the West that is being laughed at from Niamey to North Korea. And Europe is STILL importing massive amounts of Russian energy! What a bunch of clowns Western leaders are.
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  12978. "losing men at quite a high rate" this fool has absolutely no data and no idea how many men Russia has lost, nor how many they have trained and ready to fight. Like the rest of us, he is ignorant, but pretends he knows something. talking about the massively underwhelming rust bucket tanks on the way from NATO is just a joke. Martin has fooled only himself about Ukronazi chances to win this.
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  12979. mass immigration, paying people to stay home and not work, massive government debt, throwing money at failed Green policies, sanctions on Russia, unlimited aid to Ukraine, Labour approved of it all, so stop blaming the Tories as the only ones who advocated the country's road to ruin.
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  12980.  @kelvinlewis4065  I've experienced the US system and the UK system, and for all its faults, the US system leaves the NHS in the dark. Masses of immigration = failing NHS. simple as that.
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  12981. these two clowns show why Russia and Iran are winning and laughing. Both Cruz and Blinken still think USA can do something to restrict Iranian/Russian cooperation.
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  12982. if you look really carefully, you can see the strings working the reporters movements and an SBU ventriloquist speaking the words. ignore the fact that the ukronazi flanking maneuver stalled 3 days ago to the west of Klysheevka, gotta keep lying because the truth would just be too demoralizing to bear for NATO.
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  12983. China has so much gas and oil? and India? and Pakistan? and Turkey? and South Africa? and Brazil? China is MORE than happy to do business with Russia. And Russia doesn't rely on China....with all the Russian energy still being bought by the West. Russia still has plenty of customers!
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  12984.  @katealeksen4168  "won't we", not "aren't we" history is made of people seeing far ahead and of others not seeing far ahead? makes no sense. history is made up of all the things that happened in the past. looks like you are not so bright.
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  12985.  @downshift4503  what came first, the chicken or the egg? way before there was money, in barter societies, the authority would take something of value and then use that to "spend" on the tribe. the notion of taxation and spending predates the government/BOE! The cycle of taxation and spending is as old as mankind. and it is a cycle. spending is done based on tax revenues in house and what can be borrowed.
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  12986.  @downshift4503  a bank deposit is just an iou, so, yes, banks do lend out based on the iou's they have on hand.
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  12987.  @downshift4503  Of course a bank doesn't lend out its existing liabilities, but the new ones it creates are based most solidly on the the deposits it has on record! you name the bank that totally ignores the deposits it has on record when deciding how and when to loan out! Banks most certainly are intermediaries, in the sense that they are always weighing up what is coming in, in the form of deposits, and what can therefore be loaned out. you talk as if there is no regulation of the banking industry whatsoever!
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  12988.  @downshift4503  who mentioned the scale of barter economies? rather strange you suddenly decide the debate must rest on the existence of only large scale barter economies! We are talking about what came first in the mists of time, when barter economies were all small scale! We are talking history, not present day, to understand how the tax and spend cycle got started.
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  12989.  @downshift4503  This is where you are mistaken! The money story does indeed start with barter. Money is merely a means to exchange goods and services. Barter is also a means to exchange goods and services. There is zero historical evidence to disprove my assertion of fact as mentioned above. Given you have fallen at the first hurdle, to grasp what money is, then it makes perfect sense that the rest of what you say makes no sense at all. All of your "evidence" is based on a false assumption of the nature of money.
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  12990.  @downshift4503  we agreed that banks do not lend out existing deposits. not sure why you had to repeat what we already agree on (not sure your reading comprehension skills are great!). A bank does not create deposits when it creates loans. It creates future deposits when it creates a loan. I am not redefining anything. I am holding you to very close account to the meaning of the words you use. Let me restate. A bank very much acts as an intermediary when it determines how much it can loan based on what it has on hand in the form of deposits. You can blabber on as much as you like about the BoE. That's not what we were debating. We were debating whether spending by any given authority, or taxation by any given authority, comes first. The BoE is not part of that debate.
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  12991.  @downshift4503  As I said, your obsession with the BoE is irrelevant. We are talking globally, about what came first, taxation or spending. It was taxation. The origin of £10 notes is irrelevant. The question we are debating is whether £10 notes are created based on tax revenues received, or not. The amount of £10 notes created is very carefully tied to revenues from taxation in house. If it weren't, an infinite number of £10 notes would and could be created.
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  12992.  @downshift4503  Really curious about your obsession with what the BoE states. Do you take BoE publications as some kind of Gospel?
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  12993.  @downshift4503  in a barter system, everyone has something that can be considered as a tax contribution. the feudal barren ain't gonna improve the town's defences out of his own pocket first and then hope to be reimbursed by donations from his vassals the following year! The feudal barren is going to demand eggs, poultry, crops, labour, first, and then later turn his attention to devoting what resources might be needed to building the city wall. everyone can pay a tax when they have any good that is accepted as payment.
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  12994.  @downshift4503  Like you, David Graeber is very confused about exactly what money is and how it works. Both of you assume an a priori starting point for the function of money and disregard transactions in barter economies. Once both of you have grasped the true nature of taxation and spending then the world will make a lot more sense to you. I'm still awaiting your answer on why an infinite number of £10 notes aren't created if spending is not dependent at all on tax revenues in house.
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  12995.  @downshift4503  "why should there be infinite £10 notes if the government creates its own money?" because the government is elected to serve the people, and the people would surely love to have a continuous stream of cash handed over to them. it would guarantee the government get re-elected. that's why it would be a great idea, IF spending is not dependent on tax revenues in house. you see, you can't answer the question, because the truth contradicts your warped theory. the government is limited in how much money it creates by its tax revenues in house. if your theory was right, (that spending comes first), then why not just spend infinitely and immediately?
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  12996.  @downshift4503  I have offered evidence. I told you, that in the first days of barter, something had to be given up before anything was received from on high, from any authority. you need to read some history. you have already demonstrated that you don't understand the nature of money. I had to give you the definition and show that barter also acts as money, as it is a means of exchanging goods and services. now, if you decide to ignore my evidence, that's your choice. But the fact remains, taxation comes before spending, it always has, and spending cannot happen without reference to revenues in house from past taxation. you need to re-think everything from scratch, just as those followers of Newton had to do when Einstein clarified some basic laws of the universe.
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  12997.  @downshift4503  but let's leave the argument there, as your knowledge of history seems to lack how goods and services were initially exchanged and how your definition of money is so different from mine. just be aware that going around spouting "spending comes before taxation" is nonsense and will be called out by many of us who know differently.
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  12998.  @downshift4503  oh come on! you need me to do your homework for you? use any search engine to learn about what barter is and its history! it's common sense! stone age man would have had possessions, goods and services that could be donated to the tribal elders who then would share out, according to their spending decisions, as appropriate to the rest of the tribe. I'm amazed you need someone to tell you this and to introduce you to the idea of a search engine and the notion of research! Are you 12 years old?
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  12999.  @downshift4503  honestly, if you can't accept that barter societies once existed, then I can't help you. you need to read some history. now, this one will blow your mind....the government is not the ONLY supplier of currency! If you give me £10 for a Spanish lesson, I, the taxpayer, got £10 from a source other than government! i know, amazing isn't it? sounds like you live in N Korea, where society is 100% government and society can't operate on a private basis!
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  13000. nope, just like the sanctions that were supposed to cripple Russia ended up crippling the EU, game over EU!
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  13001.  @starvictory7079  who is "we"?
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  13002. Putin is perfectly sane and is determined to avenge the butchering of ethnic Russians in the Donbass for 8 years. and he is right to do so. If you had any idea how the Donbass has suffered under Poroshenko and Zelensky, you would be backing Putin too.
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  13003. No, stop lying. the Russian invasion of Ukraine was nothing to do with forcing anyone into Russia's sphere of influence, but to implement the Minsk Agreements and to stop the Azov Nazis shelling Donbass.
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  13004. tis but a flesh wound
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  13005. Good to see Britain's Sharia police enforcing the laws of the Caliphate. It takes a lot of time and effort to look the other way at Pakistani rape gangs and calls for jihad on the streets of England.
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  13006. could be that Trump gains more votes with a conviction than he loses. gotta be about 5% of the independents that would love to vote for a convicted felon for president for the hell of it, to create history.
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  13007. at the current rate of "progress", Ukraine will reach the Sea of Azov in 16 years, and will have no more fighting age men. that's great progress.
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  13008.  @bearsagainstevil  he supports the Russians because he knows their cause is just, not because his house ended up destroyed because of the war. Many Germans lost their houses at the end of WW2, but they blamed Hitler, not the Allies.
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  13009. "Russia's full-scale invasion" Good to know GBNews is on the MSM bandwagon in switching to "full-scale Russian invasion" and ditching "Russia's unprovoked invasion". I guess the Big Brother pulling the strings discovered that the invasion was, indeed, provoked!
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  13010. as usual, France 24 accepting the dodgy fake template on Telegram as a genuine ISIS claim of responsibility. such a typical ISIS attack, no "Allahu Akhbar", no martyrdoms, everyone sticks together and flees for Ukraine, one of them is an ex Ukrainian soldier, it's from the ISIS playbook, obviously
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  13011.  @chrisbrown4002  only makes a difference if it can kill or wound enough Russians to turn the tide. It can't. so it just means prolonging the war and increasing the killed, crippled and captured on both sides. congratulations.
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  13012. yep, and Russia will prevail, as always, with this method of war by attrition. The West is too weak and too dumb to know how to confront it.
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  13013. the same benefit Ukraine would get from shelling the nuclear power plant it would get from destroying the Kakhovka Dam,,,but it does it anyway.
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  13014. Lord Smugface, grain shipments have ceased because Ukraine refuses to demine its coast. Ukraine doesn't trust Russia to allow shipments to flow AND to then not attack a demined Ukrainian coast. There is no blockade. Ukraine has a choice: if it wants to save starving Africans, it must trust Russia not to attack its coast and demine ports like Odessa. If it doesn't trust Russia, then it must be honest, and say the coast will not be demined and Africa can go starve to death. Just be honest.
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  13015. "attempts to paint him and his father as corrupt have so far been unsuccessful" on the contrary. all the payments received from Kazakhstan, Russia, China, Ukraine for services that remain unexplained, plus all the shell companies and laundered money portray a family mired in corruption. The Bidens are going down.
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  13016.  @amc3463  that is correct, with 39 of them destroyed by Russia or inoperative
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  13017.  @alhambrabiker1476  who would want to take Kiev? certainly not Russia. sounds like you have been brain washed
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  13018.  @dylanvogler2165  just like Biden's electoral "victory" in 2020, but a lot fairer than the coup d'etat that threw Ukrainian democracy out the window in 2014
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  13019. Right, just because China has forces in Tibet, doesn't mean Tibet is Chinese territory. The war for Tibet is not over by a long shot!
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  13020.  @alhambrabiker1476  or maybe I have actually lived and worked in Ukraine and have insights others don't have. when were you last working in Ukraine?
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  13021.  @alhambrabiker1476  nah, just an answer or two that makes some sense.
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  13022. JRM needs to start thinking. The Russian economy is not growing DESPITE the sanctions and the war. It is growing BECAUSE of the sanctions and the war. Western leaders were way too arrogant thinking they could take on Russia.
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  13023. whenever a trans person is a victim of crime, the trans bit is repeated over and over and over again. whenever a trans person commits a crime, watch the word "trans" disappear like magic.
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  13024. There is no crime here, and the only way Trump gets convicted is if both judge and jury decide against Trump because they don't like Trump. All the evidence pointed to no crime committed.
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  13025. Russia is merely acting upon the wishes of Ukraine and the Greens. Zelensky and the Climate Change nutters want Germany to stop importing Russian gas. Russia is helping Ukraine and all Greens with that aim, so everyone is happy:)
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  13026. Best leader in the world. Stands up for ethnic Russians wherever they may be. Will single-handedly bring the multi-polar world to reality
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  13027.  @mariannabatz9733  fortunately, your opinion is based on lying Western media reports, the same ones that said 12 months ago that Russia was running out of weapons, thus your opinion is worthless.
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  13028.  @burns281981  do dumb obese Americans honestly think that Russia is not the number one grain exporter in the world?
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  13029. "Institute for the Study of War is an independent think tank in Wsahington" more lies. look at who sponsors the ISW and who its paymasters are! does that look "independent" to you?
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  13030. How did the public react when you showed them the Azov Nazis shelling Donbass for 8 years? Oh, you chose not to show them that? And your phone died when you showed them the Alley of Angels? oh. so it was very one sided, what you showed, right?
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  13031. I agree with you. I will NEVER accept Ukraine stealing Donbass from Russia, nor USA stealing Alaska from Russia, nor UK stealing Channel Islands from France, nor Spain stealing Ceuta from Morocco, EVER EVER EVER!
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  13032. Zelensky joins Napoleon and Hitler on the list of those who, foolishly, thought that a protracted ground war against Russia is a really great idea. Astounding how many people thought this could have turned out any other way. Let the finger pointing in the West begin.
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  13033.  @Pat20247  given that you are incapable of rebutting the points made, clearly NOT propaganda, but an uncomfortable truth for you to deal with.
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  13034.  @Luke_05  Tunisia got fed up of so many Sub Saharans invading Tunisia en route to the streets paved with gold (Europe). So the Tunisian leader has ordered the Sub Saharans to get out, hence the suggestion that this massive invasion of Lampedusa is connected with that decision. But as Maréchal pointed out, these migrants left their homelands long before Tunisia made any decisions on who should be in Tunisia. It's Europe's generosity/stupidity that is attracting so many invaders.
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  13035.  @BethanyLloyd-h6t  it's a certainty. Mayors in the Canaries don't get rich from the mayoral salary!
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  13036. Police scared of the mob. Same as we saw in allowing the Pakistani rape gangs to rule in Rotherham.
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  13037. MSM are assuming the meeting with Iranians is all about drones. Let's play along and assume it indeed is. Iran is not exactly a third rated power when it comes to military forces....Iran is having much greater success in Yemen than NATO did abandoning Afghanistan. And given that Turkey supplies drones to Ukraine, it would seem that these "third rated countries" (oh such a superior Western disdainful and old world view of global power, your mocking attitude explains why the globe generally is running away from Western hegemony) produce useful drones. Not much to the story at all.
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  13038.  @terjeoseberg990  ALL? are you prone to a little exaggeration? Or are you 100% sure that 100% of Russia's weapons depots have been "exploded"? Maybe you have been swallowing a little too much Ukrainian propaganda?
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  13039.  @terjeoseberg990  They didn't what? Who's "they"? Are you referring to Russians needing drones? Russia has a lot more territory to monitor since February, so it needs more of everything, and it will get more of everything (unlike Ukraine and its useless "out of supplies" NATO).
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  13040.  @ghazanfaryaq6776  Given NATO's PATHETIC disaster of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, do you really think Putin is wringing his hands in angst over the puny Finland and soft Swedes joining NATO? If it came to a street battle with the Chechens, the Swedes and Finns would be eaten for breakfast!
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  13041. there are various verses in the Bible that condemn homosexuality, so the British legal system has to choose if Christian preachers prevail over the LGBT crew or not. If Biblical verses are now considered as "hate" speech, then Christian preaching is done and dusted.
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  13042. Donald Trump was generous when he said "Haiti is a sh**hole" it's much worse than that. Part of the problem is Liberal media refusing to explain why.
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  13043.  @phpn99  too cold there, but Russian society is far superior to anything in the West.
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  13044.  @ehawolczecki8759  my moving to Russia wouldn't stop me giving you the truth and showing you up for the ignoramus you are, would it?
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  13045.  @Duke19073  Zelensky troll alert!
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  13046. the funny thing about the Zelensky lovers is that they still think Zelensky was wise to believe NATO promises that NATO could deliver victory to Ukraine! Bankrupt, 8 million refugees, double that number displaced in the country, power rationed, hundreds of thousands of its soldiers killed, crippled or captured, and Russia slowly eliminating every Ukrainian fighter, yet brainwashed Westerners still think Zelensky was wise to think NATO can deliver victory for Ukraine. Oh boy, this is going to be one big awakening for the West. You would have thought that the Kabul disaster would have taught everyone what a limp bunch of snowflakes NATO forces are.
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  13047. @FirstOrigamiUnicorn yep, the BBC certainly is "constipated", to use your term
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  13048.  @phpn99  if Russia had the weather of the Algarve, I would be happy to live in Russia, given the woke mess the West has become.
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  13049.  @ehawolczecki8759  move to Ukraine, better idea
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  13050. @FirstOrigamiUnicorn I call Putin and his generals great teachers, because they are giving the West one hell of a lesson on how to win a war of attrition while growing an economy at the same time. What do you call Biden, Sunak and co? Brilliant visionaries who calculated perfectly how to ruin Ukraine and boost Russia's standing in the world?
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  13051. you only get a tiny slice of the cake, honey, because no one really cares about female sports.
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  13052.  @sabinereynaudsf  he may have been a spy for many years too. Why go to Yekatarinburg and snoop around the armaments factories there? how do you know he was given anything? I am curious to know why people assume he is innocent instead of having an open mind.
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  13053.  @theepashmani6474  exactly. as an American just showing up in such a place is putting yourself under suspicion.
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  13054.  @timbow614  they were certainly foisted on me when I lived and worked there, so no lectures from you please on how my life was changed while in Ukraine!
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  13055. Putin will achieve all 5 of his objectives. Putin never has had, and will never have, any grand designs on challenging NATO. The greatest danger is that nationalistic chihuahuas like Latvia will go the Zelensky route and push the limiting of use of Russian in their Russian speaking communities, at which point, Putin will be tempted to intervene, as he did in Transnistria, Georgia and now Ukraine.
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  13056. the usual arsonists at work in Greece.
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  13057.  @stephendoherty981  conspicuous by its absence, anything of substance to refute what I said. the usual silence from Hamas lovers when it comes to evidence. so, let's dig a little deeper into Stephen Doherty's microscopic mind. Stephen, how many hospitals in the world, would you say, have a network of underground tunnels used for storage of military equipment?
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  13058.  @peterang6912  how? by using the Rafah crossing with Egypt to allow all essentials in. oh, wait, are you saying that BOTH the Egyptians AND Israelis want nothing to do with the Gazans? Now, why would both Egypt and Israel see eye to eye on that one, I wonder? any answers?
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  13059.  @peterang6912  How can Israel have any say in a border between Egypt and Gaza? You are deluded and ignorant. If both Egypt and Hamas wanted to open the border at Rafah, of course they could. I'm curious though, tell me, what other borders that do NOT touch Israel do the Israelis control? Does Israel control the Jordanian/Iraqi border? The Finnish/Russian border? The Brazilian/Argentinian border? You are just hilarious.
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  13060. "riots are the voice of the unheard" Martin Luther King
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  13061. at least from now on, when all those Dems rail about how the rich need to pay their fair share in taxes, we can all shout out "yeah, like Hunter Biden!"
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  13062. end immigration and things will start to get better. initiate deportations and things will get a lot better.
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  13063. oh boy, you really have joined the sheeple lapping up the myth of Russia's condition!
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  13064. only one other brilliant and insightful world leader could command so many clapping seals, Greta Thunberg.
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  13065. reality check...NATO is powerless to prevent Russian missile attacks anywhere in Ukraine. Until that issue is solved, and NATO has no solution, sending more tanks (that Russia just destroys anyway) is a distraction. it changes nothing.
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  13066. Russian and Chinese vessels are not attacked in the Red Sea. Maybe the sanctions on Russia are the root cause of Houthi attacks.
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  13067. it's people like this jew-hater that make those not involved in the conflict side with Israel, every time.
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  13068. 80% of the Palestinian mandate is Jordan! Time for the Hashemites to get out, stop being occupiers and free Palestine.
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  13069. what's troubling and worrying is people like Nigel Farage had the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with Tommy Robinson, but they refused to do so.
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  13070.  @peabase  Ukraine doesn't have enough of anything. wake up! it is total madness to fight a war against Russia. at what point will you grasp reality?
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  13071.  @arlokino  the ukronazis and their deluded supporters won't ever believe such information! Remember, they are brain-washed into thinking all Western weapons are superior.
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  13072. Chapman is a lying propagandist. Russia is destroying Ukraine's counter offensive. Ukraine can't even get beyond the security zone. Russians on the FIRST line of defence are twiddling their fingers waiting for THEIR target practice. The Russian forward positions are annihilating Ukrainian cannon fodder. Zero Russian helicopters shot down, total air and artillery superiority, but we must keep trumpeting the 7 abandoned villages, won. Ignore the 7000 dead Ukrainians dead in the winning of 7 villages and a pig farm. NATO is pathetic.
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  13073. it's not a solution, it's part of the problem. the more you feed the parasites, the more parasites you will get. note the repetition of the word "free"..."free food", "free Christmas Dinner". nothing is free, so unless you tackle the true nature of poverty, you will just get more of it.
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  13074. Love the patriotism and fighting spirit of the Donbass Russians, both DPR and LPR. Would be awesome if we cared when other countries are subjected to wars of aggression, as the Donbass has been for 8 years at the hands of aggressor Ukraine.
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  13075.  @marissaadraincem1239  Donbass Russians are both rebels and separatists financed by Russia. DPR and LPR are fighting to be free of Ukraine, so what would you expect? They do think like Russians and will stay where they are now and will be liberated from Ukraine's dictatorship, no need to go anywhere. Do you tell the Catalans that if they are in Spain they should act and live like Spaniards? Just try that line next time you are in Girona. In Rome act like a Roman? Right, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Donetsk, do as the Donetsk folk do...which is SPEAK RUSSIAN! NOT UKRAINIAN!
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  13076.  @callspreadzero854  On the subject of Putin's narrative about Ukrainian Nazis. please tell me your personal experience of life in Ukraine and what you experienced while you were there, especially regarding Right Sektor, Azov and Aidar. Then I will tell you mine. Go ahead, tell me all about your life when in Ukraine.
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  13077.  @callspreadzero854  Is Scotland a country?
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  13078.  @marissaadraincem1239  No one is asking Ukrainians to surrender. Those who wish to be Ukrainians can do so and live in Ukraine. Those who want to be Russian citizens can do so and live in Russia. It is just a discussion of where the new border is. Anywhere that has a Muslim majority should allowed to be liberated and free of Western control, of course. If Western countries are dumb enough to allow mass immigration from Muslim countries, what do they expect?
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  13079.  @marissaadraincem1239  Ukraine is NOT defending "its" territories! Just as Philippines wanted to be independent of Spain, US and Japan, so Donbass wants to be free of Ukraine. Why do you want to deny the Donbass their independence, but keep your independence? Sounds very hypocritical.
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  13080.  @ThePedroski007  No, the Donbass isn't another country, Peter. It's another TWO countries, the LPR and the DPR, with historical ties and cultural and ethnic connections MUCH closer to Russia than to Ukraine. Thankfully, finally, that reality has brought liberation from Ukraine to those two countries. Peter, is Scotland a country? Peter, is Catalonia a country? Peter, is Kosovo a country? Or is Scotland in Great Britain? Is Catalonia in Spain? Is Kosovo in Serbia? Anyone who has ever been to Ukraine (have you?) will tell you Crimea is the LEAST Ukrainian place on this planet! It Is Russian through and through. The Crimean War, Peter, was fought by Russia, or fought by Ukraine? hmmm
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  13081.  @gilh3947  Oh, I see, so, once a border is agreed upon, a border can never change, is that right? That is your argument? Once a border is agreed upon, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS SUBSEQUENTLY, said borders can NEVER be changed, right? That, Gil, is your argument?
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  13082.  @RobinClaassen  Robin, ever spoken to any Donbass Russians, face to face, person to person, chatted in Russian with any of them, have you? Yes or no?
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  13083.  @istvanglock7445  Wasn't me who chose to introduce Philippines into the discussion. you need to re read the thread. On which opinion polls do you base your bold assertion that the majority of people living in Chechnya want complete independence from the Russian Federation?
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  13084.  @KileyLagan  Ukraine hasn't EXISTED for centuries! Learn some history! Who fought in the Crimean War, Russia or Ukraine?
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  13085.  @gilh3947  you failed to answer my question! I take it you couldn't answer the question. I'll give you another chance, oh shallow thinking one. Once borders are agreed upon, does that mean said borders can NEVER be altered ever again, yes or no? it is a yes or no question, Gill. What say you? I say, "yes", they can be subsequently altered, that "yes", they are altered all the time, and that in the Donbass, following the 2014 coup d'etat, Donbass Russians had every right to demand they remain part of a democracy. What say you?
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  13086.  @gilh3947  is the singular act of violence you are referring to the 8 years of incessant shelling by the Azov Nazis that you support? That singular act of violence?
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  13087.  @ThePedroski007  So if Scotland is part of the UK, it has no right to demand independence, right? You can't have it both ways, Peter. If Scotland has a right to demand independence from the UK, then Donbass (LPR and DPR) have a right to demand independence from Ukraine, agreed? yes or no? And Kosovo has a right to demand independence from Serbia, right?
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  13088.  @ThePedroski007  Now you make MY point for me! HOW can we POSSIBLY take Ukraine's claim to be a real country when, as YOU point out, Lithuania, Poland AND Russia have ALL been overlords of this oh so recent republic. it's absurd. Peter, the Crimean War...was Britain fighting Ukraine or Russia over Crimea?
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  13089.  @ThePedroski007  Peter, only ONE country recognizes Northern Cyprus. JUST ONE! Do you get all worked up by that fact or not? THREE countries (300% more than those who recognize Northern Cyprus) recognize the DPR and LPR. So if global recognition is an issue for you, Peter, you have MANY more places to wring your hands over beyond DPR and LPR. And. no, I won't be asking the UN about anything. they are a useless bunch of hypocritical gas bags who have no grasp of reality. Ever spoken face to face with a Donbass Russian, in Russian, have you Peter?
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  13090.  @ThePedroski007  My experiences of talking with Donbass Russians, and having taught a few of them, is that they deserve independence FAR more than many of the other separatists "nations" in Europe. You should be backing them, not condemning them to be tortured and abused in the fanatical Ukrainianization of that part of the world that happened under Poroshenko and Zelensky. You backin the wrong horse.
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  13091.  @marissaadraincem1239  originally from UK, living in France, but I have worked all over the world. No, we have Armed Forces to defend us against outside aggression, not from separatists. Separatists are citizens who have a right to express themselves and follow their chosen path as debated and agreed upon by the powers over them. Donbass is a place that deserves independence, just like Philippines deserved independence. That is why you should be on the side of the DPR and the LPR, against the monster bully Ukraine, that keeps massacring and forcing its own citizens to obey Ukrainianization. You are on the wrong side of this argument! If you defend your territory, as the Donbass is doing, and you defend it for GOOD reasons, then you should receive international support. It is a shame the Philippines has decided to side with the bully, the Ukrainians.
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  13092.  @aguynamedscott11  Is Scotland not a country and just a region of Gt Britain? Is Kosovo not a country and just a region of Serbia? Is Catalonia not a country and just a region of Spain? Get ready for some hostile reactions when you announce your "you are all just regions of a mother country" theory to folks in Glasgow, Girona and Pristina! And Donbass.
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  13093.  @aguynamedscott11  right. it's 2 countries. DPR and LPR.
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  13094.  @aguynamedscott11  it never did
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  13095.  @marissaadraincem1239  do you believe there have been ANY separatists/rebels in human history who were justified in taking up armed struggle?
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  13096.  @gilh3947  go ahead and quote, word for word, what international law actually states about a separatist state receiving outside help in its bid for independence, and once you have done that, explain why you are so in favor of Kosovo being independent and why your support for Kosovo is contradicted by your refusal to deny Donbass the same support.
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  13097.  @marissaadraincem1239  yeah? so who is king of the Kingdom of Scotland?
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  13098.  @davidjones3712  that's right, it takes so long to say "oh Jesus, look, the graph shows a mega movement right where that dam broke, but you know, let's discuss it over tea and biscuits for 3 days"
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  13099.  @ari1234a  you know, when there is an earthquake, the reading on the Richter scale is announced minutes afterwards, and the location of the quake, the epicenter, all announced on the next news bulletin, within minutes, a few hours at the max. why 3 days of delay in this case?
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  13100.  @ashleylittle6776  i am using logic and an alternative perspective. fascinating how you panic in trying to deal with such assertions. not pleasant, is it, when your indoctrinated mind has to deal with an uncomfortable alternative? cope as best you can, child.
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  13101.  @damianeadie510  my goal is to make people like you think about the reporting you so willingly digest, in the hope you will question every word of it. job done, I would say. I am suspicious about a 3 day delay in announcing something observed immediately. and you should be too.
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  13102. finally, the sheep of the West get to hear the truth, that power stations are indeed a military target, given that Ukrainian troops and munitions are moved around by electrified rail systems, and that NATO took out civilian infrastructure in Serbia with relish, that Africa supports Russia, because Africans know that Western sanctions on Russian grain and fertilizers are forcing Africans to starve, not fictitious Russian blockades in the Black Sea. Great job, ambassador. Now we understand why RT is banned from the West. The West is s**t scared the sheep will hear some truth.
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  13103.  @jameswright...  The Allies had every right to enter Germany and fight in 1944, and Russia has every right to fight in Ukraine, just as NATO had every right to bomb Libya and Serbia. Stop being so blindly hypocritical and Russophobic.
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  13104.  @jameswright...  The West is democratic? that must be why the West bans RT from being broadcast in the West, because the West so values free speech!?
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  13105.  @jameswright...  if NATO has the right to bomb sovereign Libya, and the right to bomb sovereign Serbia, and the right to invade sovereign Afghanistan, then Russia has the right to invade Ukraine. Russia is just copying the West's playbook and copying the "rules based system", right?:)
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  13106.  @jameswright...  Remember when the Cubans thought they can put weapons anywhere they like on their soil? Tell me, what was the West's response?:) Russia just copying the "rules based system" of the West.
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  13107.  @jameswright...  so, this is very simple. If Cuba had no right to have nukes on its soil in 1963, as declared by USA, then Ukraine has no right to have nukes on its soil in 2022, as declared by Russia. get it?
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  13108.  @deelicious8819  the same stories are the true ones. only fools thought a land war with Russia was a good idea, that the Russian economy would collapse, that Russia would be isolated, that NATO weapons would win the day. Guess you are one of those fools? Should've listened to the likes of me from Day One instead of embarrassing yourself.
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  13109. it's just wonderful to see the dumb, arrogant West learning how Russia, Iran and North Korea can so easily out produce all of NATO. Big chunks of humble pie being eaten in Brussels these days:)
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  13110.  @deelicious8819  it's also weird how so many real "Smiths" have nothing to do with Russia, use their real name (as opposed to a coward like "deelicious" who has to hide behind a fake name) and support Russia in the conflict with Zelensky's bully boys in Kiev. but I guess it is just inconceivable that a real Smith, born and bred in the UK, would support Putin, right? Just doesn't compute with your narrow-minded narrative. sigh.
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  13111. I think you were high when you heard Putin's voice DEMAND a NATO pull back from all Eastern Europe! What did he threaten if NATO refused?
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  13112.  @thegreatujo  and Russia sees every one of them waiting at the border, in the crosshairs
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  13113. so the West fully supports the 2014 coup that ousted the democratically elected president, but denounces the referendum to choose who rules in Donbass. I think we get what "Western values" really means
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  13114.  @RovexHD 
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  13115.  @RovexHD  but of what relevance is the Hungary/Croatia border when the Serbia/Hungary border is a solid wall/fence? Why not cross from Serbia to Croatia instead of camping out by the Hungarian border?
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  13116. They are all economic migrants. They all came from France, where they were perfectly safe.
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  13117. It's Biden getting cold feet. His handlers told him the sanctions failed and Russia is not running out of men or weapons or ammo, but Ukraine and NATO are. Putin holds all the cards. No deal yet, let the West squirm a lot more before any talks.
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  13118.  @LeftAndProud  like you can read the heart of another person
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  13119. Owens did indeed reveal her ignorance about the Israel situation with her mindless blabbing about certain ethnicities being forced to live in certain areas. She is way out of her depth on the Middle East.
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  13120. funny the Tories are focusing on marginal constituencies. those seats are already lost. Tories need to figure out how they become the second largest party after the next election.
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  13121. "fixed the Russians there for 6 months" so, well worth losing tens of thousands of men, ammo and weaponry, just to fix the convicts and mercenaries there, and then lose Bakhmut to them.
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  13122. fiddling while Rome burns. I'm sure those soldiers living off a potato a day wondering if they'll be riddled by bullets when they next confront the Chechen will be REALLY comforted that footballers perform as "normal". Another hopelessly out of touch decision by the puppet dwarf himself.
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  13123. Unlike Biden, the Russians have no need to rig the Kherson vote. Nearly all the pro Zelensky crowd already left, and the few that remain will get the opportunity to go right up til election day. Foregone conclusion that those who choose to remain in Russian occupied will NOT choose to return to Ukraine.
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  13124.  @CaptainChaooooos  step in and do what?
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  13125.  @CaptainChaooooos  1) forces...the first body bags of dead NATO servicemen flown home, for defending bloody Ukraine. will cause such outcry that it won't last long.2) weaponry..NATO already tapped out. its current supplies to Ukraine are down to a trickle, and procurements (ordering) are now happening. Russia has demilitarized NATO 3) political pressure...we have had 9 months of political pressure and it has achieved nothing. The game is up. NATO gambled its supplies would help Ukraine win, and it hasn't. Just a matter of time before Ukraine has to settle for negotiations.
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  13126. Britainistan's Sharia police doing a fine job, aa always. Totally explains how Rochdale and Rotherham all happened.
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  13127. notice how any theory that runs against the prevailing narrative is necessarily labelled a "conspiracy theory". Tommy speaks the truth, not conspiracies
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  13128.  @Bandonian93  who is?
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  13129. Zelensky delighted the UK has helped create 8 million refugees, helped bankrupt Ukraine and continues to train cannon fodder to be wiped out by the Wagners daily.
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  13130. It's the Zelensky curse...every leader of a major power that thought the sanctions against Putin were such a good idea, gone. Johnson and Draghi gone, Biden brain dead, Scholtz tottering with a very unpopular fragile coalition, Macron with an Assembly that sees his party in the minority..Putin wins.
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  13131. 3% GDP spent on defence won't help when the PM doesn't even know what a woman is and all the talk is of electric tanks.
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  13132. It wasn't Andrew Tate or Tommy Robinson who said it was a really good idea to let in millions of unwanted and uninvited immigrants.
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  13133. Whoever approved of the laws that permit such scum to be in Australia needs to be charged with treason
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  13134. why is speed of delivery critical? Russia is on the back foot! Sanctions are working! Russia is running out of missiles! Russian morale is rock bottom! Why the hurry when Ukraine is clearly winning?
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  13135. Trump doesn't need to campaign. All the court cases are gaining him voters that no amount of rallies would ever get.
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  13136.  @DriveInFreak  we'll see
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  13137. "all out war"...oh honey, if and when Putin declares war, you will see what real war is. negotiate a way out of this military operation while you still can.
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  13138. Finally, we get to see if NATO has balls and will retaliate for an attack on a member state. If it doesn't, bang goes faith in Article 5 and the dog just barks but won't bite.
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  13139. notice how Alexander COMPLETELY ignores Hamas's refusal to follow the ICJ's insistence on releasing all hostages, and ONLY focuses on Israel's refusal to curtail its aggression to find and liberate its hostages!
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  13140. First time I've seen the video of all the other players joking around and chanting "beso, beso" evidence there that the team felt it was all good fun. Not a lot of outrage to be seen anywhere. I guess the outrage came later when the woke police informed all the gals they should be outraged and not joking.
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  13141. who is lying? NATO said Ukraine had everything it needed for a successful counter offensive. Zelensky says a lack of weaponry has stalled the counter offensive. take your pick. one of them is lying, but maybe best to disbelieve anything both NATO and Zelensky say.
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  13142.  @seanchaney3086  they never ever detail any "crime" committed by Trump. They just shout "put him in jail" such is their frustration that a Populist can gain so much support.
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  13143.  @russwhite8872  sure Benito, or is it Adolf?
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  13144.  @DAL3520  oh yeah, Asia is so corrupt, for sure Trump would face a biased court there
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  13145. heartwarming to see 70,000 Czech citizens take to the streets to blame Europe for failing to solve this problem
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  13146. I guess Aussies feel secure enough that they would survive a nuclear holocaust, so no surprise a NATO v Russia war is advocated by this old buffer.
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  13147. so, the fact that the male boxer is so s**t at boxing that he sometimes loses to a woman is the reason why he should be allowed to keep beating up women?
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  13148. Propagandist Bell is totally missing the point. Biden already admitted that cluster bombs are being sent because the US is so low on regular shells. No one is claiming cluster bombs will create any great advantage for Ukraine. They are being sent because Russia has succeeded in demilitarizing Ukraine AND NATO. This is a desperate panic measure, as Russia knows NATO resolve is waning, Ukraine morale is low, and the kill rate is very much in Russia's favor.
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  13149.  @zed351  the problem is, I do understand exactly what "oxymoron" means, and you don't! Let me educate you. Inherent in an oxymoron is a contradiction. you chose two things that do not contradict each other at all. learn the basics of language.
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  13150. and you would understand that had the Guardia Civil acted effectively in the first 24 hours, they would have been led directly to Jay's body or where Jay toppled over the edge. Lucy is no genius, but she got it right when she mentioned the Guardia Civil didn't seem to be focused on getting dogs on Jay's scent.
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  13151.  @zed351  so, let us now go to the next level and see how a fact is contradicted, or not, by a conspiracy. a conspiracy is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. in what world could a secret plan be a contradiction of a fact? the two are unrelated, and in no way a contradiction! You would say that the Gunpowder Plot and the fact that London is the capital of England is an oxymoron? :) English not your first language I'm guessing? or maybe you are 5 years old?
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  13152.  @janinecaramanus1392  hence the offer of outside help to get into that terrain, gratefully rejected by the Guardia Civil! Why?
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  13153. Day 3 since the discovery of the body, and still no photo of where exactly it was found
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  13154.  @celtictarotreadings333  what evidence could still be there now? some of us think it is possible for the Guardia Civil to take a photo of the precise location where the body was found, and to seal off the area to prevent onlookers. odd that you think such actions are impossible.
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  13155.  @zed351  I am able to read. google "cadaver dogs" and educate yourself. can you read English?
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  13156.  @celtictarotreadings333  I am one of many people who expect honest answers from our public officials. who are you to deny me that?
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  13157.  @celtictarotreadings333  clearly I do know more than the "experts". but let's hear you defend the "experts". what is the benefit of doing a forensic search of the airbnb on day 16 over doing one on day ONE!? cue crickets.
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  13158.  @zed351  a conspiracy is a plot conceived by a group to do some harm to someone. a fact is something that is true. so, given that an oxymoron implies a contradiction, why would a fact, say, London is the capital of England, be some form of contradiction to a plot, like the Gunpowder Plot? you make no sense.
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  13159.  @zed351  wherein lies the contradiction between a fact and a plot? they are two different things entirely.
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  13160.  @celtictarotreadings333  maybe try that again in English?
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  13161.  @celtictarotreadings333  everything i read and see affects my life, and even if it didn't, offering my insights is my prerogative, so, stfu if you can't handle that
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  13162. the usual run and cry to government to enforce a solution, that won't work! let the free market establish the price of property. If only foreigners can afford property in Hawaii, time for Hawaiians to ask what has gone wrong at home, so that locals are too poor to compete with rich foreigners. sounds like Hawaii is in bad shape. Let me guess, a Democrat controlled state?
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  13163.  @anibalfernando3027  yep, UK has some specific problems. ever increasing population, mainly from migration, plus no incentives for landlords to rent accommodation = acute housing shortage. Only 2 solutions. stop the population increase (immigration) or allow massive construction projects to take over the countryside.
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  13164.  @shovonhasan7404  interesting. Putin said "all Ukrainians will die"? would love to see that transcript.
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  13165.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  remember, Lloyd Austin, "the aim is to weaken Russia". it's NATO that doesn't care how much Ukronazi cannon fodder bites the dust, as long as Russia is weakened.
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  13166.  @Lowezar  absolute nonsense. there are 101 reasons why old stock might be used, and 101 reasons why brand new stock might be used. unless you are aware of the whole production and supply process in Russia, and you are not, you would have no idea why old stock, new stock and the middle age stock is being used. so, put your crystal ball down and just be aware that NATO is in panic because Ukraine is burning through its ammo at a rate far higher than NATO can supply. We have been told for nearly a year that Russia is running out, but we simply don't know what Russian stocks look like.
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  13167.  @sebasstein7014  oh, apart from nuclear weapons. those North Korean nukes might be of some importance, right?
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  13168.  @sebasstein7014  it is irrelevant when Russia runs out of anything. what is relevant is if Russia runs out before or after NATO. It's NATO that is in panic, staring into an empty warehouse. not Russia.
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  13169.  @domdole  imagine that, an "orc" army with low morale and just shovels is defeating the NATO-trained Banderites you love for their 3rd Reich views.
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  13170.  @garbancitolentejas486  not sure at all, but an individual who goes off with 2 strangers, either drugs or sex. i mean Jay might be the type to discuss philosophy all through the night with 2 strangers, but I doubt it. Jay has a drugs record, so likely drugs involved, and when Jay suddenly realized he was machete-less, and his 2 new friends were armed, things got out of hand. Am guessing the Tenerife mafia know exactly where to dump a body in that wilderness. just guessing.
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  13171. bit fed up of hearing all this "integration" nonsense. it's even easier than that for imported immigrants. as long as they obey the rules, respect the laws, and contribute to the tax roll, no one really cares beyond that. Chinese, Hindus, Ukrainian refugees, Latinos, none of them go on stabbing sprees, form rape gangs or demand halal meat. It's Muslims and Africans that are the main problems, so we could start ending imports from that demographic group.
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  13172. Not sure how this fool keeps a straight face when he says, "Biden should be trying to keep world leaders on board". The problem is, most world leaders have met Biden, or at least have heard him mumble incoherently or seen him shake hands with his invisible friend. It's Biden that is turning the world AWAY from America. Putin is MUCH more inspiring and convincing than any Western leader.
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  13173.  @nsbd90now  on the contrary. i like a leader who sticks up for his people. When ethnic Russians get attacked, Putin defends their rights. If "pluralistic democracy" is what brought us the bumbling imbecile Biden. there ain't a lot to be said for it!
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  13174. shells still raining down on Kherson? then just fire a load back! oh, forgot, NATO/Ukronazis don't have any left. too bad. but Snake Island is still occupied by Ukraine!
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  13175. great to see the sanctioned states - Russia, Iran, N Korea, Venezuela etc, working together to defeat the West. Good luck to them.
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  13176.  @rationalguy2744  that's right, as opposed to the Liberal elites, who hate the uneducated with a passion.
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  13177.  @flipflopski2951  those who side with the corrupt elite would.
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  13178.  @Spyder6664  "there is nothing incompetent at all" that's right, doing a forensic search of the airbnb on DAY 17 is such competence! Can we expect even more competence and all relevant phone records to be checked on Day 52? Such competence, no evidence that Jay ever ventured down a gorge and into the wilderness, but let's waste 2 weeks looking there anyway! For 2 weeks we had nothing but a missing person's operation. suddenly, with zero progress, it switches to an investigation. 2 weeks too late, but fascinating that you find all this of the highest competency!
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  13179.  @Spyder6664  ok, let's see you go back and do your own forensic check. you show me any report at all, and a forensic team can't enter a villa undetected and unobserved, of a previous check of the villa. cue crickets. there is no evidence that any investigation ever started. again, show me the evidence. within hours, let alone days, there was a mountain of evidence of foul play that was ignored. they threw all their eggs into the one basket of the manhunt, and it failed miserably. explain the rationale of not detaining the 2 mystery men for further questioning and letting them leave the country. cue crickets. give us your prediction...when will the Spanish police release evidence of the relevant phone records? Christmas some time? you are totally ignorant of how investigations are conducted.
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  13180. so, no mention of what Kwazi did that was wrong, just that he has to go! Appalling lack of leadership.
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  13181. No one is feeling the consequences of the war. Everyone is feeling the consequences of the Western sanctions.
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  13182.  @Galopo  how do you calculate the Western block as being the "fittest"?
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  13183. so the dunce of a charlatan who achieved nothing but misery and death in Iraq and Afghanistan is now lecturing us on how brilliantly this war is going for Ukraine!?
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  13184. you should be terrified. With even a hint that such missiles could be Ukrainian, NATO quickly rules out doing anything to defend Poland. The precedent has been set. Missiles land on Poland, killing people, Russia says "not us" and NATO says "ok". Poland is now a sitting duck for this to happen again and again.
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  13185.  @attsealevel  so Russians are now using S 300's?
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  13186. so now the world has got bored of listening to Zelensky demand more money and weapons, Ukraine has switched to Zelenska demanding more money and weapons. What next? In September, the Zelensky kids will do the same thing?
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  13187.  @CMY187  what's working? Ukraine asked for 300 himars, it got 12, already 3 of which have been destroyed and Ukraine continues to lose territory and 300 soldiers a day killed. It's working? I am not against ANY power requesting ANYTHING. Period. I AM against Western governments sending billions in aid to Ukraine when help is desperately needed at home. And I am against Zelenska being the mouthpiece of any policy that results in more and more deaths in "her" country. No one elected her to office. Like Jill Biden going to another country to beg for help for USA. Against it.
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  13188. a black man in Tenerife? for "work" rather than pleasure, I would assume.
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  13189. As Joe Biden said back in July, Russia has already lost this war, so this must surely be the last gasp from a defeated Putin. And, as Ben Wallace said a year ago, Russia is running out of weapons and won't be able to sustain such intense attacks. I'm sure Ukraine is on the verge of victory and Crimea will be liberated very soon. I'm so lucky to have Western media informing me of the truth all the time. Heaven knows what I would think if I had access to RT or Tass.
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  13190.  @JustMe-cs5zq  why do you assume Putin will insist on wiping Ukraine off the map when Putin has never stated that as an aim? If Zelensky DOESN'T talk peace, there is a good chance Ukraine will be wiped off the map because the fighting will go on until Russia has won.
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  13191.  @boholde2757  it's CNN and no one else is highlighting it. I'm curious.....what makes you believe the video is true?
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  13192.  @boholde2757  Not sure why you are so preoccupied with Fox. Is your assumption that I watch Fox or am a Fox fan? CNN is a credible news source? What a joke. So you believe Ghost of Kiev is real? You believe the Russian collusion lies? You believe Jusse Smollett was attacked by MAGA thugs? ha, you are a gullible fool. You didn't answer how the story was verified. How was it verified?
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  13193. seems to be a typical human being then.
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  13194.  @markushayes  Imagine spending your days moronically failing to see all that is Trump is in all other world leaders
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  13195.  @christophercook723  can what?
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  13196.  @christophercook723  If Trump had no idea what Brexit is, then the Left should be rejoicing that Trump becoming president is DEI at its best, where people at the top resemble more the ordinary masses than some kind of elite.
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  13197.  @russwhite8872  Given Putin is the best leader in the world, that is quite a complement! If Trump could defend the American people the way Putin defends the Russians, that would be awesome.
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  13198. yet more evidence that the "integration into the community" policies are working really well, as the Police have been well integrated into the Muslim community.
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  13199. absolutely astounding that it took all of 7 minutes and 36 seconds of this report before Channel 4's much beloved phrase "Far Right" was uttered. Still waiting for Channel 4 to refer to those who support asylum seekers as "Far Left", and I get the feeling I'll have a long wait.
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  13200. oooh, interesting, at 2:15 look at and listen to how he answers the question "so you will go back to the Donbass?"...."We haven't any choice"...with the same facial expression and tone I have about going to work on Monday morning. I'm not convinced.
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  13201. amazing there are any officers enforcing employment/immigration laws given how much online hate crime they have to clamp down on.
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  13202.  @Junior-ws1ur  especially because Russia never says such things. stop believing your own propaganda! Russia has no time plan. Russia took years to achieve its objectives in Chechnya and Syria, and will do the same in Ukraine. lol, still believe in Ghost of Kiev too?
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  13203.  @michaeldunham3385  from now on the rest of the world sees Ukraine as the side that refused a peace offer. China and India etc will draw closer to Russia. Rightly so.
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  13204.  @stevenmartin8828  8 million refugees, Ukraine or Russia? Bankrupt and begging Biden for bailouts, Ukraine or Russia? No reliable power grid, Ukraine or Russia? 100,000 dead soldiers, Ukraine or Russia? 300,000 trained reservists on the border poised for invasion, Ukraine or Russia?
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  13205. such a shame Navalny couldn't be a candidate. at the height of his polling numbers, Navalny might have grabbed 4th place
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  13206. pour les russes, c'est un crime de guerre aussi. comme l'attaque contre le Nordstream.
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  13207. beyond defining what "racism" is, we have to establish what is illegal about voicing an opinion regarding racial superiority. a Chinese student that asserts, correctly, that Chinese students outscore all other races on academic tests, in general, is racist and has broken the law?
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  13208. when will UK wake up to the fact that Russia and China control the world's economy, totally. there is absolutely nothing that the puppy dog UK can do about any spying or whatever. focus on things we can influence, like immigration.
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  13209. so, if he's admitting Jamaicans and Ethiopians have genetic superiority in certain human endeavours , he has accepted that superiority of race and ethnicity does indeed exist. He and the Austrian artist are just one step away from being in full agreement on race.
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  13210.  @thewexican1095  even dumb Brits can see how things are heading for the EU. From 69 billion euro trade surplus to 163 billion trade deficit in one year...unsustainable. Croatia joined the euro just in time to help bail out the currency in 2023
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  13211.  @jungbolosse3034  any soon? what is that in English?
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  13212.  @Lemingtona-x5g  due to the sanctions and the aid + weapons to Ukraine, but yes, getting poorer, and we can expect a lot more to be thrown Ukraine's way in 2023, sanctions to hurt the EU a lot more, and Russia to keep on with its war of attrition that will wear Ukraine down and the EU with it.
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  13213.  @hasse102  Croatia joining the Schengen area, to benefit from all those wonderful migrants that can now flood into Croatia as Croatia has given up control over its own borders! UK decided that rather than have countless hordes of Romanian and Bulgarian thieves and gangsters availing themselves of the EU's "freedom of movement" policy, maybe it was better to control one's own borders. I guess Croatia wants more jihadists of fighting age hanging round the beaches of Dubrovnik.
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  13214.  @hasse102  As an EU member state, Croatia already had freedom of movement. With Schengen it has gained nothing. But it has lost the power to control its own borders.
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  13215.  @jungbolosse3034  "collapsing with laughter any soon" is a phrase from the Jung Bolosse Language School, but it ain't English! How about you write what you meant in your native tongue?
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  13216.  @sergey--24  ah, yes, Sherlock Holmes has deduced that a "joined date Jun 16 2022" = Kremlin Bot. wel, well, well, with powers of deduction like that, it is easy to see why you are so woefully wrong on so many issues! No doubt your same powers of reasoning led you to believe that Western sanctions would cripple the Russian economy, eh Sherlock? oh dear. BTW, did emergency services ever manage to extract your member from so deep inside Bandera's rectum?:)
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  13217. if Fani is so dumb she doesn't know which continent the Bahamas and Belize are in, she's dumb enough to act inappropriately and ruin her precious case against Trump.
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  13218. Gotta laugh at Biden, who hasn't a clue what day of the week it is, lecturing us on what Putin expected and didn't expect. Putin and Lavrov are so far ahead of the curve compared to the slow kids, Biden and Blinken, that it is funny.
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  13219.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  the only "3 day special operation" was the lie concocted by Western media (and looks like you, sucker, swallowed it whole). Russia doesn't have timelines. Russia takes years to eliminate all its enemies, Chechnya took years, Syria took years, Ukraine will take years. Learn the truth.
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  13220.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  proven by the OMON? So the OMON, a Russian police force, proved that they knew what Putin's intentions were? how did they manage to prove that, I wonder? And an "accidentally" published article about Russia's victory also revealed Putin's thoughts! Was it an article in the Guardian or an article in the Daily Mail?:)
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  13221. it counts for nothing. this fool knows NOTHING about the reality of what is happening, hence he has shifted from "Ukraine is winning" to "Ukraine can't win". Russia went into this under NO ASSUMPTIONS. Only the brain-washed sheeple of the West assume they know what the Kremlin assumed. Evidence is that for 8 years Russia has been building up materiel (60,000 missiles a day fired for months on end imply YEARS of prep). Russia has calculated wisely. The West, as they did in Kabul a year ago, caught with their pants down looking pathetic.
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  13222.  Gorilla  in terms of global influence, Russia is massive. why do you think Africa was begging for Russian grain and fertilizer to be NOT sanctioned? Why do you think all the West is now in a mad panic about energy supplies if Russia's influence is "not that big"? NATO's pathetic panic of a disastrous flee from Afghanistan told you all you need to know about how useless NATO has become. Paper Tiger.
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  13223.  Gorilla  2) NO ONE knows the death tolls in this war, so you can dismiss your "estimations". The Kremlin does not release its figures, so stop the guessing, grow up, and just say "we don't know the death toll"
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  13224.  Gorilla  "it's annoying but not a wild thing" well how very selfish to judge the nation's position from your own cushy standpoint. 20% IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Yet 20% is enough to make a difference between profit and loss for many companies. How cruel of you to not consider their plight. 20% is enough to be the difference between alive or frozen to death for a poor pensioner in Dresden, for example, this winter. but hey, as long as you are just "slightly annoyed", who cares about the others, right?
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  13225.  Gorilla  Russia is winning this war and Russia is riding out the sanctions better than the West. Only a deluded fool would see that Ukraine has been unable to launch a counter offensive for 8 years and think that Russia will lose. You need to listen to reality, not the lies and propaganda of Western media. Russia prepared for this for 8 years, hence it is the West out of ammo and weapons, NOT Russia. People like you who want the Azov Nazis to win, and for Donbass to be squelched under the boot of radical Ukrainianization are sick. You are backing the barbarians. Get a grasp of reality and SUPPORT the Donbass cause for independence and freedom.
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  13226.  Gorilla  The exit from Kabul was an absolutely humiliating defeat. "Defeat" is NOT just the result of war. "Defeat" can refer to any military operation, including a botched evacuation that saw deaths and chaos in abundance. NATO is a paper tiger and revealed such last year. Read it and weep.
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  13227.  Gorilla  Russia, no doubt, would have prepared a lot better than NATO, after all, the commander in chief of US forces is a hopeless shell of a demented old fool.
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  13228.  Gorilla  just curious, was NATO's 70 days of non stop bombing of Serbia also about bringing Serbs closer to a Western understanding of democracy? and the NATO bombing of Libya too? Did Libya become much closer to a Western understanding of democracy?
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  13229.  Gorilla  who said I was German?
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  13230.  @nanex2644  yep, he even thought Ghost of Kiev was real!
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  13231. "the law says the man has to leave the apartment" so, Serge, when will you wake up to the fact that white, indigenous males are the targets of woke government in the EU?
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  13232. So let me get this right. The Russians are "stalled" in Donbass, but the Ukrainians are "probing" and "shaping" the battlefield in Kherson. But Russians are still gaining territory in Donbass, and Ukraine is gaining nothing in Kherson. Zelensky said over a week ago that Ukraine was "advancing step by step to Kherson". Total lie. This conflict would not change much even if Kherson was lost. Putin's 5 objectives didn't include Kherson. The land bridge Crimea to Russia is secure with or without Kherson, and Ukraine would not be able to cross the Dnipr to advance beyond Kherson. Russia can afford to lose Kherson, but the Ukrainians can't afford not to win it back.
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  13233.  @steveosborne2297  go ahead. list ALL the villages. settlements and towns gained by Ukraine in Donbass in the last week or so. Maybe YOU don't know much about what is happening in Kherson, others do, do let me get you up to speed. Ukraine tried to cross the Ingulets River, got repelled and suffered heavy losses. Deep into week 2 of the major counter offensive and no towns have been taken by Ukraine. We were told by September Kherson would be in Ukrainian hands, Two weeks gone, nothing taken, 28 days remain! Still confident? Let's check with each other on August 31st, ok? Last successful Ukrainian offensive in this conflict? 2014!
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  13234. the biggest incentive Russia has to roll into the Baltics and Poland at a later stage is knowing that NATO is totally demilitarized, which NATO is keen to do every day, stocks of weaponry dwindling down to the very basics. Russia sees NATO's weakness, and is licking its lips.
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  13235.  @lebohang8405  totally agree
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  13236.  @Born2Fartonu  yep, "Russia bad, Ukraine good", "four legs good, two legs bad" "ein Reich, ein Volk ein Fuhrer" "Russia bad since day one"..the mantras of the deluded and the brainwashed.
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  13237.  @accord6666  whenever zelenskoids want to ignore the causes of the conflict, they bury the Minsk accords. Poroshenko's refusal to implement caused all this. read it and weep
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  13238.  @sambrown7950  so how about you send me the link that is the source of your "LPR/DPR have the highest casualty percentages of all". This should be interesting, given no one knows the figures! Go ahead! Oh, can I guess? A BBC report based on info from the Ukrainian ministry of defense?
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  13239.  @yabutmaybenot.6433  I checked 3 things regarding the Minsk accords. 1) who signed it 2) what it states about autonomy in the Donbass and 3) the radio broadcast made by Poroshenko recently where he explains why he refused to implement the accords (it was just a mechanism for stalling for time while Ukraine built up its military and economy, he said). If the Minsk accords is nothing but a list of demands from Putin, why did all parties present sign it? No lies now..just the truth!
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  13240.  Modern Conflicts - Ukraine combat footage  absolutely proud to use my birth name and real name, and happy to prove it to you if you want to contact me to check my id you, on the other hand, are such a coward and fraud you have to hide behind some meaningless pseudonym. Too scared to use your real name? why so? spineless.
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  13241.  @vsiegel  opinion polls. evidence people are paid by Russia to be pro Russian? you can send me the link for your evidence. I don't think Russians are evil at all. War has not been declared, so from the Russian perspective, it is not a war. As Putin said, you will see the difference if and when war is declared. seems logical enough to me.
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  13242.  @vsiegel  welfare systems, government jobs and army are paid by French government here in France, people depend on the money, and they risk losing it if they don't behave as the government expects (ask those who refused the covid shot!...sounds the same as Russia, right? or pretty much everywhere?)..It is not a war because war has not been declared! it is that simple. in war, troops are mobilized, the whole economy is put on a war footing, all government efforts are dedicated to the war. When 80% of Russian troops are not at war, which they are not, it isn't a war. Russia wants to achieve certain objectives in Ukraine, not totally destroy and occupy it. Re read the 5 objectives listed by Putin. Did NATO go to war against Libya? No, certain targets were taken out by air forces...NOT a war! There are degrees of military intervention you know, war is just the highest level.
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  13243.  @vsiegel  NATO planes fly over Libya and target certain sites, in a fight to oust Qaddafi...how is that not a war? Well, NATO never called it a war, but according to you it was! And NATO bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade..how can that be not a war?
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  13244.  @patrickleslie6195  does the same maxim apply to Donbass Russian speakers? or only to Ukrainians?
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  13245.  @krnekejdej  moreover, many Ukrainians NOT in Donbass didn't want a Ukrainian passport, as they don't feel emotionally attached to a country that has never been a real country.
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  13246.  @falconeaterf15  and "four legs good, two legs bad", right?
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  13247.  @ahartify  yes, agreed, the Ukrainians will lose and are already paying dearly
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  13248. still learning the difference between USSR and Russian Federation? oh boy!
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  13249.  @olivka7560  so true. from the West's perspective, the gold medal goes to the country which led more invasions and committed more massacres over the last 40 years, but all the evils of the world come from Russia and China. Mindblowingly dumb and dishonest
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  13250. yet another loss for the home team Diversity Migrants United 3 GB 0 more heartbreaking losses to come as more migrants flood in. Are your loved ones next?
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  13251. a summit against youth violence will achieve nothing. unless the problem can be named, immigrants bringing their violent ways to Germany, then nothing will stem the tide of violence against the host nation
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  13252. apart from those of us against nazis like Right Sector.
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  13253. how does speeding up the processing system change anything? those who are rejected don't leave, so still need to be accommodated, and those who are accepted need to be accommodated. stopping the arrivals is the only way out of this, and the only way to stop arrivals is to tow all boats back to France. Every single of of them. France allowed entry to all of them, France is therefore responsible for them.
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  13254. so you would support the same democratic freedom of movement to be extended to Ukrainian cannon fodder I presume?
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  13255. i guess the Allies were desperate when they bombed Dresden and Hiroshima?
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  13256.  @superhumantrueman  no, I did NOT ask if WW2 was a "desperate time". You need to improve your reading comprehension skills. I merely asked if Allied bombing was an act of desperation, given that the post had concluded Russia's bombing of Ukraine was an act that "reeked" of desperation. English not your first language, maybe?
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  13257.  @superhumantrueman  "it was"? what does "it" refer to? The Allies? "they were" would be correct English, if referring to "the Allies". Did you complete GCSE English?
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  13258.  @superhumantrueman  Again, reading comprehension skills lacking! I certainly am not whining about the Allies' bombing of Japan or Germany. Why would you assume that? I am curious what constitutes a bombing attack that "reeks of desperation" and one that does not. Going to answer that one, please?
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  13259. with 80% of the British Isles population white, and 80% of its national leaders non white, it tells you just how bad anti white racism has become there.
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  13260. ok, Gulliver, this is quite simple. One of the main objectives of Russia is to demilitarize Ukraine. That means killing as many Ukrainian troops as possible. Fortunately, Ukraine keeps rushing in as much cannon fodder to Bakhmut as it can, where the Wagner meatgrinder demilitarizes Ukraine with absolute joy. Gaining territory comes after demilitaization. Got it, Gulliver? The Wagners, while they have a kill rate of about 8:1 in their favor are going to keep at it in Bakhmut:)
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  13261.  @damonstyles4068  just curious, when you called the emergency services, did they ever manage to extract your member buried so deep into Ruslan Onyshenko's rectum?
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  13262. all police forces who say any motive is unclear in such attacks need to read the Quran. it is all spelled out there.
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  13263. There is NO blockade of grain shipments. Mariupol is open and shipping has resumed. Shipping impossible from Ukrainian shores, as Ukraine refuses to demine the coast. Try telling the truth, DW!
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  13264.  @Maplelust  proof of what? that Ukraine refuses to demine its coast? I guess my proof is the many announcements that Ukraine has made that it refuses to demine its coast!
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  13265. "we've got to respect each other". Nope, that's part of the problem. Respect is something you earn, not something duty-bound to just come your way. wise up!
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  13266.  @Nurg1982  in war, everything is fair game, that's war. if the West wants to attack Russia and push us all closer to Nuclear war, that would be the West's decision.
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  13267.  @mst7155  On the contrary, Putin is no admirer of the USSR, in fact he blames the Soviets for creating Ukraine in the first place! Putin is a fan of Russia, not USSR! and yes, if NATO want to escalate the war, they should provide Ukraine with all it needs to hit deep into Russia. If the aim is to weaken Russia directly, that would be the way to go. It may result in a nuclear holocaust, but that would be NATO's gamble. Or they could just resume peace talks that they were party to in Istanbul back in March.
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  13268.  @anthonychin1873  sanctions don't work and Russia withdrew from Kharkov oblast. what's your point? are you the one that said a shortage of components in Russia is evidence that sanctions are working? components, like anything, can be imported from third countries.
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  13269.  @anthonychin1873  not true. I never said that only the West has inflation, I guess English comprehension is not your forte! I said the inflation RATE in Russia is going down, prices are decreasing. However, in the West, inflation is rising, and quite dramatically, Got a problem with that fact, have you?
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  13270.  @anthonychin1873  if sanctions do work, how many thousand more Ukrainian boys have to die before the sanctions work and Russia' is unable to fund its war?
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  13271.  @anthonychin1873  what more do you want? The aim of sanctions is to change the policy or behavior of a government. Sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and now Russia have changed nothing in the policy or behavior of those countries QED
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  13272.  @anthonychin1873  you are the confused one. I know very well that almost everywhere in the world has inflation, but what is curious to me is that the rate of inflation is falling in Russia and rising in the West, yet more evidence that sanctions don't work or that sanctions can work in reverse. this is such a hard concept for you to grasp, right?
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  13273.  @anthonychin1873  so you agree that inflation is falling in Russia? So now we agree, Western sanctions are hurting the West more than they are hurting Russia! Welcome, finally, to the Club of Common Sense!
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  13274. and the electricity for electric air conditioners will be generated by............?
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  13275. "we had to organize ourselves, with tents and reception centers" No, you didn't.
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  13276. He's clueless. Naively thinks "renewables" can power the country. They can't.
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  13277. so much stronger they have turned the country into one of dead soldiers, millions of refugees, begging for weapons and money. if they get any stronger as leaders, they might even contrive to lose a war and the whole country!
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  13278.  @PEXKaliapa  I was speaking ironically
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  13279. well fancy that, a pro Russian area populated by Russian speakers is dominated by pro Russian media. BBC reporter wringing his hands in angst that EU censorship of the Russian perspective has not been forced on Moldova yet.
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  13280. Piers, never the quickest lad in the class, suddenly realizes that there are many scientists who hare charlatans and liars first, scientists second. wake up, you fool, and start asking yourself why certain "experts" push certain agendas remorselessly.
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  13281. stopped listening at the words "Communist Putin". just another thoroughly ignorant green beret.
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  13282. and Russia hasn't even declared war or mobilized! Good to know you are backing the Nazis in this particular conflict.
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  13283.  @SmilingNinja  Canet en Roussillon is nowhere near Paris, but the baguettes are delicious here, don't fret, no one lives it up more than me when I hit Botanic of a Saturday night.
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  13284.  @emailtat5860  in English, would your question be "how is Putin doing?"
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  13285.  @Jahvec  what difference does it make now that war has erupted? a holy war as opposed to a regular war changes what, exactly?
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  13286.  @Jahvec  right, because if war has not been declared and the country's economy is not operating on a war footing, it really isn't a war, but the word "war" is easier to say and write than "special military operation" and, of course, it is a war for Ukaine
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  13287.  @fadilhoxha3058  and Putin is right to say that, but Putin's words and beliefs don't mean that he is prepared to wage endless war to achieve his dream. Putin has been in power for decades and has accepted the fact of Ukrainian independence. Accepted it, but not agreed with it. Learn the difference. only naive people think the war in Ukraine is about a Soviet empire. if a reconstituted Soviet empire was the aim, why did Putin liberate ONLY Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and not the whole of Georgia? hmmm
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  13288.  @niblet112  am sure it is an option Putin is considering for the future
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  13289.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  bla bla bla. whose police force is going to disband OPEC? the usual colonial waffle from arrogant Westerners who don't get that the world has changed.
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  13290. "investing" in renewable energy will just be an even bigger money loser. Draghi either is clueless or too scared to tell the EU the truth. Mass immigration and waving good bye to cheap Russian energy has truly cooked Europe's goose.
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  13291. Gulliver speaking on behalf of all Ukrainians now. how many cannon fodder troops in Bakhmut did he talk to one on one, in confidence, over a vodka?
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  13292. Let me just read the list of villages, settlements, towns so far captured by Ukraine on day 11 of the counter offensive.......hmmmm, don't see anything. Well, if this is a counter offensive, would hate to see Ukraine in retreat!
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  13293.  @paulmitchell5349  nor is Afghanistan
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  13294.  @peabase  the 7 fatalities you mentioned also contrasts with the millions of dead in WW2. So, what's your point?
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  13295.  @peabase  ah, so the resort to insults when the argument is lost! try to address the issues, not what type of person I might be. Try to improve your reading comprehension skills. I never said Sweden and Finland provided cannon fodder in WW2. I was questioning how the war dead in any conflict justifies Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a point you fail to address. And for the record, learn some history. Finland lost huge numbers of cannon fodder sent to fight against the USSR in WW2. Never heard of Mannerheim? Educate yourself for a change.
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  13296.  @peabase  No, again, your reading comprehension skills are sorely lacking. try harder. I never said that I never associated Finns with cannon fodder. On the contrary, I pointed out that Finland was the country that sent cannon fodder to fight the USSR. Which is correct. Bizarrely, you seem to equate the term "cannon fodder" with the total number of people dead in a war, or the ratio of dead compared to the enemy! That has nothing to do with the term "cannon fodder". look it up. BOTH USSR AND FINLAND sent cannon fodder to fight each other in WW2. It happens in just about every intense combat. The world will be better for sending more young men to die in war? Maybe for you. Not for the young men who die, and not for the vast majority of people who really don't care for war. Are Americans much better off now after all their losses in Afghanistan?
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  13297.  @peabase  "soldiers regarded merely as material to be expended in war" would be the definition, so, as per the definition, it has nothing to do with the numbers that die, nor the ratio of those who die compared to the enemy. so, yet again, you prove yourself wrong. do some learning. Finns used cannon fodder against the Soviets in WW2, as all armies do in a desperate attempt to maintain independence. Fighting for "hearth and home" is not part of the definition. Zelensky throwing in teenagers with 2 weeks training into Bakhmut = use of cannon fodder. And if Finland becomes a NATO member, it must be prepared to do the same, unlike in their recent, neutral history. Your Soviet barber was right. no overall benefit from foolish military ventures overseas, but that is exactly what Sweden and Finland are heading for, futile carnage and deaths at the behest of warmonger Biden and co, if they join NATO.
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  13298.  @peabase  BTW, the assumption that Soviet soldiers didn't fight for "hearth and home" is yet another one of your foolish assumptions based on nothing but ignorance and prejudice.
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  13299.  @peabase  again, focus on your appalling reading comprehension skills. I never said that Soviet soldiers had hearths and homes in Finland. I pointed out that you are a fool to think that Soviet soldiers did not fight for their hearths and homes. checjk out the definition of "cannon fodder" in a dictionary and see how the term has nothing to do with the number that die, nor the ratio in which they die to the enemy. you are learning a lot today! Still dumb as rocks, but improving! and BTW, your handle is spelt "peabrain" not "peabase".
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  13300.  @mushihimesarna728  Not true. Christians are the kufr, the words of the Prophet are very clear, Islam does not tolerate non believers. Check out how Christians are treated by Moslems today in places like Saudi Arabia. Hoe many Christian churches are there in Saudi Arabia?
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  13301. "sham referendums" = we didn't like the results. was the 2014 coup a "sham power grab"?
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  13302. he is the defendant. it's the prosecution that needs to prove assertions, which they never do.
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  13303.  @johncobourne361  Cohen went to prison for perjury, not for paying hush money, which is 100% legal.
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  13304. mandatory relocation scheme = Cyprus is happy to accept immigrants but only if Cyprus can force such immigrants on someone else.
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  13305. we keep hearing the assumption of heavy Russian losses, like we kept hearing the assumption that Russia is running out of weapons. No one ever cites sources for data on this assumption of heavy Russian losses, so chances are it is wishful thinking and nothing else. Just like the wishful thinking of "Russia is isolated" and "the sanctions are working". NATO 100% fixed on the hope strategy. Slava Rossiyi. Slava Donbasu.
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  13306.  @SteffiReitsch  The United Nations General Assembly voted 156 countries to 2 for USA TO END THE SANCTIONS IMPOSED ON CUBA. USA ignores the United Nations. Aggressor USA is an isolated international pariah. The only country supporting aggressor USA does so in hopes of getting something out of it. dollars in aid.
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  13307.  @Mygg_Jeager  similarly, your tiny country's economy could be shattered if and when Russia decides to impose sanctions of its own. Russia exports what the world needs to survive. The world is slowly learning the consequences of ignoring this basic truth.
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  13308.  @Mygg_Jeager  what happens to France, do you think, if or when Russia and Kazakhstan impose a uranium embargo on that country? hmmm
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  13309.  @Mygg_Jeager  typical response of the ukronazi supporter, unable to handle the truth, reduced to shouting "silence", like the teacher that has no control over the classroom.
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  13310.  @Mygg_Jeager  food shortages and rationing recently in UK supermarkets. still think sanctioning Russia was a wonderful idea? where will we be in one year's time? oh boy, and sanctions were supposed to cripple Russia. The West is just a joke these days.
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  13311.  @Mygg_Jeager  Here in Spain, food inflation is looking terribly high, so we can see sanctions on Russia is really hurting everyone, especially the poor. what about in your little country? any food inflation to be concerned about?
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  13312.  @Mygg_Jeager  clearly you have no idea of world economics. sit down and learn something. yes, one factor causing food inflation is the printing of money and expanding debt due to lockdowns. another major factor is the sanctions on Russia. Higher energy costs (due to the sanctions on cheap Russian energy) means costs of growing food and transporting food increased. higher energy prices = higher prices of everything. So, yes, sanctions on Russia are contributing to make food and other things in your little country a lot more expensive. 30% is massive. am guessing your small country is one of the Baltic chihuahuas. you blundered into massive inflation by shunning Russian energy. Yes, Spain grows and exports food, but as already explained, higher energy costs = higher food costs. everywhere is suffering because dumb Western leaders thought sanctioning Russia would hurt Russia more than it would hurt the West. They got it wrong.
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  13313.  @Mygg_Jeager  I don't doubt that you are an expert in your field, given that your field is being a total ignoramus and clown. what is markedly clear is you have zero ability to identify people. I am a semi retired teacher, UK national, currently in Spain, but with a passion for discovering the truth behind news stories. Given that I worked in Ukraine in 2018, I have a great interest in Russia's fight against the Ukronazis. It is indeed a fact that rising energy costs will result in rising food costs. no one with a brain would deny that (which explains why you deny it). any neutral observer reading our mutual posts would see who is teaching whom here! No wonder you have 30% inflation! The more you shun Russia, the more you will suffer!
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  13314.  @Mygg_Jeager  given the strength of the ruble these days (the West's aim to "make the ruble rubble failed, obviously and predictably), I would be delighted to be paid some rubles, but really don't need any payment for the joy of schooling you and making you look ridiculous:) ah, so you are from Norway, the little country responsible for the terrorist attack on Nordstream. how proud you must be. Little Norway showed the world how impotent Germany is. well done
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  13315.  @Mygg_Jeager  absolutely voted for Brexit, and hopefully we might get full Brexit one day. it was hilarious to see the EU haggling over prices and contracts for a possible vaccine deal while Brexit Britain had already got vaccines and was saving thousands of lives. It is such a pleasure to know that Qatargate is revealing the fact that corruption is alive and well in Brussels and that in the UK we can vote out of power those who are caught being corrupt in Westminster.
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  13316.  @Mygg_Jeager  no taps on the shoulder for me, so by what you said, I guess my response here proves I am nothing to do with any Kremlin or Beijing control centre. The curious thing is that I use my real name, while you hide behind some fictitious name, ...what you got to hide? embarrassed by your real name? afraid your workmates at the circus will take the piss out of you?
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  13317. "we know that's not true" citing Russia's claim gas delivery is hampered for technical reasons. OK, so now he is an expert on gas turbines and compressors? Very easy, if Russia says it needs a repaired turbine or compressor returned from Canada, just return what they say they need!
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  13318.  @kelzuya  you are mistaking the bullshit of the media you swallow hook line and sinker with the prophetic words ACTUALLY issued by the Kremlin. One simple example: The kremlin announced in Feb the 5 objectives of the invasion. All 5 objectives are close to completion. You should have listened instead of being totally suckered by Ghost of Kiev etc, you poor sap.
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  13319. a little bit naive to think Greta and co. really care about helping the poor and disadvantaged of the world. "you've stolen my dreams, how dare you?" reveals the narcissism that is at the heart of the climate alarmists' crusade.
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  13320. this is just hysterical! We are into WEEK FIVE of the counter offensive, and STILL we get fed this pathetic lie, "oh, it's still probing attacks, not THE offensive, yeah, we lost 10,000 troops to probing attacks". Oh jeez, if this is the level of copium among the Ukronazis, they are in for absolute annihilation.
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  13321. The problem here is that the accusation that elements of the Ukraine military are nazis came just as vociferously from the US as it did from Moscow. Why did the Senate refuse aid to the Azov Battalion before Putin's invasion? Why did the Senate suddenly reverse itself after the invasion? MTG raising all the right questions.
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  13322. "quite the opposite is probably occurring", again, like this arrogant fool has any data on feelings for peace talks from any of the Ukrainian population. Maybe talk to those who were protesting in Odesa about the power outages?
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  13323. hey, prof, the Russians are ROTATING their troops and have stockpiled weapons and ammo for 8 years! "shot their bolt"? you are deluded! Probably you believe in the Ghost of Kiev, and the great Ukrainian victory of Snake Island?
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  13324.  @khiem1939  not enough kopecks to call rescue services to help you extract your member from deep inside Bandera's rectum, Adolf.
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  13325. Russia will get all of its cash back, plus interest, when it dictates surrender terms to Kiev next year.
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  13326.  @kirkpatrick7475  cry harder, Nazi lover, you were told not to shell Donbass, but you thought you would not get massacred.
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  13327.  @kirkpatrick7475  then you haven't looked very carefully, last time. Russia is wiping out the Ukrainian cannon fodder at a very impressive rate:) Russian subs controlling the Black Sea very nicely, firing missiles that wipe out Ukraine's power and military installations, and tell me, what kind of navy does Ukraine have?:) or did you miss the news back in March that Ukraine's 12 vessel Navy was wiped out and never replaced? Learn the basics, not the propaganda you love to swallow hook line and sinker.
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  13328.  @ryanturner5649  oh, how the truth hurts, eh Ryan?
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  13329.  @ryanturner5649  on the contrary, opinions and facts, normative statements etc are what I work with every day.
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  13330.  @kirkpatrick7475  The Moskva was hit from land, so not funny at all that a navy-less Ukraine could sink a battleship. what's funny is the idea you think only sea vessels can sink other sea vessels! 6 years old are you?
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  13331.  @kirkpatrick7475  If Ukraine has no Navy after Russia destroyed it, it would not be possible to have any losses. Like asking how many sailors has Luxembourg lost in any war. Like asking a penniless pauper how much money he lost today. Stupid question
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  13332.  @kirkpatrick7475  You only remember correctly the propaganda fed to you and which you swallowed hook, line and sinker. the truth is that Russia is not primarily focused on territory, but on demilitarizing Ukraine, which is moving on apace. When the enemy is destroyed, all the territory you want can be seized. with a kill rate of 8:1, and 100,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers, demilitarization is going well. same things were said about the years of warring in Chechnya. There is no timeline for Russia. When "winning" is defined as wiping out the opposition, and preserving one's own forces, it takes a long time. Remember, US needed 6 months to take Fallujah! US occupied Afghanistan for 20 years, and still lost. Russia is focused on demilitarization and denazification, and Russia has the chance to demilitarize NATO too. It takes time, but it is on track. Attacking the power grid and other infrastructure is exactly what USA did in Iraq and what NATO did in Serbia. Russia is just following the West's "rules based order", so you should be congratulating Russia. Stay patient and you will see, in good time, the total destruction and annihilation needed for a clear victory. what is pathetic is how you have become totally brain washed by Western media.
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  13333.  @kirkpatrick7475  Keep in mind that Amnesty International revealed that hospitals and other such buildings are used by Ukraine to conceal troops and weapons, so when you ask about Russia attacking hospitals, oh, you bet! Place your Azov Nazis in hospitals and use Ukrainians as human shields, and just watch such places go up in smoke! When do you think a NATO air defense system will be in place to prevent such things? 2027?:)
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  13334. so with all this good news and no real shortage, why the high prices?
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  13335. "now attacking civilian targets". you dolt. If Russian really wanted to attack civilian targets the whole of Kiev would be just rubble and dust. Twit!
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  13336. Tate is great. He treats fragile woke interviewers EXACTLY as everyone should treat them, with utter disdain and in your face responses. BTW, how old is this "Sohpie" person that got so manipulated? 8? 12?
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  13337. totally out of date map. Wagners have taken control of all the Citadel, including the Domino sector. just a few blocks around the Mig Statue left in Ukronazi hands. Bakhmut is gone, the demoralized drunken convicts armed with just shovels have won. Doesn't say much for the NATO trained and armed Ukronazi battalions, does it?
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  13338. No sane analyst can see Ukraine winning this conflict, so now it is about an off ramp that minimizes humiliation for the West. Scholz has one eye on that poll that says 49% of Germans don't want tanks sent to Ukraine, so he is in a tight spot.
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  13339. Agreed. I vote for Medvedev
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  13340.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  like most of Biden's
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  13341. thoroughly deserved by all those who applauded lockdowns, green energy, printing money, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine. time to pay the bill.
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  13342. The problem is, USA's insane policy on Ukraine has brought Russia and China together, so rogue regimes like Iran no longer fear any US actions, as BRICS is the powerful new boss on the block.
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  13343. just a reminder of the score so far in the last 20 years: white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+ Muslims and immigrants killed by Far Right = 0
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  13344. We all knew NATO was a bunch of losers the way it bungled its exit from Kabul. Putin has confirmed that NATO is totally incapable of even overcoming something as basic as minefields.
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  13345. very disappointing to see Meloni allowing illegal immigrants to come ashore on EU soil.
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  13346.  @emilydavison2053  Simple question for you....when Wikipedia says that 48C was recorded on July 10, 1977, in Tatoi, Greece, is Wikipedia lying? or are you the liar when you say "Greece did not have temperatures 40+ before"? When you decide to be honest, you can rejoin the debate, alarmist liar.
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  13347. if they are tied to Russia then they are on the right side!
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  13348. "how can you know my history more than me?" because I have studied it and because you have not.
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  13349. "removing civilians from their homes in enemy held land is a war crime"....so all those ethnic Russians removed by Ukraine from Donbass cities like Lysychansk was a war crime. About time Zelensky was dragged off to the Hague.
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  13350.  @007thecookster  No one left the Black Sea apart from all Ukraine's trade. Russian subs still ensure Russia is in full control, don't worry.
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  13351.  @007thecookster  don't be a dunce cookster, I mean Adolf the Cockster
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  13352.  @norwegiangothic6054  then you and I have met and spoken to some very different Azovs!
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  13353.  @kmick8108  Zelensky, the billionaire, mentioned in the Panama Papers, extensive properties in Crimea (one just seized), Italy, London, Miami. Learn the truth, dunce.
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  13354.  @jeremytine  Zelensky has properties all over the world and his name is in the Panama Papers because his enormous wealth was acquired through corruption. learn the basics.
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  13355. well, ,maybe if the Guardia Civil had followed the conspiracy theories they wouldn't have wasted 10 days looking for a guy that never even entered the wilderness there?
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  13356. the orphanage and baby-animal hospital that, as Amnesty International pointed out, is stuffed with Ukrainian Azov Nazis and weapons.
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  13357. Congress is ignoring nothing. Congress has simply asked Biden to account for the funding, declare what the plan for victory is, and secure the Southern border. Biden has refused to act on these simple requests, so it is Biden that is holding up the funding.
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  13358.  @victory-ukraine  bla bla bla, slava donbasu
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  13359. All those Azov Nazis now missing a leg or two, shell shocked, blinded, traumatized by the Chechens, for life, must feel absolutely delighted their beloved Ukraine just gained possession of a rock,
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  13360. Tourism to Mallorca should be proportionate to all those locals who pledge never to leave Mallorca again and hand in their passports.
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  13361. makes sense Russia would use it as a base to fire from. Doesn't make sense Russia would fire AT the power station. Ukraine telling lies again it seems
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  13362. as horrific as the accounts of torture and abuse by Ukraine's SBU
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  13363. Ukraine getting desperate to suck the West into this ground fighting.
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  13364. Given that Russia already lost this war back in July, according to Biden, bit of a mystery why Ukraine needs any more help. Maybe the 60 billion dollars is to celebrate in Kiev with a big party?
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  13365. Liz Truss, that genius who confused the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea, and didn't know Rostov and Voronezh are Russian cities. She is clueless, so logically, she will be the next PM
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  13366.  @ricardasmikolaitis7246  maybe you could ask your question again, this time in English?
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  13367. "None of us condone what Putin has done in Ukraine" you would be surprised. quite a few of us who know Ukraine have been hoping for Zelensky and the Bandera lovers to be confronted for a long time
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  13368. if Trump gets jailed, Trump wins the election and Merchant goes down in infamy as the judge that wrecked the US justice system.
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  13369.  @harveywilkinson2432  let's go through this step by step. which juror has been threatened by Trump and what exactly was the threat? cue crickets
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  13370.  @harveywilkinson2432  I'm guessing when Biden is on trial for corruption you would be absolutely fine with the trial taking place in Texas, in solid Republican territory, with the judge's daughter being an activist for the Republican party and paid by Marjorie Taylor Green, all fine by you, yeah?
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  13371. so many lies from this guy. no evidence at all that Russia has targeted civilians at all. plenty of evidence that Ukraine has targeted civilians. this guy is just a liar and a propagandist.
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  13372. Ukraine started the war with ALL the weapons it is now requesting! Russia destroyed all these weapons. What makes you think NATO can produce and export weaponry at a faster rate than Russia can destroy it?
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  13373.  @paladro  ok, let's get your numbers and your sources. how many paratroopers lost in week one, exactly? according to which source? what is the total number of Russian dead in this conflict to date, and again, give your source.
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  13374.  @MrRalboi919  let's see the numbers. how many Ukrainians died in the Soledar battle? How many Russians? Keep in mind, most of Russia's forces were convicts and mercenaries, so no one really cares about them, but anyway, give us your verified numbers.
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  13375.  @bigeasy9259  what 100,000 Russian soldiers? I am getting my numbers from General Milley and Ursula Van Der Leyen, both of whom said Ukraine had over 100,000 dead. where are you getting your numbers from, given that Russia doesn't announce any death tolls.
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  13376.  @bigeasy9259  A vast number of "Russian" losses are the Wagner convicts and mercenaries, and no one cares about them. I doubt their families are laughing, but may well just be shrugging their shoulders.
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  13377.  @rodolforivera7083  hasn't tried to take over Ukraine. Not on Putin's list of 5 objectives
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  13378.  @ryaku5  given the hundreds of cannon fodder that Ukraine sent to die in Soledar, I am guessing it had some strategic value for Ukraine, right? The convicts and drunks continue to gradually strangle Bakhmut. Ukraine is on the back foot and is gaining nothing anywhere. yes, Russia is clever and is beating NATO with drunks and convicts while not losing many real Russian soldiers. Russia is that brilliant. you sweet innocent child, you know nothing.
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  13379. @glenn Dale right, those proud Russian families are not laughing, they are cheering on their brave sons for putting an end to the Ukronazis and NATO's warmongering, as you should be.
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  13380. @glenn Dale but the Russians, I believe, are burying their sons at a much lower rate than their Ukrainian counterparts, so Russia will win the war of attrition. Russians are proud they are fighting and defeating the corrupt and hypocritical "rules-based order" of the West.
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  13381. @glenn Dale 1) The facts on a map show Russian incremental advances, if territory gain is of any great significance. 2) so far, Ukraine is the prison, with no fighting age males allowed to leave, has been a jail for men since day one. Russia, so far, has mobilized reservists with military experience, no one more, and Russia allowed the cowards in fear of conscription to flee (unlike Ukraine). 3) Ukraine is so corrupt that even in the middle of a war, Zelensky has to fire half his top ministers. just another day in Kiev. Have you been to Ukraine, glenn? tell me of your personal experiences there, please.
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  13382. @glenn Dale Not for the first time in your life, you are totally wrong. I am not Russian, and your skills at discovering nationality are so awful, I doubt you would figure my nationality out even if I told you.
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  13383.  @temst2561  azov nazi supporter
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  13384. Ukrainian military attacked a kindergarten in Horlivka - 247 News Bulletin Does he also think the Ukrainians are rather "blasé" the way they attacked a kindergarten in Gorlovka 2 days ago?
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  13385. another fool who goes by the word of "Western military analysts"...yeah, like the same analysts who told us morale of Russian troops was rock bottom four months ago and that Russia was running out of ammo. With 80% of Russia's troops not even in Ukraine, any dunce can figure out what Putin means by "we haven't even started yet"..
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  13386.  @botowner8623  all Western analysts are the same in that they get a lot of things terribly wrong, some of them often. your source for "1/3rd of Russian forces lost"? Haven't been roaming round the Donbass counting corpses yourself, have you?
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  13387.  @delos2279  "one side can't just change it after it's signed". Nothing was changed. An addendum, in this case extra signatures, is not a change to the conditions of the treaty. You fail to mention Germany and France. When Germany and France added their signatures, did that, in your skewed version of events, ALSO invalidate the Minsk accords? What is very curious is that when Poroshenko was questioned about Ukraine's refusal to implement the Minsk accords, he didn't mention your argument posited here, about the invalid nature of the treaty. Poroshenko, on the contrary, recognized the validity of the accords, but said refusing to implement them "won us 8 years, 8 years to build up our military and our economy". Forgot to mention that bit, didn't you? As to what you say about Putin's "little green men" I have no idea what you are on about. Sounds like you have confused Yalta with Mars. All I know is that when I was in the Crimea it was bloody obvious the people there were/are Russian. It is one of the least Ukrainian places on this planet. Still, if and when grain flows out of Odessa it will prove you wrong for not taking the word of Russia in an agreement. Let's see what happens. Your russophobia is in an advanced stage..you may well need some mental therapy.
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  13388. "we don't know who blew up Nordstream" yes, we do. Biden promised he would do it and Poland sent out the tweet "thank you, USA" she just doesn't want to know.
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  13389. how proud you will be when the first dead Dutch pilots get flown back to Schipol in body bags. get ready to welcome them home with "hup hup Holland"
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  13390. good to know we can blame the British blacks for their role in Britain's slave trade and colonial abuses.
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  13391.  @eyespliced  saying NI is occupied by the English is like saying Hawaii is occupied by the USA. it's nonsense. NI is NOT part of GB. NI is part of the UK. you clearly know nothing.
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  13392. So, after the Qatar failure, now panicked Germany is begging for energy from Canada, not understanding that it is the short term that is the problem/crisis, not in the distant Green future. Daydreamer Scholz and deluded Haabeck totally defeated. Just a question of how long it will take the populace to realize they are led by two imbeciles,
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  13393. So, Ukraine is now winning because momentum of Russian advances is slowing down. desperate Western narrative in face of imminent defeat and humiliation.
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  13394. slavery is when a person owns you. these illegal immigrants volunteered to be employed. and they can walk away whenever they wish.
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  13395. USA invaded and waged war on Afghanistan because Afghanistan was the base in which Al Qaeda terrorists were trained. Similarly, Russia and her allies would have every right to launch attacks on the UK, and many in the world sincerely hope they do. UK going down the tubes, and this shows why.
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  13396. Why kill people in the West Bank? Because many many Palestinians on the West Bank are also terrorists, or support terrorists. Hysterical how this dope thinks the West Bank is occupied by only angels.
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  13397. latest poll shows 49% of Germans AGAINST sending tanks to Ukraine. the public is turning against unlimited aid to Ukraine, hence Scholz is dithering. now it's just a question of which army strings up Zelesnky....do the Wagners get to him first, or the furious Ukrainian battalions, enraged at being sacrificed in Soledar and Bakhmut?
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  13398. oh dear, poor Julia too dumb to understand that there is no such thing as an Islamist. they are called "Muslims" and the "extreme" ones just put into practice what Muhammed wants, the others support them quietly from the sidelines.
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  13399. those of us who support Russia against the Azov Nazis you embrace are MORE than happy for YOU to keep paying for more weapons. Go ahead, and watch your cash go up in smoke as Putin destroys everything you deluded sheeple send.
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  13400. Only ignorant fools are surprised to see the strength of Ukrainian people. People who actually know something about Ukraine are not. Which one are you? Would you also say you are surprised by the strength of the Donbass people to keep fighting for their liberation and independence?
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  13401. Did Zelensky and the Azov Nazis beat the Donbass people into dust over the last 8 years?
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  13402.  @lisahardy9707  Jan 6th was a tea party. looks like you need to consult a dictionary on what a revolution means. Ashley Babbit x 100 every minute. you know, BLM riot style.
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  13403.  @Gigaboos4Trump  if only you had any idea who the adults were. let me guess, the adults are the ones who think it is a really good idea to send as many billions of dollars as possible to a failed corrupt state like Ukraine in a futile attempt to defeat Russia?
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  13404.  @sp4263  a revolution wouldn't target just SCOTUS, would it? If it did, it wouldn't be a revolution.
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  13405.  @richardhoner7842  a revolution because the people would be forbidden from voting for the candidate of their choice. it's something called Democracy, but you wouldn't get it.
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  13406. how would you know whether a shell is targeted toward Ukraine military located in an urban area or indiscriminately?
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  13407. "it's not been a very good year for Ukraine" said the reporter. "Russia has already lost this war" said Biden in July. one of them is lying. you choose which one.
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  13408.  @dylanvogler2165  sorry, did you ask a question?
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  13409.  @s0ycapitan  he and Zaluzhny are in rehab, getting used to prosthetic legs. Budanov ain't gonna be running down to Crimea any time soon.
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  13410.  @dylanvogler2165  which news channel please?
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  13411.  @dylanvogler2165  how do you decide when Prigozhin is telling the truth and when he is lying?
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  13412.  @dylanvogler2165  how would you explain the sudden total absence of Zaluzhny from any interview, video, anything for so long? why the silence and the disappearance?
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  13413.  @dylanvogler2165  didn't ask you to post anything. just give me the words to google for me to check it out.
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  13414.  @dylanvogler2165  what? your reliable news source as 100% evidence that Ukraine has retaken West Bakhmut is.......Prigozhin?
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  13415.  @dylanvogler2165  the only thing I see on the Ria Novosti page, in reference to Bakhmut, is Hanna Malyar saying Ukraine is moving in the direction of Bakhmut. Nothing about any part of it being retaken. Can you read well?
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  13416. "a common narrative that binds us together" he doesn't get it. Islam means "submit". there is no "common narrative" with Islam except surrendering to its intolerant tenets. you either fight Islam or become islamized. that's your choice.
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  13417.  @dickiemolitsanti2213  and an XL Bully is a mammal, but do we go round talking about the latest person to be savaged by a mammal?
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  13418. bricklaying wasn't for Jay. drug dealing was far more lucrative. but a deal went south and Jay had to get off the island. Playa de Masca is known for drug smuggling and people smuggling...Jay managed to get a ride to Morocco.
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  13419. France must be an awful country for these people to be so desperate to risk their lives in the Channel.
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  13420.  @boink800  seems like the Russians don't need to shoot them down! The Russians have jammed himars communication systems. that's why we never hear of any successful himars attacks these days.
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  13421.  @staticbuilds7613  as you say, so many unanswered questions, and amazingly, no investigative journalists or reporters asking the tough questions of those involved! "what crime though?" we can start with dealing in illegal drugs. get anyone to testify against Lucy and arrest her (is she still on Tenerife?), then when she starts singing, a whole load of other crimes will emerge. bizarrely, the 2 Luton lads were released, but were not questioned in the UK either. beyond weird! i would grill Ofelia too. i would threaten her with arrest if she doesn't come clean and explain all she knows about the Luton lads and when she spoke to Jay. There are crimes here, but they have to be investigated to be discovered. Blundering around a wilderness with dogs for two weeks isn't going to find the crime or solve anything.
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  13422. this poor fool thinks appeasement is the same thing as peace talks. explains everything.
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  13423. so Starmer's plan just cuts out the journey to Calais for the migrants. The migrants land in Italy and we accept to take our share of them into the UK. And this plan is how we deal with the immigration crisis?
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  13424. "China-Russia relationship is concerning" = The West messed up big time, failing to isolate Russia and then bullying China, leaves the most massively powerful block of BRICS+ and OPEC all against the West. Our Western leaders are truly dumb as rocks.
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  13425. why would the Dutch NOT want a referendum on EU membership? Let the people have their voices heard.
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  13426.  @anssiluomaranta34  so all those referenda that the Swiss hold so regularly has led to the downfall of Switzerland? Really? Sounds like you just don't trust the people to decide their own fate. Shame on you.
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  13427. the point these 2 fools miss is the story of the radioactive cloud moving across Europe gained traction because the Western media REFUSED to report on the massively successful Russian strike on the warehouse containing uranium depleted NATO weapons. Had the Western media done their job, this story would not have spread so easily. Western MSM REFUSE to report on Russian successes, hence Western media create hundreds of opportunities for Russian media to fill that void.
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  13428.  @jamesdoeberling7830  can't say it's a stalemate without knowing the death toll on the Russian side
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  13429. Given the Irish Republic insisted on an open border with Ulster, the UK should seek an agreement that allows us to return all migrants back to France and for all Irish migrants to come back to Northern Ireland, from where they can just walk across the border back to the Republic anytime they want.
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  13430. this is so funny. maybe EU Sanctions Package number 13 will address the issue? one day our Western leaders will understand that with globalism, sanctions become impossible to enforce.
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  13431. will this NATO rapid reaction force have the same military prowess as the NATO forces who, in Afghanistan, abandoned the country in absolute panic, disorder and chaos when a bunch of goat herders called the Taliban strolled into town? I feel so protected by such NATO guys...NOT
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  13432. just give every thing NATO has. every single thing. Let Russia destroy it all so that NATO becomes totally demilitarized, Putin's dream.
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  13433. House of Officer's - Google Maps
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  13434. Russphobic hysteria. More Norwegians will be killed by jihadist immigrants than by Russian soldiers.
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  13435. "first significant victory for months" every day the Wagners kill more Ukronazis than they in turn lose is a major victory. The Wagners have been celebrating major victories every day for months now.
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  13436. This judge has made the terrible mistake of thinking the power he wields in his courtroom somehow translates into respect he will earn outside the courtroom. He will be vilified and scorned, in the extreme, by most of the country, condemned to a life of hanging his head in shame any time he strays outside his Liberal echo chamber of elite, narcissistic freedom-haters.
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  13437. I've been out of the country for a few years. What is this Reform outfit all about? Looks like they could win the whole thing in 2029!
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  13438. I'm sure NATO's sophisticated air defence systems, as they have done since October, will knock down every single Russian missile. Nothing to worry about.
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  13439. DeSantis for president, Trump for NATO Sec General.
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  13440. everyone who clapped the NHS, when it had changed itself into the Covid Health Service, deserve this chaos and misery.
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  13441. or maybe "the West is so full of s**t"
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  13442.  @franckcolomb5579  UK airports had and have horrendous delays. but logic dictates that Brexit cannot necessarily be the cause when WORSE mayhem happens simultaneously in EU.
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  13443.  @franckcolomb5579  so France's 100 million visitors per annum, along with Spain's similar total, explains why Frankfurt Airport and Brussels Airport are the two airports in Europe with most delays, cancelations and customer mayhem? Your logic defies belief!
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  13444.  @canadude2010  yes, we are looking for evidence. somebody provided a link to an SBU (Ukrainian Security Service) fake phone call between two actors pretending to have a muffled conversation about something or other. it was entertaining, but obviously not evidence. You got anything? Russia says fragments of a himars missile was there, maybe a photo of that?
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  13445.  @mickowens9839  agreed the truth will be elusive in these war horror stories. not so sure about this incident boosting aid. The West is running out of weapons and ammo to give, and more and more people in the West are fed up of their taxes being thrown at a futile war. Zelensky is losing popularity with his "I don't care what the inflation rate is in USA" remarks etc
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  13446. UN and Turkey telling Zelensky it's time to make concessions. Should have happened in March, but the arrogant West thought Russia could be defeated.
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  13447. except that the UN would never reach an agreement to implement such a pipe dream. Russia, China, India and half the world would side with Russia
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  13448. Ukrainians like Leonid Brezhnev would strongly disagree with the notion of Soviet genocide.
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  13449.  @edwardvalivonis23  the voice of truth
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  13450.  @Mark-xv5lb  just giving you the truth. does it hurt?
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  13451.  @slippingsnake  Kherson wasn't liberated! Kherson was handed over, a gift! How many street battles do you recall from Kherson?
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  13452.  @mikecameron7875  my figure of 7:1 kill rate in favor of Russia is taken from the leaked Discord documents, so your argument is not with me, but with US Intelligence. what is your source for any kill rate in Ukraine's favor? let me guess, BBC? and their source would be...?
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  13453.  @adagietto2523  you probably believe the Ghost of Kiev will save Odessa, right?
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  13454.  @slippingsnake  happy for you to correct anything that I said that was untrue. please, go ahead.
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  13455. Russia has already lost this war, said Biden. Doesn't look like it to me. Those demoralized, drunken convicts who are so devoid of weapons they have to fight with shovels seem to be doing well for the side that already lost.
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  13456. well, it's good that at least Putin is reminding the world that we might end up in a nuclear war, because none of our useless leaders in the West bothers to do so.
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  13457.  @516Mel  "clearly different" and "completely unrelated" are two different things. Looks like your reading comprehension skills are lacking.
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  13458.  @j7ech402  that's the best rebuttal you can muster?
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  13459.  @musician1000  indeed it did, and Germany had not even been invaded by USA. hence, my argument that war is often declared for reasons other than for being invaded by a foreign power. why do we assume Ukraine is the victim just because it was invaded? let's consider if the invasion was justified.
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  13460.  @sot11cat  of course I know it. everyone knows that you find the truth hilariously funny. so, what's your point?
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  13461.  @sot11cat  Hitler was German and his election or ousting was a German matter. How could USA have anything to do with any INTERNAL AFFAIR of any sovereign country? Are you nuts? Judging from all comments you have posted here, this is PROVED to be true...
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  13462.  @retiredguyadventures6211  of course Germany declared war on the USA first.....and did so without being invaded by USA. So, why do we assume Ukraine is the victim just because it was invaded? War can be declared, justifiably, for many reasons other than for having been invaded by an enemy power, agreed?
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  13463.  @retiredguyadventures6211  There are currently US troops in Syria. Syria never invaded USA, and Syria never declared war on USA. Is their any justification for USA to have invaded Syria? Biden says "yes". What do you say?
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  13464.  @AndersLiljeblad  and you don't know me nor my modus operandi. learn something about the author and you might understand the text. sigh, for you I would guess it's better to just walk away
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  13465.  @NYlocked  exactly so. thanks for making my point for me. so, we have established that it is perfectly justifiable to invade another country, even when you yourself have never been invaded by said country. therefore, why do we wring our hands that Ukraine got invaded by Russia? Surely the question to be asked is, maybe Russia's invasion was justified?
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  13466.  @RAL0981  and another one fell into the trap! indeed, you are so right. and so you made my point for me. invading a country may well be justified based on many factors leading up to said invasion. so, why do we assume Ukraine didn't deserve to be invaded, and why point the finger of blame on Putin?
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  13467.  @gilh3947  such a "childish comparison" that you are incapable of rebutting it!
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  13468.  @dufey1969  indeed it did. thanks for proving my point, that one nation invading another can be perfectly justifiable and the victim isn't always the country invaded. so, why do we blame Russia for invading Ukraine when it was perfectly justifiable?
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  13469.  @psnaris  indeed it did. which just goes to show that an invasion of another country can be fully justified even when you yourself have not been invaded by the enemy. therefore, why do we assume Ukraine is the victim just because it was invaded?
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  13470. this guy is such a comedian. because so many Americans are fed up of funding a futile, losing war, their representatives are now labeled "far right". All Johnson has insisted on is that Biden protect the US border better than he protects the Ukraine border, and for every penny sent to Ukraine to be accounted for, with a plan for victory outlined for all to see. That is "far right"? it's Biden's refusal to cooperate that is the issue
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  13471. Back EU, you get no energy and rampant inflation. Moldova should have backed Russia
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  13472.  @valevisa8429  Ok Azov Nazi lover, not everyone is kissing Zelensky's ass like his deluded beggar refugee cannon fodder people do...for now.
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  13473. Anyone who insists that the "Far Right" are organizing anything is trying to create a bogeyman to blame because the policy of mass immigration has been proven to be an absolute disaster for the country. The dog is to blame! But, you don't have a dog!
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  13474. always fascinating to hear that lockdowns had to be imposed to keep hospital beds available. never any consternation that more hospital beds weren't a priority over lockdowns.
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  13475. unlike the Trump case, Biden's crime is real and everyone can see what he did that was illegal.
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  13476. "reckless disregard" it was Dublin that insisted on an open border post Brexit. Talk about a "reckless disregard"! open border = refugees and criminals welcome.
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  13477. déja appartient au caliphate du Maroc
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  13478. on the contrary. listening to dopes like Hodges will give you a totally inaccurate picture of the war.
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  13479. yet again, the Western fabrication of Putin's "win the war in 3 days". so funny how ignorant the West is regarding Putin. reporters who never saw how Putin fought in Chechnya or Syria.
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  13480. Musk was an idiot for believing anything these charlatans said. Rich but dumb.
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  13481. this is the foolishness that happens when dolts assume the guy just blundered into the wilderness with no evidence that he did so. Guardia Civil screwed up by releasing the 2 strangers. detectives needed, not search groups.
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  13482.  @lisamills161  not sure I profit much from seeing the weak reporting at GBNews
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  13483. "procurement of weapons from abroad" = we can get nowhere near Gas Station Russia's production numbers ourselves.
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  13484. all his bla bls bla about acting on intelligence now explains EXACTLY why NATO fled in total disorder and panic from Kabul when the Taliban strolled into town. He should also give this lecture to the USA after an innocent family were massacred last year in Kabul What a load of waffle to say "The Russians might have been right, the Russians might have been wrong".
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  13485. just absurd to think that Russia would have a monopoly on war crimes. unless people are concerned about all crimes committed in this war, by both sides, then they are just charlatans and propagandists putting their russophobia on full display.
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  13486.  @Peter-uy3ti  yeah, that's a tough one. the moon is devoid of oxygen, but then again, it's also devoid of Muslims, so, yeah, it's an option.
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  13487. nothing wrong with the people smugglers. they are providing a much wanted service to people with money prepared to pay. that's the free market at work. that free market would just collapse if the customers got nothing foe their payment, so just turn the boats around and dump the invaders back in France.
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  13488. Could well be he got the position BECAUSE of his "diverse" stance and pro Hamas beliefs. Diversity is our strength.
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  13489. it's not Russia's presence in Transnistria that is causing any uncertainty. it's NATO using Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia that is causing all the uncertainty.
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  13490. I really doubt that Blinken was presenting some home truths to Zelensky. Western "leaders" have swallowed their own propaganda and still believe Russia is about to crumble. it's all about continuing until the last Ukrainian dies in the hope that Putin is ousted at some point before that. sadly.
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  13491. "my memory is so bad I let you speak" says it all. granting permission to speak is a function of memory? what?
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  13492. hard to believe that so many people would be furious their government can't even provide electricity and energy and would accept cash payments to go and protest!
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  13493. Putin is so right, Ukraine no longer has a government that serves the interests of its people, but serves the proxy war wishes of its NATO masters. Should have just remained a neutral country and let Donbass become Russian.
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  13494.  @badmonkey2222  the successes mentioned. the kill rate in Russia's favor, the depletion of Ukraine's air defences, the cauldrons around Bakhmut and Avdiivka, the 100% record of every time Russia fights toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins (Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Mariupol, Lyzychansk, Soledar, Bakhmut) and achieving that with poor leadership, poor equipment, convicts and shovels, according to the West. where has Ukraine been successful in 2023?
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  13495.  @nudisco7882  it's personal for anyone who has close connections with Ukraine or Russia. you bet. easy for the West to push Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian.
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  13496.  @nudisco7882  how many Ukrainians on the ground do you know?
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  13497.  @nudisco7882  so you haven't seen the videos of ukrainian men being ambushed and forced to sign up? do you think there are many ukrainan men in hiding and doing all they can to avoid the call up papers being pressed into their hands?
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  13498.  @nudisco7882  you know a few. meaning you have no idea how almost all soldiers, ukrainian and russian, feel about going to the frontlines, right? no idea at all. tell me, out of 100, how would you rank the willingness of Ukrainian recruits to be sent to the front lines compared to DPR and LPR recruits?
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  13499.  @nudisco7882  as expected, another fool totally unable and unwilling to answer basic questions. you are totally ignorant of the situation in the Donbass and try to hide your ignorance by the panicked "oooh, look at how old the account is" performance. let's try again. would ,you say a Ukrainian teenager called up and compelled to fight has more motivation than a DPR volunteer? you really believe ALL ukrainians fighting are doing so willingly? and if not all, roughly how many? cue the silence.
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  13500.  @nudisco7882  remember, as soon as you find yourself checking out details about the messenger, rather staying totally focused on the message, you have lost.
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  13501.  @nudisco7882  bla bla bla, no answers to basic questions, appealing to authority, pointing to the messenger instead of addressing the message all adds up to an incapable fool masquerading as a sage. goodbye Mr Dunce. Learn to answer the basics one day. it will serve you well.
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  13502.  @dmcentYT  only a real clown would write "in real like" as opposed to "in real life"!
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  13503. there are no age concerns with Joe Biden. It's his mental disintegration and dementia that has set in. try some accurate reporting for once in your life.
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  13504. I hate Londonistan and those that made it happen.
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  13505. I hope it's true too. Can't wait to see them destroyed before they get to the front line and the demilitarization of NATO. Slava Rossiyi
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  13506. Scholz will fall, just as the other pro Zelensky fools Johnson, Truss, Marin, Draghi, Macron's parliamentary majority and soon Sanchez. Putin's fans looking solid in power, Lukashenko, Erdogan, Orban, Vucic
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  13507. yeah, right, the Ukronazi defeats in Lyzychansk and Severodonetsk were successful retreats, lost key cities, lost thousands of troops, but oh such a successful retreat that boosted the morale of the Wagners. this guy is just a lousy propagandist.
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  13508. she's hilarious..."Putin's threat of expansion into Eastern Europe" honey, Putin's been in power for decades, and not one Russian soldier has set foot anywhere near a NATO country. USA or Russia, which country has military bases covering the entire globe?
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  13509. will make no difference. throwing money at the problem of not having a weapons manufacturing base helps no one. you can't buy the time needed to train people to manufacture missiles.
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  13510.  @thegreatdane3627  given that Russia fires 20,000 a DAY, you highlight the hopeless position Ukraine/NATO is in. All EU manufacturers are working at full capacity already. No amount of money can ramp up production quickly. it takes years to do accomplish such a project. Russia started their expansion of such production 8 years ago. the race is lost.
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  13511.  @thegreatdane3627  but all suppliers face the same predicament! you are pointing out that it is not just the EU that has lost this race! All of NATO have lost the race. why do you think Russia opted to fight a war of attrition based on artillery? It has taken NATO a whole year to work out the nature of their predicament! For a whole year we heard nothing but "Russia is running out of ammo". suddenly, it is "oh s**t, NATO is close to being out of ammo" Russia has won. one day you will wake up to the hopelessness of the NATO cause and the hopelessness of NATO leaders
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  13512.  @Chillerll  to ensure the slow-minded, like you, don't think that it will make some kind of difference.
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  13513.  @thetinman-1  it is a basic human right that our leaders no longer care to guarantee or even defend.
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  13514.  @BatshtPassionate  some places are a lot riskier than others. London plus other UK cities, Paris, Rome, Barcelona are particularly high risk. Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and other homogeneous states are very low risk.
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  13515. I left UK over 20 years ago. Can't stomach how the Union of Socialist British Republics treats its citizenry these days. Get out while you can Nigel, it's a sinking ship.
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  13516. EIGHT YEARS of the Azov Nazi cult shelling the Donbass and murdering thousands of civilians. Seven years and 8 months left before Ukraine survives the revenge attacks of the Russian-speakers. So, Ukraine, any regrets that you never implemented the Minsk Accords? Keep crossing the days off your calendar...7 years and 8 months to go.
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  13517. Totally laughable that anyone in Britain could contemplate British troops taking on Russia's forces. The sight of Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner swinging from a rope, and the first body bags of British lads being flown home would lead UK to sue for peace immediately. NATO knows this, hence NATO insists Ukraine does all the fighting and dying, and the West just prints more money to throw at Ukraine and wreck our domestic economies. SLAVA ROSSIYI Z
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  13518. "to keep their momentum up" you dope, it's Russia moving forward. Ukraine has no momentum.
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  13519.  @AngelaNewcomb  nationality is not the same as race. are you 5 years old? questioning the nationality and origin of the attacker has no connection to race....unless racists like you make it about race. take your bigotry and racism somewhere else.
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  13520.  @houseplant1016  Angela is so dumb she thinks nationality and race are the same thing! looks like you are on a par with her!
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  13521.  ZOOMMAX-mb3qq  Islam does not distinguish between religion and politics, everything is a submission to Allah's will. So, if the attacker was Muslim, he had a political motive too. Looks 100% like terrorism.
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  13522.  ZOOMMAX-mb3qq  anyone with any honesty has found the motive. If he's Muslim, he reveres his prophet, who was a mass murderer, paedophile and slave trader. Knifing 5 infidels to follow the example of the prophet would be the motive. how many more such attacks will have to happen before you stop scratching your head and thinking "hmmm, ANOTHER Muslim goes crazy with a knife, I wonder what the motive is?
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  13523.  @briankidd7206  definitely revering a "prophet" who was a slave trader, paedophile and mass murderer is a case of mental health! it's a condition that afflicts over a billion people on the planet. Their cry for mental treatment is "Allahu Akhbar"
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  13524.  OliTwisoak  exactly. just infantile and comical how "looks" can determine religion, motive, and guilt!
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  13525.  @AngelaNewcomb  "Nigerian people are not white" what the hell does that have to do with equating the nationality and religion of the attacker with his race? Only a racist would make that connection! Take your bigotry and racism elsewhere, child.
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  13526.  @kristinasheehy1817  You have no idea what genocide is. If the Jews were committing genocide, Gaza would be a sheet of glass by now. Religion matters when we talk of Islam. Islam is the only religion that reveres a prophet who was a paedophile, mass murderer and slave trader. Let that sink in. when you talk to your sweet, lovely friends, do they all tell you how much they support gay rights, gay marriage, their respect for a Jewish state, etc?
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  13527.  @jaihind143  personal observation from years of reading. classic example for you; whenever a black attacks a white, race is never mentioned, no mention of hate crime. when a white attacks a black, race is always mentioned and it is linked to hate crime. if you have failed to observe such things, wake up.
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  13528. "attacking civilian settlements" = attacking wherever the Ukronazis decide to hide and use human shields, as Amnesty International already explained.
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  13529.  @kompatybilijny9348  on the contrary, my little dunce, we have SO much to say in support of the Donbass Russians. never easy to wipe out the whole of the fighting age ukronazi opposition, but day by day, the brave Russians are getting there. Hey, did you ever manage to extract your member buried deep inside Bandera's rectum, Adolf?
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  13530.  @megaTherionXX  oh boy, how ignorant you are. no wonder Western media have to censor how Mariupol looks these days. the Western sheep would be aghast at how civilian life has returned to such places. Best you don't find out such things, your poor little brainwashed mind couldn't handle the truth.
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  13531.  @sujac664  Did rescue services manage to extract your member from deep inside Bandera's Nazi rectum yet?
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  13532. on the contrary, the Russian people are very proud that they have a leader with a spine, a man ready to defend ethnic Russians wherever they may be. Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, pick on the ethnic Russians and you get Putin destroying you. A shame the West has not learned the lesson of treating ethnic Russians fairly and as equals. Eventually they will
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  13533.  @mattmccaughen8082  this war won't be over soon, but it will be over when the Russians declare victory. Russia has artillery aplenty. It's NATO that has reduced supplying Ukraine to a trickle, because NATO simply has no more to give. Russia has destroyed both Ukraine and NATO supplies.
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  13534.  @slickrick6678  perhaps, but there is no evidence whatsoever that Jay was suffering from anything that morning! left the airbnb, spoke to Ofelia, walked rapidly up the road, chatted light heartedly to Jay, never asked Lucy for any help, everything appeared 100% normal, so quite where this conspiracy theory about "acting abnormal" comes from, I don't know!
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  13535. Good decision by the ECHR. This will teach loony governments from setting absurd targets on climate change. don't set any targets and then you can't be taken to court.
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  13536. regarding fleas lice etc, "not aware of any significant increase" ...translation, we are aware of an increase but choose not to label it "significant".
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  13537. even when Russia starts dropping all its cluster munitions onto the Ukrainian side, the West won't care one little bit.
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  13538.  @Mylostsock11  yeah, I mean what possible advantage could there be to having two helicopter search teams instead of one? Guardia Civil were so right to turn down any help, for sure.
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  13539.  @celtictarotreadings333  yeah, such a brilliant idea to wait until Day 16 to do a forensics exam on the airbnb. Keystone Cops.
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  13540.  @lyliavix4366  "until we have all the facts" the problem is, we are being denied all the key facts, and that has spawned all the speculation. all the police lies and media misinformation have made this case much worse. if the authorities cleaned up their act and actually acted with some competency, things would have a gone a lot better.
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  13541.  @lyliavix4366  good to know you are 100% aware of how all European forces work. just a shame you have no clue what you are talking about.
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  13542.  @lyliavix4366  ah, finally, we agree on something. yep, can't have your cake and eat it. can't whine about the difficult terrain and having only one helicopter when you were offered help aplenty. just one of many horrendous errors made by the corrupt and incompetent Guardia Civil.
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  13543.  @lyliavix4366  I have a very simple question for you. I suspect that you will refuse to answer, but let's see how brave you are. Would you say that all the countries in the European Union are in Europe? Yes, or no?
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  13544. Trump will not end up humiliated. Either the justice system or the Trump haters will end up humiliated. If the Dems stick with Biden, whatever happens to Trump, it's Trump who will be the next president.
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  13545.  @lordraydens  Russia won in Moldova, in Georgia, in Chechnya (twice) and they will win in Ukraine. Yes, all those places mentioned are better off today after Russian victories. You should want Russia to win too.
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  13546.  @lordraydens  ok zekenskybot
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  13547.  @bekeneel  well I guess the hundreds/thousands of Ukrainian troops who got killed in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk didn't exactly "withdraw", nor did those crippled by Russian munitions, nor did those captured.
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  13548.  @bekeneel  Absolutely no idea how many Russians died in those battles, nor how many DPR militia, nor how many LPR militia, nor how many Chechens. No one knows. That's why it is foolish to speculate. Nonsense that attackers suffer more casualties than defenders...one of the reasons to go so cautiously street by street in urban warfare is to minimize casualties. We know from the Ukrainian forces roughly their losses, because Zelensky told us. You are right, indications are that morale very low in Ukraine forces, they fled without a fight, many of them...and so would I if I were an 18 year old reservist from Lvov up against the bloody Chechens! Why would you hope I am not a Putler fanboy? let me guess, "Russia bad, Ukraine good", always, therefore I must be bad?
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  13549. The host actually makes a valid point...nearly everyone had no clue of anything about Ukraine before the invasion. So, do we assume all those ignoramuses now support Ukraine because of what they have been spoonfed by MSM.."Ukraine good, Russia bad" explains the UK view on Ukraine. From ignorance to all-wise in one easy step?
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  13550.  @Els-se6ky  you gotta understand, some of us loved Europe how it was, not how it is today. we don't particularly care for hearing the cry of "Allahu Akhbar" and then having to put up with yet another beheading/knifing/gang rape/all of the above. we enjoyed the days when there were no blasphemy laws and no arguments over hijabs in school. we liked the old days and don't want Europe to become the Eurabia Caliphate. Wilders represents us. Get it?
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  13551.  @BO2Letsplay  you need to read my words much more carefully. Nowhere have I tarred you with any brush at all. You assume too much. If you are Asian and not religious, it would probably be the case that you are much less of a threat to little kids than a Muslim immigrant. Doesn't mean you should assume Europeans want to invite you to live in their community, but statistically, you would be much less of a threat. You have no idea how irritating it is for people like me to be continually misunderstood by the likes of you. Next question?
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  13552.  @WozzaFord-z4z  try and do some research and learn some facts before you make a fool of yourself. Even US opinion research found that the majority of Crimeans considered themselves Russian, not Ukrainian, before 2014. In fact, after Russian, the second most popular answer was "Crimean". the answer of "Ukrainian" came 3rd, with about 15%. Russian forces came to Crimea AFTER the Crimean Parliament's 78-0 vote to separate from Kiev! Again, it's something called "democracy", a parliamentary vote, it probably doesn't happen much in your country. The referendum reflected the views expressed in the pre 2014 US survey on Crimean identity. Do a bit more homework, sweet child, and slowly the truth will be revealed to you.
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  13553.  @calebh7902  right, so it would be just a guess how each side's weaponry performs against the other based on decades ago.
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  13554. The very hesitancy of Germany has shown cracks in NATO's unity, ditto USA over Abrams, so just a question of time before NATO splits into increased or decreased support for Ukraine.
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  13555. there is no Ukrainian offensive or advance. the map hasn't changed for a month. Surovikin is set on winning by attrition and there is no timeline. just as long as the West keeps sending weapons that Russia destroys, and the kill rate is 5:1 against Ukraine, Russia will win.
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  13556.  @alamisha8576  are these the same UK and US military experts that said it would take the Taliban 90 days to take Kabul? Hilarious assumption that NATO has superior weaponry to Russia. The evidence is that everything NATO sends gets destroyed or nullified by Russia. Where are NATO's hypersonic missiles? Hilarious assumption that NATO has any stocks left to send! The cupboard is bare, old boy! Hilarious assumption about more recruitment. Who is left? 15 year olds and pensioners? Hilarious assumption about a counter offensive. What are we waiting for? the dry weather is here, NATO has sent all it has. why the delay? hmmmm
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  13557. why the hell a mighty colossus like China would bother spying on a pip-squeak tin pot regime like Sunak's beats me. Sunak in panic mode because the Chinese researcher found a memo about how many millions of illegal immigrants Sunak hopes to allow in next year.
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  13558. and now the truth....Ukraine has nothing that can consistently shoot down the Iranian drones. That's why Odessa is in pure panic as the Iranian suicide drones have free reign over the skies there.
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  13559. the same river that cuts off Russian forces from their supplies would do the same if Ukraine crosses the Dnipr. How would Ukraine holding one bank of the Dnipr change anything in Donbass? Futile attempt to stop Russia winning.
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  13560.  @neodym5809  it's not a war
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  13561.  @leadfinger-  oil? where is the oil in Israel? Land? it's a tiny sliver of land, hardly visible on a map!
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  13562. no such thing as "meaningless revenge" the very word "revenge" tells you the motive and driving force behind the desire for justice.
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  13563.  @Nullprods  looks like you are the only racist here, insisting race is of importance. I allude to nothing but the nauseating abundance of horrendous behavior of immigrants of all sorts of races that is destroying Europe. But good to know you focus uniquely on race. Bigot.
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  13564.  @ferghalicious1480  ah, referring to the Viking invasions and horrendously violent attacks on the Irish Celts. Of course, so right you are. But the current mass immigration of Muslim fighting age parasitic men poses some unique problems of its own, you will find.
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  13565.  @Mlridge  on the contrary. i am not interested in his race. but you are. is that your normal focus, to bring up race? you bigot.
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  13566.  @MyName-pl7zn  but not as hilarious as Joe Bumbling Biden
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  13567.  @MyName-pl7zn  what's hilarious is how Biden apologists can't explain what crime was committed in this case.
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  13568.  @MyName-pl7zn  the tedium of listening to a bogus trial would send anyone to sleep. yet he manages to draw a crowd of 100,000 to a rally in a blue state like NJ. How many would show up to listen to Biden speak? 10 maybe? At least Trump doesn't lie about his uncle being eaten by cannibals. Speaks volumes for the Dems that Biden is the best candidate to contest the election. Just how awful are all other Dems?
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  13569.  @MyName-pl7zn  Trump is also drawing crowds of 100,000 in blue states like NJ. That's 99,000 more than Biden could ever attract.
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  13570. With Russia clearly winning the war of attrition, the West now, in panic, has to hope a switch to tank battles will turn the tide. they won't. Russia has won, the West knows it, so the game is now to stay in the contest until the inevitable knock out.
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  13571.  @onemustlivefree  Russia is buying weapons because it is fighting a war and has allies happy to sell weapons at a great price. Simple as that. Great powers aren't necessarily those that produce everything they need. Great powers ally with others to increase their strength.
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  13572. only a shock to deluded, brainwashed fools like you, Piers. Plenty of people worldwide admire Putin, and so would you if you knew something.
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  13573.  @rg-cc5kg  you mean better that USA's catastrophic fiasco of a panicked exit from Kabul a year ago? Russia is achieving its 5 stated aims. steady progress
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  13574.  @gordonstanley7802  yep, gas. oh, and coal. oh and oil, oh and food, lots of it. oh and precious metals. oh and lots of other things the world actually can't go without! educate yourself
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  13575.  @sonnybradford8435 plenty left, but only one or two needed to defeat Ukraine/NATO. Given the Taliban humiliated NATO last year in Kabul, Russia learned it only needed 20% of its regular army to defeat Ukraine and NATO.
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  13576.  @Brian-om2hh  they did start to win from day one. Russia does have air superiority. air superiority, as the West has found out, does not win battles on the ground. USA took a month and a half to take full control of Fallujah! Russia is fighting how it did in Abkhazia, in Chechnya, in Syria. And Russia will win as it did in Abkhazia, Chechnya, and Syria.
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  13577.  @johnfrancisco1851  yep, Zelensky is bankrupt and pleading for more weapons every single day, because Russia has lost. makes sense.
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  13578.  @Brian-om2hh  remember the 5 objectives as listed by Putin? Air superiority will not succeed in denazifying Ukraine. Killing, crippling and capturing the Azov Nazis (the guys you support) WILL achieve one of the aims.
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  13579. Do you assume unlimited supplies of money and weapons to Ukraine = Ukraine win? Any chance unlimited money and weapons would fail to turn things around?
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  13580.  @heikowohr951  "unlimited" is an expression used by billions of people the world over who haven't got a clue about mathematics, yet they all understand what "unlimited" means.in everyday conversation...take a minute to get off your high bloody horse, won't you? newsflash - the people of Chechnya did NOT end up as slaves in gulags when they surrendered to Russia. The people of Georgia did NOT end up as slaves when they surrendered to Russia. The people of Moldova did NOT end up as slaves when Transnistria was ceded to Russian control. Read a little history and learn the truth instead of getting hysterically high on Western Russophobia. As for your first point, why the assumption that the progress of the Red Army can be stopped by the desired amount of weapons? What if manpower is the decisive factor? or fuel supply? or troop morale? or a hundred other factors?
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  13581.  @angelinaangelina1335  the usual Azov Nazi lover who can't debate but can only order the opposing view be silenced. yawn
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  13582.  @sergeykish  Zelensky was put in power by Azov Nazis. He would not allow surrender to Ukrainians who believed in democracy
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  13583.  Go-ahead make my day  Budapest Memorandum was rendered null and void when the Western Powers refused to act on clauses 1 and 5. You clearly don't know much.
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  13584.  @solarsystempresident  Zelensky elected on the ticket of bringing peace to Donbass (implementing Minsk Agreements)
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  13585.  @richardmoloney689  Budapest Memorandum rendered null and void by Western Powers refusing to act on clauses 1 and 5.
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  13586.  @lernendeutsch6790  Ukrainian citizens who have chosen to become Russian citizens ARE leaving Ukrainian territory, and are bringing their ancestral Russian homelands with them! Shut up, Nazi lover
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  13587.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  The Budapest Memorandum states Russia won't invade UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. Now read the clauses under which invasion is permissible! Similarly, the Minsk accords recognize the right of Donbass to autonomy. Poroshenko already declared the intention of the Minsk accords was to buy time. What further proof do you need that Ukraine never even wanted to implement these accords? why would they? it is a country controlled by the Azov Nazis and oligarchs. Every country that is neutral on the invasion of Ukraine, and that would be most of the world in terms of population, is absolutely fine with working with Russia, trading with Russia, tacitly approving of Russia's stance, Remember, Northern Cyprus has only one country that recognizes it! Not wringing your hands over that particular occupation, are you, hypocrite? Your russophobia knows no bounds. Fat, blubbery, woke pathetic USA and West have no idea how to handle Russian might. This will be a bigger humiliation than the pathetic retreat from Kabul. Your goose is cooked. BRICS and dedolarization is the future, to be brought about by Russia's hypersonic missiles, which the "mighty" West can't even deploy yet, so bloody backward!
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  13588.  @lernendeutsch6790  no surprise that someone going by "Lernen Deutsch" supports the swastika tattooed Azov Nazis! I guess you fully approve of Stepan Bandera, the man responsible for the pogrom and 4000 Jews being massacred in Lvov, being a National Hero of Ukraine? Makes you feel great, right?
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  13589.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  1) A Jewish puppet president became controlled by Nazis and oligarchs 2) Chechnya became dominated by Muslim extremists who denied ethnic Russian their human rights. Putin restored those rights. 3) Georgia had ethnic Russians who, like the ethnic Russians of Ukraine, wanted union with Russia. Putin liberated them. 4) Belarus is basically Russian, no discrimination against Russian speakers there because Russian is the official language 5) The West agreed to allow annexation of the Sudetenland. Makes sense, German speakers united with Germany. However, German speakers were NOT discriminated against in the rest of Czechosolovakia, so no justification can be found for the Nazi invasion there (unlike in today's Ukraine, where enormous discrimination against Russian speakers demands intervention and union with Russia, a la Sudetenland) 6) Ukraine must be destroyed because Ukraine refuses to treat its ethnic Russians equally and fairly. Putin is a man of his word. Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, now Ukraine (maybe Latvia next?). Treat your ethnic Russians fairly, or suffer the consequences, Simple, just rule,,,some leaders are slow learners. The overflowing sh** is coming from Azov Nazi Ukraine. You will be destroyed and NATO's arsenal and funding with it. Bye Bye Ukraine. Next up for justice for treating ethnic Russians badly? Hello Latvia!:)
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  13590.  @lernendeutsch6790  You believe your own propaganda! Nazi Germany is alive and well, and living in Ukraine! It was the USSR that fought in WW2, not Russia. Learn some history, "Lernen Deutsch". No one ran from the Kharkov region. Look at the kill ratio...how many Azov Nazis died in that futile offensive compared to the Russians in retreat? What is inevitable is the victory of Russia. Hypersonic missiles haven't even been used yet, NATO has no answer to kamikaze drones, panic in the West. Only a fool takes on Russia, Napoleon, Hitler, now you lot! Fools.
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  13591.  @lernendeutsch6790  A true reflection of democracy is the freedom of men and women to leave their homeland whenever they wish, hence the freedom shown on the Georgia and Finnish borders. Compare that to the tyranny of Ukraine, where no man or woman of fighting age is permitted to leave, all are imprisoned in the tyranny of Zelensky. see the difference? It is not a chauvinist fantasy to liberate the oppressed of the world. Since the 2014 coup the ethnic Russians of Ukraine have been denied their human rights, they now have them back thanks to Putin. The Azov Nazis have been killed, captured or crippled. Slava Rossiyi i Slava Donbasu.
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  13592.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Russia certainly has a bad record regarding its treatment of Jews. I mean nothing like the 4000 Jews massacred in Lvov at the hands of Bandera, now a National Hero of Ukraine, but still, no country wants to be compared with Ukraine when it comes to killing Jews.
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  13593.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Zelensky is not the most powerful man in Ukraine. Nazis didn't elect a Jew. You are a little slow. The Ukrainian electorate elected Zelensky, but Zelensky had no control over the Azov Nazis. Zelensky infamously went to plead with the Azov Nazis to stop shelling Donbass. they told him to go back to Kiev. Zelensky is a puppet.
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  13594.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  illegal wars? tell me, precisely which wars were ever legal, and what exactly made them legal?
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  13595.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  "Putin is trying to reconquer the Russian steppe"...well, call me crazy, but if Putin is president of Russia, and there are parts of the Russian steppe not in, uh, Russia, sounds like he has a pretty good claim on the Russian steppe, as president of, uh, Russia!
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  13596.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  for many people, the dissolution of the USSR was a great tragedy, but Putin was no fan of the USSR and blamed the Communists for many acts of idiocy, like awarding Crimea to Ukraine. If you give me the full quote in Russian I'll tell you where you are misunderstanding Putin's words about the USSR.
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  13597.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  "you can't even beat Ukraine and you're up against NATO"....so, the fight is against NATO + Ukraine. Both are being defeated, slowly and methodically. NATO with the sanctions is mired in an energy crisis, rampant inflation and its arsenal of weapons at rock bottom. 1-0 to Russia. Ukraine is bankrupt, a nation of refugees and no power with thousands of cannon fodder dying every week. 2-0 to Russia. what fools you were to take on Russia. Bring on winter:)
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  13598.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Stalin was Georgian, not Russian, Know anything about Soviet history do you? apparently not.
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  13599.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  maybe it's time you stopped believing Western propaganda. Ghost of Kiev going to save the day do you think?:)
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  13600.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  freaking out? why? you just said, Russia can't even beat Ukraine! If Russia can't beat Ukraine, the rest of Europe is 100% safe! Surely Russia's horrendous defeat in Ukraine would make Europe feel reassured and safe?
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  13601.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  so the Russian Steppe extends to where exactly?
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  13602.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  what would really help the West is for all ethnic Russians to be treated as equals. so for example, Russian speakers in Latvia be allowed to have all education and exams in Russian. If the West is not ready to be tolerant, fair and inclusive, then just say so, and let's start offering Russian speakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the chance to opt to become Russian citizens, but all this would require the West talking and negotiating with Putin, which the West always refuses to do, so there we have it.
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  13603.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  isn't there already direct confrontation? Belarus on Poland's border? Russia on Finland's border? Kaliningrad on Lithuania's border? Russia on Estonia's border?
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  13604.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  For the third time, it was the Ukrainian electorate that chose Zelensky. But it was the Azov Nazis, the oligarchs and USA who decided Zelensky was the perfect puppet to control. In Russia, Putin controls the oligarchs. In Ukraine, the oligarchs control Zelensky. it's that simple. No idea what happened to Belarussian nazis, but I know they didn't end up publicly welcomed, embraced and treated royally in the armed forces. Ukraine is the only country that decided it was a really good idea to allow confessed and proud Nazis to enter into the nation's defense force. it's a disgraceful shame, but to be expected in Ukraine. What is unexpected is that so many people, like you, fully support recognition and support for Nazi battalions.
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  13605. Just hilarious that the media keep looking for a motive whenever a Muslim kills a non Muslim. He's Muslim. That explains it all.
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  13606. what? you feel sorry for the voters who put these goons into office?
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  13607. once again, it's not the war driving up prices, it's the sanctions. remove the sanctions and let the war roll on and you will see the energy prices tumble back down.
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  13608.  @cerberus2654  because Egypt claims to support the Palestinians, because Egypt claims to be a charitable people, because Egypt claims to be supportive of fellow Arabs and fellow Muslims, because Egypt claims they are starving and dying in Gaza, because a load of rich kids in American universities would actually pay for all the help needed, not poor Egyptians. OR....maybe because Egypt doesn't want terrorists on its soil any more than Israel does?
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  13609.  @afshinexpert5316  Egypt is indeed a disgrace. It joined forces with Israel to besiege Gaza, but then pretends to care about Gazans. Even Gazan women and children are barred from the haven that Egypt could be.
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  13610. Ghost Of Kiev, fight to the last man on Snake Island, and now the counter offensive on Kherson lie. Ukraine desperate to keep the West thinking it is still winning. Pathetic bullshit.
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  13611. Romney is a discredited fool, despised by most of his own party
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  13612. oh, so it's difficult to know the truth in areas where only Russian journalists are allowed, yet in areas controlled by Ukraine, but where journalists are not allowed access, we should believe everything the Ukrainians claim? I get it.
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  13613.  @Mikeybhoy1979  the problem is Richard doesn't understand Richard's talk on taxation. Tax is income that must be paid to the government.
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  13614. yet another hate crime, motivated by race.
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  13615. With the war going so supremely well for Ukraine/NATO, no need for any negotiations yet. maybe when the last Ukrainian fighting age ,man is dead. maybe.
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  13616. yep, Clarke has got everything right so far. The Ukrainians are inches away from reclaiming Crimea, their power supply works perfectly, plenty of young men volunteering for the meatgrinder every day, and those 8 million refugees are flooding back into Ukraine again.
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  13617.  @rinkydinkfretboard8737  let's bet the future of the planet on your sincere doubts.
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  13618.  @logirex  any nation that possesses nuclear weapons is threatening the world 365 days a year.
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  13619. Yep...sweet revenge for the 8 years of war crimes against ethnic Russians in the Donbass by Poroshenko and Zelensky
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  13620. it would be wise to negotiate a peace deal immediately
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  13621.  @rouz0  exactly. all this Western blabber about "capturing Bakhmut" is nonsense. No need to capture anything while Wagners can shoot fish in a barrel ad nauseum day after day.
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  13622. USA can't survive sanctions on China. China knows it is next on USA's hit list, so China has every incentive to do what it takes to make sure Russia doesn't lose.
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  13623. "why are we so afraid of offending them" because when they get offended they chop your head off. so, 2 options, live in fear as a coward, or defeat the murderous cult of Islam
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  13624. Johnson kicked out of power, not Putin. Macron's party in a minority in the French Assembly, not Putin's. Germany considering energy rationing and shortening school hours in winter, not Putin. Euro has collapsed in value, the ruble hitting record highs. Yet the West concludes...the Sanctions are working?! Putin is laughing
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  13625. love the Chinese and Japanese. law abiding and hard working.
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  13626. "we are ready to fight" does "we" include you? what's stopping you dragging your fat rear all the way over to Avdiivka and getting crippled by Russian artillery?
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  13627. just hysterical that this deranged honey sees shattered glass in her home and concluded that Putin doesn't want peace negotiations. had Ukraine been serious about peace negotiations, my dear, you wouldn't have any shattered glass in your home.
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  13628. shows you how unreliable your sources are! which lying Western media do you follow?
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  13629.  @Grimm-UGA  oh yeah, that high tech stuff like Patriot missiles, that got wiped out by kinzhals the other night? more javelins! more M777s! more stingers! more himars! more tanks! more Patriots! more F16s! all this game=changing tech that gets destroyed by Russia as thousands of ukronazi cannon fodder gets massacred every day. reality will hit home at some point. sadly only after all, or nearly all, of fighting age Ukrainian men are wiped out.
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  13630.  @truthandfreedom8145  so does this price fixing only apply to food? let's take the case of phones, and technology in general. the price trend has been downward as devices become more available. why is there no price fixing there to make sure they go ever upwards? same with energy prices. they rise and fall. why would they ever fall if there was a price fixing cartel? and if food prices are never going to fall, ever again, why is it just the food companies securing ever rising prices, not EVERY industry? why would property prices ever fall? why would air fares ever fall?
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  13631.  @bereal6590  this is very simple. if the problem is a lack of competition, and an illegal cartel is in operation, take them to court. if the problem is a lack of competition due to too much regulation to entice new players into the market, get rid of the regulations that stifle competition. if the problem is just that people must pay more for food these days, so be it. what is ridiculous is your incessant whining about "these capitalists are making too much money". if they are breaking a law, take them to court. if they are NOT breaking any laws, STFU, or elect a government that will cap supermarket profits. good luck with that nonsense.
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  13632.  @varunmittal3617  describe the mechanism by which food prices are artificially maintained
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  13633.  @rsmith2312  Ukraine has nothing to do with it. it's the sanctions on Russia our leaders decided were such a good idea. also, covid is a virus and is blameless. it's shutting down the economy that our leaders decided was such a wonderful solution to the nation's well-being. otherwise, totally agree with you.
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  13634. Love watching these non Republican voters shout and scream about how, now, they want Republican policies implemented.
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  13635.  @harddobe  brainwashed Western MSM supporters of Banderaland are ignorant of Ukronazi attacks on the Donbass, and they just don't care about dead Russian speakers.
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  13636.  @kainv.9221  what's your source for 80,000 civilians killed in Mariupol?
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  13637.  @RazorMouth  Duncan Smith is my real name, but I am more than happy for you to prove yourself right! $1000 bet that I can prove I am indeed Duncan Smith, British citizen? Unlike "Razor Mouth", I am proud to use my real name, no need to hide behind a made-up name here? Gonna put your money where your mouth is and accept the bet? or gonna crawl back under the stone whence you came, coward?
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  13638.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  you mean terrorists like the Ukrainians who murdered Dugin? You mean like terrorists who attacked the Kerch Bridge? You mean terrorists who cut off Crimea's water supply? You mean terrorists who shelled Donbass for 8 years? This war ends, as the US has made clear many times, when the last Ukrainian has died. The idea, as Lloyd Austin said, is to weaken Russia.....right up to the last Ukrainian draws breath. nice ally you have there!
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  13639.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Only in your deluded world of propaganda and lies.....How's your incoherently babbling commander-in-chief doing these days? Does he know what day it is? Got your butts kicked so bad in Kabul, you just wanted more US humiliation in Ukraine. Got anything to counter Iranian kamikaze drones have you? ha ha. Slava Rossiyi.
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  13640.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Gotta laugh at the demise of the US. Biden goes on a begging trip to Saudi Arabia to plead for increased oil production. MBS then calls Putin, they both laugh at Biden, and decrease oil production. US influence in the Global South = GONE! Roll on dedolarization...China and Russia absolutely own USA now.
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  13641.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  yep, USSR messed up in Afghanistan. What Brezhnev (a Ukrainian) and USSR have to do with Putin's Russia, I have no idea! so the "most advanced military in the world" saw 13 of its own dead and left behind billions of dollars worth of equipment in a panicked exit because some sandal wearing goatherders called the Taliban strolled into town! Your forces are an absolute joke, on a par with your senile commander in chief. "Taliban will need 90 days to take Kabul"....right. US intelligence the best in the world too? ha ha. US army, bunch of woke losers that can't even recruit morons these days.
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  13642.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  blubbery, obese woke USA has no stomach for war. First body bags flown home from conflict and the gutless cretins in the White House sue for peace immediately.
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  13643.  @Anton_Danylchenko  having worked in Ukraine in 2018 and spoken to Azov Nazis (Bar Barabas, Vinnytsya) and listened to the accounts of my Donbass students who told me what was happening there, I am more inclined to believe my own eyes and ears than your bullshit. The Azov Nazis are indeed Nazis, Bandera the Nazi collaborator is a national hero, the US Senate refused to sell arms that could be allocated to the Azov battalion (look it up), children died from their shelling, and you are a pathetic example of a lying apologist. Got your own swastika tattooed across your chest, do you?
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  13644.  A1Kira  how about we make a bet. Want to put your money where your mouth is? $1000 I can prove to you I am indeed Duncan Smith, from the UK. On the other hand, why do you hide behind A1 Kira as a fake name? Ashamed for the world to know who you really are? Pathetic coward
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  13645.  A1Kira  try arguing against the validity of my points instead of scurrying to check how old an account is. What's your real name, Azov Nazi lover?
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  13646.  @RS-hr8mj  1) The fascists are the ones with swastika tattoos, welcomed into the national defense force of Ukraine, not Russia 2) Most of the world has rejected the West and is happy to work with and trade with Russia, from China to India to Brazil, Mexico, Saudi, Turkey the list is endless. The West lives in a deluded bubble and is rejected by most of the world. 3) Yes, I believe and know you would support Nazis. that is exactly what you are doing 4) you wouldn't know a Nazi if it passed you in the street in Kiev, Kribvy Rok or Cleveland. You have to talk to them and listen to them in places like Bar Baracas, Vinntsya. 5) In Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkazia, Chechnya and South Ossetia the rights of ethnic Russians were protected by Putin. And he will always stand up for those rights and he has the guts to do that in the future. The monstrosity of nations are those places that treat ethnic Russians as second class citizens. Long may such russophobic, barbaric, bigoted and intolerant places eat shit and die. Slava Rossiyi, Slava Donbasu
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  13647.  @RS-hr8mj  I do not believe a Jewish president supports Nazis. I believe a Jewish puppet president is controlled by Nazis, oligarchs and the corrupt West. what a sad, bigoted, intolerant fool you are.
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  13648.  @Anton_Danylchenko  1) Unlike you, the European Parliament is NOT proud of Bandera. The European Parliament condemned the award of National Hero to Bandera. So, I guess the European Parliament condemns you too.2) If I learned fake history, then so did the European Parliament, and Poland, and several Jewish organizations. Funny how we all learned fake history, but not you. 3) Yes, Azov Nazi Ukraine tried to attack and shell Donbass repeatedly and you tried to cut off Crimea from its water supply. You discriminated against Russian speakers, you overthrew a democratically elected president, your country is the scum of the earth and deserves to be obliterated, which hopefully will happen soon. Russia is sticking up for ethnic Russians and deserves a total victory. Zelensky has bankrupted you, turned you into a nation of refugees and corrupt beggars, you will lose and be abandoned by the West...but Zelensky will still have his mansion in Miami and his villa in Italy. Slava Rossiyi....glory to the proud Russian speakers the world over.
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  13649.  @Anton_Danylchenko  tell me, what scares you so much about Russian speakers receiving an education in a Russian speaking area of Ukraine? why prevent those native speakers of Russian from using Russian at school? Are you SO intolerant, bigoted and fascist that you can't allow Russian speakers to speak Russian at school?
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  13650.  @Anton_Danylchenko  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941) Lvov pogrom, 1941, led by Bandera, 4,000 Jews killed. No wonder the Jews hate Bandera. But to you this butcher is a hero! You should be ashamed of your racism, bigotry and ignorance. No wonder so many want the destruction of Ukraine.
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  13651. oh, now we hear that "Russia is a superpower". what happened to Russian troops are poorly led, poorly supplied, demoralized, fighting with convicts and shovels, losing? suddenly the sheep are being prepped for Ukraine/NATO's inevitable defeat at the hands of a "superpower".
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  13652. on the contrary, PLEASE go out there, protest and keep in mind the words of Martin Luther King, "riot is the voice of the unheard"
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  13653. Starkey is right. They are coming from France, where there is no persecution at all, therefore they are not asylum seekers, they are illegal immigrants. If there is legislation that states such people ARE asylum seekers, then that legislation can be ignored. It is factually incorrect.
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  13654. I'm 100% sure that EU Sanctions Package number 15 will absolutely wreck the Russian economy, at some point.
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  13655.  @irishguy200007  sure. just as long as they have been trained to use the reverse gear they have a chance to survive
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  13656.  @oknevals  totally agree. I fail to see the logic that says "all Ukraine's tanks have been destroyed, but it is safe to assume all the experienced tank crews survived and are just fine"
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  13657.  @oknevals  exactly so. getting off the first fire and that fire being accurate will win the tank battle. period. combat reflexes and anticipation don't come with a few weeks of training.
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  13658.  @verdebusterAP  depends on the crew
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  13659.  @bestrealone2024  not the wise ones!
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  13660. yeah, must be a racist police force, i mean, i simply can't think of any other country in the world where a 17 yr old driving a stolen Mercedes with no driving license who refuses to comply with Police instructions when stopped would be shot at when he puts the officer's and the public's lives at risk.
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  13661.  @AngryGnome87  out of Bakhmut, if you believe the reports
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  13662.  @AngryGnome87  indeed he does blame the Russian high command. it's called freedom of speech - something that doesn't exist in Ukraine.
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  13663.  @AngryGnome87  not paid anything. happily semi retired, but after my time working in Ukraine I see how Putin's actions are totally justified. just all came 8 years too late.
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  13664.  @AngryGnome87  if you want a taste of freedom of speech in Ukraine, check out what happened to Gonzalo Lira
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  13665.  @AngryGnome87  which parliament has banned all opposition parties? Ukraine or Russia? hmmmm
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  13666.  @AngryGnome87  plenty of videos show anti war protesters being roughed up and arrested in Russia. same as in USA during Vietnam War, except some were shot then, remember Penn State? same as in Ukraine, and anywhere. during war, anti war protesters get swift punishment. but as i pointed out, it is Ukraine where opposition parties are banned. it is the West where so-called hate speech gets you a jail sentence. In Latvia we saw those wonderful European values on display when a man was arrested for trampling on a Ukrainian flag! bye bye freedom of expression in Europe.
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  13667.  @AngryGnome87  tell me, the last time you went to Ukraine was when, exactly?
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  13668.  @AngryGnome87  I can always tell when my explanations are valid by the lack of refutation from a respondent and the plethora of childish emojis that come my way as some form of pathetic response.
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  13669.  @ADITYAKUMAR-mb5ht  Rishi trying to blame someone else, as always
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  13670.  @nigeljohnson9820  "restocking" = ordering, in panic, for years ahead "Russia has used most of its missile stock"...we have been told this since March. getting a bit stale.
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  13671.  @ericdpeerik3928  either it ran out of weapons, or it is choosing to refuse to send weapons to Ukraine. you choose.
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  13672.  @nigeljohnson9820  "involved in a war it cannot win" bla bla bla, we heard the same nonsense about Chechnya, Georgia, Syria. Russia won all three. "forced to sell at a discount" but has gained more revenues from energy sales than ever before. "No NATO troops involved"..the first NATO troops flown home in body bags will see the West sue for peace. The blubbery pampered citizens of the West can't handle real, intense war. "attacking civilian targets"...amazing how Ukraine's power grid is destroyed by attacking civilian targets. Russia just copying the West's "rules-based order" as seen in Iraq and Serbia. you should be applauding Russia. Predictions for 2023? Not for the first time in his life, Nigel Johnson will be proven 100% wrong.
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  13673.  @PalleRasmussen  The West does nothing but underestimate the enemy, be it ISIS, Taliban, Vietcong or Russia. The West's arrogance knows no bounds.
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  13674.  @pogo1140  sure did, but then again it is 100,000 Ukrainian cannon fodder dead. used to be 20,000.
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  13675.  @ADITYAKUMAR-mb5ht  agreed. the word "Putin" has become the excuse for any bad news
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  13676.  @nigeljohnson9820  Russia already rebuilding Mariupol. You need to start following real news. Russian civilians living there are much better off than Ukrainians in Kherson or Bakhmut or even Kiev. Check out recent videos of Luhansk. No war zone there, nor Crimea.
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  13677.  @nigeljohnson9820  Why not? Why has NATO refused to deliver its more advanced weapons?
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  13678.  @ericdpeerik3928  Zhaluzny has stated clearly, he needs 300 more tanks. why the delay in shipping over 300 tanks?
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  13679.  @PalleRasmussen  the only fools that repeat the myth that Ukraine would be taken in 3 to 5 days are those who follow the Western media that created the myth. Those of us who saw how Russia operated in Cechnya and Syria knew the truth.
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  13680.  @nigeljohnson9820  Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, the sanctioned nations pulling together, oh how sweet is the revenge, but demilitarizing the West is going well. Keep sending all you can to Ukraine so Russia can destroy it.
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  13681.  @PalleRasmussen  but talking about failed predictions, when Biden said the Russian economy would collapse and the ruble would become rubble, when do you think he thought that would happen?
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  13682.  @nigeljohnson9820  explain why the age of the stock indicates anything. having to use Iranian drones, or choosing to use Iranian drones? Ukraine is using all NATO supplied equipment, so the same argument there, right, Ukraine is running out of missiles. so, let's hear your prediction. when exactly does Russia run out of missiles? seeing as you have your finger on the pulse of all Russian missile manufacturing.
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  13683.  @nigeljohnson9820  so Nigel, when I wear my old running shoes to the beach, do you assume that I have run out of newer shoes?
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  13684.  @nigeljohnson9820  so, the assumption is that old stock MUST be being used due to the assumption that parts for newer stuff ain't available, right? evidence? do you think it is possible that Russia is targeting civilian infrastructure for the same reason that USA attacked civilian infrastructure in Iraq and for the same reason that NATO attacked civilian infrastructure in Serbia? why not? So, when Russia hits a substation it is hitting its target just by luck, as it doesn't have anything accurate enough to hit said substation by intention? oh boy, how you turn yourself inside out with your warped logic! did you miss the nes item a few days ago with the remains of a Russian missile that had been made a couple of months ago?
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  13685.  @nigeljohnson9820  these "parts for anything better"....when you have been tracking such components, which countries on the globe DO have access to such components?
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  13686.  @nigeljohnson9820  Special Military Operation isn't defined by how long it takes, but war is defined by full mobilization of all available forces, which Ukraine has done, but Russia has not. That said, I fully expect Russia to go to full mobilization, such is the pressure on Putin to stop going soft on Ukraine and NATO, but hey, if you want to call it war, I'm fine with that. let's call it war.
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  13687.  @nigeljohnson9820  Of course the reason NATO attacked civilian infrastructure in Serbia is because civilian infrastructure is also military infrastructure, so Russia just copied NATO's example. Good idea, right?
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  13688.  @nigeljohnson9820  are the special components needed for modern missiles allowed to be shipped to the UAE?
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  13689.  @nigeljohnson9820  then you do some investigating old boy, but spoiler alert, sanctions don't work because there is always a middleman, like the UAE, that obtains every single component needed, legally, and sells it on to the sanctioned nation. and you seemed to have all the inside info up to this point! Happy investigating!
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  13690.  @michaelk.jensen1611  at the end of the day, the Europeans have to decide....either pay the 2% minimum or risk USA refusing to support them. Like any choice in life, it's a trade-off. Personally, I would be fine with Europe deciding that 2% is just a target and I would be fine with USA declaring that Article 5 only applies to those who met their target.
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  13691.  @TechTusiast  no problem. Remember, Article 5 only declares that NATO members commit to an "appropriate response" to an attack on any of its members, so USA under Trump will, rightfully, decide what is an appropriate response to a NATO member that has failed to meet its 2% target. and one appropriate response might be to do nothing.
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  13692.  @zepher664  as if leaving your home state confers some extra special insight into the rights and wrongs of contributing to NATO.
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  13693.  @zepher664  good luck finding someone who was defrauded of every penny they have when their wallet was stolen, as opposed to all those fools who get their phones stolen and find their bank accounts emptied a few hours later.
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  13694.  @TechTusiast  ok, let's take it as a recommendation and nothing more. like supporting Ukraine for "as long as it takes." not a pledge, not a promise, just a recommendation that can fall by the wayside whenever convenient.
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  13695.  @TechTusiast  the very fact you have to ask the question shows how you doubt your own assertion. try again, dear student.
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  13696.  @TechTusiast  on the other hand, if you want to illuminate the world and show exactly where my logic fails, then go ahead, bring it on.
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  13697.  @TechTusiast  understood what? drop the pronoun "it" and refer to a specific thing. let's see who lacks logic here. fire away.
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  13698.  @mabuhayproductionltd3627  or they could be honest, and just say we want full NATO protection but the whole 2% thing is unaffordable for us, so, USA, just keep protecting us and pay our share.
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  13699.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  we heard about NATO's coming super air defences back in OCTOBER after the first massive strike! either they don't work, or NATO is still making them! Ammo? it was needed YESTERDAY! where is it? you got nothing. NATO is useless and spent. The Taliban showed us that in 2021. Buenas noches Ukraine and NATO. RIP.
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  13700.  @alien4422  no old attack subs left. NATO's cupboard is bare
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  13701.  @alien4422  in exchange for not keeping the Soviet nukes that were on Ukrainian soil
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  13702.  @silviadunderdale9400  you may know which side you stand by, but you don't understand what is going on in Ukraine
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  13703.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  NATO and USA in particular have no clue how to fight wars, though they do, as you point out, know how to waste billions of dollars. Ask the Taliban how much they spent on humiliating useless NATO in 2021!
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  13704.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Just like all the Western leaders, you are confusing GDP with economic might, and that is why you will never understand why the sanctions have not worked.
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  13705.  @alien4422  so one sub entering the Black Sea (you assume Turkey will give that permission) will be undetected by Russia and will wreak havoc?
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  13706.  @abrahamdozer6273  NATO has no attack subs that can do anything to harm Russia. Medz time for you, dreamer.
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  13707.  @abrahamdozer6273  and how many of these would be able to enter the Black Sea, undetected, to attack the Russian sitting ducks?
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  13708.  @abrahamdozer6273  are you sure no Russian subs can enter or leave the Black Sea? Is the Dardanelles the only route to get into the Black Sea?
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  13709.  @abrahamdozer6273  so you are 100% sure there is no way for Russia to get vessels from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea?
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  13710.  @alien4422  can they get into the Black Sea undetected? Undetected is not the same as invisible.
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  13711.  @alien4422  you are sure!? and which nation do you think/know is sending in subs, undetected, to the Black Sea, where Russia is unable to detect them?
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  13712.  @dancingbabybins  dream on. USA can't even send over enough shells and bullets at the moment.
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  13713.  @geradkavanagh8240  then surrender to Russia and stop escalating
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  13714. in fact, the "big list of more support for Ukraine" is dwindling. Most of the planet is more than happy to work with and trade with Russia, and, in the Western bubble, the percentage of people that want no more weapons sent to Ukraine, is growing, and will grow.
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  13715. @Chris Viking The vast majority of the planet don't care if Ukraine wins or not, and if Russia wins, they don't care how Russia wins. The vast majority of the planet are happy to work with Russia and trade with Russia. And the vast majority of the planet are sick of the hypocritical West invading places like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and then whining about Russia. It's the West that keeps shooting itself in the foot. Roll on dedolarization.
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  13716.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  keep in mind that Russia is very very close now to achieving its 5 objectives
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  13717.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  given that Putin has listed the 5 objectives Russia has, most clearly, no disrespect, but I'll take your assumption of what Putin's objectives are and shove it up a place where the sun never shines. you are clueless. and, again, I ask you how you evaluate what are the world's top economies? you don't look at GDP, do you? Russia wins by doing what it's doing now. Killing more Ukronazis than it loses in battle and by out producing in weapons and ammo what the useless NATO bunch produce.
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  13718.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  yep, there is no boot. sanctions failed, trade is good, the BRICS allies are on board, dedolarization moves on apace (one bank down, a few more to go in the USA), and ukronazis are being wiped out every day. the boot is in your deluded mind, old boy.
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  13719.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  only 168,000 dead Russians in your imaginary world. in the real world, BBC and Meduza together calculated only 16,000, but don't let real world investigations bother your dream world.
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  13720.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  yep! 16,000 is what the Kremlin is claiming, and 16,000 is what BBC/Meduza found! So the Russians were telling the truth! The mobilization of 300,000 happened not because of the 16,000 dead, but because the Special Military Operation was intended to just get Ukraine to the negotiating table. Given that NATO/Ukronazis decided to fight to the last Ukrainian, and given Russia expended its territorial aims, reservists were, and are, needed. Idiot! you need to start learning the truth and stop regurgitating the Western propaganda!
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  13721.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  Not only will Russia exist and prosper next year, Russia and BRICS will be the driving force of the world. how is the US Commander in chief doing these days? Does he even know what day it is?
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  13722.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  would the intelligence agencies who say 100,000 Russian dead be the same intelligence agencies that said the Taliban will take 90 days to reach Kabul? ha ha One day, you will learn that Western Intelligence agencies just tell Western leaders what the leaders want to hear, not the truth. Free speech is alive and well in Russia. Try saying "white lives matter" or "a man can't become a woman" in USA and see what happens to you
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  13723.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  in what year do you think USA will be able to produce enough ammo for Ukraine to hold back Russian advances?:)
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  13724.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  shouting out in Red Square that you oppose the SMO would get you in the same amount of trouble as trampling on the Ukrainian flag in Latvia. The West has no monopoly on Free Speech. Shouting "White Lives Matter" in USA would get you into big trouble too. when was the last time you were in Russia?
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  13725.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  only a fool focuses on territory in a war of attrition. once you have studied how Russia won in Syria, and what "demilitarization" means, then you will get a clue. measuring gains and losses of territory is meaningless, sweet child.
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  13726.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  this conflict will be decided on the battlefield, but through demilitarization, not territorial gain. the USSR destroyed itself. No idea who "we" is, but "we" did not destroy the USSR. it was an internal collapse. Communism failed. The Russian economy is doing fine. how is US banking doing? ever been to Russia ?
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  13727. he did everything for his son? not if he voted for Hamas.
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  13728. the correct term would be "theft". such a measure would only hasten the demise of the West and promote dedollarization as investors would fear more such thefts of assets deemed eligible for "seizure". it would do nothing for Ukraine's military effort, as dollar bills can't be used to shoot down Russian missiles or find more Ukrainian cannon fodder to die on the front lines. in the end, when peace terms are dictated by Russia, Putin will demand full compensation plus more, so, it won't be such a great idea.
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  13729.  @ruZsiaNa-C  on the contrary, Russia is doing what is needed to attract overseas investments from powerful world economies and allies. Hence the Russian economy is growing. The West is losing investment partners. The rise of BRICS.
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  13730. "they prohibit their export through third nations" yes, the law prohibits this, but fails to prevent this. such is globalism, there are 101 ways that such sanctions can be avoided. Western arrogance is such that it can't grasp that what it orders can just be ignored. Macron and co still living with a colonialist mentality.
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  13731. old news and disinformation. At heavy costs, Ukraine made some small advances on the flanks of Bakhmut in order to clear a passageway for their imminent withdrawal from Bakhmut. After a year of fighting and thousands upon thousands of Ukronazi cannon fodder massacred, Ukraine now hold 1% of the city. Kill rate 7:1 in favor of the Russians, as revealed in the Discord leaked dox, oh what a fantastic victory for NATO arms and training against the drunken convicts so poorly led and armed, winning with just their shovels. Roll on to the next city.
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  13732.  @jeanmuyuela8112  both sides bomb each other and both sides commit war crimes, but in the West you only hear about Russian attacks and accusations of war crimes against Russia. Total propaganda. It's Ukraine that created the separatist problem. There was no separatist movement until the language laws of 2012 and then the coup in 2014. Yes, Russia annexed Crimea. And given that the Crimean parliament voted for annexation and that said annexation was voted for in a referendum, we can say the annexation was the right thing to do. Forgot about that?
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  13733. Inflation under 2% in Russia. This is what happens when you have a dumb electorate that cheers lockdowns, mass immigration, green energy and sanctions on Russia. Enjoy every second of your richly deserved consequences, UK.
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  13734. the only thing wrong with the rental market is too many rules and regulations disincentivize landlords to develop properties. allow the free market to operate, and eliminate immigration, and all problems would be solved.
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  13735. let's see in February just how energy independent Poland is. Easy to crow in July.
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  13736. Can we scrap the candidacies of Snake Sunak, Liz disTruss and Bent Penny Maudant, and just nominate this guy as PM?
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  13737. the more fake charges the Dems throw at Trump, the more popular he becomes. if he gets jailed, he'll win the election. it truly is a witch hunt and Trump knows he doesn't have to campaign much to get America on his side.
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  13738. laughable....EU thought crippling sanctions would effect policy change in Russia. Turns out crippling sanctions are effecting policy change AND politicians change in EU..Bye bye Johnson, Draghi and, when the first German pensioners are found frozen to death in their apartments in, say. November, bye bye Scholtz
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  13739. as usual, no reference to the immigration status of the suspect
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  13740. the tanks will be sent, the tanks will be destroyed by Russia, and NATO will become demilitarized.
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  13741.  @donnag5820  ok, so let me re-phrase. The UK/US special relationship as shown by the US holding back information on WMDs to its great loyal partner, the UK, and then both further the aims of democracy by invading sovereign Iraq. What a load of bs.
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  13742. oh, it takes SUCH courage to spend tax payers money on aid in a futile war, such courage to cheer on Ukrainians getting massacred while UK forces are safe at home. This old fool has no idea what courage really is.
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  13743. "it took nine months for Russia to capture Bakhmut" what makes this dope think that the aim was to capture Bakhmut?
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  13744. "Dugin, a very close associate of Putin's"....even though the two of them have never met.
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  13745.  @duncansmith7054  Request denied. It is not YOUR name, but OUR name. Oh, I know your type believe in censorship and hiding the truth, but some of us believe I do indeed have the right to use my own name when I post. You and the Azov Nazis you so love have not quite got to the point where you can ban me from using my name. Yep, many people send fine messages to memorial services to people they don't know, but whose brutal assassination they deplore. I know it is beyond the bounds of your tiny mind to comprehend, but when Princess Di died, millions of people who never knew her sent fine messages for her memorial service. 12 years old are you, Duncan?
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  13746. let me guess, BBC's definition of "far right" is a party who wants limits on immigration. when do we hear the BBC mention "far left" parties?
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  13747. Given that sanctions haven't managed to effect a change of behavior in Venezuela, nor Iran, nor Russia for that matter, it is only a deluded West that still believes in sanctions. Even now, the West is happy to import Russian energy and pay in rubles. Even happier to import Russian energy via India and other third parties. The childish mentality of the Western leaders has engineered more suffering and misery in the West than they have in Russia. But then again, the West still believes in the Ghost of Kiev and the heroes of Snake Island, and that Ukraine is winning, so the fantasies imagined by the West keep rolling on.
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  13748.  @belindakennedy5828  if only you were correct! Sadly, it is the other way around, and that is why we have such problems! Asylum for the UK can ONLY be claimed on UK soil. That is why everyone that arrives in Dover and says "I claim asylum here" is acting perfectly legally. We both agree the asylum rules need to be changed, The burning question is why the UK government doesn't.
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  13749.  @cameron6770  my point exactly! How can some talking head say that the Russians have been more careless with their troops when there is no way of coming to such a conclusion other than believing some numbers you want to believe?
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  13750.  @bramposthumus9300  it is also your choice to believe that the reporting of the appalling treatment of Russian troops is accurate. why do you believe it to be accurate? do you believe the treatment of Ukrainian troops is much better? why do you believe that? why do you think advances on the ground are important when demilitarization (killing as many Ukrainian troops as possible) is the objective. Plenty of reports say the Wagners and LPR forces are more than happy to keep the kill rate of Ukrainians very high while bombarding them with artillery day in and day out. Territorial advances can come when Ukraine is destroyed, bankrupt, weaponless, with no energy...not that far off, some would say
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  13751.  @anderssigeklint8739  it's a totally unrealistic dream. Ukraine needs to get real and accept it can survive as a state, much reduced, but survive as a state if it talks peace with Russia. otherwise, Russia's plan to "demilitarize" really will be eliminate every fighting age man in Ukraine. those are the two realistic choices. survival but reduced status as a nation, or complete annihilation. only a fool would engage Russia in a protracted land war. fools must pay the price.
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  13752.  @crumcon  makes you wonder when these "experts" will stop extolling the virtues of NATO's failed weapons and start analyzing what it is that the Russians have (beyond shovels) that seems to be working. Know thine enemy....but too late for NATO to evaluate why Russia is coming out on top.
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  13753.  @xaiano794  ever notice how the Donbass was peaceful before the 2014 coup? if peace = the absence of conflict but a life of servitude, then yes, peace would return to the Donbass if Russian troops withdrew. North Korea is a peaceful place too.
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  13754.  @xaiano794  not at all. you asked me if I agreed that peace would be restored if Russia withdrew. that doesn't mean that is what I would want.
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  13755.  @xaiano794  if peace is the one and only goal, then a complete Ukrainian withdrawal or a complete Russian withdrawal would achieve that. I would choose the first option.
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  13756. the "travel agencies" are not criminal. the reason why no one is arrested on arrival at Dover is because they are entering legally. Asylum to the UK must be made from within the UK. those "smuggling gangs" are just helping those that see how easy it is to claim asylum in the UK. They are doing a great job, unlike the incompetent and confused government.
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  13757. but not the protesters
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  13758. Russia and it's middle-man, India, laughing all the way to the bank. Western working class people pay the price, as energy costs stay prohibitively in the West as India and Russia bank some very nice profits, "thanks, Western suckers, a pleasure to do business with you". Russia/India 1 the West 0.
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  13759. at some point the West will see that Russia's objectives are much closer to being realized than Ukraine's. until that moment, Ukraine will be the scene of the proxy war that the West is destined to lose.
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  13760.  @brettrigby2226  give us the breakdown. what % is misadventure, what % is foul play, what % is by choice.
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  13761.  @cy4330  curious response that includes the question "what is your profession?" and the assertion that I am not the investigator! Are you sure I am not an investigator? Are you sure I have never been in the position of being told by a big cheese to follow the rules of investigation but not to open a can of worms that leads everyone into trouble?
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  13762.  @susivarga7303  given 2 weeks of futile searching has revealed zero, how could UK assistance produce less of a result?
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  13763.  @jamessimpson3669  yeah, those pesky conspiracies, like the virus came from a lab, not a market, and the covid jab will stop the spread. conspiracy + time = truth.
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  13764.  @filipe5722  not a fact at all. what policies advocated by Vox count as "extreme right"? stopping illegal immigration? sounds like enforcing the law of the country!
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  13765.  @milantoth6246  totally agree. excellent examples of the far Left.
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  13766.  @gap9992  that could well be true, that his aimless wandering might have seemed all in order in his befuddled mind. but then, he was so befuddled and weak he couldn't make it to a road or footpath? he died an agonizing death in a spot that no one and no dog can find?
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  13767.  @jakel8627  today, yes. tomorrow?
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  13768.  @bonnie7898  ah, so suddenly, the person who had no idea that USSR was one of the allies in WW2 knows something about world food aid. very good. so, with such charitable generosity, as you claim, flowing out of the coffers of USA and EU, what would be the problem with the West providing the necessary grain to Africa if sanctions on Russia are so important to the West?
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  13769. so tell me, if a referendum were held today in the DPR and LPR, how many voters would choose to remain part of Ukraine? What per cent of the voters? Are you sure the people have had no referendum on independence as yet? Do you think Ukraine was right to kill its own citizens in Donbass to the tune of 14,000 dead? How many people needed to be killed in Donbass by Zelinsky's Nazis before we can call such butchery a "provocation?"
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  13770.  @xcitemex6353  the ukronazi aim now is to just keep talking about a counter offensive and pretend it might happen in the minds of its paymasters.
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  13771.  @enigmaticzigfried7557  the only 3 day blitzkrieg was the fictitious one announced by the West, which you so gullibly swallowed hook, line and sinker. Russia does not fight 3 day blitzkriegs....look at the evidence, Syria and Chechnya. Russia does have air superiority. what do you think is attacking Avdeevka and Bakhmut from the air? there is no point in carpet bombing Ukraine. that would not achieve any of the 5 objectives. it's the ukronazis that are stuck in Bakhmut. the convicts with spades are killing the poor NATO trained cannon fodder by the thousands. demilitarization of Ukraine in action. No one was chased out of Kherson or Kharkov. Russia abandoned that territory because it was woefully short of manpower. 350,000 reservists have since been trained to remedy that shortfall. learn the basics.
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  13772.  @DSan-kl2yc  nothing compared to what Russia has had to endure in its past. it's Ukraine that is destroyed, not Russia
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  13773.  @BaconatorYummy  after all your years working in Ukraine and working with Russians and Ukrainians, you know so much, right.
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  13774.  @skitpare2627  no evidence Russia has ever targeted civilians
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  13775. Ingram revealed how he has no clue what the end game is in this conflict. A negotiated peace settlement is not what he wants and neither is a replacement of Putin, so I guess he advocates fighting to the last Ukrainian.
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  13776.  @jjmbeausoleil  or your mum trying to figure out who your dad is after tequila night at the Rusty Anchor
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  13777. Lloyd Austin let the cat out of the bag when he declared "the objective is to weaken Russia". Our leaders are too dumb to realize that Russia is enormously powerful and influential, so taking on Russia means horrific destruction of anything and everything in the West. That's where we are. Thanks Biden and co.
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  13778. and the Dutch really love prolonging this war to the max, so that more and more ukronazi cannon fodder can get massacred with each passing day.
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  13779. why would they leave? they are so close to changing American values to those they embrace, they will stay to complete the mission.
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  13780. world peace would be boosted by the simple act of locking Victoria Nuland up in a padded cell.
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  13781.  @joman563  is that the same Freedom of Russia Legion led by Denis Nikitin, the nazi expelled from Russia but now welcomed in Ukraine and supported by you?
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  13782.  @BLUEWAVE2024-k4f  let me guess, the lie detector you used was manufactured in USA?:)
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  13783. "has nothing to do with Islam" except that the perfect man, the prophet Mohammed, was a warrior and mass murderer.
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  13784. yes we do, but you have to have access to non Western news broadcasts. oh wait, those were banned in the "democratic" West, right? I stand corrected, "we" (those who live in the West) never hear about how the Ukrainian army is doing. you are right. Those who live in truly free countries do.
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  13785. ain't gonna happen. weapons entering Ukraine down to a trickle. NATO has used up its stores
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  13786. so the chihuahua Baltic states are now getting a bit worried after calling for more and more punishment of Russia. Like 4000 Germans armed with broom handles and no tanks is going to worry anyone.
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  13787.  @sophiaabramovich8401  then clearly you don't read many comments! no, it was not meant to be funny, obviously. it was a serious commentary on the callous nature of some people when they have retribution coming their way.
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  13788.  @sophiaabramovich8401  so you find "my style of writing very uninteresting" yet you have read every word and replied twice! methinks you are a stranger to the truth.
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  13789.  @tappym9141  Tommy's message was always the same. Only the very dense would have failed to understand it. If Farage is so dense that he failed to understand Tommy's message back in the day, shame on Farage. Many of us understood Tommy from day one, loud and clear.
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  13790.  @tappym9141  as I said, if a person is too dense to separate Tommy Robinson's invaluable message from his so-called yobbish behaviour, then shame on that person, Farage or anyone else. Farage was way, way too late to see the real problems afflicting UK. Farage was way too late to speak out about the horrors of Islam. It doesn't take a genius to separate the message from the messenger, and Farage failed to do that. He dismissed Tommy Robinson when he should have embraced him. Just a shame that fools like you can't see this basic reality.
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  13791. Eastern EU countries have no choice. They are out of weapons and totally dependent, in the end, on EU handouts from Germany and France. If it comes to words, Poland and co will say the most beautiful words of support for Ukraine, but the day France and Germany say "this is futile, it's over", Eastern Europe can do nothing, and will do nothing, but speak loudly and angrily, end of story.
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  13792. yeah, he just shrugs his shoulders 'we stopped importing from evil Russia and now we import from a place with exemplary human rights and a place that has absolutely no history of abetting terrorism, Qatar".
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  13793. @DeepestTempest so destroying the Kerch Bridge has devastated the water supply coming into Crimea? Really? Of course it hasn't. The Kerch Bridge is NOT the determining factor in Crimea surviving or failing. Far from it.
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  13794.  @andraskleistenes8586  and how many Ukrainians are living in your house?
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  13795. No sir, the terrorists are those Ukrainians who shelled Donbass Russian speakers for 8 years! DPR and LPR are finally free from your terror.
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  13796. they hate the thought of living in Ukrainian controlled territory. they are Russian speakers
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  13797. DW..at least TRY to be somewhat balanced! The building targeted in Vinnitsa was the Military Club, and the Russians claim it was hosting a meeting between arms suppliers and government officials.
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  13798.  @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER  the book-burning Nazis strike again. we see why you so support the Azov Nazis in their efforts to shell to death the Donbass and outlaw the Russian language.
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  13799.  @Tina-zq9nn  yep, when you compare the two, RT states very carefully who "claims" what. BBC, DW and Sky state Ukrainian sources as if fact. RT is balanced compared with the extreme one way traffic of Western media. How many hours of RT have you watched? You probably are in no position to compare.
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  13800.  @larryzigler6812  "3 day victory" is a creation of Western media. Russia has never given a timeline, but it is interesting that the brain-washing is working on the weak-minded like yourself, because you parrot lies as if they were facts. well done you and your fellow sheeple for failing to separate fact from fiction.
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  13801.  @khiem1939  almost, but not quite, the same number of Ukrainian cannon fodder reported massacred in Donbass yesterday.
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  13802. Glad to know NZ and all of Europe happy to send Ukrainian cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder. So very generous and caring.
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  13803. The Russian invasion has nothing to do with a fall in grain exports. It's the West's sanctions on Russia that have caused the problem. The West would rather limit Belarussian and Russian grain and fertilizer exports than see Africans fed.
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  13804.  @jakel8627  Putin's complaint is that Western sanctions are preventing Russian and Belarussian grain and fertilizer exports. Grain doesn't get exported through the air! it is shipped, and there are sanctions against Russian shipping! Grain deals go through the banking system. Guess what? There are sanctions against Russian banks! So, turns out YOU are the ignorant one. Western sanctions are hampering Russian and Belarussian exports, so Putin is right, Africa's grain plight can be solved tomorrow, but the West would prefer to see sanctions on Russia than Africans fed.
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  13805.  @soniavadnjal7553  even if he had used the DM as a metaphor for the German economy it would have been an ignorant and clumsy mistake. an extinct national currency has little connection with the strength or weakness of the economy! just a shocking error that highlights how so many of these "experts" are not that bright.
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  13806. that's right. we demand that the stolen money be properly accounted for.
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  13807. panic in the West. sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, javelins failed, himars failed, billions of dollars of unlimited aid failed, and next, tanks will fail. so now it is all about how to find an off ramp that minimizes humiliation. and Ukraine joins Syria, Afghanistan and many other firmly under the bus.
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  13808. just so funny these fools that assume changing the CO2 thermostat will bring some kind of positive change. If Italy disappeared from the face of the planet tomorrow it would make zero difference to the world's weather or climate.
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  13809. Sweden and Finland stand for nothing and count for nothing. More Finns and Swedes will die at the hands of their Muslim immigrants than at the hands of any Russians. There was no Stockholm Rus, there was no Helsinki Rus, but Kievan Rus has quite some meaning for the Russians.
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  13810. the problem is, NATO cannot produce weapons and ammo at the rate Russia can, and "ramping up" production takes years of planning, training, investment. cannot be done with the flick of a switch. Western media refuses to report on all the weapons, ammo and fuel facilities that Russia keeps successfully hitting. Western audiences wrongly assume what NATO sends to Ukraine ends up on the battlefield. Russia has won this.
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  13811. in the 19th century, the Crimean War features no mention of Ukraine. The war was against Russia. Putin is right. "Ukraine" only gained a pseudo-identity with the USSR, and it explains why there is so much Russophobia in Ukraine. Ukraine's only claim to an identity is to keep showing that, somehow, it is not Russia.
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  13812. because you are a narrow-minded bigot?
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  13813. "there is a limit to what Biden can do here" No, there isn't! Biden can reverse every single one of the executive decisions he made on starting his term in office! Nothing can stop him!
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  13814. and now the truth...Week 4 of the counter offensive and it is an absolute catastrophe. 6 abandoned villages and a pig farm captured at the cost of 10,000 cannon fodder. Ukronazis now licking their wounds wondering WTF they do next. Bakhmut is not threatened at all. There is no lack of morale in the Russian forces...after Bakhmut and killing off the counter offensive, they are deservedly feeling great.
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  13815. ten years ago, Rod Stewart thought Ukraine was some kind of heavy lifting device designed for anyone to use in the home.
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  13816. nothing stopping you giving every penny you have to Zelensky, so he can buy another property in Miami.
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  13817. The Zelensky curse strikes again. Leaders who support Zelensky just can't get elected. Turkey clearly backs Erdogan and his policy of staying close to Russia.
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  13818. because so many voters realized the person who succeeded her as PM failed the country even more spectacularly!
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  13819. Totally agree all Gazans should be expelled from Gaza. Totally agree all Gazans should become refugees of countries already sunk by vast Muslim migrant imports, rather than infect relatively traditional Western countries, so, yes, send them all to Canadistan and Londonistan, keep Hungary and Poland as real Europe.
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  13820. this is what you get when you embrace Green energy, lockdowns and sanctions on Russia. All French people who embraced one or more of the above, this what you deserve.
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  13821. Ukraine is not preparing a counter offensive. it is preparing a suicide mission which will lead to total resignation in the West and Russian victory.
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  13822.  @jeremytine  Russia has no timeline on its operations. check out the years spent in Syria and Chechnya. so telling that the Western media creation of the "3 week operation" was swallowed hook, line and sinker by your tiny mind.
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  13823. So, rapidly approaching WEEK 12 of the "Spring" offensive. using all their reserves (don't worry, those 16 yr old conscripts will have completed basic training in 2 weeks and be eager to die for Zelensky and get minced in the Russian meatgrinder) a couple of villages have been captured! Not one single Ukrainian has made it to the FIRST line of Russian defence, but this is progress! with "news" coverage like this we can see why RT had to be banned from the West.
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  13824. Mike Martin, a lying charlatan, as ever. No, Mike, there is no progress. TWO MONTHS in and raw conscripts with precious little training, are the next suckers to be shoved into the Russian meatgrinder. it's a disaster. Not one single Ukrainian fighter has got anywhere near the FIRST line of Russian defences! AFTER 2 MONTHS! NATO is demilitarized to the point that USA has to send the much despised cluster munitions! oh Mike, you got this oh so wrong.
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  13825. So, Germany wants to do all that it can to reduce Russia's revenues, and it does this by increasing exports to Russia.
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  13826. good chance they will be destroyed, just like all the other tanks so far, by Russia, before they get on the battlefield.
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  13827. oh wow. we are supposed to believe America is a democracy when Mitch is upset that video tape footage is "at variance" with what an official described on a piece of paper!? And we are supposed to believe that Putin is the autocrat?
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  13828. Belarus? Kazakhstan? China? Same would apply to Germany to Turkey. to Spain. Not sure what your point is.
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  13829. it's very simple. China knows it is next on the USA's hit list, so it will ensure Russia does not lose. Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan guaranteed China would work with Russia and not with USA
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  13830. No sane person would take on Russia in a land war. All those cheering on Zelensky are just pushing a previously independent country into total destruction. And such people seem to be enjoying this suicide mission.
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  13831.  @Alan_One1  indeed he did, and look at the tyrants the West allowed to take his place!
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  13832.  @_ramroc  thanks for reminding the world why NATO can't enter this conflict in the air or on the ground, so you make my point, it is unwinnable.
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  13833.  @_ramroc  are we talking about the same NATO? The NATO that ran screaming in panic from Kabul when the Taliban showed up in an absolute shambles of evacuation and mass mayhem?
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  13834.  @Krytern  Really? The cameras were made in Russia? Maybe you mean the broadcaster was a Russian company. But everyone in the room knew the broadcast would be used by the likes of the corrupt and woke BBC, hence everyone's extreme discomfort.
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  13835. with a kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor, you are deluded
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  13836. Diversity Migrants United 3 GB 0 Home team loses yet again it's much safer in Russia
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  13837.  @naijawhatis  pointing out the truth is not racist. discriminating against someone purely on race would be racist.
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  13838.  @jeancompte5848  just look at the jails in UK and France, massive over representation from the immigrant communities. facts hurt, eh?
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  13839.  @cyrneco  nothing absurd with pointing out the truth. import from the 3rd world, import the problems of the 3rd world. simple formula. how to change Stockholm from the most crime free capital in Europe to the rape and shooting capital of Europe. import 3rd world immigrants. facts.
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  13840.  @billcarson818  no one has any idea if the shooting was justified, as no one knows the background to the situation or the conversation that ensued. what i am saying is that we all know the driver who sped off is much more likely to have an Arab or immigrant name (but not Chinese, those guys are the most law abiding in the world) and not a traditional French name. just the truth. such behavior is MUCH more likely in the immigrant community. fact. we can debate the reasons why, but the facts are the facts.
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  13841.  @ambessaseway5594  someone spoke Welsh?
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  13842.  @gilh3947  it is the refusal to accept that some groups/cultures/races commit certain crimes at a much higher rate than others that blinds the Left to reality. the facts destroy their world view that we are all equal.
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  13843.  @ambessaseway5594  yeah? 150 arrests?
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  13844. The wife's in London. "So glad you are safe" he says. If only he knew the truth about the knife murder capital, Londonistan
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  13845. seems like you never heard of the USSR. Back to school, slowest kid in the class!
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  13846.  @wga4139  overall, climate change has brought about a massive increase in crop yields. more CO2 = better and bigger crop yields. the cult of climate alarmism deny the science on this one, as it is such an inconvenient truth.
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  13847. to appreciate the Police bias, just count the number of times "far Right" appears in a Police tweet, and the number of times "far Left" appears. tells you all you need to know.
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  13848.  @steveprocter6241  honest reporting
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  13849. the main reason for voting Tory this time is to prevent an even worse lot, Labour, from taking over. most of Middle England now have no political home, as neither main party represents their views. look out for a low turn out in July
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  13850.  @a70770  or maybe there is nothing that connects Brexit with the current malaise in the UK. If Brexit is to blame, why would some EU countries be going through the same crises for exactly the same reasons?
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  13851. grain shipments are flowing from The Ukrainian held port of Ismael, no problem, no blockade. grain shipments are NOT flowing from Odessa because of Ukrainian mines along the coast there, so stop lying, you snake.
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  13852. Candace Owens was fine when talking about things she knows, namely black America, but got totally out of her depth when she thought she knew something about Israel.
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  13853. Russia has successfully demilitarized both Ukraine and NATO...not enough NATO weaponry to match what the Russians have. The clown puppet, Zelensky, ready to fight on to the death of the last soldier, then he'll retire to his mansion in Florida. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  13854. so when this series of totally insignificant probing attacks have resulted in thousands more ukronazi cannon fodder dead and heaps of NATO weaponry destroyed, THEN can we dismiss the counter offensive and have peace talks? Or, do we wait for F16s to be shot out of the skies and pilots in body bags before the peace talks start?
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  13855.  @Cloudyyyy88  yet even when the conspiracy theorists are proven right, MSM never acknowledge it
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  13856. how many dead is unknown? so, are you calling Milley and Von der Leyen liars? they both stated 100, 000 Ukrainian soldiers dead.
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  13857. conspicuous by its absence, any one single point that she made that you can refute. keep up the ad hominem attacks. it shows the world who the real "vapid babrbie" is, you dope.
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  13858.  @michaelkennedy3372  what's your point?
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  13859.  @telebubba5527  I guess your point is that words are hard to form for you?
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  13860. if the gofundme scam is the motive, then Jay is safe and sound in Morocco, laying low for quite some time. if a drug deal with the 2 "strangers" is the motive, Jay got out of his depth and got abducted, probably robbed and killed. seems like one thing is for sure. Jay never entered that wilderness area.
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  13861.  @ravgm7947  how about you try to rewrite that in English?
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  13862.  @KaiserS0ZE  and for the Azov Nazis (Ukraine) no pay no winter uniform no more Western weapons no air force no navy no tax revenues no independence no hope, no gains, no future no return of the 7 million refugees no more cannon fodder to throw into the Russian meatgrinder fully fertilized crops next year no bloody fuel for the harvesters
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  13863.  @eduardadhi110  still going well? how many thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder have died in the Russian meatgrinder in Kherson oblast? please list all the towns recaptured! how much closer are Ukrainian forces to Kherson city now than they were a month ago? you and I may well have different definitions of "going well"! An offensive is NOT a fixing operation! If the aim of the Kherson offensive was to recapture no territory but to keep Russian troops in place, then it is a fixing operation, not an offensive! "offensive" means "moving forward"!
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  13864.  @thejosh3855  that would depend on how many more thousands of Azov Nazi cannon fodder got chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder, right, Adolf?
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  13865.  @thejosh3855  bit of a personal question for you, Adolf, but do you have a picture of Stefan Bandera in your room?
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  13866.  @thejosh3855  Certainly do. Putin is the great defender of the rights of ethnic Russians the world over. He deserves support. Only the deluded, brainwashed or Nazi supporters would not see that and would not appreciate Putin's vision.
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  13867.  @Wiseman__  If USA were in Ukraine's position I would say "for God's sake, call Putin and start negotiating". so, yes, I would say the same.
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  13868. "it's a fortress"......not much of a fortress once it's in a cauldron. Get ready for the Bakhmut treatment, Ukronazis.
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  13869. let's take bets on how many of NATOs metal coffins make it to the front line. Time for Russia to start Operation Bridge Destruction over the Dnipr, but only after as many NATO tanks as possible have been destroyed on entering Ukrainian territory from Poland.
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  13870. Oh. Fareed, you really think "funding" is the problem? If "funding" was the problem, Biden could just print more dollars, and problem solved. "Funding" is not what is needed on the front line! The front line needs 155mm shells, hundreds of thousands more men, air defences aplenty, things that have to be made and bred, not "funded"! you big dope.
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  13871. fascinating propaganda coming from Channel 4. unemployment figures are so low in Russia because the Russian economy, unlike in the West, is growing substantially and consumer demand is high. Putin cares very little about Ukraine's EU membership. He insists on Ukraine NOT joining NATO, and he will get his wish. Hilarious that the West thinks Putin will not be the person who decides on Ukraine's EU membership when the conflict ends.
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  13872. waiting for the day when half the England football team are told to stay on the bench because, as blacks, they have the wrong skin colour and it is important that the national team reflects how the nation looks as a whole.
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  13873. Zelensky just keeps serving up more and more cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder. Between them, Zelensky and Putin, the arduous process of demilitarization (killing, crippling or capturing every fighting age man) is happening. Zelensky has no clue how to reverse this.
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  13874. @Craig Steddy what makes you assume the aim was to take the small Ukrainian town? ever heard of a "cauldron"?
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  13875. @Craig Steddy here we go. every Russian failure is as defined by Western media and never explained from the Russian perspective. how could you ever learn about a Russian plan if you were never told what the Russian plan might be?
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  13876. just like the Taliban showed that NATO forces were the second best army at Kabul Airport in 2021
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  13877. Times Radio and the guest pretending to be shocked that AI declared what all attentive people realized back in March, that hospitals and schools etc are used by Ukrainian forces to hide themselves and their weapons. Ukraine admitted this, in response, saying "we have to, otherwise in the open we would be obliterated". So, all along, Russia was NOT firing indiscriminately but was firing at residential areas where Ukrainian forces was hiding. End of story. "Russia bad, Ukraine also bad" can be the new, honest, narrative.
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  13878. all those Australians who voted for a government that allowed mass Muslim immigration, enjoy every minute of the diversity that brings.
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  13879. Remember, Biden announced, back in July, that Russia had already lost this war. Bit confusing, then, that this discussion isn't all about the magnificent Ukrainian victory unfolding before our eyes. Or have Western leaders lied to us all and treated us like fools, DW?
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  13880. there is no such thing as "Political Islam" or "Islamism". There is only Islam, and all politics falls under Islam's rules, and Islamists are just the active Muslims enforcing Islam on society.
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  13881. so if it is such a good idea, why not allow all of the asylum seekers apply for work immediately?
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  13882. It's German pensioners who will freeze to death this winter, not Russians. Only the deluded think Ukraine, with or without NATO aid, can defeat Russia. Putin wins. Now for the fun of watching all the finger pointing that will follow.
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  13883. Dream on. Russia has demilitarized both Ukraine and NATO. The weapons have just about run out for NATO. Russia has ammo production that far outstrips what NATO can produce.
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  13884. i bet the Baltic states start, soon, to reconsider how they can, finally, recognize the full human rights of their ethnic Russian population. Then again, one visit from Bojo, and the Baltics will be talking about "total victory" and "removal of all Russians"
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  13885. what's the point sending more "resources" to further erode a broken border policy? the laws need to be enforced by those whose duty it is to enforce immigration rules, not increase the number of agents who spend all day on paperwork and making sandwiches for the new arrivals.
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  13886. exactly, and NATO is finding this out when they battle those brave DPR and LPR forces battling for the liberation from Kiev for their beloved homeland, Donbass
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  13887. does it bother you that both Poroshenko and Zelensky refused to implement Minsk 1 and Minsk 2, preferring to kill innocent children and women for the crime of being ethnic Russians in the Donbass, for EIGHT years?
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  13888. laughable that so many media are believing the fake template on Telegram that claims ISIS was responsible. every clue points towards Ukrainian involvement, including the attacker who was ex Ukrainian soldier.
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  13889. The Georgians thought they could boss the ethnic Russians around in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Putin proved them wrong. The Moldovans thought they could boss the ethnic Russians around in Transnistra. Putin proved them wrong. The Chechens thought they could boss the ethnic Russians around in Grozny. Putin proved them wrong. Now the Azov Nazis backed by Zelensky think they can boss the ethnic Russians around in Donbass. Putin is proving them wrong. Latvia and Estonia...are you paying close attention?
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  13890.  @AstraI  any jets sent by the West will go the same way as those Ukraine had at the start. scrap metal.
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  13891. Putin will decide on Ukraine's EU membership, not the EU. Just laughable that deluded Western leaders and their gullible sheep think Russia will not have the final say.
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  13892. we only give respect to those who give honest answers, so that rules the Guardia Civil out from gaining any respect.
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  13893.  @andrewforrester2648  that's why you use dogs, that can sniff out a needle in a haystack
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  13894.  @michmor6221  exactly. we should all respect dear Jay's last words to the world..."stole a watch off some c**t"
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  13895.  @michmor6221  what makes you assume Jay went there for a holiday?
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  13896.  @tinytarantulas6496  verdad, huele mal. la Benemérita explica nada y esconde mucho.
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  13897.  @raaaaasable  no one over 5 years old would think a route through impenetrable vegetation along a ravine edge is any kind of short cut! short cut to where? the Atlantic Ocean? FFS, think reality rather than pathetic conspiracy theories about short cuts.
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  13898.  @natalieharrison9553  yeah, she raised a kid to go round wielding a machete, deal in drugs and his last immortal words were "stole a watch off some c**t". she deserves all our love and respect. got it!
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  13899.  @manokies07  the family already got justice. they gave the green light to their thug kid to go to Tenerife and play at being a gangster.
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  13900.  @raaaaasable  easier first to say what I DON'T think happened to him! Don't think he got lost in the wilderness and fell off a cliff. Tough to say what happened to him, given the Guardia Police are covering so much up. Gut feeling is exactly what Debbie was told in that text she received. Jay owed a lot of money and was killed and the body dumped. what do you think?
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  13901.  @andrewforrester2648  you are confusing locating a body and retrieving a body. the dog indicates where the body is, but doesn't actually run up to the body!
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  13902.  @andrewforrester2648  you confuse locating a body with retrieving a body. the dog will indicate where the body is, the handler goes to the area indicated for retrieval. the dog says where in the haystack the needle is, the handler zeros in and finds it.
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  13903.  @michmor6221  I assume nothing, but a kid bragging about stealing "a watch off some c**t" isn't usually just on holiday. so, I repeat the question. what makes you 100% sure Jay went to Tenerife for pleasure and no business?
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  13904.  @michmor6221  tell me, what exactly is your definition of "officially confirmed"? this answer should be precious!
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  13905.  @andrewforrester2648  you are confusing locating a body with retrieving a body. the dogs indicate where the body is. the human hacks down the vegetation to get to the body.
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  13906. fingers crossed she decides to live in the part of Nigeria where women are abducted and never heard from again.
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  13907. Ditto....it was obviously a scam when "doctors" were telling us that the way to combat a virus was to stay indoors, avoid getting out into fresh air and natural Vitamin D, keep wearing cloth masks that don't work.
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  13908. well, well well, our propagandist from the Ministry of Truth is able to specify 30,000 Russian dead, but skips mentioning a specific number for Ukraine in the Battle of Bakhmut. Luckily the leaked dox tell us the kill rate is 7:1 in Russia's favor. Just gutting for NATO that the pride of it's trained, advised and armed Ukronazi boys are getting hammered by demoralized drunken convicts with spades.
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  13909. derussification" = Bucha style revenge on anyone suspected of not resisting Russian occupation. despicable war crimes aplenty being committed by Ukraine, for sure, all green-lighted by the West.
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  13910. "the objective is to weaken Russia" Lloyd Austin declared. Russia is responding and its aim is to weaken the West. This is exactly what the West wanted and should have expected. Happy inflation-ridden, bankruptcy-facing, freeezing to death winter, dear NATO. you asked for it.
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  13911.  @jyklehyde  Not true. Only the West talks about Russia talking about nuclear war. Don't be like the West.
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  13912.  @a5cent  what is absurd is the assumption that Ukraine will exist once Russia has won.
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  13913. Time for Charlotte to check the scorecard. In the last 20 years, white Brits killed by Muslims and immigrants = 100+ white Brits attempted to be killed by Muslims and immigrants = thousands Muslims and immigrants killed by the Far Right = 0
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  13914. methinks thou doth protest too much
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  13915. more people die of the cold than die of the heat, so let's hope global warming continues.
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  13916. what an amazing success! One person got wounded by a missile fired by a French weapon! That will surely turn the war in Ukraine's favor!
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  13917.  @julianday  the people of Ukraine threw democracy out the window with the 2014 coup d'etat and the Union House Massacre. In what kind of democracy is 40% of your citizenry told they can't use their native language in school? In what kind of democracy is the leader of the opposition held under arrest? In what kind of democracy are Nazis embraced as part of the national defense force? Maybe you were being sarcastic.
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  13918. fight for what? fight to avoid laws on transparency?
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  13919. Poor Emmanuelle has no idea what a "trap" is. She thinks it is a brilliant idea to have masses of Ukrainian troops and weaponry landed on a tiny foothold of Russian territory, only for all of it to be destroyed.
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  13920. oh boy, low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led, running out of ammo, just a bunch of convicts and mercenaries, the Wagners have AGAIN defeated the superbly trained and armed NATO/Ukronazi fighters! Same about to happen in Kupiansk! When does the reality, that our dumb Western leaders have blundered into an unwinnable war, hit home?
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  13921.  @maxvaysburd9772  yep, tens of thousands of dead cannon fodder, quite an achievement! How are things going in Kupiansk?
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  13922. "there's no quick fix" how many hours did it take for Parliament to pass laws forcing us all into lockdown ad infinitum? how many hours would it take for Parliament to pass a law ending immigration?
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  13923. yes, the UN have indeed said "war crimes have been committed IN Ukraine". Both sides have committed war crimes. When will Times Radio investigate the war crimes committed by Ukraine?
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  13924. let me take a wild guess, the next elected Scottish leader will, in a country with a population 96% white, be yet another brown Muslim. truly an apartheid state.
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  13925. yay! more super expensive weapons the French taxpayer is so generously giving so that they can all be destroyed by Russia. Putin certainly figured out how to demilitarize NATO.
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  13926.  @aion5837  same reason millions of people leave their "ancestral homeland" when they lose a war or political battle. Germans in Poland, Indians in Pakistan, Asians in Uganda. ONLY the Palestinian Arabs refuse to resettle and prosper and prefer to be permanent refugees. Bad decision.
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  13927.  @TrevorEden  and East Prussia WAS the homeland of millions of Germans, forced to move after WW2, so what's your point?
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  13928.  @camelotchimp  because no one can define what a "Palestinian" is. Go ahead. You try. Define "Palestine". where exactly are its borders? And keep in mind, Israelis are Palestinians too, at least the ones born in "Palestine".
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  13929.  @camelotchimp  it's the other way round. once the borders of Israel have been established, then no more settlements need be built. at the moment, after winning 3 wars against its Arab neighbors, it's Israel that decides where it wants to build settlements. Given the Arab neighbors have no interest in finalizing a border with Israel, then Israel will just continue to build on land it has won. Reality of conflict. All of the West Bank was conquered by Israel, and then ceded back to the Palestinian Arabs DEPENDENT ON RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST. Without recognition of Israel and agreement on its borders. Israel claims the right to do as it wishes in the West Bank. The ball is in the Palestinians' court. Recognize Israel and agree upon its borders, or keep watching Israel build on land that Israel so chooses. Time to decide.
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  13930.  @trowawayacc  No one listens to the G7 any more. It's all BRICS. Now that BRICS is even including military cooperation, the G7 is in panic mode and just can't understand why most of the globe cares nothing about the West's obsession with sanctions and with isolating Russia.
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  13931.  @johanhirte9661  child poverty was a horrendous problem during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, but it was a most marvellous period and place for investment. Learn some history.
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  13932.  @johanhirte9661  why would you take "turnover" to be an indicator of economic might?
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  13933.  @johanhirte9661  bla bla bla about current stats on China. Investment is about looking into the future and getting a good return on your money. China is still an attractive proposition COMPARED to the recession hit, green obsessed, declining Germany.
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  13934.  @johanhirte9661  China and Russia are working well together, and thanks to Western policy on sanctioning Russia, the West has brought Russia, China and India closer together. Another failure of Western policy. The future is BRICS
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  13935.  @c128stuff  we are talking about investments and comparing investment opportunities that Germany presents compared to the rest of the world. Investment means looking into the future. Germany's future looks bleak and is VERY unattractive to many investors. Now, if China was looking for some investment in its coal-fired power stations ambitions, I would think that would be very rewarding. Germany's windmills? nah. gonna fail.
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  13936.  @c128stuff  and now, the reality. More fossil fuels were bought and used last year than ever before, and that growth will continue. only a few small sectors in the West are trying to move away from fossil fuels, but globally, fossil fuels are booming and that is why Russia is doing really well. Russian inflation is low, 2% or so, the envy of most of Europe, employment and growth numbers better than Europe, and sanctions are actually driving inward investment in Russia to new heights. remember, in Feb 22 how Biden talked of the ruble becoming rubble and how sanctions would bring Russia to its knees and Russia would not be able to fund its war? How is that going?:)
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  13937.  @gigachadsitler  indeed it is
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  13938.  @bigboss.800  USA saying it would destroy Nordstream with no protests from EU leaders proves that EU is indeed just a puppet state of USA, like Ukraine.
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  13939.  @gigachadsitler  why is GDP of any importance? Italy and Russia have roughly the same GDP. If Italy disappears tomorrow, the world economy is just fine. If Russia disappears tomorrow, the world would go into panic over the loss of wheat, grains, uranium, precious metals, oil, gas and much more.
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  13940.  @johanhirte9661  How about investing in ALL those Russian companies that replaced the Western ones that pulled out due to sanctions? The Russian version of Starbucks or McDonalds, you know, the ones that are performing REALLY well!
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  13941.  @johanhirte9661  yes, I can see you don't understand economics. you are confused and can't think beyond vague terms like "economic output". i explained, exporting commodities that the world truly needs is the best measure of a strong economy, as Russia has proven. now, if you can't grasp that, and you keep flailing with terms like "productivity" and "economic output" I can't help you. you have to really really think hard.....what EXACTLY makes an economy strong, resilient and robust? it ain't simply "economic output". output of WHAT? Dolce and Gabbana handbags, or oil?
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  13942.  @manasmishra8945  GDP is a meaningless measure
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  13943.  @c128stuff  the same principle at play in the example I gave you applies today. learn from history. Child poverty is horrendous today in Vietnam, but many companies have made lucrative investments in Vietnam.
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  13944.  @johanhirte9661  Germany is doomed because it has embraced green energy policies with a passion and is de-industrializing. No serious investor sees Germany as a beacon of FUTURE economic growth COMPARED TO MANY OTHER PLACES ON THE GLOBE.
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  13945.  @gigachadsitler  tell me what the hidden strengths of Qatar are. Qatar is number 1 or 2 in GDP ppp?
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  13946.  @mike4393  Italy is not an island, but you are so right, Sherlock, I compared the economic importance and standing of Italy with that of mighty Russia. Nothing gets by you!
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  13947.  @c128stuff  Russia is not the only exporter of such vital commodities, but it is unique in that it exports so much of so many of the world's most needed commodities.
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  13948.  @gigachadsitler  so why did you mention "GDP ppp" as being important? "ppp" stands for "per person", right? correct me
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  13949.  @johanhirte9661  sounds like PPP is a totally meaningless concept that was created recently. GDP and GDP per capita are the only measures of any significance, and in this debate, about what "economic strength" really means, GDP is irrelevant, Given I deal with facts, and not fiction, makes sense I would be ignorant of something that is a "fictional calculated GDP". I would recommend you stick to facts, and not fiction, when discussing economics.
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  13950.  @johanhirte9661  i believe i have replied to everything, Mr Hot Air
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  13951.  @johanhirte9661  but just to repeat my main point, investment in Germany and much of the West will gradually decline as the BRICS nations attract most of the world's investors. The more the West freezes bank accounts and imposes sanctions, the more investors look away from the West. it's that simple. The Nordstream attack showed investors that no project in Europe is safe from US terrorism.
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  13952.  @distinctga5811  Russia's economy is substantially more robust than Europe's! If the sanctions currently imposed on Russia had been imposed on the EU, life in the EU would have collapsed. you are confusing a robust economy with a "productive" economy. same mistake our Western leaders have made. so, what you need to do is examine EXACTLY what you mean by "productive" and then figure out why "robust" and "productive" are so different. When my car is stuck in mud with its wheels spinning it is EXTREMELY productive! It is producing noise, rapid wheel movements, engine parts working intensely....just not going anywhere. capisce?
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  13953.  @johanhirte9661  as I said, I deal with facts in economics, not fiction, so when you explained that GDP ppp was "fictional" (your word), that totally explained why I had never heard of it. I repeat, I deal with facts, nothing "fictional", something you should do too, when talking economics.
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  13954.  @johanhirte9661  what makes you assume, Sherlock, that I didn't look it up? your logic is, how should I put it, such a joke?
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  13955.  @distinctga5811  1. Tell me any 2 nations that have the power to cut off Russia's access to sea lanes, given that the Baltic is international waters (you clearly know nothing). 2. this nonsense about "Russia running out of components" has been doing the rounds for 15 months now! It's bs. Van der Leyen and "Russia is taking chips from washing machines" twaddle. Globalism means Russia gets all the components it needs from all the countries (most of the globe) that are happy to trade with Russia. This is why the sanctions have failed. you know nothing.
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  13956.  @distinctga5811  Europe is EXTREMELY vulnerable to food supplies! See the mayhem caused when cheap Ukrainian grain started flooding the EU market! Sure, Europe can feed itself, but when food prices take off, as they have done since sanctions on Russia, all kinds of economic pressures pile on Western governments and mass discontent takes hold. You mistake food security for food price vulnerability. Europe is on a knife edge with food price vulnerability and, if push comes to shove, Russia could exacerbate that vulnerability to its liking. The European panic over the grain deal collapsing is not because Europe cares for starving Africans, but because Europe knows another bout of food inflation will be a disaster.
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  13957.  @distinctga5811  you really are ignorant! Fossil fuels are NOT dying out! More fossil fuels were produced and consumed last year than any year before, and that trend will continue! You really live in a deluded Western bubble! The reason sanctions have failed is because Russia exports what the world needs. Coal, gas, oil, uranium. Only an ignoramus would assume that development of renewables somehow means Russia's energy exports will matter less in the future. On the contrary, given that most of the world couldn't care less about windmills and solar panels, Russia future is assured. get real!
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  13958.  @distinctga5811  I'm splitting my sides laughing at this one about the world wanting the euro and how reliable it is! Again, you know nothing. Already we see signs of investors diversifying away from the dollar and the euro. after all, if the EU can freeze Russian bank accounts, what's to stop EU doing the same to any other nation in the future? Nope, confidence in the euro and dollar have plummeted, and that is why you see dedollarization and a move by the BRICS countries to trade in alternative currencies. The writing is on the wall.....both dollar and euro will be shunned in the future.
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  13959.  @distinctga5811  Russia has been disconnected from SWIFT for 16 months! So what? You speak as if there is only one way to transfer money! BRICS are happily developing their own mechanisms for bank transfers. In fact, it is the failure of the West to obstruct Russian banking that has shown the rest of the world how powerless the West is. Russia is admired for dealing with sanctions so effectively. It's not Russia that is in recession! That would be Germany! It's not Russia with 8% inflation, that would be the UK! You clearly have not kept up with the news!
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  13960.  @distinctga5811  you are confusing three different things. the sanctions on Russia are causing massive rises in food prices and energy prices. The war in Ukraine is causing greater government debts in the West as Ukraine gets unlimited aid, and cheap Ukrainian grain dumped into the EU market is causing mayhem as EU farmers demand it be removed from the cartel's market. All three factors are hurting the West enormously.
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  13961.  @distinctga5811  Yes, agreed, if the aim is to screw Ukraine over even more, just ban Ukrainian grain from being sold in the EU. we agree on something.
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  13962.  @distinctga5811  only the price of grain in Europe was under deflationary conditions. due to sanctions on Russia, all other foodstuffs have gone up in price.
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  13963.  @distinctga5811  banning, limiting and placing tariffs on goods is exactly how prices are driven up, inflationary, and it makes food prices very unstable and is a big concern for Europe, as I already said. Bit of a slow learner, aren't you?
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  13964.  @distinctga5811  Europe is indeed very vulnerable to food supplies. as i said previously, while Europe is able to feed itself, EU citizens and voters do NOT suffer food price rises gladly! the vulnerability lies in the fact that sustained food inflation causes panic and poverty as has been seen in the UK and other countries. Russian and Belarussian fertilizers are also key factors in keeping food prices stable, hence a big part of the grain deal was the EU concession to have no sanctions on Russian and Belarussian fertilizers. Now that the grain deal is dead, expect more upward pressure on EU food prices to come.
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  13965.  @distinctga5811  of all 12 sanctions packages announced by the EU against Russia, which one did you think would cripple the Russian economy to the point that it would be unable to wage war in Ukraine? Or is it going to be the next package that achieves that?:)
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  13966.  @distinctga5811  so, in brief, a "productive" economy is one where the exchange of goods and services is at a high level (though the foundations of such an economy could be weak). A "robust" economy is where the exports are commodities that are in high demand globally. so, for example, many EU economies are productive, but not robust. In a good year, Italy might make a handsome profit from selling handbags and package holidays. it's economy is NOT robust. Russia has a robust economy. it will ALWAYS have lucrative markets because its products are essentials, not luxuries. so, now you can discard that nonsense about "Russia being just a gas station with nukes". capisce?
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  13967.  @johanhirte9661  yep, Russia is indeed a technology hub, and globally, we can see that Russian hi tech weapons like kinzhals, you know, those hypersonic missiles that the West has yet to integrate and deploy into their systems, have caught the attention of countries around the globe! Can you say "bye bye to the failed NATO weapons on the battlefield" and "hello Russian high tech weapons that are demilitarizing NATO"? My God, USA resorting to cluster bombs! SOOOO high tech!
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  13968.  @johanhirte9661  keep looking at your list of "valuable" companies. one day, you might be bright enough to figure out what a company's "value" truly is. but then again, i doubt it, you seem a slow learner.
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  13969.  @johanhirte9661  not at all. economics professors are continuously evaluating the nature of "value" and what it means, exactly. it's only dullards like you that think you know something that are confused and frustrated.
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  13970.  @johanhirte9661  believe me, i know very well the difference between the notions of "developed countries" and "developing countries". i have spent a great chunk of my life in both! Have you? Thanks for the mathematical poser. Curious that you have now had to switch to debating what a "developed/developing" economy is rather than the original question of just how robust the Russian economy is! I'll take that as a white flag....bro.
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  13971.  @distinctga5811  you clearly are woefully ignorant. the reason sanctions on Russia have failed is because the Russian economy, based on exports of commodities, is robust. no recession in Russia like you have in Germany. Inflation in Russia half what we see in the UK. Employment numbers are good, Inward investment is strong. Europe wouldn't know how to solve any problem that came its way if its life depended on it. Look at the mess of immigration problem Europe is failing to resolve. I know, it is so hard for you to think of the 12 sanctions packages that the EU threw at Russia and to see how it was the EU that suffered most, not Russia. keep pondering what "robust" means. All those sanctions, all that Russophobia, yet Russia is demilitarizing NATO with ease. read it and weep, loser.
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  13972.  @distinctga5811  if the same sanctions that were placed on Russia were placed on Germany, how long do you think Germany would survive? a week? :) robust = being told your economy will be crippled to the point where you will be incapable of waging war, and then managing to wage war for 18 months and demilitarize those that said they would demilitarize you. Slava Rossiyi, the very definition of robust. read it and weep, Brandon.
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  13973. so the truth is that some people think Russia might abandon Kerson. Others have noticed Russian troops digging in around Kerson. Not a news story
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  13974. Sweden, Denmark and German governments, after all these months, have nothing to report. nothing. sounds fishy. Seymour Hersh and now German media have fleshed out a whole account with details. Can you say "cover up"?
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  13975.  @jasonodlin8305  if you are correct, then what does it say of the heartless, callous, uncaring NATO powers that keep 90% of their defence budget for themselves, keep spouting "as long as it takes", watch 30,000 Ukrainian cannon fodder get slaughtered every month, and let Zelensky go on a perpetual global begging tour with 90% of NATO budget under lock and key at home? Hmmm, no wonder the vast majority of the world is happy for Russia to win.
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  13976.  @jasonodlin8305  "stalemate" is a Russian win because when you go through the 5 objectives of Russia's invasion, you see Russia is close to attaining all 5. You tell me which of the 5 objectives are beyond Russia's grasp now. On the other hand, how close is Ukraine to liberating Crimea? liberating Lugansk? liberating Donetsk? how close is the West to smashing the Russian economy to the point that Russia cannot wage war? (4% economic growth forecast by the IMF for Russia in 2024, recession for Germany and probably UK). how isolated is Russia? ask any of its allies, China, India, OPEC, BRICS, Latin America, Africa, + all other sanctioned nations (Iran, N Korea, Venezuela)? Only the blind and deluded fail to see how much of a massive win for Russia this is, and what an epic fail for the woke, stumbling pathetic West.
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  13977.  @jasonodlin8305  maybe you need to argue your case with President Biden? He was recently told by his security advisors that unless Ukraine gets Western aid soon, Russia could win in a matter of weeks. The president's security team, unlike you, are not boasting of NATO's vast budget, but of a "stalemate" that turns rapidly to a Russian victory.
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  13978.  @jasonodlin8305  so, the massive chunk of NATO budget that is servicemen's pay and pensions for veterans, when do you think that will all be sent to Ukraine?
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  13979.  @jasonodlin8305  so if pension payments take up 10%, what percentage does salaries of all active duty servicemen take up? Plus, seeing as you have all the facts, what percentage is spent on Rand D, and on recruitment and training? let's see, in fact, what percentage is truly left as spare change for Ukraine! Go ahead.
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  13980.  @jasonodlin8305  you got it right the first time, but got it wrong the second time. you are right, a military budget is spent on national defence. Ukraine is not part of the UK nation, nor the French nation, nor the German nation etc. Therefore, not one single penny of any national defence budget was ever ear-marked for Ukraine. What you got wrong was assuming that a nation's defence budget would be put to good use if applied to Ukraine, which you claim is defending the West (though it isn't at all). The West's defence budgets would ONLY be put to good use IF the West were truly threatened by Russia, which they are not, AND if Ukraine was actually in a position to win, which it is not. Therefore, all this massive amount of taxpayer funded national defence spending is being thrown away to a corrupt Kiev regime, on a futile war that Ukraine has already lost, and on defending the West that is not even threatened by Russia in any way.
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  13981.  @jasonodlin8305  "not easy to quantify" you say, and yet you are sure there is an enormous surplus in NATO coffers to send Ukraine's way, right? and these two notions make sense to you?
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  13982.  @jasonodlin8305  you can increase the military budget to 50% of GDP, and it will do nothing to "minimize risk". when a Russian speaking minority are being shelled by a Nazi battalion in Donetsk, Putin is going to invade to take care of matters, no matter what the NATO defence budget might be! You think Kim il Jong in N Korea will end his nuclear programme because NATO have boosted defence spending by 0.5%? you are truly deluded about how the world works. If you really want to decrease the risk of NATO coming under attack, maybe stop unprovoked and illegal NATO missions such as Libya, Serbia, Iraq etc.
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  13983.  @jasonodlin8305  well, no one is stopping you from giving every last penny in your account to Zelensky, though don't expect Zelensky himself to sell his villa in Italy or his mansion in Miami, you will be the only sucker giving your life savings to Kiev. the Western tax payer has gotten fed up of being milked to prop up a despicable tyranny in Kiev. Get real. Iraq was a sovereign state. Did you wring your hands when Iraq was attacked? Afghanistan was a sovereign state, did you wring your hands when Kabul was attacked by USA? Let me guess, only when Russia decides to protect the rights of Russian speakers do you shout about "sovereign states" being invaded. simple question for you. what makes Ukraine more of a democracy than Russia?
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  13984.  @jasonodlin8305  here's a good reason to stop funding Ukraine. Russia can't be defeated. Even when NATO "ramps up" ammo and weapon production, it will still be behind Russia's massive production. Just curious. Do you know anything about Russia?
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  13985. so sharing video footage was a mistake? why? surely the video footage would back up Schumer's claim that he had to run for his life? or, maybe the problem is that the video footage would suggest that Schumer and co lied about the danger they were in?
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  13986. Russia now exporting LESS energy but making MORE money from energy exports! EU leaders need some lessons in basic economics before they go playing around with sanctions and ruining lives.
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  13987. Now that white British is a minority in so many cities, integration means the white British following the norms and traditions of the Muslim majority/plurality.
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  13988. Spain suddenly seeing how the EU rules they so embraced have ruined their homeland.
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  13989. The big problem is that about 30% of Ukrainians want Russia to win. Could even be that Zelensky himself ends up in court for treason if the mob catches him before he gets to his private jet as the Chechens storm Kiev soon.
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  13990. Honey, Putin's 40 minute "ramblings" was the one and only time Western audiences have been allowed to hear the Russian perspective from the horse's mouth, and it was fascinating, illuminating, and revealed so much about how the West has relied on censorship to silence the Russian voice.
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  13991. in the UK conscription won't work, because no one wants to serve a government led by the likes of Sunak or Starmer. all our masses of immigrants have their hearts in places like Bangladesh, not England. Finland was dumb to join NATO. Now you have Russia as an enemy right on your doorstep, and no one will bother coming to fight for Finland, believe me.
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  13992.  @juozasaleknavicius7928  Kiev never threatened any ethnic Russians in the Donbass, oh wait...
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  13993.  @ErikaRatilainen  The Ingrians issue has not been such a major factor in Russo-Finnish relations since Putin came to power. Finland joining NATO has caused a lot more anti Finnish feeling in Moscow than the Ingrians history!
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  13994.  @oguz7  you are living in the past. The world has changed, dogs have new masters, Saudi Arabia needs nothing from USA now. Tell me one necessity that USA can provide Saudi Arabia that Russia and China can't.
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  13995.  @oguz7  you mean the kind of "protection" USA gave Afghanistan? you must have missed what happened last year, with US's panicked exit from Afghanistan, that absolute fiasco of disorder and hysteria when the Taliban strolled into town. The world saw how pathetic US "protection" has become. Russia and China now offer much greater security and protection. And that's it? Your long list of necessities that US provide Saudi Arabia that Russia and China cannot is...."protection"? That's the long list? Maybe Saudi Arabia was never a dog, but a cat, and a cat certainly can walk away from its "master".
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  13996.  @oguz7  Got it. USA spent 20 years in, and God knows how many billions of dollars on, Afghanistan because......it is not important! You stress oil is of great importance, yet USA is self sufficient in oil if it chooses to be, and has the largest deposits of any country on the planet. Your reasoning is infantile, senseless. Let me exchange views with an adult. Good bye.
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  13997. So, Julia is outraged there is not enough money to build more prisons, yet she thinks it an absolutely brilliant idea to keep sending billions of pounds to Ukraine to prolong a futile war. hmmm
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  13998. and New York keeps voting Democrat. it's funny.
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  13999. painful though it is for the West to hear, the vast majority of Russians fully support Putin, and many think Putin is going soft on Ukraine. You see, many in Russia have heard firsthand of the 8 years of butchery caused by Ukraine against ethnic Russians in Donbass, from Donbass refugees now in Russia. It's now payback time, for Ukraine's refusal to recognize human rights in Donbass and for refusing to implement Minsk Accords. Slava Rossiyi...Z
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  14000. Compared to Brian Berletic, Sean Bell is a useless charlatan of a non expert and is ignorant of the reality happening in Ukraine
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  14001.  @kronos7110  What did who debate who about? Skip the vague "he" and "them", replace the pronouns with proper nouns, and then I can answer your inane, vague, imprecise question, LOL
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  14002.  @kronos7110  Oh yeah, Zelensky is so right, a nation of 10 million refugees, a million dead and wounded in a losing battle, power grid on its knees for yet another winter, bankrupt nation, a NATO backer that is out of weapons and cash, big ally Biden out of office, SUCH a big winner! wake up to reality....Putin has wiped the floor with the West.
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  14003.  @getbogged86  Trump has no more clout than Xi or Putin. America has been shown to be a paper tiger in the Ukraine War...out of weapons and out of will to fight.
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  14004.  @kronos7110  as I said, replace the pronouns with proper nouns and I'll happily answer the question! It's you who is deflecting! Make the question crystal clear and I'll happily answer it.
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  14005. other way round, Zelensky Bot. Locals with strong attachments to Russia, (culturally, historically and linguistically) are keen to keep those ties with Russia and more than happy to get support from Moscow. Crazy as this sounds to you, some people still believe a man cannot become a woman, and they reject absurd Western wokery.
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  14006.  @lu544  US coercion has forced Puerto Rico to be totally dependent on USA, just as Russian coercion has forced Gagauzia to become totally dependent on Russia
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  14007.  @fr2ncm9  it was a wonderful opportunity for all those Puerto Ricans who shout for independence to experience what true independence is like. Trump gave them a valuable learning opportunity.
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  14008.  @dragoscepraga9103  and that's why every single post 1945 immigrant, all over the globe, should be forced to move back to their native land, agreed?
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  14009.  @cristiangaban960  you speak as if invading a country and annexing land is necessarily a bad thing! US invades countries all the time. Is US ALWAYS wrong to invade other countries? yes, or no?
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  14010.  @dragoscepraga9103  so, what are you saying? those descendants of immigrants who were forced to move to Moldova should be forcefully moved back to Russia? or they should be allowed to stay in Moldova and live in an autonomous region?
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  14011.  @DSan-kl2yc  no one is talking about a country. we are talking about the descendants of those who were forcefully moved from one location to another. why would it be morally right to force the Russian speakers in Gagauza to move to Russia, but morally wrong to force the French speakers in Quebec to move to France.
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  14012.  @cristiangaban960  Syria, today
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  14013. this is what happens when you have a diversity hire as deputy speaker and a Labour MP as speaker.
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  14014.  @jacktenrec472  well, I mean eventually pragmatism will lead all 27 to be united in defeat, I suppose it's possible. More likely, with a sinking ship, unity is abandoned and it's each to his own. The reason there are 27 members and not 28 is because a lack of pragmatism led to a major defection. Next on the list to reject unity....Hungary?
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  14015. that's right, Ukrainian air defenses are in such good shape, I predict Ukraine will seize Crimea in a week or so and wrap this up next year.....get real. Russia has 350,000 fresh troops ready to pour in whenever they choose to turn the power off in Ukraine again, but I guess Zelensky from his bunker will still be shouting about reclaiming Crimea, even seconds before he flees to his mansion in Miami.
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  14016.  @Angry_Dinosaur  T 90s aren't needed if Ukraine is reduced to no reliable power grid. Putin's objectives can be attained by throwing out the remaining cannon fodder from Donetsk oblast and then ensuring Ukraine is not in a position to threaten Russia's borders. Russia is so much closer to attaining its objectives than Ukraine is to obtaining its fantasy world of objectives.
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  14017. in her defence, she said she was given a "mandate to elevate" the product, so she was just following orders. just a shame she confused "elevate" with "sink"
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  14018. so the IAEA confirm that the power plant suffered damage. which we already knew. and some delegates will stay there. great. so can we drop this story now? Pretty clear, now that Russia has accepted an IAEA presence, the Ukrainians will stop shelling the place and sending in their commandos to seize the place.
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  14019. the real scientists, like Judith Curry, as opposed to the propagandist grifters, like Michael Mann, know that there is no climate emergency.
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  14020.  @SeeLasSee  of course the news at the time was almost all pro NATO, just as it is now. Following the news during the Serbian conflict would have instilled the belief that intervening in a sovereign country to support separatists is a great idea. only problem now is that the separatists and liberators are on the other side, against NATO. Result? hypocrisy.
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  14021.  @MelkorPT  it's the "rules" that have been cooked up SINCE Hungary joined that's the problem
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  14022.  @MelkorPT  and I don't want my tax money to fund Green extremists in any country, so let's open up investigations into the rampant corruption in Green subsidies and start pointing fingers at ALL suspects.
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  14023.  @MelkorPT  until found guilty by an independent court of law (if such a thing exists) Orban has as much right as any EU leader to have his snout in the trough. It is absurd to think Orban has a monopoly on corruption in the EU. This is clearly a political move and has nothing to do with justice.
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  14024.  @MelkorPT  while we are at it, let's investigate EU time and money spent on cobbling together the opposition to Orban in the last election, and how the EU cobbled together the Czech oppostion to get rid of Babek? (the Czech guy)...electoral interference, as well as ignoring referenda that go against the EU stated objective, as in the Irish referendum and the Danish referendum, should be examined. massive corruption in the EU that needs to be investigated before anything Orban did or didn't do
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  14025.  @MelkorPT  Even funnier ha ha ha, imagine going to court accused of kidnapping and instead of denying, the judge says "no need to make a plea, case adjourned and pending the investigation currently in progress in which the plaintiff himself is under investigation for kidnapping"...NOW you have the more accurate legal analogy! you people just crack me up!
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  14026.  @MelkorPT  so if no crime has been committed, what's the problem?
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  14027.  @MelkorPT  You will find that the EU does need to prove that he's a criminal, because the nebulous world of "not following rules" will take on the appearance of a witch-hunt, which of course is exactly what it is. The EU will need to prove criminal activity, otherwise Orban will garner a lot of support from other EU sceptic governments, starting with the new Italian one soon to be elected. Yes, in 3 months time, when half the EU is out of energy, with inflation rates higher even than Latvia's is now, and with mass protests in the street, the EU will have to do a whole lot more than find Orban guilty of a crime! As for Article 50, Hungary has found another option.....remain in the EU and veto every damn measure than needs unanimity. Orban can absolutely wreck the EU from within if he chooses, but as I say, given that the EU is doing a masterful job of wrecking itself, it might not need Orban to finish the job.
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  14028. what is truly ignorant is this absurd assumption that a difficult terrain hinders the discovery of a human body. dogs can follow a human scent to the point it falls off the edge. the question you need to ask yourself is why the Guardia Civil refused to search in this way.
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  14029.  @zed351  of course, because you know nothing about the difference between a successful search and a failed search. but, i'll give you a chance! let's start with an easy question. is it a good idea for police with dogs to enter the last known room a human was in just before searching for him? yes or no?
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  14030.  @zed351  as expected, you are incapable of answering even the most basic of questions. Even Lucy was able to work out the answer to that one! oh dear. not the brightest, are you? or...would you like to try and answer?
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  14031.  @issimondias  who is talking about after a couple of days? looks like you have the very low standards of urgency of the Guardia Civil! why assume that Jay was on a scree slope? your assumptions are truly bizarre!
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  14032.  @celtictarotreadings333  given that Jay was already cut by a cactus, doesn't make a whole lot of sense for him to keep blundering through a cactus filled wilderness, does it?
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  14033.  @zed351  I have told you. I can read. I read the words of experts. I told you to google "cadaver dogs". Did you? Did you educate yourself, or did you choose to remain ignorant. But you know, it is a curious argument you make. instead of rebutting what I say with evidence, you choose to question my qualifications for saying it! why not just correct my statements? cue crickets. simple question for you. when is it better to do a forensic search? Day 1 or day 16?
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  14034.  @dorothyblair6741  one girl went missing in equally treacherous terrain in the Alps, and she was found in one hour 30 minutes. if you are interested, I'll let you know how.
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  14035.  @zed351  fascinating that when faced with such easy questions you refuse to answer! says so much about you.
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  14036.  @issimondias  you and I have the same doubts. I too very much doubt that such an incompetent and corrupt force as Tenerife's Guardia Civil would think of getting dogs to sniff the airbnb within hours. obvious thing to do, but they chose not to. on a par with waiting until Day 16 to do a forensic search. how about we start with road? at least get the dogs to follow the scent up the road and determine exactly where Jay left the road. would have been a good start, agreed?
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  14037.  @zed351  just curious, regarding your incessant appeal to authority, the "are you an expert?" mantra. whenever someone says "look at that dog" do you ask "source? are you an expert? are you a vet?"
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  14038.  @dorothyblair6741  take a look at the extremely rugged terrain of the Pyrenees and see the ravines and chasms where missing persons are located....within hours! you seem to be confused between locating a dead body and retrieving a dead body. happy to explain the difference any time you want.
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  14039.  @issimondias  all the evidence you need is the visible evidence of drug taking on Veronica's Strip, the word of the locals, and the very low detection rate of drugs smuggled onto the island. You don't need to be a vet to know what a dog is, and you don't need to be a graduate from Police Academy to sniff corruption everywhere on Tenerife. The more important question is why you choose to ignore such reality.
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  14040.  @celtictarotreadings333  rubbish. even a child realizes that the best option is to stay on the road or return to the road. if you are lost you either go back or sit and wait for help. you don't go to the edge of a ravine and fall in. your conspiracy theories about why Jay "got lost" are pathetic.
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  14041.  @issimondias  looks like reading comprehension is not your forte. no mention was made of my police experience. however, if you really want to read about the corrupt police in Tenerife, and you can read Spanish, google "detenidos cuatro policías nacionales en Tenerife por revelar secretos y trafico de drogas" y leer el artículo en El Día. ¿Conoces Tenerife bien, no?
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  14042.  @issimondias  just to show you how weak you are, let's ask you a simple question and then observe how you refuse to answer. Yes, or no. It's better to conduct a forensic search of a property on Day One rather than Day 16?
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  14043.  @issimondias  do you know how to use a search engine? can you read Spanish fluently? "detenidos cuatro policías nacionales en Tenerife.."
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  14044.  @issimondias  you said it! you can ONLY imagine that the local police had thought about this. in other words, you are 100% incapable of imagining any other possible scenario! blinkered, tunnel vision, no thinking outside the box, you can ONLY imagine one thing. explains so much.
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  14045.  @issimondias  again, your "incredibly likely" is 100% contradicted by all the evidence. you have chosen to believe what you like to believe and ignore the evidence. pure conspiracy theory! now, to pinpoint your wayward thinking, let's give you a simple question, which you will refuse to answer, I'm pretty sure. yes, or no. Did Brad report Jay as being in any way impaired when Brad described their video phone conversation? cue crickets.
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  14046.  @issimondias  as expected, totally incapable of answering the question. par for the course. and that was the simple question, a yes or no answer, that you couldn't handle! oh boy, how do you get through the working day? ok, if at any time you feel wise enough to answer the question, just let me know. adiós.
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  14047.  @issimondias  unlike you, I am happy to answer any question, because I don't dodge an issue, and I am capable of answering questions. yes, it does seem plausible that his friend would claim that. Now, to double check your accuracy I will listen to the Brad interview again and see how accurately you reported it.
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  14048.  @issimondias  Did Brad say he could see Jay's feet?
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  14049.  @issimondias  "that's how I knew he went off the road, you could hear gravel, you know what I mean, stones" once again, more conspiracy theories from you! not a single word about seeing anything, and no mention of falling downhill! do you lie and create conspiracy theories habitually
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  14050.  @issimondias  interviewer "were you concerned at that point?" Brad "at that time, no." where is the evidence that Jay was in bad shape?
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  14051.  @issimondias  all you are doing is giving me multiple examples of how reporters distort what is actually said. I base my information on what Brad actually said, not on what I believe he said . Within the interviewer's question, she actually asks TWO distinct questions. 1. Did you see Jay's feet slipping down? and then a follow up question. 2. Did you hear him slipping? Now, listen carefully to Brad's answer. Brad says NOTHING about seeing anything. Brad addresses ONLY the second question, and confirms he HEARD the sound of gravel, you know what I mean, stones. The interviewer never pressed him on what he saw. If your point is that Brad's words were repeatedly misreported, I 100% agree with you. I don't deal with misreporting. I deal with what was said, I recommend you do the same. For example, Lucy never said that Jay was thirsty, Check her precise words!
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  14052.  @issimondias  I know you will refuse to answer again, but just for fun, I'm going to try, just to prove my point. Did Brad ever mention in his interview that Jay was impaired in any way? yes or no?
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  14053.  @issimondias  thanks for the diagnosis, doc. only problem is, the patient never said he was suffering from anything, and neither did ANYONE that interacted with him that morning! You are looking for symptoms that didn't exist!
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  14054.  @issimondias  Ah, so we finally have an answer from you! Progress. Correct, the answer is NO! Brad NEVER said anything about Jay being impaired. Next question. Yes or no. Did Lucy ever mention Jay seemed impaired? yes or no?
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  14055.  @issimondias  I can see why you get so confused! You use pronouns too much, and that bad habit muddies the waters. Writer's tip for you... Avoid "he", "his", "him" and state the name of the person to whom you refer. I don't deal with suppositions. Unlike you, I'm not a conspiracy theorist who puts 2 and 2 together and gets 5. Neither you nor I have any idea if Jay was dehydrated or not. The evidence suggests he was not. Now, the only person I have heard talk about Jay's condition was Lucy. Lucy never said that Jay was out of water. Lucy never said that Jay was thirsty. This time, I'll let you do your homework. What were the exact words Lucy used? You say "he stated he was out of water". Who is "he"? Jay? Brad? In which interview did Brad say, or did Brad say that Jay said, "he was out of water"?
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  14056.  @issimondias  just curious...what do you think the temperature was in Masca when Jay started off walking quickly, without any signs of impairment, up that road from the airbnb?
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  14057.  @issimondias  BTW, I'm not saying Brad's testimony is reliable, but his word is evidence, as is everything that has been said by those who talked to Jay. The problem I have with your conspiracy theories is they are all based on no evidence, on nothing buy supposition! You are making stuff up, only because it fits the theory you and others have conspired to share.
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  14058.  @issimondias  again, you suppose things with no evidence. Brad already said in the interview that Jay had the stamina to party all night and be fine the next morning and go out and do it again. being out all night is no big deal. if Jay had 6 hours quality sleep Sunday afternoon/evening, not only would he be fine all through the night but well into the next day too. I know people who work a 12 hour night shift, 8 pm to 8 am, and then are awake for hours after that before needing sleep. I don't deal with "in all likelihood". neither you nor I know what Jay drank or took that night. If we go by Jay's words, he was sound enough to steal a watch and get away with it. You are a very confident person. You are confident that the temperature in Masca was higher than in Lancashire when Jay left the airbnb. MWT told us the temperature at the time in Masca when Jay started walking. If you don't know the answer, have a guess, a confident guess!
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  14059. @darrenbrians5930 been out on the front lines with your clipboard and abacus adding it all up, yes? or are you just repeating fictional figures conjured up by Ukrainian propagandists?
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  14060. What Putin REALLY loved was when Ben Wallace announced, 14 months ago, that Russia was running out of weapons! The Kremlin absolutely guffaws at Western arrogance and lies. 3.5% growth forecast for the Russian economy next year, says the IMF. UK will probably be in recession. Yet more sanctions should be imposed on Russia would be your solution?
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  14061.  @chorleyjeff  who cares about convicts?
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  14062. Russia advancing? But how? Ukraine is winning, right? send more javelins! send more M777s! send more himars! send more of all those game-changers that have changed the game from Ukraine winning to Ukraine losing...oh, wait. there's no more to send? send Leopard 1 tanks from the 1960's junk heap! must be disinformation, convicts can't advance against NATO trained and armed troops!
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  14063.  @pallando100  bull**it. obesity is a sign of shoving too many kebabs in your fat gob every day. if the community gets you down, move to one that inspires you. this is pathetic whining "woe is me". pathetic victimhood. people who live in real poverty in places like India and Ethiopia don't look like this and don't blame such and such an industry that closed down decades ago.
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  14064.  @mathiasbartl903  yep, it takes remarkable intelligence to see that reducing calorie intake is a must if you don't do manual work.
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  14065. so why did Kennedy ever have a meltdown over Russian nukes being shipped to Cuba?
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  14066.  @АлександрПолянин-е1ц  how much time do you spend worried about bots rather than the valid points and arguments they make?
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  14067.  @WillyWillerton  got it. so, plenty of conventional missiles, no problem, but one nuclear missile, and USA has a meltdown, right? and this makes sense to you?
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  14068.  @WillyWillerton  good to know. and the US agencies are 100% convinced no nuclear devices have been transported to Cuba? I'm sure they will let the world know when Russia or China does so, though as Cuba is a sovereign country, USA would understand it has no right to intervene at all.
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  14069.  @WillyWillerton  either way, my point is that if USA asserts that Russia has no say over what happens in sovereign Ukraine, then, logically, USA has no say what happens in sovereign Cuba, so nuclear missiles or no, the world looks forward to a shift in policy and USA embracing Cuba's sovereign decision to host Russian or Chinese nuclear weapons and military bases there, agreed?:)
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  14070.  @АлександрПолянин-е1ц  so true. Westerners, particularly Americans, are terribly ignorant of life in Russia. They think they know something, but they don't. I studied in Russia, in Pyatigorsk, and lived in USA, and it is obvious the overall quality of life is far superior in Russia. Americans are clueless.
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  14071.  @birdsofafeather8368  we are all still breathing despite his meltdown, and not because there was no meltdown. Fortunately, Kruschov was clever enough to deal with the NATO in Turkey issue and manage the US meltdown over missiles in Cuba.
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  14072. the murkiness was there from Day One. Fools like you just refused to look into it all.
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  14073. the solution is to reverse policy and announce that asylum claims must be made from OUTSIDE the UK, and anyone arriving in the UK without documentation showing asylum has been granted will be forcefully returned to France.
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  14074.  @oggsmash9989  me too! It seems like "far right" today means "espouses common sense"
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  14075. This is what happens when you sanction Russia. It's great ally (Iran/Houthis) force more pain on the West by threatening all Red Sea shipping, which the powerless USA can do nothing about. Think twice before sanctioning Russia.
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  14076.  @timothywoodard8766  only problem is the data you DON'T mention! Russia is replacing its artillery losses quite comfortably and even has more units in action now than at any other time in the war. That's why Russia is winning.
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  14077.  @timothywoodard8766  it is so cute that you just lap up the lies and misinformation of the West. No wonder RT had to be banned in the West! People like you might question information if you had a secondary source. Let's see what you know. What is the name of Russia's main tank factory?
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  14078.  @timothywoodard8766  oh really? Ukraine keeps winning artillery duels because they have superior counterbattery fire? How about you tell me where you read this confession. cue crickets
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  14079.  @timothywoodard8766  well well well, the phrase you used, "catching up" is curious. it is another way of saying "is till behind that of.." And I agree. Western production in ALL areas of munitions and weaponry is still behind that of Russia. where we disagree is that the West is NOT catching up at all. Biden confessed that the mighty USA had to resort to sending cluster munitions to Kiev because USA is now so low on regular 155mm shells. oh dear. BOTH Ukraine and NATO have become demilitarized. keep sucking your thumb and be happy with your superior Western technology. Hey, maybe one day that superiority will mean Ukraine actually gets to the first line of Russian defences in this the 3rd MONTH of a disastrous counter offensive?
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  14080. Sunak is absolutely clueless and should be congratulated for only one thing, that he destroyed the Conservative party that decided to cease being Conservative. Roll on Farage
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  14081.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  what is nothing to do with the Far Right?
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  14082.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  well, the most well known of Far Right regimes in modern history was Nazi Germany. Were there any concentration camps in Nazi Germany? Any elections?
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  14083.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  so if the Nazis were Far Left, and the Marxists are Far Left, and Communists are Far Left, which political movements do you define as Far Right? Sounds like you are saying all extremists are Far Left!
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  14084.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  you chose not to answer my question. which political philosophies and movements are far right?
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  14085.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  so, "classical Liberalism" is far right? Liberalism is not Liberal? What policies make Milei far right rather than just right, or conservative? give me the names of any European leader that was far right, as opposed to just right wing. it seems to me you are really confused between Liberal, centrist, right, and far right, and that you are really struggling to identify some specific policies that would be uniquely far right.
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  14086.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  are all those who advocate racial superiority "far right"?
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  14087.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  are all nationalists, "my country wrong or right" far right?
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  14088.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  is it only the "far left" that believes in concentration camps? only the "far left" that believes in apartheid-style racial segregation? Nationalists in Ukraine who desire the eradication of use of Russian in their country, would be far right? or far left? Was Franco far right? was Salazar far right? Let me guess, none of those traditionally described as "Fascists" in the history books were in any way right of centre according to you? Franco, Salazar, Pinochet? They were all Leftists?
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  14089.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "All collectivists are on the Left" So, Orania in South Africa is a Leftist White collective?
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  14090.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "Historically". what other ways are there to evaluate whether a government has been Fascist, and which of those other ways would consider Salazar and Franco as Fascists, as they are so described in history books, history books which, according to you, are not looking at things historically.
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  14091.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Given that Franco was Far Left and Salazar was Far Left and Brezhnev was far Left, how to explain that Franco and Salazar felt akin to one another, politically, but view the other Far Left guy, Brezhnev, as the enemy and someone way on the other side of the political spectrum?
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  14092.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Please try again. I never mentioned anything about being attacked by another country. Nationalists in Ukraine who desire the eradication of the use of Russian (language) in their country, would be far right or far left?
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  14093.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  so, the white farmers of Orania, who have formed a collective and have excluded blacks from their community, they are far left? not far right? What percentage of history professors would agree with you and say that white South African farmers who believe in strict racial segregation are prime examples of the Far Left?
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  14094.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  yes, the motto of the Right is "live and let live", but we are trying to ascertain who, exactly, is the Far Right. What would be the motto of the Far Right?
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  14095.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  So, Trump and his "America First" and "MAGA" followers are all Far Left? or Left? And that would make Bernie Sanders also Left?
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  14096.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  yep. here is the problem. as I suspected. Europe is full of the Far Left, the Left, the Centre and the Right. There is no far Right. It doesn't exist in Europe. Only Milei is far Right, all on his own in the world. or maybe not? who else in the world over the last 100 years was Far Right? No one in WW2 was Far Right, that was all Leftists and Centrists fighting each other?
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  14097.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  So, Margaret Thatcher was Far Right, because she definitely fought to limit the size and power of the government. And Reagan. Both Far Right. Neither of them would ever be described as Conservative? Thatcher was leader of the Conservatives, but not a Conservative?
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  14098.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  so, the word "historically" needs to be removed, as it implies some other measure could be applied. given we are talking theory and delving into grey areas, and given your "historical facts" diverge significantly from nearly all history books and MSM, we should be careful with your assertive "historical facts" line. A historical fact would be that WW2 ended in 1945, not that only Mussolini was a Fascist, but Franco and Salazar were Far Left.
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  14099.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks and Trotskyists viewed each other as the enemy, but never viewed each other as on the complete opposite end of the political spectrum! You honestly believe that Salazar and Franco viewed Brezhnev as a fellow Leftist, just slightly errant in his interpretation of what true Leftism was?
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  14100.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Again, that word "historically". Whenever I switch the word "historically" for "according to me" I get a much more accurate statement from you. What Salazar wanted to do and what Salazar actually did are two different worlds. "Historically", in Portugal, Salazar is referred to as a Fascist dictator, as is Franco. Franco was a staunch supporter of the Catholic Church. Would that be one of his Far Left stances in his pick and mix policy? Franco was vehemently anti unions, so would that be part of his Far Left ideology? Franco was also intolerant of regionalism, would that be a Far Right or a Far Left stance? The fasces is the traditional symbol of Fascism, did Franco ever proudly identify with the fasces?
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  14101.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  what percentage of history professors and history teachers, do you think, would agree with you that neither Hitler nor Franco were Fascists and that both were Far Left?
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  14102.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  give me the name of an author, a historian, that would agree with you that those who espouse the superiority of one race over another would make them "far left". what name would i google to see the words of someone who echoes your conclusion.
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  14103.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  really not sure about this notion of yours that ALL collectivists must be left wing and that all of the far right believe in democracy. on what do you base your definitions?
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  14104.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "it was a different 3rd position ideology altogether" seems to be your default description of regimes that are accepted as being Fascist by most of the world, but which don't fall into your definition of Fascist or "far right."
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  14105.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  it is all about you, given that your definitions are so out of step with mainstream history. but one facet of your writing that i think is worth adopting starting with the word "wrong". so, here we go. Wrong. If you were to say "according to me" instead of "historically" your statements would be much more accurate.
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  14106.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! Religious affiliation is very much a feature of the right, and atheism very much a feature of the far Left. WRONG!
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  14107.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! Traditionally the Left has embraced unionization of the work place, and the Right has opposed unionization. Typical of the Far Right is an absolute disdain of the unions, and Union leaders like Mick McGahey and Artur Scargill were old-school Far Left, so WRONG!
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  14108.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! Your incessant babble about the "3rd Way" is just a screen protecting you from acknowledging that Franco and co were Fascists. the Falangists were basically Fascists, but if you wish to devise a long list of strikingly unique features of the Falangists that were 180 degrees different from Fascists, go ahead. WRONG!
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  14109.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! The "historical facts" you produce turn out to be just drivel. So, I will answer the question for you. Only a tiny number of oddballs would conclude that Franco, Salazar and Hitler were nothing to do with Fascism and were all Far Left. so, WRONG!
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  14110.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! Democracy is not "majority mob rule." Democracy is very much based on accepted rules, regulations and rights, all quite the opposite of mob rule, so WRONG (again).
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  14111.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! (it's fun starting every response with the autocratic, intolerant and absurdly dismissive arrogant "wrong", I love it! your fascist style of wring has inspired me) WRONG!
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  14112.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! ALL ABOUT YOU. Only you have such a warped version of historical definitions.
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  14113.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! I gave you Brittanica as my source of definition for "Fascism". So far, you have given me zero evidence that your "historical definition" is based on anything at all, so, until you give a source for your definitions, WRONG!
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  14114.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! your repetition of "historical definition" without providing a source fools no one. you are making it all up, so, 100% WRONG! Renzo de Felice makes it abundantly clear that copy-cat regimes like Salazar and Franco were close enough to Mussolini's Fascism for Franco and Salazar to be considered as Fascists. Try again. WRONG!
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  14115.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Going to follow up on adopting your "wrong" start to replies, with your repeated use of "historical definition" phrase and "historical facts" line. WRONG. Historical definition and historical facts show quite clearly that the Salazar, Franco and Hitler regimes were all Fascist, Far Right and......let me see, oh, let me copy you, no sources needed, so, yeah, my views are all historical definition and historical facts, yours are all just unsubstantiated blather, so, WRONG! Like my new style of writing?
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  14116.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! Franco, Salazar, and Hitler were all akin to Mussolini in their beliefs, and can all be classified as Fascists, and collectivism is advocated by the Right when it is for the glory of the race or the state. WRONG!
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  14117.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! Renzo admits there are many connections between Franco, Salazar and Mussolini and allows the reader to conclude that such similarities invite the generalization that they were all Fascists! WRONG!
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  14118.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  WRONG! I read history books, but what you seem to be ignorant of is that different historians come to different conclusions, and that the vast majority do not agree with you! WAKE UP CALL! Well qualified historians say you are WRONG! Time to step out of your bubble and entertain a different perspective. No book recommendations needed. just quotes and definitions with their sources, as I did for you, the Brittanica description of "Fascism". Off you go, do some homework and quote some sources, quotes, to back up your claims.
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  14119.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  google the 2 words "brittanica" and "fascism" and there you will find a list under "national fascisms" the name of Salazar. Now, I have given you my source. you tell me why you are a much more reliable source than "Brittanica". Let me guess, because you are wise and know everything, and the writers at Brittanica are dumb and uneducated?
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  14120. because the level of incompetence is stunningly high within all of NATO
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  14121.  @phillipdavidhaskett7513  Azovnazi lover. the same level of Russian incompetence that led to victories in Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Syria? which sanctions package against Russia worked the best, do you think? number 6? number 3? deluded.
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  14122. there is no Ukrainian shaping operation. it's desperate acts of terrorism trying to get media attention because the fall of Bakhmut was such a devastating loss.
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  14123. Took him 3 minutes through a lot of umming and ahhing to say he thinks Ukraine has recaptured one town in the Kharkov region, and nothing at all in Kherson. And the 2000 cannon fodder Ukrainian troops served up into the Russian meatgrinder? silence...big Russia win
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  14124. just so funny that at the moment Ukraine is in dire need of more ammunition, NATO meets to talk about ramping up production! totally explains how the flip flop wearing goat herders, the Taliban, kicked NATO out of Kabul so easily in 2021.
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  14125. it's only difficult terrain if you have no drones and no helicopter. in the end, they lowered down some pros within a few minutes and found what they were looking for, 20 minutes walk away from the epicentre of the search! stop making excuses for an incompetent bunch of buffoons. just remember "of no relevance to this case".
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  14126.  @celiazsan5448  quiza no entiendes nada sobre búsquedas, querida
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  14127. So, Gingrich wants to remove Putin and defeat Russia but doesn't want money handed over to Ukraine to accomplish this aim. Total hypocrite. Then just explain how Russia will be defeated without unlimited US aid.
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  14128. the same fools who blame tourists for a housing shortage are embracing wave after wave of migrant invasions that are really driving up the housing prices.
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  14129. translation - Ukrainians are scared Americans will come to their senses and stop wanting to hand over billions of dollars every month for a futile war, so Ukraine needs a miracle and somehow win this year.
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  14130. The gangs are exploiting no one. It is 100% legal to claim asylum on landing in the UK. The gangs are helping asylum seekers get where they want to go.
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  14131. @Mitts swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish
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  14132. @Mitts dooby woooby hoooby bing
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  14133. what a load of superficial waffle from Dougie. Look, it's simple. The Irish are fed up of mass immigration that is making places look unrecognizable, more like Dakar than Dublin, fed up of violent attacks by immigrants on Irish people, fed up of being told to shut up because they are "far right", fed up of their country losing its culture and identity.
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  14134.  @nsevv  if he doesn't hug Zelensky, he ends up dead, like Gonzalo Lira
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  14135. translation - the Kherson offensive failed. Thousands of cannon fodder chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder, no territory gained, and the Russians have maintained supplies across the Dniepr River.
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  14136.  @Thesamurai1999  at what point would you consider the Kherson offensive over and failed? Give us some idea. By what date? Ukraine open about their losses and victories? so how many soldiers did Ukraine lose in this recent Kharkov offensive? Got those figures have you? Russia never threatens with nukes. Russia only spells out its nuclear doctrine, which is public and never has changed. The West takes such statements as a "threat" because it feeds into the fears of people like you. Russia will use nukes if its existence is threatened. that hasn't changed.
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  14137.  @Thesamurai1999  Kherson has now become an offensive! It wasn't before. Something has gone very wrong for Russia
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  14138.  @eb9720  why would I need to read a TSA web page? No intention of having any contact with those clowns.
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  14139.  @JohnAmatulli  not sure what your point is. i was commenting on the incompetence of the TSA.
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  14140. @Null Pointer the opposite. Russia has been targeting the Ukraine military while trying to avoid civilian casualties (and Putin has been getting a lot of criticism at home for being so concerned about civilian losses). you did hear Amnesty International state that Ukraine was concealing weapons and troops in civilian areas, right? Do you really think Ukrainian civilian casualties would be so low if Russia had terrorist intentions?
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  14141. @Null Pointer you do agree that Ukraine started this war when it started shelling the Donbass, right?
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  14142. @Null Pointer Chechnya started the war with Russia when, just like Ukraine, it decided it was a really great idea to discriminate against ethnic Russians.
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  14143. @Null Pointer Giving refuge to Osama bin Laden and ISIS, "internal" matter or you give the green light for USA or NATO to invade Afghanistan to engage in conflict there?
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  14144. He's an absolute fool. Bankrupt country, 70, 000 dead soldiers, and Europe sending no more weapons or ammo. Just as he was when he danced with Fury for 12 rounds and lost, Klitschko underestimated his opponent, Russia
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  14145. No, Mike, China's priority is NOT finishing the conflict! China knows it is next on Biden's crazy hit list, and China wants to make sure Russia doesn't lose, otherwise it is the next target. So, yes, China WILL supply Russia with weapons if it means Russia avoids a defeat, and it is USA and the West that will need to keep trading with China, otherwise sanctions on China will just hurt the West more than sanctions on Russia hurt the West. China is in a VERY strong position, and the West knows it.
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  14146. not really a "significant gain" if it ended up being a trap that Russia can attack and destroy at will.
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  14147.  @MoooB74oooH  it is the only plausible explanation, and although it happens rarely, it is a well known condition. Intersex. In primitive, backward places like Algeria, a doctor is never going to hesitate over a registration at birth....far easier to conform to Islamic law and place "male" or "female" on the birth certificate rather than "intersex". the doctors guessed wrong. a mistake was made, Imane was registered female and grew up treated as a girl, but Imane is a man, hence the XY chromosomes. what is funny is Algerians are so backward they can't figure out basic biology and correct the mistake.
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  14148.  @MoooB74oooH  now then, where is your evidence that Imane is a woman? Birth certificate, passport, photos are not biological evidence. what makes you 100% sure that Imane's chromosomes are XX?
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  14149.  @MoooB74oooH  tell me, do you think 100% of doctors are right 100% of the time?
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  14150.  @MoooB74oooH  yeah, that's why everyone flies to Algeria for specialized medical treatment! NOT! you live in a fantasy world. Probably Algerian doctors are REALLY good at how to advise men how to beat their wives so that the bruises don't show? still waiting for your biological evidence that Imane is 100% woman!
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  14151.  @9395gb  we don't know for sure, you are right. all we know is he failed the gender tests and did not challenge the findings.
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  14152.  @ona_tzar  it's you who needs to improve your reading comprehension. it really is that simple; XY always equates to male. there is a woke crowd who wants to muddy the science and suggest other factors, like testosterone levels, can be used to determine male/female status, but these are scientists with an agenda. there simply is no better distinction between male and female than the chromosomes. learn to analyze language better.
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  14153. Every single citizen that voted for Western governments that imported this Islamic scum have only themselves to blame.
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  14154. You'll never see a BBC production extolling the historical contributions of Asians to the UK, because Asians are not insecure and looking for any kind of cultural validation. It's the inferiority complex of blacks that leads them, and their supporters, to incessantly lie about their "achievements", as the real history of such is an embarrassing dearth of contribution through the ages.
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  14155. just a reminder to fools like Ben Wallace that Russia is not running out of missiles and can take down the power grid at will.
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  14156.  @TheLumberjack1987  Everything I say counters your ignorance, Nazi lover. Ever been to Ukraine have you? Tell of your first hand experiences with Ukraine, please do
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  14157.  @rogerout8875  just giving the deluded Zelensky bots a dose of truth
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  14158. Yet another dumb EU idea that will do nothing to enhance security, will boost inconvenience for all travellers, including EU citizens, and will encourage Brits to take their holiday spending money to the likes of Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Montenegro, Morocco, Thailand, anywhere but EU.
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  14159.  @rappakalja5295  Yanukovich was democratically elected. No one contested the legitimacy of his election. Azov Nazis (the guys you support) backed by oligarchs and the West supported the coup that ousted Yanukovich. Rightly so, Crimea and Donbass refused to remain part of a Ukraine that had lost its legitimate government and sovereignty to an armed gang of thugs and corrupt Western backers. You are supporting the wrong side. Got a few Azov swastikas and tattoos on your arms have you? Jump for joy do you when you hear about the Russian speaking children murdered by Azov Nazi shelling of the Donbass?
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  14160. en masse, US media are 100% sure it's ISIS, before any arrests and any evidence! oh, the fake ISIS template for claiming responsibility on a Telegram channel? give me a break.
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  14161. oh God, how desperate is NATO? Ukronazis desperately need ammo, yesterday, and Reinmetal is negotiating the possibility of a tank factory at some point in the distant future? bunch of deluded dreamers leading NATO. totally explains the Kabul 2021 debacle.
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  14162. same bla bla bla we had 3 months ago. Russia running out of troops, unsustainable, western weapons will win the day. at least he dropped the whole "Russia is isolated" myth.
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  14163.  @andrewalderman101  at the moment Russia is exporting less energy and earning MORE revenues from such! Might not need more pipelines, just a high global price of energy
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  14164.  @andrewalderman101  YOU are missing the point (you must work for the EU in Brussels?) you don't NEED to sell the oil you can't deliver when the global price of oil is high! You can decrease production and export, and INCREASE revenues. It's a notion called "scarcity"...look it up.
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  14165.  @IAm-NotHear  "reverted back" = given back, surplus to requirements.
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  14166.  @Fighter005DK  why not? what evidence do you have for Ukrainian regaining anything? 3:1 is the accepted ratio for fighting men to defending men to make a mass offensive successful. Russia just called up about 350,000 reservists, so you think Ukraine suddenly found a million men to go on the offensive?
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  14167.  @Hero4fun77  exactly, afraid the death toll would not warrant keeping such territory. exactly what, in a war of attrition, Ukraine should be doing in Bakhmut.
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  14168.  @billhicks808  google the quotes and you will see the truth.
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  14169.  @ax0r  Russia is summoning reservists to add to its troop build up. Ukraine is fully mobilized, conscripting ANY able bodied male, or even disabled according to the word on the street, to REPLACE its horrendous losses. learn the difference.
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  14170.  @billhicks808  looked it up? look up "Ghost of Kiev" and see what lies you find about that. Man, you wouldn't know a reliable source if it hit you full in the face and shouted "hey, dumbo, I'm a reliable source"
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  14171.  @Hero4fun77  that's right. if you give something back, you haven't lost it. however, if you fail to achieve your objectives, you have lost. right now, Russia is MUCH closer to achieving its 5 objectives than Ukraine is to achieving its stated goals. Hence, Russia is winning.
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  14172.  @andro3455  please provide any reliable source that would disprove the Discord document leak that attests to a 7:1 kill ratio in favor of the Russians
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  14173. The West getting desperate with photo shoots, words of solidarity, and delusional descriptions of how Russia is losing. Reality on the ground is that Russia is winning and time is on Russia's side. NATO's military knows that, but the leaders can't accept they messed up.
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  14174. what a load of guff. We all, apart from a a handful of hand wringing Germans, have accepted Germany as totally post Nazi. Germany increasing spending on defense is fine by everyone, if that is what Germany wants. Drama over nothing.
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  14175. Just a shame Douglas Murray lost so much credibility when he pronounced that Ukraine was winning and would win the war against Russia.
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  14176.  @barbaracleverly9058  not off topic if the subject is Douglas Murray and his powers of analysis, not peevish if it sheds light on some really bad conclusions Douglas has come to.
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  14177. Lenin's useful idiots
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  14178. BECAUSE of its "support" from the West
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  14179. Muslim rape gangs pose much more of a threat to the nation than any Russian soldiers. This old fart was the one that kept saying Russia was failing and running out of weapons. He has got everything wrong so far. Explains why Sunak has no idea how to deal with the Ukraine situation.
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  14180.  @Asdfgghhhjj  People die from the cold every winter. it will happen this winter on a horrendous level. Lockdown? If you want hyper inflation...we already tried forcing perfectly healthy people to stay home and not work, just print money to pay them, now we have recession. you want more of that? "costly to the economy but we can afford it"? who is "we". the rich? in the real world, the majority CANNOT afford it and will rebel, yellow vests style. Russia CAN afford it! Russia has plenty of buyers around the globe. You missed the news, the West failed to isolate Russia and Russian energy revenues have INCREASED. Germany in particular has screwed itself and the West got the sanctions effect completely backwards.
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  14181.  @starvictory7079  clearly not. Unlike the UK, Germany prefers to elect a Green government that fires up coal fueled power stations and turns to the nuclear option even though it discarded such an option years ago! what a loser country! all because Germany wants the Azov Nazis to keep shelling the Donbass in perpetuity.....surprise surprise, who would ever think Germany would support those with swastika tattoes on them?
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  14182.  @Ron_Coletta  and what is the % of people who don't understand that it is the sanctions that are crippling German energy supplies?
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  14183.  @Ron_Coletta  clearly deluded. Germany is a powerless relic that can't even provide enough energy for its people. A nation so deluded by wind power it is now turning to coal and nuclear! Absolutely NO ONE in the world cares what Scholtz says or does. The only players calling the shots are Russia, China and USA. but USA is in the death throes of its hegemony, and USA is dragging Germany down with it. As Berlin orders more money printed and DESPERATELY begs Qatar and Azerbaijan to replace a tiny fraction of the cheap Russian energy Germany threw away. Germany will sink. Still, with all those migrants, diversity is your strength! the Somalis and Moroccans will pull you out of trouble, right?:)
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  14184.  @Ron_Coletta  Germany now reduced to BEGGING EU members for any gas this winter. BEGGING! You think Greece, after being mercilessly bullied by Germany over its debt crisis will help Germany now? The mighty Germans reduced to BEGGING for gas! What an absolute failure. Sticking it to Putin? Sticking it to the EU taxpayers more like it. A total disgrace...but you support it. Shame on you.
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  14185.  @Ron_Coletta  Just curious....when Donald Trump warned Germany that it had become too reliant on Russian energy that it was in a perilous position for doing such, were you one of those who smirked and scoffed and throughtTrump was dumb? or did you proudly proclaim how Trump had been so insightful and his views should be acted upon? My guess is, seeing as you make so many false assumptions and get so much wrong, that you felt Trump was uneducated and didn't know anything?
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  14186.  @Asdfgghhhjj  why not try best case scenario? why not talk peace with Putin and get back to normal? peace came to Chechnya, to Moldova, to Georgia, so why do we insist on prolonging war in Ukraine?
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  14187.  @Ron_Coletta  Just curious..have you seen any opinion polls in Germany that put the number of Germans who think the German government should put German interests first, not Ukraine's, at around 45%? Have you seen that poll?
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  14188.  @Asdfgghhhjj  Putin has been in power for decades. There is no pattern of Putin invading European countries, and there won't be after Ukraine is dealt with. The common denominator in Russia's military interventions is that when ethnic Russians have their rights removed and are discriminated against, Putin will use force to restore their rights. Then peace is established. Chechnya - Russia restores rights for Russians and defeats nationalists. Ditto Abkhazia, ditto South Ossetia, ditto Transnistra. All those places now live in peace. Ukraine will end up the same, rights restored and peace established. I mean if Latvia wants to shell its Russian speakers and ban the Russian language like Ukraine did, then yeah, probably Putin will intervene in Latvia, but he would be right to do so, and you and I would support him, right? OR..you PREFER Azov Nazis have free reign to shell Donbass civilians for 8 years. Prefer that, do you?
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  14189.  @Asdfgghhhjj  Here below are the 6 measures adopted in 1994 1. Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.[23] 2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Ukraine. 3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. 4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine. 6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.[24][25] USA and UK FAILED to respect Ukraine's sovereignty in 2014 when the democratically elected government of Yanukovich was overthrown with Azov Nazi support AND US support. Backing a coup d'etat, as the West did, was a FLAGRANT violation of the first proviso. As I asked you, WHY would Russia ever trust the West again? And I already told you, proviso 6 mentions "consult with one another if questions arise" The West refused to do this, hence the whole of the Budapest Memorandum became null and void. Learning the truth yet?
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  14190.  @Asdfgghhhjj  ever been to Ukraine have you? Ever spoken to Donbass refugees?
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  14191.  @Asdfgghhhjj  tell me what your hopes are. Do you hope the Azov Nazis will eventually win and establish a pure race Ukrainian state, no ethnic Russians allowed at all?
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  14192.  @DiogoJ1  Nonsense. First of all, you need to decide if Ukraine SHOULD be defended. Personally, a country that incorporates swastika tattooed Nazis into its ranks and shells the Donbass for 8 years deserves NO defending, in my view, but then again, I'm an anti Fascist! I mean if you want to defend such a monstrous Nazi russophobic regime, fine, but not me, and not the civilized world. Given the conflict is raging, Ukraine, with US support, needs to sue for peace and accept Russian terms. It's the only way to save lives. Russia's opponents has gone through this before, and Chechnya, Georgia and Transnistra all returned to peace, don't fret. Ukraine needs to treat any Russian speaking minorities fairly and all will be well. Russia has pretty much killed, crippled or captured the Nazis (despite people like you opposing this effort), so that objective is close to completion. Ever seen an Azov parade in Ukraine, have you?
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  14193.  @DiogoJ1  indeed, death happens to everyone. just some of us don't want it to happen immediately. am guessing Ukrainian troops would prefer a few more years of life in peace. just a guess. USA has billions of Biden dollars to give to Ukraine it seems, why not fund a Ukrainian migration to USA, Canada, Poland, whichever country wants to host them? Peace and prosperity for Ukrainians, either in a rump state or abroad, rather than certain death?
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  14194. absolutely tiny group of protesters. DW did a good job to make the group look more than a dozen. absolute panic in Ukraine to go begging for a cessation of Iranian drone exports. tells us Ukraine can't shoot enough of them down and that the West can't help much. time to panic.
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  14195. nowhere will see a big swing to Labour. the Labour vote will remain the same or decrease. there will be a massive swing away from the Conservatives.
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  14196. fancy that, some people believe something else happened in this case, and refuse to be silent! what nasty people they must be! probably the same crowd that kept shouting that the virus came from a lab and that the jab won't stop the spread of the virus!
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  14197. Did you all hear that various media groups have called for detailed analyses, from this point on, of all military attacks made against the poor Houthi rebels in Yemen? A concentrated focus on the rights and wrongs of the conflict in Yemen will now take place. Did you all hear that news? No, neither did I.
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  14198. how about you give an example of such? when has this happened before?
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  14199.  @BlackEpyon  remember, the West is holding Ukraine up as the great democracy! the free and tolerant nation! not Russia! If both Ukraine and Russia are authoritarian dictatorships, why are we supporting Ukraine?
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  14200.  @priyajoseph7108  in what way? you think Russian speakers from the Donvbass sought refuge in Russia because Russia was WORSE than Ukraine?
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  14201.  @edufonseca5718  Ukraine crushing the enemy? you mean in the Eurovision Song Contest?
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  14202.  @BlackEpyon  as I pointed out, when the democratically elected president is ousted by a coup d'etat (2014), when Russian is banned as a language of education and instruction, when the former president is detained on the border, when the leader of the opposition is under house arrest, when opposition parties are banned, when broadcasting stations are united under state control, THAT is an authoritarian dictatorship. and now you know why the good people of Donbass are prepared to fight to the death for their liberty and democracy. Wise up on the truth about your beloved Ukraine.
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  14203.  @BlackEpyon  spelling corruption and participating in corruption are two different things, and I know which one is a crime, and so do you. Maybe @ira knows how to spell thousands of words in languages you have never heard of? Nice try...focus on spelling, not the fact of Ukraine's appalling corruption...ever been to Ukraine have you?
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  14204. Trump is great. The Trump years were a golden period, nothing like the chaos and failings of today
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  14205. love the Russians for saying openly what so many Westerners think but are too scared to say.
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  14206. and now, the truth. after 6 days of this offensive, Ukraine has suffered massive losses in men and weaponry, and gained no territory. Ukraine has failed to punch through anywhere in these Russian forward positions. The Russians waiting on the first line of defence are asking for just a few tanks to be let through so that they too can get some target practice. Disaster for Ukraine/NATO, but that won't change the plan. thousands more cannon fodder will be sacrificed in this act of futility.
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  14207. Putin made it clear that Ukraine joining NATO is a red line. NATO said that Russia's red lines don't matter. Ukraine agreed. Result: destruction of Ukraine and demilitarization of NATO, severe weakening of Western economies, but fantastic to feel that the moral decision to cross Putin's red line was so right.
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  14208. Russia crushing and demilitarizing the pathetic Ukraine/NATO alliance. I mean the dreaded Taliban gave NATO a good licking in Kabul last year, Russia giving it another grand whipping this year.
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  14209.  @haskalah  all being defeated by a Russian expeditionary force that accounts for about a fifth of its peacetime army. You thought Kabul last year was humiliating for NATO? Wait til it gets defeat in Ukraine rubbed in its face on the global stage.
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  14210. After EIGHT YEARS of Azov Nazi shells raining down and killing DPR civilians, DPR and Russia want revenge. So, Ukraine, just 7 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS more of this shit for you to survive! We are told Ukraine is resilient....so 7 years and 8 months more should be a breeze:)...maybe Poroshenko should have implemented the Minsk accords!
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  14211. clearly the aim of Jay's pals and family, and Spanish Police, is to keep all the attention on searching in this wilderness that Jay never entered! The question is why? Well, in the case of the Spanish Police, we know why, but with the friends and family, we don't know why.
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  14212.  @leviwalker7385  the truth hurts, eh, Azov Nazi lover?
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  14213.  @slowshadow2669  focus on the message, not on the messenger or the account date, though focusing on the message takes a degree of intellect, a challenge for the likes of a slow person, right?
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  14214.  @slowshadow2669  slow by name and slow by nature. you couldn't recognize propaganda if it came up to you and slapped you in the face shouting "hey, I'm propaganda". just a shadow of a real person. go back to sleep.
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  14215.  @slowshadow2669  "clowns", not "clown's". let me know if you want a lesson on how to use the apostrophe.
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  14216.  @DaTrueSavage951  name one verified successful himars attack that killed a hundred soldiers. just name the place where it happened.
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  14217.  @jamiewulfyr4607  Considering no one on the Russian side ever mentioned a timetable, I would say you have been swallowing Western propaganda hook, line and sinker. the takeover of your mind is done and dusted!
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  14218.  @jamiewulfyr4607  100,000 dead, 8 million refugees, bankrupt and begging, no reliable power grid, the worst of winter to come, 300,000 Russians poised on the border, if this is going well, I would hate to see what "going badly" is!
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  14219.  @BullGator-kd6ge  Russia doesn't need a gamechanger. it's winning, exactly as it did in Chechnya, Syria and Georgia.
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  14220.  @RDeckardN6  The fact that Snake Island tops your list is funny, but tells the whole story. Everything you mention are pin pricks in a war of attrition. 100,000 dead cannon fodder, 8 million refugees, bankrupt and begging desperately, no reliable power grid, 300,000 Russians poised on the border, that's what winning looks like. Snake Island? enjoy the fruits of such wonderful "success"
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  14221.  @slowshadow2669  can't say i like your name, just that it describes both your mental speed and lack of substance absolutely perfectly.
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  14222.  @jahrastaeasygaming2372  all the evidence points to a Russian win. Same playbook as used in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. Following the disaster of a panicked exit from Kabul, NATO ain't got the guts to step onto the battlefield, Iran and North Korea chomping at the bit to do whatever it takes to demilitarize the West. Yep, NATO bitten off more than it can chew. Time for Biden to go begging Venezuela, Saudi and others for help again.
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  14223.  @jamiewulfyr4607  me too. after the Taliban killed 13 US servicemen and captured all those US abandoned weapons and kicked NATO out of Kabul so comprehensively, it's amazing NATO has held out for nearly a year.
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  14224.  @slowshadow2669  then your argument is with General Milley and Ursula Van der Leyen, not with me. Both said 100,000 Ukrainian dead.
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  14225.  @jamiewulfyr4607  quite possibly. then again, it would be interesting to see the blubbery, fragile, woke Americans react to hundreds of dead GI's flown home every day and hear Biden explain how war with Russia was such a wonderful idea.
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  14226.  @brentjamescollins9731  what is the difference between a false propagandist and a true propagandist? pray tell.
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  14227. arrogant Farage thinks there is a right and wrong kind of question to ask Putin? Nonsense. just to hear Putin's perspective will be a real eye-opener for the truth-starved Western masses.
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  14228. motive? well, if the assailant is Muslim, he believes in jihad against the infidel. there's your motive, heaven and the 72 virgins.
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  14229. we already have more trees than we ever had! maybe time to cut a few down to see if that helps?
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  14230.  @MischievousMischief  well we wouldn't be cutting it down for fun, right? what right, exactly, do you have to command Brazil on what it can cut and can't cut?
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  14231.  @marlow7562  right, and in between that period of the Earth being covered with more trees, we had the long period of a lot less trees. the Plains Indians are called thus because they did not live in forests! For decades the West and many places have been replanting trees, and there are more now than 100 years ago. Learn real history. When Finland replants 2 trees for every one chopped down, guess if the number of trees goes up or down?
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  14232.  @marlow7562  sure, i actually doubt statements about tree coverage when we are considering prehistoric times. obviously wild fires back then had no fire service to combat them. so, who knows? the point is, for sure, since the industrial revolution we have seen a steady increase in global tree coverage and a dramatic greening of the planet now there is more CO2 in the atmosphere. global warming has brought enormous benefits. truth hurts, eh?
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  14233.  @marlow7562  America has the same amount of history as anywhere else on the globe, you dunce. As a Brit, I need no lectures on that screwed up place. so, much of the American plains are now forested, and enormous swathes of Russia are forested where they were just tundra and under ice before. Europe has been on a crazed mission to plant more trees for decades, yawn. yep, the first animal rights activists were those that told American Indians that butchering the buffalo was such a bad thing. Animals have a right to live on the planet too, dear Apache and Cherokee.
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  14234.  @marlow7562  bla bla bla. am just showing you that the tripe you hear via Western media is such bs. massive tree felling has been of great benefit, and massive replanting of trees has been of great benefit. so what's your point? fueling the industrial age was a wonderful thing. it brought you ALL the benefits you enjoy today. celebrate it!
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  14235. les russes ont gagné les coeurs des habitants du Donbass
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  14236. In this era of equal rights and equity, these Ukrainian women should be fighting and dying on the front lines, shouldn't they?...or is it only men who deserve to be gunned down by the DPR and LPR, and the women deserve a free holiday in a nice hotel?
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  14237. NATO is so far behind Gas Station Russia, it's funny. This dolt, Chip Chipmunk, has got everything wrong about the Ukraine conflict, and now hasn't got the common sense to see how deficient Britainistan is in all areas. maybe more courses on diversity and inclusion would help?
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  14238. G7 doing a great job at making China, Russia, BRICS, OPEC all enemies of the G7. what a bunch of useless leaders these hypocritical charlatans are.
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  14239.  @zulubeatz1  no, i just understand a tremendous number of things the ignorant sheeple of this world say they get, but they don't. Complicated issues like when Azov Nazis shell their fellow citizens for 8 years, that's called a "provocation". Things like that.
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  14240.  @zulubeatz1  I must confess, I did wear special glasses that reverse situations when I heard the Western media report on the Ghost of Kiev. Should have loaned you my special glasses for that one, right?
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  14241.  @zulubeatz1  are you wearing special reverse glasses today? are you seeing a glorious counter offensive that is going remarkably well for Ukraine?
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  14242.  @zulubeatz1  and your point is...?
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  14243.  @zulubeatz1  no, you saw Putin congratulating Shoigu for steady progress in achieving the 5 objectives. Russia has no timeline, just 5 objectives that it needs to attain. Quit listening to Western media who tell the sheeple what Russia's aims are, just listen to Kremlin announcements for that.
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  14244.  @zulubeatz1  5 objectives. The objective of demilitarizing Ukraine will obviously take time, but thanks to NATO and Zelensky serving up thousands upon thousands of cannon fodder young soldiers into the Russian meatgrinder, progress is steady.
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  14245.  @zulubeatz1  no, taking Kiev was not an objective. of course not. why would Kiev be an objective? it would be a suicide mission into a russophobic Ukrainian speaking area.
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  14246.  @zulubeatz1  no one in Russia predicted anything would fall in any amount of time. Sadly, you parrot lies quoted by Western sources who pretend they got them from Russia. Putin and the Kremlin don't have a timescale, just the 5 objectives, and progress is impressive so far.
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  14247.  @zulubeatz1  1) It's Zelensky and the Azov Nazis who bullied themselves into this war in 2014. why do you ignore the beginning of the story and focus only on the middle part? 2) Supplies to Ukraine are now down to a dribble and will continue to diminish. The last Biden arms package was a PROCUREMENT...weapons that have to be ordered and manufactured! NATO is tapped out! Russia has demilitarized NATO! 3) Only in your arrogant mind is the West the center of the most advanced military systems. Keep living in that arrogant bubble that is ignorant of the defense systems of other places 4) The Russian army is not going to capture Ukraine because capturing Ukraine is not one of the 5 objectives. Go back and read the 5 objectives. 5)it is entirely possible that Russia at some point will declare war, shell cities and use nukes. All things are possible. But Russia will win, and Russia deserves to win. Ukraine should have implemented the Minsk accords. period.
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  14248. Lithuania is as ready for a Russian response just as Germany's energy policy was as ready for a Russian response. Is Lithuania ready for its ports to be blockaded and/or Russia to put a military presence on its trains and to await the first shots to come from Lithuania? Really?
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  14249. it's not Ukrainian grain that is "below market price". it's the protectionist EU cartel that screws its citizens with prices that are way ABOVE market prices.
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  14250.  @MerryXmasMfkrs  horsemeat was found in processed meat products in Belgium, or Kiev?
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  14251. the climate change cult would accept thousands of pensioners freezing to death this winter if it meant a mini step forward to reducing carbon emissions one per cent or less.
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  14252. "massive investment in the banlieus".....they already get more funding per capita than ANY other part of France. it is a never ending program of funding funding funding, building building building, destroy destroy destroy. so, there is no money to support the state pensions, but suddenly Macron has found billions to rebuild everything so that the mob can tear it down next time.
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  14253. Putin has stated that Ukraine will not become a NATO member, and Putin will ensure that Ukraine will not become a NATO member. Once Russia has won, Putin will be in a position to demand NATO is rolled back to the 1990 agreed borders.
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  14254. "bomb after bomb"....remember that genius, Ben Wallace, saying back in October "the Russians are running out of weapons"? the West needs some leaders, not ignorant propagandists leading us to WW3
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  14255. so the far right AfD are calling for peace talks, but the moderate Scholz is calling for more and more war. Got it.
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  14256. a civilian with a rope around his neck? Someone who decided to emulate Jussie Smollett? something tells me these accusations won't pan out.
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  14257. The Russians DIDN'T come to liberate that woman you talked to. She is more than welcome to continue living in the Azov Nazi Republic of Ukraine. The Russian army came to liberate those ethnic Russians that were desperate after 8 years of Azov Nazi shelling. Not her.
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  14258.  @stephfoxwell4620  money supply creates and controls inflation. nothing else.
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  14259. it would change nothing. Ukraine will lose for one of 4 reasons. 1. it runs out of funding. 2. it runs out of weapons. 3. it runs out of ammo. 4. it runs out of men. take your pick. mobilizing a million men just reduces the chance of reason 4 being the key factor in defeat. All the other 3 still mean Ukraine loses.
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  14260. you are very confused about the nature of money. gold and silver have intrinsic worth. like property, there is demand for them in their own right. 20 dollar bills have no intrinsic worth. A goldsmith can do nothing with a 20 dollar bill. money is a means of exchanging goods and services. it's the goods and services that you need to focus on. not the money.
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  14261. "PREPARES" for a counter offensive? Liar Zelensky said A MONTH AGO that step by step, Ukrainian forces were advancing to Kherson! A month ago liar Khlan said Kherson would be captured before September (just 12 days to go). Lord Dannatt thought Ghost of Kiev was real! Why do Times Radio give air time to such liars and propagandists? Pathetic media bias and misinformation.
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  14262.  @Stickyman61  that's right. even North Korea can see that it is a total joke to defend such a corrupt, russophobic tyranny as Ukraine! Takes one to know one, we could say!
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  14263.  @Stickyman61  the funny thing is that the club of sanctioned countries, such is the long list of Western targets of useless sanctions, is not far off being the majority on the world's nations! when do you think the West will learn that sanctions don't work?
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  14264.  @APW554  no need to imagine! one man in Latvia was thrown in jail for trampling on the Ukrainian flag! North Korea is already IN the EU. In Paris, a teacher was beheaded for showing a picture of Mohammed! North Kore sounds safe and liberal by comparison!
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  14265.  @APW554  talking of protest, Putin has to face opposition Duma representatives, for example, the Communists, day in and day out, protesting. Does Zelensky have any opposition MPs protesting him in the Rada? or did he get rid of all such protests?
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  14266.  @Goprof150  as i said, educate yourself, read "language policy of Ukraine" and you will see all the spheres in which Ukrainian is banned. got a high school kid who is a native Russian speaker and lives in a Russian speaking majority area? education must be in Ukrainian! learn some bloody facts. why do you think Hungary got so irate about Ukraine's policy and why the policy was condemned by Human Rights Watch? It's a russophobic travesty of justice, but speaks volumes you 100% support it.
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  14267.  @CreatingAlong  "somewhere with free speech"? you think it is an either/or? either a country has free speech, or it doesn't? life is much more complicated than that! there are degrees of free speech, a spectrum. For example, in the UK, the Police are on record for knocking on a man's door and saying "we have come to check your thinking!"...free speech union had to take the Police to court! Right now, I am in France, but I have lived and worked in many different countries. Now then, oh knowlegeable one, which "facts" do I need to know, exactly? what is your experience of living and working in many different countries?
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  14268.  @APW554  do you think the USA should stay within its borders?
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  14269.  @APW554  do you think the "defensive" alliance, NATO, should have stayed within its borders when it bombed the living s**t out of both sovereign Serbia and sovereign Libya?
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  14270.  @APW554  on the matter of UN votes, do you really believe the one vote of Antigua and Barbuda is as important and relevant as the one vote of China?
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  14271.  @bonnie7898  but true
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  14272. yep, Poland has done so much to maximize the number of young Ukrainian cannon fodder getting served to the Russian meatgrinder. How are things going in Poland with those lines of cars outside coal mines, people begging for coal for energy? Back to the Middle Ages for Poland!
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  14273. She looks pretty diluted, could well be that some of the white in her is guilty of slave trading, so maybe she should be a bit more apologetic
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  14274. who cares where the bombs were made? That's like wringing your hands about where the rifle was made that the serial killer used in his rampage.
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  14275. raising the minimum wage just means yet more unemployment for those trying to enter the work force, so the RN in fact is helping workers by voting against minimum wage legislation
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  14276.  @aceyage  BTW, those employers that can absorb the extra costs of a hike in the minimum wage can only do so by raising the price of the product they sell, which means consumers end up paying for the minimum wage hike, which means people have LESS in their pockets, not more! Minimum wage = economic activity and growth killer.
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  14277.  @aceyage  "Pizza Hut laid off 1200 delivery drivers following California rise in minimum wage for fast food workers" now then, you asked for evidence, start googling and see what you find.
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  14278.  @aceyage  If higher minimum wage means more money in people's pockets, then why not increase the minimum wage by 100%, or even 500%?
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  14279.  @aceyage  ever wondered why the wealthiest countries, like Iceland and Switzerland, have no minimum wage? they must be so dumb, right?
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  14280. it's the usual routine from Britainistan's Sharia Police. an innocent person gets manhandled and assaulted, the innocent person retaliates and then the Police arrest the victim.
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  14281. oh dear. anyone who is confused between a subsidy (a payment to enable a company to operate) and a tax break (a reduced level of taxation on any profits made) is not qualified to comment on such matters on tv.
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  14282. The whole report was on what NATO has given so far and what little NATO has left. NOTHING on what is on the way. Ukrainians should be very worried that, beg as they might, there is nothing else to give. Demilitarization of both Ukraine and NATO. Great job, Putin.
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  14283. Prigozhin bowed to Putin when Prigozhin saw there was no popular support for his move.
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  14284. and so many of them wearing the obedience masks.
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  14285.  @alainlefebvre9860  sure, NATO would shred Russia just like it did the sandal wearing goatherders, the Taliban, when they strolled into Kabul last year. I mean NATO DID manage to drone an innocent Afghan family to death, so I suppose NATO proved its worth there. NATO said it would take 90 days for the Taliban to take Kabul, Took 90 hours! NATO is far too busy talking about electric tanks, diversity in the ranks, sensitivity training for it to be a serious threat. NATO countries, especially its main component, USA, are blubbery, divided snowflake nations that, 3 days of the media showing bodybags of massacred troops being flown home, would sue for peace immediately. NATO has no guts to fight Chechens street by street. And if NATO has all these weapons it could send Ukraine, why is it refusing to send them?
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  14286. @kelpy "accept the backlash that comes with whatever your speech is" like, a beheading?
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  14287.  @VilkatisJanis  oh exactly! If someone gave me 10,000 korans every single one of them would go on the log fire to warm me up over winter! Buenas Noches, Mohammed.
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  14288. @kelpy so what makes burning the koran a far right thing rather than a far left thing?
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  14289.  @starvictory7079  what beliefs make Paludan far right, as opposed to far left, or even just right, or left?
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  14290. @kelpy so how about you answer the question instead of avoiding the question. what makes burning the koran, or any book, a far right activity?
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  14291. @kelpy if you can't explain it, you don't understand it. I am saying that book-burning is not a Left or Right thing. I am saying that book burning can be an expression of freedom of expression, or it can be an expression of authoritarianism. YOU are the one saying book burning is a right wing thing, but then YOU can't explain on what basis you say that. you are lost and very confused. so, let's try one last time. what makes book burning a Right, or far Right thing? Try again!
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  14292. @kelpy there are no books that specify book burning as a uniquely far right activity. that's the problem. it is your assertion. so, defend it with evidence, or remain dumb. my concern is the dopes of this world label things "far right" when they have no idea what "far right" and "far left" truly mean when put on the spot, like you, now, the only response is "look in a book". pathetic. once again, book burning has no specific connection with "far right" or "far left", but your nonsensical reaction to label it "far right" shows you are clueless and biased. Deal with it.
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  14293.  @citronski  of course that is what it tells you, because you are brainwashed into thinking anything connected with Russia must be bad. welcome to the simple-minded world of the brainwashed. 2 legs bad, four legs good!
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  14294. look how nervous he gets when trying to explain why no one can know the casualty figures on the Ukrainian side. He knows the info in the Discord dox leak is correct, 7:1 kill rate in Russia's favor. so, do the math, Russia with 3 times Ukraine's population, and a kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor, just a matter of time before Ukraine runs out of cannon fodder, because the likes of Zelenskt ain't going anywhere near the front lines to fight.
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  14295.  @artmcteagle  the stark reality hurts, right?
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  14296.  @TheFeldhamster  EXACTLY! he didn't WANT to run when he thought he could be the hero and win! When he THOUGHT NATO might actually help with a no fly zone. Now that reality has kicked in for the dwarf puppet, he ready to flee!
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  14297. Lord Dannatt is the fool who said on Times Radio that Putin is seriously ill because his hands are dark colored from so many injections in the hands. Total propagandist and imbecile who, so far, has got everything wrong.
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  14298. Can you imagine that dippy Belarussian opposition gal achieving what Lukashenko did so comprehensively and speedily? Nope. Putin comes out stronger. If only Zelensky had accepted Lukashenko's offer for mediation last year.
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  14299. Russia has put forward plausible explanations that need investigation. However, it is infantile to think Russia has a monopoly on targeting civilians. Let us assume this was intentional and was retaliation for Ukraine's shells killing civilians in the Donetsk open air market recently....seems like justifiable revenge, right?
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  14300. just like the war crime of shelling Donbass for 8 years. it's war.
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  14301. because Russia didn't. The Azov Battalion started the war.
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  14302. Chomsky made some sense until he started babbling climate alarmism. got a feeling he said 50 years ago that the Maldives would be under water by year 2000
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  14303. especially for the swastika tattooed Azov Nazis, we REALLY them to triumph, they're great.
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  14304. if it keeps out the wave of illegal immigrants, why not?
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  14305. you believe that nonsense? and yet, at the same time, a doctored ballot with Navalny's name lying on a memorial to Navalny is allowed. curious, eh?
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  14306.  @theremnants6655  they don't in Russia
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  14307.  @uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug185  of course they would. so, what's your point?
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  14308.  @Rocket_scientist_88  how many citizens voted for Rishi Sunak for PM? 0 how many citizens voted for Van der Leyen as EU Commissioner? 0 How many opposition parties allowed in the Ukrainian Rada? 0 How many elections Ukraine will be having this year?0 How many French citizens voted for candidates other than Macron? 80% Russia is the most democratic country of all.
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  14309. @CuteCuteCute-02 Having an ex KGB guy in charge is far preferable to the senile, bumbling cretin that can't even remember when his son died as leader.
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  14310. Russia just showed the West how to hold proper, democratic elections, and the West has gone into meltdown because the world sees Western hypocrisy and that the Western aim of overthrowing Putin has vanished.
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  14311.  @bonnie7898  in the British system, honey, the British citizens are voting for 3 separate things with their one vote. 1....who their MP will be 2....which party will form a government 3....who the nation's PM will be. Rishi Sunak was elected as MP, but Boris Johnson was elected as PM. Rishi Sunak has never stood for election as PM. What a fake democracy! Thanks for confirming that the de facto EU leader is elected by ZERO EU citizens. Ursula Van der Leyen attends G7 conferences as the voice of the EU having secured as many votes as I did from EU citizens. A democracy, it is not. Of the 370 Ukrainian political parties, how many of them honor Stefan Bandera, the Nazi who murdered 4000 Jews in Lvov, as a national hero? Elections are not held according to how many people in a poll want elections or not. in real countries, elections are held according to the electoral law of the land. the electoral law in Ukronazia states that elections are to held this year. we both know why, honey, this ain't gonna happen. Democracy in Ukraine was thrown out the window when Yanushenko was deposed against the rules of the Ukraine constitution. figured out who the Allies were in WW2 yet? you are so very ignorant. choose better reading material.
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  14312.  @bonnie7898  the reason a PM is not chosen by elected MPs AFTER a general election is because, in the British system, the voters are aware, when they cast their votes, that their votes will determine who the PM is. The VOTERS decide who will be PM, not government ministers. Rishi Sunak never stood as PM in an election, hence all the furore about him assuming the position of PM with no citizen having voted for him to be PM. A true democrat would have called for a general election on assuming the party leadership. The Russian system is much more democratic.
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  14313.  @bonnie7898  Remember, the Allies invaded Nazi Germany. Therefore, not all invasions are bad. Therefore, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not bad just because it is an invasion. If the Russian invasion of Ukraine is bad, it must be bad for some other reason. what would that reason be?
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  14314.  @bonnie7898  how's the Russian economy doing these days? Last time you told me the price of eggs had shot up in Russia, a sure sign that the whole Russian economy was crumbling! Egg prices still sky-rocketing in Russia?:)
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  14315.  @DSan-kl2yc  Russia has plenty of justifiable reasons to be in Ukraine, and these reasons don't "hold water" with you because you are ignorant of the reality on the ground. if you want some water to hold, start doing some research on the Nazi presence in Ukrainian society and politics. you can start with the Newsnight and Reuters articles. off you go. Ukraine is totally in the wrong, and just recognizing the independence claims of the DPR and LPR would have avoided this.
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  14316.  @DSan-kl2yc  the right to protest is alive and well in Russia. a lot more so than in the West. tell me, what happened to the young Latvian man who trampled on a Ukrainian flag? there is no problem with calling a war a war. but no state of war exists. no war has been declared. the SMO doesn't fit your narrative, but if Russia were at war it would have declared so and mobilized for war. tell me, what happens to you in USA if you start using the word that starts with n, ends in r, and has two gg's in the middle? see how I can't use that word in the West? no freedom of speech.
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  14317.  @NewBeginnings413  I don't care a monkey's backside if anyone is persuaded by my words. i just enjoy posting the truth for all to see. quite happy for you to rebut anything I state, but conspicuous by its absence, you chose not to! so, that was an easy win!
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  14318.  @DSan-kl2yc  but then again, it could be that you were standing and applauding with Zelensky and Trudeau when the Canadian parliament honored the WaffenSS veteran, the guy who swore allegiance to Hitler in WW2? Maybe all those Banderites in Ukronazia are your buddies? Maybe you celebrate with the Wolfsengel and black sun all over your garb?
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  14319.  @ОльгаЮрс  and you are so funny in that you are totally incapable of rebutting the statement.
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  14320.  @NewBeginnings413  I am happy to supply factual evidence where needed. But it is important to understand that many arguments are not based on facts, but on observation, logic and experience. Only fools like you live in a universe of only facts. If I have stated something untrue, go ahead, point out my error.
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  14321.  @NewBeginnings413  now where are those facts you mentioned in another response? I think you will find the loser is the person who has no rebuttal, just infantile, snide comments.
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  14322.  @NewBeginnings413  still waiting for you to challenge any one specific point I made! why the delay? FACT..not one single Uk citizen voted for Rishi Sunak for PM. going to challenge that fact? it's not a real democracy when the citizens don't elect their leader. Russia is more of a democracy than the UK
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  14323.  @NewBeginnings413  so, after all the lecturing bla bla bla, we get to the details. let's dig deep. there are many principles of democracy. one of them is that the leader is chosen by the voting public. How many UK voters voted for Rishi Sunak to be PM? it's a very simple question.
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  14324.  @NewBeginnings413  name one opposition candidate in Russia who was legally entitled to stand for office (that would exclude convicted criminals) who was jailed, sent to the Gulag, or thrown out of a window. Just one.
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  14325.  @NewBeginnings413  In the recent Rochdale by election, were there any reports of voter intimidation? any at all?
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  14326.  @NewBeginnings413  How many French voters chose Macron as their preferred candidate for President in the first round of voting at the last French presidential elections?
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  14327. How many EU voters chose Ursula Van der Leyen as Head of the EU Commission? I'll give you a clue. It's the same number as those who voted for you. One principle of democracy is that the leaders who speak in our name were actually elected by us, NOT nominated by some Brussels committee. your notions of the principles of democracy certainly seem to align with the current dictator of Banderaland
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  14328.  @NewBeginnings413  "you lack a proper understanding of the election process"... WHICH election process? Be specific. election process where? Russia?
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  14329.  @NewBeginnings413  as expected, you are refusing to answer my very simple questions because the honest answers would show you I am 100% right. par for the course from ignoramuses such as you. no answers, no facts, no details, just pontificating waffle. staple stuff from the ignorant of the world. Russia has transitioned magnificently from the Soviet period, and with all the examples I gave, it is clear it now is much more democratic than the West. bye bye you lying dolt.
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  14330.  @NewBeginnings413  given you couldn't do your homework, let me be the generous teacher who gives you the answers. 1, ZERO voters chose Rishi Sunak to be PM of UK 2. ZERO voters chose Ursula Van der Leyen to lead the EU Commission 3. 80% of French voters chose a candidate OTHER than Macron in the first round of the last French Presidential Elections. "Democracy" Western style. It truly stinks.
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  14331. I bet these girls vote for Trudeau and other leaders who advocate for more immigration.
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  14332. a government raising taxes on a company like Shell just pushes Shell to provide fuel to other countries.
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  14333. McDonald's and Starbucks will survive just fine. Russia doesn't miss them, though.
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  14334. Remember when we were told Hilary Clinton was 100% likely to win the 2016 election?
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  14335. forest management has been abandoned by super Green zealot authorities because it is seen as "interfering with nature", hence the horrendous problems we have nowadays.
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  14336. so Egypt had the Rafah border closed when Israel was allowing supplies into Gaza, and now insists the border will only be opened if Israel allows supplies into Gaza, as Israel did in the past, when Egypt thought it was a a great idea to close the border. Egypt clearly just wants no Palestinians on its soil at all for any reason.
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  14337. funny how these "written orders" don't exist for us to read them ourselves. This guy probably believes the Ghost of Kiev was real, and that Snake Island was a great victory. Ukraine is full of such evil bullshit. Slava Rossiyi...Z..let's avenge the 8 years of butchery in the Donbass
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  14338. so there we have it. India not adhering to the price cap, and the West powerless to do anything about it. hey, how about sanctions? anyone think of that idea?
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  14339.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  how do you evaluate global support for Russia?
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  14340.  @mikeburns1663  EVERYONE likes cheap Russian oil. Even Saudi Arabia is now importing cheap Russian oil, because Saudi Arabia can in turn then sell its own oil at an inflated price to the absolutely desperate nations like USA and EU members! While there is demand for oil, Russia will have a market. The export model that Russia has pivoted to is indeed sustainable. What is NOT sustainable is the West's rushing down the Green path and then realizing it still needs loads of fossil fuels. Sanctions are kicking in? Certainly are. The first pensioners to freeze to death this winter will be in Germany, not in Russia! The sanctions are absolutely going to cripple the West. Russia has been under sanctions since 2014! What did they achieve? In which decade do you think sanctions against Venezuela and Iran will produce changes in those countries? In which decade do you think sanctions will produce the desired political changes in Russia? You are deluded. The West, in its arrogance, thought it could bring Russia to its knees. It couldn't. The West ended up on its knees, begging the Saudis and Qatar for more energy. Pathetic. The euro has crashed, the ruble is strong. Game set and match Putin.
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  14341. rest of the world? Only the deluded, hypocritical West cares! Latin America, Africa, Asia including India and China, all fine with Russia! Get real
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  14342. supply and demand dictates the price. why should any business lower its price if it has plenty of business at the higher price? Makes no sense. if you have evidence that supermarkets or fuel stations are acting as a cartel, take them to court.
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  14343. for a DA, propriety and the appearance of the highest ethical standards are all important. Fani proved yesterday that the Trump case would be better served by a different prosecutor.
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  14344.  @peterh5165  quite a few will always make big profits. It's the trend, up or down, across the board, that matters. and the trend is down.
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  14345.  @gauravchhajed832  that's what happens when you sanction Russia. restrict supply = higher prices = greater profits
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  14346.  @appletree6741  expected by whom? you and the Western media that has brain washed you?
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  14347.  @appletree6741  it's certainly NOT splitting hairs! next time you choose not to renew an expired contract see how you would feel if all your community started spreading the lie that you had "exited your contract". it's just DW trying to word things to paint Russia as the villain. yawn.
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  14348.  @TwitchingBomb  no need to process anyone, because none of them is a refugee nor is there anything happening in France from which they need to seek shelter or asylum. tow them all back to France and tell Macron "France admitted them, France takes care of them". Eventually France might see the light and withdraw from Schengen.
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  14349.  @nigelsynnott7344  let France take us to court. yes, of course sanctions would follow, as sanctions is the only reply the West has to any problems these days. to be expected. and said sanctions would prove as ineffective as they have on Russia. Sanctions don't work now that globalism is here. as regards my "whataboutery", just letting you know that when a country has a president that refuses the National Assembly to vote on pension reforms but enacts it by executive order, we can be sure the rule of law and democratic ideals are dead in France. no reason for the UK to wring its hands about breaking a law with the French. so let's examine your hypothesis. you tell me, the UK leaves the ECHR.....how does that decision then translate to changing anything regarding the existence of the GFA? you think rioting resumes on the streets of Belfast the second the UK is out of the ECHR? laughable.
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  14350.  @nigelsynnott7344  oh dear! "the law is justice"....poor child, how naive you are. so laws that allow child brides in Islamic countries are just, are they? claims for LEGAL immigration are processed BEFORE entry to the country. By definition, those accommodated in hotels entered the country illegally. As I said, claiming asylum for those arriving from France is a contradiction of the word "asylum". There is nothing happening in France that compels anyone to seek asylum, so all those arriving from France should be taken back to France immediately. If the UK applied the law according to the definition of "asylum" we would not have this problem. Any law can be ignored and altered unilaterally. it then falls on the body that administers the law to decide how to pursue the law-breaking. Laws are broken every day. if laws can't be enforced they are worthless. wise up.
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  14351.  @nigelsynnott7344  spineless government is the answer. the government introduced new laws during covid no problem, they could do the same regarding immigration, but have no guts to do so. RNLI and Royal Navy towing boats back to France would not be putting anyone in danger. the only change would be the coast at which the illegal immigrants would be taken to.
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  14352.  @socillizt4life  read what I said carefully. you need some reading comprehension practice. i make no comment on what the law says or does not say. i speak of what is just and what is true. so i don't care what the law says on an issue, only what is right. i will repeat the truth. given that there is no political persecution of migrants in France, and given that there is no situation in France from which anyone needs to seek refuge, any illegal immigrant arriving in the UK from France is neither a refugee nor in need of any asylum. those are the facts, whatever the screwed up law says. deal with it. if some catastrophe hit the UK I have no idea where UK citizens would be allowed to go. All I know is that if, after said catastrophe, thousands upon thousands of UK citizens traversed a dozen countries and all decided to enter Afghanistan illegally, Afghanistan would be totally justified in saying "NO!. You were perfectly safe when you were in Uzbekistan, so, no, you are not allowed in Afghanistan". That would be the correct and just response.
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  14353.  @Tom-ct6rp  would the brown people who scare me include my black wife?
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  14354.  @nigelsynnott7344  you're either pregnant or you're not. none of this "on one level" stuff. I am right. as a sovereign nation we can ignore any law and suffer the consequences, whatever they may be. No evidence at all that any trade deals would be in jeopardy if an international law were re-assessed. People with common sense know that treaties on immigration and refugee status should be updated to reflect the world of today, so it's just wishful thinking on your part that withdrawing from a failed agreement on immigration would have any repercussions on the trade front. Fortune favors the brave. announcing to the world that the ECHR is causing horrendous anguish and injustice within the UK and it would be best for us to abandon it may well earn, finally, the respect of other peoples similarly in dismay at the mess the West's immigration system finds itself. I can see benefits to a complete and definitive withdrawal, but understand you would be fearful of such action, not that you have much concerns about mass immigration in the first place, it would seem.
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  14355.  @nigelsynnott7344  i doubt it. very little gives me sleepless nights, but we'll see.
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  14356.  @tomhenry897  Russia doesn't have total control of the air, but it has far greater control than NATO/Ukraine. Part of the idea of bringing down the power grid every two weeks is to see how Ukraine air defences suffer. One big demolition of Ukraine's power grid may convince Russia it has enough control of the air to take some losses but destroy every tank/armoured vehicle and bridge it can.
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  14357.  @edc1569  I'm sure Russian jets will be fed location data and won't need to do much circling
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  14358. it's likely to make Elon make it his business again and ensure this doesn't happen again
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  14359.  @annhennessy178  ah, saying the quiet bit out loud, those who support the Ukronazis believe in the EU and Western values of shutting up those who oppose their views. "shut up Musk" should be the mantra of these authoritarian lunatics.
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  14360.  @brinjoness3386  meanwhile, another couple of hundred Ukrainian cannon fodder gets wiped out trying to gain control of a village. Nothing to see here!
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  14361.  @brinjoness3386  just a reminder to keep focused on the human tragedy that is the futile war Zelensky insists on pursuing.
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  14362.  @brinjoness3386  not for the first time in your life, you got it all backwards and wrong. Putin is not the bully. Putin stepped in to stop the bully. Ukraine is the bully that for 8 years used its Nazi Azov battalion to rain down missiles on the good people of the DPR and LPR. Learn the basics.
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  14363.  @brinjoness3386  what I would suggest is that when Putin asks for a conference on Russia's security concerns, as he requested in December of 2021, that the US president say "yes, of course, let's talk" rather than "no, there's nothing to discuss". wouldn't you?
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  14364.  @brinjoness3386  and, wow, look, your approach has led to 10 million Ukrainian refugees, a bankrupt and begging Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men killed and crippled in the Russian meatgrinder, 12 failed EU sanctions packages, an energy crisis in the West, dedollarization, an alliance of BRICS and OPEC+ dictating energy prices to the recession hit West. Going really well, your approach, eh? at least you can feel virtuous with your empty "slava Ukraine" and pretty little blue and yellow flag. feel good about backing Nazis do you? google "Reuters 2018 Ukraine far right" and see the people you are supporting.
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  14365.  @brinjoness3386  just curious about this "Putin invaded Crimea" line. was that before or after the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol voted 78-0 to separate from Kiev following the 2014 coup in Kiev? It's called "Democracy", something probably a bit alien to you, you know, a parliamentary vote to decide the future of Crimea.
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  14366.  @brinjoness3386  yep, I think so, when some fool decides to totally ignore the vote of the Crimean people's parliamentary representatives and shout "Russian invasion, Russian invasion" you can be sure such fool has no idea what true democracy is all about. Tell me, before the 2014 annexation of Crimea, what percentage of Crimeans considered themselves Russian and what percentage Ukrainian?
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  14367.  @bonnie7898  it is for Putin to say what security concerns he has, not you. Putin would say that NATO's actions in Serbia and Libya showed it is a ruthlessly aggressive and interventionist organization, not defensive at all. Putin would say that NATO's steady expansion eastward, breaking James Baker's promise of "not an inch further east" was proof that NATO is not to be trusted. Putin would say that it is USA that has hundreds of military bases around the world, not Russia, and that a written agreement would be needed for Russia to have ANY trust at all that a NATO/US base would not appear on its border in Ukraine. Putin would say the aggressive and alarming Western mania for arming Ukraine into Europe's largest military force, given Ukraine's nazi bent, was a threat. And Putin would be right. But EVEN IF Putin were wrong, it is worth sitting down and talking these things over. Otherwise.....you can see what happens when talks are rejected. Look at Ukraine now.
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  14368.  @bonnie7898  Janet Yellen's brilliant idea of a price cap on Russian oil sales, how is that working out?:) and which of the TWELVE EU sanctions packages on Russia has had the most effect, would you say? When will France announce it is refusing to import any Russian uranium or uranium produced by Russian companies, do you think? (let me introduce you to the French word "jamais"):)
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  14369.  @bonnie7898  so if Putin doesn't have any genuine security concerns, how about in December 2021 Biden had agreed to meet to discuss all those Russian security concerns NOT thought to be genuine? what did NATO have to lose?
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  14370.  @bonnie7898  just curious, do you fully support Zelensky's call to all NATO governments to repatriate Ukrainian fighting age men so they can be trained and rushed to the Russian meatgrinder?
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  14371.  @bonnie7898  I'm guessing you are a total idiot and believe everything you hear from Western media. Let's try a simple question. What is the biggest lie you heard so far, during this conflict, from any Western media? And, explain the difference between "it's" and "its".
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  14372.  @bonnie7898  Of course you don't understand Economics. It's a subject (correct use of "it's") that demands analysis and knowledge, two things of which you are totally devoid. How old are you?
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  14373.  @bonnie7898  What you call "personal slurs" are just me pointing out the many things you are hopelessly ignorant about. Believe me, when some arrogant fool tells me to "read some history" while said fool doesn't even know who the Allies were, believe me, the gloves are off. Yes, there are many things you don't know. Try learning more before you spout dumb s**t online.
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  14374. a bit confusing this. why is this gal saying the Ukrainian counter offensive failed? In july, Biden said that Russia had already lost this war. who is lying?
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  14375. This is the mess you get into when you throw away your energy independence and call the energy supplier you now need to beg for help, a "pariah". MBS smirk said it all...like a cat playing with a desperate mouse, Biden is trapped and flailing. Saudi Arabia now importing cheap Russian oil that EU doesn't want, so Saudi can now sell its more expensive oil to beggars like USA and EU...if it wants. MBS might still say "no" to piss off Granpa Joe even more.
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  14376. MASSIVE WIN FOR PUTIN! Turns out Russia only agreed to cease targeting THE PORTS during times of grain TRANSIT (that would imply the ports can be targeted during loading and unloading). WEST TOTALLY CAPITULATED ON SANCTIONS, The agreement allows Russian oil to be exported to third countries (so now EU can pay high prices for buying Russian oil through middlemen like India and Saudi Arabia) AND ALL restrictions on Russian export of food and fertilizer, along with Belarus, GONE. in writing. Also, Lithuania backed down, Russian goods can go unrestricted by train to Kaliningrad. Slowly the sanctions are being walked back. Russia wins, again.
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  14377. Day 287 of the Duran predicting a massive retaliation from Iran and from Hezbollah and a horrific escalation. 287 days of hand wringing from the Duran and wishing defeat on Israel. Day 287 of no reaction from Iran and no escalation and Israel destroying Hamas. the Duran needs to stick to analyzing things in Ukraine. They know nothing about the Middle East. Ignorant dopes blabbing nonsense.
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  14378. Notice how she singles out Russia and China as the TWO who can veto any resolution, when the other THREE can do that too, and regularly do, She is the perfect example of the deluded Western buffoon who is arrogant and so despised by the majority of the globe.
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  14379. total liar! Ukraine has been MORE than willing to announce how many casualties it has had, and the higher the number the more aid and weapons they have sought to gain. Total misinformation from this propagandist.
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  14380. then again, it's also possible Russian intel located a weapons depot in Odessa
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  14381.  @sichere  and some say the opposite, and some say there is a God, many people say many things:)
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  14382.  @sichere  may well have been yet another nursery closed to kids but used by Azov Nazis, quite possible.
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  14383. Ukraine's cannon fodder in Bakhmut needs ammo yesterday, not bumbling Biden lecturing us all on what Putin thinks or thought.
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  14384. The deluded West. These fools probably believe the Ghost of Kiev is still flying, that Snake Island was a great Ukrainian victory, and that Afghanistan and Iraq went really well for NATO. Quick dose of truth...Russia has won. Ukraine's women and kids are refugees, Ukraine's men are being slaughtered. Game over.
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  14385. so all the Ukrainian babies are being born in the EU, further straining the public finances of the EU. Great.
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  14386.  @liliatursunova4950  most of the planet either supports Russia or is perfectly happy to trade with Russia and work with Russia. check out how many African states are welcoming Russian and Chinese presence and telling failed states like France to get out. Russian economy is growing. EU economy is stagnant. the evidence is against you. EU is in big trouble. Russia is on the rise.
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  14387.  @liliatursunova4950  the freedoms that Russians have are so often denied to those in The West. you try tweeting that a man can never become a woman and that trans women are just men dressed up as women, see what happens to you. in Russia, free speech is alive and well compared to the West.
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  14388.  @lukaswatts8422  3 simple questions for you. yes or no answers. 1) is it warm enough in summer in Detroit to live in a tent? 2) are there any homeless people in Detroit? 3) do you know what the average winter temperature is in Sochi?
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  14389.  @lukaswatts8422  sorry, i forgot to answer your question. yes, i have been to Russia. have you? ever been to Sochi in winter?
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  14390.  @lukaswatts8422  so if Detroit is not rich but has enough cheap housing to house everyone, why does a rich place like L.A. not have enough cheap housing to house everyone?
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  14391.  @lukaswatts8422  ah, so your answer is the Democrats who run CA are all hypocrites and refuse to fund homeless shelters like poor Detroit does. Got it. CA Democrats know that drug addicts won't freeze to death, so why provide shelters, right? Such caring Dems in CA.
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  14392.  @James-kv6kb  no insurgents in Russia. you must be thinking of some other place. Washington DC and the Jan 6th crowd maybe? take a look at IMF stats for growing economies to see how Russia is rising.
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  14393. Macron is particularly keen on banning all EU imports of uranium from Russia and Kazakhstan, as that would really hurt Russia and would only really really hurt Europeans.
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  14394. looks like the great Ukrainian counter offensive has started, but it just adds up to be some pin prick attacks, probing missions which Kiev later says "oh, no, that wasn't THE offensive, just wait, THE offensive will come later". yeah, right. and the Wagners are still being pushed back in Bakhmut, we get the picture.
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  14395. let the pro war Germans give every last penny they have to Zelenski. Make all donations voluntary.
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  14396.  @83c91  exactly. our "climate scientists" have become conspiracy theorists first, and scientists second. ever since Climategate and "hide the decline" it has been that way.
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  14397. time to ship all those migrants to Brussels and veto every single EU vote and refuse to contribute anything to the EU.
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  14398. a fair division of the Palestinian Mandate would be 50-50. Jordan already rules over 80% of the Mandate, so Israel should be all Israel, plus West Bank, plus Gaza, plus 3/8ths of Jordan.
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  14399. The idiots, Bleksley, are those who think waves of mass immigration are a really good idea. The idiots, Bleksley, are those, like you, who don't understand that eggs have to be broken to make an omelet The idiots, Bleksley, are those who refuse to address the concerns of the protesters. All power to the rioters, wear down the police with repeated mass protests, choke the courts, challenge the government every day.
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  14400. "to kill as many Ukrainians as possible" this deluded idiot thinks that with a nuclear arsenal of 1600 bombs, Russia is doing all in its power to kill as many Ukrainians as possible! infantile analysis.
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  14401. no, honey, it's not the Police driving people on to the streets. it's words like "inexcusable" to describe the officer's actions, from idiots like Macron that are pushing out-of-control, mainly immigrant, youth on to the streets. it's a civil war, failed multicultural France v traditional France. Macron already picked his side and France now has to fight it out.
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  14402. US Republicans slowly grasping the notion that a 60 billion dollar aid package to Ukraine will result in the same failure as the 100 billion dollars already thrown out the window there. US Democrats still convinced that repeatedly doing the same thing will miraculously achieve different results. We can see why Biden is so low in the polls. And why Putin is supremely popular. Demilitarization of both NATO and Ukraine continues.
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  14403. "big investment companies that don't really care" who cares that they don't really care? they turn boarded up s**tholes into places for people to live in! i guess you prefer the boarded up s**thole look?
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  14404.  @dammitdan106  no need
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  14405.  @juancsmix  nah, those of us familiar with how Russia fights, we know there is no timeline. some of us knew that the aim was to get Ukraine to the negotiating table, and that did indeed only take a few days, but it was only fools in the West that swallowed General Milley's bs about "Russia winning in 3 days", I mean, not a fool like you, of course, but the rest of the Western sheep bought Milley's words hook line and sinker.
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  14406. the divisions in Ireland are returning because the EU cartel and Dublin can't accept free trade and insist on a customs border. Brexiteers are fine with keeping Ireland borderless and goods flowing across Ireland without hindrance.
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  14407.  @arthurgoodness7865  clearly it IS difficult for you to comprehend! Brexit doesn't mean borders. It is the EU, which is a protectionist cartel, that INSISTS on borders. For example, look at the all the customs hysteria when you enter Spain from Gibraltar....the EU MUST search everything to stop cheaper goods entering the EU. Entering Gib from Spain, there are no searches. It is the EU's reaction to Brexit that means borders. Was this never explained to you?
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  14408.  @stiofain88  the only reason the GFA was needed was because of Irish terrorists. The EU is irrelevant to the Unionist/Nationalist divide. The problems in Ireland date from the reign of James Vi, so blame the Scots and their plantation schemes!
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  14409.  @stiofain88  no, it is not ENTIRELY the fault of any one person or any one group. There is plenty of blame to go round. I said the problems started with James VI of Scotland, not that he was entirely responsible. Reading comprehension not your strong point I see!
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  14410.  @stiofain88  you can read, but reading comprehension is both reading and understanding. That I need to explain this to you shows you that it is not your strong point.
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  14411.  @stiofain88  no one expects you to respect anything. what we expect you to do is honor and accept the signed agreements that recognize the 6 counties of NI to remain in union with GB. this was settled between the relevant democratically elected powers decades ago. if you don't respect such, then you must fight and die for the changes you want, and be prepared for the Unionists to fight back. if that is the kind of Ireland you want, go for it.
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  14412.  @stiofain88  good to see you agree that Northern Ireland's status has already been decided by previous political agreements and that you no longer feel the need to lecture on "stealing other people's land". Nice pivot to a completely different issue. The Protocol contains a clause for renegotiation by either side, and that clause is being followed by the UK. Nice try. Frankly, given that it is Dublin and Brussels that insist on customs border controls, not UK, I would be happy to scrap the Protocol and let the protectionist cartel called the EU, backed by its lapdog, Dublin, re-establish border controls on Ireland, if that is how important they regard keeping out cheaper products from the UK to the citizens of the EU. All the perfidy comes from Brussels and Dublin, determined to keep the EU citizens away from cheaper goods.
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  14413.  @Suksass  I said Russia's tolerance for hardship IS far greater than the West's. Present tense. Not past tense. "Chechen locals just wanted independence"...well, obviously not the locals who are presently putting their lives on the line now for the DPR, LPR and Mother Russia! Russia is indeed defending the rights of ethnic Russians. Your failure to grasp this truth is the reason you have no clue how to figure out when and who Russia attacks and when and who Russia leaves in peace. Russia will win this war, and you would be surprised how many countries will absolutely celebrate the defeat of Ukraine, and more conspicuously, the defeat and humiliation of NATO. From Mexico, to Libya, to Serbia, to China to...the list is endless. Russia has won and deserves its victory. New World Order baby...BRICS is here to stay. get used to it.
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  14414.  @oveidasinclair982  but its military are a force to contend with, its exports sought by the whole world, you are seeing the death throes of USA's hegemony, and USA is in panic. Russia, China and USA now in competition for influence in the world, and USA is slipping behind the other two.
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  14415.  @Slanche1974  Chechens are Russians, correct, but Chechnya had a push for independence that Moscow squashed. Bit like Catalonians are Spanish, except Chechens are mostly Muslim, whereas Catalonians are not, well, not yet.
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  14416.  @Slanche1974  Chechens are fighting for Russia because they absolutely REFUSE to see the fascistic Nationalists of Ukraine prevail in the DPR and LPR, as Chechens too had to fight to retain their Russian identity during the Chechen wars. Chechens who sided with the Kremlin in their struggle to remain part of the Russian Federation want the DPR and LPR to be free to make that same decision. There are also Chechens who are fighting for Ukraine...those would be the Chechens who lost to Putin and want revenge.
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  14417.  @RCorvinus  There are Chechens who want to remain part of the Russian Federation and are proud to be both Russian and Chechen. There are Chechens who don't want to be part of Russia. Both statements are true.
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  14418. Annexation of Ukraine was never an objective, nor was regime change. More lies. typical of the West, having boxed themselves into a corner, the West now has to refuse to study Putin's original 5 objectives and just create their own fictional Putin objectives.
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  14419. The Sun still living in the fantasy world of massive Russian losses, Russia running out of weapons, Ukraine winning easily, NATO out-producing Russia. yawn. Russian drunken convicts with low morale and armed with just shovels doing pretty well, on balance, I think.
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  14420. the only problem is, the conspiracy theories either panned out, or were never debunked. drugs were involved, Jay bragged about his thieving, the Maruba did disappear from AIS, so this blowhard is actually highlighting how the "conspiracy theorists" were discovering plausible explanations, something the Guardia Civil and media never did.
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  14421.  @Ukraineaissance2014  any Ukrainians left in Soledar are surrounded and being killed. Get real. The Ukrainians retook nothing. There was no toe to toe fight. They were given it as the Russians withdrew. In every toe to toe fight, every street by street combat, Russia has always won. From Mariupol to Soledar. That is the reality the West is panicked about. When the two forces decide to battle it out, Russia wins. Learn what rope-a-dope is.
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  14422.  @Ukraineaissance2014  yep, it makes sense to cede the not-so-important territory rather than lose thousands of lives, something Zaluzhny would love Zelesnky to learn, as the Ukronazis will lose tens of thousands in a losing battle for Bakhmut, Soledar and Siversk. i agree, i don't believe anyone is surrounded in Soledar any more. I said IF there are still Ukrainians fighting in Soledar, then they are surrounded. a tiny pocket of resistance.
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  14423.  @Ukraineaissance2014  and now the important calculation...how many Ukrainian killed and MIA compared to Russia?
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  14424.  @Ukraineaissance2014  Russia is not trying to conquer Ukraine. Go back and read again the 5 objectives of this invasion.
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  14425.  @PeterSedesse  No wonder military people are confused why Russia is persisting with the attacks on Bakhmut. They never listened to Prighozyn's explanation!
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  14426. Hitchins was winning until he hit the last hurdle. Russia has proven it can indeed demilitarize the West and leave the West in economic misery. Taking on Russia has failed for the West and the West needs to be careful what will happen if Russia decides to try and sanction the West in the future.
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  14427. So Putin, even though he has to face opposition MPs in the Duma every day, is a dictator, but Zelensky, who has outlawed all opposition parties from the Rada, is a democratic leader! Welcome to the upside down world of Western media. Time to allow RT back on the airwaves so the Western public can get a balanced view. GBNews letting itself down with this blatant propaganda
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  14428.  @kth6736  it's heading in that direction with every NATO gamechanger that fails.
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  14429.  @timeames2509  Taliban didn't start training Al Qaeda until US troops went to war in the Gulf. I don't think Putin has much to fear from a demilitarized NATO. What is trulty frightening for NATO is the panicked discussion among a bunch of wusses about how they think they should respond to a missile attack on say, Vilnius. Is Lithuania worth a retaliatory strike? Two dead people in Poland didn't trigger anything at all.
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  14430.  @timeames2509  so Zelensky lied when he said Russia killed two people in Poland. Hmmm. Zelensky the liar! Putin is demilitarizing NATO before your eyes. The whole focus on tanks is because NATO has given up on matching Russia's artillery missile production and drone production. If Russia doesn't have air superiority over Ukraine, why is Zelensky yelling in panic for F16s?
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  14431.  @timeames2509  yep. the Novaya Rossiya territories are certainly in a gray area it seems. I mean if Putin nuked London in protest that NATO was helping an attack on "Russia" it would be a shock, but indeed, what is the definition of "Russia" in Putin's mind? If it includes Crimea, then I have a feeling we will find out soon, and Poland may get a conventional missile or two if Crimea is hit. A popular outcry in non Crimean Russia, somewhere like Belgorod, if it were hit big time, would probably mean a conventional missile attack on somewhere that no one cares about, like Estonia, just to see if NATO does anything but whine. Personally, if I were Putin, I would wait for Finland to join NATO and drop one on Helsinki as a welcome gift.
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  14432.  @cog600  there is no aim to "defeat" Ukraine. Re read Putin's list of 5 objectives. Demilitarization of NATO is rolling on apace. NATO has no more artillery to send to Ukraine, no more shells, hence the panic to try and turn this into a tank battle, but it won't work. NATO is gutless and too weak.
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  14433.  @timeames2509  1) Russia would welcome Hungary and Turkey to leave NATO, but then again, they are useful to keep operating on the inside as agents of Russia. 2) there is no evidence that Russia targets civilians any more or less than NATO. It's a stupid argument. How can one ever know what the specific target was or wasn't? We know both NATO and Russia target civilian infrastructure. 3) NATO keeps boasting of more high precision bombs. I see no evidence of such. 4) There is no evidence that Russia is targeting children. We have the Alley of Angels in Donbass, children killed by Azov nazi shelling over the last 8 years, but again, impossible to know if such children were targets or collateral damage. 5) The only reason you say US Navy Seals are the best is because you want that to be true. There has never been an Olympic games of special forces, so, again, impossible to know. If i had to bet, i would bet on Israel winning the gold. Any plans to expand your horizons beyond Mexico and see and experience some of the rest of the planet one day?
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  14434.  @cog600  NATO is a defensive alliance? Really? Which NATO member country was being defended when NATO bombed the living ** out of Libya?
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  14435.  @cog600  and after all the USA and UK production, STILL Ukrainian troops are complaining they are firing once for every 6 missiles raining down on them. Russia is not running out of weapons. NATO can't match Russia's production or supply increasing production just shows NATO has run out. and when the NATO tanks are all destroyed, what then? NATO came into this conflict TOTALLY unprepared and TOTALLY expecting economic sanctions to cripple Russia. NATO failed. Russia is winning and will win. Game over.
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  14436.  @cog600  what Ukraine claims to fire is irrelevant. Ukraine claimed Ghost of Kiev was real. Only a fool believes Ukrainian claims. You are ignorant of what Russian stocks were before the war. You are ignorant of what Russia produces now. By Ukrainian admission, six times as many missiles fall on them as they fire against the Russians. You confuse a large economy, as measured by GDP, with production capacity. Russia has a much larger production capacity for weapons and ammo than the West. While armaments manufacture in the West has decreased over the last few decades, such production has increased in Russia and in its allies, Iran and N Korea, dramatically. NATO has very little hardware it can send. it has been demilitarized. if NATO had so much more to send, why is NATO refusing to send it? No one knows how many Russian dead there are, so all your numbers are just guesses. In the real world, the convicts and drunken mercenaries routed NATO trained and armed battalions in Soledar. an absolute disgrace for NATO and Ukraine. Get real and see the way this is going.
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  14437.  @timeames2509  well, some advice for what it's worth from someone who has visited over 100 countries....don't put Ukraine high on your list, unless you love extreme nationalists and bigots
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  14438.  @cog600  that number of 305 abandoned vehicles. I calculated 306 on my clipboard! which of us is correct do you think?
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  14439.  @cog600  No lies from me. I am just telling you the reality. and you refuse to answer the question. If NATO is producing so much more artillery and ammo, why is it refusing to send it? Producing more "munitions" doesn't mean producing more of the munitions needed in this conflict. Russia is out producing NATO in the munitions needed in this conflict, along with allies N Korea and Iran, as I already stated. No one knows the production of Russian munitions, so throw whatever fake numbers you are drooling over, and look at the reality on the ground.
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  14440.  @cog600  again you repeat that NATO hasn't sent the bulk of its grand weapons production. so, answer the question, why not? why is NATO refusing to send what Ukraine is begging for?
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  14441.  @cog600  If Russia is no longer a threat to the rest of Europe, why does the rest of Europe keep pleading that Russia must be stopped, because Russia will just start warring with other countries next on its list if it is not stopped? Can't have your cake and eat it. Either Russia has failed and is no threat to any other European country, in which case, no panic needed, or Russia is so strong it can defeat Ukraine and roll into the next victim country. which is it?
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  14442.  @cog600  much smaller army in Ukraine? you were boasting earlier about Ukraine having no lack of manpower! again, make your mind up, which one is it? no one but a tight circle in the Kremlin know Russia's death toll, so again, quit staring into the crystal ball and imagining a number of Russian dead. you have no idea.
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  14443.  @cog600  Soledar was important not because of its size but because of the humiliation of the NATO loss. low morale among Russian troops we were told, poorly led, we were told, poorly equipped, we were told, up against NATO trained and equipped heroes fighting for their homeland, we were told, and the convicts and drunken mercenaries WON! oh boy, almost as humiliating as seeing the Taliban kick NATO out of Kabul last year, funny, but humiliating.
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  14444.  @cog600  so, i repeat, your numbers are fake, and your powers of reasoning and logic are very weak. the economic sanctions have failed, isolating Russia has failed, and in terms of munitions production, Russia and its allies are way ahead of the West. Russia can disable the Ukrainian power grid whenever it chooses and the West has nothing to prevent that. it's over. just a question now of when Biden chooses to throw Zelensky under the bus
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  14445.  @robertoschmitt3655  i guess if the ideological war is supporting azov nazis and nationalists trying to stamp out Russian language and culture, then yeah, let's keep helping the fascists in Kiev
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  14446.  @cog600  as usual, you are using totally imaginary numbers. look at the reality. third time of asking. if NATO has so much weaponry then why does it never send all that Ukraine wants? "we know that's how Russia works" believe me, you know nothing about how Russia works. Napoleon and Hitler said the same thing and learned the hard way.
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  14447.  @cog600  oh well, if all the evidence is backed up by photos on the internet, then it must be true! oh man, you are such a sucker. who did the verifying and why do you trust this verifier? again, you refuse to answer the question. if Russia is too weak to be a threat, why are NATO talking about stopping Russia in Ukraine to prevent Russia from attacking other countries? you know, since March we have heard "Russia is running out of weapons". at what point do you stop believing this wishful thinking? and again, you refuse to answer...if NATO has such an abundance of weapons, why does NATO refuse to send all that Ukraine is asking for? Russia is fighting this war to protect the rights and freedoms of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Russia did the same in Chechnya, and won. Russia did the same in Abkhazia, and won. Russia did the same in South Ossetia, and won. Russia did the same in Transnistria, and won. Russia took years to defeat the jihadists in Syria, and won. And Russia will do so in Ukraine. Once NATO is demilitarized, Latvia will be up next, and NATO will be too cowardly to do anything. Kabul in 2021 told you how pathetic NATO is. But like Napoleon and Hitler, you think you know best. deluded imbecile.
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  14448.  @cog600  your "answer" is not an answer. you basically say there is a sliding scale. the longer the war goes on, the less of a threat Russia is to the rest of Europe, But as usual, the facts on the ground don't match your nonsense theory. If you were right, there would be fewer and fewer concerns for Europe's safety as time elapsed. However, that is not true, As time moves on, we hear more and more panicked shouts for Russia to be stopped because "who knows which country is the next victim?" There is not one single world leader that has said "you know, the longer this war continues, the safer and safer Europe becomes". Not one. Russia is going from strength to strength. Ruble strong, IMF forecast economic growth, revenues from energy exports rising, and when NATO is totally demoralized and demilitarized, Russia will be able to occupy the ethnic Russian portion of Latvia with not even a whimper from the gutless West. After Kabul, the whole world knows NATO is a paper tiger. and pathetic suckers like you keep believing the nonsense of the Western press. sad.
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  14449.  @williamhennings8579  who said Russia wasn't humiliated too?
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  14450.  @timeames2509  so do you hate Japan and the Japanese for the atrocity of Pearl Harbor?
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  14451.  @timeames2509  so two terrible wrongs made a right and no need to hate Japan because of that. Is it fair enough for Africans to hate America because of the Atlantic slave trade? No land was stolen there, so maybe hating America for the slave trade is not justified?
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  14452.  @timeames2509  I have no comment on the Katyn Massacre because like all these horrors, it is irrelevant to why any people should hate other people today. Russians living today did not commit any horrors against Finland. Japanese living today did not commit any horrors against USA. So for anyone to hate a group of people who did them no harm is just plain stupid and pure bigotry.
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  14453.  @timeames2509  look at point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum and tell me who disregarded that point 6.
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  14454.  @timeames2509  as Hollande, Merkel and Poroshenko all admitted, the Minsk Agreements were just a mechanism to buy time for Ukraine. there was never any intention for the accords to be implemented, hence France and Germany never did anything to try and make Minsk a reality. this is why Russia will not trust the West with yet another useless piece of paper signed by weasel Western leaders.
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  14455.  @timeames2509  most people who understand WW2 find the use of US nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki fully justified. The best way to stop terrorist groups getting nukes would be to work closely with nuclear powers like Russia and China to agree to limit their spread. Nancy Pelosi making a high profile visit to Taiwan and NATO fighting Russia accomplishes the opposite....it enhances the chance terrorist groups will get nukes.
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  14456.  @bernvigz9138  depends if any of the spineless leaders in the West suddenly have the guts to retaliate
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  14457.  @timeames2509  not crazy at all. no one really cares about prisoners or mercenaries, so throwing them on to the front lines makes perfect sense. what makes no sense is The Ukrainian approach of forcing teenagers to have basic training and then die as cannon fodder
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  14458.  @timeames2509  let me know how I can find the video of Putin admitting NATO is stronger conventionally. would love to see that. and yes, when a very angry leader with nuclear weapons makes threats, it is best to tread very carefully, like start to negotiate. should have been done a year ago. did you check out point 6 of the Budapest Memo?
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  14459.  @timeames2509  if the Ukraine/NATO forces start to push back Russia to its home borders, what chance is there, do you think, of Putin resorting to nuclear bombs as a gamechanger?
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  14460.  @bernvigz9138  what chance Russia would resort to nuclear bombs on Ukraine if its forces were pushed back to the Russian home borders, do you think?
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  14461.  @timeames2509  100% agree. I think it is likely that Putin will resort to nukes on Ukraine, as Putin and Russia in general see this conflict as existential. Given that, what response do you think NATO will give if a nuclear bomb is dropped on, say, Vinnitsya?
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  14462.  @timeames2509  Crimea wasn't "taken." After the 2014 coup in Kiev, the Crimean parliament voted 78-0 for separation from Ukraine. Trump believes in democracy and would have respected that vote (as you should). Yes, Trump would have avoided this mess totally. Honestly, do you have no respect for the democratic wishes of the Crimeans? I have been there 3 times and it is the least Ukrainian place you can imagine.
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  14463.  @timeames2509  what makes you think Russia is trying to take Bakhmut?
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  14464.  @timeames2509  Honestly, is that what the media you watch say? That Russia is trying to take Bakhmut?
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  14465.  @timeames2509  again, stop believing the propaganda you are fed. there is zero evidence that Ukrainian troops are better trained. on the contrary, there are reports that those Ukrainian NATO trained troops that are being thrown on to the front lines are lasting about 4 hours before death, capture or crippling injury. zero evidence that Russian troops are being sent in waves. all the evidence suggests that Ukraine is now desperate for recruits. if things are going so well for Ukraine, why the panic about needing Western weapons?
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  14466.  @timeames2509  remember, in a war of attrition, it is the death count that decides the winner, not time taken to capture cities or territory. Just as in Chechnya and Syria, Russia is slowly achieving its aims, and nothing will stop Russia.
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  14467.  @timeames2509  and where exactly did these 1000 deaths happen? the bizarre things is, even when I check the remarkably pro Ukronazi sites, like BBC, I find nothing on this "1000 dead" rumor. which "reliable" site did you use for this news?
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  14468.  @timeames2509  "Russia is gonna be hurting".. the refrain we heard after stingers, then javelins, then M777s, then himars, now tanks and long range missiles...all of them game changers that changed nothing. Russia is doing exactly what it did in Chechnya and Syria and it will get the same results. NATO has no idea what it is doing.
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  14469.  @timeames2509  No, Tim, I asked you for your source. Nice pivot. I am capable of searching, don't worry, I want to read what you read, word for word. "when given time".? how much time does NATO need to get its precision missiles in action? it has had one year already! you are sounding desperate!
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  14470.  @timeames2509  i am remarkably thick skinned and love to dish dirt back, so no insult taken but it wouldn't matter any way! no, we don't agree on the motives in this conflict. neither on the Russian side nor the Ukrainian side. I am sure Putin has carefully weighed everything up, and to me, it looks like NATO is the side lurching from one panicked reaction to another. The biggest concern for NATO must be that the sanctions failed and that Russia is not isolated. NATO must be praying its taxpayers are happy to keep bailing out Ukraine indefinitely. Russia is used to year after year of warfare. NATO is not. we will see who has bitten off more than they can chew.
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  14471.  @timeames2509  then you knew something the West's leaders never figured out! You should have told the West's leaders that their lecturing visits to Beijing, Delhi and Riyadh were all a waste of time! What makes you think NATO has precision bombing superior to Russia's? Why has the West taken a whole year to hand over this precision bombing game changer? Ukraine has enough manpower and weapons to attack Crimea? really? Ukraine is now recruiting 16 year olds! Ukraine will be doing well to hold back Russia, how the hell it thinks it can turn this around, I have no idea.
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  14472.  @timeames2509  Both Hungary and Austria have figured out NATO got this wrong and it is time to talk peace.
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  14473.  @timeames2509  Western leaders are now facing the dilemma of realizing Ukraine can't win, but no one wants to be blamed for being responsible for that humiliation, so all the leaders are pretending to give maximum support, a few tanks here, a few missiles there, so they can't be accused of disloyalty, but they all know it's over...so we are seeing a charade. at some point, one brave soul apart from Orban will have to say "it's over".
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  14474.  @timeames2509  I think it's irrelevant now what Biden thinks or says. Ukraine is now on the back foot all along the front, and given how Russia likes to take years over these operations, I am not sure Russia needs to throw a lot of men into Ukraine now. As long as Russia keeps killing lots of Ukrainian troops, which it is doing, the demilitarization part of the plan is going well. Quite how many Western tanks make it over the Dnipro remains to be seen. Russia now has demilitarization of NATO in its sights, so it may well welcome more tanks and hardware lining up to be destroyed. After Hersh's report that USA is guilty of the Nordstream sabotage, most of the globe are so disgusted with Biden that they now hope Russia just wins and wins quickly.
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  14475.  @timeames2509  the silence from Biden, Sullivan and others over the Nordstream allegations is turning the world against USA even more. No Russian denial of anything has the BRICS nations upset at all. No Western fighter jets are lined up to go anywhere. Zelensky is begging, but so far got nothing. So far both Germany and USA have said "no", UK has said training pilots only, no jets, so, you tell me, where are these jets coming from? Russia has air superiority over Ukraine, bus as I explained, Russia knows air superiority does nothing to demilitarize a country. USA had 20 years of air superiority over the Taliban, and lost Afghanistan to the Taliban! Demilitarization is killing all the fighting age men. Planes can't do that. Chechens, convicts and mercenaries can.
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  14476.  @timeames2509  so, assuming US was involved in the Nordstream attack, are you fully supportive of US destruction of German infrastructure while being critical of Russian destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure?
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  14477.  @timeames2509  Of the many denials you claim Russia has made, give me the one that is the most reprehensible.
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  14478.  @timeames2509  do you think the US led sanctions on Syria and the US's refusal to allow any humanitarian aid to help Syrian earthquake victims is helping endear the world to USA?
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  14479.  @evinco4084  "need to" and "able to" are quite different things.
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  14480.  @timeames2509  assuming the Nordstream sabotage was done by US, what would be Biden's objective? to force his German ally to buy more expensive US energy? Nice ally! If Putin wanted to erase Ukrainian existence, why wait decades? besides, there is no evidence Putin would want such a thing. Putin, like me, believes Ukraine is an artificial country. like Belgium, doesn't have any roots as an independent or separate entity. But I don't believe either Ukraine or Belgium should be erased from the map. And I don't believe Putin thinks that. The last thing Putin wants is eternal guerriila war in Western Ukraine where he knows people hate Russia! makes no sense! Putin liberated the ethnic Russians of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but never seized all of Georgia. He did the same with Transnistria, never tried to seize Moldova. makes no sense. Putin would attack Poland if Poland decided to enter the Ukraine conflict. Hopefully Poland has enough sense to stay out of it. Many of us suspect NATO would apply article 5 by talking about how to respond to a Russian incursion, but would not actually fight. Putin probably wouldn't risk an attack to see, but he might.
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  14481.  @timeames2509  genuine question, i really don't know, from where did Germany get its alternative oil?
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  14482.  @timeames2509  France? France has extra gas? I live in France, and had no idea France had any gas! So, USA did not boost its LNG sales to its ally, Germany, as a result of sabotaging it's ally, Germany's, gas infrastructure?
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  14483.  @timeames2509  in what areas are BRICS failing to compete with NATO? Not concerned that recent training drills featured South African and Russian naval forces? Not concerned that BRICS emerges into a military alliance, with its own Article 5, an attack on China = an attack on all BRICS? No chance Mexico joins and suddenly there are Russian nukes on the Rio Grande aimed at Houston?
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  14484.  @timeames2509  i was trying to be funny. showing how the great gamechanger, himars, has failed. Russia now has the pincers around bakhmut, and has fire control over the last road in and out. Zelensky will keep his guys there, I hope, and that should maximize Ukrainian total losses. maybe one day Zelensky will listen to Zaluzhny.
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  14485.  @timeames2509  no idea and don't care. the story that Biden committed an act of war on NATO ally infrastructure is the massive story. just astounding the MSM are ignoring the story and that Germany is so happy to be played like this. fascinating stuff. so Germany now buys a lot more gas from Norway and USA, and USA and Norway are the two countries that committed the Nordstream attack, according to Hersh. Must be just a coincidence, eh?
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  14486.  @timeames2509  it's interesting that neither Burns, Sullivan nor Biden have said anything about the Nordstream accusations. could get interesting if they lie to the world about it. Yes, of course mid level spokesmen at the WH have denied it, they have to. i think it is all wishful thinking. the tanks are just junk, no one has promised any jets, but several have refused to supply jets, and longer range missiles will just be the latest game changer that changes nothing. Prigozhin estimated 3 more years for Russia to demilitarize Ukraine and get to the Dnipro River, and another year and a half to liberate Donbass. that gives you an idea of the time line Russia looks at to complete an operation! let's see if the Western sheep are still up for sending billions of dollars every week to Ukraine in 3 years!
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  14487.  @timeames2509  Europe owes USA an enormous debt for so many sacrifices made in WW2. To me, it is sad to see USA now backing, in Ukraine, the very ideology it defeated in 1944 to 1945
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  14488.  @timeames2509  not sure. I wouldn't imagine so, but don't know for sure. maybe under Yeltsin?
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  14489.  @timeames2509  Prigozhin has a reputation for sarcasm
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  14490.  @timeames2509  any concerns about NATO announcing today that they never realized the war would go on for this long and on this scale, hence NATO is running out of ammunition? or, is this all part of the winning plan?:)
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  14491.  @timeames2509  so your answer to my question about NATO running out of ammunition is to talk about Russia's supposed heavy casualties? interesting.
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  14492.  @timeames2509  WILL ramp up production? why the delay after a year of fighting? WILL? the NATO weapons are too little too late. it's over.
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  14493.  @timeames2509  do you think NATO can ramp up production to a level greater than the rate Ukraine is burning through its ammo?
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  14494.  @timeames2509  "eventually"? when would that be? next year? what is holding NATO back? "throw numbers"... give me some numbers. give me the numbers "thrown" by Russia and the numberst "thrown" by Ukraine, and the reliable neutral source you are using. "bomb indescribable"...maybe you mean "indiscriminately"......how would you know what Russia targets and why? Amnesty International already told us that Ukraine uses residential areas to conceal weapons and troops. war is primitive on all sides. sounds like you are just frustrated you are losing. I'll wait for your "eventually", but with NATO out of ammo, can't see any "eventually" on the horizon.
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  14495.  @timeames2509  Given Biden said he intended to destroy the pipeline, and given Blinken said the destruction represented a "wonderful opportunity", and given the Polish foreign minister tweeted "thank you USA" and given no one is asking any questions about it, and given Sweden won't release any details because of "security concerns", I am pretty sure this act of destroying infrastructure was an American act.
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  14496.  @timeames2509  If Germany wants a full investigation it isn't shouting out about it! Germany seems to be acting like a total lap dog to USA. China is the one shouting out for a full investigation, and Russia, obviously. Some of us have no idea why NATO even exists. The Warsaw Pact is over. Gone. Dead.
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  14497.  @timeames2509  Ukraine considers itself de facto NATO, and NATO is acting as if Ukraine is NATO. Yes, Ukraine is being attacked, but people like me would argue that attack is fully justified, after Ukraine attacked Donbass for 8 years. DPR and LPR say they are defending their homelands too. China knows it is next on the USA's hit list, so China will do what it can to make sure Russia doesn't lose.
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  14498.  @timeames2509  why do you assume Russia has been trying to take Bakhmut? Why assume there will be a Spring offensive?
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  14499.  @timeames2509  there we go. "taking Bakhmut" and "cutting off Bakhmut" are 2 different things. you are learning. no one knows the Russian casualties, except a small number in the Kremlin, so don't believe "reports". what makes you think enough NATO weapons to turn the tide will arrive? I agree that Russia is not willing or able to make a huge push. That is why Russia always fights for years in wars of attrition, making incremental gains, but exterminating the enemy. Trump would solve the issue by cutting off Zelensky's billions and forcing a peace settlement. Fingers crossed Trump wins.
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  14500.  @timeames2509  can you send me the Putin quote that admits "high losses"? yep, Ukraine will have to hand over territory. Ukraine should have implemented Minsk Agreements. There may never be a perfect peace in Ukraine again. it may end up like Palestine, sporadic fighting, that is why Russia is taking its time to kill every Ukrainian male of fighting age. Crimea is Russian. take it from me, I've been to Crimea three times. It's totally Russian and won't ever be Ukrainian again. Saying "Crimea is Russian" is like saying "Hawaii is Japanese".
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  14501.  @timeames2509  yes! I am! If France keeps arming Ukraine and escalating its role in this NATO v Russia conflict, yes, I am worried! That's why I want peace talks, yesterday!
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  14502.  @timeames2509  yep, Japan bit off more than it could chew. Like Ukraine did.
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  14503.  @timeames2509  still watching the CNN propaganda machine, I see! "losing steam" = still advancing. where is Ukraine advancing? getting close to Crimea yet?
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  14504. NOTHING is easy in Ukraine. If getting gas to go to a half empty supermarket is nigh impossible, there ain't any hope for a million man army. This is just Ukrainian propaganda to keep supplies coming from the West. The reality is that there is no million man army and Russia has won. Only the deluded ramble on about the counteroffensive that never happens.
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  14505.  @matrixdecoded4226  exactly so, hence Putin's comment of "we haven't started yet" in reference to the 80% of his armed forces still in Russia, nowhere near Ukraine.
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  14506. I think he will get very little support at the global level"....yep, you thought that when sanctions were announced and all the arm-twisting began, but most of the world were fine with trading and working with Russia. Same thing now, China and India gave the green light for the referenda at Samarkand, you gonna be shocked again that the world is with Russia, not the hypocritical deluded West.
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  14507. "steady gains" are just for the Western media. sane people are not fooled by it. the few villages and a pig farm gained by the Ukrainian cannon fodder were in the unoccupied gray zone, below a range of hills, so Ukraine sold the West the idea they had gained something (after losing 7000 men over 12 days) only for Russia to be more than happy to now shower those villages with artillery from on high. Russia is winning.
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  14508. still waiting for Fauci to quote a particular study that backs up his claims. He never does.
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  14509. "we need to provide housing for them" there is the problem. who is "we"? the tax payer? I have to provide housing to someone? No, Liam, we don't have to provide housing to anyone. it's called personal responsibility.
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  14510.  @ophthalmophobicnpc8002  bla bla bla. looks like you admit that the IDF is a moral army that announces when and where it will attack. no war crimes have been committed by Israel. Hamas is causing the war crimes in Gaza. Egypt has blocked food aid and any aid entering from Rafah, yet as a Jew hater, you would NEVER want to see any war crimes levelled against Egypt, would you now? The "West Bank" is JUDaea and Samaria. It is a sh**hole ruled over by the PA. The sooner it is returned to Israel the better.
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  14511.  @mc1870-  who is "we"? speak for yourself
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  14512.  @BIG-qn6ed  There were recorded phone conversations where fathers in Gaza refused to leave their apartment block with their families when warned by Israelis that their block was in range of an IDF target. A large number of Gazans choose death. It's a Muslim thing.
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  14513.  @hmmahfujur129  "Offended by everything and ashamed of nothing" - the Islamic world in a nutshell. I would know, I've experienced both Israel and the Muslim world.
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  14514.  @hmmahfujur129  if you really want to see "offended by everything" watch the Muslim reaction when you have the temerity to draw a picture of Mohammed!
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  14515. if he thinks that Soviet junk needs constant maintenance, what til he sees how Leopard 1's will need servicing every 30 minutes! boy, are the Ukronazis in for a big disappointment when they see the Western junk showing up. better just use sticks.
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  14516. the elites in their ivory towers never knew what a pressure cooker they had created with their 30 years of uncontrolled immigration. now's the time for the nationalists to have their say....."Allah, Allah, who the f*** is Allah" will be the chant of the summer. Go for it, lads.
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  14517.  @Dylanesque  I'm the one who wants to examine the construct in detail, and you conspicuously avoid any analysis in detail. you just refuse to answer my most basic of questions. par for the course. I do look at the bigger picture. that's the problem. YOUR "bigger picture" is the partnership and cooperation within a corrupt cartel that acts as a protectionist gang against the rest of the world. MY bigger picture is the world, GLOBAL cooperation. You are just a little Europeaner, inacapable of seeing how the rest of the world operates. Blinkered, ignorant. We can discuss this when you answer my questions rather than hiding from them. Otherwise, let's drop the chat and you educate yourself on how small countries like Singapore and the Bahamas have done so well without signing up to mega cartel deals that hamper global trade.
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  14518.  @Dylanesque  thanks for confirming that Brexit is working. Spain couldn't match the offer, Brexit Britain unshackled from EU regulations becomes the chosen place. Do keep up.
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  14519.  @Dylanesque  Remember when Nissan ditched Barcelona as home of one of their plants in favor of the UK? seems to be a pattern here!! Do keep up!
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  14520.  @Dylanesque  sweeteners are the way big business works. do you seriously think EU countries offer no sweeteners to big businesses? really? yet the EU still loses out. Do keep up.
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  14521.  @Dylanesque  so you seriously think that the UK has a monopoly on "bribing" companies to be based in the UK? You think no similar "sweeteners" are EVER offered by EU based companies? Really? You are that naive? And there I was thinking your argument was that Brexit was a failure because it meant we were losing trade and business! Now your argument has shifted to, well, Brexit means the UK still gets plenty of business and trade, we just have to make very attractive offers to big business to be based here. Totally different argument! Belated welcome to the reality of how big business works, sweet innocent child.
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  14522.  @Dylanesque  when did Nissan shut its doors in Barcelona? hmmmm, let's see which country benefitted from those extra years of employment and productivity, UK or Spain? Hey, just an idea, you don't think all those EU labor laws and regulations have a negative effect on potential investment in the EU, do you? Could that be a factor? hmmm.
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  14523. Given that Jordan occupies 80% of Palestine, Queen Rania is the biggest lying hypocrite in the whole region. Where did she say that all Gazans are welcome to make a new start in Jordan? I must have missed that compassionate, humanitarian message from her.
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  14524. Expansion of NATO is adding 2 limp, cowardly ineffective pacifist nations to a club of limp, cowardly, ineffective pacifist nations. I mean Sweden and Finland will help enormously to help NATO's plans for inclusion and diversity, and will help with sensitivity training. Meanwhile, Russia will march on to meet its objectives in Ukraine. SLAVA ROSSIYI ..Z
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  14525. why would anyone getting benefits for claiming to be sick be bothered to look for a job? makes no sense. stay "sick" and keep cashing the cheques from the workers.
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  14526.  @Albebacck  yeah, so all those cousins back home get not a penny from the UK when it's time to celebrate the birth of the 12th kid, right?
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  14527.  @VonZollern  not sure what point I made that you are disputing? so, let's deal with this step by step. I said that Romanian born gypsies are recognized as Romanian nationals. Would you disagree with that? They are denied passports because they are gypsies? then, how do they enter the UK? Yes, Romania has many ethnic groups. all of them are recognized as Romanian if they were born in Romania, right? Now they are in the UK, that presence on UK soil does not mean, in itself, that they are British. next question?
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  14528.  @VonZollern  I never mentioned what people call themselves, or what they call each other. Neither did I mention how things were before 2000. So, for the third time I will state what I said, and see if you agree or disagree. I said that anyone born in Romania, gypsy or non gypsy, is considered, by the authorities, to be a Romanian national, and qualifies for a Romanian passport. Now, is what I said correct, or incorrect?
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  14529.  @Albebacck  what about Pakistanis and Bangladeshis? are they the sharing types?
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  14530.  @Albebacck  thanks for confirming what I said, that they, the gypsies, are Romanian nationals. would I be right that they are entitled to a Romanian passport? could they then use that Romanian passport to enter other countries? Do Romanian gypsies speak no Romanian at all? it's curious, because the gypsies where I live speak French and Catalan, and not Roma/Romany.
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  14531.  @VonZollern  ok, looks like you just can't bring yourself to acknowledge everything I said about Romanian gypsies having Romanian nationality and rights to a Romanian passport is 100% correct. next time you are going to correct someone, read carefully before starting your s**t with "you are wrong".
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  14532.  @VonZollern  thanks for confirming what I said is true. Gypsies born in Romania are recognized by their government as Romanian nationals, Romanian citizens and are eligible for a Romanian passport.
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  14533.  @ryuuguu01  why do you assume Russia wants to take Ukraine? what convinces you Russia lost 2 x A50's? how would you know what quantities of weaponry Russia is producing and will be producing?
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  14534.  @andrewadams6905  thanks for confirming that Russian forces never entered Kiev and there was no battle of Kiev and that Russia never tried to enter Kiev. maybe, one day, try finding out what a "fixing operation" is. given that I watch multiple tv and online sources, unlike you, i get a good idea of what is happening in Ukraine. it also helps that i used to live and work there. no lectures needed from the likes of you on what is really happening in Ukraine.
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  14535.  @ryuuguu01  I am absolutely intrigued by this line "by Russian accounts....", given that the Russian Ministry of Defence doesn't release data on Russian losses! which accounts are you referring to? or, is this all just bs you are parroting from CNN?
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  14536.  @ryuuguu01  here's a simple question for you. If NATO is so mighty, why is NATO not sending all weaponry asked for by Ukraine? Is mighty NATO unable to (in which case you are obviously wrong, NATO is reduced to scraping the bottom of the barrel) OR is it because mighty NATO is CHOOSING not to send enough of its massive stocks for Ukraine to win? which one is it, maestro?
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  14537.  @andrewadams6905  so why do you assume Russia tried to capture Kiev, instead of a fixing operation? why would you think such a small Russian force would enter a city of millions and into a hellhole of urban warfare? why are you 100% certain that the aim was not to pin down the heart and soul of Ukraine's fighting forces while Russia swept through Zaporozhe and Kherson to establish its land bridge to Crimea, which is actually what happened? looks like you are brainwashed by the Western narrative and can't think straight. you probably think Ukraine is still winning and that Mariupol never fell to the Russians? Tell me, why does Ukraine keep begging for more weaponry and ammo? Is NATO unable, or unwilling, to help Ukraine as needed? you choose.
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  14538.  @ryuuguu01  when you say Ukraine wants to push Russia "out of its own territory", are you conceding that all the territory where ethnic Russians and Russian speakers are the majority is, in fact, by rights, Russian territory? sounds like it. Is Cataluña Spanish territory? Is Kosovo Serbian territory? Is Northern Ireland British territory? Do you study all territorial claims and counter claims very attentively?
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  14539.  @andrewadams6905  so you assume the Russian airborne and ground troops were sent with specific instructions to seize control of and occupy all of Kiev? why? why do you assume that? similarly, on your tally sheet, how many Russians have died to date and how many Ukrainians in this conflict?
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  14540.  @andrewadams6905  what should be really concerning for you, if you weren't living in a fantasy world, would be the fact that every time the Ukrainians and the Russians fight toe to toe, street by street, building by building, the Ukrainians lose! Every time! Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lyzichansk, Popasnaya, Bakhmut, Marinka, Avdeevka, and now Robotyne. Just how good is NATO training if Ukraine loses, every time, to drunken convicts with low morale fighting with shovels?
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  14541.  @ryuuguu01  the EU now negotiating with India to get more artillery shells for Ukraine. Looks like that MIGHTY NATO you were talking about ain't as mighty as India in some departments!
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  14542. no air cover, not enough ammo, teenagers and pensioners ready to bite the dust, Russia rubbing its hands with glee. Bring it on, Ukronazis.
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  14543. When will we see the F16s in action? Are there any F16s in Ukraine?
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  14544.  @revwpitt2347  yep, with the two party system and first-past-the-post winner, there is no hope. time to leave and let the migrants and criminal gangs take the remainder of the country. they already rule in the big cities.
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  14545.  @alocalstalker3231  if nationality is defined purely as the legal documentation acquired, sure, but for some of us, "nationality" means far more than the bit of paper that states where you have a right to live! Orwell was not Indian. He was British. Don't insult genuine Indians by stating that the white kid of the colonial occupiers was Indian! a kid born in Denmark whose parents are both Japanese is not Danish, but Japanese. The kid may have legal rights to have a bit of paper saying he qualifies as Danish, but his identity is 100% Japanese and 0% Danish.
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  14546.  @alocalstalker3231  depends what definition of "nation" and "nationality" you choose. I haven't checked the variations in definition in English, but in French, in Robert, nationality refers to notions such as language and traditions, and collective identity. Just curious, would you say a Japanese kid who happened to be born in Copenhagen is 100% Danish?
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  14547.  @alocalstalker3231  1. "I get the same nationalistic feeling like the average Dane does". you would have no idea what the "average" Dane feels. Your feelings are your feelings, and no one else's. 2. You may well have a nationalistic feeling for Denmark, but that in itself is not the only factor in defining nationality. You would not be aware which attitudes you have that are uniquely Danish and which are affected by non Danish factors. Only a 100% Dane could be sure of such a thing. 3. It's not just the environment that defines your nationality. Many European countries are overwhelmed with immigrants who are exposed to the local environment 24/7, but they are not part of it. Ghettos of unassimilated people who don't want to be assimilated.
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  14548.  @alocalstalker3231  "nationality" ....defined as "people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation" just happened to be the first definition in English I found when googling. now, based on this definition, you still insist the Japanese kid born in Copenhagen is 100% Danish national?
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  14549.  @alocalstalker3231  ahhh, so NOW you are starting to insert some qualifiers! This is interesting! "lived there most of their life". so, NOW you are saying a Japanese person who lived in Copenhagen 19 years of their 40 years age is NOT of Danish nationality! Your argument is shifting!
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  14550.  @alocalstalker3231  so you adjusted an incorrect definition to fit my argument, which you disagree with 100%? that begs the question, "why?" just defend your own position! very strange approach. I see nationalism and nationality for exactly what they are. 100% Danish is something you will never be, as part of being 100% Danish is that collective identity that comes from centuries of belonging to the Danes when they were a tribe, through to the Danes as a sovereign, Nordic people. Are you still maintaining your narrow definition of "nationality" is the only one that exists in the English language?
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  14551.  @alocalstalker3231  1. I am 100% sure that you cannot be 100% sure what other people think or feel. Claiming to feel the same nationalism as others is nonsense, but clearly it makes you feel good. 2. You can't tell what parts of your character and attitude are uniquely Danish and what parts are due to other factors. Again, you assume you do, but even if you were examined by some kind of analyst, so many thoughts and feelings we have are composed of a wide range of factors in our background and from generations past. Again, you presume to know, but you don't. 3. I assumed nothing about where you live, but let's see where your reading comprehension skills are weak in English. Quote the words I said from which you assumed that I assumed you live in a ghetto, and then I can correct your wayward thinking, logic and analysis.
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  14552.  @alocalstalker3231  Cambridge Dictionary, "nationality" - "a group of people of the same race, religion, traditions, etc." now then, your argument is no longer with me, but with the Cambridge Dictionary. Want me to help you write the letter to them explaining that they are totally wrong? What evidence would you cite to Cambridge Dictionary that you are 100% right and they are 100% wrong?
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  14553.  @alocalstalker3231  of course, all dictionaries offer both definitions of nationality. however, YOU are the one that said I was confused between ethnicity and nationality, and that nationality was EXCLUSIVELY concerned with the right to live in a certain country. YOU are the one that cherry picked and refused to accept that "nationality" could be linked to origins, language, traditions, ethnicity etc. now, go back to my original statement, read it, and see if, ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE DEFINITIONS OF NATIONALITY OFFERED BY THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY, what I said is true. you see, some of us actually know what we are talking about when we make statements. we don't assume we know every single definition of every single word. you have learned a lesson today:) check your dictionary first before you start correcting others on a particular valid definition they have chosen to apply.
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  14554.  @alocalstalker3231  Again, I never said you did claim to be 100% Danish! Again, your reading comprehension skills in English are very weak. Quote me the words I used that said you claim to be 100% Danish! You cannot be 100% Danish as per the dictionary's second definition (the definition you choose to ignore because it is so inconvenient to your argument) because of the origins of your parents. We both agreed that "nationality", when used strictly to mean the document that entitles you to reside permanently and have the rights of citizen of a certain country, is what makes you Danish on paper, but my whole point is that for most of the planet, nationality is also something much much deeper than a document, and is linked to ethnicity, origins, background, traditions. By the second definition, you are from being Danish, just as I am far from being Bahamian, though I have the passport of that country. Next time "nationality" is mentioned, consider BOTH definitions before you start telling the other person how wrong they are!
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  14555.  @alocalstalker3231  I keep telling you that you are not 100% Danish NOT because you ever claimed to be, but so that you never, ever again try to correct someone who rightfully says that nationality can be interpreted as something much, much deeper than a piece of paper saying you are a citizen of Denmark! You tried to lecture me on how I had confused "ethnicity with nationality". I am pointing out, repeatedly, that you are not 100% Danish so that you understand that ethnicity DOES figure into nationality in one of the valid definitions of nationality. This whole debate started with the question about the composition of the German national football team. My point was that if half the German team have German nationality only based on the document that grants citizenship, then it is a valid question to ask if real Germans want their nation to be represented by loads of people who are not of German nationality ACCORDING TO THE VALID DEFINITION OFFERED BY THE DICTIONARY. Got it?
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  14556.  @alocalstalker3231  and I was right. a Japanese kid, both parents Japanese, is not Danish. Sure, we all know the kid can waltz around forever more with a document recognizing his citizenship of Denmark, but most of the world understands that a Japanese kid born of Japanese parents and brought up amongst Japanese traditions is Japanese! YOU tried to correct me! You insisted that there was no definition of nationality that recognized ethnicity as part of one's nationality. Before correcting someone, go to the dictionary and check ALL meanings of a word, otherwise you make yourself look stupid.
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  14557.  @alocalstalker3231  My point all long is that nationality is much much more than just the right to live in a country. you seem to agree with me now. next time, check the dictionary and don't lecture others when you are ignorant on the meaning or meanings of a word.
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  14558.  @alocalstalker3231  "What you're describing nationality as is actually ethnicity. A japapense kid born in Denmark is a Dane, nationality wise, not ethnic wise. You fail to tell the difference." NO, YOU FAILED TO EVEN ENTERTAIN THE IDEA THAT THERE WERE 2 DEFINITIONS OF NATIONALITY, AND THAT BY THE SECOND DEFINITION, ETHNICITY IS ONE FACTOR THAT IS PART OF NATIONALITY. A JAPANESE KID BORN IN DENMARK IS NOT A DANE WHEN THE SECOND DEFINITION OF "NATIONALITY" IS USED.
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  14559.  @alocalstalker3231  the Japanese kid's parentage, their origins, the kid's cultural background, traditions, language ALL mean he's not Danish! It's so funny that this is impossible for you to grasp. Did you get educated exclusively by a bunch of deluded woke teachers who think all people are the same, all cultures the same and of equal value?
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  14560. poor Ann doesn't understand that a "mosque" is not a place of religion but is, primarily, a place where hate and intolerance are preached non stop. If Ann thinks millions of people in Europe revering a prophet who was a paedophile, slave trader and mass murderer is a really good idea, then she has gone batty.
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  14561.  @Zaf2010  plenty of energy? problem is, Green policies mean there is no incentive to extract and export it. also, UK still has to pay the global prices of energy, hence the horrendous energy crisis in UK, and we are nowhere near winter yet!
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  14562. Why bother interviewing a soon-to-be ex prime minister, a figure who half his own MPs want him out! Boris has the word "FAILURE" stamped all over his head. Ignore him..he's a total buffoon.
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  14563. HURRAY! Let's hope the pledge means some weapons actually arrive in Ukraine, because so many pledges don't materialize into reality, and then, as usual, let's hope Russia destroys them all. Russia getting close to demilitarizing the West as well as Ukraine. And that's a good thing.
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  14564. then you need to learn about the world. plenty of places in the West stress "it's not what you know, it's who you know"
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  14565.  @UKLogic22  you will find their definition of "freedom" is very different from yours, and they pity you for the many constraints you have on your freedom
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  14566.  @indieanna4764  depends how you define "Russian land"
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  14567.  @indieanna4764  who is "we"?
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  14568.  @indieanna4764  I think you will find that your very imprecise "humane and civilized country" has very different meanings for many different peoples. who are you to be the judge of what a "humane and civilized country" looks like?
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  14569.  @indieanna4764  i think you would be shocked at how many, especially the young, would find it a horror show.
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  14570.  @indieanna4764  Russia doesn't need more land. But apparently Ukraine does, stealing and using the Azov nazis, whom you support 100%, to shell the Donbass from the independent LPR and DPR.
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  14571.  @indieanna4764  I am absolutely sure what is humane and what isn't. that's not the problem. the problem is billions on this planet disagree with me, and disagree with you, on what is humane and what isn't. so, who gets to be the judge and referee? it is this absurd assumption that what "we" think is humane is a universal thing, and it is this arrogance that leads to misunderstandings and eventually, wars.
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  14572.  @marianacabrera3311  corruption is a way of life. asylum seekers tend not to have any of the connections they need to be corrupt in the West so, no, usually they are not the ones seeking asylum.
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  14573.  @UKLogic22  what makes you think they have no chance to express themselves?
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  14574.  @marianacabrera3311  ah, so it's the corruption in the WEST that is the problem! You start to make my point and her point.
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  14575.  @marianacabrera3311  I live in the West too, but I have also spent quite some time in many different non Western countries. I do not believe that Western societies allow more freedoms and abide by the "rule of law" more than non Western countries. For example, many Muslim countries adhere strictly to Sharia law. would strict adherence to Sharia law make them more appealing because they follow "rule of law"? Corruption is most definitely a choice in the West, as it is anywhere. The West no longer has strong and law abiding institutions. just look at Qatargate in the EU. I think you need to re-examine your prejudices regarding Western superiority.
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  14576.  @marianacabrera3311  do you think a person is more likely to be assaulted and robbed in London, New York or Moscow?
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  14577.  @indieanna4764  out of interest, what is the percentage of Russians that have fled?
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  14578.  @indieanna4764  700,000 from a population of 150 million. How many people have fled Ukraine?
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  14579.  @rhh3582  why would you assume I have not lived in the RF? Tell me more about your assumptions. Do you assume I have never lived in Ukraine too?
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  14580.  @rhh3582  tell me which country you live in and I will list some of the restraints under which you live. You seem to have assumed a lot about me with no evidence at all! Are you always this assuming? Which country do you think I live in? Where do you think I am from?
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  14581.  @rhh3582  and if I told you that for 20 years I "enjoyed" the freedom of USA, but didn't consider it as free as many other places on the globe, you would assume what, exactly? Oh, let me guess, that I am brainwashed, unintelligent, confined in some kind of tyranny? Careful not to confuse Imperial Russia with the USSR with the Russian Federation. Lumping it all together shows a lack of, well, intelligence.
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  14582. Totally agree with the Chechen leader, let's see how things go with a nuke or two dropped on the west of Ukraine, hopefully while the wind is blowing westward.
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  14583.  @goodbyebluesky43  useless advice gratefully rejected, doctor. let me know when you have your own thought processes sorted out
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  14584. pathetic conspiracy theories like, the virus may have come from a lab?
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  14585.  @gjthomas9770  I am happy to throw insults back at anyone who insults me first. that's what you do.....resort to blaming people who say things you don't like without finding out who started the insults. in the meantime, look up the word "rue" and learn how to use it correctly, if you want to learn how to structure a thoughtful debate.
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  14586. the West only cares about Ukraine. No one in the West cares if Nagorno Karabakh disappears off the map, the West is that shallow.
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  14587.  @oldmanghost219  Willis' credibility is at stake. she campaigned specifically on a promise to not sleep with anyone working under her, and a DA is held to the very highest standards of ethical behavior as she is supposed to pursue justice with 100% integrity. Willis has failed to even appear to act appropriately. the issue is not the office romance, bui whether she perjured herself and gamed the system to enrich herself. the evidence so far indicates she did. she should have stepped aside months ago if she wanted to enhance the chance of convicting Trump.
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  14588.  @oldmanghost219  many companies prohibit any romantic relationships between employees. you are out of touch with the real world. especially in the case of a DA, a moral and ethical lifestyle is of paramount importance in order for the citizens to believe that prosecutions will happen in good faith. Fani Willis has destroyed this relationship between trusting citizen and herself.
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  14589.  @oldmanghost219  in this case, given that Wade was Willis's lover and purchaser of her lavish trips, it would be in the financial interests of both Willis and Wade to pursue the Trump case as long as possible with as many charges as possible. that's called a conflict of interests and leads to either recusal or dismissal.
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  14590. massive, massive mistake for the Guardia Civil not to arrest the 2 strangers. they are free to go wherever they like now. any drugs charge, a murder charge, anything to get those 2 in custody, but the Guardia Civil blew it, assuming it was a simple missing person case. should have listened to the internet sleuths, not the media.
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  14591.  @biggerissues6085  "fantasist and bullshitter"? those would be the fools that just wasted 2 weeks intently searching an area that Jay never went to! grasp reality! the Tenerife Police don't want to expose the drug gang culture on the island, 2 weeks of poking a few bushes and playing with drones will satisfy the sheep like you
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  14592.  @noelpucarua2843  not when the boats are destroyed once the illegal migrants are stripped of their valuables and dumped back in Calais.
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  14593.  @wallacewhybrow2705  the vigilante navy that millions of Brits are ready to form now to stop this invasion.
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  14594.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  what France says is of no relevance. only what France does or does not do is of any importance.
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  14595.  @PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb  et quoi?
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  14596. does the "we" include all the old and vulnerable that will in fact die of the cold between now and warmer temperatures?
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  14597.  @alejandror.planas9802  no hay problema cuando todo el mundo en Barcelona habla y entiende castellano. el uso de catalán no sirve para nada con respecto a los que vienen a Barcelona de fuera de Cataluña, es nada más que el idioma que una minoría prefiere usar. ¿y que? usar catalán con otra persona que no tiene ningunas raices en Cataluña (la mayoría de personas en Barcelona) es tan ridíciulo que dos ingleshablantes usando francés para conversar en Francia.
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  14598.  @alejandror.planas9802  cuando la mayoría de habitantes en Barcelona habla castellano, considero la lengua local ser castellano.
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  14599.  @alejandror.planas9802  ¡exacto! la lengua local es la lengua hablada fluentemente por la mayoría. Pues, en partes de Bruselas y París, la lengua local es árabe, y, de verdad, habrá otras ciudades en Europa que se encontrarán en la misma situación en los años que vienen. Pero la "lingua franca" en París y Bruselas es francés, como la "lingua franca" en Cataluña es castellano, pues es muy útil conocer francés en Francia y en Bélgica, como es muy útil conocer castellano en Cataluña. Vivo cerca de Perpiñan, (Catalogne du Nord) donde hay colegios que ofrecen catalán como asignatura opcional. Si tuvieras niños en el sistema escolar en Perpiñan, ¿cual opción escogerías tú? inglés o catalán? y ¿por qué?
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  14600.  @luchiayseira  soy profesor de idiomas y he viajado muchísimo. los que aprenden catalán pierden su tiempo. no vale nada en el mundo real. inglés, español, francés, ruso, chino. la verdad te molesta, ¿no?
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  14601.  @luchiayseira  me importa que los niños aprenden idiomas que les sirven bien, por eso, me imprta cuando los niños pierden su tiempo con idiomas inútiles como catalán, a causa de la arrogancia, orgullo y estupidez de padres catalanes que no saben nada del mundo. obviamente los catalanes no van a renunciar "su" idioma. los catalanes no tienen la inteligencia comprender porque su idioma es 100% inútil en el mundo de hoy. es el castellano que sirve por todas partes de España, y por todas partes del mundo Hispano, incluso Andorra, Girona, Barcelona etc etc.
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  14602. NATO has been outproduced by Russia and its allies, and Zelensky now realizes that he sided with a weak paper tiger that can't deliver victory. Ben Hodges has no idea how arms production works and even less idea regarding how Ukraine wastes what it was given. Russia has outsmarted the West hands down.
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  14603. yet more evidence that Russia is running out of missiles. just like 12 months ago. any more evidence like this and we can be sure no more weapons exist in Russia.
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  14604.  @EricT01  "much more transparent when things are bad"? you must be joking! How many times have we been told that sanctions against Russia are working? Pure lies.
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  14605. The only question is how Russia wins, not if. Only a fool would think NATO+Ukraine could defeat Russia + allies in a protracted ground war. For now, Putin is going with the constraints of a Special Military Operation, but declaring war is still an option, if needed. Putin's 5 objectives are in reach, especially as Ukraine wasted its reserve force on a failed Kherson offensive and futile Kharkov offensive. Russia now sits back and defends its territorial gains while grinding forward in Donbass, demilitarizing Ukraine by massacring hundreds of cannon fodder every day, indefinitely. keep sending the weapons, NATO!
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  14606. typical deluded Socialist response, providing more accommodation so that even more migrants are tempted to make the journey to the Canaries.
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  14607. Russian set-back? every day Russia kills more Ukrainian soldiers than Russia loses it is a step forward. This is a war of attrition. When Ali went 6 rounds fighting rope a dope, how was that a set-back for him?
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  14608. ALL Muslims are being controlled! Khan and every other Muslim! Learn some basic facts! What is the penalty for apostasy in Islam? DEATH. "Islam" means "Submission", so by definition Khan must submit to those imams who dictate what Islam decrees. Learn some basic facts.
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  14609. just curious, the Police that say Tate has harmed children, would that be the same Police that refused to investigate Pakistani rape gangs for year after year after year?
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  14610.  @rogermartinez78  No, Roger. but I have lived and worked in Ukraine, Have you?
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  14611.  @anthonymorris2276  1) who's claiming to be an expert on NATO stockpiles? 2) My work in Ukraine was teaching. I have no interest in propaganda, just in relating the truth as I experienced it, and see it today. 3) what is your experience in Ukraine? Maybe you lived there but never worked there?
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  14612.  @Blah64  not true. one said they checked his passport and that OTHERS were not allowed to cross. all three interviewed mentioned NOTHING about crossing to avoid the call up for reservists.
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  14613. "they turn up with weapons, they wreak havoc and violence on our streets" oh, so, he must be referring to those Far Right Muslims in Birmingham?
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  14614. the ethnic Russians already left, and brought their ancestral lands with them. game over.
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  14615.  @Chevy-jordan  it's deluded thinking like this that has got NATO/Ukraine in such a pickle. no doubt the sanctions are working really well, in your mind, and Ghost of Kiev is about to save the day!
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  14616. Britain in 2023. worse than a banana republic. mob rule.
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  14617.  @MarincaGheorghe  hello, the voice of truth here telling the brain washed masses what is really happening. get ready for the mother of all winters as Putin turns the taps off:)
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  14618.  @karenkalasy8251  still alive and a safe distance away and watching all this wondering "what the hell do i do now?" probably hoping they find his dead body pretty damn soon!
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  14619. NATO is already defeated. it's only because NATO doesn't have the artillery rockets to combat Russia's war of attrition that NATO is sending tanks in a desperate attempt to change the nature of the war. it won't work.
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  14620.  @robertmoore8821  Not for the first time in your life, you guessed wrong.
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  14621.  @FandersonUfo  hi, deluded fool who has no clue
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  14622.  @FandersonUfo  judging by the amount of support Russia now has around the globe, it would seem that the Russian perspective is gaining ground! All Latin America, All Middle East, All Africa, giants like China, India, Pakistan ALL happy to work with and trade with Russia. Dedolarization rolling on apace...it's the West looking isolated! What's it like trolling for a failed group of chihuahua states, darling? enjoy your rampant inflation and energy crisis:)
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  14623.  @jojojojo4332  oh look, it's the Gestapo
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  14624.  @janedoe3915  oh, the usual pathetic "we could have..." excuses from the US. "we could have won in Vietnam"..but you didn't. "we could have stayed 20 more years in Afghanistan and won"...but you didn't. What you did do was LOSE. and now you're losing in Ukraine...no more weapons to send and too damn cowardly to fight head to head with the Russians. pathetic. epitaph of US armed forces.."we could have.."
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  14625.  @BkNy02  1) Russia has not invaded Afghanistan. Learn the difference between USSR and Russia, dope! USSR (led by a Ukrainian, Brezhnev) invaded Afghanistan, not the Russian Federation. 2) If you don't care about anyone else, why did you invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first place? 3) You didn't lose anything? so 13 troops dead and billions of dollars worth of weaponry = nothing? wake up dreamer.
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  14626.  @4jqxc  oh, so it turns out it was a really good strategic move and a handsome victory to gift all that weaponry to the Taliban? Reality check - leaving all that expensive weaponry to the Taliban made the world howl with laughter at your incompetence and panicked retreat. went screaming from Kabul like a bunch of schoolgirls when the goat herders in sandals showed up. totally pathetic. does the US commander in chief even know what day it is today?
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  14627.  @OneRichMofo  20 years of occupation, result = Taliban in full control of Afghanistan. all they had to do was wait until you left, and because you weren't able to engage them in battle, they won.
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  14628.  @Jan-xf8sk  all related, no red herring, but you have to have perspicacity to figure this stuff out, so that rules you out
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  14629.  @FandersonUfo  tell me one thing I said that is untrue. BS is the stuff you spout when you can't counter the truth.
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  14630.  @robertmoore8821  a lie only to the ignorant, the brainwashed, the thick-headed. but let me give you a chance, dear sweet innocent Robert. Give me one lie I have told and I will show you where your thinking is askew.
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  14631.  @Amalgamotion  conspicuous by its absence, any one single point that you are able to counter! poor brainwashed numbskull, the truth is hard to take when you see it, eight?
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  14632.  @robertmoore8821  tell me one single lie I told. go ahead, embarrass yourself.
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  14633.  @pipo4158  were forces from NATO countries present in Afghanistan, yes or no?
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  14634.  @pipo4158  who won the FA Cup in 1974? Let's talk facts. But maybe it is better to talk relevant facts?
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  14635.  @jnwilliams1986  this discussion is about many things. Germany is the backdrop. The main theme is the hysteria that goes with a bunch of goons planning a load of nonsense that has zero implications for the big picture. Now, until you understand the big picture, sonny, and until you get how the media wants to distract from the real issues, take a seat at the kiddies table and learn from the adults in the room.
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  14636.  @robertparsons313  Why not? They did in Ukraine in 2014!
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  14637.  @Cha4k  totally agree. patience. it will happen
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  14638.  @MegaSteak757  Afghanistan was a humiliating loss. USA and NATO had 20 years to defeat the Taliban, and failed. NATO is a paper tiger. NATO relies on air superiority, (which has failed in Ukraine) and the leadership of NATO countries can't survive the outcry from their obese, pampered effete populations. a couple of bodybags brought home to tears and wringing of hands, and NATO sues for peace. Russia has managed to demilitarize NATO, its supplies of weapons and ammo are down to next to nothing. electric tanks, diversity and inclusion, these are what NATO is about. Street fighting? forget it.
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  14639.  @metalgearsolidsnake6978  more believable than the Greens in Germany actually following Green policies than doing all they can to boost Germany's carbon emissions
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  14640. 49% of Germans say they DON'T want Germany to send tanks. 40% say they DO. Might be political suicide to go against the 49% and just hope Ukraine can avoid defeat.
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  14641.  @sammiller6631  again, the "worth" of agricultural exports is misleading. Africa starts wringing its hands when Russian wheat becomes scarce, not when Dutch greenhouse avocados are running out!
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  14642.  @WhatsupDoc-01  the economic crisis in the UK is so severe that people are talking of "heating or eating" this winter, yet some deluded commentators think NATO can announce imposing a war economy, and the masses will all cheer with wild enthusiasm.
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  14643.  @sammiller6631  Money can't buy you everything, Sam! The reality is the West has spent decades decreasing its military capacity and production, so now all the money in the world can't purchase weaponry that doesn't exist. That is why Russia has gained such a massive advantage by allying with Iran, N Korea and China. NATO is tapped out, reduced to sending cluster munitions, and "ramping up" production is a slow, cumbersome process.
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  14644.  @sammiller6631  China is not shrinking. You mean India is growing faster than China. Either way, you are now making my point. If manpower is of such importance, Russia and Russia's allies (and yes, both China and India are much more supportive of Russia than they are of the West) have a massive advantage over the West. Manpower favors Russia + Russia's allies. If manpower is key, getting Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia would be key, but the West doesn't seem to be making many inroads there!
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  14645.  @goldensch4440  yep, it's curious why Western media refuse to answer the question of why the West doesn't supply Ukraine with what Ukraine needs. It's the elephant in the room.
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  14646.  @sammiller6631  7% of Russia is a massive area, but given that half of Ukraine's population has left Ukraine, is displaced or killed, all that "farmable land" in Ukraine is useless without farmers.
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  14647.  @fullimetal7581  well, it hasn't been addressed because no one in the mainstream media is saying that NATO isn't supplying Ukraine with what it needs because NATO doesn't care about Ukraine.
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  14648.  @SmilingNinja  still got the vaseline on hand for your repeated Banderite visitors up the back passage?
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  14649.  @alexanderhowarth6460  some of us would say the reason is 100% relevant, because if NATO is incapable of supplying Ukraine adequately, all our leaders need to confess this truth to the public and apologize to Ukraine.
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  14650.  @alexanderhowarth6460  whether trees or wood, some of us want some honesty from our leaders. why the constant appeals from Ukraine for more weapons when the West has agreed to supply Ukraine with what it needs?
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  14651. "bizarre, insensitive theories" as bizarre as searching a wilderness area for 10 days even though there is no evidence Slater ever went there? as bizarre as that?
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  14652.  @КристинаЙорданова-р8л  why would Russia want to reach Kiev?
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  14653.  @stuiboy  the deafening silence of those who can see so much of the world is having a normal or cooler July than normal.
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  14654.  @henrikfox8960  1. Climate change is causing FEWER extreme weather events! Fewer hurricanes, fewer tornados, fewer typhoons, fewer cyclones, less flooding. Learn the truth, not what you are force fed. 2. it has NEVER been possible to predict where extreme weather events occur. 3. Droughts are much LESS of a problem in Africa than before. More CO2 in the atmosphere has led to a greening of the planet and bigger crop yields. Again, learn the truth. 4. Sea level is no threat whatsoever. if sea level rises were a thing, no one would buy any property on the sea shore, anywhere. 5. the only challenge you need to address is your ignorance and stupidity.
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  14655.  @aaaaak05  you seriously believe that the Ukrainian forces, including the Azov Nazi Battalion, have committed not one single war crime? If so, why would you think that?
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  14656. "would tanks turn the tide?" so, Ukraine is not winning. Russia is (despite low morale, using convicts as soldiers, sanctions, isolation, poor equipment, poor leadership, running out of missiles etc)
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  14657. just laughable that UK thinks it can get the snowflake generation to fight for the UK, a place many of them have been indoctrinated to despise. if it weren't for the nuclear deterrent, UK would already be toast.
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  14658. "should be required" indicates you live in a fantasy world. get real. Russia controls the Black Sea
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  14659.  @kennychad2821  just like engaging Russia in a ground war is a really good idea.
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  14660. More lies from Sky News. There is NO Russian blockade of Ukrainian shipments. Ukraine REFUSES to demine its ports. Besides, if the grain is coming from occupied territory, that is now considered Russian terrirory..so Russian grain is being shipped abroad in Russian vessels from Russia. What's your point? That Ukraine no longer has any demined ports and has lost a lot of territory? Obviously!
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  14661. six really unpopular leaders, plus Meloni. they will pretend to tackle some serious issues, and then get kicked out of power in the near future, starting with Sunak, closely followed by Biden and Macron.
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  14662. oh boy, the mothers of those thousands of young Ukrainian cannon fodder troops massacred in Bakhmut are going to be delighted with Zelensky when they see the convicts and mercenaries flying Russian flags from Bakhmut's Mig statue.
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  14663.  @sH-ed5yf  you will have to wait a long time. it takes ages to surround a place and starve to death 20,000 people, but Russia is patient and it will happen.
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  14664. Russia has said it will only use nukes if its existence is threatened. Crimea, considered Russian by Putin and co, would be under existential threat if attacked by Ukraine. So, get ready for Russia to start using nukes.
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  14665. unsaid by DW, surprise surprise, is the way the "pariah" state, Russia, is working harmoniously and hand in hand with OPEC to tell the West how much it will be paying for oil. The sanctions have failed. isolating Russia has failed. Time for the West to fall in line with OPEC and BRICS.
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  14666. so now this old fart is talking about a "summer offensive"? what happened to the spring offensive? after all the billions of dollars worth of aid poured into Ukronazia, we don't get to see Russia massacre the pensioners and teenagers of Ukraine's remaining cannon fodder? Some of us feel cheated.
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  14667. too late. that moment was in the last few years when Putin was asking for discussions, and finally in March, in Istanbul. Only hope now is total surrender, but Putin doesn't even need that. He is determined to demilitarize Ukraine, so plenty of Ukrainian cannon fodder to kill, capture or cripple yet.
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  14668.  @alvaro701  because they have never tried to take either Kiev or Kharkov. why would they?
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  14669.  @alvaro701  second chance..where is the evidence most Ukrainian soldiers would have chosen to stay and fight if given the option?
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  14670.  @alvaro701  You think the men COMPELLED to remain in Ukraine and then visited by army recruiters in their homes are "Volunteers"? Really? What happens, do you think, if such men say "no"? Been to Ukraine have you?
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  14671. got to laugh at the absurd assumption that Leopard 2 tanks will make any difference at all. Ukraine started this conflict with an enormous arsenal of tanks. they all got destroyed. stingers, javelins, himars all supposed to be game changers, yet Russia is now advancing in Zaporozhe and a bunch of convicts just routed Ukraine's finest NATO trained forces in Soledar. The game is over, Scholz knows it, pointless throwing more weapons into Ukraine now.
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  14672. so, the Qataris join the EU in bringing corruption to the EU Parliament.
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  14673. Anyone who has actually gone to Crimea would say it is Russian through and through. During the Crimean War, was Britain fighting against Russia, or against Ukraine, honey?
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  14674.  @VLF2022  Zelensky ne dit RIEN sur les noms des villes regagnés en Kherson par ses forces RIEN. Alors, dit moi, donne moi la liste de tous les villes regagnées par les ukraniens en Kherson.
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  14675.  @VLF2022  oui, c'est bien possible, mais je répete pour la troiseme fois, le silence n'est pas gardé quand il y a une victoire. Si Zelensky croit que la perte de 3000 soldats pour aucun territoire represente une victoire, il ferait beaucoup de bruit de ça, et, au contraire, il ne dit rien. Kherson n'eatait pas une victoire et voila le silence. Oh, je sais, TU le considere comme un succes énorme, Kherson est vraiment un triomphe qui change tout, et les 3000 morts sont, bof, juste un petit malheur, mais pour beaucoup de monde, silence sur Kherson = pas de victoire:)
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  14676.  @VLF2022  aucun interet. oui, je connais l'Ukraine tres bien. je travaillais a Vinnitsa il y 4 ans.
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  14677. fascinating how ONLY Ukrainian strikes on Russian military targets gets highlighted, and never Russia's many successes. leads the foolish Western sheep to think Ukraine is winning. it's not.
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  14678. "whether a Ukrainian victory is possible" says the reporter. "Russia has already lost the war" said Biden. one of them is lying.
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  14679. she would quite happily wear a hajib and become islamic. only when her husband beat her and ordered her indoors ad infinitum would she start to think something had gone wrong in the UK.
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  14680. " I simply hate them" guess what? the Russians hate you too. How you applauded the shelling of Donbass civilians for 8 years no one will ever understand. taste of your own medicine. enjoy every minute of the Donbass revenge. Just 7 more years of this sh*t to endure.
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  14681. The manic knifemen have seen how 2 Tier Keir is more focused on the protesters than the murderers, so get ready for more of the same
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  14682. TRANSLATION "we don't have the correct munitions" = Russia has so succeeded in demilitarizing NATO that we don't have much more to send to Ukraine"
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  14683. "because of the inflation that emerged" inflation never emerges. it is created by governments printing too much money to chase too few goods. Biden did it.
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  14684. Brian Berletic is a real military analyst, not this charlatan propagandist Bell. If Belarus joins the conflict, it will be because the West pushed Belarus into it, not because Russia dragged Belarus into it.
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  14685. honey, there is no evidence Jay was ever intending to return to Los Cristianos, so stop making it up as you go along.
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  14686. NATO still blabbing on in its own land of magical beliefs, thinking Russia can be defeated. it can't.
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  14687. "heart-breaking for the family" you bet, given all their efforts were to keep the Police focused on the Masca area, when they know, or suspect, Jay is somewhere else
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  14688.  @CelticSaint  quick question for you. do you think Lucy knew the location of the airbnb of the 2 Luton lads? she knew the two of them, apparently, as they had become acquainted on day one of the festival. what do you think?
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  14689.  @CelticSaint  going to bother you with one other thing on my mind. Ofelia. The only eyewitness to claim Jay was at the bus stop and walking along the road. This is pretty strange too. Sure, Masca is a hamlet, just a few buildings, but not one other person saw Jay at the bus stop. more remarkable is that, given Jay was walking along a road that i would guess would be pretty busy at 8.30 on a Monday morning, walking along that road for at least 15 minutes, not one other eyewitness has come forward to say "yes, definitely passed this guy on the road that morning"? not one? Can't think why Ofelia would make this all up, and after all, Jay's phone pinged the tower outside Masca at 8:50 ish, but, mighty strange she is the only person to say she saw him.
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  14690. BBC assumes racist motives as soon as they hear "Caucasian suspect" BBC NEVER assumes racist motives when they hear "black suspect"
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  14691. so very very revealing that a top scientist is SURE that CO2 is a factor in climate change, but has no bloody clue what percentage of change is due to CO2! Not real science, Grade F, please do your homework again and include data to substantiate your claim.
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  14692. there is no need for the UK to impose any border at all. Brexiteers are free traders. let the EU and Dublin be the ones that re-erect the border, and just scrap the Protocol.
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  14693. Western leaders said the sanctions would cripple Russia. They got it wrong. They said Russia would become isolated. They got it wrong. They said Western arms would turn the tide. They got it wrong. The West is powerless to defend Ukrainian air space and Russia is going to demilitarize both Ukraine and NATO. The West didn't do its homework. Russia did.
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  14694. would any actual evidence be needed to issue these warrants? for example, should Zelensky just be arrested on suspicion of terrorism?
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  14695.  @saamz32  yes, welcome to the astoundingly hypocritical world of the West in 2023
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  14696.  @toddmckintyre2064  by a long shot, and you know it! it ain't the Republicans wringing their hands about the cognitive powers of their presidential candidate, is it?
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  14697. "varying degrees of on the back foot" = yes, everywhere now, Ukraine is losing.
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  14698. supplying tanks to increase the death toll is not "helping". it is pure evil.
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  14699. and now, the real news. Bakhmut has fallen. NATO trained and armed battalions were poured into Bakhmut to stop the Wagner demoralized convicts with shovels, but NATO/Ukraine lost, again, as they did in Soledar and Mariupol. no wonder weapon seems able to stop the relentless grinding progress of the poorly led and poorly supplied Russians. NATO has a massive problem on its hands.
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  14700. woke NATO policies mean so many people support Russia and not any NATO stooge countries like Ukraine.
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  14701. EU values = No to transparency, il faut laisser tous les paiements aux ONGs bien cachés.
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  14702. yeah, those 14 British Challenger tanks and that rusty junk Leopard 1's from the 1960's will make such an overpowering contribution, this counter offensive is going to be overwhelming. another Russian meatgrinder about to chew up tens of thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder. Biden rubbing his hands with glee as Ukraine fights to the last man. so much more enjoyable than watching US servicemen getting killed by the Taliban, let Zelensky's boys get chopped up in a futile war.
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  14703. "unprecedented in Europe" this dope hasn't heard of how Islam dealt with a teacher in Paris. the Russians thought this was something Europe will tolerate.
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  14704. @Null Pointer it's called common sense. interesting you are incapable of arguing against any of it.
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  14705. they are not fuelling conspiracy theories. they are inviting the world to explain this mystery as best we can because they refuse to investigate it.
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  14706. so Biden wanted an honest Ukrainian prosecutor to look into Burisma's dealings? Or Biden wanted a different prosecutor, corrupt enough to look into Burisma's dealings and announce everything is squeaky clean?
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  14707. The riots wouldn't be happening if the government had fulfilled their promise to slash immigration rates. the moral of the story is, if you want to avoid riots, listen and act upon the demands of the masses, especially when you already promised to do so and then reneged on that promise.
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  14708. these two cretinous presenters and Farage are way out of their depths on these issues. They are clueless and blind to the fact that Putin has clearly come out on top in this conflict.
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  14709. what's wrong with money laundering? it's the reasons why money has to be laundered in the first place that needs to be examined.
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  14710. read what Amnesty International said about Ukrainians placing troops and weapons in residential areas. learn the truth.
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  14711. "they're good men" women who have been married to men for 20 years say that, before deciding to get a divorce.
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  14712. no one cares about what she says. many of us care about the unceasing comments that follow from cretinous anti-Trumpers, like you, that show how you grasp nothing and can't say one word that rebuts her answers.
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  14713. compare it to Putin's 4 hour sessions taking live questions from the press, and real questions at that. no wonder most of the planet supports Russia
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  14714. So, in 8 years, Spain will have such an excess of green hydrogen that it will be able to pipe some over to France. yeah, right. If you believe Russia destroyed Nordstreams 1 and 2, watch them do the same to all similar pipelines.
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  14715. truly bizarre behavior! Russia destroys its own Nordstream pipelines, then shells its own nuclear power plant that it is occupying, and now it has destroyed the side of the dam that it controls!? Makes sense then that Russia killed Darina Dugina and sent drones to attack the Kremlin.
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  14716.  @bonnie7898  No, I don't think I know them inside out, I just know I know them a lot better than a fool like you that didn't even know the USSR was one of the Allies in WW2! Remember lecturing me on how I should read some history books? Did you read a history book that explained to you who the Allies were yet?
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  14717. only in your dreams...how the sanctions working out?
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  14718. "so-called" referenda? did DW call Ukraine a "so-called" democracy after the 2014 coup?
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  14719.  @Joaquin546  so the coup d'etat in 2014 was "liberating Ukraine from Russia?" Really? Yanukovich was democratically elected by the Ukrainian electorate, yet ousting him was "liberating Ukraine from Russia"? oh my, what an Orwellian world you live in!
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  14720.  @Joaquin546  "subjecting people to Russia?" when 90% of the Donbass already voted, years ago, to leave Ukraine, you call forcing them to remain Ukrainian fair and just?
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  14721. "international condemnation" yeah, you mean from the Western bubble. Papua New Guinea and Madagascar weren't exactly up in arms about it, nor world powers China or India, the usual "The West = the world" arrogance
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  14722. Macron calling the accused police officer's actions as "inexcusable" gave a green light to the mob to start all this. Then again, the French voters rejected Zemmour at the polls, the only candidate who preached an immediate end to immigration, so France is reaping what it sowed in many respects.
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  14723. "Russians not fighting with will"....Do the DPR and LPR militias have any will to fight for the liberation of their homelands? Are the Chechens fighting half-heartedly? The arrogance of this fool typical of the West...talking down the capabilities of Russia all the way to final defeat and surrender of Ukraine.
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  14724. Let's see if the kids are in court and then sentenced within a week, a la kids riots suspects
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  14725. With a kill rate of 8:1 in Russia's favor in Bakhmut, the demilitarization of Ukraine is rolling on nicely. Who cares about gaining territory when Ukraine keeps serving up cannon fodder for the Wagner meatgrinder so willingly?
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  14726.  @stealthbum34  Green policies are something you don't recover from! You either ditch them or things get worse. Germany firing up its coal power stations isn't "recovering", it's reversing a bad idea.
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  14727.  @stealthbum34  the whole point is that there ARE massive trade barriers between the EU and that thing you ignore, the REST OF THE PLANET. The EU cannot survive as a cartel/gang trading amongst itself, as the gang doesn't have enough resources like coal, gas, oil, etc. it is now finding out the hard way that it's trade barriers with the rest of the world count for a LOT more than its free trade withing the tiny blob of Europe called the EU! Think globally for once and you will get it!
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  14728.  @stealthbum34  the Conservatives never closed any coal mines. the Conservatives refused to keep lavishing taxpayers' money on coal mines that could not turn a profit. Basic business sense (which you clearly lack). If said coal mines are now needed and can turn a profit on the open market, open them up! Simple supply and demand! would have been a lot easier to keep trading with Russia.
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  14729.  @stealthbum34  1) Brexiteers are, by and large, free marketeers that DON'T believe in trade barriers! What trade barriers have Brexiteers EVER insisted upon? 2) Leaving the EU means the UK has the freedom to negotiate whatever trade deals and tariffs it desires. Those tariffs may be higher, lower, or zero compared to what we had in the EU. The point is, UK has the FREEDOM to negotiate what we want, and not FORCED to follow the dictates of Brussels! I know "freedom" is a strange concept for the brainwashed Remoaner! 3) I didn't say the EU ignores trade deals. I said Remoaners ignore the benefits of trade deals with the rest of the planet and always focus on the frictionless trade of a tiny blob on the world map called "EU". it is narrow-minded. Little Europeaners. 4) Coal is indeed finite. So what? When we start to run short of coal the market price will drive it up beyond the price of renewable energy. so let's use coal til we get to that point. basic economics. 5) Left Wing thinking is not even thinking short term, mid term or long term! Your thinking is just idealism, fantasy and what you can virtue signal about. in the real world, coal is a solution that your useless windmills can't provide, yet. Get real and learn the basics.
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  14730.  @stealthbum34  Thatcher refused to spend taxpayer money on subsidizing a loss making business. And she was right to do so. Loony Lefties fail to grasp basic economics, I know, but at least try to understand the difference between profit and loss!
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  14731.  @stealthbum34  The crime wasn't Thatcher closing down any coal mines. The crime was successive Labour governments misusing taxpayers' money to prop up unprofitable industries. The criminal Left, as true Socialists always do, LOVE spending other peoples' money, but then cry when it all runs out and bankruptcy is declared. Sounds like you are one of those. Love spending other peoples' money, do you? Go out for a drink with your mates and have them buy all the rounds, right? Parasite.
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  14732.  @stealthbum34  I'm no friend of the so-called Conservatives. They are just as corrupt and socialist as Labour these days. However, it is the socialist way to love to spend other peoples' money. and it's heartless. impoverishing the masses to keep open a coal mine that loses millions every week. Heartless, cruel, destructive. Thatcher did the right thing. But you guys just LOVE to steal others' hard-earned wages and throw it at failed projects. Cruel and heartless. and let's agree to ditch the present scum bag Conservative lot. Labour could only do slightly worse.
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  14733.  @stealthbum34  the more parasites that latch on to the taxpayer funded NHS, the more parasites you will get! it's a business model that works only when the funding can always exceed the demands, which it can't with current levels of immigration. The population has increased massively in the last decade. The bulk of that population are net recipients, not net contributors, so the taxpayer has to keep coughing up more and more from a dwindling income. It doesn't work, hence we see its slow, agonizing collapse. These facts would be the same under Labour. If you try to tax the rich, investments will flow out of the country and government revenues will decrease. So, either privatize it or fund it through voluntary contributions. Surely Socialist multi billionaires like Soros would contribute billions, right? or....is it only other peoples' money that they love to spend?:)
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  14734.  @stealthbum34  1) Only legal immigrants who go through the entire immigration process will pay the surcharge you mention. I know a few of them. This surcharge, by the way, goes nowhere NEAR covering the expenses of the extended family that inevitably follow. Go to your local A and E and make a note of the enormous immigrant presence 2) Illegal immigrants pay nothing, hands out, waiting for the taxpayer to cover all expenses. it's a disgrace and needs to be stopped. Parasites, the lot of them. 3) Some immigrants who stay end up paying contributions. The majority do not, and on balance, immigrants are net recipients, not contributors, by a long way. 3) The skilled workers Britain needs should be enticed here by the legal immigration process. But more importantly, converting the masses of unemployed and under employed already here into productive members of society should be the aim. 4) Funnily enough, countries that have no illegal immigration, Japan, Korea, etc, have no big problems with skilled labor. so, bang goes the theory that a modern economy needs immigrant labor. it is nonsense. 5) Yes, the rich dodge taxes, so, either fix the laws so that they can't dodge, or reduce taxes so they are not tempted to. Your argument that the "rich dodge paying taxes" is confirmation that taxes are too high. 6) My arguments are indeed old, because they have stood the test of time, and they still apply today. Keep learning the reality of the world and you will eventually see that Socialism is a road to ruin, because it involves taking other people's money and spending it on a lot of stuff (NHS) that doesn't work.
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  14735.  @stealthbum34  you are obviously not that good at reading comprehension. I have not denied that Conservative governments have made a mess of things, but I stated very clearly that there is no difference between the Blair New Labour gang and the new soppy Conservatives. Try to stop thinking in terms of party politics. It's meaningless. Think in terms of issues, like Brexit, Green energy, immigration, sanctions on Russia, because it's the issues of today that divide the country, and it is not on party lines. Believe me, your type have no clue how to build anything, be it out of ashes or whatever. All you can do is think of destructive ways to steal more money from the producers of the country, then scratch your heads when the NHS falls apart. Useless bunch of envious do-nothings that covet the hard earned money of the workers and want to spend it on pet projects destined to fail. Gullible losers.
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  14736.  @stealthbum34  the producers of any country are those that put more into the system (through tax contributions and charitable donations) than take out of the system (through using public services). You would be surprised how many are parasites and how few are net contributors. Basically, thank God for the wealthy...the masses they pay in tax basically keep the hordes of parasites going. But you only find that in welfare states. go to somewhere like Mexico and you'll find the reverse is true.
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  14737.  @stealthbum34  it's not right wing rhetoric. it's common sense. Socialism has clearly failed. look at Cuba, Venezuela, USSR. of course, I watched the video. Bunch of losers whining when they should be analyzing what exactly has gone wrong, but they are too busy wringing their hands in angst and demanding handouts that they haven't got time to figure out what went wrong. UK has abandoned the basics of capitalism and embraced excessive government intervention. and yes, the Tories are as much to blame as Labour, though Blair in particular thought it was a really good idea to import masses of parasitic immigrants. UK got exactly what it deserves, and that is why I am happy to avoid the place and spend time in places that are safer, freer, and have maintained a sense of national identity. Britain is a sad, lost cause.
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  14738.  @stealthbum34  no, didn't come just to argue, more to show how the virtue signalling Left, like you, are really selfish and ignorant and back causes that ruin the peoples' lives. Just trying to make you see some sense. For example, never again will you spout that nonsense about modern economies needing immigrant labour. I told you, Japan, Korea, China, no immigration, but safe, clean, expanding modern economies. now you have learnt something you are a slightly better person. "Diversity is our strength" you say? Hard to explain the rise in crime in London, almost all of which is committed by immigrants, compared to super safe Japan, no immigrants, totally safe.
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  14739.  @stealthbum34  never voted in a general election in my life. only voted once, and that was for Brexit. in my fifties, owner of a tiny apartment in France, too cold to endure in winter. and you, let me guess, 14 years old and both parents university lecturers in gender studies, or maybe one is a diversity and equity manager for the NHS?
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  14740.  @stealthbum34  also, notice in the video (did you watch it really carefully?) how nearly everyone is chronically overweight or obese, shoving God knows how many calories down their fat gobs every time they get a chance, in between moaning about how they have nothing.
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  14741.  @stealthbum34  tell me, how in God's name could anyone think that ordering the country's healthy workers to stay home and do nothing and get paid for it month after month after month could result in anything but future poverty? where did the masses think the money to pay for such madness would come from?
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  14742.  @stealthbum34  i mean you tell me, who in their right mind would think choosing to wave bye bye to cheap energy from Russia would somehow have no effect on energy prices? who? did you? and if you didn't, then now you got what you thought would happen.
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  14743.  @stealthbum34  yeah, watch the video again. looks like a government health warning on the calamities that await obese blubbery Britain, beached whales coping with the unpleasant surprise that lockdowns, mass immigration, green energy and sanctions on Russia actually do have a terrible consequence.
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  14744.  @stealthbum34  oh but the government did. UK, like the rest of the dopes in Europe, told Russia that they would not import any more Russian energy, kissed it goodbye, and that caused the price of energy worldwide to rocket and supplies to the West diminish or disappear. Selling off British gas reserves did NOTHING to start this present energy poverty. It was the idiocy of sanctioning Russia, and if you are too blind to see that, I can't help you. Do you really think that the Conservatives selling off British gas reserves caused the price of energy to sky rocket in Germany too?:) think!
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  14745.  @stealthbum34  as I told you, I have never voted Conservative, and I blame the present government for much of the malaise UK has today, but your reading comprehension skills are awful. Typical young socialist is when confronted by the truth, you have nothing with which to counter it. Japan, no diversity, no immigration, it must be a disaster of a country, right? or do you now agree with me that no diversity and no immigration could well be a recipe for success?
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  14746.  @stealthbum34  if you are worried about Britain being "more reliant" you should be a Brexiteer and want nothing to do with reliance on Brussels and the EU cartel! Pure hypocrite!
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  14747.  @stealthbum34  xenophobic pensioner? a polyglot who lives in Europe and is married to a Bahamian and works for a living is a xenophobic pensioner? again, your assumptions are so wayward you should be embarrassed. the UK WAS capable of matching Japan's standards, social cohesion and safety, but too much immigration has ruined Britain. You are too young to realize, but places like Birmingham used to be pleasant enough, instead of the shitholes they are now. It's not Conservatism that has ruined Britain, but the masses' fundamental lack of understanding about what makes a society work. Give me Mexico, Japan, Russia over what most of Europe has become. Malmo is like Marrakesh, but worse. Waiting for a train in Luxemburg you would think you were in the Congo. Anti immigration is not xenophobic, and until you get the difference you will fail to understand the nuts and bolts of social collapse.
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  14748.  @stealthbum34  self sufficiency is possible, but not with current levels of immigration and government spending and government debt. the difference between us is that i grasp reality, you are deluded by leftist ideology and nonsense about diversity and tax-the-rich schemes that don't work. Also, I have vast experience of the realities of the world, having lived and worked in many different places. while you are a narrow minded little Europeaner that can only think within the framework of the EU. sad. tell me where outside of UK you have lived and worked.
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  14749.  @stealthbum34  why do you think there is a black history month, but not a Jewish history month, nor a Chinese history month, nor an Indian history month? why the xenophobia against such admirable minorities as the Jews, the Chinese and the Indians?
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  14750.  @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841  I suspect, if Starmer ever gets into power, he would pander to his Islington pals and be more "Conservative" than the current "Conservatives".
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  14751. if displaying gollywogs is a crime, what crime is it? charged under what crime?
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  14752. how would you know what the target was?
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  14753.  @TheSergey1986zp  oh, you bet! if a missile landed on my building I would ONLY be interested in who caused it to land on my building. Guilt and innocence are OBVIOSULY all important in war!
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  14754.  @mike4402  funny how the truth is also Russian propaganda!
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  14755. Rwanda, human rights treaties, all of it is nonsense and won't change anything at all. ONLY a massive effort to tow every single boat back to France, no matter what the French do in protest, will work. And no one in Parliament has the balls to do that.
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  14756. post Rotherham and Telford, we all know the Police are racist, anti white racist.
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  14757.  @cynthiaherbst3909  post war aid to a Russian occupied Ukraine?
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  14758. Putin will get every penny back when the surrender treaty is signed.
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  14759.  @blaiseutube  there is a very good reason why the world gets very little news of Belgium. it's a totally insignificant sh**hole of a country that is the armpit of Europe.
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  14760.  @reaperz5677  dollar bills can't shoot down missiles. the weapons Ukraine needs don't exist. NATO has been demilitarized. Money can't buy what doesn't exist. Wake up.
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  14761.  @ruZsiaNa-C  curious you believe Putin. do you believe everything Putin says? or do you pick and choose?
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  14762.  @ruZsiaNa-C  and no doubt the sanctions will soon kick in and the Russian economy will collapse, yeah right. EU sanctions package number 14 will win the war:)
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  14763.  @ruZsiaNa-C  when you say that 1917 is returning, you mean the Bolsheviks are going to seize power and Lenin will declare a Marxist state? seems like you have been indulging in mind altering drugs along with your Churchillian hero, Zelensky.
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  14764.  @cynthiaherbst3909  you know a person has a really weak point to make when they first have to focus on the age of an online account, and next on the idea that parroting Kremlin talking points must mean the talking points are wrong. and now, the truth. the Russian military has succeeded in demilitarizing both Ukraine and NATO. it takes a while to kill or cripple every fighting age man of a big country like Ukraine, but Russia has made fine progress. armed with just shovels and with convicts of low morale led by total incompetents, Russia has shown NATO just how awful NATO training must be. Enjoy the surrender signing ceremony when Zelensky has to give away half of his country, Adolf.
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  14765. So all the Russian stats are bogus, but this guy is the only one to have the REAL figures! Give me break. Whenever you hear someone say "Russia planned to take Ukraine in 3 days/5 days/all of the above" you know the person is an absolute fool and has been suckered by the media, for the simple reason that Putin never gave a timeline. Never.
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  14766.  @lea24457  how about we educate you first. 1. "almost inaccessible" = accessible 2. given you have seen the photo of the precise location the body was found, describe it, because no one else has seen such a photo! 3. this specialist team that found the body, are they part of that same specialist team that decided it was a brilliant idea to conduct a forensic search of the airbnb on Day 16?
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  14767.  @MrUltimaPro  and yet, if you were going to pick the ideal time when most of the nation would be distracted, the Euros Final would be that moment. Not too many terefiños would prefer to keep an eye on Masca Gorge on a Sunday night rather than watch the football. Get a grip.
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  14768. totally out of touch with bedrock Tories. clueless old buffer whose blabbering explains why real Conservatives are leaving this new Socialist party that goes by the name "Conservative Party".
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  14769.  @thegreatdane3627  sanctions on Russia added to rise in energy costs, which added to inflation and rise of cost of living and made people across Europe poorer, hence the rash of strike action in many places to secure higher wages. come on, start thinking.
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  14770.  @thegreatdane3627  there are many factors contributing to inflation, including lockdowns and green energy. high energy costs due to sanctions on Russia is one of the major factors. Chinese goods have to be transported, costs of transportation increase as energy costs increase, so Chinese goods and in fact all imports will go up in price. start thinking. inflation will not go away while governments build up more debts and print money, which they have to do to afford the higher energy costs, due to sanctions on Russia. start thinking.
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  14771.  @thegreatdane3627  quick question about the 10 sanctions packages issued by the EU against Russia. which of the 10, in your opinion, had the most devastating effect on the Russian economy?
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  14772.  @thegreatdane3627  keep in mind Sweden had no lockdown but still has inflation, so, that would indicate maybe inflation due to lockdowns isn't as big a factor as inflation due to sanctions on Russia.
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  14773.  @thegreatdane3627  it is irrelevant what natural resources Australia possesses. Sanctions on Russia have created a spike in global energy prices which means the production and transportation costs of everything Australia imports has increased. start thinking. we agree that lockdowns and printing money caused inflation. but inflation increased even more following the sanctions on Russia. "The Putin price hike" as Biden loves to say. The sanctions were meant to cripple the Russian economy and banking system! how many Russian banks have collapsed recently? Russian inflation is lower now than in most Western countries. The Russian economy is doing just fine as Russia continues to produce all it needs to continue the war effort. The sanctions are a miserable failure. sad you are blind to reality. so, second time of asking. of the TEN EU sanctions packages, which one has had the most devastating effect? start thinking.
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  14774.  @thegreatdane3627  interesting, though, that you go all the way to Australia to try and defend your argument. Australia too has imposed sanctions on Russia, so makes sense Australia will get no special deal on imports from any nation closely allied to Russia (China, India etc).
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  14775.  @thegreatdane3627  UK and USA also running the largest budget deficit ever. so i guess that means sanctions on Russia are also the source of that.
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  14776.  @thegreatdane3627  on the contrary. I'm schooling you on how prices work! you tell me, when the West cuts off its supply of cheap Russian energy, but demand remains more or less the same, how can that result in deflationary pressures on energy prices as opposed to inflationary pressures? talk me through it step by step. balancing a budget does not depend on a certain oil price! a nation's budget is balanced, or not, according to a whole myriad of factors, so, again, you are infantile in your assessment of how budgets work! It is absolutely priceless to hear a European lecturing on how Russia is suffering a budget deficit! China and India are benefitting enormously from Western energy sanctions on Russia. and Russia is surviving quite well in the transitionary period while it focuses on exporting to Asia. BTW, once India has refined Russian oil, there are no sanctions on that refined Russian oil being blended and imported to the EU! So the Indians, as wise middlemen, hike up the price, cause more misery in Europe and that leads to more and more strikes. start thinking.
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  14777.  @thegreatdane3627  curiously, when you mentioned Australia, you mentioned coal and gas. you didn't mention oil. Is Australia a massive oil producer? No? So, as a remote country, transportation costs to such a place will increase, ceteris paribus, as global oil prices go up. so the products Australia imports go up because of production costs increasing, then the transportation costs go up too, hello Australia, can you say rampant inflation?;)
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  14778.  @thegreatdane3627  just curious. what is Russia's debt to GDP ratio, compared to UK? Japan? Greece?:)
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  14779.  @thegreatdane3627  ok, back to basics. supply and demand is the mechanism whereby a price is established. if inflation were simply connected to supply and demand, the price of milk would remain stable, as any increase in demand would be met by an increase in supply. but that isn't happening. inflation is when the purchasing power of your money decreases due, in some cases, to rising costs and rising prices. Dairy products are a lot more expensive because the costs of production have gone up, and those costs are passed on to the consumer. inflation can also occur when the currency loses its value due to printing money and extra money supply. inflation is way beyond a simple supply and demand graph. where you are right is that one way of reducing inflation is, if supply can't be boosted, to reduce demand, so higher interest rates restricts disposable income for consumer spending. But in the inflation that has hit the West, the key question is what caused the jump in production costs that inflated prices for basic goods? one massive factor is the sanctions on Russia. The removal of cheap Russian energy from Western markets boosted global energy prices, hello inflation. anyone sane can see this. only those who refuse to admit sanctions on Russia could possibly have negative repercussions for the West keep their heads buried in the sand.
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  14780.  @thegreatdane3627  EVERYONE'S debt to GDP ratio is important! just like measuring your income to your personal debt! Once you approach the point of not earning enough to pay the interest on your debt, you are finished! There are many financial institutions within Russia and worldwide ready to assist the Russian banking system, sad though that fact is for you to acknowledge. Dedolarization is moving apace, OPEC and BRICS are staying united in working with Russia. It's the West that has isolated itself and is now braced for economic ruin. You backed the sanctions that brought ruin and isolation to the deluded West. You were foolish and naive in the extreme. But go ahead, step by step explain why cutting supplies of cheap Russian energy is a wonderfully deflationary policy. walk me through how such a deflationary measure works.
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  14781. Sri Lanka unable to buy basic supplies because the West's ridiculous and heartless sanctions on Russia have succeeded in raising the costs of such supplies. No wonder Asia now hates NATO and the West and no wonder Asia supports BRICS and removal of Western hegemony. What Biden calls' "Putin's Price Hike" has hit Sri Lanka, except Sri lanka blames Biden, not Putin, rightfully so.
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  14782. Dolan's "causes" were just as absurd! "poverty, inequality...." people used to be a lot poorer but didn't spend their last penny on a train ticket to Southend and a machete.
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  14783. dream on
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  14784. So, would Ukraine's recent escalation with missile attacks on civilian centers in the DPR also be viewed as an act of desperation? "longer term" means when? when do you imagine Ukraine will declare victory and kick the Russians totally out of Crimea and Donbass? Give us a date?
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  14785. would it release more emissions than Biden's sabotage of Nordstream 1 and 2?
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  14786. China knows that China is next on the West's hit list, so is supporting Russia as much as possible. Thank Nancy Pelosi for that. load of bs and bla bla bla from the deluded China correspondent.
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  14787. The British people brought it on themselves. they almost all applauded lockdowns and sanctions on Russia. they got exactly what they deserve for being so dumb
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  14788. so, she wants to live in peace. during the 8 years the Azov Nazis were shelling civilians in Donbass, did she want the good folk of the Donbass to live in peace?
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  14789.  @Shapinator721  anyone with common sense sees Russia has won. Get real, bot.
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  14790.  @Shapinator721  Russia controls Ukraine's future in every way. Deny reality, though, if you prefer.
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  14791.  @jettser17UK  you clearly are deluded to the point that you think the EU, and not Russia, controls Kiev's fate.
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  14792. losing nearly half of his army? 80% of Russia's million man army aren't even in Ukraine! you mean Putin lost half of his army in the sense they are wandering around the woods in Russia somewhere? Hopefully they'll show up tomorrow!
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  14793. Biden is such a trip. whoever pulls his strings must have been hitting the vodka and tonics before coming on duty.
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  14794. The only people who want a ceasefire are those who support the terrorists
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  14795. this is why Russia will win. convicts, mercenaries and patriotic men will always beat under-performing minorities dressed up in a uniform for reasons of political correctness.
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  14796. would make no difference. it's a war of attrition. Russia just destroys everything that makes it on to the battlefield
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  14797.  @Coprofighter  not for the first time in your life, your assumption is wrong. shocking news for you, there are many who are not big earners and who live very modestly but who understand how politics and economics work. there is a much bigger danger in combatting "selfish" capitalism than in "selfish" capitalism itself. see what happened to the USSR and Venezuela and Cuba.
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  14798.  @Coprofighter  Being wrong about a political or economic philosophy is one thing, but it's far removed from being wrong about assumptions made about a total stranger's income, which is the absurd assumption you made. next time, combat ideas and don't assume you know a thing about someone's personal circumstances.
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  14799.  @Coprofighter  apology accepted. I have empathy for anyone who lives in such a "dramatic situation" if it is by pure chance, and a lot less empathy for those who brought their situation on themselves through some really bad choices. where we disagree is that i don't see any government action as any solution. winning the hearts and minds of those that could help voluntarily is the key, not forcing ever more rules and regulations on people. the housing shortage in the West has occurred through government policy, 1. endless importation of massive numbers of immigrants, and 2. disincentivizing investors from considering investment in long term rentals. government ineptitude is the problem, and government is not the solution.
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  14800.  @Coprofighter  just keep in mind that many of us on the Right live vey modestly and we have plenty of empathy for those who deserve it, we just don't agree with you that government intervention is any kind of solution.
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  14801.  @gossipqueen1013  agreed, better allow someone with common sense take your airbnb, you pay twice as much and stay in a hotel with half the facilities, that is what you deserve.
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  14802.  @lunayen  "those who snatched up multiple homes" how do you do that? you mean bought and invested in multiple homes? what's wrong with that?
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  14803.  @celinepa8246  so if all the money goes to the AIRs, what do the employees of those AIRs do with the their salaries and tips?
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  14804. "Russia toys with Europe over gas supplies"...wonder if this propagandist ever uttered the words "EU toys with Russia over sanctions"?
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  14805.  @evieshore3270  and boy, are there a LOT of Russian sympathizers! Let's get them liberated as soon as possible. If you want to put your money where your mouth is and bet me $1000 I am not Duncan Smith, let's do it! Ready to bet?
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  14806. The Police have taken it upon themselves to do all they can to keep the peace, whatever the cost, rather than enforce the law. Hence Rotherham, rape gangs, taking the knee, watching the mob toss Colston's statue into Bristol docks etc. Given that Rowley has refused to speak out about enforcing the law, even if that means physical confrontation with the mob, he has to go. we need someone who understands what the duty of the Police is, not a peacenik picking on innocent bystanders.
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  14807. how convenient that she omits any reference to the centuries of Irish slave ships that raided the coasts and hinterlands of England.
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  14808. You think Ukraine and NATO aren't doing ALL they can to attack Russian military targets? That's why Russia parked a 40 km long convoy outside Kiev back in March! To show that NATO and Ukraine are so impotent, Russia's air defenses can prevent almost everything. Long range offensive missiles will change nothing. For decades NATO focused on equity and inclusion, sensitivity training, equal rights. Russia focused on winning wars. Too late to change policy now. Russia has won.
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  14809. sending tanks is only happening because the West is very very low on artillery and ammo. Russia is winning the war of attrition, so in desperation, the West hopes tanks will change the course of the war. they won't. they will just get destroyed. NATO has bitten off more than it can chew.
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  14810. who knows, you might even find loads of kids who are doing much better in Russia, living in peace, rather than those poor kids abducted by the Ukronazis who now live in the hell hole known as Ukraine?
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  14811. the climate alarmist cult gets more and more deluded year by year. pampered middle-class idealists who can afford massive rises in energy costs and have no heart for the poor who really can't. selfish narcissists
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  14812. just totally heartless that Zelensky lets all this happen just because he refuses to let Donbass become independent. Let's hope Zelensky has to appear in front of a human rights court before he gets to his mansion in Miami.
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  14813. Thought experiment; let us assume 100% factually correct information had been released immediately after the arrest of dear Axel in Southport. Let us assume that the Police had announced that the suspect in the murders was the African son of immigrants from Rwanda allowed to settle and live in the UK. Does anyone REALLY think that that truth would have made any difference, and the mob would have stayed at home, peacefully saying "oh, that makes ALL the difference, because had it been a Muslim asylum seeker, I would have rioted, but as it is only an African son of African immigrants, I'm fine with that"?.
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  14814. Boris is too Woke, too Green and he flipped from common sense to lockdown mania. Boris may be the least worse of the options, but only Farage could turn the nation around.
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  14815. @Scott Smith Farage delivered Brexit when just the idea of a referendum was a pipe dream. Brexit Party had the largest UK representation in Brussels and at its height had more supporters than the Tories and Labour. Farage has what it takes to at least get the country going in the right direction. We can start with immigration
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  14816. the 1990's was when Blair let open the migrant floodgates, which increased demand for rentals, so quit blaming the Tories and blame your own Lefty policies
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  14817.  @TranquiloTrev  This Tory government is not a real Tory government. it is a useless, inept, centrist waste of space. why is it the role of the government to control housing conditions? the market should decide such things. the more government intervention, the more problems you will get in the market. what was the effect on housing supply when such "defective" housing was eradicated? more homeless on the streets?
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  14818.  @TranquiloTrev  voted into power to do something doesn't make it right. Governments have no idea how to help in housing apart from getting out of the way and let the free market operate. You must be blind. There have always been homeless people in Britain, but something tells me you were well trained to ignore it or pretend it away. speaks volumes for your failure to perceive some basic truths. good bye and good riddance.
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  14819.  @mazocco  not allowing funds to invest in houses is going to help?
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  14820.  @mazocco  the family with a $100 in the bank has to be housed, so they are part of the rise in demand for housing
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  14821.  @mazocco  in what way is UK foreign policy to blame for the plight of many developing countries?
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  14822.  @JeffreyGoddin  the government (tax-payers) compensate the landlord, and simultaneously remove one available property from the market, thus demand increases over supply, driving rents up for everyone.
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  14823.  @JeffreyGoddin  as expected, a pivot away from the housing topic to crying about Brexit. i don't need to research any propaganda on benefits of immigration. I can see the effects of immigration with my own eyes, and it ain't much of a benefit on balance. No Pakistani grooming/rape gangs in Japan or Poland. simple fact is rise in immigration = rise in demand on housing = rise in costs to the tax payer =drain on the economy. deny it if you wish, but facts are facts. enjoy all the benefits of diversity the next time you get mugged or raped.
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  14824.  @8ofwands300  it questions both the benefits and the needs of regulation.
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  14825.  @J.Marrs76  and what exactly improved and how? more housing available? as a result of what policy? better quality housing available? as a result of what policy? seems vague.
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  14826. life is so wonderfully strange. prediction for this coming November; there will be 2 Bidens, father and son, in courtrooms or behind bars, and Trump will be the one free as a bird and campaigning his way to victory.
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  14827. doing so well? what, even the 70,000 dead ones?
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  14828.  @markkawecki7582  given that Ukraine is totally funded by NATO, trained by NATO, armed by NATO. backed by NATO to the hilt over the last 8 years, then we can say, NO, the NATO/Ukraine alliance has failed miserably. I mean if you think going bankrupt, having 7 million refugees, losing 70,000 troops, 20% of your territory and that is only to date, represents success, then I would guess you viewed the panicked fiasco of a NATO exit from Kabul last year as a phenomenal success, right?
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  14829. given that the Ukrainian offensive in Kherson has fizzled out, could be that more Russian troops could be put to better use in Donbass.
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  14830. So, Gulliver, who exactly is fighting in Bakhmut for the Russians? Today you say its their elite troops being wiped out, last week it was low on morale, poorly led, poorly equipped convicts and mercenaries! Make your mind up!
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  14831. Turkey is powerless and sanctions have failed.
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  14832. so, a pig farm and a bus stop captured by Ukraine gets extensive coverage, but the Wagners taking 95% of Bakhmut, with their shovels and poor leadership, not worth mentioning or analyzing. got it.
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  14833. All it takes is for the West to tell Zelensky to start peace talks and it all stops in an hour.
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  14834.  @paoloadam  The first missiles fired came from the Azov Nazi battalion, the ones you support so dearly (have a portrait of Bandera under your pillow do you?) The Azov Nazis tried to force the Donbass back under Kiev's control, and failed. Russia's invasion is fully justified, as the rights of ethnic Russians to separate from Kiev is fully justified. No one who supports Nazi naked aggression to force an ethnic group to comply with nationalist diktats is on the ride side of history. shame on you.
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  14835.  @noma5050  those who know Ukraine know all the responsibility lies with Kiev. Lived and worked in Ukraine, have you?
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  14836.  @bonnie7898  believe me, deluded Bonnie, there is no lie to the Azov missiles raining down on the Donbass Russian speakers. i guess you missed the Reuters 2018 report on the Nazi presence in Ukraine and the video of Zelenski futilely pleading with the Azov nazis to give peace a chance. did you ever figure out which NATO member state was being defended by the NATO bombing of Serbia?
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  14837.  @teteya.n  that's right. the West is so hysterically anti Russian at the moment that most people can't even conceive that a Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizen would prefer to live as a Russian now.
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  14838.  @noobster4779  "next massive Ukrainian offensive" the world of the deluded at play. recruiting, in desperation, 16 yr olds and pensioners tells me there is no capacity for a Ukrainian offensive.
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  14839.  @callsigndd9ls897  what makes you so sure?
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  14840.  @callsigndd9ls897  aspiring for EU membership and following basic requirements for human rights are two completely different things. Corruption in Ukraine is out of control. Government ministers are regularly sacked for failing to follow basic requirements in Ukraine. get real and entertain the notion that maybe, just maybe, those Ukrainian families inconsolable that their 16 year olds have been recruited are telling the truth, not the corrupt ministers in Kiev.
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  14841.  @callsigndd9ls897  don't believe a word of it! the government is only concerned about appearing to show concern over corruption. again, appearance and reality are two very different things. in the middle of a war, with cannon fodder being wiped out daily, the last thing on Zelensky's mind is how to rid Ukraine of corruption. Zelensky himself is in the Panama Papers, remember?
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  14842.  @callsigndd9ls897  have you lived/worked in Ukraine?
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  14843. Total lie from Mike Martin on Russia's weapons supplies, speculating (and hoping) that microchip shortages are a problem for Russia. There is zero evidence for that, and it is to Russia's credit that it can work with allies like North Korea and Iran to highlight the plight of the West's weak defence industry.
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  14844. On balance, more CO2 is a benefit for the planet, so makes no sense trying to reduce CO2 emissions.
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  14845.  @gertscheper9653  nothing really to explain. As William Happer explained, the benefits of a greener planet and bigger crop yields due to higher CO2 levels outweighs the small greenhouse effect CO2 actually creates.
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  14846.  @gertscheper9653  yep, someone who understands these things much better than you.
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  14847.  @gertscheper9653  the usual reaction from the water melons, can't counter the idea, just "lol" and continue on with the delusion of their world view
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  14848. whining Americans, why should China not help Russia all it possibly can when USA is helping Ukraine all it possibly can? maybe it's time for the rest of the planet to isolate USA and issue some anti USA sanctions. Hypocrisy.
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  14849. what happened to all the Ukraine supporters and Zelensky lovers? Has Youtube switched sides and is now deleting all anti Russian posts?
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  14850. and the sanctions were supposed to force changes in policy in Russia? talk about boomerang effect. Russia has Germany by the balls, and will LOVE to choose when, how hard and how often to squeeze. Russia now exporting LESS energy and earning GREATER revenues! Did Habeck and co ever learn basic economics? Laughable that the Greens now on a course to use more coal and nuclear, just laughable.
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  14851. Muslims in love with the idea of jihad should be outside the UK.
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  14852. so, ONLY when the tip of the iceberg of corruption is exposed to we get words about "tackling corruption". Looks like EU has been happily following the Ukrainian "rules based order" regarding corruption.
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  14853. the usual bullshit from Ukrainian Nazis. For three months we have heard about this counter offensive to Kherson, it never happens, all lies, the map never changes. Slava Rossiyi Z
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  14854.  @malcolmdavis3282  remember when Ukraine had a functioning flagship, Hetman Sahaidachny, and the Ukrainians had to scuttle it? The Russian air force is still massive and functioning. Have a look at your right hand, Now you can count how many fighter planes Ukraine has. Russia is winning most decisively.
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  14855.  @aaronbaker2186  so if Russia lost the core of their best troops, Russia's second string troops are making the elite of Ukraine/NATO look pretty second rate! Russia B team 5, Ukraine/NATO A team 0!
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  14856.  @malcolmdavis3282  that's right. Aidan Aslin and the Azov Nazis killed, crippled and captured are splitting their sides with laughter at Russia's war machine. All the Ukrainian cannon fodder that get served up to the Russian meatgrinder every day have a great laugh at Putin before their young lives get snuffed out. hey, Malcolm, you don't think the world had a good giggle at NATO being kicked out of Afghanistan by a bunch of sandal wearing goatherders called the Taliban, do you?:).
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  14857.  @lorenzcassidy3960  just doing what the Western media are banned from doing, and that is giving the Russian perspective and a dose of truth the Western sheeple can't stomach. always good to see why two thirds of the globe supports Russia, agreed?
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  14858.  @malcolmdavis3282  Biden is now down to PROCUREMENTS! that is, weapons and ammo that has to be ORDERED and manufactured! NATO is pretty damn close to tapped out. No wonder Zelensky is begging the West to win this by winter! he can see the bottom of the barrel!
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  14859.  @malcolmdavis3282  Certainly we agree that the dictator Zelensky is pretending he is winning this. Quit posing as amateur psychologist and trying but failing to read the mind of Putin....there never was any timeline for the operation, and of course the dumb sheeple lapped up "Kiev in 3 days" as slavishly as they ignorantly swallowed "Ghost of Kiev". The biggest humiliation in this story is the West thinking they could isolate Russia when two thirds of the world now backs Russia!
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  14860.  @lorenzcassidy3960  Happy to trade with Russia; ....China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Nigeria, Peru, Congo, Hungary, Serbia, Israel, Egypt...the list goes on and on. And you say Russia is isolated? The West has failed with its sanctions and to isolate Russia. Enjoy your inflation ridden freezing miserable winter. you thoroughly deserve it.
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  14861.  @falloutking2819  absolutely wrecked, yet it's NATO out of arms and now having to ORDER weapons! Macron and Scholz muttering about discussing peace with the Kremlin, not Putin with the West. Absolutely wrecked? take a look at NATO's exit from Kabul last year to see what absolutely wrecked is:) or look at the Ukraine air force or navy!
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  14862.  @longforgotten4823  if you really think territory around Kiev means anything in this conflict, sure, but maybe read Putin's list of 5 objectives to see what matters to Russia.
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  14863.  @longforgotten4823  Ukraine defense? Ukraine/NATO you mean. Ukraine has no weapons and ammo, just thousands of recruits to serve up daily to the Russian meatgrinder, thanks very much. NATO now seriously low on weapon and ammo...it ain't going well! enjoy your inflation ridden economic collapse and freezing winter with energy cuts.
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  14864.  @MostlyPennyCat  so how come, if all you said is true, Ukraine has yet another counter offensive that stalled and can't do anything about Crimea, Donbass, Kherson but throw in hundreds of cannon fodder every day to the Russian meatgrinder? The truth is (and your delusion about NATO grandeur matches the delusion NATO had about its ability to handle the taliban last year) NATO is now PROCURING (ordering the manufacture of) weapons, nothing left on hand, the bottom of the barrel! Russia has demilitarized Ukraine AND NATO! Russia has won and that hurts, right?
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  14865.  @runrau9275  it's hard work presenting the truth and the counter narrative to the lies from the West. but it has to be done. The Donbass Russians deserve justice.
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  14866.  @aaronbaker2186  because the definition of doing "well" is not based exclusively on maps. Re read Russia's 5 objectives.
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  14867.  @vforwombat9915  only fools define "winning" exclusively by territory gained. Wake up and consider factors like death tolls, state of the economy, global support etc.
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  14868.  @vforwombat9915  the mystery to me is why so many Europeans think they have to just get through the winter. what makes them think anywhere in the world will want to, or be able to, supply energy as Russia did in the quantities Russia did at the low price Russia did? this energy shortage is indefinite. if the great hope is renewables; ain't gonna happen for years. in the end the West will end up buying Russian energy, probably via third countries at a high mark up, pretend the energy is not Russian and still virtue signal, but be poorer while they virtue signal. this is what happens when you are dumb and don't plan. Current batch of Western leaders (apart from Orban, Vucic and soon to be Salvini) are dumb and didn't plan.
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  14869.  @vforwombat9915  keep in mind it's still summer and no energy crisis has really hit yet. yet 70,000 furious citizens took to the streets of Prague over the weekend to protest at the energy crisis, and many in Paris protested, and Germans went to the site of Nordstream 2 to demand it be opened. all this in summer! Over 70% of Germans want negotiations with Putin to start. and you think this is all great news for the West?
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  14870.  @johnmaguire2185  in what sense?
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  14871. this Bell guy is such a dunce. if he can't figure out why Kiev is being targeted, why the hell is he on this channel?
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  14872. Do the Ukrainians you talked to think the shells that killed Russian civilians in Russia today also terrorist strikes?
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  14873. post Climategate and "hide the decline", there is no good reason to believe any of the data produced by "scientists", and many a good reason to doubt its authenticity.
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  14874. exactly, Russia just following the West's "rules based order" as seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Serbia, Libya etc. You should be congratulating Russia for how well it has copied the example of USA and NATO.
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  14875. Any government that has money to send to the Azov Nazis in Ukraine and pay for diversity officers surely can't be short of money.
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  14876. yep, the environmental impact is enormous, so what a shame the West has acted in such a way as to alienate both China and Russia, who now refuse to cooperate at all with global environmental targets. Well done Biden and co...all Greta's hard work thrown out the window.
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  14877. so, no evidence that Russia is responsible.
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  14878. there's an easier way to show you believe Ukraine is a cause worth fighting for....go there and start fighting! Lead by example. Or do you mean taxpayers should be forced to pay for others to die there, not you.
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  14879. Combined Arms Warfare would include air cover. otherwise the tanks and armoured vehicles are sitting ducks.
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  14880.  @mindman1234  Russia has plenty of air support. you need to read the news on Avdiivka.
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  14881.  @mindman1234  I think you'll find that Russia will convince itself that it is worth risking the 30 million dollar planes now it has evidence that Ukrainian air defences are shot.
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  14882. Just a joke, Pashinyan blaming Russia for his own terrible mistakes. It was Pashinyan who admitted he could not disagree with he logic of Azerbaijan's claim to Nagorno Karabakh, and then blamed Russia when Azerbaijan invaded!
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  14883. yeah, right, Russia really wants to remove the fool who keeps serving up Ukrainian cannon fodder on a platter and doing all he can to aid Putin demilitarize Ukraine. We are supposed to believe Putin has taken 2 years and 2 months to set all this up? We are supposed to believe that zero Ukrainians want to remove the president who has destroyed the country and left it bankrupt?
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  14884. tourists have choices. if 90% of the tourists refuse to pay the the 50 euro tax, the government will fail to raise any revenue and the economy will die.
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  14885. this whole "8 kms" bs is such nonsense. 8 kms represents the GREATEST extent Ukraine reached at any point along the frontline, BEFORE Russian counter attacks. Essentially, Ukraine has only moved 2 or 3 kms closer to the Sea of Azov AT ONE POINT along the front line. It's nothing. At the cost of 26,000 cannon fodder. If Mike Martin sees that as a glorious success, he has confirmed himself to be a propagandist, not a military "expert".
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  14886. The alleged attacker was shot? Islamophobia!
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  14887.  @AngryRussian61  nah, just my online students in Ukraine, but what would they know?
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  14888.  @timbow614  maybe so. the destruction of Ukraine really doesn't count for much.
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  14889. no you don't, unless you want thousands of gypsies and mafia types to move in next door to you.
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  14890. unless the enemy is killing more of you than you are killing the enemy.
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  14891. you might be pleasantly surprised! you might see a Pax Rossiyi that brings finality to these past decades of targeting Russia and the instability that goes with it.
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  14892. why is this fool of a detective stating Jay's low battery on his phone is a fact?
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  14893. Just curious, Chip, this prime US Intelligence you are reporting about the probability of a Ukrainian breakthrough, would it be the same US Intelligence that said the Taliban would take 90 days to get to Kabul in 2021?:)
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  14894.  @Matty-sz5mz  nonsense. If we all come from the same religion, tell me who the son of God is. Christians say it is Jesus Christ. Do Muslims agree?
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  14895.  @RainerMichelle  good to know you are in the Kremlin to listen to all the arguments raging there. who do you have as your assistant on the front lines with a clipboard totting up the Ukrainian death toll compared to the Russian death toll?
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  14896.  @abhisekhkumar4948  delighted.
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  14897.  @abhisekhkumar4948  not going to happen. I have only one mother. how many do you have?
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  14898.  @abhisekhkumar4948  I don't delight in other people's misery at all. I only delight in the misery of people who deserve it, like you.
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  14899. and so the escalation goes.....sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, stingers failed, javelins failed, M777s failed, himars failed, tanks from ex Warsaw Pact countries failed, now Western tanks will fail, and when F16s get shot down by Russian air defence systems, we then arrive at nukes. so, how about we just go straight to the end of the escalator and have a nuclear war to see who wins?
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  14900. Begs the question, precisely at what point did this shallow hypocrite realize that he had offended his own personal beliefs?
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  14901. If the "Conservatives" found a leader that stopped the boats tomorrow, they would win the general election. Given Sunak is unwilling or incapable of achieving that one single imperative goal, fingers crossed enough Tories vote for Reform UK to let the nation have some genuine Conservative voice in the next Parliament.
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  14902. Good to hear Nick finally admit that Ukraine and NATO have been demilitarized. Yep, Nick, for Kiev to match Moscow is arms and ammo production, NATO will have to keep emptying out its stocks and hope, by some miracle, it can out produce Russia and Russia's allies in the future! In other words, the Russian aim of demilitarization of NATO and Ukraine is bang on course.
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  14903. so, the precedent has been set. climate activists given the green light to damage/destroy any building they deem property of an entity that harms the environment. RIP UK justice system. Hello, anarchy.
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  14904. Russia absolutely loving the game of destroying Ukraine, watching the West spend more money on rebuilding it, then just destroying it again. Even if Biden prints more and more funny money, Russia will eventually bankrupt the West (but maybe not before the West bankrupts itself). Putin holding all the cards.....keep the game rolling and Russia will win handsomely.
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  14905. "invaded illegally" Tobias, give us all a quick run down of all the legal invasions in world history, and all the illegal ones, and cite the law that determines each legal and illegal invasion. or, does "illegal invasion" just mean one you don't like?
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  14906.  @SteveGreenwood-gb7dc  because speaking up about the problem, mass immigration and Islam, will get you cancelled and possibly beheaded. Safer to keep quiet and pretend everything is ok.
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  14907. You know Putin LOVES to hear reports of sanctions working and Russia running out of weapons. It's as if the West deliberately says nonsense to see the Russian reaction and how much more Ukraine can be destroyed.
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  14908. looks like Ben Wallace's postcard caused the Russian attack on the Khmelnitsky airfield! what a fool Wallace is, to post details that alerted the Russians.
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  14909. and after EIGHT years of being butchered in the Donbass, the ethnic Russians of the DPR and LPR are indeed tough people. SLAVA ROSSIYI ..Z
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  14910.  @Daniel-f1m2e  rather an abbatoir next to me than the loud, obnoxious neighbors I already have, or a mosque, or a night club, or a charity shop or a.........government needs to get out of our lives.
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  14911. Given Ben Hodges has got everything about this conflict wrong so far, we should immediately sue for peace and let Putin have what he wants. Putin would be a much better PM for the UK than Starmer.
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  14912. hysterical that the BBC describes a "journalist" snooping around defence facilities in Russia as anything but a spy.
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  14913. Biggest threat to the West is the idiocy of its leaders who can't even apply sanctions without crippling their citizens with the boomerang effect.
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  14914. Hey, you don't think this is going to turn into an Aleppo-style cauldron do you?
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  14915.  @unworthy42  it's NATO and Zelensky getting more and more desperate every day. just wait til the bridges over the Dnipro are taken out.
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  14916.  @yuriisydorchuk436  yawn, the usual dumb response from the brainwashed sheep that have no cogent argument.
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  14917.  @jackiechan4399  No, the Russians didn't lose to the Afghans. It was the Soviets who lost to the Afghans. The Soviets were led by a Ukrainian by the name of Leonid Brezhnev. Learn some basic facts.
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  14918.  @jackiechan4399  if you are referring to Zelensky as "the authoritarian fool", I don't support him! It is Zelensky who has banned all opposition parties from the national parliament. Putin has to deal with opposition parties, like the Communists, on a daily basis! So, do you always support dictators?
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  14919. you mean the kind of democracy seen in Ukraine, where elections have been cancelled, no opposition allowed in parliament, state control of the media and no one to leave the country, that kind of democracy?
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  14920.  @Linda-io2ns  let me guess. a dictator refuses to stand for re-election and cancels elections (Zelensky). A dictator bans opposition parties from the parliament (Zelensky). A dictator controls state media (Zelensky). A dictator bans people from leaving the country (Zelensky). Am I getting close?
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  14921.  @GiovaniLibero  Van der Leyen has received as many votes from EU citizens to serve in her post as you have and I have...ZERO! She is appointed, not elected, and the EU citizen voters deserve true democracy and direct elections of their representatives on the global stage.
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  14922.  @silvasdamata  1. Voting in person. Russia has not succumbed to the rampant ballot harvesting and corrupt mail in ballots we see in the West. 2. Voter ID MUST be shown. 3. Opposition candidates that offer a REAL alternative view, from the Communist candidate to the Nationalist candidate. 4. Secret ballot 5. No one is compelled to vote (as opposed to "democracies" like Australia) Contrast that with the mayhem and corruption of voting in Chicago, Detroit, Rochdale. It's you doing the blathering. You probably think a true democracy is where someone like Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister of the UK without being elected by any voters at all! Disgusting.
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  14923.  @el3ndir97  no doubt your view of democracy is a leader who refuses to call elections, who refuses to step down at the end of his term, who bans anyone from leaving the country, who bans opposition in parliament, who has full control of the state media...in short, Zelensky, that paragon of Western values, right?
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  14924.  @silvasdamata  oh boy, then you need to do some more research on candidates and their exclusion from the list of candidates! Yes or no question, did you hear, recently, about the state of Colorado removing Donald Trump's name from the state ballot? Tell me who was the Labour party candidate in the recent Rochdale by election in the UK? Tell me why, exactly, 2 Reform Party candidates were removed as candidates recently in the UK. These things happen all the time. Russians are not particularly inept at filing paperwork, but Russia is the rule, not the exception, when, for various reasons, candidates are removed from an electoral list. That said, the polls in Russia, even polls recognized as legitimate by Western media, put Putin's approval rating at about 80%, and this was reflected in the actual vote. what % do you think Putin would have received if both the candidates you mentioned had been running?
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  14925. The EU has a leader that no one voted for! The UK has a prime minister AND a foreign secretary that no one voted for! The Prime minister of Spain received less votes that his main rival, but remained president of Spain! Wilders, in NL, received more votes than any other party, but is denied the office of PM. is this the kind of "democracy" you really want?
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  14926.  @aurelia5614  I have absolutely no doubt that you have every faith in the postal voting system. Naive, gullible fools do have faith in the postal voting system. What's new? If Putin's opponents are simply eliminated, how is it that Putin has opposition Communists and Nationalists to battle in the Duma every day? In complete contrast, Zelensky has no opposition parties in the Rada, Zelensky has refused to step aside or stand for re-election, Zelensky has total control over all Ukrainian media. No lectures needed from anyone supporting Zelensky on what democracy means! So, "Aurelia" "ahem, aka as "Adolfia" to her friends, everyone knows you speak such nonsense.
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  14927.  @aurelia5614  Well, "Aurelia" (ahem...aka Adolfia), no doubt you see nothing wrong with postal voting. blind people don't see anything wrong with postal voting.
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  14928.  @Carlin2810  exactly so. the only people who use the word "dictator" are those brainwashed into assuming only enemies of the West could possible have dictators as leaders.
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  14929.  @KarpisIchtiandras  thanks for confirming, by your definition, that Ukraine is not a democracy, and neither is Gaza, but Israel is.
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  14930.  @KarpisIchtiandras  Ukraine has declared war on someone? when? Ukraine is not facing total invasion. You think Blinken would be playing guitar in a bar if Ukraine was facing total invasion? you need to grasp reality. Ukraine could hold elections tomorrow if it so wanted.
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  14931.  @KarpisIchtiandras  so, Russia could hold elections in Kherson, Zaporozhe, Donetsk and Lugansk, but Ukraine is completely incapable of holding elections in Lvov, Vinnytsya and Kiev?
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  14932.  @KarpisIchtiandras  Yes, the leaders in the West want to beat Russia. Of course. That is why General Lloyd Austin said "the idea is to weaken Russia" and Western leaders talk repeatedly about defeating Russia. They know that Russia, China, BRICS and OPEC are changing the world, and they want to stop that. Who do you think destroyed the NordStream pipeline and why? Don't confuse Russia with the USSR! When was the last time the West helped Russia?
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  14933.  @Paulyy_D  ah, the usual, totally unable to rebut the message, so forced to turn to denigrating the messenger. sad sign of defeat from account named paulert23. let's play along. how much are the Banderites in Kiev paying you, Adolf?
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  14934.  @silvasdamata  what were they polling in opinion polls?
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  14935.  @Paulyy_D  makes sense that given you can't rebut my message you have to, in pure panic, attack the messenger. so be it, Adolf, how much do the Banderites pay "paulert23" to lie to the world?
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  14936. oh, so the side that invades is in the wrong? the Allies invaded Normandy. USA invaded Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. I guess the Allies and USA are in the wrong, time and time again? or, maybe some invasions are justified? Let's see, 8 years of the Azov Nazi battalion shelling the ethnic Russians of the Donbass....hmmm, yep, invasion justified. try again, Rosenberg, you charlatan.
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  14937.  @owenthomas5103  so if we take Afghanistan as an example, when the US invaded, which ethnic group was being targeted for genocide by the Afghan leadership? Clearly the ethnic Russians were the target of the Azov Nazis when they were shelling Donbass for 8 years, if you want to talk genocidal tendencies.
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  14938.  @owenthomas5103  so the Azov Nazis given the green light to shell the homes of Russian speakers in Donbass for 8 years is democracy?
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  14939.  @owenthomas5103  you are so right. you misused the word genocide. there was no genocide happening in Afghanistan, but the US invaded anyway. so how does the US and NATO decide when invasion is justified? Afghanistan is far from unique in its brutal suppression and mass killings of women. Iran. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia. North Korea. who decides between "brutal enough for invasion" and "not brutal enough"? how does this "rules based international order" work, because to me, a sovereign country is a sovereign country, its territorial integrity is sacrosanct. who plays God and says "8 years of brutal shelling of the Russians in Donbass is acceptable, but those Taliban, no, they must be destroyed"? who is that person? you? the attempted genocide in Ukraine was the desire by the Nazi regime there, the oligarchs and Azovs who pull Zelensky's strings, to FORCE the ethnic Russians to derussify and become suppressed to all all diktats from Kiev, OR be wiped out. The only thing that stopped the genocide of the Donbass Russians was Putin's arms and support, thank God. why you choose to support the nationalist extremists in Kiev is bloody unbelievable.
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  14940.  @owenthomas5103  let's take another example then. when NATO, a defensive organization, decided to bomb Serbia for 80 days straight, which NATO member state was it defending? Help me understand the "rules based international order". the separatists in Kosovo deserved NATO military support and NATO attacks against Serbia. But the separatists in Donbass deserve no NATO backing and deserve to be forced into the clutches of the Azov Nazi Battalion shelling them every day. why is that? why is one separatist group worth fighting for, but the other separatist group to be forced to be shelled by the Azov Nazis?
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  14941.  @owenthomas5103  looks like you need to check out all the UN reports that enumerate the thousands who died from such shelling. so the Angels Alley are graves of children who died NOT from Azov Nazi shelling, but from....what, exactly? that you choose to back the nazi murderers of children is an absolute disgrace.
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  14942.  @owenthomas5103  so you think the thousands upon thousands of Donbass Russians who fled to Russia for safety did so because their towns were NOT being shelled, and they all made the same story up!? you nazi apologists are something else. deny the Holocaust too, do you?
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  14943. certainly the West is sacrificing others (Ukrainian troops) for our pleasures, because they aren't "us".
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  14944.  @dougm3037  and this time round the UK appeased Ukraine by turning a blind eye to 8 years of butchery and horror in the Donbass. Now we see the results of such cowardly appeasement, agreed?
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  14945.  @dougm3037  we should never have appeased Zelensky when he massacred the ethnic Russians in the DPR, right?
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  14946. Remember, Janet Yellen is the genius who recently confessed she was wrong to describe US inflation as "transitory". she is clueless. yet, she somehow thinks she fully grasps how to hurt Russia economically? the West is led by cretins.
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  14947. when you say "you eventually run out of assets to sell", who is the "you" exactly?
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  14948. Why such hesitation, Poland? Just send all your pilots and soldiers into Ukraine now and attack the Russians. what are you waiting for?
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  14949. Lower population is a good thing. This is just a load of woke propaganda.
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  14950.  @evieshore3270  oh look, it's L Shore, known to his friends as "Never bloody".
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  14951. France...the silent majority are sick to death with hypocritical globalists screwing up the West
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  14952.  @john-patrickfoley6893  yes, of course.
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  14953.  @Mummyk01  ffs, why would you be satisfied with the dubious explanation of "we aren't going to show you where, but somewhere in this ravine we found the body, promise, oh, and we won't tell you if there was an expensive watch or what papers he had on him, you don't need to know that either" may be North Korea is the closed police state community for you?
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  14954. Sorry, Susi, today was ALL about the optics. Nothing else. Macron, Scholz and Draghi know that Ukraine is doomed. Sheer lunacy to think Russia can be defeated in a land war. So the visit was just for photos to show concern on the faces of EU leaders. Just a matter of time before Zelensky is thrown under the bus.
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  14955. Pro Russian civilians? But this is an unprovoked land grab by a maniac, Putin, how could he have any support anywhere in Ukraine? Hmmm, now that Russia is looking victorious, watch how the Western media will gradually start telling the truth. They may even admit that Ghost of Kiev was fake news, one day.
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  14956. Chasov Yar has been about to fall for 8 months now. Ditto Kupyansk. Ditto Vuhledar.
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  14957. Trump's cover-ups minuscule compared to Hunter's laptop cover ups and the Biden "pay to play" corruption.
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  14958.  @jasft9746  how would you know how costly Russia's advances are?
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  14959. But he didn't. "Qu'ils retournent en Afrique" means "THEY should go back to Africa". Stop lying
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  14960. Safe to assume Biden told Zelensky that ammo is running out and China looks like it will start supplying Russia, so, either win by summer or you go the way of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  14961. NATO has been demilitarized by Russia. Russia and its allies not only out produce NATO by a long way, they will do so for years to come. NATO has lost.
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  14962. "Russian forces also advancing on Donetsk City" no wonder Channel 4 have absolutely no clue what is happening in this conflict. Donetsk City hasn't been under Kiev's control for a decade now. How can these reporters be this dumb? At least Russian reports are accurate.
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  14963. NATO has nothing more to deliver. Putin has demilitarized NATO. So, obviously, NATO can't admit that, therefore NATO just keeps promising more weaponry, pledges that sound like NATO has something to give. Like the n'er-do-well who has nothing, but can produce words in the form of promises he'll pay you back tomorrow.
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  14964. NATO has not been holding back on delivering arms. they have no more arms to give. Russia has demilitarized NATO.
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  14965.  @Meeko2689  wait til the F16's take to the skies! Then you will really see what lack of training results in!
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  14966.  @BS-vm5bt  you missed my point entirely. i said that given the LACK OF TRAINING Ukrainian F16 pilots will get, we can expect a catastrophe for Ukraine.
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  14967. yeah, right, so the Russian morale must be really low after a bunch of convicts and mercenaries routed NATO trained and NATO armed battalions. deluded non-thinking
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  14968. "China wants world domination" Which country has thousands of military bases all over the globe? USA, or China?
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  14969. time for Russia to blockade and mine Lithuanian ports
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  14970. it does nothing to tackle the main issues: immigration, government debt, inflation, wasting money on Ukraine. ruinous.
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  14971. the criminal regime is the one in Kiev. you know when priests are being arrested you have thrown democracy out of the window.
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  14972. Right, so the "Ukrainians are not giving way" but "the Ukrainians cannot stop the Russians"...these are the mental gymnastics Zelensky cheerleaders have to make these days to convince the sheeple all is going well.
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  14973. they are not fighting for us. that's what they want you to believe. They are fighting for the glory of national hero, Stefan Bandera, the Nazi hero of Lviv.
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  14974.  @AA-vi1cc  here are some simple questions for you. what makes Judith Curry "a joke"? please specify with reference to her work. Ditto Patrick Moore, Richard Lindzen, William Happer, Steven Koonin, Ian Plimer. Now, to John Christy. Of course Christy assesses temperatures at 25,000 feet. If you want to assess the greenhouse effect, you have to assess the bloody roof of the greenhouse, not just the surface, you dope! "he cherry picks data" Every single researcher cherry picks data. That's how you build a case and an argument! There is not one single scientist that includes EVERY datum in any theory! "not peer reviewed" Given that almost all the peers are all locked into the same alarmist narrative, because they are paid to spout such narrative, what's the point of peer review? If Christy is such a joke, why would any scientist bother writing a paper to refute Christy's joke ideas? Why would such a joke be invited to testify in front of Congress? Seems like your idea of a "joke" is simply someone opposing your assumptions! Tell me, when you pump CO2 into a greenhouse, does the temperature shoot up? yes or no question Finally, list 3 positives about global warming. Now we'll see what you're made of.
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  14975.  @AA-vi1cc  Tell me, was Einstein ever considered a "joke" in the science world? yes or no?
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  14976. Putin doesn't want to take over Ukraine. He wants Ukraine to be a neutral state and for that neutrality to be enshrined in its constitution. You need to re-read the objectives of the Special Military Operation
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  14977. where were you, Patrick, when it came time to embrace and champion Tommy Robinson, or reject him?
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  14978. You did! The shooters responsible for the attacks in Buffalo et al ARE Native Americans!
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  14979. he sums up NATO perfectly. "we should look at what is needed" providing what is needed in haste is not of great importance. looking at it is the priority.
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  14980. so, men fleeing Syria are welcomed by the million, men fleeing Russia are told to stay and fight the regime. the "rules-based system" that has turned the globe against the West.
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  14981.  @martinskesteris8664  Given that a Latvian man was jailed for stomping on a Ukrainian flag, thank God I'm not Latvian! Freedom of speech now dead in the Chihuahua states (Baltic states)
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  14982. Russia is succeeding in demilitarizing BOTH Ukraine and now NATO. Western leadership has thrown away billions of taxpayer money and walked into the trap of thinking Russia can be beaten in a protracted ground war. It can't.
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  14983. Quite why the mother thought it was a brilliant idea to come to London, no one will ever know.
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  14984. sham election = our side weren't allowed to manipulate the vote
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  14985. fascinating how this lying propagandist spins the truth. The NATO/Ukronazia counter offensive is now deep into Week 4 and absolutely no significant gains have been made at all, at the expense of 10,000 more cannon fodder slaughtered. Not one single Ukronazi fighter is anywhere near out of the security zone and up to Russia's FIRST defence line! It is a total failure, hence Jake Sullivan rushing to Copenhagen to see what kind of peace talks can happen in July.
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  14986. really? one guy burning a quran made Moslims fear their freedom of religion in Sweden? Nonsense. The US spokesman is full of bs.
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  14987. use nukes, war over.
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  14988. in the long run, it may well be best to sort all this out now. the gimmegrants, Muslims and wokesters fight it out with the patriots, losers get to live in Scotland, it would resolve a lot of issues in a relatively short period of time.
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  14989. this is very simple. the aim of the sanctions was to so cripple the Russian economy so that either Putin would be removed by popular uprising or the Russian economy would not be able to fuel a war, or both. Neither have come anywhere near happening, so all the waffle about how Russia will suffer long term growth problems is irrelevant. Russia will have won by then. The sanctions failed miserably, and a predicted contraction of 15% compared to the reality of 2% shows how useless these experts are.
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  14990.  @emadrafiee-lj4rg  so, can we say all the members of the Pakistani rape gangs were Far Left? I mean if the definition of attacking a Muslim = Far Right, then the Pakistani Rape Gangs = Far Left, correct?
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  14991.  @anthonymcken6050  let me guess, you on "the other side" are so racist you would take a knee to Black Lives Matter but would never even dream of doing such a thing while shouting out "Asian Lives Matter", you racist.
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  14992.  @emadrafiee-lj4rg  does that make the Pakistani rape gangs Far Left?
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  14993.  @rachel.mcgowan  toxic ideas like 1400 white girls targeted by Pakistani rape gangs is a terrible thing?
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  14994.  @BubbyBold  let's see how you interpret the word "racist", Einstein. Pakistani rape gangs targeting white, English girls. racist?
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  14995.  @smartgenes1  and the day you explain why the riots are "far right" is the day the world stops turning
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  14996.  @hendrixinfinity3992  so you agree with me, that it is nonsense to just talk of the "Far Right" when talking about white working class men. The "Far Right" is also the Muslims! The grooming gangs were Far Right, agreed? In which case, why do our leaders insist that the nation has a problem with "extremists", the Islamists and the Far Right, when they are ALL Far Right? you say "can be far-right". give me examples of Muslims who do NOT fit into the category of Far Right. What beliefs do they hold that preclude them from being "Far Right"?
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  14997.  @hendrixinfinity3992  so Starmer, when talking about the Far Right, was including the Muslim thugs that attacked that white lad in Birmingham? yes?
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  14998.  @hendrixinfinity3992  so the grooming gangs were Far Right?
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  14999.  @hendrixinfinity3992  so the Muslim lads that attacked that white man in Birmingham, they were far Right, yep?
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  15000.  @hendrixinfinity3992  2. Traditionalism. Afro Caribbeans who adhere to the traditions of Carnival and Junkanoo are all Far Right? Haitians who adhere to the traditions of Voodoo are all far Right?
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  15001.  @hendrixinfinity3992  3. Religious Hegemony. Saudi Arabia is Far Right, but Argentina, where there are no laws on religious expression, is NOT Far Right at the moment?
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  15002.  @hendrixinfinity3992  surprising as this may sound to you, I happen to believe one can have a moral position on two things at the same time! I happen to believe that I can be fascinated by the fools who think a boxer with XY chromosomes can be 100% woman, and at the same time be concerned with the fools who have no idea what a genocide is! Maybe what you are saying is that you are mentally capable of thinking about only one thing at a time?
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  15003.  @hendrixinfinity3992  "Left-wing people won all the civil liberties you claim to endorse" so, for example, all those Victorian campaigners against slavery, they were all Left-wing? and yet they believed in the traditional family structure, so they were Left Wingers fighting for civil liberties, but also Far Right traditionalists? I think we see how you have no clue what you are talking about!
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  15004.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Anarchism is the belief in no authority, while Libertarianism is the belief in only minimal state intervention. A Libertarian believes in Charter Schools in the USA. The Left believe in no such freedom of choice.
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  15005.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Keir Starmer believes in the traditional family unit, so, our PM is Far Right?
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  15006.  @hendrixinfinity3992  the interesting thing about hierarchies is that they exist throughout all of nature. Jordan Peterson had dealt with this subject. If hierarchy is not biological, but rather a feature of the Far Right, then bees, lobsters, walruses, they are all Far Right! you are such a clown!
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  15007.  @hendrixinfinity3992  ah, we start to get to the heart of your twisted logic. So the white working class lads out rioting are NOT Far Right if they accept people's right to live non traditionally! Yet, without asking any of them if they are ok with non traditional life styles, they get labelled "Far Right" instead of just "right". I am sure you would agree, they have been mis-labelled. And all Muslims believe in traditionalism, so, all Muslims who believe homosexuality is a sin are Far Right? So, Stalin is Right? ALL those historians and academics and media and most of the world, they got all this wrong! Stalin was not a Socialist or a Communist, he was of the Right! Wow, that's amazing. Stalin believed in a mixed market economy? Apart from the tale end of Lenin's NEP, which parts of the Soviet economy were based on private enterprise? cue crickets. All those kulaks were massacred because they insisted on private enterprise, and Stalin did too! This is hilarious! It's not that I think I'm smart. It's that I can see thru your bs from the start, and I note how you lecture, but never answer any of my basic questions. The Pope would be Far Right, correct?
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  15008.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Let's address my many simple questions you refuse to answer. 1. Which Islamic beliefs are far Right and which are not? The Quran is a far Right text? 2. USSR was Far Right? 3. Argentina today is NOT far Right? 4. ONLY the far Right are those saying anyone with XY chromosomes should not be boxing against anyone with XX chromosomes? 5. The Pope is far Right? 6. Nearly everyone 100 years ago was far Right? 7. Karl Marx was far Right? 8. N Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Vatican are all Far Right countries? 9. All slavery abolitionists were Far Left, because although they believed in traditional family structures, they also campaigned for an important civil liberty?
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  15009.  @hendrixinfinity3992  nice side-step! the ever predictable "Overton Window" answer. So, let me sum up. You lied when you said all those who campaigned for civil liberties were on the Left. 100 years ago, those who campaigned for abolishing slavery were NOT on the Left People like Marx and Engels were on the Left, not Wilberforce. UNLESS WE PLAY WITH THE OVERTON WINDOW (read "shifting the goalposts as we wish) We, the Left, can't justify whatever warped views we have. What has truly shifted is how the far Left now consider anything NOT far Left to be somehow Far Right! Catholics, Muslims, anti immigrants, those who support a balanced budget, entrepreneurs, those who believe in traditional family values, all are Far Right, or right! Conclusion = you have redefined things to an absurd point where the Far right are the vast majority of the world!
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  15010.  @hendrixinfinity3992  anyway, you gave me a good laugh. i am still smiling at the though of the kulaks saying "we resist nationalization of agriculture" and Stalin saying "you know, I believe in some free market policies, you guys carry on producing independently, I'll support you 100%" that was the comic moment of the day, but something tells me you have far more laughs your sleeve. yep, those grooming gangs in Rotherham, the Far Right that Starmer always calls out as Far Right!:)
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  15011.  @hendrixinfinity3992  1930's - Far Right = death camps for non aryans 2020's Far Right = anyone believing in hierarchies 2030's = Far Right = anyone against the beliefs of hendrixinfinity
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  15012.  @hendrixinfinity3992  "they don't warrant a response" = I give up, I've lost the argument. As I pointed out, hierarchies exist in the animal world, hierarchies are a feature of biology, and to ascribe hierarchies to being a right wing construct is just infantile. in essence, based on your nonsensical view of hierarchy, all governments are right wing, and all communities are right wing, because they all rely on a hierarchy. Yes, even your hippy commune will have someone handling the finances and pulling the strings. I have no Left wing/Right wing axis! I believe it is all woolly nonsense and only specific beliefs can be talked of as being of benefit or not. It's YOU that insists on the labels, not me! I have nothing to explain, and that is why I see nothing Left nor Right about rioters wanting to reclaim their country back to what it was when they liked it. You are a naive Lefty that has never truly been challenged, and as I pointed out, to state Stalin was open to free market economics is simply hilarious. you love to lecture, but refuse to answer simple questions. the epitome of someone who understands very little.
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  15013.  @hendrixinfinity3992  1. taxation is just stealing by the government. it's money that gets funneled into projects that would work better under private enterprise. Compare the useless post office with private delivery entities like Amazon.
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  15014.  @hendrixinfinity3992  2. yeah, we all know the theory of Commuinism. the only problem is it has never worked and will never work, simply because you will never get 100% of any population voluntarily commiting to collectivization. again, the kulaks.
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  15015.  @hendrixinfinity3992  3. So, we agree, Communism has never existed and will never exist. It is a nonsense theory dreamed up but doomed to failure. Thanks for agreeing with me!
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  15016.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Again, hierarchy is biological. it is not political. hierarchy is not something chosen! it exists, like air and water! anyone who considers hierarchy as something other than part of nature must be deluded by lefty literature. again, bee colonies work on the basis of hierarchy, the drones and the Queen...all bees are Far Right? you guys are so funny!
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  15017.  @hendrixinfinity3992  of course millions die at the hands of capitalism. that's not the point. the question is which system, on balance, lifts more people out of poverty and kills fewer of the masses. and that would be capitalism, not socialism.
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  15018.  @hendrixinfinity3992  if ethno nationalist means someone who knows that societies with vast numbers of new arrivals from cultures incompatible with the host country leads to ruin, then yes, i am an ethno nationalist, as are millions of others across the globe. my wife must be too! she wants no more Haitians to enter the Bahamas, her home country! she must be a black racist for thinking that way!
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  15019.  @hendrixinfinity3992  I'm pretty sure I have read a lot more than you, so no lectures needed. Got a BA in Spanish and Russian, MA in English and Spanish, speak 8 languages, retired teacher and lecturer, been to over 100 countries and worked for long periods in such disparate locations as Oman, USA, Bahamas, France and Colombia. No lectures needed from the likes of you. I'm not disparaging reading at all. Your own reading comprehension of my words is poor. I pointed out that what YOU need is LESS reading COMPARED with thought, reflection, careful observation of the world, and listening to the opinions of people like me. What makes you think I have never spoken to union leaders? you assume way too much. "fair pay and adequate time off" are subjective things. both, i would argue, have already been settled by market forces. left wing politics just aims to meddle with the market to benefit the few (union members) at the expense of the rest of society. The only misinformation spread is by the Left. As I said, put down your lefty literature and just speak to some real people who have global experience of real problems, not ivory tower union leaders who care not a monkey's backside for society as a whole.
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  15020.  @iemgote7249  my argument about public health policy always makes sense. you would have to specify to which recent events you refer. Trumps's win?
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  15021.  13ased_American  Donetsk and Lugansk WAS Ukrainian territory, up until they seceded from Ukraine after the 2014 coup. They both declared independence. Then Kiev thought it would be a really good idea to send the Azov Nazi battalion to start shelling Donetsk and Lugansk, to force them to be part of Ukraine...an idea that you fully support, I guess!
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  15022.  13ased_American  The Crimean Parliament in Simferopol also voted 78-0, following the 2014 coup, to separate from Kiev. I guess you support squelching democracy and forcing Crimea to remain part of Ukraine, yes?
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  15023.  @TheKakan1337  voting at a meaningless UN meeting is one thing. the proof is in the pudding. ALL of those nations that so voted are still trading with Russian and still working to support Russia. Including Ukraine! The majority of them are happy to help Russia too. Grasp reality.
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  15024.  @TheKakan1337  what's really funny about the 188 countries that you mention is that it includes the other BRICS nations and OPEC+, the very nations now siding with Russia to maintain oil supplies at a level that punishes the Western consumers, drains the US Strategic Reserves, and defeats that stupid Western idea of a price cap that no one ever talks about today! such a success! BTW, which of the 12 sanctions packages announced by the EU hurts Russia the most, would you say?:) what is the the EU waiting for? where is package number 13?:)
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  15025.  @lucasdarnell8551  looks like your reading comprehension skills are appalling. there was no coup in Donbass. there was a declaration of independence in Donbass following the coup in Kiev. The RF has only responded to Ukrainian aggression and bullying. Your argument is not with me regarding the Azov Nazis. Your argument is with Reuters and BBC. Google their reports on Nazis in Ukraine. I was in Ukraine in 2018 and I saw with my own eyes the shocking extreme nationalism in play there.
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  15026.  @bonnie7898  says the dolt who didn't even know who the Allies were in WW2! Donetsk and Lugansk were Ukrainian until they declared independence from Ukraine.
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  15027.  @bonnie7898  not surprising that the person who never knew the Allies invaded Nazi Germany is confused by a simple analogy! UN votes on Ukraine are meaningless, just like the look of a pudding. Reality is HOW the world deals with Russia, and so what is actually IN the pudding, and the eating of the pudding, reveal a completely different story. Even Ukraine still works and trades with Russia, along with EU, UK, USA.
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  15028.  @bonnie7898  regarding DPR and LPR independence. do you consider the date of US independence to be 1776, or after the fighting finished in 1781? Simple question.
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  15029.  @bonnie7898  oh what a short memory you have! Because when I said the Allies invaded Nazi Germany, you said "no, the Russians did, not the Allies". It was one of the dumbest moments you ever had online, but not THE dumbest. Do you want me to cut and paste it and send it back to you, oh dumb one?
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  15030.  @bonnie7898  I understand its meaning perfectly. I'm a language teacher! And, by the way, 3rd grade error, oh dumb one, when you say "you don't understand it's meaning", you should have written "you don't understand its meaning". Maybe join my English for Beginners class to learn the difference between "it's" and "its"? Furthermore, its similes that contain the word "like". Analogies may, or may not. Tell me, are you 7 years old?
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  15031.  @bonnie7898  just answer the question, then I will reveal to you, based on your answer, what a total hypocritical fool you are.
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  15032.  @bonnie7898  Just hilarious that you claim to have a degree in Literature but confuse "its" with "it's". Let me guess, your degree is from the Australian Outback College for the Retarded? Of course you will not argue about similes and analogies. Why would you argue about something you, yet again, got wrong? I teach English, Spanish and French and my B.A. degree is in Russian and Spanish. No lectures needed on correct, or incorrect, use of language.
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  15033. Birbalsingh discovering the joys of mass Muslim immigration. If only she had to power to forbid Muslim pupils from attending, but in sharia Britainistan, that is simply heresy and illegal.
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  15034. one bridge is out of action from a missile attack. and all the media start babbling on about a counter offensive that ain't happening. A real offensive is happening in Donbass, and the media ignores it. Conclusion? Ukraine is losing badly, otherwise we would hear of all the settlements that had fallen into Ukrainian hands.
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  15035.  @steveprocter6241  you should take such a person just as seriously as any other, because only a fool believes that apologists for Zelensky's Banderite Russophobic ambitions have a monopoly on the truth, dear Steve.
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  15036.  @rudolfbullach2071  exactly, NATO more than happy to force taxpayers to pay Ukrainians to die in a futile war. got to ensure no NATO lads get killed, and NATO taxpayers keep funding the massacre of Ukronazi boys. you understand how it works.
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  15037.  @SkyRiver1  they never had any nuclear arms to surrender. Soviet nukes located on Ukrainian territory were never awarded to Ukraine. In fact, the whole notion of Ukrainian independence hinged on who would be in control of ex Soviet nukes. International agreement was that Russia would become the sole inheritor of Soviet nukes, not Ukraine, not Kazakhstan, not any other ex Soviet republic.
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  15038.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  sure, and when another 100,000 Ukrainian young men die in battle you can tell their grieving families, "such good value for money"
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  15039.  @SmilingNinja  who said the US invasions were immoral?
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  15040.  @SmilingNinja  since I lived and worked there in 2018. And you? able to point to Lugansk on a map 2 years ago were you?
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  15041.  @SmilingNinja  sure, you know my teaching career better than me. well done on knowing where Lugansk is for so many years. and when did you first hear about Right Sector?
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  15042.  @paulgibbon5991  remarkable that just 5% of NATO's defence budget has given 20% of Ukrainian territory to the Russians! What is stopping NATO from making it 10%? what is your definition of a terrorist state?
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  15043.  @SmilingNinja  actually, my lesson plans start with, "can we use Russian as the lingua franca for our classes?" students - "yes" Zelenski - "no"
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  15044.  @SmilingNinja  Don't know who George Santos is. Your assumptions are off, so let me correct you. I was in Spain for the winter. Now in France. Never been to Lugansk, but have been to Ukraine 4 times. Last time was 2018, teaching English, French and Spanish in classroom setting, in Vynnitsia. The lingua franca used in the classroom was Russian, as that was the language we all could communicate in. Then we were told not to use Russian in the classroom, all part of the russophobic/derussification program that has torn the country apart. So, I left.
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  15045. too late. no contracts have even been drawn up for any "ramping". it was only 5 minutes ago that NATO confessed it was even low on ammo!
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  15046. Given that USA is not at war with Ukraine or with Russia, how can she be a traitor? Because she supports the side you don't like?
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  15047.  @stpfs9281  no more than the USA permanently meddles in the domestic affairs of as many countries as it possibly can. It's not Russia that has military bases covering the planet. That would be USA.
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  15048.  @stpfs9281  If Russia is meddling in the domestic affairs of USA, it would be justified revenge for USA meddling in the ousting of Yanukovich, in 2014, right? Remember Cookies Nuland?
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  15049.  @TheFman2010  she supports reason, and is opposed to funding a futile war. makes perfect sense.
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  15050.  @annebalderston2520  she is brilliant. she gets it.
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  15051. she chose the wrong country. plenty of places welcome more diversity of thought than America these days.
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  15052. This Orwellian judge, graduate from the Ministry of Truth Academy, needs to be removed and disbarred. Merchan has no concept of First Amendment rights, no idea of the concept of free speech, he needs to do a job in which he is competent, maybe waiting tables or car wash attendant or judge in Nort Korea? He is the last person that should be sitting in judgement over anyone in USA.
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  15053. on the contrary, the ignorance of what a war of attrition is all about was staggering.
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  15054.  @davidallison5529  and startling though this is for you to grasp, there are many decorated military leaders and respected strategists that agree with me. Appealing to authority is the weakest form of argument. I repeat, he knows nothing about Russia nor about wars of attrition. grasp reality.
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  15055.  @TheRisingFury  you are starting to get it! Both sides can "appeal to authority" and arrive at contrasting conclusions! So, what's the point listening to biased deluded fools like the retired general in this video? just listen to the people on the ground. how many Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to fight these days?
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  15056.  @TheRisingFury  1. Careful what you assume. Deal with the issues, not the mouthpieces. 2. Yes, I'm a Kremlin cheerleader. Russia is in the right on the Ukraine issue, and the West should have sided with Russia and not with the Banderites in Kiev. Big neo Nazi fan are you? Celebrate Bandera as a national hero, do you? 3. Of course there are plenty of videos saying that Russian soldiers are refusing to fight. There is fake news aplenty defending the neo Nazis. 4. Only the Ukrainians are being used as cannon fodder, compelled, conscripted, sent to die. The Russians are all on contracts, volunteers or called up from past military service. If only you could grasp the difference. Ever been to Ukraine, have you?
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  15057.  @TheRisingFury  EU sanctions were supposed to so cripple the Russian economy that Russia would be incapable of waging war. We have had 13 packets of EU sanctions on Russia. Which packet number do you think was the most effective? 6? 2? 13?:)
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  15058.  @TheRisingFury  slightly inconveniencing civilians? the economies of the West are in an awful state, stagnant, low or no growth, energy costs through the roof, debt ballooning out of control! talk about a horrific miscalculation! The West in its arrogance, assumed it could isolate Russia and cripple the Russian economy. The West has failed on both accounts. The West assumed superior Western arms and training would win the day. The West found that drunken convicts with low morale and fighting with shovels could defeat NATO trained ukronazis in Bakhmut and then defeat a pathetically organized Ukraine/NATO counter offensive. But I'm sure another 60 billion dollars in aid will achieve what the 91 billion dollars last sent to Kiev failed to do, right?
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  15059. this is the hypocrite Bleksley who had to back-peddle furiously today and apologize for what he had said about internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists. now he is falling over himself trying to say the internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists were RIGHT all along to say the body is not in a gorge that Jay never went to, and that solve the crimes and you will find the body. better late than never, Plod!
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  15060. Given that Frank is an absolute ignoramus about things Russian, and given that he has got everything wrong in this conflict so far, it is amazing that DW keeps turning to the slowest kid in the class for any insights at all. oh, that's right, Frank parrots the line his paymaster demands, that Ukraine is winning, I forgot how this all works!
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  15061.  @markrainford1219  would I what?
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  15062. makes you wonder why supermarkets weren't on Xmas mode all year before the pandemic.
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  15063.  @dodahspeak  explain how world events suddenly give supermarkets a green light to charge their customers more without suffering a fall in profits! what is happening in Ukraine doesn't change the supply and demand curves of the supermarket business! what you'll find is that supermarkets have upped their prices to match their jump in costs, and found that the British public continues to buy at this increased price! Good for them! Raise prices a little more, would be my advice.
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  15064. Suggestion, dear Rupert. China and Russia ain't gonna worry about 3% spending on defense while you deluded wokesters persist with sensitivity training in the ranks, diversity and equity recruiting, and electric tanks. After NATO's fiasco in Kabul when panic and mayhem ensued because the goat herders, the Taliban, strolled into town Russia and China saw what a bunch of limp, pathetic candy-assed losers NATO is. The reality hurts, but is clear for all to see.
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  15065. Just a few more hours left to see if all the other anti Israeli bigots get banned so Israel wins a la Ukraine.
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  15066. no one with any sense, since Climategate, believes the scientists are reporting the truth. while funding is granted for anything trying to prove climate change, but refused to those denying climate hysteria, we can only assume biased nonsense like this report will be widespread.
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  15067. This is such beautiful pay back time....following the 8 years of butchery wrought upon the ethnic Russians, finally someone stood up and has gone a long way to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, and as a sweet bonus, the West has been demilitarized to a great degree too. Can't wait to see the DPR try and execute the mercenary captives it has locked up......when CNN and co start showing images of American mercenaries swinging from a hangman's noose, we'll see even more fingers start to point at Biden. Slava Rossiyi....Z
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  15068. their ignorance of Russia and how Russia works is stunning.
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  15069. it is all about leading by example. if Charles ain't gonna cancel his private jet travel, i'm not gonna change anything about my lifestyle. put up or shut up.
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  15070. so Russia is the villain for helping poor, persecuted asylum seekers reach their dream, the EU! seems like Russia is the one with a heart, assisting those in need, while the EU is heartless and playing politics.
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  15071.  @zenon7094  judging whether Russia has a heart or not by listing the military campaigns it has led is as infantile as saying Britain has no heart anymore....Balaclava, Ypres, Dardanelles, Zanzibar, Rorke's Drift, Dresden, El Alamein.
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  15072. "we did the right thing, for example, Ukraine" yeah, right, throwing billions of taxpayers money at a corrupt country so that it exterminates itself in a futile war is so the right thing to do. grow up, you child.
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  15073. Mike Martin is a useless waste of space and knows nothing. Mike, how is that great Spring/Summer counterattack going? You know, the one you said would slowly but surely split Russia's land bridge? Just how close to Melitopol are the Ukrainians?
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  15074. how many people know to what degree they are descended from a slave or a slave owner? Africans owned slaves and enslaved fellow Africans, so skin color tells you nothing.
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  15075. Jews were over-represented in middle class professions when Hitler came to power. Anything wrong with industry bosses in Nazi Germany insisting that all Jews had to be approved before being hired in Nazi Germany? Or would Ms Blanc be fine with that?
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  15076. it's not a crime, but when the DA has an affair with the lead prosecutor it's the appearance of impropriety, and therefore she should be dismissed. it's as simple as that. the ethical standing that a DA has to meet is a bar much higher than others in life face.
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  15077.  @leagarner3675  yes, there is a crime. the crime is perjury. the facts are that the cell phone evidence shows Willis lied under oath. so, yes, and yes. think again and grow up.
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  15078.  @leagarner3675  the law on perjury is clear. the cell phone evidence proves Willis committed perjury. GA law is quite clear that there is a conflict of interest at play. everyone with a brain cell can see that. just hilarious that you are too devoid of brain cells to figure it out.
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  15079.  @gcharb2d  and the judge ruled that way because he is a coward facing re-election. the justice system of the USA is best served by a DA that presents a case with total impartiality, perfect probity and dignity, and is SEEN to be an honest player. newsflash....that person ain't Fani Willis.
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  15080. the funny thing is, in a trial, lawyers usually point to the lack of credibility of a witness. in the Trump case, the lawyers will start with the lack of credibility of the DA and prosecutor! "members of the jury, apologies for my late arrival to this morning's session, like the DA, I don't use a credit or debit card, just cash, and the bus wouldn't accept my dollar bill"
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  15081.  @gcharb2d  1. you assume Willis can clarify the charges! the charges were lacking substance and evidence, meaning Willis could only repeat the charge, she had nothing to show as evidence, so, no, it won't be so easy to refile, because had she had substance she would have submitted that the first time around! you talk like Willis a ten year old, unable to write! well, you maybe right on that one.
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  15082.  @gcharb2d  curious you want to play mind reader and assume my thoughts on the FL case. some advice for you. rather than assuming my thoughts on the matter, try asking my thoughts first. it saves you embarrassing yourself.
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  15083.  @gscurd75  good point. surely "misappropriation of funds" would be exemplified by using tax payer money to hire a novice to lead the most high profile legal case in the state. like paying top dollar to a doctor with no experience of treating leprosy to treat everyone in the leper colony. misappropriation of funds.
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  15084.  @leagarner3675  Fani walked into court trouble. no one had to get her into court. it's Fani who thought it was a great idea to commit perjury, no one made her. Hunter and his dad are in big trouble. "10% for the big guy" tells you all you need to know. Trump and his team will have great fun getting their sweet revenge for 4 years after November.
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  15085.  @leagarner3675  i have told you the facts and the truth. i understand you can't handle the truth. the cell phone data, unlike Willis, Wade and Bradley, told us all we needed to know. or, maybe you really believe that Wade would spend overnight at Fani's place, talking business and playing scrabble?
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  15086.  @leagarner3675  Democrat voter and Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, rightfully points out that people are in jail based on evidence far less than the cell phone data of Wade and Willis. you do respect Alan Dershowitz, right?
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  15087.  @leagarner3675  she's been exonerated of nothing. she has been given a darn good spanking by the judge, who didn't have the cojones to take her off the case.....the spineless cretin who donated to her campaign, surprise surprise, just couldn't bring himself to remove her.
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  15088.  @gcharb2d  his salary is wholly relevant when Fani is the one who decides the salary and then gets chunks of that salary back in the form of luxury vacations.
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  15089.  @gcharb2d  so the cell phone records are hearsay?
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  15090.  @leagarner3675  who was found "not guilty"? was there a trial we all missed?
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  15091.  @gcharb2d  who knows what the judge believes? we only know what he decided to write in his decision.
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  15092.  @gcharb2d  who knows the judge's opinion? we only know what he wrote in his decision. Bradley, a lawyer, said he was merely "speculating" when he, unprompted, stated categorically that the relationship started in 2019. yeah, right, lawyers always gossip and speculate when they know their words will end up as testimony in a courtroom. how naive are you?
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  15093.  @leagarner3675  the cell phone data proves it. but it's curious you are 100% certain that she did not lie, rather than unconvinced that she did lie. very curious.
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  15094.  @gcharb2d  "the affair was a mistake" why? what made the affair a mistake?
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  15095.  @SpeakerOfTruth444  Wade is an expert in night court traffic offenses. oh, and an expert liar. he committed perjury in his divorce decree. who knows how much Wade makes at his private law firm? remember, he said a lot of his dealings are in cash! a cheap 3k cruise? Fani's waistline and total tonnage tells you she packs away far more than 3 k worth!
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  15096.  @leagarner3675  Biden was declared the winner, but nobody knows which candidate received the most valid votes in the key swing states. given that a total of about 40,000 votes determined the winner, only a tiny amount of narrow spread fraud would have made the difference. with all the mail-in ballot shenanigans, is there a good chance that electoral fraud determined the winner? absolutely. next question?
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  15097.  @leagarner3675  what makes you 100% sure that Biden won the key swing states based purely on legitimate votes? if Kamala, Hilary and many others were 100% sure that Trump did not win 2016 legitimately, why would the same people be 100% sure that Biden did win legitimately in 2020?
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  15098.  @leagarner3675  in GA, the 3% of ballots that are usually thrown out as invalid, went down, amazingly, to just 0.3%. totally normal, nothing to see here, right?
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  15099.  @leagarner3675  I answered the question perfectly. no one knows who won the 2020 presidential election. we know that Biden was declared the winner, but with only narrow spread fraud, which happens in all elections with extensive mail in ballots, all around the world, it could be that the legitimate winner was Trump. Those who deny Biden won in 2020 are in exactly the same boat as those who denied Trump won in 2016, (Hilary, Kamala etc). None of them is an "election denier". every one of them is sceptical that the declared winner was the legitimate winner, whether it be 2016 or 2020. maybe such logic and truth is way beyond your powers of comprehension. sorry for you.
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  15100.  @leagarner3675  real patriots do all in their power to ensure elections are fair. real patriots challenge election results when there are indications certain votes are not legitimate. only partisan fools just accept the declared result, in a close race, must be correct. looks like you belong in the unpatriotic second category. sorry for you.
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  15101.  @leagarner3675  who won the Bush/Gore election? what makes you so sure? who won the 2016 election? what makes you so sure?
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  15102.  @leagarner3675  do you know what "salient" means?
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  15103.  @leagarner3675  why would you edit a word that you had used perfectly correctly? you want the world to believe that because you KNEW (mind reading again) that such a word would confuse me, you were charitable and decided to use an alternative that would be comprehensible to me! aw, how generous of you. such a caring individual. and now, the truth. you used the wrong word, didn't want to show your ignorance, so you hastily edited. like Fani Willis, you lied and tried to cover up. salient does not mean "appropriate" in any context. the salient facts are the ones that stand out, whether they are appropriate or not. get educated before you start lying online, and stop being hypocritical and start criticising election deniers like Clinton and Harris, you pathetic liar.
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  15104.  @leagarner3675  Dictionary of Oxford Languages offers 32 synonyms for "salient". "appropriate" is NOT one of them. you are both ignorant and a liar. explains why you are a Biden supporter and why you assume Biden won the election legitimately.
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  15105.  @leagarner3675  very easy for you to prove you are not a liar. just tell me what to google to find "appropriate" as a synonym of "salient". crickets. par for the course with lying Biden supporters.
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  15106. meaningless bla bla bla. without Russia there, it is all hot air. just another feeble attempt by USA to get some anti-Russia feeling stirred up in the Global South.
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  15107. so if Tate uses hate speech when he says women bear some responsibility when they get raped, why aren't all Muslims kicked off social media, given they believe the same thing? or is it expressing the opinion that is the crime, not thinking it?
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  15108. Donbass gets all my sympathy, emphaty and love - stay strong!
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  15109. getting a taste of what Donbass had to endure for 8 years at the hands of the Azov Nazis. Ukraine should be delighted that Russia is just following the West's "rules-based order"
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  15110. The problem is Islamophilia which springs from ignorance of the heart and soul of Islam, NOT Islamophobia
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  15111.  @RigoMuniz  Not true! Part of the agreement to allow Ukrainian grain to be exported was 1) to allow Russian grain and fertlizer exports to be TOTALLY exempt from sanctions and 2) to have Russian oil sales to third countries be exempt of sanctions. 3) the Siemens repaired gas compressor is also free from sanctions. Gradually the sanctions are being rolled back or a blind eye turned to evasion of such sanctions. Russia has won, lil fella:)
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  15112.  @RigoMuniz  of course not. the media you probably follow refuse to mention so much that appears to support Russia or anything that would indicate a victory for Russia. You have to dig deep to find some important details. Africa is so desperate for Russian and Belarussian fertilizers that the EU had to concede this sanction, otherwise be accused forever more of starving Africans. Sad truth.
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  15113. If Oxana spoke for just 5 minutes with an ethnic Russian from Donbass, say a mother whose child was blown to pieces by an a Nazi Azov batallion shell, she would have a different impression of the truth behind Russia's stand for the human rights of ethnic Russians. Europe, so proud of its support for minority rights, now punishes sportsmen/women based on where they were born, an apartheid system that is shameful...welcome to the superficial, hypocritical West
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  15114. when will the penny drop, in the West, that a massive chunk of Ukraine no longer wants to be part of Ukraine? it's like pretending that everyone in Cataluña wants to be Spanish, or everyone in Scotland wants to be part of the UK. It's childish thinking.
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  15115. Russians are saying the same thing! They can't wait to create a fleet of burning coffins and demilitarize NATO
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  15116. what did he say? that no Ukrainian troops were in the educational building WHEN IT WAS HIT? TRANSLATION...Ukrainian troops have been in this educational building, using it and the residents about it as shields
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  15117.  @Blanka1100  Indeed, The Austrian painter SAID he was protecting Germans in the Sudetenland. Were the Sudetenland Germans abused for their ethnicity to the extend the Russians in Ukraine were, have been, and still are? Read some reliable history to find out, though it seems you prefer to live in your matrix because it makes you feel so much better.
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  15118. Biden's dementia led him to the same conclusion as the stupidity of Western leaders alongside that of Napoleon and Hitler, namely that fighting Russia in a land war is a really good idea. Some people take a long time to learn the basics.
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  15119.  @sergeyb8  Zelensky decided to offer arms to all civilians, remember? the whole of Ukraine became a legitimate target that day. After 8 years of butchery and massacre of ethnic Russians in Donbass, it is deserved that Ukraine be punished.
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  15120. Ukraine won't even exist once Russia has triumphed and dictated surrender terms (no negotiations needed). Doubtful that the EU will still exist in today's form once the full effects of Russia's counter sanctions kick in (this winter). Slava Rossiyi
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  15121. a non Swede was almost certainly attacked by a non Brit. welcome to dystopian "Europe".
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  15122. it's funny. Mohammed from Algeria rocks up with no papers and is admitted immediately, but they have to check the background of John from Reading who has a valid passport.
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  15123. not much point paying them to leave when they will all just reappear somewhere else in Western Europe and start the whole parasitic lifestyle over again.
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  15124. except these toys are fuels that keep granma warm enough to survive winter and economies to keep alive
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  15125.  @VINLAND_777  with all the sagacity and endurance those fine babooshki possess
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  15126.  @VINLAND_777  I'm guessing English is not your first language. maybe you meant "the West" or "the Western World" as opposed to the "western hemisphere?"
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  15127.  @VINLAND_777  why did you assume I was NOT Duncan Smith? Why, unlike me, do you not use your real name? Why doubt I am from the West?
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  15128. His country has been brutally attacked for 8 years, innocent civilians are fighting for their lives, being killed. and his country is being decimated. it is clearly not unreasonable to be pushing for restrictions around Ukrainian citizens travel if you are president of the DPR or LPR.
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  15129. so i guess the assumption in the West is that Ukrainian victory depends ONLY on the amount of money sent and the amount and quality of weapons. The West assumes Ukraine will have the manpower to win this whatever happens, no matter how many hundreds of soldiers are massacred, crippled or captured every day. hmmm, risky assumption
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  15130. How can this fool talk of "criminal gangs" when all they do is bring people over to the UK so that they can claim asylum! If the people organizing the boat traffic were assisting migrants do something illegal, then the migrants would be arrested on arrival in Dover! But none of them is! So, it's legal and those who organize this legal activity should be praised.
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  15131.  @NinjaBehindTheScene  even the Russians who never step foot in Ukraine?
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  15132.  @enedifanovaha7713  in war, many things don't go "your way", but Russia is much closer to achieving its 5 objectives than Crimes is to achieving its objectives.
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  15133.  @SodziausPilietis  in denial. seek the truth.
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  15134.  @timeames2509  like when they dominated body count but got kicked out of SE Asia by the Viet Cong? like when they dominated body count but in fleeing Kabul with their tails between their legs, hounded out by sandal wearing goat herders called the Taliban, saw 13 of their own killed but got revenge by droning to death an innocent Afghan family while abandoning millions of dollars worth of equipment behind, you mean like that? How is US intelligence these days? "90 days before the Taliban will take Kabul" try 90 hours! pathetic. how are the diversity and inclusion classes going for US forces these days? Still recruiting high school dropouts? Does the commander in chief know what day it is?
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  15135.  @marktrotter8971  not sure. the burning question is how close is Ukraine to collapse. Putin would rather not use Belarussian troops, and I believe he will only do so if he is sure they would make a decisive difference.
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  15136. one hit wonder that was dumb as rocks.
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  15137. we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Green movement. as economic reality hits home, the masses will reject Green policies. policies like Ulez are only popular in theory. when people have to pay the consequences, they hate the idea.
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  15138. such behavior shows exactly why Russia is winning and Europe is in such a mess. Just remember her partying video when Finnish economy collapses. "I did nothing illegal" is a pretty poor explanation of dereliction of duty.
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  15139. To all you Ukronazi supporters out there, what makes you sure that the 61 billion to corrupt Kiev will achieve a Russian defeat when the 91 billion already sent has put Ukraine on the verge of defeat?
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  15140.  @thesisLAx  which one is to deprive Russia? the oil price cap or the refusal to have a gas price cap? sounds like you are the daft one, or maybe English is not your first language?
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  15141.  @thesisLAx  says the person who cannot even write a coherent sentence. Reading comprehension not your best subject, eh, cupcake?
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  15142.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  looks like it went right over your head, given you are incapable of explaining why one is a good idea for Germany and the EU, but the other isn't.
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  15143.  @thesisLAx  one is to deprive Russia, and the other is to provide for Russia!? and this makes sense to you?
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  15144.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  for the second time, you show you are incapable of explaining the difference. and as the saying goes, if you can't explain it, you don't understand it. way over your head. emperor's new clothes, you ain't wearing anything and the world sees your embarrassment
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  15145.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  no one here is mixing the two up. the sane of this world query the sense of championing a price gap on Russian oil but not on Russian gas. cat got your tongue?
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  15146.  @jkfdkjjd  why would Russia want to capture Kharkov?
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  15147.  @stephenhill545  France wasn't fighting alone.
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  15148. the usual lies and propaganda about Russian losses. Russia is advancing using convicts armed with just spades, remember?
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  15149. well, well, well, the dumb Ukrainians actually believed Crooked Joe Boden when he said "for as long as it takes". should have realized that NATO can't match North Korea for providing what it takes to win a war.
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  15150. more symbolic bs. unless Biden has come to install an air defence system for Ukraine that actually works, it is a waste of everyone's time. Ukraine's teenage cannon fodder crippled and wounded in Bakhmut probably not too bothered by this pantomime. Poor show, too, from the reporter gal stuttering, umming and ahhing her way through a basic report. DW at its worst here.
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  15151.  @de6212  who says Russia is trying to take Bakhmut? the aim is to demilitarize Ukraine.
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  15152.  @selmahare  please don't refer to Africans in such a way
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  15153. How the interview should have gone.... "I asked you what you would DO on Day One, not what your vision or aims are, so, let's try again, what will you in fact DO on Day One? Any executive actions to be signed into effect as your boss Biden did?"
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  15154. what about anyone who has full access to information but still supports the Ukrainian war criminals?
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  15155. Are the Ukrainians "criminally silent against atrocities committed by their government" too? e.g. the market murders recently in Donetsk? Or...only Russians have a monopoly on this criminal silence, Ukrainians are exempt?
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  15156.  @rumples2698  you can't. not possible. it's like trying to stop tobacco smugglers or any kind of smuggling. while there is a demand for any good or service, there will be people fulfilling the role of providing that good or service. dream on.
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  15157.  @a.t6066  wasn't Russia that lied about Ghost of Kiev
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  15158. "these attacks were surprising in their scale and in their scope" no, honey, they weren't, only to the deluded indoctrinated Western sheep were they any surprise at all. Wise up and learn the truth.
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  15159. this reporter and Zelensky agree that things are looking pretty tense and critical, in Soledar.
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  15160. there was no financial mismanagement. dumb virtue-signallers willingly gave their cash to a racist charlatan who then spent it. end of story.
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  15161.  @Djamonja  of course you do, as all deluded fools do.
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  15162.  @Djamonja  don't think so. clear thinkers like me don't think it likely Russia would blow up its own pipeline, and clear thinkers like me don't assume Russia is running out of ammo when it fires 6 times more missiles, every day, for a year, than Ukraine does. some of us analyze facts a little better.
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  15163.  @chaosXP3RT  I have not. Have you?
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  15164. Slava Rossiyi, another apartment block used by the ukronazis for hosting troops and weapons, located and destroyed. Amnesty International warned us of ukronazi tactics.
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  15165. False choice. Surrender and live is one choice. Fight AND die is the other. Ukraine's choice because NATO has shown it can't do anything to turn the tide of this conflict.
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  15166. No, Mike, taking Bakhmut and/or Melitopol would NOT change anything. This is a war of attrition. Whatever the territorial gains of Ukraine in your fantasy world, while Russia is killing more Ukrainians than vice versa, Russia is winning. While Russia is able to re-arm with greater ease than Ukraine, Russia is winning. "surrounding Melitopol" wouldn't change that equation. you have got all this so wrong from day One.
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  15167. so now, a "deal" in Biden's dim and fading mind = support for an idea.
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  15168. Putin only ever said Russia would defend itself with nuclear weapons if attacked, same doctrine that Russia has always had. Putin is right, Western hegemony is coming to an end and the West is in panic over that.
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  15169.  @dannyquinn9128  there is no other way to interpret jihad! it's what Mohammed did, you know, massacre those who refuse to embrace Islam! where do you think the reward of 72 virgins in heaven comes from?
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  15170.  @dannyquinn9128  A Muslim who doesn't believe in jihad is like a Christian who doesn't believe in turning the other cheek...not a real one.
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  15171.  @taylorniall5756  the boy is as Welsh as George Orwell was Indian......the fact that George Orwell was born in India does mean that he was Indian, right?
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  15172.  @taylorniall5756  you wouldn't know misinformation if it came up and bit you on the rear end and shouted "Hey, I'm Misinformation" still think the virus came from a wet market, yeah?
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  15173.  @MikeHunt-s9m  exactly....not many devout Muslims are lining up to join that branch of Islam that rejects jihad and violence.
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  15174.  @taylorniall5756  let me guess the name of this oh so Welsh boy. Last name Evans? Jones? First name Dai, Dafydd? Got a feeling Welsh is his first language?
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  15175.  @fuuf102  jihad is many things, but when Hezbollah and Hamas are calling for jihad against Israel, they are not calling for looking after any parents, and you know it! Jihad, holy war, you know, that sword dripping with blood so prominent on the Saudi flag, is the Islamic aim to conquer the Infidel. It's what Mohammed did to the Jews who refused to become Muslim! If you are in any doubt, re read the Quran and see the references to war connected with jihad.
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  15176.  @fuuf102  one of the reasons there are almost zero Hindus in prison in the UK, and 18% of the UK prison population is Muslim, is because of jihad, and the violence and intolerance inherent in Islam. UK has had enough and want the Muslims to get out of the country.
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  15177.  @fuuf102  tell me, what is the penalty under Sharia Law for apostasy? I'll give you a clue. The word starts with a D and ends with an H and has EAT in the middle! you know nothing about Islam if you don't know the penalty for turning away from Islam is death!
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  15178.  @nunununununu8545  it's not what i THINK happens in a mosque. I KNOW what happens in a mosque. But just for a moment, let's focus on a yes/no question about what NEVER happens in a mosque. Does the imam ever say that homosexuality is to be tolerated and that two men can be sexually attracted to each other and Allah approves of that? Does that ever happen in a mosque? hmmm
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  15179.  @nunununununu8545  oh, but they DO talk about such things in mosques! There are many recordings of imams preaching intolerance and hate and jihad in mosques all over the world. Do you know anything about the Wahabis at all? and talking of Jesus, do you believe he was morally superior to Mohammed, or do you think the thousands of people massacred by Mohammed makes him morally perfect?
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  15180.  @nunununununu8545  am I correct that the punishment for apostasy in Islam is death?
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  15181.  @nunununununu8545  does your branch of Islam teach you to refuse to answer simple questions like mine?
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  15182.  @fuuf102  by what metrics? who did this study? cue crickets
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  15183.  @fuuf102  "in Islam we are to love our neighbours as ourselves" so, Hamas is to love the Jews, right?
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  15184.  @fuuf102  ah, so Muslims don't ALWAYS love their neighbour. If a "treaty" has been broken, then no love to the neighbour, but death, right? what is the punishment for apostasy in Islam?
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  15185.  @fuuf102  tell the world what happened to Ayaan Hirsi Ali when she decided to abandon Islam. cue crickets.
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  15186.  @fuuf102  as expected, typical Muslim preacher, able to lecture the world but completely incapable of answering the most basic questions. totally explains why Islam is the most backward of beliefs
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  15187.  @nunununununu8545  bla bla bla. you are totally incapable of answering even the most basic of questions. no one respects a copy and paste lecturer
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  15188. A trump dictatorship would be much more desirable than more Biden "democracy".
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  15189. Zelenski thinks in a matter of weeks, Crimea will be retaken. just enough time for another Vogue photo shoot and for his wife to spend another 40, 000 euros in Paris
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  15190.  @wanderer2246  Russian peace lovers are just pointing out the obvious...Ukraine is suffering SO much more than Russia, and that the West is powerless to reverse this. Peace talks will happen, the later that happens the less Ukraine will have to negotiate over.
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  15191. If Putin is responsible for American inflation, maybe Putin should be on the ballot, as Putin would know how to reverse the inflation.
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  15192. Starmer can't arrest his way out of this one. White British working class is still the majority of the country. So many of the rioters have nothing to lose.....free food in prison, right?
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  15193.  @frozenllama23  why?
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  15194.  @foilhat1138  what do you consider as "evidence"?
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  15195.  @frozenllama23  everyone wants land! are you saying Putin said that he didn't want Russia to keep any of its land? makes no sense. maybe English is not your first language?
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  15196.  @thomasherrin6798  that's right. Russian media will teach you nothing and show you nothing. Only Western media can be 100% trusted, right?
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  15197.  @frozenllama23  ah, now you have phrased your statement correctly! That's true. There was no intention to occupy Ukraine. The intention was to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table, which worked. But then NATO, just as Ukraine and Russia were edging toward an agreement in Istanbul, intervened and ordered their puppet to sign nothing, as NATO promised Russia would be defeated on the battlefield. Oh dear! didn't turn out too well, did it?
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  15198.  @frozenllama23  you clearly know nothing about Russian weaponry. kinzhal hypersonic weapons, which the West has yet to develop, are Cold War? you are so ignorant. Ukraine is getting massacred. No air support. How many Russian helicopters have been shot down in this 12 day counter offensive? Try ZERO. it's a massacre, but you just want more and more ukrainians sacrificed. truly barbaric of you.
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  15199.  @einherjar8585  and in a perfect world, Ukraine shouldn't be shooting anything at Donbass, and shouldn't have been shooting anything at Donbass for the last 8 years! But back to the real world....incoming Russian missiles, let them hit the infrastructure target, or kill your own citizens by diverting said missile into apartment blocks? absolute war crime to choose the option that kills your own people.
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  15200.  @Uncommonsensetoo  just pointing out the war crime of deciding it's a really good idea to divert a missile destined for a power plant into a block of flats. The truth hurts, eh?
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  15201.  @Uncommonsensetoo  something wrong with a brain that says the Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass for 8 years is ok, but an incoming missile targeting a power plant that is then diverted into an apartment is a tragedy. selective outrage and selective tears. don't be a hypocrite.
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  15202. import 3rd world people, import 3rd world religious fighting
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  15203. @Garrus Vakarian got it. the world can't tell the US about anything immoral, but the world can tell Russia about things immoral. I now get how the West's "rules based order" works. Thanks for clarifying.
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  15204. @Garrus Vakarian the issue at hand is not the nature of trade or war, but the hypocrisy of the media! The UNGA has voted against the USA before, USA outvoted WAY worse than the recent vote against Russia, and it barely goes reported! The point is, if the recent UNGA vote is of some significance, then so are those votes that show the USA totally isolated on the world stage.
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  15205. But Russia IS running out of weapons and missiles, and Ukraine IS winning, right? All the sacrifice of Ukraine and the Western taxpayers IS paying off handsomely, right?
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  15206. Roma? That's the capital of Italy. Do you mean gypsies?
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  15207. This election was all about what the disaffected Conservatives decided to do. Many can't bring themselves to vote Labour, so they half-heartedly voted Lib Dem, or stayed at home, or enthusiastically voted Reform but had no idea how impressively Reform would rack up over 5 million votes. This election was no endorsement of Starmer at all, and his massive majority belies massive nationwide opposition to him.
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  15208. Slava Serbia. if the Taliban can kick NATO out of Kabul so easily, Serbia can give NATO a damn good kicking, especially as NATO is so busy screwing things up in Ukraine. Get NATO out of Kosovo.
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  15209. Why? Why do you suspect that the Ukrainian estimates of Russian casualties are accurate? Because you counted them yourself? Because you believed in Ghost of Kiev and that turned out to be true? Because you WANT to believe the Ukrainians? Because it fits the narrative you must parrot, or lose your job, "Russia bad, Ukraine good". Why do you believe Ukraine MOD figures?
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  15210.  @rogerout8875  the fog or war. the first thing that dies in war is the truth. if the side that concocted Ghost of Kiev fooled you with that nonsense, why not concoct dead and wounded numbers, see if they can fool you again?
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  15211.  @rogerout8875  So long to do what? Putin announced a list of 5 objectives. No timeline at all. He is methodically and thoroughly achieving his objectives, just as he did in Georgia, Chechnya, and Transnistra. Seems like the West is in some kind of rush, not sure why.
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  15212.  @rogerout8875  keep in mind, Ukraine now depends on Western ammo, arms and cash. All that disappears if Ukraine shows itself to be losing a futile war...the motive to overstate enemy dead is obvious.
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  15213.  @rogerout8875  very hard to prove certain claims in war, like numbers dead and numbers wounded. In their case, Ukraine has given us their numbers, and it ranges from 100 a day, to 300 a day, and when they were desperate for more weapons, they claimed 1000 a day. so, take your pick of the "true" number! Russia failed every major objective? of the 5 objectives, which one did Russia fail? You are aware of the 5 objectives as listed by Putin at the start of this, right? Or watching MSM has denied you that knowledge? One of the objectives, demilitarizing Ukraine, takes a long time. The good news is that in the end Russia will have demilitarized not only Ukraine but NATO too. 300 himars requested by Ukraine. 12 delivered. Russia close to the objective of demilitarizing NATO and Ukraine:)
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  15214. a whole world of "determination" won't save Ukraine, it will just make you feel honorable when your last soldier dies. enjoy the feeling.
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  15215.  @christianevanherck6023  which would be true, except that the war in Ukraine is going exactly as Russia's wars in Syria and Chechnya went, incremental progress with acceptance that it takes years to eliminate the enemy. But Russia is winning. What signs of a brittle, strained system at home is there in Russia? it's Germany that is in recession, not Russia. it is Russia that has inflation of around 2%, unlike UK! Putin's approval numbers are much higher than any Western leader! You sound deluded!
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  15216. @chrisviking7807 Unless Russia is demilitarizing itself 3 times faster than Ukraine, Russia still wins!
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  15217.  @NobbingNobby  then charge them with anything that may stick. you can't just release people to flee the country when, in all likelihood, a 19 year old is dead or abducted one hour after leaving their house!
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  15218.  @CelticSaint  agreed. the details of the interview SHOULD reveal so much, but my fear is the Guardia Civil treated the whole interview as nothing more than a missing person Q and A, and nothing else, and didn't ask the right questions that would have led to an arrest for suspicion of foul play. Guardia Civil f***ed up.
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  15219.  @georgezee5173  only a fool would believe Liar Lucy word for word! You probably 100% believe her line about the sugary white substance she sells is not addictive and is of the finest quality, right? it could well be that the 2 strangers did nothing bad to Jay, and it could be they tried to help him, either get him off the island or to a safe house, if Moroccan gangsters are after him. we simply don't know. nothing in the interview helped with info about Jay's disappearance, but i have a feeling the interviewers messed up by not grilling these guys on why they had linked up with Jay. the area they are searching is not that large! here in the Pyrenees, people disappear in the treacherous terrain regularly, and are found, dead or alive, in hours, with drones, dogs and helicopters. the weather conditions in Tenerife are perfect, maximum hours of sunlight, they can't find a trace after 12 days because Jay never went there! when they wake up and focus on the crime, or crimes, rather than the disappearance, they will get somewhere.
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  15220.  @Emy53  1. no reason to assume the 2 men are in the UK. 2. no reason to assume that Jay was trying to find his way back when he left the airbnb. 3. no reason to assume Jay was unharmed when he left the airbnb, though almost certainly he wasn't physically harmed. could be his bank account was drained, we just don't know.
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  15221.  @georgezee5173  we have no idea what Jay said, or didn't say, to Lucy. We only have Lucy's word on what she claims Jay said. Do you believe Lucy is a 100% honest and upright person?
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  15222.  @georgezee5173  and at the time of that call, exactly how many meters could Jay have been from the road? 400?:)
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  15223.  @PatriciaDowrick-ux3kc  yep. don't discount the idea that his safe house is located on the other side of the island, so as much evidence of a presence in the far north west of the island would be really useful. smokescreen would explain a lot.
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  15224.  @OilBaron100  same reason the asylum seekers in France who want to come to the UK don't accept refuge in France, they don't want to and they don't have to, according to the law. Quite simple really.
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  15225.  @Tespri  Russia has taken them in. They obviously have to be in Russia to then transit to Finland. The asylum seekers do not wish to stay in Russia, but claim asylum in the EU. Are you some kind of racist bigot that wants to ban asylum seekers from applying for asylum in the EU? As a humanitarian gesture, Russia is allowing the asylum seekers to transit Russia in order to get to the EU, which has laws in place to welcome such people. Change EU laws if you don't like the deal.
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  15226. Biden knows he's on a knife edge. If, as I suspect, it will be proven that Biden lied about having no knowledge of his son's business dealings, but that he was very much involved, then most Americans will feel there is no longer any point believing what Biden says on green energy, the border, Ukraine, on anything.
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  15227.  @lewisdelicata5334  of course people are freezing and starving. what do you expect with government debts as they are? lockdowns, green energy, sanctions on Russia, all have to be paid for! If you want to change the law on corporate tax rates, go ahead. it will just push companies to leave UK and investment to crash, making the problems worse. we went through this in the 70's and the only answer was major reductions in government spending.
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  15228.  @lewisdelicata5334  1) they don't just pack up an oil refinery. they wind down business and eventually close it, moving operations to a more business friendly place like Mexico. Multinationals make such decisions all the time 2) wind turbines only exist because of government subsidies, so it doesn't make any sense for a government subsidized business to then have to pay the government more in tax, which the government then gives back in the form of a subsidy! Dude! 3) a lot of businesses are services, they have very little to up and move. kill the goose that lays the golden egg and you screwed.
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  15229.  @davidstrelec2000  because the alternative, relying on state command economies, has been much more of a failure than capitalism ever was, unless you particularly admire the life in North Korea and Cuba
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  15230.  @Jumper4ever93  just helping you deal with your denial phase
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  15231.  @michaewelina7983  investment is no excuse. it's just a fact of life. anything you do to discourage investment, and windfall taxes are a big disincentive to investment, leads to funds leaving the country and less government revenue. just facts.
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  15232.  @danielle4295  because that is the free market. if you don't like your energy company, fire them, go elsewhere.
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  15233.  @danielle4295  as I said, this is what everyone should have expected. you can't avoid having to pay for lockdowns, green energy, sanctions on Russia, unlimited aid, to Ukraine, mass immigration. if you can't change energy providers and get a better deal, you are stuck. and no other political party wants different policies, so I guess Parliament doesn't really care. maybe go to France and come back to UK in a boat full of Albanians and claim asylum.
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  15234.  @Jumper4ever93  in the meantime, any single point I made you would like to counter in substance?
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  15235.  @Jumper4ever93  as suspected, incapable of making any point of substance, ok dunce, bye bye
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  15236. police are far too busy looking for hurty words and online hate crime to do any extensive background checks on rioters AFTER the riot.
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  15237. Remember, France has admitted every single migrant into France. There is no logical reason why France would object to keeping them, or taking them back.
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  15238. @Craig Steddy it was 10% and it is now down to 6%. that's how fast the demoralized Wagners with spades are massacring the NATO trained ukronazis! enjoying the straight truth?
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  15239.  @robmckrill3134  it was during this "retreat" that Ukraine lost all its reserves! why do you think Ukraine is now begging for tanks and ammo so desperately? where did all their tanks go?:)
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  15240.  @robmckrill3134  how wrong you are. the West will have to completely restructure its whole munitions production to ever match Russia. it would take years and years of planning, training, investment, infrastructure enhancement. missile production is extremely technical and cannot be switched on and off...hence, Putin started 8 years ago to plan for this conflict.
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  15241.  @alvaro701  if Russia's "best customer" is so inept it cannot even protect its own undersea pipeline from its own ally, then Russia made a good choice to look elsewhere. The rest of the globe is more than happy to work with and trade with Russia.
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  15242.  @rutgerb  Russia has no timeline when fighting wars. your "3 day war" lie is just a Western fabrication. just like "Ghost of Kiev".
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  15243.  @Crashed131963  would we get involved if USA invaded Afghanistan?
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  15244.  @xcitemex6353  why 2016?
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  15245.  @wejmluva  Is Kosovo part of Serbia?
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  15246. native Europeans should abandon Europe as soon as possible. let the Africans and Muslims complete their take-over of Europe, it's not worth fighting for.
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  15247.  @user-qn4zh2pw6m  a subsidy is a governmental payment to enable a company to operate as, without the subsidy, the company would collapse. Now, you tell me which oil company gets a subsidy, and how much it is. don't confuse a subsidy with a tax break. the future will not be owned by anyone. but the societies that get the most reliable supply of cheap energy will prosper the most, and that ain't anyone throwing in their lot with green energies. Get real.
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  15248.  @user-qn4zh2pw6m  name one such subsidy and one oil company that receives such a subsidy. keep in mind a subsidy is not a tax break.
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  15249. it's time for the Brexiteers to found their own bank and for millions to fire Coutts et al for having values that don't align with Brexit.
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  15250. whose expectations has the West defied? you think the Kremlin is unprepared for this, or even for F16s to enter the battle?
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  15251. no surprise that the corrupt Biden-supporting FBI wants to shut this guy up. we know Hunter Biden paid loads of money into his dad's accounts. we know Hunter Biden was on the Burisma board for one reason only, his last name. so, the informant told the truth. Hunter peddled influence and some of the proceeds went to the "Big Guy".
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  15252.  @mmarques2736  so, what is the league table of countries where skilled workers feel the most welcome?
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  15253.  @mmarques2736  just to update haters like you that are so out of touch with mainstream European feelings on immigration....indigenous Europeans loved Europe as it was pre mass immigration and we detest the changes that come with mass immigration. We don't blame immigrants at all. They are just taking advantage of weak and treacherous governments. We want our countries and societies back.
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  15254. the only problem is, all indications are that your race does influence your outcome. the races are different, and this results in different outcomes.
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  15255.  @NM-qt3oi  your numbers are incorrect if you are talking about the UK as a whole! 20 rental properties in the whole of the UK?
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  15256.  @LankyEss  you really feel for the Cornish? it's the Cornish who are selling off their properties for holiday rentals!
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  15257.  @NM-qt3oi  do you think you have some moral virtue because you stayed in a hotel and not a holiday let?
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  15258.  @NM-qt3oi  IMO the government cannot make life better for all citizens. The government can only take taxpayers money and decide how to spend it. Some people will gain, some will lose. It is the individual's duty to find housing, not the government's. what else do you want the government to provide? free food and vacations?
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  15259.  @NM-qt3oi  Cornwall will always have a very high demand for holiday accommodation. Only a fool would choose to house low income tenants over hosting tourists.
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  15260.  @pat23668952  nothing stopping you giving every last penny you have to house those in need. please, go ahead.
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  15261.  @FoolsDiary  sorry, it's not a question of agreeing with sink or swim, or not. that's like saying you don't agree with the notion of rich and poor. it's a reality, and the question is how to deal with this reality. In first world countries, there are hundreds of opportunities and safety nets, such as public education for all, NHS, universal credit. yet, despite the taxpayer being forced to provide all that "help", we still get people who do nothing but moan, complain, and get bitter about how life is so unfair. i would suggest all those who have enough money to support war in Ukraine and Green policies set up a volunteer charity to cover all the expenses of those in need. but the funny thing is, people prefer others to contribute, not themselves through charity. I left Cornwall at a young age because it was clear to me Cornwall is a great place to visit or retire to, but not to make a living.
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  15262. @beaterbikechannel2538 what happens in England when you go to the council and state you are homeless and unless a roof over your head is provided, you will have to sleep on the steps of the council office?
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  15263.  @Ha15679  when you say "they need to convert these spaces into homes", who, exactly, is "they"? Surely the owners of office spaces can do what they want with their property? Or, are you now advocating government be the sole owner of all property?
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  15264.  @daydays12  If it's the free market that results in second homes, how to account for all those second homes that existed in Socialist paradises such as USSR? Surely you have heard of the word "dacha"? Homelessness is the result of a number of factors, but what would help your argument would be a definition of homelessness, followed by evidence that a free market is the big determining factor. In a free market, property owners have every incentive to draw up their own contracts and tenants have the freedom to sign or not to sign. In a regulated economy, the property owner has no such incentive, hence the lack of housing available.
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  15265.  @daydays12  what exactly were the the "19th horrors"?
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  15266.  @phil.f.9930  "build more static caravan sites" paid for by whom? who is preventing you giving your last penny to such a project? or do you mean other people should pay for this? Government should not be interfering in the housing market. there should be no housing provided to anyone, neither migrants nor the poor. housing people just incentivizes more people to demand they be housed.
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  15267.  @phil.f.9930  2 things would solve this. 1. end immigration 2. get government out of regulating the rental business. let landlords and tenants establish their own contracts without government rules and interference.
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  15268.  @SunnieDae1  "some rules and regs have to be in place". not many, and certainly not the bureaucratic mountain of restrictions we have today. tell me, what terrible things would happen if property developers had a free hand? tell me what dystopia would happen and why.
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  15269.  @jacqueline8559  well said. the truth is, it is an outrage for anyone to dictate to any property owner what they must, or must not, do with their own investment. end of story.
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  15270.  @kevinsyd2012  certainly does.
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  15271.  @ChangesOneTim  The free market is a mechanism, it doesn't look after anyone! It just happens to be the mechanism that provides the best overall outcome. Regulation just interferes and makes everything, on balance, worse. We have reached this mess because of over regulation.
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  15272.  @ChangesOneTim  not sure what you are blabbing on about, but economic migration, whether it be Cornish or not, is the free market at play, and it works well. I'm not advocating any reserves. no idea how you came up with that. there'll never be an agreement between the State and the Free Market because the free market is not a group of people! It is a natural condition of the universe! Just as there will never be an agreement between the State and Gravity!
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  15273.  @ChangesOneTim  laissez faire is the answer. remove all the regulations and all the carrots you claim exist, and then see where the chips lie. the market will establish a meeting point of supply and demand. if regulations are maintained on how much can be built and where, then that will act as a brake on supply and rents will go up. it's all about trade offs, but the more the government interferes in the market, the worse things get, on balance. end immigration and you will see a drop in demand for housing, and rental prices will come down, if that is your aim. you can't have mass immigration and no rent increases.
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  15274.  @radicalcartoons2766  Airbnb owners will find ways around dictatorial restrictions placed on property owners. This has already started to happen in the Barcelona area. Rent caps just discourage landlords and entrepreneurs from putting accommodation on the market, so, well done, what you have suggested so far has made things worse! Does "give locals top priority for rentals" mean prohibiting all immigrants from access to accommodation?
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  15275.  @Keepthepeacesharethelove  I obviously do have a clue, because you were totally incapable of refuting anything I said! Looks like you need to do some more homework. Go ahead, point out what I said is a "lie".
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  15276. and that is exactly why Ukraine will be totally destroyed. get real and start peace talks.
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  15277.  @caribou6172  you are ignorant of the rapid progress China has made in all spheres of its economy. Who do you think purchases most of the US's debt?
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  15278.  @jirachi-wishmaker9242  exactly. the aim of the EU is to spout out words to make it look like they are boycotting Russia, but then to import Russian refined oil in blended imports through the backdoor. The usual Western hypocrisy that impresses only fools.
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  15279.  @gerrya4818  you are delusional and lying. If the aim of sanctions were supposed to take effect over a long time, why Biden's boast of making "the ruble into rubble"? The aim was to cripple the Russian economy so that Russia could not fund its war machine! And this nonsense about relying on Western tech, what makes you think Western tech can't be imported from friendly countries? Let me guess, you think you can ban Western tech from being exported to places like UAE, Turkey, Mexico? If the sanctions are working as intended, why is the EU now figuring out its TENTH package of sanctions? Sanctions package number 10 = the first 9 have failed!
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  15280.  @gerrya4818  what makes you think fan blades for airplanes aren't exported to UAE, or Turkey, and then re exported on to Russia? Your faith in the efficacy of sanctions is pathetic. Russia has been sanctioned since 2014, and Iran for like forever, yet between them Russia and Iran can bring down the Ukrainian power grid tomorrow!
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  15281.  @gerrya4818  sure it does. you in the hangar monitoring cargo flights from Dubai to Irkutsk with your clipboard? you are so naive to think sanctions can't be circumvented.
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  15282.  @gerrya4818  UAE and others risk sanctions because they know sanctions don't work! Only the idiotic West thinks sanctions, it's only weapon, actually works. anyone caught will get the same treatment as Russia? Russian economy predicted to grow this year! Maybe sanctions help the economy! so, to prove my point, let's talk through your sanctions busting pharma operation! You receive a pharma order from the UAE. What exactly would make the order look "suspicious" and what exactly would pass the "suspicion test" and get the green light? enlighten us!
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  15283.  @gerrya4818  so, the IMF prediction of modest growth for Russia was made by a bunch of fools, no financial experts in the IMF team?
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  15284.  @gerrya4818  what a supremely rich country Russia is! sanctioned to the hilt, GDP plunging, but somehow has the reserves to keep going for another year!? Ukraine wishes it could keep going for another week without begging! you are starting to make my point for me! Not many countries in the West have reserves like that! And in a year's time, you'll be saying the same thing, "oh, one more year and Russia is toast". yeah, right.
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  15285.  @gerrya4818  it comes from all over the globe and it can get to anywhere on the globe. Globalism ended sanctions as a weapon.
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  15286. Only took him 35 seconds to misstate the true situation "chances are your cost of living has gone up since the Russian invasion of Ukraine"...no, my cost of living has SHOT up since Western governments printed loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay home and not work for months on end, last year. My cost of living has also gone up due to sanctions on Russia. The invasion changed nothing.
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  15287. Jacob and his mates had 13 years to work on this disaster, and they have achieved nothing but heap more misery on Brits who are fed up of Birmingham looking like Baghdad etc. Bye Bye Jacob, time for the useless fake Conservatives to be kicked out.
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  15288.  @sayitasitis100  the usual Sharia Police tactic of removing anti Islam protesters, arrest, detention, release...the new form of stifling dissent.
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  15289.  @YaddaYaddaDa  wake up to reality and start questioning the Western lies. After 15 months of this hell, how much closer is Ukraine to recapturing Crimea? How many more hundred thousand dead men will it take to even get to Crimea?
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  15290.  @woodsnake2  "nonsense" that you are unable to refute, it would seem.
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  15291.  @woodsnake2  talking of nonsense, how is the ukronazi advance in Bakhmut and on its flanks going?
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  15292.  @mariannabatz9733  we pray for the victory of Russia and the Donbass. It will be a victory of good over evil, a victory of good over the past authoritarianism of Kiev
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  15293. sure he can. doesn't affect his list of 5 objectives at all.
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  15294. "impressive gains by the Ukrainian army in the last few days"...not at all! The Kharkov offensive was a week ago! In the last few days the Ukrainians have, again, had horrendous casualties and gained no territory, but have seen the Wagner Group surround Bakhmut! Not many gains there, honey!
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  15295. certainly Western ignorance of the many peoples of the globe who embrace what Russia stands for. time to reject the West, a battered old 7-11 masquerading as a gas station
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  15296. The Kursk incursion is just another failure like the 2023 summer offensive. it will just speed up the Ukrainian pensioners and teenagers massacred by Russia. Slowly, in Ukraine, the penny is dropping that Zelensky ain't no Churchill and that any faith that NATO could out produce and outsmart Russia was horribly misplaced, thanks Boris Johnson.
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  15297.  @Chiungalla79  why the assumption Ukronazis are taking much more Russians with them?
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  15298.  @harryseldom6472  only in your dreams, but it is cute you like to make up numbers and pretend they are related to reality, kiddo.
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  15299. it is BECAUSE I understand the word "usually" that I revealed your statement to be absolute nonsense! The ukronazis defending Bakhmut are being wiped out and surrounded. I am sure they are delighted you are sure that troops in such a situation USUALLY kill more of the attacker than they lose themselves. you are ignorant.
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  15300.  @harryseldom6472  you have been busy with your clipboard totting up 350,000 deaths! impressive!
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  15301.  @saba1030  notice how you use words like "working on", "2030 -2045" "will replace" "will build" "under construction". translation...absolutely nothing is in place RIGHT NOW to get EU through this coming winter and beyond. nothing. it is all "hope for the future" and as we all know, hope is not a strategy. The war has not done anything to affect energy supplies. It's the sanctions on Russia. Say "bye bye" to your number one supplier and you have created your own disaster. when will we get some adults as leaders?
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  15302. stfu if you think the Guardia Civil is not a corrupt force that refused help in the search because they didn't want their lucrative drugs world becoming exposed.
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  15303.  @BrazenBull91  is all of this hand wringing a way of saying the Guardia Civil did a fine job?
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  15304.  @BrazenBull91  well, at least you recognize ONE horrendous mistake the Guardia Civil made, but there is a long list of errors made. if only the Guardia Civil had followed standard protocol! Lucy is no genius, but she mentioned one stupendous error, namely it looked like the Guardia Civil dogs were not following Jay's scent. Guardia Civil messed up the first 24 hours. happy to tell you in detail if you are at all interested.
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  15305. Durov is a French citizen.
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  15306.  @eddiel7635  oh good, because I'm sure the panicked, catastrophic and murderous NATO exit from Afghanistan would have been SO much more orderly had this "expert" been in charge.
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  15307.  @eddiel7635  not to the brainwashed deluded sheeple that bought the Zelensky narrative, no, I know. Others who understand the truth about the Donbass and Ukraine, and about the demise of NATO and the West, see that what I say makes perfect sense.
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  15308. I've been to Haiti, and unlike Conan, I travelled as an ordinary guy with no film crew to everyday places in Haiti. Haiti is a sh**hole. Why does Conan think not one single Dominican wants to go and live and work in Haiti, but half of Haiti wants to go to the DR to live and work?
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  15309. so, notice how only Russia is desperate for a symbolic victory. Ukraine isn't desperate at all, after their defeat in Soledar. notice how Ukraine is looking to bleed Russia dry, but Russia isn't looking to do exactly the same! France 24 doing a wonderful job as the propaganda wing of the Zekensky regime.
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  15310. that may well explain why so much of Switzerland looks like a sh**hole compared to the past.
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  15311.  @bernardofitzpatrick5403  why not?
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  15312.  @bernardofitzpatrick5403  who is "we"? you and your friends?
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  15313.  @bernardofitzpatrick5403  you obviously don't live in Greece
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  15314.  @stelios5314  and just as hypocritical and morally bankrupt
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  15315.  @martinb5367  the heat is not changing, so i am fine with it. the hottest temp ever recorded in Greece is 48C in 1977. since then, things have cooled. when you stop the lies, you will feel better about things.
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  15316.  @martinb5367  thanks. fingers crossed you find the science and not lies about the science one day.
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  15317. Just like Biden in 2020, Trump won't need to campaign in 2024. As his court dates pop up, and as Biden gets more and more mired in the bribery case forming against him, this election campaign will be quite insignificant as popular feeling goes Trump's way. Trump has this. His campaign banner will be his Fulton County mug shot, and he will win.
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  15318. Why is this conversation happening now? SURELY the EU leaders calculated the worst case scenario BEFORE launching sanctions? Don't tell me none of this was foreseen the day we all clapped for sanctions that would "stick it to Scholtz"...I mean "stick it to Putin".
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  15319.  @marissaadraincem1239  really? Bahamas and Poland and New Zealand all have armed rebels or armed extremists? Switzerland too?
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  15320.  @marissaadraincem1239  perhaps so, but once again, you now change your argument. previously you mentioned specifically "armed rebels" and "armed separatists". point to some evidence of armed separatists in Switzerland.
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  15321.  @marissaadraincem1239  then you better learn, quickly, how to deal with China. Let me give you a clue....DON'T agree to Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan! And start open and honest negotiations with China while assuming USA will do nothing to help you if things get rough. Broadcast to the world the horrors of Islam so that at least those who oppose Islam will naturally want to ally with you.
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  15322. Biden so blundered into the Ukraine mess that anyone with any sense would refuse to keep fighting the futile war with Russia and refuse to do anything about Taiwan.
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  15323. There are plenty of allegations out there that Michael Crick himself is a sex offender and rampant paedophile, so maybe he needs to put his own house in order.
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  15324. A replay of 2015 when Ukraine pushed deep into the Donbass only to be surrounded and forced to agree to the Minsk Accords, maybe
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  15325.  @frankmontez6853  but we don't know Ukrainian losses in men and weaponry. It all counts for nothing if most of them/it has been destroyed.
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  15326.  @frankmontez6853  so what are the "goals and objectives achieved"? ok, so it is a very different army. revamped, supplied by NATO, but largely destroyed, I guess that counts as a "different army"!
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  15327. and Baerbock says?......
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  15328.  @evelynef9940  oui, c'est ça. 5 mois de préparation, tout le soutien nécessaire de l'OTAN, 2000 morts, l'offensif est mort
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  15329.  @evelynef9940  ça depend de la situation. Le moment quand les américains ont déclaré la guerre contre Allemagne, Churchill a conclus que les alliés gagneront. Aucun doute. Comme Churchill, je vois, aucun doute, que les russes gagneront.
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  15330. 40 billion = how much sanctions on Russia have cost the country plus the unlimited aid we throw at Ukraine plus the subsidies for Green energy. Pretty easy gap to plug, if there were a chancellor and PM with any guts.
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  15331. why?
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  15332. it's not surprising that Ukraine is burning through more weaponry and ammo than NATO can produce. What is surprising is that this has been true for almost a year now, but all the media told us was "Russia is running out of weapons".
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  15333.  @user-qn4zh2pw6m  the ability to compare production costs of two items has nothing to do with how much a person buys of either, does it, Einstein?
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  15334. it's not big oil's job to look out for the little guy. neither is it little oil's job to look out for the little guy. but without big oil and OPEC, the little guy would be faced with MUCH higher energy costs. Big is better when it comes to drilling for oil.
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  15335. the hesitation is for 2 reasons - 1. the humiliation the West will experience when Russia is seen to wipe out the West's cream of the crop weaponry and 2. it will make no difference, Scholz and co have been briefed by the military chiefs that Ukraine can't win. it's over.
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  15336.  @JD-rt5sd  oh dear, pray tell, why do you think the Wagner priority was to capture Bakhmut?
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  15337.  @vlhc4642  exactly! am beginning to think it is "as long as it takes to ensure the last Ukrainian is dead and buried"
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  15338.  @PeterSedesse  just hilarious that democracy and rule of law gives the green light to two invasions of Iraq, one of Afghanistan, one of Syria, massive bombing attacks of Libya and Serbia, and just say the words "white lives matter" in these wonderful democracies, or "Islam sucks" and see what happens to you! Anyone who is on the side of the ukronazis and wants Kiev to have the power to compel ethnic Russians to remain under Kiev's diktats are immoral and deserve condemnation. Yes, many of us stand against the G7. the BRICS era is here.
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  15339.  @PeterSedesse  NATO supported Ghani until it decided to cut and run from Afghanistan. NATO support is meaningless. Russia has no problem with no peace deal. Russia is more than happy to destroy all of Ukraine and then impose conditions on Ukraine, and NATO is fine with this too, because it is not NATO lads getting massacred, and as Lloyd Austin says, the aim is to weaken Russia, so every day Russia has to expend time and money killing ukronazi cannon fodder is a good day for NATO too.
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  15340.  @PeterSedesse  and all the billions of weaponry sent to Ukraine just gets destroyed. why do you think Zelensky is always begging for more? two nights ago, the ukronazis fired off 30 Patriot missiles, to no effect. The US only makes 250 of those things A YEAR! each one costs 100,000 dollars or so! Germany and USA can keep sending billions and billions of taxpayers money to Ukraine in the form of weapons, it will all get destroyed. Russia's eyes in the sky do a fantastic job of locating, targeting, eliminating.
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  15341.  @PeterSedesse  so, overall, Peter, you would say the war is going very well for Ukraine? the sanctions have crippled Russia and the Russian ability to wage war? the Ukrainians are clearly winning on the battlefield? after 15 months, you would say Ukraine is in great shape? nothing at all to be concerned about?
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  15342.  @PeterSedesse  anyway, for those of us who support the rights of the Donbass people to separate from Kiev, I'm sure you can understand the news of the fall of Bakhmut is on a par with the news of the fall of Mariupol a year ago. Quite why you guys believe Kiev has the right to force Russian speakers to live in a derussified, Ukrainian speaking only state is a mystery to us, but in the end I feel you will see you were on the wrong side of history. Slava Donbasu, Slava Rossiyi
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  15343.  @PeterSedesse  oh dear. you missed a LOT of news! following the 2014 coup, both the Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts voted to separate from Kiev and become the LPR and DPR, then last year both voted to become part of the Russian Federation. it's something called "democracy". so, i guess your support for Kiev is because you are 100% sure the majority of Donbass citizens, although Russian speaking, want to live in a Ukraine where their children are compelled to be educated in Ukrainian and use only Ukrainian in official settings? Have you ever been to Ukraine?
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  15344.  @PeterSedesse  only 5% of Switzerland speaks Italian as a native language, but that 5% have the right to be educated and to use Italian where they so choose. Italian is recognized as an official language. Do you agree with that, or do you think only Swiss German should be allowed to be used as an official language in all of Switzerland? Just strip the Italian speakers of Switzerland of their language rights?
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  15345. Farage was right. NATO meddling in Ukraine crossed Putin's red line, and now it's time to pay the price. This is the mess that the West has put us in by arrogantly ignoring Putin's warnings.
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  15346.  @briancrellin2441  and the result of keeping such cards close to his chest is horrors like the Kriss Donald murder in Glasgow. Farage should have championed Tommy Robinson from day one.
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  15347. Everyone who applauded lockdowns, Green policies, sanctions on Russia, this is exactly what you deserve.
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  15348. ooooohh. Russian flags and "far right" supporters, that must mean the peace movement is bad!
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  15349. This dopey twit is going to be scratching his head forever more trying to figure out why so many of the Irish people now view the Police as the enemy, as has happened in the UK.
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  15350. The Police learned how to be perfectly Sharia compliant with Pakistani rape gangs, so no need to expect them to identify anyone connected with Islam.
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  15351. Maybe if Gonzalo Lira were still alive, Navalny would be too.
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  15352. Sean Bell, the man who is so woefully ignorant about Russia, he has got everything wrong about this conflict so far. Ukraine is toast. All honest people know that. Russia is steadily achieving all 5 of its aims and absolutely humiliating the West.
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  15353. maybe if fools like Farage had joined forces with Tommy Robinson, instead of calling him a thug and knuckle-dragger, we wouldn't be in the mess we are.
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  15354.  @andreasbpunkt  funny you are asking for a source. what source tells you that there is zero chance Ukraine could possibly be involved?
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  15355.  @zollen123  wise people rule nothing out until all the facts are known. you should know that. the reports of the one guy having served in the Ukrainian army, and the car racing towards Ukraine points to Ukrainian involvement, agreed?
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  15356.  @bonnie7898  Ukraine can do absolutely nothing wrong to lose support from the West! All the Western leaders have put their political careers on stopping Russia from winning, and the brainwashed masses, like you, can never see any Ukrainian involvement in terrorism, even when Ukraine admits it, as happened today!
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  15357.  @zollen123  whichever side you believe values credibility and which side doesn't gives no answers to pertinent questions like, who ordered the attack? Just today, Ukraine confessed to the previous terrorist attacks launched against Russians in Russia.
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  15358.  @zollen123  just curious, do you believe everything that Kiev announces?
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  15359.  @bonnie7898  true, but it is reason enough for the Western MSM to stop shouting "there is ZERO chance that Ukraine is involved in this".
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  15360.  @paulgibbon5991  the biggest concentration of Russian troops is on the frontline, in Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhe. what makes you think there are many troops on the Gremyach border crossing?
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  15361.  @paulgibbon5991  what makes you think the Gremyach border crossing has loads of Russian troops? it's not the frontline.
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  15362.  @hfmkkskpo4127  oh, you mean that warning, weeks ago, that applied to a 48 hour period? what convinces you that warning is in any way connected to what happened 3 weeks later? John Kirby didn't connect the two at all.
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  15363.  @paulgibbon5991  amazingly, though given your total ignorance I guess it is not that amazing, you seem to think the entire battle frontline extends over the entire Russia/Ukraine border. It doesn't. The front lines go from Kherson through Zaporozhe, Donetsk and into Lugansk, as they have done for almost 2 years! there is no front line, for example, in the Sumy region. just a regular border with the regular border guards. with contacts on the Ukrainian side to help, slipping into Ukraine through the extensive woods from Russia into Ukraine wouldn't be like walking through the front lines, duh!
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  15364.  @bonnie7898  oh, I'm sure, for you, trying to understand simple common sense is an arduous task. here is a second dose for you, to see if your dim mind can grasp basic logic: it makes perfect sense for the terrorists to head straight to Ukraine and try to enter the part of Ukraine devoid of Russian troops and where the border is relatively lightly guarded. it makes no sense for the terrorists to enter Belarus, UNLESS they figured the Belarus/Ukraine border was easier to cross than the Russian/Ukrainian border. for someone still figuring out who the Allies were in WW2, this is like advanced calculus, I know.
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  15365.  @bonnie7898  to someone who can't grasp basic logic, anyone would sound like a 12 year old to you. but here goes for a third time, to see if the penny drops. it makes no sense for the terrorists to enter Belarus (an ally of Russia) UNLESS the idea was to rapidly pass through Belarus and into Ukraine through a relatively unguarded spot. you re aware that normally there is no border enforcement between Belarus and Russia, right?
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  15366.  @bonnie7898  what's the price of eggs in Russia these days? Russian economy in crisis yet?:) learn the importance of exporting commodities.
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  15367. because they work and Russia has plenty of them. some questions are not so difficult to answer
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  15368. "we didn't know what we were dealing with" we did. very early on, we knew only the old and fat were at risk, and we knew that lockdowns would bring about horrendous consequences that would last for decades. speak for your own ignorance if you didn't know what we were dealing with.
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  15369.  @HamptonGuitars  name me the politician or leader who does admit to a mistake and who explains why they made the mistake.
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  15370.  @HamptonGuitars  on the contrary, both Trump and Putin are both leaders with great insight into how the world works, as opposed to the useless shower the West now has, idealists who have no concept that in the real world, their preferences have to be reduced to what they can live with in the give and take of realpolitik. the fantasy world right now is thinking NATO/Ukronazia can possibly defeat Russia in a ground war. absolute nuts.
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  15371.  @davidty2006  great! and as soon as said vehicles embark on the long journey to the front, they get hit again by the Russians! At least it keeps a few gypsies in Romania and Bulgaria employed.
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  15372.  @jamesmain_email6969  on the contrary, frozen ground in winter means momentum is possible. attrition of men is the issue. the side that wins has fighting men on the field, the side that loses doesn't. it's all important. the problem is that Ukraine is NOT being well supplied at all, hence the constant begging to NATO for more of everything! what makes you think Russian men are not well trained? been through their training program have you? what makes you think Ukraine has better equipment? you make a lot of assumptions, and that is leading you astray. Spring may well be when more happens. but it may not.
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  15373.  @guleiro  exactly so
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  15374.  @bartandaelus359  if only if only if only. N Africa did not determine Germany's fate in USSR. Germany was simply outmanned. not enough numbers to overpower the enemy in horrific winter conditions.
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  15375.  @leemarco9596  Russia is not losing. with every thousand Ukrainian cannon fodder fed into the Russian meatgrinder, Russia inches to victory in this war of attrition, as the last 300,000 eligible Ukrainian men (boys) run to the woods to avoid the army recruiter knocking at the door.
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  15376.  @jamesmain_email6969  both sides do that, I think you'll find
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  15377.  @jamesmain_email6969  there are some major factors for the Russian forces that distinguish its tactics from WW1 tactics. Firstly, Russia has absolute superiority in artillery, by Ukrainian admission, six shells fall on Ukrainian soldiers for every one that falls on a Russian position. That means the Ukrainian positions are pounded to dust and corpse strewn so that the Wagner convicts (Russia is wisely keeping back as many of its elite forces for later) have a slightly easier job in the clearance, mop up, street to street battles. not at all like the "over the top" tactics of WW1.
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  15378.  @asinine9ben  well, well-named asinine, not taking me seriously is an example of yet another mistake you have made in your life! Oh boy, that mistake list is impressively long when you look at it, right?
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  15379.  @jamesmain_email6969  the problem is, James, you have made false assumptions. Being specific or vague is irrelevant. in a war of attrition, everything hinges on the kill rate and resources. no one knows the kill rate, so it hinges on whether you feel Russians are dying in greater numbers than Ukrainians or not, and if they are, what resources does Russia have to replace those losses. Yep, Russia will win (partly because its aims are limited and Ukraine's are close to unattainable).
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  15380.  @jamesmain_email6969  Let me repeat. No one knows, bar a few people in the Kremlin, Russia's losses. No one. We do have a good idea of Ukraine's losses. General Milley and Ursula van der Leyen have mentioned 100,000 Ukrainian dead, and periodically Ukraine announces their own losses. We also know that Ukraine admits to being out-shelled 6:1 by Russian artillery. Is it possible Russian losses are greater than Ukraine's? yes, possible. but given the rate of shells raining down on each side, it is pretty damn unlikely, at 6:1, that Russian losses are higher. Believe that if you wish, but it makes no sense.
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  15381.  @jamesmain_email6969  "Russia is running out of missiles". again, a false assumption. we have heard this nonsense in the media since March! there is absolutely no evidence for it, so it is just wishful thinking
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  15382.  @jamesmain_email6969  The number of suppliers of weapons is irrelevant. The quantity supplied is all important. again, you make a false assumption.
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  15383.  @jamesmain_email6969  I assume Russia is keeping some elite units in reserve because most of Russia's million man army is not in Ukraine. It makes sense to use convicts and mercenaries on the front line first, losing them is of little importance, and lo and behold, these convicts are doing well! a win win for Russia. but yes, maybe Russia has already thrown all its elite forces into battle already. it is not what they did in Chechnya, nor in Syria. so far, it looks to me as if Ukraine is going by the same playbook as Chechnya and Syria.
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  15384.  @jamesmain_email6969  careful, again, about assuming the wrong thing about generals being moved around. it could well be that Suvorikin has done his job of successfully mobilizing the reservists and stabilizing the front lines. Suvorikin is a proponent of war by attrition, and is not known to favor mass offenses. Gerasimov may have been put in charge because a major offensive is on the way. again, do not assume a change of general is due to bad news. could well be bad news for Ukraine coming up.
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  15385.  @jamesmain_email6969  i have no interest in who leads Russia. of no importance to me. as long as the leader of the Russian Federation is prepared to fight for the rights of ethnic Russians, I will support them.
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  15386.  @jamesmain_email6969  Western tanks will make no difference. Russia destroys them all. no air cover, no tanks. Ukraine started this conflict with hundreds of tanks, and if you believe the Western media, captured loads of abandoned Russian tanks. what happened to them all? Throughout this conflict former Warsaw pact counties have been sending as many tanks as they can to Ukraine. what has happened to them all? The West is in pure panic, because every time they send a "game changer", it makes no difference. "more stingers, more javelins, more M777s, more himars, more Bradleys" and the chant goes on. but here we are, and the convicts and mercenaries are taking Soledar. NATO's problem is that it is used to, and everything is predicated on, air superiority. in this conflict, it is the enemy that has air superiority, and NATO is stuck. Believe me, the Western tanks will roll in, many will be destroyed before they get to the battlefield, and many will be destroyed on the battlefield. there is also the chance Gerasimov will lead an invasion from Belarus that cuts off the supply route from Poland. Fingers crossed he does.
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  15387.  @peterwallis4602  on the contrary, Putin is so popular because he turned Russia around from economic despair to power house that it is today. just see how the West is floundering with Russian energy, grains etc gone. There is indeed corruption in Russia, as elsewhere, but Russia is a lot better off today than pre Putin
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  15388.  @jamesmain_email6969  keep in mind another assumption that could well be false. namely, that the Russians have suffered huge losses. Many commentators have said that the Russians really have barely entered fighting yet. Most of the heavy lifting in Donbass so far has been done by the DPR and LPR, with Chechens leading the way in the street fighting. The Wagners, especially the convicts, have been pushed to the front in Bakhmut and Soledar. While the death toll on the Russian side might by heavy, many are thinking the actual Russian soldier death toll may well be quite low. Remember, the BBC tried to track all Russian soldier deaths through burials etc, and abandoned the project when the number they arrived at was very low. No one should assume the Russian death toll is high. it might be, but probably isn't.
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  15389.  @edc1569  Now the truth. No ships were threatened. Ships have been coming in and out of Izmael for the longest time. It was Ukrainian land mines that prevented grain shipments for Ukraine from Odessa, and sanctions that prevented grain shipments for Russia. Both issues are now resolved, FINALLY, thanks to the slowest kid in the class Zelensky agreeing to demine his coast, and the total capitulation of the EU on food export sanctions.
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  15390.  @gaoxiaen1  you bet! the agreement mentioned no ceasefire, and if Zelensky is dumb enough to have a patrol boat in Odessa port, KABOOM!
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  15391.  @DacianRider  I am giving you the truth, something the Western media must avoid, otherwise the likes of you would see how what happened is most definitely not Russia's fault.
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  15392. "too many illusions"? Ukraine is the very epitome and definition of an "illusion", like most illusions, it will disappear pretty soon, consumed by Russia. what it deserves
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  15393. Not so sure Kherson is the massive prize the West keeps talking about. The 5 objectives mention noting about places like Kherson, and it isn't even needed for the land bridge from Crimea to Mother Russia. Putin doesn't want to lose it, but it has nowhere near the value of Donetsk oblast.
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  15394.  @waikintang8246  how would you know what my bottom line is?
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  15395.  @propagandaisnottrue2121  you don't see the Union Flag and St. George's Cross everywhere, so stop lying. The idea of "flying the flag" has become associated with nationalism and bigotry, so God knows where you live that you see such symbols in such prevalence.
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  15396. Russia doesn't release such figures, so everything is Western speculation and is worth nothing.
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  15397. Thanks for pointing out what Putin points out, that Ukraine and Russia, through their connection through Kievan Rus, are pretty much one and the same place so should be unified.
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  15398.  @drfelren  No logic dictates who should be under whom in such a union, merely that their shared history means they should be united. This is indeed Putin's point.
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  15399.  @leoncoetzer  purely speculative. no one knows.
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  15400.  @janstapaj9689  capital of what ? in what sense did Russia "come" from Ukrainian territory? You make it sound like Russia was a void, only filled by Ukraine giving birth! were there no inhabitants at all in what is now Russia? no land? just a hole?
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  15401.  @drfelren  so you would agree the forced unity of Donbass with Ukraine is tyranny?
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  15402.  @drfelren  Is Catalonia part of Spain due to "forced unity"? when you say "will of the people" do you refer to the Catalan people. or the Spanish people?
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  15403.  @drfelren  once again, you revert to the notion of one country having power over another with the term "belonging". if you can bring yourself to consider the concept of shared power, equal partners, you might even see how France and Germany could be considered one entity, joined by others in an organization called the EU. it is a valid argument that Germany and France have more in common than they have differences today, so should merge, which they have done. ain't no border when you cross from France to Germany. Same argument is made by Putin for Ukraine and Russia, and it is valid. Why not support his vision?
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  15404.  @bonnie7898  oh boy, that says so much about the accuracy of the Russian military and the hideous, amateur catastrophe that is Ukraine's armed forces! Both sides firing in equal measure, and Ukraine manages a total of only 100? More NATO training needed, or maybe less?
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  15405. At least the Green Party will be delighted that Luxemburg land owners resist the notion of the whole country being covered with urban construction.
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  15406. it's a very strange business model, to tell your supplier you wish to cease business, and then complain when your supplier ceases business. are we sure we have elected the wisest leaders here in the West?
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  15407.  @hokavistark7671  remember, NATO's aim is to weaken Russia and let the ukronazis do the fighting and dying, so, who cares when the war might end?
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  15408. Ukraine has been out fired by Russian shells and missiles from day one, a year ago. only NOW ministers are meeting to TALK about how production can be increased! NATO is a joke. memories of "Taliban will need 90 days to get to Kabul"
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  15409. really good idea. keep sending stuff to Ukraine so Russia can destroy it all at will. the West is just so desperate at this point, too scared to admit it has lost.
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  15410. strange how the impartial Sky News reports on every single Russian ammo dump being hit, but never anything on the masses of successful strikes from Russia on Ukrainian depots. still waiting for Sky investigative reporters to tell us what happened to Zaluzhny and Budanov.
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  15411.  @stevefowler3398  not quite everywhere. there are a few holdouts....Belarus, Serbia, Russia, Poland, it's just a handful.
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  15412. just how desperate is the G7? unable to isolate Russia and aware that the sanctions have failed, plan C is to steal Russian assets. Russia will just make sure the final surrender conditions imposed on Kiev will get all the cash back plus some healthy interest payments. NATO tax payers will have to cough up a lot of cash. Sweden and Finland, happy to have joined such a bunch of pathetic, thieving losers?
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  15413. Starmer has made a massive mistake. He's forgotten that white British working class still form the majority of the country. unlike other rioting groups, this lot out on the streets now can overthrow Starmer if they choose to. general strike, blockading ports, roads, if the white Brit nationalist protesters choose to replace Starmer, they can.
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  15414. Presenter - So, Mathias, when the West negotiates with Russia, it seems it does bring positive results, as the grain shipments are happening Mathias - yes, but this has to work for 9 months to clear the backlog, so it's not a success yet. Definitely better never to negotiate with Russia.
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  15415. Zelensky a déja vendu sa villa en Italie pour aider a ses citoyens?
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  15416. Only problem is, Gaza shares a border with Egypt, so no complete siege is possible.
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  15417. really surprising to see so many of those arrested are black.
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  15418. "she's been unwilling to share the receipts" pretty sure she's unable to share the receipts, because turns out the US taxpayer paid for Wade's big birthday bonanza in Belize.
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  15419. i switched off as soon as numbskull Chip Chapman appeared. Makes a change for him not to be telling us all that Ukraine is winning the war, I suppose.
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  15420. Patrick is wrong about integration not working. The Police have shown since Rotherham and the Pakistani rape gang horror that the UK Police are well integrated into Sharia Law.
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  15421. will be again soon
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  15422. just tit for tat. why would embassy bank accounts be regarded in a different light from citizens' bank accounts? EU freezing Russian accounts, time for Russia to do the same to EU nations. might be easier just to kick the Finns out of Russia and have them stay on their own side of their new fence.
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  15423. break Ukraine's will? But Ukraine is WINNING! Ukraine has Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, and sank the Moskva! Ukraine must be delighted they are so close to total victory now!
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  15424. the International Rules Based Order is quite clear. separatist movements, when they are pro Russian, must be stopped. separatist movements, when they are pro West, must be encouraged. got it?
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  15425.  @bradleyroth9870  other way round. Putin intervenes to end conflicts, as in Chechnya, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Syria. The Austrian painter loved to start the conflicts. learn some history, pal.
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  15426.  @bradleyroth9870  I guess George Bush should have grown the square moustache when he invaded Iraq?
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  15427.  @Ea-pb2tu  ah, I see, so it is true that SOME separatists deserve to be supported, but others don't! It all depends on if genocide is occurring, or not. is THAT the basis of the international rules based order? Then explain, how is genocide defined, and who sits in judgement on if the genocide red line has been crossed?
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  15428.  @Julia-Richter  except all those kids buried in the Angels Alley and where exactly did all those missiles fired by the Azov Battalion go? Russians in Donbass were attacked mercilessly for 8 years, and THAT is the outrage that Putin has, rightfully, decided to end.
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  15429.  @georgiossgk7384  exactly so. the deluded sheep in the West are ignorant of the anti constitutional coup that removed Yanukovich. I know a few Ukrainians, NOT ethnically Russian, that also stood against the russophobia that followed Yanukovich's ousting, but today, of course, they can't speak up.
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  15430.  @DSan-kl2yc  So the Slovenians never tried to "make any border"? Nor the Bosnians? Nor the Croatians? Nor the Montenegrins? Nor the Macedonians? None of them tried to "make any border". the borders of the new republics just, well, floated down from nowhere?
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  15431.  @DSan-kl2yc  There was so much ethnic conflict in Ukraine. it is astounding how you can ignore the years of Azov Battalion shelling Donetsk and the rest of the Donbass mercilessly. If the war was cold, why did so many Ukrainian men fear getting called up to serve on the front lines in 2018? Glad to know there is no rule about what separatism can be supported. Thanks for confirming that Russia, therefore, is not breaking any rules based order by supporting the Donbass separatists to the max.
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  15432.  @DSan-kl2yc  glad that "genocide can be guessed on based on what's happening". not the clearest or most concrete of definitions for the West's "international rules based order"...kind of explains why Russia is a bit confused over the specificity of the rules, right?
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  15433.  @DSan-kl2yc  Russia saw that the International Rules based Order of NATO is to support separatists as you wish, in Kosovo, so Russia applied the same rule to Donbass and Crimea.
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  15434.  @DSan-kl2yc  "the ex president decided to vacate" why? anything to do with death threats, Nationlistic extremists shooting at him? NATO support for a coup against him?
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  15435.  @DSan-kl2yc  check the Ukrainian constitution. A president can only be removed through the judicial system, not by a Parliament.
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  15436.  @bonnie7898  so tell me, by what right do "international observers" (whoever they are) tell the Catalan people that their referendum is invalid and that they must, no matter what their wishes, remain part of Spain?
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  15437.  @bonnie7898  By what right does the UN tell the people of Donbass who should govern them? The UN seeks to resolve disputes by diplomacy and through peaceful means (at least it used to). Since when did the UN become the arbiter of who rules over a given people?
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  15438.  @bonnie7898  Allow me to educate you. Legitimacy does NOT depend on any endorsement from the UN. Not EVERY country belongs to the UN. Recognition of breakaway republics usually comes after a war, not during. Kherson, Zaporozhe, Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk are now all part of Russia, so they are fine "operating on the world stage". There is nothing complicated about Gaza at all. It is a hellhole ruined by Hamas. Period. Geopolitics is not hard when you: 1. know the facts 2. see right from wrong 3. stop deluding yourself that the UN has some kind of right to decide the future of any given people. your perceptions are childish.
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  15439.  @bonnie7898  Get educated. Not every country belongs to the UN. The UN is not the referee of the world. The UN is an international body established to try and resolve issues through diplomacy and peaceful negotiation. The UN is no judge and jury. If the UN actually enforced any rules based order it would start by ordering the USA out of Syria. you are part of the deluded elite who think the UN embodies all the aspirations of the globe. It doesn't. wake up.
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  15440.  @bonnie7898  " no need for a UN ruling" just curious. from where do you get this absurd notion that the UN has any right to rule on anything? is this the kind of nonsense they teach you in the Outback?
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  15441. Ukrainians believing Zelensky's and the West's propaganda, that there is nothing to fear from Russia's mobilisation. The thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian troops now dead in the Russian meatgrinder had no fears of Russia's low morale and poorly armed troops either. Bring on the next 20,000 Ukrainian cannon fodder to be fearlessly massacred. NATO absolutely delighted to fight to the last Ukrainian, helping Russia's demilitarization of Ukraine policy.
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  15442. Mehdi is the kind of fool that can't even tell you where Palestine is! "Hey, Mehdi, is Amman in Palestine?" blank stare.
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  15443. because the West has lied and told Ukraine that Ukraine can win this, and because Ukraine believed the lie. Both parties now know Russia has won, but both parties have no guts to admit awful errors.
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  15444. "far right extremists" = those who liked traditional Britain. Had you listened to us 20 years ago, we wouldn't have such radical Muslim mob problems today.
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  15445. Racist Finns. Africans warring against other Africans, more than welcome in Finland. Anyone born in Russia, "predator", must be punished. No wonder the globe wants an end to the West's "rules based order".
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  15446. Western MSM ignoring the key evidence of Ukraine's involvement - the terrorists driving to the Ukrainian border in their escape - and refusing to investigate who ordered the attack.
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  15447.  @firewoodwarrior4396  Believe me, if Russia had invaded Donbass 8 years ago, Russia wouldn't be fighting for occupation of Donbass now! You live in a world of lies, but hey, send me the link to the evidence of a Russian invasion of Donbass in 2014.
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  15448. he has confirmed for me that a vote for Labour is a vote against women's rights.
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  15449.  @angelopugliese6034  no, but better than the USSR did in Afghanistan, for sure.
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  15450. General Winter defeated Napoleon for Russia. General Winter defeated Germany for Russia. General Winter will defeat Ukraine/NATO too.
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  15451.  @la7dfa  problem is, Western propaganda has been telling us Russia is running out of weapons and ammo since March! All the evidence is to the contrary. NATO is not providing Ukraine with the weapons and ammo needed, because NATO can't! NATO stocks are down to dangerously low levels, and NATO doesn't have the production facilities to change this. Russia has enormous stockpiles AND its production matches its use! Ukraine will never get what it needs. Russia will keep producing what it needs....that is the truth MSM refuse to tell you. WW2 gear already being used by occupation forces, and WW2 gear is perfect for such operations. 80% of Russian forces are not even IN Ukraine, so Russia has plenty of forces to draw on. I repeat, only a deluded fool would think Ukraine can defeat Russia in a ground war. Don't let Western propaganda convince you otherwise. General Winter will absolutely destroy Ukraine.
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  15452. without any irony he reports on the "puppet admnistration" in Kherson....uh, like, the puppet administration in Kiev?
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  15453. of course a village in western Latvia was chosen. Can't have any ethnic Russians from the Russian speaking east having a say.
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  15454.  @thetruthhurts7675  keep in mind, we haven't seen any sanctions of note from Russia yet! When or if Russia decides to turn the screw on exports of uranium et al, the West will really start squirming, but let's see how the West deals with winter first.
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  15455.  @donnabailey5325  and don't refuse to look at all possibilities.
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  15456. just hilarious that these "experts" assume Russian attacks must be linked to Eurovision and Zelensky on tour. reveals the level of thinking in the West.
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  15457. Spain is held in such disrespect for its leniency in dealing with crime and raucous behaviour. None of this happened under Franco. When Spain wakes up and learns how to deal with miscreants, this problem will disappear.
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  15458. because when you DISBELIEVE everything Russia says, you end up in the mess Ukraine is in.
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  15459. I find it amazing you believe anything MSM DOESN'T tell you means it's of no significance.
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  15460.  @wokeaf1337  the tax revenue will be used to buy more weapons, which will prolong the time more Ukrainians are killed.
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  15461. just hilarious to hear these imbeciles blabber on about how Russia will suffer this that and the other. Bell and his like were so ignorant about Russia, they actually thought Russia would lose a ground war against the paper tiger, NATO. well, well, well, the drunken convicts with shovels, poorly led and with low morale, keep massacring Kiev's cannon fodder and have demilitarized NATO. Next time, Bell boy, learn something about Russia before blabbing your b***sh*t
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  15462. Alex and Alexander have got the whole Israeli situation totally wrong. They keep banging on about the threat of escalation and more parties getting involved. Hello! October 7th was THREE MONTHS AGO! No one, bar the Houthis, has done a thing! Hezbollah are pinned down, and most Arab leaders want both Hamas and Hezbollah wiped out too! Arab leaders shout and cry and whine, but behind closed doors, they want Israel to succeed. The war on Gaza continues, unopposed.
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  15463. African Union and Sri Lanka told the West that the Western sanctions were the cause of the food problem, NOT Russia, and they were right. EU has now reversed itself totally and stipulated that Russian food products and fertilizers, AND THOSE OF BELARUS can now be traded without hindrance. It was the West, all along, that cared nothing about starving Africans. why are we not surprised?
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  15464.  @kalitocroatoan1783  exactly so.
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  15465. EU candidacy status means nothing. Ask Turkey. It's just a distraction from the reality facing Ukraine.....it's lost. Sanctions have failed, Russia is achieving its objectives, Ukraine has been demilitarized (and so has the West)..big win for Russia, and that's good. Revenge for 8 years of butchery in Donbass
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  15466. just stop building close to forests
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  15467. "a Russian speaking, Russian thinking area, in Ukraine"...I guess this genius just figured out why 40% of Ukrainians want Russia to win!
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  15468. As usual, DW gets it backwards. Republicans are not blocking any aid to Ukraine. As soon as Biden agrees to tighten up security on the US border, then Republicans are ready to move forward on aiding Ukraine. It's Biden's refusal to enhance security on his own border that has caused these issues.
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  15469. or the Westerners miss the good old days of the Dritte Reich and desperately want the Ukronazis of Zelensky and Azov to win.
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  15470. the best way to tempt Putin to invade the Baltics is to completely demilitarize NATO by giving away everything NATO has to Ukraine, then showing Russia that NATO has nothing of substance with which to defend itself.
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  15471. nothing complicated about this at all. Italy said "no", so find some other country or go back to Africa
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  15472. yeah, bit too early to judge the Spring counter offensive. so, when would be the right time to judge it? Winter?
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  15473. it's the desire for EU handouts that they want, plus a dumping ground for their gypsies and mafia gangs. get real.
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  15474.  @potato1084  do you prefer Heathrow on a day like today when it faces strikes and canceled flights?
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  15475. what's funny is Kisin himself can't even name the cause of this tragedy. It's not "Islamic extremists". It's just Islam, the regular Islam that has a mass-murderer as its prophet.
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  15476.  @dorotazapolnik234  It's Russia that defeated the Nazis, and Ukrainians like Bandera that collaborated with Nazi Germany and were proud of it. You are backing the wrong horse.
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  15477.  @RazorMouth  Duncan Smith is my real name. I am no coward, unlike "Razor Mouth" who doesn't even have the guts to use his real name. why so embarrassed to use your real name? Also, too cowardly to let me prove I am not Russian and am Duncan Smith. Like so many Azov Nazi lovers, all mouth, all accusations, but when it comes to backing up the allegation, you just hide. what a mouse you are.
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  15478.  @karlhungusjr1  who, Martina Navratilova?
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  15479.  @nothuman3083  Unlike "Not Human" I use my actual name,. no need for me to hide behind some pseudo fake lying name like "Not human", not scared to reveal my true identity... What you scared of "Not Human"? what 's your real name? Just as you are absolutely wrong about the nature of the Ukraine - Russia conflict, you are wrong about my nationality. Tell me Not Human, do you still beat your wife? yes or no? No Z over my face, but got a feeling you have plans to emulate your Azov Nazi heroes by getting a swastika on your arm some day soon, right?
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  15480.  @ramadankadriu5336  I am using my name, and you are such a coward that you will avoid my invitation for you to see that I am using my name. contact me and i can prove the truth to you. but you won't. you are 100% coward.
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  15481.  @caterine837  The Azov Nazis started the war with the 2014 coup, and for most of the Azov Nazis, now killed, crippled or captured, have seen Russia achieve its aim of denazifying Ukraine. at least that objective has been attained by Russia.
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  15482.  @bbcisaids6727  100% agree. Russia and Donbass will prevail and the Azov Nazis with Zelensky will be tossed into the trash can of history
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  15483.  CH0L3R1C  obviously Russia's work? really? so if there was obviously an advantage to Russia to flood the Dnipro, why blow the dam up instead of opening the floodgates?
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  15484.  CH0L3R1C  was blowing up Nordstream also obviously Russia's work?
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  15485. problem is, Ukraine started this war with modern weapons....8 years worth sent over from USA....and Russia destroyed it all. modern weapons have been pumped into Ukraine for the last year. Russia destroyed it all. Now Ukraine is begging for lots more modern weapons. Guess what? Russia will just destroy it all. interesting your strategy is now reduced to "hope".
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  15486.  @sababugs1125  massive artillery strikes, air strikes, mines, drones, you name it.
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  15487.  @nerdyali4154  there is a news blackout because the offensive is just a political move to encourage more help as the Ukrainian begging bowl comes around. where was the news blackout at Popasna? at Severodonetsk? at Lysychansk? an invention called drones, and another invention called satellites, and an invention called an airplane tells the Russian all they need to know, The Ukrainian offensive is over. ONE recaptured settlement called Andreyka is the result, along with thousands of dead Ukrainians into the Russian meatgrinder. what a bloody war crime Zelensky is.
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  15488. This is the s**t that happens when you sanction Russia
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  15489. it is possible to be in your 80's and still politically sharp and mentally alert. The problem is, that doesn't describe Joe Biden.
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  15490. "no decisive outcome in the war"......let's see. when 300,000 Russian troops pour across the border and there are no electrified trains to move Ukrainian troops across the country? those steam locomotives we've seen brought into action are going to save the day? or maybe this fool still believes in Ghost of Kiev?
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  15491. Given that "diversity is our strength", it's a bit weird that neither country wants more asylum seekers entering their country.
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  15492. what's funny is how this poor little honey is not being honest. there is no such thing as "Islamism". The word is "Islam", you know, the religion whose prophet was an intolerant mass murderer.
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  15493.  @roxanneoshaughnessy9804  So many Poles emigrate because they have no idea how unsafe it has become in the UK and Ireland, and they think they can make more money in the UK and Ireland. A lot of them go back to safe and homogeneous Poland when they see what a mess Ireland and the UK have become. BTW, no one speaks Irish anymore, so Polish would be the second language spoken in Ireland, though Arabic and Ukrainian might also have surpassed Irish by now.
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  15494.  @acediamond7524  The NHS became active at the same time as the first wave of immigration, but then so did Rock and Roll. Neither Rock and Roll nor the NHS happened BECAUSE of immigration. BTW, what was so bad about medical services in the UK before the NHS?
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  15495. Moldova is NATO's next target. Moldova, due to NATO's expansion and Moldova's subservience to the EU, will become powerless and devoid of cheap Russian energy, and go bankrupt. Moldova chose the wrong horse. Should have backed Putin.
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  15496. U.S. doing all it possibly can to push China and Russia into an alliance.
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  15497. if only Biden wasn't obsessed with the futile war in Ukraine and turned his attention to somewhere, like Haiti, where he could actually do some good.
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  15498.  @luisekjeldsen1515  you missed the last vote on Ukraine's Independence Day! Didn't exactly go as the arm twisting-West had hoped for! To be honest, I think it is of greater significance that the giants of China, India, Brazil, Mexico etc all declare their willingness to ignore the Wests' calls for isolation of Russia, and all declare their willingness to trade with Russia, over the fact that the likes of Antigua and Barbuda vote alongside their American paymaster, don't you?
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  15499.  @luisekjeldsen1515  on the contrary. i support regimes that support their own people. I supported Putin's fight for the equality and human rights of ethnic Russians in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Chechnya and Transnistra, as I do now in Ukraine. The great shame is you support Zelensky, who absolutely trampled on the rights of the Russian speakers in Ukraine and then employed the Azov Nazis to shell his own citizens for 8 years. Look in the mirror...there you see the evil that supports tyrants.
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  15500.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Apart from your beloved Ukraine, do you know of any other European countries who have welcomed Nazis into their national defense force with a shrug? As Zelensky blithely grunted in Brett Baier's interview regarding the Azov Nazis "they are who they are"!
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  15501.  @luisekjeldsen1515  1) The Wagner Group are mercenaries. They are not part of Russia's defense force. They are hired hands. The Azov Nazis, on the other hand, are proud to be Nazis and were welcomed into Ukraine's defense force with open arms. You support the avowed Nazis and that is a terrible shame on you. 2) Learn some history, Russia was never a friend of Germany. If you don't even know the difference between the USSR and Russia, not only are you a Nazi supporter, you are an ignorant one. It was Stalin (from Georgia!) who signed the Non Aggression pact, no one from Russia did! 3) The people of Russia are much more informed of their history than, clearly, you are. You need to a lot more basic learning. But first, ditch your beloved Azov Nazis and stop supporting the ugly reality of Ukraine's russophobic policies.
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  15502.  @luisekjeldsen1515 People who know history give a f*** where Stalin was from, because such knowledge immediately refutes the ignorance of fools like you that talk of "Russian" friendship with Germany when it was the USSR that existed then, and it was a Georgian responsible for the Non-Aggression pact. Facts matter, and you need to learn some. Please give me a list of the names of all the bad seeds rooted out and from the Azov Nazi Batallion, the name of this extensive psychological investigative program that would have been needed to accomplish such a thing, and evidence that it succeeded....or are you just repeating Western bullshit with no evidence? There is an abundance of Western media reports on the Nazi presence throughout Ukrainian power structures from 6 years ago. There is no evidence that anything has changed since then, hence Zelensky's shrug, "they are who they are". Facts hurt, right? you are backing Nazis and you should be totally ashamed. But first, learn some relevant facts.
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  15503.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Russia, as a nation, is much more aware of its own history and its place in the world than the decadent, obese, superficial ignorant moronic masses of USA or Europe. Given the total ignorance you have shown so far, I seriously doubt that Russian school kids ARE taught that WW2 started in 1941. However, it may be for the same reason that most Americans think WW2 started with Pearl Harbor, in 1941. And it may be that Russians learn the Great Patriotic War, when USSR entered the conflict with its military might, started in 1941, which would be true. At least Russian school kids, by your own admission, are taught about WW2! Most Western kids have no bloody clue about any previous war, unless it appears on some video game. No education needed, thanks. but you certainly need to think, learn and reflect before writing such garbage.
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  15504.  @luisekjeldsen1515  do you think Ukrainian kids are taught that Russia and Ukraine fought alongside each other as part of the USSR?
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  15505.  @luisekjeldsen1515  In 1941, it was USSR, not Russia. You have real problems with the basic facts, right?
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  15506.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Yes, Stalin (from Georgia) and the USSR fully cooperated with Hitler's plans to conquer and divvy up Europe. Such turncoat behavior was not atypical of a communist country. So, what's your point? The Communists who ran the USSR, including Ukrainians and Russians and all the Soviet republics, worked hand in hand with Hitler. We agree. Are Russian and Ukrainian students today taught that? No idea. If Ukrainian kids are, they are probably told to be proud of national heroes like Bandera who cooperated with the Nazis and sent countless Poles and Jews to death camps...but people like you celebrate Bandera and support Ukraine making him a national hero, as you have Nazi sympathies. Am guessing Russian kids are not told about USSR cooperating with Hitler because they feel such cooperation is a stain and is disgraceful in the eyes of Putin's modern Russia, right?
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  15507.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Russia is correctly claiming they are fighting Nazis. It is your lies about the Azov Nazis being "rooted out" that is total nonsense. It is to the eternal shame of the West, and to you, that you hide behind this lie. Let me correct you yet again. The collaboration that occurred between the USSR (not Russia) and Stalin (a Georgian) has nothing to do with Putin's Russia. However, Ukrainian national heroes like Bandera, who DID collaborate with the Nazis goes unmentioned and ignored by the hypocritical likes of you, and yet he is celebrated in Ukraine. Learn some Ukrainian history!
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  15508.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Yes, Russia has a few Nazis. Ukraine has quite a few Nazis (I met them and talked to them when I worked in Ukraine in 2018). The difference is that the Azov Battalion were embraced, championed and welcomed with open arms into the Ukrainian Defense Force! This was so concerning that the US Senate prohibited any arms sales that could end up in the hands of the Azov Nazis (look it up). The Senate reversed its decision when the West decided "Ukraine good, Russia bad" and, like you, brushed the truth under the carpet.
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  15509.  @luisekjeldsen1515  I suspect you are deeply shocked to find out the side you are supporting is absolutely riddled with Nazis, but beyond that, you are supporting the side of bigotry and discrimination. Ukraine has all but banned Russian language from the public sphere in Ukraine, and you 100% support such intolerance, bigotry and discrimination. Shame on you .
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  15510.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Putin does indeed want to restore Russia's might, just like all national leaders want to increase the might of their respective lands, but this is no land grab. Putin has been in power for decades and all he has done is to use Russian military power to restore the rights of ethnic Russians in Chechnya, Transnistra and Georgia. He has also sent troops to help his ally in Syria. IF Putin's actions in Ukraine represent a land grab, then he is merely copying USA's landgrabs in Iraq and Afghanistan, right?
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  15511.  @luisekjeldsen1515  if you truly believe in freedom and democracy, then you condemn the world's russophobia, right? You condemn the West for banning RT, you condemn travel restrictions on innocent Russian citizens, right? You condemn the Latvian court decision to jail a young man for trampling on the Ukrainian flag, right? You condemn the West for backing the coup that removed the democratically elected Yanulovich in 2014, right? You condemn Zelensky's banning all opposition parties in the Rada, right? Oh boy, if you love freedom and democracy, you must really hate what the West is doing and what has happened in Ukraine! Russia allows its people to leave Russia, but you would condemn the Ukrainian decision to prohibit men and women of fighting age from leaving Ukraine, right? You are nothing but an ignorant hypocrite who fails to see truth from the garbage the Western media have pumped into your tiny brain. Shame on you.
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  15512.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Yes, good will indeed prevail. in this case, good is the force supporting the rights of ethnic Russians, AS UKRAINE AGREED IN THE MINSK AGREEMENTS THAT UKRAINE SUBSEQUENTLY REFUSED TO IMPLEMENT. Good will prevail. The problem is you are too incapable of recognizing "good" if it came up to you and slapped you in the face shrieking "hello, I'm good". The ethnic Russians of Donbass and Southern Ukraine deserve all your support, but you backed the Azov Nazis. You are an ignorant, heartless disgrace, and your russophobia reveals the bigotry, intolerance and discrimination deep in your hypocritical heart. Slava Rossiyi, Slava Donbasu
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  15513.  @DavidOfWhitehills  on the contrary, the contrast with the scenes of jubilation and joy at the Donbass babushkas greeting their Russian liberators and receiving aid from Russia is instructive...but then again, you would have to see both video clips to make such a comparison, and so that would exclude you from being able to make such a comparison. ever watched any news from the Donbass perspective have you?
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  15514.  @anthonychin1873  just pointing out what you, the ignorant, never even contemplate. no gushing warm welcome for the Ukrainians, it is in stark contrast to the scenes in Lysychansk and Seveodonetsk when the Russians arrived. the truth hurts, eh Anthony?
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  15515.  @anthonychin1873  you see, anthony, when you have my years of experience in carefully observing what people DON'T say or do, along with what they DO say or do, you get a good feeling of the true picture. So much is NOT said and expressed in these interviews with locals that you get a clear picture of how things really are on the ground there, so keep looking out for what is NOT said or mentioned.
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  15516. A. "Let's isolate Russia" B. "But that will lead to Russia joining forces with all the sanctioned nations and increase the threats against the West" C. "And it will fail to isolate Russia" A. "Shut up. I know what I'm doing. I think"
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  15517. down to 9 days to go before the Ukrainians capture Kherson after their massive counter offensive. still ZERO settlements captured so far, but no rush. Russia has probed forward towards Mikolaev, so a counter offensive building there. Did you get to hear of the Russian advance toward Mykolaev on MSM? no? nor did i.
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  15518. Mogg and his mates created the inflation with all the spending and borrowing that happened during Covid.
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  15519. 90% of the time I insist on using cash. I see no reason why anyone should be able to check electronically where I am and what I am purchasing and how much it costs. That's my business, not yours. Most small businesses are delighted to work with cash.
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  15520. as usual, no evidence and no numbers to show "Russia is getting smashed", just wishful thinking. the humiliation for NATO is that its trained and armed Ukrainians are getting smashed by Russia's convicts and drunken mercenaries. Almost as embarrassing as when the goat herding Taliban waltzed into Kabul in their sandals, killed 13 American troops, scooped up all USA's abandoned weaponry there, then kicked NATO out.
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  15521. yes, your lordship, the West could destroy Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and Russia can nuke the West to death.....so what's your point?
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  15522.  @SmilingNinja  I am a logical thinker with a radar that detects bs from a mile away, hence I can see that Ukraine, Zelensky and NATO are in massive trouble.
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  15523.  @jean-marcsalotti999  just hesitant to consider these recent Russian gains as big reversals. when Avdiivka or Siversk or Liman or Kupinsk fall, I''ll be on board with you!
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